1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:03,520 Speaker 1: Stay right here for our final news around US and 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:07,960 Speaker 1: information overload. All right, news roundup and Information Overload hour. 3 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:09,760 Speaker 1: Thank you for being with us eight hundred and ninety 4 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 1: four one sean if you want to be a part 5 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:16,439 Speaker 1: of the program. So the Republicans that we had Chip 6 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:19,800 Speaker 1: Roy and Matt Gates on the program yesterday, I thought, 7 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:24,479 Speaker 1: actually it was a very worthwhile conversation discussion. People like 8 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 1: Chip Roy Byron Donald's who will join us in a second, 9 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:32,519 Speaker 1: were you know, working hard behind the scenes to get together. 10 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 1: You know what I thought was actually a pretty responsible, 11 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 1: fair deal to just you know, fund the government till 12 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 1: October thirty first an eight percent cup, but it wouldn't 13 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 1: touch the military, you know, or other programs that matter 14 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 1: to so many different people. And anyway, I just thought 15 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:55,520 Speaker 1: it was a pretty good deal. Didn't work out yesterday, 16 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: so trying to put together another one, and anyway, here 17 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 1: to update us and where we are with all this 18 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 1: is Byron Donald's Congressmen from the great state of Florida. 19 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:05,760 Speaker 1: How are you, sir? 20 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 2: Doing great? Sew and good to be with you. 21 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:09,960 Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about what was going on behind 22 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:14,120 Speaker 1: the scenes yesterday and then the lead up to yesterday well. 23 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 2: Let me take a step back into the lead up 24 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:18,679 Speaker 2: to yesterday. Where we were was essentially that there was 25 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 2: no agreement on top line spending numbers that the members 26 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 2: of the Republican Conference could agree to. There was no 27 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 2: agreement to that. And what I understood and could see 28 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:30,120 Speaker 2: pretty clearly in Nsika Chips, so con Scott, and a 29 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:33,680 Speaker 2: handful of other people, was that if we didn't address 30 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:37,639 Speaker 2: the government shutdown and address the politics around the government 31 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 2: shut down, we would have members in our conference who 32 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 2: were you know, they're on the more moderate side of 33 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:48,320 Speaker 2: our conference. They represent districts that are Biden districts, they're 34 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:51,560 Speaker 2: deep blue districts that Republicans hold. They would feel the 35 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 2: pressure and do whatever, you know, they felt was necessary 36 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 2: in their eyes to avoid a government shutdown altogether. 37 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 1: So, by the way, this was a negotiation between the 38 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 1: House Freedom Caucus and the more moderate quote mainstream Caucus. 39 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:08,959 Speaker 1: It would impose eight percent spending cut on federal agencies. 40 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 1: It would temporarily fund the government through October thirty first, 41 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 1: thirty first. It would not include any cuts to National Defense, 42 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:22,240 Speaker 1: the Department of Veterans Affairs, and amounts designated to disaster relief. 43 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 1: Nor I assume would it have touched Social Security and Medicare. 44 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:29,520 Speaker 2: No, it would have left all those as you just stated, 45 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 2: and we would have put in our border security package 46 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 2: to secure the southern border. We have members who just said, 47 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 2: you didn't want to vote to a CR. So at 48 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:43,040 Speaker 2: that point, it's taking us back to figuring out top 49 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 2: line spending numbers. I was in the room with colleagues 50 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 2: from all over the Republican Conference probably six or seven 51 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 2: hours yesterday, hammering through a lot of the details and 52 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:54,959 Speaker 2: some of the issues that members are having to try 53 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,520 Speaker 2: to get to a top line spending number so we 54 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 2: can pass our appropriation bills. There is something else that's 55 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 2: going on. We do have members who are talking with 56 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 2: Democrats about signing a clean CR. Now, a clean CR 57 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:13,080 Speaker 2: would be a full continuation of Nancy pelosi spending and 58 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:16,640 Speaker 2: a full continuation of Nancy Pelosi's policies, and if that 59 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:19,360 Speaker 2: is passed off the floor of the House of Representatives, 60 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:22,079 Speaker 2: then there's no ability to go after the weaponization of 61 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 2: DJ the wolf stuff in our military, or secure our 62 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:25,960 Speaker 2: southern border. 63 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 1: Okay, that's a big deal on a lot of fronts, 64 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 1: and you're right, that is definitely taking place. I know 65 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 1: for a fact that's taking place. If that happens, I 66 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 1: think the Republican Caucus needs to reevaluate. I mean, one 67 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 1: of the biggest problems you guys have is you only 68 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 1: have a four seat majority, and you even have missing 69 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 1: members currently, so you don't even have your full majority. 70 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 1: And you know, I said this to both Matt Gates 71 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: and to Chip Royd the other yesterday. I said, look, 72 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 1: you guys are going to succeed together or you're going 73 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 1: to fail together, and there's not going to be any 74 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 1: middle ground where one group is successful in the other groups. 75 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 1: Not am I wrong? 76 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:06,160 Speaker 2: No, I think you're right about that. If this essentially, 77 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:10,520 Speaker 2: if Biden and Pelosi get a clean cr in my view, 78 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 2: this will be a complete failure of the Republican majority 79 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 2: because our job was to come up here and to 80 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 2: fight for this country and to do the tactical and 81 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 2: smart things to reverse course here on Capitol Hill. And 82 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:26,479 Speaker 2: if they get their way on a continuing resolution, which 83 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 2: is very likely, Sean very likely, if they get their way, 84 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 2: then we would have squandered the majority that the American 85 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 2: people gave us in my view. 86 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:37,240 Speaker 1: All right, so what's the answer and what is the 87 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 1: status of negotiations with these moderate Republicans, which frankly I 88 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 1: think hurt all their other Republican colleagues if they were 89 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 1: to do something that's stupid. But I can see it happening, 90 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 1: as you kept. 91 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 2: Where we are right now is there are members who 92 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:54,719 Speaker 2: you know, they're very strong on their position about federal 93 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:57,839 Speaker 2: spending and reforms to the government. It's getting them in 94 00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 2: a room with the same moderate members who would sign 95 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 2: off on a they call it a discharge petition. It 96 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 2: will actually go around the leadership and go straight to 97 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:07,280 Speaker 2: the floor for a vote. And it's getting those two 98 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:09,919 Speaker 2: members in a room to sit down and say, listen, 99 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 2: we either succeed or we failed. Together, here's the strategy, 100 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 2: here are the numbers. What say you? And at that point, 101 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:19,480 Speaker 2: Sean like, this is what democracy looks like. This is 102 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:22,360 Speaker 2: what a representative republic looks like. You members have to 103 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 2: sit down with each other in the eye and make 104 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:26,839 Speaker 2: a decision. I'm willing to be in a room with 105 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:29,279 Speaker 2: them as long as it takes to make that decision. 106 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:31,679 Speaker 1: Sean, Let's talk a little bit. I mean it seems 107 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:34,040 Speaker 1: to have gotten personal. I know Matt Gates went after 108 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:37,359 Speaker 1: you on the House floor yesterday, and I just wanted 109 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 1: to give you a chance to respond in fairness. And 110 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 1: I think ultimately you guys probably agree on more issues 111 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:46,719 Speaker 1: than you disagree on. Am I wrong in that assumption? 112 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 2: We agree on where we're trying to get to. We 113 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:53,039 Speaker 2: just disagreed on tactics. And I think that Matt made 114 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:55,919 Speaker 2: a tactical error here. I mean, look, it sounds good 115 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:58,600 Speaker 2: to say that you want to fight against Jack Smith 116 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:00,600 Speaker 2: and all that stuff, and I know that's what Matt 117 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 2: wants to do. But the tactics, in my view, he 118 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:06,160 Speaker 2: used to do that does not actually change anything. It 119 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:09,040 Speaker 2: actually keeps the status quo in place, because in the 120 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:13,480 Speaker 2: government shutdown, Jack Smith continues, he continues going after Donald Trump, 121 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 2: he continues the weaponization of our Department of Justice. Nothing 122 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 2: changes there. And I will also add, if we were 123 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 2: in a shutdown or getting close to one, we do 124 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:26,040 Speaker 2: have members who will cut a deal with the Democrats. 125 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:28,760 Speaker 2: That does not help us secure our border, that does 126 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 2: not help us cut spending, that does not help us 127 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:34,600 Speaker 2: do anything that the American people want to see have 128 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 2: happen in their government. So I just think that we 129 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:39,600 Speaker 2: had a tactical difference. I think he was wrong but 130 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:40,719 Speaker 2: we are where we are. 131 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:43,520 Speaker 1: All right. So the tactical difference where do things stay 132 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:47,600 Speaker 1: today and how many of these moderate Republicans would partner 133 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:51,080 Speaker 1: with Democrats, which to me is just a slap of 134 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 1: the face to all of their caucus members. 135 00:06:55,279 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 2: I think that number is somewhere around maybe five, maybe 136 00:06:58,440 --> 00:06:59,120 Speaker 2: six members. 137 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 1: And look, and that would be ken Buck for example Colorado. 138 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:04,240 Speaker 3: Right. 139 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:06,840 Speaker 2: No, I don't think Kim book will be will be 140 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 2: with that. But you know, we have members who are 141 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 2: they or they're in New York, they're in California, they're 142 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:16,080 Speaker 2: in some really tough district Sean where where there's some 143 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 2: of these members there are more Democrats in their district 144 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 2: than Republicans, Like they're underwater, fifty fifty fifty thousand votes 145 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:27,520 Speaker 2: just Republican a Democrat. We have members who represent areas 146 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 2: of the country like this. So they're looking at the 147 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:33,040 Speaker 2: equation of saying, listen, I just can't have a government shutdown. 148 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 2: It's going to really hurt me in terms of getting 149 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 2: re elected to keep the majority. But that's their political view. 150 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:42,600 Speaker 2: My view is, let's be strategic. Let's make sure we 151 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 2: use the right tactics up here so we can actually 152 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:47,400 Speaker 2: get to the weaponization of our government and cut this 153 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 2: federal spending because we are bloated and we're out of control. 154 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:54,440 Speaker 1: So to have a stopgap measure that, you know, a 155 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 1: cr that would temporarily fund the government to October thirty first, 156 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 1: a compromise bill that would impose eight percent spending cuts 157 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:08,880 Speaker 1: on federal agencies, but protect Social Security, Medicare, National Defense, 158 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,760 Speaker 1: the Department of Veterans Affairs, et cetera, and those those 159 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 1: money is dedicated for disaster relief. It sounds like the 160 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 1: best deal that everybody's going to get to. Maybe I'm 161 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:23,080 Speaker 1: just giving my objective opinion for the short term. Now, 162 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:26,360 Speaker 1: I would have preferred that Republicans followed through on the 163 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 1: issue of passing twelve appropriations bills. But that didn't happen, 164 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:30,040 Speaker 1: did it. 165 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:33,600 Speaker 2: No, it didn't. And listen, we have so many other 166 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:37,079 Speaker 2: issues up here about why that didn't happen. Sean. Look, 167 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 2: I've been in I've been in the room for all 168 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 2: these conversations about how to get to top line spending numbers. Frankly, 169 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 2: the last twenty four hours has probably been the most 170 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:49,440 Speaker 2: productive it's been over the last four months to get there. 171 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 2: I mean, look, this is the thing Hapen. 172 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:53,240 Speaker 1: Why does everybody wait till the last minute? With all 173 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 1: due respect, I mean I've been talking about this since 174 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 1: June and July and August, and frankly, I think Republicans 175 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:01,560 Speaker 1: made a state miss stay going away for the month 176 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:02,160 Speaker 1: of August. 177 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 2: I totally agree with you. I was willing to stay. 178 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:07,360 Speaker 2: I know Chip was willing to stay, and there are 179 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:09,199 Speaker 2: members up here who are willing to do this work. 180 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 2: But I mean, listen, at the end of the day, 181 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:13,480 Speaker 2: I think some of this does fall in the hands 182 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:15,400 Speaker 2: of the speaker. If he didn't, you know, he's got 183 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:18,240 Speaker 2: to decide how he wants, how he wants to work 184 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:21,439 Speaker 2: to go. But we just never made the progress necessary. 185 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:24,079 Speaker 2: I was very clear with my colleagues and with the 186 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 2: leadership about what needed to occur. You know, did it 187 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:29,640 Speaker 2: fall on deaf ears maybe, but that's what we are 188 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 2: we are right now, Sean, And so I'm telling you 189 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:35,079 Speaker 2: members are locked in. We're trying to get to an 190 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:38,719 Speaker 2: agreement so we can get the appropriation bills done. And 191 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:42,400 Speaker 2: my view still have still discussed some of the serious 192 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:44,720 Speaker 2: issues in front of us, which is our border, which 193 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:47,080 Speaker 2: is the Department which is also the Department of Justice, 194 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:49,840 Speaker 2: and the fact that our military is not prepared the 195 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 2: way it needs to be because of the social engineering 196 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:53,480 Speaker 2: by the radical left. 197 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 1: Now you're also dealing with other forces against you, and 198 00:09:57,080 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 1: that would be Mitch McConnell and the US Senate. McConnell 199 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:04,320 Speaker 1: is perfectly fine leaving spending levels where they are. You know, 200 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:06,719 Speaker 1: we just passed the thirty three trillion dollar mark in 201 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:10,839 Speaker 1: terms of the national debt. On top of that, we 202 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:13,319 Speaker 1: you know, I mean, that's a massive amount of debt. 203 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:17,360 Speaker 1: And you know, he's pressuring, and you'd have to go 204 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:19,880 Speaker 1: to conference at some point, assuming that the House does 205 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:23,520 Speaker 1: pass a bill, and then we got this looming shut down, 206 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:27,120 Speaker 1: and I could see Republicans now being blamed for that 207 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:30,719 Speaker 1: unless they go with the clean cr And yet that 208 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 1: would be you know, probably enough to spark a motion 209 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 1: to vacate against Speaker McCarthy. How's that going to play out? 210 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:40,840 Speaker 2: It plays out terribly all the way around. And then, 211 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:42,560 Speaker 2: let me be clear, I've been saying it to my 212 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:46,440 Speaker 2: members in the conference, is that, guys, if we're not 213 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 2: successful in the House, all of the leverage in this 214 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:52,640 Speaker 2: town will shift to the Senate and Chuck Schumer and 215 00:10:52,679 --> 00:10:56,199 Speaker 2: Mitch McConnell will cut another bad deal. That's what they 216 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:59,200 Speaker 2: will do. They will cut another bad deal. It'll come 217 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:01,280 Speaker 2: back to the House and then this whole thing is over. 218 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:03,080 Speaker 2: And that's just the way it's going to be, because 219 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:06,080 Speaker 2: next year, the presidential election is already is already started. 220 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 2: It's going to dominate everything. Nobody's going to want to 221 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:11,840 Speaker 2: do anything in this town next year because everybody's going 222 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:14,040 Speaker 2: to be running for reelection and trying to for me, 223 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:16,760 Speaker 2: making sure Donald Trump becomes the next president of the 224 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 2: United States. That's what's going to dominate this town once 225 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:22,960 Speaker 2: we get past the spending fights. So we have to 226 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 2: be smart, do the right thing, and win the ground 227 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:27,000 Speaker 2: that is available to us. 228 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:28,440 Speaker 3: Right now, I kind. 229 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:30,960 Speaker 1: Of agree, but it doesn't sound like it's doable. You got, 230 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:34,880 Speaker 1: you know, one side on on the right, including you know, 231 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:36,880 Speaker 1: my friends in the Freedom Caucus that I tend to 232 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:40,600 Speaker 1: support the most. And then you've got these moderates that 233 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:43,240 Speaker 1: are willing to do deals with Democrats and and and 234 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:45,840 Speaker 1: actually burn the Republican House down with it. 235 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:48,320 Speaker 2: Son, I will tell you that that a lot of 236 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:50,440 Speaker 2: these members on both sides, they've been in the room 237 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 2: with me, with Chip, with Scott Perry, with Tom emer 238 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 2: the House whip, and we've been going through in very 239 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:01,520 Speaker 2: in big detail, strong details to try to get somewhere. 240 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:05,200 Speaker 2: The last twenty four hours has been very productive, so 241 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:08,000 Speaker 2: I wouldn't say it's not a done deal yet. We 242 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 2: got still work to do today, some work to do tomorrow. 243 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:14,079 Speaker 2: I think it's possible. The biggest thing I would ask 244 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:17,600 Speaker 2: for your listeners is well, number one, we all need prayer, 245 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:20,560 Speaker 2: we need God's wisdom and discernment. That's number one. But 246 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:23,679 Speaker 2: number two is that just hold the line with us. 247 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:25,800 Speaker 2: There is a way to get this done where we 248 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:28,520 Speaker 2: can actually have a strong position come out of the House, 249 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:30,720 Speaker 2: because then we got to go negotiate with the Senate. 250 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:32,960 Speaker 2: That's the second step after we get our business done here. 251 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:35,560 Speaker 1: McConnell's already, you know, put a stake in the ground 252 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:39,760 Speaker 1: saying that he is against what the House is proposing. 253 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:42,800 Speaker 1: He said, shutdown are a possible shut down as a 254 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:46,720 Speaker 1: loser for Republicans and GOP senators are alarmed at the 255 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:48,959 Speaker 1: fact that you guys actually want to stand by your 256 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 1: promise to reduce massive government spending, which is frustrating in 257 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:54,079 Speaker 1: and of its own self. 258 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:57,160 Speaker 2: Well, first of all, to mention the boys they're the 259 00:12:57,160 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 2: ones that cut that bad Omnibus deal with Nancy Pelos 260 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:02,960 Speaker 2: when she was already a lame duck speaker, So they 261 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:04,439 Speaker 2: put us in this pinch. If we're going to be 262 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:07,160 Speaker 2: one hundred percent honest, I'm not interested in listening to 263 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:09,600 Speaker 2: what the Senate has to say say right now, because 264 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:12,839 Speaker 2: one of the reasons why voters in our country are 265 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:16,559 Speaker 2: so furious with this town is because the Senate Republicans 266 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:20,080 Speaker 2: have left the battlefield every single time. They've not stood 267 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:23,320 Speaker 2: for strong policy. They have not used every tool to 268 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:25,480 Speaker 2: make sure that they get this country on the right 269 00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:28,120 Speaker 2: track fiscally, or that we have the right policies that 270 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:31,840 Speaker 2: control and restrain our government. They've not done any of 271 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:34,320 Speaker 2: this stuff. So I'm not interested in listening to the Senate. 272 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:36,560 Speaker 2: I'm interested in making sure that the House does the 273 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 2: right thing by the American people. And when it's come 274 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:41,319 Speaker 2: to negotiate with the Senate, then we'll have that conversation 275 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:42,120 Speaker 2: with them directly. 276 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:46,200 Speaker 1: Well, I love the stance you're taking, and I'd like 277 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:50,400 Speaker 1: to think I just wish all of the conservatives could 278 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:54,160 Speaker 1: at least unite, and you know, you had some serious 279 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 1: movement by the more moderate Republicans in the House. You know, 280 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:00,880 Speaker 1: I thought that would have been a good first and 281 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:04,360 Speaker 1: I think it scares the hell out of Republican senators 282 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:07,720 Speaker 1: that you guys may actually be successful, because that's going 283 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:09,840 Speaker 1: to put the pressure right where it belongs on them. 284 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 2: I agree, and I'm going to tell you, Sean, Look, 285 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:15,160 Speaker 2: I got members from all over the country. They all 286 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:19,480 Speaker 2: have different viewpoints. People have really sat down and really 287 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:21,560 Speaker 2: tried to come together to find a solution. There's been 288 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:24,520 Speaker 2: a lot of members on both sides of the Republican Conference, 289 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 2: whether they're moderate or conservative, who've really been a part 290 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 2: of this. They want to do the right thing. They've 291 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:32,200 Speaker 2: been talking in good faith. It's been very, very good. 292 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:34,880 Speaker 2: I think we have an ability to get somewhere. But 293 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:37,480 Speaker 2: we're just going to work and see how it plays out. 294 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:41,760 Speaker 1: All right, Byron Donald's thank you so much. You're Freedom 295 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:45,040 Speaker 1: Caukers member too, are you, Yes, sir? Yeah, I mean, 296 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:49,360 Speaker 1: I just think that's the part of the Caucers that 297 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:51,440 Speaker 1: I identify with the most. I think you guys can do 298 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 1: the best job. I wish you're the best here. I 299 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:55,880 Speaker 1: wish I could tell you. I'm confident that these other 300 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:59,240 Speaker 1: more liberal members writers who are not going to go 301 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 1: with the Democrat. But I can't confidently say that, and 302 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:06,120 Speaker 1: that would be I think, just a disaster. I think 303 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:08,480 Speaker 1: I'll anger a lot of voters. But I just want 304 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 1: the blame to be placed on the people that deserve it. 305 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:14,120 Speaker 1: Appreciate your hard work. Thank you for being with US. 306 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:17,560 Speaker 1: Congressman Byron Donalds, Florida. Thank you, sir, Thank you son 307 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:19,880 Speaker 1: twenty five to the top of the hour. Glad you're 308 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:22,400 Speaker 1: with us. Eight hundred nine foot one, Shawn. Our number 309 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 1: number shocking. More than thirty eight thousand US veterans are 310 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:29,920 Speaker 1: experiencing homelessness in our country, but they want to spend 311 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:33,400 Speaker 1: five hundred million on green energy in Ukraine. Seriously, you 312 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:36,600 Speaker 1: got to be nuts anyway. They're the heroes, the ones 313 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:39,600 Speaker 1: that signed up to protect and to serve all of us. 314 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 1: Now they're sleeping on our nation streets. But don't worry. 315 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 1: If you're in New York and you're an illegal immigrant, 316 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:48,800 Speaker 1: you will be a top priority to get a four 317 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:52,440 Speaker 1: star hotel room and all the housing. And they'll spend 318 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:56,640 Speaker 1: forty thousand dollars annually per illegal immigrant in New York. 319 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:00,600 Speaker 1: Why don't they do the same for homeless veterans anyway. 320 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:04,040 Speaker 1: That's where the Tunnel to Towers Foundation and their Homeless 321 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:07,920 Speaker 1: Veteran program comes in. They provide housing, assistance and service 322 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:10,680 Speaker 1: to vets that meet their requirements. They're going to help 323 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 1: two over two thousand this year alone, veterans who honorably 324 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:17,840 Speaker 1: served our nation. They do deserve our gratitude anyway, more 325 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:20,040 Speaker 1: than thirty eight thousand. That's a lot to put their 326 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:21,960 Speaker 1: lives on the line for all of us. They need 327 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:25,920 Speaker 1: your help anyway. They can only do this for your generosity. 328 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:28,360 Speaker 1: We hope you'll join all of us here at Team Hannity. 329 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:31,680 Speaker 1: Commit to eleven dollars a month. Just do so by 330 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:34,200 Speaker 1: going to their website. The letter T, the number two, 331 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:37,320 Speaker 1: the letter T dot org. The letter T the number two, 332 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:42,640 Speaker 1: the letter T dot org for the Tunnel to Towers Foundation. 333 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:45,760 Speaker 1: All right, this is where we have the part of 334 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:49,480 Speaker 1: the program where Linda gets out of our mind. This 335 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:50,320 Speaker 1: is always fun. 336 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:52,280 Speaker 4: I got news for you. That was the whole program. 337 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:58,600 Speaker 1: Half of us adults say open marriages are acceptable. How 338 00:16:58,600 --> 00:16:59,600 Speaker 1: do you feel about that? 339 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:02,120 Speaker 4: I don't feel about it at all. 340 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:06,959 Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you hear about the Patriots fan killed in there? 341 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 4: About that? I saw that in the post today. It 342 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:09,840 Speaker 4: was horrible. 343 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:12,240 Speaker 1: You just saw it today. It's been news for days. 344 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:13,840 Speaker 1: I just haven't gotten it. I just saw it. 345 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 4: Yeah, I haven't seen it. 346 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:16,280 Speaker 1: Pretty scary, it's so sad. 347 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:18,320 Speaker 4: But see, this is a problem. There's no humanity Everbody's 348 00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:19,280 Speaker 4: lost their freaking mind. 349 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:23,520 Speaker 1: Unreal. An artist took eighty four thousand in cash from 350 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:28,000 Speaker 1: a museum and handed in blank canvases, take the money 351 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:30,720 Speaker 1: and run. He's been order to return some of it. 352 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:33,040 Speaker 1: Was it Hunter Biden? Yeah? Was it Hunter Biden? Was 353 00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:35,560 Speaker 1: it a you know, paint by numbers? That has that 354 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 1: been reported yet? I will will update you if if 355 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:44,080 Speaker 1: it's warranted. Uh, what else do we have here? I 356 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:49,080 Speaker 1: mean so much restaurant's eighteen percent service charge for a 357 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:51,920 Speaker 1: party of one. I'm like, you got to be kidding me. 358 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:52,720 Speaker 4: A restaurant? 359 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:56,360 Speaker 1: Is that a Vietnamese restaurant in California? 360 00:17:56,640 --> 00:17:56,760 Speaker 5: Oh? 361 00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:58,639 Speaker 4: Well, it's California. It's a communist country. 362 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 1: No, pretty m much communist country. It's a communist state. 363 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:04,239 Speaker 4: No, it's a communist country. It's its own entity. There 364 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:07,040 Speaker 4: is nothing like California and the rest of these fifty states, 365 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:08,080 Speaker 4: in my opinion. 366 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:10,520 Speaker 1: So I didn't know this till Sweet Baby. James pointed 367 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:13,760 Speaker 1: it out to me that James Woods apparently took on 368 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:18,600 Speaker 1: JP Morgan CEO Jamie Diamond. I've never thought Jamie Diamond 369 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:23,119 Speaker 1: was extreme or radical, but you know, I thought he was, 370 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:28,760 Speaker 1: you know, probably mainstream, left of center whatever woke. But anyway, 371 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:33,760 Speaker 1: they've now Biden apparently, I'm sorry, Diamond apparently suggested that 372 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:38,760 Speaker 1: the US government and Climate Conscious Corporation should actually seize 373 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:46,480 Speaker 1: property owned property of private citizens government, you know, private 374 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:51,640 Speaker 1: property held by we the people, to enact their climate initiatives. 375 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:56,840 Speaker 1: This is nuts, now, Woods Rights, you better come in 376 00:18:57,040 --> 00:19:01,600 Speaker 1: heavy champ. I'm sure people accuse him. He was publicly 377 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:04,200 Speaker 1: taunting him, really is all he was doing. How stupid 378 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:07,480 Speaker 1: is all of that? I mean, I just can't believe 379 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 1: the times we're living in. It's just insane. Anyway, the 380 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:16,520 Speaker 1: author of the book, member of Senator Kennedy Louisiana was 381 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:20,240 Speaker 1: reading this is this book quote the day at the 382 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:23,679 Speaker 1: title of the book gender Queer, and it was very explicit. 383 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:30,240 Speaker 1: Now the author is angry and making the claim is 384 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:34,359 Speaker 1: that the point of the comics It's a comic was 385 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:37,600 Speaker 1: initially to be a tool to help me come out 386 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:41,280 Speaker 1: to my own family, and this is why I'm talking 387 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:43,720 Speaker 1: about talk about gender, the pronouns of the tip of 388 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:48,200 Speaker 1: the iceberg and anyways, you know. They were asked, well, 389 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:51,600 Speaker 1: the way protesters have described the book online is they 390 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:54,080 Speaker 1: make it sound like it's marketed to six year olds, 391 00:19:55,119 --> 00:19:56,960 Speaker 1: you know, And he said, no, no, that's not that's 392 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:59,560 Speaker 1: not who we're targeting. Why do I find that hard 393 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 1: to believe? How many adults or teenagers even one comic 394 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:07,119 Speaker 1: book information? 395 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:12,040 Speaker 4: Tomorrow night, what I'm going to my youngest back to 396 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:14,679 Speaker 4: school night. I have asked the principal if I may 397 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:17,760 Speaker 4: please have a tour of the library. He has told 398 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:21,320 Speaker 4: me that the library is open and that I may, 399 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 4: So I am going to go through it and I'm 400 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:23,800 Speaker 4: going to look. 401 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:26,280 Speaker 1: Let me tell you what's going on today and tomorrow. 402 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:29,680 Speaker 1: They're going to check every title, every book in every 403 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:32,000 Speaker 1: section of that library. They're going to go over it 404 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:35,359 Speaker 1: with a fine call every parent should do before tiger 405 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:36,359 Speaker 1: mom shows up. 406 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:39,400 Speaker 4: These parents are checked out, get checked in. 407 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:41,680 Speaker 1: A lot of parents. They're not as checked out as 408 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 1: you think. They're upset about it all. 409 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:44,760 Speaker 4: They're upset, but what are they doing? 410 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:47,200 Speaker 1: Here's the problem. And I know you work a lot 411 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:50,639 Speaker 1: of hours every week. So I'm sympathetic to you saying 412 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:53,160 Speaker 1: I'm going to find time to do this. And as 413 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:55,320 Speaker 1: a good boss, I've always said take as much time 414 00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:57,879 Speaker 1: as you need to be around your child. Work from 415 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:00,399 Speaker 1: home every day. I don't care. You know, you always 416 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 1: get you work done. So that's all that really matters 417 00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:07,400 Speaker 1: to me. But anyway, but parents are overworked, They're exhausted. 418 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:10,959 Speaker 1: They put in there twelve fourteen hours a day. They 419 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:13,199 Speaker 1: try and cook a meal, feed their kids, help them 420 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:15,600 Speaker 1: with their homework, put them off to bed, get up 421 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:18,199 Speaker 1: and do the whole thing all over again, and it 422 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 1: becomes a grind for everybody. San Francisco one of the 423 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:26,560 Speaker 1: deadliest months for drug overdoses. He really surprised erosion of 424 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 1: everyday life. Blue City prosecutor out in Sacramento suing the 425 00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:35,520 Speaker 1: city for failing to clean up homeless camps. It's just 426 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:38,840 Speaker 1: so sad Joe Biden couldn't find the time to meet 427 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:42,080 Speaker 1: with Mayor Adams in New York been begging for help 428 00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:47,960 Speaker 1: regarding Joe Biden's open border policy. Anyway, so we're just 429 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:52,160 Speaker 1: going to see what happens. And the new Mexico governor 430 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:55,080 Speaker 1: with this attack on the Second Amendment and gun rights. 431 00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:58,199 Speaker 1: This is now becoming a big deal out there. The 432 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:02,480 Speaker 1: first governor in the nation to ban her state from 433 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:06,720 Speaker 1: buying certain things is out of Massachusetts. Now they want 434 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:10,080 Speaker 1: to be the first state to ban state agencies from 435 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:15,240 Speaker 1: purchasing single use plastic bottles. Here you go after your stove, 436 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:20,199 Speaker 1: after your air conditioner, after all of your appliances and 437 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:24,080 Speaker 1: dishwashers and everything in between. Now this is the next thing. Unreal. 438 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:28,360 Speaker 1: All right, let's say how to Steve. He's in Long Island. Steve, Hi, 439 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:30,400 Speaker 1: how are you? And welcome to the program. 440 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,920 Speaker 5: Thanks Sewan, thanks for taking my call. I just wanted 441 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:36,960 Speaker 5: to make a comment about the potential shutdown with the 442 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 5: US government. I presume you were aware that all four 443 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:43,760 Speaker 5: hundred and thirty five folks in the Congress get paid 444 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:46,760 Speaker 5: if there's a shutdown, they still get their money. I 445 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:50,440 Speaker 5: confirmed that today when I called my congressman a Long Island. 446 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:53,719 Speaker 5: And my comment is is it's just I don't know 447 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 5: what the right word to use. Awful, shameful, disgusting. That 448 00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:01,600 Speaker 5: are US military men and women in that are serving 449 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:05,120 Speaker 5: overseas here in the States to keep us safe and 450 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:08,560 Speaker 5: free will not get paid when there's a government shutdown 451 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:11,640 Speaker 5: showing these folks w all have bills to get call 452 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:13,840 Speaker 5: loans like you and I, they got mortgages, they get 453 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,159 Speaker 5: all the bills to pay and they're not going to 454 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:18,359 Speaker 5: have money coming in. And I just think it's just 455 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:22,200 Speaker 5: not right. Well, the folks in Congress get paid. 456 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:26,240 Speaker 1: Well, my understanding is, and we've gone and we've checked, 457 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:30,240 Speaker 1: and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says, in fact, 458 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:32,000 Speaker 1: the military does get paid. 459 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:34,199 Speaker 4: So if I can jump in here, so basically what 460 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:38,560 Speaker 4: happens is they're not guaranteed to be paid. That it's 461 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:41,560 Speaker 4: not guaranteed that they won't be paid. You know, the Marines, 462 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:43,480 Speaker 4: in the Army, of the Navy, the Air Force, bace Force, 463 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:47,080 Speaker 4: if there's a funding lapse and appropriations is not able 464 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:50,440 Speaker 4: to come to a resolution or a cr it's not 465 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:52,200 Speaker 4: one hundred percent that they won't get paid. 466 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:57,360 Speaker 1: Okay, right, and listen, I sympathize with you. We've got 467 00:23:57,359 --> 00:24:01,560 Speaker 1: to pay a military because they are you know, the 468 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:04,760 Speaker 1: last time or the average number of people that are 469 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:08,040 Speaker 1: actually laid off furloughed that ultimately get back pay in 470 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:11,720 Speaker 1: a free vacation, it's not as big a number as 471 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:15,240 Speaker 1: you as you think twenty thirteen, for example, most of 472 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,280 Speaker 1: the three hundred and fifty thousand civilian employees at the 473 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:21,119 Speaker 1: Defense Department, we're summoned back to work within a week. 474 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:26,360 Speaker 1: You know, it's a full shutdown. Would likely be similar 475 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:29,480 Speaker 1: to recent ones. In twenty thirteen twenty eighteen, approximately eight 476 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand out of two point one million 477 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:37,000 Speaker 1: non postal federal employees were furloughed, but most of the 478 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:40,840 Speaker 1: people did get paid. Remember there's there's also time beyond 479 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 1: what the drop dead date ten days from now is 480 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:47,479 Speaker 1: September thirtieth. But they should have done the twelve appropriations bills. 481 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 1: They didn't do it. They should have anyway, I hope 482 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:53,160 Speaker 1: that gives you a little bit of hope. Eight hundred 483 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:58,399 Speaker 1: nine point one sean our number. Let's say hi to 484 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:01,280 Speaker 1: Matt in Michigan. Matt, how are you glad you called? Sir? 485 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,879 Speaker 3: Oh, thank you, thank you for taking my call. And 486 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 3: I want to say it's first time. 487 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:07,520 Speaker 5: Ben. 488 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:09,160 Speaker 1: Well, welcome aboard, good call. 489 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:13,200 Speaker 3: Well, I've listened to you since you sat in for 490 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:16,119 Speaker 3: rush way back in me, so I mean I've been. 491 00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, that was not a good start. When the EIB 492 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:22,800 Speaker 1: Golden microphone, the golden eib Mike actually, in my opening 493 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:26,639 Speaker 1: monologue fell down and I'm like, put my head on 494 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:29,639 Speaker 1: the desk, finished the monologue and came out of that 495 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:32,000 Speaker 1: with the sweat like I'd never had before in my life. 496 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:35,400 Speaker 1: But you know, by the way, in Detroit, we are 497 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:38,919 Speaker 1: proud to be on the all new superstation nine ten am. 498 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,120 Speaker 1: I hope you're listening out there in Detroit. All these 499 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:44,800 Speaker 1: people the UAW, We love and respect you, and I 500 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 1: don't think you guys are going to get the thirty 501 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:49,639 Speaker 1: two hour work week, but I think it deserves a 502 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:52,920 Speaker 1: nice pay increase. I'd like to see profit sharing, real 503 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:57,320 Speaker 1: significant profit sharing for you. And I think that stopping 504 00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:01,920 Speaker 1: this obsession with EV is critical to your negotiations because 505 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:06,160 Speaker 1: that's taken away so many UAW jobs. And by the way, 506 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:08,800 Speaker 1: that's that's your buddy Biden and the Democrats doing that. 507 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:13,560 Speaker 3: Well, no, my buddy, And I might add that in 508 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:19,760 Speaker 3: twenty sixteen and twenty about thirty five to forty percent 509 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:24,320 Speaker 3: of the UAW workers voted for Trump, So I'd. 510 00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:26,480 Speaker 1: Like to see them all vote for Trump. Trump's for 511 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:30,960 Speaker 1: energy independence and he's not going to shove electric vehicles 512 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:32,040 Speaker 1: down anybody's throat. 513 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:37,119 Speaker 3: Well, and I hope you don't, but it's it's I 514 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:39,000 Speaker 3: got my Trump flag out right now. 515 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:41,160 Speaker 1: I don't think any of the Republican candidates for that 516 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:41,919 Speaker 1: matter would do that. 517 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:45,480 Speaker 3: No, no, And they're not going to get the thirty 518 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:49,199 Speaker 3: two hour work week. That's that's asking too much. I 519 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:53,480 Speaker 3: retired in twenty nineteen, and so I went through the 520 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:58,520 Speaker 3: two thousand and eight bankruptcy and the fact that in 521 00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:02,840 Speaker 3: twenty eleven are Tracks stated because of Obama that we 522 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:07,919 Speaker 3: couldn't strike. Nobody could strike until twenty fifteen when the 523 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:12,960 Speaker 3: contract was up. So they set us back quite a bit. 524 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:19,840 Speaker 3: But I mean the last Alanis offer to me was 525 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:23,040 Speaker 3: very sufficient, twenty eight percent raise over the course of 526 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:29,040 Speaker 3: the contract, eighteen percent for the people are getting their pensions, 527 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:33,919 Speaker 3: you know raise, And I thought that, but they just 528 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,760 Speaker 3: don't talk about that. Forty hollars. And they worked four 529 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,600 Speaker 3: days anyway, it's just ten hours, so really they're on 530 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:40,760 Speaker 3: a four day work week. 531 00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:44,159 Speaker 1: Yeah. Look, I want these guys to do well. I 532 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:46,720 Speaker 1: want all working men and women to do well. 533 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:47,399 Speaker 2: You know. 534 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:49,760 Speaker 1: One of the reasons we pushed South Dakota in the 535 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:52,720 Speaker 1: New Jobs Program. They have the lowest unemployment in the country. 536 00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:56,640 Speaker 1: You know, they're letting people that have licenses in varying 537 00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,239 Speaker 1: fields just move there and not have to get a 538 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:02,800 Speaker 1: new state license, which is a huge burden lifted off 539 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:05,439 Speaker 1: of people that would would consider a move. You have 540 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:09,600 Speaker 1: apprenticeship program starting at eighty grand a year, apprenticeship programs. 541 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,879 Speaker 1: You know, I did a I once became a carpenter's 542 00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:16,560 Speaker 1: apprentice till I fell three stories off a roof. And 543 00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:21,680 Speaker 1: when I was doing that, I was paid five bucks 544 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,560 Speaker 1: an hour, and you know, and they didn't want to 545 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,400 Speaker 1: pay my medical care. And I could have friggin died 546 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,119 Speaker 1: when I fell off that roof. I fell right on 547 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:33,240 Speaker 1: a frozen ground at my elbow. My left arm separated. 548 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:36,960 Speaker 1: I mean, it was disconnected. It was as scary as hell, 549 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:40,200 Speaker 1: busted up. All my teeth wasn't good after all those 550 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:43,000 Speaker 1: years playing hockey, and you're in Michigan, maybe you played, 551 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:46,520 Speaker 1: but you know, all my friends lost some teeth. I 552 00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 1: didn't lose any, and I lost most of them when 553 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:52,080 Speaker 1: I fell on the ground face first. But it did 554 00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:54,240 Speaker 1: knock some sense to me. I became a conservative. 555 00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 3: Well that's a good thing, because we need you. 556 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:02,320 Speaker 1: Well you're nice, thank you. Anyway, I really do wish 557 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:06,160 Speaker 1: the UAW guys well, and but four day work week 558 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:09,280 Speaker 1: thirty two hours, I don't think that's gonna fly these. 559 00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,040 Speaker 3: No, it won't fly. And I might add that this 560 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 3: isn't really a strike. Come on, their three biggest plants 561 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:19,240 Speaker 3: are still running. They're the money plants, so Truck Plant 562 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:23,440 Speaker 3: in Sterling Heights and Saint Louis. And also they have 563 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:28,960 Speaker 3: the Grand Cherokee plant in Detroit still running, so that's 564 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:32,320 Speaker 3: where their bread and butter is. So to me, it's 565 00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:34,640 Speaker 3: not this isn't a real strike. 566 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:38,560 Speaker 1: Look, I would only remind people is there was a 567 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:42,080 Speaker 1: period I guess the seventies was around the right time 568 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:47,959 Speaker 1: where unions were demanding so much and the cars that 569 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:51,400 Speaker 1: they were producing became inferior to some of the foreign 570 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:56,760 Speaker 1: models and we fell behind technologically. An American started buying 571 00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:00,000 Speaker 1: the better cars and drove where they had lower lange 572 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,640 Speaker 1: labor costs. You know, it's got to be a system 573 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:05,360 Speaker 1: where it's win win. And I understand those people that say, 574 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:09,280 Speaker 1: well CEO pay is is this much most CEO pay? 575 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:12,760 Speaker 1: Most companies not all. It's based on performance. If they 576 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:16,440 Speaker 1: make X number dollars in profit, they profit. I would 577 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:21,400 Speaker 1: make the same profit sharing system available to workers. 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