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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.
	He's a good friend of mine.
	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 is 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, it is no human being with a soul can do what Slate.com did to Allen.
	Nobody can.
	As if his family, his wife, Monica Crowley, his manager Rory, his yeah, that's fine.
	Leave it.
	No, 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 an 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 uh, you know, we have everything from you know, fifteen 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 gonna have the war award show for nurses and doctors and surgeons that save people's lives?
	When are we gonna have the award shows for you know the people that do most of the working and building uh 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 have put on for themselves?
	Oh, and they're in the Donaker, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	I can't stand these people.
	Anyway, let's uh 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.
	It's not the end uh the last thing is this for I'm an emigrant.
	I come from Italy.
	I work around the ward.
	And this is for the old emigues.
	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 ACOU has your back, we have your back.
	And for the next four years, we will not leave you alone.
	We're not gonna get you.
	Would everybody please join me in giving Merrill Street a totally undeserved round of applause.
	Well, you're gonna have fun tonight.
	I hope we're gonna have fun tonight.
	Uh nice stress, 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 uh 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 uh out in uh Lala Land uh patting themselves on the back, predictably bashing a president.
	When you really think about this, though.
	You know, these holier than now 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 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 I agree there's some talent to really good actors.
	John Void 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, did 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?
	That they cared 13 million more Americans on food stamps, 50 million total?
	Did they care 8 million more in poverty, 50 million Americans in poverty?
	Are they donating their 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 whose 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 or out of 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 Donekaran?
	Is that uh Calvin Klein?
	Is that the 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, they 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 live driven limousines.
	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 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, 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's 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 us 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 look 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 twenties.
	And so what do we have?
	So we have all the snowflakes.
	An article today out in the New York Times.
	Weaken 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.
	If so for 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 promise 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 uh some other issues.
	And 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 aids aides had repeated contacts, but they couldn't prove it.
	They said in in paragraph three.
	And that's that's viewed as news today.
	Anyway, we're gonna get to all of this.
	And I'm so glad I've gotta give the president props.
	I've never been to a White House correspondence dinner in my entire career.
	It's now thirty years since I started in radio.
	And it's it's uh what twenty-one 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 then 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.
	So at least They're just jealous of your good lux.
	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 Brapp, Mark Meadows, and Paul Ryan?
	We'll talk to Jim Jordan.
	Petsy McCoy's gonna weigh in on health care, then we'll get back to our top story, which is Hollywood, with DC McAllister and Emily uh Shire is going to join us.
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	Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music So I was in um 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, had a great time.
	One of the things I 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 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 I've now screened it to ten 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, it's you you go on a journey.
	And yet 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 this atheist lost his kid at nine years old.
	Then you find out he's a 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 it's 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 a 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, formula egg 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 two hundred and twenty-five countries that now hate us.
	Thank you very much.
	It's not the end uh the last thing is this for I'm an emigron.
	I come from Italy.
	I walked around the ward.
	And this is for the old emigres.
	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 ACOU 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 Streep a totally undeserved round of applause.
	We're gonna have fun tonight.
	I hope we're gonna have fun tonight.
	Uh 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. vowel 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 Rice this weekend said the Democratic Party's not been in this bad shape since the 1920s.
	Jonathan Martin over at the New York Times writing weakened Democrats bowed to voters opting for a total war on Trump.
	Hillary Clinton digging her heels in.
	Hillary says to Democrats, keep fighting, protesting, speaking out at town halls.
	Former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich is here to weigh in.
	I I doubt you're I doubt you watched it.
	I only watched the headlines and what was one of the lowest rated Oscars in the history of the show.
	Uh 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 first 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 Seaborne and had just and I cannot recommend it too highly.
	It's the only thing I've ever done that's comparable is going to Africa.
	I mean, you're you're out in the middle of all these penguins and whales and seals and ice and it's it's just magnificent.
	And not a single penguin was pro-Clinton.
	Not a single one.
	Well, I could tell they were all working.
	Not a 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.
	Yeah.
	But anyway, it was it was fabulous, and and uh we had a great time.
	But but we were also connected by internet the whole time, so we stayed in touch, and and actually the ship's TV got Fox.
	So we we were able to watch your show and other shows the whole time we were out there now.
	I don't even want to ask.
	What time am I on in Antarctica?
	Uh it's two hours ahead of our time.
	Okay, That's not too bad.
	I w I just want your life at some point, but uh anyway, we did miss you.
	Welcome back.
	And uh you see the madness that is unfolding.
	I 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 twenties, and I think now because the base 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.
	What do you what are you when you put that all together, what do you how do you interpret that?
	Well, a couple of things.
	I mean, first of all, this this has been a growing cultural civil war, and at least going back to the period of of uh Ronald Reagan.
	And and uh it's interesting, it's Reagan who said uh that that in fact he was uh 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 I've expanded it from fake news to fake education in many ways goes back to Reagan's sixty-four speech uh for Goldwater and his first national television appearance.
	So you've you've had this growing schism in the country between frankly people who I think are nutcakes, uh who believe in a world that doesn't exist and and who have uh fantasies about uh how the world ought to operate and it doesn't work that way.
	These are the people who create places like Venezuela uh and where the whole system has collapsed totally.
	And they're dominant in the 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 nine o'clock or ten o'clock election night that Hillary Clinton was going to win in a majority.
	And you know, it was gonna be a crushing, decisive victory, and all of a sudden about nine or ten o'clock that night their world shattered and that they have not recovered.
	I mean, these are people who in in the classic sense of of uh Kubler Rosa's great book on death and dying, they're still in 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 uh you you saw and I I was watching on Fox and Friends this morning, the the 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, you you your vision of America is not our vision of America.
	Uh 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 and he's showing no signs of backing down.
	I mean, I think it look 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 they're they they are aghast.
	They're so angry.
	And his media uh beat down last week uh 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, this is it doesn't get much better than this.
	It does that's what I was exactly what I was thinking.
	And I just I think we should all try to encourage Spicer to to get steadily tougher the longer this goes on.
	I mean, I d I don't care if we end up with the the Washington press corps briefings being the Altoona local newspaper or the Carleton, Georgia weekly newspaper.
	I mean, I don't I have I see no obligation to take baloney from people who hate you uh and people who lie about you.
	And and I think uh 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 Prebus uh and 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 have the House Intelligence Committee Chairman, Devin Nunya 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 we should talk about it.
	These are fake news outlets.
	And and you know, the the freedom of speech or of the press means also the people are allowed to say things.
	So if the if the president wants to cr 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 are so self-righteous and so determined that they are the moral arbiters of America that they're shocked that that just mere politicians, people who happen to get millions of votes have the temerity to criticize them.
	Yeah.
	What do you think that 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 is an America think American thinker piece out today that actually says he they nominated and they now have as their chairman somebody who supported not only Sharia law but illegal immigration and it as an advocate wouldn't be in a labor secretary.
	Look I 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 essentially was the Clinton Obama candidate.
	He he was the old order candidate.
	And I think there 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 uh I think the Democratic Party is is is on 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 but m even more than Thatcher this is a loony left of haters.
	These people vicious I want to give you an opportunity obviously we have a friendship that goes back well over twenty five years now and you in the course of Hannity and Combs became very good friends with Alan.
	I I talked 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 Clista and I always did his radio show.
	We like him as a friend he he was he's a very as you know he's a very sweet guy.
	And he he was and he was 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 of months.
	We were shattered to learn that he had died.
	And and we our heart goes out to his family they must miss him terribly as I know you do.
	And people need to understand this this 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 be ki he 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.
	Yeah.
	Uh and and he always would remind me of that and I think he never forgot the people that he had worked with and that who had helped him and who he wanted to help.
	So we're going to miss him 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 and you know what you know what happened you were together.
	So when he came in and told me that he was sick and he was facing a r an uphill battle but but we thought he'd make it and he just he's we we s we had we had a real I mean this was a heart to heart talk.
	And the ol the thing that he cared about the most I can lose my hair I can do this but 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 and that's the kind of guy he is he was thinking about his wife and his family and um you're right we're going to miss him dearly and uh 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 uh your kind words it means A lot to us.
	We've appreciated 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.
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	So as Newt 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.
	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.
	I'm very committed to people.
	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.
	Alan 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, don't you have to fix it.
	Yes, teaming up with me to launch Hannity and Combs.
	I guess I'm gonna wonder whether more people 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.
	Well, Alan would always use that great sense of humor to combat some of his tough critics.
	No, I think it was great.
	All right.
	But off the air, Alan found love.
	How are you?
	I've been called a guest honey since New Kingdom.
	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 won 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.
	Holding them accountable.
	America deserves to know the truth about Congress.
	For eight years, you guys had a plan.
	You kept saying and promising you would repeal replace Obamacare.
	And I guess what people want to know is when are these things going to get done?
	We're 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 had 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 what 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 has ever been done before.
	When I heard repair, my head nearly exploded.
	That's not the plan.
	The plan is repeating 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 the United States.
	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, is 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 the infrastructure, those are the things we're working on in this 2007 candidate.
	That's in there as well.
	But in 200 days, that's you think that's doable.
	This is our plan, yeah.
	And if 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, I you're gonna you're gonna go, well, I made a promise, we've got to do it.
	Well, because I think this is so here's what I'm saying.
	We we've met this out for 200 days.
	We have a plan to do that.
	We're on schedule.
	But if if anything slips because of the It'll be another Supreme Court justice, yeah, or a filibuster on a cabinet nominee, that might slip us, but we're 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.
	Uh the President, seven brackets to three, fifteen percent corporate rate.
	I know you prefer twenty because that scores on the C. It scores with the numbers.
	You support repatriation, multinational corporations.
	That will be huge for that's a lot of money that can come back into the economy.
	Probably about three trillion dollars.
	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 slot side, you are going to be implementing every aspect of that agenda that we talked about.
	Yep, and and just to big headline.
	And we have and we have cushion in our schedule.
	If if anything slips because it's really gonna get 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 is what we're hired to do.
	All right.
	Mr. Speaker, you see in 200 days.
	All right, holding them accountable, our news segment, both on radio and television, these are the 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 Bratt of Virginia and Congressman Mark Meadows in 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 and expand this discussion.
	How is it possible that Mark Meadows, Dave Brad didn't have a clue of what the speaker was talking about?
	Well, uh well, I mean, the principle of the speaker we're talking about.
	We all agree on those, Sean.
	I think uh every Republican, uh you do, and and there were nine plans.
	I was asking him specifically where's the consensus plan?
	Well, in healthcare, 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 are 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 fancy term to say you only need 50 votes in the Senate.
	That's what we did in 2015.
	What we what we sent over was done through reconciliation, and all we're saying is send the exact same bill.
	Did the American people went 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're hearing is going to be in the Republican Party.
	I don't want it.
	I don't know that John Kasich was out there lobbying for it this uh weekend when he was out of the White House.
	I know.
	And and did uh did the American people say, you repeal it, or oh, but but you can also keep some of the tax increases.
	Of course they didn't say that, but everything we we've not seen the plan yet is not in not in the right.
	How is it possible the speaker is telling me it's on track and it's on time and it's everything that that we talked about?
	And and I have three to top ranking congressmen telling me they don't have a clue.
	Well how am I supposed to interpret that?
	There's nothing been been uh uh no no bill has been given to us.
	We've talked about it and everything we're hearing there there's there's lots of good things.
	Then 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 in the leaked document, they're gonna 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're going to repeal it, all of it, and we're going to replace it with something that brings back affordable health insurance and the presentation.
	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, that w we got to see what it is, uh, but I you're exactly right.
	We're going to need 218 Republicans to pass it, because we know the Democrats aren't uh going to help us uh do what's right for health care.
	So yeah, we we'll we'll see how that's But I'm trying I'm trying to understand.
	The speaker's telling me it's on track, being scored.
	Once it's scored, it's replaced, and it was he told me it was a consensus plan.
	How how where's my mis 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 principle.
	But why would he say that when I'm asking about the where I asked him because there were nine bills that were out there and I said, why haven't 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.
	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 on 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 to work, uh allows uh interstate shopping for insurance, allows easier association health plans to to 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 uh membership at the YMC health uh health and wellness, and and and allows a tax credit for your uh money you put in your health savings accounting that'll bring down cost and empower families.
	How many times does the House caucus meet the Republican caucus meet in in Washington?
	Once a week, once every other week?
	Uh uh once once every week, and then some weeks twice a week.
	Okay.
	And and and this has not been discussed since I did this interview with the with the speaker.
	Broad principles, uh bullet points, outlines, but no no uh no bill text.
	And those those were good discussions.
	Don't get me wrong.
	That's the right.
	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's scoring it right now.
	Yeah, well, and then 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.
	Yeah.
	Well, I mean, are there technical let me let me ask a question and and maybe give Paul Ryan some slack here?
	Are there technical difficulties repealing the bill because it needs to be rev revenue neutral because of reconciliation?
	Is that tr 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 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 they pa because he went around the legislature in Ohio and went through the controlling board and got that uh that's that's that's the law now in Ohio.
	So he he wants that uh he'll have to deal with his budget if that's not part of it.
	But we he knew that when he passed uh uh when 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 talked about.
	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 fifteen percent corporate tax.
	We don't have the trillions uh incentivized through repatriation uh discount.
	We don't you know 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 and Dave Bratt, I feel very differently.
	I'm like, what's going on here?
	We you 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 gonna repeal Obamacare except keep Medicaid expansion for four years.
	We're gonna repeal Obamacare except we're gonna keep a tax increase in there, and we're gonna repeal Obamacare, except we're gonna also start this entitlement called refundable tax credits.
	I I don't think we told them that.
	So why should so what we're saying is let's do what we we we make this job way too hard.
	The voters sent us here to do what we told them we were going to do.
	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 got to be ready for what's coming, because it may not be consistent with what what I believe we told the voters we're gonna do and what I'm gonna do.
	But 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.
	Uh we'll we'll have one of the things.
	Well, have you have you told him specifically what you're telling me?
	Oh, yeah, we've talked about we've talked uh I I know I know uh Chairman Meadows has talked uh uh 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.
	Uh now we're starting to, you know, well, 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.
	Tink into context, Sean.
	We had the Cassidy Collins plan uh in the uh 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 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 was about.
	Stay right there.
	I want I I I can't what do I have to go and uh this is like the Israeli Palestinian peace talks that are going on here.
	I I'm gonna have to get all of you in one room and straighten this out.
	Anyway, more with uh Congressman Jim Jordan, he's with the Freedom Caucus.
	You're with Sean Hannity on the air now.
	Now, 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 hour with Betsy McCoy.
	I'm a little worried about budget issues.
	All right, we've got twenty trillion dollars in debt, whoever knows however many trillions in unfunded liabilities.
	And then you guys are talking about what, uh a trillion dollar infrastructure spending bill.
	Then I I and I agree with the president on building up our military, fifty-four billion more in defense spending, and then we've got the issue of okay, what's Obamacare repeal and replace gonna cost us?
	And on top of that, you know, I I appreciate that the president put a hiring freeze in place and he's gonna cut a lot of money, I mean real cuts, eliminate baseline budgeting, have zero baselines.
	Are you confident we're not gonna we're not gonna have a massive hole in the debt as a result of these policies?
	Yeah, well 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 uh I mean uh 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 twenty trillion dollar debt.
	So that's that's number one.
	Number two, I I think Mick Malvaney, former Freedom Caucus member as at ONB is a good thing.
	Mick understands we've got a twenty trillion dollar debt.
	I think he's gonna be helpful, him and his team helping the president deal with this this this huge debt burden that now faces our country.
	We're not at a one to one debt to GDP ratio.
	That's a dangerous place to be.
	And then third, we got to pay for things.
	I'm with you.
	Fifty-four billion more for military is is certainly what's needed.
	But we can find that in a budget that's about four trillion dollars in annual spending.
	We should be able to find fifty-four billion for goodness sake and and offset and and find the waste and and some of the redundancy that's in the federal budget.
	In fact, even the Pentagon budget.
	We should look for way.
	There was this there was a story, Sean, back in December 6th, uh front page Washington Post, 125 billion identified in the Pentagon in redundancy and waste and all the all the bureaucracy over there.
	And the in the end of the story it said this is money that could go to upgraded weapons 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 not not in the 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 got a twenty trillion dollar uh debt, you gotta pay for things.
	Yeah.
	Well, you think we can get there then.
	You think that I do.
	Yeah.
	I just saw uh you know, M Mick uh uh uh uh the head of the uh the director of OB OMB and Mick Mulvaney.
	Yeah, uh I just saw him talking uh today, and I think uh uh I think he gets it.
	Uh I 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.
	Uh uh I mean our plan is to get the 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.
	Well, let me ask you this.
	Can you try and arrange you, Mark Meadows, Dave Bratt, maybe Kevin McCarthy and 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 gonna set that up.
	We'll count on you.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Just do your best.
	That's all I'm asking.
	All right, brother.
	All right, eight hundred nine four one 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.
	you Because I heard everything from Obamacare will be done day one to the spring to the summer to the 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 hasn't been all over the map from us.
	From me.
	Well, Congress for the press.
	It's been all over the map from 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 repeating 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 the United States.
	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.
	The 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.
	People know that, and everyone knows that at this point.
	To create more competition and to bring down the prices substantially.
	And costs will come down and I think the 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 those extravaganza.
	That was the president meeting with leaders in the health care 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 this uh in January or in the spring or in the summer in the fall, and by the end of the year, I've been 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 I'm 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 uh to work in the new administration.
	We've got a Supreme Court justice that's heading for a big fight against Democrats that 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 but but there are required 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 there's a wide amount of discretion available for the Health and Human Services Secretary.
	I wish there were more.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	Well, but the point is it's not 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 government.
	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 as I've got it right here on my desk?
	And have you seen the scored version that the CBO put out the score?
	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 But he said this is what he said to me.
	Because I'm I'm 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 if will 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 spend time in jail for murder or manslaughter or drug uh 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 they're gonna what the news media is gonna do is predictable.
	They're gonna go out there and find the one person that lost their care, blah, blah, blah.
	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 an idea.
	You like the health savings account part of it, because I like that I like that the most.
	And it's 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 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 say saying that this isn't a death spiral.
	Obamacare is dead.
	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...
	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 a hundred 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 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.
	Uh 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 way.
	Of course.
	Where you had the young, the healthy, paying for the sick, the elderly and disabled.
	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 is very simple.
	If 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 check up every year.
	And by young, I'm saying maybe, you know, early twenty-five or twenty-six to forty.
	Absolutely.
	You get a checkup every year.
	Yes.
	You so then 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 c you're taken care of, but the premium's 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 actual 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.
	Um a plan that didn't include pregnancy coverage, uh 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 gotta tell you, Betsy, it's bigger than that.
	He promised me in two hundred days, I said to him in two hundred days I come back here, he said he even built in cushion room that everything is gonna be done, and he agreed with the entire Trump agenda, which by the way, is a pew poll out.
	Republicans choose Trump's agenda fifty-two to thirty-four 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 gonna touch Medicare.
	That's back when the House wanted to quote reform Medicare.
	Medicare isn't the problem, it's a success of Medicaid.
	What do you think of John Medicaid 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 fifty-six percent of all federal dollars sent to the states, not just health care dollars, Sean, fifty-six percent 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.
	Right, never has listened John Kasich.
	I uh to me it's unforgivable what he did during this election.
	I mean, I I found that the same guy that talked about oh, we all need to get along, etc.
	etc.
	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 gonna 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 it's refreshing to see people give their word and follow up on it.
	All right, I gotta 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 are here tonight to honor great actors, but we're also here to honor the 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.
	Thank you.
	May I say from her mediocre early work in The Deer Hunter and Out of Africa to her underwhelming performances in Kramer versus 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 Merrill'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 Merrill Streep a totally undeserved round of applause.
	Will you have fun tonight?
	I hope we're gonna have fun tonight.
	Uh nice dress, by the way.
	Is that an Ivanka?
	This is exciting.
	I think it's important that we all 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. vowel 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 uh 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.
	It's not the end.
	The last thing is for, I'm an immigrant.
	I come from Italy.
	I work around the world.
	And this is for the old emigues.
	For the Amy guns.
	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 Gingrich is on tonight.
	Uh 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.
	Uh we'll check in with our good friends.
	Uh we'll check in with our good friend uh 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.
	Stay right here for our final news roundup and 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.
	It's not the end uh the last thing is this for I'm an emigrant.
	I come from Italy.
	I work around the ward.
	And this is for the old emigues.
	For the Amy guns.
	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 ACOU has your back, we have your back.
	And for the next four years, we will not leave you alone.
	Not to get you.
	Would everybody please join me in giving Meryl Streep a totally undeserved round of applause, will you?
	We're gonna have fun tonight.
	I hope we're gonna have fun tonight.
	Uh 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 uh when are we gonna 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 I bought, 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, either like your show or they don't.
	I don't care about whether you got an award, I don't think.
	But I mean, they're so holier than now, and 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 learned jet 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.
	Um, they asked me on a show recently.
	I I said I'd probably do it.
	Um forget it.
	Why give him why would I fly out there for him?
	Anyway, joining us now, Emily Shire of Bustle.com, DC McAllister of the Federalist and PJ Media.
	Welcome both of you.
	Uh uh Emily, I bet you loved last night, didn't you?
	I bet you thought it was a great show of great show of unity.
	You're gonna love this.
	I watched girls during some of it.
	Um, that is the single worst television show ever made.
	It is in the last thing America wants to see is a naked Lita 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 uh entitled to their own taste and opinions, especially with Hollywood and art.
	Yeah, oh, Hollywood and art.
	And how many more congratulatory shows?
	The Golden Globes?
	Well, how many shows do we need self-congratulations on?
	There is definitely uh 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, and there are a lot of people.
	We've had a lot of reward shows in past years, and 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 you know increasingly less interested in award shows.
	I know they've had trouble maintaining audiences for years.
	Um that's not a new trend.
	And also, you know, 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 happened to be why is it that DC McAllister, why do we get lectured by a guy lecturing America when the Iranians throw gays and lesbians uh off of roofs and kill them or beat them to death.
	Or they treat women the 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 of 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 I you know the part that I think that crystallized last night and which is why people are tuning out Hollywood was when Kin uh Jimmy Kimmel brought in all the common folk and had them come walk and like meet all the stars and like get some sunglasses and some tidbits thrown to them like eat my cake you know from from the the uh stars there in the front aisle.
	It was condescending it was embarrassing.
	It and it it just shows you that Hollywood does not understand their elitist mindset and how offensive it is the people out in flyover country.
	And that just ca encapsulated everything that's wrong with Hollywood in that one scene.
	Yeah.
	Uh I you know I think it's so out of touch I just can't believe you could you imagine DC McAllister if it was uh 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.
	Because Hollywood has an agenda and I think this is different.
	I mean Emily's right I mean there there has been politics and and arts mixed for years, but it has gotten more polarized I think and we have become more um 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 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 and they don't hold up to their own standards and and we see it out here.
	We're not stupid.
	Wow and and I'm sure that if the Ob Obamas were bashed this way, Emily, you'd be outraged then there'd be cries of racism, right?
	You know 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 um or you know the Iranian director who decided not to come and protest is wildly hypocritical.
	Um 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 and then 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.
	Um yeah but that was uh that was used for a purpose to push back against what the people elected Donald Trump to do.
	You know and this whole idea of this immigration, Emily, I know you've got to agree with me on 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 uh deporting immigrants, particularly nonviolent ones and particularly ones who would hear it under that and those are the things that I think many Americans are very concerned about.
	I understand but they're all minor by the way in terms of trying to get work um These are not, you know, 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.
	And 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 is 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, you know, the issue that Hollywood is supporting, letting what more terrorists enter a greater infiltration of ISIS doesn't make sense.
	Cause what they're protesting is something that many, you know, well-versed conservatives have criticized as causing more security concerns for 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.
	We that were 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 gonna and that's my point.
	It is going to cause more and more division.
	Now we can disagree about support who do who to admit and all this kind of thing, but we cannot sit here and pretend continue to say that we hate foreigners coming in.
	because it's causing people to be angry.
	I don't think Hollywood 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...
	She was talking about illegal people and people who are coming here as a threat.
	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 find evidence that proposed 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 not sure.
	I'm asking, that's not a good place to start.
	Uh according to John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and a number of other top security officers.
	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 greater again.
	Sean Hannity's on the air right now.
	All right, as we continue more on our 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 you know whether it's offensive to me, it's that's a very important thing.
	I'm asking you, I'm not talking about 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 the words, you know, would actually say that.
	Emily Shire thinks she knows more D.C. McAllister than do our intelligence agencies, FBI, CIA, uh director of national intelligence, she knows more than everybody.
	The FBI director has said that they need more vetting.
	And it's just a given.
	That 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 I think it's built on this wrong idea.
	I mean, uh 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.
	And you know, but it's always put in disguise of that we hate people and that we are hate strangers.
	It's 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 first 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 Lindsay 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 it that 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 that 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, you know, relying on rhetoric that paints you at illegal immigrants as universally.
	No, it doesn't.
	He said some.
	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 six hundred and forty-two thousand 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.
	Uh-huh.
	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 gotta take a break, but I you 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.
	The Academy Award for Best Picture.
	You're a fucker.
	Come on.
	La La Land.
	Matt Plouffe, you kicked this off.
	Damien Chazelle, we're standing on your shoulders.
	Cheers.
	We lost, by the way.
	I'm sorry.
	No, there's a mistake.
	There's a mistake.
	Moonlight, you guys won best picture.
	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 is one best picture.
	Moonlight, Best Picture.
	Hello.
	Hello.
	I once what did you do?
	I wanted 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, don't you?
	Thank you very much.
	Wow, this is Moonlight.
	The best picture.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Oopsie Daisy.
	Best picture.
	Oh.
	And then, of course, the the nonstop 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 um it's pretty amazing.
	You got ninety-five million Americans out of the labor force.
	Thirteen million more Americans under Obama on food stamps, eight million more Americans in poverty under Obama.
	He doubled the national debt.
	Worst recovery since the nineteen forties, lowest home ownership rate in fifty-one 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 b 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 d and if God forbid you want to you want to support a a God other than Allah?
	Well, that could be the death penalty if you're an apostate apostasism, and we're getting lectured by them and he's getting you know these standing ovations.
	They're so out of touch caviar, private planes, oh who is your dress made for oh my god, Sadonna Karen, it's so beautiful.
	Oh 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 our toll-free telephone number.
	You want to be a part of the program.
	Uh 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 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 uh so I love the truth, and the truth is starting to come out through a lot of uh through you guys.
	The media, you can't trust them.
	I I am so appalled.
	I mean, that 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 how m how many more of these inane, and I mean they're just mind-numbingly stupid movies, cartoon figures.
	You know, how many more Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, Supergirl, Super So yeah, 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 gonna 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.
	And we should be supporting 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 uh running, go jogging, go do something instead of sitting there listening to garbage and and and throwing your mind up with garbage, because that's all that that is.
	It's life.
	I mean, these movie stars like Merrill Street getting on and doing a little rant.
	I mean, what makes her an authority?
	What what makes her such a great actress?
	She's not what is so even that's besides the point.
	Who cares whether she's good or not?
	It doesn't matter.
	Listen, it doesn't matter.
	It doesn't matter.
	She's so funny to talk about politics.
	She is an actress.
	She is not a politician.
	We didn't elect her.
	We didn't vote for her just because she's got 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 it?
	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 they're idiotic, ignorant, inane speeches that they give while they're slapping each other on the back.
	I can't take it.
	I really take with Sean like uh uh 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 he's always saying, like all due respect, those people have no respect for him.
	They don't.
	You know what?
	I I listen, I hope he goes a little more Trump on him as he gets more comfortable in that position.
	All right, Sandy, appreciate your uh 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 in journalism.
	If I'm not a juror, I'm a talk show host.
	You know, I'm gonna 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 can remedy that.
	You could help, you know, you could give some of that to me.
	I got a family.
	Uh listen, believe me, I try and give as much away as I can.
	I I usually donate to military charities.
	But you know something?
	I it's 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 little Oscars, 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 gonna watch that last night.
	Are you kidding me?
	Well, I'm gonna tell you, you know something, and you may not know this.
	I don't I've I've mentioned it before.
	I've never been, not one time.
	Twenty-one years on Fox, uh, thirty 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 there.
	I'm glad you 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 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 I was not planning on going, I can tell you right now.
	Now, Fox has tried to pressure me for twenty-one 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.
	You're and we 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 I uh I had a uh an issue I had to deal with.
	Number one, and it was I was scheduled to be off before the passing of Alan, which did break my heart.
	And uh I'm I'm very sorry about that.
	No, I 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 the like New York Times and Slate magazine.
	Really, the guy dies and you gotta start taking a bunch of shots at somebody and he can't fight back.
	What a w 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 I I I couldn't help myself.
	I was gonna let it go and I couldn't.
	And I went out there and I blasted.
	No, 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 his family is devastated.
	His friends are devastated.
	So you're gonna 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.
	They disgust me.
	They're really only about themselves.
	Yeah, they disgust me.
	All right.
	But I'm thinkingful, and I do want to say I'm sorry to you, because I know that was a huge loss for you.
	And I sort of watching you when you were with him.
	Yes.
	Uh you know, way back in the days.
	And I will tell you, I I never agreed with his politics, never.
	And he used to drive me a little crazy, but I just love the camaraderie of y'all's relationship.
	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 gonna miss him.
	I really will.
	All right, Kate, God bless you.
	Thank you for your kind words.
	It means a lot.
	Uh let us go to Beth in Portland, Oregon.
	Beth, we only have about a minute and a half.
	It's all yours.
	Okay, Sean, thank you so much for taking my call.
	And uh again, sorry to uh about the loss of Alan Combs.
	I was definitely off when I saw that.
	Yeah, telling about um the conversation that you had with the two uh congressmen from the um conservative caucus.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Dave Bratt and uh Congressman Mark Meadows.
	Excellent man, excellent.
	I am really disappointed in Paul Ryan.
	I think he lied um to the American people to say that the the that had already been um 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 DC, meet sitting down with Paul Ryan and men from the uh 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 the CEO of Aetna said Obama cares 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 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 I'll get it done in three months.
	Oh my gosh, I want to beat my head into the wall.
	I have so little patience for a lack of urgency in life.
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