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Speaker 1: It's Happy Friday for everybody. But our friends are neighbors,
Speaker 1: people we know down in Florida. We'll start the program.
Speaker 1: I our thoughts and prayers are with you. Hang in there,
Speaker 1: hang tough. Americans are tough. Floridians are tough. UM. I
Speaker 1: know none of this is gonna be easy. This is
Speaker 1: the big one. I hope those of you that are
Speaker 1: being told to evacuate or evacuating, Um, you know, there's
Speaker 1: some amazing stories to come out of what's going on
Speaker 1: now in preparation of Hurricane Irma. Uh. Just to let
Speaker 1: you know, we'll have Joe b ASTARTI on in each
Speaker 1: hour of the program today. We're also gonna be doing
Speaker 1: some news and that would include Freedom Caucus members, Jim
Speaker 1: Jordan's Congressman Dave Bratt. The rest of the Republican Party
Speaker 1: pretty much sucks except for the Freedom Caucus. At this
Speaker 1: point in my life, I just had it Pact. Buchanan
Speaker 1: will join us the Attorney General of Florida, Pam Bondi
Speaker 1: is here. Before I get to the good stories, let
Speaker 1: me just say I talked to Pam Bandi's office today
Speaker 1: and she'll come on and talk a little bit about it.
Speaker 1: She's getting a lot of calls. There are some crappy
Speaker 1: people out in this world that are out there charging
Speaker 1: thirty forty bucks for a case of water. Now, what's
Speaker 1: the average cost for you know, case or three four bucks? Right?
Speaker 1: All right? Charge an extra dollar if you're really it
Speaker 1: ain't the money that two dollars extra? Fine, got it,
Speaker 1: I understand, But why are you gonna gouge people in
Speaker 1: what is really the hour of need that they have?
Speaker 1: And anyway, she's been investigating. And then on the other hand,
Speaker 1: and this is always the case, you see goodness and
Speaker 1: greatness emerging people. And I think, and I'll ask the
Speaker 1: Attorney General when she comes on, I think it was
Speaker 1: Jet Blue the first to do this. They are offering
Speaker 1: nine flights out of Florida. Bucks and you could take
Speaker 1: your animals for free, because nobody wants you don't want
Speaker 1: to leave your Look if I had to leave my dogs,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't go. You gotta take your animals with you,
Speaker 1: so um, there are people too, uh. I mean, I
Speaker 1: couldn't imagine leaving my house and saying goodbye to my dogs.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna happen. And I think most people that
Speaker 1: have pets are like that. So the airlines are being considered.
Speaker 1: Then I think American followed with the same amount. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm not the Delta. They had some high prices I saw,
Speaker 1: but I think they have some low fares too. I
Speaker 1: don't know. But and then you've got other companies like
Speaker 1: Home Depot. And when I was talking to Pam Bondi's
Speaker 1: office earlier today, actually said that the guy the head
Speaker 1: of Home Depot, who I know and I've met and
Speaker 1: I've known him for years and he's out of Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Great guy. I probably wouldn't be good if I mentioned
Speaker 1: his name, so I won't bother him. But they called
Speaker 1: her and they said, what can we do? And then
Speaker 1: you've got gas companies and they're doing everything that they
Speaker 1: can do to get gas because they were having some
Speaker 1: gas shortages, and you know, maybe a couple of gas
Speaker 1: stations are gouging, but then the rest of them are
Speaker 1: not doing that, and they're even you know, they're even
Speaker 1: putting people at the pumps to try and expedite the
Speaker 1: service because the lines are long and people are frustrated.
Speaker 1: So it's you see goodness and greatness and and like
Speaker 1: Texas now knock on wood here. Governor Rick Scott has
Speaker 1: been amazing and he's been warning everybody for days. He
Speaker 1: took the information. Can you imagine living in an era
Speaker 1: where you we didn't have meteorology or satellite imaging. Imagine
Speaker 1: living in a world where you're just going about your
Speaker 1: daily business in Florida today with no idea one of
Speaker 1: the biggest storms ever to hit your state, that will
Speaker 1: engulf the entire state is heading your way and you
Speaker 1: have no idea it's coming. Well, that's what life was
Speaker 1: like before we had satellite image imagery and and we
Speaker 1: had forecasting. And I know it's an imperfect science. We
Speaker 1: give job a starting the hardest time if he's off
Speaker 1: by an inch, and meanwhile it saves lives. And what
Speaker 1: I like about Bastardi more than any other meteorologist is
Speaker 1: he knows the history and he can tell you what
Speaker 1: happened in the eight hundreds and and he can tell
Speaker 1: you what happened in the nine storm. And he's also
Speaker 1: figured out that there's certain if you will, road maps
Speaker 1: or or pathways that these storms take, especially when you
Speaker 1: recreate the exact same conditions that existed when the storm
Speaker 1: happened back quote in the day. So I think, you know,
Speaker 1: that's why I think he's been so accurate as it
Speaker 1: relates to both what happened in Texas, and he's been
Speaker 1: dead on accurate here and for my friends in Florida,
Speaker 1: I know it's inconvenient. There's some six fifty thousand people
Speaker 1: now that have been told to leave South Florida. Now
Speaker 1: this is a really this is it that's serious. And
Speaker 1: I think the governor made a great point again and
Speaker 1: again every time he's been on TV. He's been telling
Speaker 1: everybody for days. You know, they have prepositioned and this
Speaker 1: is where government can really work well in people's lives.
Speaker 1: And I hate government. I despise governments. You know, look
Speaker 1: at the republic Kins in Washington. They just suck. You know,
Speaker 1: they weren't ready to do a debt ceiling increase, and
Speaker 1: they were all for the whole month of August and
Speaker 1: almost the whole month of July. We've actually, I don't
Speaker 1: want to hear this. We'll get to that later in
Speaker 1: the program with the Freedom Caucus guys. But it's frustrating anyway.
Speaker 1: But to the you know, to the ever growing credit
Speaker 1: of Governor Abbott, the Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick of of Texas.
Speaker 1: Then we've got in Florida, we've got Governor Rick Scott.
Speaker 1: I mean, he has handled this pitch perfectly and knows
Speaker 1: the new the potential at the first forecast, and he's
Speaker 1: been preparing the state of Florida, and he's been coordinating.
Speaker 1: I talked to a friend of mine that works in
Speaker 1: the White House today. The calls that have gone back
Speaker 1: and forth between the President and the governor, the President,
Speaker 1: the Attorney General, the President and local politicians or or
Speaker 1: the chief of Staff, General Kelly, have been a tremendous
Speaker 1: back and forth and cooperation. We even have our Defense
Speaker 1: Department is already prepositioned for warships off the coast of Florida,
Speaker 1: you know, so that they're ready to bear down and
Speaker 1: and help the people of Florida, which we now know
Speaker 1: is is inevitable. It's not a question of if, it's
Speaker 1: when we get to go in there to help people out,
Speaker 1: and the our friends and neighbors in Florida are gonna
Speaker 1: need the help of the American people. There's gonna be devastation,
Speaker 1: God forbid, there's no loss of life. But you always
Speaker 1: have these weather warriors that want to you know, they're
Speaker 1: gonna stick it out and and they think they can
Speaker 1: beat mother Nature. And I don't think they're being particularly smart.
Speaker 1: But I'm not gonna I'm not gonna send a helicopter
Speaker 1: and force them out of there. Everybody has been warned.
Speaker 1: And we had the mayor of the Florida Keys on
Speaker 1: the program yesterday and then they've done a pretty good job.
Speaker 1: This is really the first time the Florida Keys has
Speaker 1: been evacuated the way they've been evacuated. But it looks
Speaker 1: like the Florida Keys. It looks like Miami. It looks
Speaker 1: like even the eastern side, though it's made a more
Speaker 1: westerly turn. You know, the Palm Beach, Broward County area
Speaker 1: is all gonna get hit and hit hard. And but
Speaker 1: it looks like if I were to guess right now,
Speaker 1: I will last Joe. But starting at the bottom of
Speaker 1: the hour, my guess is this is a direct hit
Speaker 1: on on my second home, which happens to be and
Speaker 1: I don't you know, I mentioned that, people say, you're
Speaker 1: thinking about you. I don't care about my place. You know,
Speaker 1: I want every person that lives in Naples, and I
Speaker 1: know a lot of people down there because I've been
Speaker 1: going down there for years, not much like once a year,
Speaker 1: but I wanted all my friends down there to be safe.
Speaker 1: I want all of my friends in Fort Myers to
Speaker 1: be safe, Sarah Sota to be safe, all my friends
Speaker 1: in Miami to be safe. That's all I care about.
Speaker 1: And as the governor said, you can rebuild your homes,
Speaker 1: you can get property back, but you can't get your
Speaker 1: life back. So if you've been told, if you wanted
Speaker 1: the six fifty thousand that has to bear, the traffic
Speaker 1: and the long lines of the gas station and some
Speaker 1: and empty shells, they've done a very good job. I've
Speaker 1: been talking to my sheriff, Buddy Carmine, and I actually
Speaker 1: posted a news article about him. You know the Sheriff's
Speaker 1: office in Florida, in Naples and call your county in
Speaker 1: Lee County. They've been going absolutely nuts getting everybody that
Speaker 1: needs help off the streets and prepositioning. The federal government
Speaker 1: is now prepositioned in safety zones out of the way
Speaker 1: of the hurricane, all the food, water, medicine, baby formula, cots,
Speaker 1: blankets and pillows that they're gonna need. And so you know,
Speaker 1: right now we just gotta you can't evacuate the whole states.
Speaker 1: And now everybody's got to bear down and and accept
Speaker 1: that this is gonna be the big one and get
Speaker 1: your plywood, get your tape, get your supplies, get whatever
Speaker 1: you can. More supplies are coming in, so stay in
Speaker 1: contact with your local stores. More gases coming in. The
Speaker 1: Governor's best decision a couple of days ago was getting
Speaker 1: all the neighboring states to lift their regulations so they
Speaker 1: can import more gasoline immediately into the state of Florida.
Speaker 1: That has been successful. You got literally, you know, tens
Speaker 1: of thousands of female government workers now on the round
Speaker 1: and preposition to go right in following the hurricane to
Speaker 1: help those people that are gonna need assistance in rescuing.
Speaker 1: So um and for the few people that are trying
Speaker 1: to take advantage of this situation, you really suck. There's
Speaker 1: something wrong with your soul, you know, if you if
Speaker 1: you can't help your neighbor out and need and this
Speaker 1: is your opportunity to gouge people. You just suck and yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe you can get thirty bucks for a case of water. Great.
Speaker 1: I hope you sleep well at night. No, I'm serious.
Speaker 1: If you can't, this is all hands on deck. So anyway,
Speaker 1: about six fifty thousand people now, and I know the
Speaker 1: traffic and the my my best council advice to my
Speaker 1: friends in Florida. Just just take a deep breath, listen
Speaker 1: to this program. We love you. We'll try and distract
Speaker 1: you for the next three hours in your ride and
Speaker 1: by Buddy Mark Levin will take over from there, hanging
Speaker 1: there and uh, and we'll get you home and we'll
Speaker 1: get you to a safer place. Mar Lago by the way,
Speaker 1: that too has been evacuated. Anyway, the fuel shortages now
Speaker 1: the good news. I'm here and they created an app. Hey, um, Linda,
Speaker 1: can you get the app and put it up for
Speaker 1: people where there are restocking groceries they are restocking the gasoline,
Speaker 1: so we can make sure that we can help people
Speaker 1: because they created an app. So people, you go on
Speaker 1: the app and you'll know whether or not you're wasting
Speaker 1: your time online in a particular gas station or spending
Speaker 1: your time driving to a store that doesn't have anything
Speaker 1: in it, So I thought that was particularly helpful as well.
Speaker 1: Anyway it has now, But you've got to understand, it's
Speaker 1: not just Naples, Marco, the Keys, Miami West, Palm Palm.
Speaker 1: It's it's not just Southern Florida. It's the whole state
Speaker 1: is now engulfed in this, all the way up to St.
Speaker 1: Augustine and Jacksonville and Central Florida and Orlando and Miami.
Speaker 1: It's everybody. All of you are gonna get hit by this.
Speaker 1: This hurricane. Now it's not a matter of if will
Speaker 1: engulf the entire state. And what's scary about this, as
Speaker 1: we've been telling you, it's this is gonna deliver a
Speaker 1: very destructive blow. This is the real deal here. So
Speaker 1: I'm just urging everybody to please take caution and be smart,
Speaker 1: and we want you back here listening on Monday. And
Speaker 1: there's nothing that's gonna make me and everybody else happier
Speaker 1: than to be right at check to Samaraton's person say
Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna help you rebuild your lives, just
Speaker 1: like we're helping the people of Texas rebuild theirs. So,
Speaker 1: but it has taken a more westerly turn, and by
Speaker 1: the way, this isn't just for the our friends in Florida,
Speaker 1: because immediately after it gets out of Jacksonville, it's going
Speaker 1: from Savannah straight up through Atlanta into the Carolinas. So
Speaker 1: it'll go George is gonna get particularly hit hard. Uh,
Speaker 1: the coastal Georgia areas are gonna get hard, hit hard.
Speaker 1: Atlanta is gonna get hit hard. As I said, the
Speaker 1: greatest evacuation in history, six fifty thousand people order to
Speaker 1: leave Florida. If you want to know how bad some
Speaker 1: people are predicting, this is gonna be the FEMA chief,
Speaker 1: Miami Beach mayor wanting get out. Now, this was two
Speaker 1: days ago. This is a devastating nuclear hurricane. So do
Speaker 1: I want you to be afraid. It's not fearful, worried, scared.
Speaker 1: I want you to be proactive scared. In other words,
Speaker 1: I want you to just take it seriously, get your provisions,
Speaker 1: create a safe place wherever it is that you say,
Speaker 1: and hunker down, bunker down, and we're gonna do everything
Speaker 1: we can do to get everybody back up and running.
Speaker 1: And I know the American people are the most generous
Speaker 1: people on earth, and and I know it's inconvenient. I
Speaker 1: know it's a pain in the neck, and I know
Speaker 1: for some of you you're scared out of your minds.
Speaker 1: I understand it, but being scared it never pays to worry.
Speaker 1: You get nothing out of worry. You get nothing out
Speaker 1: of being fearful. You do a better job if you
Speaker 1: just stay focused on what it is you need, the
Speaker 1: provisions you need, the safety precautions you need to take,
Speaker 1: and the things that you're gonna need to get through
Speaker 1: a few days until help arrise, because it's not gonna
Speaker 1: be overnight. You're talking about the entire state that has
Speaker 1: impacted here. All right, We got a lot coming up
Speaker 1: on the program. We do have the Attorney General of Florida,
Speaker 1: Pam Bondi. We do have every hour this day on
Speaker 1: the Sean Hannity Show, Job is start. He's gonna be
Speaker 1: checking and also PAP you can and Freedom Callcuse members
Speaker 1: Jim Jordan's and Congressman Dave Bratt will also check in
Speaker 1: on this Friday. Nine one Seawan is our number. If
Speaker 1: you want to join us hanging. There are friends in Florida.
Speaker 1: Our hearts are prayers are with you. We love you,
Speaker 1: We need you back here with us on Monday. Please
Speaker 1: be careful and we'll have the latest with job STARTI
Speaker 1: Pam BONDI a much more straight a hunt. So speaking
Speaker 1: at the press conference earlier this week, the Florida Governor
Speaker 1: Rick Scott, he told state residents to turn to apps
Speaker 1: and other online resources. Now, one of them is gas Buddy.
Speaker 1: It's an app. You download the app and and it
Speaker 1: tells you what gas stations have what, which is just
Speaker 1: such a great resource for you. And then you of
Speaker 1: course can use Google Maps and ways and and Expedia
Speaker 1: and all sorts of things if you're trying to fly out.
Speaker 1: And some extra flights have been added late, especially I
Speaker 1: think out of Orlando and Jacksonville and and Miami and
Speaker 1: Naples and some of these other places Fort Myers rather
Speaker 1: so anyway, they're doing everything they can do. And because
Speaker 1: they've been on it a couple of days, maybe the
Speaker 1: station yesterday didn't have gas, but they have it, and
Speaker 1: they have the prices up to um and I see
Speaker 1: that everyone is pretty much within the same range. Two
Speaker 1: dollars sixties seventies EIGHTI cents a gallon not you know,
Speaker 1: it's nothing that bad. Um. And in addition to gas Buddy,
Speaker 1: the governor noted that the state is working with Google
Speaker 1: to keep its mapping app updated with the most current information.
Speaker 1: You don't want to drive into a road closure. They've
Speaker 1: given your real time traffic. You know obviously turned into
Speaker 1: your local news talk radio station. We got great stations.
Speaker 1: We got Fox News Radio in Naples, we got w
Speaker 1: IO D of Miami. We've got our station in West Palm.
Speaker 1: We've got station in Jacksonville, w ok V, w d
Speaker 1: b O in Orlando. I mean every we got Tampa,
Speaker 1: w f l A. I just can't mention all the
Speaker 1: stations and every We have every cordon and every inch
Speaker 1: square inch of Florida covered so you can find us
Speaker 1: on the radio and tell friends to find us. And
Speaker 1: most of our stations are doing weather in traffic updates,
Speaker 1: and if they've taken time out of the show, that's
Speaker 1: perfectly acceptable under the circumstances. We know how important this
Speaker 1: is for our friends down in Florida. So um, we've
Speaker 1: got a lot coming up. Let me let me tell you.
Speaker 1: We'll have Pam Bondi, the Attorney General. She'll join us
Speaker 1: in the next hour. Joba Starting's gonna be with us
Speaker 1: doing a hit all three hours of the program today.
Speaker 1: Pat Buchannan will do some politics today. We'll get his
Speaker 1: take on the pathetic state of the Republican Party. Freedom
Speaker 1: Caucus members, the only people I like now in d C,
Speaker 1: the only non sewer swamp creatures. Anyway, we'll up Jim
Speaker 1: Jordan's Congressman Dave Bratt checking in today. But again our
Speaker 1: top story Hurricane Irma bearing down on the entire state
Speaker 1: of Florida. Alright, buckle up, folks, this is the big one,
Speaker 1: solid as a rock, honest, truthful, This is the Sean
Speaker 1: Hannity Show delving evacuation zone in these counties have been
Speaker 1: ordered to evacuate Lee Hendry, Palm Beach, Broward, Miami, Dade, Monroe,
Speaker 1: or call your county. You us to evacuate by midnight
Speaker 1: tonight or find shelter to avoid life threatening impacts. If
Speaker 1: you're in this area and our planned to leave have
Speaker 1: not done so by midnight, do not get on the road.
Speaker 1: You will not be safe for you or the law
Speaker 1: enforcement needed to protect you. Again, if you're planned, if
Speaker 1: you're in these are those counties. If you're planned to
Speaker 1: leave and do not leave by midnight tonight, you will
Speaker 1: have to write out this extremely dangerous storm at your
Speaker 1: own risk. I think about my mom and how hard
Speaker 1: it would have been for her to be completely broke
Speaker 1: and have kids and have to evacuate. But you have
Speaker 1: to do it. You can afford not to do it.
Speaker 1: Think about your family. You have to keep your family safe.
Speaker 1: Evacuations are not convenient. They are meant to keep you safe.
Speaker 1: We want all evacuations to be safe. I had so
Speaker 1: many people are driving to say places now the largest
Speaker 1: evacuation ever. We have some other news here for you.
Speaker 1: If you're in Florida now until the top of the
Speaker 1: our Tala Dega Superspeedway, the Atlanta to Speedway or offering
Speaker 1: free campground space for any RMA evacuees, which is good
Speaker 1: to know. Um, I gotta believe, probably because it's in
Speaker 1: a racetrack that probably would be protected, well built, hurricane proof. Um. Look,
Speaker 1: I'm not I don't know. Talk to your experts. I
Speaker 1: mean you're hearing on you know, from the governor, from
Speaker 1: the Attorney General is gonna join us later. They'll they'll
Speaker 1: give you all the latest on this. But you know
Speaker 1: whether this lands are a Cat four or five, I
Speaker 1: don't know. The good news is that the Governor and
Speaker 1: the Attorney General will join us later. They they have
Speaker 1: been now all over this for a long time, and
Speaker 1: that has led to the evacuation of sixty thousand people. Uh.
Speaker 1: I understand through these applications that I put up on
Speaker 1: Hannity dot Com that you can literally get gas. You
Speaker 1: can find out exactly a gas buddy, the app where
Speaker 1: you can get gas. They also have differing apps that
Speaker 1: are available that will tell you exactly where you can
Speaker 1: get food and supplies, and and they're restocking. So if
Speaker 1: it's even an hour go, if they didn't have something,
Speaker 1: they might have restocked between now and then the ports
Speaker 1: had remained open the entire time. The federal government literally
Speaker 1: has pre position food, water, medicine, supplies, baby formula, blankets, cots,
Speaker 1: and people that are apparently all ready to come in.
Speaker 1: Four Navy ships are off the coast out of the
Speaker 1: way of the hurricane that are literally now gonna be
Speaker 1: engaged the second there out of harm's way and moving
Speaker 1: right into the state of Florida. Also would supplies. Um
Speaker 1: as I understand now, we have the National Guard, State Guard,
Speaker 1: all have been called in and on duty. Everybody's all
Speaker 1: hands on deck at this point. Which is great news,
Speaker 1: but it's still now it's going to engulf the entire state,
Speaker 1: and the evacuations are real, and the bottlenecks and the
Speaker 1: driving challenges are real, and the aggravation factor is real.
Speaker 1: But you can't you know, literally when it now is
Speaker 1: impacting as the potential of affecting and will probably affect
Speaker 1: every city in the state of Florida. Nobody is gonna
Speaker 1: come out unscathed here. Every the whole state is gonna
Speaker 1: get whacked. And then it's gonna move right from Savannah,
Speaker 1: Georgia up through Atlanta is gonna get hit particularly hard
Speaker 1: right up the coast to the Carolinas. So this is
Speaker 1: gonna be you know, buckle up. This is gonna be
Speaker 1: a long process for everybody here, and a lot of
Speaker 1: people are gonna need help at the end of this.
Speaker 1: And we already making contact with Samaritan's Purse and some
Speaker 1: other organizations. And you know what, from Lynda, I think
Speaker 1: you told me earlier that the Cajun Navy they're gonna
Speaker 1: be going up there and all of these different groups
Speaker 1: that are former military, former law enforcement. You know, they're
Speaker 1: doing exactly what they did in Texas, exactly what they
Speaker 1: did in Baton Rouge, and they're just using their professionalism, training,
Speaker 1: their expertise to get on the ground and help those
Speaker 1: people that need help. There's gonna be people that didn't evacuate,
Speaker 1: they need help, And it makes it harder for everybody
Speaker 1: when some people don't listen. But what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: You just will do our best. We're gonna try our best.
Speaker 1: We just can't guarantee that we'll get everybody out. Uh.
Speaker 1: It looks like it has now taken a more southwesterly
Speaker 1: turn here, and we're gonna get job is starting on
Speaker 1: in just a second, because this is a catastrophic storm,
Speaker 1: search greatest evacuation, it's called in in history of sixty people.
Speaker 1: What is Sunshine laughing out in there? What is what
Speaker 1: is going on with sis over there? I'm not at
Speaker 1: liberty to discuss this issue? Why not? Oh? Is that
Speaker 1: on the do not talk about list? I have been
Speaker 1: told that I am not allowed to discuss this issue.
Speaker 1: So that's she signed an n DA. Did you really? Yes?
Speaker 1: I did? In blood FEMA chief Miami Beach mayor warning,
Speaker 1: get out now, this is a devastating nuclear hurricane. Now
Speaker 1: I it's still not too late. For a lot of you.
Speaker 1: You can still you know we're talking about this and
Speaker 1: will bring job starting in here, you still have time
Speaker 1: to at least get off the coast and get inland
Speaker 1: a little bit so you're at least away from the storm.
Speaker 1: Search is um it makes a difference. Job but starting
Speaker 1: WeatherBell dot com, the official meteorologist of the Sean Hannity Show,
Speaker 1: it does make a difference if you're off the coast,
Speaker 1: does it not, sir, Well, yeah, that's exactly right. The
Speaker 1: storm surge is what is a real concern because you
Speaker 1: could you could probably shelter yourself if you have a
Speaker 1: strong enough shelter, but you can't shelter yourself from water.
Speaker 1: You can shelter yourself from wind or though let me
Speaker 1: let me say something that what is going to happen
Speaker 1: with this In reading accounts of the Labor Day hurricane
Speaker 1: where people literally the salt and the wind and the
Speaker 1: rain literally blasted clothes off people, that's how strong that
Speaker 1: kind of wind is. And I don't think that people
Speaker 1: understand what this storm is capable of. We did some
Speaker 1: calculations here and uh, we came up with this that
Speaker 1: we believe that the highest wind gust in the Miami
Speaker 1: area Sunday afternoon be a hundred to a hundred and twenty.
Speaker 1: When you're talking about Naples, Benita, s Friends, Marco Island, Uh,
Speaker 1: it may go over a hundred and fifty miles an hour.
Speaker 1: The same thing in the Florida Keys. When you get
Speaker 1: up to Tampa, Orlando and UH Daytona Beach that area,
Speaker 1: it looks like a hundred miles an hour peak gust
Speaker 1: probably coming Sunday night Jacksonville. So what I'm doing is
Speaker 1: I'm bringing it up the coast here Jacksonville Monday morning
Speaker 1: peak win gust eighty two hundred, Atlanta and Savannah Monday
Speaker 1: afternoon peak wind gusts around eighty, Charleston sixty Monday night.
Speaker 1: So you have a timeline on when the worst of
Speaker 1: this is going to be moving up the coast. And
Speaker 1: this is what's going to happen with this storm is
Speaker 1: it is absolutely ferocious at the core where it hits.
Speaker 1: You're going to see it move almost due west tonight,
Speaker 1: and it may get into Cuba for a little while.
Speaker 1: When it comes out of Cuba and starts making that
Speaker 1: turn to the north, and we were uncertain yesterday where
Speaker 1: it was going to turn to the north. Were get
Speaker 1: more and more certain it's further west now when it
Speaker 1: comes across the Florida Straits. Given the upper air weather pattern,
Speaker 1: the warmth of the water with water temperature degrees, this system,
Speaker 1: I believe, unlike Katrina Rita, which weakened in the last
Speaker 1: twelve eighteen hours, this system will be intensifying coming into
Speaker 1: the Keys and then into southwest Florida. So even though
Speaker 1: it's a four right now, we expected it the weekend
Speaker 1: because even though it went north to Hispaniola, dragged some
Speaker 1: dry air, and from Hispaniola this system may indeed be
Speaker 1: up to a five. I think it's baramtric pressure will
Speaker 1: be lower than what it was when it was out
Speaker 1: near Barbuda by the time it hits the Keys and
Speaker 1: into southwest Florida on Sunday. All right, let's let's go
Speaker 1: through this and let's let's literally drive from uh Miami
Speaker 1: all the way up both coasts here. So you think
Speaker 1: it's taken a little bit more westerly. And you thought
Speaker 1: this would happen early on and not a lot of
Speaker 1: people picked up on it. But it's taken a little
Speaker 1: bit turned to the west, which means that if we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about what the Keys are gonna get slam.
Speaker 1: Great thing that the mayor was on yesterday told us
Speaker 1: they evacuated Marco Island, um Naples, Miami, Fort Myers direct hit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that that area there from Fort Myers down to the
Speaker 1: uh the central part of the Florida Keys, that's a
Speaker 1: direct hit, and and and and to the east of that,
Speaker 1: the Upper Keys and toward Miami. That storm surge is
Speaker 1: going to be very very high. And about how high,
Speaker 1: in other words, the storm surge will go what do
Speaker 1: you anticipate, Well, I agree with what the Hurricane Center's
Speaker 1: got out and a lot of places, and you gotta
Speaker 1: remember that we don't go up more than eight ten
Speaker 1: ft for quite some time. So you may have a
Speaker 1: storm surge ten fifteen, eighteen feet in some places going
Speaker 1: just simply continuing inland. And that is a big, big problem.
Speaker 1: A lot of the unfortunate thing when you look at
Speaker 1: cities like New Orleans and even Miami, you're building right
Speaker 1: on the coast, and it's not like you go straight
Speaker 1: up in the air like you do in some of
Speaker 1: the other northern coastal cities where they rise twenty thirty feet.
Speaker 1: Very quickly. Newport, Rhode Island, for instance, is above the ground,
Speaker 1: so even in a real bad storm surge, they can
Speaker 1: get away with it. But you can't do that down
Speaker 1: in these southern cities. And the fact of the matter
Speaker 1: is the storm surge is high enough, so it's going
Speaker 1: to engulf a lot of these areas along the Florida coast.
Speaker 1: So that's basically what you have to be concerned about.
Speaker 1: What what we've done here. And they have area A,
Speaker 1: Area B areas see that they evacuate based on the
Speaker 1: storm surge prediction. So if someone tells you an A
Speaker 1: or B get out of there, you've got to get
Speaker 1: out of there. Like I said, you might you might
Speaker 1: be able to shelter yourself from the wind, but if
Speaker 1: there's water coming over your head, plus the waves on
Speaker 1: top of the water. When we talk about storm surge,
Speaker 1: we're just talking about the rays and elevation of sea level.
Speaker 1: If you're piling thirty ft waves on top of that,
Speaker 1: you can imagine what's going to happen. So some of
Speaker 1: these places, some of these houses along the coast and condos,
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to make light of your situation. Battering
Speaker 1: waves here with all due respect, I don't have it.
Speaker 1: I don't care about my stupid condo. With all due respect,
Speaker 1: I know I want people to get out of there safely.
Speaker 1: I just don't care um as long as people are safe.
Speaker 1: Let's say you're on let's let's say you're on the
Speaker 1: let's point no, I know, but let's say you're on
Speaker 1: any coast and you move in ten or fifteen miles.
Speaker 1: How much difference does it make? Because you just described
Speaker 1: a situation where Miami and Naples and Fort Myers and
Speaker 1: and Broward County, I guess probably and and maybe West
Speaker 1: Palm it's gonna be anywhere between a hundred and forty
Speaker 1: and a hundred and sixty winds, And by the time
Speaker 1: it gets up to central Florida and Orlando, you're talking
Speaker 1: about maybe a hundred and and And when you get
Speaker 1: to you know, places like Jacksonville's gonna be a hundred,
Speaker 1: then about eighty in Savannah and Atlanta, and then about
Speaker 1: sixty miles per hour when it heads to Charlotte. Yeah, Charleston,
Speaker 1: that's all right. The Charlotte may get that, but that's
Speaker 1: the gust. The steady state wind will be a little
Speaker 1: bit less where the steady state wind really is you
Speaker 1: almost can't comprehend. It will be within thirty forty miles
Speaker 1: of where that center makes landfall. And and to just
Speaker 1: have a constant, roaring wind, it's like a freight. It's
Speaker 1: like a tornado. It's like an F two F three tornado,
Speaker 1: except it doesn't stop. And then you have a wind gust.
Speaker 1: You'll have wind gusts that come up maybe ten higher
Speaker 1: than that. So if you're a steady uh one minute
Speaker 1: win for instance, is blowing a hunter in an hour,
Speaker 1: and then a gust seventy comes along. I'm saying these
Speaker 1: things because people have to understand now you could be
Speaker 1: brave with your family and the things you do and
Speaker 1: take it a stand down this or that this is
Speaker 1: not the time to be brave, all right or fullhearty.
Speaker 1: You get the heck out of the way of this
Speaker 1: thing because it means business. Alright. What about those people
Speaker 1: that thought there are gonna be really courageous and weather warriors,
Speaker 1: and I mean crazy people like you because you know
Speaker 1: you're a former X storm chaser, which you know I
Speaker 1: think is actually very cool. On the one hand, i'd
Speaker 1: really i'd love to be able to stay there one
Speaker 1: day and just watch it. But I'm just not willing
Speaker 1: to risk my life for it. Um. But those people
Speaker 1: still have time to get out, right, I mean, if
Speaker 1: you're in the Florida Keys now and you're listening to
Speaker 1: this program, you can still get out. If you're on
Speaker 1: the coast of Naples, you need to get out. I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not quite the crazy storm chaser that you know.
Speaker 1: I've seen enough weather. I'm more fascinated about what sets
Speaker 1: up the weather and what the weather is capable of
Speaker 1: doing than I am of actually seeing it. But the
Speaker 1: the fact of the matter is, look, here's what happens.
Speaker 1: It's like being in quick scene. Once you realize you're
Speaker 1: in trouble, it's too late. And so that's what I
Speaker 1: tell people with these things. And you know, if you
Speaker 1: study the history of Florida hurricanes in the nineteen and
Speaker 1: i teen thirties, then a great Miami harricane. If you
Speaker 1: studied the history of those hurricanes that understand what they're
Speaker 1: really capable of doing, you would understand that this is
Speaker 1: You've got to get out of the way of this thing.
Speaker 1: Because we returned to that error at least for this storm. Yeah. Uh,
Speaker 1: all right, So the last thing that I would say is,
Speaker 1: so when does it actually hit. When will they start
Speaker 1: feeling it in South Florida, southwest southeast Florida. Well, he'll
Speaker 1: he'll start feeling it tomorrow afternoon tomorrow night. But storms
Speaker 1: delayed about six or twelve hours, I think as far
Speaker 1: as the on with the landfall from what I was
Speaker 1: bringing up with you yesterday, because it's making more of
Speaker 1: a turn to the west, and so it's more distance
Speaker 1: to go before it comes out of Cuba on the
Speaker 1: north coast of Cuba. So the real the worst part
Speaker 1: of the storm is coming across the Florida Keys Sunday,
Speaker 1: late Sunday night, and I think the landfall, the actual
Speaker 1: the I ross in the coast is probably probably Monday
Speaker 1: afternoon or Monday afternoon, maybe at noontime, right around Marco Island.
Speaker 1: So you've got a long haul here where from Sunday
Speaker 1: afternoon or Sunday morning. It's in the center of the
Speaker 1: Florida Straits coming it then comes across the Florida Keys
Speaker 1: and then comes up just a little bit offshore before
Speaker 1: coming in. And you think about that funnel, that that
Speaker 1: cup shaped day we've gotta run West Florida but that's
Speaker 1: where it's gonna happen. All right, Jobs starting weather bell
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Speaker 1: with us every hour of the show today. Uh so
Speaker 1: we'll talk to you and well about fifty uh forty
Speaker 1: minutes from now. Thanks for forty five minutes from now.
Speaker 1: Job is starting weather bell dot com. You go to
Speaker 1: his website of course, get all the latest information, updated forecasting.
Speaker 1: Of course, as this will engulf the entire state of Florida.
Speaker 1: Hurricane irma well more on that. Also Pat Buchannon, also
Speaker 1: Pam Bondi will join us in the next hour with
Speaker 1: job STARTI she's the Attorney General of Florida and Freedom
Speaker 1: Caucus members Dave brad and Jim Jordan's uh my only advice,
Speaker 1: please be careful all our friends in Florida want to
Speaker 1: remind you, did you see what happened this week? It
Speaker 1: was one of the biggest security breach is ever. One
Speaker 1: of the largest credit reporting agencies UM Equifax had a
Speaker 1: massive breach a million Americans. Do you see that? Anyone
Speaker 1: with a credit history? Pretty much? Now, this isn't the
Speaker 1: time to do a LifeLock add but by the way,
Speaker 1: I'd get LifeLock dot com because LifeLock detects all of
Speaker 1: these threats and if you have a problem, they'll fix
Speaker 1: it for you. John Hannity, Well, I mean I've I've
Speaker 1: obviously talked to Director Milvaney yesterday evening after this deal
Speaker 1: was announced. We want to see a longer term debt
Speaker 1: ceiling bill that has real conservative structural reforms. And obviously
Speaker 1: we didn't see that yesterday, but that was in other words,
Speaker 1: you would have preferred to see spending cuts a touch
Speaker 1: to this, not in this case of spending measure, in
Speaker 1: this case emergency relief. Yeah, and I mean the emergency relief.
Speaker 1: I believe that should have been a standalone but that's
Speaker 1: a tactical question. But really, when we look at the
Speaker 1: debt ceiling, we've got to get our spending really under control. Neil,
Speaker 1: you know it, I know it, the American people know it.
Speaker 1: And so if we're going to do that, we've got
Speaker 1: to address this debt ceiling UH vote with some type
Speaker 1: of structural reform and so uh in that I've just
Speaker 1: left a meeting where we're talking with our leadership on
Speaker 1: how we do that. To make sure that Chuck Schumer
Speaker 1: doesn't have the power. But as a speaker trying to
Speaker 1: push through a conservative agenda, do you believe that Paul
Speaker 1: Ryan has been an effective speaker of the House. Well,
Speaker 1: I think here. Here's the interesting thing is is as
Speaker 1: an effective speaker, the only thing that you can judge
Speaker 1: that on is the results. One of one of my
Speaker 1: favorite quotes is, no matter how beautiful the strategy, we
Speaker 1: must occasionally look at the results, and the results and
Speaker 1: the time remaining for that jury to make a judgment
Speaker 1: call on those results is running out. We've got to
Speaker 1: be very, very aggressive in our corporate rate. So if
Speaker 1: we're looking at a corporate rate of t that's a
Speaker 1: non starter for for most of us. We have to
Speaker 1: make sure that the hard working American taxpayers that they
Speaker 1: get the break too, So not just special interest groups.
Speaker 1: We need to make sure that those that moms and
Speaker 1: dads that need to put money back in their pocket
Speaker 1: that it actually flows through to them. All right, there,
Speaker 1: of course you are here from the Freedom Caucus, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be blunt, truthful and honest as always. Uh.
Speaker 1: They are the people that I trust in Congress today.
Speaker 1: They they are the ones that I have the most
Speaker 1: faith in that they will adhere to their conservative principles
Speaker 1: and and focus on solving the country's problems, which should
Speaker 1: be at the forefront of everybody's discussion and debate in
Speaker 1: the country. But everybody is so focused on Russia, Russia, Russia,
Speaker 1: when there's no evidence at all to this point anyway.
Speaker 1: Joining us now, he is the former chairman of the
Speaker 1: Freedom Caucus, Jim Jordan of Ohio in a second will
Speaker 1: be joined by Congressman Dave bratt um Um. Let me
Speaker 1: first start, I guess Congressman meadows Is is basically downplaying
Speaker 1: any friction or divisions with Ryan Um. There was some
Speaker 1: divisions during the health care issue because nobody got to
Speaker 1: saw the bill that see the bill beforehand, or it
Speaker 1: was an establishment bill. Uh, it was thrust on everybody,
Speaker 1: and it took a lot more work and otherwise I
Speaker 1: think would have been necessary. But you guys worked, you know,
Speaker 1: many many weeks and months to try and fix it.
Speaker 1: What is the status with the relationship with the caucus
Speaker 1: and with the leadership now, well, it's fine some but
Speaker 1: but the most important relationship is the relationship that Congress
Speaker 1: has with the American people, and right now it's not
Speaker 1: very good, and it's not very good because they're not
Speaker 1: doing well. Be said, and you know that you talk
Speaker 1: about that every single day, and we appreciate that. So
Speaker 1: that's the key here. And frankly on the most recent deal, Um,
Speaker 1: it's not a good deal because anytime Anti Pelosi is
Speaker 1: supporting something, you know it's not good for the American
Speaker 1: tax payer. But what what options? What choices did President
Speaker 1: Trump have? I told, I told our conference today said
Speaker 1: lack of preparation leads to bad outcomes, and failing to
Speaker 1: make a decision is a decision in and of itself.
Speaker 1: So the problem was we didn't put together that's sealing.
Speaker 1: The only people who've offered a debtealing plan have been
Speaker 1: the Freedom Caucus. We said, cap spending going into the future,
Speaker 1: do some structural chain. We've offered plans. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: stay here and discuss those. I get so angry when
Speaker 1: you tell me that Congress wasn't prepared. Um, didn't you
Speaker 1: guys pretty much take a July fourth holiday? Then you
Speaker 1: took August recess, and so I mean I would think
Speaker 1: you'd come back and you're ready to hit the ground running.
Speaker 1: Considering Yeah, and Paul Ryan, God blessed them last night
Speaker 1: was making the case to Martha McCallum that this is
Speaker 1: the most productive Congress in history, and I'm like, huh,
Speaker 1: what do you? Let me play it for you. We've
Speaker 1: actually passed more bills in the House for the president
Speaker 1: and his agenda in this first six months of his
Speaker 1: administration than in the first six months of Obama Clinton.
Speaker 1: In both bushes, the Houses past sixteen bills. That's a
Speaker 1: record pace. Now two hundred and sixty of them are
Speaker 1: still in the Senate. The sentence busy working on judges
Speaker 1: and appointees and the rest. But the House has been
Speaker 1: extremely productive, not just extremely productive, the House has been
Speaker 1: more productive than any Congress in the modern era. What's
Speaker 1: your response to that, Jim Jordan, By the way, Dave
Speaker 1: brad is with us now too, from Virginia. What about
Speaker 1: what about the key elements of the campaign? Sean? What
Speaker 1: about controlling sin? What about tax reform? What about the
Speaker 1: border security wall that was a central element of this campaign?
Speaker 1: What about healthcare repeals? So why we might have passed
Speaker 1: a lot of bills, they weren't. They weren't the centerpieces
Speaker 1: of what the campaign in the election on the embraid
Speaker 1: was all about. And you're exactly right. We took the
Speaker 1: longest break back. Nine weeks ago the Freedom Caucus had
Speaker 1: a present. We said, do not leave, do not leave
Speaker 1: until we have an outline of the tax plan too,
Speaker 1: we deal with Obamacare until we have a plan on
Speaker 1: the debt ceiling. And instead we took the longest break
Speaker 1: we've had in over a decade for a non election year.
Speaker 1: In fact, the break we just got back from it
Speaker 1: was longer than some breaks we have taken during election years,
Speaker 1: and you know how politicians like to be back home
Speaker 1: during election time. This six weeks was longer than some
Speaker 1: of those. So that was the problem. We should have
Speaker 1: been here like we called for in the Freedom pocut,
Speaker 1: stay here and get plans put together so that we
Speaker 1: can take the case of the American people and actually
Speaker 1: do what we said. You know, Congressman Bratt, I'm looking
Speaker 1: at this as a four team week window that the
Speaker 1: Republicans have to actually get some things done. And you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know why anybody was floating the idea of
Speaker 1: a corporate tax. That is not what the President was
Speaker 1: talking about when he was talking about seven brackets to
Speaker 1: three of middle class tax cut, repatriation of multinational corporations,
Speaker 1: getting rid of things like the double tax, death tax,
Speaker 1: and other improvements, and turning I guess the tax system
Speaker 1: into a postcard so that people don't have to, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, agonize over paying their taxes every year. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: you hit it on the head. And I'll get at
Speaker 1: the leadership question a little bit. Because leadership promised in
Speaker 1: the Better Way program a repeal of Obamacare, right, and
Speaker 1: we also promised free market outcomes, price transparency hs A,
Speaker 1: house savings accounts, all these free market at shopping across
Speaker 1: state lines. And what did we end up with? None
Speaker 1: of that in the bill. And so that's water under
Speaker 1: the broodge under the bridge. We're just considered that a
Speaker 1: sunk cost. But now taxes is up and it's everything
Speaker 1: you just outlined, right, So that's the hope and everybody
Speaker 1: is assuming that, but we have nothing on paper. And
Speaker 1: I think Jim was just alluding to that too. So
Speaker 1: the Freedom Cocus we're asking we're gonna vote on a
Speaker 1: budget reconcil Asian instructions coming out called a budget resolution
Speaker 1: that that will contain no real budget going toward the
Speaker 1: appropriations bills are already done, but it will include the
Speaker 1: tax instructions and we're gonna take a vote on that,
Speaker 1: and we haven't seen it yet. So I remember, Sean,
Speaker 1: how frustrated you were last time. I'm gonna put all
Speaker 1: you guys in a room until you get to yes, right,
Speaker 1: so you ought to sound out the alarm right now again.
Speaker 1: Put us all in a room right now today and say,
Speaker 1: let's see that tax plan, because we got to make
Speaker 1: sure the forgotten man right that that wasn't just a
Speaker 1: Trump phenomenon. That was Bernie all the way through Trump.
Speaker 1: The forgotten man. They know they've been getting ripped off.
Speaker 1: We know we're gonna get a corporate rate, but the
Speaker 1: escort the small business, we gotta make sure that's in there.
Speaker 1: And then the repatriation, just all the stuff we assume
Speaker 1: is going to end up in a Republican bill. If
Speaker 1: it's there, I listen, we can all be on the
Speaker 1: same team. I've got to be honest, you guys, who
Speaker 1: are the only people that I really have any faith,
Speaker 1: hope and confidence in in Washington. And I'm so frustrated
Speaker 1: I can't even explain, and as is my audience, because
Speaker 1: it should be about those very people that made the
Speaker 1: difference in this election. And that's the forgotten men and women.
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys in Congress are fine. I'm fine,
Speaker 1: but there was a point in my life where I
Speaker 1: was anything but fine, and so I totally relate to
Speaker 1: where they are. And I know these problems are infinitely
Speaker 1: solvable if only these conservative principles would be followed. And
Speaker 1: the thing that frustrates where is the identity? What is
Speaker 1: this party stand for? The President has outlined a Reagan
Speaker 1: ask this is Reagan all over again, tax plan for
Speaker 1: this economy. And you add to that the millions of
Speaker 1: career jobs in energy if we've become energy and dependent
Speaker 1: and and commit to it. And I just for the
Speaker 1: life of me, you know here it is September and
Speaker 1: they're not ready again. How can they not be ready again?
Speaker 1: It's frustrating. Um, you're exactly right. What's the corporate rate
Speaker 1: going to be? No one can say right now? So
Speaker 1: what we need those? You just need to the outline
Speaker 1: of a plan introduced the biddle. Let's have the debate
Speaker 1: like for supposed to do, and then we'll get something done. Um,
Speaker 1: that's the frustrating part. I think we could have got
Speaker 1: there in a lot of these issues if we just
Speaker 1: stay here and put the plans together. Unfortunately, we did
Speaker 1: it all right, So well, I guess we're back to
Speaker 1: the drawing board. Now we've got to start again. So
Speaker 1: you know, from my perspective, I think the only reason
Speaker 1: the President gave a three month extension on the debt
Speaker 1: ceiling is he wanted to get some money over to
Speaker 1: the people in Texas because those people are desperate that
Speaker 1: he doesn't. You don't have time to mess around when
Speaker 1: and when everybody's life has been upturned like this. I mean,
Speaker 1: those people need the money fast. Congressman Bratt, yeah, I
Speaker 1: agree with you. But Minutin came over Secretary of Treasury
Speaker 1: and it was intellectually insulting the way it was sold
Speaker 1: to us that they His representation was we have to
Speaker 1: do this to save the treasuries, and then some of
Speaker 1: the people say, you gotta do this for the folks
Speaker 1: in Texas. It was a hundred percent vote, There was
Speaker 1: no question on any of this. Right, you're gonna raise
Speaker 1: the debt ceiling and we're gonna take care of the
Speaker 1: people in Texas. It would have been a dent unanimous vote.
Speaker 1: But you gotta add one phrase, and we're gonna take
Speaker 1: care of fiscal concerns going out in the future, so
Speaker 1: we don't throw the next generation under the bus. And
Speaker 1: that was missing, right, So we got jammed. They linked
Speaker 1: the debts clean debt ceiling increase to the Harvey relief
Speaker 1: and that that's unacceptable, right, and that that makes it
Speaker 1: very hard for us to communicate with the American people
Speaker 1: as to what's really going on. And that's the swamp
Speaker 1: in control, right, the money and so on. Net we're
Speaker 1: not worse off, right, it's a three Listen. If they
Speaker 1: can't do fient, can they do sixteen seventeen max? You
Speaker 1: know is you know, it's like they don't want to
Speaker 1: stand for anything. And here's my gut instincts and I'll
Speaker 1: throw it to you, congress Member. At first, I think
Speaker 1: the following needs to get done. If if you guys
Speaker 1: want to get reelected and I'm not listen, I'll go
Speaker 1: to bat for every Freedom Caucus member because you are
Speaker 1: the guys that the only guys that are fighting for
Speaker 1: conservative principles. But if you don't get done this tax plan,
Speaker 1: this economic plan that will create jobs and invest the
Speaker 1: trillions from multinationals corporations, lower the middle class, cut make
Speaker 1: the tax code easier if you don't move towards getting
Speaker 1: those energy jobs there are millions of them, and you
Speaker 1: don't build at least three hundred miles of the wall
Speaker 1: and begin to chip awoid Obamacare. You guys, you know,
Speaker 1: all bets are off. And watch Nancy Pelosi have a
Speaker 1: chance to become speaker again. Good luck with that. You know,
Speaker 1: that's right, and so like Sam the alarm because Obamacare
Speaker 1: is not dead, and Jim Jordan has been good leading
Speaker 1: and Mark Meadows on that that's a trillion dollars we
Speaker 1: need to do tax perform and get that right. That
Speaker 1: we're missing the border adjustable as a trillion, immediate expensing
Speaker 1: a trillion and a half. All right, stay right there.
Speaker 1: I want to ask you about the border when we
Speaker 1: get back. Right, as we continue, Freedom called his members,
Speaker 1: Jim Jordan's and Dave Bratt. Thanks to both of you
Speaker 1: for being with us. All right, so let's let's talk
Speaker 1: about DOCCA, the president's decision. First of all, I know
Speaker 1: that some of my conservative brethren were mad about it,
Speaker 1: but I'm like, well, the president said he followed the
Speaker 1: rule of law, respect the constitution, coequal branches of government.
Speaker 1: Obama recognized and then did it anyway that he didn't
Speaker 1: have the authority, the constantitutional authority to assert the role
Speaker 1: of the legislative branch. Uh. And I thought the President saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's up to you guys, if you want to change
Speaker 1: the law, give you six more months. I thought it
Speaker 1: was actually pretty gregarious on his part. And it's up
Speaker 1: to Congress to make the laws, not not up to
Speaker 1: the president. Exactly right. Obama knew his executive order was unconstitutional.
Speaker 1: He said several times prior to making his executive order
Speaker 1: that it was unconstitutional, but he did it anyway, and
Speaker 1: he did it in two thousand twelve in the spring
Speaker 1: of that year because it was a re election, a
Speaker 1: campaign year, and he thought it would help him. So
Speaker 1: what the president has done says, let's get back to
Speaker 1: the constitutional let's get back to the rule of law,
Speaker 1: and um, let's let's give six months time frame, a
Speaker 1: little wine down time frame for Congress to get this
Speaker 1: done right. And I think what will happen is this
Speaker 1: will be the catalyst to get what we all campaigned on,
Speaker 1: what the American people elected President Trump to do, which
Speaker 1: is build the border security wall. Like you said, and
Speaker 1: what do you think Dave Bradd Do you think that
Speaker 1: if my list would be good enough to say, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're getting our promises. We made promises, promises made, promises kept.
Speaker 1: If you got the the economic plan in place, the
Speaker 1: tax cut, some place for patriation in place, energy independence
Speaker 1: in place, and three miles of the wall built, and
Speaker 1: maybe chipping away at Obamacare, is that enough to get
Speaker 1: us into Yeah. No, that's the great agenda. And on
Speaker 1: doctor right, doctor, and immigration, it's all about jobs and
Speaker 1: that's what Trump ran on right, So we got welfare reform,
Speaker 1: we gotta get through. We got to improve the labor markets.
Speaker 1: And then at the left is serious on this DOCTA
Speaker 1: and immigration. First of all, you got to do e verify,
Speaker 1: and then you got to end chain migration because the
Speaker 1: mainstream media saying eight hundred thousand dreamers, etcetera. In America
Speaker 1: has always been the country of immigrants. We love everybody,
Speaker 1: but it's not eight hundred thousand. When when you let
Speaker 1: it to chain migration, every one of those people can
Speaker 1: invite their entire extended family, not just mom dad. So
Speaker 1: it's three to four millions. You know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come down there and I'm gonna put the
Speaker 1: Freedom Caucus in the room and we're gonna start kicking
Speaker 1: ask down there because I'm tired of the inaction. Oh
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding. I'm something so tired of the lack
Speaker 1: of urgency and how pathetic the Republican parties. Your party sucks.
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you, your party is awful. You know
Speaker 1: you and names of Americans are frustrated. And that's why
Speaker 1: I have time to get to work and get this
Speaker 1: stuff done. Well, my my producers looking at me like, well,
Speaker 1: you know there are members of that party. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying I am making I'm carving out an exception for
Speaker 1: the Freedom Caucus, and I'm not being I'm not being
Speaker 1: flipping here. This is I'm not this is not hyperbole.
Speaker 1: Get your job done. You know, everybody else in America
Speaker 1: rolls up their sleeves every day in Ohio and Virginia
Speaker 1: and we all go to work every day. There's not
Speaker 1: one person that works for me that has a lunch hour.
Speaker 1: I'm so tired of this. They come back from a
Speaker 1: month long vacation and they're not prepared for the debt ceiling.
Speaker 1: And one thing, Sean, you do a great job on
Speaker 1: those lists, and when you say the party sucks, uh,
Speaker 1: we ought to be held to an objective standard, and
Speaker 1: that's the party platform in Virginia. We have the Virginia
Speaker 1: Republican Creed. We have all these documents that make our
Speaker 1: principles very clear, right, and then for some reason we
Speaker 1: can never execute on those principles. When it says constitutional
Speaker 1: free market distal responsibility, that's on page So the people
Speaker 1: ought to hold us up to that standard. The idea
Speaker 1: that Chuck, Schumer and Pelosi want to get rid of
Speaker 1: the debt ceiling altogether, they're they're taught right. It shows
Speaker 1: you everything you need to know about the two parties.
Speaker 1: Ours is better, but we have to follow our own creed.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, thank you both for counting on you.
Speaker 1: We'll probably be coming in the town next week of
Speaker 1: the week after. Look forward to seeing all of you.
Speaker 1: Hope you'll come on the show. And I just think
Speaker 1: this is it we now. I feel if we don't
Speaker 1: get involved and get very angry and get adamant about
Speaker 1: demanding they do their job, and I just think they'll
Speaker 1: just coast along and not do a thing. We shouldn't
Speaker 1: have to get angry after you made promises. Do your job,
Speaker 1: but we'll remind you, and we'll put as much pressure
Speaker 1: as we need to put on you to do it.
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Speaker 1: not evacuating and should please contact them. Today is the
Speaker 1: day to the right thing for your family and get
Speaker 1: to safety. This storm is wider than our entire state.
Speaker 1: Think about that. It's wider than our entire state. Is
Speaker 1: expected to cause major and life impacts from coast to coast.
Speaker 1: Remember Hurricane Andrew was one of the worst storms in
Speaker 1: the history of our state. IRMA is more devastating on
Speaker 1: its current path. We are being very aggressive in our
Speaker 1: preparation for this storm, and every Floridian should take this
Speaker 1: seriously and be aggressive to protect your family. Possessions can
Speaker 1: be replaced. I think about my mom and how hard
Speaker 1: it would have been for her to be completely broke
Speaker 1: and have kids and have to evacuate. But you have
Speaker 1: to do it. You can't afford not to do it.
Speaker 1: Think about your family. You have to keep your family safe.
Speaker 1: Evacuations are not convenient, They're meant to keep you safe.
Speaker 1: We want all evacuations to be safe. I am so
Speaker 1: many people are driving to say places all right, that's
Speaker 1: the governor of the great State of Florida, Rick Scott.
Speaker 1: And you know, you've got to give kudos and props,
Speaker 1: props because this storm is beyond devastating, and it is
Speaker 1: when you read some of the things we've been reading,
Speaker 1: the greatest evacuation and history. Six hundred and fifty thousand
Speaker 1: Floridians have been ordered to leave their homes. Uh. You've
Speaker 1: got the FEMA achieved Miami Beach mayor warning get out.
Speaker 1: Now this was yesterday. This is devastating, a nuclear hurricane. Uh. Literally,
Speaker 1: you have the federal government that have four Navy ships
Speaker 1: on standby. They have all the materials at at different
Speaker 1: stations prepared to go in. In other words, they pre
Speaker 1: ordered and deliver all the resources. They anticipate that our
Speaker 1: friends in Florida are gonna be needing. Uh, we're told that.
Speaker 1: You know, traffic has been a nightmare. Everybody knew that
Speaker 1: was happening now for two days, it's been a nightmare.
Speaker 1: And then you've got empty shelves in some places. But
Speaker 1: because the governor was so proactive and jumped on this
Speaker 1: gasoline which had been in shortage, and some of the
Speaker 1: empty shelves are now being restocked as he kept the
Speaker 1: ports opening Florida up until and including today and some
Speaker 1: of the bottlenecks. I know it's driving everybody crazy, but um,
Speaker 1: we don't want to lose any lives down in Florida
Speaker 1: because this has the potential of effecting now every single
Speaker 1: major city in this state. And then it's gonna move
Speaker 1: right through Georgia and Savannah and Atlanta and up to
Speaker 1: the Carolinas. So you know, this is gonna be a
Speaker 1: long haul here for a lot of people, and it
Speaker 1: might be more damage than any storm we've seen in history.
Speaker 1: This of course on the heels of everything that happened
Speaker 1: down in Texas, but this is a powerhouse. This is
Speaker 1: dangerous and even Georgia South Carolina will be facing this
Speaker 1: catastroph of fix storm. Joining us now to discuss the
Speaker 1: latest on this twenty three now until the top of
Speaker 1: the hour, we have Pam Bondi is the Florida Attorney General,
Speaker 1: job is starting back with us WeatherBell dot Com. He's
Speaker 1: been fantastic for us all a week. Pam will start
Speaker 1: with you. I've seen you all over the airwaves yourself.
Speaker 1: I gotta give you. In the Florida government, the governor
Speaker 1: a lot of props here. I mean, this is the
Speaker 1: biggest evacuation we've ever seen. But you had plenty of time,
Speaker 1: and I think lifting the rules and regulations to get
Speaker 1: gasoline in and more supplies, and how has that worked out?
Speaker 1: From what I have heard? There's an app available for
Speaker 1: people that need gas and supplies. Yeah, there is an
Speaker 1: app and and thank you and I can tell you
Speaker 1: I want to thank UM shot through it with the
Speaker 1: e p a as well, because we called we called
Speaker 1: General Pruit I'm General Pruity, used to be my counterpart.
Speaker 1: We called Secretary Pruitt and the e p A. UM
Speaker 1: lifted the Clean Air Act standards on gas where we
Speaker 1: can have blended fuel now for another additional twenty days
Speaker 1: to help us drive prices of fuel down, which is
Speaker 1: going to help our state tremendously. I cannot thank him enough. UM.
Speaker 1: Of course, the airlines are regulated by by the federal government,
Speaker 1: the f A A UM, but I can't thank all
Speaker 1: the airlines enough. They have been incredible corporate partners. I
Speaker 1: have them on speed Dial, UM, American, Delta, United UM
Speaker 1: and jet Blue. Dave. I heard Jet Blue was only
Speaker 1: charging ninety nine bucks to get anybody out of Florida
Speaker 1: in harm's way. Is that true? Absolutely, they've waived pet fees.
Speaker 1: These are all the airlines have done this. Bucks, every airline, No, No,
Speaker 1: Jet Blue nine nine, American capped all their fees. American
Speaker 1: at ninety nine out of Florida everywhere, Delta capped. There's
Speaker 1: at three nine anywhere in the country. And that's the
Speaker 1: cat the highest tick can go. Um Unite has done well.
Speaker 1: All all the airlines I've mentioned have waved well. I
Speaker 1: gotta give props to Jet Blue. I mean they're always
Speaker 1: the first. I love those guys. I love the people
Speaker 1: to put TVs and airlines and that makes me happy.
Speaker 1: I know that they're they're they're great, They're great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you gave a bit of an admonition about any companies
Speaker 1: who might be manipulating what's going on down in Florida,
Speaker 1: any price gouging issues when you know people are in need,
Speaker 1: which is a pretty crappy thing to do. Um have
Speaker 1: you seen much of this? I sure have. And you
Speaker 1: know what, Sean I'm gonna say, their name is every
Speaker 1: chance I get if they continue to do it. One
Speaker 1: you initially heard me go after with chevron Um, but
Speaker 1: you know, you have a lot of franchise owners in
Speaker 1: South Florida, and there was one particular who was very bad.
Speaker 1: Chevron Corporate reached out to me and they could not
Speaker 1: have been any better. They're threatening to pull these licenses away,
Speaker 1: and UM, I have Chevron on seed doll now. They
Speaker 1: have been incredible, they really really have. We've been having
Speaker 1: a problem with seven eleven stores. They're they're based in
Speaker 1: I think Florida and the south southe UM Southeast United States. UM.
Speaker 1: Seven eleven Corporate US about an hour ago reached out
Speaker 1: to me and they are all over it. You know, Sean,
Speaker 1: when we're in a state of crisis, there's no reason
Speaker 1: to drive up the price of bottle water. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: How much were they charging in some of the worst instances, Uh,
Speaker 1: thirty forty a case, some fifty UM and that's that's
Speaker 1: that's all of them. Seven eleven was about thirty dollars
Speaker 1: a case that of course should have been about three dollars.
Speaker 1: Home Depot reached out to me. Home Depot is charging
Speaker 1: two dollars and nineties seven cents a case of water.
Speaker 1: So Corporate called me and said, what do you need
Speaker 1: in Florida? We said flywood. They had twenty trucks on
Speaker 1: the way. Sean listened to this. Three hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: five thousand pieces of plywood had been sold in Florida
Speaker 1: two days ago, So that shows Floridians are listening. That's
Speaker 1: really an awesome story. You know, we see always in tragedies.
Speaker 1: I could tell you right now, Pammy, you're gonna, Pam,
Speaker 1: You're gonna see the best in the American people. We're
Speaker 1: watching what's happening. We're praying for our friends down in Florida.
Speaker 1: You know, it's my my second home. I'd love it
Speaker 1: to be my first home, but it isn't um But
Speaker 1: I know what's happening down there, and and all of
Speaker 1: us are watching and whatever the needs are, just like
Speaker 1: you know, we partnered on this program with Samaritan's Purse
Speaker 1: for the people in Texas, and we'll do the same thing.
Speaker 1: I'm sure I'm gonna give Franklin Grahama call again and
Speaker 1: have him on the program. And I know the American
Speaker 1: people will do their best to help our friends and
Speaker 1: neighbors in the in the Sunshine State. Well, you uh,
Speaker 1: you know that's the right thing to do. With the
Speaker 1: federal government. How has it been with the President. Have
Speaker 1: you talked to him? I know Governor Scott has talked
Speaker 1: to him a lot. Oh. President called me a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago. We talked for over an hour. I
Speaker 1: was in his office a couple of days ago. I
Speaker 1: was sitting in this office for with General Kelly. Um,
Speaker 1: of course, you know, I adore the man. I was
Speaker 1: with the President General Kelly at Great Link talking about
Speaker 1: the hurricane, talking about the opioid crisis. And I cannot
Speaker 1: give enough credit to Kelly and Conway as well on
Speaker 1: the opioid crisis. Um, we've been all working on that together. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was just with him in d C. I have
Speaker 1: obviously came home early due to the hurricane. And um
Speaker 1: that I can't think that the federal government enough. And
Speaker 1: you know, you know, Sean, the d D ten thirty
Speaker 1: three that the President did is going to help save
Speaker 1: our law enforcement officers live. I cannot understate the value.
Speaker 1: I can't overstate the value of that enough, what he's
Speaker 1: done with that. And if you your listeners don't know
Speaker 1: what that is, you can explain it to him or
Speaker 1: I can. Two days ago, a buddy of mine, Carmine,
Speaker 1: who lives in Naples. Now Naples is in a direct
Speaker 1: path of this thing. Just like Miami, and just like
Speaker 1: the southeastern part of Florida, this now has moved west
Speaker 1: and will bring job starting in here. I I literally
Speaker 1: tweeted out this picture. They literally have gone all over
Speaker 1: town and they picked up every person that needs help,
Speaker 1: every homeless person. They brought him to safe harbor and shelter.
Speaker 1: And you know, you can see an image of it
Speaker 1: wink TV out and and Fort Myers put a great
Speaker 1: story on about my buddy Carmine, and I put it
Speaker 1: up there. Job is starting. You have the Attorney General
Speaker 1: of Florida on here. Tell her how bad this is
Speaker 1: gonna be because it's going to engulf the whole state
Speaker 1: and when it's gonna happen. Well, Florida of course is
Speaker 1: legendary for hurricanes, and uh if it's not so much
Speaker 1: over the pat past thirty years, but before that, and
Speaker 1: this may be as bad as we've ever seen the
Speaker 1: state hit. Uh the Florida Keys. Uh, this could rival
Speaker 1: the nineteen five hurricane in the Florida Keys, which is
Speaker 1: the worst one on record over there. And uh, we're
Speaker 1: also very very concerned about this being as bad as
Speaker 1: Donna was back in nineteen sixty. Uh, in the southwest
Speaker 1: part of the state. So this is a very very
Speaker 1: dire situation that we're looking at, and I want to
Speaker 1: I want to compliment, uh what happened in Florida. Also,
Speaker 1: I've been down there in the past couple of days,
Speaker 1: and uh, I was amazed this morning. I'm driving north now, Um,
Speaker 1: the gas lines were gone this morning, and they did
Speaker 1: a tremendous job at resupplying things. And so I did
Speaker 1: I did want to pass that on to the Attorney General.
Speaker 1: That was we got to give credit to the attorney
Speaker 1: We gotta give credit to Pam and Governor Rick Scott
Speaker 1: and all the adjoining states that lifted their regulations from
Speaker 1: the get go when Governor Scott asked them to get
Speaker 1: some gasoline and and lift the burdens on trucks and
Speaker 1: and the process that could be very burdensome. And they
Speaker 1: got the gas and they're able to get these people
Speaker 1: back on the road, and the same with supplies. I
Speaker 1: want to make sure that I want to make sure
Speaker 1: that we understand what's going on here with the weather,
Speaker 1: with the storm. I mean, I'm not the expert on
Speaker 1: evacuating people and things like that. This this storm is
Speaker 1: coming is going to be slowing down and being very
Speaker 1: close to Cuba for a while tomorrow maybe Lady on Set,
Speaker 1: maybe six eight hours. But it's coming across the Florida
Speaker 1: Straits later tomorrow and tomorrow night, and the atmosphere is
Speaker 1: absolutely loaded for intensification. Unlike Katrina and Rita that weakened
Speaker 1: coming to the coast over the last twelve eighteen hours
Speaker 1: of their journeys, this one is likely to intensify all
Speaker 1: the way until landfall. And that means that when this
Speaker 1: comes across the Farida Keys, it may be as strong
Speaker 1: or stronger than it was when it active. Bar Buddha
Speaker 1: and I'm very very concerned that we're going to see, uh,
Speaker 1: some of those bridges wiped out the Keys when it
Speaker 1: gets to Marco Island, Benita Springs and these places. Uh,
Speaker 1: this is is probably a benchmark hurricane. Now, that does
Speaker 1: not mean that you let up on the East coast.
Speaker 1: Even though the direct the direct hit is not going
Speaker 1: to be in Miami and on the East coast is
Speaker 1: still gonna be a very bad story. Where's the direct hit?
Speaker 1: Where do you see the direct hit? I think it's
Speaker 1: going to be becoming more and more convinced around Naples
Speaker 1: Benita Springs after crossing the keys. And I'm working on
Speaker 1: the situation with alluding to this yesterday, Pam. We've told
Speaker 1: everybody that needs to evacuate right, and people are doing it,
Speaker 1: Pam Bonding we have, Sean, we have. I lost it
Speaker 1: for a minute because I'm in the middle of the downpour. Um, Sean,
Speaker 1: we have. And I'll tell you what. Flauridians are actually listening.
Speaker 1: They're doing great. Governor Scottston doing a great job. We've
Speaker 1: all been educating the best we can to everyone and
Speaker 1: people are evacuating, their heating our warnings. They're getting out
Speaker 1: of town now before it actually becomes the truest of
Speaker 1: an emergency. And um, which it already is that that
Speaker 1: our roadways are safe. It's safe to drive out now.
Speaker 1: Our airports are all closing. Tampa International Airports probably closed
Speaker 1: by now, was closing today. But people need to get
Speaker 1: in their cars, get fuel. If you don't need a
Speaker 1: full tank of gas to get where you're going, don't
Speaker 1: use it. Take as much as you need and leave
Speaker 1: the rest for other people. That's something, all right, Pam,
Speaker 1: Stay right there. You can stay a couple of more
Speaker 1: minutes and we'll have more with job is starting WeatherBell
Speaker 1: dot com. You can check it out all weekend with
Speaker 1: the latest heave was the most accurate in Texas and
Speaker 1: sadly for what's coming to Florida, the most accurate here.
Speaker 1: But we use this information to stay safe. Thoughts and prayers.
Speaker 1: By the way, to all our friends down in the
Speaker 1: Sunshine State, we are We're gonna be watching and we'll
Speaker 1: be here available to help. I can promise you that
Speaker 1: this country will not let you down. All right, went long,
Speaker 1: last segments. All right, final word, Pam Bondi, Attorney General
Speaker 1: of the Great State of Florida, and Pam Mine know
Speaker 1: I speak for everybody, uh your state, our friends in Florida,
Speaker 1: your thoughts and prayers, and with us, we urge everybody
Speaker 1: to please pay attention, take this seriously and be safe.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Sean, and look out for your fellow Floridians.
Speaker 1: That's who we keep telling everybody as well. Thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you so much, and we'll check in
Speaker 1: with you on Monday. And uh, Joe, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: you back in the in the final hour of the
Speaker 1: program today. Your final word here as we head to
Speaker 1: a break. Well, we believe this system will be uh
Speaker 1: near the north coast of Cuba for a while tomorrow.
Speaker 1: But when it starts coming across the Florida Straits, that's
Speaker 1: what it means business. And I believe that it's going
Speaker 1: to be intensifying until landfall, and the landfall comes across
Speaker 1: the Florida Keys very late Saturday night in the Sunday morning,
Speaker 1: and then it looks like that Marco Island, Naples area
Speaker 1: maybe where this hits directly higher state of Florida is
Speaker 1: going to get a hurricane and much of the state
Speaker 1: a major hurricane. All right, really scary. I hope people
Speaker 1: are paying attention. Joe. We'll have you back at the
Speaker 1: bottom of the next hour. Thank you for being with us.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred nine pot one Sean is our total free
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Speaker 1: A lot more to come. We've got a busy edition
Speaker 1: here on the Sean Hannity Show. As we'll check in
Speaker 1: with Pep you Kennon at the top of the hour.
Speaker 1: Quick break right back, the latest on Hurricane Irma and
Speaker 1: your calls. Eight Shan, You've actually passed more bills in
Speaker 1: the House for the president and his agenda in this
Speaker 1: first six months of his administration than in the first
Speaker 1: six months of Obama Clinton. In both bushes, the Houses
Speaker 1: past three sixteen bills. That's a record pace. Now it's
Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty of them are still in the Senate.
Speaker 1: The sentence busy working on judges and appointees and the rest.
Speaker 1: But the House has been extremely productive, not just extremely productive.
Speaker 1: The House has been more productive than any Congress in
Speaker 1: the modern era. The reason I think that the storyline
Speaker 1: is that we haven't done much is because, in part
Speaker 1: of the President and others have set these early kind
Speaker 1: of lines about things need to be done by a
Speaker 1: certain point now our new president. Of course, I've been
Speaker 1: in this line of work before, and I think excessive
Speaker 1: in expectations about how quickly things happened in the Democratic profits,
Speaker 1: and so part of the reason I think people feel
Speaker 1: like we're under under performing isn't because too many kind
Speaker 1: of artificial deadlines unrelated to the reality of the complexity
Speaker 1: um legislator may not have been fully understood. And of
Speaker 1: course our political adversaries would be loves. I love to
Speaker 1: say that anytime so what I'm asking of you is
Speaker 1: to judge this converse when it finishes. How much have
Speaker 1: we done? You're all right, You're fired anyway. Glad you
Speaker 1: with us News Round Up Information Overload hour on this Friday.
Speaker 1: We have more in Hurricane Irma. And your calls coming
Speaker 1: up at the bottom of this half hour. Uh they
Speaker 1: you here, Mitch McConnell. The expectations were so buttonsome and
Speaker 1: out of whack. I mean, you know, we've only been
Speaker 1: from sing for seven years, and and nobody under the
Speaker 1: President obviously doesn't understand the happenings of Congress in the
Speaker 1: way the parliamentary prostidures and how complicated they ever so all,
Speaker 1: and nor does he understand our work schedule will only
Speaker 1: work about maybe thirty percent of the time because we
Speaker 1: have many vacations and on the vacations and junkets that
Speaker 1: you pay for. Um, we're very, very busy working in
Speaker 1: the pool. We're busy working, smoking cigars and branding, coming
Speaker 1: up of the world's senses so that one day we
Speaker 1: might actually pass the bill. And and of course when
Speaker 1: we're in session, there's the Senate dining Room, the Senate
Speaker 1: workout room, the Senate barbershop, all paid for by the
Speaker 1: little people, not by us. But expectations are out of whack.
Speaker 1: How is it that we ever expect that we're going
Speaker 1: to get something done after promising eight years? We need
Speaker 1: at least eight years to work out the eight year promise.
Speaker 1: Most productive Congress ever, I don't think so happy Canadas
Speaker 1: with us. You ever meet a more pathetic bunch of
Speaker 1: people than the people that are in the House of Representatives, Well,
Speaker 1: I think there's they have certain expectations. Yeah, what are
Speaker 1: the people are going to sit still for? It seemed
Speaker 1: to be out of action? Well they really are. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just so bad. Look, I just had Dave brad
Speaker 1: On and I had Jim Jordan's I happen to be
Speaker 1: a fan of the Freedom Call because these guys roll
Speaker 1: up their sleeves, they themselves save healthcare in the House.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't ideal, but it was actually workable. Was
Speaker 1: the beginning of chipping away at Obamacare. But you know, Pat,
Speaker 1: you cannon. They didn't even have a debt ceiling bill,
Speaker 1: and they were offered nearly the whole month of August
Speaker 1: and they come back and they had no clue how
Speaker 1: to deal with the debt ceiling. So the President needs
Speaker 1: to get money to Texas, and he made a deal
Speaker 1: with Schumer and Pelosi. I don't blame him. I don't
Speaker 1: blame him in the least. I mean, he's a very
Speaker 1: much a can do guy. He's a guy that gets
Speaker 1: buildings done on time and even ahead of time. Comes
Speaker 1: down to Washington, and they got the major piece of legislation,
Speaker 1: you know, dealing with Obamacare, which Republicans promised to do
Speaker 1: in three straight elections, and they don't know how to
Speaker 1: do it, and they didn't do it. I mean, I
Speaker 1: understand Mitch's problem with McCain and Murkowski and uh Susan Collins.
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you, Sean, the way Mitch talks, you
Speaker 1: really wonder whether the Congress of the United States that
Speaker 1: presently constituted in this twenty one century, in a time
Speaker 1: of cable and internet and all the rest of it.
Speaker 1: You know, it's talking about doing a taking two years
Speaker 1: to do, you know, a single piece of legislation. And
Speaker 1: that's that's the way we work up here. The question
Speaker 1: is the relevance of Congress to the modern era. It's
Speaker 1: not simply the Republican Party in the in immediate term
Speaker 1: in December. Look, if if they don't give Trump something
Speaker 1: on on infrastructure, or on tax reform, or an immigration
Speaker 1: on DOCTA and the rest of it, it's going to
Speaker 1: go work with Schumer and Veloci because he wants to
Speaker 1: get he wants a record as president. He wants to
Speaker 1: work with Republicans to produce it. But they're not going
Speaker 1: to produce it from their end. He's gonna go find
Speaker 1: somebody that will. Well, it's that, and when are they
Speaker 1: going to get anything done? Now? Look, pat they've got
Speaker 1: fourteen weeks till Christmas, and they've got a pretty big agenda. Now,
Speaker 1: instead of going with a fifteen percent corporate tax, and
Speaker 1: the president's plan, I happen to think it's reagan Esque,
Speaker 1: seven brackets to three percent corporate tax, middle class tax cut,
Speaker 1: repatriation multinationals to incentivize them to bring trillions of dollars
Speaker 1: back to this country to build factories and manufacturing centers. Then,
Speaker 1: of course, energy independence. Then the president gets rid of
Speaker 1: burdensome regulation to allow these businesses to flourish without government
Speaker 1: breathing down their neck every five seconds. A perfect business environment,
Speaker 1: coupled with energy independent, we'd be Golden in the economy Sean,
Speaker 1: I would go certainly go along with that. I might
Speaker 1: have different, you know, different things if I were down there,
Speaker 1: But if I were a Republican, I'd say, let's work
Speaker 1: it all out. Let's get something done we can agree on.
Speaker 1: We're not all going to be happy with everything, and
Speaker 1: let's get our tax built down to the President of
Speaker 1: the United States and have him sign it. Now, the
Speaker 1: course to point is if Republicans can't do that by
Speaker 1: you know, December one or something, then I can't blame
Speaker 1: Trump for sam. Look, we need a corporate tax Trump,
Speaker 1: maybe we need to give this thing to the working class,
Speaker 1: and maybe we need to raise it a little bit
Speaker 1: on the super rich to make the Democrats happy. And
Speaker 1: if I have to do that, I will. But the
Speaker 1: point you you're you're making and I am too, is
Speaker 1: Republicans have to get together and put together a tax
Speaker 1: bill through both houses consistent with their principles, policies, and beliefs,
Speaker 1: and get it on the President's desk. I don't know,
Speaker 1: he's going to find another way and and other people
Speaker 1: to work with. Well, then they're going to get to
Speaker 1: the point where I think the American people will walk
Speaker 1: away from the Republican Party and say we've given you
Speaker 1: everything and you didn't keep any promises. You know, they
Speaker 1: seem to be lacking any identity. Can you, pat You've
Speaker 1: been a Republican your whole life. I've been a registered
Speaker 1: Conservative for a good many years now, with one little
Speaker 1: switch back to the Republican Party for a primary, but
Speaker 1: I'm mostly registered Conservative in New York. You can do that,
Speaker 1: and and don't I don't recognize this Republican Party. I
Speaker 1: don't know what they stand for here. Well, I have
Speaker 1: to say I was an apostate of the Republican Party
Speaker 1: when I ran reform in two thousand. But let me
Speaker 1: say and I came back into the Republican Party, but
Speaker 1: I I do sort of understand the party. But it's
Speaker 1: time is passing the Republican Party by time is passing
Speaker 1: the Congress by I mean Mitch, I can understand what
Speaker 1: he's saying, but he's talking nineteen seventies or something. He's
Speaker 1: got to get the stuff be done. And you know
Speaker 1: that it comes to a point where excuses don't work anymore.
Speaker 1: And what Trump is saying is fine. You can explain
Speaker 1: that to the folks when you go back home. But
Speaker 1: I'm going to get a deal done by X date,
Speaker 1: and if you don't get me the bill, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go work with Pelosi and Schumer and get as much
Speaker 1: as I can because I believe in getting things done,
Speaker 1: and I want a successful presidency, and I want to
Speaker 1: do most of what I promised, or as much of
Speaker 1: what I promised as I can. Well, I like the
Speaker 1: president's agenda. I think it's a I think it's Reaganesque.
Speaker 1: Is there is there anything in his agenda? Maybe short
Speaker 1: of trade? And I know you agree with the president
Speaker 1: on trade, but anything short of the President's agenda that
Speaker 1: you could argue is not conservative. No, I think he's
Speaker 1: got his agenda as I see it is populist conservative,
Speaker 1: economic patriotism on trade. You know, I think control the
Speaker 1: borders i'd agree with. I agree with those senators cutting
Speaker 1: back on legal immigration, secure the borders, stop the illegal immigration,
Speaker 1: send the illegals back. I agree with all this. I
Speaker 1: would say, stay out of these foreign wars. But but
Speaker 1: there's there's a general and then the other side is
Speaker 1: sort of the older conservative that the Trump defeated. But
Speaker 1: many of that is and I like the ideas on
Speaker 1: federalist society judges injustices. That's excellent. I'm all for it.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of a huge amount we agree on,
Speaker 1: but you've got to start getting it done. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is this is the ban isn't working. This is
Speaker 1: the bare minimum. For me. The bare minimum is the
Speaker 1: president's tax plan. And all right, if they have to
Speaker 1: go to sixteen percent corporate tax to make the numbers work,
Speaker 1: seventeen percent, I can live with it. If it goes
Speaker 1: much higher, I really think they don't understand what conservatism means.
Speaker 1: I agree. Let me tell you. Look, these corporations are
Speaker 1: I mean small business is the primary higher and people
Speaker 1: that that employed people in the United States of America.
Speaker 1: If it were up to me, I would take the
Speaker 1: small businesses. I would eliminate the corporate income tax on that,
Speaker 1: and I go along with your larger corporations on that,
Speaker 1: repatriate those moneys, and you know, I would tell you
Speaker 1: if Trump has to and he's got a cut a deal,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm sorry, the top one tenth of one
Speaker 1: per cent or whatever it is, I would go along
Speaker 1: with Bannon's forty two or whatever it is to get
Speaker 1: the thing done. If the Republicans won't do there. Well,
Speaker 1: that's the risk we're gonna run. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: agree with Bannon one bit about you know, listen, we
Speaker 1: you give them middle class their tax cuts because they
Speaker 1: pay the burden. Attacks is anyway, corporations don't pay taxes.
Speaker 1: They they pass those funds onto the consumer. So the
Speaker 1: consumer benefits that way. But more importantly, you incentivize those
Speaker 1: corporations and the multi nationals. They've got trillions. They won't
Speaker 1: bring it back to the US if the government's gonna
Speaker 1: take thirty tell you something else about the corporate tax.
Speaker 1: You cut it down to and what's gonna happen is
Speaker 1: a lot of these headquarters companies all abroad and moved abroad.
Speaker 1: They're gonna say, in the US, let's move the headquarters
Speaker 1: there if as long as we can make it long term.
Speaker 1: The lower the corporate tax, the more the incentive here,
Speaker 1: the more the incentive to produce here and everything, and
Speaker 1: so that that makes all the sense in the world.
Speaker 1: You're right. Reggan used to tell me, you know, corporations
Speaker 1: don't pay taxes. People do. The people pay the taxes,
Speaker 1: they pass it on. But I think the freest money
Speaker 1: in all of this and the multinationals because it's so
Speaker 1: much of it, and people if they don't understand the
Speaker 1: multinational corporations they're in the business to make money, not
Speaker 1: throw it away. So you let him in a ten
Speaker 1: percent or less and incentivize them to build in Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Uh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: North Carolina, Missouri, Florida, any state that needs assistance, that
Speaker 1: needs economic growth where you have millions looking for jobs, Well,
Speaker 1: you get. I would tell him, look, you get, you
Speaker 1: can bring it all home. You're three or five trillion
Speaker 1: whatever you got over there, but you've got to get
Speaker 1: it home within two years exactly exactly. Invest and by
Speaker 1: the way, they'll be happy you can. You can face exactly,
Speaker 1: you know, get the money in fast. But the ideas
Speaker 1: you want them to bring the money here? Look at
Speaker 1: what remember when Ireland cut their their corporate taxes to
Speaker 1: the lowest in the industrialized world. By the way, our
Speaker 1: pe our peeps did that. Pat, I mean you know
Speaker 1: those are your people. Um uh of course something. You
Speaker 1: know what an Irish seven course meal is, right? You
Speaker 1: know what it is? No, a six pack in a
Speaker 1: potato By the way, if if I said that about
Speaker 1: anybody else but myself. One good thing about the Irish,
Speaker 1: they make ethnic jokes about themselves. That's it. There's the
Speaker 1: only people I'll make ethnic jokes about. And it's all true.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you ever been or one Irish wake,
Speaker 1: you know it's all true. There's no lying about it,
Speaker 1: all right, just kidding of course. Eight nine for one.
Speaker 1: Shawn a toll free telephone number one with Pat in
Speaker 1: a minute, and as we continue, Patrick J. B. Cannon
Speaker 1: is with us, we'll get to your calls. Also coming up,
Speaker 1: we have the latest also on Hurricane Irma now bearing
Speaker 1: down on Florida, all of South Florida and the entire state.
Speaker 1: Every city is going to be hit and hit hard.
Speaker 1: And we'll get an update from job is starting coming
Speaker 1: up later in the program. Uh, Pat Buchanon, you know
Speaker 1: noticed how the President did a really good job with
Speaker 1: Texas and the governor did a really good job. And frankly,
Speaker 1: every local politician, with the exception of the Houston mayor
Speaker 1: that said, everybody, don't listen to what you were told,
Speaker 1: now go back to your homes. Forget him. But everybody
Speaker 1: worked together, lives were saved. Moneys are now being sent
Speaker 1: you know, frankly a right purpose and role for the
Speaker 1: American government. When our fellow neighbors are in need, we're
Speaker 1: gonna help him out. We gotta help him rebuild. And
Speaker 1: the only thing they can pick on is Milania's shoes.
Speaker 1: By the way, the exhibit a that Trump did a
Speaker 1: great job. You got to admire the media, you really,
Speaker 1: you really, I don't admire them at all, say that
Speaker 1: they're so miserable and dreadful. I mean, there are times
Speaker 1: for me and I thought a Trump would down there
Speaker 1: and he looks he's not a touchy fielding type, but
Speaker 1: he's down there clearly cheering these people up. I'm wicky,
Speaker 1: We're gonna help you out. You know, that's his style.
Speaker 1: And so he didn't hug anybody. He wasn't in Houston, Yeah, didn't.
Speaker 1: He didn't show. He didn't hug enough people. There's no empathy. Oh,
Speaker 1: he just went down there, giving out food, making sure
Speaker 1: everything's working, making sure that there's enough people on the
Speaker 1: ground for rescue, coordinating with the governor and local officials.
Speaker 1: You know, many of these I feel sorry for some
Speaker 1: of these journalists. They really are. They seem to be
Speaker 1: just unhappy and miserable the only thing that makes them
Speaker 1: happy is if Trump's in trouble. Now, well, I gotta
Speaker 1: tell you, they're almost like drug addicts at this point,
Speaker 1: because they wake up in the morning and they need
Speaker 1: their fix, and they're addicted to the hatred of Trump,
Speaker 1: and they can't go a day without expressing the hatred
Speaker 1: or a conspiracy and all of this is now beginning.
Speaker 1: I think the boomerang back, what do you think, Well,
Speaker 1: I do think I think that. Look, I mean, there's
Speaker 1: no question about it. And I talked to a famous
Speaker 1: liberal journalist, you know, talk to me off the record
Speaker 1: and everything. You had never seen this kind of brutality
Speaker 1: and bitterness and attacks on one Trump. And there's no
Speaker 1: doubt they've damaged him to a degree. But let me
Speaker 1: say this, real permanent damage has been done to that
Speaker 1: to the American media, far more than in the Agnew case,
Speaker 1: where it was an argument over whether they sharply disagreed
Speaker 1: with us or not, and they were on the other
Speaker 1: side on Vietnam and Agnew and Nix and everything. Here,
Speaker 1: I think you've got permanent damage done to the media's credibility,
Speaker 1: and they go so far and it's I mean, look,
Speaker 1: I picked up the Washington Post. I've been reading it
Speaker 1: to my sixty years or something. Some days you picked
Speaker 1: it up and everything in unbelievable Trump. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: And by the way, they call me occasionally for comment,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, why would I comment to fake news?
Speaker 1: I honestly, and they think, you know, the fake news thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, comes that sticks. Everybody's picked that up. And
Speaker 1: it's not simply a phraser, a slur or something. Many many,
Speaker 1: many people believe they really just got to break engineering
Speaker 1: and pushing a particular agenda. They think they think we
Speaker 1: the people are stupid and we made a mistake then,
Speaker 1: and they think they know better than all of us,
Speaker 1: and they're so arrogant that that's their mindset, all right, Pap,
Speaker 1: you can't always love having you my friend. Thank you
Speaker 1: one Sean. If you want to be a part of
Speaker 1: the program, we'll get an update coming up from our
Speaker 1: friend Joe. But starting it WeatherBell dot Com and much
Speaker 1: more as The Sean Hannity Show continues. Sean Hannity is
Speaker 1: broadcasting now on over five hundred radio stations around the world,
Speaker 1: and now Sean Now to the top of the one
Speaker 1: Seawan our toll free number. You want to be a
Speaker 1: part of the program. All right. As we've been telling
Speaker 1: you all day, it looks like a direct direct hit
Speaker 1: Key Largo, direct hit Miami Naples. It is now taken
Speaker 1: a little bit more of a westerly turn. I'm talking
Speaker 1: obviously about Hurricane Irma, and it is literally engulfing the
Speaker 1: entire state of Florida, and it's become for I know
Speaker 1: a lot of our friends and neighbors down there are
Speaker 1: traffic nightmare and five hundred thousand people have been told
Speaker 1: to leave South Florida, and the gas problem still remains.
Speaker 1: Empty shelves everywhere, but they're resupplying even as we speak.
Speaker 1: Mara Lago, in fact, was evacuated. As I've been telling
Speaker 1: you today. Uh, the governor has made some really good
Speaker 1: progress on the issue of getting fuel and telling people
Speaker 1: of Florida where they can get it, as he has
Speaker 1: coordined and coordinated now for two days to get other
Speaker 1: states to drop their regulations and just bring the gasoline
Speaker 1: in so people can continue their drive to safer territory. Um.
Speaker 1: But it now has the potential Hurricane Irma of affecting
Speaker 1: every major city in Florida. And we're just warning all
Speaker 1: our friends in Florida. Take take take keyed to whatever
Speaker 1: warnings are coming your way. This is the big one.
Speaker 1: This is not a game. Uh. The official meteorologist of
Speaker 1: the Sean Sean Hannity Show, we have jobst party WeatherBell
Speaker 1: dot com. When did you first send me this note
Speaker 1: about Hurricane Irma. It feels like such a distant memory.
Speaker 1: Now it was ten days ago on a Tuesday. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: And there's another one following this, right. Yeah, Well, here's
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen in Jose. It's going to miss those
Speaker 1: islands that it's it's a very powerful hurricane, really intensify
Speaker 1: very quickly. Let's going to miss those islands by about
Speaker 1: a hundred miles to the northeast. So it's a glancing blow.
Speaker 1: But a week from today we may still be talking
Speaker 1: about Jose, because I think it's going to get stuck
Speaker 1: between Bermuda, the Bahamas and the United States and mill
Speaker 1: around there for several days and may actually be something
Speaker 1: that we have to watch. But Katilla is going into Mexico, uh,
Speaker 1: in the Southern Gulf, the entire Pacific basin. I don't
Speaker 1: think I've ever seen the Pacific Basin without a tropical
Speaker 1: cyclone on this day. It's amazing. Uh. The Pacific shutdown completely,
Speaker 1: but all the actions in the Atlantic, and of course
Speaker 1: our main focus is on IRMA. All right, let me
Speaker 1: ask you that's calling this now the greatest evacuation in history.
Speaker 1: Six fifty thousand of our Floridian friends now have in
Speaker 1: order to leave Florida and the FEMA chief Miami Beach
Speaker 1: mayor want to get out of this now. This is
Speaker 1: a this is a devastation nuclear hurricane. Is that hyperbole
Speaker 1: or is that accurate? Well, it's it's kind of interesting.
Speaker 1: At the beginning of the week when I was consulting
Speaker 1: with you know, brain trusted weather Belle, I said, you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like I should say that, but I don't
Speaker 1: want to say it. It's the equivalent of that type
Speaker 1: of situation. However, we've got some breaking news here for you,
Speaker 1: and I'm getting pretty confident that this turn to the
Speaker 1: this turn to the north is going to occur, Uh,
Speaker 1: the latter part of this cycle. This will still be
Speaker 1: a very bad hurricane on the East coast, but it's
Speaker 1: now the Florida Keys in southwest Florida. I am extremely
Speaker 1: concerned that we are going to see benchmark hurricanes. What's
Speaker 1: the benchmark hurricane as bad as has been. So we're
Speaker 1: talking Donna in southwest Florida. For those of you who
Speaker 1: lived there, you understand worse than Charlie. Charlie was very
Speaker 1: small compared to Donna. And in the Florida Keys, I
Speaker 1: I am you know, I can't tell people to get out,
Speaker 1: but I heard this ten to fifteen thousand people still there,
Speaker 1: and that is just not the right thing to do.
Speaker 1: In my opinion. You may get cut off, you may
Speaker 1: have some of those bridges washed out, because this storm
Speaker 1: is going to cross the Florida Keys and could get
Speaker 1: as strong theoretically as the Labor Day hurricane, which I've
Speaker 1: told people go on and google it so you could
Speaker 1: understand what that storm did. Explain to everybody that maybe
Speaker 1: is in a car and driving and doesn't have the
Speaker 1: opportunity now to google this what that means, Well, what
Speaker 1: that means is that you're looking at a hurricane where
Speaker 1: and I believe what will happen with this Sean is
Speaker 1: that tomorrow it's going to be messing around with northern
Speaker 1: Cuba and may even go into Northern Cuba for a
Speaker 1: little while. But when it comes out and starts crossing
Speaker 1: the strait. It's going to start intensifying again. And I
Speaker 1: still believe it has not reached a strong this point
Speaker 1: by way of barometric pressure. I think that is probably
Speaker 1: going to occur sometime late Saturday night and Sunday. It
Speaker 1: is also going to be delayed a little bit, and
Speaker 1: that the landfall is in the Florida Keys. It's the
Speaker 1: first place very late Saturday night Sunday morning, but then
Speaker 1: Marco Island Benita Springs in the southwest tip of Florida
Speaker 1: may take the direct hit during the day Sunday. We're
Speaker 1: watching this very closely. Is a fluid situation, but I'm
Speaker 1: becoming watching watching what's going on. I think the turn
Speaker 1: is a little bit later rather than earlier, and that's
Speaker 1: what's gonna lead to this. Um. If you're in any
Speaker 1: of the evacuation areas and you stay, are you risking
Speaker 1: your life? Oh? I think so. I would never stay there,
Speaker 1: even in my crazy days, I wouldn't stay there. So
Speaker 1: I think that when you're talking storm surge and what
Speaker 1: will happen is even if that storms on the western
Speaker 1: side of Florida, Miami is still going to get a
Speaker 1: hunter mile in narrow wind gusts, and probably the East coast,
Speaker 1: most of the east coast of Florida will get that.
Speaker 1: And that's going to go for Disney Disney World too.
Speaker 1: This thing is going to maintain a lot of power
Speaker 1: inland because it's so powerful coming ashore and the entire state. Uh.
Speaker 1: I don't think Penca Cola is going to get it.
Speaker 1: There in Tallahassee's going to get it, but that entire
Speaker 1: peninsula is going to be raped by a hurricane and
Speaker 1: the equivalent. And when you get to Jacksonville, be a
Speaker 1: Category one or two type hurricane. Miami may have a
Speaker 1: Category two or three type hurricane. And that's southwest corner.
Speaker 1: This could be a Category five hurricane even when it
Speaker 1: hits in there. Johnnah was a four. So we're talking
Speaker 1: about the threat of the strongest hurricane that they've seen
Speaker 1: in that area. So basically, my home in Naples is
Speaker 1: gonna be maybe Cat four or five. It's not a home,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a condo. Uh. My objective opinion right
Speaker 1: now is yeah, that's that's on the table. Listen, I'm
Speaker 1: not I don't I'm not worried. You don't what I'm
Speaker 1: worried about I'm worried about my friends in Florida. I'm
Speaker 1: worried about I'm not there, you know, as the governor
Speaker 1: kept saying. And the governor, I really think he's done
Speaker 1: such a good job and I'm really proud of him.
Speaker 1: And he's been on this since the minute that he
Speaker 1: found out about it, and it's really good to see
Speaker 1: competent government and governing sometimes. Um So, the bottom line
Speaker 1: is this, So let's talk about the time frame so
Speaker 1: people understand what and where and how the entire gulf,
Speaker 1: how the entire state is going to be engulfed. And
Speaker 1: we'll go up the eastern coast of the United States
Speaker 1: and talk about Georgia, Atlanta and Savannah and the Carolinas.
Speaker 1: But let's start with Miami. Let's start with southwest Florida,
Speaker 1: southeast Florida and work our way up the state. And
Speaker 1: when are these people going to be in the most danger? Well,
Speaker 1: I think Miami. The core of the storm is Sunday
Speaker 1: in Miami. Uh So, as far as the timing goes,
Speaker 1: I think any time during the morning or afternoon, because
Speaker 1: it's not like we're looking at a NYE passage in Miami.
Speaker 1: Uh The entire six ten hour period there there could
Speaker 1: be hurricane force dustin and maybe a period for a
Speaker 1: couple of hours where winds augustine hundred miles an hour
Speaker 1: around the Miami area. As far as the Florida Keys go,
Speaker 1: they get caught off very late tomorrow night and that
Speaker 1: continues well into the day on Sunday, and we're talking
Speaker 1: where this is across the Florida Keys. Again, I'm worried
Speaker 1: about these bridges, uh getting getting washed out in there
Speaker 1: and that the place. But I had them. I had
Speaker 1: the mayor of the Keys on yesterday, Joe, and he
Speaker 1: basically said, the whole place has been evacuated. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: that's good, that's good. I I was told today that
Speaker 1: there's still some people that are staying there, So I
Speaker 1: don't know. But as if the mayor says everybody's out
Speaker 1: of there, that's that's the best thing in the world,
Speaker 1: because I think when you come back, things are gonna look.
Speaker 1: You may not be able to recognize what happens with
Speaker 1: the power of this hurricane. The worst part of the
Speaker 1: hurricane comes in to Naples, Benita Springs, Marco Island. That
Speaker 1: area is Sunday afternoon into Sunday evening. I think the
Speaker 1: landfall is sometime between noon and four pm. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm estimating in that general area. And then the storm
Speaker 1: continues north northeast. It passes between Tampa and Orlando very
Speaker 1: late Sunday night early Monday morning. Now this is interesting
Speaker 1: because the south side of that Tampa Bay, and then
Speaker 1: when the storm goes by, the wind comes in out
Speaker 1: of the northwest. That may lead to a lot of
Speaker 1: flooding around Tampa Bay. They're not going to get the
Speaker 1: storm surge from the south, but when the storm goes by,
Speaker 1: they may be water coming back in from the northwest.
Speaker 1: And as far as the Orlando area goes, I would
Speaker 1: say they're going to see wind gust a hundred hundred
Speaker 1: twenty miles in the Orlando area, even that far inland,
Speaker 1: so that that's very late Sunday night into Monday and
Speaker 1: Monday afternoon. The storm reaches the area to the over Gainesville.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna pass very close to Gainesville. The
Speaker 1: center passes to the west of Jacksonville, and that's when
Speaker 1: they get at the worst and there it would probably
Speaker 1: be the equivalent of Category one or two hurricane for
Speaker 1: those folks. And then it works its way into Georgia
Speaker 1: Monday night to Tuesday. All right, So but the thing is,
Speaker 1: when is it then Jacksonville? You said Tuesday, Monday night,
Speaker 1: Jacksonville I think is getting it during the day Monday
Speaker 1: is when Jacksonville has its worst, and then it works
Speaker 1: its way into Georgia Monday night Tuesday. The core the
Speaker 1: core of the storm. Of course, it's a large storm
Speaker 1: and things start. I mean, he's gonna let's start looking
Speaker 1: at timelines. But when tropical storm winds and the hurricane
Speaker 1: force wins occur probably six hours before the center, um,
Speaker 1: is when the hurricane force winds occurred in the twelve
Speaker 1: eighteen hours with the tropical storm force So they're gonna
Speaker 1: be some places in South Florida that they're going to
Speaker 1: be under a forty eight hour duration of tropical storm
Speaker 1: force winds and theoretically anywhere from twelve eighteen hours of
Speaker 1: hurricane force wins. All right, let me ask this, um.
Speaker 1: Then it goes into Georgia, and the way the cone
Speaker 1: looks right now, job is starting is that it looks
Speaker 1: like it's hit in the entire state. How bad is
Speaker 1: it gonna be? From Atlanta to Savannah? And then northern
Speaker 1: Georgia and then into the Carolinas well spreading out in weakening.
Speaker 1: And let's remember the cone is the not the cone
Speaker 1: of influence of the hurricane. It's the possible track. In
Speaker 1: other words, what you're seeing is the uncertainty being analyzed
Speaker 1: over there. But I think Atlanta may may see wins
Speaker 1: fifty sixty very late in the day Monday, Monday night
Speaker 1: on Tuesday, uh, for a while, and a lot of
Speaker 1: heavy rain. But I don't think I don't think this
Speaker 1: is going to produce the rain amounts carpet gad and
Speaker 1: that this is going to get way way England. Remember
Speaker 1: when we were talking about Harvey and told you was
Speaker 1: going to stop very close to the Gulf and keep
Speaker 1: pulling in moisture. So this is gonna It's gonna produce
Speaker 1: flooding rains, There's no question about that. But it will
Speaker 1: be slow. Uh, it will be beakening, and it will
Speaker 1: be cutting itself off from the source of moisture. So
Speaker 1: the rain amounts should not be as h as prolific
Speaker 1: in Georgia and into the southeast, though still heavy. All right,
Speaker 1: We're gonna see you on Hannity tonight when we come
Speaker 1: on the air tonight. Where's the storm gonna be? Will
Speaker 1: Florida be seeing the beginnings of this well, and some
Speaker 1: of the outer bands may be starting to affect Florida
Speaker 1: by then, the southeast part of Florida, but the real
Speaker 1: core of the storm will be to the southeast of
Speaker 1: Androws at that time. And hopefully, uh, I'll have a
Speaker 1: better definition as to whether I'm absolutely sure on his track.
Speaker 1: As we said yesterday, if it turned fifty to sixty
Speaker 1: miles for the west, this would happen. It looks to
Speaker 1: me like it's going to try to do that, all right, Joe,
Speaker 1: You've been phenomenal for the audience all week. You've been
Speaker 1: phenomenal over Texas. Um. Your accuracy has been pinpoint perfect
Speaker 1: as usual. You study the history of all of these
Speaker 1: events more than anybody else I know, and you're so
Speaker 1: generous and sharing your knowledge, and you know, I like
Speaker 1: when you're off just a little bit because then we
Speaker 1: can give you a hard time. But you know, what
Speaker 1: you're really doing here is helping people save their lives
Speaker 1: and and even in some cases helps save property because
Speaker 1: they can take some precautions. Obviously, you can't protect everything,
Speaker 1: but you've been amazing. We love you. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for doing this for us all week We really
Speaker 1: appreciate it. All right, job ASTARTI you can follow him
Speaker 1: all weekend on WeatherBell dot com. And I'll be honest,
Speaker 1: I don't know anybody in whether that has been as
Speaker 1: accurate or who has enough as much background and history
Speaker 1: as he does. I mean, you know, we give him
Speaker 1: a hard time when he's well the nine nine hurricane.
Speaker 1: But the reason we go back and look at the
Speaker 1: history is because the history shows a pattern, and there's
Speaker 1: actually path patterns of these particular storms, and a lot
Speaker 1: of people that work in meteorology don't know any of
Speaker 1: this history, so it gives us context and texture, and
Speaker 1: I think it gives him a level of accuracy and
Speaker 1: in a science that we know is imperfect. But you know,
Speaker 1: thank god, we we now have the ability to find
Speaker 1: these storms and see where they're going before they ever happened.
Speaker 1: And could you imagine you don't have any forecasting, you
Speaker 1: don't have any satellite imaging, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you're living in Florida, You're going along your memory very
Speaker 1: day on Saturday morning, and here comes a Cat five
Speaker 1: and you have no clue well, that's what it was
Speaker 1: like for generations of people. That's how hard it was
Speaker 1: for all of them. Way, can we just tell one
Speaker 1: quick story. I wouldn't normally do this to you, but
Speaker 1: you're breaking in in the middle of my very impactful
Speaker 1: you know, because we've advanced as human beings in society,
Speaker 1: we can now use information to save lives and and science,
Speaker 1: although this is in perfect gives us answers to problems,
Speaker 1: and that's a very profound point. My time, I can
Speaker 1: reclaim it. I'm reclaiming my time, claiming my time, reclaiming
Speaker 1: my time. Go ahead, reclaiming my time. I was claiming
Speaker 1: my time, go ahead, go ahead. So funny article, only
Speaker 1: I made the money that Minusian had um that this
Speaker 1: couple is married seventy five years, God bless him, A
Speaker 1: hundred and three and ninety four. Their names are Harvey
Speaker 1: and Irma. Can you imagine? I don't think anybody is
Speaker 1: associating them with Harvey and Irma hurricane. They are. That's
Speaker 1: why there's a news article about Harvey and Irma. Thank you, Lauren,
Speaker 1: Thank you Lauren. Can we tell the Lauren story yet?
Speaker 1: Or is that still untouchable? Though? Well, you want to
Speaker 1: say something nice about me. Every time I say I'll
Speaker 1: abide by your wishes, I expect something nice to be said.
Speaker 1: I love you. You're the greatest person on the planet.
Speaker 1: I'm the best boss ever given. Oh I see, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I can't turn against that your I'll never be able
Speaker 1: to succeed in this regard because I can't be that nice. Oh. No,
Speaker 1: we have a bet on on whether or not Linda's
Speaker 1: hateless returns before Christmas. I retired. Did you say you're
Speaker 1: a changed woman? I am a changed woman. Grief. I
Speaker 1: bet it's before Christmas. And I'm putting a lot of
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