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	Obviously, for the president joint session of Congress tonight as addressed, not officially a State of the Union address, but uh nonetheless a pretty big important moment for the uh president.
	He said he was interviewed by um Fox and friends this morning and uh Brian and and uh Steve and and Ainsley.
	Ainsley asked this question how he would grade himself.
	Let's play it.
	What grade would you give yourself from an A to an F?
	Well, I think I think I know what you're gonna say.
	Well let's hear it.
	I think yeah.
	No, I'm I wouldn't do that.
	I I think in terms of um effort, which means something, but I give myself an A plus, okay effort, but but uh that's you know results are more important.
	In terms of messaging, I would give myself a C or a C plus.
	So my messaging isn't good.
	When I see a story about Donald Trump didn't fill hundreds and hundreds of jobs, it's because in many cases we don't want to fill those jobs.
	Talking, I think uh well, you've got a situation which is really bizarre and unfolding, and that is the Senate.
	Do you know there's over five hundred confirmations that are needed to fill the out the government, and in the meantime you have all these Obama leftovers or career bureaucrats that are surrounding the president that are not exactly supportive of the president, and hence you got all these leakers that that show up out of nowhere.
	I mean, and it's it's problematic, and the Senate needs to move faster.
	Uh we do know tonight that you've got Maxime Waters, ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee, telling House Democrats this morning she is not attending the speech because she doesn't think she will be able to control herself, according to Democrats in the room for the caucus meeting.
	The president's not gonna say what I want him to say, and she said he's gonna take credit for everything.
	And she's not the only one.
	Also, Congressman John Lewis, I know John Lewis from my years in Atlanta.
	Love him personally.
	He's a man of great courage and conviction.
	I mean, he was out there marching with Martin Luther King Jr. got hit in the head with a brick.
	I mean, fire hoses shot at him and dogs unleashed on him, and and he kept marching.
	I admire him a lot.
	I got to Know a lot of these civil rights people when I lived in Atlanta, but um politically we just are never going to agree, and and he's decided he's not going to go either.
	I was surprised about Trump's answer there in this sense.
	He's a really good communicator.
	You know, if anything, I think that look, there are forces now at work here in this city of Washington that want nothing short of to bring this president down.
	They want him to buckle, they want him to cave, they want him to give in, they want him to abandon his promises.
	They don't want his agenda passed, period.
	And at the end of the day, it's all about politics for them.
	It's not about what is in the best interest of the country.
	And you have this problem a lot in this city.
	For whatever reason, people come to this city and they change.
	And and maybe they come with the best of intentions and and make all the say all the right things and make all the right promises, only to be co-opted by uh an arm twisted by leadership or whatever.
	It just or maybe just the love of being called congressman, the thin, you know, whatever they like.
	And unfortunately, we've lost sight of what it means to be a public servant.
	You know, if it look, I'll I'll let me use a marriage analogy, if you will.
	In marriage, if we have fifty percent of marriages that fail.
	In marriage, if your attitude is, I want what I want when I want it, too bad about you, and you don't think about serving that other person, it's never gonna work.
	Eventually that's going to implode.
	That's a prescription for disaster.
	And I think a lot of people don't go into marriage with a attitude of service.
	You know, for example, there's I talked to a very good friend of mine, and he is an orthodox, he's orthodox Jewish, and he was telling me that the rate of marriage is so low compared to the national average.
	And I said, why why do you think that is?
	And his answer was really clear.
	From the time that we're raised, we are taught that we serve the other person.
	Women are taught to be servants of their husbands.
	Men are taught to be servants of their wives.
	I mean, it it kind of lends itself to a more giving environment, not what do I get?
	What do you mean I can't have what I want?
	What do you mean?
	You know, the Fred Flintstones of the world that want what they want when they want it, period, end of sentence.
	So I think what you're gonna see tonight is very predictable.
	I think you're gonna see Democrats sitting on their hands.
	I think very little applause from them, maybe even 70 people walk out, maybe there's some type of show, maybe people turn their back to him.
	We're told that Democrats are bringing in a bunch of quote dreamers.
	On the other hand, I understand that President Trump will be bringing in the mothers who lost their children to illegal immigrants because we don't have secure borders.
	So it's gonna be a battle of the images, if you will, and I tend to side with the fact that if you come into our country, it's a gift, and we have every right to vet you, and you have the first part of being an American is to respect American law and American justice.
	But as far as the agenda, it's going to be the agenda.
	Tomorrow we expect new executive orders as it relates to vetting refugees from those seven countries a temporary ban.
	And I'm pretty sure this is gonna meet legal muster, although they'll go judge shopping again and again and again and try and sh and stop it.
	I assume he's gonna push for Neil Gorsuch.
	I assume he's gonna push for an end to burdensome regulation.
	He wants to get rid of 75% of regulation.
	I assume he's going to say to Congress, Obamacare is in a death spiral, we need to repeal and replace it.
	I would assume we're gonna hear a lot about that tonight.
	I assume he's gonna talk about his economic plan, which is changing the tax code.
	Number one, he's also talking about a pretty healthy increase in military spending, about fifty-four billion dollars, and he thinks a lot of the money can be taken out of, you know, other agencies like the EPA, where in fact they do take ten years to approve projects or say no to projects because they want no progress for whatever environmental reason that they tend to come up with as a way to keep the air and water clean and the environment healthy and still not and
	still progress as a country, knowing that energy is the lifeblood of our economy.
	He'll talk about education, I assume.
	He'll talk about his seven brackets to three.
	He'll talk about repatriation, energy independence.
	I assume it's all coming up tonight.
	The need to defeat ISIS will come up tonight.
	The plan to defeat ISIS, perhaps maybe more specifics.
	But, you know, there are many forces in this city that don't want him to succeed.
	He's got the snowflake brigade establishment that is against him.
	Knows there's nothing he can do that will ever make them happy.
	Even if he co-opted their entire agenda, they would still hate Donald Trump.
	Then he's got the Democratic Party, which hates everything about him, and they're now catering to the Snowflake establishment because they're the loudest voice, and they fear them because they don't want to get primaried.
	And then you've got the so you got the Democrat, then you got the media establishment.
	Later in the program, we went back into the archives and we pulled out some sound of how the media covered in 2009 the speech that Barack Obama gave to a joint session of Congress, and it was glowing praise for the anointed one.
	Wow, he's amazing.
	God, we love him.
	Uh, I tend to doubt that's going to be the coverage after the speech tonight.
	And probably the group that I fear the most, and this is why we have started on this program a segment and on TV, a segment called Holding Them Accountable.
	It's mostly Republicans.
	In other words, they now have what they asked from us.
	They have the House, they have the Senate, and they have the White House.
	And we've got a president that has a conservative agenda.
	His position on immigration building a wall is conservative.
	Going by the rule of law is conservative.
	He has a a good agenda to protect our country by vetting.
	He has a good agenda.
	He's already picked an original is for the court.
	That needs to be approved by the Senate.
	His economic plan is taken right out of the Reagan handbook.
	It's a conservative agenda.
	His plan on health care is about using the free market as the antidote, not the government.
	That is a conservative position.
	Education back to the states is a conservative position.
	Building a strong military to serve as a deterrence is a conservative issue, calling out evil for what it is in its time.
	That's conservative.
	You know, the only real area that there might be some disagreement on is trade, but put that for aside for a moment.
	I'm I'm assuming Donald Trump is using everything as leverage because he's the constant professional negotiator.
	Now, even on the eve of this address, you got Democrats in Congress talking about impeachment.
	They've been talking about impeachment before he even got there.
	You know, Trump has misled the public to the degree that there are plenty of grounds right now for the current president to be impeached.
	Nancy Pelosi said this yesterday.
	Because of the war in Iraq, well, you don't impeach somebody because you don't like their policies.
	When they break the law, that's when you have grounds for impeachment.
	And at the time of the war, I said, as a top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, the intelligence does not support the threat.
	And Soviet Senator Bob Graham.
	But the administration was making this strong case with the American people.
	And perhaps misrepresenting the American people could be cause for impeachment.
	If so, there's plenty of grounds right now with the current president.
	But plenty of grounds now to impeach the president.
	All right, so that's where she was heading.
	You know, you gotta know too that there's a well-funded orchestrator.
	There's a Breitbart article today about how mega Democratic donor George Soros may be helping all of these anti-Trump town halls that the media pretends is nothing but a but a grassroots uprising, an organic uprising,
	and anyway, an organization that partnered with these far left groups that calls themselves the Revolutionary Love Project, distributed an actual script with anti-Trump talking points for citizens to use when meeting with constituents in town halls, including during last week's congressional recess where they tried to disrupt any Republican that was speaking.
	And the script provides word-for-word language suggesting that they accuse the Trump administration of xenophobia, racism, Islamophobia.
	They ask activists to use descriptors to petition their representatives to forcefully condemn and support legislation opposing President Trump's immigration and border security agendas.
	You know, the script is entitled No Ban, No Walls, No Raids.
	It's called Talking Points for Congressional Town Halls.
	And it ends with contact information for activists from two groups that are heavily financed by George Soros.
	So this is all orchestrated.
	And to what extent it's funded, I don't know.
	Now, this is one of the reasons these five hundred and sixty positions need to be filled that need to be confirmed by the Senate when you have people like Ben Rhodes, a former Barack Obama, former President Obama's national security advisor, his two closest people stayed behind, and then they got out the same like on almost the same day.
	And it was all or orchestrated to create a false impression.
	Ben Rhodes is a well-known media manipulator.
	It's all propaganda.
	Then you've got a Blaze story out today that Obama alluded to his post-presidency plans to focus on you know affecting races and redistricting after the 2020 census.
	And you know, he is now apparently working trying to undermine Trump.
	And Trump, by the way, was right when he called out a rigged DNC chairman race.
	Keith Ellison was expected to win by a wide margin.
	But by far the biggest threat to Donald Trump's agenda, it's not Democrats.
	Not at all.
	It's it's Republicans.
	And I'll explain this when we get back.
	Because if the Republicans don't get on board and take this opportunity to stop America's precipitous decline, that's where your focus is going to need to be.
	Because they have the votes to do everything they promised.
	And that's why we will stay with our holding them accountable segments on radio and TV.
	And we've got Louis Gomer, it's going to stop by our studios here in Washington today to talk about that very thing.
	They've got to keep their promises.
	Putting America and Americans first.
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	I As we continue in our nation's capital preview of tonight's well, joint session of Congress, a speech by the president of a joint session.
	You know, it's a federal offense.
	So earlier today, Kellyanne Conway, there was a picture that was being taken in the Oval Office with some of the presidents of America's historically black colleges.
	And they were all brought in and they were all surrounding the president.
	There were many of them around the president's desk.
	And Kelly Ann Conway, who I've known for 20 some odd years, was taking a picture.
	A picture.
	For specifically requested by the trying to get a good picture.
	So she sat on a couch in the Oval Office.
	And the way she sat, her feet were on, she was kind of on her knees on on there.
	You can see the picture of her.
	It's on my Twitter site.
	I got plenty of pictures of Obama with his feet on the Oval Office desk, and people were outraged about that.
	But you know, just putting it aside.
	So Kellyanne Conway literally is Bending over, contorting herself to take a picture.
	You would think this is a federal offense.
	Millions of Americans out of work.
	We got ISIS threatening to destroy us.
	Iran trying to acquire nuclear weapons, people in poverty on food stamps.
	We have open borders, unvetted refugees, and this is what the left cares about.
	And I, you know, I I started tweeting this out today because it was so frustrating and so annoying to me.
	And I have never seen you notice they've attacked Melania the way they have.
	She said the Lord's Prayer for crying out loud, as if we couldn't use a little more religion in our life.
	You know, they attacked, you know, poor Avanka.
	She wore her own bracelet, her own brand on 60 minutes.
	You know, it's here's the first woman, campaign manager, female campaign manager to win a presidential election.
	Now she'll be the first to tell you she doesn't believe in identity politics.
	But she's she's trying to do a favor.
	The guests of the president are in the Oval Office.
	And you know what?
	Most people don't get to be in the Oval Office in their life.
	It is an honor.
	And they want to record it, and they want to take a picture, and they want to send their picture to their family and their friends and and their co-workers and anybody else they can show the picture to.
	So she understands that.
	So she tries to get in the best possible position to take the best possible picture at the best possible angle, and they attack her.
	I mean, if this is where the media and and commentary lies today, we're doomed.
	We'll continue.
	Lindsey Graham and John McCain, enemies of Trump.
	Next.
	Holding them accountable.
	Sean gets the answers.
	No one else does.
	America deserves to know the truth about Congress.
	All right, we're back in Washington, D.C., 25 till the top of the hour.
	Louis Gomert, remember our segment now where we have introduced to the program holding them accountable.
	This is our only chance to get this agenda, these agenda items done.
	So if we don't hold them accountable to the promises they made, what good are they?
	They can just, they're useless to us.
	I'll give you an example.
	You know, with friends like Lindsey Graham and John McCain, who knew who at this point needs enemies.
	They they both want to be loved by the media.
	You know, let me let me step back.
	Lindsey Graham ran for president, did he not?
	Lindsey Graham couldn't win his own state.
	Lindsey Graham is never going to be the president of the United States.
	John McCain was not the best candidate in the world.
	He was too timid to even bring up Reverend Wright.
	I mean, I'm just being blunt here.
	Both want some type of amnesty deal.
	Both now are the most loved by the mainstream alt-left media because they are on a mission every single minute of every single day.
	They want to criticize the president, knock him down to build themselves up and both be loved by the media.
	It's a game, especially that both of them have played in the past.
	Now, earlier today, Senator Graham said the president's first budget's dead on arrival.
	Dead on arrival.
	Wouldn't make it through Congress.
	Not gonna happen.
	Be a disaster.
	Now Graham is now making his living being the fiercest Republican critic of President Trump.
	Well, what good are you doing here, Lindsay?
	Tell me, tell me what it is you want.
	Do you want more interventionism?
	Explain in the age of politicizing Vietnam after 58,000 people die.
	How do you justify it?
	And pulling them out before we win the war.
	You know, I supported, I even brought this up part two of my interview with President Bush tonight on Hannity.
	I said, Mr. President, I mean, how do we ask young men and women to go fight, bleed, and die and win Mosul, Baghdad, Ramadi, Fallujah, and to Crete, only to see and watch it end up in the hands of ISIS because of the political politicizing of war that goes on in Washington.
	If we're not going to fight a war to win the war, we can't fight these wars anymore.
	We can't ask American men and women, our treasure, our sons and daughters to go fight a war that eventually we're going to say, never mind, because politically it's inconvenient for the very people that sent them there.
	And that's what happened in Iraq and Afghanistan.
	We lost 5,000 brave men and women and so many millions, so many hundreds of thousands more injured.
	It's unbelievable to me.
	And there are, you know, there are these people that want to race into the next blow up in the Middle East.
	I'm not one of them anymore anymore.
	It was the right thing to do.
	I'll stand by it till the day I die.
	But what was not the right thing is after you've gone in, after you've shed so much blood and national treasure, you don't leave.
	Because if I'm the mother or father of a brave American that died there was severely injured now for the rest of his life, I'm saying, why?
	Well, you know, why do we fight wars this way?
	So that's now Lindsey Graham's full-time job.
	So I'm in Washington today, by the way, Rosie O'Donnell apparently is in town.
	If I didn't know any better, I think Rosie O'Donnell's now working for the GOP because the last thing the Democratic Party needs is Rosie O'Donnell to become the face of the anti-Trump movement.
	Her and Keith Oberman are going nuts.
	Anyway, that um that's what she's going to be, at least for tonight.
	She's the headliner for the Democrats' anti-Trump rally before tonight's big speech.
	If I had the time and wasn't covering this tonight on Hannity, we're one hour later tonight at 11.
	If I wasn't doing that, I I I would love to just walk in.
	So this is the new Democratic Party, Rosie O'Donnell, Keith Ellison, Madonna, Ashley Judd, Reverend Al Sharpton, Lindsey Graham and John McCain.
	Which by the way, it's only a matter of time, I think Lindsey Graham flips.
	Only a matter of time he'll flip to be a Democrat.
	They'll offer him everything under the sun.
	I could see that day coming.
	Absolutely I can see it coming.
	The only reason he might not flip, he won't survive in South Carolina.
	That's just the only reason he wants to hold on to his position.
	It's amazing.
	You know how the media, oh, there is a story that's breaking now.
	Apparently, Reuters is reporting that President Trump is considering introducing legislation to provide a pathway to legal status, not citizenship for illegal immigrants in the U.S., according to a report.
	And now I assume I wouldn't be surprised.
	Here's my take on this.
	I wouldn't be surprised if people like Lindsey Graham, John McCain, and others sent a message, either you give us what we want on immigration, and or you're not getting Neil Gorsuch as your Supreme Court justice.
	And some of you saying, Hannity, you made that up whole cloth.
	I'm saying it wouldn't surprise me.
	I'm not saying it definitively happened.
	So all of you crybabies in Senator McCain's office when I tweeted out something that I said, if true that he got some donations for Russia or something, that was on the gateway pundit.
	It wasn't true.
	I said, if true, if if if and I apologize just to make the stupid issue go away, but you know, uh nothing would surprise me with these two.
	Nothing.
	They are now, they have now made it their mission to hurt the leader of their own party.
	And they've been both obsessed with the issue of immigration reform for for years now.
	So it wouldn't surprise me.
	I don't know it's happening.
	I don't know it's happening.
	I'm saying it wouldn't surprise me.
	But anyway, a plurality of Democrats, a pretty interesting poll, Rasmussen survey, 63% of voters overall think it's better for the country if Democrats try to work with the president instead of stonewalling the way they are.
	If you break it down along party lines, 44% of Democrats said the party should obstruct Trump, but 46% urge cooperation.
	So maybe Chuck Schumer and the rest of the Democrats, Nancy Pelosi and company, maybe they ought to start paying a little bit of attention to what these polls are saying versus what the loud voice snowflake voices are saying.
	Because maybe they'll get more.
	Maybe you can, you know, did anyone think that maybe their job is to like make the country a better place?
	You know, I keep saying what I want is not that complicated.
	It's not that difficult.
	What's wrong with wanting a safe and secure country?
	What's wrong with saying to people that want to visit or want to come here to respect our laws and sovereignty?
	What's wrong with saying that if you want to visit and you're from a country that has ties to terror, we got to do a background check on you because we want to make sure that our citizens are safe first.
	Can I I the the logic escapes me?
	It's just simple, basic common sense.
	And to make the country safer and more secure is a smart thing to do.
	Especially in light of the fact the FBI tells us there's over a thousand ISIS terrorist investigations going on now in all 50 states.
	Really?
	Oh, I'd like to know that if I go to a mall, I'd like to know if I I go to a restaurant or a pizza parlor or whatever I'm eating, hot dog stand somewhere that it doesn't blow up on me or doesn't blow up near my kids.
	I'd like to know that our military bases are safe.
	I'd like to know that San Bernardino and the Pulse Nightclub are never going to happen again.
	I just like, you know, why what's what is so bad about that?
	What is so horrible about this?
	What's so bad about an economic plan that is incentivizing corporations, multinational corporations with trillions of dollars parked in banks offshore that they can't bring in because we're gonna the government would steal half of it to say, all right, bring it back at 10%, invest in this country.
	We'll give you the best tax deal we can.
	Okay, who benefits from that?
	Okay, the corporations benefit from that.
	But so do the American workers if they build their factories and manufacturing centers.
	You know, those ninety-five million people that aren't working right now, the fifty million in poverty on food stamps.
	Does anybody see does anybody there care about those people?
	Anybody in this city care about them?
	In Ohio, we've had an investigation by Ohio election officials.
	Everybody in the media kept saying there's no evidence of voter fraud.
	Well, they uncovered hundreds of non-citizens who were illegally registered to vote in the last election.
	And I would argue it's probably the tip of the iceberg.
	So there was voter fraud.
	And there is voter fraud.
	What are the numbers?
	I don't know.
	Now, one of the big issues we're going to have to deal with is the budget.
	Twenty trillion in debt, hundred trillion in unfunded liabilities.
	How do you how do you spend a trillion dollars on infrastructure, fifty-four billion more on defense spending?
	Well, one of the things the president is trying to do, he is now asking Congress to cut the EPA budget by 24%, two billion dollars, which I think is a great idea.
	Really?
	What does the EPA do except stop any progress towards America becoming energy independent and energy is the lifeblood of the economy?
	That just makes simple common sense.
	You've got over at CNN, you got this airhead reporter who knows so little about what she's reporting on, she actually thinks that Donald Trump's campaign committed treason by merely talking to Russian officials before last year's election.
	Used the in other words, they used the word treason during an interview with the former Bush uh attorney general Mike McCasey.
	He nearly fell out of his chair reacting to this recklessness.
	Let me remind you that the head of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunez, actually said the following uh that there's zero evidence to support this.
	Here's what he said.
	We still have not seen any evidence of of anyone that's from the Trump campaign or any other campaign for that matter, uh, that's communicated with the Russian government.
	Here at the committee, we still don't have any evidence of of them talking to Russians.
	As of right now, uh the initial inquiries I've made to of the appropriate agencies, I don't have any evidence.
	I don't have any evidence that would of any phone calls.
	What I've been told uh is by many by many folks uh is that uh there's there's nothing there.
	We don't have any evidence right now.
	The way it sounds like to me is is it's been looked into and there's no evidence of of anything there.
	There is no evidence that I've been presented of regular contact.
	If you all have American Citizens that you know we're talking to Russian agents.
	Uh, if you want to come to our committee, be a whistleblower yourselves and bring me those names, I'd be very interested in having them.
	Wow.
	No evidence whatsoever.
	The media hysterically and breathlessly reporting just the opposite.
	You know, and this is what fake news is.
	This is what, you know, even Pat Cadell.
	Pat Cadell was Jimmy Carter's presidential polster.
	And he actually said the press's job is to stand and protect liberty and freedom of from all of us from a government and from organized governmental power.
	When they desert those ramparts, he goes on and decide that they will now become active participants when they decide that their job is not simply to tell you who you may vote for and who you may not vote for, but worse, what truth you may know as an American, what truth you're allowed to know, they have then made themselves a fundamental threat to the democracy, and in my opinion, made themselves an enemy of the American people.
	Which is what Donald Trump said.
	Pretty amazing.
	Now there is all these left-wing activists, you know, knock me over with a feather, but it turns out all these anti-Trump town hall meetings that the media pretends are organic grassroots uprisings are not true.
	It's all being orchestrated by left-wing Democratic activists.
	There's leaked audio from an anti-Trump protest meeting, according to the Daily Caller, revealing activists with anti-Trump group with an anti-Trump group.
	Now they're plotting how to best manufacture a hostile environment at a town hall with Republican Senator Bill Cassidy in Louisiana.
	And the audio was obtained by a local radio station revealing a coordinated effort to create the public impression that Cassidy's support for Trump is unpopular with his constituents.
	The activists who describe themselves as liberal in the audio can be heard strategizing how to best turn a local town hall into a political victory.
	Quote, the activists split up into an inside team, all tasked with occupying as many seats as they can, and an outside team whose job was to give the media the coverage they want before joining the others inside.
	All of it.
	None of this is real.
	But that's not going to stop them.
	You know, look at everywhere liberalism has been tried.
	Now Philly is facing a huge financial nightmare with sanctuary cities and the budgets there.
	Anyway, 800 nine four one Sean is a toe free telephone number.
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	Congressman Louis Gomert will stop by our Washington studios in the next hour.
	Also, Jesse Lee Peterson nearly got run out of a speech he was giving.
	He'll join us.
	We'll talk about that.
	We have more fallout from the well, we're going to compare the reaction of the media to Barack Obama's 2009 address before a joint session of Congress with that which we will likely hear tonight after President Trump speaks speaks.
	So it'll give you a reminder going into the speech tonight.
	Going way beyond the headlines on the stories that matter most to you.
	Sean Hannity's on right now.
	All right, as we continue, Sean Hannity Show, we're in Washington, D.C. for tonight's presidential address before a joint session of Congress.
	Well, full coverage of that.
	We're on an hour later tonight on the Fox News Channel because obviously the president starts at nine, usually goes over an hour.
	So we'll uh pick up at eleven Eastern, eight o'clock on the West Coast.
	If you are up, and I hope you are, it's going to be important.
	And we'll have a very different spin than I'm sure the rest of the media, which is abusively biased.
	All right, when we come back, Congressman Louis Gomert, all part of our holding them accountable.
	This is an opportunity of a lifetime.
	If Congress doesn't get on board and get their job done, then we'll this will we will have squandered the greatest opportunity we have to fix the country.
	We cannot let that happen.
	And I'm more concerned about Republicans.
	I don't give a rip about the Snowflake Democrats anymore.
	Uh then we'll have a debate on how the media treated Obama in 09.
	We'll compare that to tonight.
	It's all coming up straight ahead.
	And by the way, we'll get to your calls as well.
	800 941 Sean, our number.
	Holding them accountable.
	Sean gets the answers no one else does.
	America deserves to know the truth about Congress.
	For eight years, you guys had a plan.
	You kept saying and promising you'll repeal, replace Obamacare.
	And I guess what people want to know is when are these things going to get done?
	We'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 have this window of time to cancel bad Obama regulations, then we're doing Obamacare.
	After we're done with Obamacare, then we're doing our budget.
	And our budget is 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 revisiting 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 Agency.
	It is a consensus plan that's now being scored by the CBO.
	Correct.
	You're saying to the American people and conservatives that are impatient, including myself.
	You agree with every item I mentioned, even extreme vetting.
	Yeah.
	We passed that bill a year ago in the House.
	I know you now agree with building the wall.
	Yes.
	Are you telling the American people vetting refugees, building the wall, repeal replace, tax reform?
	All of this is going to be done in 200 days.
	Inside the 200 day window is the regulatory reforms you talked about.
	It's the repeal and replace Obamacare.
	It's the budget, it's the rebuilding of our military, it's tax reform.
	Those are the things that we're working on.
	And the infrastructure, those are the things we're working on in this 2007 countries.
	That's in there as well.
	We see that as part of regulatory reform.
	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 a 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 Supreme Court justice, yeah, or 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 seat.
	It scores.
	Yeah, I have to get what we can with the 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 because of Senate issues, we still have time to accommodate all of this stuff in 2017.
	So I even have safety valves.
	I have even built conditions.
	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 and get the economy moving again, which I think we need.
	That's what we're hired to do.
	All right, Mr. Speaker, you can see it 200 days.
	All right, this is our holding them accountable to the promises they made to you, the American people, and that of course my interview with the Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan.
	Since then, I've had a number of conversations about especially about the health care bill and whether or not, in fact, members are aware, in other words, if it's a consensus bill, etc.
	Uh, here to help sort all of this out.
	We're in D.C. today.
	Of course, the president is addressing a joint session of Congress, not officially a State of the Union address.
	And very graciously, my good friend Louis Gomert, who pills in on this program occasionally, uh offered me his wife's seat in the gallery because she couldn't make it tonight.
	And I'm taking that seat and I'll report back to everybody.
	Did you hear by the way they're trying to the liberals are bringing in dreamers?
	That's what I understand.
	That's what I've heard.
	That's what I heard.
	They're gonna bring in all kinds of folks uh into the gallery.
	But you know, uh one of you uh equals, you know, 100 Meryl Street or whoever's gonna be coming up.
	I don't know in the House chambers tonight.
	All right, here's what one one word about the Hollywood folks.
	They either need to tear down the walls and fences around their own homes and let everybody into their homes or they need to shut up.
	Quit lecturing the rest of us who who have let people come in illegally and uh drug surges everywhere.
	But uh, you know, come on.
	If you got a wall, you got a fence, then don't preach to the rest of us.
	Well, I mean, the pr they have arm guards, they had lived lives of luxury.
	They they like to choose presidents that end up putting millions of millions of millions or more Americans in poverty on food stamps and out of work because their policies fail.
	They're not impacted by it.
	They're not impacted by the violence in Chicago.
	And not one of them is brought up the fact that Obama admitted himself.
	Uh for the first time in American history, ninety-five percent under this president's uh Obama's policy, ninety-five percent of all the income went to w the top one percent.
	Right.
	This president was great for the rich, terrible for the middle class, and made a much bigger.
	Isn't that the strangest thing that that everybody doesn't seem to understand the top one percent pay seventy percent of the tax bill, top ten percent rather pay that amount, and the bottom fifty percent don't pay any federal income tax at all.
	Most people don't know that.
	All right, let me give you the history.
	So I do that interview that we just played with with Speaker Ryan.
	Then I had on the program.
	By the way, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
	Nailing these points down.
	And he was willing to talk about it.
	Oh, sure, he's a good thing.
	Because I was I did an opening monologue on radio and TV that was very critical that Trump is moving at the speed of Trump and Congress is dragging their heels.
	And it got people's attention, and I was glad it was impactful a little bit.
	And he says he has this calendar with cushions built in, 200 days, regulatory reform, we're passing two budgets, including budget reform, tax reform, then of course the health care repeal and replace, not repair, repeal and replace that's being scored.
	And then I had Congressman Dave Bratt, Congressman Meadows, and yesterday, Congressman Jim Jordan saying they'd have no idea what's in the bill.
	They don't know what's being scored.
	And I'm um and I was surprised that they didn't because I was asking very specifically w if it was consensus.
	Is there uh don't you guys hold conference every week?
	We had a conference for an hour this morning and they had more PowerPoint presentations.
	This is what's going to be there.
	But some of us grew cynical under Boehner.
	We'd really like to see that language because some of us have dealt with uh legislation, and I I mean I was there anything in the PowerPoint particularly you didn't like.
	Well, there are some concerns I have.
	Uh but let me also uh one one word of caution.
	We're and it and this is caution for the Trump administration.
	When you hear people in Congress say there are we're doing this under reconciliation, so we don't have to have closure.
	And there are just some things, Sean, some things, President Trump, we can't do under reconciliation.
	Well, the trouble with that is in 2015, when we repealed Obamacare, we did it under reconciliation.
	So we could just do that again.
	Again, yes.
	We could do it.
	But but there it sounds like behind the scenes there's still some people that say, well, you know what, we'd like to keep some entitlements that we'd like to create it, and one of them is a concern to me.
	It's it's uh Well, one of them was Medicaid.
	The states want the extra money.
	Yeah, and it's uh Sean Kasich went and lobbied for it.
	Yes, bless his soul.
	But the states that held firm on the line uh should not be penalized because they didn't expand.
	The states like Kasich when he went against what one of the Ohio guys said he went against the legislature and expanded anyway.
	But but there is it it there is apparently some proposal about starting a tax credit that has not existed in the past, which will be a brand new Republican entitlement we've never had before.
	That kind of stuff is ridiculous.
	We can't be doing that.
	In fairness, though, if if they're giving you the bullet points, the actual language has to come before the bill, and then there's gonna be amendments, right?
	Exactly, yes.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	Well, they're trying to avoid having to have a bunch of amendments.
	Uh they're They're wanting to take it or leave it.
	Yeah.
	Well, take it or leave it's not gonna work.
	Probably not.
	Probably not.
	So in fairness, do you believe the timetable is doable?
	Absolutely.
	It absolutely is.
	It is doable.
	It is absolutely doable.
	And you and I have talked about this and and you're one of the few people that's up texting as lazy as I am.
	But Steve King, Michelle Bachman and I were trying to stop and a bunch of others, but we would meet weekly and tried to stop Boehner in 2013.
	He was going to do an amnesty bill by May.
	And so that was our goal.
	If we can hold him off for doing an amnesty before May.
	So we were raising issues and and creating all kinds of issues and uh legitimate.
	But once we got it past May, then it's easier to stall legislation and not have it pass in June and July.
	And then once you get through July, we're not in session in August, and then September and October are short.
	Once you get through May, then it's easier to stop it in the summer, June, July, and then it's much easier to stop it.
	September, October, and then you're into the next year.
	It's an equality.
	By the way, you guys take more vacation than anybody I've ever met on the face of this earth with all doors.
	You don't set the schedule, but that's a cushy job, Louie.
	It's better when we come back after having been September is usually a good month for legislation because people have been back on the back.
	But the American people want the economy fixed.
	Listen, people in poverty out of work on food stamps don't want to hear that the budget's not getting fixed.
	Yeah, and we can and we should.
	And uh, you know, you and I have both been critical about some of the things stands that Mitch McConnell hadn't made, but by golly, he is uh He held the line on Gorsuch and and a bunch of the appointees.
	We did we gotta get uh those through.
	But my whole point is we have got to get this done, I would say by May.
	And then if there is a problem and it leaks over into the two big deals health care, tax reform.
	Some people that are pushing the tax reform say, yeah, we're gonna try to get it done by the end of the summer.
	So is the tax reform what Trump's saying seven brackets to three, fifteen percent corporate rate, ten percent repatriation rate, yeah, middle class tax cuts.
	So that's the one you support, the Trump plan.
	I would rather have a flat tax.
	You and I'm talking about.
	Yeah, flat or more fair taxes.
	Well, I'm more they're not gonna happen.
	Yeah.
	But it's getting closer, and of course you make the point all the time, it's very legitimate.
	Business uh people that move manufacturing to China constantly say, hey, we we have got to lower the corporate tax.
	It's the biggest tariff any country puts on its own goods, corporate tax.
	Lower that we're gonna bring jobs back, but we need to get it done by May, and at the worst June.
	We can't let it go beyond that.
	Ready to repeal and replace Obama's executive orders, and you've come to the right place.
	The Sean Hannity Show.
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	All right, as we continue, we are in Washington, D.C., we will be uh covering tonight on Hannity one hour later because the president's speaking at nine, we don't know what time he ends, but a joint session of Congress.
	We have Congressman Louis Gomart with us in studio.
	He'll join us on Hannity tonight on the TV show.
	As it relates to the budget, are you worried about a trillion dollars in infrastructure?
	How are we gonna pay for it?
	The president mentioned fifty-four billion dollars in defense spending increasing.
	Now to his credit, he put in a hiring freeze.
	To his credit, he's talking about not reductions of increases, but zero baseline budgeting where where we don't add money to the other agencies, and he's looking for ways to reduce it.
	There seems to be a little bit of disagreement on that because Paul Ryan is a big supporter that we've got to reform Social Security, Medicare, which are the big b budget busters.
	What are your thoughts?
	Well, I I think uh when it comes to the fifty-four billion that uh Trump has said we're gonna help the military.
	He's found the fifty-four billion dollars.
	I mean, and and EPA is gonna be one source, and I know jobs are gonna be you know growing and and uh multiplying as a result of that.
	And uh as Scott Pruitt said, have you met him?
	What a great guy.
	Oh, yeah, I have absolutely such a help.
	And as Scott said, we're gonna have cleaner air, we're gonna have cleaner water, and people are gonna have jobs, so that's all good.
	Uh but so he did find the money.
	By the way, Connie, is as Congressman Gormart always been a table pounder?
	Yes, I pounded.
	And I get fired up, I'm sorry.
	Uh go ahead.
	We only have about a minute and a half left.
	No, I I think uh he's exactly on track.
	And as Art Laffer has been saying since uh, you know, the late 70s, you grow the economy, the jobs come, and and this 20% border adjustment, I can't help but think that uh CBO is a big part of why there's a feeling we've gotta add something because if we don't, it may not be revenue neutral.
	Whereas as Laffer proved, and as the laugher curve indicates, no, when you lower the taxes, then more people are making more money and there's more federal revenue that comes in.
	So but CBO doesn't get that.
	And I think as Phil Graham said, you know, the trouble with CBO is that if you ask CBO how much federal revenue do we bring in if we tax everybody two per 200% of what they make, they say, well, it'd be two taxes.
	David Stockman, Reagan's former OMB director, said this is the biggest bubble that's about to burst that he's ever seen in his life.
	Yep.
	Do you agree with him?
	I do.
	I do, and thank God that uh Trump got elected because we got a chance to try to do something about it before that happens.
	That's pretty scary.
	That's pretty chilling.
	Well, it's been scary for a number of years.
	You worry that we're gonna blow a hole in the budget, though, with a trillion dollar infrastructure plan.
	If we just say, oh yeah, another trillion dollars, what's that?
	Then you're gonna have we're gonna have trouble around the world.
	People are gonna throw up their hands and say, see, we told you their debt to GDP is out of control, you can't trust them, and people have been trying to get us to get rid of the dollar as the international currency.
	There are all kinds of bad things.
	So we gotta be wise.
	We do need infrastructure, but we can I wish we'd do the big tax cut, let the economy grow like crazy, and then spend the money.
	Then spend the money when it comes in.
	Uh otherwise we're gonna be in a lot of trouble.
	All right, Congressman Louis Gomer, we're in Washington, D.C. in light of the president's speech before a joint session of Congress that's tonight, nine Eastern.
	We'll be on eleven Eastern on the Fox News Channel from Washington.
	We'll take a quick break, we'll come back, a lot of other news and more information as we continue.
	Look forward to my day
	tonight..
	Holding them accountable.
	Sean gets the answers, no one else does.
	America deserves to know the truth about Congress.
	Barack Obama has divided the races in America.
	More than anyone else in the history of America.
	You know, laws in this country discovered and protect all of us as American citizens.
	And homosexuals and LGBT people are protected under the same law.
	We don't need special laws, but special people.
	We all are Americans, and we should all be treated the same law.
	Black people significantly less likely to be pulled back to positive result response in um when applying to a job with the exact same recipe sent out from a white person.
	Um white people were 31% likely to get a positive response in this in this uh study.
	Latino people were 25% and black people were 15%.
	Um also if racism doesn't exist, then why would black and white people use marijuana at about the same rate?
	These companies are qualified.
	They don't care what company you are, they don't care if you are male or female.
	As long as you're qualifying, you can get a job in America.
	So the study of lies, don't tell me don't believe anything that a liberal has to say.
	The room right now is too contentious and obviously the views are provoking a lot of responses so we've got a We've got to cut down speaker.
	I apologize to end one of the room.
	Because if the lessons are going to provoke anything like the last button, he's just not anything.
	Um I apologize, and uh thank you, uh Reverend for coming in here and and speaking to us.
	Um we really agree.
	Um I think my R is uh larger than it's ever been in my entire line.
	Um I um I organized anyone who was sent in.
	All right, 24 now till the top of the hour.
	We are in Washington, D.C. We're holding them accountable.
	That is our mission now.
	We've got to get this accomplished.
	This is the one opportunity we have.
	And what you heard there was the Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson speaking at the Southern California Junior State of America or the J. S. A, and it's like a winter congress this weekend to a group of about eight hundred and sixty high school students, and supposedly about sixty to seventy percent liberal.
	And uh, well, I heard some uh hostility there, Jesse Lee Peterson, and it doesn't surprise me, you're not exactly a non-controversial figure.
	And um, of course, uh he is the founder of Rebuilding the Family by Rebuilding the Man, author of The Antidote, Healing America from the poison of hate, blame, and victimhood.
	So you were thrown out of the speech that you were giving.
	I was.
	I have to tell you that uh there were young Republican conservatives there as well, boys and girls, and they were loving it.
	They were giving me the thumbs up, they were applauding, they were trying to get the liberals to be quiet and allow the speech to happen.
	I was asked to speak for an hour um about uh conservative issues, the difference between the Obama administration versus Donald Trump's President Trump's administration.
	I was uh asked to be about speak about the race issue, and they had a liberal speaker who spoke an hour before I did, and I came on second.
	And I have to tell you, Shah, it just went out of control.
	And the interesting thing about it is that the kids, even though they were yelling and screaming, and there was one boy who tried to come up on the stage to attack me, they held him back.
	Uh, they were still challenging me on the issues.
	They wanted to talk about it.
	They ran to the mic because they had never heard any another point of view like that from a black person.
	And so they wanted to hear, but there was a one of the organizer or coordinator of this event, Evan England, and he is a feminist Obama supporter, and there was a guy by the name of Derek Um uh Detori.
	What is a feminist Obama supporter a he?
	What is that?
	No, well, the woman was uh a woman, Evan.
	Oh, I thought you said a guy, I thought you said he.
	Sorry.
	There was a guy there too, uh, who uh was a liberal as well.
	The liberal teachers there were getting angry, and they were the ones who got so angry that this woman Yvonne came up and tried to drag me off the stage out to tell her to take my hand her hands off me because she was assaulting me.
	And the Republican kids, they were mature, they wanted to know, they they were respected.
	The liberal speaker, but the liberals refused to respect the conservative speaker.
	Let me let me, if I can, back up your comments about the president and how he didn't heal the country along racial lines, because at the same time during his presidency, four thousand people in Chicago alone were murdered.
	About eighty percent of them were black Americans.
	And we barely heard a comment over the entire presidency of Barack Obama about that.
	And it would have been a good time to do something.
	It would have been a good time to take the the the bully pulpit of the presidency on the road and maybe help bring some safety and security, etc.
	Uh, to that city.
	We bring some sanity to that city.
	But instead, he would focus on high profile race cases without any evidence, without any adjudication of uh whatsoever.
	He is an attorney, and he rushed to judgment in the case of Trayvon Martin and He was wrong, and he rushed to judgment in the case of Ferguson and Michael Brown and he was wrong.
	And he rushed to judgment in the case of Freddie Gray in Baltimore and was wrong.
	And none of this helped the country.
	So why did he pick high profile racial instances to advance a narrative or an agenda and ignore the the four thousand dead people in his own city?
	I write for Warren Daily, and I wrote about this how we have the white Savior and Donald Trump to come in and save the black community.
	For the last fifty years, we have had black Americans in power of authority.
	We have the Congressional Black Caucus, you have the NWCP, you have many black uh preachers who have major uh mega churches around the country, you have Lewis Farrakhan, Al Shopton, and all those guys, and Barack Obama comes along and he has the power of the USA behind him.
	He's the President of the United States of America.
	And now over the last sixty years, not one liberal Democrat who has been in power of authority has gone into the urban areas and cleaned out the gang violence and the trust so that uh the decent black folks who are stuck in those communities can finally have a uh a relaxation, they can breathe for a minute and start businesses, and I write that the reason that they didn't they have not done it is because they don't want to do it.
	Obama couldn't have taken I mean just asking the uh police departments to go in, but he had the National Guard, he had the military.
	There's a way to solve it, but Sean, they want these people in chaos in the manner that they are, killing one another, relying on the government, having babies out of wet law, having abortions like nighty going north, because as long as they're in no condition, they can use this false illusion to racism, white folks are trying to keep you down, and that keeps the black folks, some black people angry.
	The government come in and and these black leaders they get power and welfare.
	Well, the pre the the one thing how does a president embrace a group?
	How does a presidential candidate like Hillary embrace a group like Black Lives Matter?
	What do we want dead cops when do we want them now?
	They both did.
	And you're right, in the sense that if you they wanted to solve that problem in in Chicago, that would have been easily solved.
	Yes.
	You know, i I was really, you know, I I really do like what President Trump is doing.
	I it it it really bothers me that there is this notion that the left has a monopoly of compassion for minorities and and women and Hispanics and Latinos and and every every identity politic group in the country when in fact they don't.
	If anything, disproportionately blacks and Hispanics were hurt under the economic plans of Obama.
	And and more importantly, I saw the presidents of these historically black colleges in the White House in the Oval Office today, and and maybe it happened under Obama and his administration, I don't remember, but between that, the president discussing sending education back to the state so that we can fix at the education,
	especially the educational system in inner city America, the fact that he's fighting to bring factories back to to cities like Detroit, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Philly, you know, that to me, if he does those things, I I've got to believe that there's gonna be political benefits because I do believe that the black community uh I what Trump said during the election was right that every four years they come c they come a call in for the vote and then they don't get there's no delivery, they don't get anything for it.
	That's right.
	You know, Sean on November 9th, 2016.
	I woke up early in the morning to turn on Fox News, they said President Trump had won, that Donald Trump had won.
	I went to Cloud Nine and I've been dancing on the ceiling ever since.
	In the black community, and I do a lot of work.
	This is twenty-seventh year of my nonprofit.
	There is hope in the black community for a first time in years.
	They are feeling good about the president.
	Now, the representatives don't want you to know that the media doesn't want you to know that, but there are blacks in the black community who have been democrats all of their lives.
	They have seen that nothing has been done to help them, and they finally believe in the president.
	They believe in President Trump.
	As a matter of fact, President Trump is the only Republican who have publicly just made black Americans a part of America.
	He's shown that we're all the same.
	We're all Americans, and he cares about all of us.
	And so the people are starting to feel good again, and especially the black men, because they feel now that they're going to be able to get jobs.
	They're going to be able to buy homes.
	They're going to be able to get married and be there for their wives and children.
	They don't have to rely on the government.
	They don't have to worry about gang violence.
	So there's a good feeling in the black community around the country, and I hear it all the time.
	I'd like to see the translation of votes, but Republicans need to earn it, and they're gonna have to be successful.
	And for the president to be successful, that means that many Republicans here in uh Sin City, USA, Washington DC, they're gonna have to start doing their job and do it at a high level and do it in a way that benefits people that have been left behind.
	I mean I've always called this the forgotten man, forgotten woman election, and I th it wasn't Hollywood that elected Donald Trump, it wasn't San Francisco.
	It wasn't DC and it wasn't New York.
	It was Wisconsin, it was Michigan, it was Ohio, it was Pennsylvania.
	And the reason those people in fact voted for him is because they have disproportionately been bearing the burden of bad regulation, burdensome regulation, and government overreach and brutal brutally high taxation, and and you know, it's hurt them.
	But stay right there.
	We'll continue more with Jesse Lee on the other side of this break.
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	Will the press give the same treatment to Donald Trump as they did Barack Obama when he first addressed the joint sustain of Congress back in two thousand and nine.
	I tend to doubt it, but that's just my guess.
	Not really a difficult thing to predict, is it?
	As we continue, we're in Washington, DC, of course, the president addressing a joint session of Congress tonight.
	Well, I see that Congresswoman Maxine Waters and Congressman John Lewis are not attending tonight.
	The Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson is with us, founder of Rebuilding the Family by Rebuilding the Man, author of The Antidote, Healing America from the poison of hate, blame, and victimhood.
	So what do you make of these uh two Congressmen, one Congressman, one Congresswoman not going tonight?
	It still to show that these liberals can't handle losing.
	They have been winning for so long with getting away with their agenda, and finally they are losing and they don't know how to accept it.
	But I'm fine with that.
	I am glad that they now feel and understand, hopefully understand what we've been going through for the last eight years, seeing our country fall apart in every area.
	So it's nice to know that they're having pain.
	So they don't show up fine.
	So they don't want to show up more room for someone else.
	More room for you, Sean, and anyone else, because the Liberals just can't handle it.
	I'm okay with that.
	The one thing I want to tell you quickly about that JSA conference.
	You guys should call Maxine Waters and ask if I can have her seat.
	Is that allowed?
	Or maybe I'll call Congress.
	Congressman John Lewis knows me from my years in Atlanta, and we aca I actually have respect for John Lewis.
	I don't like the way that he's keeping black Americans from being free by making life a little easier, helping them to overcome what they're doing.
	I don't know why there's an ingrained mentality.
	This transcends any racial issue.
	An ingrained mentality that somehow the government is gonna help you.
	They're not.
	They can't help you.
	There's not enough money to help you.
	The best thing we can do is get them the hell out of the way.
	That's right.
	You know, the one thing I want to tell you at that conference when I spoke, uh, there were several kids who had not heard that point of view about the Republican Party as opposed to the re uh Democratic Party.
	So in the hallway they all gathered out and they were asking me the difference, and I've heard from some of them since then, and they never heard that before.
	But the adults there, many of the adults didn't want the kids to have another party.
	It's unbelievable.
	I gotta run Jesse Lee Peterson, thank you so much for being with us.
	We appreciate it.
	Sorry what happened there, but glad you kept plowing through.
	Chad, I want to tell you that I am really sorry about Alan Combe.
	Alan uh was a liberal, but he was always kind to me, and even though we disagree, uh I first met him with you and um um when you and Alan had the show together on Fox News, and every time I was on, he disagreed, but he was always kind, he never got nasty with me, and he had me on his radio show.
	And I have to tell you when I heard that he had inspired, it just shocked me.
	It broke my heart.
	And I'm sorry for your loss because I knew you guys were good friends.
	And I'm sorry really for America's loss.
	I will miss Alan.
	It broke my heart.
	Yeah, it broke my heart too.
	I was at his wake last night, and uh he's dearly, dearly missed.
	And he loved you, Jesse, by the way.
	He fought with you, but he I know he had deep respect for you.
	And uh thank you for your kind words.
	So my president will shine your family and Alan's family.
	He will be missed.
	He will be missed indeed.
	Yeah.
	Thank you, Jesse.
	All right, buddy.
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	It's not the end uh the last thing is this for I'm an emigrant.
	I come from Italy.
	I walked around the ward.
	And this is for the old Ivy guns for the emigu.
	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 will not forget 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.
	Good evening.
	I'm Chris Matthews.
	Leading off tonight, the battle last night.
	It was his debut, and he wowed us.
	That's the running headline from last night's presidential address to the Congress.
	Barack Obama gave a great speech, filled with upbeat themes, common sense economics, and a strong personal agenda on health, education, and energy.
	Came right out of the box and said, make no mistake about it, we are going to recover.
	That's the most important thing he wanted the country to hear last night.
	He began on hope, he ended on hope.
	Now, in between, there's an awful lot of uh har hard things to be done, but I think he made a start at inspiring hope out in the country.
	But our president seems remarkably unruffled by all of this, serene in an inner confidence that he's got what it takes to lead this country back into the sunlight.
	It occurred to me watching the president last night, Wolf, that he was born to do exactly what he was doing.
	He had that place in the palm of his hand for the entire time he was in that room, and that can be a tough audience, a tough room to work with.
	Yeah, he knows how to give a speech, I must say.
	According to the polls, the American people loved that speech.
	The CNN poll, 85% said the president's remarks made him feel more optimistic about the direction of the country over the next few years.
	How about you, Nina?
	Well, it made me feel pretty good.
	I mean, I I thought it was a great speech.
	He looked like he belonged there.
	Uh uh, unlike President Bush, who sometimes seemed like, what is this guy doing there?
	Even if you like him, he doesn't really belong.
	He showed real uh he showed natural leadership, and that alone made a big difference.
	You know, a friend of mine said, Oh my God, we have a president again.
	Now, in some ways that's not fair to Bush, but that's the way you felt.
	You felt this was a guy who was totally in charge.
	Uh what will the what can the Republican response be, however, to one in which there seem to be so many themes.
	How do you come out against uh recovering the the the nation's sense of self and its optimism?
	How do you come out against words like this?
	Boldly, wisely, swiftly, and aggressively.
	Bobby Jano, I'll say it as I said before this speech tonight by the president.
	He's running for the outside rail of the Republican Party, the right wing rail, and that's all the room that's left on that side because Barack has grabbed the center uh with the charm he showed tonight and his uh excellent rhetoric.
	All right, there you have.
	Let's compare and contrast tomorrow or tonight's coverage after the president addresses a joint session of Congress with the coverage of Obama's first address before a joint session.
	I can guarantee you it will be nothing like what you just heard.
	It'll be just the opposite.
	But I'd like to be proven wrong.
	I mean, the media now is an open warfare against the the president, which is you know something I guess we can all anticipate at this point because that's the way they live and work and and so on and so forth.
	Joining us now, New York Times bestselling author, and by the way, his brand new book, Big Agenda, President Trump's plan to save America is now on the New York Times list as a best seller.
	Amanda Kneef is with us, the National Legal Public Policy Director for American Atheists, and uh welcome both of you to the program.
	David, uh, do you think there's any chance in hell that Donald Trump gets the same kind of fawning coverage that Barack Obama got in two thousand and nine?
	Or fair coverage.
	There's absolutely none.
	Uh we are in the midst of a civil war in this country, and it's not one that started overnight that those clips that you showed showed it.
	I mean, Barack Obama, probably the worst president in American history who spent eight years wrecking the country uh appeasing our enemies, empowering them, uh wrecking the economy, uh walks on water still.
	Uh and the the what you saw with the Hollywood people, I mean, the derangement that these people have is because they thought they were building uh, you know, they think of themselves as the virtuous, and they think of uh conservatives or anybody who opposes them as evil, basket of deplorables, racist, sexist, homophobes, party of the devil.
	That's the way the left sees us, and the Democratic Party is it's now the party of Bernie Sanders and the hate America left.
	Bernie Sanders would have been the nominee of the Democratic Party, except the crooked Clintons fixed the primaries with the help of Donna Brazil and Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
	So you have a party that's a party of corruption, it's a party of hate, and it and it's a racist party.
	And uh the fact is that we are just divided.
	It's an irreconcilable division until the Democratic Party comes to its senses, which it will only do with a big landslide victory in the next two elections for the Republican.
	Something funny, Amanda.
	I hear you laughing in the background.
	What's so funny?
	To hear uh David talking about how um everyone on the left hates the right, but it comes from the right too.
	And and it's not true.
	Not everyone on either side.
	I have good friends in politics who are conservatives.
	I have family, and you know, we don't hate each other.
	I think that the media, uh both sides of the media, tend to play up these differences, and they like to see conflict.
	But if we tone down the rhetoric and got back to ideas rather than name-calling— You mean maybe they should stop calling the president Hitler?
	And maybe they should stop calling him a Nazi?
	Or calling the most decent human being in the United States Senate?
	Well, I mean, if he called the military or the intelligence, you know, like Nazis— I mean, I think everyone needs to tell me.
	No, I don't remember him saying that at all.
	I uh you're making that up whole call.
	I'll look forward to it.
	Now, the question I want to ask you is give me the statistics.
	You're a you supported Barack Obama because the the Hollywood left and all these people that are freaking out that Donald Trump got elected and they can't seem to handle it, and they're going through some type of cathartic emotional discharge.
	I don't know what to even call this thing, but you know, do you think can you name specific specific areas where Barack Obama was successful in eight years?
	What are they?
	Well, first of all, I don't support Barack Obama.
	Uh I work for an organization that doesn't endorse candidates.
	Okay, but you voted for him twice.
	But you voted for Obama twice.
	You don't know that.
	Did you?
	Anyway.
	Wait, wait, well, did you I don't have to?
	No, you're not going to say because you did.
	Listen, I did not vote for Barack Obama.
	David did not vote for Barack Obama, and you did, and why are you so embarrassed to say so?
	I'm not.
	I'm disrespecting my right not to.
	I can tell you that I'm not sure.
	How's that?
	Okay, you didn't vote for Trump, and I doubt you voted for Mitt Romney, And I doubt you voted for John McCain.
	Did you vote for McCain or Romney?
	Um, I wrote in a candidate.
	So there you go.
	Both years?
	Uh the the first uh the in two thousand and eight.
	Okay.
	Now here's my question.
	Tell me, give me some economic statistics that Barack Obama that you cite that proved that because liberals supported him.
	The Hollywood left that live in their guarded mansions with their walls surrounding them that fly around in their private jets.
	Okay, I'm asking.
	So they supported him and they wanted Hillary to continue his policies.
	Cite me one economic statistic where Obama improved the economy.
	Give me one.
	Uh the number of jobs created, starting about halfway through his first year, all the way to the end, every single year.
	We saw economic growth in this country.
	Wrong.
	Let me fix the record because you don't count the chronically unemployed.
	You're citing an unemployment number.
	The labor participation rate and the labor participation rate under Barack Obama was 95 million Americans out of the labor force, the lowest participation rate since the 70s.
	Keep going.
	Give me another example.
	I didn't say unemployment, I said job creation.
	We went from under the last uh few years of book.
	Job creation doesn't mean a thing.
	If you create one million new jobs but lose three million, that's a net loss.
	Go.
	Then then that would so then that wouldn't be job creation.
	Uh Obamacare or uh the ACA.
	I have health insurance because of it.
	Uh I wouldn't have it right now.
	What were the promises made when the president gave us uh uh Obamacare?
	Do you remember?
	Um, I know that he said that I wouldn't be tonight if I for uh uh pre-existing condition.
	That's he said no, the promise was keep your doctor, keep your plan, and the average family would save twenty-five hundred dollars a year.
	How much let's see how smart you are, how much did the average families see since Obamacare was passed, their c'est their costs go up in the eight years he's president.
	Do you know the answer to that?
	I don't know the answer off the top of 90.
	It's five thousand four hundred dollars, which does not include twenty seventeen, which in states like Arizona, there was a hundred and sixteen percent increase.
	Okay.
	You the president made promises and he didn't keep the promises.
	And a lot of the people that got on Obamacare were funneled into it.
	They had policies, but now they went on Obamacare.
	You know what the point is, you know, I'll I'm just making a point, and I'll throw this to David.
	There's thirteen million more Americans that went in in on food stamps under Obama.
	The eight million that went into poverty more.
	That's fifty million in each category, and the lowest home ownership rate in fifty-one years, and he accumulated more debt than every president before him combined, and he once said nine trillion dollars in debt was irresponsible and unpatriotic.
	This is what the left gave us.
	But he did do the one economic statistic he increased, which was the incomes of the wealthiest people in the country.
	Uh, which of course they cut them slack for.
	Of course, the Democratic Party is the party of hate.
	What Republican, what Republican candidate for president uh would say that uh Democrats belong in the basket of deplorables and they're racist, sexist, homophobes, you name it.
	Uh there is none.
	Not one.
	That's because we didn't have a confirmation process for the cabinet.
	We had a witch hunt.
	Jeff Sessions is one of the most decent human beings ever to sit in the United States Senate.
	I've known him for 20 years, an utterly decent human being who is a civil rights champion, is the attorney general of a deep south safe state, prosecuted the Ku Klux Klan, desegregated the schools, and they they called him a racist.
	And honored Rosa Parks and other civil rights icons.
	That's all.
	Hang on, David.
	I gotta take a break here.
	David uh Horowitz is with us.
	His uh brand new book and now a best seller, big agenda, President Trump's plan to save America, and Amita Kneef uh Amanda Kamneef is with us as well.
	Now that Uncle Joe has left the building, maybe we can get back to bringing jobs home.
	That's jobs, J.O. B. S. This is the Sean Hannity show, and
	the first one.
	All right, until we continue, Sean Hannity Show.
	Your calls, by the way, coming up at the bottom of this half hour, 800-9-4-107.
	One Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, continuing with David Horwitz, by the way, his brand new book is the New York Times bestseller again.
	It's called Big Agenda, President Trump's plan to save America.
	Amanda Khneef is with us, National Legal and Public Policy Director for American Atheists.
	You know, I guess, David, my biggest fear right now is you see a media establishment that's turned against the president.
	You've got a Democratic establishment from day one talking about impeachment.
	You've got Republican weaklings without spines that I think are afraid of their own shadows.
	So my biggest, and then you have, of course, the Snowflake establishment, which has paid organizers to go out there and create as much chaos and trouble as they possibly can.
	How does he get these agenda items passed?
	Well, the one that worries me is the Republicans.
	Me too.
	The press has discredited itself.
	Nobody believes the press anymore except the enthusiasts of the left.
	But the Republicans are so lobbly.
	I mean, what you know, as I've described in my book, what what makes Trump so significant as a transformative figure is that he's a Republican who doesn't back down, who's not intimidated by these attacks.
	People call him names, and he keeps going forward.
	Whereas the natural Republican instinct is to duck, head for the tall grass, try to appease the people who are attacking you.
	Um the people in the streets are fascists.
	This is what the fascists did in the 30s.
	They the Nazi Party and the Communist Party journal joined forces and they went and they obstructed town hall meetings.
	I mean, that's what they did.
	Uh, they needed each other.
	Our democracy is being eroded by these people.
	You have a lying press.
	You know, and it's even it's infected Fox News.
	I mean, have a lying administration.
	Uh no, no, dear.
	Ninety-nine percent of Trump's so-called lies are the exaggerations of a salesman and a world-class salesman at that.
	They're not lies.
	Lies is when you know that Jeff Sessions full of puckery and and salesmen, or do we want a leader?
	Calls him a racist.
	That's a lie.
	Do you defend that?
	Amanda.
	I couldn't hear what he said at the end.
	I'm sorry.
	I said a lie is when you have a man as decent as Jeff Sessions, who hasn't got a racial blemish on his record, and you call him a racist and try to destroy his public life and destroy his candidacy.
	And your the your whole Democratic Party is behind that.
	Why aren't they shunning Elizabeth Warren?
	She has it's it's not even a potty mouth.
	It's a it's an assassin's mouth.
	How is that any different?
	She made a false claim that she was a minority when she wasn't.
	That's that means it's okay to call her name.
	Okay, she claimed she was a Native American and she wasn't a Native American.
	I mean it's she opened herself up.
	She's a character, assassin.
	That means you're okay to call it.
	Well, I mean, if you're gonna claim you're a Native American because you're quote, your mother or your aunt said you had high cheekbones, like she claimed, it's ridiculous, and it deserves being made fun of.
	You know what's gonna you know what you've got to say.
	Compared to being called a Nazi, it's as mild as anything I've ever heard.
	And it's actually funny.
	Again, Trump called All right, I got I gotta go.
	I'm out of time.
	But we'll get to your phone calls coming up next.
	David, congrats on the book.
	Big agenda, President Trump's plan to save America.
	Amanda, thank you.
	800-941 Sean, as we continue our preview from the nation's capital.
	We're back in Washington.
	I feel like I live here now, back in Washington, D.C., and we'll continue.
	Thank you.
	Holding them accountable.
	Sean gets the answers.
	No one else does.
	America deserves to know the truth about Congress.
	All right, 25 now till the top of the hour from our nation's capital.
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	One hour later tonight, Hannity on the Fox News channel in light of the president's address to a joint session of Congress, not officially a State of the Union address, and we will have full coverage.
	It's going to be interesting being in the House chambers watching this.
	Many thanks to Louis Gomer for extending the invitation.
	I'm very honored to be there.
	I did go once during the Obama years, and uh I go to I basically I do it to report to you what actually goes on in the room because you see it from one angle, I'll see it from a different angle, and and we kind of come to a middle ground and see what it's like.
	But it's uh it's an honor to be invited to that and represent all of you, my friends.
	Yes, we are holding them accountable.
	I'm getting to the bottom of when this agenda is going to get done, health care, vetting refugees.
	We know the president's moving on that tomorrow.
	We know that the contracts to build the wall will be awarded in April.
	We know that repeal and replace is now being scored by the CBO, whether or not that is the eventual bill.
	We don't know it as many of the things that we've all talked and discussed.
	The economy then comes next, including tax reform and regulatory reform discussed and discussed, and the possibility of getting rid of 75% of all regulations.
	Yes, these things take time.
	They've asked for a 200-day grace period to work their way through all of this.
	There are still many, many positions within the administration they've asked for and filled the confirmation in the Senate.
	I know I I know at least ten of my friends that are waiting to get into the administration, but it's it's a long process by the time they go through all the vetting of all the people involved.
	All right, 800-941-SEAN, toll-free telephone number.
	You want to be a part of the program.
	Let's say hi to Mark.
	Mark is in Akron in Ohio.
	Mark, hi.
	How are you?
	And glad you called.
	Doing well, thanks.
	How are you doing, Sean?
	I'm good, sir.
	What's happening?
	Amen.
	Oh, I was just traveling yesterday, and uh you had mentioned something about from the um Oscars and Kimmel and his uh presence and that you had made a remark on behalf that uh he'd invited you uh to come on to his show.
	I was told by Fox News that an invitation was extended to me to be on the show.
	He didn't call me personally.
	You know, I guess it's good.
	Understood.
	Yeah.
	In at any rate, I think that would be a good presence for you to show up to give him uh a little one two to see how we stand strong and not to be pushed away because you make the mention I don't need to go on his show, but have no fear.
	It's not a matter of fear.
	Look, uh, you know where I've been in the last 72 hours.
	I've been in South Carolina.
	I was in Dallas, Texas, uh interviewing President Bush.
	I was in an Orlando, Florida at the National Religious Broadcasters.
	I flew back to New York to do radio and television and last night attended uh Alan Combs Wake, which was very sad.
	And then I flew down here to D.C. You know, if you want to do a show, you've got to be in Los Angeles.
	That's thirteen hours in the air.
	I've got a lot of I got a lot on my plate right now, to be honest.
	It's uh that I followed it.
	I just thought it was kind of something that would have been a good presence for uh possibility to at least put somebody back in their seat, especially as the strength of the liberal agenda's going out there.
	That if there is a lot of people.
	Look, it's it's not really a debate environment.
	He's a comic.
	What frustrated me about the the Oscars, and I kind of always like Jimmy Kimmel.
	I think he's funny when he does his man on the street, what does he call it?
	Eyewitness news, lie witness news, and he asked people now.
	What did you think of the president's uh joint session before of Congress speech last night?
	Meanwhile, it hadn't taken place yet.
	I mean, and people Oh, it was great.
	I thought he was fantastic.
	I think it's one of the funniest segments on TV, actually.
	Um I'm just when these guys get all political, none of the none of the policies of the politicians that they want us to elect, want you to elect, help anybody but them.
	It's not helping the ninety-five million out of the labor force, the fifty million in poverty, the fifty million On food stamps.
	And what they're not understanding here is that we have all the data you'd ever need for fifty lifetimes that liberalism, as the most recent experiment with Obama shows, fails.
	As an ideology, as a philosophy, it just fails.
	Nobody in the media vetted Obama.
	Nobody held him accountable to his promises.
	If Donald Trump had promised a health care plan where you would keep your doctor, keep your plan and save on average per family twenty five hundred dollars a year, and millions lost their doctors and millions lost their plans, and the CEO of Aetna says it's in a death spiral, and the average cost went up five thousand four hundred dollars of family, and that's before twenty seventeen, and some states are as high as like as Arizona, 116% just in 2017 alone.
	You know, there would be accountability.
	There's no accountability.
	They think it sounds great.
	They fall for bumper stickers, slogans, the cult of personality.
	That's what drives them.
	Now, I do like Donald Trump personally.
	I've known him for many, many years.
	But it's what he's advocating that I like the most.
	I like energy independence.
	I think for our safety and security, we need the wall built.
	We need refugees vetted.
	I like his judicial philosophy of originalism, which all evidence points to Neil Gorsuch supports.
	I like his idea to lower the corporate tax rate, lower middle income tax rates, to go from a complicated seven brackets to three brackets and consolidate this.
	I like the idea of incentivizing multinational corporations to bring their money back to the country, trillions of them, trillions of dollars, in the hopes they build manufacturing centers and factories for all those forgotten men and women that went out and voted this year.
	It wasn't Hollywood that elected Donald Trump.
	It wasn't D.C. that elected him.
	It wasn't New York and New Jersey.
	It was the middle of the country, the heart and soul of America, because these people are suffering because of bad policies that all those people on the stage at the Oscars were advocating.
	And they would have we would have had just more of the same failure and and decline under Hillary.
	So it's it's do I think they know anything?
	No, I don't.
	I think they're ignorant and as you know, and they're all they're living in a bubble.
	They're not living in Chicago where four thousand people died in eight years.
	They're not living in in i their kids aren't going to the worst schools in inner city America.
	They don't have to worry about security or walls because they have walls surrounding their mansions, and they have armed guards protecting their property.
	So I just uh what I want for every American is what happened to me in my life.
	And that is I want the rungs of the ladder put back on the ladder so people can start at the bottom, start building their way up, you know, develop marketable skills and services that people want, need and desire, with a greater possibility of success, get a good education, which is the foundation for any good life or future for you and your family.
	It's not, you know, I want my country safe and secure.
	It's not complicated what I'm looking for here.
	And to me, that's what matters.
	It's not about a personality, it's about a a conservative philosophy.
	There's nothing that's what matters here that is not built and deeply rooted in conservatism.
	And I know a lot of people doubted that Donald Trump was really a conservative.
	I knew better.
	I knew that uh some of the positions he took were for pure business purposes while being a New York I know a lot of people really are conservative.
	Donations to politicians, yeah, he donated because he wanted access.
	Because that's the way the game is played, and he's trying to he's trying to even fix that.
	He's gotten a lot done in a very short period of time, but as these big pieces of legislation move forward, he's gonna need your help.
	Anyway, appreciate the call.
	Thank you.
	800-941 Sean on number.
	Janet in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
	Hey Janet, how are you?
	I'm just fine, Sean.
	Thank you for taking my call.
	I'm looking forward to President Trump's speech tonight.
	I'm very appreciative of everything he's done for the country so far.
	And I know he's gonna do much more.
	We've just spent the past eight years being torn apart.
	Now we need to be fixed and healed and brought back together.
	I'm I'm looking forward to the agenda he has set forth for us.
	And uh I I believe in the man.
	I believe in President Trump.
	I think he's gonna be a very good thing.
	It was very interesting.
	Let me play this again.
	He was on Fox and Friends this morning, and he was asked to grade himself.
	I want to play this again if I can.
	In other words, uh between A and F on how he's doing his job performance, and here's his own assessment.
	What grade would you give yourself from an A to an F. Well, I think I think I know what you're gonna say.
	I think, yeah.
	No, I'm I wouldn't do that.
	I I think in terms of um effort, which means something, but I give myself an A plus, okay, effort.
	But but uh that's you know, results are more important.
	In terms of messaging, I would give myself a C or a C plus.
	So my messaging isn't good.
	When I see a story about Donald Trump didn't fill hundreds and hundreds of jobs, it's because in many cases we don't want to fill those jobs.
	That was a a lot of pe I don't think that got the attention that it really deserved here, but I thought it was an interesting assessment from his part.
	Now, having been to the White House, uh what were you gonna say, Janet?
	I I believe it wasn't a a good thing to say also, because if it's political jobs and stuff in DC that we don't really need, why are we doing it?
	IRS can certainly be cut back.
	No, I think you're you make a good point.
	Look, we just need to get the job done.
	He's right about one thing.
	He's gonna be judged ultimately, not on snowflakes, not on liberals bashing him, not on the superfluous issue of the day.
	Today it was oh Kelly and Conway was taking pictures.
	I guess the presidents of uh of some of America's historically black colleges came in and they were around the president at his desk in the Oval Office, and and so she got in a position to take a good picture and put her feet on the on one of the couches.
	Wow.
	I mean, that's that's a federal offense in snowflake land.
	But anyway, Janet, I uh I'm looking forward to it, and we'll talk a lot about it tonight at eleven Eastern, and we'll talk tomorrow about it right here.
	Um let's go to our phones.
	Melanie is in Arizona.
	Hey Melanie, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	I'm doing great.
	Thank you, Sean, for taking my call.
	How are you?
	Thank you.
	I'm good, thank you.
	I'm an old army veteran um from fifteen years ago.
	I got out of the military and got pregnant.
	My son moved to Kuwait, has a housewife, my ex-husband when he worked in Kuwait.
	I had my baby turn a year old in Kuwait, but when I first got there, I was on a visitor visa.
	They had three months on their numbers.
	I thought, oh good, I'm good for three months before I have to leave.
	No, that's three months to enter Kuwait and you're good for one month.
	So I had a six thousand dollar fine for being illegal in Kuwait, crying my eyes out, had money Western Union to me, so I can fly out, make myself legal, and fly back in and get a family visa after my initial visitor visa.
	I was terrified.
	I was legal at first, illegal.
	If I know it's like to be illegal, if I have no sympathy for these people crying out for the illegal hero, oh, they're not a criminal.
	Yes, they are.
	They're here illegally, they know it, they're lying, they're taking people identity.
	I'm tired of supporting them.
	They I'm glad Trump is sending him home.
	I voted for Trump.
	I love him, and he's doing excellent job.
	Listen, I think Kuwait is one of the countries where if you have an Israeli passport, you're not even allowed in the country.
	Exactly.
	So there's two narratives here.
	Israelis are forbidden there.
	Yep.
	Forks, alcohol is all forbidden in that country.
	But if you're American, they love you because we liberated them.
	It's the only reason they like us because we liberated them from Iraq.
	By the way, they should have paid for that liberation to a greater extent than they did.
	Um yeah, look, there's great hypocrisy.
	For example, everyone's saying, Well, the Russians may have influen influenced American elections.
	Now, as Congressman Nunez said yesterday, there is not a shred of evidence, and he is the American elections now is committee.
	Not a shred, not one.
	But the media keeps advancing that narrative anyway without any proof, without any evidence.
	But nobody talks about the fact that Obama did, it's a proven fact, try and unseat the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and even use taxpayer dollars to help assist and do that.
	Well, I didn't hear one person, not one of these snowflakes, not one get upset about that at any point in time.
	And on so many of these issues, immigration being another one.
	Really, we're gonna get lectured by Mexico when they put illegal immigrants in jail and throw them right out of the country and give them no care whatsoever.
	No thanks.
	I think I'll pass on that too.
	You know, just like this Iranian director that wouldn't show up at the Oscars, he's lecturing us also about America and American values.
	Well, we're not throwing gays and lesbians off a roofs and killing them as a matter of state punishment.
	We don't uh discriminate against Christians and Jews like they do in Iran.
	Another country you can't get in if you have a Jewish passport, another country that is is extremely bigoted, a country that has threatened to wipe Israel off the map repeatedly, that chance death to America, death to Israel, burns both of our flags.
	And this guy's gonna go to Hollywood, send a letter, boycott because of Trump's ban, temporary ban of seven countries, and then lecture us about human rights and human values when he when if he dared to say the same thing in his own country about their lack of commitment to human rights, that they themselves would be killed for it.
	No thanks.
	That's not exactly courageous.
	Hollywood gives them the standing ovation.
	It's ridiculous.
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	All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
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