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	All right, happy Monday and we're glad you're with us.
	Yes, we're going to talk about Hollywood.
	Yes, we're going to talk about all of that.
	There's so much good going on that I want to get some good news in the course of the program today.
	I know I called into Jay Seculo the other day when he was graciously filling in.
	He's a good friend of mine.
	I just want to take a minute as I start the day.
	I have gotten so many nice comments sent to me by so many of you and on social media about my friend Alan Combs who passed away.
	And I just want you to know something.
	It has touched me deeply.
	It means more than you will ever know.
	And just reaching out with a kind word has meant a lot.
	And I just wanted to start the show and say thank you.
	I will say this, my head nearly burst when I saw this vicious, vile, hateful.
	I mean, no human being with a soul can do what Slate.com did to Alan.
	Nobody can.
	As if his family, his wife, Monica Crowley, his manager, Rory, his sit that's, yeah, that's fine.
	Leave it.
	Oh, I did.
	They are.
	You have to be a human being without a soul to do that.
	They just are.
	I'm sorry to start that way.
	I just have, I am so angry about what they did.
	It is so cruel, so hurtful, and so viciously mean, it deserves to get called out.
	Nobody should ever read that garbage again.
	And by the way, nobody's trying to shut down the press.
	I interviewed President Bush.
	We're going to be airing it in installments.
	Nobody's trying to shut down the press.
	Donald Trump's saying he just wants honest media, which we don't have.
	All right, let's start with last night.
	Let's start at the Oscars.
	By the way, one of the lowest rated ever.
	Doesn't surprise me.
	And, you know, we have everything from, you know, 15 separate attacks against Donald Trump in one award show.
	Who has as many award shows as the people in Hollywood?
	How about when are we going to have the award show for policemen and firemen and contractors?
	When are we going to have the award show for nurses and doctors and surgeons that save people's lives?
	When are we going to have the award shows for the people that do most of the working and building of this country and serving their fellow human beings?
	How about the award show for waiters and waitresses and bartenders?
	How about we do one for them?
	How many award shows can these arrogant, pompous jerks out in Hollywood put on for themselves?
	Oh, don't care, you know, blah, blah, blah.
	I can't stand these people.
	Anyway, let's play some last night.
	This broadcast is being watched live by millions of Americans and around the world in more than 225 countries that now hate us.
	Thank you very much.
	And the last thing is this for, I'm an immigrant.
	I come from Italy.
	I work around the world.
	And this is for all the immigrants.
	For the immigrants.
	Maybe this is not a popular thing to say, but I want to say thank you to President Trump.
	I mean, remember last year when it seemed like the Oscars were racist?
	And all you people out there who feel like there's no mirror for you, that your life is not reflected, the Academy has your back.
	The ACLU has your back.
	We have your back.
	And for the next four years, we will not leave you alone.
	We will not forget you.
	Would everybody please join me in giving Meryl Street a totally undeserved round of applause.
	William?
	We're going to have fun tonight.
	I hope we're going to have fun tonight.
	Nice dress, by the way.
	Is that an Ivanka?
	Fred, some of you will get to come up here on this stage tonight and give a speech that the President of the United States will tweet about in all caps during his 5 a.m. bowel movement tomorrow.
	And I think that's pretty darn excellent, if you ask me.
	Yeah, I wonder if conservatives talked about Obama's 5 a.m. bowel movements, how that would have gone over in the Obama years.
	Probably not too well.
	So you got another self-congratulatory award show from the tolerant liberal left out in La La Land patting themselves on the back, predictably bashing a president.
	When you really think about this, though, you know, these holier-than-thou elites, what hypocrites they are.
	They've distorted everything the president's saying or doing.
	They're ignorant on top of they don't know facts.
	They don't understand anything.
	And for whatever reason, they think acting is so acting is not hard.
	I mean, the executive producer of a movie.
	Yeah, it's hard to memorize lines and do the same thing over and over and over again.
	But it's I agree.
	There's some talent to really good actors.
	John Voigt is a great actor.
	But you know something?
	These are the same people I want to remind you.
	The same people that under their president that they liked and they supported and their candidate that would have continued the same failed policies.
	Do they give a rip?
	95 million Americans are out of the labor force?
	95 million.
	Do they care?
	The lowest labor participation rate since the 70s.
	Do they care 13 million more Americans on food stamps, 50 million total?
	Do they care 8 million more in poverty, 50 million Americans in poverty?
	Are they donating their private jets for innocent people that maybe they could sell their jet and give it to somebody else and fly commercial?
	They're not struggling like the rest of us.
	They don't care about the people in poverty on food stamps.
	They don't care about the people who's pay or the average family paying $5,400 more a year for health care.
	They don't care about one in six American men in jail or out of work living in mommy's basement.
	They live in a bubble, these people, a giant liberal Learjet limousine bubble.
	And the reality, you know, your reality isn't theirs.
	You know, you have a bunch of overpaid Hollywood stars with their very beautiful gowns.
	Is that Donna Karen?
	Is that Calvin Klein?
	Is that Oscar de La Lenta?
	You know, with their $5,000, $50,000 bags, their $100,000, $250,000 pieces of jewelry, their caviar, their champagne.
	You know, just, they disgust me.
	Residing in their mansions, having their own armed private security, flying in their private jets, eating at the finest restaurants so their pictures can be taken, drinking the best wine, chauffeur-driven, driven limousines.
	Do you think they give a rip about us?
	The people that voted for Trump?
	And by the way, they're more insulted at us and think we're stupid.
	And they advocate policies that they're not affected by.
	Hollywood wants to flood the country with unvetted refugees.
	Well, how about a Hollywood actor adopt a refugee program?
	Let's put them all in Beverly Hills or wherever else they live.
	Let's put them in Malibu.
	Let's see how quickly they change their minds.
	What's even more disgusting is all the praise they heap on this Iranian filmmaker who boycotted the show because of Trump's temporary travel ban.
	He comes from the number one state sponsor of terror, Iran.
	Then he gives a statement that's read on his behalf.
	And I'm thinking, how about you lecture your own country about killing gays and lesbians and treating women like cattle and telling them how to dress and beating them if they don't submit to their husbands?
	Really?
	I'm going to get lectures from an Iranian about America with the horrific treatment of any minority in Iran?
	No, thank you.
	They're oblivious out there to the fact that seven countries impacted by the president's temporary ban beat women, kill homosexuals and lesbians, and treat religious minorities like Christians and Jews horribly.
	And Iran, like other countries, you can't get in if you have an Israeli passport.
	Anybody in Hollywood going to stand up for that?
	Anyone in Hollywood going to stand up for the treatment of women?
	They claim they support all these people, but they don't.
	They're lying phonies, the whole bunch of them.
	I'm not even going to spend that much more time.
	I just will tell you, it just disgusts me.
	And we should have open borders.
	Why don't we vet people from countries that have ties to terror?
	What's so bad about that?
	We're going to gamble with the lives of Americans rather than inconvenience people.
	That's what the choice comes down to.
	That's the bottom line.
	No wonder nobody's watching this anymore.
	You know, literally, they give a rousing ovation to an Iranian filmmaker who belittles the inhumane U.S. How about he talk about his own country?
	Are you people that dumb and ignorant out in Hollywood?
	It appears so.
	You seem pretty stupid.
	And they can't even get the best movie labeled right.
	That's pretty dumb.
	You guys looked pretty dumb last night.
	Anyway, enough of that.
	And you know what the funny thing is?
	That's now the modern Democratic Party.
	Robert Rice said the Democratic Party's not been in this bad shape since the 20s.
	And so what do we have?
	So we have all the snowflakes.
	An article today out in the New York Times, we can Democrats bow to the voters.
	They're opting for a total war on Trump.
	Why?
	Because the loudest voices are motivating them, led by Hillary.
	Keep fighting.
	Keep protesting.
	Keep speaking out at town halls.
	Sorry, you're a sore loser, and thank God you didn't win.
	Now, the media and Hollywood and the rest, they'll ignore, for example, NBC News Wall Street Journal poll.
	Americans now see the economy improving under Donald Trump.
	And his approval rating now is at 55%, according to Rasmussen.
	Ifs of the country, most Americans say they're more hopeful and optimistic about the future than they've been in several years.
	Oh, I bet Hollywood doesn't feel that way.
	You know, you've got, by the way, and people are fighting back.
	All they're doing is garnering more support for Trump.
	And the border wall, oh, a politician that keeps his promises.
	Well, that contract is going to be awarded in April.
	So he's making progress there.
	Oh, and for our brave men and women that have had two hands tied behind their back fighting radical Islam, well, guess what?
	There's new rules of engagement thanks to Donald Trump.
	And this isn't an accident.
	If you've been paying attention to the developments in Iraq, you may have noticed that after years of a stalemate, we're now making progress because now our troops can actually shoot the enemy again without asking them for identification if they're a member of ISIS before they pull the trigger, which is what it had been.
	Unbelievable, the whole thing.
	Now, we have some other issues.
	You know, all the talk by the liberal media, the fake media, you know, about Russia.
	Let me read from the House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunez today.
	He said, I haven't seen any evidence so far that Trump campaign officials had any contact with Russian officials.
	And then he said, we still don't have any evidence of them talking to the Russians as he briefed reporters.
	He's the head of the House Intel Committee.
	He's the chairman of the House Intel Committee.
	And then he goes on to say, as of right now, the initial inquiries I've made to the appropriate agencies, I don't have any evidence.
	Any.
	What part of any doesn't the media understand?
	And then he said he's interested in evidence, but it doesn't appear that the investigative agencies have it.
	New York Times, citing anonymous U.S. officials, reported earlier this week, this month, that Trump campaign aides had repeated contacts, but they couldn't prove it.
	They said in paragraph three.
	And that's viewed as news today.
	Anyway, we're going to get to all of this, and I'm so glad I've got to give the president props.
	I've never been to a White House correspondence dinner in my entire career.
	This is now 30 years since I started in radio, and it's, what, 21 years on Fox.
	I refuse, you know why?
	Because I don't like those people.
	Most of them.
	There's a couple I like, but not many.
	And you know what?
	They don't like me either.
	Do they, Lauren?
	You've been there.
	They hate seeing me.
	So I wasn't planning on going anyway.
	They're just jealous of your good looks.
	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Anyway, 800-941 Sean.
	All right, Newt Gingrich is going to weigh on this in the bottom of this half hour.
	Then, Congressman Jim Jordan, what is going on?
	Why am I getting different reports from Dave Bratt, Mark Meadows, and Paul Ryan?
	We'll talk to Jim Jordan.
	Petsy McCoy's going to weigh in on health care.
	Then we'll get back to our top story, which is Hollywood with DC McAllister and Emily Shire is going to join us.
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	So I was in Dallas with President Bush over the weekend on Sunday, and then I flew to Orlando.
	I gave a speech this morning to the National Religious Broadcasters.
	Actually, I did the same thing with CPAC before the conference even begins.
	I had a great time.
	One of the things I tried to point out is these movies that they make in Hollywood are so god-awful, and they're wondering why their ratings for the Oscars are down.
	They're wondering why their box office is down.
	They're formulaic, so predictable.
	It's either sex or violence.
	They love that.
	And some of them hit, but most of them fail.
	Or, you know, how many more cartoon movies can we see about Spider-Man, Batman, Superman?
	I mean, there's only so much we could take.
	Animation, I think, is great for kids.
	That's fine.
	I don't have a problem with that.
	But you know what's missing in Hollywood?
	I like to go to movies that really, really, really show great, strong characters, like Gladiator and Braveheart or Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ.
	I mean, really, I mean, those movies are incredible.
	Mark Burnett, Roma Downey do really good work together.
	They're amazing in the films they put.
	So I'm not plugging my movie here, but we have a movie coming out.
	It's called Let There Be Light.
	And it's a movie.
	I've now screened it to 10 people.
	And I didn't tell them I was involved in the movie.
	I just wanted to get honest feedback.
	And this was a rough cut of the movie.
	It wasn't the final cut, which should be done very shortly.
	And in the movie, you go on a journey.
	And the journey is actually about one guy that is an atheist.
	And the movie starts out very realistic.
	He's debating a guy that's a strong Christian.
	And the crowd is with the atheist.
	And then you find out, well, this atheist lost his kid at nine years old.
	Then you find out he's addicted to alcohol and drugs.
	And, you know, he left his wife.
	He's a horrible father.
	And it's a journey for him back to basically finding his soul again.
	Yes, we do mention Jesus in the movie, but it's bigger than that.
	It's got a component where actually there's hope at the end of the tunnel for the world, but it's also got a love story that is pretty deep and profound.
	And that's about all I can tell you.
	And the only reason I really want to do it is I'd love to drive these people out of business.
	Now, it's not a big budget film, but I put a lot of money into it.
	And I think it'll move people.
	That's the kind of thing Hollywood ought to be doing.
	Because what they're putting out is nothing but garbage, gratuitous violence, gratuitous sex, boring themes, formulaic movies.
	I'm so tired of these prima donna hypocrites.
	This broadcast is being watched live by millions of Americans and around the world in more than 225 countries that now hate us.
	Thank you very much.
	It's Nati.
	And the last thing is this for, I'm an immigrant.
	I come from Italy.
	I work around the world.
	And this is for all the immigrants.
	For the immigrants.
	Please.
	Maybe this is not a popular thing to say, but I want to say thank you to President Trump.
	I mean, remember last year when it seemed like the Oscars were racist?
	And all you people out there who feel like there's no mirror for you, that your life is not reflected.
	The Academy has your back.
	The ACLU has your back.
	We have your back.
	And for the next four years, we will not leave you alone.
	We will not forget you.
	Would everybody please join me in giving Meryl Street a totally undeserved round of applause.
	William?
	We're going to have fun tonight.
	I hope we're going to have fun tonight.
	Nice dress, by the way.
	Is that an Ivanka?
	Fred, some of you will get to come up here on this stage tonight and give a speech that the President of the United States will tweet about in all caps during his 5 a.m. bowel movement tomorrow.
	And I think that's pretty darn excellent, if you ask me.
	All right, 25 now till the top of the hour from last night's Oscars reports out Robert Reich this weekend said the Democratic Party has not been in this bad shape since the 1920s.
	Jonathan Martin over at the New York Times writing weekend Democrats bowed to voters opting for a total war on Trump.
	Hillary Clinton digging her heels in.
	Hillary says the Democrats keep fighting, protesting, speaking out at town halls.
	Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is here to weigh in.
	I doubt you watched it.
	I only watched the headlines in what was one of the lowest rated Oscars in the history of the show.
	By the way, welcome back from vacation.
	We did miss you a lot.
	Well, Sean, I'd like to say that I missed you a lot, but I was split.
	Christ and I were surrounded by tens of thousands of penguins, an entire new fan club.
	Now, you want to tell everybody finally where you went?
	Yeah, we're in Antarctica.
	We went down on Seaborn and had just - and I cannot recommend it too highly.
	The only thing I've ever done that's comparable is going to Africa.
	I mean, you're out in the middle of all these penguins and whales and seals and ice, and it's just magnificent.
	And not a single penguin was pro-Clinton.
	Not a single one.
	Well, I could tell they were all working.
	Every single one of them was on welfare.
	They had to earn their keep, and the SEALs got a few of them, I'm sure.
	That's exactly right.
	But anyway, it was fabulous.
	And we had a great time.
	But we were also connected by internet the whole time, so we stayed in touch.
	And actually, the ship's TV got foxed.
	So we were able to watch your show and other shows the whole time we were out there.
	I don't even want to ask, what time am I on in Antarctica?
	It's two hours ahead of our time.
	Okay, that's not too bad.
	That's not too bad at all.
	I just want your life at some point.
	But anyway, we did miss you.
	Welcome back.
	And you see the madness that is unfolding.
	I do think this article has it right.
	I think Reich is right that the Democrats haven't been in this bad shape since the 20s.
	And I think now, because the bass is so loud, now the Democratic Party is reacting with that vitriol and anger.
	And then you saw what was on display last night at the Oscars.
	When you put that all together, how do you interpret that?
	Well, a couple of things.
	First of all, this has been a growing cultural civil war, at least going back to the period of Ronald Reagan.
	And it's interesting.
	It's Reagan who said that, in fact, he was not worried about what liberals didn't know.
	He was worried about what liberals knew that wasn't true.
	And in many ways, the whole attack on the news media, and I've added, I've expanded it from fake news to fake education, in many ways goes back to Reagan's 64 speech for Goldwater and his first national television appearance.
	So you've had this growing schism in the country between, frankly, people who I think are nutcakes, who believe in a world that doesn't exist and who have fantasies about how the world ought to operate.
	And it doesn't work that way.
	These are the people who create places like Venezuela and where the whole system has collapsed totally.
	And they're dominant in the entertainment medium.
	They are dominant in the academic world, and they're dominant in the elite news media.
	And they all knew up until about 9 o'clock or 10 o'clock election night that Hillary Clinton was going to win in a majority.
	And, you know, it was going to be a crushing, decisive victory.
	And all of a sudden, about 9 or 10 o'clock that night, their world shattered, and they have not recovered.
	I mean, these are people who, in the classic sense of Kubla-Ross's great book on death and dying, they're still on the stage of denial.
	And so what you see with them, I mean, a lot of these vicious comments, you know, if any conservative had responded to the Obamas with the viciousness and the vitriol and the hatred that we are seeing, they would have been condemned as racist.
	They would have been ostracized.
	I mean, you saw, and I was watching on Fox and Friends this morning, the crowd that was booing during the prayer, which also booed during the Pledge of Allegiance.
	Now, I think we just have to have the guts to stand up to these kind of people and say, no, your vision of America is not our vision of America.
	And I think that's where we are.
	And Trump, I hope, retains the courage that he's already shown and continues to stand up to him.
	He's shown no signs of backing down.
	I mean, I think Ben Stein said on CNN, he said, the media is looking for a scandal every day with Trump to do to him what they did to Nixon.
	I do believe that's true.
	But then the president pulled out of the White House correspondence dinner, and they are aghast.
	They're so angry.
	And his media beatdown last week was amazing, his press conference.
	It was a total, complete smackdown.
	I know, I watched the whole thing, and I thought to myself, it doesn't get much better than this.
	That's exactly what I was thinking.
	And I just, I think we should all try to encourage SPICER to get steadily tougher the longer this goes on.
	I mean, I don't care if we end up with the Washington Press Corps briefings being the Altoona local newspaper or the Carrollton, Georgia weekly newspaper.
	I mean, I see no obligation to take baloney from people who hate you and people who lie about you.
	And I think, you know, Priebus has had this experience.
	I mean, the degree to which the CNN and the New York Times went out of their way to lie about Priebus and the FBI is just, it's just, and it's why fake news is a legitimate term.
	I'll give you an example.
	By the way, we're not asking for positive news coverage.
	What we're asking for is honest news coverage.
	You know, it's very interesting with all the talk about Russia.
	We had the House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunez saying today he hasn't seen a shred, a single shred of evidence that the Trump campaign or officials within the Trump campaign had any contact with Russian officials.
	He said, we still don't have any evidence of them talking to the Russians.
	And as of right now, the initial inquiries I've made to the appropriate agencies, I don't have any evidence.
	None.
	And you keep hearing it every day on fake news outlets.
	That's exactly right.
	And I think that is exactly how we should talk about it.
	These are fake news outlets.
	And, you know, the freedom of speech or of the press means also the people are allowed to say things.
	So if the president wants to criticize a reporter, that's not an attack on the press.
	That's an exercise of free speech.
	It's what this is supposed to be all about.
	And these guys are so self-righteous and so determined that they are the moral arbiters of America that they're shocked that just mere politicians, people who happen to get millions of votes, have the temerity to criticize them.
	Yeah.
	What do you think?
	So the Democrats have a bigger problem, too, because the party base is now threatening a revolt because Keith Ellison lost the DNC chairmanship on Saturday and they made him a co-chair, a vice chair.
	And Trump said that the DNC race was rigged.
	And then Trump went out there and said, congratulations to Tom Perez, who was named the chairman of the DNC.
	I couldn't be happier for him or the Republican Party.
	There's an American thinker piece out today that actually says they nominated and they now have as their chairman somebody who supported not only Sharia law but illegal immigration and as an advocate wouldn't be in a labor secretary.
	Look, I think that it is a sign of the times that even with President Obama apparently personally making phone calls, Perez did not win decisively.
	And I think it's a sign of the times that Perez essentially was the Clinton Obama candidate.
	He was the old order candidate.
	And I think there is a schism in their party.
	I think it's going to get much worse.
	And part of that's because the haters of the left, the people who are chanting and yelling and disrupting, the self-righteous who believe that they have the right to bully conservatives on campuses, that they have the right to define morality on their own terms.
	These people aren't going away, and they get together in rooms funded by George Soros and others.
	And I think the Democratic Party is on the edge of what happened to the British Labor Party under Margaret Thatcher.
	The Labor Party got so angry at Thatcher that by the 1987 election, they were described as the loony left.
	This is the loony left, and it's getting worse.
	You're right.
	Let me ask you.
	But even more than Thatcher, this is a loony left of haters.
	These people are suspicious.
	I want to give you an opportunity.
	Obviously, we have a friendship that goes back well over 25 years now.
	And you, in the course of Hannity and Combs, became very good friends with Alan.
	I called into this program on Thursday, and we talked a lot about it.
	And I wanted to give you a chance to talk about it because I knew you and him had a very special relationship.
	Well, you know, Clist and I always did his radio show.
	We like him as a friend.
	He's a very, as you know, he's a very sweet guy.
	And he was concerned about people.
	And he didn't care about your ideology.
	He cared about you as a human being.
	And we were just shattered by the, we did not realize we weren't as close as you were and didn't realize he'd been sick for the last couple months.
	We were shattered to learn that he had died.
	And our heart goes out to his family.
	They must miss him terribly, as I know you do.
	And people need to understand, this was a guy, yeah, he was a liberal, but he was a wonderful human being.
	And he was a guy who could see beyond politics and beyond ideology.
	He could be your friend.
	He could genuinely care about you.
	And he was always grateful.
	I mean, we always had this relationship because, as you know, I both helped launch your show together.
	Yes, you did.
	And then when he went to radio, I was his very first guest.
	And he always would remind me of that.
	And I think he never forgot the people that he had worked with and who had helped him and who he wanted to help.
	So we're going to miss him a great deal.
	I know it's been a very hard weekend for you, just talking to people and the emotions because you were so close to him.
	You know what happened?
	So when he came in and told me that he was sick, and he was facing an uphill battle, but we thought he'd make it.
	And he just, we had a real, I mean, this was a heart-to-heart talk.
	And the thing that he cared about the most, I can lose my hair, I can do this, but I know my wife is not going to, she's going to be way upset.
	So he's in the middle of the biggest fight of his life, and that's the kind of guy he is.
	He was thinking about his wife and his family, and you're right, we're going to miss him dearly.
	And you were a great friend to him.
	And I know people have a hard time understanding that people with political differences can be friends, but it was all true.
	And thank you for all your support of him and your kind words.
	It means a lot to us.
	We appreciate it.
	Well, it's been great.
	And, you know, Hannity and Combs was a great team and a great product.
	And I hope everybody who's listening will realize that Alan Combs is a pretty good model of being more human than political.
	Well said, Mr. Speaker.
	All right, we'll see you tonight on Hannity.
	The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but.
	So as Newton and I were just discussing, my dear friend Alan Combs passed away.
	He had an amazing life, one of the most decent people you'll ever want to meet.
	But I want to remind you of the great life that he did have.
	Both of us thought we were the luckiest people on earth.
	His quick wit and straight talking style brought him into the hearts and homes of Americans all across the country.
	I'm going to take some great pride and see how I've aged you.
	Alan Samuel Combs.
	He was born September the 24th, 1950, in New York City.
	The bright lights of the Big Apple would one day lure him into a life of entertainment, giving way to a life as a hard-hitting newsman.
	A 1971 graduate of Hofster University, Alan got his start in the spotlight as a stand-up comedian.
	A very commitment for a lot of people.
	Is it dirty word?
	Hello, Casey Allen.
	A career that eventually launched him into a thriving radio career.
	His big break in radio was in 1984 with a drive-time slot on New York-based WABC.
	And that's traffic.
	I'm Alan Combs, WABC Talk Radio.
	In 1987, Allen moved to WNBC in New York, a short-lived move as WNBC announced its radio division was closing its doors.
	Allen giving the final sign-off on the great WNBC.
	I'm Alan Combs.
	Thank you.
	God bless you.
	And for the last time, this is 66, WNBC.
	And in 1996, he parlayed his successful radio career into a television career.
	The economy is doing well.
	It ain't broke.
	You don't have to fix it.
	Yes, teaming up with me to launch Hannity and Combs.
	I guess I'm going to wonder whether more people will agree with me or you as the show goes on.
	When the show ended, Hannity and Combs was by far the number one show in its time slot on cable news and consistently one of the top-rated shows on cable.
	As the banter sometimes grew a bit contentious, because you're lying.
	I'm not lying.
	You are lying, liar.
	Well, Alan would always use that great sense of humor to combat some of his tough critics.
	No, I think it was great.
	But off the air, Alan found love.
	How are you?
	I haven't called a guest honey since Newt England.
	And in June 2003, he married Dr. Jocelyn Elise Crowley, a professor of public policy at Rutgers University.
	And another major milestone just four months later, his debut nonfiction book, Red, White, and Liberal: How Left is Right and Right is Wrong.
	Never one to back down to controversy, his hard-hitting interview style made him greatly admired by both political parties.
	From stand-up comic to author to radio host to television, Alan lived to entertain you, the American people, telling the news how he saw it and taking his audience through some of the most significant moments of our time.
	Today, the Fox News channel lost a very dear member of our family, one of the nicest, kindest, friendliest people, and a dear personal friend, our friend Alan Combs.
	Sean, get us done.
	America deserves to know the truth about Congress.
	For eight years, you guys had a plan.
	You kept saying and promising you'll repeal, replace Obamacare.
	And I guess what people want to know is when are these things going to get done?
	We are exactly on the timeline that we designed for ourselves.
	Obamacare is coming next.
	Our bill is coming in March.
	First, it's regulatory reform because we have this window of time to cancel bad Obama regulations.
	Then we're doing Obamacare.
	After we're done with Obamacare, then we're doing our budget.
	And our budget is the second budget, which will be tax reform.
	So we're doing two budgets in one year, which has never been done before.
	This is faster than it's ever been done before.
	When I heard repair, my head nearly exploded.
	That's not the plan.
	The plan is to repeal and replace this law.
	Like we said, we ran on a plan to repeal and replace it.
	Tom Price helped write that plan.
	He is now Donald Trump's Secretary of State.
	So there is a consensus plan that's now being scored by the CBO.
	Correct.
	You're saying to the American people and conservatives that are impatient, including myself, you agree with every item I mentioned, even extreme vetting.
	Yeah.
	We passed that bill a year ago in the House.
	I know you now agree with building the wall.
	Yes.
	Are you telling the American people, vetting refugees, building the wall, repeal, replace, tax reform?
	All of this is going to be done in 200 days.
	Inside the 200-day window is the regulatory reforms we talked about.
	It's the repeal and replace Obamacare.
	It's the budget.
	It's the rebuilding of our military.
	It's tax reform.
	Those are the things that we're working on.
	And infrastructure, those are the things we're working on in this 200 calendars in the equation.
	That's in there as well.
	We see that as part of regulatory reform.
	But in 200 days, you think that's doable.
	This is our plan, yeah.
	And if there's any slippage, we'll finish it in the fall and get it done before the end of the year.
	So if I come back in 200 days, you're going to go, well, I made a promise.
	We've got to go back.
	Because I think this is.
	So here's what I'm saying.
	We've met this out for 200 days.
	We have a plan to do that.
	We're on schedule.
	But if anything slips because of another Supreme Court justice, yeah, or a filibuster on a cabinet nominee, that might slip us.
	But we're making sure that we do all of this in 2017.
	Okay, let's go to the budget, which is such a big issue.
	The president, seven brackets to three, 15% corporate rate.
	I know you prefer 20 because that scores.
	I prefer 15.
	It scores.
	Yeah, I have to get what we can with the numbers.
	And you support repatriation, multinational corporations.
	That will be huge.
	That's a lot of money that can come back into the economy.
	Probably about $3 trillion.
	Here's my headline of this interview: that you're in pretty much full agreement with what Donald Trump ran on.
	Yes.
	And number two, in 200 days, from the legislative side, you are going to be implementing every aspect of that agenda that we talked about.
	And just to say, and we have cushion in our schedule, if anything slips, because it's really because of Senate issues, we still have time to accommodate all of this stuff in 2017.
	So I even have safety valves.
	I have cushions built in the schedule to make sure this all gets done in 2017.
	Because I believe in case something happens and goes sideways on the Senate.
	I'm pretty sure that'll stimulate the economy, get people back to work, and get the economy moving again, which I think we need.
	That's what we're hired to do.
	All right.
	Mr. Speaker, you'll see you in 200 days.
	All right, holding them accountable, our new segment, both on radio and television.
	These are promises made, promises that need to be kept.
	That was my interview with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.
	And then last week we had on Congressman Dave Brad of Virginia and Congressman Mark Meadows of North Carolina, both members of the Freedom Caucus, and neither one of them, they told me, had heard that there was a consensus health care bill that is being scored.
	So Jim Jordan is with us.
	He's also a founding member of the Freedom Caucus, former chair of the Freedom Caucus, and hopefully he can add some context and texture and expand this discussion.
	How is it possible that Mark Meadows, Dave Bratt, didn't have a clue of what the Speaker was talking about?
	Well, I mean, the principles the Speaker were talking about, we all agree on those, Sean.
	I think every Republican, I know you do.
	But there were nine plans.
	I was asking him specifically: where's the consensus plan?
	Well, in health care, I don't think there is one because we haven't seen it, right?
	The only plan that's out there right now is the one the House Freedom Caucus put forward on the House side and Dr. Paul, Senator Paul put forward on the Senate side.
	That's the one that is actually a plan in legislative form that says we repeal it and we repeal it just like we did in 2015, put the same thing on President Trump's desk that we put on President Obama's desk, and then the replacement bill at the same time that empowers families.
	What about what the Speaker was trying to say, that it's a little more complicated than that because it was passed through reconciliation, and to repeal it through reconciliation or those aspects of it that need to be repealed that way, it has to be revenue neutral, which is why it needed the scoring.
	Reconciliation is a fancy term to say you only need 50 votes in the Senate.
	That's what we did in 2015.
	What we sent over was done through reconciliation, and all we are saying is send the exact same bill.
	Did the American people, when they voted on November 8th, and we told them we were going to repeal Obamacare, did they want us to repeal it except, oh, keep the Medicaid expansion part, which is what we are hearing is going to be in the Republican Party?
	I don't want it.
	I know that John Kasich was out there lobbying for it this weekend when he was at the White House.
	I know.
	And did the American people say, yeah, repeal it?
	Oh, but you can also keep some of the tax increases.
	Of course they didn't say that, but everything we've not seen the plan yet.
	It's not in the middle of the year.
	How is it possible the speaker is telling me it's on track and it's on time and it's everything that we talked about?
	And I have three top-ranking congressmen telling me they don't have a clue.
	How am I supposed to interpret that?
	There's nothing been, no bill has been given to us.
	We've talked about it and everything we're hearing.
	There's lots of good things.
	And we get rid of a lot of the mandates, a lot of the regulations.
	But they're also in the plan that's being talked about by our leadership.
	And again, I haven't seen it, but this is what's being talked about and what's being in the leaked document.
	They're going to start this new entitlement called Advanced Refundable Tax Credits.
	They're going to keep Medicaid expansion for the next four years.
	And there's talk of keeping some tax increases, namely the Cadillac tax.
	I don't think that's what we told the voters we were going to do.
	I think we told the voters we are going to repeal it, all of it, and we are going to replace it with something that brings back affordable health insurance and the power of the people.
	Well, why aren't they talking to you about it now?
	Because if you and the Freedom Caucus and those that are outside the Freedom Caucus, like Marsha Blackburn and Louis Gomert and Congressman Steve King, if you all band together, they can't pass this bill.
	Well, we've got to see what it is, but you're exactly right.
	We're going to need 218 Republicans to pass it because we know the Democrats aren't going to help us do what's right for health care.
	So, yeah, we'll see how that works.
	But I'm trying to understand.
	The speaker is telling me it's on track, being scored.
	Once it's scored, it's replaced.
	And he told me it was a consensus plan.
	Did I hear him wrong?
	Is there miscommunication?
	Did he not tell me the whole story?
	What's going on?
	I think what the Speaker is saying is there's consensus on the principles, the broad principles.
	But why would he say that when I'm asking about this?
	I asked him because there were nine bills that were out there, and I said, why hasn't there been a coalescing around one bill?
	And why isn't there a consensus bill that everyone already agreed to?
	That's what I was asking about.
	Yeah, you'd have to ask him again, Sean, but what I can tell you is there's consensus among the House Freedom Caucus with Dr. Paul and the Senate side around our plan.
	Well, I like your plan, too.
	Why don't you explain it?
	Our plan is real simple.
	Repeal it like we did in 2015.
	Put the same thing on President Trump's desk that we put on President Obama's desk, the same time a replacement measure that empowers people, increases health savings accounts, allows them to work, allows interstate shopping for insurance, allows easier association health plans to form, allows tax deductibility for your insurance premiums, allows you to use your health savings accounts to pay for your premiums, allows you to use your health savings account to pay for membership at the YMC Health and Wellness, and allows a tax credit for your money you put in your health savings accounts.
	How many times does it do something that will bring down costs and empower families?
	How many times does the House caucus meet Republican caucus meet in Washington?
	Once a week, once every other week?
	Once every week, and then some weeks twice a week.
	And this has not been discussed since I did this interview with the speaker?
	Broad principles, bullet points, outlines, but no bill text.
	And those were good discussions.
	Don't get me wrong.
	Well, don't you have to send a bill text to the CBO to get it scored?
	We haven't seen it.
	They may have, but we haven't seen it.
	Well, you told me CBO is scoring it right now.
	Yeah, well, and maybe that's the reason we haven't seen the bill text, because maybe the score is not what they want it to be.
	I don't know.
	Well, I mean, are there technical ⁇ let me ask a question and maybe give Paul Ryan some slack here.
	Are there technical difficulties repealing the bill because it needs to be revenue neutral because of reconciliation?
	Is that true?
	Is that an obstacle?
	Yeah, look, that's there, but what we're saying is we already went through reconciliation and put a bill on President Obama's.
	So that's really not a problem.
	I mean, you're telling me it's not.
	So why not just take every Republican vote for that bill, Sean?
	Why not take that and put it on President Trump's desk?
	We know that's fine.
	We all voted for it.
	But no, they don't want to do that because, oh, we've got Republican governors and people talking about you need to keep Medicaid expansion for a longer time because we did this in our state.
	Why is John Kasich demanding this special extra entitlement?
	Because he went around the legislature in Ohio and went through the controlling board and got that.
	That's the law now in Ohio.
	So he wants that.
	He'll have to deal with his budget if that's not part of it.
	But he knew that when he went for the Medicaid expansion a few years ago.
	So all we're saying is a real simple way to do this is do what we did before and do what we took.
	Are we blowing it because in the meantime, because we're told that we have to do health care first, in the meantime, we don't have seven brackets to three in tax reform.
	We don't have a 15 percent corporate tax.
	We don't have the trillions incentivized through repatriation discount.
	The president is acting at the speed of light and Congress seems to be dragging their heels and it's not getting done and I'm getting frustrated.
	I felt better after I spoke to Ryan, but now after I speak to you, Meadows and Dave Brad, I feel very differently.
	I'm like, what's going on here?
	You're exactly right.
	We need to do all those things because we promised the American people we would.
	And energy independence.
	And we need to do them exactly how we told the people and the American people we were going to do them.
	And like I said before, I don't think we told them we're going to repeal Obamacare except keep Medicaid expansion for four years.
	We're going to repeal Obamacare except we're going to keep a tax increase in there.
	And we're going to repeal Obamacare except we're going to also start this entitlement called refundable tax credits.
	I don't think we told them that.
	So what we're saying is let's do what we make this job way too hard.
	The voters sent us here to do what we told them we were going to have.
	Have you brought this up in conference, what you're telling me?
	Oh, we've been talking with all kinds of members about this, particularly our members saying, look, you've got to be ready for what's coming because it may not be consistent with what I believe we told the voters we're going to do.
	Why isn't Paul Bryan talking to you guys and keeping you in the loop?
	I'm trying to understand that.
	We are.
	We're having discussions.
	We'll have to go back to the page.
	Have you told him specifically what you're telling me?
	Oh, yeah.
	We've talked about we've talked.
	I know Chairman Meadows has talked, I believe, several times with the speaker.
	But we're also working on a number of other issues, too.
	So we're having all kinds of conversations.
	This one is the first one.
	Now we're starting to see what may be in the bill.
	Now we're starting to, you know, why is it a big mystery and secret?
	Why can't the American people look at what's in there while it's being scored?
	I don't know.
	I mean, I think they should be able to.
	Think of the context, Sean.
	We had the Cassidy Collins plan in the Senate, which was brought forward and said basically if you like Obamacare in certain states, you get to keep it.
	We think that's the wrong way to go.
	We had talk of not including the defund Planned Parenthood language in there.
	We heard talk about keeping tax increases.
	We've heard talk about the Medicaid expansion staying in.
	So in that context, we said it's critical that a plan be put forward that we believe is consistent with what we told the voters we were going to do.
	We did that a week and a half ago.
	The House Freedom Caucus put forward a plan that is exactly consistent with what the November decision was about.
	Stay right there.
	What do I have to go?
	This is like the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks that are going on here.
	I'm going to have to get all of you in one room and straighten this out.
	Anyway, more with Congressman Jim Jordan.
	He's with the Freedom Caucus.
	Looking for fake news?
	You won't find it here.
	You're with Sean Hennedy on the air now.
	All right, as we continue with Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio.
	All right, let me move off health care because we'll get back to that in the bottom of the arrow with Betsy McCoy.
	I'm a little worried about budget issues.
	We've got $20 trillion in debt.
	Whoever knows, however, many trillions in unfunded liabilities.
	And then you guys are talking about, what, a trillion-dollar infrastructure spending bill.
	Then, and I agree with the president on building up our military, $54 billion more in defense spending.
	And then we've got the issue of, okay, what's Obamacare repeal and replace going to cost us?
	And on top of that, I appreciate that the President put a hiring freeze in place and he's going to cut a lot of money.
	I mean, real cuts, eliminate baseline budgeting, have zero baselines.
	Are you confident we're not going to have a massive hole in the debt as a result of these policies?
	Yeah, well, first of all, if we do the right thing on repeal and replace, we will bring back a marketplace and we'll lower health care costs.
	You don't need a bunch of government.
	There's this attitude, you need to sign people up for some government-sponsored program.
	What we would prefer is you actually bring back a marketplace, lower the cost of insurance, bring back affordable health insurance.
	That's helpful, and that doesn't add to the $20 trillion debt.
	So that's number one.
	Number two, I think Mick Mulvaney, former Freedom Caucus member at OMB, is a good thing.
	Mick understands we've got a $20 trillion debt.
	I think he's going to be helpful, him and his team, helping the president deal with this huge debt burden that now faces our country.
	We're now at a one-to-one debt to GDP ratio.
	That's a dangerous place to be.
	And then, third, we've got to pay for things.
	I'm with you.
	$54 billion more for military is certainly what's needed.
	But we can find that in a budget that's about $4 trillion in annual spending.
	We should be able to find $54 billion, for goodness sake, and offset and find the waste and some of the redundancy that's in the federal budget.
	In fact, even the Pentagon budget, we should look for ways.
	There was a story, Sean, back in December 6th, a front page Washington Post, $125 billion identified in the Pentagon in redundancy and waste and all the bureaucracy over there.
	And the end of the story, it said this is money that could go to upgraded weapon systems and into our troops who are actually on the front lines defending our country.
	That's what we want, the money getting to the weapon systems and our troops, not in the bureaucracy and all the redundancy that exists there.
	So we've got to do those kind of things.
	You're exactly right.
	When you've got a $20 trillion debt, you've got to pay for things.
	Yeah.
	Well, you think we can get there then?
	I do.
	I just saw Mick, the head of the director of OMB and Mick Mulvaney.
	I just saw him talking today, and I think he gets it.
	Well, in fact, I know he does, and I think he's the right guy for that job.
	If this bill isn't what you think it is on health care, will you all join together and stop it?
	That's our plan.
	I mean, our plan is to get the conference to rally around the Freedom Caucus plan, the Dr. Paul plan, because I said it several times, Sean.
	That's what we told the voters we were going to do.
	I like the plan.
	I like what you put out there.
	I like what Rand Paul put out there.
	All right, we'll talk more.
	It's entirely consistent with what we're doing.
	Let me ask you this.
	Can you try and arrange you, Mark Meadows, Dave Bratt, maybe Kevin McCarthy, and Paul Ryan?
	I'll give you guys the entire hour on TV.
	Can you try and work that out?
	That would be fun, wouldn't it?
	Would you do that for me?
	I'd love to.
	All right, you're going to set that up.
	We'll count on you.
	Okay.
	All right, you're here, sir.
	Just do your best.
	That's all I'm asking.
	All right, brother.
	All right, 800-941, Sean.
	All right.
	How bad is this bill and how can we replace it?
	Betsy McCoy is mad at the Speaker, too.
	We'll find out why, as we continue holding them accountable and much more.
	and then our news roundup information overload.
	More on the insanity out of La La Land in Hollywood last night.
	Because I heard everything from Obamacare will be done day one, to the spring, to the summer, by the end of the year.
	And so it's been all over the map, not just from you, but from other people.
	I also heard people say it hasn't been all over the map from us.
	Well, it's been over the press.
	It's been all over the map from rumor mills.
	But from us here in Congress, we're exactly on the timeline that we laid out for ourselves.
	When I heard repair, my head nearly exploded.
	That's not the plan.
	The plan is to repeal and replace this law.
	Like we said, we ran on a plan to repeal and replace it.
	Tom Price helped write that plan.
	He is now Donald Trump's Secretary of State.
	There is a consensus plan that's now being scored by the CBO.
	Correct.
	We're going to repeal and replace Obamacare and get states the flexibility that they need to make the end result really, really good for them.
	Very complicated issue.
	Only 20 million Americans have chosen to pay the penalty or received an exemption rather than buy insurance.
	That's something that nobody's ever heard of or thought could happen, and they're actually doing that rather than being forced to buy insurance.
	We must work together to save Americans from Obamacare.
	Some people know that, and everyone knows that at this point.
	To create more competition and to bring down the prices substantially.
	Going to be a very competitive plan, and costs will come down.
	And I think the health care will go up very, very substantially.
	I think people are going to like it a lot.
	All right, 24 now till the top of the hour, 800, 941, Sean, our toll-free telephone number.
	You want to be a part of this extravaganza.
	That was the president meeting with leaders in the healthcare industry from earlier today.
	And before that, my interview with Paul Ryan.
	And there seems to be mass confusion as to, you know, nobody, I didn't know until I did the interview with Ryan that they even had a consensus plan.
	Prior to that, we were told, well, it'll happen in January or in the spring or in the summer, in the fall, and by the end of the year, I mean, it's been all over the map.
	And apparently, according to Congressman and Speaker Ryan, that is now being scored at the CBO.
	But for a lot of people, like me, I'm still getting antsy and impatient because there's a lot of work to do.
	We still have an economic plan to put together, an energy independence plan to put together.
	It is complicated to undo Obamacare, I will grant you.
	And transitioning people off it is going to be difficult also.
	Building a wall is in the process, vetting refugees is in the works, you know, fighting to get cabinet officials approved to work in the new administration.
	We've got a Supreme Court justice that's heading for a big fight against Democrats that only believe in obstructionism.
	Anyway, Betsy McCoy is pretty pissed off about it, said, quote, if he, meaning Paul Ryan, can't do his job as Speaker to hold these Republicans together and get a repeal and replace bill through, somebody else should be Speaker.
	How are you?
	I'm glad to be with you because there's no question about it.
	That's the definition of his job.
	The Speaker's job is to hold his party together and move forward and support the president's agenda in this case.
	Sean, this is the first time in a decade that Republicans have controlled the House, the Senate, and the White House.
	We can't waste this opportunity.
	But a lot of it hinges on Paul Ryan's ability in the House.
	Listen, I don't want to be his special pleader here because I'm skeptical as you are.
	I am too.
	Okay, but There are complicated issues surrounding, because of the way Obamacare was passed using reconciliation.
	If you use reconciliation as a part of the process to repeal it, it has to be repealed.
	Otherwise, for example, you know within the law there's a wide amount of discretion available for the Health and Human Services Secretary.
	I wish there were more.
	Yeah, well, but the point is, it's never going to be lasting unless you repeal it.
	It's got to be repealed.
	That's right.
	And not repaired.
	Here is my concern, Sean.
	Ryan has included in what he calls the consensus plan.
	I'm not sure it really is.
	There are plenty of Republicans who don't like it.
	Ryan has included some poison pills in there.
	I'll give you one example.
	He wants to limit the tax-exempt nature of employer-provided health plans.
	That means if you're a worker and you have a very rich, a very generous health plan, under the Ryan plan, it would get slapped with a tax, just like the Cadillac tax under Obamacare.
	That's wrong.
	Donald Trump stands for the public.
	Well, let me ask you a question.
	How are you getting an opportunity to see this bill before some congressman like that I've had on this program?
	I've got it right here on my desk.
	And have you seen the scored version that the CBO put out the scored?
	I've never seen the scored version.
	Because I have the draft of the bill right here on my desk, and that's one of the things that concerns me about it the most, because that is a knife in the back of the workers, particularly union workers, in the Rust Belt states who gave Donald Trump his remarkable victory.
	Yeah, listen, I want it done, but I also want the economy done.
	I want the wall built.
	I want people vetted.
	I want energy independence, education sent back to the states.
	I want to build up our military.
	Right.
	One thing Ryan could do.
	This is what he said to me.
	Because I'm only relaying the information because I read your comments, and the only reason I think he came on with me is because I was so harsh in saying the same thing you are.
	So my question is, very simply, do you understand that it has to be revenue neutral on reconciliation?
	Do you understand there are financial challenges to do a repeal?
	It's not a simple up or down vote.
	Yes, but he chose to leave in place the tax that is most odious to workers.
	And we have a chance as Republicans under Donald Trump to really woo labor back to the Republican Party.
	That's where they belong.
	We share their values and they share ours, belief in the dignity of work.
	So don't stab them in the back with a tax on their generous health plans.
	Yeah.
	Well, look, all I know is at the end of the day, they better get this right because here's what's going to happen.
	It's sort of like, you know, they didn't take in the media, they didn't press one issue as it relates to, oh, here's a criminal alien that spent time in jail for murder or manslaughter or drug dealing.
	No, here's the one mistake they made about a dreamer that was thrown out of the country and their families are separated.
	What the news media is going to do is predictable.
	They're going to go out there and find the one person that lost their care, blah, blah, blah.
	Actually, most of Ryan's plan is very good.
	The way he handles Medicaid, superb.
	That is the real entitlement crisis facing our nation, not Medicare for the elderly, Medicaid.
	And he handles that very, very well.
	I would suggest, and this is another.
	You like the health savings account part of it because I like that the most.
	And you know what?
	It's probably not even going to be good for people in our generation.
	It's going to be good for younger people.
	And it's not going to be illegal anymore to buy a catastrophic health plan.
	Right.
	Exactly.
	His job now is not to keep writing brilliant health plans.
	It's to get all of his members together and vote for it.
	Agreed.
	He says it's going to happen in early March.
	We're almost to March.
	We're almost there.
	We've got to do it because in nine weeks the insurance market collapses.
	Well, it has to be done by April.
	And you heard the president of Aetna saying that this isn't a death spiral.
	Obamacare's dead.
	It's a death spiral.
	The premiums have already doubled and they're going to go up way more this year.
	And almost all the insurers have backed out of Obamacare.
	So in 2018, people inside.
	Humana is now out of it.
	Obamacare is dead one way or the other.
	So my question is, will the average consumer, and I ask you this question because you have read this bill how many times?
	A thousand?
	Yes.
	You actually read it, you underline it, you understand it, you carry it into bed with you at night.
	Now, don't go that far.
	Okay.
	Well, you get my point.
	You've carried it into my studio 100 times.
	Are you convinced the average American will get better care for less money?
	Oh, there's no question about it.
	Obamacare was a ruse.
	It tried to force two kinds of people into the same insurance pool, very, very sick people and healthy people, and forced them to pay the same premium.
	It was very unfair to the young and the healthy.
	They were getting ripped off and they could see it.
	Well, because what it was is a massive redistribution where you had the young, the healthy, paying for the sick, the elderly, and the disabled.
	Premiums have doubled.
	People's choices of doctors are much narrower than they were before.
	It's obvious this has failed.
	Yeah.
	No, I agree.
	All right.
	So my next question then after this is very simple.
	If you're a young person, isn't the best plan for you to get a catastrophic plan that includes the following, that you get a checkup every year.
	And by young, I'm saying maybe, you know, early 25 or 26 to 40.
	Absolutely.
	You get a checkup every year.
	Yes.
	So you're incentivized to stay healthy.
	But God forbid you had a heart attack.
	God forbid you got cancer.
	Or God forbid you got in an accident.
	You're taken care of, but the premium is so much lower because you're not an old person.
	The odds of these things happening to you are very, very limited, which is why we have actuary rates or actuarial rates with insurance companies because they factor in age and health and so on and so forth.
	One of the biggest mistakes of Obamacare was it assumed people were too stupid to make their own choices.
	It was like passing a law that the only car you're allowed to buy is a four-door sedan.
	No more hatchbacks, no more convertibles.
	People won't know when to put the top up.
	That's exactly the thinking.
	They were going to force everybody into this one-size-fits-all, Washington-knows-best plan and deny them the opportunity to buy a catastrophic plan, a plan that didn't include pregnancy coverage, didn't include dental coverage, didn't include things that you at some points in your life don't need.
	Yeah.
	Well, I think the idea that we can fix it, but I got to tell you, Betsy, it's bigger than that.
	He promised me in 200 days, I said to him in 200 days, I come back here, he said he even built in cushion room that everything is going to be done.
	And he agreed with the entire Trump agenda, which, by the way, is a pew poll out.
	Republicans choose Trump's agenda 52 to 34 over the GOP's agenda.
	Well, they should.
	Don't forget, at the beginning, Trump was very, very clear.
	He was assuring the American people he was not going to touch Medicare.
	That's back when the House wanted to, quote, reform Medicare.
	Medicare isn't the problem.
	It's a success.
	What do you think is the problem?
	What do you think of John Kasich fighting to keep urging Medicare expansion to be kept?
	Medicaid expansion, right.
	He's wrong because it's bankrupting the states.
	And it's 56% of all federal dollars sent to the states, not just health care dollars, Sean, 56% of all dollars going to the states are for health care.
	Medicaid is out of control.
	It's an explosion of spending.
	So in other words, John Kasich for his own state wants all the extra government handout to Ohio.
	Yes, but you know, John Kasich, he's never been for Donald Trump.
	He's not with us.
	I never has.
	Listen, John Kasich, to me, it's unforgivable what he did during this election.
	I found that the same guy that talked about, oh, we all need to get along, et cetera, et cetera.
	And then he broke his promise.
	I don't have respect for people when they break promises.
	I agree.
	And I think he thinks he's going to be president.
	But Donald Trump is keeping his promises.
	He is the promise keeper.
	Look at what's happened in the first two months of his administration.
	One promise after another kept.
	I mean, it's refreshing, isn't it?
	I mean, you've been a politician in your life.
	It's refreshing to see people give their word and follow up on it.
	All right, I got to go, Betsy.
	Thank you.
	All right, Betsy McCoy, thank you.
	Final hour roundup is next.
	You do not want to miss it.
	And stay tuned for the final hour free-for-all on The Sean Hannity Show.
	We're also here to honor actors who seem great,
	but actually really aren't.
	And of all the great actors here in Hollywood, one in particular has stood the test of time for her many uninspiring and overrated performances.
	From her mediocre early work in The Deer Hunter and Out of Africa to her underwhelming performances in Kramer vs. Kramer and Sophie's Choice.
	Meryl Streep has phoned it in for more than 50 films over the course of her lackluster career.
	This is Meryl's 20th Oscar nomination.
	Even more, made even more amazing considering the fact that she wasn't even in a movie this year.
	We just wrote her name down out of habit.
	Meryl, stand up if you would.
	Everybody, please join me in giving Meryl Streep a totally undeserved round of applause, will you?
	We're going to have fun tonight.
	I hope we're going to have fun tonight.
	Nice dress, by the way.
	Is that an Ivanka?
	This is exciting.
	I think it's important that we all, I know we've all seen it all, but it's important that we take a second to appreciate what is happening here.
	We're at the Oscars, the Academy Awards.
	You're nominated.
	You got to come.
	Your families are nominated.
	Your friends, some of you will get to come up here on this stage tonight and give a speech that the President of the United States will tweet about in all caps during his 5 a.m. bowel movement tomorrow.
	And I think that's pretty darn excellent, if you ask me.
	So let's get going.
	I want to take a moment tonight to honor some of the real heroes who are here tonight, the superheroes.
	There are so many of them in our audience.
	And it has been an amazing year for comic book movies.
	Dr. Strange was nominated for Outstanding Visual Effects and was also named Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
	What can I say?
	Thank you very much.
	And the last thing is this for, I'm an immigrant.
	I come from Italy.
	I work around the world.
	And this is for all the immigrants, for the immigrants.
	Please.
	All right, that from the Oscars last night.
	When we come back, we will be debating in our news roundup information overload hour the absolute insanity that has gone Hollywood and gone left-wing in the country, also being encouraged and supported by Democrats.
	So we'll get to all that.
	Don't forget we have Hannity tonight, 10 Eastern, on the Fox News channel.
	Part of my interview with President George W. Bush.
	Also, we have Newt Kingrich's on tonight.
	Fox and Friends is interviewing the president today.
	Ainsley Earhart will report on that interview.
	And we also have tonight, you don't want to miss, we'll check in with our good friends.
	We'll check in with our good friend, hang on a second.
	Oh, Sheriff David Clark is out with his new book.
	We'll check in with our good friend Sheriff David Clark.
	That's all tonight, 10 Eastern on Hannity.
	Information overload.
	This broadcast is being watched live by millions of Americans and around the world in more than 225 countries that now hate us.
	Thank you very much.
	And the last thing is for, I'm an immigrant.
	I come from Italy.
	I work around the world.
	And this is for all the immigrants, for the immigrants.
	Maybe this is not a popular thing to say, but I want to say thank you to President Trump.
	I mean, remember last year when it seemed like the Oscars were racist?
	And all you people out there who feel like there's no mirror for you, that your life is not reflected, the Academy has your back.
	The ACLU has your back.
	We have your back.
	And for the next four years, we will not leave you alone.
	We will not forget you.
	Would everybody please join me in giving Meryl Street a totally undeserved round of applause, will you?
	We're going to have fun tonight.
	I hope we're going to have fun tonight.
	Nice dress, by the way.
	Is that an Ivanka?
	Fred, some of you will get to come up here on this stage tonight and give a speech that the President of the United States will tweet about in all caps during his 5 a.m. bowel movement tomorrow.
	And I think that's pretty darn excellent, if you ask me.
	All right, news roundup, information overload hour.
	There you had it.
	All these Hollywood out-of-touch liberal elites spewing their hatred in what was nothing short of a despicable display last night.
	After all, how many more self-congratulatory Hollywood award shows can we have?
	And when are we going to have award shows for cops and doctors and nurses and contractors and radio producers and everybody in between?
	We don't have awards.
	Well, we do actually for hosts.
	We do have.
	I did win two Marconi Awards and Radio and Records.
	I won a number of their awards too.
	But, you know, it's, I didn't really think of it at the same level as that.
	But in all honesty, nobody's paying attention to it.
	Nobody really cares.
	They either like your show or they don't.
	They don't care about whether you got an award, I don't think.
	But I mean, it's so holier than now.
	They support the worst failed policies of Obama that would have been continued under Hillary, where millions of more Americans are out of work, in poverty, and on food stamps.
	And they don't give a rip because that's not their life in their huge liberal chauffeur-driven Learjet limousine liberal lifestyle where they're overpaid in their mansions with their security guards, eating the finest food, drinking the finest wine, having um gods, and they don't give a rip about the rest of America that's suffering because of the politicians they want elected.
	I'm so sick.
	It's nauseating.
	I thought I used to like Jimmy Kimmel.
	They asked me on a show recently.
	I said I'd probably do it.
	Forget it.
	Why would I fly out there for him?
	Anyway, joining us now, Emily Shire of Bustle.com, D.C. McAllister of the Federalist and PJ Media.
	Welcome both of you.
	Emily, I bet you loved last night, didn't you?
	I bet you thought it was a great show of unity.
	You're going to love this.
	I watched girls during some of it.
	Tell your favorite project.
	That is the single worst television show ever made.
	And the last thing America wants to see is a naked Lena Dunham in another episode.
	I want to see Lena Dunham naked.
	You do.
	Yes, very much so.
	Well, that's why I don't watch the show.
	I have watched it, but I won't watch it again.
	I think I'll pass.
	That's fair.
	Everyone's entitled to their own tastes and opinions, especially with Hollywood and art.
	Yeah, Hollywood and art.
	And how many more congratulatory shows, The Golden Globes?
	How many shows do we need self-congratulations on?
	There is definitely a sense of award overload.
	And in fact, it's interesting that there's a history of...
	You mean like the ratings are one of the lowest ever in Oscar history?
	Do you think it might be related to the liberal politics?
	I think it's just that we have a lot of award shows.
	I mean, in the middle of the year.
	We've had a lot of reward shows in past years, and still, that didn't stop them from watching the Oscars.
	They're not watching anymore.
	People by millions are leaving.
	It seems that people have been increasingly less interested in award shows.
	I know they've had trouble maintaining audiences for years.
	That's not a new trend.
	And also, going political at award shows is also not a new trend.
	That's been going on also for decades.
	You know, did we really have to get lectured by, I guess, this Iranian, I guess, producer or whatever it happened to be?
	Why is it that D.C. McAllister, why do we get lectured by a guy lecturing America when the Iranians throw gays and lesbians off of roofs and kill them or beat them to death?
	Or they treat women in the worst possible manner.
	I thought Hollywood was all for women's rights and gay and lesbian rights and for religious freedom.
	You can't build a temple or a Christian church in Iran the last I heard.
	No, it's almost like it's the enemy of my enemy as my friend.
	And since the Iranians are enemies of the conservative right, then somehow they are embracing the Iranian culture.
	I don't know.
	It just shows a disconnect on the side of the Democrats, and especially in Hollywood.
	You know the part that I think that crystallized last night and which is why people are tuning out Hollywood was when Jimmy Kimmel brought in all the common folk and had them come walk and meet all the stars and get some sunglasses and some tidbits thrown to them, like eat my cake from the stars there in the front aisle.
	It was condescending.
	It was embarrassing.
	And it just shows you that Hollywood does not understand their elitist mindset and how offensive it is to people out in flyover country.
	And that just encapsulated everything that's wrong with Hollywood in that one scene.
	Yeah.
	I think it's so out of touch.
	I just can't believe.
	Could you imagine D.C. McAllister if it was Hollywood beating up the Obamas this way?
	What do you think people would be saying today?
	There would be cries of protest across the nation, of course.
	I mean, because Hollywood has an agenda, and I think this is different.
	I mean, Emily's right.
	I mean, there has been politics and arts mixed for years, but it has gotten more polarized, I think.
	And we have become more, we're less willing to hear each other and less willing to see each other as human beings.
	There's this political polarization and reductionism that's going on within the arts, and people are tuning it out.
	And it's this elite attitude that just has everyone so offended, and they don't seem to get it.
	They keep pushing it and pushing it.
	And Jimmy Kimmel says, you know, let's bring in unity.
	Tell someone you disagree with that you like something about them.
	And then he goes on to bash Trump continuously throughout the show.
	I mean, they're just hypocrites, and they don't hold up to their own standards.
	And we see it out here.
	We're not stupid.
	Wow.
	And I'm sure that if the Obamas would bash this way, Emily, you'd be outraged.
	And there'd be cries of racism, right?
	I can't say that would necessarily be the case.
	It's clear that Hollywood does have a largely liberal slant.
	And I completely agree that the comments or the Iranian director who decided not to come and protest is wildly hypocritical.
	But I think there is something to be said that the current political environment imbues everything with a sense of polarization.
	We saw this during the Super Bowl with the Budweiser ad, which was a pretty innocuous immigration story, and people began protesting like crazy.
	in another year, I think it would have been considered pretty bland and in fact pretty tripe because we have a lot of immigrant stories in American culture and especially American entertainment culture that it gets used over and over again.
	Yeah, but that was used for a purpose to push back against what the people elected Donald Trump to do.
	You know, this whole idea of this immigration, Emily, I know you've got to agree with me on this.
	This whole immigration thing by the left and by Hollywood and all through last night is being misrepresented.
	People in America, the Trump administration, conservatives, those who voted in Trump, are not against immigration.
	They're not against diversity in our culture.
	They're not against different points of view and the richness that we have from people who come to this country.
	We are against illegal immigration.
	We are against not vetting people coming into this country who can be a threat to this country.
	And this narrative that's being put out there repeatedly by Hollywood that we're intolerant of anyone who is different from ourselves is only causing more division in our country because it is simply not true.
	I mean, would you agree with that?
	It's just a lie that's just causing more and more conflict.
	And they're perpetuating it.
	Well, I do think we see a greater focus on deporting immigrants, particularly nonviolent ones, and particularly ones who would appear at the other DACA.
	And those are the issues that I think many Americans are very concerned about.
	I understand, but there are minor offenses, by the way, in terms of trying to get work.
	These are not the rapists and the violent criminals that Donald Trump spoke about in his opening speech.
	And that kind of rhetoric deeply disturbs many Americans and many people from around the globe.
	And I think it makes sense that, particularly in Hollywood, when maybe there are people who care about those issues more or who are more represented or come from those backgrounds, that it's going to be more of an issue.
	Can I ask you a question?
	Why are these people in Hollywood willing to gamble with our lives and take in unvetted refugees?
	Because the National Director of Intelligence under Obama and the FBI director and CIA director under Obama and the Assistant FBI director under Obama and the House Homeland Security Chair and the General John Allen who was the special envoy under Obama to defeat ISIS all warned that ISIS will infiltrate that population.
	Why are they willing to gamble with our lives?
	And why would you be willing to gamble with our lives?
	The executive order and many of the immigration measures the same way.
	You know, John McCain and Lindsey Graham denounced the executive order, the travel ban when it first came out as possibly causing more security concerns.
	They certainly didn't think it was going to help the issue.
	And so when they see measures that in fact aren't tackling the national security concerns over foreigners, over immigration, and in fact worry that they may be leading to greater threats for our country, I think the issue that Hollywood is supporting letting more terrorists in or a greater infiltration of ISIS doesn't make sense because what they're protesting is something that many well-versed conservatives have criticized as causing more security concerns for the country.
	Your answer to that, DC?
	And presented by Hollywood, it's not about a disagreement on what kind of immigration we should have and whether voting is actually, I mean, vetting is actually working and all that kind of stuff.
	They're presenting it as we don't like foreigners, that we're xenophobic and that we're racist and that we don't like people who are different from us.
	And that's simply a lie.
	And that's my point.
	It is going to cause more and more division.
	Now, we can disagree about how to deport, who to admit, and all this kind of thing, but we cannot sit here and continue to say that we hate foreigners coming in because it's not going to be a problem.
	And what actually does it, I think, unfortunately, Donald Trump, who may have some very well-meaning policies when he refers to people as bad hombres and makes some really good ideas.
	He was talking about illegal people and people who are coming.
	He doesn't need Hollywood's help.
	Why should we not ensure first and foremost the safety of the American people?
	And if every big intelligence official is warning us that we have vulnerabilities on the border that ISIS will infiltrate, why are you willing to gamble with the lives of Americans?
	I think that's reckless of you and Hollywood.
	Why are you willing to gamble with other people's lives?
	I want an answer.
	I'm not willing to gamble with other people's lives.
	I have to say, evidence that the Donald Trump's administration is putting forth.
	So countries that Obama identified as having ties to terror, that's not a good place to start?
	Look, I turn to certain people when I'm...
	I'm asking.
	That's not a good place to start?
	According to John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and a number of other top security partners.
	Oh, good, Greek.
	Hang on, we've got to take a break.
	We'll come back.
	We'll continue this debate, and we'll get right back to D.C. McAllister and Emily Shire.
	Still not sick of waiting.
	Making America great again.
	As we continue more on top story, the Hollywood attempt to beat down throats of Americans, their liberal leftist values and more of a liberal snowflake hissy fit going on.
	Emily, you keep ducking my question.
	So if Obama identifies countries that have ties to terror, if Obama names them by name, if Obama's FBI director, assistant FBI director, director of national intelligence, special envoy to defeat ISIS, the House Homeland Security Chair, all say ISIS will infiltrate the refugee population.
	Rather than gamble with American lives, is it really so awful to have a little extra vetting for those people that want the privilege of visiting our country?
	Is it really that terrible to you?
	Is it really offensive to you?
	Well, first of all, it's not just whether it's offensive to me.
	It's that our federal judicial system has deemed it unconstitutional.
	I think constitutional threats and the fact that there is no evidence that the policies that Trump has laid out in regards to that executive order would actually...
	So in other words, Emily Shire thinks she knows more D.C. McAllister than do our intelligence agencies, FBI, CIA, director of national intelligence.
	She knows more than everybody.
	The FBI director has said that they need more vetting.
	I mean, it's just a given.
	There is not the security in this refugees coming from these regions that is needed.
	I mean, I don't know what more we can do with that.
	And I think it's built on this wrong idea.
	I mean, Obama, he stopped refugees coming for a while.
	And we didn't hear Hollywood protesting in this way.
	I didn't hear you complaining, Emily.
	But it's always put in disguise of that we hate people and that we hate strangers.
	It's divisive, and it's a lie, and we just need to call it out.
	And they're inconsistent, and they're hypocritical about it.
	They did not hold Obama to account, and they're just spreading all kinds of lies about Trump.
	It's just apparent.
	Well, I think it's fair to say that Obama certainly did not get the same scrutiny that Trump did, but Obama also didn't implement the same executive order.
	The way he identified those seven countries did not lead to the, first of all, indefinite ban on refugees from Syria, but all the other detentions that happened in the few weeks that the immigration order was implemented.
	So identifying the seven countries really isn't the same on how you create the order.
	Moreover, I find it deeply concerning when people like John McCain and Lindsey Graham and other, by the way, Republicans who I do trust very much on national security raise concerns that such an order would only cause more problems for the safety of our country.
	That's my primary concern.
	Why is that not the primary concern that's being portrayed from Hollywood?
	Because that is not the message they're sending out about their problems.
	They're talking about immigration.
	They're not talking about illegal immigration.
	And they're not talking about concerns like what you just stated.
	They're pitting one American against the other, and they're spreading a narrative that's just not true.
	Why do you think they're doing that?
	And what do you say to them to stop that?
	I would say the same thing as why is Donald Trump relying on rhetoric that paints illegal immigrants as universally.
	No, it doesn't.
	He said stop.
	No, no, no, that's not true.
	No, that's not true.
	What you're saying is not true, Emily.
	Stop.
	He said some.
	He said some people.
	And you know what?
	There are 642,000 Texans in seven years victims of crime by illegal immigrants, and some lost their children.
	And I did a whole town hall with mothers that lost their kids killed by illegal immigrants.
	Do you care about them at all?
	I care about them tremendously.
	I can't tell Hollywood what films to make.
	I can't tell Hollywood what speeches to make.
	I think we should take everything Hollywood and all artists do with a massive grain of salt.
	But when we start criticizing them because they didn't focus on this issue or that issue enough, what I would say is I encourage people of those political beliefs to make art and make great movies.
	I got to take a break, but you're driving me insane.
	You know what?
	So out of touch with real America.
	You're all willing to gamble with the lives of Americans.
	You should be ashamed of that.
	And the Academy Award for Best Picture.
	La La Land.
	Matt Plouffe, you kicked this off.
	Damien Shazelle were standing on your shoulders.
	We lost, by the way.
	Guys, I'm sorry.
	No, there's a mistake.
	There's a mistake.
	Moonlight, you guys won best picture.
	Moonlight Ron.
	Come on, this is not a joke.
	This is not a joke.
	I'm afraid they read the wrong thing.
	This is not a joke.
	Moonlight has won best picture.
	Moonlight, best picture.
	Hello.
	Hello.
	I want.
	Warren, what did you do?
	I want to tell you what happened.
	I opened the envelope and it said, Emma Stone, La La Land.
	That's why I took such a long look at Faye and at you.
	I wasn't trying to be funny.
	Well, you were funny, though.
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you very much.
	Wow, this is Moonlight, the best picture.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Oopsie Daisy.
	Best picture.
	Oh, and then, of course, the non-stop attacks against Donald Trump.
	Imagine if they had ever done this to Barack Hussein Obama.
	Imagine if that ever happened.
	You know, about the walls and all the liberal hysteria that's going on, all the political speeches.
	You know what's amazing about this is just how out of touch these people are.
	I mean, it's pretty amazing.
	You got 95 million Americans out of the labor force, 13 million more Americans under Obama on food stamps, 8 million more Americans in poverty under Obama.
	He doubled the national debt.
	Worst recovery since the 1940s.
	Lowest home ownership rate in 51 years.
	And their reality is, do they bash the guy that is hurting the suffering that they seem to have a monopoly of compassion on?
	They live in their giant liberal bubble, completely out of touch.
	They don't give a Rip about the millions out of work in poverty on food stamps that was created by the guy that they elected.
	They don't care about the Iranian deal.
	Watching this Iranian guy lecture America seriously when they're throwing gays and lesbians over roofs and telling women what to wear and what they can't wear and beating people for nothing because you and if God forbid you want to you want to support a God other than Allah, well, that could be the death penalty if you're an apostate apostasy.
	And we're getting lectured by them and he's getting these standing ovations.
	They're so out of touch.
	Caviar, private planes.
	Oh, who is your dressmaid?
	Oh my gosh, Donna Karen.
	It's so beautiful.
	How many industries pat themselves on the back like these people?
	How many?
	They live in their mansions with their security guards and they live a lifestyle that most Americans that are doing most of the fighting and bleeding and dying and working and construction, you know, they don't live those lives.
	It's unbelievably arrogant.
	Their guy ruined the country.
	We're trying to fix it.
	And now they're mad at him.
	All right, let's get to our busy telephones here then.
	800-941-Sean is a toll-free telephone number.
	You want to be a part of the program.
	All right, let's go to Sandy is in Idaho.
	Sandy, hi, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Oh, I'm glad to get on your show.
	And Sean, I just love you.
	I love that we have people like you and others that do these talk shows that anybody, any American can actually call in and state what they think and say their opinions and voice their opinions.
	And so I love the truth, and the truth is starting to come out through a lot of through you guys.
	The media, you can't trust them.
	I am so appalled.
	I mean, that's like you're talking about the Grammy wards and all that.
	La la land, that's exactly where those people are.
	They're in la-la land.
	I don't even support them.
	I don't support the fake news that we see because all it does is give them ratings.
	So I wish every American who is against the people that we know are not telling the truth, do not support them.
	Don't watch it.
	Turn it off.
	Don't even press it.
	How many more of these inane?
	And I mean, they're just mind-numbingly stupid movies, cartoon figures.
	How many more Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, Supergirl, Super.
	So how many more can we watch?
	How many more of these movies that have no message?
	How many more sex and violence movies are they going to produce?
	You know, every once in a while you get a great movie.
	You get a gladiator.
	Every once in a while, you get a great brave heart.
	Every once in a while, you get the passion of the Christ.
	But you know what?
	All these people that have such contempt for the rest of us in this country and basically are calling us racist, us sexist, all of these names directed at us because we didn't do what they wanted.
	I don't like their movies.
	I'm done with these people.
	And they're so out of touch.
	We're charting them.
	We should make sure we just turn it off.
	When it comes on and we're sitting there and we have nothing else to watch, get a book.
	Do something.
	Get out of your chair.
	Go running.
	Go jogging.
	Go do something.
	Instead of sitting there listening to garbage and filling your mind up with garbage because that's all that that is.
	It's life.
	I mean, these movie stars like Meryl Street getting on and doing her little rant.
	I mean, what makes her an authority?
	What makes her such a great actress?
	She's not.
	What is so.
	But even that's beside the point.
	Who cares whether she's good or not?
	It doesn't matter.
	Listen, it doesn't matter.
	It doesn't matter.
	She is not a politician.
	We didn't elect her.
	We didn't vote for her.
	Just because she's not a floor and she has a lot of people listening to her at the Grammys.
	Big freaking deal.
	Who cares?
	She doesn't have a right to get in there and.
	Let me ask you a question.
	Sandy, what do you do for a living?
	I don't want to tell you.
	No, I want you to tell me.
	What do you do?
	No, no, no, because if I tell you, people will know who I am.
	Just tell me what kind of, tell me what field it's in.
	I'm in law enforcement.
	You're in what?
	I'm in law enforcement.
	Okay, let me say this.
	Where is the Oscars for brave men and women in law enforcement?
	Why did they get why did they get all the attention?
	Why are we so stupid that we care about what gowns they're wearing, what parties they go to, and their idiotic, ignorant, inane speeches that they give while they're slapping each other on the back?
	I can't take it.
	I really.
	And I can't even take with Sean, like Sean Spicer, he's so polite to those rude media people that tell nothing but lies and think they are entitled to be able to get in on a news conference.
	I mean, forget it.
	You know what?
	He's always saying, like, all due respect.
	Those people have no respect for him.
	They don't.
	You know what?
	Listen, I hope he goes a little more trump on him as he gets more comfortable in that position.
	All right, Sandy, appreciate your call.
	Thank you.
	I do.
	Americans get it.
	God bless her.
	She deserves an Oscar.
	Let's go to Kate in Houston, Texas, KTRH.
	What's up, Kate?
	How are you?
	Hey, Sean, hardest working man in show business.
	Actually, in journalism, you're not in show business, thank God.
	I'm not in show business.
	But listen, you know, I've been saying about my colleagues in journalism.
	I'm not a journalist.
	I'm a talk show host.
	You know, I'm going to tell you something.
	They're lazy.
	They're agenda-driven.
	They lie with regularity.
	And they're all overpaid.
	And you know what they hate the most about what I say about them?
	That I expose that they're all overpaid.
	You know what?
	Yeah.
	Because they're phony.
	Listen, I did real work.
	I'm overpaid.
	I'm just telling you right now, I'm overpaid.
	But you know what?
	We could remedy that.
	You could help, you know, you could give some of that to me.
	I got a family.
	Listen, believe me, I try and give as much away as I can.
	I usually donate to military charities.
	But you know something?
	I'm so fed up with all of them.
	You know, the only thing that I want out of that was that I wanted you to be able to walk into that room as our representative because we have never had one there.
	It is the most disgusting display of sensationalism and journalism.
	We're so fabulous.
	We're so great.
	Look at us.
	We're so amazing.
	I mean, it's like they're the Loscars, which I don't watch any of those.
	I can't watch the Oscars.
	I couldn't watch that last night.
	I gave that up years ago, but there was no way that I was going to watch that last night.
	Are you kidding me?
	Well, I'm going to tell you, you know something, and you may not know this.
	I've mentioned it before.
	I've never been, not one time, 21 years on Fox, 30 years now in radio since I started.
	I've never been to a single White House correspondence dinner.
	And you want to know why?
	Because I don't like most of those people, and they don't like me.
	I know, but this is your year, Sean.
	I mean, everybody deserved to see you walk in that room.
	I'm glad he tried.
	I mean, don't get me wrong.
	I'm so glad that he canceled it because it deserved to be canceled.
	But if any year, if there was ever a year for it to happen, I really would have liked for you to have been able to walk in there this year.
	Well, if he has one next year, maybe I'll consider.
	But I was not planning on going.
	I can tell you right now.
	Now, Fox has tried to pressure me for 21 years to go.
	And for some reason, I always get sick on that day.
	It's amazing.
	Every time, whatever the date happens to be, I get sick.
	And I never get sick.
	It's because you never sleep.
	It's because you can't ever.
	I mean, you're the hardest working man out there.
	So, you know, you're never sleeping.
	You're out here always doing the job.
	I want to tell you, I missed you.
	Every day that you weren't on, it was like I would turn that radio on, I would turn on that TV, and I was like, where's my dose of Sean?
	I'm sorry.
	I apologize.
	I had an issue I had to deal with.
	I was scheduled to be off before the passing of Allen, which did break my heart.
	I'm very sorry about that.
	No, I appreciate it.
	And by the way, I want to say thank you, too, because I do have a great audience.
	Even people that hate me on Twitter, you know, were actually very nice.
	The only people that were vicious and vile and hateful, you know, were like New York Times and Slate magazine.
	Really, the guy dies and you've got to start taking a bunch of shots at somebody and he can't fight back.
	I mean, that is the lowest of the low.
	And I will never forget what Slate did to Alan Combs.
	I will never forgive them for that.
	Ever.
	They're deplorable.
	They're disgusting.
	They're not deplorable.
	They're despicable, is what they are.
	It was so repugnant and so evil and so dark and so mean-spirited.
	I couldn't help myself.
	I was going to let it go and I couldn't.
	And I went out there and I blasted.
	You're too honorable.
	You can't do that.
	Well, you know what?
	He was a friend of mine, and he's dead.
	He died.
	And you know what?
	He died loving his family.
	He is devastated.
	His friends are devastated.
	So you're going to take salt and a big open wound and pour as much in as you can and take a shot at a guy that can't defend himself?
	Really?
	What kind of human being does that?
	You have to have a pretty dark soul to be capable of that type of meanness at that moment when so many people are suffering at the loss of a loved one.
	Exactly.
	And that's disgusting.
	They only think of themselves.
	I mean, they're really only about themselves.
	Yeah, they disgust me.
	All right.
	I'm so thankful.
	And I do want to say I'm sorry to you because I know that was a huge loss for you.
	And I started watching you when you were with him.
	Yes.
	You know, way back in the days.
	And I will tell you, I never agreed with his politics, never.
	And you used to drive me a little crazy, but I just love the camaraderie of y'all's relationships.
	We got along.
	You know what he gave me on our last show together?
	A copy of the Communist Manifesto.
	Oh, you're kidding.
	I still have it.
	Yes, he gave me a copy of that.
	Oh, I'm going to miss him.
	I really will.
	All right, Kate.
	God bless you.
	Thank you for your kind words.
	It means a lot.
	Let us go to Beth in Portland, Oregon.
	Beth, we only have about a minute and a half.
	It's all yours.
	Hey, Sean, thank you so much for taking my call.
	And again, sorry, too, about the loss of Alan Combs.
	I was definitely lost when I saw that.
	Tell me about the conversation that you had with the two congressmen from the conservative caucus.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Dave Bratt and Congressman Mark Meadows.
	Excellent men.
	Excellent.
	I am really disappointed in Paul Ryan.
	I think he lied to the American people to say that the bat had already been signed and it's going to CBO for scoring.
	And these two gentlemen have never even seen the bill.
	I'm sorry, but I like your idea of going to Washington, D.C., sitting down with Paul Ryan and men from the conservative caucus and holding his feet to the fire and saying, what is going on here?
	Why are you lying to the American people?
	I am in the process of trying to put that together.
	Now, we talked to Jim Jordan earlier, and I've talked to other members since, and I'm getting mixed stories from everybody, and it's getting annoying.
	And we need, listen, this is our only shot.
	The country is in a decline.
	You know, the CEO of Aetna said Obamacare is a death spiral.
	You know, how long does it take them to do their job?
	I mean, I don't have the luxury of living like a lot of these guys in Washington.
	I've got deadlines every day, and we've got to meet those deadlines, just like you and everyone, all of us that don't get awards and Oscars.
	Let's put it that way.
	In other words, normal Americans, normal people.
	Who has time for this?
	Oh, I'll get it done in three months.
	Oh, my God.
	I'm going to beat my head into the wall.
	I have so little patience for a lack of urgency in life.
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