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We have Congresswin Congressmen, Roger Williams of Texas, Dave Bratt of Virginia.
They'll check in with us today.
My buddy Rick Burgess of Rick and Bubba, he's written an incredible book that needs to be read by every single man in the country.
And you're saying, Hannity, seriously?
It's how to be a man.
That may sound dumb.
And being a man doesn't mean being bam bam or Fred Flintstone and treating women like crap and uh not being responsible in your life.
If you look at the center, any anywhere in the country where you see decaying families, broken families, you see drug use, you see all the societal problems we have, you can trace a lot of it back to the fact that there's no fathers in a lot of families today.
They're not being good husbands to their wives, they're not being good fathers to their kids.
But I'm not look, I'm not perfect.
It's not me.
He's more perfect than me, all right.
I'm taking myself out of the equation here because I don't want to hear it from anybody.
Um so we're gonna get to that in the course of the program.
Sheriff Clark joins us today.
We we had to put off our interview with him yesterday as uh we had the breaking news, of course.
So we'll get to that in the course of the program.
Well, let me just tell you what we're we've got coming up.
And this is what I want to prepare you for.
Now, when I interviewed Congressman Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House, he says legislatively he's confident in 200 days he's going to get done every legislative item on the Trump agenda and that he agrees with the Trump agenda.
The first item that is up for grabs is this health care bill.
Now, Republicans gotta be very, very smart and cautious.
You break it, you own it.
You repeal it, you better replace it with the right things, and you better fulfill the promises that you made to the American people.
Now that's something that we know the president is committed to.
You know, I'm holding everybody accountable.
I'm I'm more ticked off at Congress, and they don't keep up with the speed of Trump, so far, I love more than anything else what Trump has done is he's checking off the promise list.
Because how often do we hear promises from people running for office?
They get in office and they break their word.
You know, we we dealt with that on Obamacare.
They wouldn't use the power of the purse.
We dealt with that on stopping illegal, unconstitutional executive amnesty.
I don't want to deal with this anymore.
The country is in a precipitous, dramatic decline.
And if you want to help the people in this country that have been penalized by corrupt, inefficient, swampy government, then this is the way to do it.
Keep your promises.
That means for safety and security, build the wall, vet the refugees.
It means on the economy, income tax cuts for the middle class corporations make it one of the lowest corporate taxes in the industrialized world, an opportunity with repatriation, trillions of dollars overseas, taxed at a low rate.
That money's going to be invested in factories and manufacturing centers.
Let's get the forgotten men and women that have been screwed over, that are in poverty, out of work, and on food stamps.
Let's give them the rungs of the ladder so they can climb up and buy their first home and achieve the American dream.
I'm not demanding a lot here.
But if we don't take the advantage of this opportunity, it's going to be squandered.
So keeping them accountable is all of our job.
You don't get to just vote on election day and say I did my part.
Well, if you do that, then it might not get done.
Because a lot of these people are weak in the knees, they're spineless, and they don't care about you or those people that are desperate in need of help.
And I'm not saying government help.
I'm saying getting government out of the way help and incentivizing big money to invest here rather than Mexico or overseas or in Europe or wherever they can get their cheap labor.
You know, or sending, you know, work out to Indonesia or wherever else they send it.
It's ridiculous.
We can revitalize the economy.
We can create greater safety and security for the country.
So the first battle begins with Obamacare.
Now, we have been putting on a series of people that are mad.
Rand Paul yesterday, mad that the bill, we haven't seen the bill yet.
The Freedom Caucus members, we have Dave Brad on from the Freedom Caucus today, Roger Williams today.
And there is a contentious battle within Republican ranks emerging.
And we're going to follow it and we're going to continue it.
But I do I will say this.
Having spoken to a lot of people, I do I am cautiously, and hear me now, cautiously optimistic that at the end of the day, after the amendment process, this is all going to get done in a way that I think will be really good.
I'm hoping and praying they get this right.
Because if they get it right, we're going to have better health care, better options, and it'll it'll serve almost like a tax cut for the millions of, especially young Americans that were buying and forced to buy health care plans that they didn't need, didn't want, because they were using the young and the healthy as a means of paying for the old, the disabled and very sick people.
There's a better way to do this.
Free market is always the best way to do it.
Competition, always the best way to do it.
We told you about this Dr. Umberg guy and and Kansas uh Wichita, Kansas, Atlas MD.
I mean, what they've created amazing cooperatives.
You know, with his ways to do it, it's just a matter it's got to get done.
Now that's one big item on our agenda today.
We'll get to that with the Congressman.
Now I want to just stop for a second.
And I want to spend a lot of time today explaining to you what is really going on.
And we obviously yesterday during the program, we aired attorney general sessions press conference.
Now, interesting stories today because guess who uh met with with the evil anti-American pawn of Vladimir Putin, the Russian ambassador, the day before the so-called bombshell news broke that Jeff Sessions was doing his job and met with him, met with the same guy.
Now remember, we've gone over the statement completely.
You know, Al Frankenstein asked this idiotic question about unconfirmed news put out there by the Clinton News Network that turned out to be fake news that actually, you know, it was so absurd this dossier, which actually claimed that Putin had evidence of Donald Trump in Russia in the Ritz-Carlton with two hookers in his room that are urinating on his bed.
That's what was in the dossier.
That was what what Frankenstein was asking Jeff Sessions.
CNN just published a story alleging that the intelligence community provided documents to the president-elect last week that included information that, quote, Russian operatives claimed to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump.
These documents also allegedly say, quote, there was a continuing exchange of information during the campaign between Trump surrogates and intermediaries for the Russian government.
Now, again, I'm telling you this is coming out, so uh, you know.
But if it's true, it's obviously extremely serious.
And if there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign communicated with the Russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do?
Senator Franklin, I'm not aware of um any of those activities.
I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign, and I didn't have not have communications with the Russians.
Um, and I'm unable to comment on it.
Can't comment on it.
I uh he he was answering a specific question.
Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal financial information, and the documents allegedly say there was a continuing exchange of information during the campaign between Trump surrogates and intermediaries for the Russian government.
Jeff Sessions, I'm not aware of any of this.
I've been called the surrogate, yeah, a time or two, but I didn't have those communications with the Russians.
Okay, he met with the Russian ambassador.
That wasn't the question.
And I'm gonna tell you something, the media knows darn well that that was not the question.
The truth does not matter to them.
And by the way, the day before the ambassador, the same one mentioned, met with Senate Democrats, and including, you know, Diane Feinstein having lunch with the Russian ambassador.
Why?
Because that's what senators do.
That's their job.
Now, there's a story out today.
I want to read you a series of headlines.
Trump advisers push to purge Obama appointees.
Hang on to that in your mind.
The Obama administration rushed to preserve intelligence of Russian election hacking.
That's an that's another one.
Remember that Obama crushed the conspiracy, no evidence that Russia tampered with votes in the election.
That was in mid-December that was put out there.
And then we have all these stories.
Well, why is why is Obama staying in Washington?
Why did Valerie Jarrett move in?
Because he has set a series of traps.
There are over 500 people that need confirmation.
Only yesterday did we get Ben Carson.
Only yesterday did we get Governor Rick Perry confirmed.
There are hundreds of people that need to be confirmed.
In the interim, you have this what we call shadow government, deep state of career bureaucrats, Obama appointees that are working hard and undermining every single solitary day, everything that Trump wants to do.
This is not by accident.
I've done a lot of deep background talking to people about where all this is coming from.
Where are these leaks coming from?
And without fail, they all discussed the shadow government, deep state government.
That's the deep state is their term that they're telling me.
Those career bureaucrats, those holdovers from the Obama administration.
And you've got to understand here, they are undermining the president in a way that never happened before.
Let me give you an example.
In the case of General Flynn, you know, we have laws in this country that certainly we want our NSA, we want our intelligence community to do their job, and that means, you know, tapping the phones of potential enemies in the country.
Maybe they even had a Pfizer approval that we don't know about, and maybe they had a warrant we don't know about, but that's neither here nor there.
Once an American is discovered in such a conversation, they're supposed to do what's called minimalization.
In other words, they're supposed to not record the American.
And let's say, unless, of course, the American says I want to plant a bomb.
Yeah, they would keep recording that.
But in terms of general conversation, they're not supposed to keep recording it because they don't have a warrant to do so.
It's illegal.
It's a violation, a high violation of law.
Now, for the first time, one of the highest ranking intelligence community people I could ever speak to on deep background today, in the history, they can't think of another single instance where it's happened that not only did they record it, but they leaked it.
And it resulted in blood in the water for the Democrats, which is exactly what they want.
Once they have the blood in the water, then they go after Sessions, which is why they went after Melania, which is why they go after Jared and Ivanka and Eric and Don Jr.
And even Baron Trump is why they go after Kellyanne and Rines and Bannon and uh, you know, Steve Miller and everybody else associated with the president.
Because ultimately their goal is to take down the president.
And stupid Republicans never underestimate their ability to eat their own.
They fall right into the trap every time.
Senator Hat said he's shocked that Obama team conducted surveillance on the Trump campaign and on the transition.
I'm not shocked.
And every Democrat, like Congressman Cummings saying investigating Trump is about saving our democracy.
No, it's not.
It's about undermining the will of the people in our democratic republic system and an electoral vote that they didn't like the results of.
This is not by accident.
None of it.
And you all need to understand this as we go forward.
I'll get back into this when we continue.
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So you might be
saying, Hannity, you sound like a conspiracy theorist.
Really?
How is it possible that General Flynn's conversation without a warrant?
How is it possible that that information, which is never ever made possible leaked before, got out?
How did that how did that happen?
Who leaked the information about Jeff Sessions in such a sinister way when there was no contradiction?
How does the media, as corrupt as they are, collude in this manner and get away with it?
We can go back to WikiLeaks.
You notice the media never wants to describe or discuss or honestly assess what they were doing by not vetting Obama.
They never told the public how bad Obama's record is.
They never vetted Hillary Clinton.
Are you going to try and make the case that Hillary Clinton's lying about Benghazi?
She lied repeatedly, made up a whole YouTube video story, and sold this lie when they knew it was a lie.
They knew it was terrorism.
They knew it that day.
And they still lied to people, lied to the families, lied directly to their face.
Well, this Chuck Schumer didn't have a not in his stomach at that time.
Or the same thing, I don't will Reddle Lynch meeting on a tarmac airplane with Bill Clinton while she's, you know, going over the evidence involving his wife?
Seriously?
You know, Clinton and the Clinton Foundation and the corruption and the quid pro quo and the money that went back and forth.
You gotta be kidding me.
And then of course the email server, we know how many crimes were committed there.
Whatever happened in that investigation.
How come they get out of this?
How did they get away with all of this?
If it happened to me, it wouldn't happen.
Remember the people of Libya, Arabic featuring Hillary and Obama apologizing.
Remember all that?
The email server, and then when they did have power, they sold out every single room in the White House as a means of raising money, which is also against the law.
And everybody wants to say Jeff Session lied.
And all the other senators, you know, I love the fact that uh CNS News is a piece out today.
All right.
Which ambassadors did you meet with Al Frankenstein?
And every other Democrat.
Who well, who did you meet with?
How many other people met with with these people?
But that's not the biggest issue here.
We've got a forefront attack, maybe five front attack, if you include the intelligence agencies that have our colluding, corroborating, working with each other, all in an effort to bring down the president.
And they want as much collateral damage as they possibly can have.
Now, that fact will be explained when we get back.
And then we'll hold them accountable later in the program with two congressmen.
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You've got to hear my buddy Rick Burgess, a Rick and Bubba fame, and he's got a book out.
It's so good, I blew me away.
It's called How to Be a Man.
Hannity, you need to discover that.
You think you're Fred Flintstone.
No, that's the point.
I don't.
And I don't think men should.
But it's so good and it's so powerful, and it would sol solve so many societal issues we have if people would just listen.
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Also, uh Sheriff David Clarpst Clark stops by today.
Uh I just mentioned Dr. Josh Umber because now we begin the process of repealing and replacing Obamacare.
Now he's from Wichita, Kansas.
It's called Atlas Medical, his group, and what he did is he formed his own cooperative, and it's one of the most successful experiments I've ever heard of.
And I I really would love for you to talk to like members of Congress about this, because if we could duplicate what you've done down in Wichita, we're gonna be so much better off.
How are you?
I'm great, Sean.
Thanks for having me, and thanks for being just the national leader, you know, waving this flag, carrying this banner for solutions to to health care that aren't being uh discussed uh outside of your show, but uh have the potential to uh really revolutionize our entire system.
Well, I mean, just really quickly, because I got a lot to get to today, and I heard your phone is blowing up since I've been talking about you the last couple of days, is that true?
Absolutely.
I I know it first from my phone buzzing in the exam room because they just keep buzzing.
That's how I usually know you've said something.
All right, so but you set up your own cooperative.
How many doctors are a part of your cooperative?
Uh, we've helped over two hundred and thirty doctors convert to this model ourselves in the last two, three years, but there's maybe five hundred to a thousand doing this insurance-free model.
Um that's really revolutionary.
So I become, let's say I become a member of your cooperative.
What does that entitle me?
Well, we do uh a membership model, so that uh ten dollars for kids, fifty dollars for adults, uh, that's unlimited home visits, work visits, office.
Hang on a second.
Ten dollars a year or visit?
Ten dollars per month.
Ten dollars per month for kids, fifty bucks for an adult, which is nothing, okay.
Nothing.
Yeah, for unless I get unlimited like I get I need stitches, I go see you.
I need they're free.
I get I need an antibiotic.
It's uh ninety five percent off 'cause it's wholesale.
Okay.
Well what what are the other things that can happen?
I get a concussion.
Right.
Um you know, we help navigate that whole system, but by not having any copies, any procedure we do in the office is free.
And EKG, my cost thirty six cents.
The coffee in the waiting room costs sixty cents a cup because I like coffee.
But but now no one ever pays for EKGs or procedures or stitches.
Wait a minute.
I just recently went to my doctor, he made me have an EKG, echocardiogram, and a stress test.
Is that included?
Uh most of that would be included.
The stress test we have at uh about eighty percent discounted rates 'cause we go to another facility.
And good at your doctor, because we need you out there flying this banner if I'm not going to be able to do it.
You know what he did, he trapped me.
I can't he made me be late for work one day because he literally cornered me and he had his whole staff not let me out of his office.
I was so pissed.
And I'm like it takes a crew.
He goes, I've left you alone for two years because I know you've been on the road and you've been busy, but you're not leaving without a full exam today.
Perfect.
Good for him.
And one day m one time my my prostate PSA number had doubled in a year.
So he goes, Oh, I need you to come back, we gotta check it.
He had he had three doctors waiting for me.
Three.
And I had a dollar eighty five for us to check that dollar eighty five.
But you'd want the three th I they took thirteen samples of my prostate.
I was bleeding forever.
Yes, yes.
Um well, I mean it's uh that's that's the step to prevent uh cancer.
But we can do all this stuff, wholesale medicines, wholesale labs, and this is the amazing thing.
We're working with Lydia at Business Insider on a great story, hopefully come out soon, on the fact that the the medications the pharmacies are charging are ninety five percent less than their markup when you when you look at the true wholesale price.
When we take those things out of the insurance model, that would means we can work with the patient, their employer, and their insurance company to drive costs down.
The insurance companies we've worked with the longest, like uh Bill Ashley at Allied National can tell us that their profit margins are much higher working in plans like this because we we're out competing the lab, the pharmacy, um we're we're no co-pays, free procedures, uh uh.
So you're doing all of this and m and everybody gets a checkup every year.
Everybody has all the ma major things.
What is not included?
Like if you need heart surgery, that's not included.
Right.
That would be something great for s uh for catastrophic, right?
If you get a plan, get a catastrophic plan which is currently illegal under Obamacare.
Exactly.
And that that's the funny thing.
We need to go back to insuring less.
Malcolm Gladwell, prolific writer for the New Yorker, has said this.
W what we've proven is you don't need to insure primary care anymore.
And that's the vast majority of people get.
Uh that's the vast majority of care most people need to.
So the insurance you would need is for cancer, God forbid, heart attack, uh car wreck.
Okay, and that and if you get a catastrophic plan with say a five thousand dollar deductible, you know, maybe that's a couple of hundred bucks a year, right?
For a young person?
Exactly.
For a family, you know, two, three hundred, three, four hundred dollars maybe a year, compared to what we're seeing of north of a thousand twelve hundred, more than their mortgage.
And if you think seventy percent of jobs in this country are from small businesses, and we can go to small businesses and decrease insurance costs by thirty to sixty percent by working with the insurance companies in this system, by m going back to a more intelligent design where people have actually more access than they ever had, better rates, and better insurance at a cheaper price.
Uh isn't that what we're all looking for?
But really, that's the same thing that any other industry has to do.
A better product at a better price.
We are the Silicon Valley esque ten times, you know, ten X improvement on meds, on labs, on access.
All right.
I'll tell you what we're gonna do, because uh you know, you called in today, we weren't planning on having you as a guest.
How about we do this?
Why don't we have you back next week when we begin this Obama uh repeal replace debate?
And I also want to get you on the phone if at all possible with some members of Congress and and maybe they can just hear you out and uh maybe we'll fly you up to DC and go talk to these banana heads and see if you can't straighten them out.
I think that's absolutely once they hear the answer, The simplicity, it makes sense.
They have their concerns.
We can address those concerns, but we can do a repeal and replace, not because we want to take care away from people, but because there is now a better alternative that makes everybody happy.
More care more often for more people at a fraction of the price.
No one's gonna disagree with that.
Um it actually simplifies the process so that everyone is happy.
Um and that's a solution that I think only you are really talking about every day on talk radio to millions of Americans that need to hear it.
So thank you very much.
All right, Dr. Umber, you're like you're like my my medical uh plan hero here, because I think that's the best for your well, because most people don't need all this stuff.
You know, look, if I get cancer, that's a different story.
If I have a heart attack, that's a different story.
My doctor swears I'm not gonna have a heart attack.
Good, good.
But you know, we've cured skin cancer for forty dollars.
Not cancer is scary.
Why are you laughing in there?
You want me to die of they want me to die of a heart attack in there?
They're give they're the ones they're the carriers.
Linda's a carrier, she gives heart attacks.
I was just laughing because he said that to him, and he was like, Okay, good, good.
Like a typical doctor.
Okay, good, good, good.
Take care of it.
I asked him, he's You're doing a lot of sharing today.
Well, my doctor said that I have the heart of a healthy 40-year-old athlete.
That's what he said.
There you go.
And this is a doctor-patient relationship, so it's just between you, me, and millions of listeners.
Yeah, oh, that's fine.
Uh well, I don't know if he's right or not, but you know, I I at one point my blood pressure was getting out of control, and he he had to weigh in and give me medicine.
Well, one of the blood pressure pills I'd use for you, I get a thousand pills for eight dollars.
And Walmart will sell you 90 for ten dollars.
What is it?
What's the name of the medicine?
That one is LASIKs.
Uh generic ferozing.
LASIKS is a water pill, which helps for blood pressure, and and that's part of the one that I have, I would tell you, but I don't really feel like giving out all my every single detail.
Now that I mentioned my prostate biopsy and everything else, I don't want to give out all any more information.
Uh, but anyway, listen, I love what you're doing.
Thank you, Doctor.
Appreciate it.
We'll talk next week.
Wonderful.
All right, so I want to just go to this whole thing.
You've got to understand what's happening with the president.
You've got this Obama secret government, shadow government, swamp government, literally now, deep state as the White House is calling it.
What they're doing is they're doing everything they can do to stop Donald Trump from being successful.
What is the left fear the most right now?
If Donald Trump is successful, they are it is the end of their ideology for decades and decades to come until America forgets again and is stupid and goes back to liberalism.
This is the opportunity of a lifetime.
So the only the only thing that they have available to them is this bizarre conspiracy with no evidence, no proof, and you've got all these shadowy government people being directed by Ben Rhodes and company and Eric Holder and Obama and Valerie Jarrett and company being directed.
I guarantee you there's a smoking gun someplace.
In my opinion, they're the ones at the at the top of this.
And they've set all these traps by keeping all of these holdovers, not going forward with the confirmation process.
We have over 500 people we need to confirm.
Then you've got lifetime bureaucrats a part of this.
And that's why things that have never been leaked before now being leaked every single day.
Advisors to President Trump are now rightly urging him to purge every Obama holdover.
And on top of that, get rid of his political appointees, and on top of that, get to the bottom of who's leaking here.
You got this phony Russian story, and I've been told on deep background, there's nothing to this.
Nothing.
They don't have now if they get evidence at some point, I'll share it with you, but they don't have it now.
Nobody is ever given any evidence.
Just to the contrary.
They have said the opposite of what the New York Times, ABC, CBS, MBC, CNN, and MSNBC are all telling you.
They're all lying.
The same people that colluded with Hillary Clinton that she could win and help her in every way win the White House.
And they were so confident that they had done their job, and everyone was shocked on election day because the forgotten men and women that have been screwed over in this country because of their failed policies, stood up, spoke out, went to vote, and and literally gave us an opportunity to stop this precipitous decline.
And literally, every time Trump gets great footing, like he had a great speech the other night, they're ready to drop another another bomb to change and shift the news cycle.
Because whenever Trump goes out directly to you, the American people, he contradicts their phony narrative that he's unhinged.
He's mentally unstable.
We need to invoke the 25th Amendment.
When people see him, they're like, wow, I really like what he says.
Wow, this is going to work.
Wow, somebody's keeping their promises.
That's why he's better off tweeting, giving speeches, and going directly to the American people because he's not going to get a fair shake at any of these news outlets because they're out to get him.
And they're out to get everybody around him.
That's there's a specific reason that they're targeting one by one individually.
His wife, his daughter, his son-in-law, his children, his Don Jr., Eric Barron.
There's a reason they're going after Bannon, after Rines, after Kellyanne, after Stephen Miller.
Everybody associated with him.
Then they got their blood in the water with General Flynn on information that never ever should have been recorded.
Then we go back two years, you know, two weeks before Obama leaves office.
All of a sudden, that personal intel, this SATCOM info that they accumulate when they tap phone calls of foreign agents.
Well, now it's allowed to be shared with 16 other agencies.
They only did it two weeks before they left.
You think that's by accident or by design?
So you got a four to five frontal attack.
You got the snowflakes, they're doing the protesting, and they're funded by George Soros.
Then you've got the Democrats that want the president to fail because it's the end of their power forever.
Then you got the media that colluded to elect both Obama and tried to elect Hillary, because we know that.
Now you've got the intelligence community coupled with Obama holdovers and the permanent bureaucrats.
They are now fighting a war against Trump.
And then on top of that, you got the Republican establishment.
You got the Snowflake establishment, the Soros funded people.
You got the media establishment, left wing hate Trump.
You've got the Democratic establishment.
They want their power.
They don't want them to succeed.
You got Republicans that are weak.
Lindsey Graham and John McCain are the most pathetic of the group.
And on top of that, now you've got this whole other swamp.
Lifelong bureaucrats, Obama holdovers being purposefully instructed to leak things that have never been leaked before.
And these dopey Republicans don't ever underestimate their ability to eat their own.
Senator Orin Hatch, I'm shocked that Obama team conducted surveillance on the Trump campaign and on transition.
I'm not.
Yeah, they want they want to undermine, they want to impeach him.
They want him out of office, and it's all by design.
Dick Morris wrote a column today.
Dem's laying the basis for a coup d'etat by hitting sessions.
He's right.
This is all true.
30 Senate Democrats met with Russian diplomats to advance Obama's Iran deal.
Nobody gave a rip about that.
Nobody gave a rip that he tried to influence the Israeli elections.
You know, they ignore Loretta Lynch in that controversy.
Nobody cared that Hillary lied about Benghazi.
Nobody cared she broke the law on the emails.
Nobody cared that she sold influence to everybody that had millions of dollars.
Chuck Schumer wasn't, didn't have a knot in his stomach when Bill Clinton met with Loretta Lynch while Hillary was being investigated.
We got Chucky Schumer meeting with Putin in New York City.
Nobody cares about that.
A hypocrite that he is.
And by the way, there's a Bright Bar piece by Aaron Klein today right on cue.
Soros Finance Moveon.org holds DC protest, demanding sessions resign.
It's all coordinated.
There are five fronts trying to take the president down, delegitimize him, stop his agenda, and prevent the successful agenda from moving the country forward and stopping America's decline.
You got it?
This is not a conspiracy theory.
It is a conspiracy.
It is real.
It's alive.
John Hannity.
All right, when we come back holding them, especially Republicans, but all of D.C. accountable to the promises they made to you.
Congressman Roger Williams of Texas, Dave Bratt of Virginia.
Now that they begin the process of repealing replacing Obamacare, we've got to make sure they get this right.
And uh we'll find out the latest.
You know, this seems to be intramural battling, but I'm I'm cautiously optimistic.
Hopefully we'll get there.
If we don't, this is not going to be good, but I'm a Reagan guy, trust but verify.
That's next.
That's next.
The plan is repeated.
We ran on a plan to repeal and replace it.
Tom Price helped write that plan.
He is now Donald Trump's secretary of age.
It is a consensus plan that's now being scored by the CBO.
Correct.
He said there's a plan currently being scored by the CBO that was a consensus plan.
That's what he told me.
Well, I understand that.
And uh it is not a consensus plan.
I haven't seen it.
Maybe Dave Bratt's seen it, but I haven't seen any plan at this point that uh has been rolled out.
Dave Bratt No, yeah.
Yeah, I'll second in short.
I was asking him specifically, where's the consensus plan?
Well, in health care, I don't think there is one because we haven't seen it, right?
We have been running on repealing and replacing Obamacare since 2010.
In 2016, the House, in a bottom-up way, set a working group together, the Commerce Committee, the Wazy Means Committee, the Education Workforce Committee, and then any other member of Congress who cares about this issue, participating in a working group to come up with a plan for what we would replace Obamacare with.
Uh much of it was modeled off the Tom Price legislation, which which we as conservatives have always seen as sort of the gold standard for replacing Obamacare.
He's now the Secretary of HS.
That is the bill, the plan that we ran on in 2016.
We told America, here's our vision for how we replace Obamacare after we repeal Obamacare.
That's the bill we're working on right now.
That's the bill we're working on with the Trump administration.
We're all working off the same piece of paper, the same plan.
So we are in sync.
The House, the Senate, and the Trump administration, because this law is collapsing.
And you can't just repeal it, you have to repeal it and replace it with a system that actually works, and that is exactly what we're doing, and I am perfectly confident that when it's all said and done, we're going to unify because we all, every Republican ran on repealing and replacing, and we're going to keep our promises.
I want to see the bill.
We have many objections.
There are many parts of what they are proposing.
And of course, we have not gotten any of this in writing.
I got it from political.
All right.
I haven't gotten anything in writing from anyone.
So we're here asking for a written copy of this because this should be an open and transparent process.
Hour two, Sean Hannity Show, 800 941.
Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, now, beginning next week, we are going to see a battle begin, and this is agenda item number one that must be fixed.
And that is, and by the way, I'm glad we're finally getting to the meat and potatoes of elections.
We spent two years electing a president.
Now the president has done pretty much everything he could do to keep his promises.
Now Congress has to weigh in, especially on repealing, replacing Obamacare, and on a series of other important issues, including two budgets that need to be passed.
And one of them will include a total complete shift and change of our tax code, which I know the House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Brady is now working on.
And they're saying that it's going to take about three weeks just on Obamacare.
And I've had a series of discussions on this program with uh one was with the Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan.
He's on a two hundred day plan to get everything the president is pushing legislatively done, and the first part of it being the health care issue.
And then there's the issue we had Rand Paul on yesterday.
He's upset that nobody has actually seen the health care bill that is being scored by the CBO and Freedom Caucus members have also expressed their skepticism on all of this.
And at the end of the day, they're going to have to come to a consensus and an agreement, and the former speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, I think described it well, that they've got to work with inside a box what the parameters are, what the goals are.
But at the end of the day, if they repeal Obamacare, they're going to own it.
They're going to own the health care system.
So they better get it right for the American people, and they better know what they're doing.
And my only criticism is why didn't we have one ready to go on day one, considering we've had eight years in a lead up to this, or at least a consensus bill?
Uh Representative Roger Williams of Texas is with us, and Congressman Dave Bratt is back with us of the Freedom Caucus.
Uh welcome uh both of you to the program.
Hey, listen, well, So, you know, I've had these back and forths with everybody, and this is the most important thing.
We've got to get it right.
Congressman Bratt, where are we in your mind with this?
I know that you had lunch or breakfast with the speaker earlier this week, all the Freedom Caucus members, or at least a number of you.
Did you come to any resolution on these things?
No, we're still not at resolution.
And now, I mean, there's a head count in the Senate.
I mean, we got three guys, the free market guys, Lee and Rand and and uh Senator Cruz.
Are you know they're the free market guys, they're opposed, and the word is there's fifteen senators that are opposed, and in the House, you got the ho the House Study Committee with a hundred and seventy members.
I mean, just say thirty or forty of them are opposed.
The House Freedom Caucus opposed, and what we're opposed to is we haven't seen the bill yet, and it looks like we're getting Obamacare like, right?
There's there's new taxes, there's a new entitlement program.
So the Cadillac tax, the mandate would remain.
What else are you worried about?
Yeah, well, the main thing I'm worried about, and Paul Ryan has been good on this messaging, right?
But he's saying we have a consensus, but he also promised that coming out of Philadelphia a month ago, we would have a plan that bends the cost curve down.
Right now costs are going up at twenty-five percent.
To bend the cost curve down, that means negative one, right?
That means we're actually going to reduce costs for a hundred and seventy million people on employer provided plans.
Instead of doing what Obama did and just worrying about the big insurance firms, and they get eighteen million new customers and the cronies are all happy, but costs never went down.
Instead of what I guess I'm afraid of here is I'm I'm beginning to see the stage set for a big fight within the intramural battle within the Republican Party.
Is am I wrong in saying that?
And is there a way to to avert that?
Yeah, well, right.
I mean, the that is that's the huge you know, fight that's going on that no one's seeing is all the governors are duking it out on Medicaid expansion.
Well, we know that Governor John Kasich was, I guess, at the White House talking to President Trump, and why he even gives him the time of day after w the way he treated him is beyond me.
But um well, and and Trump, the one thing he said while he was campaigning is we're gonna lower costs and we're gonna have competition across state lines.
And we're not hearing anything about that dimension anymore, right?
It's just kind of we always kind of wimp out and go with you know, socialism light with big federal government programs.
And Paul Ryan's a free market guy, right?
He he knows the right thing.
He knows we gotta get away from the federal government running things 'cause Social Security and Medicare are insolvent.
How can how come when I talk to him, he tells me that he is a hundred percent agrees with all of that, and then you tell me you have doubts about it?
Well, that's what we gotta get at.
We gotta get on paper, right?
Rand Paul's looking for the bill yesterday and couldn't find it, so that's we're all waiting to see which is it, right?
Is it a free market plan that made this country great over the last two hundred years, or is it all a human history where the king guarantees you something and it never comes to pass?
All right.
So what I'd like to know is do you think in other words, is Newt right that the Freedom Caucus, the Speaker, the Senate leaders and and then the conservatives in the Senate and the study group that you're all gonna sit around together,
and I gotta believe probably I would like to see everyone take their phones, send them put them in the garbage for a few hours, sit in a room and hash this out within the box that is gonna accomplish everything that the president promised, something that's gonna work for the American people, and that's something that will make all sides happy.
Is that possible?
Uh it's it's possible, but it's not probable.
I mean, it it's kinda like the budget architecture.
The the hint is you get twenty-four hours to look at it, right?
And that's my worst fear, is right now we haven't even seen the bill, and I think leadership came out today and said we're gonna have a vote in three weeks.
And uh this is one fifth of the economy.
So for those of us we don't even know the the basic architecture of is this gonna be effective.
Well we have to pass the bill to find out what's in the bill.
That's not gonna work with the American people.
Right.
Well, no, well, I don't think he's gonna do that.
I mean, he knows better than that, doesn't he?
Yeah, they they know better, but on the budget, look at the last six years on the budgets, right?
It's been the kind of the right before Christmas shutdown threat, etc.
When we could have worked it all right, that's not gonna work this time.
The American people are too savvy to it.
They're not gonna put up with that.
I'm sorry, Congressman Williams, I want you to weigh in on this too.
What do you see happening?
Well, it it's it's hard to see.
I mean, uh my my buddy Dave Bratt says it very well, but the bottom line is what I want to see is I want to I want to uh repeal Obamacare, and I want to go back to what we had.
I mean, that is the replacement when you had eighty-five percent of the people had health care, fifteen percent didn't.
I mean, that is the replacement in my mind, and I want to hear Matt Shop across state lines.
I want to hear about uh putting pooling uh resources together to get a better deal and those sort of things, and we haven't seen a plan yet, but I'm a small business owner, Sean, as you know, and and uh uh Main Street's waiting for an answer to this, and uh Obamacare has killed Main Street America.
And the replacement to me is let's go back to what we had, repeal and replace with what we had and uh do a little fine tuning to it, but uh like I say I haven't seen anything, so I don't know where we're going.
Yeah, well, is there a reason that they're not sharing it?
Is it uh are the principles that everybody agrees on that we're talking about free market competition, health care savings accounts, portability, some way to deal with pre existing conditions.
Is that all is that all uh print on principle everything we all agree on?
Well, I think so.
Everything you name, I mean, certainly pre existing conditions should be met.
Shop across state lines, make it portable, let individuals own their own health care, not the uh not the federal government.
These are what we agree on, but but uh a lot of us agree on it, but uh it goes back to what we uh what we had and let's improve it, but uh not something Obama light as we've talked about.
I can't believe that this fear exists.
What do you guys do in caucus?
I mean, when you're all there together and I mean i hasn't this been brought up behind closed doors?
Well it has.
I mean, everybody gets up and and s says their says their uh says their mind, but then sometimes we leave and it uh it's sometimes like uh uh people didn't hear what everybody said.
So, you know, look at this is totally game time.
You've talked about it, Dave Bratt's talked about it, Scott Perry's talked about it.
Uh we've got to respond to our constituents.
We all ran on doing away with Obamacare.
That's what my district wants.
And uh they're getting nervous about what they're gonna see, and I want to see what the plan is so we can move forward.
And Congressman Bratt, how soon do you think this all can be hashed out and completed?
Well, I think we can get it done in a matter of three weeks.
Roger's a great friend, he's a great sportsman and a great American, and taxes always has it right, right?
They got common sense down there.
And he just said the common sense is repeal means repeal.
So if you had before you didn't have Obamacare and now you got Obamacare, if you repeal it, you go back to what we had before.
And then we all want to be compassionate, but you don't want to be able to do that.
The president the president has said that he wants when you repeal, he wants the replacement.
He's been very clear about it.
Yeah, and that's okay, and that's what Roger was getting at that.
We're all fine with a with a block grant to the state and taking care of high risk pools and pre existing conditions and making sure the rug doesn't get pulled out from anybody.
We're all compassionate, but we what we don't want is the federal government running health care.
We know very well that is not free market.
So you cannot say you're a free market person and say you want the federal government running health care.
Those two are not compatible.
All right, I want to ask about the rest of the agenda.
We'll continue with Congressman Dave Bratt, Congressman Roger Williams.
If you're ready to get out of the media spin room, you come to the right place.
This is the Sean Hannity Show.
As we continue, it's all part of our holding Washington, especially Republicans accountable series on radio and television.
We continue with Congressman Dave Bratt of Virginia and Congressman Roger Williams of Texas.
All right, now moving beyond Obamacare, we've got a lot of other ground to cover.
We've got two budgets we've got to pass.
We literally want to change the tax code in one of them.
Is there agreement and discussion on that, Congressman Williams?
Well, this is something I've been very interested in in a long time being a small business owner.
You know, we've got the highest tax rates in the world.
We're not competitive, we're losing jobs because of those high tax rates.
And I think that uh, you know, we've got to look at this tax tax program is how to cash flow this country.
And I've had a program out there which cuts corporate personal cap gains, repatriation, which you talk about all the time, hundred percent write-off on fixed asset purchases, it will allow Main Street and Wall Street, whoever, to be able to cash flow.
We've got a cash flow.
We don't have a cash flow problem, we've got a spending problem.
Till we address spending, we've got to address the cash flow issue.
And I think the the thing that concerns me most of all is this border tax that all of a sudden we've come out with.
It's uh I I think it's it's just pure it's a tax increase.
And uh, you know, if we cut our tax rates and empower small business and big business, we'll get jobs over here and we'll create cash flow.
And the problem, Sean, is I just think the president is negotiating.
As well as I know him, he's a c constant nonstop negotiator, and he's d demanding fairness for the trade deals, and I think we could get better trade deals.
Well, I think um you're exactly right.
Trade deals, if he does it individually like uh like he said he would.
That that's great.
But look at you know, that to have this border tax as the pay for and dealing with what they call revenue neutral in the federal government, which nobody in the private sector deals with a term called revenue neutral.
Look at you got a cash flow.
People have to make money, bring jobs back, add jobs, and cash for our country, and then address the real problem of expenses, and that's tax reform, but not a border tax.
I'm very uncomfortable with that.
Congressman Bright, where do you feel we are in terms of these two budgets that you're talking about doing, which had never been done before?
Well, you you're seeing the the budgets are very doable, and then uh the hard part is the heavy lifting on Obamacare and the differences we're gonna have, and then we can we can chew those out the same on the taxes.
What you're not gonna see is the lobbyists running around DC like crazy trying to preserve their special interest, right?
What Roger's just talking about.
That that's the invisible piece that uh no one wants to let that piece out.
How bad the swamp is.
Well, you got uh well, are you gonna st uh I mean you have an you have the ability to stop it and just tell them to go to hell.
I mean, with all due respect, say it nicely.
Don't say it.
They don't say it the way Hannity says it.
Say it in your way.
Hannity says go to hell.
Well, and this is our once this is a I'm not making this up.
This is a once in a century opportunity.
When you have the House and the Senate and the President, JFK reduced the rates, got five percent real growth.
Reagan did the same thing.
We can do the same thing.
Reagan got up to eight percent growth in some quarters.
Yeah.
Larry Lindsay came in, that's what he said.
Four percent GDP growth, eight percent wage growth.
And if you give the American people an average forgotten man and woman, eight percent wage growth every year.
The the anxiety level is gonna go way down.
All this racial tension and all this political bipartisan squabbling's gonna go away because when people are rich, they're happy.
And that we gotta get back to happy days again.
We have three weeks now to get this done, and we are gonna be doing an hold them accountable segment every day.
And my hope and prayer is is that that everybody comes around and does the right thing.
This is about the people, the forgotten men and women that you discussed, Congressman Brad.
It's not about Washington.
It's not about lobbyists.
Let's get this right for the American people.
This is too big and too important for the country.
And uh, I want to thank you both for being with us.
My buddy Rick Burgess is uh gonna join us from Rick and Bubba.
You've got to hear the argument he makes about how to be a good man.
You're saying, what, Hannity?
Just stay with me.
Trust me on this.
holding them accountable.
Sean gets the answers no one else does.
America deserves to know the truth about Congress.
I'm not going to church.
I can't.
Yes, you're going to church.
You're gonna worship God!
So so then I then where where where where is the baby?
Where's the baby rounds the corner eating soap?
You know, like that you rats like he bites you for eat the soap.
Spit it out!
Spit it out!
You like that, and then all of a sudden I hear the word baby, Daddy!
Yes, Sherry says for you to dress Taz.
Oh no, not that.
No, God, big love and daddy say it.
So I get him here we go.
Come on, Ted.
And you have to get Taz, and you just uh here we go.
You gotta break down.
I got the little outfit, you know, and it's all nice and freely, and he's got the little pull-up knee socks and little light shoes, and you just get him, and you just hold him down, and you start like you're wrapping a gift.
And he's okay, ah so then I get him and I dress him up to find a getting dressed.
Funny, that's how I am getting dressed.
Uh uh here's how you do shoes on task.
I've got a kid by one foot.
He's hanging, and I'm going, and I'm trying to screw it on like you're putting on it.
What's your little white shoes on so you can be pretty for church?
You're like, so we get I'm still in gym shorts.
All right, twenty five now till the top of the hour.
That could only be from one place, the Rick and Bubba, Rick and Bubba, Rick and Bubba show.
Now, some of you like in the Northeast are saying, What?
This is the highest rated morning show in all of the South.
And these guys are two of the funniest people I've ever met, and over time you would fall in love with them like I have over the years, and Rick Burgess is uh the co-host.
Where where's Bubba?
What's the matter?
He's he can't get out of bed today.
No, Sean, what is he eating moon is he eating moon pie or what?
No, you know this.
I mean, you have you have one that plays Bubba is in the southeastern United States, believe it or not, he's the face of tennis.
He is coaching a tennis team today.
What do you mean he's coaching a tennis team?
He's three hundred pounds.
What are you talking about?
Well, I'm telling you, every time people talk about tennis, I lo I say I show them Bubba and I say this guy plays tennis all the time.
Is he really?
Yeah, but he's a double specialist, meaning get a good partner.
Is that right?
Yeah, but he actually coaches uh the high school team and and they and actually does a good job and believe it or not, Bubba has a lot of tennis knowledge.
I know me saying that sounds absolutely bizarre in the the camo tennis racket leaves a little to be desired.
Oh come on, he's got a duck dynasty tennis racket, too.
Oh yeah, he's got a full blown camo tennis racket.
It's uh it's it's it's really unbelievable.
So he's doing that today.
Is he gonna get mad that I called him a little chubby?
Uh you know what?
Unless he doesn't have a mirror.
Yeah, I know.
But that's how how does he move the way you need to move in tennis?
Maybe maybe that's why he's a double specialist.
He's a double specialist, but what I've said is keep in mind he has cat like reflexes, sort of like Garfield.
Yeah, I bet that's true.
Do you do you ever play with him?
Uh no, d Sean.
I I'm I'm from the football background.
I didn't even know we had a tennis team.
Oh, yeah.
When I was when I was playing Oh, that's cold.
You 'cause you know my kids play tennis.
I know.
And I I said, I said you could relate to this, and now through Bubba, I know more about it and and I love it.
And uh and I thought you would actually relate to that because you probably go watch a tennis tournament uh all the time.
I used to watch all the time.
Now I'm now I'm they're older and I uh uh you know they want daddy around less because daddy's too involved and daddy's happy not to be stressed out.
It's more stressful to watch your kids playing sports.
It really is.
Oh, yeah than it is I I can go to work, I can do my eighteen hours a day, I can fly all over the country, I can I can sit in the oval office with with ease and comfort, I swear.
But that stresses me out.
That's it.
I'm telling you, some sometimes I have to say to myself, You're a grown man, what are you nervous about this game about?
Yeah, and but bothering you so much.
And the funny thing, I was telling a friend of mine, uh Matt Getz, both our kids are about the same age.
His son, my son, and and his daughter and my daughter, and you know, over the years they've they've all played each other, and I said, I can't watch this crap anymore.
And he laughs at me.
He says I'm pathetic.
No, I I totally get it.
I mean, uh having uh five kids and and four of them that have been through athletics and all that, it really is just I I mean, there I hate to say it, I finally can enjoy sports when my dad, who's a retired football coach, stopped coaching, and when my kids stop playing, I'll actually be able to enjoy it again.
Yeah, I I'm telling you, it's all different when it's your kids.
It's just a whole different environment.
Anyway, hey, let me ask you, uh so you know, one of the things that I've always loved about you guys, number one, how funny you are.
Although you did abandon me, you never put me on your show anymore.
I mean you were just on the here, I'm about to play something for you.
And this is the thing I want the America to hear.
This is Sean, what he said on our show prior to the election.
I think Rick and Bubba made the difference in the last election.
And I think Rick and Bubba are gonna make the difference in this election.
Hello.
You're welcome, America.
Well, I was just probably sucking up at me and nice.
Uh but you know, one of the things, it's amazing, because in many ways you're like the the Howard Stern of the South in the sense of, you know, when Howard Stern was on terrestrial radio, I mean, he pulled in numbers that were just astronomical.
And you I've seen your ratings on on some of your big stations, they're just through the roof.
It's insane.
And and and it's just but it's you know, obviously you don't have naked women in the studio and strippers and lesbians, which lesbians equal ratings according to Howard, but the but you you actually do a show, it's really funny, but you guys are faith based guys.
You guys are strong Christians, and you know, one of the reasons I'm having you on today, this when you wrote this book, it just hit me in the head.
It's how to be a man.
And I started thinking about it.
I'm like, you know, so many you look at like inner cities and crime and drugs and and how often is that connected to kids that you know have so much God given potential but don't have uh a r a real role model or that you know some guys think being a man is being bam bam and Fred Flintstone and banging on their chest woman get over here instead of being a gentleman.
And so it really caught my attention.
So tell me about this thing.
Well you you you just hit on it.
I mean it it I really really took the church to be honest with you to task.
We do a secular show and we talk about politics, comedy and sports and and things that go on in our family but at the end of the day we're we're followers of Jesus Christ and we don't apologize for that and in the show though it is on secular stations and and audiences the things that we look at we look through the prism of of Jesus Christ.
And that doesn't mean that we don't make mistakes and I know you have the same commitment to your faith and I've heard you get bolder and bolder about that and as you've gone through the years through your sanctification as well and I know we've talked about that in private and I've heard you boldly proclaim that publicly and and so really one of the things that has happened is this whole society is falling apart and it can be traced back to the most influential force in society in the church and in the home and that is the man.
Men and women are equal no question about that but the problem is our society is trying to declare them as same they are 100% equal in value in the eyes of God but they are not same.
He made them male he made them female and a woman is uniquely as you has unique gifts that were given to her by God that a man cannot replace and a man has been uniquely been given gifts by God that a woman cannot replace.
They are not interchangeable.
And that is something that not only has society lost sight of, but so has the church.
The church every Father's Day will tell men how worthless we are, how we need to step up and be the spiritual leader of the home.
We'll get the Barna stats where if you reach a man for Christ in his home, there's a 93% chance that his house will follow.
It drops to 23% chance if it's the woman, and it drops down to about 7% if it's one of the children in the home.
But then we hear that on Father's Day, and then the church does nothing about it.
And most of the things in the church are designed to reach women and children, and you cannot reach a man, you cannot disciple a man by treating him like a woman or a child.
And so I got together and God kind of gave me a vision for discipling men because I think if I came to you Sean and I came to you and I say I've got a business plan we can invest in this customer and get a seven percent return.
We can invest in this customer and get a twenty three percent return or we can invest in this customer and our return will be ninety three percent where would you put your investment but yet the church isn't doing that.
And I mean I travel the country speaking at churches and I I it is is the exception not the rule that the men's ministry has any impact whatsoever and that's what you see 94% of the men on death row is you and I are talking do not have a father or they had a father that had no influence in their life they all had wonderful mothers or at least the majority of them did and it wasn't enough and this is not to downgrade single mothers.
As a matter of fact I've I've had women who are single moms buy this book so they can take a son and say your dad's abandoned you but I'm going to show you the example of somebody who didn't abandon you and that's Jesus Christ.
You got to get they got together and and looked at the example of a man is Jesus.
That's the one that won't fail you.
It's so fascinating you're talking about this today because I met this guy that does a prison ministry.
I wasn't going to talk about it on the air but I'll talk about it and I'm actually going to go and talk to these guys.
You know I'm obsessed with like reading lockup and one of the main things he said they'd never had role models in their lives and fathers I mean I think the the best gift I give my son is a kick in the ass.
With all due respect and he's a great kid.
But he needs a kick in the ass a lot.
You know he's eighteen years old his brain is half formed like every eighteen year old boy.
Sure.
And he's a good kid he's got a good conscience, a good heart, but he's still eighteen.
And I think the best thing I can do for him is just tell him the truth and say hey this is this is what you got to do.
This is how you put your man pants on and live.
And I tell him that all the time to take responsibility for his life.
And well you look you look at this devotional, just what you're talking about.
We've said, All right, where is the example of really how to be a man?
And that and that's Jesus Christ, when God became a man, and we look at eight characteristics that Jesus Christ exemplif Jesus Christ exemplified integrity, identity, purpose, surrender, passion, commitment, compassion, because you can't have truth without love, even though you just as you can't have love without truth.
And then influence.
And we break down these characteristics from a biblical standpoint.
It takes about ten to fifteen minutes a day for a father to go through it, a man to go through it, or you to go through it with your son.
I've sent you and your son one of these, so you can sit down and go through this together, because I'm gonna tell every man listening across America.
If you are not the spiritual leader of your home, if you're not the influence in that home, especially when you're raising up boys, uh and there's a pastor or a priest or a Sunday school teacher or somebody else who's the spiritual leader for that son, that person is a better father and husband than you are.
Wow, that's a powerful statement.
So you wrote the book, How to Be a Man, and it's a 40-day sort of program devotional learning experience that you go through to how to be a better person and uh from a man's standpoint, how to be a better man.
So hang on one second.
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Well, I know what you get paid, so let's get to the break.
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It's pretty powerful statement that you're making.
I I've got to believe this book is gonna be a massive best seller, and uh I'm look I I'm learning from it myself.
I think it's all great that you put this together.
And I'm and I'm not talking about, like you said, the world's version of masculinity.
I'm talking about Jesus Christ's version of masculine.
In other words, a gentleman, uh being a man, I go back to the example.
You're not Bam Bam, and you're not Barney Rubble and and Fred Flintstone and and ordering your wife around or treating a woman like like under Sharia Law.
Well, I will tell you this, I I've I've talked about that quite a bit, but what I'm saying is we are not speaking to men in the church like men.
I asked I I actually asked a guy when I had about the fifth pastor in a row, look put his head down and look at his feet, when I asked about his men's ministry when his women's ministry was thriving, the youth were even doing well, they'd have a good youth pastor that's come in, their children's programs are through the roof.
And I said, Well, can I ask you this?
When you went to seminary, did they tell you the way to bring men into the church was to cater to women and children, and they would follow their wife and children into the church?
And he said, Well, I don't know that that was officially said, but unofficially, yes.
And I said, But that's not biblical.
If you would c if you would go and disciple the men of your church, you know, any feminist listening right now, their head is exploding.
That that's fine.
But it's still the truth, and you know this.
If you if you and I go into areas where the society has fallen apart, we find the same thing, no men.
Or we find men who have not taken responsibility for their wife and children, it's in every single failed community, the same exact thing.
And a lot of that becomes generational because if you have men that have not invested in the next generation of men, somewhere we gotta break this chain, even in the church, and we've got to disciple men where they begin because discipleship is going from spiritual infancy to spiritual maturity, and then duplicating that and and your sons.
And and but a lot of men say, I don't know where to begin.
And that's why Andy Blanks is the co-writer of this.
He's a former Marine who served our country, and I know your passion for the military.
He's a man of God, and we both sat down.
He's been doing youth curriculum for a long time with YM360, and he says, you know, there's just not a lot of men's curriculum out there.
And so he and I sat down and and we put together these eight characteristics that that that Jesus Christ showed us shows us in the Word of God.
We spend five days on each characteristic.
It only takes about ten to fifteen minutes, and now Iron Hill Press, this is the first curriculum that they've ever put out for men.
Because we as a church have got to stop talking about the importance of men and actually we believe that by discipling men.
I gotta tell you that's a very powerful, strong case you've made, and uh I I'm sure my audience is gonna be very interested.
Now we put it up on my website, Hannity.com, it's in bookstores everywhere, Amazon.com.
It's called How to Be a Man, and uh it's written by my buddy Rick Burgess.
I'm very impressed, and I see preacher in your future when you're done with this radio thing.
Well, I do a lot of men's conferences, that's my passion.
If you go to how to be a man challenge.com, Sean, it'll unpack the whole thing for you.
We even have extra in there at no charges you can pick up.
I admire your commitment.
I'm I mean, I do not have the same level of intensity and commitment that you do, and I think I have a lot to learn from you, so I really appreciate you being with us.
Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, friend, and I'm here for you whenever you need me.
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And one of the big issues the president brought up in his well joint speech, uh speech before a joint session of Congress had to do with crime and the fact that how is it possible?
How can we be a compassionate society, stand back, watch and pretty much do nothing in the eight years Obama's president and watch four thousand people, eighty percent happen to be African American die in his own home city, but he's yet so outspoken about the Cambridge police acting stupidly,
and he's so outspoken about the Freddie Gray case, and he's so outspoken about Ferguson, Missouri and Michael Brown, and he's so outspoken about Trayvon Martin, and he could be my son, and that could have been me and all these other high uh racial profile cases that he has inserted himself into without any facts, evidence ever, ever presented to any judge or jury.
How do you be that irresponsible?
And he's supposed to be an attorney.
There was no adjudication, there was no uh assumption or presumption of innocence before being proven guilty in the court of public opinion of Obama.
How do you ignore the numbers in Chicago all those years and insert yourself wrongly as a four-time loser on these high profile cases while president?
Anyway, there's one person that has been at the forefront of speaking out against what is now a war against police officers and the rush to judgment and these high profile racial cases that Democrats have inserted themselves into save the lives of those being killed every day now in inner cities in America, and that's Sheriff David Clark, who's become a close dear personal friend of mine, and he wrote a new book about this, which is a must read.
It's called Cop Under Fire, moving beyond hashtags of race crime and politics for a better America.
And uh, how are you, sir?
Fantastic.
And uh take a bow yourself, Sean.
Thank you so much for doing the forward.
You know, the first thing that people see when they look at the jacket cover, uh, and I did a book signing last week in Washington, D.C., and they said, Hey, look, Sean Handy did the forward, so uh that was a big deal, and uh I really appreciate you for doing that.
You know, I talked in in the forward about how you defy catarag ca being categorized and talked about that here you were so strongly outspoken against Black Lives Matter, but yet Hillary was seeking their endorsement.
And President Obama had them numerous times at the White House, but yet we have tapes of Black Lives Matter saying, What do we want dead cops, when do we want them now?
And and pigs in a blanket fry 'em like bacon.
Now I'm sorry, maybe I'm just a little bit of an extremist here, but if somebody calls for dead cops, they're not getting into any White House meeting with the President.
It's so beyond the pale.
But you're one of the few that are willing to speak out as loudly as you have been.
Why?
Well, because Sean, as you know, I put men and women out on the front lines every single day when I send my deputies out into the field to uh protect the the community of Milwaukee County.
And you know, I became this voice for law enforcement officers all across America, and I've met officers across America who do the same thing, and the least that I can do is demonstrate to them that if I'm going to put them in harm's way, I will have their back if something goes tragically wrong in this uh world of uncertainty that law enforcement officers operate in.
It was a very ugly chapter in the history of this country the way former President Barack Obama he jumped to conclusions as a form of uh exercise for calisthenics, and as you indicated, he was wrong, he was all for four.
If he would have been a major league baseball hitter, they'd have called that a slump and sent him down in the minors for extra batting practice.
But uh I took it on because I've been in this profession for nearly four decades, and I've seen a lot.
I never told people I've seen it all, but I've seen a lot, and I know what a law enforcement officer confronts on a daily basis, this world of unpredictability and for someone to try to transform this thing like Barack Obama, who's never done this work a day in his life to try to turn us into social workers, he said we need to emphasize uh dialogue and uh restraint, you know, in a year uh where law enforcement officers dying in the line of duty was was uh at a near record high.
Yeah, it was up significantly anyway, and ambush attacks again against officers.
Up as well.
He ended the 1033 program, which was a program that allowed law enforcement organizations, agencies to obtain uh military surplus, things like ballistic shields, ballistic vests, body armor, uh ballistic helmets to uh take on this difficult task.
He ended that program.
That's how much he hates his profession and hates uh law enforcement officers that he wants us to go out there without the tools necessary to do this dangerous job.
It is a dangerous job.
You know, I maybe we need in the sense that I I think people forget, you know, a nine eleven two thousand and one, when everybody that was working in the trade center in the Pentagon were running for cover and and so many people racing down the stairs to get to safety.
Well, you have this a whole other group of other people, and that is firemen and policemen racing up in the other direction.
They're the ones putting their lives on the line to save lives.
And there's we don't even give police the basic assumption anymore.
Presumption of innocence.
We don't e it's like let's go from uh a high profile incident that the president of the United States weighs in on without any facts or evidence presented, and we go from zero to a thousand, oh, they're guilty.
And I looked I I would stay back and watch in every case.
I knew in the Freddie Gray case that was never gonna happen.
It was never going to come out the way it was presented in the media and by these aggressive prosecutors that were so zealot advancing a political agenda.
That was a political witch hunt that happened.
Marilyn Mosby, the uh ball Baltimore uh county prosecutor, state prosecutor, I should say, politically motivated witch hunt against uh some of Baltimore's finest.
Same thing with uh Ferguson, Missouri with Officer Darren Wilson, and uh um the the thug Mike Brown, who they tried to make a cult hero out of uh uh President Obama, Eric Holder tried to make a cult hero out of a guy who had just committed a strong armed robbery,
which is a felony in every state in this union, and then he went and they attacked the law enforcement officer and tried to disarm him, and they tried to uh say that Mike Brown was a symbol of the new civil rights struggle, when in fact, when the uh grand jury returned, they said that Darren Wilson, officer Darren Wilson, acted reasonably and justifiably under the law, the rule of law which must prevail in this country, and and more times than not, that's why when that standard is used, the rule of law, and we don't if people don't like the law, well then we could change the law.
But until then, the existing rule of law is the law enforcement officer uh can uh in in certain situations defend his or her life, including up and t and two using deadly force to defend their lives or the life of s the life of somebody else.
That hands up don't shoot was a lie that became the false narrative in this hate against the American law enforcement officer.
It was also the uh the black lives matter is the bastard child of that hands up don't shoot, and that's why I went after them, because they went after this profession with no substance, with no research, with no data, it was all emotion, and it was hate-filled, and that's why I took them on, and I know I knew I was putting a target on my back, but Sean, as I indicate in the book, you know, this isn't about me anymore.
This is about the men and women that I send out on a daily basis.
Things are changing, though.
You heard the president in his speech to a joint session of Congress, and I think it was very clear that number one, it's a civil rights issue at this point.
We have we have too many, you know, of God's, you know, if we believe every man, woman, and child is created by God, and I believe that.
Well, too many of this great talent is being wasted and destroyed and murdered and killed, and then we've got addiction problems.
I met a guy today that does a prison ministry, and we were talking for a a pretty long period of time today, and almost everybody in jail, all of these crimes almost without exception, deal with addiction in some way, shape, matter, or form.
And it is a poison, a scourge in our inner cities that is become an epidemic.
And why are we letting these drugs into our communities?
Why aren't we getting the dealers?
Why aren't we arresting these people?
Well, you know what?
We are, and but you you this this former uh President Barack Obama was commuting more sentences of convicted violent offenders.
He was over or or uh uh lessening, shortening their terms in prison, letting them out back into the community to re-offend.
What Barack Obama should have had the moral courage to do, Sean, was to stand up and look at the black community, look them right in the eye.
We're not talking about the entire black community, we're talking about this emerging underclass, and had the and and he should have had the moral courage to shame and condemn some of the behaviors we're seeing uh from the black underclass in in the American ghetto, things like school failure, lifestyle choices like joining gangs, using drugs and alcohol, fathering kids out of wedlock that they're not raising, uh, failure to stay Uh consistently in the workforce to develop a work history and go on and move up so that they can support their own family.
But instead, he made the cops the enemy and he made the criminals the good guy.
But we gotta we now have a president.
We now have a president, thank God.
And Donald Trump, President Donald Trump, who understands the dynamic uh world of law enforcement.
He's he made it clear we're gonna get the support.
Not only that, we're gonna get the the resources.
He said we're gonna get all the resources we need.
One of those is the use of the attorney general of the United States, Jeff Sessions, my friend, who's under attack right now maliciously, but he knows uh Jeff Sessions is the former state prosecutor, he understands the dynamic of crime, and he understands the strategies that are necessary that law enforcement has to gauge in, and the federal government has other resources that we use to take this stuff on.
When I come back, I'll play.
You mentioned Obama.
I've got a montage of him attacking the police.
We'll get to that as we continue.
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This is the Sean Hannity showing the I think it's fair to say number one, any of us would be pretty angry.
Number two, that the Cambridge police uh acted stupidly.
I think Ferguson played fair.
A problem that is not unique to St. Louis or that area, and is not unique to our time.
And that is a simmering mistrust that exists between too many police departments and too many communities of color.
We've heard stories of some of these young men being stopped and put on the ground by police for no reason.
Every American child should be able to grow up in a safe community, to attend a great school, and to have access to a high paying job.
But to create this future, we must work with, not against, not against the men and women of law enforcement.
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Police and sheriffs are members of our community.
They're friends and neighbors, their mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, and they leave behind loved ones every day who worry about whether or not they'll come home safe and sound.
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I mean, when I hear that comparison, doesn't it just it's stark?
It's amazing.
It's like night and day.
President Obama, former President Obama, he danced around the issue of crime and violence in the American ghetto.
Fred Astaire would have been proud of the way he was able to dance around that thing without ever stepping on it or touching it or dealing with it.
He's another one that didn't have the moral courage, like I said uh earlier, to stand up and shame the cultural rot, the cultural dysfunction that's going on in too many of our central cities across America.
Uh but President Trump, he's ushering in a new era.
It's going to take some time.
There's no doubt about that.
But I've made it clear uh that I'm going to do everything that I can to assist him.
This is law enforcement officers know what to do.
They know the strategies at work, but they've been put on their heels because of this constant backlash by the uh former attorney general when he when Obama said that uh Eric Holder understands Eric Holder is corrupt.
Eric Holder is the only attorney general in the United States history ever found in contempt of Congress.
That's the kind of person he is because he didn't think the laws applied to him.
So a better time is is upon us right now.
Uh we got to get to work.
We got to get Congress to stop fooling around playing these partisan political games that are going on right now.
They're they're playing the uh the game against the attorney general who needs to be allowed to get to work, get into the Chicago, get into Milwaukee, get into Baltimore with those federal resources to put the strategies together, use the federal code to go after these crooks and put them in prison for the longest period of time available by local.
I've got to go, but I gotta tell you something.
That's the dream we should all have.
Sheriff Clark, you're a true American uh patriot hero.
The book is phenomenal.
Cop under fire, moving beyond the hashtags of race crimes, politics for a better country, a better America.
Linda's the only one that could actually sing on the team, though, and uh so she tells us to shut up, shut up, mouth it, mouth it.
Right, right.
That's what just happened.
Okay.
All right, you want to tell everybody about the horrible day you had because I'm better now.
I just had my HPR concert series.
I'm good.
I just walked up to you early in the day today, and I said, Okay, what what is up?
What's funny is whenever Sean says to me Sean you look like you need a hug, I'm like, Oh man, it must be bad.
It's showing on my face.
You it just it was misery.
What did I do?
You hug me.
I gave you a hug.
I said, Are you okay?
You said you're all right.
You alright?
Anything I could do?
I said, I'm gonna hurt.
I even offered you to I even offered to let you go home.
I said you can go home.
He said, You want to go home early today?
Because you look bad.
You look well, I didn't mean you look bad.
You look like just mad.
I was at my end.
Well But I'm better now.
Tell everybody what happened at the first thing this morning.
The first thing that happened today.
First thing, yeah.
Well, first of all, my son is teething.
You know, that's tough.
That's enough.
So he's up all night.
Exactly.
He's not sleeping.
He's not happy.
Three o'clock is our new party time.
It's fantastic.
Maybe you can play the the Friday concert FTL.
There's no there's no happy singing, I'll tell you that much.
There's a lot of noise, but it's not singing.
Yeah.
And um so then at eight o'clock this morning, we're up.
You know, he gets up way earlier than that, but eight o'clock, and we're trying to get our things together because we do a bunch of stuff in the morning before I come here.
Mm-hmm.
And I hear a knock at my door.
You mean like you feed him.
Yeah, you know, I'm feeding, we go to play dates, we're outside.
It's a production.
Forget about it.
Anyway, so forget about it.
So eight o'clock, knock knock, knock on my door.
Not a friendly knock, an aggressive knock for eight A. M. I don't want to hear it.
My dog is barking, my child is crying.
I go to the door and there's a uh security man at my door, and he goes, uh huh.
Hi.
I said, Hello.
And he said, uh, you are in violation of your agreement with the building.
I said, Excuse me.
Excuse me.
And he says, uh What the hell are you talking about?
Exactly.
And I said, excuse me.
And he says, You have your stroller in the hallway.
I said, please tell me that you did not knock on my door at eight in the morning.
Morning.
To tell me that my stroller is in my hallway.
Please tell me that's not why you knocked on my door, made my baby cry and my dog bark.
Please tell me that's not happening right now.
And he said to me, Well, um I I apologize, but uh it is uh I said get go right now.
Go, get goodbye.
So you went so you went complete snowflake on him.
Just had enough.
That's so funny.
Does he was he afraid?
Did you scare him?
He just looked at me like I was crazy, and he's like, Well, it is a violation.
Oh, good.
That only New York can do this.
And then while that was happening, and Carmina Barana continues to serenade me.
Well, Snow Snowflake, go ahead.
Uh yeah.
Uh, you know, my son decides since I'm distracted, that it's the perfect time to go and rip the curtains off the wall.
Yeah.
Not only did he rip the curtains off the wall, he was able to actually rip the concrete anchor out of the wall.
I love that all of the steel with it.
Yeah, by the way, that's pretty hard to do.
You're telling me we could barely get it in now.
I don't know how we're gonna get back in.
Yeah.
That's actually easily fixable.
What you do is you use real plaster of Paris for the base of it, and then you'll put joint compound over it, then you say on the joint compound, and then you'll have something to to lock it back in.
No, I just tell you how to do it.
I'm not I'm not actually coming to it.
You know.
Uh I do know how to do it.
But you what you need to do is you need a base in there.
Look, if you got it into wallboard, which was probably there before, you could either just slightly move it to the right or left, or you can fix it and give it a foundation that you can put it back in.
Or you can cut out a piece of wallboard.
I married my husband.
For this reason.
For exactly this reason.
Yeah.
Because when he got up this morning and I was no longer home.
Well, he's had a tough week too.
I left all of this for him.
Yeah, he had a tough week also.
Yeah, he's got another memorial service tonight.
It's a terrible week for everybody.
Everybody.
I had mine too.
I mean, really, I can't complain when you're losing friends and he's losing friends, that's much more serious, obviously.
No, no, no.
It's uh it's been a br tough week.
All right.
Are you better now?
Do you feel better, Didn't you?
Yes, thank you, America, for letting me vent.
Did the Friday FTL concert series cheer you up a little bit?
I'm much happier.
Uh all right, let's get to our phones.
Patrick is in Lewisburg, PA.
What's up, Patrick?
How are you?
Happy Friday.
Sempre five Marine.
How are you, sir?
Good.
Hey, first of all, I want to say uh my condolences to the Combs family and you.
Uh I really enjoyed both of you uh watching you.
He was such a good man, and it's uh I don't deal well with this is the one thing in my life I struggle with.
I have a hard time.
And uh I I know that this if anyone's in heaven way before me, because he was in much in life a much nicer person than I am.
He was just a good human being, and uh he's missed, trust me.
Yeah, yes, he w he was and he you guys had uh differences in in politics, but uh not in real life.
We l we got along great in real life.
Absolutely.
He was a good person.
Um my point uh I I uh I want to talk about uh President Trump with the uh um uh the the senators that are in there right now and particularly John McCain, uh Miss McConnell and Lindsey Graham.
Uh you're familiar with Marcus Brutus.
Yep, of course.
Uh I I believe that uh President Trump has uh has a Marcus Brutus in in his mitts.
And uh I I want to throw uh Paul Ryan in there right now.
And but not because he hasn't been in the Senate as long, but those other three uh I believe are gonna stab him in the back.
I think they already are.
I don't think there's any doubt about it.
I think I agree with you.
Well, uh I'll put the exception on McConnell because I've been doing a lot of deep dive talking deep off the record, you know.
Um, there's definitely, you know, a two brute, right?
I mean, it's you too.
It's there's a lot of bat knives there.
I am convinced that there have been enough discussions with the leadership, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, and the Trump administration that at least they're on the same page and timetable in terms of getting things done, but it's got to be done the right way, which is why we've been talking a lot uh with Freedom Caucus members and others and Rand Paul and we just gotta make sure that these things are done right.
You gotta remember when they replace Obamacare, they own it.
And they better get it right.
And they better not be, you know, giving us Obamacare light.
Uh I have been assured it's not gonna end up that way.
But you know what?
I've I've got I'm a trust but verify guy, and and when I see it and I read it and I go over it and we see the amendments that are put forward, then hopefully it's at what we want that'll actually work for the American people.
It's not about me.
I I have insurance.
I can afford insurance.
But it sucks not having insurance when you're broke.
And I know because I live that way.
And for government to make it so prohibitively expensive as they have, and inferior care and to hurt the medical system and innovation in the process, it's been so destructive.
And this is such a big part of the economy.
They've got to get it right.
And um I'm uh cautiously optimistic that we're gonna get there.
And it's gonna be a bumpy road and there's gonna be intramural arguments that get in the way, but I'm I'm cautiously optimistic.
I want to see it.
I want to study it, I want to make sure it's right.
I want to make sure that that this is the plan that will hopefully benefit the people that are dependent on this health insurance, and that they get their money's worth.
Because right now they've lost doctors, they've lost their care, and they get inferior care in some instances, and it's just not right.
And the cost increases over the Obama years, on average, five thousand four hundred dollars of family, not including twenty seventeen, is obnoxiously ridiculous.
You couldn't have if you plan to screw something up, you couldn't plan to screw it up as bad as they have screwed it up.
Anyway, though, I appreciate your call.
Um Yeah, I think that a lot of these guys are sabotaging the president.
And never underestimate the ability of Republicans to eat their own.
And we saw that on display a little bit yesterday with with Jeff Sessions.
And it's it's disheartening.
And Lindsey Graham and John McCain have made it clear they hate the president.
And by hating the president, they're hurting his ability to get his agenda done.
And I don't know if it's because they themselves, if they are the ones that want the credit or what.
But it's not, it's it's the best opportunity we have to not only stop the precipitous decline, but turn things around so that every American has a shot at the American dream, that we can be energy independent, that we have a strong national defense, that we do everything possible to keep our country safe and secure.
The goals are not that complicated.
Getting there is more complicated.
The devil is in the details.
Let's see the details in the next three weeks.
We will see those details, and we will be weighing in and we'll be holding them accountable.
That's why I've instituted that segment on radio and TV at this time.
A daily heat-seeking missile of information that you won't get anywhere else.
And he's on now.
Now, now, now, now, now, now.
We'll get things up for today.
As you know, I went down last weekend to see President George W. Bush and his talk about his new book and his paintings and so on and so forth.
Credible story, and I met American heroes that he honored.
We're gonna have that tonight on Hannity 10 Eastern on the Fox News Channel.
Now, get ready and buckle up because the next three weeks are going to be war.
And it's going to be over health care, and it's going to get ugly.
So I just want to prepare you, get ready, and your help is going to be needed.
All right, so rest up this weekend.
We'll be ready for battle on Monday.
Thanks for being with us to you tonight on Hannity 10 Eastern and back here on Monday.
Have a great weekend.
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