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Speaker 1: and happy Thursday. Sean Hannity show right down a toll
Speaker 1: free telephone number. You want to be a part of
Speaker 1: the program. All right? So how bad do I sound
Speaker 1: on the air? Linda is like take golf? Take you
Speaker 1: got to take golf. I'm not taking off. I don't
Speaker 1: take off just because I'm coughing up my half my
Speaker 1: lung every time that I call? What Why do you
Speaker 1: always get an arguments with me? I'm not feeling good
Speaker 1: and then you start arguing with me about I need
Speaker 1: to take off. There's something wrong with me. The world
Speaker 1: continues to spend whether I'm here, and go ahead, tell
Speaker 1: everybody what you've been yelling at me for the last hour.
Speaker 1: Why don't we take a pole? How many of you
Speaker 1: I don't? Let's take a poll, America, America? Would you
Speaker 1: like your coworker or your boss to come to work sick?
Speaker 1: Make you sick up studio in a different room. You're
Speaker 1: hacking up Lugie's. It's a lovely sight. No one is
Speaker 1: going to give you a hard time about taking one
Speaker 1: day off America. I'm not go on Twitter, go on face,
Speaker 1: don't call us at eight nine Sean. We would love
Speaker 1: to hear your support for I pay you a lot.
Speaker 1: You opened the microphone because you've been yelling at me
Speaker 1: for an hour telling me how I would yell at
Speaker 1: you for more if I had more time. Okay, but
Speaker 1: now you have to turn off your mike. I you
Speaker 1: know here, I am. I'm not already not feeling good.
Speaker 1: I am every time I cough up. It seems like
Speaker 1: half my lungs are coming up with it. I took
Speaker 1: an antibiotics. I'm I'm you know. Hopefully one day it'll
Speaker 1: kick in and work. It so far hasn't done it.
Speaker 1: The reason is is because because you won't take a
Speaker 1: day off. No, that's not the reason. A day off
Speaker 1: is not gonna make me better. It's got process. The
Speaker 1: process has to work itself out. The reason is because
Speaker 1: we went to Israel. I didn't sleep on the way there.
Speaker 1: I left, I was up most of Wednesday night. I
Speaker 1: landed ten o'clock in the morning Israel time. I worked
Speaker 1: till two in the morning Israel time. That was up
Speaker 1: at six am after two and a half hour sleep,
Speaker 1: and I went a full day till midnight when I
Speaker 1: got on the plane to go home. What midnight Saturday
Speaker 1: morning Israel time? Landing in New York at five am
Speaker 1: on New York Saturday time with very little sleep for
Speaker 1: all those days, so I literally have I'm on the
Speaker 1: gas tanks on empty. So I commit. I just happened
Speaker 1: to mention to you, or you mentioned to me you
Speaker 1: didn't like me. You actually saw me coughing, and I
Speaker 1: had a bit of a Hillary coughing fit. Who whoo?
Speaker 1: I told you not to be here. You shouldn't be here.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm I am fifty five years old, I
Speaker 1: am a grown man. I if I'm dying, I won't
Speaker 1: show up. You know what? The average person listening to
Speaker 1: this program is like me if and by the way,
Speaker 1: I'm not infecting anybody at work. Nobody is. It's not
Speaker 1: even I talked to my dating. I'm not even infectious
Speaker 1: any here. It's not you know what? You know, you're right.
Speaker 1: I think that that ad me for for someone above
Speaker 1: my pay grade. So I've called a professional. Dr Josh
Speaker 1: Mbers on the line from Atlas m d and he
Speaker 1: has he tends to agree with me. Are you serious
Speaker 1: you did not call Dr Josh? I gotta keep her happy? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Dr Josh, don't fall into her trap. I am fine.
Speaker 1: I promise you that took a total z pack. I
Speaker 1: took the whole thing. Yeah, I said, you sound like
Speaker 1: the plague. No, she's making it sound like. Now, Sean,
Speaker 1: don't you think that Doctor Josh is a wonderful doctor.
Speaker 1: Don't we talk about how smart he is and how
Speaker 1: he could get America back on traps? This is a trap,
Speaker 1: This is a Dr Josh. Don't you think that the
Speaker 1: best thing for someone who has a cold or flu
Speaker 1: is rest right doctor's orders? Doctor? Can I just say,
Speaker 1: can I say something in my defense? I don't like
Speaker 1: to take off sick. I don't take off sick. I
Speaker 1: work through it. I pride myself I'm working through it.
Speaker 1: I pride myself on not having the work ethic of
Speaker 1: those idiots in Washington who take off, you know, two
Speaker 1: weeks here, a month here, another four weeks here. I
Speaker 1: don't want. I don't live my life like that. You've
Speaker 1: got eight years where we need you got we got it.
Speaker 1: I'll be here. I'll be I'm not going anywhere. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we need you for the long haul. I'm in. Do
Speaker 1: I sound like I'm incapable of doing the show today?
Speaker 1: Do I sound like I'm I'm lacking energy? I'm not.
Speaker 1: The light goes on, it's playtime, it's go time. I'm
Speaker 1: ready to go. I have urgency. That's until he hits
Speaker 1: the cough. But I think you would recommend that would
Speaker 1: make this go away faster. Is there anything else besides
Speaker 1: staying home and staring at the ceiling? Tea and honey,
Speaker 1: maybe a hot toddy, but uh yeah, there's there's a couple.
Speaker 1: What what did you say again, Dr Josh? Was that
Speaker 1: tea and honey and honey? Sean? How do you feel
Speaker 1: about tea and honey? Why don't we tell Dr Josh
Speaker 1: what happened in the studio when I gave that to you?
Speaker 1: So she brought in tea and honey yesterday. I took
Speaker 1: one sip and I said, this is disgusting, and I
Speaker 1: threw it out and I said, can I have a
Speaker 1: cup of coffee? Well, coffee and honey? Then yeah, whatever
Speaker 1: your fancy one of my favorites, right, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: Why should I drink this and by the way, she
Speaker 1: she doesn't drink like lipped and tea. She drinks this.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't even Japanese green tea, that's all.
Speaker 1: I didn't grow up as an irishman with Japanese green
Speaker 1: tea in my house. I had lipped into in my house.
Speaker 1: You know what we actually, Dr Josh, you know what?
Speaker 1: Nurse Jackie's online five from Iowa. Nurse Jackie, how do
Speaker 1: you feel about Sehn I've lost control of the show.
Speaker 1: Dr Umber that's I'm not promoting Atlas Medical. Well you
Speaker 1: probably would appreciate that. Why I can't say that? What's up? Jackie?
Speaker 1: How are you? Yea, I'm doing fine, but it doesn't
Speaker 1: sound like you're doing fine. No, I'm fine. I'm telling
Speaker 1: I just coughing a little bit. And the cough doesn't
Speaker 1: that mean it's the end of the run. You're coughing up.
Speaker 1: That's bad. Yes, I'm coughing them. I can't lie. I'm
Speaker 1: the bad patient, but I'm not gonna lie. Ye Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I took a full run of a Z pack.
Speaker 1: It's all done today, Okay, Well that last for five
Speaker 1: more days in your system. You might need a refill.
Speaker 1: You mean, do a second round of antibiotics. Right, you
Speaker 1: might need some steroids and steroids likely to help so
Speaker 1: that we most likely have a viral illness. So it's
Speaker 1: it's more run it's course and treat the symptoms. Yeah,
Speaker 1: unfortunately we give out too many z X Okay, So
Speaker 1: then what would you recommend short of a Z pack shot?
Speaker 1: What wait, a minute shot of what? A shot? A
Speaker 1: deplo medal for inflammation from the coffee? Yeah, no, it's
Speaker 1: it's hurting my back. It's that kind of cough, it
Speaker 1: hurts your chest pearls. Yes, steroids and I hits the
Speaker 1: means town all, I'd be profan Alright, Dr Joshua, you
Speaker 1: talked to my my annoying producer who has set me up.
Speaker 1: If I was annoyed at the start of the show,
Speaker 1: now I'm really annoyed because I'm just gonna tell you all,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna say this respectfully. Dr josh You know
Speaker 1: I love you. I'm so proud of what you've done
Speaker 1: and how you help people. You have created concierge service
Speaker 1: for the average men and women in this country, and
Speaker 1: they deserve it, and you give them the best price
Speaker 1: and the best service, and it should be duplicated all
Speaker 1: over the country. Jackie. If I ever need to be
Speaker 1: in a hospital, I want you to be my nurse.
Speaker 1: I want you to make sure though you locked the
Speaker 1: door and lend up my producers never allowed in the room. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So what you're hearing, guys, is a big butt that
Speaker 1: even though he knows you're both right, and doctor Josh
Speaker 1: is smart and you're a nurse and you practice medicine,
Speaker 1: he's gonna ignore you both and come into work tomorrow
Speaker 1: so he can hack all over all of us. It's great, Okay,
Speaker 1: I've never by the way, I'm not infectious, am I? Doctor?
Speaker 1: You still could be. Hey, let's make a negotiation. If
Speaker 1: North Korea decides to shoot a missle can come in.
Speaker 1: Otherwise I think we can. Yeah, hand off the news today. Sorry, doctor,
Speaker 1: you have a bad line. You're breaking up on me.
Speaker 1: Call Linda and tell her whatever medicine I want to take,
Speaker 1: because I really have no idea. All right, Linda, Oh
Speaker 1: you're welcome. Oh you know what do you want me
Speaker 1: to bring you into? Honey, I'm gonna say on this
Speaker 1: when I'm sick, and I say I'm sick, I'm under
Speaker 1: the weather, not feeling well. You see me blow my
Speaker 1: nose every thirty seconds and hacking up whatever you call
Speaker 1: those things. I don't even know, you know, part of
Speaker 1: my luck. Just do me a favor and just say
Speaker 1: can I get you anything? And then don't argue with
Speaker 1: me about whether I should be at work for an
Speaker 1: hour and a half. We've been arguing about this. It
Speaker 1: is I am going. I am not congress I am
Speaker 1: not lazy. I am not incapable of playing hurt, and
Speaker 1: this is hardly hurt. I can't stand athletes on on
Speaker 1: Super Bowl Day or Stanley Cup day. Oh my back hurts.
Speaker 1: I'm like, suck it up, get up, get out there.
Speaker 1: We need you. That's the name of the game. So
Speaker 1: that's how I feel about this audience. All right, So
Speaker 1: I'm here, I'm on the air. We've got a great show.
Speaker 1: We have Congressman Jim Jordan's and Congressman Mark Meadows, both
Speaker 1: of the Freedom Caucus the healthcare bill. They've come to
Speaker 1: an agreement there. Actually there was a meeting within the
Speaker 1: last hour of House Republicans the latest update I had,
Speaker 1: and they are trying to whip the votes now that
Speaker 1: they have come up with the language the Freedom Caucus.
Speaker 1: I would argue the study group in particular, those groups
Speaker 1: and the Tuesday group are most responsible with coming up
Speaker 1: with the language that looks like it's going to get
Speaker 1: this thing, you know, over the top and get the
Speaker 1: beginning and the repealing and the replacing of Obamacare. And
Speaker 1: from what I've heard from Freedom Caucus friends of mine
Speaker 1: as all saying the same thing, it's gonna lower the
Speaker 1: cost of healthcare dramatically. It's it's gonna be part of
Speaker 1: a process, but ultimately it's gonna drive down premiums. Great
Speaker 1: competition open up avenues for for practices like Dr Umber,
Speaker 1: who I used to like a lot in Wichita. Dr
Speaker 1: Number literally has a practice where you pay fifty bucks
Speaker 1: a month as an adult, you get unlimited care. You
Speaker 1: get he's negotiated directly with pharmaceutical companies. You got a
Speaker 1: ninety plus percent discount, and kids are ten bucks a month.
Speaker 1: You get stitches and X rays for forty eight cents.
Speaker 1: And he has just totally reinvented how to do healthcare.
Speaker 1: And he's now been able to work with other doctors
Speaker 1: and practices around the country. And when you add health
Speaker 1: savings accounts and when you add catastrophic insurance, you know,
Speaker 1: catastrophic insurance for anybody, and that means, if God forbid,
Speaker 1: the accident comes that you you pray never happens, or
Speaker 1: cancer comes, which you pray never happens, or you have
Speaker 1: a heart attack which God forbid you ever have. Those
Speaker 1: things are then covered and your monthly premium is probably
Speaker 1: you can correlate that to whatever you're deductible is. You know,
Speaker 1: the more in deductible you willing to pay, the less
Speaker 1: you're gonna pay for the catastrophic insurance. Then it becomes insurance.
Speaker 1: You know, if God forbid, if you hit a car,
Speaker 1: you all right, you have to buy that person a car.
Speaker 1: That's what the insurance is for. If God forbids some
Speaker 1: of the serious. You know, we've gotten to a point
Speaker 1: where everybody wants to stub their toe, run to the
Speaker 1: doctor and say, okay, fix my toe, and I don't
Speaker 1: want to pay a ten dollar co pay. But under Obamacare,
Speaker 1: if those doctors are gone, those options are gone, those
Speaker 1: co ops are gone, you know, because literally it was
Speaker 1: written by the insurance companies. It's an absolute disgrace. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we'll get to that, so we'll make it progress on that.
Speaker 1: I want to go over and it's great specificity in
Speaker 1: detail what the president's economic plan is. That the thing
Speaker 1: that you need to know and like the most about
Speaker 1: this is the president is keeping his promises. He's keeping
Speaker 1: his word. In other words, income taxes seven brackets to
Speaker 1: three standard deduction is gonna doubles per singles and twelve
Speaker 1: six for for married couples. I mean, so you're doubling
Speaker 1: the standard deduction, which is a really good thing. I
Speaker 1: think it's actually seven six, six thousand fifty for singles.
Speaker 1: It repeals the death tax. That's a double taxation. You
Speaker 1: work hard, you pay federal income tax, state income tax,
Speaker 1: you know, every tax imaginable your whole life. Then you
Speaker 1: die and then incomes the federal government. They think they
Speaker 1: could take another bite of the apple that is legalized
Speaker 1: stealing by your government. How about you decide what you
Speaker 1: Maybe you want to build a museum in your name,
Speaker 1: Maybe you want to do something charitable. Maybe you want
Speaker 1: to leave it to your grandchildren if they're not even
Speaker 1: born yet. Maybe you want to give it to your kids.
Speaker 1: It's none of the government's damn business. After you've already
Speaker 1: worked and paid your taxes. It's ridiculous anyway, it does
Speaker 1: eliminate deductions except for the mortgage interest deduction, charitable donation
Speaker 1: and retirement savings. Those are the ones that impact people
Speaker 1: the most. High tax states like New York, New Jersey,
Speaker 1: Connecticut will be hardest hit by the removal of the
Speaker 1: deduction for state and local taxes. Great I get whacked
Speaker 1: again anyway. It repeals the alternative minimum tax provide. Maybe
Speaker 1: that will put pressure on states to grow up and
Speaker 1: be like Texas and Florida. Just a thought. It also
Speaker 1: provides unspecified tax relief for families. Oh and by the way,
Speaker 1: it you don't pay a penny. There's a mater of fact.
Speaker 1: Fifty plus percent of wage journals in America won't pay
Speaker 1: one red cent in taxes. Not one repeals the three
Speaker 1: point eight percent Obamacare tax on high earners. It cuts
Speaker 1: the corporate tax rate, This is the biggest part of
Speaker 1: It goes from one of the highest in the industrialized
Speaker 1: world to one of the lowest thirty five to fift percent.
Speaker 1: It allows the pass through businesses, which include most small enterprises,
Speaker 1: to pay at the lower corporate rate instead of the
Speaker 1: top personal tax rate of nearly thirty of thirty nine
Speaker 1: point six. I mean, if you're looking for how to
Speaker 1: change the economy. If you don't. If you want to
Speaker 1: change the economy, you want to get people out of poverty,
Speaker 1: you offer food stamps and you want to get people
Speaker 1: working again in America. This this is how you do it.
Speaker 1: You know this is now a conspiracy. I see. I
Speaker 1: can't believe. I'm not going to spend more than the
Speaker 1: three minutes in this segment on this, but I see
Speaker 1: what you're doing here. You know, Claudia California will give
Speaker 1: you fifteen seconds. What is your vote? Fifteen seconds? First
Speaker 1: time caller Linda's right, I'm right. This cannot be broken.
Speaker 1: Think of it like wheel cow. Get your ass out
Speaker 1: of there, go home, because, boy, I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: right now, this stuff will come back and bite you
Speaker 1: on the butt and you'll be down for longer than
Speaker 1: your best. Beth Lakes, I don't get I hadn't slept
Speaker 1: for four days. I have full on energy here today.
Speaker 1: If anything, I'm more piste off than usual because of
Speaker 1: her Tracy. Indiana, you're fifteen seconds to lecture. We go ahead,
Speaker 1: go home. You're spreading germs are gonna have to seem gay.
Speaker 1: There's no germs. I'm in a room by myself. They're
Speaker 1: in another room. I haven't even gone in there today.
Speaker 1: They don't have to come near me. I promise you. Uh,
Speaker 1: Joe and Maryland, what's up? Joe? Hey brother, I got
Speaker 1: you back on this one. Um. I think that I
Speaker 1: think you should. You should freaking except what you got
Speaker 1: and um, and you go to work. It's it's about
Speaker 1: a little bit of pride and work ethic. I think
Speaker 1: that a lot of people, um, I don't necessarily know
Speaker 1: have again, you have a mission, you have something to
Speaker 1: do today. Just because you don't feel you know the
Speaker 1: beast doesn't mean you don't come to work. You get
Speaker 1: your job done. You get your job done. You you
Speaker 1: roll up your sleeves, you do your guy thing. Listen,
Speaker 1: this is what we do. We're hunters and gatherers. That
Speaker 1: probably will alienate women out there that are you're a
Speaker 1: hunter and gathering. What do you think your friend Flintstone
Speaker 1: and Barney Rubble and bam bam. Well, it's my job
Speaker 1: to bring home the bacon so we can cook the food.
Speaker 1: And I feel an obligation not only to my family
Speaker 1: but to all of you. And this is not that
Speaker 1: big a deal. And somebody's making it a bigger deal.
Speaker 1: But he snuck through, and I bet you made him
Speaker 1: lie to get on and say that he was against me. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's say hi to who's next. David is in Big
Speaker 1: four Montana? What's going on, sir? You know John, I'm
Speaker 1: like you. I remember my own business. I work six
Speaker 1: seven days a week, twelve hours a day. And uh,
Speaker 1: I'm like you. I think if I get sick, I
Speaker 1: suck it up and I go. But you know what
Speaker 1: I've learned over the years. I'm about ten years older
Speaker 1: than you. My wife will handcuff me to the door
Speaker 1: so I don't go out what I'm sick, because she
Speaker 1: says every day that I work, i'm sick. I take
Speaker 1: two days off to get better. So I just want
Speaker 1: you to take care of my history. Is not that
Speaker 1: I've never I've never taken two days off to get better. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. I I literally take my hour,
Speaker 1: my lunch hour an hour later so I can hear
Speaker 1: your first hour years every day, and I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: it's like the greatest compliment. I swear if I have
Speaker 1: to drag myself in here tomorrow because of what you
Speaker 1: just said to me, that you change your lunch hour.
Speaker 1: There's no greater compliment than any host can have. I'm
Speaker 1: getting in here, and when we come back, I'm now
Speaker 1: going to focus on what I planned to do on
Speaker 1: the program, which is news and information and solutions to
Speaker 1: our country's problems, especially healthcare and the President's tax plan,
Speaker 1: which will help all of us. Welcome now till the
Speaker 1: top of the hour nine point one, Sean. Look, this
Speaker 1: is why I've been pushing so hard on the health
Speaker 1: care bill, because if the healthcare bill gets over the
Speaker 1: finish line, and at this point, I've had numerous, numerous,
Speaker 1: numerous conversations with Freedom Caucus members. Louie Gomer supports the
Speaker 1: new bill. Assuming the language is right. You always gotta
Speaker 1: put that copy out because there are a bunch of lines,
Speaker 1: swine and dirt bags in Washington. But as long as
Speaker 1: the language is is right, then that bill is gonna pass.
Speaker 1: Now the reason you needed to pass You need to
Speaker 1: pass healthcare, even though they announced yesterday Stephen Nuchan and
Speaker 1: con the President's um tax plan, which is gonna get
Speaker 1: the economy role because you save a trillion dollars and
Speaker 1: this this is major, major money. Here's what's gonna work.
Speaker 1: For the economy. And here's why you know they can't
Speaker 1: get this done soon enough for me, because you get
Speaker 1: the trillion dollars in saving savings in the initial years.
Speaker 1: When you start a tax cut, it's not instantaneous. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: we just cut taxes. Look at the growth tomorrow. Well,
Speaker 1: it takes a while for the law to go into effect.
Speaker 1: Number two, it took Reagan three years to start the
Speaker 1: real economic engine of his tax cut proposal. Look look
Speaker 1: at look at the Reagan analogy example. In the course
Speaker 1: of his presidency, we went from top marginal rates from
Speaker 1: seventy to percent. We literally, in that eight year period
Speaker 1: of time, we doubled the amount of revenues that came
Speaker 1: into the federal government. They had quarters of growth as
Speaker 1: high as eight percent, and so many in the six
Speaker 1: and seven and five percent range that it unleashed the
Speaker 1: potential of America's economy. Now, what is the potential of
Speaker 1: America's economy today? What we got labor? We got ninety
Speaker 1: five million Americans out of the labor force, the lowest
Speaker 1: labor participation rate since the seventies. I mean that that
Speaker 1: is huge in and of itself. So we eat that
Speaker 1: that is a natural resource. We've got untapped natural talent
Speaker 1: of great Americans. We've got another fifty million Americans in
Speaker 1: poverty and fifty million of foot stamps. Uh, if we
Speaker 1: can get them back in the labor force and stop
Speaker 1: giving the money. But they even if they're not paying
Speaker 1: any federal income taxes, we're saving money because we're not
Speaker 1: taking care of people like we were. So that's gonna
Speaker 1: be a big cost. Now. The President has already lifted
Speaker 1: the burden of regulation, especially on the energy sector and
Speaker 1: the coal sector, and and he's allowing fracking, and he
Speaker 1: went forward today and mentioned drilling, and we're gonna increase
Speaker 1: domestic drilling and offshore drilling in the country. You know,
Speaker 1: these are all great things because every enter g job.
Speaker 1: Energy is the lifeblood of our economy. And if we
Speaker 1: can get our own energy become energy independent four to
Speaker 1: eight years, well, in the process of becoming energy independent,
Speaker 1: you're going to create all of those jobs in the
Speaker 1: fracking industry, the drilling industry, oil industry, the gas natural
Speaker 1: gas industry, etcetera. And then all the pipelines in a
Speaker 1: associated you know, uh, jobs that that will come with it.
Speaker 1: I mean, if they start doing serious drilling off shore. Well,
Speaker 1: that's going to increase the restaurant business. That's gonna increase
Speaker 1: department store traffic. That's gonna increase, you know, the local
Speaker 1: economy wherever that happens to be. And then housing starts
Speaker 1: are gonna go up, and and so on and so
Speaker 1: far and forth. You know, it's not trickled down, it's
Speaker 1: just common sense. You need the government to get out
Speaker 1: of the way. And one of the things that government
Speaker 1: has been so burdensome on is America's ability to become
Speaker 1: energy independent. That's just one that's just one huge piece
Speaker 1: of the puzzle right there. And the President now is
Speaker 1: unleashing America's own potential. And I'm not even talking about
Speaker 1: national security benefits. Why is it we have more energy,
Speaker 1: the lifeblood of our economy, under our feet, and we're
Speaker 1: still importing oil from countries like Saudi Arabia that hates
Speaker 1: our guts and other countries in the Middle East that
Speaker 1: make us more prone and more likely to get involved
Speaker 1: in foreign conflicts. So we ensure the free flow of
Speaker 1: oil at a moderate market price so that the engine
Speaker 1: of our economy cannot be destroyed abroad. It's key. It
Speaker 1: plays a big part in our Middle Eastern policy, except
Speaker 1: with the exception, of course, of defending our closest friend
Speaker 1: and ally, Israel. But energy independence here might give us
Speaker 1: and take pressure off us here at home in terms
Speaker 1: of involving ourselves at different times and whatever mess is
Speaker 1: created in the Middle East, which seems to be never ending.
Speaker 1: Then you add to that with the president's doing here,
Speaker 1: he's doubling the standard deduction. A married couple with an
Speaker 1: income of twenty four dollars or less pay no federal
Speaker 1: income tax. Right now, fifty percent of wage earners in
Speaker 1: America pay zero income tax nothing. The evil top one
Speaker 1: percent pay nearly of the taxes. The top ten pay,
Speaker 1: you know, of the taxes. It's not a matter of
Speaker 1: the rich not paying their fair share. Now there's other issues.
Speaker 1: For example, I think one of the most important factors
Speaker 1: in all of this is we're going to incentivize business
Speaker 1: to build their manufacturing centers, their factories here in America.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's really really simple. You know, if if
Speaker 1: you dropped the top marginal rates um from thirty five percent,
Speaker 1: which is the top in the industrialized world, of fiftent
Speaker 1: and you allow pass through businesses in other words, businesses
Speaker 1: that are coming through America, but they're really their home
Speaker 1: port is here. There are somewhere else. Well, it's still
Speaker 1: bringing money in creating jobs in America. So, including many
Speaker 1: small enterprises, small businesses here in America, which provides the
Speaker 1: majority of jobs, you allow them to pay the lower
Speaker 1: corporate rate instead of the top personal rate at thirty
Speaker 1: nine point six. Well, what does that mean? That means
Speaker 1: you know the reason that President Trump was able to
Speaker 1: to get on the phone and appeal to Ford and Chrysler,
Speaker 1: FIAD and Carrier and GM and what's that, Ali, Baba,
Speaker 1: guy Steve Ma wants to create a million jobs. Why
Speaker 1: has he been able to appeal to these corporations to
Speaker 1: lock in here? Is because A he said he's getting
Speaker 1: rid of regulation, burdensome regulation, and he's doing it and
Speaker 1: it has done it. And b he's saying, in corporations,
Speaker 1: we're creating a business friendly environment. So there's no longer
Speaker 1: a need for you to search for cheaper labor and
Speaker 1: deal with burdensome regulation because we're getting rid of all
Speaker 1: of that here. And we've got nine million Americans sitting
Speaker 1: on the side lines dying to get back into the
Speaker 1: labor force. We have a lot of highly talented people.
Speaker 1: And on top of that you add the ten percent
Speaker 1: repatriation rate. In other words, multinational corporations that includes Apple, Microsoft,
Speaker 1: all these other big guys that seem so generous when
Speaker 1: they get to donate billions to charity. Great, but they
Speaker 1: also park money overseas. I'm not saying who many of
Speaker 1: these corporations, no specifics they parked money overseas. Why because
Speaker 1: they don't have a thirty corporate tax? And so you know,
Speaker 1: why did Ireland grow throughout those years? Why was Ireland
Speaker 1: hated by a lot of other European countries Because they
Speaker 1: dropped their top marginal rates, the corporate rates to some
Speaker 1: of the lowest in the industrialized world, and they experienced
Speaker 1: rapid growth for their economy. It also repeals the alternative
Speaker 1: minimum tax. They're gonna put this plan is going to
Speaker 1: provide unspecified tax relief for families with child and dependent
Speaker 1: care services. And they're trying to take care of people
Speaker 1: that are in a very tough spot and so the
Speaker 1: government doesn't have to take care of them in the end. Now,
Speaker 1: it also repeals the death tax. Some of you say, wow,
Speaker 1: that's outrageous. They are rich get to keep their money.
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, so hang on a second. If you
Speaker 1: live in New York, this is the situation you live in.
Speaker 1: You pay a federal tax top marginal rate. If you
Speaker 1: if you're making decent money, good decent money. You're not
Speaker 1: even rich in New York. If you make a hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars a year, trust me and see the top
Speaker 1: marginal rate. It is federally, so you pay in federal taxes.
Speaker 1: You pay a ten percent state income tax. You work
Speaker 1: for the city. I think it's what three percent city
Speaker 1: income tax? So now we're fifty. Then you pay like
Speaker 1: I can tell you, I'm in the second highest property
Speaker 1: taxed county in the country in Nassau County. Then you
Speaker 1: pay out. I mean, if I told you how much
Speaker 1: I pay in property that it's insane, it's legalized stealing. Well,
Speaker 1: then why do you stay in there, Hannity, Come to Texas,
Speaker 1: come to North Carol Line, to come to South Carolina,
Speaker 1: come to Florida. I'd love to. The problem is this
Speaker 1: is where my job is, so I have to stay.
Speaker 1: So now you're up to Then you pay your sales taxes,
Speaker 1: then you pay your fight at taxes. Probably never get
Speaker 1: any Social Security money that means tested by the time
Speaker 1: I'm eligible. And the reality is this is that you're
Speaker 1: paying sixty two cents of every dollar you make in
Speaker 1: New York. And then if you're like me, and you know,
Speaker 1: you're kind of risk averse when it comes to the
Speaker 1: issue of the I r s because they want to
Speaker 1: they have a bull's eye on my back, just like
Speaker 1: the leftist all propaganda destroy Trump media as a bull's
Speaker 1: eye on my back, and every liberal fascist in the
Speaker 1: country wants my voice silenced. So I kind of end
Speaker 1: up just paying my fair share of paying my taxes
Speaker 1: for the very purpose of just getting these people away
Speaker 1: from me and just just not taking those chances. I
Speaker 1: should probably refile. I'm so annoyed at the latest audit anyway.
Speaker 1: So sixty two cents out every dollar, Okay, Now I
Speaker 1: die well, if I die tomorrow, the federal government takes
Speaker 1: more of the little bit I saved after they took
Speaker 1: the bite government that is, So I pay sixty two
Speaker 1: cents of every dollar. Then I die. Whatever I have left,
Speaker 1: they're gonna take another here's the other catcher. New York
Speaker 1: State has a a state tax. There's another ten percent,
Speaker 1: so I pay sixty two cents on every dollar in taxes, state, local,
Speaker 1: federal taxes, property taxes, FICA taxes. And then I die
Speaker 1: and then they come in and take out of all
Speaker 1: that I might have managed to save, they'll take another half.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what to say. How does anybody
Speaker 1: rationalize that this is not limited government? This is womb
Speaker 1: to the tomb, cradle to grave utopia that doesn't incentivize
Speaker 1: people to invest, to build businesses, to take risks that
Speaker 1: provide their fellow Americans opportunity. I never got a job
Speaker 1: in my life from a poor person, not a penny,
Speaker 1: not one cent. Anyway, they'll they'll go from seven brackets
Speaker 1: to three brackets, the proposed brackets of the president based
Speaker 1: on income federal income tax and it's not good. It's
Speaker 1: just as annoying. Okay, I got a new phone. Who
Speaker 1: this new phone? Okay? Anyway, So that's where we are,
Speaker 1: and there's other issues we're gonna get to today, and
Speaker 1: we'll get the latest on healthcare with Jim Jordan's and
Speaker 1: we'll check in with Mark Meadows of the Freedom Caucus.
Speaker 1: By the way, and Coulter may send me a note
Speaker 1: last night. I may wanted me to make clear, and
Speaker 1: I knew this, but and did not cancel Berkeley. Berkeley
Speaker 1: canceled her and the Young Americans Foundation, she told me, acquiesced,
Speaker 1: at which point there was nothing she could do. But
Speaker 1: this is not the first time. This is now well,
Speaker 1: if you go to Milo in his case, I mean,
Speaker 1: he wasn't allowed to speak either. This is now the
Speaker 1: new America that we live in. Here, we're at a
Speaker 1: turning point and freedom of speech is in jeopardy in
Speaker 1: this country by liberal fascist This is not a game anymore.
Speaker 1: This is trying to take down the Fox News channel,
Speaker 1: conservative talk radio, every university. What starts in universities like
Speaker 1: Berkeley spreads like cancer around the country. You know, first
Speaker 1: it was Yolo Jinopolis, his event nearly became a riot.
Speaker 1: Now it's in Coulter, and you've got radical snowflakes monitoring
Speaker 1: every talk radio show hoping they can take out whatever
Speaker 1: hosts through some type type of boycott. Is what they
Speaker 1: said is something they don't agree with, you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's absolute madness what's going on here. You know, the
Speaker 1: very people on the left that claimed to be so
Speaker 1: open minded and so compassionate and so loving and so
Speaker 1: in lusive or anything, but so supportive of free speech.
Speaker 1: These are they're just their words. They don't mean this.
Speaker 1: And this is what I've been saying to everybody all week.
Speaker 1: There's liberal fascism and they're carrying out a well funded
Speaker 1: All right, do you think somebody's gonna do it for free?
Speaker 1: Monitor me, Rush, Laura Back and every other local host
Speaker 1: around the country or are they getting paid? They're getting paid?
Speaker 1: Who's paying them? Interesting question, isn't it. I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna monitor seven the Fox News channel, hoping that they
Speaker 1: get that one sentence, that one phrase, that one comment
Speaker 1: that they can distort or you can't even apologize for
Speaker 1: its God forbid, you have a slip of the tongue,
Speaker 1: you say something stupid. You can't say I didn't mean
Speaker 1: it that way, it came out wrong. Does that not
Speaker 1: happen to all of us in life? Isn't that why
Speaker 1: Congress revises and extends their remarks so often? Hey, James,
Speaker 1: can you bring me that in places? If you get
Speaker 1: a second? Thank you? Um? You know, when are we
Speaker 1: going to live up to this whole concept? This, this
Speaker 1: this principle that we really do believe in freedom of speech?
Speaker 1: All right? Thank you, sweet baby, I got it. Um.
Speaker 1: When are we gonna live up to that standard? Where
Speaker 1: is the left watching this liberal fascism unfold before their
Speaker 1: eyes and loving it, not speaking out against that. They're
Speaker 1: loving it. I can find hardly a liberal that's saying, stop,
Speaker 1: stop the boycotts, stop the the shutdown of speech on
Speaker 1: college campuses, stop trying to take down the Fox News channel.
Speaker 1: There's none because they're all phony and they're all hypocrites,
Speaker 1: and they want that that is their vision obviously of America,
Speaker 1: or they would be speaking out for eight years. You
Speaker 1: guys had a plan, and you kept saying and promising repeal,
Speaker 1: replaced Obamacare. And I guess what people want to know
Speaker 1: is when are these things going to get done. We're
Speaker 1: exactly on the timeline that we designed for ourselves. Obamacare
Speaker 1: is coming next, Our bill is coming in March. First,
Speaker 1: it's regulatory reform because we have this window of time
Speaker 1: to cancel bad Obama regulations. Then we're doing Obamacare. After
Speaker 1: we're done with Obamacare, then we're doing our budget. And
Speaker 1: our budget is what the second budget, which will be
Speaker 1: tax reform. So we're doing two budgets in one year,
Speaker 1: which has never been done before. This is faster than
Speaker 1: it's ever been done before. When I heard repair, my
Speaker 1: head nearly explode. That's not the plan. The plan is
Speaker 1: to repeal and replace this law. Like we said, we
Speaker 1: ran on a plan to repeal and replace it. Tom
Speaker 1: Price helped write that plan. He is now Donald Trump's
Speaker 1: Secretary of It is a consensus plan that's now being
Speaker 1: scored by the CBO. Correct, you're saying to the American
Speaker 1: people and conservatives that are impatient, including myself, you agree
Speaker 1: with every item I mentioned, even extreme vetting. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: passed that bill a year ago. Now, how I know
Speaker 1: you now agree with build in the wall? Yes? Are
Speaker 1: you telling the American people vetting, refugees, building the wall, repeal, replaced,
Speaker 1: tax reform, all of this is going to be done
Speaker 1: in two days inside the two hundred day window. Is
Speaker 1: the regulatory reforms we talked about, it's the repeal and
Speaker 1: replace Obamacare, It's the budget, it's the rebuilding of our military,
Speaker 1: it's tax reform. Those are the things that we're working on.
Speaker 1: Any infrastructure, those are the things we're working on in
Speaker 1: this two dunts in the equation because that's in their age. Well,
Speaker 1: we we see that as part of regulatory reform. But
Speaker 1: in two hundred days, that's you think that is our plan? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and if and if there's any slip, and we'll finish
Speaker 1: it in the fall and get it done before the
Speaker 1: end of the year. So if I come back in
Speaker 1: two hundred days, you're gonna you're gonna go, well, I
Speaker 1: made a promise. We've got it. Well, because I think
Speaker 1: this is so here's what I'm saying. We've we've met
Speaker 1: this out for two hundred days. We have a plan
Speaker 1: to do that. We're on schedule. But if if anything slips,
Speaker 1: because it'll be a Supreme Court justice, yeah, or or
Speaker 1: a filibuster on a cabinet nominee, that might slip us.
Speaker 1: But we're making sure that we do all of this. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's go to the budget, which is such a big
Speaker 1: issue the president seven rackets to three corporate rate. I
Speaker 1: know you prefer twenty because that scores scores. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: have to get what we can with the with the number,
Speaker 1: and you support repatriation multinational corporations. That will be huge
Speaker 1: for that's a lot of money that can come back
Speaker 1: into the economy, about three trillion dollars. Here's my headline
Speaker 1: of this interview that you're in pretty much full agreement
Speaker 1: with with what Donald Trump ran on. And number two,
Speaker 1: in two hundred days from the legislative side, you are
Speaker 1: going to be implementing every aspect of that agenda that
Speaker 1: we talked about. And just as a big headline, we
Speaker 1: have and we have cushion in our schedule if if
Speaker 1: anything slips, because it's really because the Senate issues, we
Speaker 1: still have time to accommodate all of this stuff in twenties,
Speaker 1: even consitions. I have cushions built in the schedule to
Speaker 1: make sure this all gets done in twenty because I
Speaker 1: believe in case something happens and go sideways on the Senate,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that will stimulate the economy, get people
Speaker 1: back to work, and get the economy movement again, which
Speaker 1: I think we need what we're hired to do. All right,
Speaker 1: you see two days all right? That was the Speaker
Speaker 1: of the House, my interview when I went down to
Speaker 1: Washington at the beginning of the year, and the things
Speaker 1: that he's promising. Healthcare did not go as planned. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: they hid the healthcare bill. Nobody had a chance to
Speaker 1: read it. There was no coalition built among the verying
Speaker 1: factions within the House of Representatives, the Republican Caucus, and
Speaker 1: you had the Freedom Caucus on one side, the Tuesday
Speaker 1: Group on another side, the Study Group on another side,
Speaker 1: Moderates on another side, and then you had the Saturday
Speaker 1: let's get waste to drinking group in the Republican Caucus
Speaker 1: on on who knows what side. I'm kidding about that group.
Speaker 1: But anyway, from all indications, as I read on the
Speaker 1: air yesterday, the Freedom Caucus now has worked hard day
Speaker 1: and night. I know this for a fact because I
Speaker 1: probably have spoken with Freedom Caucus members and their chairman
Speaker 1: Mark Meadows about a thousand times in the interim from
Speaker 1: the Friday in which that bill failed, and Jim Jordan's
Speaker 1: who is the former chairman of the Freedom Caucus, and uh,
Speaker 1: welcome both both of you back to the program. I
Speaker 1: know how hard all of you and your members have worked.
Speaker 1: Congressman Medals will start with you, considering you're the ranking
Speaker 1: Freedom Caucus remember at this moment, but remember Jim had
Speaker 1: that job first. Um, and it's it's been a war.
Speaker 1: It's it's been NonStop. How many hours a day do
Speaker 1: you think you've been working on this bill? Well, we've
Speaker 1: been working, as you know, Shaun around the clock. And
Speaker 1: and actually Jim Jordan's uh not only is he uh
Speaker 1: a mentor, but he's really one of the best leaders
Speaker 1: in all of Congress on a number of issues. And so, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I can tell you the hours we've spent
Speaker 1: since the bill was pulled and even before that, but
Speaker 1: particularly since then, has been no less than seventy to
Speaker 1: eighty hours a week trying to make sure that we
Speaker 1: find that sweet spot to bring everybody together. And now
Speaker 1: I think we're, you know, just days away from a vote.
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm optimistic that, uh, while the bill is
Speaker 1: not perfect, it does fulfill one promise. It brings down
Speaker 1: premiums for hard working Americans, and that's what it's all about.
Speaker 1: Out Jim Jordan, tell us about the process from your end,
Speaker 1: I know that it was it was touch and go
Speaker 1: there for a while, very hard. You guys were basically
Speaker 1: in the media blamed for as being the group that
Speaker 1: was responsible. Meanwhile, you're only one part of this coalition.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that would be frustrating to all of you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but look, look, Sean, because we engaged and because Mark
Speaker 1: Worke's tail off and our whole team did. We made
Speaker 1: a bill that wasn't where it needed to be. We
Speaker 1: made it better. Now, let's be honest. It's not full repeal.
Speaker 1: So they're still work to do. But because we engaged,
Speaker 1: because we held out, uh, the Obamacare tax increases are
Speaker 1: going right away. They're not kept for a year or
Speaker 1: two longer than than than as the original draft had them.
Speaker 1: The work requirement for able bodied people in the Medicaid
Speaker 1: expansion program is in there because Conservatives engaged and fraught
Speaker 1: for things. And finally, this option for stay to get
Speaker 1: the waiver and and and get a waiver from those
Speaker 1: key Obamacare regulations that drive up premiums to get away
Speaker 1: from that so premiums come down, as Mark said, for
Speaker 1: working class families. Those three things happened because we engage
Speaker 1: in this debate. We think this is the best bill
Speaker 1: that can get out of the House. We think it's
Speaker 1: a better to building was introduced. And but we understand
Speaker 1: we got more work to do to fully review, explain,
Speaker 1: and flu people. We told the American people we were
Speaker 1: going to accomplish. You know, it gets complicated and most
Speaker 1: people don't understand this. And and one of the apparent
Speaker 1: obstacles in this whole process is the fact that it
Speaker 1: had to work within the Senate rules of reconciliation. And
Speaker 1: when I get into reconciliation and the bird rule and culture,
Speaker 1: everybody's eyes gloss over because at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: the only thing people want to know is are my
Speaker 1: premiums going down? Um? And am I gonna get better
Speaker 1: and more consistent healthcare? And you're saying that this bill
Speaker 1: is a big step in that direction. If they get
Speaker 1: the waiver it states get you got the waiver, right,
Speaker 1: you're gonna may states We're gonna go for that option
Speaker 1: and actually make it happen. If they do that, coupled
Speaker 1: with the other things that that are currently in the bill,
Speaker 1: we do believe premiums will come down, and not just
Speaker 1: what Mark meadis and Jim Jordan's and members of Congress
Speaker 1: believe the healthcare policy experts believe that will happen. Then
Speaker 1: you can then you can say, Okay, California, you may
Speaker 1: not want to do this, your statement not do, but
Speaker 1: Kentucky will, and people can start to see, Wow, premium
Speaker 1: and deductibles are coming down in Kentucky, even though they're
Speaker 1: not in California. Maybe maybe then there'll be in this
Speaker 1: this more push to get across state lines, get that
Speaker 1: legislation done, and some of the other things we no
Speaker 1: need to happen to further bring down the cost of
Speaker 1: healthcare and the cost of insurance premiums. Yeah, Congress of Meadows, Um,
Speaker 1: these were not easy negotiations and the waiver ended up
Speaker 1: being the breakthrough. Can you explain the difference? Well, I
Speaker 1: think for for many of us sean, Uh, we believe
Speaker 1: that the Obamacare mandates, and there's twelve of them. The
Speaker 1: original bill that was rolled out had two of them repealed.
Speaker 1: We believed that there was two other critical Obamacare rules
Speaker 1: that had to be repealed, and uh, the original recommendation
Speaker 1: we had was a full repeal. As you know, the
Speaker 1: moderates just felt like that was a bridge too far.
Speaker 1: So this waiver actually gets it two additional Obamacare rules
Speaker 1: that have the greatest impact on premiums, and so by
Speaker 1: allowing states to wave out of them, it will not
Speaker 1: only protect pre existing conditions, which was the President's promise
Speaker 1: and our promise, but it will drive premiums down. There's
Speaker 1: another aspect. We've we've helped create a high risk pool,
Speaker 1: so that's anybody that has a pre existing condition can
Speaker 1: go into that so that their premiums stay down. So UH,
Speaker 1: it was it was a compromise. Certainly, it is one
Speaker 1: that UH as Jim was saying, Well, we haven't finished
Speaker 1: the work. We've got to continue to work with the Senate.
Speaker 1: I know I talked to Senator Thun yesterday about working
Speaker 1: on UH tax credits and making sure that our people,
Speaker 1: uh the seniors have have adequate coverage, affordable coverage. But
Speaker 1: right now, based on the numbers UH, a fifty year
Speaker 1: old is going to be able to buy insurance as
Speaker 1: cheap as a thirty year old can on Obamacare. And
Speaker 1: and that's significant when you really look at lowering premiums.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you both of this. I've been very
Speaker 1: critical of leadership for this reason because you know, for
Speaker 1: nearly eight years now, or probably about eight years, Republicans said,
Speaker 1: give us the House. You got the House in all right,
Speaker 1: give us the Senate, will repeal and replace Obamacare. You
Speaker 1: got that, give us the House, the Senate in the
Speaker 1: White House, and will repeal and replace Obamacare. And you
Speaker 1: look at the approval ratings, and the President's approval rating
Speaker 1: is quite high because everything he can possibly do on
Speaker 1: his own, he's doing, and he's reminding Americans that he's
Speaker 1: checking off his promises. I really give him a lot
Speaker 1: of credit for what he's done, including Neil Gorsuch, and
Speaker 1: we worked down from there. He laid out his economic
Speaker 1: plan that was exactly what he said he would do
Speaker 1: during the campaign. But yet after eight years of having
Speaker 1: an opportunity to build consensus, they didn't show anybody the bill.
Speaker 1: You guys didn't see the bill beforehand, right right, We did,
Speaker 1: all right that They didn't build consensus among the verying factions,
Speaker 1: the coalitions. No coalition was built, No whipping took place.
Speaker 1: Nobody saw the bill. It was unloaded on people. The
Speaker 1: President immediately wrapped his arms around it because he thought
Speaker 1: it was a consensus bill. He has to do the
Speaker 1: heavy lifting on the bill, and meanwhile, it's not what
Speaker 1: people almost. And then you guys have to come in
Speaker 1: and clean up the mess and the reasons. Remember, we
Speaker 1: thought we were going to start with where we were
Speaker 1: last year, except one voted for the same bill we
Speaker 1: put on that didn't fully repeal obamacarey replacement bill. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: So we thought we're gonna start there. When that wasn't
Speaker 1: the case, and you and you have a process like
Speaker 1: you just described. That's why you get to the end
Speaker 1: and you have a piece of legislation and only seventeen
Speaker 1: percent of the country support. But we said, look, we
Speaker 1: still want to do everything we can to keep our
Speaker 1: word with the American people. So Mark went to work,
Speaker 1: We went to work over this, this this break, and
Speaker 1: we're able to say, at least, let's give states the
Speaker 1: option to do what we should have been doing, I think,
Speaker 1: which is a repeal of those regulations that drive up costs.
Speaker 1: So that's where we're at now. We think, as we
Speaker 1: said before, it's it's pretty darn good and it's a
Speaker 1: good start, but it's not it's not my problem, Jim
Speaker 1: and Congressman Medals, I'll ask you. My problem is we
Speaker 1: can't go through this pain every time of every one
Speaker 1: of the agenda kids, every one of the President's agenda
Speaker 1: items cannot go through this. Now, is there is there
Speaker 1: anything real quickly? And then we'll come back. Is there
Speaker 1: anything Congressman Meadows that is that gives you any indication
Speaker 1: they're gonna act differently with for example, the tax bill. Well,
Speaker 1: we we spoke to White House officials last night and
Speaker 1: made that point of compelling point that it has to
Speaker 1: be different. We can embarrass the president believing that there's
Speaker 1: consensus when there's not. But the other part of that,
Speaker 1: I do believe that, uh, we we have a real opportunity.
Speaker 1: Jim and I just came from meeting with the Speaker
Speaker 1: where we said, you know, what we've got to do
Speaker 1: is iron out our differences right now on tax And
Speaker 1: what did he says? I'll tell you what, tell us
Speaker 1: what he said when we get back. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: the tax reform bill when we come back. Also, at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the hour, we're actually gonna check in
Speaker 1: with Senator Tom Cotton. I was in Israel last week
Speaker 1: and believe it or not, three hundred million taxpayer dollars
Speaker 1: a year spent by the Palestinian authority to pay terrorists
Speaker 1: and their families our money paying and it's a matter
Speaker 1: of law, and we're still giving the money. And there's
Speaker 1: an act put in place which is for tailor force.
Speaker 1: We'll explain that at the bottom of the hour. But
Speaker 1: well and all right, so we're talking about how wrong
Speaker 1: the health care process. When Congress Memado, as you said,
Speaker 1: you met with Speaker of the House, Ryan is he
Speaker 1: committed to not creating another fiasco rollout like the healthcare
Speaker 1: repeal replaced bill. Well, he is. He basically told Jim
Speaker 1: and I that the process he sees where it had
Speaker 1: the pitfalls this particular time, it needs to be more
Speaker 1: than just listening sessions. It really needs to be where
Speaker 1: we get the legislative text, we go back and forth,
Speaker 1: we actually read the bills. I know that that, uh
Speaker 1: shouldn't be a shock to your listeners that members should
Speaker 1: read the bills, but a lot of them don't. And
Speaker 1: so what what he said is is that we would
Speaker 1: actually get there, work it back and forth, and then
Speaker 1: before going out and taking it out to the American people,
Speaker 1: at least have a consensus or very close to a consensus. Uh.
Speaker 1: The real, I guess, the real caution that I have
Speaker 1: there is is that we've heard that kind of thing before,
Speaker 1: and it's important for the President that we get it
Speaker 1: right this time. And I'm gonna take the Speaker as
Speaker 1: his word and and trust that on tax reform will
Speaker 1: roll it out with a little bit Look in your opinion, um,
Speaker 1: Jim Jordan's like what the President ran on and what
Speaker 1: he outlined through Steve Manuchin and Cohen yesterday. If that's
Speaker 1: a great great uh principles there. But everything Mark just
Speaker 1: talked about, and it might be nice he had real hearings,
Speaker 1: like for this healthcare bill, maybe it'd been nice to
Speaker 1: be at hospitals, come in, doctors, come in, reagor families,
Speaker 1: maybe independent insurance ages. They maybe have real real Americans
Speaker 1: come and testify. There was no there was no testimony
Speaker 1: taken in the hearings. There were just straight from markup
Speaker 1: and no amendments were actually accepted in the committee. So
Speaker 1: you you you build as much consistent as you can,
Speaker 1: then you have actual, real hearings, let the American people
Speaker 1: weigh in, watch their government in action list do the
Speaker 1: same thing. On the tax I'll take the Democrats arguments, Oh,
Speaker 1: they're gonna say, oh, you're cutting taxes for the rich. No,
Speaker 1: we're cutting taxes, letting people, letting families keep more of
Speaker 1: their money, and and creating a tax code that's conducive
Speaker 1: to economic growth so we can have more than this
Speaker 1: one point two percent annual growth break that we had
Speaker 1: under Obama. For goodness, say so, I welcome those debates.
Speaker 1: We shouldn't shy away from those debates. Let's have real hearings,
Speaker 1: real debates, and let's have that happen, and then we
Speaker 1: will get a better product that will be better for
Speaker 1: the American people who elected us to come here and
Speaker 1: do these very things. Well, you either of you upset
Speaker 1: in the fight this week over the cr that funding
Speaker 1: for the border wall that the President said, all right,
Speaker 1: we can put that off. Are you confident that that's
Speaker 1: still gonna be funded? Well, I'm confident that the President
Speaker 1: uh is committed to building the wall. But yes, I mean,
Speaker 1: am I upset? Sure? I'm upset at this particular point.
Speaker 1: It's the promise that the President made, It's one that
Speaker 1: I joined him in. We've got to fund the wall.
Speaker 1: If we can't find Republicans have fought this week, I
Speaker 1: beg your pardon. Should the Republicans have fought this week? Well?
Speaker 1: I think they should have. I mean, when you really
Speaker 1: look at this particular issue, it's you know, you've got
Speaker 1: Democrats holding it up. Now, no one's in favor of
Speaker 1: the government shut down, but at the point you have
Speaker 1: to stand for something. And this is the president who
Speaker 1: always stands for something. He's taken the political risk to
Speaker 1: say things that perhaps are not political correct. Building the
Speaker 1: wall is critically important not only to my voters, but
Speaker 1: the Gems and and all of those who understand national security.
Speaker 1: So we've got it done and hopefully we will all right. Guys,
Speaker 1: thank you both. I know how hard you both work.
Speaker 1: I know for a fact how hard you all worked.
Speaker 1: And I would say, without the Freedom Caucus, this health
Speaker 1: care bill would have had no opportunity. We'll take a
Speaker 1: quick break, we'll come back, we'll continue on the other side.
Speaker 1: Why is the American government, your tax dollars three million
Speaker 1: dollars a year going to fund terrorists and their families
Speaker 1: when they kill Americans and Israelis. Believe it or not,
Speaker 1: that's happening. Senator Tom Cotton ways, the next Taylor Force
Speaker 1: was an outstanding young American, distinguished record of service at
Speaker 1: the military academy and then overseas. He was what every
Speaker 1: parent could hope their son could be. I want to
Speaker 1: make sure that the record that he put together is
Speaker 1: remembered by Americans and is a positive force for change
Speaker 1: in the world. The taxpayer dollars are no longer going
Speaker 1: to subsidize the murder of American citizens or Israeli citizens,
Speaker 1: and that the Palestinian people are no longer subsidized with
Speaker 1: American money in a leadership that encourages this kind of
Speaker 1: brutal murder with graduated payments for the more and worse
Speaker 1: mayhem at these terrorist wreck So the Force family has
Speaker 1: my commitment, has all of our commitments. We're gonna do
Speaker 1: everything in our power to make this bill into a
Speaker 1: law to commemorate Taylor's memory and to ensure it is
Speaker 1: sacrifice is not forgotten and that it has a lasting,
Speaker 1: positive legacy in the world. Alright, twenty four now till
Speaker 1: the top of the our very emotional Senator Tom Cotton
Speaker 1: of Arkansas now he serves on the Armed Services and
Speaker 1: Intelligence Committees. He served in Iraq himself the un first
Speaker 1: Airborne and in Afghanistan with the Provincial Reconstruction Team and
Speaker 1: also joining US as Stewart Force Now. Stewart's son, Taylor,
Speaker 1: was a former US Army officer West Point graduate. He
Speaker 1: was part of Vanderbilt University their tour group that was
Speaker 1: visiting Israel. I. Talked about this with Prime Minister Netan Yahoo.
Speaker 1: Last week. He was brutally stabbed and killed by a
Speaker 1: Palestinian terrorist. The Palestine and is Palestinian Authority leader Mahmud
Speaker 1: A Bass and their FATA faction praised the terrorists as
Speaker 1: a heroic martyr. By the way, Donald Trump is meeting
Speaker 1: with this guy on May three, and the Palestinian Authority
Speaker 1: has never condemned the attack a terrorist attack. Now, what
Speaker 1: I got into it the Prime Minister of Israel is
Speaker 1: the fact that the US government gives about seven hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars a year to the Palestinian Authority, and of
Speaker 1: that seven million, they spend about three hundred million dollars
Speaker 1: according to the Palestinian Authorities online budget. They shell out
Speaker 1: the same amount or that amount of money three hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars a year to the families of jihadis. They
Speaker 1: build in their towns squares literally so called works of
Speaker 1: arts for the people that kill either Israelis or Americans. Now,
Speaker 1: the Tailor Force Act would cut off funding to the
Speaker 1: Palestinian Authority if they continue this policy. It is now
Speaker 1: the stated law paying money monetary rewards to terrorists and
Speaker 1: their surviving family members. Anyway, Senator Tom Cotton is back
Speaker 1: with us from Arkansas. UH Stuart Forces with us. It
Speaker 1: was his son Taylor who this legislation is designed and
Speaker 1: and to honor welcome both of you to the program.
Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Shohn and I. I appreciate so much of
Speaker 1: you having me on. It's it's a great honor to
Speaker 1: speak with you. I spoke at Lank with the Prime
Speaker 1: Minister of Israel about this very issue in light of
Speaker 1: the the leader of the Palestinian Authority of Mahmudu bas
Speaker 1: Is meeting with President Trump on May three, um and
Speaker 1: the Prime Minister of Israel was adamant that if there's
Speaker 1: any chance of peace, one, there's got to be a
Speaker 1: recognition of israel Is right to exist. Number two, stop
Speaker 1: paying monetary rewards to terrorists and they're surviving family members.
Speaker 1: Doesn't that have to be a fundamental, basic starting point,
Speaker 1: I would I would think so, Sean. I can't imagine
Speaker 1: negotiating with anybody about anything knowing that they have law
Speaker 1: laws that provide for killing your citizens. I cannot. I
Speaker 1: cannot believe that you could start with that in effect.
Speaker 1: I think it's just when all the facts came out
Speaker 1: to us after after we lost Taylor, and I heard
Speaker 1: and read what was going on, I was appalled that
Speaker 1: that is going on in this day and age, the
Speaker 1: contract killing with an open, open ended contract. I could
Speaker 1: not I could not understand it, and it is it's
Speaker 1: just but you know why, because it's not comprehensible, because
Speaker 1: there's no sense behind this that American money is going
Speaker 1: to a group that kills Americans and Israelis and they're
Speaker 1: rewarding the terror send their families. Because you know, that
Speaker 1: is insanity by definition, and it's got to end. By
Speaker 1: the way. I'm pretty certain, I know pretty it's President
Speaker 1: Trump pretty well. I think once he gets made aware
Speaker 1: of the magnitude of this, I think he's gonna say
Speaker 1: no more money until you stopped us. I think that
Speaker 1: it would be a first good step. And um um
Speaker 1: um everyone I've had the operating to opportunity to speak
Speaker 1: with I I agree that they are more and more
Speaker 1: aware of how ludicrous the whole situation is and how
Speaker 1: you can't go forward with that in place. It's it's
Speaker 1: I hate that we're that My wife and I and
Speaker 1: daughter have have spoken to so many people that have
Speaker 1: been so concerned. We never in our lives imagine they
Speaker 1: didn't like anything would this happen to anyone in our family,
Speaker 1: But uh, we agree it has it has to stop.
Speaker 1: It just cannot continue. And it's not it's not a part,
Speaker 1: just an issue. I help people, and whether they're Democrat,
Speaker 1: at liberal, independent, Republican, just the situation. It's not it's
Speaker 1: not a party your belief. It's just not not right.
Speaker 1: It's not right. Hey, Sean, this is Tom Cotton. If
Speaker 1: they started to add um, it's good to be on
Speaker 1: with you as always, but it's just an especial honor
Speaker 1: to be on you with Stewart. Mr Force, It's good
Speaker 1: to hear your voice saying Senator Cotton, I appreciate what
Speaker 1: you're doing for this so much. I can't tell you yes. Um.
Speaker 1: And and Sean, your your instinct is right because I've
Speaker 1: seen this repeatedly now both in Congress UH and with
Speaker 1: our Kansans. UH. Decent people cannot imagine that the facts
Speaker 1: at hand. They cannot imagine that we give the Palestinian
Speaker 1: authority hundreds of millions of dollars and the Palestinian authority
Speaker 1: gives what's essentially bonus payments to the families of terrorists
Speaker 1: who commit the kind of painous crime that happened to
Speaker 1: Taylor Force. When you bring that to and sometimes you
Speaker 1: have to actually show them the law, show them the
Speaker 1: Palestinian laws, show them the budgetary accounts, which are freely
Speaker 1: available in the open source domain, to get them to
Speaker 1: realize that this isn't fact true, that this is not
Speaker 1: a myth, UM and I foreign a confident once the
Speaker 1: President understands and appreciates what's happening with your tax dollars,
Speaker 1: that we can put an end to this, UH, and
Speaker 1: that we can pass the Tailor Force Act through the
Speaker 1: Congress for his signature. Sean. I'm so happy that you
Speaker 1: raise this with Prime Minister net Yahoo, and I'm so
Speaker 1: grateful that Prime Minister net Yahoo spoke forcefully about the
Speaker 1: need to end Did you see us talking about this?
Speaker 1: Did you see the quotes of a boss that he
Speaker 1: he uses when he's at home versus what I know
Speaker 1: he'll probably lie to and tell the President. Sean, it's
Speaker 1: so important that Prime Minister net Yahoo weighed in on
Speaker 1: this matter, that we have to stop what are essentially
Speaker 1: bounty payments to the families of dead terrorists. UM and
Speaker 1: his support removes one of the very last objections that
Speaker 1: anyone in the United States could have because of the
Speaker 1: Prime Minister supports this legislation and this effort UH to
Speaker 1: try to stop US taxpayer dollars from going to the
Speaker 1: families of dead Palestinian terrorists. I can't imagine any Senator
Speaker 1: Congressmend voting against our legislation. So I'm encouraging the President
Speaker 1: to raise this matter with President of Boss during their
Speaker 1: meeting next week and say very simply to them, Look,
Speaker 1: if you don't stop this practice, you will no longer
Speaker 1: receive this money. We're not asking them for some high
Speaker 1: in the sky, um, you know, lying, lying, laying down
Speaker 1: with the Lamb scenario. We're not asking them try to
Speaker 1: eliminate all anti Semitic feelings from their society. We're asking
Speaker 1: them to do something within their control. Stop taking our
Speaker 1: money and giving it to the families of dead terrorists.
Speaker 1: If you want to keep our money. Have you gotten
Speaker 1: any Democratic support, Senator, A lot of Democrats have been supportive,
Speaker 1: uh um, but quietly. One reason why we couldn't pass
Speaker 1: this legislation in previous years is that the Obama administration
Speaker 1: plainly did not support it, did not want it coming
Speaker 1: to the war UM, and Democratic senators did not want
Speaker 1: to vote on it. But with President Trump in the
Speaker 1: White House, who I believe will support the legislation, UM,
Speaker 1: with the endorsement of Prime Minister NT Yahoo, I think
Speaker 1: it's a horse of a different color, and I suspect
Speaker 1: that we will be able to pass this. What about
Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer? I you haven't talked to Chuck Schumer about it.
Speaker 1: I haven't personally talking about it, but you know Senator
Speaker 1: Schumer likes to prevent his UH caucus from having to
Speaker 1: take votes on things that might be tough for them. Um. Again,
Speaker 1: it's hard for me to imagine anybody saying this is tough.
Speaker 1: But ultimately Mitch McConnell that schedules the floor and Senator
Speaker 1: McConnell can bring this to the floor with the president's support. Now,
Speaker 1: with the endorsement of the Prime Minister as well, I
Speaker 1: think you'd see a large and bipartisan vote if we
Speaker 1: have a vote on the floor. UM. Let me ask
Speaker 1: you this, UM, do do they have confirmed themselves that
Speaker 1: this is actual law under the Palestinian authority? Correct? They
Speaker 1: must pay the families of terrorists and terrorists that survived.
Speaker 1: It's in black and white, it's Palestinian authority in law
Speaker 1: and Um. The more heinous the attack and crime, the
Speaker 1: bloodier it is, the more money the families were safe.
Speaker 1: It is a straight incentive for terrorists to kill innocent
Speaker 1: civilians like Taylor Force to try to make sure their
Speaker 1: family is cared for. Yeah, Mr Mr Force, Stewart Forest,
Speaker 1: tell us about your son Taylor. Oh gosh, your program
Speaker 1: is not long enough Sean for me to tell you
Speaker 1: all about Taylor. Believe it were. We were just very
Speaker 1: fortunate that we have we have two good kids. And
Speaker 1: he at an early age decided that UH West Point
Speaker 1: would be a goal. He went to UH, the Mexico
Speaker 1: Military Institute in Roswell, where people like Roger Staubach had
Speaker 1: had gone to school and in their efforts to obtain
Speaker 1: appointments to the various service academies. And it was a
Speaker 1: good academic and pre military background, and he enjoyed well,
Speaker 1: I guess you'd have to say mostly endured his his
Speaker 1: four years of West Point, because it's quite a grueling
Speaker 1: regiment that they go through. But um is my father.
Speaker 1: His grandfather had had graduated in forty seven, and so
Speaker 1: he had an ideal and an idea of what to expect,
Speaker 1: and he was excited. And when he graduated, he went
Speaker 1: to Field Artillery and to serve the two tiers tours,
Speaker 1: a year in Iraq and nine months in Afghanistan, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know he I would want to mention one thing.
Speaker 1: I know, people have a tendency to use the word
Speaker 1: hero and Taylor was very a very modest and humble person,
Speaker 1: even though he achieved a lot. But I want he
Speaker 1: always cringed when somebody would call him a hero. Well,
Speaker 1: he felt the real heroes were those that were wounded
Speaker 1: or gave their lives. Yeah, but he was willing to
Speaker 1: risk his so he fits in that category. It's the
Speaker 1: same thing to me in any way, it's not the
Speaker 1: same thing. I mean, anybody that's willing to risk it,
Speaker 1: that is a level of heroism and courage. He viewed
Speaker 1: himself as a patriot more than more than a o'shean,
Speaker 1: but it was um it was something he felt very
Speaker 1: strongly about being there for his his men. And it's
Speaker 1: honestly wasn't about him. And it's just a tragedy that
Speaker 1: situations like this happen. It takes so many, so many
Speaker 1: promising young people, not only Americans but but Israelis and
Speaker 1: other visitors to Israel in a in a situation like this,
Speaker 1: it's just it's just it's a shame and we're incredulous
Speaker 1: about the whole. Yeah. Well, first I just want to say,
Speaker 1: on behalf of so many people, I'm so sorry Mr
Speaker 1: Force for your loss, your son, Telor and uh I
Speaker 1: truly you know, send a sympathy of a very sympathetic
Speaker 1: audience here and we want to wish you and your
Speaker 1: family the very very best and so sorry you have
Speaker 1: to go through this. And Senator Cotton, thank you for
Speaker 1: what you're doing on this and I know you're fighting
Speaker 1: the good fight every day. Is is that health care
Speaker 1: bill in the House going to work through the Senate
Speaker 1: and get done? You think shot Over the last few weeks,
Speaker 1: I've thought about to hazard death is about what's going
Speaker 1: to happen. I've floor of the House. But whatever happens,
Speaker 1: I want to make sure that we pass legislation that
Speaker 1: repeals Obamacare and provides all Americans with affordable and quality insurance,
Speaker 1: no exceptions and no excuses. Do you like the changes
Speaker 1: that the Freedom Call Becers was able to get. I
Speaker 1: haven't seen the text, but from the reports I've saying,
Speaker 1: and that my conversations with some of my friends there,
Speaker 1: they're moving in the right direction. Obviously the Senate will
Speaker 1: we'll take up any bill that comes here and put
Speaker 1: our own stamp on it. But the ultimate goal that
Speaker 1: we share with those in the House is making sure
Speaker 1: that insurance is affordable for everyone, no matter how you
Speaker 1: get your insurance. You know, Mr Force, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for being with us. You're in our thoughts and prayers.
Speaker 1: Your son was indeed to here. Oh God bless you
Speaker 1: and your family. I know how hard that must be
Speaker 1: for you every day. This insanity of paying money to
Speaker 1: the Palestinian authority so they can shell it out to
Speaker 1: the families and Jihadis and their survivors is insanity. And
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna make sure in the next interview with
Speaker 1: President Trump that I asked him about this. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for being with us. Eight hundred nine for one, Shaun,
Speaker 1: as I told free telephone number, you want to be
Speaker 1: a part of the program, All right, quick, freak right back,
Speaker 1: News round Up, Information overload, and your call straight ahead.
Speaker 1: Stay right here for our final news round up and
Speaker 1: information overload. Hilarious and kind of sad that, um, you know,
Speaker 1: I was in the waiting room in the West Wing
Speaker 1: for a half hour before I walked in there and
Speaker 1: probably saw a hundred people, including reporters, so it just
Speaker 1: kind of you know, nothing happened until a week later,
Speaker 1: and then people were furious that I got in there,
Speaker 1: and you know, actually I was in Washington for something
Speaker 1: different UM and went in there. And I will say
Speaker 1: that since UH trump spokesperson said it, I talked to
Speaker 1: him about a project. So I did talk to him
Speaker 1: about a project, but we talked about other stuff too.
Speaker 1: And what I find unbelievable is the bullying in traditional
Speaker 1: media that that I think there are some traditional media
Speaker 1: outlets that are getting ruined by this illustration and it
Speaker 1: ruined by their own deeds. That you know, there are
Speaker 1: certain UH networks and newspapers that are very clear on
Speaker 1: who they are and what they feel. And that's fine.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you if you put yourself out as
Speaker 1: you know somebody who supports Trump or like MSNBC is
Speaker 1: against Trump, at least you get it. You know what
Speaker 1: you're getting. But when you pretend like your objective but
Speaker 1: you're not, and you are angry and you are you
Speaker 1: know you you are trying to kill UM and bully
Speaker 1: I think that is killing And I don't think they
Speaker 1: know it yet, but I think some of the trusted
Speaker 1: names and news are not trusted anymore because of this.
Speaker 1: And you know what, I think it's so preposterous that
Speaker 1: you know, Kanye West went to see Trump, he got trashed.
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey went to see Trump, he got trashed. You know,
Speaker 1: they went after me for seeing Trump. So I guess
Speaker 1: the solution is nobody should see him. It should be
Speaker 1: a boycott. That is so stupid. I've given college speeches
Speaker 1: for years now, and it was bad during Bush Um,
Speaker 1: but and then there was nothing during Obama. I think
Speaker 1: because college leftists didn't know what their chance should be.
Speaker 1: They needed a chant. Like Bush lied, kids died and
Speaker 1: they didn't have a chance for us. So Obama years
Speaker 1: where those were the easiest thing thing ever um and
Speaker 1: whoa has it come back now? But I mean, I
Speaker 1: think what's going on with Berkeley when you have it,
Speaker 1: shows how radical the universities are generally. I mean, what
Speaker 1: you're talking about, I agree with, Yes, they want to
Speaker 1: destroy and and squelch conservative speech, but there is a
Speaker 1: separate issue with the university's right now. When you have
Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Howard um Um, Bill maher Joy,
Speaker 1: Behar and so on and so forth, When they're all saying, oh,
Speaker 1: get over yourselves, Berkeley, we have a First Amendment. People
Speaker 1: have fought and died for the right to free speech
Speaker 1: of the college Republicans. Really, in this case they're a
Speaker 1: student group. I'm not just you know, some homeless person
Speaker 1: wandering off into the square. And but but I'd be
Speaker 1: allowed to speak them and do um. They are really
Speaker 1: outside the mainstream. They are publicly funded. Forget that this
Speaker 1: is where the free speech movements started, the amount of
Speaker 1: money they get from the state and the federal government.
Speaker 1: But all of the people who should have been standing
Speaker 1: up for the First Amendment here all ran away with
Speaker 1: their tails between their legs. Ye. Ron, it's very clear
Speaker 1: that police are inside. They have been told not to
Speaker 1: engage at this point, they're standing back. We see this
Speaker 1: in demonstrations in the the area before. The feeling is
Speaker 1: that the property damage, whatever may j is less is
Speaker 1: is less costly than anybody getting hurt. And so the
Speaker 1: police repeatedly in in situations like to take the tactic
Speaker 1: of standing back and hoping. It's hard to defuse what
Speaker 1: happens here. Amazed have you seen? But this is We've
Speaker 1: seen this before in the bear and the police are
Speaker 1: behind the last You feel they're not getting party the demonstrators,
Speaker 1: they're not trying to stop the at least at this section.
Speaker 1: All right. That was and Coulter and Harvey Levin, who
Speaker 1: is from TMZ, has also become a friend of mine.
Speaker 1: Harvey is a very very interesting guy, and I don't
Speaker 1: even know where he stands politically, but he's one of
Speaker 1: the few people in Hollywood that just took a very
Speaker 1: strong stand for freedom of spee. Each we see what's
Speaker 1: happening with with my Milo and he wanted to speak
Speaker 1: out in in Berkeley, the home of the free speech movement,
Speaker 1: and Coulter was supposed to give this speech today and
Speaker 1: look what happened. I mean, one reason or another, they
Speaker 1: have to stop. There total chaos. In the case of
Speaker 1: Milo Ianopolis his event, it almost became a riot for
Speaker 1: crying out loud. And you know here it is again
Speaker 1: the left threatening and Coulter. It's what I've been calling
Speaker 1: liberal fascism. Let's let's let's boycott Rush Limbaugh. Let's boycott
Speaker 1: Dr Laura, Let's boycott Glenn Beck. Let's make outrageous allegations
Speaker 1: from two thousand and three or four about Sean Hannity
Speaker 1: two days after Bill O'Reilly is fired. Um and and
Speaker 1: the media will run with the cheap headline and not
Speaker 1: even do a basic rudimentary Google search to see whether
Speaker 1: or not this woman has a history of lying about
Speaker 1: me and smearing me for years with the most outrageous claims. Anyway,
Speaker 1: news round up information overload. Rick Unger's with us and
Speaker 1: as a senior political contributor, I have no idea how
Speaker 1: or why. A Forbes dot com and the co host
Speaker 1: of The steal An Unger Show, Jonathan Gillham, hosted The
Speaker 1: Experts Navy c O, former FBI agent and federal air
Speaker 1: marshal Uh, this is your party? Where? Where is where?
Speaker 1: A liberal? Free speech advocates? Here? Because I doubt liberals
Speaker 1: of monitoring your show and taping every minute of your
Speaker 1: show the way they tape every minute of this show.
Speaker 1: Mr Unger, sir, yeah, you're not gonna see much of
Speaker 1: a defense for me for those who are doing that, I,
Speaker 1: in this instance have been agreeing with and culture all along.
Speaker 1: It's such a waste. You know. I experienced this when
Speaker 1: I was a Kain in college, which is a hundred
Speaker 1: years ago. We had the same thing going on only
Speaker 1: was reversed. You couldn't get liberal speakers on campus, and
Speaker 1: I thought that was outrageous, and I think it's outrageous now.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what the politics are. We have free
Speaker 1: speech universities or places where you could have learned. All right,
Speaker 1: how let me let me put you on hold because
Speaker 1: you have a cheap liberal sports illustrated football phone you've
Speaker 1: got for three years ago with your sub cryption. Get
Speaker 1: an Obama phone. Yeah, no, I think the Obama phone
Speaker 1: was expensive. It was an iPhone on Obama phone. Jonathan Gillen,
Speaker 1: let's get your take. Well, listen, I think you're absolutely right.
Speaker 1: And one thing I enjoy having Rick being on here
Speaker 1: with Rick and the banter back forth, is because I think, Sean,
Speaker 1: there's becoming a distinction between effective thinkers and the far left, fascist,
Speaker 1: communist types of Rick Unger. You know, he has liberal views,
Speaker 1: but he's an effective thinker, and you can reason with Rick.
Speaker 1: Rick's not against the Constitution or America. These people they
Speaker 1: hate America, they hate the Constitution, they hate the First
Speaker 1: Amendment as it applies to everyone. And I think, really,
Speaker 1: I think it's time for the president to kick the
Speaker 1: press out of the White house. I would rather him
Speaker 1: go out or put people on a list, just civilians
Speaker 1: to be able to come in there and ask questions
Speaker 1: during the press briefing with Sean Spicer and then let
Speaker 1: the press just get their information either from those people
Speaker 1: or continue to wise they are, because right now they're
Speaker 1: in our house and they're as far as I can see,
Speaker 1: the majority of these people are fascist, communists, are just
Speaker 1: outright liars so they can get uh advertising. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're talking to rick On. Ricker is a friend of ours,
Speaker 1: but he is really liberal. He is friends with all
Speaker 1: of these people, and I don't even know rick You
Speaker 1: say you don't defend them. Where is your movement? Because
Speaker 1: your movement is silent, Your movement is nonexistent. Did I
Speaker 1: hear you say I have one of those whole football phones.
Speaker 1: I love those phones. Look, I mean, well, you have
Speaker 1: a sports illustrated football phone from back in the day,
Speaker 1: So I mean there. I have spoken to a lot
Speaker 1: of people who are progressive, who are liberal, and they agree,
Speaker 1: and this is ridiculous. Freedom of speech is freedom of speech.
Speaker 1: To get a good education is the reason to go
Speaker 1: to college. So you can hear points of you from
Speaker 1: all sides. Decide for yourself who you agree with and
Speaker 1: do you disagree with? Okay, but this is your side.
Speaker 1: That's not allowing it your science. Have you ever debated
Speaker 1: and culter only one on wine over a bunch of drinks? Never?
Speaker 1: You know, I wanted to talk about a fun event.
Speaker 1: What was the Christopher Hitchens I remember? I think it
Speaker 1: was at a a David Horowitz, you know, Renaissance weekend
Speaker 1: event years ago, and I was watching Ann and Christopher Hitches.
Speaker 1: They both smoked at the time, and they're smoking cigarettes
Speaker 1: to drinking, and everybody was around them and they're throwing
Speaker 1: one wise ass comment back and forth to each other.
Speaker 1: It was highly entertaining. But see, we all agreed. That's
Speaker 1: the way it should be. You don't have to hate
Speaker 1: people because they disagree with you. My god, imagine how
Speaker 1: boring this world would be if everybody agreed on everything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let me ask you, um, Jonathan, I mean, why do
Speaker 1: you think this ends? Do you think finally there's gonna
Speaker 1: be a backlash and we finally hit a tipping point?
Speaker 1: Like I've even said on the air many times. And
Speaker 1: I hate the guy. I I can't stand Bill Mark.
Speaker 1: He's everything that I don't like in people, but I
Speaker 1: love I think he's good for America in this sense.
Speaker 1: Is he survives saying anything he wants. I just want
Speaker 1: some of that to rub off on conservatives just once,
Speaker 1: you know, I think I think Sean birth off. These
Speaker 1: these people that we're talking about that are trying to
Speaker 1: stifle the freedom of speech and that are getting in
Speaker 1: the way of good political discourse. There are a lot
Speaker 1: smaller of a group, I think than what people realize.
Speaker 1: When I say a smaller of a group. They they
Speaker 1: have some very powerful people in Washington, d see some
Speaker 1: very powerful people in the media in Hollywood. But when
Speaker 1: we look at these Antifa people and the people at
Speaker 1: Berkeley that are protesting, that's a much smaller group, uh
Speaker 1: than than we let on. It's just that the conservatives
Speaker 1: don't stand up to these people because we're typically working
Speaker 1: and we're not out to and not just conservatives but
Speaker 1: hard working liberals like Rick Hunger and I think that
Speaker 1: it's going to get to a point where hopefully the
Speaker 1: people unify. I was talking to a group of people
Speaker 1: David Webb last night, UH and UM out in New
Speaker 1: Jersey at a GOP group, and you know, unity is
Speaker 1: the is the biggest thing we're not. We don't practice unity.
Speaker 1: And the more unified we become, the more we're gonna
Speaker 1: be able to stand up to these people when they
Speaker 1: do stuff like this. You know, I gotta break I.
Speaker 1: I even liked both of you, and I'd never silence
Speaker 1: Rick Hunger's voice. I I can make up allegations right
Speaker 1: now will probably probably be all over the internet in
Speaker 1: thirty seconds, Sean Hannity accuses Rick Hunger of something outrageous
Speaker 1: and by the way, most people would believe it. Rick,
Speaker 1: Just in case you wanted to know, uh, even if
Speaker 1: it's false, one Shawn Tolfree telephone number. You want to
Speaker 1: be a part of the program. You are ready to
Speaker 1: get out of the media spin room to come to
Speaker 1: the right place is the Sean Hannity Show. You know,
Speaker 1: if if the votes held on Saturday, certainly the votes
Speaker 1: will be there. But I can tell you that as
Speaker 1: late as last night and again this morning, some those
Speaker 1: undecided members of Congress, primarily on the Republican side, that's
Speaker 1: all we're counting on at this point, are so close
Speaker 1: to yes that I'm very optimistic that whether the vote
Speaker 1: is is tomorrow or Saturday or next week, that the
Speaker 1: votes will be there to actually pass this to Senate,
Speaker 1: make sure that it becomes better. It's not necessarily a
Speaker 1: more conservative bill, but it is a bill that lowers
Speaker 1: premiums for the American people, allows us to hopefully get
Speaker 1: onto tax reform uh in a very uh quick fashion
Speaker 1: in the coming day. All right, as we continue with
Speaker 1: Rick Hunger and of course our good friend Jonathan Gillham, guys,
Speaker 1: let me ask you, so Congress looks like they're now
Speaker 1: going to get a healthcare replacement bill, Freedom Caucus on board,
Speaker 1: whipping the votes as we speak. Uh, this has got
Speaker 1: to break your liberal weeping heart. But I would think
Speaker 1: that Rick Onnger, you would realize and admit now that
Speaker 1: we never got to keep our doctors, our plans, and
Speaker 1: we didn't save a family a year either. And it
Speaker 1: was sold on one big lie, wasn't it. Well? There
Speaker 1: there were certainly lives told. I won't say it was
Speaker 1: sold on one big lie. And there are improvements that
Speaker 1: need to be made. It's not breaking my heart because hey,
Speaker 1: it's not going to get through the House. They may
Speaker 1: be whipping, but they're not getting enough in the moderate Republicans.
Speaker 1: And even if it does get through the House. It
Speaker 1: doesn't get through the Senate. People who are aware of
Speaker 1: what this bill is realize is this is just a failout.
Speaker 1: Congress is just saying we can't figure out what to
Speaker 1: do with it. Say, you know what, We'll let the
Speaker 1: nasty politics fall on the states. Good luck governors. Well no,
Speaker 1: but but that's such a good point because they can
Speaker 1: take their waiver and they can do what they want.
Speaker 1: And they can they can literally literally specialize or focus
Speaker 1: on the special needs of the people in their state
Speaker 1: based on the percentage or population of elderly people, sick people.
Speaker 1: Explain what the special needs are when it comes to
Speaker 1: the specialties, for example, West Virginia and and coal miners,
Speaker 1: maybe they have different needs than people in other parts
Speaker 1: of the country. Maybe there's some okay, and maybe you
Speaker 1: have a more elderly population in a place like Florida.
Speaker 1: Jonathan Gillham, you know this this again, Sean. I think
Speaker 1: we talked about this the last time. This whole insurance
Speaker 1: thing that's going on is it's literally killing me as
Speaker 1: a conservative because I sit back and see how bad
Speaker 1: politics have gotten when we should just have and should
Speaker 1: have had a bill ready to present when President Trump
Speaker 1: came in office and now myself as a conservative, not
Speaker 1: an expert in insurance an by any means, I'm sitting
Speaker 1: back like most conservatives saying what next? What are they
Speaker 1: gonna screw us on? Now? Is this? Is there anything
Speaker 1: going to come out of this? And you know, the
Speaker 1: reality is I think President Trump is stuck in the
Speaker 1: middle of this between the establishment on the right and
Speaker 1: the communists on the left. Communist on the left. Really,
Speaker 1: it's Obamacare, not you. I'm talking about the people at
Speaker 1: the top of the time. Why do you say not him?
Speaker 1: Of course? Is am and is he loved Obama? Don't
Speaker 1: don't call Rick Hunger a communist? Why not? Yeah? Rick
Speaker 1: Ung doesn't like to be called a communist. Found that out,
Speaker 1: all right? I don't think I want to go there.
Speaker 1: Oh you're just a radical state of socialist? How is
Speaker 1: that when that makes you happy? I'm so radical? You
Speaker 1: know what the problem is? You know all you liberals
Speaker 1: are generous with other people's money. Well, there, there you go,
Speaker 1: nine for one. Sean, you want to be a part
Speaker 1: of the program, We'll take a quick break. We'll get
Speaker 1: to your calls next. As we continue our news round
Speaker 1: up information Overload hour here on the Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 1: You know, if if the votes held on Saturday, certainly
Speaker 1: the votes will be there. But I can tell you
Speaker 1: that as late as last night and again this morning,
Speaker 1: some of those undecided members of Congress, primarily on the
Speaker 1: Republican side, that's all we're counting on at this point,
Speaker 1: are so close to yes that I'm very optimistic that
Speaker 1: whether the vote is is tomorrow or Saturday or next week,
Speaker 1: that the votes will be there to actually pass this
Speaker 1: Senate make sure that it becomes better. It's not necessarily
Speaker 1: a more conservative bill, but it is a bill that
Speaker 1: lowers premiums for the American people, allows us to hopefully
Speaker 1: get onto tax reform uh in a very uh quick
Speaker 1: fashion in the coming days. All Right, as we continue
Speaker 1: with Rick Hunger and of course our good friend Jonathan Gillham, Guys,
Speaker 1: let me ask you, so Congress looks like they're now
Speaker 1: going to get a healthcare replacement bill, Freedom Caucus on board,
Speaker 1: whipping the votes as we speak. Uh. This has got
Speaker 1: to break your liberal weeping heart. But I would think
Speaker 1: that Rick Younger, you would realize and admit now that
Speaker 1: we never got to keep our doctors or plans and
Speaker 1: we didn't save a family a year either. And it
Speaker 1: was sold on one big lie, wasn't it. Well, there
Speaker 1: there were certainly lies told. I won't say it was
Speaker 1: sold on one big lie. And there are improvements that
Speaker 1: need to be made. It's not breaking my heart because
Speaker 1: a it's not going to get through the House. They
Speaker 1: may be whipping, but they're not getting enough in the
Speaker 1: moderate Republicans. And even if it does get through the House,
Speaker 1: it doesn't get through the Senate. People who are aware
Speaker 1: of what this bill is realize is this is just
Speaker 1: a fail out. Congress is just saying we can't figure
Speaker 1: out what to do with this, so, you know what,
Speaker 1: We'll let the nasty politics fall on the states. Good
Speaker 1: luck governors. Well no, no, but but that's such a
Speaker 1: good point because they can take their waiver and they
Speaker 1: can do what they want. And they can they can
Speaker 1: literally literally specialize or focus on the special needs of
Speaker 1: the people in their state based on the percentage or
Speaker 1: population of elderly people, sick people. Explain what the special
Speaker 1: needs are when it comes to the specialties. For example,
Speaker 1: West Virginia and and and coal miners, maybe they have
Speaker 1: different needs than people in other parts of the country,
Speaker 1: maybe there's some okay, and maybe you have a more
Speaker 1: elderly population in a place like Florida. Jonathan Killham, you
Speaker 1: know this this again, Sean. I think we talked about
Speaker 1: this the last time. This whole insurance thing that's going
Speaker 1: on is it's literally killing me as a conservative because
Speaker 1: I sit back and see how bad politics have gotten
Speaker 1: when we should just have and should have had a
Speaker 1: bill ready to present when President Trump came in office.
Speaker 1: And now myself, as a conservative, not an expert in
Speaker 1: insurance and by any means, I'm sitting back like most
Speaker 1: conservatives saying what next? What are they going to screw
Speaker 1: us on? Now? Is this? Is there anything going to
Speaker 1: come out of this? And you know, the reality is,
Speaker 1: I think President Trump is stuck in the middle of
Speaker 1: this between the the establishment on the right and the
Speaker 1: communists on the left, communists on the west. Obama, You're
Speaker 1: not you. I'm talking about the people at the top
Speaker 1: of the Why do you say not him? Of course
Speaker 1: he is a commun is he loved Obama? Don't call
Speaker 1: Rick communist? Why not? Yeah? Rick doesn't like to be
Speaker 1: called a communist. Found that out, all right. I don't
Speaker 1: think I want to go there Oh, you're just a
Speaker 1: radical status socialist. How's that one that makes you happy?
Speaker 1: I'm so radical? You know what the problem is? You know,
Speaker 1: all you liberals are generous with other people's money. Well, there,
Speaker 1: there you go. Alright, eight nine for one, Shawn, you
Speaker 1: want to be a part of the program, we'll take
Speaker 1: a quick break. We'll get to your calls next as
Speaker 1: we continue our news round up information overload hour here
Speaker 1: on the Sean Hannity Show. Alright, twenty five now till
Speaker 1: the top of the hour. Toll free telephone numbers eight
Speaker 1: hundred nine four one, Shawn, if you want to be
Speaker 1: a part of this extravaganza, we're expecting a ten Eastern tonight,
Speaker 1: want to come on the air on Hannity on Fox.
Speaker 1: That they may be crazy people out in Berkeley, California,
Speaker 1: the home of free speech, the home. Oh that's right,
Speaker 1: that's where and Culter can't speak, which is what I've
Speaker 1: been saying, freedom of speech in the United States of America.
Speaker 1: We're now at a at a tipping point, at a
Speaker 1: turning point, and I'm trying to rally the call here
Speaker 1: because young Steak, I'm not gonna sit back and let
Speaker 1: every conservative be silenced by all these liberal fascists. And
Speaker 1: if we don't take a stand and and protect talk radio,
Speaker 1: and protect the Fox News Channel, and protect you know,
Speaker 1: even websites that will eventually they'll be targeted next to
Speaker 1: shut them down. And and radical snowflakes in many ways
Speaker 1: succeeded because they can't create an environment where and culture
Speaker 1: is even gonna be safe, God bless and culture and
Speaker 1: culture is willing to go out there and do it,
Speaker 1: which you know, it shows a lot of courage on
Speaker 1: her part because you know what's gonna show up there.
Speaker 1: But anyways, she was supposed to give a speech on campus.
Speaker 1: Sounds pretty harmless, you know. But these radical left wing
Speaker 1: you know, destroy Trump and he free speech fascists out
Speaker 1: there that you know, remember the same people that started
Speaker 1: the riot over my Milo Napolis. They want him to
Speaker 1: talk either who cares who talks. You have radical Islamis
Speaker 1: that are allowed to talk on on college campuses, Ah Londenijade.
Speaker 1: Where did he speak at Columbia Linda or was it
Speaker 1: at n y U? It was Colonia Columbia, the Ivy
Speaker 1: League institution. It's unbelievable, you know this. But the case
Speaker 1: in the Milow they started a near riot over his
Speaker 1: event out in Berkeley. Campus descends into chaos, all because
Speaker 1: they they don't want to hear an opposing voice, and
Speaker 1: the threatening to do the same thing to and Culter.
Speaker 1: You know, the end, the great hypocrisy here is you know,
Speaker 1: the radical left, the radical left and the their their
Speaker 1: accomplices in the media. They love to claim they are tolerant,
Speaker 1: they're so inclusive, but it's just inaccurate. It's not true.
Speaker 1: It is an outright lie. That's not who they are.
Speaker 1: They're just the opposite, maybe the biggest lie myth that
Speaker 1: exists out there. You know, the First Amendment freedom of
Speaker 1: speech means nothing to them. To them, it's well free
Speaker 1: speech as long as you agree with them. So the
Speaker 1: goal is very simple. It's very obvious. No conservative voices
Speaker 1: in America shall speak in college campuses. You know how
Speaker 1: many conservatives get invited to give commencement exercises, even when
Speaker 1: a Republican president or vice president is asked. I think
Speaker 1: Mike Pence was asked to do it at Notre Dame
Speaker 1: and they're they're going to protest Notre Dame anyway. The
Speaker 1: president is speaking at Liberty University this year. Good for him,
Speaker 1: And I doubt he's gonna get booed at Liberty nine
Speaker 1: of campuses he might get booed at. I'm not you know,
Speaker 1: I really don't think so in this day and that
Speaker 1: they will be shouted down by the pro Trump crowd.
Speaker 1: But you know, you create an environment. Look, if I'm
Speaker 1: at of if I'm at a speech, or I'm at
Speaker 1: a commencement address, and let's say Obama is speaking, God
Speaker 1: help me having to sit through that nonsense, or he'll
Speaker 1: ree Clinton, I'm gonna be respectful. We've never on this
Speaker 1: program started boycott's against Bill Maher, who has said outrageous
Speaker 1: and scendiary, over the top things one after another. I've
Speaker 1: actually gone in the other direction. I've said he has
Speaker 1: a right to do it. And when he got fired
Speaker 1: from ABC and politically incorrect, it was conservative like me,
Speaker 1: Russian Mark that defended him and said, don't fire him,
Speaker 1: no matter how outrageous the speeches, let him say it.
Speaker 1: And I had this girl from what was it, Fox Sports? Linda, Yeah,
Speaker 1: she called me a literal? What was it? It was?
Speaker 1: It was not exactly proper English? A literal? What you say?
Speaker 1: I have no idea. I don't pay attention to her.
Speaker 1: She's not worth my time. Well the effort was in
Speaker 1: there somewhere. Yeah, Well, you know, she's like, and I'm
Speaker 1: really messing. I said, this is gonna take you far
Speaker 1: in your career. You're a genius. And anyway, then people say, well,
Speaker 1: you work for the same company, you're powerful within that company.
Speaker 1: You're trying to shut her down. You want a charter
Speaker 1: to fire her, And I whoa slow down here of cowboy,
Speaker 1: And I actually said on Twitter, I do not want
Speaker 1: to I do not support her getting fired. I don't
Speaker 1: want an investigation. She should be able to say anything
Speaker 1: she wants. And I ended up supporting her. Katie something
Speaker 1: is her name. I don't even know. I don't even
Speaker 1: know who she is, so I just fired back. She
Speaker 1: took a cheap shot, and I took one. You know,
Speaker 1: I stand up for myself. You know, you gotta understand
Speaker 1: this is this is important to all of us here,
Speaker 1: understanding what is going on here. It's it's much bigger
Speaker 1: than Ann Culter. It's much bigger than the lies and
Speaker 1: besmirchment and smears that I've lived through in the last week.
Speaker 1: It's it's so much bigger. It's it's bigger than Bill O'Reilly.
Speaker 1: It's bigger than you know the times they've gone after
Speaker 1: Rush or doctor Laura or or Glenn Back or Laura Ingram.
Speaker 1: It's it's just that there's a level in the age
Speaker 1: of Trump and an intensity that I've never seen before.
Speaker 1: And now I'm pretty confident and I know for sure
Speaker 1: because I know people are paid. I wish these people
Speaker 1: that are paid, we ought to try and find them
Speaker 1: an interview them. They paid to monitor every word I
Speaker 1: say on this radio show, and every other host, not
Speaker 1: just me, any other conservative host, I should say. They
Speaker 1: monitor every hour of TV and the hopes that I'll
Speaker 1: say something that they think is boycottable and they'll try
Speaker 1: and get me off the air that way. But it's
Speaker 1: still the same thing. It's liberal fascism. The reason they're
Speaker 1: doing it is political. They want to live in a
Speaker 1: society where where you better thread that needle perfectly, and
Speaker 1: anytime you get it wrong, you're dead. You're done. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get rid of you. Pretty amazing, But that's that
Speaker 1: is the environment we're now working and living in. That's
Speaker 1: why it wasn't an accident. Two days after Bill O'Reilly
Speaker 1: and Fox News part waves. You know somebody that has
Speaker 1: been literally lying about me for well over a decade.
Speaker 1: I think this event happened, and what two thousand and four, Linda,
Speaker 1: when was it? It might it might even be O three,
Speaker 1: might might even be A three. I don't even know.
Speaker 1: I don't even know that that I invited this person
Speaker 1: back to my hotel that you possibly didn't even have. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because we were pretty sure. I flew out after the event,
Speaker 1: which is what you normally do, which is what I
Speaker 1: almost always do if if we're close to home. Where
Speaker 1: am I sleep in London? Um? Yeah, I want to
Speaker 1: sleep in my own bed. I have landed at airports
Speaker 1: at three, four or five, six, seven am because I
Speaker 1: want to sleep in my own bed. I do it
Speaker 1: all the time. And the people that have been digging
Speaker 1: into the plane records think that they're almost sure I
Speaker 1: did not stay there, so there was no hotel. But
Speaker 1: it's neither here nor there the history of this person.
Speaker 1: And then you get into the media and all these
Speaker 1: news organizations. So you have a person who has been
Speaker 1: proven to have lied about me repeatedly in the past,
Speaker 1: landard me in the past, provable lies that she makes
Speaker 1: a wild accusation on a talk show somewhere in Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, the New York Times
Speaker 1: has called me. We want a statement. Okay, we're given
Speaker 1: the history of who this woman is and the lies,
Speaker 1: provable lies and attack she's made. Then we give him
Speaker 1: a statement about the team of lawyers and investigators I've hired.
Speaker 1: And they say, five minutes later, no things, We're not interested.
Speaker 1: We're not running the story. I haven't told that story yet.
Speaker 1: The New York Times backed off immediately, and I can
Speaker 1: tell you what happened. The writer of that column, that
Speaker 1: article brought it to their general counsel. The general counsel said,
Speaker 1: uh no, this is a lawsuit waiting to happen. No,
Speaker 1: thank you. And by the way, some of you people
Speaker 1: in the media, you might be hearing from friends of
Speaker 1: mine very very soon, very soon, sooner than you think soon.
Speaker 1: So stay tuned. I wrote that on Twitter. Do you
Speaker 1: see my tweet tonight, Linda? I always see your tweets. Boss.
Speaker 1: Thank you to all my irredeemable, deplorable friends. Stay tuned.
Speaker 1: Now you see you know you you're smiling because you
Speaker 1: think you know you don't know what I'm doing you.
Speaker 1: I haven't told you what I'm doing. Yet you're not
Speaker 1: even move And I've been here long enough to know already,
Speaker 1: don't I know before? You know? That's so annoying. It's
Speaker 1: a little annoying. It's a little annoying. All right. Let
Speaker 1: me get to UM. Let me get to the Phone's
Speaker 1: Donna Frederick Frederick Maryland is next on the Sean Hannity Show. Donna, Hi,
Speaker 1: how are you been a long time? Glad you called hi, Sean.
Speaker 1: It is such a pleasant to hear your voice. And
Speaker 1: I have been a long time listener. I remember the
Speaker 1: linn and I was not false from you at w
Speaker 1: z d X and UM and there were a lot
Speaker 1: of people I work with down there that was very
Speaker 1: fond of you. And I want to say, I'm thrilled
Speaker 1: that you're standing up for yourself. I think it's about
Speaker 1: time we hit them back. It's part of their whole
Speaker 1: useful idiot mantra. They they're like sharks that that smell
Speaker 1: blood in the water, and they're relentless. So I think
Speaker 1: it's really great you're pushing back him ard and people
Speaker 1: are behind Sean. I just look, as I said to
Speaker 1: somebody in the media, I said, oh I want some
Speaker 1: fair shot. Just take a look at us, Just look
Speaker 1: at it and then tell me, you know, put yourself
Speaker 1: in my shoes. And it's two thousand and four through
Speaker 1: Linda say in three and it's this event, and here's
Speaker 1: the history of smears, lies, presmirchment, and slander, and you
Speaker 1: tell me if And that's the frustrating thing. I mean,
Speaker 1: it would have taken a rudimentary, simple Google search. And
Speaker 1: here's here's the legal question that's that will be investigated deeply.
Speaker 1: Did the media have an obligation to do even rudimentary, simple,
Speaker 1: basic background work on one person's statement before they ran
Speaker 1: with their with their huge headline. Did they have an
Speaker 1: obligation as a member of the media, is is there
Speaker 1: a level of responsibility they should bear on allegations? Well,
Speaker 1: that might be that that might be ultimately the question
Speaker 1: we're gonna be asking in this case. I don't want
Speaker 1: to give it all the way, but I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: trying to lay the groundwork here for what is at stake.
Speaker 1: In other words, if somebody for a fifteen years smears
Speaker 1: Donna and Frederick Maryland and then that same person comes
Speaker 1: out with the scirless allegation something so outrageous that any
Speaker 1: media outlet they say, all right, we're gonna report Donna
Speaker 1: from Frederick, Maryland is accused of this. But they could
Speaker 1: have googled, and they could have done rudimentary background work.
Speaker 1: But they're too lazy and too incompetent, and too disrespectful
Speaker 1: of the truth to even bother a Google search. Do
Speaker 1: they have a responsibility before they do that? I say
Speaker 1: they do. They're desperate because it's worked for them. Think
Speaker 1: about the people that work with like Alan West and
Speaker 1: Harmony Kaine, Sarah Palin. You're just another person in the
Speaker 1: wrong line of people that they're trying its garbage on
Speaker 1: because it happens to work for them. I think those
Speaker 1: days are over. We'll see there's uh, there's there's gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot of good, interesting, fun questions that are
Speaker 1: raised here in the end. And Uh, Donna, I appreciate
Speaker 1: your kind words. God bless you. Thank you for being
Speaker 1: out there. We appreciate it. Uh. Let's get to our
Speaker 1: busy phones as we say hi to ken Is in
Speaker 1: Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Uh, listening to w f L A,
Speaker 1: what's up? Can how are you sean? Help you feeling better? Not? Yeah?
Speaker 1: But I'm getting there a little bit better, getting there
Speaker 1: getting shot. I was just calling regarding the wall. You know,
Speaker 1: this is uphill battle for Mr Trump doing what he's doing.
Speaker 1: And as you know, I live in South Florida and
Speaker 1: we don't we you know, we have in flux of
Speaker 1: Cubans coming over the on the raft constantly, which you know,
Speaker 1: I don't blame from leaving that country at the time
Speaker 1: they had to, But which is wall? I was wondering,
Speaker 1: why didn't I'm sure he has, I didn't haven't heard it.
Speaker 1: Why didn't he talk to the people already down there?
Speaker 1: Is it an alternative way of resolving the problem other
Speaker 1: than a wall? Like there's some places that wall is
Speaker 1: not to be practical where it goes across rivers and stuff.
Speaker 1: As we know, I'm it's gonna be an uphill batle
Speaker 1: no matter what for him. But we all need that.
Speaker 1: This country definitely needs some type of order control and
Speaker 1: the Coast Guard does what they can out here, and
Speaker 1: it's interesting just enforcing the laws. We've got a seventeen
Speaker 1: year low of illegal immigration, so that that's helping. But
Speaker 1: I actually think that we do need the wall, And
Speaker 1: that's my own personal opinion. I understand that it's not
Speaker 1: going to cover the entire two thousand, two hundred miles,
Speaker 1: whatever the length happens to be, but maybe a thousand
Speaker 1: of them. Maybe then other ultra security cameras. You know,
Speaker 1: there's new technology we certainly can use in areas. But
Speaker 1: having been down there myself as often as I've been,
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any doubt that you need a wall.
Speaker 1: But in order to get that wall done, it's gonna
Speaker 1: take so long to build. In the might I mean,
Speaker 1: it's already stopped a lot since he's been in office.
Speaker 1: You look at how much has already decreased, which is phenomenal.
Speaker 1: Just where I am scaring him as a new sheriff
Speaker 1: in town, the attitude. I'm just thinking, when the time being,
Speaker 1: get the ball rolling. If they can come out with
Speaker 1: there's some alternative method before the wall does get built
Speaker 1: to stop it from slowing it down the one they
Speaker 1: can and I hope the best form, and I hope
Speaker 1: it works out. I appreciate a good called. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Ken eight nine for one, Sean, you want to be
Speaker 1: a part of the program. All right, Lance, We've got
Speaker 1: about forty seconds, kr MG, what's up? Lands. How are you, hi, shown,
Speaker 1: how are you today? I'm good, sir, yours go great? Great, Well,
Speaker 1: it's a pleasure speaking to you. Thank you for all
Speaker 1: you do. I'm calling in on the wall as well.
Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of the conversation surrounding the
Speaker 1: wall has been tactical, and I think in light of
Speaker 1: the new Voice program and some of the other services
Speaker 1: that will be provided for victims families, I'd like to
Speaker 1: see the narrative shift on the wall being more of
Speaker 1: a memorial or a monument to honor the families of
Speaker 1: of the victims of violent crime. We are a nation
Speaker 1: of laws. I think that, you know, controlling that narrative
Speaker 1: and creating a symbol. So you're saying, maybe, like, honor
Speaker 1: these people that have been killed by illegal immigrants and
Speaker 1: put their name is up on the wall, correct, correct?
Speaker 1: You know, I gotta roll, But I don't think that's
Speaker 1: a bad idea, and let those parents know that that
Speaker 1: we are now that wall was built in honor of
Speaker 1: their loss, and that America is taking it seriously so
Speaker 1: other people don't need to suffer the way they have suffered.
Speaker 1: You're like, I can't imagine losing a parent this way.
Speaker 1: Like we had Steve Ronnebeck on the program yesterday and
Speaker 1: he lost his twenty one year olds Grant Renebeck, to
Speaker 1: a guy that was a criminal alien that had kidnapped
Speaker 1: and held hostage a woman for a week and was
Speaker 1: released and not supported. King Ted Copple says Sean Hannity
Speaker 1: is bad for America. Sean Hannity