WEBVTT - ActBlue Takes The 5th 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.120 Hour two Sean Hennery Show this Friday, eight hundred and 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:05.000 nine FOURT one, Shawn on number. If you want to 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:09.320 be a part of the program. So something happened this week. 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:12.159 I'm gonna play you cut of it. But there is 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:15.920 a group Act Blue. We've talked about them before. They 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:22.360 were called before Congress for hearings on alleged foreign donations. 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:23.400 I'm reading from the Hill. 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:30.120 Act Blue CEO Regina Wallace Jones Wednesday went in refused 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:34.280 to answer questions during her testimony before the House Administration 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:41.239 Committee regarding allegations of the organization funneling foreign campaign donations 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:47.200 two Democratic candidates in federal elections, and she was constantly 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:52.240 invoking her Fifth Amendment right now. Wallace Jones vowed to 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:54.920 not to answer any questions during the hearing in an 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:59.040 earlier op ed published in The Washington Post, and she 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:02.920 held firm to her pledge on Wednesday, refusing to answer 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:07.440 a single question and invoking the Fifth Obviously, you're allowed 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:10.760 to do it. As a matter of fact. If I'm 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:14.679 a lawyer and you want to avoid the possibility. 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:16.520 Of a criminal referral for not. 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:19.399 Cooperating with Congress, you're allowed to invoke the Fifth that 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:21.560 is your right, that is your constitutional right. So I'm 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:27.960 not taking that away from her. However, why don't they 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:32.720 want to answer Atlue the Act Blue CEO, other Democrats, 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:36.360 you know, they're claiming the probe into these foreign campaign 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:42.800 donations are an attempt at political retribution, and that lawmakers 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:48.040 you know, are trying to investigate contributions you know, from 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:49.600 other sources, et cetera, et cetera. 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:52.760 Anyway, so in a second, we're going to be. 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:57.520 Joined by Congressman Brian's Style, who at the time put 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:00.520 up on X. The CEO refuses to answer any of 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:06.320 my questions. Did she mislead Congress about illegal foreign donations 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:09.920 flowing through Act Blue? I don't care if she answers 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.960 questions or not. I'd like to get the answer to it. 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:17.919 Let me play, Regina Wallace Jones repeatedly pleading the fifth. 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:22.680 Your letter claimed that passport information is required from donors 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:28.160 providing an address outside the United States. In November twenty 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:31.600 twenty three, when you wrote that letter, did every Act 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:35.440 Blue donation that provided an address outside the United States 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:37.119 require passport information? 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:42.320 On the advice of Council, I respectfully declined to answer 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:45.800 the question pursue into my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution. 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:49.320 Okay, your letter also claimed that Act Blue would contact 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:52.760 a donor to request passport information and the contribution appeared 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:55.880 to be from a foreign address, and you told this 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:59.960 committee that the contribution would be refunded if Act Blue 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:02.639 was unable to make contact with the donor. 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:03.800 Is that correct? 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:08.960 On the advice of Council, I respectfully declined to answer 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:13.160 the question pursuing to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution. 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:16.600 Well, we have reason to believe that your letter in 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:19.959 twenty twenty three was not correct because, according to the 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.600 New York Times, donations that were made through third party 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:27.160 apps like PayPal or Venmo that passport information was not 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:32.480 always required. So what's true the twenty twenty three letter 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:35.520 you sent me or the New York Times article. 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:42.120 On the advice of Council, I respectfully declined to answer 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:46.480 the question pursuing to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution? 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:50.520 All right? Joining us now is Congressman Brian Style. 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.520 He's with the first District of Wisconsin, Chairman of the 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:59.600 Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Digital Assets. Well, I 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.600 mean that was frustrating. She won't even tell your name. 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:07.800 But with all that said, what are you really investigating 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:12.720 and how bulletproof do you believe that this evidence is? 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:13.880 Is it incontrovertible? 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:14.520 Sean? 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:16.240 Thanks for having me on. I think what we have 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:20.160 seen is Act Blue continue to display a profound disrespect 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:24.360 for the principle that only Americans should be deciding American elections. 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:28.320 This investigation began because of my concern that foreign funds 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:32.839 were entering US elections through Act Blue. Miss wall Jones, 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:34.360 she could have had a chance, she could have set 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:38.080 the record strate in particular refuting the New York Times 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:42.719 reporting that she lied and misled Congress in twenty twenty three. 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:46.039 She refused to do that. She cited her Fifth Amendment 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:50.080 right twenty two times. But the allegations remain, and the 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.839 evidence is building on this that she misled the committee, 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:56.159 that they failed to fully comply with subpoenas we know 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.760 they had a mass exodus of staff as we dug 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:03.000 into of them in twenty twenty four. And in particular, 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:07.280 the concern here is that there lacks fraud standards at 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:10.280 Act Blue. In fact, they reduce their fraud standards and 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:12.960 the lead up to twenty twenty four that that allowed 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:18.599 foreign funds to flow into US Democratic candidates across the 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:21.560 country in the twenty twenty four election. Highly concerning and 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:23.240 at the end we have to get answers to this. 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:26.160 Oh, I totally, I totally agree with you. 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:30.920 What do you think, do you really, in your heart 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.040 of hearts put this organization out of your mind for 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:39.280 a second? Do you believe that foreign countries are funneling millions, 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:42.839 maybe billions into our campaigns in this country. 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:48.039 Well, we do know factually that foreign persons have made 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:52.960 contributions illegally into US campaigns. We've shown that, We've documented it. 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:58.040 We know that at Act Blue there's multiple multiple events 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:02.440 where actors attempt to the funnel funds illegally into campaigns, 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:06.840 nine of those with a foreign nexus. We know foreign 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:11.040 nationals have moved funds into five oh one c organizations 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:15.799 that they claim or issue advocacy but are really political operations. 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:18.840 We've documented all that. Then the question is what is 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:22.560 the scale that this is occurring under? Is it a 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:26.560 one off or is it a systematic problem? That's where 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:30.440 the investigation began. What are the fraud prevention standards. 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:30.479 That we know? 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:34.680 Act Blue is attempting to prevent any of these foreign 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:38.200 donations from occurring because they're illegal. And what we have 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:41.600 shown is Act Blue has had weak fraud prevention standards, 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:44.599 so much so that they reduce the standard going into 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.159 the twenty twenty four election, and then going back to 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:50.320 the beginning of the investigation, where I asked very clearly 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:54.080 of Act Blue, what do they do if the address, again, 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:57.440 the address is outside the United States, so an individual 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.400 with a foreign address is attempting to make a nation. 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:03.800 They laid out what they do. It is only recently 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:07.560 that we discovered that that was not true. They weren't 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:13.600 vetting all donations being made from a foreign address where 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:16.000 the individual is known to live outside the United States, 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:19.440 to confirm that that person truly was a United States citizen. 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:22.560 Of course, the only person that can donate two campaigns 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:25.960 is a US person, and so we know the problem 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:29.320 is there. We're trying to understand the scale of the problem. 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:32.880 And now we know that Act Blue actively worked, according 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:35.360 to the New York Times, to mislead Congress. That alone 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:38.520 is a crime, and that is why we're working so hard. 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:41.560 As I chair the Committee on House Administration along with 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:44.800 my colleague Jim Jordan and James comer to actually uncover 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:48.480 exactly the scale of the rot that is occurring at 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:49.000 act Blue. 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:52.920 Wow, pretty spectacular. You know, we don't need foreign countries 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:57.120 influencing our elections. You know, I had an opportunity after 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:00.560 radio yesterday to speak to a group of people and 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:04.600 the issue of antisemitism came up. And we see the 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:07.600 rise of anti semitism worldwide. We see it in the 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:12.480 halls of Congress where you work, We see it pretty 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:17.120 much everywhere college campuses, the punditry class, and you see 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:20.560 a lot of it online. One thing I have confirmed 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:26.440 with my sources is that our top geopolitical foes have 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:33.120 are absolutely spending hundreds of millions of dollars to advance 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:40.800 this antisemitic narrative online, specifically targeting the most vulnerable young 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:46.599 people places like Instagram and TikTok and other social media platforms. 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:48.959 Is that true? Has that been your experience? 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:53.320 There is without a doubt that foreign countries and individuals 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:56.720 that don't share our values from outside the United States 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:02.840 are trying to persuade American citizen sins on their political beliefs, 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:06.440 and they've become quite effective on that. You raise it 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:10.160 exactly right as you identify anti Semitism, but you also 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:14.720 see it in a push towards egregious socialist policies. 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:15.880 And so this. 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:18.959 Broader focus that I've had as a chair Committee on 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:22.640 House Administration that oversees federal election law in the House 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:26.400 is a real need to crack down on foreign funds 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:29.560 from entering the US political system. I think we have 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:33.679 a real challenge, and social media has spread as a 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:37.160 major source of news for the next generation, that we 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:40.280 have a real firm understanding on exactly where the funding 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:43.920 is coming from, is driving forward these radical advertisements that 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:45.520 we see time and time again. 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:48.680 Well, I appreciate the work you're knowing. If there's any 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:53.600 update or any evidence that you can present, my radio show, 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:56.880 my TV show is available to any time you want it, 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:59.520 because I think this is critical that we not have 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:02.800 outside I had influences in our elections, and I really 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:06.280 do appreciate the work you're doing and Congressman Louder Miracle 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:07.160 is doing in others. 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:08.920 Thanks so much for having me on Sean. 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:12.959 All right, Congressman Brian's style, Thank you from Wisconsin. Eight 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:14.880 hundred and nine point one. Shawn is a number if 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:16.400 you want to be a part of the program. Bill 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:19.120 is in my free state of Florida. Bill, Hey, how 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:20.199 are you glad you called? 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:23.440 Hey, thanks for taking the call. Yesterday. You were speaking 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:26.400 about fish and your neighbor, your friend, not being able 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:29.720 to collect but or take a certain size, and that's 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:33.440 just to perpetuate the species. The mating size is a 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:37.880 certain size the juvenile. Take them out of the reading population, 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:39.840 the species will die and then there'll be no fish 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:42.000 for anybody in the fish or well. 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:42.680 Let me explain. 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:49.400 So, Okay, my friend Keith is a fisherman and he 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:53.199 lives where I lived in Long Island was next to. 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:53.839 A body of water. 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:58.679 It's called Oyster Bay, Okay, and they do have they've 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:01.120 been known for oysters. They also have a lot of 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:03.960 clams in there, and it's great fishing ground. You can 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.640 catch bluefish, you can catch stripe, bass, you can catch 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:08.719 you know. I used to like to go out there 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:11.599 with the Roden reel and just you know, catch snappers 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:14.160 and just have kicks and giggles. I've never been a 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:17.319 big fisherman, but it's kind of cool to do. Grab 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:19.079 a beer, have a good time, right every once in 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:26.320 a while, relaxing. But he is a passionate fisherman. Now, 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:29.400 if he wants to keep he catches like four or 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:31.880 five stripers every morning he goes out, and he tries 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:35.439 to go out every day. You can only a keeper 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:39.280 is defined as twenty eight to thirty one inches. 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:43.000 It's a three inch margin. You know. 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:47.720 Right now he's catching stripe bass anywhere from twenty eight 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:54.400 to forty one inches, and it's really unbelievable that he 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:56.319 can't keep the fish that he catches. 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:58.120 And I say this in light of the. 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:01.840 President having our friends from Catch in the Oval Office 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:05.880 yesterday and opening up waters that have been closed under Biden. 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:09.000 To fishermen, this is how they make their living. Now, 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:15.400 I understand conservation needs and concerns. You can overfish. I 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:19.760 think there are other ways to deal with that. But 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:22.760 I think, just like climate alarmism, I think they always 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.720 go too far and they never think of hard working 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:29.400 men and women. When I watched Deadly as Catch, which 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:32.840 is if you've watched that series for years like I have, 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:35.680 you know that many of these guys that go in 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:39.560 the burying sea in the worst conditions, many of these 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:42.640 guys on this fleet of boats that they follow have 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:46.400 died because that job is so freaking dangerous. 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:47.920 Mike Grows chronicled all of this. 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:50.880 We've had them on air talking about it, and my 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:53.760 heart whenever I hear that, I literally get sick to 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:56.520 my stomach because I think these guys are heroes. There's 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:59.319 something to me to the fact that Jesus picked twelve 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:02.160 us upuscles and they were fishermen, and but they work 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:05.320 so hard and you kind of live through the emotional 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:07.880 highs and lows that they have to go through. You know, 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:09.720 they think they're going to catch a lot of crab, 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:11.920 they don't catch any. They don't think they're going to 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.240 catch any and they catch a ton, and they have 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:16.320 to meet quotas and the pressure that they're out there, 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:18.600 and they're out there for weeks and weeks and weeks, 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:21.440 and the freezing cold and the worst conditions and fifty 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:25.240 sixty foot squells I don't know, I mean three inches 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:30.000 really to make that you can't expand out a little bit. 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:33.679 He can catch five, six, seven a day and not 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:34.840 even get one keeper. 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:37.320 Don't you think it's something wrong with that? 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:40.080 That's the slot. That's just what they've determined. It is 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:43.720 by science. They determined that. Of course, sometimes science is wrong, 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:45.160 but without. 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:48.320 The I mean, like the science of COVID, of the 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:51.160 science of climate alarmism, which they're now telling us they 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:53.800 were all wrong about. You know, there's plenty of fish 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.400 in that in that you know bay that he fishes 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:58.480 in plenty. 0:13:58.559 --> 0:13:58.920 I don't know. 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:02.600 I just can the government get out of our life? 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:05.880 You know, we'll take proper men, you know who I 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:07.760 had A friend of mine was a clamor years ago, 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:12.120 and when he'd go out every morning dig for clams 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:14.000 for hours and hours, and he made a good living 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:18.360 actually doing it. And among the clams that he would 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:21.240 be able to dig up, he'd also dig up, you know, 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:25.320 the seeds for new clams, and he always planted them 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:27.520 in a specific area, so he'd go back a few 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:31.120 years later and dig up and like hit a gold mine. 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:31.760 I don't know. 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:36.920 I mean, the people that are most preservation centered tend 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:38.680 to be the people that make their living doing it. 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:40.400 But I don't know, what do I know? 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:43.560 I hear what you're saying, Bill, Anyway, I find governments 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:47.800 so impressively just intrusive in our life. All right, let's 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:50.960 get to a busy telephones. Let's go to Tennessee. We 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:55.120 have Angel Angel. Happy Friday. Glad you called hello? 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:58.480 Hello, what's going on? Happy Friday? 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:03.320 Happy Friday? John, A longtime listener. You me and my family. 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:08.200 We know about a lot. Yeah, one question, Yes, sir President. 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:12.720 Now they that I'm in Lady got all the fields 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:17.640 thieves are coming from in gasoline destroyed, went in that 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:21.120 force China and everybody else to come to America and 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:22.000 give us the money. 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:26.560 Well, we're the number one producer and net exporter in 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:27.440 the world right now. 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:30.680 How cool is that? And you can thank one person 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:32.880 for that, and that's Donald J. Trump. 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.280 And you know when I was vetting the President when 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:39.600 he was thinking about running for office, and we had 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:48.680 deep conversations long into the night. I remember many about energy, oil, energy, dominance, 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:53.280 all of this, and you know, we had we you know, 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:56.360 it was funny because at that time, you know, we 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:58.880 were friendly and then he was thinking about running for 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:02.720 president and we started having conversations. I said, I'll never 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.080 support you if you're not a conservative. I just won't 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:10.040 and that got his attention. And then as these conversations 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:12.960 went on, I began to listen to a guy that 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:16.160 thought out of the box. And one of the big 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:18.600 issues that we did talk about was the economy, another 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:22.840 one was national security, defense and energy, all of it. 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:25.800 We talked about everything. It wasn't anything I can't remember. 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:29.000 We talked about and I came out for him. I 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:32.120 think I was the most prominent conservative voice on the 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:35.120 airways that came out first. I might not have been first, 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:36.560 but you know what I mean, one of the first. 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:41.000 And I took a lot of heat from other conservative 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:44.640 talk show hosts and personalities. That went on for like 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:47.320 three or four years of my life. How could I 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:50.040 do this, I'm not a real conservative, etcetera, etc. Now 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:52.400 they've all there were a bunch of Johnny come latelies, 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:54.880 you know, or in and out. I like Trump by 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:56.840 a Trump, but I mean, you know, they can't make 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:57.960 up their minds on anything. 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:00.520 But that was a big part of it. 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:03.920 Now, can the president take over carg Island and take 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:08.160 over Iran? Yeah, but that's not part of his doctrine. 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:11.560 That's never been a stated part of the mission. I 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:15.160 don't want him to do that myself. I think that 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:18.480 you have ninety four million Iranians that he's had to 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:23.440 factor into his decision making before he blows up their 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:27.720 entire infrastructure and economy. That it can't be repaired for 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:32.560 a decade or more. And hopefully, I see what he's 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:34.760 doing now. He gave them a period of grace to 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:38.200 get their act together. They didn't do it, and now 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:41.840 he's negotiating with bombs and so far it seems to 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:45.240 be effective. And hopefully, you know, we'll get to this 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:49.720 memorandum of understanding and a deal and with by the way, 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:52.520 there's going to be anywhere, any place, anytime inspections. I 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:54.440 was told, so you know, hopefully we'll get it all done. 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:57.760 They're not getting one American dollar and they only get 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:01.280 paid based on the actions they take and the benchmarks 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:01.720 they meet. 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:04.280 Thank you, Thank you for answering that question for me. 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:06.479 Really, you're very welcome. 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:09.840 All Right, my friend, Angel, you have a great weekend. 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:13.960 All right, have a good time with your family. Let's 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:16.800 go to Texas. God bless Texas. This Friday, Mike, you're 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:17.920 on the Sean Hannity Show. 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:21.239 Well, Hota, Sean, and I appreciate you taking my call 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:24.040 on this Friday and the greetings from Malone Star State. 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:26.800 I've got something kind of quick and if you could 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:31.000 weigh in, I'd appreciate it. In all of President Trump's 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:34.160 plans to celebrate the nation's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:36.600 the fourth of July. I think I have yet one 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:40.280 more that maybe he's thought about, maybe he hasn't. One 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:43.280 hundred years ago, when we celebrated the Sessqua centennial year, 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:46.520 the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary, the Liberty Bell was 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:51.520 rung by the Mayor of Philadelphia's wife, and she used 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:55.320 a golden hammer to tap the bell at midnight on 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:58.119 the eve of nineteen twenty six, and she tapped it 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:01.960 again at night at the end of nineteen twenty six. 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:04.720 Now we've already passed that. So I was thinking maybe 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:07.679 the fourth of July that would be an excellent opportunity 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:10.560 for maybe the first lady to use a golden hammer 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:12.800 and celebrate the tour. 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:15.880 I love the idea. There's a lot of cool stuff planned. 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:20.720 I'll probably start making announcements next week about some of 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:24.199 our travel plans because we're gonna we're gonna kind of 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:28.640 going deep into you know, America's two fiftieth and some 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:31.200 really fun stuff, cool stuff that we're going to announce. 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:34.600 So you know, I hear what you're saying. Yeah, Well, 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:35.320 I like the idea. 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:38.320 I thank you. I appreciate that. I just figured, since 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:40.600 since they did it one hundred years ago to bring 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:42.400 in the one fiftieth, why can't we do it again 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:44.159 on the two fiftieth. I appreciate you. 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:44.920 I love the idea. 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:47.719 So I know you got the President's here, and hopefully 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:48.800 you'll let him know about it. 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:51.560 I'll be glad too. I think it's a great idea. 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:54.080 And you know, I have a great relationship too with 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:56.159 the first lady. You get along great with her. I 0:19:56.200 --> 0:20:00.240 wish people knew the Trumps the way I did. I 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:02.960 wish people knew Malaney the way I do. I wish 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:06.879 people knew Donald Trump the way I do. You know, 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:10.960 you get to see glimpses of him, but I'm just 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:13.840 telling you in real life he is Number one, he's 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:17.080 generous to a fault, to the point where you know, 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:20.000 I think people take advantage of him. Number two, he's 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:23.520 one of the funniest people with a wicked sense. 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:25.119 Of humor that you'll ever meet in your life. 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:31.040 There's also I've never met somebody that has a passion 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:36.160 for what he does every second of every day like him. 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:40.040 He does not stop. I have talked to this. 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:43.080 Guy every hour on the hour around the twenty four 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:47.320 hour day, at some point, multiple times. And the fact 0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:50.160 that he knows I'm usually up if he's up, well, 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:51.919 Linda knows I'm up because you'll wake up in the 0:20:51.920 --> 0:20:54.160 morning and then all of a sudden there'll be fifteen 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:56.840 hundred you know, story ideas that I center. 0:20:57.040 --> 0:20:57.920 I see that. 0:20:58.000 --> 0:20:59.640 During the night, just so you know, I don't wait. 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:00.880 I don't just wait till the morning. 0:21:02.119 --> 0:21:04.200 Well, why don't you write me and say I'm up too. 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:08.080 Because I'm not really up. I'm up because someone's texting me. 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:10.359 So I don't want to further encourage the behavior, but 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:11.960 I'm letting you know I do see it at three 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:12.879 thirty in the morning. 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:14.280 You just never know. 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:17.679 With me, it might be it might be ten o'clock 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:20.000 at night after the TV show. It might be three 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:21.960 or four in the morning, might be six in the morning, 0:21:22.680 --> 0:21:25.439 might be nine in the morning, might be after my workout. 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:29.639 It never stops. Its Saturday Sunday. I don't stop. Have 0:21:29.720 --> 0:21:31.440 I ever stopped? Is there a day I take off? 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:32.000 I don't think so. 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:33.400 No, never ever. 0:21:34.280 --> 0:21:36.320 No, I think that's a good thing. I'm committed to 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:36.680 my job. 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:38.879 Listen, it keeps you healthy. I always remember, you know, 0:21:39.000 --> 0:21:40.679 my grandma saying that to me. She's like, I'm going 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:42.440 to work till I drop, because if I'm not working, 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:43.879 I am going to drop. And I always thought it 0:21:43.920 --> 0:21:46.200 was funny because it's probably very true, especially for people 0:21:46.200 --> 0:21:46.880 that like to work. 0:21:47.720 --> 0:21:50.360 It's kind of weird because I have had a few 0:21:50.359 --> 0:21:55.240 friends retire. I'm older than me, but they retired, and 0:21:55.600 --> 0:21:59.840 before the retirement, they're all they just describing this I 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:04.600 delic situation. I'm gonna go fishing, I'm gonna play golf, 0:22:04.680 --> 0:22:07.919