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Well, Nancy Pelosi, she survived.
We ought to celebrate.
Old's cold and dull.
And uh no good ideas, and it's the same old, same old, and if that's the Democratic Party's direction, then let them let them stay there.
That's my attitude.
Glad you're with us.
800 941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the uh program here today.
To me, there's only one big story today, and one that I think everybody should look at and say, wow.
Now, you're gonna say, well, Hannah, it's only a thousand jobs.
It's only a thousand.
Well, those are a thousand families.
Those are a thousand homes.
That's a pretty likely.
A thousand cars that people will keep.
And of course, I'm talking about carrier employees whose jobs were saved.
Why?
Because Donald Trump got on a phone.
I I don't know if I was allowed to tell you this.
I'm gonna give you the backstory.
Eric Trump, I was talking to not that long ago, and he told me he heard his father on the phone with both Ford and Carrier talking about not going to Mexico to bring the jobs.
And he said, We'd really like you to stay here, and we'd like to keep these jobs here.
Anyway, so the negotiations went on.
I can't think of a time in my lifetime where a president-elect or president ever picked up a phone for a corporation and said, please stay, please, don't go.
And that if you if you do go because you want the cheap labor and Americans are gonna be put out of work, and then you want to just bring your your air conditioners back here, it's gonna cost you.
So one way or the other.
Now, some of you think, well, that's bullying.
I heard somebody say that today.
That's not bullying.
It's it's he is incentivizing things.
He's saying, look, the corporate tax rate is gonna go down.
Regulations are gonna dramatically shift.
The environment to build here in America is gonna be infinitely better.
Hang on, don't go, help us on the way, and it's gonna be better for you and better for the company and and better for the country.
And he appealed to their patriotism as well, which is kind of a cool thing, and I'll tell you why.
Because carrier employees, about a thousand of them, were about to lose their jobs.
We actually have the audio tape when it was announced to the people that work at carrier.
Now imagine this is you and your company that you worked for, and you're being told your job is leaving.
It became clear that the best way to stay competitive and protect the business for long term is to move production from our facility in Indianapolis to Monterey, Mexico.
That's why the guy on this head is here!
Relocating our operations to Monterey will allow us to maintain high levels of product quality, a competitive crisis, and continue to serve...
The extremely price-sensitive marketplace.
I want to be clear.
This is strictly a business decision.
Yeah, business decision.
So they can make cheap air conditioners with cheap labor in Mexico and then bring them back to the United States and sell them here.
Because we'll be their biggest market.
I'm sure Mexico would buy some some also.
But um, so anyway, there is a guy, Robin Maynard, a 24-year uh carrier employee issued a heartfelt thank you to Donald Trump and Mike Pence during a Wednesday morning interview on the on Fox and Friends and Steve Ducy did the interview, and he when the news broke that Trump had brokered this deal to prevent carrier from moving a thousand jobs to Mexico, and Maynard told Fox and Friends and Steve Ducey that he's unbelievably grateful for Trump's intervention.
He said, quote, I would like to tell them thank you for going out of your way, taking your time away from your family working on the carrier and employees deal, sticking to your word and going to bat for all of us at carrier so we can keep our jobs here.
I'd like to thank Donald Trump and Mike Pence for doing it so quickly.
And he added that he hadn't expected an announcement for three or four weeks.
And we're what, two days from a meeting with them, and they've already made their announcement.
He said, I'm very excited, and I'd like to thank the president and vice president elect, both of them personally and shake their hands, hopefully tomorrow, because they're going on this tour tomorrow.
We may be going to Cincinnati tomorrow.
We haven't even fully completely decided yet.
Now, I'm just saying this.
It's you know, maybe not in your mind the biggest deal.
To me, it's it's beyond symbolic.
To me, a thousand American lives that were about to be dramatically altered for the worse in a horrible job market, have now been given a stay of execution, basically.
And they're gonna get to hold on to their jobs with probably a greater appreciation than they've ever had, hold on to their benefits, and I'm gonna tell you one other thing.
The next time I need an air conditioner, I'm buying a carrier air conditioner.
I'm gonna go out of my way.
I won't even look at the cost.
I'll just I'll buy a carrier air conditioner.
You know, for all these years when I've been on radio and television, I remember back in my Huntsville days, I would talk about I always try to buy American cars.
And my wife, I guess once or twice she got a different kind of car that wasn't American.
I I've always I always get American cars.
Now you might argue, but well, hang on, you know, Honda's made in Tennessee and this I I get it.
But I still prefer American cars.
Now I know we can go all the way back to the 70s, where Japanese cars were just made better than some of our American counterparts.
That's not the case anymore.
It's just not.
And if it means more jobs for Americans, more money back in America, I that's the way I've always rolled.
And I buy the same car every three years.
And I call King O'Rourke Cadillac in Long Island.
I call my my guy who's been out there for all these years, and I don't even have to say anything to him.
I'm just like, can you bring over a new one?
And as he just drives over and picks it up.
I had a problem recently with a car.
He took it in and fixed it.
And he doesn't ever, there's no questions.
And I'm I don't know what the deal is because I know he looks out for me.
He's a good guy.
It's just the type of relationship.
You know what?
When I get my car serviced, I bring it to his place.
When I need something, I call him.
And um I've just always felt that way.
I think one of the saddest moments of my life was a number of years ago, and I discussed it on the air house, driving through Detroit, Michigan.
Now you got to think back.
This is Motown.
This is one of America's greatest cities.
This is where American ingenuity, you know, far exceeding the rest of the world, innovation, technology, the automobile on display for how many decades?
Now, part of this you can argue is related to unions getting a little too greedy and taking too much, and maybe some of the corporations mistreated employees in the early days.
That resulted in the evolution into unions.
Unions get more power than they deserve.
There was never the happy medium, maybe that you needed, and hopefully we all learn our lesson from that.
And you got I I love sharing corporate profits in some way, profit sharing plans, because then everyone's incentivized to do A good job.
Everybody's in it together.
They do well.
Everybody does well.
And that's kind of always the way that I work with my own employees.
If we do well, I do I what's coming in the next few days, Linda?
What is it?
Father Christmas.
Father Christmas Hannity's coming.
Right.
But uh, you know who got a an increase this year is Ethan.
He was at the low end of the bonus scale last year, so now he's up to full grade bonus.
Because of the great work he does.
Right?
Yeah.
Okay.
Preemptive thank you.
Your preemptive thank you.
Oh, okay.
But the bottom line is um, you know, we're I'm blessed to have a great team.
Like Linda goes to school.
When are you getting your degree?
I'm getting your degree soon, right?
I graduate in two and a half weeks.
All right.
What did you get at a master's in what?
It's an MBA.
In oh, okay.
You got a master's of business administration.
And you own a restaurant.
Not yet.
Well, you're building one.
I have a building.
And I have a building.
I just have a building.
How much do I pay you while you're buying buildings?
Listen, I had that long before you were in the picture.
That's funny.
Oh, okay.
I just think I help with the renovation of the building that has been going on for the last 18 years.
There may have been some investments into the building.
But anyway, long story short, I want all of my team to prosper here.
I make I make decisions about going forward based on impact of other people.
And you know that's true.
Nodding your head on radio doesn't work.
I I uh you know, listen, I like to give you the floor.
You know, I want to make sure that I'm invited to speak.
You know me, I'm sorry.
One of the lectures I give Lauren all right, Lauren, you're like the youngest one here, except for Ethan, but you're the youngest one that can talk.
Uh I'm kidding.
What do I always tell you to do with your money?
Save it.
And what do I tell you to do with your Christmas bonus?
Save it.
And what do I tell Jason to do with his Christmas bonus?
Spend it at Coyote Ugly.
No, I do not I said you can spend like a thousand dollars for the year.
You know, spread it out, spread the fun out.
I have a funny feeling a thousand dollars gone in a night.
But anyway, so I'm really happy, and so I'm gonna buy it.
My next air conditioner is gonna be a carrier.
They're not an advertiser of the program.
I'm happy these people have their jobs.
I'm happy they're getting back to work.
Some of them might have had to sell their homes and get rid of the new cars and trucks, and it would have altered their lives, their kids' lives, maybe had a pack up and move, and now they got their life back.
You know, why do you think you know?
I know some of you got mad at me, would write me, I heard those statistics, Hannity.
But there's 50 million people in poverty, 50 million in food stamps, 13 million more than when Obama became president.
That is the forgotten man that I'm talking about.
And I just think it's kind of refreshing that a president had took his the time out of his day and said, Okay, I'm gonna pick up the phone, I'm gonna call Carrier.
Maybe he leaned on him a little bit.
You know, maybe he didn't have to.
Maybe they'd heard him on the campaign trail again and again and again saying, Don't leave.
I'll tell you what, I would go right now to carry it, and I would say, I am gonna work awfully hard.
You're gonna make air conditioners now in Mexico.
You're gonna get all of these 1,400 people that are being laid off.
They're laid off.
They were crying, they were it was a very sad situation.
You're gonna go to Mexico, you're gonna make air conditioners in Mexico, you're gonna put them across our border with no tax.
I'm gonna tell them right now, I am gonna get consensus from Congress, and we're gonna tax you when those air conditioners come.
So stay where you are or build in the United States.
And Carrier has to know that if they do that, and I'm not only speaking to them, I'm speaking to Nabisco and Ford and hundreds and hundreds of other companies.
They have to know that there are consequences when you want to leave and fire all these people.
And you're not just gonna go to another country, make your product, sell it across our really weak borders because our borders are gonna be so strong, folks.
Our borders will be so strong.
Within 24 hours, I'll get a call the head of carrier.
And I'll say, Mr. President, we've decided to stay in the United States.
Thank you for uh going out of your way and taking your uh holiday uh away from your family and uh working on uh the carrier and employees deal and uh sticking to your word and going to bat floor, all of us uh carrier and keeping our jobs here, and like to thank him and Mike Pence for doing it so quickly.
I I didn't expect an announcement probably for three or four weeks.
And we're what two days from them meeting with them, and they've already made their announcements.
So I'm very excited about it and would like to thank both of them uh personally and uh shake their hands, hopefully tomorrow, and uh get to meet them for I think that's pretty cool.
I just do.
All right, that's one of our stories today.
A lot of other news that we're going to get to in the course of the day today.
One of the things I like this look, I don't know the Steve Munchin guy, but I did look at what they put out.
They've set out a communications briefing from the Brian Lanza sent it out from uh the Donald Trump campaign.
And everything that Manchin is talking about is a financier, decades of experience, financial money matters, etc.
etc.
But everything that they said was everything they said on the campaign trail.
Progrowth tax plan.
Everyone's going to get a tax cut.
Low income Americans will pay no taxes at all.
They don't pay any now.
Probably fewer Americans will there'll be more Americans that don't pay any income tax.
You know, 50% of wage earners pay nothing.
It's going to be an America first trade policy.
He's going to get rid of all the regulatory framework, which is costing the economy two trillion dollars a year.
They keep talking about, and I think this is a very key component to any successful economic recovery, unleashing American energy.
You can create millions of new jobs doing that.
It'll slash costs for consumers, just like getting rid of Obamacare, is going to be like a tax rebate for most Americans.
You know, they also discussed the penny plan.
Finally, somebody in Washington is talking about eliminating baseline budgeting.
And I bet you Republicans end up trying to resist this.
Especially for you know, non def except for non-defense, I'm sorry, reducing non-defense, non-safety net spending one percent a year instead of increases built in four, five, six, seven, eight percent every year.
I think all of that's gonna be good for the economy.
And what you know, if Donald Trump spends two hours when he becomes president just getting rid of regulations, burdensome regulations, well, that's gonna probably unleash half of America's energy problems right there.
I don't even think he's gonna need a whole lot of legislation to move towards energy independence.
One of I read a great article yesterday about if we ever move towards natural gas instead of oil to run our cars, and we'll be paying next to nothing a gallon.
Because America is the Middle East of natural gas.
And then we'd have the added bonus of creating jobs and producing more than we need and selling it to Western Europe so they're not so reliant on Vladimir Putin.
Now that's going to take a little bit of time to transition off.
You still keep the combustion engine.
I know the Providence Gas Company, Providence, Rhode Island, I bought one of their vans years ago, but it had earlier been run on gas, not on gasoline, propane gas, natural gas.
So uh and it was the same exact engine.
Then they converted it back to gasoline.
So it's simple to do.
You just got to get automakers to buy into it and gas stations to reconfigure their places of business a little bit, make sure everybody doesn't get hurt in the process.
Those just like transitioning off Obamacare, it's not as easy as it sounds, but it's doable.
And to free market health care savings accounts.
I was just so disappointed to see the president elect nominate Congressman Price to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services this morning.
When it comes to issues like Medicare, the Affordable Care Act and Planned Parenthood, Congressman Price and the average American couldn't be further apart.
Between this nomination of an avowed Medicare opponent and Republicans here in Washington threatening to privatize Medicare, it's clear that Washington Republicans are plotting a war on seniors next year.
Every senior, every American, should hear this loudly and clearly.
Democrats will not let them win that fight.
After the 2004 elections, Republicans tried to take the rug out from under our seniors to privatize Social Security.
And now, after the 2016 elections, it seems they're intent on trying the same trick on Medicare.
Just as their efforts failed then, they will fail now.
We say to our Republicans who want to privatize Medicare, go try it.
Make our day.
He's so tough, that Chuckie Schumer.
I'm shaking in my boots.
It's clear that Washington Republicans are plotting a war on seniors.
By the way, when he's talking about what Medicare was, the Republican plan was a 7% increase every year for seven years to...
twice the rate of inflation.
But the cut, what they described as a cut was a reduction in projected increases.
So what Democrats do, just like every four years during elections, they like to play identity politics, and it's black versus white, old versus young, rich versus poor.
I mean, they divide the country.
And then when Republicans win and their fear tactics don't work, then they try to scare the country.
And in this case, they're trying to scare senior citizens.
But it is kind of the height of irresponsible.
Irresponsibility for the Senate minority leader to go out there and say that Washington Republicans are plotting a war on seniors.
Now, one of the things, one of the big areas of disagreement between Trump and say Paul Ryan is, you know, most of the money that is spent by Washington is non-discretionary spending.
In other words, money that's already been promised.
Washington already squandered the Social Security lockbox money and they put it in the general fund and they spent it.
They spend it because then they get their power by giving people whatever whatever projects they're bringing back to their individual districts.
So now Social Security's headed for bankruptcy.
It's a big part of the budget.
18 years done.
Medicare not far behind that.
And so the plan is Washington Republicans are plotting a war.
Let's say I live in the villages.
We've been down to the villages.
I love the villages.
Village you get lifetime gone.
Wait, can we talk about what happened at the villages when we did the radio show there?
Yeah, what?
So do you probably don't remember this?
So we're there, we're tired, whatever.
And it's like it was, it was like 11 in the morning, and you went to one of the bars with all the vets and I drank before I went on the air.
So we're in the studio.
I don't know if you remember, but the way it's situated is it has all the uh the windows.
People walk by and they can look right in.
Yeah, it was like a uh, you know, an animal in a fishbowl.
Yeah, fishbowl.
So it was like at the zoo, except I was the animal.
Right.
So you think it was just me and you, and probably James coming in and out, and they're just walking by with like pina colladas, bloody marriage, and they're like knocking at the window.
But they're having a blast.
It was hilarious.
I was like, I don't make fun of my mother-in-law.
Now lives down at the villages.
So I gotta call her and let her know that the Republicans led by Donald Trump are plotting a war on seniors.
Now I mean, what does this mean?
A war.
When I think of war, I think of what we better arm ourselves, protect ourselves.
A lot of vets down there.
We we met them in the bar that morning, and it was morning, and then we met them at the bar.
And remember we had the shower just before TV?
It was a oh, it was a downpour.
Just as the TV shows about to start.
I think Marco Rubio was there with us at the time.
And but I love the villagers, it's great.
They got all these golf courses, they got all these beautiful homes.
All these people they drive around in these souped up golf carts.
That's how they get around the villages.
And funny thing is if you drink and drive in a golf cart, you get pulled over, you get a DUI.
Couldn't believe the head of police told me that.
I said, You gonna give the old people a DUI?
Because yeah, they all know they can't drive.
You know, some of them like imagine a golf cart like a 57 Chevy.
Imagine a golf cart that's all pro-Trump or all pro-Hillary.
I don't think there's many pro-Hillary ones down there.
But the villages are awesome.
You got golf and tennis and softball and baseball, and I mean, you got bars and shopping and great medical care.
I mean, it's an awesome place.
And you know, too many old people, I think, stop living when they retire and they don't have fun anymore.
And so for I think people to go down there, they all get together, they play cards, they play golf, they do their thing, they drink, they eat, they go to sleep, and they go to church and they they have a great time.
I think one of the weirdest rules down there is you can't have kids down there permanently.
It's like no kids allowed.
We've had enough of them.
Uh so I don't know.
Do we have to tell the people at the villages now that they better start arming themselves because a war is going to be waged on them next year?
We're gonna have to call.
I guess we'll call the vets down at the bar at the villages and tell them they better they better pull out from their closet the old weapons from the good old days and get ready because get their muskets out and get ready to fight.
This is this is asking.
Right after they have that drink.
Sunshine and golf alore.
Oh, you found the commercial?
Neighbors stroll the old town square and the good night fancy and store.
The villages.
With the smile shine all the year round.
The rest friendly as Tony Town.
I want to go there right now.
I'm thinking I want to retire.
Hey, I think this is my first eligible year at 54.
I think you have to be 54 to get into the villages.
So you're finally feeling your age now.
Shut up out of you, Mr. Coyote Ugly.
I'm under contract.
I'm not going out to villages.
I listen, I just think it's kind of a cool.
My mother-in-law just moved down there.
Because all her friends are down there.
And so, all right, so there's all these rumors about the villages.
Have you heard these rumors?
That of like a women are wearing a certain color that that color means that they're looking for a date.
What the date means, just like the word hookup.
I have no idea.
So many different meanings of the word hookup.
It depends what it depends what definition you use.
Why are you why are you what?
You've never heard this discussion before?
Well, it's true.
Apparently, if if women are looking and available and willing to date, then they have a certain color so that men can identify them as being single and available and wanting, you know, that that woman in particular is probably not sick of men by that point.
What's the color you wear to say buy me a bloody marry now?
I don't know what it is.
That's the color I want to know.
Maybe red with you know black pepper on the side.
Exactly.
Something like that.
But so what?
So why can't old people have a good time?
So I was constantly all over.
So you know that you know what color you're supposed to wear today.
Are you wearing the right color?
Because she's single.
Stop it.
Stop it.
That's what she keeps saying to her.
Stop.
Stop, stop, stop.
She keeps yelling.
I'm like, come on.
What's a nice guy at the villages?
You can meet him.
You can go out on a date.
You can have a couple of drinks.
You can have some coffee after.
It'd be great.
Have to hold hands in the golf cart.
It'll be amazing.
A fun date.
Go play golf the next day.
Retirement, I think is hard.
I don't know if I'm I'm ever going to be suited for retirement.
What?
What?
Oh, you think I am?
Well, I got one shake in his head no, one shake in their head, yes.
What do you say?
Yeah, I'll go.
I think you're gonna go crazy if you retire.
That's what everybody that's close to me says.
What do you think, Jason?
Oh, you can't help yourself.
I mean, you you're probably gonna end up building Linda's restaurant.
You're probably right.
No, I definitely think if I'm in the villages, I'll be riding around the golf cart doing a talk show to myself.
And people say there's the crazy ex-talk show host driving around talking to himself.
Fending off all the 90-year-old women.
Oh, that's right.
Sean from the villages, you're on next.
Hello, John.
Yes, hi, John.
Now, Sean, I want to talk to you about the golf here is horrible.
See what they do.
You're paying, we're paying extra taxes for our golf.
They told us it was free for our lifetime.
We need you to lead the charge to keep golf free here at the villages.
Anyway, there's about to be a war against the old people in the country.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
This is the same predictable crap that you'd always expect out of Schumer.
But nobody in the in the left alt radical media, they're not gonna call them out.
Well, Chuck, do you mean a real war on seniors?
Do you meet should the people at the villages should they pull out their their shotguns and their and their muskets and their pistols and get ready for the war that's coming to them?
Donald Trump leading a charge on a horse down to the villages.
This is so asinide.
It's unbelievable.
It is it's just this is where liberalism is.
You know, everyone's upset that Donald Trump made the comments about flag burners.
Whoopsie daisy, Hillary co-sponsored a pill to put flag burners in jail.
Oh, sorry.
It's only good when a liberal does it.
It's only okay when a liberal does it.
I don't know what to tell you.
You know, uh I just can't believe these people get away with this rhetoric.
No one calls them out on it at all.
The anti-Trumpers now plan an all-out assault.
These are these anti-Trumper people here.
They're still around.
Bill Crystal and Stephen Hayes and who are all the anti-Trumpers.
Uh the NRO people and the Wall Street Journal people.
You notice they're not writing about me lately.
Anyway, they're now planning an all-out assault on the Electoral College.
Let me just tell everybody right now that if Donald Trump wanted to push up the popular vote, he could have just gone to California, New York, Illinois, and all the other countries where there's high density populations, fought for some of the vote, and he would have won the popular vote.
I'd have zero doubt about it.
Zero.
Yeah, would Hillary Clinton have picked up a phone and saved a thousand jobs at carrier air conditioning?
I doubt it.
Ha ha ha ha ha!
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
Uh Steve in Maryland, what's up, Steve?
How are you?
Hey, Sean, you're a great American.
Thank you.
Yes, sir.
What's happening?
I was calling because I was in my car driving along, and I heard you talk about carrier and buying a carrier air conditioner next time.
This is a 2011 Ford Escape, and that's the reason I bought it.
They didn't accept the bailout.
And I'm going to point to all my family and friends, social media, everybody, that I would buy a Ford vehicle next time to say thank you to Ford for not taking that bail out.
Good for you.
I just want to keep American workers working.
That's my heart is.
And I gotta tell you, there's no difference in quality in any of these cars now.
They're so look, I just keep buying the Cadillac Escalade because that's the only car.
I'm a creature of habit in case you haven't noticed.
I eat the same lunch every day, usually the same dinner every day, and unless I go out or something, but I'm a creature of habit.
Well, I'm with you.
I appreciate it.
I want to thank you for saying that.
I want to thank uh carrier and uh go to the villages next, though.
Yeah, be c you better bring your musket, bring your musket down to the villages.
By the way, you know what Hannity you know what the headline's gonna be on Media later today?
Hannity calls for insurrection at the villages.
Hannity says, pull out your muskets.
Get ready because the war against the old people are coming.
Ugh Daisy in Tampa, Florida.
This is just too easy.
On WFLA 970.
What's up, uh Daisy?
How are you?
Hello, Mr. Hannity.
I'm great.
How are you?
I'm good.
What's happening?
I wanted to call because I heard you talking about Carrier and the Forgotten Man.
Uh-huh.
And I am the dreaded millennial that you talk about.
You're not a dreaded millennial.
I feel sorry for millennials.
Oh, it's it's a trying argument on a daily basis when I tune into your broadcast.
But that's not what I'm trying to talk about.
I wanted to talk about this forgotten man.
I feel like I'm forgotten.
I'm 18, I'm in school, and I don't think anyone's talking to me.
I I don't.
I I don't agree with the Democratic Party, I don't agree with the Republicans, and I feel lost.
I'm gonna be out of school in a few years with thousands and thousands of tons of debt.
And I don't know what to do.
I feel like no one is talking to me, and I feel forgotten.
All right.
I was talking about you during the election.
Remember I kept saying American men, 18 to 34, one in six are incarcerated or living in mommy's basement.
Remember I talked about that?
And you're 18, right?
So you're going to what college now?
Yes.
Okay.
What do you study?
Oh gosh, this is going to be a laugh from you.
But environmental conservation and sustainability.
Okay.
Here's my advice for you.
Okay.
Get your degree, but maybe you don't go to the most expensive college, because it's you might want to reconsider the the the field of endeavor.
But look, environmental sciences are fine.
Maybe look, I'm not against saving the environment.
We gotta have clean air and water uh for our kids.
So that's important.
But that but the environmentalists lie and they usually have an agenda behind it.
Here's the deal.
You need to do your best in terms of getting a degree at the best cost benefit ratio.
Maybe you don't go to the very expensive school if you can't afford it.
Maybe you go to the Moore Community School or the state school.
You have great state schools down in Florida, and what you do from there is get, you know, look into what are the fields that are most in need right now.
Go to go to our friends.
You can look online at uh expresspros.com slash job genius, and they have all the different fields that are going to be in demand in the next couple of decades.
Take a look at it, make a decision based on that.
You gotta find something you love to do.
I mean, this is my 30th year in radio, 21 years in TV.
I am not I love my job.
I love what I do.
I feel honored to be here every day.
You gotta find something that gives you some sense of accomplishment and reward so that you're gonna be able to do it for decades of your life because that's what the grind of life is.
And I would just say don't worry you don't have to worry so much about everything that because you can't you know, let's just hope we get to turn the country around.
Let's hope more jobs are created.
Let's hope we get more businesses coming into the country.
You know, you're in Tampa.
Tampa's a growing part of the country right now, all over Florida.
You know what?
You're gonna be fine.
Just just be smart with your money, find your passion, work really hard, don't hang out with your stupid friends more than you have to, and you're gonna be fine.
All right?
All right.
And you can't worry about every aspect of your life, but if you do the right thing, get a marketable skill trade and services and goods that people want, need and desire, you'll be successful.
You will, I promise.
And you sound like you have a wonderful personality.
It became clear that the best way to stay competitive and protect the business for long term is to move production from our facility in Indianapolis to Monterey, Mexico.
That's why you got all those ****** chairs!
Relocating our operations to Monterey will allow us to maintain high levels of product quality, take a badge prices and continue to serve the extremely price sensitive marketplace.
I want to be clear.
This is strictly a business decision.
I'll tell you what, I would go right now to carry it, and I would say, I am gonna work awfully hard.
You're gonna make air conditioners now in Mexico.
You're gonna get all of these fourteen hundred people that are being laid off.
They're laid off, they were crying, they were it was a very sad situation.
You're gonna go to Mexico, you're gonna make air conditions in Mexico, you're gonna put them across our border with no tax.
I'm gonna tell them right now, I am gonna get consensus from Congress, and we're gonna tax you when those air conditioners come.
So stay where you are or build in the United States.
And Carrier has to know that if they do that, and I'm not only speaking to them, I'm speaking to Nabisco and Ford and hundreds and hundreds of other companies.
They have to know that there are consequences when you want to leave and fire all these people.
And you're not just gonna go to another country, make your product, sell it across our really weak borders because our borders are gonna be so strong, folks.
Our borders will be so strong.
Believe me.
Here's what's going to happen.
Within 24 hours, I'll get a call, the head of carrier, and he'll say, Mr. President, we've decided to stay in the United States.
All right?
All right, glad you're with us.
Hour two, Sean Hannity show, toll free.
Our telephone numbers 800 941.
Sean, you want to be a part of the program.
All right, so maybe some of you are saying, Well, a thousand jobs.
Hey, what's a thousand a thousand jobs?
That's a thousand of your fellow citizens.
That's their life, that's their future, that's their kids, that's their grandkids.
That's them keeping their homes and cars and not having their life thrown into chaos with the worst labor participation rate since the 70s and the lowest home ownership rate in 51 years.
So if that's a start, I'll take it.
And the fact that somebody picks up a telephone and gets that deal done makes me happy.
Makes me happy for for the people in Indiana.
Makes me happy for the people that work for Carrier.
Makes me happy that they keep they were planning on get getting rid of some jobs at Ford, and Trump picked up the phone there.
And I'd like to see more of this.
And let me tell you, the next time I need an air conditioner, as I said in the last hour, I am buying a carrier.
And there's a my way of saying, yeah, we need to support American workers, American jobs, American companies that are feeling the pressure because of government taxation or regulation to move overseas and get cheaper labor.
Former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich is with us.
How are you?
I'm I'm doing great, and I agree entirely with what you just said.
It's refreshing to see a leader who cuts through all the baloney, goes straight at it, talks the language of business, convinces them to change what they were gonna do.
Uh now I think the Congress has an obligation to follow through on some tax reforms and some things that I saw Steve Minution talking about, the new uh proposed section of the Treasury.
Uh and uh I think that uh this was a very, very positive step in the right direction.
You've had two companies, Ford and Carrier have both changed their plans following uh Trump's uh election and it's no wonder that you're getting a Trump rally on Wall Street when they see this kind of active leadership out of the you know we haven't had this kind of a president this active uh since Ronald Reagan.
I I mean the it's a simple thing you know one of the things I pushed as a broken record last year and I did it on purpose and I did it because nobody else was doing it and I did it because to me it was the strongest case to be made.
I actually wish Trump had mentioned it as more often than he did, but he did mention it in some of his big speeches about all those people you heard me talking about in poverty on food stamps out of the labor force.
You know, this these are millions of people fifty million Americans in poverty fifty million on food stamps.
No opportunity, no hope, real poverty, real families, real suffering, and real no and real government interference into their lives through regulation, taxation.
You know, look at the millions of jobs I was looking at a plan as a matter of fact you sent me today uh the appointment of Steve Munchin, who's the gonna be the secretary of the Treasury, and you sent me what the agenda items are from the and what he's advocating for pro growth tax plan, modern regulatory framework, America first trade policy, unleashing American energy.
I've been saying this for years.
They even had the Penny plan in, which I have been talking about for years as well as a means of curtailing this this mass massive government growth and spending every year through baseline budgeting.
You know I really I really thought reading that that it reminded me of so many of your talks about the Penny plan, I thought you ought to feel some pride of authorship that you have a president of the United States who actually understood it and picked it up and said hey we're gonna do it.
Do you know he actually asked me this is going way back when he was first beginning the candidacy because he's heard me talk about it.
He said, all right, I've heard you talk about the Penny Plan.
What's the Penny Plan?
Explain it again.
He actually was asking details.
Now to be fair it's wasn't my plan.
It was Congressman Connie Mack at the time.
I mean it was the MacPenney plan, but who knew who cares about credit but if we can eliminate baseline budgeting, what is the built-in increase usually every year?
Six, seven percent all across government?
No company grows like that, uh especially with the debt and the deficit we take in every year, right?
That's right.
Yeah.
What do you think I I saw that you were critical of um of the president elect tweeting randomly as you called it.
Yeah I look I I think what he tweeted the other night was one factually wrong and two I I'm for him tweeting.
I think one of the refreshing things we get uh from President elect Trump is a is an engagement and an involvement.
But I think he needs to have one person who is sort of his editor in chief just to just a check and every once in a while, you know, not not often but about five percent of his tweets, he'd be better off not to send.
I mean the other ninety five percent are terrific and they're useful and I noticed for example he sent a whole series I think of four tweets explaining that that he and uh his kids are going to have a press conference on December fifteenth, laying out how they're gonna handle the business in order to both protect the country and allow uh him to uh get totally out of the business, which I think is the right thing to do.
Um so I I'm for him tweeting and it's a very effective very powerful technique.
But I do think that when you're the president of the United States the cost of being wrong is radically higher than when you're a candidate.
When you're a candidate people can shrug it off.
But people all around the world look to the President states and and have to believe in the in the seriousness and in the purposefulness of what he's saying and what he's doing.
And I think that he when he undermines that he doesn't just undermine it for the one tweet he he sa he undermines it for everything he's doing in a way which is I think harmful to him.
Yeah but you know what I do think you're right.
I mean I've been taking a lot of heat because I'm saying maybe it's time to rethink the entire relationship now that we have now that we've had the revelations from WikiLeaks about CNN colluding with Hillary Clinton and NBC colluding with her and Martha Raditz, the moderator of a debate crying when it's announced that Trump is the president elect and uh politico and the New York Times giving Hillary an opportunity to edit pieces before they go out.
In all your years being you know a media figure, were you ever given an opportunity by politico or the New York Times to edit a story they're doing about you?
No, look it it's it's unimaginable and I I shocked some people in the press yesterday because I said frankly I thought that Ari Fleischer who wrote a very good uh article in the Wall Street Journal is onto something when he talked about rethinking the entire way that we operate uh in terms of the White House um press operation and I think that we ought to consider democratizing it.
You know, a big part of what Trump is all about is getting beyond Washington.
Well there are a lot of steps you could take that would open up the White House press operation and you could do the same thing for every cabinet office.
So for example there's no reason that the same reporters from the same institutions sit in the front row every time.
You have something like five hundred and seventy five members of the White House press corps, you could rotate all of them.
There's no reason you couldn't put in a a Facebook capability and allow citizens around the country to ask questions in the White House press conference.
There's no reason you couldn't allow local reporters to be accredited all across the country and let them come on Facebook and ask questions.
You could really dramatically open up the White House with that kind of creativity in a way that I think I'd open up this radio show we're on five hundred and fifty stations we're in every state almost every city across the country big and small and and allow the president to do a fireside chat and take calls from the American people if he'd want to do it I'd air it on radio and TV.
I mean, there's all sorts of ways.
But if you are found, if you're one of these networks that colluded with the Clinton campaign, very specifically, let's say CNN, where you're you have somebody providing questions to Hillary before a town hall or that you're calling the DNC to get questions to ask Donald Trump or Ted Cruz.
Or if you're, you know, any of the other examples that we have, NBC or ABC or The New York Times, et cetera, I almost feel like you don't necessarily just because you're.
it's you've historically had that seat if you're shown to have colluded and you're an openly supporting the the Democratic party why do you get a seat there and to begin with?
I I I don't even see the need for it.
Yeah I I think I think first of all as you point out give somebody a breakdown crying you know we had this happen to us in nineteen ninety four.
I remember one famous correspondent sitting next to one of our members about three months later said to him I've almost gotten over being angry at you guys beating Mario Cuomo Wow.
And you know the people let me get this straight you're supposedly the news media but you're so committed to the Democrats that you were offended.
Listen before before you ever took office and correct me if my time frame is wrong here, wasn't it that winter, that Christmas that they had you as the gingrich that stole Christmas before you ever took office as speaker.
Oh yeah it was it was great.
We had Time magazine had me as Scrooge holding Tiny Tim's broken crutch because I was I was so mean I didn't just steal the crutch, I broke it.
And the title was How mean will Gingrich's America be to the poor and they could tell there wasn't biased because it was a question.
Oh okay that the question didn't made all the difference right a week later Newsweek caught up by having me as a Dr. Zeus figure on the cover and the title was The Grinch that stole Christmas.
You know it's funny because you know what Chuck Schumer said yesterday in relation to Tom Price, the Republican from your home state of Georgia saying it's clear that Washington Republicans are plotting a war on seniors next year.
Now what I said earlier is I said well I guess this probably means they're going to start in the villages in Orlando and what they're gonna do is they're gonna send in an army the Army, the Air Force, the Marines, the Coast Guard everyone's going to go in and I guess all those all those retired people down in the villages are gonna have to pick up arms and go against Donald Trump and his army.
I mean that this is the they haven't changed since you became speaker.
It's the same talking points.
And of course you just saw Nancy Pelosi get reelected.
Yeah.
Look, these are people, somebody once said of the Bourbon Kings uh that they forgot nothing and they learned nothing.
I think what you have is the Democratic Party so trapped in left-wing delusional thinking that all they can do is make up fantasies.
The fact is that the Chuck Schumer has no public policies with any support.
Nancy Pelosi has no public policies with any support.
So all they can do is attack Republicans unendingly, even including the new president.
Yeah, but I think I don't know if this is going to work on Trump.
Number one, I think Trump's going to push back.
I didn't go to the meeting, but I know people that were in the meeting.
You know, you know that he brought in all of the correspondents and all of the network heads, and he just leveled them as liars as in the camp of Hillary Clinton and and you they're not to be trusted, and they did a disservice to the American people.
I mean, that took a lot of guts.
But it's also true.
You know, the the media is now fixated on what they think fake news influence this election.
And I'm like, well, if you're colluding with Hillary, you're not a news organization.
By definition, that's fake news.
That's commentary.
And they're not honest about it.
I give commentary, but I'm honest.
Well, and of course, some of these networks are so biased, and some of the papers like the New York Times are so biased that they actually live in an alternative universe.
They don't think they're biased because they believe in the world they're describing, even though if it's totally fine.
You had this experience yesterday, and as you know, I I wrote a novel uh called Treason about terrorism about people who are pro-ISIS, and I I'm I'm I'm doing a piece right now because they just arrested a German counterintelligence officer who was plotting on behalf of ISIS attacks in Germany.
This stuff's all real.
So you go to Columbus, Ohio.
You have a guy who is a Somali refugee who has been on a variety of extremist websites, who on his own Facebook page posts that that the Westerners have to die because of what they've done to Muslims, who runs and tries to run people down and then turns around and runs down the street with a knife cutting people.
And the first reaction is, gosh, we're not sure what his motivation is.
And you just have to say to yourself, no wonder it's impossible for us to win the war at the present time when our elites are this desperate to avoid reality.
All right, Mr. Speaker, we'll see you tonight on Hannity.
Thanks so much for being with us.
And uh this is going to be an interesting time.
If they're saying that Republicans are plotting a war on seniors, this is the first shot across the bow about the insanity of the rhetoric that we're going to be hearing.
So we're gonna have to be you know what I think I'll do.
I think I'm gonna send coloring books and play-doh to every congressman, Democratic congressman and woman in Washington.
Because they're gonna they they're going to need a lot of therapy for the next year and help.
And maybe I'll send hot cocoa packets to them all.
All right, 800 nine-four one Sean is a number.
All right, before we get to our phones, as I promised, let me play the fake news montage that I had promised.
A lot of people have no idea that Trump is headed for a historic defeat.
That's why I think the larger the defeat, in a sense, the healthier it will be for the Republican Party, at least if it doesn't bring Paul Ryan's speakership down with him, and there's a kind of healthy divide of government.
Because it might be a wake-up call to those Republicans who have existed in this little thought bubble of their own that uh this isn't a winning form of politics.
Um then this election, uh, not only does Florida fall to Hillary Clinton, but this election overall, um, uh could you know we we could be talking landslide.
And so uh Hillary Clinton today is more likely to win in a landslide that would not only have an impact on this race, but realign the country politically to some extent than Donald Trump is to win narrowly or at all.
I mean, let's say it is a four-point margin.
That would translate to an electoral majority and probably electoral landslide for Hillary Clinton.
Margin of error, they mean margin of error.
This could be tight or it could be a landslide for Hillary.
Okay, so everybody is saying, most analysts are saying that Hillary Clinton's gonna win in a landslide and that Ohio won't much matter this time around.
Yeah, yeah, if this collapse of support among women that you talked about in Sunday, if that spreads among women voters all across the country, he's gonna lose by a landslide, and and they could lose the sending them to House.
TOB officials now fear that if Donald Trump loses by a landslide, he could take down the congressional majorities with him.
Not only am I concerned about the presidential race, I'm concerned about what the impact on down ballot race is, including overly cautious just because I'm trying to be a little risk-averse in my predictions, but I think that she's going to have a very good night.
So the technical term for that, if she's anywhere near your prediction would be blowout.
I give a landslide, I don't know.
I say a landslide, I would say a landslide.
That's a little acting, actually.
And when I say fake news, I mean stories that are designed to trick people into believing lies.
Let's be clear.
Donald Trump will lose the election.
No, Donald Trump will lose the election.
I mean, if you look at the battleground states right now, Donald Trump's going to lose, that's the first thing.
This is different what Donald Trump's doing.
It's sinister.
It reeks of Joe McCurve.
Texas is still competitive.
Is that is the election over?
I mean, a lot of political scientists would say at this point, nothing matters.
They Citibank said if Trump's elected, the market will go down three to five percent.
If Donald Trump wins the election, the stock market will take.
And that would hurt the stock market.
If Trump were to win, you know, the stocks, stock market would go down.
You know, one of the pillars of the infamous blue wall.
clearly going after that blue wall.
It's whether Hillary Clinton's going to win by small margin or whether we're going to essentially annihilate Donald Trump.
I think Hillary will win.
And most analysts are saying that Hillary Clinton's going to win in a landslide.
Don't think it's likely that Hillary Clinton will win.
And if Donald Trump does lose, particularly if he loses in the face of a massive turnout from Latino communities.
But there's an invisible surge with Latinos.
The surge of the Latino vote that that's going to be enough.
Surge in Hispanic Latino voting.
This is the number right here.
We're all going to be talking about after the election.
It is the Hispanic vote.
But the surge of Latino voters African American voters and Hispanic voters and college educated white women, especially are coming out in droves.
He claims that the media is lying and that its reporting cannot be believed.
So Donald Trump will lose.
They're the most basic, pure form of fake news.
All right, so fake news.
Would fake news be a quote news organization feeding questions to Hillary?
Would fake news be, let's see, a news organization going to the DNC to question the other side like Donald Trump?
Would fake news be allowing one candidate access to articles by the New York Times and Politico before they're actually sent out publicly to give them an opportunity to fix it the way they like it?
Yeah, that's fake news.
Would fake news be somebody moderating a debate and then when Trump wins, they're crying on national television and he won.
I can't believe it.
Would fake news be, you know, John Harwood consulting the Clinton campaign and he's a moderator, then brags how he got under Trump's skin in one of the debates.
Yeah, that's fake news.
All those fake news nonsense.
That's fake news.
They're not news organizations.
You'd say, well, Hannity, you give I do, but I don't say I'm an objective news organization.
I'm an advocate.
I do a talk show.
I give opinions.
Uh Linda, do you think there's anybody that doesn't know that I am a conservative?
You think there's anybody in the country that doesn't know?
You have to talk.
You can't nod your head.
Sorry.
No, I'm still laughing at the fact that all the people claiming that there's fake news were just sound bites of them delivering fake news.
This is overwhelming.
And they probably do think you're lying about being a conservative.
They probably think that, you know.
I'm a clause of liberal.
Yeah, probably.
No, but the thing is, I'm honest.
I tell my audience, and by the way, I'm all for opinion.
Newspapers have editorial pages.
I'm an editorial page.
I give opinions.
The editorial page, op-ed pages, you have opinions.
But that's different from the news side.
Yeah, unfortunately, what happened in this election cycle is that the news side became an editorial side.
So really you're the news and they're the opinions at this point.
It's so true.
I'm sad.
Listen, I think I'm more deserving.
Could you imagine 50 Sean Hannity sitting in the press room right now for Barack Obama?
Because basically every news organization that's going to be there going after whoever the press secretary ends up being.
They're going to be going after that person advocating for Hillary.
And their argument is, well, we need to ask the tough questions or you're not asking.
And I'm like, no, you don't.
Because everything you do has an agenda and a tilt and a switch, and you want to hurt the president, and you want his agenda to fail.
And if Chuck Schumer says it's Washington Republicans are plotting a war on seniors, who's going after Chuck Schumer, the number one Democrat in the Senate, and saying, hey, Chuck, what do you mean by war?
What does war mean?
I was just so disappointed To see the president elect nominate Congressman Price to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services this morning.
When it comes to issues like Medicare, the Affordable Care Act and Planned Parenthood, Congressman Price and the average American couldn't be further apart.
Between this nomination of an avowed Medicare opponent and Republicans here in Washington threatening to privatize Medicare, it's clear that Washington Republicans are plotting a war on seniors next year.
Every senior, every American, should hear this loudly and clearly.
Democrats will not let them win that fight.
After the 2004 elections, Republicans tried to take the rug out from under our seniors to privatize Social Security.
And now after the 2016 elections, it seems they're intent on trying the same trick on Medicare.
Just as their efforts failed, then they will fail now.
We say to our Republicans who want to privatize Medicare, go try it.
It's just unbelievable.
All right, Chris is in Edmund, Oklahoma.
I've been there.
Love it and Edmund.
How are you?
Good, Sean.
How are you?
I'm good.
What's going on?
Hey, uh, I don't have much time.
Just wanted to let you know that there's a lot of strife going on out there between husbands and wives that find their selves on opposite sides of the table here.
And uh I'll be listening while I'm doing my job, but I'm just looking for some advice from you or your listeners uh concerning basically getting past the anger and vitriol that's coming out of my family and my wife.
Well, what so what's happening since the election, what happened?
Well, the night of the election, once it was called, she basically ran after me with a baseball bat saying you people have destroyed the country.
Uh so I came straight back to work, and it's just so she literally chased you around your house with a baseball bat.
She's that angry about Donald Trump.
Did she try to hit you with the bat?
No, sir.
It was it was just drama.
Just drama.
But she was literally chasing you around the house with a baseball bat.
Yes, sir.
Yeah.
Yep.
I've been with her twenty years, and I'm not gonna give up easily, which is why I'm looking for advice.
But her entire family and friends are offering her a way out, because she should be with someone who voted for Trump Donald Trump.
And so is she interested in the way out?
I'm afraid she is.
I'm afraid she is.
And and I will never And you really want you really want to stay with this woman who is who's willing to destroy your relationship over politics, chase you around with a bat.
You know, look at I maybe I have it from a very different perspective.
If somebody doesn't love me, then I don't want to be with them.
If she doesn't love you, and if an election is enough to send her off the deep end, I I I'd say it's probably time to cut bait and say goodbye.
Why do you want to be with somebody that doesn't love you?
I understand.
I just don't know.
I know you sound sad.
I I know you sound you you don't think she's what?
I don't think she would truly give up given some time to get past that.
Well, the only thing And how long you've been married?
Twenty years.
And how many kids do you have?
None, thank goodness.
You don't have kids.
Okay.
Was she always a Democrat like this, or is this a recent phenomenon?
No, sir.
She's Orange County, California, so yes, she's always been a little Democrat, and I'm South Carolina upstate, and uh I was raised uh Republican, Strong Thurman, and uh I just you know there's there's gotta be a meeting point here.
There has to be a meeting point.
I don't think the problem is you though.
Because when Obama was elected, I assume she was happy, right?
Correct, sir, and I was no and you didn't go after her with a baseball bat, right?
No, sir.
I I I work too hard to let that kind of uh I just I don't have time for that.
And that's part of the problem is we can't continue on with life.
But I'm sure there are other listeners that you have that have gone through this.
And uh I just humanity, I don't know.
You really want my I'm not good at it, but I will.
You know, look, uh this is such a heartbreaking story.
I don't I don't want to give you short shrift here.
I'm gonna spend some time with you.
So here's here's my advice to you, and I think what I'm gonna say you're probably gonna take pretty hard.
So if you don't want me to say what I really think, I won't.
It's up to you.
I wouldn't have called if I wasn't ready.
Okay, and we have an audience of plenty of conservative women that probably would love a guy like you because you're nice, kind, sensitive, and you know, clearly you don't want this to happen.
But here's the number one rule in any relationship.
If you cannot make somebody love you back, you just can't.
And if something like an election is gonna send her into this kind of tailspin where she is gonna choose leaving because she didn't like the way you voted, then I would tell her, well, if you're gonna leave because you don't like the way I voted, there's the door.
And if you're gonna try and chase me around my own house and force me back to work because you're so upset over an election, there's the door.
And I would say it's up to her.
If you choose to stay and and have a marriage and love me, then I'm willing to stay and have a marriage and love you back.
But you're acting irrationally and frankly on the precipice of violence in our home.
And say so what I would say to her is there's the door.
You're not forced to stay here.
You can you can stay and have a marriage, or if you want to be crazy over this election, go.
And I know it'll hurt your feelings, and I know it's not what you want, but you don't want to be in a position where you're held hostage in your own home.
And can't watch the news and can't enjoy any of the progress that is going to come.
Oh no no no no no no.
If she had if she had any any bit of love for you, she would congratulate you that you're a side one.
And if you want to watch the news, I'm sure you have more than one TV in the house, right?
Sure.
Okay, you can watch the news on one TV and she can watch soap operas or whatever she likes on another TV.
Maybe she could watch reruns of Barack Obama's speeches.
Well, I have one request to families and listeners, and that would be please stop attacking each other on Facebook.
Yeah, it's getting pretty ugly.
It's uh there's some ugliness out there, but you know what?
You just don't pay attention to it.
The same courtesy that we were all taught to pay each other when we're at work or in public about religion and politics should apply to Facebook.
Well, you know what?
You can't make people be nice, just like in the case of your your wife.
Listen, I'm just gonna tell you a truth that you really don't want to hear.
If she really loved you, she wouldn't care how you voted.
If she really loved you, she wouldn't be giving you an ultimatum.
She wouldn't be chasing you around with a bat.
She wouldn't be leaving you over something so insignificant.
And what I hear is a nice guy that is probably trying too hard to keep somebody who's not worthy of you.
And if she decides to leave over an election, then good riddance to her.
Go find a woman that's worthy of of the love that you clearly have to offer someone else.
That's my my advice.
I I hope you'll I I hope you'll take it to heart, but I don't like to tell people how to l live their lives.
I don't, but you ask, so I'm giving you my best advice.
Yes, sir.
And uh I would give that advice to my own kids.
I will keep you updated.
All right, yeah, please.
Well, I'll tell you what we can do.
Maybe if if you end up breaking up with her, we'll try and find somebody else for you.
I think I'll take uh quite a break.
Well, I understand.
All right, hang in there.
Listen, listen.
Hang in there.
Don't let anyone else decide whether you're gonna have a good or bad day.
You know, I'm just I don't let people impact me.
If you think I read these stupid comments that people write about me and that I feel bad about it, I I don't.
I don't care one bit.
I'm not gonna live my life caring what other people think of me.
If I did, I would not be able to do this show in any way that was impactful or effective.
As a matter of fact, I actually find it quite amusing, all of the incoming that comes on a daily basis.
And especially I love attacking back.
They hit me, I hit them right back.
Not physically, verbally.
Before Tim continues, let me just say this because I I'm hearing the tone of this, and I really don't think it's very fair.
We did not lose today.
Today we won.
We may not have won the position, but we want a caucus.
We have now a leadership that listens to what we are saying.
We have now a leadership that wants to be more inclusive and include more people from this caucus.
We have now a leadership that wants to hear what we have to say, what we think went wrong, how we fix it.
He didn't lose today.
Today we made a caucus more responsible to its members.
And so for that, I congratulate him.
One third of The members of this caucus had the courage to come out and say we needed a change.
And I congratulate all of them.
And for those who voted for our leader, I think that's great.
I think she's a wonderful leader.
But what I do know is when I go home, people are going to ask me, what did you do to make this better?
Doing nothing doesn't make it better.
But today we won because they hear us.
Who is the future of the Democratic Party?
Um, I I don't I haven't thought about that, Casey.
Well, you know, uh, yeah, I mean, to some extent, we this is our leader.
This is who this is who our caucus chose.
And in we're gonna support them.
Who's gonna leave the party for the next four years?
We're all gonna participate in leading the party.
I think now's the time where everybody's got to step up, which again was part of why I wanted to do it.
You see this this crew here, a lot of young members stepped up, went public, which is unheard of uh in in a political caucus like this for young people to stand up.
So we got a lot of people uh that are ready to participate.
I'll take one more question.
Leadership.
Well, we're gonna have to figure that out.
That's gonna be part of what we got to figure out.
And obviously, that was my case that I made.
You know, I you know, we didn't win the day today, but as Marcia said, there's a lot more people who are participating.
I think that the conversation is shifting to a more economic uh conversation, and I think that's gonna help all of us, and that's gonna help us be able to try to win the House back because we have a responsibility, and we embrace the opportunity that is presented.
We know how to win elections, we've done it in the past, we will do it again by making that differentiation.
But again, this is so much bigger than politics.
It's about the character of America, it's a responsibility to the people, our obligation to our founders, our gratitude to our men and women in uniform, and our respect for the aspirations of America's children and our families.
So I have a special spring in my step today, because this uh opportunity is a special one uh to lead the House Democrats, bring everyone together as we go forward.
My heart is broken that we did not win the White House this time.
Uh uh that is it's it's a pain and and not for me personally, but for what it means to the American people.
So I would trade anything not to have this opportunity of opposing an administration.
You say Congress has got an obligation to investigate whether or not Hillary Clinton or the Clinton Foundation did anything wrong.
But if the top guy in your party is saying, you know, I I don't know if I feel that strongly about it.
Why would you go forward with it?
Well, we do have an obligation, not just any old obligation, it's a constitutional obligation.
She obviously broke federal records law, at least I think she did.
Um, and I I come back to the basic standard.
It's it's equal treatment under the law in this country.
That is the standard.
And if anyone else would be investigated, then so should the former Secretary of State.
So I think that's the right position for the House to take as far as the administration goes.
That's gonna largely be a call for Senator Sessions when he becomes the attorney general.
If he thinks it warrants further further pursuit, further activity, further investigation, then he can he can move in that direction.
I certainly respect President Elect Trump's uh statement.
Sure, but we have a job in the House, and we should do that regardless of who's in the White House, regardless of what party it is.
We should do our constitutional duty, that's what the American people expect.
All right, there you have it.
Nancy Pelosi only getting two-thirds support.
And they have decided in the Democratic caucus that some of the younger members want to go in a different direction.
But it's the same old playbook.
And we can hear her from Chuck Schumer.
I mean, Chuck Schumer's out there today saying, Well, it's clear, Washington Republicans they are plotting a war on seniors next year.
Now, does anybody seriously believe there's a war on seniors being plotted next year?
What is Donald Trump gonna get in?
And he's gonna get the Army and the Navy and the Air Force and the Marines and the Coast Guard, and they're gonna go out into neighborhoods.
Maybe they'll start at the villages.
Down by Orlando, where all these wonderful old people have.
I've been down there.
I love that place.
They're so cool down there.
They play golf, they they have the listen, we went down there, remember that we were down there, Linda?
Well, they would drink it in the bar at what?
11 o'clock in the morning.
I had a beer with those vets.
It was so much fun.
And you're playing golf.
You get lifetime golf, lifetime tennis.
They've played cards.
They they have activities and concerts and book signings.
They have a blast.
So I guess we're going to start at the villages, according to Chuck Schumer, because Republicans are plotting a war on seniors.
Well, they tried it this year, it didn't work.
And if they want to stay old and stale and cold and and watch the country prosper without them, that's fine.
But I don't think scaring people is going to work.
Anyway, joining us, probably one of the main guys that we're going to count on in the House of Representatives to make sure that there's going to be honesty, transparency, and that somebody's going to be looking out that the right agenda gets passed as Congressman Jim Jordan.
He's the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus.
How are you?
I'm doing fine, Sean.
Good to be with you.
How do you interpret she only got two thirds of the vote among her members?
Well, uh I mean, I think some of them are wise enough.
I mean, it's like uh what what the best uh if Urban Meyer was two and eleven instead of eleven and two, he wouldn't be coaching the buckeyes much longer.
So Nancy Pelosi, they've lost everything at the State House at Governor's races.
The Democrats keep losing.
Here's the lady who's kind of the seen as the the the top of the party, but because they're such a hard left party these days, they continue to hang on to her.
Now, at least one third of them, I think, um, decided that they wanted to do something different.
But um I think it just shows that the Democrats are the party of the hard left, a party of these radical progressive ideas, and they're gonna continue to be that.
I think it frankly is to their detriment, as evidenced by what's happened over the last several years in state houses and governor's offices, and in the United States Congress.
Yeah, well, look, I just think they lost the election and they're in quite a bit of disarray.
And what are your thoughts on Keith Ellison who's looking for a position and uh positions of power here?
Keith's a nice guy.
I've talked to him, but uh, you know, I try not to get too involved in who the Democrats want to make as their party chairman.
That's their call.
I mean, they've had people like Howard Dean and all kinds of folks, and of course we saw what took place this past year where the whole uh DNC was rigged in favor of Secretary Clinton to make sure she got the nomination.
It wasn't even a fair fight on their on their side for Bernie Sanders or anyone else who was going to challenge Secretary Clinton.
So uh I'll I'll leave that up to them uh who who they decide is gonna run that organization.
I'm more worried about and more focused on Republicans doing what we told the voters we're gonna do, what the voters sent us here to do.
That's what we have to be focused on as we move forward.
Implementing those policies are gonna help our country.
What do you think of Steed Munchin for Secretary of the uh Treasury?
Don't don't know him well, but if if Mr. Trump thinks he's the right guy for that job, that that's fine.
I I think we should give a lot of deference to the president elect and who he selects.
I do know the two colleagues of mine that he selected, I have the utmost respect for.
I think Tom Price is a tremendous pick for HHS versus I think uh Mike Pompeo, who I work closely with on the Benghazi committee.
In fact, Mike and I did a separate report, an additional report to the main report of that uh on that committee.
I think he's a great pick for the CIA.
So Mr. Pompeo and Mr. Price, two great selections.
And I think overall, Sean, and you know, you look at who they've selected thus far, quality, quality people, the kind of folks you want in the government doing what uh doing what we told we the voters were gonna do and helping put the country back on the right path.
I'm not worried so much about the House.
I mean, I assume you guys have the votes, everything's gonna get passed fairly expeditiously, and that would include the repeal of Obamacare and its replacement.
Uh I've known Tom Price for a long time.
What do you think of his alternative plan?
It's good.
It's good.
I mean, Dr. Price, I mean he chaired the Republican Study Committee, he's a conservative, he's a physician, he's the right kind of guy for that job.
He he has been an advocate of getting rid of Obamacare from the get-go, and I always remind folks remember what Jonathan Gruber told us about how they lied to us?
This thing has got to go.
Dr. Price has been out front speaking about why this has got to go uh from the get-go.
So um I I think he's an outstanding pick and is gonna be the right kind of guy at that agency to help us take get rid of Obamacare and replace it with uh uh the type of plan that he's put forward which empowers people uh and not not the folks here in the in the DC bureaucracy.
You know, Munch had actually laid down a marker about what it is that they're gonna do, and he said they want a pro-growth tax plan in which every income group is gonna get a tax cut, lower income Americans, which is about over fifty percent of of working Americans won't pay any federal income taxes at All they're gonna have a modern regulatory framework they think that can cut cost to our economy at two trillion a year.
They're gonna put an America first trade policy in place.
Uh I liked what I saw with carrier deciding to stay.
By the way, I'm gonna buy my next air conditioner is gonna be a carrier air conditioner.
You know, unleashing America's energy, they also he mentioned the penny plan, where they're gonna reduce a penny out of every dollar uh that is non-safety uh net spending and and non-defense related, which I think is a great start.
That shows some fiscal discipline.
And uh so I kind of like I like the the headline of it, and I think it's it's certainly gonna No, you're you're exactly right, Sean.
I I mean look, this is the first president.
President Obama is the first president since World War II not to have at least one year of three percent or higher growth.
We've been bumping along at a percent percent and a half of growth.
You just you cannot deal with a twenty trillion dollar debt when you spend like crazy and only grow at a percent and a half.
So what they're talking about, the new Treasury Secretary and the Trump administration are talking about is putting in place a tax code that's conducive to economic growth.
So we get three, three and a half, four percent type of growth that helps you deal with the twenty trillion dollar debt.
Then what you have to do is hold the line on spending, like the penny plan or something else, but just hold the line on spending and grow.
When you're not growing, that hurts everything.
And everyone knows our tax code is hurting growth and driving companies away from here uh locating here in the United States.
And so th that that rightly should be the focus uh as we move forward so we can get our economy growing like it needs to be.
I think the main things are this for the economy.
I think the repatriated money, and I would even offer an incentive for multinational corporations to get an even bigger tax cut if they pledge to invest millions of dollars in jobs, factories, manufacturing centers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Detroit in particular, so we can get these cities going.
But if you add that to the savings people will have with hopefully health care savings accounts, the millions of potential jobs being created with energy independence, and then a fifteen percent corporate tax.
I I don't understand how people don't realize corporations don't pay taxes.
They just pass it on to us, the consumer.
Of course, and and I I I love the plan that that that uh President elect Trump's putting forward.
It's not to to take the corporate rate from being one of the highest in the world to the middle of the pack.
He wants to take our rate from the highest to the lowest.
And the tilt until Barack Obama was president, companies wanted to headquarter in the United States of America.
When Mr. Obama comes along, for the first time we see companies saying, you know what?
Think about Burger King and Tim Hortons.
They said we're gonna headquarter outside of the United States, and why are they doing it for tax reasons?
So get rid of the ridiculous tax code, lower the corporate rates so it's the most attractive in the world.
That's what Donald Trump wants to do.
That's that's the right kind of policy that's gonna help create the job.
And that's why folks in our state of Ohio, eight and a half percent win for Mr. Trump in our in our state, because they saw that this makes just good economic sense.
How about energy independence?
How much of that is gonna be just through the stroke of a pen undoing burdensome regulation?
And and will some of this have to go through Congress.
Yeah, some will probably, but but a lot of it can be just done with the with uh exec undoing some of the executive orders and and having, for example, the Department of Energy.
We all remember the loan guarantee program in the Department of Energy, Cylindra, a bound solar, beacon power, all these companies that got your tax dollars, your listeners' tax dollars, and went bankrupt.
That's a kind of BS that needs to go away.
This this idea that, oh, we're gonna have this this this special program giving away taxpayer dollars to favorite corporations, this cr this cronyism that existed instead of a free market system oriented toward what works best and what makes us energy independent.
Those are the kind of things we can go after and say this kind of program has to go in the Department of Energy.
Um that kind of work with the with the right kind of people he's putting in place in these various uh cabinet positions, that's how we can also undo some of the ridiculous spending and some of the things that hurt energy independence and hurts our chances for our economy to grow at the rate it needs to.
Yeah, well, to me, this is the number one thing.
If this election was about the rust belt getting their jobs back, we better get them their jobs back.
Yep.
And and I think this look, I know the carrier, all right.
We're talking about a thousand jobs.
That's a thousand people that now don't have to go about into the labor force in a very competitive marketplace trying to get jobs.
I look it's it's to me it's only a start, but it's a a pretty darn good start.
And I don't know of any other president that picked up a phone and said, uh, don't go, stay here.
Yeah, Sean, we've we've talked about this.
My dad was uh a union worker for General Motors.
My mom cleaned houses so our so their kids could get get the chance to go to college.
They worked their tail up.
And those GM plants in Dayton, Ohio are no longer there because we've had, I think, the wrong kind of policies in place on the tax code, on the regulatory side that have hurt the chances for those companies to stay in these locations and to grow and create jobs.
That's what Mr. Trump has been focused on.
That's what the American people saw, and that's why, again, you saw the results that we did in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin through the upper Midwest, because people recognize look, let's focus on those issues that helped the second shift worker and the second grade teacher who've been busting their tail and been left behind with this establishment in Washington who thinks it's all about Wall Street and all about the National Chamber of Commerce and not about regular families who are out there making America work.
And that kind of focus I think is right on target.
All right.
Uh, we're going to be counting on the Freedom Caucus to hold these guys accountable, and then we'll see what Mitch McConnell's capable of in the Senate, which worries me somewhat.
Anyway, thanks so much, Jim Jordan.
You bet.
My dear fellow Americans, we are all feeling tremendous anxiety with only a few weeks left of the election.
This will be the most important election in American history.
We were once a country of freedom, and now we're becoming a country of tyranny.
We're a witness to our own people burning down and looting our cities.
We are all witness to our own people killing our policemen.
Islamic terrorists have killed thousands of people all over our country, and Hillary and Obama want to be politically correct and pretend all the killings are not happening.
The pendulum of freedom is not balanced.
Hillary and her followers are on a crude campaign to stop and degrade all of Trump's followers.
Her words were echoed loud and clear for all Americans to hear.
Hillary said, Trump's followers are a basket of deplorables.
They are unredeemable.
May God protect the real truth.
And may Donald Trump win this presidency.
He will save our America.
And he will certainly make it great again.
That was our friend, actor John Voigt, releasing a plea to save America.
He did this back in October.
Now, the first thing I'm going to say is I don't know if you really understand how courageous it is for somebody in that industry in Hollywood to be so outspoken and so strongly conservative as John Voigt has always been.
But being one of the greatest actors of all time, it has not impacted his work, thankfully.
Others have been impacted by it.
Um he called me yesterday and I said, You know what?
What you did here is just been amazing.
And I just you can hear it just he he it's it comes out of his his his inner soul how much he loves this country.
John Voigt is back with us.
How are you, sir?
I bet you're very happy or relieved as I am.
I am indeed, Sean.
And uh y you know, we go back a little bit.
Uh I can say that you know we've we've had many uh little adventures and and always I've been in in awe of you.
But I have to say thank you on behalf of of the world really for all of the effort that you put in over the past months.
Uh there's nobody like you, Sean.
And I know you'll give me a compliment and we'll we'll trade this kind of thing, but but really there's nobody like you.
You really did save the country.
You were the only one, the only one who consistently stayed positive.
You never wavered.
You you stayed true to Trump, and everybody was against you, and and and everybody's against Trump, you know.
The whole the whole world seemed to be against you.
And there you were, your God-given energy never wavered.
And because of your relentless God-given energy and never wavering, you saved the world.
That's the way I look at it.
Mike, I have a little group of uh people, a family.
Very lovely family, and the uh father and mother of that family in their eighties now, um, are completely crazy about you, and they kept saying this guy should get the Nobel Prize.
And I and I agree.
Yeah, you're being too nice.
The truth, you would get it for sure.
You know, it's very funny because I you know, you you just I don't read a lot of the negative chatter about me, and I was very, very disappointed with all these never Trumper people and you know, people that's you know, people that were willing to let Hillary make the next Supreme Court appointment.
And there's no such thing as a perfect person on the face of the earth.
I've always said we've all sinned and fallen short.
I know I have.
And I just I I looked at their arguments and I and then they would attack me that I was doing this for ratings and doing this for this and some other motivation.
And but they don't understand me.
And and I don't think people I think people understand you when they hear what you just said, and that is I don't like the fact that so many of our fellow Americans, Mr. Voigt, are suffering in poverty on food stamps, out of work, out of the labor force, lowest home ownership, doubling our debt.
And I just I always like Trump's agenda.
I believe that cutting taxes will stimulate economic growth.
I love that he picked up the phone.
When have we ever had a president or president elect pick up a phone, call a an American company and beg them to stay here.
And now we saved it's not all right, a thousand jobs.
It's still a thousand lives that are going to be better because carrier air conditioner, after a calls from Donald Trump decided to stay.
Now I'm only gonna buy a carrier air conditioner the next time I need an air conditioner.
You you bet, yeah.
It it's well, you know, many people uh contributed and and uh and uh you know I uh uh like our our friend Ted Cruz came around and he he in the end made a a difference.
He was uh one of those that was on the other side and then came out of silence and was uh supportive.
So so many people uh, you know, saw uh a way to contribute to this, uh but I still say you're you're standing alone, my friend.
You know, I your your energy we counted on it.
We counted on seeing Hannity at night and get uh get our spirits back, I'm telling you.
There are even people I work with that thought I was nuts, just in case you didn't know.
Well I absolutely everybody was against you.
Everybody was against Trump and they were against you for sure.
You know, I I tried to warn America, Mr. Voigt.
I tried to warn them back in in two thousand and eight and two thousand and twelve.
I wish I turned out being wrong.
I wish I wish we didn't have thirteen million more Americans on food stamps and eight million more in poverty and the lowest labor participation rate.
I wish I was wrong.
I wish we didn't have a guy that would make a deal with the Iranians like like he did and and screw up the Middle East as badly as he did.
But it it turned out I think that was a big factor that kind of laid the foundation for an outsider candidate like Donald Trump.
And what I keep saying to him in the times that I have talked to him just briefly, since he won this election, I said, just keep your promises.
Just that's all you have to do.
Keep your promises, his plan for the economy, for energy, for health care, for education, for immigration, for vetting refugees, for identifying evil in our time.
That that's that to me is the answer.
It was the ideas that that I supported more than the individual because I think the ideas will work.
Well, you can see that it's making even m even now it's making a difference.
And they're trying to portray him in as in chaos.
He's not at all.
He's way ahead of the game.
He's ahead of the other two th the two preceding presidents in terms of making his picks and the picks are making all the difference.
Uh this uh thing with carrier air conditioning had a lot to do with uh with his choice for vice president, Governor Pence.
Yeah.
And uh you know, he has a tremendous team of people already assembled, and hopefully the next ones will be you know, just as powerful.
You know, it's it's very funny.
I mean, I feel like and the and the example of Donald Trump's winning is spread throughout the world that in itself uh is become uh a motivating factor for countries throughout the world that says it's possible to get you know to clean things up and and uh take care of the corruption and and uh get get into a prosperous mode.
Listen to take care of you know uh and identify the enemy and and uh you know, provide a a safe future for for our children.
You know, I think you understand as I do this this whole Middle America phenomenon, and that is you know, I've tried I've traveled to every state except Atlaska in this country, and I'm gonna hopefully before I die, I'll make a trip up there and do a little salmon fishing or something.
Maybe I'll I'll call Governor Palin and and go hunt a moose with her.
Um but but the thing that I love about meeting people is you know, they remind me of my parents and my grandparents, just good solid people.
You know, they believe in God, faith, family, country, and they're not perfect, but they work hard and they play by the rules and they pay their taxes and they provide goods and services for other people.
And you know what I what I feel has been missing more than anything else is the rungs of the ladder that allowed, you know, Sean Hannity, uh ten year veteran in restaurant work, a ten year construction worker, to climb that ladder and and achieve dreams that I never even imagined.
You know, I just want the rungs of the ladder put back up so everybody else behind me can call climb up as well.
You bet, you bet.
And they and they know it, Sean.
People know your heart.
You know, I was just excited to meet you uh early on in you know, several years ago and to go on those uh f freedom concert that you established because we you saw the waning of uh of of patriotism coming from you know the the our representatives, you know, and the people needed to be able to express their patriotism and that allowed them the opportunity.
And that with those uh concerts were uh are still cherished to this day.
I get comments, you know.
Well I wish those concerts would back.
I wish Sean had come, you know, put those together again so we could express ourselves and have yeah we might you know I might do one at some point.
You know one of the reasons is everybody's struggling so much financially.
I I hate I ha I hate asking people for money.
I you know I can't tell you how many times people have come into my office, Hannity, I got a great idea.
We're gonna sell T shirts and pens and and I'm like get out of here with that stuff.
I you know I don't really want to sell it.
And but you'll make a lot of money and I'm like, yeah, but I don't want to ask people to buy stuff.
I just don't want to do that.
It's just my own personal view on these things.
And you know the good news is look, we have a long way to go.
There I think cleaning up this mess that this last president is leaving us is going to be a pretty monumentous task and you know I think Trump is up to the job.
One of the things I really like about the guy is he never stops working.
I mean he's uh he's extraordinary isn't he?
When I talk to him you know what time I talked to him he has Sean Hannity energy this guy.
You know compare the way he was campaigning those last few weeks with uh with Hillary Clinton she couldn't even stand up half the time and she was doing like one to his twelve events but I usually talk to him the times that I do talk to him is like midnight.
And it's the perfect time to call because he still wants to keep working and he and he's still talking to but everybody else that works for him so exhausted they've all passed out.
And he's the only one left standing.
It's hilarious.
I know I've I've seen him at the end of the days, you know just occasionally I've bumped into him and I've seen him at the end of the days when he's in California or some some other place.
And he's done five events across the country and he's still as fresh as a daisy.
I mean he as you say everyone around him is exhausted.
They want to go to a bed but uh he does have an extraordinary energy and uh Yeah and by the way if you ever go on the plane with a guy I've never I only went on to take a tour of the plane once.
I've never been on his plane.
But you go on the plane, he's like everyone that is on the plane that I've ever talked to they're like they want to sleep.
And he's but they can't sleep because he don't he doesn't let them sleep.
First thing he does is he eats either Wendy's or McDonald's or Kentucky Fried Chicken, which by the way.
So I'm like I want to be on that plane too.
And and then he's he'll watch T V and while he's watching T V is a secret for you guys.
What you think eating a lot of junk?
Well I'm doing better now 'cause I'm in full training mode and I've been doing my martial arts now for all these years.
I c I don't eat it as much as I'd like to but if I get a craving I'll rush out to Kentucky Fried Chicken or w or Wendy's any day.
I love it.
That's great.
That's great.
How are you doing?
I now I know you got the hits show Ray Donovan on Showtime and I know you've got uh all your movies that you're doing.
How's everything going for you?
You w you work hard.
Everything's good.
Yeah I keep going.
I can see uh you know I just wanna this was a big blessing for our country and the people who worked as hard as we worked uh w and I don't say that I'm no you did you work very you put everything on the line.
We we are so I'm so grateful for this turn of events that the country has a new birth and it's gonna be back in in uh in a situation where the the world is is blessed to have leadership comes from the United States once again.
Yeah.
And uh from the founding principles that have given us so much prosperity and and guidance.
They're they're still intact.
So anyway I I'm just in a grateful mode.
I'm just so grateful.
Yeah.
And uh and I when I'm and I did you only in in all of the work that we did I know that you felt the same way.
We're thinking not of ourselves.
We're thinking and especially myself, I mean I'm toward the end of my life and I want I want my children and grandchildren and their children to have uh uh have the blessing of the America that I n grew up with you know I don't want to that's all that matters pass on until I pass that on, you know?
Well really at the end of the day that's all that matters.
So a lot of people said to me Hannity where were you on election night you weren't working.
Well I never work election night.
I did call in at one point but I I literally sit alone in my room, talk out loud a lot, looking at computers and I'm looking at different counties, specific counties Cuyahoga County, Hamilton County in Ohio, uh Broward County, P uh Palm Beach County in Florida, looking at the panhandle counties and that's what I do.
Where where were you on uh election night?
Well I was making a film and I was I had to get up the next morning to shoot uh on the film but I stayed up the whole night.
Yeah.
So did I and I uh and it was an amazing night.
What an amazing night.
It's one th th this whole chapter is is one that uh is going to be interesting history for people to read in the future.
You know some hope as well.
I only get mad at myself for one thing.
I was telling my audience for weeks don't pay attention to the exit polls.
And the second wave of exit polls came in I actually said we're done.
I I was furious.
I was like I could I couldn't believe what I was reading.
And then my wife goes to me, you keep saying don't pay attention to the exit polls.
Why are you paying attention to the exit polls?
Good for her.
It's pretty funny.
All right, Mr. John Voigt, one of the great actors of all time.
If you haven't picked up Ray Donovan yet yet on Showtime, such a great show.
I love your role in it.
I love uh your acting and everything you do.
Thank you for being with us.
Also, thanks for being a patriot.
I know you put everything on the line because it's not exactly uh uh it's not exactly PC and Hollywood to have your opinions.
You did.
When you uh that's the thing.
You really were right out there.
And as you say, not everybody at at Fox was uh in your corner on that either.
And you you led the way and became this uh this ray of hope for everybody to to you know to keep going.
Well, you're being really kind.
I God bless.
Anyway, that I've said it over and over, but I I'll keep he keep saying it privately as well.
I tell all my pals that it you know.
I mean, we know where it came from.
Anyway, my lad, my brother.
God bless you.
Thank you, my friend.
All right, eight hundred nine four one Sean.
He's such a a nice guy.
I'm not that important.
If I was Obama never would have been elected, right, Linda?
I would have I was that but you know what?
I I think we were kind of on a true big tree, out on a big bri limb, out on a little branch, out on a little twig, hanging on to a little leaf.
We kind of were out there a little bit on a alone.
I'm so glad you're in shape, because otherwise you wouldn't have Exactly.
But you're you know you're like onto the leaf a little bit.
You're like a wise old uncle.
Like like rich uncles, you know, just a wise.
But you know that all those never Trumper people wanted to come out the day after election day with their middle finger in my face in the face of all the people that voted for Trump.
And they they're still and I haven't been as vicious as I could be to them, much to the consternation of some of my listeners.
