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Mr. Trump, your presidency, I love your presidency.
I call it disgrace the nation.
You're not the ponis.
You're the blotus.
You're the glutton with the button.
You're a regular gorge Washington.
You're the president, but you're turning into a real pricktator.
Sir.
You attract more skinheads than free rogue.
You have more people marching against you than cancer.
You talk like a sign language gorilla who got hit in the head.
In fact, the only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin's holster.
Your presidential library.
Presidential library.
Your presidential library is going to be a kids' menu and a couple of jugs magazine.
The only thing smaller than your hands is your tax returns.
And you can take that any way you want.
All right, glad you're with us.
Tuesday edition, uh Sean Hannity Show.
The headline on Drudge right now, Colbert unbuckled, Firestorm after CBS starns lewd.
You know, I'm I'm listening to all this, and uh I get it.
I understand team of writers.
They get paid.
How many writers are on the average late night show?
Like 20, 30.
Too many.
I mean, there's a ton of people.
Then there are freelancers that send in jokes, etc., etc.
And what's amazing about look, and okay, if you're a liberal, you think that's the funniest thing on earth.
And all I'm doing is in my head, I'm thinking, and all the president said was, oh, uh, deface the nation.
And and Colbert acts and feigns outrage as liberals often and almost always do.
And just goes off on the president of the United States in a way, uh me out here.
Except we had the one congressman that said liar, which, by the way, the president wasn't telling the truth, then Obama, but you know, and such a firestorm.
Nobody on the left cares.
It's like nobody on the left cares about an orchestrated, well-funded, well-organized effort to silence every conservative that supports the president and supports his agenda and agrees with his agenda.
People like me.
Nobody, they don't care.
They're not believers in freedom of speech, nor do they respect the office like they so often claim that they do here.
You know, President Dunce, uh prick uh prick tater, uh, goes on from there.
You attract uh attract more skin heads than free rogue.
You have more people marching against the U than cancer.
You talk like a sign language gorilla that got hit in the head.
And, you know, and then he finished off with this.
In fact, the only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin's blank crude street vernacular analogy holster.
Now, by the way, it turns out now I have to turn to our vernacular expert on the program, which of course is Lynn.
Well, you know that you curse more than anybody else on the show, right?
You know that I mean, what did you give up for?
I like to remind people as often as I can.
Uh we'll talk about that later.
You grew up in the streets of Philly, right?
Indeed.
Okay.
And you drop an F bomb in that room about every As often as possible.
As often as possible.
And nobody bats an eyelash except for people like we have a visitor today, and he's probably sitting there saying, Oh my God, right?
He loves it.
Are you a little surprised that that I mean they used to I warned him and I told him that if he repeated anything he heard, I'd have to find him and kill him.
I told him.
Oh, great.
That's that's really gonna help my image with a media that's out to destroy me.
I have a producer that's out to kill people and threatens people.
Oh, you've you really helping me out.
Now that you're repeating it, you're making it news.
Oh, I I didn't repeat it on the air.
You just repeated it.
I did not well, I'm um you I didn't know you were gonna say that.
How I wasn't in there.
I don't hear what goes on in there.
I'm in my own room.
That's right.
That's why we need to be able to do that.
I am in my own room.
I have no responsibility for what anybody on my staff says or does at any given moment in time.
This is a disclaimer from the Sean Hannity show.
your free time, you work for Matchbox.
All right.
So you lived in Philly.
Did you say you grew up in a very poor neighborhood?
Indeed, I did.
How poor?
Poor.
Blue collar, you know, paycheck to paycheck.
Paycheck to paycheck.
Okay.
That's, you know, a lot of us grew up.
Like a lot of us.
By the way, that's a lot of America today.
Yep.
That's why I care about conservatism.
I gave a speech today before a bunch of lawyers.
I'll get into that later too, but half the room hated me.
One guy would not shut up.
I said, Well, you just shut up.
You know, we let people hear me speak.
You have I gave him time, ranting and ranting, liar, liar, you know, same nonsense as good.
Oh, yeah, of course.
Very serious.
Yeah, to Joe Wilson.
Yeah, exactly.
But I just kept saying, just shut up.
Can I finish?
You know, when you get your when you get invited to speak, it's your microphone.
When you have a radio TV show and and sell books.
Why not just leave the room?
Who me?
No, him.
Oh, I invited him to leave.
I said, if it's bothering you that much, go.
No, it's a free country.
See ya.
I know.
Well, anyway, that's for another day.
So this slam apparently is creating a well fire storm because apparently it's a homophobic slur.
I I I look, I'm gonna be honest.
I never heard of it before.
Stop smiling.
Why does that make you laugh?
No, listen, I mean, he he took it too far, and he has a very liberal audience, and he should know better.
You cannot use things like that, and you cannot act like CBS tapes that show.
It's not a live program.
Oh, yeah, no, that was a decision.
That was a decision by CBS.
That was a decision.
So if they wanted to pull that out, they could have pulled it out.
They could have.
And CBS decided not to pull it out.
That's correct.
Now, why do I believe if it was a conservative on the And we know that they can pull things out because they did that for you with your interview in Ted Koppel?
Yeah, that's the same thing.
I mean, they have the aptitude to do it.
The same Tiffany network that that did that to me and tried to do that.
They're actually professionals at pulling things out.
Yeah, no, I taped over fifty minutes and they ran whatever period, what was it, a minute and a half or something?
Minute and ten seconds.
A minute and ten seconds, minute and seven seconds.
So I mean, you can't win in an environment like that.
But you know, the only question I have is if all of those things were said about President Obama and the with the intensity and the anger and the vitriol, you know, would a major network like CBS do it?
Now I think the answer is obviously no.
But this is the left unhinged in the double standard.
Now, by the way, I'm gonna be consistent.
I don't want anybody at CBS to boycott what's his name?
Stephen Colbert.
I I just I can't watch him.
I never I never thought he was talented.
Everyone thought he was talented because he played a uh what alter ego, you know, conservative on cable TV.
I guess it was supposed to be after O'Reilly or Papa Bear, as he called him at the time.
And I'm like, you know what?
It just doesn't do a whole lot for me.
And so that's not my brand of humor.
He was getting killed until Trump became president.
Trump has now made his career or revitalized it temporarily.
We'll see how long it lasts.
And I it it's it's I guess just part of the evil, angry snowflakes like we saw at the May Day celebrations around the country yesterday that ended up getting violent, and they're just absolutely losing it.
All right, we'll get to that.
I I have run out of adjectives.
I really have.
And words to describe the Republicans in the House of Representatives.
Disappointment doesn't even capture how I feel about many of them, especially the leadership.
You know, the fact that we have sixteen hundred sixty-five pages.
The GOP spending bill for the budget year ending this September 30th, 1,65 pages long, longer than Obama's stimulus bill, includes an average of approximately 210 words per page.
And the bill makes approximately 350,000 words long.
And as CNS News reported in 2009, Obama's stimulus bill and two PDFs, 24 hours before the House was going to vote on it.
One was 575 pages long, the other was 496 pages long.
The entire stimulus bill, 1,071 pages.
And the pages in the PDF included approximately wording of 430 words per page, making Obama's stimulus law approximately 175,000 words long.
And I'm just I'm I I I just I don't get it.
What are they missing?
And then I look into the bill and I hear, okay, I hear Paul Ryan say, no, no, no, no, we're funding, you know, we're defunding sanctuary cities.
No, they're not.
The bill allows continued funding of Planned Parenthood.
The bill for the president wanted an additional 30 billion in the military.
They got 15 billion.
They wanted 1.5 billion to continue construction of the southern border, and I I know they were out there showing pictures today.
Mike Mulvaney was.
I'm not blaming the president here.
I am blaming Congress again, incapable of leading.
And, you know, as as the Heritage Action analysis pointed out, this omnibus spending package would fund the federal government through September 30th this year.
And the bill released 2 a.m.
Monday morning, you know, as they pointed out, makes a little progress on some issues, but it woefully fails the test of fiscal responsibility and doesn't advance the important conservative policies.
And as every Freedom Caucus member who is opposing this bill is saying is well, what was the point of just not going along with the Obama budget?
Wasn't the idea is to get control of the purse strings and do something?
Because now you have the the House, the Senate, and a Trump administration.
I mean, you know, all right, 30, an additional 30 billion in the military, 1.5 billion continuing the the construction of the southern border wall, 18 billion in discretionary cuts.
All right, I'll take this stuff.
$15 billion extra for defense, $2.5 billion withheld until the administration submits a plan to combat ISIS.
All right, that's in the process of being done.
But no funding of the border wall, increase in domestic discretionary spending, uh, a combination of emergency funding, overseas contingency operations funds.
Good grief.
The bill pushes discretionary spending, 93 billion above the budget caps that were established in 2011.
Now, the president on his own is again doing everything he can do.
And you know, Republicans keep saying they're gonna fight, give us the house, gonna fight, give us the house and Senate, gonna fight, give us the House, the Senate, and the White House.
And what they, you know, what they've done here is they punt it once again.
Now the president to his credit has been doing all he can on his own, but he can't do everything.
And this is where Congress now either they step up and get something done, or I don't see any use.
I don't have any use for these people anymore, with the exception of the Freedom Caucus and some others.
Now, good for the president.
Now, the president came out today.
This obviously annoyed the living hell out of him because he's saying that the government needs a good shutdown if Senate rules don't change.
The House is saying, well, the Senate's responsible because this is a reconciliation bill, blah, blah, blah, blah.
It's hard to do this in reconciliation.
You know, I all this is doing is angering their base, and they're saying, guys, you can't even pass health care.
By the way, now on Drudge, health care is in jeopardy again this week because they're short votes.
Now we'll ask Mark Meadows and we'll ask Congressman Dave Brad of the Freedom Caucus coming up later in the program.
But at some point, you guys got to get your act together and get something done.
And stop saying you're gonna fight and stand for the promises you made.
That is the political success.
That's the secret sauce of why Donald Trump is at 48% approval rating, and you guys in Congress are at 12%.
He's keeping his promises.
And, you know, I'm I'm watching the jockeying, you know, Terry McCulloff wants to be the Democratic candidate in 2020.
Don't I wouldn't underestimate him?
That guy's gonna have more money than you ever thought possible of any presidential candidate, even more than yeah, Hillary.
And trust me, he's he all he can't all he's thinking about now is running.
Him and Andrew Cuomo.
That's that's the only thing on their agenda lists.
Look, look, look how bad it is.
Charles Crowdhammer said the president got rolled.
It wasn't the president as much as it was Congress because they control the spending.
They ended up with very little to anything.
And the wall didn't get, you know if the president doesn't get this wall done, that's the equivalent of read my lips, no new taxes.
I'll explain more on the other side of this.
It's so frustrating.
I'm so frustrated.
The president, uh, as you know, tweeted out this morning that looking ahead to fiscal year 18.
A shutdown may be just the thing that's needed to clean up this budget, mess.
Do you do you agree with them on that?
Can you expand on that?
Um, you know, I've I've I've I've been through a couple shutdowns.
Um it's uh let me answer that question this way.
Um that's a good discussion to have in September.
I think the president is frustrated with the fact that he negotiated in good faith with the Democrats and they went out to try and spite the football and make him look bad.
Uh and I get that frustration because I think it's a terrible posture for the Democrats to take.
If we're sitting here trying to prove to people that Washington is going to be different, that we're gonna change things, we can actually figure out a way to work with them, uh, and they do that to this president.
That uh listen, I would have taken offense at that, so it doesn't surprise me at all that his frustrations were manifested in that way.
We've got a lot to do with uh we got a lot to do between now and September.
Um I don't anticipate a shutdown in September.
Um, but if negotiations uh if the Democrats aren't gonna behave any better than they have in the last couple of days, it may be inevitable.
I'm gonna shut down clean up the mess.
All right, that's Mick Mulvaney.
He had a press conference earlier today.
I look they're they're claiming and I uh it's so hard when you can't get to the truth when you've got some conservatives writing me saying it's fifteen billion dollars extra in defense and administration says twenty-one billion and two point five billion contingent on an ISIS strategy.
Well, that will happen.
That's all good.
Six hundred billion for defense spending.
That they're gonna be a wall, but they found a way to make it cheaper, half the cost, concrete instead of concrete and mortar, is gonna be twenty feet high.
It will cost eight point eight million per mile.
Concrete would cost twenty million per mile.
I don't care as long as it works.
That's my own personal opinion.
And saving money is fine.
And managing the taxpayer dollars, that's fine with me.
And there will be maintenance and a mix of concrete and steel for the most porous areas and a repair of broken gates, uh, another couple other good things.
Miners in West Virginia will now have health care, which was previously revoked, and there are some pro-life provisions, and they're arguing in the House, but it still spends too much money, and they they don't fight for sanctuary cities.
They're they're not out there fighting for the most conservative agenda items or more balanced budget.
You know, as I understand, although Paul Ryan refutes this on the issue of Planned Parenthood, saying it's not funded.
People are telling me in DC it is funded, and that, well, we'll get rid of it through health care.
And Tom Price can get rid of that.
Uh, you know, that seems like you're punting.
You know, and kicking the can down the road as they they often do.
I like what Trump said, though.
It is time for a government shutdown.
I I just have no faith in Republican Congress anymore.
I have lost all confidence in them, sadly.
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All right, 25 till the top of the hour.
And not only do you have uh, let's see, Stephen Colbert and this massive uh fire storm after he gets his lewd as anything I've ever heard from anybody in the media against one person, the president.
Well, of course, we had our May Day protests if you miss this.
We want to make sure that there's not corporations out there supporting the Trump agenda.
Trump Trump Trump Trump.
We're here marching and being loud and visible because we're not gonna go back in the shadows.
We're actually gonna fight because this is a country we love and we want to make it better.
It just seems like a constitutional right to me that children deserve to have their parents raised out.
We're here in front of a gate that will block buses that deport people from this here sanctuary city of San Francisco.
The Portland police advise family and children to leave.
the area expeditiously.
Persons involved in violent activity are subject to arrest for disorderly conduct of the second degree, assault of a public safety officer, and other state and city offenses.
To be a joke, I do not believe this is happening.
I'm literally about to tell myself that I'm not a kid.
You better take this right now.
I literally am gonna die.
I need an ambulance.
Yes, the snowflakes back out in full form.
You know, there is a collective meltdown in the country by the left in a hundred different ways.
It is unlike I think anything I've ever seen in my life.
Uh anyway, 800 941 Sean, if you want to uh join us and be a part of this extravaganza.
So 25 arrested in this May Day riot, and uh, you know, why?
They look like professional protesters, rioters to me, the way some of these people were dressed, and anyway, this is in Portland, Oregon, and 25 people arrested after they said anarchists.
We saw them starting fires, destroying property and throwing homemade explosives at law enforcement and Molotov cocktails and rioters tossing fireworks and rocks at the police officers, and three minors uh were among the twenty-five arrested.
All three teens are facing riot charges.
The remaining suspects could face second degree disorderly conduct.
You notice we never do this when this happens in Baltimore or this happens in Ferguson.
We never take the video evidence footage and identify every person responsible for looting or creating this chaos.
We never do anything.
You know, police confiscated multiple homemade shields before the marches even began.
After the march began, police say agitators were throwing the rocks at cops.
Who threw who could pick up a rock and throw it at a cop?
Wouldn't the cop have a right to go home to his family without having a rock thrown on him because you don't like that your candidate lost the presidency.
Pretty sick.
I mean, on a level that is hard to describe.
None of this is gonna change.
The left is unhinged.
Anyway, um, I will say this, in spite of the horrific weakness of the Republicans' fecklessness, visionless, ill-prepared to lead.
You know, we've got an overwhelming majority of Republicans in the Congress, you know, tremble at the mere words government shutdown.
I will say it is refreshing.
The president has now publicly dared the Democrats to go ahead and shut it down and make his day.
And he said the U.S. needs a good shutdown.
And it should happen this fall.
And either elect more Republican senators in 2018 or change the rules now to 51%, or the country needs a good shutdown.
Change the rule.
Democrats don't play by the same rules as Republicans.
They never Republicans, they never have.
They never will.
They're never gonna do it.
By the way, of course, a lot of the left-wing lunatics, they're they're all wrapped up in their crazy Russia Trump campaign conspiracy theories.
Hillary's out there again, and apparently the vast right-wing conspiracy, so big it includes Vladimir Putin and James Comey.
Because Hillary Clinton spoke out on the results of election day describing Russian influence in the 2016 race, very much a part of the political landscape.
Do you have any evidence, Hillary?
Any?
Anyone in the media?
This is the MBC's obsession.
You know, it doesn't matter if there's news or no news they're obsessing.
their obsession continues.
Sean Spicer, according to Talking Points memo, contradicting claims from other officials earlier today that, in fact, they had a deal to pass health care and the votes to pass it.
Sean Spicer said, Well, we're not there yet.
We'll ask Mark Meadows and David Bratt at the top of the hour.
Spicer responding to a report was asked if the effort was a handful of votes away.
And is this close to maybe getting to the magic number that we've talked about?
He said, Well, sure, once we get to 216, we'll stop counting.
I don't know if that's a good idea.
You need a little more.
Need a little cushion in life.
I think the speaker gets that, but as I mentioned, we're getting closer and closer every day, so I would assume today we're a little closer than we were a week ago.
Oh.
How did they ever get this mess?
It's unbelievable.
Now here's the sad part about Republicans in the in the House and the lack of leadership.
Here's the pathetic part of this.
Democrats are loving, and by the way, they are out there spiking the football.
Oh, President Trump got rolled.
I mean, that's what they're saying.
What's not President Trump?
It's the Republican Congress that has an inordinate fear of a government shutdown.
Whether Obama's president or Trump is president.
And that that's where their problem lies.
And Congress is testing Trump's patience.
He's getting rightly pissed.
So he's allowing this fight on the budget to go forward, which is I I don't know why they wouldn't fight.
Why wouldn't they fight here and get rid of everything?
Why weren't they prepared to repeal and replace Obamacare?
When are they ever going to fight?
Because it's always down the road.
Give us the House.
We'll fight that.
Give us the Senate.
We'll fight that.
All right, but they gave us a bunch of show votes, but they didn't fight.
They didn't fight like Ted Cruz and Mike Lee and Rand Paul and Marco Rubio were willing to fight and use the power of the purse.
You know, so here's the uh the Washington Post is pointing out that Democrats feel emboldened now.
They sense Republicans are weak, and they're right.
That's the saddest thing I commentary I have.
Not the president, but Republicans in Congress are weak.
And the whole Washington Post article is about how they're counting on Republican infighting by the Republican differing factions to allow them, Republicans themselves to torpedo the Trump agenda.
Well, they're also torpedoing their own careers.
And they're putting in jeopardy the potential that Democrats can win back even the Senate in a year that they should lose a bunch of seats.
That's how dumb they are.
Because if they would take a courageous stand and just all they need to do is fulfill their promises.
Follow Trump's example.
If they would only do that, then that's good politics for them.
Then they won't have to be so fearful all the time of losing their jobs because it's really about them, their jobs being called kind of, you know, it's disgusting.
What about standing up for the people of this country?
Anyway, the Democrats, they're bragging they've got a victory on this five-month deal.
All right, it's a five-month deal.
So Trump punted on a five-month deal in the hopes that he can get health care done, get his tax bill done, get his economic plan in place.
But that doesn't excuse the Republicans for not being ready.
And the Republicans are divided.
And Paul Ryan has no sense of urgency.
And Paul Ryan didn't show anybody the health care bill, didn't build consensus, didn't do his job.
Vice President Pence credited the president with a key role in the spending deal, but many congressional aides say the president was unhelpful in reaching the agreement.
Schumer, I think we had a strategy and it worked.
Really?
Are you going to let Chuck Schumer brag he beat the Republicans when they have a majority in the House and the Senate and the White House?
He talks about extra money for domestic programs because they were afraid to fight.
They were afraid they were going to get blamed for a government shutdown.
You know, crocodile tears Schumer.
So after ditching Obamacare, major health insurers are suddenly profitable, by the way.
Major insurance providers earn two dollars and seventy one cents a share.
Smoking analysts' initial estimates, according to the Daily Caller, Health Insurer Aetna adjusted a quarterly profit uh reported a uh just adjusted quarterly profit today well above expectations.
Aetna pulled out of eleven Obamacare exchanges in 2017.
Announced in April that they would exit Iowa's Obamacare insurance market in 2018.
Company offers plans on four exchanges.
I'm sorry, uh in exchanges in four states in 2017.
Delaware, Iowa, Virginia, Nebraska.
It's now evaluating their positions in each of the remaining states to see whether or not it's profitable to do business.
They're not going to do business if they can't make money.
I know profit, horrible word.
It's a bad thing.
Top House Republican announces opposition to Obamacare replacement bill.
Isn't this so nice?
Former House Republican committee chair announcing his opposition.
Because he says it doesn't offer enough protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
Okay.
Fred Upton.
Said uh told the GOP leadership he can't support the revised bill.
That now defection is number 22.
The number of GOP no votes on the revised health care bill.
One more Republican no will kill the measure.
And they don't have yeses on everybody else.
Great job.
Really good job.
Real great consensus building.
You know, this is do or die now.
This this is it.
This is your chance.
Anyway, in a bid to reach out to Democrats who voted for Trump, Pocahontas, Elizabeth Warren is now blasting the Obama economic record.
She was interviewed by the Guardian, and she said many Americans left behind.
I thought that was my whole speech today, why Obama lost.
And it's funny, I don't think the liberals in the room heard anything like this in their life before.
The GOP is also one good thing.
They are freezing IRS funding.
All right, there's hope.
Maybe they'll stop coming after me for one.
Save a lot of money there because I pay my taxes.
Why do I suspect that's not going to happen?
Uh there was a phone call.
Hillary, I told you blame the Comey Putin conspiracy for her defeat, but there was a phone call today between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
The call covered Syria, ISIS, North Korea.
And they said the conversation between Vladimir and the President was productive.
And they spoke regarding Syria, discussed at length about working together to eradicate eradicate uh terrorism throughout the Middle East.
Call was the first conversation between the two leaders since Russia's condemnation in April of this missile strike in that Syria airfield, 59 Tomahawk missiles.
Apparently they agreed that the suffering in Syria has gone on too long.
All parties must do all they can to end the violence.
And they spoke about how spoke about how to best resolve the very dangerous situation in in North Korea.
And that is the news from Lake Wolvagon.
All the men are good looking, and all the children are above average.
But are Republicans ever going to fight?
I don't know.
Let's go to our busy telephones here.
Bill is in Illinois.
Bill, hi.
How are you?
And we're glad you called, sir.
Thanks, Sean.
You're way too young a gentleman to be that that jaded, sir.
Uh uh, I'm still optimistic about things.
Uh, you know, I the Dow's up, the military morale is great, and uh and things are working out around the world.
You know what?
What the Republican Congress does is really in their court now.
That's what midterm elections are all about.
Well, but from my perspective, is this is what they asked for, and they asked for the chance, they got it, and they can't get their act together.
Well, that's true, but uh in the long run, they will pay the the price for that.
I don't think the president will take the hit on it.
Uh the other thing, sir.
Well, I mean, let me let me tell you why the president will take a hit.
You think of Nancy Pelosi as speaker that he's not in jeopardy of impeachment, these people are off the hook unhinged.
This is true, but I keep thinking that the number 306 should be on a bumper sticker now and and people you know I contrast what we saw in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania compared to what you saw at the White House correspondence dinner.
I mean uh the the stark contrast to the optimism in Harrisburg I think that's reason to be optimistic.
The the the fact that journalism is dead, I know you've I've heard you say that many times.
I I I think journalism has been supplanted by entertainment and it really falls to each one of us as loyal Americans to decide what product we're going to partake of and let the less of the rest of the trivia just fall away.
Well I you know I mean there's opinion journalism and then there's you know uh which I do advocacy journalism a talk show host versus those that are supposed to be fair and balanced and they're not fair and balanced.
And they're doing everything they can do to undermine the president.
Look at this White House correspondence dinner the other night.
Does that not tell at all?
All right I gotta take a break here.
When we come back uh we'll check in with Dave Bratt, Mark Meadows, Freedom Caucus, we'll get an update on health care, an update on Paul Ryan and what the hell are they doing with this budget and this continuing resolution for the next five months, months and are they going to get their act together?
Not those guys, but meaning the House leadership I feel very good about the wins that we got with the administration in this bill.
Under the Obama rules you had if you wanted to help the military, if you wanted a pay raise for the soldiers, if you wanted to buy new airplanes and new ships and more munitions, a dollar for that, you had to have a dollar domestic spending.
We just broke that parody.
We just that's the biggest victory could have had $25 billion year over year for our military to begin to rebuild our military without that kind of corresponding increase in domestic discretionary spending.
So that to me is very important.
But look at the other conservative wins we have in here are pro-life writers preserved school choice advanced we're fixing things like forest fires in in in the disasters that we have and we're giving the border patrol the kind of increases they need.
We knew we needed a big down payment on border security.
We knew that with a five month bill the wall is really more about next year and that fight's gonna be this summer but we wanted to get the administration a really good down payment on border security and that's why this bill has the biggest increase in border security funding in ten years.
So we think there's a really good wins I know that there's a PR machine that the that the Democrats are pushing.
I'd say don't look at the press releases look at the bill and when you look at the bill there's a lot of good conservative wins here but chief among them are the President's two highest priorities support our military and get border security get a down payment on border security and this delivers that expressive funding Planned Parenthood is not funded.
But let me just say a couple of things.
And look at what all our pro-life groups are saying.
They're saying the Planned Parenthood legislation needs to be in the reconciliation bill as it is, because that's how you get it into law.
We know, we always knew that it takes 60 votes to pass an appropriation bill through the Senate.
This bill does not have funding for Planned Parenthood.
That's important the reconciliation bill advances the pro-life cause even further so no Planned parenthood funding in here and by the way Tom Price is now the person who approves grants that go out to the states so we feel very comfortable that we are working hand in glove with an administration to advance our pro-life priorities.
How do you feel about this CR do you like what's in it, what's not in it?
No, I mean look um money goes to Planned Parenthood as you said money continues to go to sanctuary cities but no money for the border wall um I I think you're gonna see a lot of conservatives be against this uh this plan this week why why did we why did we last fall do a short-term spending bill if we weren't going to actually fight for the things we told the voters we're gonna fight for.
So uh we'd have been I mean if this is the deal we're gonna get it seems to me we should have just did the bill for the whole year.
But we specifically held the vote for we did a short term spending bill for this time so that when Republicans control the government uh we could actually do the things we campaigned on.
This bill doesn't seem to do that.
Plus it maintains, Chris, this idea that for every new dollar you spend in defense money, you got to give the Democrats more money in nondefense.
That's again not what we campaigned on.
So uh I'm disappointed.
We'll we'll see how it plays out this week but I think you're gonna see conservatives have some real concerns with this legislation.
So how did it happen?
You do see the Democrats coming out and hailing it you did not hear from the Republicans yet McConnell um or Ryan.
So what happened?
Yeah I I wish I wish we would have pushed harder on the issues I just talked about.
I really do.
And why did I think the American people would well I mean there's there's always this shutdown concern.
I do think that the White House feels like they can do some good things on the border without the specific funding for the wall.
We've talked I've talked to Ms. uh budget director Malvaney about that issue in particular.
And there is another budget in the whole appropriation process for fiscal uh twenty eighteen coming up.
But we should have fought now, because that's again yeah, I always say this.
I've said this on your show before.
We make this job too complicated.
Our job is to do what we told the voters we were gonna do.
We told them we had did a short term spending bill that was gonna come due at the end of April, so that we could fight on these very issues, and now it looks like we're not gonna do that.
I think that's a problem.
All right, they have conflicting views on what this well continuing resolution is to fund the government through the rest of the fiscal year, and that is September the thirtieth, what's actually in it, what's not in it.
Uh, the president, I think in many ways is telegraphing he's not happy as he says the U.S. government needs a good shutdown.
It's if Senate rules don't change, suggesting that that would happen in September.
You just heard Paul Ryan say, Well, there is no funding for Planned Parenthood.
I have well reports that there is funding for Planned Parenthood and sanctuary cities and the refugee resettlement program and only a fifteen billion dollar increase for defense and no border wall security money as of now.
And I just, you know, you hear one thing from him, you hear one thing from Congress.
You read the language, it's what, one thousand six hundred and sixty-five pages, you know, the GOP spending bill longer than the Obama Obama stimulus bill.
Joining us now from the Freedom Caucus, one of those you just heard from Jim Jordan, but he's not here with us today.
Mark Meadows is the chairman and Dave Bratt, Congressman Virginia and Congressman Meadows from North Carolina.
Congressman, do I I who do I believe here?
Well, I can tell you, uh Sean, that uh that it's a big disappointment to most conservatives.
I think it's a big disappointment to the president as well, the frustration that he's expressing about having to uh change the Senate rules to make it fifty-one votes.
Uh I think uh the vast majority of the American people believe it.
If if he's we've got control of the White House, the Senate and the House, and this is the best we can do, shame on us.
I had a uh a Democrat colleague today saying, Man, we we kicked your tail in this this whole negotiation over the CR.
Uh that's tough to take when you when you have the majority in in every single place.
I just don't get it.
I mean, you know, and I think Jim Jordan was making a good point, Congressman Pratt, and that is, you know, the whole idea of of not funding the the government through the entire year last year was the hopes that you'd be able to change all of this and fight for these things.
And once again, this inordinate fear of getting blamed for a government shutdown kicks in.
Yeah, no, you got it right, and the base is uh just fuming on this.
I mean, uh the I think the key thing is the base has been waiting six years and now everybody is expecting that this is a once in a century opportunity for some major wins.
So okay, we got a little bit more defense funding and you know there's some okay things in it.
But the the overarching piece that's missing is where's the Trump agenda?
Right?
Trump ran and the border wall and cleaning the swamp is is kind of the key centerpiece of the Trump agenda.
And where is it?
So the bill continues to funding uh refugee resettlement from the six countries, which Trump uh wants to suspend immediate immigration uh despite uh being a this this budget was a last recourse against the judicial tyranny in that respect.
Sanctuary cities are funded, Planned Parenthood, EPA, uh fail off for Puerto Rico, uh HHS green programs, federal judici judiciary stuff, uh but but basically just it it's the Trump agenda that's missing.
He ran, he popped four new states open through the Midwest, and the swamp that wants cheap labor, etcetera, anything that has to do with cronies, we're losing on.
Right?
So uh I think that's the one.
Well, my my question is so the president outlined his economic plan, when does that ever get done?
Well, Sean, I think it it's not only got to get done right away, but you know the president.
I know the president well.
He's not gonna take this uh lying down.
Uh I I can tell you that having conversations with the White House even in the last twenty-four hours, uh this is not something that is setting well with him, uh, nor is it something that is setting well with conservatives.
Uh let me read you real quickly.
Uh I got a an email from uh from a guy that's back home, not an ultra conservative, but he says, I need to ask you the question that I asked once before.
When are conservatives going to start to win?
And and uh, you know, we've got a winner in the White House, and it it's time that we put forward.
So this really so my instincts are that is right that the Congress again, the leadership in the House is not prepared to take a stand and lead on the things that they uh they promised.
Yep.
Yeah, well that's it.
I mean that that is the key, right?
And when you signal that you're not gonna w when you tell the Democrats and Schumer, who's just gloating today, like Mark said, when you say you're not gonna shut down two months ahead of time, you've already told them.
I mean, it's like Trump foreign policy, right?
He's smart.
You you don't tell your enemy what you're gonna do ahead of time.
Well, if you tell Democrats you're not gonna shut down, that's too much information, right?
And you tell Mitch McConnell you're gonna not gonna shut down.
So we've we've got to end th this same stalemate every single year.
We give up, we wave the white flag when we own all branches of government, and the people back home are not happy about this.
I'm I'm getting overwhelming responses on this.
Uh it it it outpaces anything we've ever seen in the office out here, the the outrage over what's not in here, just all the symbolic pieces we wanted to see as conservatives uh going forward that are missing.
And so it it's not that our you know the appropriations, a lot of it was done last year.
So we get that.
And and Trump uh President Trump uh needs to lead this charge and show us the way what he wants to do.
We're happy to support him, but we want him to take a lead and say, hey, this is not acceptable.
Which which pieces does he want to see and lay it out uh for for all the nation to hear, and he needs to take the lead on messaging as well, coming up on the tax plan exactly.
What does he want to see uh so we can all support him uh so we make sure we ignite the economy like you just mentioned.
Well, now there's a headline and been up there all day.
Health care wreck again, as if you, Congressman Meadows and and Congressman Brad and Jim Jordan and uh the entire Freedom Caucus haven't been working your you know tails off on this.
And I you know, I don't know where Speaker Ryan's been, but I heard you got the deal done because you reached out to the Tuesday group and the study group and the moderates and the Saturday night drinking group that you guys have, but that's a joke.
I believe that we get health care done this week.
We've got to get it done this week.
And yeah, the headlines are not good, and some of the the members moving to no is not good.
But we I can tell you the vote count today is so incredibly close.
We are closer than we've ever been, even when the bill was pulled by the case.
Well, how many how many are you call uh how many votes short are you?
Uh I think we're uh literally single digits uh at this point, and so uh, you know, uh again uh there are some that are undecided uh that we've we've got to work with.
I'm going from a meeting literally right after I finish talking with you to uh hopefully uh get two or three more uh yeses uh and I think I think you'll see a vote this week.
We've got to deliver on behalf of the American people on the promise that the president made.
And let me give one other real quick thing.
The president put forth a conservative budget.
Director Mick Mulvaney put out that budget.
What we just appropriated uh seemed to go just contrary to everything that the president put out.
And so uh we have got to make sure that our appropriators are in lock stock with the budget that is a conservative budget that delivers on the promise.
Well, when is that budget get worked on?
Well, we're working on it now, ch you know, Dave Brad is on the budget committee.
But is is this something that won't happen till you know, doesn't take effect till October one?
Well, uh the new budget wouldn't take effect in in to that, but here's here's what we have to to make sure.
Hold that hold that thought.
Okay.
All right, we'll continue more with Mark Meadows and more with Dave Bratt.
All right, as we continue, we have Freedom Caucus members, Mark Meadows, the chairman of the Freedom Caucus, and Dave Bratt, who is a Congressman Freedom Caucus member from the great Commonwealth of Virginia.
All right, so I just I want to understand this.
One point one trillion dollars.
Uh we even have more potential spending visas.
We don't have money for the wall, and we pay and continue sanctuary cities.
Now, Paul Ryan said the bill does not fund Planned Parenthood, does it or not?
Well, i it does.
He here's part of that is is when they start looking at different things.
A lot of the planned parenthood funding happens in what they call mandatory spending, and so this budget is actually more on the non-mandatory side.
But until we repeal it and the uh uh the affordable care act repeal and replace effort, uh we're gonna continue to fund Planned Parenthood.
And and that's that's a real problem uh for conservative voters, but it's not just that.
It's the border wall, it's the fact that uh build a wall was a chant that was heard uh across this country, and yet There are no dollars in there to start building the wall.
And uh at this point we've got to deliver, Sean.
That's what the American people want.
That's what President Trump has promised.
And Congress has to has to help this president out to do just that.
Yeah.
I I c Congressman Brad, I just don't understand it.
I don't understand.
Give us the House and Senate.
Give us the House, the Senate, and the Presidency.
They get everything they want.
And then literally, you know, they they just never seem willing or able or capable of fighting.
Well, what is the thought process here?
I don't I don't get why are they even there?
Yeah, well, I mean, it you have been covering it all year, and Ross Limbaugh went off yesterday for a half hour.
I read some of his stuff.
And it's not really even the party, uh the Democrat Party, Republican Party, leadership.
It it's the special interests up here that have just a monopoly chokehold on this city.
And so when you go through the I call it the giant Excel spreadsheet in the sky and all the commitments the Democrats make to the special interests and that we have to our own guys, and some of it's good and some of it's gotta change.
But we're locked into a budget already, right?
I mean, we're spending four trillion and only bringing in three point four trillion.
So last year we had a six hundred billion dollar deficit before Trump won.
And so when Trump comes in, the whole country said, Okay, now you guys got total control.
Let's get this debt and deficit thing under control now.
And let's at least hear you message and say it.
I don't even think we're doing that.
There's an an article out today that Republicans, just like with the health care bill that nobody saw and no consensus was billed, but Clachey has an article out today that basically talks about a Republican civil war, and their headline, the pr thing says it all tr as Trump budget plan fades, Republicans brace for war with each other.
Yeah, I don't think uh that a war with each other is what the American people want is certainly not what I want, but I think the other part of that is is that that it's time that we actually uh start uh the the conversations in earnest.
I can tell you that we have Gary Cohn and uh Treasury uh Secretary Minutian coming in tomorrow to talk to members of the Freedom Caucus about tax reform, because what we're going to do is work with them to help a bill that actually supports the president's principles that everybody is is part of uh early on.
And that way we're not rolling it out, reading about it in in the media and trying to figure it out, but that we're all together and I I think we're we hopefully have learned a very valuable lesson.
It's time that we work together and deliver.
Uh, guys, I'm just stunned.
I mean, and I think my audience is stunned and everybody that voted for the president is stunned.
Um he has the right idea to fight and why there's no fight in the Republican Congress.
I I'm getting very close to saying we need a new Republican leadership.
And I don't know how you guys feel, but I I I I just don't understand it.
I really don't.
Yeah, well, hey, Sean, I know you you have been great throughout the last couple of years.
I always see the lists you put up, and I ran in Virginia on the six Republican principles, and we're all Republicans, right?
We get along with each other personally.
But what's missing, and maybe you can help lead the nation on this as well, because you you got a bully puppet uh like no one else.
But what you know, when when it comes to the tax package, the cheap outcome should be four percent economic growth.
All right, I got a roll, but uh we'll stay in touch with you guys and and see if we can get this mess, you know, worked out over time.
And thank you both for being with us, Mark Meadows and Dave Bratt.
Uh we have a lot more to get to on this busy news edition of the Sean Hannity Showfriend our uh Ami Horowitz.
You see, I think he's chomping at the bit to get on the program.
He's gonna be with us today.
News Roundup Information Overload.
We'll get to your calls next.
I'm just reading all my email.
Everyone's angry, and I don't blame you.
We'll continue.
I see everything as an opportunity, and I've never seen so much willingness to help win.
And winning means winning for the American people, that either we win or whoever wins understands the priorities of the American people, and they are not what President Bush excuse me.
I'm so sorry, President Bush.
I never thought I'd pray for the day that you're president again.
He is not governing from the middle.
He's governing from the hard right.
That's why his regime has has had hardly any major successes with the exception of Gorsuch.
If he changes, we could work together.
Okay, but he can't just dictate what he wants, not talk to us and say you must support it.
Country doesn't work by way of highway.
And so you would do your best to hold the seat up.
Absolutely.
We are the party of opposition.
And that is our job.
It gets to a point where they're just not doing their job.
I did not hear better ideas coming out of the Democrats.
Right.
They were just delaying, and they were saying this is just wrong.
You would not sit down with President Elect Trump if he invited you to the White House.
Oh no, I won't go.
I'm not gonna sit down with him.
I'm not gonna go.
Each new president coming into office was allowed to get his cabinet in place.
Donald Trump deserves the same.
The party of Pelosi is trying to block every initiative President Trump wants into.
But will that backfire?
What could you work with on with the President Trump?
First of all, we're not running with anybody who says we're gonna repeal the Affordable Care Act.
All right, uh 25 down till the top of the hour, 800 941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
You know, I I don't even know what to make of this derangement syndrome.
I talked about this today, Trump derangement syndrome in a speech I gave amongst a bunch of liberal lawyers, or half of the crowd was liberal.
And I'm I'm like trying to explain.
You don't get it why Trump won.
And you you you were like the media.
It was like a funeral on November 8th if you're watching TV.
It's gonna be studied the level of depression that exists in the media for all of these years.
I've never seen people as unhinged as they are now, both in Washington and around the country.
I mean, really?
Did you see the professional protesters geared up, busting windows, you know, saying the most vile, vicious things and and trying to hurt the police and and ruin their cars, and I mean it was a riot.
And then the police have to come in, and you know, then these guys think they're really smart, smart asses, and they try and I guess rekindle who is it, the uh Kendall Jenner with the with the Pepsi can where she hands the cop a Pepsi.
Oh, that was horrible.
Really?
You think most cops are bad?
Anyway, you know, watch Stephen Colbert last night.
There you go.
But I gotta say, walking out in the middle of a sentence wasn't even the president's biggest insult to John Dickerson.
And I think actually I've been very consistent.
You know, it's very funny when the fake media goes out, you know, which we call the mainstream media, which sometimes I must say is you, but when the me personally or uh you your show, I love your show.
I call it Deface the Nation.
Really?
Donald Trump, John Dickerson is a fair-minded journalist and one of the most competent people who will ever walk into your office.
And you treat him like that.
Now, John Dickerson has way too much dignity to trade insults with the president of the United States to his face.
But I, sir, am no John Dickerson.
And when you let me introduce you, let me introduce you to something we call the Tiffany Way.
When you insult one member of the CBS family, you insult us all.
Bazinga.
All right.
Here we go.
All right.
Mr. Trump, your presidency, I love your presidency.
I call it disgrace the nation.
You're not the ponis, you're the blotus, you're the glutton with the button.
You're a regular gorge Washington.
You're the president, but you're turning into a real prictator.
Sir, you attract more skinheads than free rogue.
You have more people marching against you than cancer.
You talk like a sign language gorilla who got hit in the head.
In fact, the only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin's holster.
Your presidential library.
Presidential library.
Your presidential library is gonna be a kids' menu and a couple of jugs magazines.
The only thing smaller than your hands is your tax returns.
And you can take that any way you want.
All right, so let's go through the uh insults and okay, deface the nation was so awful to the Port Tiffany network.
Uh disgrace the nation.
You're a president.
You're turning into a real prictator.
His words, obviously, not mine.
And then it goes uh on from there.
Sir, you attract more skinheads than free road rogue.
More people marching against you than cancer.
You talk like a sign language gorilla that got hit in the head.
And then he finished off, you know, with in fact, the only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin's well street vernacular for a male body part holster.
Which elicited gas from even his left wing audience.
And uh, you know, but one of the things that is now happened now, Linda, you're gonna have to under you're gonna have to explain because you're the expert in street vernacular for me.
Anything I can do to help you.
All right, so most people they don't understand what that means, and I didn't.
And you explained it to me, I'm like, ooh.
That's bad because I guess apparently uh it is a homophobic slur, and there's a lot of anger and a lot of pushback and a fire storm.
What's going on?
Would you would you like me to explain?
The street vernacular and why this is.
I'm just making sure, you know, sometimes I don't want to abuse my mic privileges with my street vernacular.
So since we're going there, let's go there.
Um, you know, Colbert offended his liberal PC friends because he's supposed to have a lot of friends in all communities and love everyone equally.
And he seems to have a little bit of offense of thinking of two men sharing a moment, and he uh enlightened us all with his deep thoughts on that when he thought of uh Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, and our president, um, if they were to share that moment, and he insulted a lot of the gay community, and I think he should apologize.
Well, it's interesting.
Some people are wondering whether it'll get suspended.
Some people are wondering whether or not there'll be a boycott, some people are wondering whether or not he'll get fired, and I'm gonna be consistent, like I've been with Bill Maher.
I don't care what Stephen Colbert says.
And Stephen Colbert ought not be boycotted.
You know what it'll be interesting to see here is if the UC Berkeley protesters are as outraged by Stephen Colbert as they were about what they thought Ann Coulter would say.
Since Ann Coulter wasn't allowed to express her First Amendment rights, they just assumed what she was going to say.
So since he's already said it, let's see what the reaction is.
But liberals can say these things because he said it in the context of attacking and abusing a conservative president or Republican president.
Sure, they're driven by their mutual hate.
Unbelievable.
That's disgusting.
We're gonna bring you in once an hour for the street vernacular portion of the program because you want to explain why you know so much about street vernacular.
Why don't you explain it?
Where did you grow up?
I grew up in the in the in a lovely neighborhood.
Of all my team in radio and TV, who cusses the most by far?
That's me, for sure.
For sure.
And in when we have guests in the studio, what do I always warn them?
I mean, we have guests in the studio today, and I think they have been enlightened.
By your words.
By my street vernacular.
And and you use these words every single day.
Well, you know, I can't use them at home anymore because I have a baby.
So I have to get it all out of my system here.
And what did you give up?
What did you give up for Lent this year?
Which is I gave up cursing, but it really didn't go that way.
And what was the first day of Lent?
What happened on the first day of Lent?
The first day of Lent.
I was like, I already failed Jesus within the first thirty seconds of giving up cursing.
That's terrible.
And then what did I say to you?
I suggested what?
I suggested that you maybe ought to pick something that you're capable of doing.
You can't do that, you know better.
So that's why you're so then it's not a question why I have chosen you on the team to be our street vernacular expert.
I am a street vernacular expert and I an expert, and I I take that title with pride.
Okay.
Gotten me very far and threw a lot of fights on the subway.
All right.
800, 94, one Sean.
You want to be a part of this extravaganza, Paula in Kyle, Texas, next on the Sean Hannity Show.
Paula, how are you?
And we're glad you called.
Hi, Sean.
Thank you.
Um, first off, thanks for taking my call and thanks for being our voice.
Oh, thank you.
Of the forgotten fuel here.
No, we're not forgotten.
And we're fighting we're we're fighting.
Well, I appreciate it.
I was so disgusted about this budget.
Ugh.
I just want these Republicans to get on board and realize that 2018 is around the corner.
Yeah, listen, I I this is why, for example, if I was the Republican Party, if I was Rhine's Privist, the chief of staff, if I'm Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House, and I saw what happened in Georgia's sixth district.
Now, granted, you had twelve, thirteen, whatever how many Republicans running, but the guy still got the Democrat, nobody, no name, although they did give him a lot of money and a lot of ads and a lot of propaganda.
But he still got forty eight percent of the vote, and if he got over fifty, there wouldn't have been a runoff, and this is New Gingrich's old seat.
They ought to take that as a wake-up call for Congress to get their act together.
You would think.
I mean, from the very beginning, it was Trump, and they need to get on board with his agenda because that's what we voted in.
I'll be honest.
If they can't get health care done this week, I don't even know what to say anymore.
I'm running out of words.
I'm running out of angst, and I'm beginning to think that we might need somebody new to step in and take over there.
If they can't get the job done, let's get somebody in there that can.
All right, 800.
Thank you so much.
I appreciate it, Paul.
800-941-SHAWN.
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A preview of the president actually meeting with Mahmoud Abbas from the Palestinian Authority.
Remember, they reward terrorists and their families as a matter of law.
If they kill Israelis and Americans and commit acts of terror, hopefully the president will call them out on all of that.
All right, in the meantime, let's get to our busy phones.
As we say hi to Pam in Virginia.
Pam, how are you?
And welcome to the show.
Good afternoon, Mr. Hannity.
Thank you so much for taking my call.
Thank you for calling.
I just wanted to just, I guess, vent.
I am just so furious.
And I listened to you say that Trump, you have to move at the speed of Trump.
Certainly no one in government has caught up with him.
And it is a shame that the Republicans do not move and do not back him and do not stand up and look at the Democrats and go, no, we were voted in for a reason.
We're going to take this bull by the horn and we're going to lead America back to the point where she was.
He said make America great again.
And Congress, especially the Republicans, need to get behind him and move.
His first hundred days have been amazing if you look at it point by point by point by point.
And the press is looking at it, yeah, but look at what he didn't do and he said he was going to do.
And, of course, they're spinning it totally around.
And it's what he did and it's negative, negative, negative, negative.
And it just appalls me as all of us should be Americans first and concerned about America first.
And the Democrats have pigeonholed everybody and put everybody in front of the hardworking American.
And it is sickening.
It is just sickening.
I don't understand why there's not a sense of urgency to do this for the American people because they promised it.
Exactly.
Exactly.
All right.
Thank you, Pam.
And the Trump is moving so fast.
And I want to...
I know.
It's amazing.
It's just...
Go ahead.
Finish your last word.
My dad was the president of the largest union, independent union in the United States, and was a Republican.
But he taught us to be fair first and American first.
Well, you would think that that is what the criteria is.
Sometimes it's not.
All right.
800-941-SHAWN, if you want to join us, let us say hi to Kim in York, PA.
What's up, Kim?
How are you?
Glad you called.
Hi, Sean.
It was very nice to be able to speak to you.
I've been trying to get a hold of you for a long time.
And I love your show.
Keep up the great work.
And I was at President Trump's rally on Saturday, and it was outstanding.
There was a whole lot of people that were there for him.
And I'm just glad he's our president, but the Republicans have got to get their act together as soon as possible.
Oh, my God.
If they don't get their act together soon, I'm going to break a blood vessel in my brain, which probably would make liberals happy, especially, you know, liberal fascists that want to silence me anyway, or media fascists that hate my guts.
But in all seriousness, we fight.
Go fight for crying out loud.
Do something.
Right.
I mean, I have called the Congressman all through PA.
I've even called the ones in Texas and Virginia and everything.
It left my message, especially with this Obamacare.
Because this Obamacare is destroying the medical field, and that's what they want to do.
And the Republicans can't seem to wake their eye open their eyes up to it or don't care.
They're not doing what they promised.
It's that simple.
All right, Kim, thank you.
Great call.
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Will the president lecture Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority tomorrow?
We debate that next and we'll tell you why he should be lecturing them.
Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been raging for decades, with both sides accusing each other of being the prime problem.
But no accusation is stuck more readily as being at the core of the conflict as the Israeli occupation and supposed total control of the West Bank, including Israel's stealing of Palestinian dignity on a daily basis.
So I decided to go to the Palestinian territory to find out what is really going on.
During filming at the Kalandia checkpoint, the crossing came under assault by slingshot wielding attackers, flinging fist-sized rocks that exploded around us and slammed into the Palestinian cars and pedestrians in line to cross into Israel.
The attackers were on hillsides overlooking the checkpoint in a coordinated assault that was apparently not uncommon.
The border guards reacted to try to protect the Palestinian civilians from the attack and continue to keep the checkpoint open in order not to create greater hardship for those trying to enter into Israel.
With chaos breaking out around us, the attackers amped up the violence by starting fires in the surrounding town of Kalania.
The smoke and heat were intense.
At one point, a Palestinian child was hit by a rock fracturing his leg.
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All right, that you know, all of us have crazy friends.
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Uh all right, so tomorrow, the president will meet the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas.
Now that video now audio that you heard that was Ami Horowitz visiting the Palestinians and actually members of Hamas.
You may remember a series of videos he had where he went and traveled and and blended in with the refugee population.
I think it was in Germany at the time and and different places, Syria, uh some of the Syrian refugees.
Anyway, so Trump and Abbas are meeting, and as we've been pointing out, well, we give hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Palestinian authority every year, and they, as a matter of law, will reward some terrorists and murderers and killers of Israelis and Americans.
It's a matter of law.
They'll either pay them individually or they're pay their families.
Now Trump has desired, the president has desired to negotiate a peace deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
And then he also talked about moving the US Embassy from uh to Israel from Tel Aviv, said he would be happy with a two-state solution.
And okay, is it a prerequisite that the Palestinian authority and a boss who recently talked about, you know, dripping blood of Jews, that he has to recognize a Israel's right to exist, B change the law that stops paying terrorists for killing Israelis and Americans, and and express a des real desire by example to be a part of the world community.
Ami Horowitz is with us, political documentarian, and he's here to discuss his tape when he actually infiltrated Hamas, David Bragg is the author of Reclaiming Israel's History, rights, uh Roots, rights, and struggle for peace.
You know, you're my crazy friend.
Everybody has a crazy friend.
You're my crazy friend.
You're one of my one of my crazy friends.
I take that as a compliment.
No, I mean w well, you've infiltrated the refugee population.
Nearly got their crap beat out of you.
What was that one about?
That was uh the refugee crisis in Sweden.
Yeah, remember that?
And then I do, yeah.
You're y they started beating you up.
Yeah, yeah.
And by the way, you you gotta learn how to fight.
If you're gonna put yourself in these ridiculous unsafe situations because you're insane, you know, you might want to learn how to fight first.
I've asked you to teach me and you to keep looking at me.
I'm not gonna waste my time on you.
It's not a matter of wasting my time.
I've been training for five years, and it's gonna take me f more than five years to get you up to speed where I am.
Um, so what happened when you infiltrated Hamas?
Well, By the way, their charter calls for the destruction of Israel.
Yes.
So I think what's important to note about the this trip that Abbas is taking to visit with Trump is who's he actually represent?
Does he represent the Palestinian people?
I'm not sure that he does.
Because Hamas, first of all, controls all of Gaza as we all know, but they're also increasingly taking control of parts of the West Bank.
And that's why Abbas has pushed push back the municipal elections for months, because they're scared of that.
So the truth is, I think it's really Hamas who represents most of the Palestinian people, so I wanted to go meet with them and see exactly what they're about.
We know his balah is funded by Iran.
Correct.
And but also Iran kind of puts aside this whole Shia Sunni uh divide when it comes to killing Jews and attacking Israel.
That's right.
So that this whole idea of they they don't get along, that's true.
But the the the listen while it while Israel is the s the small devil, let's not forget though, who they really after, they're after us.
They're after the United States.
That's exactly right.
All right, David uh Bragg, welcome to the program.
I don't I'm a little frustrated because basically I feel that Abbas is a terrorist.
Now, I do have faith in President Trump.
He has no problem calling people out, and I think that the President is making it very clear that he's gonna basically say to Abbas, okay, if you want money, you better change your laws.
You don't get to reward terrorists anymore as a matter of law, and you better recognize Israel's right to exist, or otherwise don't bother with us anymore.
Sean, I gotta I gotta thank you.
You're you're one of the few people in media who doesn't let Abbas get away with this kindly uncle act.
I mean, unlike Arathet, he doesn't wear a cafea, he doesn't wear he doesn't wear uh uh a handgun on on his holster on his side, but as you pointed out, and you alone point out in the American media, Mahmoud Abbas funds terrorism.
The Palestinian Authority is a state sponsor of terrorism.
Last year, they gave approximately three hundred million dollars to both Palestinians sitting in Israeli jails because they murdered Israelis, or the families of Palestinians who died in their suicide attacks to murder Israelis and I would add Americans.
Here's one difference between Arafat and Abbas.
RFF funded terror before the act, before the actual attack took place.
Abbas funds terror after the fact.
But what difference does that make?
If you pay someone to kill someone, it doesn't matter if you pay them before or after, you are guilty of murder for hire.
If you pay the terrorists before or after the fact, it doesn't matter, you're guilty of state sponsorship of terrorism.
And as you point out, how could any peace process succeed?
Which would require each side to recognize the other and agree to live in peace with the other when one of the parties to that agreement goes into the negotiations funding terror.
So if Trump wants to succeed where others have failed, and every recent president has gone down this same path, if Trump wants to succeed where others have failed, he needs to take your advice.
He needs to take Debbie's advice.
He needs to say to Abbas tomorrow, I'll go down this path with you, but only if you stop funding terrorism tomorrow.
Renounce terrorism tomorrow, not just in English words, but in Arabic words, and then indeed.
And recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
And recognizing Israel is a Jewish state means you're not going to recognize it as some temporary entity that you want to flood with the descendants of Palestinians.
That means recognizing that Israel will continue to be a Jewish state.
If and only if he does that, is there a prayer of this process getting anywhere?
Otherwise, we've seen this movie before, we've been down this path before.
It doesn't matter.
But there seems to be another opportunity that is emerging, and the picture became clearer when I was in Israel and I was up in a chop there chopper, and I saw just how uh uh insane uh uh uh in terms of the size of this this country is and it borders Lebanon and Syria and Jordan and Egypt and the Mediterranean, and then it's like wow.
You know, but there is an emerging alliance, and I think in many ways you can thank Barack Obama because of this ridiculous Iranian deal, and that is that now the Saudis and now the Egyptians and now the Jordanians and the Israelis are closer than they've ever been, Ami.
That's exactly right.
And I think that the unfortunately for for Abbas, he's coming into this meeting with a very, very weak hand, because when in terms of regional priorities, the Palestinian issue is no longer high in the list of regional priorities.
It's Iraq, it's Syria, it's it's Libya, it's it's all the stuff outside of what they're doing.
So really what they they've kind of lost their cachet within the greater Middle Eastern countries because now Israel has developed these relationships with these Sunni states and it's kind of elbowing the Palestinians out of the picture.
Yeah.
What about the possibility?
I mean, if we're really looking to make a breakthrough in the Middle East, maybe we ought to look at maybe the Saudis, maybe the Emirates.
I mean, they already have deals, I guess, with Jordan and Egypt, but maybe a new alliance that is that shows that the Sunni Arab nations no longer view Israel as the enemy they once did.
What do you what do you think of that possibility, David?
Sean, I I I think that's the future.
The future is getting beyond the the ideological uh orthodoxies that have led us constantly to failure and focusing on the reality uh in the region.
And and President Trump is a pragmatist, so I think he's the right man for these times.
Let's focus on the fact that that thanks to the Obama administration, Iran is is now freshly funded and in empowered and emboldened to pursue its regional hegemony uh and the destruction of of the of the little Satan Israel and the big Satan in the U.S. Let's bring together countries that are worried about Iran, and rightly so, into an alliance.
And while we're at it, let's work with those Palestinians who are turning Ramallah and other Palestinian cities in into real up and coming developing cities.
Let's work with Palestinians who want to build lives and build businesses and stop working with these terrorists who do nothing but line their pockets and hold their people back.
That is the basis for a real coalition and a real movement that could bring hope to the the people of the Middle East.
Unbelievable.
All right, stay right there.
We'll take a quick break.
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All right, as we continue, Mahood Abbas of the Palestinian Authority will be meeting with the President tomorrow.
And I know the President would like to negotiate a peace deal with the Israelis and the Palestinians, but I don't think that can happen as long as the Palestinian Authority has laws that pays terrorists that kill Americans and Israelis.
They literally stipend them and stipend their family, and to the tune of about 300 million dollars a year.
That's taxpayer money going to fund terrorists and reward their families.
It's insanity.
And we continue with David Bragg, author of Reclaiming Israel's History, Roots, Rights, and the Struggle for Peace, Ami Horowitz, political documentarian, who not that long ago infiltrated Hamas.
They had no idea you were infiltrating them?
No.
So I I go in with a certain cover story.
So my cover story is I am a self-hating Jew who hates America, and they love that guy.
That guy always has no problem getting into places.
And they open up to you and they tell you what the reality is.
And here's the reality.
The reality is they have, and this is what he told to me on camera, zero interest in peace.
As long as peace includes all of Israel.
You know, when you try, and you've been, I'm not sure if you've been to the West Bank, but if you travel to the West Bank and you go to the offices of any kind of Palestinian official, uh college professor, it doesn't matter who it is.
They all share the same accoutramont.
And that accoutrement is they have a picture and it says Palestine, and that picture is all of Israel.
It's not the West Bank and Gaza, it is Beersheva, it is Tel Aviv, it is Haifa, it is Jerusalem.
They have been taught f the mother's milk is that one day we will go back and take all of Israel.
And that's the bottom line.
That's why it's going to be hard to negotiate any kind of deal, because this is what they've been taught from the beginning.
That's unbelievable.
All right, so that's a big part of it.
The indoctrination of children.
We've got videos of this.
We played them on TV.
We played them here on radio, where, you know, you have kids out there, you know, saying stab the Jews.
That was one of the tapes I showed the Prime Minister of Israel when I was over in in Israel, David.
Yeah, I I saw I saw your clip with the Prime Minister, and I thought it was critical that you showed those videos because most Americans detached from this and hearing about only in the English language, they get the sense of a nice guy who wants peace.
He seems just like us.
He must want what we want, and therefore it's easy.
What always happens is it's Lucy in the football.
We start this process.
Israel offers, has repeatedly offered the Palestinians everything they say they want.
Israel has offered the Palestinians a state in almost all of the West Bank, Gaza, half of Jerusalem, and the Palestinians turn it down repeatedly.
And yet somehow Israel gets blamed.
When you show those videos, when you show the way that Abbas and his people and his media speak to their own people, the way they glorify terror and teach terror, and as you note the way they pay for terror, you start to understand what the real barrier to peace in the Middle East is and has always been.
And that's if the Palestinian leadership rejects the existence of a Jewish state in any size and shape or form in the Middle East.
When I tell that to my friends they think I'm exaggerating, but I walk them through the five times.
Five times Israel's offered the Palestinians a state in the West Bank Gaza in East Jerusalem.
And the five times they've turned it down we're talking 1937, 1947, 1967, 2000, and 2008.
There's a pattern here and when you learn the pattern you realize where the blame lay.
If this is going to get any different outcome this time around something's got to change.
And the only way something's going to change is if President Trump recognizes these realities and insists at the get go.
And a recognition of Israel.
I agree.
We'll give uh crazy Ami Horowitz the last word.
Listen the only last word I can say is and I don't think I have to say it, I think I think the President knows this he cannot be fooled by this narrative that a boss is going to do these lies that a boss is going to tell him that there's no freedom of movement.
There is no digney for the Palestinians.
In this video that I went to we traveled throughout the entire West Bank in a Palestinian car.
Palestinian driver never got stopped.
It's a lie and I hope the president I'm sure he does will have the backbone to stand up to those lies.
Alright thank you both for being with us appreciate it.
Uh David Bragg and Ami Horowitz and uh Ami what's your website so people can actually see these crazy videos of yours and I'm not just kidding you because they're really gutsy of you to do it.
Well we'll put I'll tell you what we'll put them up on Hannity.com now we'll make it easy.
We want to make sure that there's not corporations out there supporting the Trump agenda.
Trump Trump Trump Trump we're here marching and being loud invisible because we're not going to go back in the shadows.
We're actually going to fight because this is a country we love and we want to make it better.
It just seems like a constitutional right to me that children deserve to have their parents race we're here in front of a gate that will block buses that deport people from this here Sanctuary city of San Francisco.
The Portland police advise family and children to leave the area expeditiously.
Persons involved in violent activity are subject to arrest for disorderly conduct of a second degree.
Assault of a public safety officer and other state and city offenses.
To be a joke, I do not believe this is happening.
I'm literally about to f***ing kill myself and I'm not kidding.
You better f***ing fix this s*** right now.
I literally am going to die.
I need an ambulance.
Yes, the snowflakes out in full force.
25 now till the top.
of the hour 800 nine four one Sean you want to be a part of the program wow pretty crazy.
Then the May Day riots and madness that took place where was it in Portland, Oregon I mean I got all that video tape tonight.
I mean this is as nutty and as insane as the left has ever been in my entire life I don't even know what to make of it anymore.
Alright let's get back to our busy telephones here as we say hi to Janet is in Boca Rotone, Florida next on the Sean Hannity Show.
Janet, hi, how are you?
Glad you called my God, thank you so much for taking my call I just I'm so honored to speak to you.
Because you're really such a real person.
Oh you're you're so nice.
Thank you, Janet I appreciate it.
You're making me feel good.
It's been a busy busy few weeks around here.
I know I don't know how you take so many bullets.
I I really don't I don't know how you do it.
I swear to God so Concerned uh about your future because I mean I it's disgusting.
I mean, I you can't speak, you know, as a conservative because they want to kill you.
Yeah.
You know insane.
I mean, I that listen, I'm not gonna disc I'm not gonna lie to you.
There absolutely, positively, is a well-funded, well organized effort to destroy all that in fairness, it's not only me, but they're just now fixated on me because of the Fox News channel right now, and they smell blood in the water.
That's exactly that's all it is.
And but uh, are you gonna make your own show?
I'm seeing things on Facebook that you know, maybe you'll have your own network, and I mean that would be awesome if you could do that.
I mean, I don't know, but it's sick.
You know, it really let me just agree with you.
It really is sick in a lot of ways in this sense.
It's sick that so many people on the left don't appreciate freedom of speech.
Now, I mean, there's been a lot of reports that I'm negotiating an exit from the Fox News channel, as I tweeted out last night that is not true.
And it's an look, I always have understood this that this is sort of just not stated.
It's an honor to be here every day, and you know, at any I l like everybody else, I've got bosses, and I've got people that sign my paycheck, but I also have contracts, you know, it's a little bit different than maybe a lot of other people's jobs or my past jobs.
I'm not worried about me at all, Janet.
You know what I am worried about?
I'm worried about a country where liberal fascists want to, you know, pay money and silence conservative voices.
That's scary to me, where not a single liberal speaks out about silencing conservatives either on radio, on TV, on college campuses, because they're all a bunch of phony hypocritical liars.
That bothers me.
I mean, look at that.
I and call I mean that would have been such an awesome exactly go to these universities and have these students see another side of life instead of these professors.
Are you I mean, are they all brainwashed to the day?
I had my own mind when I was young in my younger day.
I mean, are they that stupid?
Do they I mean, what are they afraid of?
I mean, are they gonna they're gonna lose their their scholarships?
I I I don't get it.
I am sick to my stomach because if you leave, I mean, one of my other favorite people at eight o'clock, you know, is gone.
What is gonna happen to the c with us?
I mean, why can't they fight like as as much as the women's are fighting?
Where the hell are all of these people?
What is going on?
You know, I I I've got to address this because I hear first of all, I love your passion.
I love your support.
I can't thank you enough.
I I but I can't sit here and reassure you everything's okay.
So that's gonna be very sad to me.
Well, no, well, don't say don't uh don't give up yet.
Now listen, I there's a reason uh there's actually a number of reasons.
I have recently hired three killer attorneys to work on my behalf about the smearing, the lying, the sabotaging, the slander that has gone on against me, media complicity, and that means tortious interference, libel, slander, defamation.
I've said all of this on Twitter, and I am fighting hard and uh to be honest, spending a lot of money, and I'm I'm thankful that I can to make sure that I look, I'm just standing up for what's right.
That's all I'm doing here.
And it's not any more complicated than that.
And I'm standing up and defending myself.
I am naturally a fighter.
I don't give up.
I they they don't bother me, any of these people.
I don't I'm not a warrior.
I don't go home and say, oh, whoa is me, what am I gonna do?
I'm I'm not a crier.
And I just the way I respond to how do I say it?
Let's say threats in a way.
I mean, in a roundabout way, it's a threat.
Baseless attacks, to put it that way, is that my my instinct is to fight.
And my instinct is to just keep you in the loop and let you know the truth.
And I know, you know, I've it's kind of sad when you have to tell your family and your your son and your daughter and my poor my poor innocent niece in in Houston.
Thank God I'm gonna see her Friday.
She is like losing it over a poor Uncle Sean, and I'm like, all right, you you gotta you gotta understand I've dealt with this 30 years, but not at this level.
So you let not your heart be troubled.
Janet, I am gonna fight every day.
I think this, you know, this is basically comes down to politics, and it comes down to the left not wanting any voices that support the president.
Otherwise they would be out there saying, you know what, leave these conservatives alone.
Stop stop paying to tape them, stop paying to sabotage them, stop attacking their stop attacking their advertisers, just a roundabout way of ending their show and and putting them in jeopardy.
But you know, I'm not I'm not looking to the left for help.
I don't expect them to be intellectually honest, and um I see for I see them for what they're at.
Where is anybody at MBC, MSNBC?
Really?
Because I'm telling them if it can happen to a conservative, it can also happen to them.
Anyway, Janet, God bless you, and you hang in there, okay?
You promise?
You hang a happy Mother's Day, and I'm gonna send you a I'm gonna send you a little gift uh for being so nice, okay?
Stay right there.
Thank you so much.
That's not necessary.
I just I'm such a fan, you know, when you you speak the truth and you have passion.
I mean, it's just so sad.
Listen, I I love you for being so kind.
I really do, and you're a reminder of why I need to do what I'm doing every day and fight for what we're fighting for.
You you let not your heart be troubled.
Stay on hold, don't go anywhere.
Uh Frank, she's what a wonderful sweet lady.
Doesn't that make you want to fight harder?
Makes me want to fight harder.
Uh Frank is next on the Sean Hannity show.
What's going on?
Frank, how are you?
Glad you called.
I'm doing great.
Uh just one of the quiet people that don't go out in the streets and uh oh, a nor a normal American.
A normal American.
Yeah, we just go to work, do our jobs and go home.
But we're on your side.
I really feel uh I will tell you this.
In the midst of difficulties, you know, I you see real goodness come out of people, and I'll be honest, it's it's humbling because I don't feel I'm very Irish Catholic.
I don't feel I deserve the kindness and love and support I'm getting.
Well, that kind of brings me to my next question.
And the reason I'm asking is because you're really a proud person.
You work really hard in your life.
You've done well.
And I was wondering, is it okay if we do like a GoFundMe or something like that for legal cost?
No, let's that that's not why I mentioned this.
I I please.
Um no, I I this is my fight.
I'm gonna take care of it.
It's the right thing to do.
Um I've been blessed way beyond what I think I deserve.
Although actually lately, no, I don't really think so.
I I I think I'm actually underpaid for the first time in my life.
But um it's my great pleasure to fight.
Looks in where you know, so many people said nice things about me after the election.
They said, Hannity, I don't know, we you did this, we could I don't know.
I it's not me at all.
It's us.
It's you know, all those people that went out to the polls, all the people that showed up at the rallies and created this momentum, and and all the people that that chanted lock her up and CNN sucks.
You know, they all they all made this happen.
But there's another point.
And we're all you know what, we're all spoken to wheel.
And people who take charge and help us see the reality of what's going on.
And that's you.
You're there to help cut through all the clutter.
You're there to to get to the truth.
And I've never heard you say anything that's not true.
I try to be factual and give you news and information that you won't get anywhere else.
I spoke to a group of attorneys this morning in New York, and half of them were liberal, and I will tell you one guy couldn't shut up.
I'm like, just shut up at one point.
I said, just shut up.
I'm trying, you know, we're trying.
Can you let me talk?
I said, when you get your own radio TV show and you're a you're a best selling author, then you you have the mic and I'll sit and listen respectfully.
And he just at different times I just said, Well, you finally shut up, you're annoying.
And so I just I just see what's going on, and the one thing I'm gonna be is honest with you, I'm gonna tell you everything that's happening, keep you in the loop.
I I I I just I don't see general I see foot soldier.
I see a guy that, you know, I'm an infantry man.
I'm a spoke in a wheel.
We're all spokes in a wheel.
Anybody's that the general in terms of hopefully changing the country for the better right now is the president.
And I give all due honor respect to the to the office of the presidency, and that I pray for his success for our kids and grandkids and for the ninety-five million Americans out of work and the fifty million in poverty and the fifty million on food stamps and our kids that we've robbed blind.
That's what I care about.
That's really all I care about.
Anyway, appreciate it.
Uh you're very kind, Frank.
Thank you.
God bless you too.
And stay on the line, we'll give you a gift.
Don in Lake Ron Concuma.
Don High, how are you?
And welcome aboard, sir.
How you're always aboard.
Welcome aboard the USS Hannity.
Hey, Sean.
I I would be remiss if I didn't echo up your last uh guest and uh and Janet to uh you know what our friendship goes back to so many years and uh oh boy I I know what you're going through and it's uh I just want you to know I'm I'm really on your side and I support everything you do.
Don, you don't even have to tell me that.
You have been a a friend of this show since day one.
Well, way before I went national.
Yeah.
And you have been an extraordinary friend, and I appreciate it more than you know.
You've been amazing.
Thank you.
Thank you.
You know, but the and another thing, besides your the the trouble with Fox and everything else, this trillion dollar budget has me reeling with disbelief.
You know, I it's just such a disgrace.
I wish Congress had stayed on vacation after they they put this thing out.
That's so dis it's so disgrace.
It's so disappointing and disheartening, isn't it?
Yeah, I can't believe that they thought the optics of this budget deal would be favorable to Trump and uh Republicans.
And if there is any items, Sean, that are favorable, how are we gonna know about it?
Uh you know there is a history of GOP leadership aborting talk radio, and especially uh your show.
I mean, Ryan will come on once in a while, but you almost don't know what where he's coming from.
I I you know he speaks such a good game when I went down to DC, oh, two hundred days, oh yeah, we have a consensus plan.
Oh, yeah, this oh the uh it's so you know what this budget might be up, Sean.
It's like having an unwelcome uh house guest who should have left eight years ago.
Oh my god.
Who's feeding off your generosity?
Your roof is leaking, your oil burning needs to be replaced, your car is not dependable, and your house guests want you to budget money to invest in a blockbuster video store.
Wow.
Great analogies there, Don and Lake Ron Concavant.
I just we could have done so much better.
Yeah, you know, we really could.
I'm not disagreeing with you in any way, shape, matter, or form.
I mean, it's so it's like an opportunity blown and wasted.
Yeah.
All right, my friend.
God bless you.
Listen, appreciate it.
Thanks to everybody, and uh, yeah, I'm on uh Hannity tonight.
I think I have a message for the media tonight.
I'm going to give them a statement, maybe tonight.
I'll I'm thinking about it.
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Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan will join us.
Jay Sekulo and David Limbaugh tonight.
Great lineup and an opening monologue that the media probably will hate.
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