1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:03,200 Speaker 1: I fuckle up, Happy New Year, Glad you're all with us. 2 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: Three hundred and two days, the best election coverage available 3 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:11,560 Speaker 1: on your radio dial, the best liberal insanity coverage available 4 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:15,200 Speaker 1: on your radio dial. And if you weren't around Friday, 5 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 1: we were here back early. Based on events obviously I had, 6 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:22,200 Speaker 1: I couldn't. I couldn't stay home, I could not take 7 00:00:22,239 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 1: it anymore, based on the issues involving the killing of Solomony, 8 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 1: a huge success by every single measure. And it doesn't 9 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:36,200 Speaker 1: matter whatever Donald Trump does. There's nobody in the mob 10 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:38,680 Speaker 1: in the media that'll ever give him credit. Very few 11 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 1: thereof the Democrats have lost it all. So now the 12 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:49,599 Speaker 1: president doing something phenomenal for world safety. There needs to 13 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 1: be a sort of how to deal with worlds the 14 00:00:56,040 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: world's most evil terrorists for dummies, because there's so much 15 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:07,679 Speaker 1: stupid commentary out there. There's there's so much that people 16 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: read into something that is not existent. There's such a 17 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:17,679 Speaker 1: fear people live in, fear, constant fear of everything, And 18 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 1: oh what I think, Man, Oh, it's like I can't 19 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 1: stand the fear. You can't live your life and fear 20 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 1: to this extent and survive. But this is this, But 21 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 1: the fear is by the way, it's selective. They only 22 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 1: expressed the fear when it suits their their crappy political agenda. 23 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 1: You know, for example, the Democrats, they never said a 24 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 1: word about notifying Congress when Obama launched two thousand, eight 25 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 1: hundred strikes on Iraq and Syria. No, there was no 26 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 1: congressional approval needed in any way by any of them. 27 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 1: And now we've got Nancy pelo See resolutional limit the 28 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:06,720 Speaker 1: president's military actions. She obviously knows nothing about the constitution 29 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 1: and coequal branches of government and separation of powers. She 30 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 1: doesn't seem to understand or to her colleagues in the 31 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:18,920 Speaker 1: House with the ridiculous obstruction of justice impeachment charge, when 32 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 1: we all know every president in modern history has used 33 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:27,880 Speaker 1: executive privilege, and that the third branch of government when 34 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:31,400 Speaker 1: there's a conflict between the executive and legislative branch of government, 35 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 1: that would be the judicial branch where you go to 36 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 1: seek remedy, which is what they have agreed to look 37 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 1: into at the United States Supreme Court. And I would 38 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 1: expect that that's going to come down on the President's 39 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:48,560 Speaker 1: side by the time this is all said and done, 40 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:54,120 Speaker 1: and it is just raw politics on every level, and 41 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:57,160 Speaker 1: they don't seem to care. I mean this whole argument. Well, 42 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:04,320 Speaker 1: well yeah he's evil, Yeah he's horrible. Yeah he killed Americans. Yeah, 43 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:08,240 Speaker 1: Iran is the number one state sponsor of terror. Yeah, 44 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:12,520 Speaker 1: there's no good reason he was at Baghdad airport, none whatsoever. 45 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 1: Draw all of you have seen on Twitter the question 46 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:20,960 Speaker 1: from Solomoni to Trump, but you're gonna give us one 47 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:25,400 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty billion, just like Obama did, and Trump 48 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 1: answers again, it's Twitter. They have fun on Twitter, and 49 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 1: the President's sure, meet me at Baghdad airport. There's never 50 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 1: any good reason to be there. Now, let me explain 51 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 1: if you're not a Benghazi Democrat, if you're not a 52 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 1: let's ribe the world's dictators democrat, because that was that 53 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 1: was Clinton with Kim Jong Ill And it's a good 54 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 1: deal of American people. No, it wasn't a good deal 55 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 1: for the American people. Yeah, we gave them all this 56 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:58,839 Speaker 1: money and we got nothing for it, and they got 57 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 1: the nuclear weapons. Any Way, great job bribing a dictator. 58 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 1: The worst deal ever. That that award goes to Obama 59 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 1: and Biden one hundred and fifty billion in cash and 60 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 1: other currencies, cargo planes, a cash and other currencies landing 61 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:19,479 Speaker 1: in Tehran for the Mullahs of Irand what do we 62 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:22,840 Speaker 1: think they're gonna do with that money? Well, they're doing 63 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 1: what they've always been doing. They're the number one state 64 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:31,400 Speaker 1: sponsor of terror. They are fighting one proxy war after another. 65 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 1: Solomoney directly responsible for orchestrating the attacks and the killings 66 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 1: of hundreds of Americans interact or in this conflict. There's 67 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:46,240 Speaker 1: no good reason he was in Iraq. But you got this, Yeah, 68 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 1: and it's been part of it's in the Republican there's 69 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:54,359 Speaker 1: a small wing. This is where I part ways with 70 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 1: my friend Rampaul. Like Rampaul, but I disagree with them. 71 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:01,600 Speaker 1: And also I agree with the assessment that this is 72 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 1: going to escalate into a full fledged, protracted conflict. I 73 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:09,240 Speaker 1: don't think it needs to be. And if they retaliate, 74 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 1: the options we have are so numerous because of our 75 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:17,239 Speaker 1: superior military power. The Iranians they ought to be pretty 76 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 1: nervous right now. They might be saber rattling like they are, 77 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:24,880 Speaker 1: but if I was them internally, I'd be saying, what 78 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:28,040 Speaker 1: is Trump going to do next? And I guarantee you 79 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:31,440 Speaker 1: that is happening, not a matter of even guessing. Here 80 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 1: evil people or evil, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're 81 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:40,280 Speaker 1: evil and stupid. Some of them could be evil, and 82 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 1: we use the term of evil geniuses. They could be 83 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:49,479 Speaker 1: intellectually bright but evil. So here's like sort of a 84 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 1: one oh one for dummies that don't understand, especially in 85 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 1: the mob and the media, especially those in the Democratic Party. 86 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:02,480 Speaker 1: I mean, it just is. It gets frustrating at times, 87 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:04,920 Speaker 1: but I guess it's it's so predictable. I shouldn't allow 88 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 1: it to frustrate me. But because I'm listening to these 89 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:15,040 Speaker 1: people on television and I'm watching which literally it forced 90 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 1: me and compelled me to call into my own TV 91 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:22,400 Speaker 1: show last Thursday night because I had information that nobody 92 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 1: else had, because I actually worked the phones, you know, 93 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: part of the job as a talk show host. I'm 94 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:32,160 Speaker 1: a member of the press. Remember we vetted Obama. They didn't. 95 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 1: We did their work. Journalism's dead. We've been doing the 96 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:41,960 Speaker 1: deep state, deep dive, proven correct, a thousand percent correct, exonerated, 97 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,800 Speaker 1: if you vindicated, if you will buy the Horowitz report, 98 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:47,840 Speaker 1: I think it's even gonna be more shocking to the 99 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:50,800 Speaker 1: conscience of America when the Durham Report and the bar 100 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:53,920 Speaker 1: report come out. And now in that case, unlike an 101 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:57,680 Speaker 1: inspector general with Michael Horowitz, they're actually having the ability 102 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:03,240 Speaker 1: to convene grand juries and charges can be brought against 103 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:07,279 Speaker 1: the individuals that abuse power and especially the powerful tools 104 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 1: of intelligence. Now, as I said from the beginning, this 105 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:16,040 Speaker 1: is the ninety nine percent of our intelligence community that 106 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 1: literally risk their lives daily to keep us safe. And 107 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:24,360 Speaker 1: these are the people that are out there in the 108 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:28,080 Speaker 1: front lines. We entrust them with the best We have 109 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:31,680 Speaker 1: the best intelligence gathering capabilities on the face of the earth, 110 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 1: Thank god we have them well, and one percent turns 111 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:38,920 Speaker 1: them on we the people. Yeah, at that point, now 112 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 1: we're at a constitutional crisis tipping point because we have 113 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:48,440 Speaker 1: civil liberties, we have constitutional protections that clearly weren't used 114 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 1: when they abuse power and they were corrupt. But if 115 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 1: you want to know how the world works, and you're 116 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 1: not willing to be a Benghazi Democrat and tell people 117 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:02,560 Speaker 1: that want who save American lives a mile away that 118 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 1: they've got to stand down three times. And we've had 119 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:08,680 Speaker 1: Mark mark Eist on the program Friday, one of the 120 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 1: Benghazi heroes. If you're not part of the appeasement democratic 121 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:18,160 Speaker 1: mindset that believes in bribing dictators. Then you gotta understand 122 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:22,679 Speaker 1: there's some simple rules in life. Now, you don't get 123 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:27,800 Speaker 1: to shoot American drones out of the sky and not 124 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:32,920 Speaker 1: expect that the United States of America is going to respond. 125 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:40,440 Speaker 1: We now, you don't get to attack our embassy through 126 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:44,439 Speaker 1: your surrogates that you're funding. And I would argue probably 127 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 1: in all likelihood when we finally get to the bottom 128 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:50,080 Speaker 1: line information. The reason that Solomoni was on the ground 129 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:54,880 Speaker 1: to Baghdad airport. Remember, days before the words Solomoni is 130 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 1: our leader, we knew that they had ties to Hesbola, 131 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:03,240 Speaker 1: Hesbola to you, God hates Israel, hates the United States, 132 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 1: Death to Israel, death to the US, burn our flags, 133 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:10,200 Speaker 1: burn their flags, the Israeli flags. So he was there 134 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 1: for no good. The idea the President Trump was clear, 135 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:17,920 Speaker 1: this was not gonna be another Benghazi, and this is 136 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:21,359 Speaker 1: the only way you stop it from becoming another Benghazi. 137 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:26,480 Speaker 1: You don't get to take hostage and the narrow Straits 138 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:30,080 Speaker 1: of Hormuz, where a third of the world's oil supply, 139 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:33,719 Speaker 1: the lifeblood of the world's economy, you don't get to 140 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 1: take British tankers hostage. If you do that, then the 141 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:42,640 Speaker 1: likelihood increases that we're going to respond. You don't get 142 00:09:42,679 --> 00:09:46,000 Speaker 1: to disrupt the world's oil supply in that way and 143 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:48,800 Speaker 1: then go after the Saudis for no reason at all, 144 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 1: so that you can then sell more of your oil 145 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 1: on the free market. Because the Trump's sanctions are creating 146 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,360 Speaker 1: a lot of conflict for you, the Mullahs within sight 147 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:02,079 Speaker 1: of Iran. There's a lot of political disruption that's been 148 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:06,199 Speaker 1: going on because of the President's sanctions against Iran. Very 149 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 1: different approach. If you're not an appeaser, if you don't 150 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:12,559 Speaker 1: believe in bribing dictators, you don't get to kill Americans 151 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:15,680 Speaker 1: in Iraq and not expect to pay a price. You 152 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:19,880 Speaker 1: don't orchestrate attacks on our embassy and try to kill 153 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:24,679 Speaker 1: Americans and don't get a response. At some point, you're 154 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 1: funding of terrorism worldwide has to be dealt with, and 155 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:33,040 Speaker 1: it's not by bribing you into stopping. It's not gonna work, 156 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:35,720 Speaker 1: it never has, never will be. That is called appeasement. 157 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:39,920 Speaker 1: You don't get to fight proxy wars around the globe 158 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:43,480 Speaker 1: and not expect a response. You don't get to try 159 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 1: and take over the entire region and not expect reprisals. 160 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:52,200 Speaker 1: And by the way, you can do all of this, 161 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:56,520 Speaker 1: and you can still because I don't ever want boots 162 00:10:56,559 --> 00:10:59,480 Speaker 1: on the ground going door to door like we did 163 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:03,760 Speaker 1: in a rat because these idiots in the swamp in Washington, 164 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 1: like Joe Biden, Joe Biden is now claiming that he 165 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:11,640 Speaker 1: didn't support the Iraq war. He's a liar. Even fake 166 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:16,080 Speaker 1: news CNN broke the story. He's lying. But you don't 167 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:20,319 Speaker 1: get to start these wars all gung ho. Ready to go, 168 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,840 Speaker 1: send our national treasure, our brave men and women, the 169 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:28,640 Speaker 1: greatest military fighting force in the history of mankind, to 170 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:32,080 Speaker 1: go fight, bleed and die and give up their limbs 171 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:34,760 Speaker 1: and come back dis figured if you come back at all, 172 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:39,400 Speaker 1: and then say never mind. So the only option to that, 173 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:43,120 Speaker 1: and it's a great option that we develop and we 174 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 1: have been developing, and we do have the capability right now. 175 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 1: How do we know because Trump showed us it works 176 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:55,520 Speaker 1: in Syria. That's how he defeated the Caliphate in Syria, 177 00:11:55,559 --> 00:11:57,760 Speaker 1: and he pushed it all the way back and crushed 178 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:01,679 Speaker 1: it and culminating with the with the death of Baghdaddy 179 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:07,360 Speaker 1: and a lot of his top commanders and associates. Well, now, okay, 180 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:11,080 Speaker 1: so let's say the fear of the Democrats that want 181 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:16,679 Speaker 1: to bribe dictators, the appeasers is that Iran may retaliate. Well, 182 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:20,719 Speaker 1: the president was pretty clear. We've identified fifty two targets 183 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:25,720 Speaker 1: symbolic for a reason. Obviously the hostage situation four hundred 184 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:29,640 Speaker 1: and forty four days Americans held hostage. And what's the 185 00:12:29,679 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 1: first thing the president can do? You want to hurt 186 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:35,560 Speaker 1: Iran's economy and make it collapse. Take out their refineries. 187 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 1: It'll collapse if you want to. You maybe at some point, Okay, 188 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:45,600 Speaker 1: we've been worried about these nuclear facilities in Iran, dug 189 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:51,080 Speaker 1: deep underground. Their targets too, and also the mullah's got 190 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:54,560 Speaker 1: to be thinking they're targets. I know, we're not allowed 191 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:56,920 Speaker 1: to call for the assassination of foreign leaders. And less 192 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:00,720 Speaker 1: of course, you're what's his name, George Lopez? You know 193 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:03,840 Speaker 1: the Iranians have put an eighty million dollars bounty on 194 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:07,360 Speaker 1: Trump's head and Lopez hah, joking, we can do it 195 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:11,520 Speaker 1: for forty really talking about a president secret service, you're 196 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 1: allowed to do that? I don't know. I wouldn't do 197 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:19,040 Speaker 1: it for anybody. So the option is not oh he's evil, 198 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:23,600 Speaker 1: do nothing, or bribe them into liking us. These are 199 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:27,559 Speaker 1: the false options that they're creating, or that you gotta 200 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:31,040 Speaker 1: put boots on the ground and fight this as a 201 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:34,680 Speaker 1: conventional No, that doesn't have to happen either. The next 202 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:39,120 Speaker 1: generation of weaponry offensive and defensive. We push the buttons. 203 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:42,960 Speaker 1: We take out strategic locations that go to the heart 204 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:46,320 Speaker 1: of their economy, that go to the heart of where 205 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:49,360 Speaker 1: they're trying to create the most chaos and havoc in 206 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 1: the world, their nuclear facilities. That's it. Attack us again, 207 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:57,400 Speaker 1: We hit him again and again, and you don't have 208 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:00,840 Speaker 1: to have kids banging on their doors. Now. If the 209 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:04,240 Speaker 1: people of Iran, if they want regime change, that's up 210 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:07,560 Speaker 1: to them. At that point, they might have a bigger 211 00:14:07,559 --> 00:14:10,480 Speaker 1: opportunity than they ever dreamed. All Right, we got a 212 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 1: lot to get to today. Eight hundred it's great to 213 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:14,560 Speaker 1: be back. Happy New Year to all of you. Three 214 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:17,520 Speaker 1: hundred and two days. I this is it, game on, 215 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:21,600 Speaker 1: Let's play. I never thought I'd ever want to watch 216 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:28,560 Speaker 1: any Hollywood award show, But man, how great was Ricky Gervase? Oh? 217 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:31,800 Speaker 1: I mean he'd what a takedown? It was epic, just 218 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:35,320 Speaker 1: the epic. You know that if ISIS had a channel 219 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:39,360 Speaker 1: that you have your agents calling them in two seconds, 220 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 1: just tearing into all the Hollywood elite and and just vicious. 221 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:48,720 Speaker 1: You know they're in no position a lecture about anything 222 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:53,520 Speaker 1: because you know nothing about the real world. And oh 223 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:59,240 Speaker 1: not to mention, you're all perverts. Ouch. Even Joaquin Phoenix 224 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:04,400 Speaker 1: lectured is so Hollywood friends about Yeah, you claim environmentalism 225 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:06,800 Speaker 1: all you want. Yeah, I know you had your all 226 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 1: vegan menu. I guess they had for this thing. I 227 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:12,120 Speaker 1: don't like to watch these shows. And then this happened, 228 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:14,480 Speaker 1: and I'm like, now I'm watching every rerun. I can 229 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:18,000 Speaker 1: watch every tape of highlight that I can see. We'll 230 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:20,320 Speaker 1: hit that later in the program today. Also new Gingrich 231 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:26,560 Speaker 1: Daniel Hoffman, thirty year CIA ops officer, contra, Mark Simone on, 232 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:32,480 Speaker 1: Ricky Gervais, Colin Kaepernick, Nike, what does Nike c and 233 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:36,800 Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick. I don't I don't see it. And they're 234 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:39,480 Speaker 1: under heavy fire too. All right, we'll get this all 235 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:42,240 Speaker 1: in GLADU with those best election coverage. Three hundred and 236 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 1: two days to go, so we'll continue twenty five to 237 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:49,040 Speaker 1: the top of the hour. You know, um, before the break, 238 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:54,240 Speaker 1: I kept highlighting how it was not one pole or 239 00:15:54,400 --> 00:16:00,480 Speaker 1: outlier with the president's approval rating with African Americans. You 240 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:05,320 Speaker 1: had eight poles credible polls as and the president's support. 241 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:09,440 Speaker 1: One had the president at thirty four, five, another thirty four, 242 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:14,120 Speaker 1: another thirty three, another twenty eight, twenty I think twenty two, 243 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:18,560 Speaker 1: and the lowest was sixteen. Now sixteen would be twice 244 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:23,120 Speaker 1: the level of support at the president. Again breaking things 245 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:27,920 Speaker 1: down demographically with the African American community, that is a 246 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:32,240 Speaker 1: game changer, and for good reason, because you know, you 247 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 1: look at what I have to do is look at 248 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 1: liberal policies disproportionately. I have hammered the failure of the 249 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:48,200 Speaker 1: Obama Biden years, and those disproportionately impacted were minorities in America. 250 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:51,520 Speaker 1: You see the same trend lines in spite of what 251 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:56,000 Speaker 1: the mob and the media is telling you with Hispanic Americans. 252 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 1: And now Zadby. Zagby was the first guy to pick 253 00:16:59,840 --> 00:17:03,480 Speaker 1: up on this trend of support within the African American 254 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:07,320 Speaker 1: community for the president. His latest survey now has picked 255 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:09,479 Speaker 1: up something else that I'm just going to keep an 256 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:12,720 Speaker 1: eye on. It's early three hundred and two days away. 257 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:17,000 Speaker 1: But anyway, it shows the president is above water with 258 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:20,760 Speaker 1: his approval rating fifty forty eight, a key level his 259 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:23,640 Speaker 1: political team has been working hard to reach. I think 260 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 1: one of the reasons he gets there is because, in 261 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:29,440 Speaker 1: spite of all of the crap that they have piled 262 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:33,680 Speaker 1: on this guy in three years, he's kept working. And 263 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:38,720 Speaker 1: the list of promises made and capt they're huge and yeah, 264 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:41,520 Speaker 1: and then he's still acting. He's not the appeaser, he's 265 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:45,960 Speaker 1: not bribing the dictators. And we didn't have as NBC 266 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:50,280 Speaker 1: fake news, you know, conspiracy channel TV area fifty one 267 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:55,960 Speaker 1: roswell Rachel Maddow's Conspiracy Channels suggesting, oh, Donald Trump's Benghazi 268 00:17:56,040 --> 00:18:00,960 Speaker 1: no wasn't at all. But the one demographic breakout in 269 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:03,680 Speaker 1: Zogby's poll that I paid attention to was fifty one 270 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:07,920 Speaker 1: percent of support with Millennials and fifty six percent support 271 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:11,920 Speaker 1: with Generation X. Those numbers help give him an edge 272 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:17,119 Speaker 1: over the top five candidates fighting it out in Iowa. 273 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:21,919 Speaker 1: And what's more is he's building support with independence, Hispanics, women, 274 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:27,399 Speaker 1: and African Americans. And I'll read directly from Zogby's report, 275 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:31,640 Speaker 1: Trump is doing well, winning back support with important swing 276 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:36,239 Speaker 1: voters independence forty two percent at least somewhat approve of 277 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:42,520 Speaker 1: Donald Trump Hispanics forty five percent approval, forty four percent 278 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:48,480 Speaker 1: among women, and against Joe Biden. Trump wins and he 279 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:53,640 Speaker 1: leads Bloomberg. It doesn't really seem to be surging. He's 280 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:57,639 Speaker 1: spending millions and millions and millions when people get the 281 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:01,879 Speaker 1: Bloomberg's opinions. I don't think he's a horrible person. I 282 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:05,800 Speaker 1: just think he's a radical leftist, and I think that 283 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:10,040 Speaker 1: that all the policies that he would implement. It basically 284 00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:13,199 Speaker 1: is that like being in New York having a liberal 285 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:16,600 Speaker 1: New Yorker as your president. Trump was not. I remember 286 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:18,080 Speaker 1: I went out on a limb. I told all my 287 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:21,160 Speaker 1: conservative friends he's not going to govern as a liberal 288 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:25,680 Speaker 1: because he's not one. I said directly, and so many 289 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:30,359 Speaker 1: conservatives beat the crap out of me. God, you know, 290 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:32,720 Speaker 1: I do what I do. I tell the truth as 291 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:36,359 Speaker 1: I know it. I knew it wasn't true. I knew 292 00:19:36,359 --> 00:19:39,280 Speaker 1: where he stood. It's like, I know he's not gonna 293 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:44,200 Speaker 1: have this long protracted boots on the ground conflict. Yeah, 294 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:47,760 Speaker 1: we need more boots there now in the region, but 295 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:52,080 Speaker 1: not to invade Iran. We're not doing that. That doesn't 296 00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 1: that doesn't have the factor and even to our consideration. 297 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:59,159 Speaker 1: And this is what frustrates me when I'm listening to 298 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:04,199 Speaker 1: these Benghaz Democrats or bribe dictator democrats, and you know, 299 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:07,000 Speaker 1: think that you can one hundred and fifty billion dollars 300 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:10,560 Speaker 1: that they may begin to like us, because that's not 301 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:15,040 Speaker 1: gonna happen. Now. It's the civil war within the Democratic 302 00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:18,119 Speaker 1: ranks are real. Paul Rova is saying, watch for a 303 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:21,400 Speaker 1: Broker convention this year. I could see it. You got 304 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:26,160 Speaker 1: Acascio Cortez, the real Speaker of the House, Pelosi speaker 305 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:29,520 Speaker 1: in name only. His latest attack on Biden. I think, 306 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:34,680 Speaker 1: you know, poor shadows what's coming here because she attacked 307 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:37,879 Speaker 1: Biden this weekend. And it's kind of getting harder and 308 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:42,320 Speaker 1: harder to see how Bernie Sanders, Progressives whatever put aside 309 00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:45,280 Speaker 1: their differences with Biden, especially after they all got screwed 310 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:48,439 Speaker 1: the last time. You could never understand why I was 311 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:51,200 Speaker 1: like the only one saying, uh, they stole the primary 312 00:20:51,280 --> 00:21:01,800 Speaker 1: from you guys. Hello, I'm literally about that. I'm right now. 313 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:09,879 Speaker 1: Oh boy, that was a Bernie supporter. Pretty scary times. 314 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:13,720 Speaker 1: We have got to tell you anyway. So the rift 315 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:17,080 Speaker 1: is real. The rift was real with Hillary. I'm not 316 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:20,640 Speaker 1: sure why Bernie backed off. He shouldn't have, but she said. 317 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 1: In this interview with Kascio, Cortez said that Democrats can 318 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:28,320 Speaker 1: cultivate too big of a tent, asserting that she and 319 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 1: her party's twenty twenty frontrunner, Joe Biden, would be in 320 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:35,159 Speaker 1: different political parties in any other nation. She said this 321 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 1: in a profile in New York Magazine. Some are now 322 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:40,119 Speaker 1: saying in suggesting she may want to run at some 323 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:44,480 Speaker 1: point herself. You know, Biden, by the way, sided with 324 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 1: Solomony in handing control of Iraq to Iran. There was 325 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:51,280 Speaker 1: a Washington Free Beacon piece this I did not know. 326 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:56,000 Speaker 1: Apparently he played a decisive role in enabling the recently 327 00:21:56,040 --> 00:22:00,520 Speaker 1: assassinated CUD Force leader Solomoni to push the US out 328 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:03,520 Speaker 1: of Iraq and deliver the country into the hands of Iran. 329 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:05,679 Speaker 1: And they go through that whole story. I won't go 330 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:09,399 Speaker 1: into it now. Poles now show that Bernie saves that 331 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:11,960 Speaker 1: Warren was on the rise, She's now on the decline, 332 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 1: and Bernie now is on the rise. In Iowa, New Hampshire, 333 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:19,320 Speaker 1: you got an anti war activist says it's unacceptable for 334 00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:22,679 Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warren to even call Solomoni a bad guy. By 335 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:25,920 Speaker 1: the way, what a dumb argument. He's evil, He's killed Americans, 336 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:30,199 Speaker 1: he leads the number one, number one state sponsor of 337 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:35,640 Speaker 1: terrorist country and their real efforts supporting Hezbollah, going back 338 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:40,520 Speaker 1: into his history and fighting proxy war after proxy war. 339 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:42,320 Speaker 1: But we don't we don't want to kill him because 340 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:44,320 Speaker 1: we might piss them off, we might make them mad, 341 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:48,359 Speaker 1: Like wow, how do you get to a place in 342 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:52,600 Speaker 1: your head that it's okay to pribe Mullah's that chant 343 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:56,879 Speaker 1: death to America and death to Israel and threatened to 344 00:22:56,920 --> 00:23:00,200 Speaker 1: wipe Israel off the map and burn our flag in 345 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:04,960 Speaker 1: the American flag. What would possess anybody to give these 346 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 1: idiots one hundred and fifty billion dollars? What would it 347 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:12,960 Speaker 1: possessed Clinton to think you can bribe the North Koreans 348 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:17,320 Speaker 1: into giving up the nuclear program. We give the money 349 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:20,440 Speaker 1: and then they do it anyway. At some point you 350 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:23,520 Speaker 1: got to realize that there's only one way to stop evil. 351 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:27,800 Speaker 1: And when you see it and you identify it, and 352 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,880 Speaker 1: they're the number one state sponsor of terror, the shooting 353 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:34,560 Speaker 1: down drones, they are stopping the free flow of oil 354 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:38,440 Speaker 1: at market prices. They're taking hostage tankers and they're they're 355 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:42,600 Speaker 1: literally bombing out facilities of their competitors. That impacts the 356 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:47,679 Speaker 1: world economy, killing Americans in Iraq, you know, orchestrating the 357 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:51,560 Speaker 1: entire attack on our embassy to kill Americans and turn 358 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:54,320 Speaker 1: it into a benghazi, which it wasn't and didn't become 359 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:57,480 Speaker 1: thanks to the President, thanks to our intel community, the 360 00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:02,200 Speaker 1: ninety nine and others. And they get all wigged out 361 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:10,360 Speaker 1: because Rainy Iran's general replacing Solomoni is vowing for revenge. Okay, shocker, 362 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 1: saber rattling or that, I guess. We have Solomoni's what 363 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:18,840 Speaker 1: was it, his daughter warning families of US troops waiting 364 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:22,520 Speaker 1: for their death. At some point, you gotta stand up 365 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:24,600 Speaker 1: and say if you do it, you're gonna pay the 366 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:28,760 Speaker 1: price if you and the price does not need to 367 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:34,359 Speaker 1: be a boots on the ground historically fought war, you know. 368 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:37,920 Speaker 1: And Pompeos said it on Fox New Sunny said, endless 369 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:42,320 Speaker 1: wars are the direct result of weakness. The President is 370 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:45,879 Speaker 1: never gonna let that happen now. So far, the President 371 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:49,640 Speaker 1: has kind of kept his word on the promises he made. Now, 372 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 1: Pompeo says, we're gonna get it right. We're gonna get 373 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:58,440 Speaker 1: the force posture correct. But make no mistake, America's mission 374 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:01,600 Speaker 1: is to have our footprint in the Middle East reduced 375 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:05,879 Speaker 1: while still keeping America safe from rogue regimes like the 376 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:10,480 Speaker 1: Islamic Republic of Iran and from terrorist activity broadly and 377 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:15,400 Speaker 1: throughout the region. In what world does some people think 378 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:21,520 Speaker 1: it's okay to try and kill Americans abroad and try 379 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:27,160 Speaker 1: and take over our embassy and our interest in abroad, 380 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:31,320 Speaker 1: and not think there's going to be a price to pay. 381 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:33,640 Speaker 1: That's the only thing that works. It's as simple as 382 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:37,160 Speaker 1: the bully argument, or that the fact that some Moranian 383 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:41,680 Speaker 1: lawmaker is offering an eighty million dollar bounty on Trump's head. 384 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:45,560 Speaker 1: That's not unique either. None of what they're saying or 385 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:49,320 Speaker 1: doing is unique. What people seem not to get is 386 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:51,800 Speaker 1: even after they were bribe with one hundred and fifty 387 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:55,520 Speaker 1: billion dollars, they still hate us. They've always hated us, 388 00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:00,879 Speaker 1: and if at some point they do try and retaliate 389 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,760 Speaker 1: or do retaliate, and America's got a lot of options 390 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:09,240 Speaker 1: here and we will use them. Hence my argument, I 391 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:12,960 Speaker 1: don't want any more long protracted conflicts. I don't want 392 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:17,240 Speaker 1: to send our national treasure abroad anymore. Hence the investment 393 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:22,720 Speaker 1: in the next generation of weaponry offensive defensive. So when 394 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:26,760 Speaker 1: we need to take out their refineries, well, our brilliant 395 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:30,359 Speaker 1: military will hit a couple of buttons, hopefully from an 396 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:35,400 Speaker 1: air conditioned office in Tampa, Florida or the Desert, Nevada, 397 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:38,280 Speaker 1: because that's the way it's got to be fought. Now, 398 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:42,360 Speaker 1: assuming that they might one day develop the same technology 399 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:46,240 Speaker 1: as we've built, then we've got to protect ourselves defensively. 400 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:50,240 Speaker 1: That means like, for example, the Iron Dome in Israel. 401 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:54,880 Speaker 1: It's work better than anyone ever imagine. Democrats mocked strategic 402 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:58,000 Speaker 1: defense star Wars, they made fun of Reagan. I've said, 403 00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:01,440 Speaker 1: and I remain committed to this comment today. That will 404 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:05,760 Speaker 1: go down as Reagan's greatest legacy because it was way 405 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:08,520 Speaker 1: ahead of the curve. And if you want to talk 406 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:12,679 Speaker 1: about hypocrisy, yeah, Obama launched twenty eight hundred strikes on 407 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:16,640 Speaker 1: Iraq Syria without any congressional approval. So I don't really 408 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:18,960 Speaker 1: want to get lectured from the likes of Nancy Pelosi 409 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:22,639 Speaker 1: or anyone else. And they sound pretty dumb, stupid and 410 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:28,280 Speaker 1: idiotic with their Hell, yeah, he's horrible, he's dark, he's evil, 411 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,440 Speaker 1: he's all these things. He's done all of these things, 412 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:35,840 Speaker 1: but we can't do anything. Now, imagine for a second 413 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:39,440 Speaker 1: Donald Trump didn't do anything, and six months from now 414 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 1: we found out that he knew that Solomoney was on 415 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:47,080 Speaker 1: the tarmac and Baghdad. Well, who do you think would 416 00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:51,000 Speaker 1: be criticizing the president for not acting. Well, that would 417 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:55,280 Speaker 1: be the same Democrats that can't stand Trump at all. Ever, 418 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:58,960 Speaker 1: there's nothing Donald Trump will ever do right in their minds. 419 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:03,200 Speaker 1: Why do you think Nancy Pelosi's obsessed with impeachment? And 420 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:05,760 Speaker 1: by the way, this is now you know, coming to 421 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:10,600 Speaker 1: a head as well, Josh Hally, rightly, you know. Look, 422 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:13,360 Speaker 1: so Senate, the Senate has rules of impeachment. We've been 423 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:17,600 Speaker 1: through this. I'll just give you the quick abbreviated cliff 424 00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:23,280 Speaker 1: note version here. So they set impeachment rules and you're 425 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:26,080 Speaker 1: treated like forty four standing rules of the Senate. Thus, 426 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:31,639 Speaker 1: to make a rules change, the parliamentarian will declare that 427 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:36,040 Speaker 1: they need sixty seven votes. However, what you can do 428 00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:41,360 Speaker 1: to change the rules is then upon that you can 429 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:45,280 Speaker 1: vote to change the rules of the Senate, and you'd 430 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:51,320 Speaker 1: only need a fifty one vote margin to get it done. Now, constitutionally, 431 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:55,280 Speaker 1: it's very clear that the president of the United State, 432 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:58,560 Speaker 1: that the House impeaches and the trial is held in 433 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:02,280 Speaker 1: the Senate. As Josh haul you introduced this resolution who 434 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:05,960 Speaker 1: allowed dismissal of the bogus impeachment charges against the president. 435 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:09,520 Speaker 1: Resident's kind of busy, and the American people will weigh 436 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,240 Speaker 1: in in three hundred and two days. But this whole 437 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:16,760 Speaker 1: charade is a threat to democracy. And now that they 438 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,920 Speaker 1: don't like their own impeachment vote, which they thought had 439 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:23,160 Speaker 1: to be done so expeditiously, now they're trying to dictate 440 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:27,280 Speaker 1: how the Senate does their constitutional role. Sorry, Nancy is 441 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:29,960 Speaker 1: not going to work that way. And you've got most 442 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:35,000 Speaker 1: Republican senators saying you're not lecturing us how to do it. 443 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:38,280 Speaker 1: You failed to deliver articles of impeachment. You're admitting you 444 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:41,960 Speaker 1: bumbled your partisan impeachment. That was said by Tom Cotton. 445 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:45,640 Speaker 1: Ted Cruz said, since the impeachment process started, Pelosi in 446 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:49,280 Speaker 1: the House, Democrats have made a mockery of our constitution 447 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:53,360 Speaker 1: and abused impeachment for political gain. Now they're undermining the 448 00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:55,880 Speaker 1: role of the Senate by attempting to dictate the terms 449 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:59,240 Speaker 1: of the Senate trial. Under our constitution, the Senate has 450 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:04,080 Speaker 1: the soul authority to try impeachment. That's correct. And the 451 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:08,000 Speaker 1: quote of Chucky Schumer factor in Clinton's impeachment that he 452 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:11,080 Speaker 1: was an objective kind of puts to rest this entire 453 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:16,960 Speaker 1: argument that, well, Republicans, if they don't do it the 454 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 1: way Chuck Schumer wants, then somehow that they're being unfair. 455 00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:24,120 Speaker 1: Nice tried, Chuck, your words are coming back to haunt you, 456 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,800 Speaker 1: and I will play them tonight on Hannity I in 457 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:29,880 Speaker 1: Eastern on Fox All right, three hundred and two days 458 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:35,840 Speaker 1: best election coverage available on your radio dial. We've got 459 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,240 Speaker 1: a lot to get to now. One update on the 460 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:42,680 Speaker 1: Senate resolution of Senator Josh Holly. He will be on 461 00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:48,480 Speaker 1: Hannity tonight introducing a measure accusing Missus Pelosi of obstructing 462 00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:51,040 Speaker 1: a Senate trial, which is to occur after the House 463 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:54,160 Speaker 1: votes to impeach a sitting president under the US Constitution. 464 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:58,800 Speaker 1: Resolution states that if the House fails to transmit articles 465 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:03,600 Speaker 1: of impeachment within five calendar days, a senator could then 466 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:07,480 Speaker 1: introduce a motion to dismiss the articles with prejudice for 467 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:11,680 Speaker 1: failure by the House of Representatives to prosecute. It has 468 00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:16,360 Speaker 1: been twenty calendar days since Pelosi's chamber voted to impeach 469 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:20,640 Speaker 1: President Trump on December the eighteenth. Now, if this resolution passes, 470 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,120 Speaker 1: and at some point this week, we may be given 471 00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:26,520 Speaker 1: out the Senate phone numbers, just giving you a heads 472 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:31,480 Speaker 1: up of a preview of coming attractions. But if this 473 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:35,520 Speaker 1: passes the Senate, and it should, it would mean that 474 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:40,840 Speaker 1: the impeachment clock of Pelosi. She constitutionally does not get 475 00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:45,400 Speaker 1: to dictate the Senate's role in an impeachment trial. We 476 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:50,680 Speaker 1: need assurance. You don't get assurances. Chuck Schumer admitted, and 477 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:54,240 Speaker 1: we have the tape will play tonight that he was 478 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:57,720 Speaker 1: biased in the Clinton impeachment or there were eleven specific 479 00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:03,640 Speaker 1: felonies laid out there. Ten sponsors, co sponsors Mike braun, Rick, Scott, 480 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:10,160 Speaker 1: Ted Cruz, Marsha Blackburne, Steve Danes, Tom Cotton, John Barosso, 481 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:15,200 Speaker 1: Joni Ernst, Jim Inhoff, and David Purdue. Good for them. 482 00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:17,800 Speaker 1: New king Ridge, former Speaker of the House, here to 483 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,600 Speaker 1: talk about this the election so much more that taken 484 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:23,400 Speaker 1: out of Solomoni and of course, even that can't get 485 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,760 Speaker 1: any praise from any Democrat. How are you so happy 486 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:29,280 Speaker 1: New Year? Happy New Year? And you know, I think 487 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:34,200 Speaker 1: actually Pelosi may be subjected to a privileged resolution that 488 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:38,160 Speaker 1: she is holding the House in contempt and in disrepute 489 00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:41,880 Speaker 1: because what she's done is I think, putting the House 490 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:45,800 Speaker 1: itself in jeopardy of looking like it doesn't care about 491 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:50,200 Speaker 1: the Constitution and is so clearly political. Every day this 492 00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:54,000 Speaker 1: goes on, it just just becomes more and more political 493 00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:59,000 Speaker 1: and less and less constitutional historic. So on the other hand, 494 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,240 Speaker 1: I have to say, Sean, I do think President Trump 495 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:05,440 Speaker 1: should send her a nice note making her the number 496 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:11,560 Speaker 1: one fundraiser for his campaign. There's they're smashing every fundraising record. 497 00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:15,880 Speaker 1: Let me let me ask you anecdotally. Because I have 498 00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:19,200 Speaker 1: my long vacation around Christmas, I'm like, I'm I'm jumping 499 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:21,120 Speaker 1: out of my skin by the time I get back 500 00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:23,880 Speaker 1: on the air, just ready to I can't take it anymore. 501 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,200 Speaker 1: I got to let it all out, which is why 502 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:31,800 Speaker 1: I came back Friday early. But everywhere I go, every 503 00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:36,160 Speaker 1: every person without exception, that I saw and met over 504 00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:38,840 Speaker 1: this holiday season all saying the same thing. They've had 505 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:43,480 Speaker 1: it they're fed up. We had we had random phone 506 00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:46,280 Speaker 1: calls with people that were close to who are not 507 00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:48,880 Speaker 1: at all political, who would just suddenly in the middle 508 00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,560 Speaker 1: of the conversation say, I can't tell you how sick 509 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,200 Speaker 1: I am of all of this blogny, and I was 510 00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:58,360 Speaker 1: really surprising. And people who are very non political just 511 00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:01,640 Speaker 1: get it. They're tired of it. They think they're all liars. 512 00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:06,360 Speaker 1: The Democrats, and I think that they're doing between their 513 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:10,560 Speaker 1: reaction to solomony in Iran and their reaction to this 514 00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:15,760 Speaker 1: gameplay with the impeachment, I think they're doing substantial damage 515 00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:18,719 Speaker 1: to their party as an institution. The other thing is this, 516 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:22,520 Speaker 1: look at the Constitution's clear. The House has a role, 517 00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:27,920 Speaker 1: the Senate has a role. Every consideration you gave both 518 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:33,560 Speaker 1: Bill Clinton is team of attorneys, the timeframe dictated by them, 519 00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:37,040 Speaker 1: not by you. The right to cross examine, the right 520 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:43,239 Speaker 1: to propose witnesses. Everything that you did, slowly, sober, very 521 00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:46,200 Speaker 1: very fair, all across the board, none of which was 522 00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:49,160 Speaker 1: a FOURD. We were told we had to do this immediately. 523 00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:53,680 Speaker 1: So they have their every one of their quote witnesses, 524 00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:58,040 Speaker 1: opinion witnesses, hearsay witnesses, and only one fact witness Now 525 00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:00,239 Speaker 1: they're saying, well, we've got to have the right call 526 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:04,600 Speaker 1: more witnesses. But wouldn't the Senate only be right to 527 00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:07,480 Speaker 1: call the witnesses that the House brought up. They don't 528 00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:09,040 Speaker 1: get to bring in a whole series. They don't get 529 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:13,759 Speaker 1: to relitigate what the House brings is their evidence for 530 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:18,160 Speaker 1: this impeachment. That's not the Senate's role. Well, the Senate 531 00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:21,040 Speaker 1: can create its own set of rules. I sort of 532 00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:25,160 Speaker 1: think it would be fascinating if Lindsey Graham, as the 533 00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:28,320 Speaker 1: chairman of the Judiciary Committee, happened to bring in, for example, 534 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:33,479 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden, totally within the rules to ask him under 535 00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:36,279 Speaker 1: oath to explain a lot of this stuff to get 536 00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:38,640 Speaker 1: to the bottom of it. But I think there's a 537 00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:42,160 Speaker 1: there's a deeper thing going on here that I tell everybody. 538 00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:45,800 Speaker 1: If you if you read mister McConnell's memoir The Long Game, 539 00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:51,080 Speaker 1: you understand from McConnell that the idea that Nancy Pelosi 540 00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:54,640 Speaker 1: thinks that she can bluff him, or bellot him or 541 00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:58,120 Speaker 1: blackmail him is just absurd. This is a guy who 542 00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:02,480 Speaker 1: is tough and professional, takes a long view of things, 543 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:05,360 Speaker 1: and I suspect in the evening, he thinks, I wonder 544 00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:08,279 Speaker 1: how many more judges I can get through this week. Well, 545 00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:11,439 Speaker 1: Nancy's playing her games, and he has said this, he said, 546 00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:14,120 Speaker 1: we're just going to go back to getting people through 547 00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:17,279 Speaker 1: and making the appointments I go through. And you know, 548 00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:20,200 Speaker 1: Nancy can play games as long as she wants to. Well, 549 00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:22,919 Speaker 1: I agree, but I don't think that that's the way 550 00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:27,000 Speaker 1: to handle this because it's not fair to end well constitutionally. 551 00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:30,160 Speaker 1: You know, we're not talking about the presidency here. This 552 00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:34,120 Speaker 1: isn't a game. They've now they've they've lowered the bar, 553 00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:39,040 Speaker 1: they've politicized it. It's repugnant. It's repulsive. There's no evidence, 554 00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:43,560 Speaker 1: you know, that whole idea that executive privilege is invoked, 555 00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:47,000 Speaker 1: and because they seek remedy from the other branch of 556 00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:50,480 Speaker 1: government when there's a conflict between the legislative and executive branch, 557 00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:55,120 Speaker 1: and they are getting relief and a decision sometime this 558 00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:58,160 Speaker 1: year from the US Supreme Court, but they're saying it's 559 00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:02,480 Speaker 1: obstruction because they seek remedy. Is insane. So the whole 560 00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:05,160 Speaker 1: thing is a sham, and it was rushed through and 561 00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:07,799 Speaker 1: now they're trying to get a redo or add new 562 00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,799 Speaker 1: articles of impeachment. I guess in the interim, I guess 563 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:14,279 Speaker 1: they're in a constant impeachment mode. Now sure, but you 564 00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:18,160 Speaker 1: know you're you're being reasonable and you're trying to describe 565 00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:20,680 Speaker 1: this as though facts matter if you instead of saying 566 00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:24,040 Speaker 1: Democrat it, he just said this is the hate Trump Party. 567 00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:27,920 Speaker 1: And that's what I understand what's going on. I mean, 568 00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:30,720 Speaker 1: these are people who get up every morning and are friends. 569 00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:34,600 Speaker 1: Can you imagine Adam Schiff. Every morning he wakes up, 570 00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:38,400 Speaker 1: you know, Trump tweets something it reminds Shiff. He turns 571 00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:41,800 Speaker 1: on Fox and Friends, he starts to get catatonic. His 572 00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:46,359 Speaker 1: staff has to calm him down. We're dealing with people 573 00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:49,000 Speaker 1: who have a psychosis. We're not dealing with people who 574 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,640 Speaker 1: are playing with a full deck. It is amazing. And 575 00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:55,520 Speaker 1: you know, we always talk about choice elections. We always 576 00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:58,200 Speaker 1: say this will define the future of the country. I 577 00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:02,040 Speaker 1: think this is it. Let me move on and so 578 00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:04,719 Speaker 1: here we've got and I'm trying to do like a 579 00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:10,520 Speaker 1: how do you deal with maniacal dictatorships if you're not 580 00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:14,720 Speaker 1: part of the Benghazi Democratic Party or the bride Mullahs 581 00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:18,560 Speaker 1: and a rand party When you shoot out American drones, 582 00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:21,720 Speaker 1: when you in the narrow straits of Hormuz, or taking 583 00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:25,440 Speaker 1: British tankers hostage and trying to disrupt the world's supply 584 00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:28,480 Speaker 1: of oil, and you hit the Saudis to disrupt the 585 00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:31,640 Speaker 1: world supply of the lifeblood of every economy, and you 586 00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:35,120 Speaker 1: kill Americans in Iraq, and you orchestrate the attack to 587 00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:39,200 Speaker 1: kill Americans in our embassy. Your fun terrorism worldwide, You 588 00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:43,160 Speaker 1: fight proxy wars worldwide. For those of us that don't 589 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:46,400 Speaker 1: believe in rewarding that behavior with one hundred and fifty billion, 590 00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:50,120 Speaker 1: I think a reasonable person, and polls now prove it 591 00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:53,120 Speaker 1: out to be true, think the killing of Solomoni was 592 00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:55,200 Speaker 1: a great thing. I think it was an amazing thing. 593 00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:59,920 Speaker 1: I thought it was remarkable. I thought it was exact 594 00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:02,840 Speaker 1: be the right thing to do, and I was amazed 595 00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:06,080 Speaker 1: that they could target him in Baghdad and actually get 596 00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:08,719 Speaker 1: to him at exactly the right moment. But I think 597 00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:10,640 Speaker 1: we have a problem. I actually had a meeting on 598 00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:17,240 Speaker 1: this today talking about our language problem. The Iranian dictatorship 599 00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:20,839 Speaker 1: has been at war with us since nineteen seventy nine. 600 00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:25,120 Speaker 1: That's such a fact. They say it openly. Last year. 601 00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:28,840 Speaker 1: The Modulus, which is their Congress went into session chanting 602 00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:33,880 Speaker 1: death to America. Now, personally, I believe it was a historian. 603 00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:37,040 Speaker 1: When somebody chanced death to America. What they mean is 604 00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:42,000 Speaker 1: death to America. And this particular guy Ceremony had been 605 00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:47,320 Speaker 1: their most successful, most powerful general in waging a regional 606 00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:54,240 Speaker 1: campaign from Gaza to Lebanon, to Syria, to Iraq to Afghanistan, 607 00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:57,640 Speaker 1: and had We've had public statements again and again he 608 00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:01,200 Speaker 1: killed at least seven hundred Americans and to thousands more. 609 00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:05,400 Speaker 1: And to suggest that it's inappropriate to take out an 610 00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:08,680 Speaker 1: enemy general, I think is just a sign of being 611 00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:12,239 Speaker 1: out of touch with reality. How do you see that? 612 00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:17,239 Speaker 1: Now that I was fast approaching the Hampshire closely thereafter 613 00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:20,839 Speaker 1: South Carolina on our way to Super Tuesday, no real 614 00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:24,799 Speaker 1: clear front runner, what do you see among the Democratic 615 00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:28,600 Speaker 1: in the Democratic primary? And you know, maybe Rove is right, 616 00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:31,520 Speaker 1: maybe there's all ends in a brokered convention because you've 617 00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:34,640 Speaker 1: got you've got more in fighting going on, and frankly 618 00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:38,399 Speaker 1: the weakest slate of candidates I've ever seen, and most 619 00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:47,040 Speaker 1: extremely well. The next big story maybe the rise of Bloomberg, who, 620 00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:51,080 Speaker 1: by the sheer volume of money he's spending, is beginning 621 00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:54,080 Speaker 1: to really rise because you are a place like California, 622 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:57,520 Speaker 1: nobody else has a presence. But he's rich enough he 623 00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:00,799 Speaker 1: can afford to buy a substantial presence. And so I 624 00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:04,600 Speaker 1: think by Super Tuesday, you may be in a totally 625 00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:09,600 Speaker 1: different environment. Don't. But he supports every other crazy position, 626 00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:13,800 Speaker 1: and he's probably the most anti gun, pro New Green Deal, 627 00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:19,719 Speaker 1: pro Obamacare, and more um well and appro Chinese. It was, 628 00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:22,800 Speaker 1: I mean he was. He recon gave an interview explaining 629 00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:26,520 Speaker 1: the Jesian thing is not really a dictator. No, I mean, 630 00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:30,399 Speaker 1: I mean the president, the self appointed president for life. Yes, 631 00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:32,960 Speaker 1: President Man, he didn't say that with a straight face, 632 00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:36,839 Speaker 1: can say anything pretty. I'm not. Look, I just think 633 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:39,560 Speaker 1: he's buying all the ads. I guess that money can buy. 634 00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:44,120 Speaker 1: And I just don't see his gun position is free 635 00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:47,400 Speaker 1: healthcare positions, his New Green Deal positions as in sync 636 00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:52,160 Speaker 1: with people in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. But with that said, 637 00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:55,360 Speaker 1: always in the back of my mind, I know for 638 00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:58,440 Speaker 1: Republican to win the presidency, you've got to thread that needle. 639 00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:02,240 Speaker 1: You need North Carolina, you need Florida, you need Ohio. 640 00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:07,759 Speaker 1: Then you got to pick off let's see Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, 641 00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:13,359 Speaker 1: New Hampshire, got to keep Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico in play. 642 00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:17,680 Speaker 1: You gotta fight for all of them, right And I 643 00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:19,839 Speaker 1: think the right way to think of this is they 644 00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:23,040 Speaker 1: may end up running so far to the left we 645 00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:25,120 Speaker 1: have a chance at in nineteen seventy two or in 646 00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:27,799 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty four, and then it's a totally different game. 647 00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:30,920 Speaker 1: I was surprised last night to discover we have over 648 00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:34,680 Speaker 1: eight hundred candidates running for Congress. We have over one 649 00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:37,719 Speaker 1: hundred and eighty women running for congressmen. This is this 650 00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:42,719 Speaker 1: is a new emerging Republican party, and I wouldn't foreclose 651 00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:46,360 Speaker 1: right now the possibility of a genuinely different election than 652 00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:50,440 Speaker 1: anybody expects. Well, look, I hope it plays out that way. 653 00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:55,080 Speaker 1: Let me ask you from the standpoint of how the president. 654 00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:57,880 Speaker 1: Let's assume for a second the Mullas are now sitting 655 00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:01,480 Speaker 1: around a table and they're thinking about retaliation, which I 656 00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:05,960 Speaker 1: would not doubt that they're doing. And okay, if they retaliate. 657 00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:08,759 Speaker 1: To me, it seems like the only other option people 658 00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:10,840 Speaker 1: have in their heads is that we send boots on 659 00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:13,279 Speaker 1: the ground. I think that's the I would never want 660 00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:16,440 Speaker 1: that option. I think we now have the next generation 661 00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:19,960 Speaker 1: of weaponry ahead. Go back and look at Reagan. Reagan, 662 00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:24,280 Speaker 1: when we were faced with a terrorist bombing in Berlin, 663 00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:28,640 Speaker 1: Reagan went after um Kadafi with air power, scared him 664 00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:32,000 Speaker 1: so badly that he was peaceful for a decade. When 665 00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:37,560 Speaker 1: the Iranians UH used a mind to hit an American warship, 666 00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:42,320 Speaker 1: Reagan took out one half of the Iranian navy. But 667 00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:44,759 Speaker 1: he never even thought about boots in the ground. I 668 00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:47,799 Speaker 1: think trumps in that sense, I hope. And then from 669 00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:49,839 Speaker 1: what I've seen so far, he's being able to learn 670 00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:52,040 Speaker 1: the Regan message, which is you can use air power, 671 00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:55,240 Speaker 1: you can use advanced missiles, you can use your navy, 672 00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:57,719 Speaker 1: and you can you can break a country like a 673 00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:01,560 Speaker 1: Ran without ever putting a single infant on the ground. Well, 674 00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:03,840 Speaker 1: I mean, didn't we do that with the Caliphate in Syria? 675 00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:06,440 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, haven't We've now proven you take 676 00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:09,440 Speaker 1: out their refineries and nuclear sites, and then the Iranian 677 00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:12,879 Speaker 1: people might have the option of regime change on their own. Look, 678 00:44:13,040 --> 00:44:14,600 Speaker 1: if I were the Mullis and I looked at the 679 00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:19,720 Speaker 1: ability to track and target and get Solimani, I wouldn't 680 00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:23,000 Speaker 1: be too eager to get into a running fight with Trump. 681 00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:26,640 Speaker 1: Former Speaker of the House, New King Rich, Happy New Year, 682 00:44:26,719 --> 00:44:28,840 Speaker 1: three hundred and two days to go. We'll have you 683 00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:31,600 Speaker 1: on often. Thank you, eight hundred and nine four one Sean. 684 00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:38,520 Speaker 1: Former General David Petraeus said the killing of the top 685 00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:43,960 Speaker 1: Iranian Kud's Force General Solimani, was more important than the 686 00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:48,080 Speaker 1: killing of al Qaeda founder Bin Laden. Quote. It is 687 00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:52,560 Speaker 1: impossible to overstate the importance of this particular action. It 688 00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:55,680 Speaker 1: is more significant than the killing of Osama bin Laden 689 00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:59,880 Speaker 1: or even the death of Islamic state leader El Baghda, 690 00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:04,080 Speaker 1: he told a Foreign policy magazine. He said Solomoni was 691 00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:08,120 Speaker 1: the architect and operational commander of the Iranian effort to 692 00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:12,719 Speaker 1: solidify control of the so called Shia Crescent, stretching from 693 00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:16,920 Speaker 1: Iran to Iraq, through Syria into southern Lebanon, and he 694 00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:21,800 Speaker 1: said he is responsible for providing the explosives and projectiles 695 00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:25,240 Speaker 1: and arms and munitions that killed over six hundred American 696 00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:28,800 Speaker 1: soldiers and many more of our coalition and Iraqi partners 697 00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:31,920 Speaker 1: in Iraq, as well as in so many other countries 698 00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:35,719 Speaker 1: such as Sirious. So his death is of enormous significance. 699 00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:39,960 Speaker 1: He said many people had rightly questioned whether America American 700 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:45,920 Speaker 1: deterrence had eroded somewhat because of a relatively insignificant response 701 00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:48,560 Speaker 1: to earlier actions. By the way, yeah, the president can't 702 00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:51,440 Speaker 1: win no matter what he does. And he said this 703 00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:55,680 Speaker 1: clearly was of vastly greater importance than he said for 704 00:45:55,840 --> 00:46:00,360 Speaker 1: the Defense Department was a defensive action, and the planning 705 00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:04,320 Speaker 1: and the contingencies Solomony was going to Iraq to discuss, 706 00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:08,759 Speaker 1: presumably approve. Yeah, it was pretty obvious to figure that out. 707 00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:14,040 Speaker 1: The death of innocent people, his sick passion contributing to 708 00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:18,480 Speaker 1: terrorist plots as far away as New Delhi. In London today, 709 00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:22,440 Speaker 1: we remember and honor the victims of Salomany's many atrocities, 710 00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:25,840 Speaker 1: and we take comfort in knowing that his reign of 711 00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:30,480 Speaker 1: terror is over. What the United States did yesterday should 712 00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:33,319 Speaker 1: have been done long ago. We took action last night 713 00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:37,520 Speaker 1: to stop a war. We did not take action to 714 00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:40,920 Speaker 1: start a war. It's got hundreds of American lives blood 715 00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:43,880 Speaker 1: on his hands. But what was sitting before us was 716 00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:47,040 Speaker 1: his travels throughout the region and his efforts to make 717 00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:50,440 Speaker 1: a significant strike against Americans. There would have been many 718 00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:53,399 Speaker 1: Muslims killed as well Iraqis people in other countries as well. 719 00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:57,239 Speaker 1: It was a strike that was aimed at both disrupting 720 00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:00,919 Speaker 1: that plot deterring further aggression. We hope setting the Ford 721 00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:04,480 Speaker 1: escalisation as well. The amazing thing about Biden, by the way, 722 00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:06,480 Speaker 1: glad you with us twenty five down till the top 723 00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:08,560 Speaker 1: of the hour eight hundred and ninety four one, Sean 724 00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:12,640 Speaker 1: you want to be a part of this extravaganza. Biden's 725 00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:15,600 Speaker 1: actually now claiming things that just aren't true. He just 726 00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:19,239 Speaker 1: makes it up as usual, claiming, well, he opposed the 727 00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:24,160 Speaker 1: Iraq War, no matter how many times he says it 728 00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:27,520 Speaker 1: or his aids tell him to stop saying it, that 729 00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:29,880 Speaker 1: he opposed the way, he just can't help himself. You know, 730 00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:33,280 Speaker 1: he's from the very moment President George W. Bush launched 731 00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:36,960 Speaker 1: his Shock and All military campaign, and right after that occurred, 732 00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:39,600 Speaker 1: I opposed what he was doing. I spoke to him. 733 00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:44,200 Speaker 1: Even fake news CNN is pointing out it's false that 734 00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:47,880 Speaker 1: Biden opposed the war from the moment Bush started it 735 00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:51,560 Speaker 1: in March of two thousand and three. He repeatedly spoke 736 00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:55,080 Speaker 1: in favor of the war both before and after it began. 737 00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:59,760 Speaker 1: It's just bizarre. And in ninety six it was Biden 738 00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:04,160 Speaker 1: that urged Clinton to use quote any level of force 739 00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:07,840 Speaker 1: that he deemed necessary to respond to the Cobar Towers bombing. 740 00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:11,439 Speaker 1: Wrote about that at length and let freedom ring years ago. 741 00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:15,600 Speaker 1: So I'm you know what part of they were at 742 00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:17,719 Speaker 1: war with us and we weren't at war with them, 743 00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:21,960 Speaker 1: didn't we understand? Then? This is uh, there's nothing that 744 00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:25,120 Speaker 1: this president will do that they'll ever give him credit for. 745 00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:28,759 Speaker 1: Doesn't matter. It's just you know, this whole idea. It's 746 00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:31,400 Speaker 1: so insane what they're trying to argue here, because the 747 00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:34,120 Speaker 1: trend has literally fread this needle and say, yeah, he 748 00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:37,120 Speaker 1: was evil, he was a murderer, he was terrible. Uh 749 00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:40,319 Speaker 1: yeah it was. It was the world's worst. And yeah 750 00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:43,279 Speaker 1: he killed Americans, and yeah he fomented terror, and yeah 751 00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:47,719 Speaker 1: he's responsible for proxy wars and yeah, creating instability all 752 00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:50,640 Speaker 1: throughout the Middle East, and yeah they're seeking nuclear weapons. 753 00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:55,239 Speaker 1: And the bribery efforts of Biden Obama didn't work one 754 00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:59,239 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty billion, But the Trump is where we 755 00:48:59,719 --> 00:49:01,719 Speaker 1: can't dare take them out because they might get mad. 756 00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:04,319 Speaker 1: Oh well, we're not supposed to be mad. At how 757 00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:07,399 Speaker 1: they treat us. One of the things I said when 758 00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:10,399 Speaker 1: I called in last Thursday night to my own TV show, 759 00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:12,840 Speaker 1: and then I did come back early from vacation for 760 00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:17,960 Speaker 1: Friday night show, is that this was a massive success 761 00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:21,120 Speaker 1: for the great people in our intelligence community. How many 762 00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:24,160 Speaker 1: times have I delineated in the last few years on 763 00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:28,920 Speaker 1: this show the ninety nine percent of intelligence officials that 764 00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:32,160 Speaker 1: do the great work of keeping us safe every day 765 00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:36,920 Speaker 1: versus that one percent that abused power turned the powerful 766 00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:39,880 Speaker 1: tools of intelligence we entrust to them on the American 767 00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:45,360 Speaker 1: people abusing their power and being corrupt. Same with the FBI. 768 00:49:45,520 --> 00:49:48,880 Speaker 1: It's the greatest law enforcement agency on the planet. It 769 00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:51,880 Speaker 1: just is. We have the best intelligence community in the 770 00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:55,640 Speaker 1: world by far, and again it's the ninety nine percent 771 00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:58,040 Speaker 1: of great So when the one percent goes rogue, we 772 00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:03,440 Speaker 1: got a problem. One officer thirty years CIA operations officer, 773 00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:05,960 Speaker 1: a friend of the program, actually a friend of mine. 774 00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:08,640 Speaker 1: Now Daniel Hoffman is with us, sir, how are you 775 00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:10,879 Speaker 1: You said we need to be very alert. I'm sure 776 00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:13,880 Speaker 1: our state and local law enforcement is working with our 777 00:50:13,920 --> 00:50:17,560 Speaker 1: intelligence community to be on alert as much as possible. 778 00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:22,400 Speaker 1: But the level of sophistication to get this intelligence that 779 00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:26,239 Speaker 1: Solimani was going to be at Baghdad Airport and then 780 00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:29,520 Speaker 1: pinpoint the strike at exactly that right moment is an 781 00:50:29,560 --> 00:50:34,080 Speaker 1: amazing feat. First, it's just always a pleasure and an 782 00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:36,399 Speaker 1: honor to join you on the program. So thanks again 783 00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:39,120 Speaker 1: for having me, and if go to talk about this 784 00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:43,520 Speaker 1: historically important strike. When you're talking about striking as talist 785 00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:45,759 Speaker 1: or in this case Cassi Sulimani, the head of it 786 00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:49,000 Speaker 1: Ron's Goods Force, it's all about finding the target, fixing 787 00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:52,239 Speaker 1: the target location, and then finishing the targets in this 788 00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:55,279 Speaker 1: case with no collateral damage. It's really important to note 789 00:50:55,360 --> 00:50:59,880 Speaker 1: that we killed the higher value and it's there's bitter 790 00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:02,680 Speaker 1: and a sweet irony. I think for us, if SOLEMANI 791 00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:06,720 Speaker 1: was killed on that root iris from the airport into 792 00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:10,280 Speaker 1: town in Iraq where he had his own Iranian proxy 793 00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:14,239 Speaker 1: malicious in Iraq, like I eeds improvised exclosive devices that 794 00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:17,040 Speaker 1: we're targeting our people there when I served in Iraq, 795 00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:19,840 Speaker 1: Let's fix those seven What do you think based on 796 00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:25,480 Speaker 1: your thirty years experience as a CIA ops officer, Because 797 00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:28,040 Speaker 1: the fact that he was bold and brazen enough to 798 00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:32,839 Speaker 1: just be right there in Baghdad Baghdad Airport. You're right. 799 00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:35,680 Speaker 1: This is the Cuds, you know, the cuds of the 800 00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:40,040 Speaker 1: leading military elite force of the Iranians. This guy's been 801 00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:42,560 Speaker 1: responsible for all that I mentioned earlier and a lot 802 00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:46,239 Speaker 1: more in the death of Americans directly. But to me, 803 00:51:46,719 --> 00:51:53,080 Speaker 1: it looks like he felt emboldened enough and perhaps protected 804 00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:56,120 Speaker 1: enough that he could go in there and lead this assault, 805 00:51:56,320 --> 00:52:00,719 Speaker 1: if not worse on our embassy and and god only 806 00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:03,440 Speaker 1: knows what else. Yeah, I think that's absolutely right. He 807 00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:07,399 Speaker 1: misjudged President Trump. You know, he was behaving as if 808 00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:11,520 Speaker 1: he were in Tehran that Backdad International Airport. I've flow 809 00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:14,400 Speaker 1: him there many times. I've been over that rude Irish 810 00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:18,400 Speaker 1: both by land and by air. They choke point. He 811 00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:20,880 Speaker 1: put himself at risk, but he did it because he 812 00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:23,239 Speaker 1: felt like there was nothing to worry about. We've had 813 00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:25,360 Speaker 1: him in our prost Theirs in the past, and SOEs 814 00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:28,120 Speaker 1: not to strike him a mistake in my view, as 815 00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:30,360 Speaker 1: you noted in the past, and make no mistake, this 816 00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:34,279 Speaker 1: administration made a strategic calculus, the right one in my view, 817 00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:37,719 Speaker 1: that if Ivan's leadership is going, we continue to authorize 818 00:52:37,719 --> 00:52:41,200 Speaker 1: attacked against our people and our installations. On top of 819 00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:44,040 Speaker 1: the attack against our drone facility, on top of the 820 00:52:44,080 --> 00:52:48,160 Speaker 1: attack against our oil tankers and Saudi oil infrastructure back 821 00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:50,960 Speaker 1: in September. Then we are going to attack the Iranian 822 00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:53,680 Speaker 1: leaders and make them pay a price for the decisions 823 00:52:53,719 --> 00:52:56,240 Speaker 1: they make. For well, deal with the foot soldiers separately, 824 00:52:56,560 --> 00:52:59,000 Speaker 1: but we are going to do a little bit of 825 00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:02,560 Speaker 1: what the Israelis called brain brain old school and eliminate 826 00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:05,480 Speaker 1: those leaders for threatening us. That's what this administration did. 827 00:53:05,719 --> 00:53:09,120 Speaker 1: Intelligence was important that this was above all else, in 828 00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:12,680 Speaker 1: my view, at least a policy decision by the President, 829 00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:15,920 Speaker 1: and a great one. So for the average person, I 830 00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:18,560 Speaker 1: don't look. We obviously can't give away our methods and 831 00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:23,800 Speaker 1: the tools of intelligence. They're so powerful now though you know, 832 00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:27,279 Speaker 1: having spent time with you in Vietnamen, in Singapore, well, 833 00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:29,640 Speaker 1: number one, if you hang around with Dan Hoffman his 834 00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:33,080 Speaker 1: thirty years as a CIA ops officer, he just scares 835 00:53:33,080 --> 00:53:35,200 Speaker 1: the crap at you because he's basically saying everything you 836 00:53:35,320 --> 00:53:39,719 Speaker 1: do is monitored by somebody, someplace somewhere, which I've heard 837 00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:42,040 Speaker 1: from many other people as well, and I think that 838 00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:45,360 Speaker 1: kind of freaks a lot of people out. But for example, 839 00:53:45,520 --> 00:53:49,399 Speaker 1: if we wanted to target any one conversation of any 840 00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:52,360 Speaker 1: one individual on the face of this earth. You have 841 00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:56,320 Speaker 1: zero doubt that we have the capacity to easily do that. 842 00:53:56,560 --> 00:53:59,479 Speaker 1: Is that a fair statement or assessment? It is? And listen, 843 00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:02,080 Speaker 1: even though didn't strike Solomoni, it doesn't mean that we 844 00:54:02,160 --> 00:54:05,840 Speaker 1: weren't collecting intelligence on his location and doing it in 845 00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:09,600 Speaker 1: a variety of ways through human sources, through signals intelligence 846 00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:11,600 Speaker 1: in other words, when he's speaking to someone on a 847 00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:15,200 Speaker 1: cellular phone or something of that sort, and that allows 848 00:54:15,320 --> 00:54:18,680 Speaker 1: us to have options. So when we're tracking his location, 849 00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:21,920 Speaker 1: we can then present to the President the option of 850 00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:25,840 Speaker 1: striking him. Consider, I think our intelligence community like snipers, 851 00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:29,920 Speaker 1: you know, high technology snipers looking at the target from 852 00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:33,640 Speaker 1: very very far away pinpointing the target's location, so that 853 00:54:33,760 --> 00:54:37,800 Speaker 1: if the President authorizes the finish operation, we're ready to 854 00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:40,759 Speaker 1: implement that operation on a moment's notice. Well, and then 855 00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:42,960 Speaker 1: this is the danger that I have spoken of. And 856 00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:44,600 Speaker 1: by the way, I think you agree with me because 857 00:54:44,760 --> 00:54:48,080 Speaker 1: most of my friends and the FBI and the intelligence 858 00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:51,399 Speaker 1: community that I know, they're not happy at all when 859 00:54:51,440 --> 00:54:54,520 Speaker 1: they hear the powerful tools that we entrust the people 860 00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:58,239 Speaker 1: to keep us safe in a very dangerous world. You 861 00:54:58,320 --> 00:55:01,080 Speaker 1: know there is a rub here and those tools are 862 00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:04,960 Speaker 1: turned on the American people, and which I believe happened 863 00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:07,680 Speaker 1: in a in a huge way, and in a way 864 00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:13,680 Speaker 1: that was that's extraordinarily dangerous constitutionally, and more importantly to 865 00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:18,400 Speaker 1: target one particular candidate than one particular transition team and 866 00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:23,879 Speaker 1: one particular president deep into his presidency. How dangerous is that? Well, 867 00:55:24,239 --> 00:55:27,160 Speaker 1: you know, in our country, we've got a strong democracy, 868 00:55:27,239 --> 00:55:30,120 Speaker 1: we've got oversight, we've got freedom of the press, and 869 00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:34,600 Speaker 1: so that when if there are rules and regulations which 870 00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:37,480 Speaker 1: are not followed for whatever reason that might be, there 871 00:55:37,560 --> 00:55:40,600 Speaker 1: are lots of options, lots of opportunities to detect that 872 00:55:40,719 --> 00:55:42,640 Speaker 1: and then do something about it. As you point out, 873 00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:45,800 Speaker 1: I can tell you from my experience in the intelligence community, 874 00:55:45,880 --> 00:55:49,440 Speaker 1: we are entrusted with a lot of tools to do 875 00:55:49,560 --> 00:55:52,480 Speaker 1: our job and the expectation that we'll do our job 876 00:55:52,560 --> 00:55:55,040 Speaker 1: to mensor it with the laws of our nation and 877 00:55:55,760 --> 00:56:00,919 Speaker 1: extraordinarily rare circumstances that doesn't happen, then the proper legal 878 00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:03,399 Speaker 1: action needs to be taken a force. All right, quick break, 879 00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:06,279 Speaker 1: We'll come back more with Daniel hoffan thirty year ci 880 00:56:06,520 --> 00:56:09,040 Speaker 1: ops officer on the other side. All Right, as we 881 00:56:09,160 --> 00:56:12,840 Speaker 1: continue with Daniel Hoffen, Fox News contributor, thirty year CIA 882 00:56:12,920 --> 00:56:16,680 Speaker 1: ops officer, So as we move forward in this particular case, 883 00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:18,960 Speaker 1: you would agree with me that this is a major 884 00:56:19,160 --> 00:56:23,040 Speaker 1: victory for the intelligence community. The President's decision was the 885 00:56:23,160 --> 00:56:26,600 Speaker 1: right decision. This was an opportunity that perhaps wouldn't come 886 00:56:26,760 --> 00:56:31,080 Speaker 1: about any time soon. What do you suspect that Solomoni 887 00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:34,040 Speaker 1: was doing in Baghdad? Because I have my own suspicions. 888 00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:36,719 Speaker 1: One of the things we know a rand support for 889 00:56:36,920 --> 00:56:39,800 Speaker 1: terrorism worldwide. They're the number one state sponsor terror, in 890 00:56:39,920 --> 00:56:45,920 Speaker 1: particular his Bolah, which was largely engaged in attacking our embassy. 891 00:56:46,320 --> 00:56:48,840 Speaker 1: So my question is what was his real goal of 892 00:56:48,960 --> 00:56:50,920 Speaker 1: being there, and what was he trying, what effort was 893 00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:53,560 Speaker 1: he trying to lead? And why do I suspect that 894 00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:56,879 Speaker 1: you know this could have become Benghazi too? Well, Look, 895 00:56:56,960 --> 00:57:01,200 Speaker 1: we know that Irani and proxy Mali has gathered as 896 00:57:01,239 --> 00:57:05,760 Speaker 1: a mob and penetrated the outer perimeter of our embassy, 897 00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:07,880 Speaker 1: and they were allowed to get that far by Iraqi 898 00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:11,160 Speaker 1: security forces. Solamani was kind of the puppet master of 899 00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:16,080 Speaker 1: domestic Iraqi politics. He was directing those Irani and proxy militias, 900 00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:21,080 Speaker 1: including Albomaki Amihandas, the late Mohandas Katab his Bala proxy militia, 901 00:57:21,120 --> 00:57:24,440 Speaker 1: among others. And his ultimate strategic goal was for the 902 00:57:24,560 --> 00:57:28,000 Speaker 1: United States to have to withdraw our troops and potentially 903 00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:31,160 Speaker 1: even withdraw our embassy from Iraq, and they were going 904 00:57:31,240 --> 00:57:34,360 Speaker 1: to continue to escalate until we did. What we did 905 00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:36,560 Speaker 1: was just to wrap them on the knuckles a little 906 00:57:36,600 --> 00:57:38,560 Speaker 1: bit harsher than that, and sometimes that's what you have 907 00:57:38,720 --> 00:57:42,240 Speaker 1: to do. We've seen Iran escalate inside Iraq against US, 908 00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:45,080 Speaker 1: and I think it would have continued. And I think 909 00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:48,920 Speaker 1: the the imminent intelligence that the Secretary of Pompey was 910 00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:51,760 Speaker 1: referring to over the weekend was likely attacks against our 911 00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:55,840 Speaker 1: people in installation the embassy Iraqi bases which house US 912 00:57:55,920 --> 00:58:00,040 Speaker 1: service men and women potentially in the region and but 913 00:58:00,200 --> 00:58:02,480 Speaker 1: on where Lebanese his Balla is active and has been 914 00:58:02,520 --> 00:58:06,760 Speaker 1: active against us removing Solimani. Look, if the supreme leader 915 00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:08,680 Speaker 1: of the Run wants to launch an attack against us 916 00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:11,640 Speaker 1: right now, the guy he would have chosen to planet 917 00:58:11,720 --> 00:58:14,760 Speaker 1: Solomani is dead. One of the guys Solomani might have 918 00:58:14,840 --> 00:58:18,880 Speaker 1: picked to execute that operation. Mahanda's also did. So we've 919 00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:22,840 Speaker 1: disrupted their attack plans for sure, knowing what you know 920 00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:26,120 Speaker 1: about the Iranians. And look, let's go let's look at 921 00:58:26,120 --> 00:58:28,400 Speaker 1: the saber rattling that's been going on. Number One, the 922 00:58:28,480 --> 00:58:32,320 Speaker 1: sanctions are working. According to my sources, there's a lot 923 00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:34,960 Speaker 1: of internal strife that's not being reported. The people have 924 00:58:35,040 --> 00:58:39,560 Speaker 1: been rising up. The economy has been impacted negatively in 925 00:58:39,680 --> 00:58:43,000 Speaker 1: a pretty big way. It's had the President's sanctions have 926 00:58:43,120 --> 00:58:46,680 Speaker 1: had a big effect on the people in Iran. And 927 00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:49,920 Speaker 1: more importantly, what they did with the oil tankers in 928 00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:53,680 Speaker 1: the Straits of Hormuz, shooting down an American drone going 929 00:58:53,760 --> 00:58:57,080 Speaker 1: after the Saudi oil feels to interrupt the free flow 930 00:58:57,160 --> 00:58:59,680 Speaker 1: of oil, of market prices. I mean, they've been begging 931 00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:04,680 Speaker 1: for the US. What do you suspect they're thinking, in 932 00:59:04,800 --> 00:59:07,360 Speaker 1: spite of their threats that they're going to target Americans, 933 00:59:07,360 --> 00:59:10,680 Speaker 1: They're going to retaliate, etc. Etc. I think Trump's pretty clear, 934 00:59:10,840 --> 00:59:13,520 Speaker 1: we've we've identified fifty two targets. I would assume there 935 00:59:13,520 --> 00:59:16,280 Speaker 1: are refineries. I would assume that that would probably include 936 00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:20,840 Speaker 1: some of their underground nuclear facilities, etc. But do you 937 00:59:21,080 --> 00:59:26,640 Speaker 1: think there's that Do they understand what our capabilities are 938 00:59:26,720 --> 00:59:29,560 Speaker 1: and do they fear it or no. No, they absolutely 939 00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:31,720 Speaker 1: fear it, and I think they're concerned. Some of their 940 00:59:31,880 --> 00:59:34,120 Speaker 1: bellicos threats I think results from the fact that they 941 00:59:34,240 --> 00:59:37,120 Speaker 1: want us to hold off on taking any more shots 942 00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:40,480 Speaker 1: against their leadership or against their facility. And we've made 943 00:59:40,520 --> 00:59:43,919 Speaker 1: it clear. When our embassy was under threat, we took 944 00:59:44,320 --> 00:59:47,479 Speaker 1: very decisive action, which Secretary of Pompeo promised we would 945 00:59:47,480 --> 00:59:50,080 Speaker 1: take in early December. And I think there's no question 946 00:59:50,160 --> 00:59:53,400 Speaker 1: that Ron fears ongo follow on attacks from US. But 947 00:59:53,480 --> 00:59:55,200 Speaker 1: let me get back to something else you said, which 948 00:59:55,280 --> 00:59:58,040 Speaker 1: is also important. Iron is not a monolith. They'd like 949 00:59:58,200 --> 00:59:59,960 Speaker 1: us to think that one hundred percent of the popular 950 01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:03,360 Speaker 1: elation is mourning Solimani's death, But there have been ongoing 951 01:00:03,440 --> 01:00:07,480 Speaker 1: protests over the last few months in Iran against the 952 01:00:07,600 --> 01:00:10,880 Speaker 1: regime over the fact that their economy is in free 953 01:00:10,920 --> 01:00:14,840 Speaker 1: fall and that Solimani has been taking Iran's very finite 954 01:00:14,920 --> 01:00:18,040 Speaker 1: resources pep ME and diverting them for these foreign adventures 955 01:00:18,080 --> 01:00:21,840 Speaker 1: in Syria and Yemen and Iraq, And so the Iranians 956 01:00:21,960 --> 01:00:25,800 Speaker 1: are certainly, you know, outwardly I think many of them 957 01:00:25,880 --> 01:00:28,400 Speaker 1: mourning Solomani. They're forced to do so in a police state. 958 01:00:28,440 --> 01:00:30,040 Speaker 1: But I think maybe quite a few of them are 959 01:00:30,360 --> 01:00:36,240 Speaker 1: privately celebrating this important strike well Al Jazeera, of all places. Interestingly, 960 01:00:36,480 --> 01:00:40,160 Speaker 1: many in the Mideast are celebrating Solomoni's death, and I 961 01:00:40,280 --> 01:00:43,800 Speaker 1: think that's why we have this new alliance with Israel, obviously, 962 01:00:44,160 --> 01:00:48,560 Speaker 1: but also the Jordanians, Egyptians, the Saudis, the Emirates, all 963 01:00:48,640 --> 01:00:52,720 Speaker 1: against Iranian hegemony. Thank you, Dan Hoppin. Always great to 964 01:00:52,760 --> 01:00:56,160 Speaker 1: have you back thirty years CIA Ops officer. He gets it, 965 01:00:56,320 --> 01:00:58,800 Speaker 1: he knows, he understands, and he's one of the ninety 966 01:00:58,920 --> 01:01:02,240 Speaker 1: nine percent obviously, eight hundred and nine four one. Sean, 967 01:01:02,280 --> 01:01:03,880 Speaker 1: you want to be a part of the program. Wow. 968 01:01:03,920 --> 01:01:07,440 Speaker 1: If you didn't see Ricky Gervase last night, Wow, it 969 01:01:07,640 --> 01:01:10,400 Speaker 1: was amazing. Get to that some of the other issues 970 01:01:10,440 --> 01:01:16,440 Speaker 1: of the date. I'm Ricky Gervays. Thank you. You'll be 971 01:01:16,560 --> 01:01:19,120 Speaker 1: pleased to know. This is the last time I'm hosting 972 01:01:19,160 --> 01:01:23,880 Speaker 1: these awards, so I don't care anymore. I'm joking. I 973 01:01:24,080 --> 01:01:31,080 Speaker 1: never did. NBC clearly don't care either. Fifth time. So 974 01:01:31,560 --> 01:01:34,600 Speaker 1: I mean. Kevin Hart was fired from the Oscars because 975 01:01:34,640 --> 01:01:39,880 Speaker 1: of some offensive tweets. Hello. Lucky for me, the Hollywood 976 01:01:39,880 --> 01:01:45,080 Speaker 1: foreign press can barely speak English, and they've no idea 977 01:01:45,160 --> 01:01:48,560 Speaker 1: what Twitter is. So I got offered this gig by facts. 978 01:01:48,960 --> 01:01:51,720 Speaker 1: So let's go out to the bang. Let's have a 979 01:01:51,880 --> 01:01:56,480 Speaker 1: laugh at your expense, shall we? Remember they're just jokes. 980 01:01:57,000 --> 01:02:02,120 Speaker 1: We're all going to die soon and there's no sequel. Yeah, 981 01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:06,880 Speaker 1: remember that. But you all look lovely, all dolled up. 982 01:02:06,920 --> 01:02:09,080 Speaker 1: You came here in your limos. I came here in 983 01:02:09,160 --> 01:02:11,880 Speaker 1: a limo tonight, and the license plate was made by 984 01:02:11,920 --> 01:02:19,200 Speaker 1: Felicity Huffman. So no, but tonight isn't just about the 985 01:02:19,240 --> 01:02:21,640 Speaker 1: people in front of camera in this room as some 986 01:02:21,760 --> 01:02:24,680 Speaker 1: of the most important TV and film executives in the world, 987 01:02:25,080 --> 01:02:27,920 Speaker 1: people from every background, but they all have one thing 988 01:02:28,000 --> 01:02:33,280 Speaker 1: in common. They're all terrified of ronand Pharaoh. He's coming 989 01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:37,280 Speaker 1: for you, He's coming for you. Look talking of all 990 01:02:37,360 --> 01:02:41,240 Speaker 1: you perverts. It was a big year. It was a 991 01:02:41,320 --> 01:02:46,840 Speaker 1: big year for pedophile movies, surviving R Kelly leaving Neverland 992 01:02:47,440 --> 01:02:52,360 Speaker 1: to popesht shut up. I don't care, I don't care. 993 01:02:53,920 --> 01:02:56,520 Speaker 1: No one cares about movies anymore. No one goes to cinema, 994 01:02:56,680 --> 01:03:00,840 Speaker 1: no one really watches network TV. Everyone's watching netlace. This 995 01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:04,240 Speaker 1: show should just be me coming out, going well done, Netflix, 996 01:03:04,360 --> 01:03:07,240 Speaker 1: you win everything. Good night, but no, no, we got 997 01:03:07,360 --> 01:03:09,320 Speaker 1: a drag it out for three hours. You could binge 998 01:03:09,400 --> 01:03:12,640 Speaker 1: watch the entire first season of Afterlife instead of watching 999 01:03:12,720 --> 01:03:16,160 Speaker 1: this show. That's a show about a man who wants 1000 01:03:16,200 --> 01:03:19,040 Speaker 1: to kill himself because his wife dies of cancer. And 1001 01:03:19,200 --> 01:03:21,520 Speaker 1: it's still more fun than this. Right news round up, 1002 01:03:21,560 --> 01:03:26,800 Speaker 1: information overload If you didn't watch Wow, Ricky Gervas, he 1003 01:03:26,960 --> 01:03:31,920 Speaker 1: was speaking at the seventy seven Annual Golden Global Awards 1004 01:03:32,880 --> 01:03:37,200 Speaker 1: at the Beverly Hill. I was shocked. I don't watch 1005 01:03:37,280 --> 01:03:39,880 Speaker 1: these award shows. I never watched these awards. I could 1006 01:03:39,920 --> 01:03:43,200 Speaker 1: care less about these award shows. This was worth watching. 1007 01:03:43,720 --> 01:03:47,960 Speaker 1: I mean he he just went at Hollywood and hit 1008 01:03:48,080 --> 01:03:50,560 Speaker 1: them right between the eyes and did it with a 1009 01:03:51,400 --> 01:03:56,200 Speaker 1: just with perfection. Listen, I mean it just it honestly, 1010 01:03:56,320 --> 01:03:58,080 Speaker 1: doesn't get any better than that. I don't know how 1011 01:03:58,120 --> 01:04:00,360 Speaker 1: it could get any better than that anyway. Joining us now, 1012 01:04:01,120 --> 01:04:04,440 Speaker 1: my two buddies and friends, my colleagues at our flagship 1013 01:04:04,480 --> 01:04:07,920 Speaker 1: in New York, wo r the talk of New York, 1014 01:04:08,040 --> 01:04:12,120 Speaker 1: New Jersey, Long Island. How are you, Mark, Simone, Joe Kancha, 1015 01:04:12,200 --> 01:04:14,439 Speaker 1: Happy New Year. Good to talk to you guys. Mark, 1016 01:04:15,640 --> 01:04:17,880 Speaker 1: you you cover culture a lot more than I do. 1017 01:04:19,720 --> 01:04:21,720 Speaker 1: Did you see that coming? I didn't see it coming. 1018 01:04:22,320 --> 01:04:25,120 Speaker 1: I love that Golden Globes. I think it was secretly 1019 01:04:25,200 --> 01:04:28,080 Speaker 1: funded by the Trump administration. There is nothing better for 1020 01:04:28,240 --> 01:04:33,440 Speaker 1: Donald Trump. Been watching these coked up drunks endorsed Democrats 1021 01:04:33,560 --> 01:04:36,000 Speaker 1: right now? Whoa, whoa? Slow down? Now, Look, if you 1022 01:04:36,120 --> 01:04:38,920 Speaker 1: want to, you know, say they're coked up drunks. Okay, 1023 01:04:39,040 --> 01:04:42,600 Speaker 1: I don't want that lawsuit, so we don't know that allegedly. Okay, 1024 01:04:42,880 --> 01:04:47,000 Speaker 1: let's just say they seem to be very happy. I 1025 01:04:47,040 --> 01:04:48,960 Speaker 1: don't know. I don't think they were doing any drugs. 1026 01:04:49,040 --> 01:04:54,040 Speaker 1: That's not the Hollywood I know. I can't imagine. You know, 1027 01:04:54,360 --> 01:04:57,240 Speaker 1: by the way, Hollywood is in no position to lecture 1028 01:04:57,240 --> 01:05:03,120 Speaker 1: about anything because you know nothing about the real world. Boom, Well, 1029 01:05:03,680 --> 01:05:06,240 Speaker 1: they were eating a vegan meal to help fight climate 1030 01:05:06,360 --> 01:05:09,840 Speaker 1: change while seven hundred and fifty limousines were idling outside 1031 01:05:10,280 --> 01:05:13,880 Speaker 1: and over one hundred one hundred privates. Did they still 1032 01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:16,640 Speaker 1: use the stretch ones? Oh they have everything. They got 1033 01:05:16,680 --> 01:05:19,600 Speaker 1: the SUVs which weren't even more gas, but seven hundred 1034 01:05:19,600 --> 01:05:22,360 Speaker 1: of them idoling outside. They had one hundred private chests 1035 01:05:22,400 --> 01:05:24,760 Speaker 1: to get them all there. And after they left. Believe me, 1036 01:05:24,800 --> 01:05:26,400 Speaker 1: they all went to In and Out Burger because they 1037 01:05:26,400 --> 01:05:30,760 Speaker 1: couldn't live just on a vegan stuff. Yeah, that good point, 1038 01:05:31,720 --> 01:05:35,840 Speaker 1: and I thought, well, was also, you know, really interesting 1039 01:05:36,080 --> 01:05:38,000 Speaker 1: is you know? He made a couple of comments, one 1040 01:05:38,040 --> 01:05:42,520 Speaker 1: about Jeffrey Epstein, one about Harvey Weinstein, basically saying, you're 1041 01:05:42,520 --> 01:05:44,760 Speaker 1: all perverts. You know, you have the most important TV 1042 01:05:44,920 --> 01:05:47,720 Speaker 1: film executives from around the world, every background, but you're 1043 01:05:47,760 --> 01:05:51,600 Speaker 1: all terrified a Ronan pharaoh and look talking to all 1044 01:05:51,680 --> 01:05:54,760 Speaker 1: you perverts. It was a big year for pedophile movies, 1045 01:05:55,080 --> 01:05:59,960 Speaker 1: surviving r Kelly leaving Netherland and the two popes. He said, 1046 01:06:00,680 --> 01:06:04,520 Speaker 1: And you know, I'm like, and then the Epstein crack, 1047 01:06:04,640 --> 01:06:09,400 Speaker 1: then the Weinstein crack a crack, and I'm like, wow, Well, 1048 01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:12,240 Speaker 1: and that's another thing they're so brave at standing up 1049 01:06:12,280 --> 01:06:14,800 Speaker 1: to Donald Trump for the last fifteen years. Where were 1050 01:06:14,840 --> 01:06:16,840 Speaker 1: you in, Harvey Weinstein? Everybody knew what was going on. 1051 01:06:16,960 --> 01:06:19,520 Speaker 1: Why didn't you say something? A lot of people knew 1052 01:06:19,520 --> 01:06:21,400 Speaker 1: about Epstein, and many of them were hanging around with 1053 01:06:21,440 --> 01:06:24,000 Speaker 1: Epstein after he got out of prison the first time 1054 01:06:24,040 --> 01:06:27,000 Speaker 1: he got caught. How creepy were those autopsy photos in 1055 01:06:27,080 --> 01:06:30,040 Speaker 1: that sixteen minutes piece last night. That was one creepy 1056 01:06:30,120 --> 01:06:33,680 Speaker 1: looking cell and the thing they let him have, the 1057 01:06:33,880 --> 01:06:37,800 Speaker 1: sleep Apnium machine, which had a long electrical course. Yeah no, right, yeah, 1058 01:06:37,920 --> 01:06:39,760 Speaker 1: well if you don't want And then they're saying that 1059 01:06:39,800 --> 01:06:42,600 Speaker 1: he hung himself with that orange news thing and bottoms 1060 01:06:42,640 --> 01:06:46,760 Speaker 1: like no, and then they show where the actual the 1061 01:06:46,920 --> 01:06:50,439 Speaker 1: line the autopsy photo. I like, oh, man, I saw 1062 01:06:50,520 --> 01:06:54,040 Speaker 1: the pick. It was creepy. Mister Concho. Welcome aboard, sir. 1063 01:06:54,720 --> 01:06:58,920 Speaker 1: How are you guys happy to hear? All right? Ricky Gervais? 1064 01:07:00,120 --> 01:07:03,840 Speaker 1: Believable the best line of the night. Guys, if you 1065 01:07:03,920 --> 01:07:06,160 Speaker 1: do win an award tonight, don't use as a platform 1066 01:07:06,240 --> 01:07:08,360 Speaker 1: and make a political speech. You're in no position to 1067 01:07:08,520 --> 01:07:11,840 Speaker 1: lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the 1068 01:07:11,920 --> 01:07:14,800 Speaker 1: real world. Most of you spent less time in school 1069 01:07:14,920 --> 01:07:19,000 Speaker 1: than Gretit Tumberg. I mean, that's just genius stuff. Yeah, 1070 01:07:19,240 --> 01:07:21,520 Speaker 1: he's the biggest hero on the right right now of 1071 01:07:21,640 --> 01:07:24,160 Speaker 1: almost anybody in the country outside of the president himself. 1072 01:07:24,240 --> 01:07:26,960 Speaker 1: I mean, because this is what half of America's been 1073 01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:29,640 Speaker 1: screaming at their television for the marks point for the 1074 01:07:29,760 --> 01:07:33,080 Speaker 1: last twenty years, since these things became so political. I 1075 01:07:33,240 --> 01:07:37,760 Speaker 1: love Joaquin Phoenix also, you know all you environmentalis in 1076 01:07:37,840 --> 01:07:40,720 Speaker 1: Hollywood stopped taking your private jets to the award shows. 1077 01:07:41,560 --> 01:07:44,320 Speaker 1: We know that's not gonna happen, is it now? And 1078 01:07:44,560 --> 01:07:48,600 Speaker 1: here's the thing. They served a plant based menu. This 1079 01:07:48,800 --> 01:07:50,560 Speaker 1: mark did this on the show last week. It was 1080 01:07:50,840 --> 01:07:53,240 Speaker 1: on the show last week. It was hilarious. And yeah, okay, 1081 01:07:53,320 --> 01:07:55,200 Speaker 1: that's nice that you're not going to serve any meat. 1082 01:07:55,240 --> 01:07:57,400 Speaker 1: But how did you get to the award show? Exactly 1083 01:07:57,720 --> 01:08:00,800 Speaker 1: did you take a lemo An suv a private jet? 1084 01:08:01,040 --> 01:08:04,040 Speaker 1: And as Joaquin Phoenix is saying that, uh, he hears 1085 01:08:04,040 --> 01:08:05,960 Speaker 1: the exit music like I do want Hannity on your 1086 01:08:06,000 --> 01:08:07,960 Speaker 1: TV show so much. Suddenly that music's in my ear 1087 01:08:08,000 --> 01:08:10,200 Speaker 1: and you gotta go, they basically chase them off the 1088 01:08:10,280 --> 01:08:12,800 Speaker 1: stage for says that's our way of saying you're done, 1089 01:08:13,040 --> 01:08:16,439 Speaker 1: um without being rude. Um. You know, look, you gotta 1090 01:08:16,439 --> 01:08:18,160 Speaker 1: pay the bills. You guys know what It's like. We're 1091 01:08:18,160 --> 01:08:22,040 Speaker 1: all work in radio together. So uh, let me go 1092 01:08:22,200 --> 01:08:25,160 Speaker 1: to another issue that happened over the holiday. Look, I'll 1093 01:08:25,200 --> 01:08:28,639 Speaker 1: be honest, I am nonplus by Colin Kaepernick. I really 1094 01:08:28,680 --> 01:08:31,000 Speaker 1: I could care less about this guy, and I know 1095 01:08:31,120 --> 01:08:35,160 Speaker 1: he wants attention, and you know, he's blasting capitalism, he's 1096 01:08:35,200 --> 01:08:38,599 Speaker 1: making millions off a Nike UM and I think they 1097 01:08:38,840 --> 01:08:43,640 Speaker 1: have issues with overseas uh labor force issues, accusing our 1098 01:08:43,720 --> 01:08:49,519 Speaker 1: military terrorist attacks and you know, I just it just 1099 01:08:49,840 --> 01:08:53,040 Speaker 1: seems like the press can't get enough of them. Uh. 1100 01:08:53,560 --> 01:08:55,439 Speaker 1: And I'm Mark, I'm looking at this guy, and I'm 1101 01:08:55,439 --> 01:08:58,719 Speaker 1: thinking you were You weren't a great quarterback. People figured 1102 01:08:58,760 --> 01:09:00,679 Speaker 1: out after a couple of year years that you're gonna 1103 01:09:00,760 --> 01:09:02,840 Speaker 1: run the football and they're not gonna let you get 1104 01:09:02,840 --> 01:09:05,720 Speaker 1: away with it anymore. And he wasn't such a great 1105 01:09:05,800 --> 01:09:09,280 Speaker 1: quarterback in the end. No, he wasn't. He listened clearly. 1106 01:09:09,320 --> 01:09:11,080 Speaker 1: I mean, be honest, this is not a guy who's 1107 01:09:11,120 --> 01:09:14,280 Speaker 1: a test paper you would copy off of me. And 1108 01:09:14,360 --> 01:09:17,760 Speaker 1: he's been hitting ahead one hundred times. So but again, 1109 01:09:17,880 --> 01:09:23,120 Speaker 1: the press will embrace anybody, anybody that's anti Trump, anti Republican. 1110 01:09:23,840 --> 01:09:26,719 Speaker 1: Can you imagine the SOLEMONI if he survived, how touched 1111 01:09:26,760 --> 01:09:29,200 Speaker 1: he'd be by, how revered he is on the fake 1112 01:09:29,280 --> 01:09:32,720 Speaker 1: news networks all of a sudden. Yeah, and what's your 1113 01:09:32,800 --> 01:09:36,200 Speaker 1: take on Kaepernick? I mean, oh, he's discriminated against. I 1114 01:09:36,240 --> 01:09:40,639 Speaker 1: saw that. What's his name? Congressman Hank Johnson. He's a victim. 1115 01:09:40,800 --> 01:09:44,840 Speaker 1: Kaepernick mistreated by the NFL. How's he e if you 1116 01:09:44,920 --> 01:09:47,040 Speaker 1: either hire him or you don't hire him. I think 1117 01:09:47,080 --> 01:09:51,080 Speaker 1: an argument could be made maybe Tim Tebow was people 1118 01:09:51,840 --> 01:09:55,080 Speaker 1: teams didn't want any part of Tim Tebow because he 1119 01:09:55,160 --> 01:09:58,519 Speaker 1: created such a controversy, even though everybody wanted him on 1120 01:09:58,600 --> 01:10:02,760 Speaker 1: his you know, the fan wanted him to play. I mean, 1121 01:10:02,800 --> 01:10:04,640 Speaker 1: and he did win a big game for Denver in 1122 01:10:04,680 --> 01:10:08,200 Speaker 1: the playoffs. I recall that's right, he threw a touchdown 1123 01:10:08,240 --> 01:10:10,360 Speaker 1: and overtime for the Broncos to beat the Steelers, right, 1124 01:10:10,400 --> 01:10:11,800 Speaker 1: and the Steelers were rolling in the super Bowl the 1125 01:10:11,840 --> 01:10:14,080 Speaker 1: year before. So Tim Tebow was capable. I mean, he 1126 01:10:14,160 --> 01:10:16,080 Speaker 1: certainly could play in the NFL. Maybe not as a quarterback. 1127 01:10:16,080 --> 01:10:17,439 Speaker 1: He put him on special teams. A guy will do 1128 01:10:17,479 --> 01:10:20,760 Speaker 1: whatever you want. He's the ultimate team player. But Kaepernick 1129 01:10:20,840 --> 01:10:23,760 Speaker 1: is a different kind of distraction because is he good 1130 01:10:23,840 --> 01:10:25,360 Speaker 1: enough to play in the league? I think so? I 1131 01:10:25,400 --> 01:10:27,200 Speaker 1: mean as a backup? Sure, why not? I mean, he 1132 01:10:27,240 --> 01:10:29,360 Speaker 1: did go to a super Bowl. But the problem is 1133 01:10:29,800 --> 01:10:33,240 Speaker 1: that all the press that he would attract after every game, 1134 01:10:33,280 --> 01:10:34,759 Speaker 1: and then he has to do some sort of political 1135 01:10:34,800 --> 01:10:37,280 Speaker 1: speech every tweet, everything if you don't want a guy 1136 01:10:37,400 --> 01:10:39,040 Speaker 1: like that on your team, where then your coaches and 1137 01:10:39,040 --> 01:10:41,680 Speaker 1: your teammates have to answer for everything he's saying politically 1138 01:10:41,920 --> 01:10:44,120 Speaker 1: and by the way, in terms of numbers, he went 1139 01:10:44,200 --> 01:10:46,200 Speaker 1: one and ten in his final season with the forty 1140 01:10:46,280 --> 01:10:48,000 Speaker 1: nine ers, two and six of the year before that, 1141 01:10:48,360 --> 01:10:51,360 Speaker 1: often injured. There's another reason why to sign this guy 1142 01:10:51,400 --> 01:10:53,200 Speaker 1: as well. He just simply wasn't a winner. He wasn't 1143 01:10:53,240 --> 01:10:55,800 Speaker 1: a good clubhouse guy. So he's not a victim at all. 1144 01:10:55,880 --> 01:10:58,720 Speaker 1: I mean, most NFL players last a maximum of three 1145 01:10:58,840 --> 01:11:01,200 Speaker 1: years in the league. Was lucky to get six years 1146 01:11:01,240 --> 01:11:03,040 Speaker 1: out of it. And now he's just too much of 1147 01:11:03,080 --> 01:11:05,400 Speaker 1: a headache to put on a team because of all 1148 01:11:05,439 --> 01:11:08,599 Speaker 1: the negative attention he would attract. Yeah, I think that's 1149 01:11:09,200 --> 01:11:12,559 Speaker 1: why is Nike. You know, look, I'm not the boycott person. 1150 01:11:12,600 --> 01:11:14,760 Speaker 1: I don't do boycotts. I never have my whole career. 1151 01:11:14,800 --> 01:11:17,400 Speaker 1: I'm not going to start now. But I'm less interested 1152 01:11:17,439 --> 01:11:20,080 Speaker 1: in Nike and Nike products than ever before. What is 1153 01:11:20,240 --> 01:11:23,639 Speaker 1: what is it with Nike? Is it that Kaepernick brings 1154 01:11:23,760 --> 01:11:28,479 Speaker 1: that much of an of I guess this radical left 1155 01:11:28,520 --> 01:11:32,000 Speaker 1: wing base that supports him to Nike that they're willing 1156 01:11:32,040 --> 01:11:37,880 Speaker 1: to take on that controversial figure and make him a spokesperson. Well, 1157 01:11:38,080 --> 01:11:40,640 Speaker 1: it's also a demographic. They're calculating who's their audience, what 1158 01:11:40,760 --> 01:11:42,519 Speaker 1: age group, you know, and if you're in that age group, 1159 01:11:42,560 --> 01:11:45,679 Speaker 1: you're probably going to be you know, anti Republican, anti Trump, 1160 01:11:45,760 --> 01:11:49,880 Speaker 1: anti So they'll go for that market, whereas another company 1161 01:11:49,960 --> 01:11:52,680 Speaker 1: might chase the senior citizens and then they don't need 1162 01:11:52,760 --> 01:11:55,880 Speaker 1: that headache. So demographic said play a big part in it. 1163 01:11:56,680 --> 01:12:00,320 Speaker 1: What do you think I think that the Marxi exactly 1164 01:12:00,439 --> 01:12:03,160 Speaker 1: right that in terms of age groups, they want young 1165 01:12:03,280 --> 01:12:05,559 Speaker 1: people who are buying shoes, and once they like Nike's 1166 01:12:05,560 --> 01:12:08,320 Speaker 1: they're going to buy him their whole lives. Older folks, 1167 01:12:08,720 --> 01:12:10,160 Speaker 1: you know, are kind of stuck in their ways. I'll 1168 01:12:10,200 --> 01:12:11,920 Speaker 1: never buy anything but New Balance, and that's just the 1169 01:12:12,000 --> 01:12:13,840 Speaker 1: way it's going to go. So they don't want me 1170 01:12:13,920 --> 01:12:15,519 Speaker 1: so much, and they don't want you, Sean or Mark. 1171 01:12:15,760 --> 01:12:18,839 Speaker 1: But they want younger people who most of them probably 1172 01:12:19,240 --> 01:12:22,240 Speaker 1: are of that political mindset ideology, like a lot of 1173 01:12:22,280 --> 01:12:24,920 Speaker 1: people when they're young that probably agree with Kaepernick and 1174 01:12:24,960 --> 01:12:26,320 Speaker 1: what he has to say on a certain level. But 1175 01:12:26,439 --> 01:12:28,400 Speaker 1: you know what he did with the Betsy Ross flag 1176 01:12:28,479 --> 01:12:30,880 Speaker 1: sneaker where he said, well, this brings us back to 1177 01:12:30,920 --> 01:12:33,960 Speaker 1: a time before the Revolutionary War because we're using that 1178 01:12:34,439 --> 01:12:37,600 Speaker 1: thirteen star flag and that represents slavery. And Nike just 1179 01:12:38,040 --> 01:12:40,120 Speaker 1: folded on it and said, okay, we won't go ahead 1180 01:12:40,360 --> 01:12:42,720 Speaker 1: with the Betsy Ross sneak. Or the problem was that 1181 01:12:42,920 --> 01:12:46,360 Speaker 1: President Obama literally had the Betsy Ross flag, so to speak, 1182 01:12:46,960 --> 01:12:49,599 Speaker 1: at one of his major events, and no one seemed 1183 01:12:49,600 --> 01:12:51,320 Speaker 1: to have a problem with that because they shouldn't have 1184 01:12:51,320 --> 01:12:53,360 Speaker 1: a problem with that because it was an American flag 1185 01:12:53,400 --> 01:12:55,960 Speaker 1: at one point. So, yeah, he's an anti American guy. 1186 01:12:56,040 --> 01:12:57,760 Speaker 1: I have no sympathy for him. And by the way, 1187 01:12:57,960 --> 01:12:59,439 Speaker 1: what was the last time he ever did an interview? 1188 01:12:59,520 --> 01:13:02,280 Speaker 1: He's so outspoken, is he really? He doesn't sit down 1189 01:13:02,360 --> 01:13:05,200 Speaker 1: with anybody to answer any questions about anything that he 1190 01:13:05,280 --> 01:13:07,320 Speaker 1: has to say because he's a cowardy hype. I've tried 1191 01:13:07,360 --> 01:13:09,280 Speaker 1: to get him on the program. I've tried many times 1192 01:13:09,320 --> 01:13:11,559 Speaker 1: to get him on I bet yeah everybody. A lot 1193 01:13:11,560 --> 01:13:12,840 Speaker 1: of people have, and he doesn't want to talk to 1194 01:13:12,880 --> 01:13:15,479 Speaker 1: anybody because that would actually mean having to answer some 1195 01:13:15,640 --> 01:13:17,840 Speaker 1: questions about some of the ridiculous things that he says, 1196 01:13:18,040 --> 01:13:20,720 Speaker 1: including that the killing of Solomoni was race based, are 1197 01:13:20,760 --> 01:13:23,160 Speaker 1: you kidding me. I mean, we kill a terrorist and 1198 01:13:23,200 --> 01:13:26,840 Speaker 1: you're going to take that side. I mean he's a coward. 1199 01:13:26,920 --> 01:13:28,720 Speaker 1: I got nothing left to say about him. I have 1200 01:13:28,800 --> 01:13:30,439 Speaker 1: never tried to get him on my program because I 1201 01:13:30,439 --> 01:13:32,320 Speaker 1: wouldn't want to have to spend five minutes having to 1202 01:13:32,400 --> 01:13:35,599 Speaker 1: talk to this question. You imagine time with him? All right, 1203 01:13:35,640 --> 01:13:38,519 Speaker 1: quick break right back. We'll continue more with Mark Simone, 1204 01:13:38,600 --> 01:13:42,720 Speaker 1: Joe Concha and on the other side, media insanity and 1205 01:13:42,880 --> 01:13:46,880 Speaker 1: democratic reaction to the death of Solomony, even Petraeus calling 1206 01:13:46,920 --> 01:13:49,479 Speaker 1: it bigger than been lauden and he explains why. And 1207 01:13:49,600 --> 01:13:52,479 Speaker 1: as we continue with Joe Concho Mark Simone, both hosts 1208 01:13:52,560 --> 01:13:54,720 Speaker 1: of our flagship in New York, let me ask both 1209 01:13:54,760 --> 01:13:56,599 Speaker 1: of you, as New York guys, because it came out 1210 01:13:56,680 --> 01:13:59,439 Speaker 1: that New York lost more population. They're probably gonna lose 1211 01:13:59,479 --> 01:14:03,240 Speaker 1: Congression seats to Florida as a result of you know, 1212 01:14:03,400 --> 01:14:10,080 Speaker 1: these policies of unbelievable taxation and gun control and regulation, 1213 01:14:10,479 --> 01:14:13,720 Speaker 1: I mean rent regulations. They tell you whether you can rent, 1214 01:14:13,760 --> 01:14:15,600 Speaker 1: how much you can rent forward New York. Now you 1215 01:14:15,680 --> 01:14:17,800 Speaker 1: got a wealth tax in New York, a mansion tax 1216 01:14:17,880 --> 01:14:20,479 Speaker 1: if you sell something in New York. And then Cuomo 1217 01:14:20,600 --> 01:14:26,120 Speaker 1: signs this new bill that is, oh, the no bail bill. Explain, 1218 01:14:26,920 --> 01:14:29,920 Speaker 1: I mean, how bad is this from your perspective, Mark Simone, 1219 01:14:29,920 --> 01:14:32,400 Speaker 1: Because you're like the quintessential New Yorker. No matter how 1220 01:14:32,479 --> 01:14:34,920 Speaker 1: much you'll save in taxes, You're never gonna leave New York, 1221 01:14:35,000 --> 01:14:37,160 Speaker 1: are you? No? And I don't know if you've heard, 1222 01:14:37,200 --> 01:14:40,000 Speaker 1: but you HAUL has named Andrew Cuomo the governor you 1223 01:14:40,200 --> 01:14:42,400 Speaker 1: haul salesman of the year. He's done more for them. 1224 01:14:44,400 --> 01:14:47,200 Speaker 1: Number one and people leaving the state literally number one 1225 01:14:47,240 --> 01:14:49,320 Speaker 1: in the country. How many people did we lose last 1226 01:14:49,400 --> 01:14:52,920 Speaker 1: year with its seventy thousand or something like that. I 1227 01:14:52,960 --> 01:14:55,599 Speaker 1: thought it was eighty seventy eighty thousand. And the thing 1228 01:14:55,760 --> 01:14:58,800 Speaker 1: is those are all taxpayers. They're leaving and they're taking 1229 01:14:58,880 --> 01:15:01,679 Speaker 1: their money with you. Every year I get the same call, 1230 01:15:01,840 --> 01:15:06,120 Speaker 1: Joe Concha from my financial guy, don't die in New York. 1231 01:15:06,200 --> 01:15:08,680 Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, I'll really work on that this year. 1232 01:15:08,720 --> 01:15:11,479 Speaker 1: I'll try not to die this year. But he's right, 1233 01:15:11,560 --> 01:15:14,760 Speaker 1: because it's thirteen percent. They get thirteen percent between the 1234 01:15:14,840 --> 01:15:17,439 Speaker 1: city and the state. If you're a state tax I 1235 01:15:17,520 --> 01:15:20,080 Speaker 1: would move tomorrow. I swear. I say this on my 1236 01:15:20,080 --> 01:15:22,000 Speaker 1: show all the time, Why do I live here? Why 1237 01:15:22,040 --> 01:15:23,639 Speaker 1: do I live here when I have the worst commute 1238 01:15:23,680 --> 01:15:25,360 Speaker 1: of any commute in the country in terms of New 1239 01:15:25,439 --> 01:15:27,519 Speaker 1: Jersey in New York with the taxes that I have 1240 01:15:27,640 --> 01:15:29,800 Speaker 1: to pay in New Jersey. But also I work in 1241 01:15:29,840 --> 01:15:31,599 Speaker 1: New York, so I got to pay the state tax 1242 01:15:31,680 --> 01:15:33,880 Speaker 1: there as well. And just for what I can get, 1243 01:15:34,000 --> 01:15:36,320 Speaker 1: I tease myself. I go into reelsor dot com and 1244 01:15:36,400 --> 01:15:38,960 Speaker 1: I look at properties outside of like Charleston, South Carolina, 1245 01:15:39,200 --> 01:15:41,320 Speaker 1: or outside of Tampa, Florida. I'm like, my god, I 1246 01:15:41,360 --> 01:15:43,720 Speaker 1: could get three times what I'm having right now in 1247 01:15:43,800 --> 01:15:46,679 Speaker 1: New Jersey in terms of space, in terms of property, 1248 01:15:46,960 --> 01:15:48,880 Speaker 1: and I don't do it because my family is here, 1249 01:15:48,920 --> 01:15:51,320 Speaker 1: and that's that's the unfortunately. So that is the question. 1250 01:15:51,439 --> 01:15:53,960 Speaker 1: What is wrong with our colleague and Fred Mark Simone 1251 01:15:54,040 --> 01:15:56,000 Speaker 1: that he's so married to New York. I don't get 1252 01:15:56,040 --> 01:15:58,439 Speaker 1: a Mark, Well, I love it here. You love it here, 1253 01:15:58,520 --> 01:16:00,240 Speaker 1: but you know it's not just the state. I don't 1254 01:16:00,280 --> 01:16:02,519 Speaker 1: love it as much as you do. All right, Thank 1255 01:16:02,560 --> 01:16:06,120 Speaker 1: you both, Mark Simone, Joe Kancha, appreciate you being with us. 1256 01:16:06,320 --> 01:16:08,360 Speaker 1: Eight hundred and nine four one Sean, you want to 1257 01:16:08,360 --> 01:16:09,960 Speaker 1: be a part of the program. We'll get to our phones. 1258 01:16:10,000 --> 01:16:13,480 Speaker 1: Back to our top story. The media is sick reaction 1259 01:16:13,640 --> 01:16:16,240 Speaker 1: to the killing of Solo, money, and much more. Straight ahead. 1260 01:16:16,600 --> 01:16:21,840 Speaker 1: This is a dangerous escalation that brings us closer to 1261 01:16:22,000 --> 01:16:26,920 Speaker 1: another disastrous wall in the Middle East, which could cost 1262 01:16:27,720 --> 01:16:33,439 Speaker 1: countless lives and trillions more dollars and lead to even 1263 01:16:33,760 --> 01:16:40,759 Speaker 1: more deaths, more conflict, more displacement in that already highly 1264 01:16:40,960 --> 01:16:45,799 Speaker 1: volatile region of the world. Look, it was a targeted 1265 01:16:45,800 --> 01:16:50,200 Speaker 1: attack on a government official, a high ranking military official 1266 01:16:50,240 --> 01:16:54,559 Speaker 1: for the government of Iran, and what it's done has 1267 01:16:54,640 --> 01:16:58,000 Speaker 1: moved this country closer to war. We are not safer 1268 01:16:58,040 --> 01:17:01,400 Speaker 1: today than we were before. Donald I don't believe that 1269 01:17:01,479 --> 01:17:04,320 Speaker 1: taking out this particular man was a good idea. It's 1270 01:17:04,400 --> 01:17:06,320 Speaker 1: not that he was a good man or nice man, 1271 01:17:06,560 --> 01:17:09,640 Speaker 1: but he was more dangerous dead than alive. He was 1272 01:17:09,680 --> 01:17:11,880 Speaker 1: already a hero, and now he'll be a martyr as 1273 01:17:11,920 --> 01:17:15,640 Speaker 1: well as a hero. Taking out a bad guy is 1274 01:17:15,680 --> 01:17:18,160 Speaker 1: not a good idea unless you are ready for what 1275 01:17:18,320 --> 01:17:21,040 Speaker 1: comes next. So there are a lot of questions that 1276 01:17:21,120 --> 01:17:26,240 Speaker 1: Americans are asking today. First of all, was this decision 1277 01:17:26,640 --> 01:17:31,720 Speaker 1: made carelessly or was it made strategically? Was there any 1278 01:17:31,800 --> 01:17:35,439 Speaker 1: preparation for the secondary effects and the effects that are 1279 01:17:35,479 --> 01:17:38,040 Speaker 1: going to come after that. What we do know is 1280 01:17:38,120 --> 01:17:40,920 Speaker 1: that Solimani is a person with American blood on his hands. 1281 01:17:41,400 --> 01:17:46,479 Speaker 1: He's plotted, planned, and executed attacks on American citizens, American soldiers. 1282 01:17:46,840 --> 01:17:50,960 Speaker 1: He's been doing much to destabilize that region, to stabilize Iraq. 1283 01:17:51,760 --> 01:17:55,200 Speaker 1: But we also know there's a larger challenges, strategic challenges 1284 01:17:55,240 --> 01:17:57,439 Speaker 1: in that region, and we have a president who has 1285 01:17:57,520 --> 01:18:01,559 Speaker 1: failed to show any larger strategic plan, and under his leadership, 1286 01:18:02,280 --> 01:18:05,680 Speaker 1: with his so called maximum forces, Iran has become a 1287 01:18:05,880 --> 01:18:11,000 Speaker 1: more dangerous, more influential regime in that region. A USA 1288 01:18:11,080 --> 01:18:16,000 Speaker 1: strike killed Iran's most notorious military commander, a murderer with 1289 01:18:16,160 --> 01:18:21,759 Speaker 1: the blood of Americans on his hands, and without more information, 1290 01:18:21,960 --> 01:18:24,360 Speaker 1: I can only hope that the President has carefully thought 1291 01:18:24,400 --> 01:18:28,880 Speaker 1: out the national security implications of this attack on our 1292 01:18:29,000 --> 01:18:32,599 Speaker 1: country and the grave risks that it involves. But given 1293 01:18:32,720 --> 01:18:36,520 Speaker 1: his track record and his history of making reckless decisions 1294 01:18:36,600 --> 01:18:41,320 Speaker 1: and impulsive decisions that undermine US strategic objectives and weaken 1295 01:18:41,360 --> 01:18:45,320 Speaker 1: our allies, particularly recently in Syria, and there's every reason 1296 01:18:45,400 --> 01:18:48,880 Speaker 1: I think to be deeply concerned Trump's actions last night 1297 01:18:49,040 --> 01:18:52,360 Speaker 1: in bombing the Baghdad Airport with a targeted killing of 1298 01:18:52,439 --> 01:18:56,320 Speaker 1: Iran's top military general. Was an act of war with 1299 01:18:56,560 --> 01:19:00,519 Speaker 1: no authorization or declaration of war from Congress. He has 1300 01:19:00,600 --> 01:19:03,160 Speaker 1: put us in a state of war with Iran and 1301 01:19:03,360 --> 01:19:07,559 Speaker 1: has seriously escalated this tit for tat conflict, pushing us 1302 01:19:07,680 --> 01:19:12,759 Speaker 1: deeper into an endless quagmire. So the question is what's 1303 01:19:12,840 --> 01:19:16,040 Speaker 1: the end goal? What are we trying to achieve here? 1304 01:19:16,600 --> 01:19:20,639 Speaker 1: This is and was an enormous escalation, and it follows 1305 01:19:20,680 --> 01:19:23,920 Speaker 1: the string of dubious actions the President Trump is taken 1306 01:19:24,800 --> 01:19:28,320 Speaker 1: that drastically increased the prospects and the risk of war 1307 01:19:28,439 --> 01:19:33,560 Speaker 1: with Iran and danger to Americans. To the question, the 1308 01:19:33,720 --> 01:19:37,160 Speaker 1: question is do Donald Trump and his administration have a 1309 01:19:37,280 --> 01:19:42,680 Speaker 1: strategy for what comes next? Have they thought through and 1310 01:19:42,880 --> 01:19:47,160 Speaker 1: planned for a wide range of retaliatory and asymmetric actions 1311 01:19:47,280 --> 01:19:52,840 Speaker 1: they'll almost certainly see from Iran in the near term. Unfortunately, 1312 01:19:54,560 --> 01:19:57,880 Speaker 1: nothing we have seen from this administration over the past 1313 01:19:57,960 --> 01:20:02,200 Speaker 1: three years suggest and they prepared to deal with the 1314 01:20:02,400 --> 01:20:06,400 Speaker 1: very real risk we're now confront all right, twenty four 1315 01:20:06,479 --> 01:20:08,280 Speaker 1: now before the top of the hour. I mean this, 1316 01:20:08,800 --> 01:20:12,720 Speaker 1: There's nothing Donald Trump can ever, ever, ever do that 1317 01:20:12,960 --> 01:20:16,760 Speaker 1: is gonna please any democrat. I mean, he's evil. Oh, 1318 01:20:16,880 --> 01:20:20,280 Speaker 1: he's terrible. Oh, he's horrible. Oh, but it shouldn't have 1319 01:20:20,320 --> 01:20:23,880 Speaker 1: been Trump that did it. You know. Joe Lieberman nails it. 1320 01:20:24,520 --> 01:20:28,280 Speaker 1: The opposition of Trump's Solomoni a strike is untenable. It 1321 01:20:28,479 --> 01:20:32,920 Speaker 1: is senseless, and it is who these Democrats now are. 1322 01:20:33,040 --> 01:20:37,120 Speaker 1: And oh he's threatening. He's threatening the Iranians and their 1323 01:20:37,160 --> 01:20:41,400 Speaker 1: cultural sites. Oh my goodness. Um, the Iranians need to know. 1324 01:20:42,160 --> 01:20:44,599 Speaker 1: And this goes to the heart of what got us here. 1325 01:20:45,400 --> 01:20:47,840 Speaker 1: You know, this is sort of like, Okay, how did 1326 01:20:48,000 --> 01:20:56,599 Speaker 1: deal with murdering dictators terrorists abroad? For dummies? And if, 1327 01:20:56,720 --> 01:21:04,519 Speaker 1: for example, they they orchestrate attacks on American citizens or 1328 01:21:04,600 --> 01:21:08,479 Speaker 1: broad and American interests abroad. Yeah, you could expect that 1329 01:21:08,600 --> 01:21:13,200 Speaker 1: America is probably in the right to defend its interests 1330 01:21:13,240 --> 01:21:16,840 Speaker 1: and its people. Is it any more complicated than just 1331 01:21:17,520 --> 01:21:22,760 Speaker 1: that the idea that this is going to lead to 1332 01:21:22,880 --> 01:21:26,360 Speaker 1: boot something, No, Donald Trump's not. I can't see any 1333 01:21:26,520 --> 01:21:31,639 Speaker 1: scenario under which that is going to happen. Escalation retaliation, Yeah, 1334 01:21:31,680 --> 01:21:36,120 Speaker 1: the President's clear. Fifty two sites they've identified. Yeah, you 1335 01:21:36,320 --> 01:21:41,960 Speaker 1: don't get to take hostage oil tankers from our allies 1336 01:21:42,120 --> 01:21:45,519 Speaker 1: in the narrow straits or horn moves and disrupt the 1337 01:21:45,640 --> 01:21:49,120 Speaker 1: free flow of oil at market prices, which is the 1338 01:21:49,240 --> 01:21:52,920 Speaker 1: lifeblood of every economy. You don't get to shoot American 1339 01:21:53,040 --> 01:21:56,360 Speaker 1: drones out of the air and not think America is 1340 01:21:56,400 --> 01:22:01,799 Speaker 1: not going to respond. You know, it's just it's so basic, 1341 01:22:01,920 --> 01:22:05,120 Speaker 1: It's so fundamental. Now, I know there's a mindset that 1342 01:22:05,320 --> 01:22:08,280 Speaker 1: thinks that we ought to be bribing the dictators sort 1343 01:22:08,280 --> 01:22:09,880 Speaker 1: I'm like, well, you're gonna give us one hundred and 1344 01:22:09,920 --> 01:22:13,360 Speaker 1: fifty billion dollars like Biden and Obama did. Yeah, Sure, 1345 01:22:13,520 --> 01:22:17,040 Speaker 1: meet me at the Baghdad airport. We'll do the transfer there. 1346 01:22:17,160 --> 01:22:20,400 Speaker 1: That's been all over Twitter all weekend. You don't get 1347 01:22:20,520 --> 01:22:24,000 Speaker 1: to kill Americans in a rack and not expect that 1348 01:22:24,080 --> 01:22:28,040 Speaker 1: there's going to be a price to pay. There has 1349 01:22:28,160 --> 01:22:32,640 Speaker 1: to be otherwise they will continue to do it. You 1350 01:22:32,760 --> 01:22:37,200 Speaker 1: don't get to orchestrate the attacks on our embassy. Solomani 1351 01:22:37,479 --> 01:22:40,800 Speaker 1: is our leader. That was written on the embassy in 1352 01:22:40,960 --> 01:22:45,040 Speaker 1: Baghdad on the wall before we ever got Solomani. We 1353 01:22:45,280 --> 01:22:51,040 Speaker 1: know that the Iranians, they have been funding the number 1354 01:22:51,080 --> 01:22:54,719 Speaker 1: one state sponsor of terror, including all of his Bullah. 1355 01:22:55,240 --> 01:23:00,800 Speaker 1: They fight proxy wars worldwide. They fund terrorism worldwide. They're 1356 01:23:00,840 --> 01:23:03,600 Speaker 1: trying to take over the entire region. Why do you 1357 01:23:03,680 --> 01:23:08,080 Speaker 1: think Solomoni was in Baghdad and ye had no, we 1358 01:23:09,160 --> 01:23:12,160 Speaker 1: would not go into war with Iran. What we will 1359 01:23:12,320 --> 01:23:17,000 Speaker 1: likely do if if they retaliate is they're always saber rattling. 1360 01:23:17,479 --> 01:23:19,960 Speaker 1: What do you think they've been doing for all these years? 1361 01:23:20,200 --> 01:23:22,080 Speaker 1: But by the way, after they got one hundred and 1362 01:23:22,160 --> 01:23:24,439 Speaker 1: fifty billion dollars that was supposed to make them be 1363 01:23:24,560 --> 01:23:28,960 Speaker 1: nice to us. So there are strategic options and decisions. Again, 1364 01:23:29,040 --> 01:23:32,000 Speaker 1: it goes back to my philosophy that Okay, the next 1365 01:23:32,120 --> 01:23:36,320 Speaker 1: generation of weaponry, both offensive and defensive, needs to be 1366 01:23:36,479 --> 01:23:40,519 Speaker 1: built by America so that we never have to send 1367 01:23:40,560 --> 01:23:43,240 Speaker 1: boots on the ground, meaning door to door, doesn't mean 1368 01:23:43,960 --> 01:23:47,040 Speaker 1: look for intelligence purposes alone. You're gonna need boots on 1369 01:23:47,120 --> 01:23:49,759 Speaker 1: the ground, but not boots and harms way in the ground, 1370 01:23:51,479 --> 01:23:54,640 Speaker 1: back protected, not on the front lines. That's going to 1371 01:23:54,680 --> 01:23:57,839 Speaker 1: be up to the Iranian people if they want regime 1372 01:23:57,960 --> 01:24:02,280 Speaker 1: change in Tehran. But I will say this if the 1373 01:24:02,400 --> 01:24:07,600 Speaker 1: three huge refineries of Iran are destroyed, because the President's 1374 01:24:07,600 --> 01:24:11,040 Speaker 1: sanctions already have caused a lot of instability within Iran, 1375 01:24:11,640 --> 01:24:14,040 Speaker 1: which is why they've been doing this, that they're trying 1376 01:24:14,160 --> 01:24:18,040 Speaker 1: to get America in the world's attention and play off 1377 01:24:18,120 --> 01:24:22,400 Speaker 1: the fears of the appeasers, and in doing so, they 1378 01:24:22,479 --> 01:24:24,679 Speaker 1: hope that America is going to pony up more money, 1379 01:24:24,960 --> 01:24:28,360 Speaker 1: and just the opposite happened. No, we're not paying you 1380 01:24:28,479 --> 01:24:32,240 Speaker 1: any more money. The era of bribery and trying to 1381 01:24:32,439 --> 01:24:36,320 Speaker 1: extort goodwill out of dictators is over. And that's why 1382 01:24:36,360 --> 01:24:39,640 Speaker 1: America elected Donald Trump. You know, note to self for 1383 01:24:39,720 --> 01:24:43,559 Speaker 1: the Democrats, by the way, that Obama launched two thousand, 1384 01:24:43,680 --> 01:24:47,080 Speaker 1: eight hundred strikes on Iraq Syria, none of which had 1385 01:24:47,080 --> 01:24:50,080 Speaker 1: any congressional approval. All right, let's get to our phones. 1386 01:24:50,840 --> 01:24:55,439 Speaker 1: Let's say hi, two. Doug is in Florida. Doug, how 1387 01:24:55,520 --> 01:24:58,960 Speaker 1: are you? Three hundred and two days until we're paying 1388 01:24:59,120 --> 01:25:02,519 Speaker 1: very close attention New York States, sir, how are you good? Afternoon, 1389 01:25:02,680 --> 01:25:05,680 Speaker 1: mister Hannity. It's a pleasure to speak with you, A 1390 01:25:05,760 --> 01:25:08,599 Speaker 1: first time caller, a long time listener. Happy New Year, sir, 1391 01:25:08,760 --> 01:25:10,760 Speaker 1: Glad you called Happy New Year to you. I have 1392 01:25:11,040 --> 01:25:13,280 Speaker 1: two things. One is a point about the FBI, and 1393 01:25:13,320 --> 01:25:15,080 Speaker 1: then I want to have that lead into a question 1394 01:25:15,160 --> 01:25:20,040 Speaker 1: about FAISA. I've heard it said that the upper level management, 1395 01:25:20,160 --> 01:25:22,880 Speaker 1: if you will, of the FBI is corrupt, but the 1396 01:25:23,000 --> 01:25:26,080 Speaker 1: rank and file are just good guys. And I have 1397 01:25:26,200 --> 01:25:29,320 Speaker 1: to tell you I respectfully disagree with that point of view. 1398 01:25:29,360 --> 01:25:32,840 Speaker 1: And here's why. Every organization, no matter what their size, 1399 01:25:32,920 --> 01:25:36,320 Speaker 1: they've all got a grape vine in there. The administrative staff, 1400 01:25:36,400 --> 01:25:40,439 Speaker 1: the clerical staff, the supervisors, subsupervisors, they'll all know that 1401 01:25:40,520 --> 01:25:42,880 Speaker 1: this stuff's been going on at the top, and they've 1402 01:25:42,960 --> 01:25:46,400 Speaker 1: known it for a long time. So to simply replace 1403 01:25:46,720 --> 01:25:50,400 Speaker 1: one leader of the FBI with another does not impress 1404 01:25:50,479 --> 01:25:54,200 Speaker 1: me as Wow, we got good people there. Moeller's corrupt, 1405 01:25:54,479 --> 01:25:57,640 Speaker 1: Komey's corrupt, and I believe Chris Ray is corrupt. I 1406 01:25:57,680 --> 01:26:00,880 Speaker 1: think he's done nothing but standing Trump's way at opportunities 1407 01:26:00,880 --> 01:26:04,439 Speaker 1: he's had. And any of those FBI agents underneath them 1408 01:26:04,479 --> 01:26:09,320 Speaker 1: that know this stuff, have seen the news, have listened 1409 01:26:09,320 --> 01:26:12,200 Speaker 1: to the congressional hearings, know that things are rotten, and 1410 01:26:12,320 --> 01:26:14,920 Speaker 1: they don't stand up and speak out, well, then by 1411 01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:17,760 Speaker 1: their own behavior, Listen, I'm gonna be honest. The rank 1412 01:26:17,840 --> 01:26:21,400 Speaker 1: and file, they don't know what the top brass leadership 1413 01:26:21,560 --> 01:26:23,960 Speaker 1: is doing. That's not their job to know what they're doing. 1414 01:26:24,520 --> 01:26:26,800 Speaker 1: Their job, if you work in a field office and 1415 01:26:26,840 --> 01:26:29,519 Speaker 1: you're an FBI guy. You know, you're doing your job 1416 01:26:29,640 --> 01:26:33,160 Speaker 1: every day, and you're doing it within the confines of 1417 01:26:33,240 --> 01:26:36,240 Speaker 1: what the law allows you to do, which makes what 1418 01:26:36,400 --> 01:26:39,639 Speaker 1: you're doing. Look. Being an FBI agent is dangerous work. 1419 01:26:39,920 --> 01:26:43,120 Speaker 1: You're going to cover. You're going after cartels, you're going 1420 01:26:43,160 --> 01:26:47,840 Speaker 1: after gang members, you're going a mob families, you're going 1421 01:26:47,880 --> 01:26:51,160 Speaker 1: after murderers, you're going after kidnappers, you're going after drug dealers. 1422 01:26:51,320 --> 01:26:53,479 Speaker 1: There's nothing easy about what these guys do. They're not 1423 01:26:54,160 --> 01:26:56,760 Speaker 1: they're not wired into what's going on in Washington, DC. 1424 01:26:56,960 --> 01:27:00,360 Speaker 1: Trust me, I've got friends that are you know, in 1425 01:27:00,479 --> 01:27:03,000 Speaker 1: the f behind that just that's not how they roll. 1426 01:27:03,120 --> 01:27:06,080 Speaker 1: What the top management zoon is on their own, that's 1427 01:27:06,120 --> 01:27:10,240 Speaker 1: what they do. Anyway, good points, Doug, appreciate it. Let's 1428 01:27:10,360 --> 01:27:15,679 Speaker 1: go to Eric and Denver. Eric Matt Rocky Mountain High. Literally, 1429 01:27:15,800 --> 01:27:18,920 Speaker 1: how are you glad you called excellent, sir. I'm actually 1430 01:27:19,120 --> 01:27:21,679 Speaker 1: recently transplanted here from the crazy state of California because 1431 01:27:21,680 --> 01:27:24,439 Speaker 1: I didn't stand it anymore. But well, you're kind of 1432 01:27:24,479 --> 01:27:27,400 Speaker 1: in a half crazy state. But I'm just teasing. I'll 1433 01:27:27,439 --> 01:27:29,600 Speaker 1: take it. I'm not sure I like the legalization of 1434 01:27:29,720 --> 01:27:33,200 Speaker 1: marijuana for recreational use at all. I think it's it 1435 01:27:33,360 --> 01:27:37,000 Speaker 1: bothers me. I think it's a gateway drug. I think 1436 01:27:37,120 --> 01:27:39,960 Speaker 1: it's um I think there's a danger with it. But 1437 01:27:40,040 --> 01:27:42,120 Speaker 1: people are gonna argue, well, what about alcohol. I'm not 1438 01:27:42,680 --> 01:27:45,880 Speaker 1: you know, look, I'm I'm libertarian. People can decide how 1439 01:27:45,880 --> 01:27:48,479 Speaker 1: to live their lives. I would not engage in that myself. 1440 01:27:49,400 --> 01:27:54,040 Speaker 1: I agree. Anyways, it's a It's definitely an honor to 1441 01:27:54,080 --> 01:27:56,320 Speaker 1: talk to you. I watch every night. I'm a huge supporter, 1442 01:27:56,439 --> 01:27:58,719 Speaker 1: and I want to thank you for the constant pressure 1443 01:27:58,720 --> 01:28:00,479 Speaker 1: you put on the mainstream media to do their job, 1444 01:28:00,520 --> 01:28:04,320 Speaker 1: which is to report facts instead of their narrative. I've 1445 01:28:04,360 --> 01:28:06,400 Speaker 1: given up any hope it's never going to happen, but 1446 01:28:06,479 --> 01:28:10,720 Speaker 1: go ahead there. You know, the point on Friday was, 1447 01:28:11,400 --> 01:28:13,400 Speaker 1: you know, do you know do we think that Iran 1448 01:28:13,960 --> 01:28:16,920 Speaker 1: is going to retaliate? And then I'm going to jump ahead. 1449 01:28:16,920 --> 01:28:20,200 Speaker 1: If you look at the Democrat's consistent response over the weekend, 1450 01:28:20,680 --> 01:28:24,439 Speaker 1: everything that they've all said, you know, their position is 1451 01:28:24,520 --> 01:28:26,080 Speaker 1: can amount to the fact that they don't want to 1452 01:28:26,120 --> 01:28:27,960 Speaker 1: rip a band aid off of the wound because it's 1453 01:28:28,000 --> 01:28:30,240 Speaker 1: going to hurt. But ultimately that's what needs to be done. 1454 01:28:30,800 --> 01:28:34,360 Speaker 1: You know, the pressure in with Iran has been building 1455 01:28:34,400 --> 01:28:36,439 Speaker 1: for forty years. They've been spoiling for a war with 1456 01:28:36,560 --> 01:28:38,920 Speaker 1: US for forty years, and I think that they're going 1457 01:28:39,000 --> 01:28:41,439 Speaker 1: to look They're gonna look at what the Democrat's response is, 1458 01:28:42,600 --> 01:28:45,720 Speaker 1: knowing that if we, if we continue to escalate, it's 1459 01:28:45,760 --> 01:28:48,200 Speaker 1: going to give a talking point to them, and that's 1460 01:28:48,240 --> 01:28:50,280 Speaker 1: going to affect the Trump in the election. So I 1461 01:28:50,320 --> 01:28:53,479 Speaker 1: think they're going to keep pushing. There's nothing that Donald 1462 01:28:53,520 --> 01:28:55,400 Speaker 1: Trump is ever going to be able to do. If 1463 01:28:55,439 --> 01:28:58,479 Speaker 1: he adopted their entire New Green Deal and their Medicare 1464 01:28:58,560 --> 01:29:01,800 Speaker 1: for All and he did everything they ever wanted him 1465 01:29:01,840 --> 01:29:05,679 Speaker 1: to do, and on top of that it cured cancer, 1466 01:29:05,760 --> 01:29:07,559 Speaker 1: they still want to impeach her. They just they can't 1467 01:29:07,600 --> 01:29:10,360 Speaker 1: get over their rage, their hatred, the shock to their 1468 01:29:10,439 --> 01:29:14,400 Speaker 1: system from you know, now it's going on by November, 1469 01:29:14,400 --> 01:29:17,360 Speaker 1: it would be four years ago. They just they are 1470 01:29:17,439 --> 01:29:20,680 Speaker 1: who they are. They've done nothing for the country, and 1471 01:29:20,760 --> 01:29:23,880 Speaker 1: the president just has to keep governing, and he's governing 1472 01:29:23,960 --> 01:29:27,920 Speaker 1: under really difficult circumstances. That's why I'm saying, is this 1473 01:29:28,200 --> 01:29:31,240 Speaker 1: is now an all hands on deck moment. You know, 1474 01:29:31,360 --> 01:29:33,960 Speaker 1: some people say, well, what can I do. And my 1475 01:29:34,040 --> 01:29:36,800 Speaker 1: answer is if you vote, thank you, I'll take it. 1476 01:29:37,439 --> 01:29:40,880 Speaker 1: That's a big one, that's huge. Three under in two days. 1477 01:29:42,640 --> 01:29:46,200 Speaker 1: I see America literally on the brink here and the 1478 01:29:46,320 --> 01:29:49,679 Speaker 1: world following, because as goes America, the world shall go also. 1479 01:29:50,640 --> 01:29:53,519 Speaker 1: And I think that the path that they would take 1480 01:29:53,640 --> 01:29:55,759 Speaker 1: us down as one of not only appeasement and foreign 1481 01:29:55,840 --> 01:29:59,759 Speaker 1: policy and giving up the lifeblood of our economy oil, 1482 01:30:00,280 --> 01:30:05,680 Speaker 1: creating more dependency, but it is, it is so fundamentally 1483 01:30:07,400 --> 01:30:10,680 Speaker 1: transformational in a negative sense. I don't know how you 1484 01:30:10,800 --> 01:30:14,599 Speaker 1: ever dig out of the New Green Deal. Everything's free 1485 01:30:14,760 --> 01:30:18,280 Speaker 1: hole that they want to dig. I think it's that bad. 1486 01:30:18,560 --> 01:30:21,920 Speaker 1: Does that answer your question? Yeah? If if you're making 1487 01:30:22,000 --> 01:30:25,760 Speaker 1: you one more point, can you imagine the outrage that 1488 01:30:25,920 --> 01:30:28,360 Speaker 1: we would be looking at now if Trump didn't do 1489 01:30:28,439 --> 01:30:31,680 Speaker 1: anything with his actual intel? You know, I made the 1490 01:30:31,800 --> 01:30:34,280 Speaker 1: same point. And by the way, thanks for the call 1491 01:30:34,320 --> 01:30:37,280 Speaker 1: of imagine. We found out six months from now he 1492 01:30:37,360 --> 01:30:40,760 Speaker 1: had a shot at Solomoni didn't take it. What what 1493 01:30:41,760 --> 01:30:45,400 Speaker 1: you You know he can't win with He's never gonna 1494 01:30:45,439 --> 01:30:49,080 Speaker 1: win with them, And I just you know, I look 1495 01:30:49,120 --> 01:30:52,960 Speaker 1: at the Zogby poll showing the president's approverrating soaring among 1496 01:30:53,080 --> 01:30:57,200 Speaker 1: young voters. Now he first picked up African Americans massive support. 1497 01:30:57,240 --> 01:31:00,160 Speaker 1: It's not an outlier, it's now a trend. But we 1498 01:31:00,240 --> 01:31:01,880 Speaker 1: got three hundred and two days to go. I count 1499 01:31:01,920 --> 01:31:03,880 Speaker 1: on nothing. All right, that's gonna wrap things up. We 1500 01:31:04,000 --> 01:31:07,160 Speaker 1: are loaded up tonight Hannity nine Eastern on the Fox 1501 01:31:07,320 --> 01:31:11,360 Speaker 1: News Channel. Now we do have Senator Josh Howley. He 1502 01:31:11,479 --> 01:31:15,960 Speaker 1: has made the introduction of a bill, thankfully, rightfully that 1503 01:31:16,120 --> 01:31:19,800 Speaker 1: will end Nancy Pelosi's power grab trying to dictate to 1504 01:31:19,840 --> 01:31:24,400 Speaker 1: the US Senate. Also Nicky Haley, Congressman Dan Crenshaw, Sarah Sanders, 1505 01:31:24,479 --> 01:31:28,880 Speaker 1: Matt Gates, Jason Chaffitz, Tony Tata, General Tata, Larry Elder, 1506 01:31:28,960 --> 01:31:32,680 Speaker 1: match slap. We'll cover all grounds of every aspect of 1507 01:31:32,920 --> 01:31:35,839 Speaker 1: all that's happening. We'll see you at nine back here tomorrow. 1508 01:31:35,960 --> 01:31:36,880 Speaker 1: Thanks for being with us.