Gingrich: The Criteria of a Vice Presidential Choice - 5.16
Sean sits down with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to discuss the attributes of a good Vice Presidential candidate. Trump knows he needs a Washington insider to help navigate the legislative process but Gingrich has a few other thoughts on Trump's important decision. The Sean Hannity Show is live Monday through Friday from 3pm - 6pm. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Well, the media's up to their predictable no good about how they're going to run the campaign, and this time it's the New York Times.
Now, it's almost funny because where do you hear the information I got on the New York Times?
So New York Times, it's when you print it out.
Let me see how many pages it is.
I is there a page number on this thing?
It's about twenty.
Twenty pages about how horrible Donald Trump.
The headline is crossing the line, how Donald Trump behaved with women in private.
Well, there's only one problem.
Now the women that are being quoted in the article, many now are beginning to speak out and say that they were misled by the New York Times.
They were taken out of context by the New York Times, and that it is not true what they are claiming.
And it's not even what they said.
I was watching a former model who was uh featured in this Rowan Brewer is her name.
Well, I'm sorry, Roan Brewer Lane is her name, and she was on Fox and Friends this morning.
They spun it to where it appeared negative.
I did not ever have a negative experience with Donald Trump.
She said she was taken out of context, misquoted, and spun by the New York Times in order to portray the presidential candidate in a negative light.
Now we have a woman that's coming on this program today, who's worked for many, many years with Donald Trump, and she happens to be a woman that grew up in uh war torn um where was she?
In Bosnia.
And she grew up and now she's one of Donald Trump's, became one of his best real estate sellers of all time, knows him well.
I actually met her recently, and she started telling me all these things about how great Donald Trump had treated her and she had no experience and how really turned her into a millionaire.
I mean, she sold hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars now worth of real estate.
Now the amazing thing now that these women are beginning to come out, I'm looking and I haven't found it yet.
I'm looking for the New York Times interview with Juanita Broderick.
I'm looking for the New York Times interviews.
I've got the Fox Brain Room working on all these things.
We actually have a brain room when you need background information, things facts checked, etc., they do a good job.
I'm looking for the interview with Willie.
I'm looking for the interview with Paula Jones.
I'm looking for the case study about crossing the line how Bill Clinton behaved with women in private.
How Hillary helped enable smear campaigns against any woman that dared to speak out against Bill.
Now, if they want to go there, I actually think this helps Trump.
Because the person and the people that we know that have been responsible for the abuse of women come from the Clintons.
On top of what we reported last Friday, which was the Clinton Foundation pays women 38% less than what they pay men.
Now there's a funny little side note to all of this is that the New York Times, which is doing all this digging and is so outraged, and they appropriated 20 pages, they have their own little problems when it comes to women.
Their own problems when it comes to race.
Their own problems when it comes to issues involving the age of their employees, because you know, if you interview the dozens of women who encountered Donald Trump and the unsettling conduct that they say took place, well, there's a great contradiction that has now emerged.
Now the New York Times accuses Trump of upending commentary of on the female form, a shrewd reliance on ambitious women, unsettling workplace conduct.
You know, you know what it means in most cases now unsettling workplace conduct?
Oh, I like your haircut.
Oh, you look really nice today.
Oh, you're really, you know, that is really you you look so great.
That's a lawsuit today.
So don't any of you in there ever tell me I look good.
Not that you ever would.
Yeah.
You know, what about Jason and his Mohawk?
I talk about Jason's Mohawk all the time when we do Dollarshape Club dot com.
I mean, he has a mohawk.
It stands out.
I like his Mohawk.
I think it looks really, really good, Jason, and I'm not hitting on you.
You know, what?
Well, I'm not gonna sue you.
I mean, geez, it's nice to be appreciated once in a while.
Exactly.
I mean, is it a bad thing if I say, oh, you look real I love that new hairstyle.
Looks really good.
Wow, you look great.
So proud of you.
Can't say these things anymore.
How did Howard Stern go all these years and him not get sued?
That's a great question, right?
We probably have to sign a nondisclosure as soon as you walk in that studio.
Anyway, so but if you look at the New York Times, the paper record, well, they don't mention mention a whole bunch of things.
Now, it does not say that a mere 18 days earlier on April 28, 2016, not four decades ago, as they keep going back, the New York Times was accused in a federal lawsuit filed of not only sexism but racism and ageism to boot.
Well, I have the cases in front of me.
I mean, should we put the New York Times on trial today?
Because in April of this year, a 62-year-old Ernestine Grant, 61-year-old Marjorie Walker, who happened to be black, sued the New York Times, alleging discrimination based on age, race, and gender.
Now they claim that the New York Times CEO has been letting a lot of older advertising directors, quote, of color go and replacing those employees with younger and white individuals.
The two women also claim they were paid less and given less free time than the younger white employees.
They also had another suit this year back in February about Arlie Davis, former NY New York Times ad executive, claimed she was belittled and eventually let go after taking a four-month leave of absence.
Oh, she had her baby.
Linda, did we treat you well when you had your baby?
Did you not have a you an entire apartment filled with baby junk?
I don't mean to call it junk, but to me it's junk.
I got you everything but one thing on your list.
You can put your mic on, right?
Yeah.
And what did I tell you when when you were ready to come back?
What did I tell you?
Take all the time you need.
And what else did I say?
Your family's the most important thing.
And what else did I say?
We'll survive without you.
And I well, I'm meaning that you could take all the time you needed, and I don't even have a clue how much time you took.
I'd said whatever you I'm still not back.
All right.
And the other thing I said, I actually said to you, you're crazy if you come back that I give you permission to what?
Work from home.
Work from home any day you want.
Right?
I don't have to do that, do I?
No.
You know why?
Because I know you'd get your job done wherever you are.
But you just like to yell at people in person rather than.
Especially you.
Especially, yeah.
But honestly, this is the New York Times.
That's how we treat our employees.
We're a family here.
But they don't do that.
You know, when you were away, everybody stepped up.
Everybody did their job.
Everybody filled the gap, filled the void.
You're irreplaceable, but you know what I mean when I say that.
And but this is the New York Times.
And it's case after case.
Let's go.
So those are two lawsuits just alone for 2016.
Years only getting started.
Then we can go back to 2015, and you've got Tracy, I don't know how to say the last name, claim that she was fired by uh this woman, Meredith Levian, as part of a September 2013 downsizing and let go of predominantly older and minority employees at the New York Times.
Also alleges that her problems started when they failed to take action regarding a junior level male staffer who refused to follow her instructions and would only respond to instructions from male superiors.
Well, a lot of discrimination going on at the New York Times.
Let's see.
Also 2015.
Well, they get sued a lot.
In April, two lawsuits in April of 2015.
Uh Casablanca, Joe Clausablanca, filed a handwritten complaint against his employer, the New York Times, claiming disability discrimination.
The case was dismissed, and Casablanca apparently later filed a similar claim in a state court, which was dismissed.
But you know what?
They've got I got one, two, three, four, five pages of lawsuits, all alleging similar things about racism, sexism, discrimination based on age, race, and gender.
All happening at the New York Times.
But they had I didn't see that 20-page piece on their own conduct on their own lawsuits on their own company.
Are they gonna put a front page retraction quoting this woman?
Uh Rowan Brewer Lane saying that they spun her comments, took them out of context, that she had never had a negative experience with Donald Trump.
Are they going to put her comment?
Are they going to interview the women that have had great experiences with Donald Trump?
When where are the pieces on Hillary Clinton?
And Bill Clinton.
Where's the full front page feature on the women that were abused by Bill?
And Hillary was she an enabler.
Where's that piece?
Where's the Juanita interview?
The Willie interview?
The Paula Jones interview.
I've interviewed all those women.
Every one of them I believed.
Every one of them was credible.
And every one of them suffered consequences for daring to come forward.
And everyone was smeared and everyone was intimidated and everyone was besmirched and everyone was slandered.
And in the case of Paula Jones, she got $850,000 in a settlement.
Oh, well, New York Times didn't report that.
Anyway, so just be prepared.
This is the beginning of the media doing what they always do.
The same media that never asked Barack Obama, hey, Barack, why did you start your political career in the home of an unrepentant terrorist?
Why did you sit on boards with an unrepentant terrorist?
Why did you give speeches with an unrepentant terrorist?
Why did you lie and say he was just some guy in the neighborhood like you didn't even know the guy, Bill Ayers?
Where was the New York Times expose on Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dorn, The Weather Underground, and their friendship with then candidate Barack Hussein Obama?
They didn't have it because the media, the New York Times, is full of crap and they're biased, and to get their story out, their narrative out, it's clear based on these women that are now coming forward that they had to lie to write their 20 pages.
And they have no credibility based on the lawsuits against them.
And the fact that there's a double standard.
This is just par for the course with the media.
And they want to create an impression.
All right, Donald Trump has said some things about women that he shouldn't have said.
So let's go out and make it bigger.
Twenty pages worth of bigger.
Well, what about interviewing the other women that say he was nice to them and advanced their careers and that he was a tough boss but a fair boss?
Where are those people?
You're not going to hear that.
It just is so predictable.
Um how Donald Trump behaved with women in private.
How the New York Times treats women, people of color, and older people.
I want to see that expose.
I don't think that's coming out.
Now, I will say another issue that has kicked in here.
Um, and that is you've got a band of Republicans, including Mitt Romney, Bill Crystal, and Ben Sass that seem to be hell bent.
They've commissioned private polling, they're lining up fundraisers and fundraising sources.
They're courting potential contenders.
I know that John Kasich has been called.
I know that Senator Sass has been encouraged to do it himself.
Um Kasich has told me personally he will not even consider it.
Rhin's previs has said that this idea to run third party is a suicide mission that would wreck the United States for generations.
I would agree with that assessment.
I just think it's a reality check for everybody here.
Mitt Romney got our full support.
I still to this day think he would have been a good president.
Why is he doing this now?
Because he why?
I just don't I don't understand.
Is it Trump's position?
Is it just his demeanor and his delivery and what?
Does Mitt Romney not agree with his economic package and pursuing a balanced budget?
Does he not like the health care savings accounts?
Does he not like energy independence?
Does he really think Hillary would do a good job of picking Supreme Court justices?
You think the Democrats are gonna fix the VA?
Are the Democrats gonna build up our military?
Are the Democrats gonna build a wall?
Are the Democrats gonna give education back to the states?
Are the Democrats gonna do any energy independence?
No.
So why?
You know, there's another story out today that never Trump Republicans approach Mark Cuban about a third party run.
Now in Nebraska, Ben Sass, we supported Ben Sass for a Senate run.
Then he acted like a jackass when he saw me at an event.
I had no idea who the guy was.
Come running up to me.
You're lying about me.
You're full of shh.
And I said, Well, who are you?
What did I say?
And he goes, I'm Ben Sass.
I'm a senator from Nebraska.
And I said, Well, what did I say that is so angered you, Senator?
And they said, You said I'm voting for Hillary.
I said, No.
I said, you saying you're not voting for the nominee is a half a vote for Hillary.
And I stand by that.
Now he's thinking about running third party.
Which what did I say the other day?
Didn't I say the other day?
I suspect he has political ambitions.
Anyway, delegates to the state Republican convention in Nebraska had a near unanimous reprimand for SAS for his outspoken support of this never Trump movement.
And um anyway, they passed a voice vote reprimand, which a reporter at the event said it was at least 400 to eight.
It was so lopsided.
So how's that working for you, Ben?
Obviously, the people in Nebraska, you're out of touch with them.
You know, this is the thing here.
It's not that people are supporting Sean Hannity's choice.
I didn't have a choice.
I didn't even vote in the Republican nominating process.
I didn't vote.
All I did was give people access.
The people made a decision.
It's really contempt for people that these politicians are showing their contempt for.
They're angry.
You think things are bad in the Republican Party?
Let's listen to Barbara Boxer and Nevada Democrats booing after she called for party unity.
Listen to this.
I bring a message from Bernie Sanders.
Yes!
And I bring a message from Hillary Clinton.
We need civility in the Democratic Party.
Civility.
Because the whole future of the country is at stake.
Now when you boo me, you're booing Bernie Sanders.
Go ahead.
You're booing Bernie Sanders.
Bernie is my friend.
You want to boo Bernie?
Boo me.
Go on.
Come on.
Okay.
You're booing Bernie.
Let's hear it for Hillary Clinton.
All right.
We have to vote.
We have the voice.
We have victory.
Yay!
Senator Barbara Boxer from California.
You know something?
I grew up in Brooklyn.
I am not afraid of bullies.
I'm for Hillary Clinton.
But she's for all of us.
So keep on booing and boo yourselves down in this election.
Go ahead.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We had our Nevada Caucus and Hillary Clinton won.
We had our Nevada Caucus.
And Hillary Clinton got the support of the Hispanic community of women.
Of the Cena workers.
And Hillary Clinton won!
I can say that.
This is just I could almost play that again.
That was so delicious.
That was so good.
Those are Democrats.
Those aren't even Republicans.
Booing her off the stage.
Now, Roberta Lang, the uh chairwoman of the Nevada st uh state Democratic Party called for a voice vote.
Anyway, she called for the vo voice vote, and the crowd curses after she adjourned and left.
Listen to this.
All over the papers say hi.
The meeting's all the same.
This connection is concluded.
We have finished all of it.
What the f*** was that?
*Sigh*
What?
Wow.
That was great.
I love that.
Which party needs to unify now?
Forget Paul Ryan and the little sit-down with Donald Trump.
Who cares?
That is unbelievable.
Because they feel rightly so.
If you're a Democrat and you like Bernie Sanders, the socialist angry curmudgeon, the old guy from Vermont.
I was going to say old, you know what, but I didn't say that.
I stopped myself.
Anyway, if you like him, you're pissed because the whole system is rigged and corrupt.
It just is.
It's a fact.
You know, I just put together a Hillary pack today.
And, you know, one was a New York Post editorial about the Clinton sleaze never ends, and this is their for-profit company controlled by the candidates' longtime friends.
This is this is the money going to the energizer, the girlfriend that was, you know, literally money from the charity doled out millions to a for-profit company going into the hands of the energizer, the friend company associated with Bill's girlfriend.
You know, it's there's so much stuff out there.
We haven't even talked about apparently Bill Clinton took more trips than anyone knew on the Lolita Express.
Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted pedophile guy from Florida.
Well, apparently Bill used to ditch the Secret Service to jump on the plane that had the young girls on it.
But I'm sure he was behaving based on his history.
I'm sure he was well behaved.
I'm sure that bed in the plane had nothing to do with him ever.
Now the State Department has redacted Hillary's Wienergate emails.
Why would they do that?
On the same day, Anthony Wiener's spokesman unwittingly lied to the media that the former New York Congressman's social media accounts were hacked after he tweeted a lewd photo of himself.
Hillary and uh and Wiener's wife, Uma, had a personal family email conversation, which was redacted.
Well, I thought they turned over all the emails.
They have no problem with us seeing all these things.
Yeah, violence erupting this weekend between Hillary and Bernie factions at this Nevada Democratic convention.
I mean, it showed a fist fight breaking out between Hillary and Bernie backers.
That's how bad it is.
There's a story about this woman, this Julie Talburg McMahon, the friend of Bill's co-owner of an energy firm that was pledged two million dollars by his charity, and they also got money from the U.S. government for crying out loud.
Oh, and at the convention this weekend in Nevada?
Oh, yeah, delegates, they needed a medic because of the injuries.
Um, I don't think Donald Trump is gonna do a darn thing to hold back when it comes to Hillary.
And all of you that supported other candidates that didn't like Donald Trump attacking your candidate, I think you'll probably like it when he goes after Hillary Hard.
Is another story out there about Sally Miller, Hillary and her coke abot.
I have no idea if that's any truth to that.
Dolly Kyle Browning, I interviewed her years ago.
She talks about Bill being a sex addict that may have had as many as 2,000 women.
Hillary Clinton is not only an enabler, she's a terrorist who terrorizes her husband's alleged lovers and women who accuse him of a sexual assault.
And she said she had a long-running affair with Bill Clinton.
I interviewed her years ago, too.
I didn't forget about Dolly Kyle Browning.
Now Hillary's trying to cash in on Bill's good name and say, well, he's gonna run the he's gonna run the economy.
My husband, who I'm gonna put in charge of revitalizing the economy, because you know he knows how to do it, and um, it's like a co-pecially in places like coal country and inner cities and other let's go to coal country.
Didn't she tell the people in West Virginia that she's gonna shut down coal mining companies?
I'm the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity using clean renewable energy as the key into coal country.
Because we're gonna put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.
Oh, we're going to put coal miners and coal companies out of business.
And then she's got apparently 100, more than 100 million dollars by these regimes like Qatar and Oman and Kuwait and the UAE and, of course, the Saudis.
And she's been totally silent on the issue of how they mistreat women and other minorities.
You know, you can't even build a church or a temple in Saudi Arabia.
It's illegal.
Hillary Clinton ever speak out.
No, she took their money.
That's what she ever talk about women's rights.
No, she took their money.
It's unbelievable.
The Clinton Foundation.
Well, they they greased the wheels in 2010 for a Canadian businesswoman to make two million dollars of financial commitment to this green energy company.
Twenty-nine percent owned by Bill Clinton's girlfriend in Chappaqua.
Even Lincoln Chafey finally said it that Hillary's too corrupt to be president.
Andy McCarthy had an interesting piece out as the fix in as it relates to the Clinton email scandal.
Well, if you listen to Sidney Blumenthal, you would think it is.
You know, she has all these weaknesses, and everyone's worried about Republicans.
Republicans need to unite behind a contract.
This is the contract that I would have.
Balance the budget.
Stop stealing from our kids.
Repeal Obamacare, replace with health care savings accounts.
Build up our nation's military so we have a military deterrent once again.
Take care of America's veterans, and who've been screwed over by this government.
Make a manage America energy independent.
That means drilling, fracking, and coal, and all of the above while you search for new sources of energy.
Build the wall.
Education, get rid of common core, and give it back to the states.
Maybe they should include term limits in this whole thing.
Maybe we can also, as part of the ten items, make ISIS and radical Islam is America's enemies, and nothing will be we will stop at nothing to defeat our enemy.
Why don't we add that in the contract?
Isn't that something that every Republican should be able to run on?
Not that hard.
The New York Times bombshell again against Donald Trump this weekend and his mistreatment of women.
Well, now all these women are beginning to speak out.
We have one of them that's going to join us on this program and one that's going to be on Hannity tonight.
I think that's pretty good.
Obama, apparently, House Republican is accusing Obama of covering up.
Remember our U.S. Navy sailors were taken by the Iranian Navy and they boarded their patrol boat and took them hostage.
Well, the Washington Free Beacon pointed out today the classified details of Iran's treatment of several U.S. sailors who are captured during this tenth standoff earlier this year would shock the nation, according to one member of the House Armed Services Committee who disclosed it to the Washington Free Beacon.
Those details have been kept secret by the Obama administration.
Congressman Randy Forbes told the Free Beacon in an interview that the Obama administration is keeping the details of this incident under wraps.
It could be a year or longer before the American public gets a full accounting of the incident in which several U.S. sailors were abducted at gunpoint by the Iranian military.
I guess these are our friends, Obama's friends, the mullahs in Iran, the number one state sponsors of terror.
Thank you.
Unbelievable.
You know, after thinking of a lot about this over the weekend, Washington Post had a story.
And it said Hillary Clinton's declining personal image, ongoing battle to break free of the challenge from Bernie Sanders and her struggle to adapt to an anti-establishment mood among voters this year have become caution signs for her campaign and the focus of new efforts to fortify her position as she prepares for a bruising general election.
Then the story goes on and says more than a dozen Clinton allies identified weaknesses in her candidacy that may erode her prospects of defeating Donald Trump, including poor showings with young women, her untrustworthiness, her unlikability, her lackluster style on the stump.
Well, I've been telling you this for over a year, that she is at best, and this is me being charitable, a mediocre politician, but she's not even that.
Quote, I bring it down to one thing and one thing only, and that's likeability, said Peter Hart, Democratic polster, who conducted a series of focus groups for the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
And it comes down to likability, and Hillary Clinton just is not very likable, and that is the great millstone around her neck in this election.
Hillary's husband, Bill, by the way, was likable.
Not by everyone for sure, and not many conservatives, but the American people liked him or like parts of him.
They found him engaging, energetic, charming, and at times persuasive.
Now, to be clear, I had my problems with him, but I understand that not everyone sees things as I do, but Hillary is another matter entirely.
She comes across as inauthentic, cold, distant, calculating, unprincipled, Hectoring, and abrasive.
Well, those are all things we pointed out.
So nobody likes her.
So she should be easily beaten.
It's gotten so bad this weekend with the with everything that went on in Nevada that the Democrats are scared to death that that chaos could lead to riots in Philly.
You guys excited to go to the conventions this year, so if you got in your rooms yet?
Who's going?
Anybody?
Any of you going?
Nobody?
I'm going alone?
Sweet Baby James is going.
That's it.
That's the only person from radio.
Sweet baby.
Unbelievable.
All right, uh and that's it.
You guys are worried about Mr. Ninja.
You should be able to handle all those marauders.
You know who I'm bringing with me, don't you?
Do you have any idea?
I'm pleased enlighten us.
I'm bringing my sensei with me.
I'm bringing my martial arts teacher with me.
And we're gonna be training every day and getting ready.
You know what it's gonna be like?
When I go down, remember I've done this in past years.
I've gone down to the convention floor with cameras.
I've been spat at.
I've been, you know, somebody they d they do try things down there.
But I'm usually surrounded by groups of people.
They're called bodyguards that we bring down there.
But I I go down there, I talk to the people.
I'll talk to any Democrat.
I'll tell I'll even give them the questions ahead of time.
Name one thing that Hillary Clinton has done to make the lives of the American people better.
Go.
Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da.
You know how funny that's gonna be.
And then what's gonna happen is somebody's gonna be watching and they're gonna get angry and they're gonna want to lash out.
Good thing I've been training.
Good thing I'm now moving towards my black belt.
What's the matter there, Sunshine?
You know that I told you I could take you out in thirty seconds or less.
I could take you down and just just take it in.
I could take you down in ten seconds.
Ten.
You you don't know what you're in for if you keep this up.
You just what am I in for?
What am I, a bond villain?
I'm gonna tell you what I'm gonna do before I do it.
Just do your read, man.
You're getting on my nerves.
Wow.
Jason's getting hostile in his old age.
There's been a lot of speculation.
Don't give me that lot about you writing.
I thought you were above this.
No, I'm not above it.
This is what I do for a living.
I and I know you didn't think I was above it.
There's a lot of speculation that he is going to ask you to be his running mate.
Now, if he asked you, you're certainly going to say yes.
Well, if you ask me, I'm certainly going to say I want to sit down and talk about it.
I don't think it's an automatic yes.
I think you have to think through what what does he think the job involves?
And if he indicates, as I'm sure he would, you're going to play a big role.
She can consolidate me that it's doable and that it's serious and that we would in fact contribute.
I think we'd be very hard-pressed not to say yes.
Would you like to do it?
I don't know.
We're premiering a new movie on Washington about Vernon Friday night.
Uh we have a new book coming out, Rediscovering God in America this week.
So we're pretty busy, but we could probably be we could be lured into a new path.
I was gonna say you could try you could dread the vice presidency in and the house isn't bad either.
Mr. Speaker, always a pleasure to talk with you.
All right, that was Fox News Sunday and former speaker of the House, New Kingrich, hour two, Sean Hannity Show, right down our toll free telephone number.
It's 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Well, you showed up number one, not only in the poll on Hannity.com, but you're most mentioned on social media for that position of anybody else.
So it's not just uh an old friend of yours that happens to be swaying his audience as you suggested on TV the other night.
Well, look, first of all, just uh sort of set the record straight.
Clist and I are very excited this week, both because we have a new edition of our book Rediscovering God in America coming out to uh that walks you through the Washington monuments and shows you how they each one relates to God.
And second, because Friday night, with your help, we are at Mount Vernon uh having a premiere of our film The First American about George Washington, and uh he's really the first great revolutionary.
So when people look at Trump or at Sanders, if they want to see the real deal, George Washington is the guy who spent eight years in the field making this country independent.
And then uh chaired the Constitutional Convention and then became president for eight years, and it's a sign of what it takes to really change things.
Well, I I took your answer as being very serious.
Um I'm pretty convinced that Marco Rubio's Facebook page has taken away any chance that he would be the nominee.
I've spoken to John Kasich.
I don't he has no interest in the job whatsoever.
He was actually being courted by Mitt Romney and Ben Sass and Bill Kristol over the issue of recruiting a Republican to run third party.
Uh what do you make of what Romney and Crystal and Sass are doing?
Well, I mean, I I don't want to speak about uh SAS because I don't know what he's doing right to right now.
I think uh in Romney's case there's some kind of deep uh bitterness that that is um I've never seen anything quite like it.
I mean, maybe if you go back to nineteen thirty six when uh the former Democratic nominee for President Al Smith, former governor of New York, um came out against Roosevelt because he thought Roosevelt was too liberal.
I mean, maybe you could use that analogy, but there's there's an element of bitterness and almost hysteria in what uh Romney's doing that I really don't understand.
Um and in Christal's case, you know, I mean, he's he's an intellectual.
He's a guy who has ideas and lives on ideas, and uh there's nothing practical about what he's doing.
I mean, the most it would do is help elect uh Hillary.
Uh and I am absolutely totally opposed to anything which uh puts Hillary and the uh Clinton slush fund and Bill Clinton in positions of power.
You know, let's go through the whole process though of selecting a vice president.
I think the main criteria needs to be uh is the person qualified to be president, God forbid if something should happen to the president.
That's first and foremost.
Then there are political considerations.
We'd be lying if there aren't.
You you might look at a swing state like Ohio or Florida and say, okay, well, maybe I need to look geographically to shore up the base and and maybe they can help win a state for a particular candidate.
You know, others think about, well, maybe you gotta look along gender or ethnic lines because that might help the ticket bring certain demographics into into the voting booth.
To me, um I think the criteria should be this.
Who's gotten the job done in the past?
And they really have been two conservative movements in m in the modern era.
It was the eight years Reagan was president, and the five years you were Speaker of the House.
You brought Republicans to power for the first time in forty years.
You ran on a contract, a written promise, ten items that you would fulfill in the first hundred days.
You fulfilled that promise.
Sixty percent, sixty-five percent of Republicans in every exit poll now feel betrayed.
You ended up with a balanced budget, welfare reform, and you know, I'm sure you have other issues you'd like to highlight as your success.
Nobody else has ever done that.
So on in terms of qualifications, and frankly, intelligence and a knowledge of history, I don't I don't know anybody better qualified than you.
Well, look, first of all, you're very flattering and you're a very good friend.
Uh, you know, and I think I think you sort of have the criteria down right.
I I guess I would add to that some kind of being sympathetical with the candidate.
I think uh, you know, Cheney and Bush had a really good uh bond.
Uh Gore and Clinton seemed to really get together well.
Biden and uh Obama seem to get together well.
So there's a certain virtue, I think also in some kind of personal chemistry.
Um, you know, I think that uh that depends on what Trump is.
First of all, everybody needs to understand this isn't about what is New Gingrich want or what is Sean Hannity want, etcetera.
In the end, one person and only one person will make this decision.
That's Donald Trump.
And he's got to reach inside himself and think about uh this is the first really big decision he makes that defines his presidency, uh, in a way that now that he's won the nomination.
Uh so it's a it's a pretty big fundamental decision about what does he want to do.
Um he has some very competent people.
I mean, one thing maybe to offset this whole issue about women and Hillary Clinton and what have you might be to go for uh Governor Brewer of Arizona or go for uh the governor of of Oklahoma.
I mean the number of smart people out there uh who could certainly do the job, uh a number of whom would would I think be willing to serve as vice president.
So Jan Brewer might be one, but I know that Susanna Martinez has been a critic.
I know Nikki Haley has been a critic.
I would say and none of them uh rise to your lever level in terms of a track record of success or stature.
I mean, he really is going to need somebody that can bridge the gap with with Washington Republicans, senators and and congressmen, right?
Well, I think that it's and he himself has said Trump has said that he wants an insider for that reason.
He knows that his weakness is that he uh doesn't have the ties in Washington that he needs in order to govern effectively.
So I think he would be sympathetic to that same argument, frankly.
Um the you know, and and again, I'm I'm gonna do everything I can to help elect the team.
I'm gonna do everything I can to make sure that Hillary Clinton does not get to pick a single Supreme Court judge.
Uh I think that Hillary getting elected would be a catastrophe for the country.
She'd bring a level of corruption and a level of dishonesty into the White House, unlike anything we've ever seen before, and I think that it would really be extraordinarily bad for America.
So I'm you know, I'm out here as a good soldier doing everything I can, and we'll we'll find out.
But the but I think you know, you can't crowd Trump.
He has to decide what he wants, and the rest of us ought to try to help him.
Let me point out a poll that came out by Rasmussen, and and I want to get your reaction to it.
Nearly forty-seven percent of GOP voters now believe the Republican Party should be more like Trump than Paul Ryan.
Thirty-two percent disagree and say the GOP should be more like Ryan, seventeen percent opt for neither.
Uh when you add that to the number I just mentioned before, that sixty-five percent on average in exit polls think the Republican Party in DC failed them.
How do you interpret that?
And how do you get trust back?
Well, I th I think what it says uh, one level is that uh, you know, people are really fed up with Washington and and as bright as he is, and he's extraordinarily bright, um, you know, Paul Ryan to some extent gets gets weakened by the fact that he's you know, he's in Washington.
And I think no speaker of the House can take on the uh majority leader of their own party and be effective in taking him on because it's just not it's not conceivable.
It's not the way the world works.
Well, I just think you know, the couple of things that I think we sometimes you don't have to reinvent the wheel.
And back at the end of 2013, I thought it would be a good idea if Republicans actually ran on ideas.
And I put together, and I think I sent it to you at the time.
I think you're pretty aware of my conservative solution caucus that I put together.
Nobody took me up on my idea, which was that put these ideas, make these promises, put them on paper, sign your name to it, and then when you get elected, get the things done.
And they had ran most for the most part in 2014 on the idea they'd repeal and replace Obama's illegal and unconstitutional executive amnesty, and they ended up funding it.
Why not make another contract with America?
And here's what I think Trump's contract would be.
I think to get our budget imbalance.
I think the penny plan is it could be part of it, a balanced budget amendment could be part of it.
Health savings accounts, which he told me he likes to replace Obamacare.
Energy independence could be a part of it.
Uh getting rid of common core and sending education back to the states can be part of it.
Building the wall could be part of it.
Negotiating b better trade deals can be part of it.
Transforming the VA to fulfill a promise to America's veterans could be part of it.
Building up America's military can be part of it.
Um and again, I'm I'm looking for like ten solid items where I would think Paul Ryan and and Donald Trump and every Republican could support these are 80-20 issues to me.
Well, I I think that uh something along the line is exactly right.
I think it ought to emerge in September.
I I wouldn't try to write it now.
I think it should grow out of the platform but be simpler, shorter, clearer than the platform, and I think it could have a significant impact.
You know, I just think that's one way you can gain back trust, and here's the other benefit of that.
I remember long before you ever became speaker, long before the election to I I was there the night you became speaker.
I was em seeing your event.
But you came up with ideas and the ideas were the foundation of the contract and you did a series of tapes renewing American civilization.
I still have them.
And that became the contract with America.
Is that a fair statement?
Yes.
And then it was you know, it that we grew it out of that, but we also spent a long time working with all the various folks and and uh developing uh support across the board for what we were doing.
I mean it was not you know, this was not just a one time deal.
And I think the result was uh that when we did come out with it, people had a real feeling that they could trust us, that they knew it was getting into, and that they were pretty darn enthusiastic about it.
Well, and I think you know, I've spent a lot of time on the radio now, and the ten items or eight items I just mentioned, and I have two more, but I won't bore you with them, but I think those ideas are ideas that I would think every conservative would support.
And then it becomes somewhat puzzling to me that Paul Ryan, you know, still was withholding his endorsement of Donald Trump.
And I'm like, I don't understand why.
Is he support it's what what is Donald Trump need to go to Washington and kiss his ring five times until they'll finally offer an endorsement?
Well, I th look I think uh that uh they I in fact I know that they had meetings today, uh at the staff level, I know that they are aggressively working together.
Uh I believe actually it's useful.
Remember the the the convention is not for another two months, and the election is not till three months after that.
Well we have a little time here to take a deep breath, work with each other.
Uh everything is toned down, no you know, Ryan's you know, being positive and and uh uh at the same time Trump's being positive and they both have people working to sort out at a very practical real level.
What would it be like if Trump wins and serves for eight years?
What would it be like to actually work with the Ryan speakership to get things done?
Well, that that's not a bad exercise to have them go.
All right, but look, I was born with a sense of urgency that I know others don't have, so forgive me for being a little impatient.
You know, one other idea that I think might be useful to the Trump campaign, and actually I interviewed Trump last week and he kind of agreed with this.
He's gonna name the the pool of jud judges that and only from that pool would he s pick a Supreme Court justice.
And I I think they're putting that list together from what I hear.
Um what about saying that well, I've talked to Rudy Giuliani and he'll be the Secretary of Homeland Security and I talked to Chris Christie and he'd be the attorney general and he'd prosecute Hillary if if it was warranted, and uh Newt Gingrich is the VP and Men Carson is the you know, I I guess Secretary of Health and Human Services and Nicky Haley is this and Bobby Gendal is this and Rick Perry is that and run as an all-star team.
And nobody's ever done it before, but I think it would be a good idea.
What do you think?
I think it's a good idea in in in in general, and I think if you look at you know, Bush did a little bit of it in two thousand with uh he announced uh Condi Rice for National Security Advisor and he announced Colin Powell for Secretary of State because he really did feel like he had to shore up his foreign policy.
I think there are a couple of things like this that Trump could do that would be uh pretty effective and would communicate the quality of people and the seriousness that he's gonna bring to the game and would give him a bunch of surrogates who could go out and go around the country.
Are you ready to give up this life of luxury that you have to be vice president?
Because I know you travel a lot.
I know that you've got a pretty good life.
Look, we don't have a life of luxury, but we do have a life of you know, real of real opportunities to go interesting places uh and giving that up for you know again, serving the country is a big deal.
It really is.
I served for my dad served for twenty-seven years in the infantry.
I you know, I I served for twenty years in the house, and I take very seriously as you know, doing a lot of things that are that I do for free in order to be.
That's true.
That's true.
That that's particularly in national security.
And you promised that if you become vice president, you'll do my show once a week.
That's a fair deal.
I can't hear you.
Did you say yes?
I didn't think you were incorrigible.
You're I really am incorrigible.
I'm awful.
You are.
I'm totally I'm shocked you only asked for once a week.
Hey, but you know what my my mother my mother swore, because I wasn't corrigible as a kid that I was either going to be successful or in jail.
So far so good.
So far I haven't been to jail yet.
All right, Mr. Speaker, God bless you.
Thank you for being with us.
I don't like anything about the story.
I'm very upset with the New York Times article because It was completely misleading.
They misled me.
They took parts of what I said in at least a two hour interview that they did exclusively with me and spun it and put a negative connotation on what I was saying.
I'm very displeased with the way that it came out.
They promised me time and time over again that the piece would not be a hit piece, that it was just merely each person's explanation of how they had interactions with Donald, what we you know, what I thought of him, and I made it very clear many times that um I had a very pleasant relationship with Donald and that I never felt like I was being, you know, depicted as you know a piece of meat or anything like that.
I was never offended by anything that he had said.
Um he was never anything more than a gentleman, a very, very good guy.
We had good times together, we had, you know, he was very genuine, he was very gentlemanly, and if you were to read that article, you would think that I felt otherwise.
And I don't think it's fair to me.
And I don't think it's fair to him, honestly.
You say misleading, and they're in and they they spun your words in a negative way.
Did they get anything wrong, or do you think or do you just not like the way it was depicted?
Well, they only took very small bits of my sentences and put them in a way like for instance when I said that Donald said, now that's a stunning Trump girl.
My next sentence was I was very flattered by that comment.
And that's not what it says in the article.
So the New York Times does a hit piece on Donald Trump crossing the line how Donald Trump behaved with women in private.
Well, now the women that were quoted by the New York Times, if you take out the printed version of this thing, it's like 18 pages.
It's ridiculous.
That was model Rowan Lane who was saying, no, they took they misled the public.
That's not what I said.
That's not who I know.
That's not the person that I had experiences with.
And apparently many other women are now coming out and saying it's absolutely positively false, and it raises questions once again about the New York Times.
Why are they doing this?
They're trying to do this because the Clintons, when it comes to issues of women, have major problems, especially with Bill Clinton and the enabler Hillary Clinton.
And Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton is out there, you know, smearing and slandering and besmirching him, watching the smearing and slandering and besmirching of women that make accusations against Bill Clinton.
So the New York Times has their own issues.
Now, by the way, in light of this front page story uh of you know, we look at the New York Times, well, they have been sued numerous times for sexism and racism and age-ism.
The so-called paper of record.
You know, so how you know, how did this happen?
Well, it's called a hit piece.
It's called biased journalism.
It's called an abusively biased news media.
I warned you in two thousand and seven and two thousand and eight that journalism is dead.
This is yet but the latest example of it.
You know, you have I have a lot of lawsuits, for example, for the New York Times.
You have uh a case in April of this year where a sixty-two-year-old woman and and a sixty-two-year-old man who are black suing the New York Times because of discrimination based on age, race, and gender.
And then we have February of this year.
You have this guy, Ariel Davies, who New York Times ad executive claims she, excuse me, she was belittled and eventually let go after taking a four-month leave of absence after having a baby.
Ooh, I thought only conservatives did these horrible things.
Then you have October of last year.
You have a woman fired uh as part of, quote, downsizing that predominantly let go older and minority employees.
Oh.
Well, they're getting sued there too.
And then they got other lawsuits from last year.
And it goes on and on, one after another.
Racism, sexism, ageism.
The New York Times is nobody to lecture anybody.
Now the question is, did they open themselves up to a potential libel suit?
Although I'm sure it's so hard to prove libel and absence of malice and all those other issues.
Who knows?
Anyway, joining us now is Sonata Azom, who's with us.
Uh Sonata, I had the pleasure of meeting you fairly recently uh at an event, and uh you know Mr. Trump very well.
Yes, I actually worked for Trump International from 2003 until 2007 and as VP of marketing for many of his projects I have extensive professional experience um with Mr. Trump.
In the short time I I had a chance to speak to you, I was extraordinarily impressed.
Um you're one of the top selling real estate agents in all of New York City, isn't that true?
New York City and Florida, actually, because I realize that it's the same type of clientele that I used to market to and sell uh while working at Trump International and they're both in in New York and Florida.
Yeah, and you've overcome and and you've sold hundreds of millions of dollars worth of homes and condos.
And what makes your story so phenomenal is that you started your career in a you started your life in a war zone and you were able to escape that and come to America and and prove yourself successful.
It's an amazing story.
Tell us about it.
Thank you so much.
Yes, now I'm dealing with ultra high net worth clients and selling millions and actually hundreds of millions of dollars worth of real estate.
But uh I came from Sarajevo, Bosnia.
I lived through the war over there and um at the end of the war was lucky enough to win an academic scholarship and came to study in the United States.
After school, I was in finance in New York and had an opportunity to help a friend do this extensive research project that was analyzing Florida as the next market for Mr. Trump and the real estate development aspect of the company.
So at the end of it, I got called in and got hired, um, went from financial analyst to VP of marketing running four different projects.
So it was it's it's a good one.
Well, tell us about so how many years have you been working with and for Mr. Trump?
Well, I worked there from um mid-2003 until end of 2006.
Um I was in charge of hundreds of people, be it contractors or people who worked for different Trump international projects, and it was a great experience because it actually launched my career in real estate, and everything that I've accomplished today in real estate was due to the lessons that I've learned there and the experience that I gained.
Is it true that Mr. Trump uh promotes women at a very high level, that he gives them positions of power and and pay equity and all the other things that he has talked about on the campaign trail?
It's absolutely true.
And I can tell you that as a woman, and in my case, I'm an immigrant, I had the same access to opportunities as anyone else.
What I did have that most other people didn't have was extreme dedication and hard work because as a war survivor, you look at life very differently.
You're really committed and you know that you don't have that safety net where you have to produce, you have to perform, and in Mr. Trump's case, what he cared about the most were results.
He didn't care whether you were a man or a woman uh where you came from, as long as you did best for his projects.
So did he ever in all the contact uh did he ever say anything inappropriate to you or cross any lines with you in all the years you did business with him?
Absolutely not.
He was an utmost professional during the entire time I actually had the pleasure of knowing his wife as well and his daughter and his children.
So I can tell you working there for so many years, he was so professional and he was a very tough boss.
You know, he is very discerning, he always demands excellence, he does not tolerate substandard performance.
And uh reading that article, which was very disturbing in a way, you know, by the way, I I don't support it either, but we have uh so our we have a staff here, and Linda's in charge of the staff who you spoke with earlier, and Linda whenever there's a mistake that happens, I'll say, All right, who made that mistake?
And then Linda will say, No, no, no, I uh I did.
I made the mistake, and it's never her.
And she protects the rest of the staff from the mistakes that they make.
What should I do about that?
What would Trump do?
He always makes sure that people are accountable.
Exactly.
if you have a task, you better bring results.
And just like Linda, I feel the same way.
And I was in the same position as she is.
Now, if anyone working for me makes a mistake, I'll own up to it.
And I'll discern a way how to fix it and how to make sure that it never happens again.
Yeah.
Well, you know what, Linda's shaking her head.
You made her a very, very happy woman today because it drives me nuts.
You know, for example, if it's if it's raining in China, Linda will say it's my fault.
Don't worry, nobody else on the staff did anything wrong.
It's my fault that it's raining in China today.
You know, I love your life story.
Um I'm sure how old were you when you first came to America?
I was only 18 years of age.
And I I came here with literally three hundred dollars in my pocket because my family had lost everything during the war in Bosnia.
What I was um lucky and I keep saying lucky because at the end of the day when you face death so many times, Sean, you get to appreciate everything and you see it as luck afterwards, but at the end of the day it's really hard work and and just doing the right thing.
Yeah.
I mean, it was very impressive.
I don't only got to talk to you for a few minutes, but I found out later what your story was, and it really impressed me.
And now you have this great success working for you, an incredible background, and I know you probably have worked twenty hour days for years to get there.
Absolutely.
And it's very, very impressive.
Um I wish more Americans saw the opportunity that you saw when you got here coming from the background that you had.
What do you think about Hillary Clinton?
Well, I do think that Hillary is going to have a very difficult road ahead because at the end of the day what most people look for is credibility and trustworthiness.
So uh an interesting piece about this whole thing is that be it the story in the New York Times or be it any of the articles recently written about women in politics or women's vote, I think it boils down to a simple fact.
I believe that women will be the deciding factor and key vote who will decide, you know, who the next president of the United States is gonna be.
Yeah.
You know, it's very impressive.
Everything that you've done.
I'm not that impressed with Hillary either, uh or how she's treated uh women.
I mean, her husband has been well chronicled.
I've interviewed the women that have said that he abused them in the case of Juanita Broderick worse, what he did to Kathleen Willie, what he did to Paula Jones, and the fact that so many are willing to give her a pass.
Well, I wish you the best.
Um so you're selling real estate, where in Florida now?
I'm right now in Palm Beach.
I sell real estate in uh Palm Beach, Bo Clerton and Miami.
Right.
And I'll tell you it's very nice to be able to go back and forth between New York and Florida.
Yep, very, very impressive.
Uh thank you for sharing.
One last question.
Do you recognize anything in that New York Times 20 page piece that resembles the Donald Trump that you've worked so closely with over the years?
Is there anything at all that resembles the man that you know and have worked with?
The only thing that resembles is the fact that he was very empowering to some really key female executives within the company.
I later on had the privilege of working for Louise Sunshine, who's mentioned there, and who developed uh a huge business.
She ended up being uh and she still is actually a real estate powerhouse.
And she had very similar principles when it came to business because she learned from her mentor, Mr. Trump.
And then uh when I look at my professional experiences uh learning from both Mr. Trump and from Louise Sunshine, I'll tell you they're a tremendous business people and they know that when you empower women in key positions of your organization, that you can get the best uh women tend to be very hard working and you know um when it came to Louise Sunshine, she was very, very tough on us.
And obviously if someone was to look at um her demeanor with women, they would say, Okay, she's a woman, so it's okay that she's tough on other women who work for her.
I'm also a very tough boss.
But that's because it's a very simple premise.
I'm I'm a I'm a pussy cat, by the way.
I am it I s no, I really am.
I I just expect everybody to do their job, and if the job's not getting done, then you'll hear from me.
Um I don't sit I don't run around the office every day saying, Oh great job, oh little here's your little pat on the head.
I don't do that, but if they mess up, I'm like pissed.
Why did you mess up?
Exactly.
Well, you have to keep the big picture in mind, I think, and the results, and then if people mess up, you keep them accountable and you can give them the same chance that you did.
Sonata, you're an amazing woman.
It's an amazing story.
Um it's it's sad that our presidential politics is you know, people get slandered by the likes of the New York Times, but it happens.
Uh thank you so much for being with us.
I'd buy a house from you any day.
You're awesome.
Well, thank you, Sean.
I have greatly appreciated it.
Our president doesn't have a clue.
He's a bad negotiator.
He's the one that did Bergdahl.
We get Bergdahl, they get five killer terrorists that everybody wanted over there.
We get Bergdahl, we get a traitor.
We get a no good traitor, and they get the five people that they wanted for years, and those people are now back on the battlefield trying to kill us.
Not only did they get the five, they got the five that they most wanted.
Well, now we have people that were part of Bergdahl's squad that are speaking out on the presidential race, and they more than anybody.
Remember, men died searching for Bo Bergdahl.
Men were injured severely searching for Bo Bergdahl.
Anyway, joining us now is Evan Buto.
He's Bo Bergdahl's team leader in Afghanistan, and also with us specialist Cody Fole.
He was his roommate during training, and uh these guys now are coming out politically, and both of you are pretty angry at how the Democrats handled this, and uh you're both supporting Donald Trump, I hear.
Evan.
Yes, yes, I am.
Um, I mean, clearly we've you know over the last two years we've stated several times how terrible the decision was to get Bergdahl back.
Um trading five terrorist leaders for one deserter um is no way uh to to handle the situation, and and Donald Trump has come out and he has believed what we said, he's listened to us, he supported us, and he's come out there with uh, you know, with a higher platform than we have to let the world know that that's not how we're gonna run this country anymore.
Now and that's what we want to hear.
You know, I just can't believe we gave the we gave literally terrorists the five people they most wanted.
In other words, the most hardened terrorists we handed over in this exchange, and you guys knew from the beginning that he was a deserter.
In other words, I remember interviewing you, Evan, and you telling me that you guys heard over the radio that there were locals saying that, hey, we got this crazy American that's out there looking for the Taliban, correct?
Yeah, we we knew from the very beginning.
And not only did we know, but our leadership knew, and their leadership knew, and their leadership knew.
Everybody knew the truth, and that's why this deal to trade these terrorists for Bergdahl is is just asinine.
They knew the truth.
They knew he was a deserter, and they still chose to ignore that and give them everything they want and and and bring back someone who who who claimed he was ashamed to be an American.
It makes it makes zero sense, and that's not the way to make dealers.
How many people that you know of died as a result of searching for Bo Bergdahl, even though you knew in the beginning that he had deserted and went out on his own.
How many guys died looking for him?
Um there's been a lot of numbers thrown out there.
Um I can say that I know I know of two people there from our company.
They died as a direct result of Bergdahl leaving.
Well, I can't put I would not put the gun in Bergdahl's hand.
They were ambushed in an area that they would have not been in if it wasn't for Bergdahl leaving.
And that and that's a fact.
I can I know that.
I knew who they were, I think about them every day, and I and I know that.
Now, if there's there's no concrete evidence to prove it on paper, but from being on the ground, being there, and everyone else in that company could say, we know they would have not been there unless Bergdahl uh walked away.
And Cody, you feel and Cody, how many people do you know that lost their lives?
I'd say the same thing as Evan.
Um And how many how many do you know that were injured?
Well, probably you know, too many to count.
Um it just seemed when the whole story came out as is every day, more and more people were saying, you know, their husbands were injured.
Uh there was that gentleman from SEAL Team Six that wrote the book, No Easy Day, and in there he has a a chapter, you know, devoted to guys from SEAL Team Six that were injured while looking for Bergdahl.
And by weren't you guys all after as soon as he went missing, just days afterwards, there was a report that every member of the platoon was ordered to sign papers vowing never to discuss what he did or the efforts to track him down.
Is that true?
Yes.
Evan, yeah.
Yeah, we did sign a non-disclosure agreement.
Did you ever at any other point in your your service time have to sign an agreement like that?
No.
I d I never did.
Yeah.
And you know, so many of you guys were already exhausted searching endlessly in the hot, you know, dust and misery of the Afghan desert for a guy that you all knew had chosen to walk away from you.
And long after the Army officials learned that his captors had smuggled them into Pakistan, commanders still had a sweeping gag order on thousands of troops, isn't that true?
That's exactly right.
Yeah.
Exactly right.
Now a new survey of uh American military personnel shows that Trump has emerged as active duty service member's preference to become president by over a two to one margin.
Is that what you experience, uh Cody?
Um, yeah, I mean it would it would go with the status quo, you know, uh if you vote for Hillary, you're voting for a woman that lied to the face of you know, mothers and wives of the Benghazi victim, telling them it was about some bull crap video, and uh, you know, now she has the nerve to to say that those gold star mothers and widows are the liars.
Um if she's willing, you know, to do that, there isn't a lie she won't tell to the American public.
Um she doesn't stand for veterans, she doesn't care about veterans.
All she cares about is you know, are the further globalization and the growing of her money laundering racket and personal slush bunch called a charity.
Yeah, wow.
Now you saw Donald Trump, he's made vets and the VA a big part of his campaign.
Uh the fact that nationally we have made this promise and we've not fulfilled it, and you've got institutionalized corruption at the VA, and you have two separate waiting lists so that these the hierarchy can get their bonuses where somebody applies for needed medical care that we promised them, they say, Oh, we'll get back to you when we have some availability, and literally we discover people dying, waiting a year, two years to get the health care that we had promised them.
I mean, uh I that's gotta be figuring into the minds of veterans how corrupt the whole system is.
Well, you know, the A is socialized medicine.
It's a it's a complete and utter failure and always has been.
If you go to Hillary Clinton's website, um the first sentence under her her VA uh policy is she wants, you know, to continue throwing money at the failed bureaucracy that is the veteran the VA and stop efforts from privatizing it.
So she would rather have veterans having to continue waiting these long lines, sometimes dying and waiting to see a doctor, than maybe have a third party or veteran can go see a doctor and get seen on time and not die.
Well, I got it.
Go ahead.
The way I why the way I look at the VA is it's not just a VA.
It's it's active duty service.
It's the health care within the military.
The VA, the healthcare in the military.
They they they treat these injuries for veterans, both of ourselves being them, and have an experience what happens, and and then I I I feel like I'm speaking for all the active duty soldiers, at least in the infantry, because that's what I know.
They treat any PTSD anything, they treat it with medication.
Medication pills, here you go.
And then that just harbors addiction, and that just leads to people getting kicked out of the army for addiction.
I mean, we've seen it firsthand.
That needs reform.
That needs reform.
The leadership who's not doing anything needs to be gone.
And Donald Trump says he's gonna be doing that.
Get rid of the corrupt leaders and and fix this problem and and start to nurture some health and nurture some healing in our veterans and in our active duty soldiers as well.
Well, it's something we gotta do.
Listen, guys, I get to see you tonight.
You're in New York, which is exciting.
You're in New York, right?
I think we're out of New York, but we are gonna be on tonight.
Yeah, you're gonna be on TV tonight, which is great.
Thanks for sticking out uh standing up, and I think this case needs to be made.
I think rebuilding our military's gotta be a focus.
And you know, one one last thought.
After I am tired after Vietnam and after Iraq and Afghanistan, and by Iraq I mean Ramadi and Mosul and Takreed and Fallujah, you know, that we send guys into war.
We lost fifty-eight thousand men in in Vietnam, our national treasure, over five thousand in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Many more come back without legs and their faces and arms are blown off.
And uh I'm just sitting here thinking, how many times are we going to allow politicians to not finish the job and politicize war?
And if we don't have any business winning wars anymore, I don't want to fight them.
It's not fair to ask you guys to go fight only to have it politicized and then have us pull out early, and then all the gains and all the sacrifice ends up for nothing.
Do you feel I can tell you I can tell you, Sean, before I went to Afghanistan, I went to Iraq and I was in Fallujah.
I was in Fallujah for six months, and we killed hundreds of terrorists, but we also lost lots of life.
And we fought every day in that city.
And when I look now, the ISIS has taken it over.
It's done.
I mean, every single thing, every lot every life that was lost, you you could say is for nothing.
Now we we still have pride in what we did, but we have seen that.
I understand, but I'm saying as a civilian, as somebody that supports the military, we can't do this anymore.
I can't support a war effort knowing that we're gonna give it up after these guys have given their lives.
We cannot do this anymore.
Exactly.
And that's what I'm saying.
Our leadership, our current administration has chosen to pull everyone out and make these terrible foreign policy decisions, terrible military decisions.
And Donald Trump has shown me at least, I believe, that he's gonna make the right decisions.
He knows he has America's best interest at heart, and he's gonna protect this country again.
Well, he's also saying America first, and you know what?
I say no more Middle Eastern wars because we don't have the stomach to follow it up.
We don't have the stomach to and we've allowed politicians through the prism of politics, the whole thing gets blown up, literally, and and then you have to ask yourself, why did we even go there?
And I thought it was the right thing to go there, but once you go and you win, you've got to sustain the victory, the sacrifice of so many, or otherwise don't ask these men to go.
Don't ask them to go fight, live and risk their lives and die, and then say, Oh, sorry, we're leaving now.
We're not done, but we're leaving.
We're gonna give it back.
It's ridiculous.
All right, I gotta roll.
Thank you both uh for being with us.
We'll see you tonight on Hannity.
Thanks for having us.
All right, 800 941 Sean, you want to be a part of the program.
Uh let us go to Ben is in Montana.
Ben, hi, how are you?
We're glad you called, sir.
Hi, Sean, how are you doing?
I'm good.
How are you doing?
Good.
Hey, I'm a liberal for Trump.
Wow.
Why?
Well, I'll tell you, I am sick and tired of the establishment on both sides.
Me too.
Okay.
The R's and the D's, it's like you got ice cream.
One of them is chocolate and one of them vanilla.
But I don't like ice cream.
Trump selling cake.
I like cake.
Uh I think that the vast majority of Americans feel the same way.
Look, I'd think the vast majority of Americans feel the same way too.
I also think that Americans, for what I just said about war, you know what?
It was the right thing to take on Iraq.
It was the right thing to get into the Middle East, but it's not the right thing if we're not going to finish the job.
It's not, you know, one of the things Trump had said from the get go is if you go in, you do take the oil.
You do make these countries pay for the price of their liberation.
You do make sure that Americans are put first in in these conflicts, and then you can't allow conflicts to be politicized, which the Democrats are great at.
They made it so that the entire battle for 2008 was about, oh, we got to pull out of Iraq.
Okay, and what did George W. Bush say?
Well, if you do that, you're gonna have a worse enemy.
And that worse enemy means you're probably gonna have to go back one day.
My hope is we develop the smart weapons that allow us now to fight wars from afar, so we don't have to send kids in Humvees that even are not even up armored, door to door like we did in Baghdad and Fallujah and Mosul and to Crete and Ramadi.
It's ridiculous.
So I would prefer having the biggest, meanest, toughest military and be able to do it from afar.
Joe in Illinois.
Joe, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean, I'm great.
How are you today?
I'm good.
What's going on?
Hey, I I watched all of the uh Sunday shows and also watched uh some shows this morning and i just have to laugh because you know what they don't get that the trump supporters don't give a crap about his past and the women and all that stuff and Hillary Clinton has been second at the teeth of the taxpayer her whole adult life well I gotta I can't name an accomplishment of Hillary.
I can name a lot of failures.
I mean either I think she's a phony I think she's a hypocrite I think she knew pretty darn well everything Bill was up to I think she was part of the effort to smear slander and besmirch anybody that would get in their political way, especially women that he was involved with and treated horribly.
I've interviewed all those women I don't know if the New York Times has but I have and from my standpoint it's pretty easy.
I don't think she was there for the 3 AM call for uh Benghazi and then she lies about every she lies about everything.
Big things, small things you know it's a m it's an amazing thing that we can now prove Hillary Clinton was simultaneously telling us that what happened in Benghazi that killed our ambassador was not a terror attack but related to a YouTube video and was a spontaneous demonstration where people had RPGs uh in their back pocket but meanwhile she was telling her own daughter the Libyan president the Egyptian prime minister that this was a terror attack.
That's called a lie.
That's a CYA lie.
What difference at this point does it make?
Well it makes a big difference if it's your family.
It makes a big difference if it's your son and your daughter and she lied directly to the faces of the families just right to their face.
Point blank.
It's related to a YouTube video.
That's not what she said to her daughter the Libyan president, the Egyptian prime minister.
All right let's go to Mark is in Greensboro in North Carolina.
Mark High, how are you?
And we're glad you called John, thank you so much uh I listen to you every day you're uh and I enjoy your program and what I was called about is you know I I was a big supporter of Senator Cruz and he really aligned with my values.
And I wasn't quite never Trump but I had some serious questions about Mr. Trump about where he really stood on the issues uh uh on whether he was really a Republican these kind of things and I take this very seriously as most Americans do.
But uh you know between you interviewing him on the show on your radio show on your TV show giving us this access to all the candidates I started to see his position and and uh not only that I drove with my son who's twelve we drove a couple hours from Greensboro to Fayetteville to the town hall that you have Mr Trump and I really came away extremely impressed.
I'll never forget walking out of the event and my son turned to me and said Dad, everything you said makes so much sense and and you know it really did.
And you know I am full support behind Mr. Trump now.
It's never Hillary.
Let's get this thing done and let's get this economy and country turned back around Well you know the only thing I can applaud you for is an open mind.
You know, in the course of doing all those town halls with all of the candidates I I learned a lot about them all.
And you know I I know I've been accused of being too easy on all the candidates but if you notice how I do these interviews I'm you know I there's a method to my madness and that is all right how are you going to fix the economy?
And then I'll follow up or now how do you balance the budget?
And then I'll follow up with well what do you replace Obamacare with the economy's a huge issue with me.
Sure, everybody.
You know, my personal income is not half, it's a third of where it was.
That is I've been in and out of work almost lost my house twice.
Not what kind of work do you do?
Well I was in construction.
Yeah.
Now I I'm in the pest industry working for a good company here in in Greensboro area.
Do you know how to get rid of foxes because I can't get a guy up in New York that knows how to catch a fox.
You know what I personally don't but we have a guy on our staff that that is our wild guy he could do it.
I am so ticked off I paid a guy you know what the guy said to me we can't get him.
I said what do you mean you can't get him I see him on my property all the time.
I said if I was allowed I'd go out there and I would have I would have hunted that fox down a million times.
I'm afraid the fox is going to eat my little puppy oh well I'm also back in school as well trying to break into IT security.
Good for you.
You know, how old can I ask how old you are?
I am forty six.
I'll be forty seven uh later this year.
Now you're somebody who's taking responsibility for your own life because all right, your trade construction is it's been in a bit of a decline because of the Obama economy.
So you've suffered, you nearly lost your house twice, you're working full time, you've developing new skills, and you're going to school to improve yourself even further.
I mean, all of what you're describing is hard.
Nothing what you're doing is easy here, and you're doing it for your family.
You're doing it because it's the right thing to do, and and you're not waiting for the government to come in and bail you out.
Well, that's exactly right, because guess what?
That bailing ain't coming if I if I was gonna wait for it.
Uh, you know.
Yeah, exactly.
We gotta take our own responsibility and do what we are uh have to do and get it done.
Listen, I'm gonna tell you if I or anybody that thinks the government is gonna take care of their health care, anybody that thinks the government is gonna be there and take care of their social security, you're dreaming.
Have no faith in the government.
You know why?
Because they've earned that lack of trust.
Anyway, Mark, thank you, buddy.
God bless you in what you're doing.
I really I really think the a lot of what you're doing, I really do.
Thank you, Sean, and keep up the good work.
All right, you too, sir.
Thank you.
800 nine four one Sean.
You want to be a part of pro the program.
Anthony is out in Long Island in New York listening to uh AM seven ten W O R. What's up, sir?
How are you?
Hey, what's up, Sean?
Long time I've been waiting to talk to you.
Anthony, how you doing?
You sound like all my friends growing up in Long Island where I grew up.
I grew up in Long Island too.
Where'd you grow up?
Well, I really grew up by Kennedy, but I'm in the east night of Long Island.
Yeah, no, I uh I used to go my sister worked at the hospital, Nassau uh hospital.
I don't know, I think they changed the name over the years.
I'm not sure.
N U M C. Yeah, no, it's still there.
I live right over there.
Yeah.
Yeah, no, exactly.
I went to school over there.
I went to school at Pius and Uniondale, and I went to Sacred Heart.
If you go down Hempstead Turnpike a little further.
Yeah, by Garden City.
I know where it is.
Yeah, well, it's not really by Garden City.
It's where the old oh, what was the name of that place?
Anyway, it's an hour shopping mall.
But anyway, what's going on?
Well, what's going on?
My boy Trump, they're hitting him from every direction.
Now they're hitting them uh with uh the women that they used to be around, you know, the New York Times, which is a failing paper, everybody knows that.
Uh it doesn't really matter what they do, Sean.
You know, Trump's the man.
He's gonna be the next president of the United States.
Look, I can't say that definitively.
I hope so, because I'd hate to see the country go further down decline wise.
I'd hate to see four more years of Obama policies, and that's what you're gonna get with Hillary.
I'd hate to see America failing on the world stage like it is.
I know.
All right, my friend, God bless you, Anthony.
I'm glad you called your uh I grew up in Long Island too.
How you doing?
All right, I'm doing fine.
You just keep doing what you're doing.
We got your back.
All right, buddy, God bless you.
You're a good man.
Uh all right, let's get to our phones as we say hi to Elizabeth is in Kansas City.
KMBZ, what's going on, Elizabeth?
How are you?
Hey, how are you, Sean?
I'm good.
What's going on?
Well, I just want to let you know, I was at book club this morning and we've gotten everybody on the Trump train, people that were a little bit worried.
And so someone brought up the I did not hear about possibility of Sarah Palin being his running mate.
And you've never heard such screeching and yelling.
And I have to do that.
Yeah, Ben Carson brought that up.
I don't see that happening.
I I hope so because everyone uh and myself included twenty-seven of us said absolutely not.
And I was so surprised.
Look, uh we just had uh new Gingrich on.
I would love him.
And Susanna Martinez would be great.
Susanna Martinez, I don't think is a big Trump fan, but I mean I think Newt is the guy that got the job done.
And you know what?
I don't think it's a time for half measures.
Look, if like it's sort of like Paul Ryan's plans to balance the budget.
You know, twenty five twenty-five years, who has time for twenty-five years.
Get it done.
And you know, the one thing I was gonna um say to you was that if Paul Ryan wants to cut entitlements, how about if we cut all the entitlements that Congress gets, like their lifetime pension, and they're uh you know, they get that separate social security fund that a lot of people don't know about that you know, the taxpayers get.
I think that all of the congressional freebies, if we get rid of all those things, I think that might help.
I mean, it w it's not gonna do everything but I think you know all they do is just collect everything and they really don't do much of anything else.
How about we cut government spending across the board but for the military.
I mean cut it.
Not you know you cut everything uh look I've talked about the Penny plan.
They they can't even cut one penny out of every dollar they're so pathetic.
And if you know and it would drive well look, you have kids, I have kids, right?
Do you have kids?
No, unfortunately I don't okay.
I have kids.
I don't want to rob my kids blind.
You don't want to see the next generation rob blind either, do you?
No I don't.
I mean it's insane.
No generation has done the damage that this one has and it's a sense of entitlement.
You know there was a story out this weekend that really got my attention and it was in the New York Post and the headline was homeward bound, class of sixteen to go back with their parents and I'm like, wow that's you spend all that money you send your kids to college and they have they can't get a job so they go home and they live in their mom and dad's basement.
You know and they sneak their boyfriends and girlfriends in late at night the other thing I was gonna ask was if it's so important to maybe I think we need to push through not the Congress to do it, but if the president can only serve two terms, I think that we really need to push through all those wonderful people in Congress that have been there for years and years.
Get him out.
I'm on with you exactly get them out.
You do a great job.
Well thank you so much Elizabeth I appreciate it.
Uh let's go to Tracy is in Cady, Texas.
What's up Tracy?
How are you?
Hey Sean hey Sean I really do think that uh I think Trump needs to be vetted more by the by the Republicans.
I really think he could be a major mistake.
And I'm gonna tell you something I think this is what do you want vetted?
Tell me what you want vetted because we've talked more about Trump than we have any other candidate.
How about we vet Hillary more how about we vet whether Hillary ever tells the truth.
Betting Trump would be also his taxes standing on hold on here's the man standing on the fact that he was supposed to be the best in business.
He's this he's that I got a feeling let's look at those tax returns because what you'll see you may even see that he supported Democrats.
You may even see he doing business with China.
You may even see he's a that's that's not that's not going to be showed on a tax return nor is the other going to be shown on a tax return.
Listen let me tell you about the tax return issue.
If you make any serious amount of money, the IRS is going to audit you and the fact that his taxes have been under audit every year for ten years, I don't bl and and he comes out clean every time I'm not really interested in his tax returns.
I'm just not now telling what I would be interested in if you want to do some vetting, I'd like to know what Hillary Clinton said to Wall Street, what she said to bankers when she gave those speeches that paid her more than the average American makes in five years for one hour.
I'd like to know what she was telling those groups, wouldn't you?
Sean both of those things are important.
But one of the things you know why the taxes aren't important?
Because if he broke the law the IRS would have caught him because they vet they they literally go over his taxes like mine with a fine tooth comb.
So whatever he's still in the auditing process now though.
That's correct.
All right so if he bro if he broke a law then he's either going to pay the tax and a penalty or if they think it's flagrant enough he'll go to jail.
But I don't think that's gonna happen.
That's not going to be Teflon Don.
If every single candidate since 1976 has been doing it, let's not make no special exceptions.
Well he's already given out a lot of his fan listen, you can s you can focus on this all you want you know how much I care about Donald Trump's taxes?
That's you, but I care differently.
You care because you're political I mentioned Hillary Clinton gets paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for one hour's work.
One hour and she won't release what she tells these people in these speeches.
I'm more interested what did you say to those people for the hundreds of thousands of dollars that they gave you.
Alright back to our busy uh telephones 800 nine four one Sean we got Pat Kissimmee, Florida listening to ninety six five News 965 WDBO.
Pat, how are you?
I'm fine, how are you today?
I'm good thank you.
It's taken me six weeks to get to you but I have been I'm honored I have been uh a Democrat since I was eighteen years old when I first was able to vote.
And that goes back forty some years, okay.
It's the first time I didn't vote in a Democratic primary because I did not like their candidates.
Um I and the more I kept hearing about Mr. Trump, one of the things that kept going into my head was, well, he's a businessman, he's this and that.
But he couldn't be where he was if he didn't have people surrounding him that maybe are in a no or maybe that he listened to them.
And I think with Mrs. Clinton, and it's not that she's not a good person or whatever, it's the fact that there's always going to be a cloud around her, and we will never ever get anything done in this country if we constantly have these clouds that what if or she did this and and we just can't we cannot do this anymore.
We have to move on.
I think it is you know, we're at a crucial point.
Every election has consequences, you get the government you pay for.
And if we elect her, we're getting more Obama.
It's that simple.
Sharon, Texas, less than a minute, Sharon, it's yours.
Go.
Um, I wanted to comment on Paul Ryan's position, our speaker of the House and the fact I'm not a big proponent of of uh Paul Ryan, but I understand his position now because Donald Trump has gone into this scorched earth attack policy against his opponents, and half the members of the Republican Party do not support Donald Trump.
And many of the people who did not vote for him were not even in the party.
But so that put Paul Paul Ryan is in a difficult position.
And Trump is using the press to divide Republicans just like he's used the press all along.
And now so we have this large block of people who don't know where to go, whom to support because we are conservatives, meaning we want to conserve and preserve our core principles of laws and our constitution and all of that.
But I've never heard of the thing.
The only thing I'm gonna say is based on everything that he said about balancing budgets, health savings accounts, energy independence, building the wall, education, they all seem like issues that Paul Ryan should agree on.
And building up the military.
So I I think a lot of this is a power play, but I wish I had more time.
