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It's Mark Simone here for Sean.
He'll be back on Monday.
It's Friday today, so we'll get lots of great stuff to get to.
We'll have nothing but fun today.
We'll go over everything that happened.
Yes, what are you laughing at?
That's Friday.
Linda is laughing.
Do we have to be dead serious?
No, I'm just so excited that we're starting in such a jovial mood.
Fantastic.
Yeah, what am I?
Stephen Colbert, I'm happy.
I'm not some angry, bitter, raging nutjob.
In fact, remind me to get to this.
If you watch Seth Meyers' Stephen Colbert, we have to have a little talk with you in a moment.
And remind me to get to Huma Aberdeen and how the hell she's not indicted.
How could that be?
We'll get to that.
We'll get to health care, but not in excruciating detail.
We'll just kind of sum it up for you.
We'll get to President Trump.
He's in Bedminster, New Jersey right now at his golf course.
It's pouring rain here in the New York City area, so no golf today.
I think, well, this guy could be the Democratic nominee next time around.
We'll go over that.
The French election, all of that stuff.
Kentucky Derby is tomorrow.
Congratulations to Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski that got engaged.
Isn't that wonderful?
I give that a year, Tops.
Tops.
You know, did you see the other day they had that little lovers quarrel on the air?
They really got nasty with each other, so they went away for a romantic weekend and they end up married or engaged.
They're not married yet.
This will not only screw up both their lives, but this will destroy that show.
Watch.
Once they really start fighting, one year from now, that show is going to be impossible to watch.
Who watches it now?
But the tension will be unbelievable.
We've got to get to all these airlines and the way they're treating people.
It is absolutely disgusting.
El Chapo, you know, he's in prison.
This is the big Mexican drug lord.
They're holding him here in New York.
The judge said you have to remain in solitary.
They wouldn't.
He wanted this.
He wanted to visit with people.
I wouldn't let him any of that.
But they said you can have phone conversations with your wife.
Like, that's a big prize.
Well, you know what I mean.
How long has he been married?
It's like six months.
Maybe that's good.
But after about 15 years, if you could have one luxury in jail, phone calls with your wife is probably not it.
But he has $14 billion.
That's one reason.
Oh, by the way, he can't have these phone calls unless they're monitored.
He has $14 billion that they think he has stashed away somewhere.
And a couple of people come up with a great idea.
Take that $14 billion.
The government can seize it if it's from drug deals.
They do this all the time with drug dealers.
They seize their assets.
The $14 billion would pay for the wall.
It's a great idea.
You could have two walls for that $14 billion.
So let's go over yesterday.
By the way, we'll take some calls too.
1-800-941-Sean is the number.
1-800-941-Sean.
So what exactly happened yesterday with all this health care stuff?
Now, I don't want to go through all the details because it's excruciatingly painful when you get into the nuts and bolts of it.
It's not, listen, this Obamacare, it's a lovely idea.
We'll provide health care for everybody.
It sounds great to me, but the problem is when they passed it, it ended up being a complicated, convoluted mess.
And for millions of families that were paying $100 and $200 a month for health care insurance, they're suddenly paying $1,200 a month and $1,500 a month, and it's destroying their budgets.
The kids are not going to go to college because of this.
It's a horrible, horribly destructive thing to lots of families across America.
It's got to be fixed.
So even if you like the idea of providing this health care, you can't have astronomical premiums that destroy families' budgets.
You can't have preposterous deductibles that are $10,000, $15,000.
It doesn't make any sense.
So it's got to be fixed.
This stuff that the House passed yesterday, it's got its problems, its flaws, but you got to do something.
Now, it passed the House yesterday.
It will go to the Senate.
What was passed yesterday will not go to the Senate in the current form.
So when you hear all these Rachel Maddows pick it apart and say, oh, it's got this wrong with it, that wrong.
That's not what the Senate's going to pass.
They will spend the next two months tweaking it, adjusting it, getting it in much better shape, and then that's what they'll pass.
So don't worry about what was passed yesterday.
Hey, and if you're a Democrat, if you're a liberal listening to me right now, you can blame the Democrats for this repeal.
They are 100% to blame for this.
Now, when Obama and company did the Obamacare, and remember, President Obama was not exactly Mr. Workaholic.
People that were in that White House will tell you it wasn't exactly a lot of meetings or a lot of anything.
There wasn't much on the schedule every day.
And when it came to Obamacare, he let everybody else put it together.
He let the congressmen and women and the senators put it together and the insurance companies.
There's a recipe for disaster.
So once you got it and it didn't quite work right and the premiums got ridiculous and skyrocketed and the deductibles were too high, all the Democrats, all the liberals, the Obama administration, you had six and a half years to fix it.
You should have been tweaking that every couple of months.
You should have said, well, we've got to fix the deductible problem.
Let's work on that.
And six months later, you pass something.
And then the high premiums or the insurance pool, every six months, you should have been tweaking it and fixing it so that by the time you left office, that thing had been so fixed up, it was just perfect.
Then nobody could repeal it.
So blame the Democrats for passing this monstrosity and just leaving it as is.
Not bothering to fix anything.
You just left it the way it was.
Hey, and also, let's not let the Republicans off the hook.
They also had six and a half years to come up with the perfect replacement and go over it and over it and over.
And they don't seem to have that ready either.
So we'll see what happens.
But in a few months, the Senate will get to it.
It was important yesterday just to get something through the House, just to show that it could be done.
Huma Aberdeen, I see people are calling about that already.
This Huma Abedeen, nobody will ever be able to explain how she's not indicted.
If you watch the Comey testimony, first of all, you can never have any confidence in James Comey again if you watch that testimony.
But the way he explained it was she sent 40,000 emails to Anthony Weiner, many of them classified.
And of course, the last person who would ever get a clearance for anything is Anthony Weiner.
The guy's sexting with 15-year-olds.
Who would want him possessing any classified information?
So obviously that's illegal.
Obviously, if you deliberately sent 40,000 emails over there, you violated the law.
And then everybody kept grilling Comey on why she wasn't indicted, why she wasn't charged.
And then he tried this explanation of intent.
Well, it wasn't her intent.
And then Cruz really pinned him down.
And he went over the laws exactly.
There's nowhere in these laws where it says intent should be considered.
That has nothing to do with anything or intention.
You could always claim, I didn't intend it.
It's not even in the law.
It's not Comey's place to even make that call.
You send it over.
You're just the investigator.
You send it over to the Justice Department, and they'll decide all that.
But as Comey made clear several times in his testimony, there was no way that Attorney General was indicting anybody.
I mean, he didn't say the fix was in, but he said the fix was in, basically said it.
So when asked to explain what the possible reason she would be sending Anthony Weiner all these emails, he explained.
She said, well, Hillary likes to see it in print.
She can't read off a computer.
She needs it printed out.
And that's why they sent the emails to Anthony Weiner.
But nobody ever asked him, what does that mean?
The State Department.
Have you ever been to the State Department?
It's a building two blocks long.
6,000 people work in this building.
They have 1,200 printers right in the building there.
You couldn't assign somebody to print these out for the Secretary of State.
Are we supposed to believe they had a meeting?
What are we going to do?
How do we get these printed out?
And that at some point, Huma said, you know, my husband has a laptop and a printer.
We could send it to him.
He could print them out.
I could fly to New York and pick them up.
Who would believe that was the reason that they were sent to him?
Only he, this guy with his pants down and a laptop and a printer.
First of all, we got to hope he's got 40,000 pieces of paper to print this stuff out on.
And how many of those ink cartridges would you need?
You have to go buy a shopping cart full of them just to print out 40,000 pages.
Anyway, let me know what you think.
800-941-Sean is the number.
And I want to talk seriously about something.
If you watch Stephen Colbert every night, if you're one of these liberals that watches Colbert or Seth Myers, you really need to think about this.
You know, if you watch Rachel Maddow, that's one thing.
I could see that.
You know, she comes on and she explains to you what's wrong with the healthcare.
She goes through the policy and here's what's wrong with this and here's what's wrong with this policy.
Okay, you could watch that.
But to watch a bitter, raging guy make the most vicious comments.
It's not like he's discussing policy or anything.
Just these vicious attacks.
And even that's okay for a couple of minutes.
You remember you used to watch Jay Leno and he would do 50 jokes in every monologue.
And in the middle, there would be six of them about President Bush.
He'd make fun of President Bush for a few jokes.
But then the rest of the monologue was about something else.
Then they'd have guests talk about everything in the world.
But this is different.
This is a guy where the 50 jokes in the monologue, all 50 are about Donald Trump.
And then when they're done with that, he goes and sits at the desk and then attacks Donald Trump for 15 minutes.
And then a guest comes out and attacks Donald Trump for 10 minutes.
And then another guest comes out and attacks Donald Trump for another 10 minutes.
And then finally, they end with the musical thing with the band sings an awful song about Donald Trump.
The whole thing for 60 minutes is a bitter, raging attack on Donald Trump.
You really need to see a psychiatrist if you're watching that.
I could understand liking a few jokes.
And then you're done with this Colbert show at 1230.
Let me put on Seth Meyers.
And for one hour, it's a vicious attack on Donald Trump.
Again, watch Jimmy Kimmel.
He talks about everything.
Somewhere in there, there's a couple of jokes about Donald Trump.
That's fine.
But to watch a raging hour of bitter rage against Donald Trump for a whole hour, if you told that to a psychiatrist, they would make you lie down.
They might even take out the prescription pad.
Something is wrong with you.
But if you disagree, call me, 800-941-Sean is the number.
Let's go to Sharon in Mississippi.
Hey, Sharon.
And it's good to hear you.
Thanks.
I'm just getting a real kick out of the censorship backlash.
You know, everybody telling Stephen Colbert fire Stephen Colbert?
I don't want to see him fired.
I believe in free speech.
Yeah.
You know, I can handle it.
He can say whatever he wants.
I'm not a snowflake.
Okay.
But one thing, that comment the other night was a nasty, homophobic, anti-gay slur.
And you know what I do when I hear things like that come out of people's mouths?
I turn around and walk the other way.
Yeah, okay.
My husband and I have been doing that to each other for 40 years.
Really?
You talk like that?
I wouldn't believe that of you.
But hey, wait, wait, there is a double steal.
Look at this, Jesse Waters.
He makes a little double entendre joke.
The guy's gone for seven days.
Colbert says the worst thing in the world.
Back the next night.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, I know.
And it's censorship, guys.
And that's why I'm a little bit worried.
But I'll be honest with you.
I've started speaking out with my dollars.
We got rid of our cable a long time ago, and we have our local conservative radio station and a couple of conservative channels.
And we've been writing down all the people that advertise.
But I don't believe in those advertiser boycotts.
Well, I don't believe in boycotting either.
But we had a law that he said that, you know, in Mississippi, there's been a law in the book that you can open carry.
And I don't prefer that.
I think that puts a target on your back.
But when they brought that back up again and a few of the guys wanted to, you know, exercise their right, all the stores put up little decals that said, no way, you can't come in here.
This is some woman.
She's got a gun.
She talks like Stephen Colbert.
Wow.
I'm not going to mess with you.
Well, we just started turning around, waving by, and these people know us.
And I thought it was just us.
I didn't know how many other people were doing it.
But within three months, those stickers came down.
All right.
Well, good call, Sharon.
Thanks a lot for calling.
It's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
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It's very moving.
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Hey, welcome back.
It's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
Oh, the job numbers today.
Sensational.
Job numbers, they were expecting like 150,000 jobs, 211,000.
The employment rate, unemployment rate, drops to 4.4.
That's the lowest in 10 years.
Now, what does that mean, 10 years?
That means 2007.
That means before the crash, before all of that, lowest unemployment rate in 10 years.
You talk to business men, business owners, businesswomen.
They'll all tell you a lot of it is the health care reform.
If they know it's coming, they can hire.
The problem is, business owners will tell you, they want to hire a guy, let's say for $50,000 a year, it's going to be another $22,000 in health care costs.
And sometimes that stops them.
If they're going to hire five, they can only hire one.
Because of those extra costs.
So, if it looks like there's health care relief coming, that's a big factor.
Also, if it looks like business tax will be down, which it will be, that's another reason they can go ahead and hiring.
So, people who are putting it off, wondering, are more anxious to hire.
And this will just get better and better as things get past.
Let's take a call or two.
Let's go to Bob in Georgia.
Hey, Bob.
Well, hello, Mark.
How are you doing?
Let me check.
Not bad.
Not bad.
Sir.
How are you doing?
I'm doing fine.
I just want to give a little experience, a little of my experience with Delta recently.
Yeah, let's not mention any airline.
They all stink right now, but did they do something bad to you?
Well, I would have to say that it was not one of those things where they drag me off the plane and beat me or anything like that.
I'm going to say there's something else that is extremely important to pass in.
But it's only a three-hour show, so give us a hint.
What was it?
Well, what it was was: first of all, the flight attendants.
Hey, I got to be honest, we're going to knock you down and drag you off the show right now.
Okay.
No, you're a good guy.
What happened?
You hit on the stewardess?
Okay, and then when I got on my last flight, on my last leg home, I was still waiting for you.
Oh, my God.
That is a hell of a story.
What a story that is.
What'd he say?
Anyway, it's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
We'll take some more calls in a moment.
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Hey, welcome back.
It's the Sean Hannity show.
Mark Simone here for Sean.
He'll be back on Monday.
Normally, I'm on 710 W-O-R, the big flagship New York station.
What a lineup.
It's me.
It's Rush.
It's Sean.
What more can anybody ask for?
Linda even listens.
Don't you?
Once in a while?
I actually do listen to you.
Once in a while, she looks like a listener.
You're very funny in the morning.
See, there you go.
In the afternoon, you're a little crabby, but in the morning, you're fantastic.
Well, this is like the eighth hour I've been on.
I've had to light, you know, 19 candles for you, set the mood, get coffee.
What's going on?
I came in.
Linda had filled the studio with candles and a bathrobe and everything.
Trying to set the mood, get you nice and comfy.
Let you know those.
Yeah, a little pillows.
What is that robe thing?
A little Republican robe, Republican pillows, nice, you know, wrapping.
I don't know what you had in mind.
It's a very friendly show.
But the reason for these candles, if you have allergies, it actually helps.
I don't know why.
And who told you that?
You.
And it works.
How many years ago?
A couple years ago.
So there's like seven candles all over the place.
And what did you say to me?
You said I was crazy.
You remember?
Yeah, but I actually haven't been sniffing or coughing.
Exactly.
It works.
Yeah, it works.
I got all these candles at home, but I'll light candles and put them everywhere.
You're a single guy.
I would think you'd be lighting candles often.
No, it looks too weird.
This could explain why you're single.
Oh, all right.
Mm-hmm.
I don't even know where you're.
Where do you get a candle that big?
One of these candles is like the size of a garbage can.
It's a very nice candle.
You get a candle that picks.
It's a three-hour show.
I got to make sure we're prepared.
Oh, okay.
Hey, we've got lots of stuff to get to.
We've got to talk about these airlines.
We'll get to everything else.
But these airlines, somebody has got to do something.
And I think at some point, the President of the United States can use this issue.
You know, they're talking about, you know, midterms, all of that.
Next, you know, they're really going to come after Trump.
There are issues that they'll use to drive him out of office.
If you become the guy that turns around this airline situation, if you lead the charge, that's instant reelection.
People are getting abused all over the place on every plane.
You're being treated like farm animals when you get on a plane.
And this goes on nowhere else in the world.
If you flew on any airline in the world, if you were in Asia, on Cathay Pacific, if you were on Lufthansa, anyway, they treat you like a king or a queen.
If you took an airline from the most awful Middle Eastern dictator country, you'll be treated so well on those airlines.
You ever been in Emirate Air?
You'd think you're on the most luxurious cruise you've ever been on.
Why is it only in this country we allow this to go on?
First of all, there used to be a time where you'd take a seat and maybe there are a lot of people on the plane.
Maybe it's not so full.
Now no plane can take off unless it is absolutely packed and they've made the seats smaller and smaller and tighter and tighter.
They got it down to 31 inches between seats, legroom.
You could buy one of those little fiats that's got more than 31 inches of legroom.
And American Airlines just announced they're redesigning the plane.
They figured out a way to get it down to 29 inches.
And I don't know if you've noticed this.
The seat back behind you is getting thinner and thinner and thinner.
And what they call the pitch, like how far back it goes.
Remember they used to say, put your seat in the upright position.
Now you'd pray for that upright position.
Now the regular position, the pitch is even higher so they can put the seats behind you even closer.
This is absolutely ridiculous.
This is not allowed in any other profession.
And then Ethan is telling me, you got a ticket, you're all paid for.
You're sitting on the plane.
You have to get up.
We overbooked the flight.
You can't sit here.
What?
And look at this Delta Airlines video that's gone viral.
This guy's not leaving.
He's got his kids.
And they said, well, you're going to go to jail because we can have you arrested and you're going to jail.
But I have my kids here.
You'll be in jail and your kids will be there alone.
There's no other, name any other business where you could do this to anybody.
Anybody.
Imagine if you're in a nice restaurant.
You have to get up.
We need the table.
We're overbooked.
Well, but I just started eating.
If you don't get up, I'm calling the police in here and you're going to jail.
It's only because these airlines, it's the only situation you walk into where you're super regulated by government regulations.
There's all kinds of laws, regulations that don't apply anywhere else, but it's got to change.
And President Donald Trump is the guy to do it.
You can imagine if he speaks out about it, the way he communicates, he'll really get it across.
He would call in the heads of every airline.
It's probably 25 people.
You get him in a room and you just say, this cannot go on.
You're going to have to figure something out.
You can't treat people like this anymore.
And who's the guy that called before?
He got nervous when he got on the air.
Yeah, so the gentleman, Bob, that called a few minutes ago, he was explaining to me, he's an older gentleman.
He's on the plane.
And the first leg out, he doesn't have such a good trip.
They won't give him anything to drink.
They keep passing him by.
Then on the way back, he says he goes to throw some trash out in the flight attendant's like cart.
She had like a little bag and she threw a can of soda in it.
And she goes, you don't throw trash in my trash bag.
Take it out.
And he's like, what?
You can't throw trash in my trash bag.
You have to ask permission.
And he's looking at her like, what are you talking about?
So he goes to reach in and take the Coke out of the bag, and then she says, Get your hand out of my trash bag.
And he's like, What the heck?
What's going on here?
It's just bananas.
You heard Bob, sweet guy, yelling at Bob.
What the hell happened to these?
Poor guy's trying to throw his trash away, and she's getting all protective over a trash bag.
And who talks to people like that?
Because you're trapped.
You're trapped in the middle of the air.
You got nowhere to go.
You can't squeeze people into seats that tight.
You can't do it.
And first of all, they don't even have air in a plane anymore.
It's all recycled, awful air.
You can't bring a bag on.
First of all, just when you go through a TSA and get screened, you get violated, sexually harassed, and then you're on the plane and you're tortured.
And this is for a vacation.
This is a vacation.
This is a getaway.
Where did you go?
You went to the beach or something, right?
You're lying on the floor.
I went to St. Thomas, yeah.
Both ways, flying there and back were horrible.
St. Thomas, probably lying on a beach for four days, all relaxed.
Then you get on the plane, you get tortured, and stressed out.
Oh, you didn't buy a ticket, so but we sent you a boarding pass.
Yeah, then they have these whole arguments.
You're sitting there, you're on the plane, you got a seat.
You got to board you.
Well, you're not supposed to be here, but you gave me the ticket.
You boarded me.
You did all this.
Well, you still have to get up.
First of all, under the law, I've talked to lawyers.
Once you are boarded and given the seat, they cannot ask you to get up.
There's only like three reasons under the law they can ask you to get up.
You have to be very disruptive or getting violent or something.
I mean, if you're normally behaved, even that doctor, whatever he was doing, he wasn't screaming.
He wasn't disrupting anybody.
If you watch the video beforehand, he's talking quietly.
He's not disrupting anybody.
So you can't legally be removed.
But somebody has got to stop all of this.
Where's that Chuck Schumer?
You know, that weasel Chuck Schumer?
He's like one of those creepy senators.
He's always looking for something to pull on a heartstring.
Although those airlines have powerful lobbyists.
And I'm just saying about Chuck Schumer.
He loves those lobbyists.
He is everybody's friend if you're a lobbyist.
So he probably won't say anything.
Let's take a call.
Let's go to Flint, Michigan, and say hello to Pat.
Hey, Pat, welcome to the Sean Hannity Show.
Hey, what's happening there, Mark?
Not much.
Says you love Stephen Colbert.
Well, yeah, no, I heard to give a shout out to any liberal that was listening.
The bars on up if you watch.
And I said, oh, that's me because I'm a liberal, not a Democrat, liberal.
And yeah, I've actually fallen into watching Colbert and Seth Meyers.
Okay, but on a normal show, it's fine to make fun of President Trump.
That's fine.
You make a couple jokes, whatever.
But then you do other stuff for a whole hour.
It's a vicious, vicious, bitter attack on Donald Trump.
Why would you watch that for a whole hour?
Well, I mean, to be honest, once we get past the first 15, I'm out.
You know, I mean, I cut the cord.
So I've been watching just on YouTube and stuff.
But, you know, honestly, to me, he fills the void for like Jon Stewart being off the air.
I mean, that's what I think.
And look, it's working.
The guy's beating Jimmy Fallon.
Well, actually, no.
No, he's not.
The category that – But he did it for a week, right?
No.
No, no, never.
The category that they need for ratings, advertising.
25-54?
No, it's actually 18 to 49.
And Fallon crushes Colbert in that category in the last week by 50%.
That's a huge lead for Fallon.
Colbert wins in the older viewers, which are basically useless.
You can't sell it to advertisers.
I mean, American Seth Myers does a great job.
I mean, that's basically just weekend update, you know, extended.
Really?
Weekend update.
They used to make jokes about the policy, about the health care bill.
They used to make jokes about stuff.
Colbert and Myers, a lot of the jokes are that Trump is insane, Trump is crazy, Trump is this.
Just stupid, ridiculous things.
Yeah, maybe I can get through it because I'm already medicated.
I already see a shrink.
Oh, okay.
Oh, no, you didn't say that.
Well, that would explain it.
All right, Pat, thanks for calling.
And you're in Flint, Michigan.
You've probably been drinking that water.
But, you know, listen, I've known Donald Trump for a million years.
I'm just telling you, a guy that runs an empire, it's not a store with three employees.
The Trump organization is an empire.
It's an enormous organization with 15,000 employees.
He's been running this for 40 years.
You can't be a nut and run that.
And if you look at the Trump organization, everybody has been there, has been there 20 years, 30 years.
There's no more stable organization in the world.
So you can't be crazy.
You can't be a nut.
You can't have a crazy temper.
I mean, it's a very stable place.
And if you look at all of his properties, you go to the Trump Tower in New York or any building he runs.
And anybody that lives it will tell you it's spotless.
It's efficient.
Everything works perfectly.
Those hotels are maybe the finest hotels around.
You know, you talk to people who travel all over the world.
They're travel agents.
They'll tell you that Trump Hotel in Washington is probably the finest hotel in America right now.
That Trump Hotel in Chicago, one of the finest hotels in the world.
So this is not a crazy guy running things there.
You've got to be pretty stable to pull that off.
Let's go to, who should we go to?
Let's go to Percy in Vancouver, Canada.
Hey, Percy.
Hello, Mark.
Hey, they say you got great health care, government health care, and it's wonderful.
All right, you took the bait.
Good for you.
All right.
So I'm going to have to just do about not even a minute of simple math for you to just finally destroy that myth, okay?
Because I know anytime, I know you know Canadians, and I know you've talked to Canadians.
I know within one minute of you saying, what's so great about Canada, they're all going to say the same thing because we're programmed.
It's part of our.
Yeah, no, but I heard in Canada, you get sick, you need anything, go right to the hospital, all paid for.
Perfect, right?
Yeah, it's free, right?
Isn't that what you're saying?
Free, free medical care.
Okay, well, let's go over the free part here, just in a few basic lessons here.
Okay, the average person in Canada, not much different than America, makes about $50,000 a year.
All right, but we don't have much time.
Okay, I've got to make this quick: $50,000 a year.
How much of that goes into tax?
About half of that.
How many years does that person work in their lifetime?
About, let's say, a nice, even 40 years of working in their entire life.
Yeah.
A little bit more than 50, a little bit less.
Multiply that out.
It's $2 million.
Out of that $2 million, $1 million has been paid in taxes by that person, minimum, okay?
You know, I got like a D in math.
You're going too fast for me.
But when you go in for health care, it's probably the finest health care.
No, it's not the finest health care in the world.
But the operation.
My wife's a surgeon, by the way.
I happen to know it from both sides, okay?
So let me just tell you: if you pay a million dollars a year in taxes as a Canadian, or a million dollars in your lifetime as taxes, okay?
Half of that goes to pay for medical care.
There's no way the average Canadian burns through half a million dollars worth of medical care in their lifetime.
So where's the rest of it going?
It's going into the pockets of the liberals, or as you call them down there, Democrats.
Oh, all right.
Well, Percy, I have another question for you, but we don't have another 20 minutes for the end.
Takes you a long time to answer every question, Percy.
But thanks for calling.
You're a good guy, and we love that you're listening up there in Canada.
Linda, why are you shaking your head?
What's the matter?
Not everyone is a talk show host, darling.
So you have to be a little patient.
Just kidding them.
Just a hair patient.
I know.
Just kidding them.
We're all taught to speak in sound bites because we've been in the business too long.
Regular people have conversations.
All right, I'll be nicer.
You can't win with this, Linda.
First of all, if I let him go on, she'd be yelling at me in a few seconds.
We've got to go to a break.
That's because you talked so long.
That's because he did.
Oh, well, all right, we'll figure it out.
Anyway, call me 800-941-Sean.
Call me in the next segment.
Way to see how nice I am to everybody.
Hey, follow me on Instagram and Twitter, Mark SimoneNY at Instagram or Twitter.
In fact, I got a picture of me and Sean up there.
Isn't that a good picture?
I retweeted it.
Oh, okay.
Mark Simone NY.
Clearly, you're following me.
Oh, that's true.
That's true.
Anyway, what takes me to call him a minute?
1-800-941-Sean, Lou Dobbs and Coulter coming up.
Well, it's the Sean Hannity show.
Mark Simone here for Sean.
And of course, you should watch Hannity on the Fox News channel every night at 10 o'clock.
But every night at 7 o'clock, I always, and you also should be watching Lou Dobbs on the Fox Business Network, 7 o'clock.
It is the smartest show on television, the smartest guy around, whatever the issue.
If you want it broken down, explained to you.
Nobody better than Lou Dobbs every night at 7.
Lou Dobbs, how are you?
Oh, I'm great, and thank you for those kind words, my friend.
And I was just reading those ratings.
Number one, you're like the number one show.
You're killing everybody.
Yeah, we've been number one in business television for a full year now.
A full year?
That's pretty good.
Yeah.
Wow.
Well, it's a great show, and I always am never quite sure about something.
I just put you on at seven.
You explain it perfectly.
Now, Paul Ryan, he's bought himself a few months here, I think.
Yeah, I think that's exactly right.
He saved his job this time.
And by the way, it's still an open question as to whether or not he's, even though he was good enough to actually compliment the President of the United States for his leadership, you know, you still had the feeling he was doing so reluctantly.
And he's got to get behind the Trump agenda and just get rid of all of this nonsense he's had in his head for two years, the better way so-called congressional agenda.
The fundamental problem, it seems to me, Mark, is he doesn't understand.
He got 230,000 votes in his congressional district, and the President of the United States won almost $63 million.
That should settle all of the discussion for him, but it, for some reason, has not.
Yeah, but isn't the real problem that the political class tangled up with lobbyists, with donors, with all of that stuff, the last thing they ever expected was Donald Trump being injected into them by the voters.
Yeah, the effrontery of the American voter to make his and her opinion and preference known to the establishment, to the donor class, to the lobbyists on K Street and H Street.
And it's been wonderful to watch because even though he has hit some opposition from within his own party, some real nastiness from Chuck Schumer, look what he's done.
He just keeps achieving.
He keeps, as he puts it, winning.
And by the way, winning is exactly what he is doing.
And the American people, for the first time, are getting used to the idea of having a man in the White House who really cares about them, what they think, their preferences, and our traditional values.
It's astounding stuff.
And guys like Schumer just can't quite come to grips.
Yeah, I think the other thing they don't really understand, you know Donald Trump for years.
If you study him, he's had some projects where it's a little choppy, a little rocky in the beginning.
But he's one of the smartest guys ever in the planet.
You give him about a year, and he has it all figured out, and then it's like a steamroller.
And I don't think these people have calculated that into their constant protesting.
You know, I think you're right, Mark, but I also think, look what he's doing right now.
He's standing there at the White House with all of these congressmen, these Republican congressmen, and the leadership around them.
But to his immediate right is a fellow by the name of Mark Meadows, who's the chairman of the Freedom Caucus.
And he's standing straight up right next to the President of the United States.
And that says a lot because it means that those two have really come together.
He has a formidable ally in the House.
And guys like whomever you want to speak of.
but certainly Ryan, they've got to take that into account in their calculus now.
And he's reaching right over their heads with Twitter and with Facebook and his rallies.
There's no stopping him.
I think you've said it exactly right.
I just think it's happening even a little faster than what you and I might have hoped.
For Democrats yelling and screaming, but he's destroying Obamacare.
Wouldn't you say to them, you had six years after it was passed to see what the problems were, the sky, high premiums, the ridiculous deductibles.
Why didn't you keep fixing it?
President Obama, why don't you go back and keep tweaking it and repairing it?
You would have had it perfected by now.
The fact they just left it the way it was, they're responsible for it having to be repealed.
Oh, no question about it.
And by the way, the non-non-non-na, you know, bye-bye, goodbye.
You know, when you have that emotional maturity level amongst your congressmen representing a sizable part of the population, you know it's not going to end well for that party.
And the Democrats are just getting smaller and smaller and pettier and pettier and more pathetic.
I mean, they're really the party of pity now.
Listen to Pelosi.
She can, first of all, her face barely moves with all of the cosmetic surgery.
She cannot utter a statement that makes a lick of sense.
She loses her place.
And it's this elementary primer that she's reading from.
It's just, it's really a very sad thing to watch.
You know, when you watch these Democrats in the streets screaming, throwing rocks, when you watch Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers, it's just bitter rage.
It's just endless.
It never stops when you see students at a university rioting because somebody might have another point of view.
Have you ever seen this before?
Anything?
Never, never.
Because I'm a product of the 60s, Vietnam, civil rights, the sexual revolution, the drug revolution.
And people were upset and they were angry, but it was because they cared.
This seems to be a demonstration on the part of a lot of people who are being paid to act as the fools they seem to be.
And secondly, this is not because they care.
It's just because they hate.
And that's not enough.
That's just not enough.
I mean, Colbert has embarrassed himself in perpetuity.
He will never.
I mean, the man is just, he's lost himself.
He can't get out of his own head.
And he seemingly has no, you know, his head isn't as good as we all thought it was.
Well, you remember Jay Leno would make a couple of jokes about George W. Bush somewhere in the middle of the monologue.
Imagine if he just came out and for an entire hour just made fun of Bush and just never stopped talking about it for the whole hour.
They would have taken him to a sanitarium.
And by the way, I don't know that Colbert wouldn't benefit from a little time there.
He needs some professional help.
He really does.
I mean, he's lost his way.
Lou Dobbs, let me ask you about this.
We were talking about this earlier, and you understand the business world as well as anybody.
These airlines and the way they're treating passengers, every day it's another incident.
This has got to stop.
Somebody has to get these airlines together and say you can't talk to people like this or drag them down the aisle like this or threaten to throw them in jail anymore.
It's a plane.
They're going on vacation.
Right.
And this gentleman who with his wife and some of his kids aboard the plane that Delta threw off with a flight attendant telling him they could end up in jail.
I mean, there are a lot of things going on there.
First of all, the flight attendants apparently feel empowered to treat their customers any way they damn well please.
I mean, they might as well, they're fascist.
There's just no doubt about it.
And their authoritarian management, who don't really seem to give a damn about whether or not they make any more money, just say treat the customer any way you want.
And the head of United having to tell his employees that the customer comes first and that you should be nice to them.
I mean, what kind of society are we living in?
The airline industry as a frontrunner of a fascistic society.
I mean, that's pretty stunning stuff.
Who would think that in a customer service business that that's where fascism would grab the strongest hold?
And it's appalling.
And think about those families.
The doctor, this young man with his young family.
I mean, there's something going on in their heads where they think, yeah, you know, maybe it is, maybe it's true.
Maybe I would be thrown in jail.
Maybe this is the way I'm supposed to be treated.
You know, I mean, there's something wrong.
Americans think that they suddenly have no rights and are not deserving of respect.
Thank God these two people and their families are an exception and demand respect as every citizen should in this country.
Yeah, but this is an issue.
If some politician, hopefully the president, somebody takes this on and changes this airline culture, that's re-election right there on that issue.
People feel very strongly about this.
Oh, I think you're exactly right.
And the real issue that reaches, it seems to me, Mark, across our society is obviously corporations think of us as consumers, and governments thinks of us as sucker voters to be sliced and diced demographically and persuaded whatever way is convenient to the ideology that's trying to persuade us, instead of as citizens.
We're citizens first, and we ought to demand that we be recognized as citizens first, no matter where we are, whether it's in the economy, whether it's in government, whether it's in our neighborhoods.
We're citizens.
Treat each other with respect and damn respect from our damn government.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, watch Lou Dobbs tonight, 7 o'clock Fox Business Network.
Who do you have on tonight?
We've got a host of folks that we're going to be talking about, amongst other things.
You won't be surprised, the treatment of airlines.
Oh, good.
The treatment of their customers.
We're focusing also on, yes, Susan Rice and her refusal to testify and why, in the minds of the left-wing national media mark, is Richard Nixon worse than Barack Obama, who now we know unmasked tens of thousands of American citizens.
And those are the issues that we think are going to be defining the country.
Well, it's a great show.
Every night at 7, number one show now, Fox Business Network, Lou Dobbs, Fox Business, 7 o'clock tonight.
Lou Dobbs, thanks for being with us.
Great to be with you, Mark.
Thanks so much, my friend.
All right.
Take care.
And don't forget, Hannity, of course, 10 o'clock on the Fox News channel.
Ann Coulter's coming up.
Steve Moore will be with us.
Hey, follow me on Twitter and Instagram.
It's Mark Simone, N-Y, Mark Simone, N-Y, Twitter, Instagram.
Actually, there's a good picture of me and Sean up there.
And a great picture of Donald Trump, one of the most touching pictures you will ever see.
And we'll take some calls a minute at 1-800-941-Sean is the number.
Hey, welcome back.
It's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
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Always good stuff up there.
Today, the picture of Donald Trump and the veteran, that is so moving and so powerful that no news outlet will put this picture up anywhere.
Had this been Barack Obama doing what Donald Trump is doing in the picture, it would be the front page of every paper in America.
But because it's Donald Trump and it's touching and moving, you will never see this picture, except on Hannity.com right now.
Let's take a call or two.
Let's go to Pete in Arlington, Texas.
Hey, Pete.
Hello, Mark.
Nice to talk with you.
I just am a former airline pilot.
You sound like an airline pilot.
You've got that airline pilot accent.
Okay.
Well, should I say Roger, and that'll help you?
Well, no, but when the pilot comes on, it's always, hi, we're going to be flying.
The pilot never comes on and says, oh, yeah, we're going to like Floyd to.
Well, I was based in New York for a couple of years, but I try and get over that accent.
My comment is strictly this.
Your point's very well taken.
This is a customer service issue, and unfortunately, as a crew member, sometimes you get forced into the middle of the situation.
We want to remember here when we're talking about this particular matter as a collective, the airlines a few years ago, and my memory is good enough to remember when they lost them, they lost four airplanes full of paying passengers that I don't know how you want to say this.
They fell through the cracks.
Can four airline loads of passengers fall through the cracks?
I think the security system was all wrong at the particular time.
And maybe it's maybe it's still got some working.
Well, wait, wait, wait.
We're conflating a lot of things together here.
You can never have a stewardess say to a guy, we're putting you in jail.
What about my kids?
Your kids will be there and you'll be in jail.
You can't have that.
And let me ask you another question.
Why are these flight attendants doing all this, putting people in jail, dragging them down the aisle?
Where's the pilot and all this?
Isn't he in charge?
The pilots, because of the restraints that have been put on them by the security measures that they deal with, in all honesty, are not supposed to really get involved or interact with this thing.
Honest to Pete, you take the pilots out of the equation.
Once that airplane gets in the air, what are you going to do with that airplane full of people?
No, no, but let's say the guy being dragged down the aisle.
The pilot is always...
Well, that's true.
That's not the...
That's not the pilot.
Until that door closes, it's not the pilot's airplane.
It's the customer's airplane.
I know, but it's the police airplane.
Let's be honest.
That's how that goes.
But be honest, the pilot is the older, senior, more mature guy, the more experienced guy.
He's the guy who really you want making these judgments on the thing.
He can't.
I know he can't.
No, it's not his job.
What I'm saying is it's not his level of authority.
It's like you being a policeman from New Mexico, and now you're in Bugolo, Alabama.
I know what you're saying.
I know what you're saying, but instead of that Chicago rent-a-cop hitting the guy and dragging him down the aisle, we want a guy like you, a Sully Sullenberger guy, to come in and mediate the whole thing.
Well, you've got to ask yourself the question, is the cabin door closed?
Because if the cabin door is not closed, he is not authorized, has no FBI jurisdiction.
And I bet you guys love it because when you hear all that racket, you probably close the door and go, I don't want anything to do with that.
I'll just fly the plane.
But you've got to admit, it's not like in the James Bond movie where it's luxurious travel.
Now you're treated like farm animals when you're on a plane.
Well, the pilots in the cockpit, I can tell you, are very aware of their responsibility.
But I'm telling you that the companies who own the airplanes and pay the pilots.
We've only got a few seconds, but all right, Pete, you're a good guy.
See, the pilot always doesn't he sound like Sully Sullenberger.
And then you get that stewardess who's like rent-a-cop there, gonna throw you in jail.
Anyway, it's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
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And coming up, Steve Moore.
Here's one of the smartest guys on the economy.
Taxes.
We'll talk to him next.
Hey, welcome back.
It's the Sean Hannity show.
It's Mark Simone here for Sean.
He'll be back on Monday.
Don't forget Hannity every night, 10 o'clock on the Fox News channel.
You know, Steve Moore is one of the smartest guys in the world when it comes to the economy, when it comes to policy.
He's a visiting fellow, Institute for Economic Freedom.
He's written some great books.
Steve Moore, you may make sure you get them all.
Steve Moore, are you there?
I am here.
It's great to be with you again.
Yeah, let me ask you a question.
I hear these people, these liberals, that say, you know, every time Trump plays golf, it's costing us $300,000 in security.
Every time he comes to New York, it's a million dollars.
Every time he does another $2 million, just to balance that out, if he gets this tax plan through and all this stuff through, how much more money will that bring into the economy?
Well, look, I mean, we've got the economy has been flattened out a little bit since about the beginning of March, although actually we've got a good, really good jobs report today, so it looks like it's picking up again.
But, you know, we still have 94 million Americans of working age that are outside the labor force.
We've got 40, as Hannity likes to talk about all the time, we have 45 million people on food stamps.
Wages haven't budged much at all the last 15 years, although we did get a good 2.5% increase in this month's report.
But the economy is growing way too slowly, and we're not creating, we are creating jobs.
I mean, that's the thing.
There are jobs out there, but they're just not the high-paying jobs that we used to have.
You know, so there are McDonald's and Walmart jobs and things like that that just are not, Mark, they're just not the kind of jobs you can raise a family on.
But if you just cut the corporate tax or you were able to repatriate that money overseas, that's a couple trillion dollars.
That's maybe $300,000, $400 billion in tax revenue that would come in immediately.
Yeah, so a couple things on the corporate tax.
And by the way, I think Trump, I've told Trump, call this a jobs bill.
Don't even call it a tax bill because this is all about how do we create higher paying jobs in this country and big factories and jobs back to this country that have left.
By the way, just as an aside, Mark, this is an amazing little statistic that has not been reported much.
In the most recent, the report that came out this morning, another 8,000 jobs were created in the mining industry.
That means that since Election Day, the United States economy has created somewhere in the neighborhood of 50,000 new mining jobs.
These are the jobs that were lost under Obama, who tried to destroy our coal mining industry, and they're coming back.
We've recovered, by my calculations, almost half of the jobs that were lost in the mining industry under Obama in just six months.
That's a pretty good record.
Yeah.
But also you've got, at least businesses think, there'll be some health care relief, health care costs coming, relief from that.
Obviously a new tax plan, new business tax plan.
So that's encouraging hiring right now.
Does that have something to do with this past month with the great job creation?
Yeah, look, I think that there's two things that Trump has got to get done this year to have a successful first year.
If he gets both of these two things done, then he's had a really good year.
And those are he's got to get the tax cut done, and he's got to get the Obamacare repealed.
And on this corporate tax, I'm sorry I didn't finish my thought on that.
You know, two amazing statistics.
One is, write this down, Mark.
It's one of my buddy Larry Kudlow's favorite statistics, and I use it all the time, too.
70% of the gain from cutting business taxes, 70% of the gain from cutting business taxes go to workers because now workers have more capital to work with.
They have more equipment.
They have plants, and the employers can afford to pay them more workers.
So this is a worker tax cut when we cut business taxes, because if businesses have more money, they can plow it back into the business and expand their operations.
So that's a big deal.
The other one to think about is I believe that we can increase economic growth by about one percentage point or nearly one percentage point through a very smart corporate business worker tax cut.
If we have one percent more growth, Mark, we get $3 trillion more revenue over the next decade.
So this isn't going to cost money.
It could actually save the government money and it could actually reduce the deficit.
Yeah, now when you listen to Chuck Schumer or you watch Rachel Maddow or you read the New York Times and all it says is tax cuts for the rich.
The rich benefit from this morning.
That's all tax cuts for the rich.
What do you do?
Just ignore that?
Just keep going?
I mean, they did it to Reagan.
They do it to everybody.
Right.
Best thing is just ignore it and don't even answer it.
Well, you know, it's so interesting.
I was reading, where was I, reading an article in the New York Times the other day saying, we can't, oh, it was by a friend of yours, the guy who did the auto bailouts for Obama.
And he was saying, Steve Ratner.
Yeah.
And he was saying, oh, you know, we can't do these tax cuts under Trump.
We tried this under Reagan and it completely failed.
And I'm like, what country are you living in?
I mean, my God, we had the biggest economic boom under Reagan and our country, practically in our country's history when we cut taxes.
And he's running around the country saying we're a failure.
Well, yeah, for those who don't know, Steve Ratner is that wormy little guy on Morning Joe with the glasses, that wormy-looking, little twerpy-looking guy.
You know, he wears the, you know, those very, those glasses designed to make you look smarter.
Those little torches.
What you're looking for is dweeb.
Dweeb, yes.
And that's what they do.
They just, you keep repeating that.
Look what happened under Reagan.
It was a disaster.
And you repeated enough times and people believe it.
Well, it was.
And, Mark, you know, I'm going to do a little endorsement for my friend Larry Kudlow's new book called JFK and the Reagan Revolution.
And everyone, anyone who wants to be educated about how tax policy works and how tax reduction can revive an economy should read Larry's excellent book, JFK and the Reagan Revolution.
And he talks about the two biggest tax cuts in the last 50 years were under John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.
And those two periods, the 60s and 80s, were the periods of unbelievably rapid job growth and economic growth and wage growth for Americans.
So the idea that we've tried this never worked.
These people have historical amnesia.
Yeah, get that Larry Kudlow book.
It'll show you.
You can call it Reaganomics, but he really got it from JFK.
And it has worked brilliantly every time.
What about there are people that will say you're never going to get the jobs back the way they were because you've got too much automation, you've got digital taking over, every digital, everything is replacing jobs.
What do you do about that problem?
Well, automation, I mean, is coming.
And, you know, there's no question.
And this is really one of the biggest economic issues of our time, is these massive amounts of robotics, automated cars.
I mean, one out of 12 males in the American workforce works driving a vehicle, Mark.
So those are people who are going to see different kinds of jobs in a decade from now.
But I don't believe we're running out of jobs.
I believe that, you know, if you, what we need to do is prepare America for this new economy that we're headed towards of automation, robotics.
You know, when I was a kid, my parents took me to Detroit.
I was about 12 years old, and we visited the auto factories and the steel plants and so on.
And those were slimy old sweatshops.
You know, those were, you know, I was like, I don't want to do that for a living.
I mean, that was really hard work that these people were doing with their hard hats.
And you go into, I was back there about three months ago in some of those same plants.
And you go into them today.
It's amazing.
There are people walking around with white scientific lab coats on who are doing the diagnostics of a lot of this amazing equipment that's building these cars for us.
I mean, that is the future.
And we need to have really highly technically qualified workers who know how to deal with this stuff and work at this stuff.
And we'll have plenty of jobs.
We just need to make sure that our workers are capable of doing them.
And that means we've got to do something about our education system to prepare people for the new workforce of the 21st century.
Yeah, but you do have a problem where it's the old Ford factory.
They needed a parking lot for 2,000 cars.
Now they need one for 20 cars because of the automation.
Well, that's exactly right.
And, you know, I do think you get this tax cut done, Mark, and I guarantee you the impact of this will be because we have the highest business tax rate in the world.
And under the Trump plan, if we get the rate down to 15%, not just for big businesses, but the small businesses as well, 26 million small businesses, we go to 15%.
I guarantee you, those companies that have been leaving the United States and pulling factories out of places like Pennsylvania and Ohio and Michigan, those companies are coming back.
And we're going to actually become a mecca for capital investment and for factories and new jobs.
So I think the tax cut and the deregulation are key to getting America back on its feet to be the economic superpower we should be.
And I'm with Trump.
I don't want to just shoot for 3% growth.
I want 4% to 5% growth.
We did it under JFK.
We did it under Reagan.
We can do it under Trump.
And under President Obama, was he the first president never to get to 3%?
Yeah, isn't that amazing?
And yet everybody's talking about how great a president he was and what a wonderful recovery it was.
You know, the $3 trillion growth gap is the difference between that $3 trillion is the difference between how much bigger the economy would be today if the economy had grown as fast under Obama as it did under Reagan.
$3 trillion is the combined economic output of Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio combined.
Well, get to Steve.
Steve Moore, what was your book?
You had a great book recently by the energy industry called Fueling Freedom, and that's the other part of this story is that, you know, my God, Mark, we have a capacity to become the energy dynamo of the world.
You know, North America, Canada, the United States, Mexico can become the new Middle East, the new Saudi Arabia.
We have, because of the shale oil and gas revolution, and we have 500 years' worth of coal in this country.
Trump wants to go after that stuff.
I mean, he wants to use our natural resources to create jobs and increase output and to make us less dependent on these countries that want to kill us, like Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, OPEC, Russia.
I mean, this is a great economic and foreign policy tool we have at our disposal.
It's called Fueling Freedom.
It's a really interesting thing.
Fueling Freedom, exposing the mad war against energy.
And there is a mad war against energy in this country by the radical environmentalists who want to, now that they've shut down a lot of the coal jobs, which, by the way, are coming back, now they want to shut down our own gas jobs.
10 million Americans are employed in that industry.
Yeah.
Two books we want you to read this weekend, Fueling Freedom and Larry Kudlow's book, the Reagan, what's it called again?
I can never remember the name.
That's a good reading list.
The JFK to Reagan.
It's a fascinating book.
And Steve Moore, thanks for being with us.
Thanks, Mark.
Have a great weekend.
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Let's go to Greg in Gladstone, Missouri.
Hey, Greg.
Hey, Mark.
You always do a good job.
Thanks.
Hey, I'm puzzled as to why the airline incidents are getting so much coverage and so much concern when reality is just a handful of incidents when you look at how many thousands of people have.
It's a lot of incidents.
It's a lot of incidents.
Should have happened or weren't wrong.
I think the guy getting drugged off the plane was another McDonald's hot coffee incident, to be honest.
Greg, Greg.
It happens all the time.
Hey, look, look at this show right here.
I go in the control room.
Ethan had a problem a couple days ago.
What's your definition of all the time?
Because I fly regularly six, eight flights a month, and I, to be honest, like a courier or something for somebody.
Why are you taking so many flights?
Pardon me?
Why do you take so many flights?
Uh-huh.
Oh, has my job.
Yeah, what kind of job is this you take on all these flights?
Travel.
Oh, I'm not.
Yeah.
Well, you know, in the big picture, when you think of how many flights there are, I guess.
But let's first of all, you're a very experienced traveler.
You're a man of the world.
Nobody's going to mess with you.
It's like Linda has no problem on a plane.
I don't want to be right out the window if she tried anything with Linda.
I put in earplugs so they won't talk to me.
That's it.
No, no, no.
But you flying all the time, involved in whatever shady enterprise you're involved in.
I mean, nobody's going to mess with you.
But a normal citizen, a nice, quiet guy like Ethan, or the nice doctor on the plane.
They're getting terrorized.
Well, what about you?
What happens when you travel, Mark?
Well, I've never had any problems.
Well, how do you travel?
Do you travel business first, coach?
Well, usually somebody's got a private plane and I ride with them.
Oh, well then.
Well, if I didn't travel at all, I'd still be asking the question.
Ain't it a small number compared to how many numbers of flights go out every day?
Hey, I'm just telling you, if I wanted to find somebody that's had a problem on a plane, I wouldn't have to wait six days.
I could go out in the hallway and find two people that just had a problem.
It's happening all the time.
I wish there was more focus on Comey's comment about somehow the emails got forward.
He doesn't know.
No, we'll get back to that.
Hey, but you got to admit, they cram you into these stupid seats that are way too tight on an airline.
I mean, you're being mistreated just by the way the seats are laid out.
Well, I'm skinny, and I always hope somebody skinny sits next to me.
I don't always get it.
Well, I can imagine sitting next to you.
That might creep me out.
You sound like a nice guy, but you sound like you're up to something.
I'm not up.
No, I'm not up to anything.
I'm just glad I got in.
No, true.
What do you actually do for a living?
I told you.
Yeah, okay.
Look at that slide.
All right.
But good luck with whatever it is you do on all these flights, and we hope you don't get caught.
And you sound like a good guy.
Thanks for calling.
I don't know.
That guy might have been a federal air marshal.
That's what it sounded like to me.
Very nice guy.
I would trace that call if I were you and look into this.
Six flights a week or what?
What does he take?
Right, but think about it.
Who travels that much?
People who work for the airline and a federal air marshal.
So maybe that's why he couldn't disclose that information.
No, he didn't sound.
He was like breathing heavy.
He didn't sound like any federal air marshal.
He's not breathing heavy.
He was breathing.
He was ridiculous.
He was not.
I actually agree with Mark.
I agree with Mark.
It was a little sketchy.
He sounds like a good guy, but he's a conspiracy theorist.
He's totally not.
He sounds like a good guy, but if you saw him on the front page of the paper one day, would you be shocked?
I don't think so.
I'm never shocked anymore at the front page of the paper.
All right.
Ann Coulter's coming up in the next hour.
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You know, Ann Coulter, a best-selling author.
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Ann Coulter, how are you doing?
Fine, thanks.
How are you, Mark Simone?
Very good.
Where do we start?
Let's talk about the double standard here.
You know, I'm watching this Jesse Waters one night.
He makes a little double entendre joke.
I don't see the guy again for a week.
This Stephen Colbert makes the most vulgar joke I have ever heard in the history of American television.
He's a hero the next night.
What is going on here?
Yes, you're right.
I especially like Colbert acting like he's speaking truth to power.
Yeah, he's not going to apologize for the joke, but on the other hand, the president has the nuclear codes.
Oh, for Pete's sake, all these people do is suck up to power.
Of course, nothing will happen to him.
You can be as vulgar as you want against Trump and particularly his supporters.
And I really think that has a lot to do with, especially the late night alleged comedy venom toward Trump.
The people, the elites, really hate our Trump supporters, the Walmart shoppers, but it's finally gotten through their thick craniums that it's not a good look when you're making millions of dollars a year to be constantly sneering at working-class Americans who shop at Walmart.
So instead, they make fun of Trump and feel like they can get away with it because he's a billionaire.
Yeah, but, you know, when he said, hey, Trump can handle himself, he's got the nuclear codes.
The problem wasn't Trump.
Trump's not even watching.
The problem was that it was a slur against, it was a horrible term that's used against gays.
He didn't apologize for that part of it.
No, there will be no apologies, but he will continue to pretend like he's being heroic.
I really wouldn't mind vulgarity even of this level.
And it is, I think we've reached a new standard for vulgarity.
If it were funny, I mean, that's my main objection to, and like you and most people, I don't watch these late night shows because they're not doing humor anymore.
They're supposed to be jokes with a surprising twist.
Yeah.
And you can't help but to laugh.
It's like sneezing.
It's not supposed to be an applause line.
It's supposed to be your laugh line.
And no, there's just an endless appetite, apparently, for just a long string of epithets about Donald Trump with colorful imagery and, you know, the carrot-top dumpster fire and a series of other, you know, vivid images, none of which is surprising, interesting.
It's just epithets with colorful imagery, and the humor has been suctioned out of it.
Yeah, and they must have had a meeting at the Colbert show, and they said, you know, this vulgarity is good.
Listen to him last night.
Listen to what happened.
Listen to this joke.
One reporter ran into Reince Priebus who told her the president stepped up and helped punt the ball into the end zone.
Yes, a punch into the end zone.
Accurate because it gets you zero points and gives your opponent good field position.
It might be a more accurate football metaphor might have been the GOP just kicked America in the ball.
That's the joke.
And you hear the audience roaring with laughter.
Yeah, I hate that sneering, smirking, making fun of people for misstatements.
I mean, that's been the marker, the signature of MSNBC all these years.
And I mean, I guess there are enough pot-smoking millennials who like to sneer at other people.
I've never felt better about myself by virtue of sneering at someone else.
But there are a lot of people who do, and they make up the audiences to MSNBC and these late-night shows.
You know, I used to watch Jay Leno, and in the middle of the monologue, he used to do a long monologue, but in the middle, he'd make like four or five jokes about George Bush.
It was pretty funny.
But can you imagine if he came out and just did all 50 jokes in the monologue about George W. Bush, and then he sat down at the desk and attacked George W. Bush for 10 minutes and then brought out nine guests to it.
They would have taken him to a sanitarium.
What is going on now?
Well, it's not even the number of jokes or the choice of topic.
It's the word joke there.
Again, these aren't jokes.
They're just long strings of epithets.
I don't think you could get Leno to do one of these.
He'd have too much pride and wouldn't be able to look his fellow comedians in the eye after doing something so lazy and cheap.
Yeah, that's a good point.
Hey, apparently out in Hollywood, California, they are plotting.
I've heard of it.
Yes, they're plotting and plotting and plotting.
The whole entertainment industry, they think they've got to come up with their own Donald Trump to be the candidate next time around.
And it's all kind of coming down to Bob Iger.
He's the chairman of Disney ABC.
Apparently, he's looked at this.
He's testing it.
Jeffrey Katzenberg is behind this.
They think that's what they need, their own business guy, a super liberal entertainment guy.
That's a plot that's never going to work.
Have you ever seen Bob Iger?
He looks like an iceberg.
I can't relate to that.
No, I think the Democrats' presidential nominee is going to be George Clooney or Ben Affleck.
That makes way more sense than getting some billionaire out-of-touch Hollywood executive.
And no, I haven't seen him, but I believe you.
But I mean, Trump does open up possibilities.
It may not be such a good idea, though, unless Trump keeps his promises.
As you know, I'm a little testy with the emperor god Trump this week for that monstrosity of a budget deal.
Well, but this will all get, it's not going to get done in one step.
You know, everybody forgets Reagan, it took a while to get all this done.
And he used to say, let me go get half now, I'll get the rest later.
It's not all get done in the first hundred days.
Let's wait till the end of the year and then judge him.
You know, you Trump fanboys.
Except he didn't get half.
He took many, many steps back.
He could have started the wall the day after his inauguration.
He's the commander-in-chief.
It's his job under the Constitution, not through some law passed by Congress, desperately negotiated by Speaker Ryan.
It is his constitutional responsibility to protect the nation.
That means our borders.
He has full authority to do so.
And in this brilliantly negotiated budget deal, Paul, Speaker Paul Ryan, alleged Republican.
No, he's actually taken it back.
The Congress has now forbidden the president to do his constitutional duty and protect our borders.
So there's a lot in the budget bill for funding for border walls in the Middle East, just not on our own country.
Contrary to.
Let's say two years from now there's a big, beautiful wall there.
Then you'll be happy.
What did the American people have to do to make that point clear?
We elected Donald Trump.
We stopped at amnesties.
Congress is quietly in the dark of night, and I don't mean just Democrats, Republicans leading the way, tried to slip through an amnesty bill three times in the last decade, and it was stopped every single time, not by some big, powerful group of Republicans on the other side.
No, no, no.
It was stopped all three times by the Republican people, or the American people calling in and shutting down the congressional switchboards saying we don't want amnesty.
Now we run the most implausible candidate for president in the history of the country, Donald J. Trump.
He wins, and he wins states the Republicans haven't won for 20 years.
What else does the public have to do to get the message to Washington, we want a wall?
Well, we'll get a wall.
This is true of any infrastructure project.
When they tell you the bridge will be there by 2018, it's 2019 before the bridge is there.
Mark, they haven't even put the first spade in the ground to start building the wall.
I mean, I will blame Republicans, but look, we knew this.
This is part of what was so appealing about Donald Trump, that he wasn't a politician.
We knew he was going to be facing massive resistance, not only from the opposing party, the Democrats, but from his own party, from the entire bureaucracy, from the media.
We knew that.
That's why him being a brash and ruthless businessman was so appealing.
He was going to be working on behalf of the American people.
So I'm sorry, it's too late for the Emperor God to say, oh, oh, I couldn't get it through these feckless Republicans.
We knew they were feckless.
That's why we elected him.
He'll get it done.
You'll have your wall.
You know, if he thinks he can get by just saying that, he will be wiped out in the midterms.
Democrats will have 300 seats in the House, and there'll be no possibility of him even running for reelection.
He'll have to bow out gracefully somehow, claim he's made America great, even though we only have this sad little fence.
I hope you're right, but it better get started soon.
It'll get.
Interm elections are coming fast.
Hey, Ann Coulter, what happened with Berkeley and all that?
That's over?
That's.
Well, I believe the entire American educational system is over.
That's true.
And my little speech at Berkeley was just a carry on top.
No, I don't think people shouldn't waste $200,000 on these liberal indoctrination outfits.
I don't think anybody learns anything at college.
I mean, ask kids.
It's a four-year vacation slash liberal indoctrination.
I think what you should do if you're 17 or 18 years old is take the SAPs, apply to a bunch of colleges, and present your college acceptance letter and your SAT scores to your future employer.
Because that's really the only reason you have to spend $200,000 on your kid.
It's a proxy for an IQ test, which has been made illegal in the United States.
So the SAP score in your college admissions is going to tell employers just as much.
And oh, by the way, you also didn't spend four years killing brain cells.
Yeah.
You know, I used to hear about the colleges years ago.
This guy was the debate champion or he was in the debate club.
I guess they don't have that anymore because if you gave the other point of view, you'd be arrested, right?
There'd be riots.
How would you have a debate nowadays in the college?
No, that's right.
That's right.
I was the second half to the debate.
The pro-mass immigration speaker had already spoken.
And it wasn't just the College of Republicans.
There was a nonpartisan group on Berkeley campus that had invited me because they do believe in debate.
I guess that's the end of their group.
So the pro-mass immigration speaker went a couple of weeks ago, but then when it was time for me to come, the administrators decided that no, no, a crime could be committed.
And we don't want to ask the police to stop any crimes from being committed.
So we'll have to cancel the speaker.
I mean, what's happened is it's so irritating having people talk about, oh, it's so ironic.
Berkeley, the home of free speech.
No, they never believed in free speech.
It was free speech in the 60s for communists.
The communists took over the universities, and now there will be no free speech.
Yeah.
It's just like what they say about democracy in the third world.
One man, one vote, one time.
But it was great.
They take over and everybody else's freedoms are taken away.
And that's what's happened at our university.
But it was great to see who defended you.
Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Chris Matthews, Bill Maher, all came to your defense.
ACLU.
Yeah.
I mean, it does show how sluggish and radical the universities are, that they're just out there alone.
Though I would, it's very generous of even prominent members of the Democratic Party to endorse my constitutional rights.
And I'm very strongly hoping that they will also endorse my right not to have soldiers quartered in my home.
But that's a good ad for a college.
Berkeley, we're to the left of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.
Well, more fascistic and sluggish and violent.
Yeah.
Well, Ann Coulter, everybody should get Ann Coulter's book, In Trump We Trust.
That's still the best Trump book out there in the United States.
Yes, it is.
And also, if you want to get her column or any of that stuff, you go to AnnCoulter.com.
And do you still have those Trump shirts?
You have the most beautiful Trump shirts.
We have to get them remade.
Get those remade.
In Trumpism, we trust.
Yes, anncoulter.com.
Follow her on Twitter and Facebook and all that stuff.
And Ann Coulter, thanks for being with us.
Good to talk to you, Mark Simone.
Bye-bye.
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Look at this email.
You're dating yourself.
Stop saying stewardesses.
It's flight attendance.
Well, I do that deliberately.
I just, I don't know.
I like the old words usually in every case.
I know you're supposed to get more politically correct, but whenever the old thing was one word and the new thing is like two words, eight words, it's never as good.
And why can't you say stewardess?
What's the reason for that?
Linda, is stewardess okay?
We usually go to Linda for arbitration here.
Or do I have to say flight attendants?
It doesn't sound right.
Flight attendance.
I apologize.
I was removing some remnants in the studio here.
Oh, okay.
Stewardess, what's wrong with that?
So supposedly, it basically is saying that men cannot be flight attendants because no one ever said stewards, so it was always stewardess.
So what they just said was flight attendants because they attend to you while you're on the flight.
No, they don't.
They threaten you.
They lock you up.
They drag you down the aisle.
Well, you know, it's different versions of being attended to.
You know, there's gentle attention, and then there's, you know, rough attention, and then there's verbal abuse, and all different variations.
Would you agree?
The people working on those things are 85% women, right?
You know what?
I wouldn't.
No.
Because I just flew to Israel with Sean, and on both legs on two different airlines, I had men.
That's different.
Very nice men.
That's LL, right?
It was both.
It was Delta and LL.
LL.
They're probably all commandos there.
They got to have security on those things.
These guys weren't messing around, that's for darn sure.
Stewardess.
What's wrong with it?
If it's a man, you say steward.
It's fine.
What is this flight attendant?
No one says steward.
You know that, right?
Okay, why can't you just say attendant?
You could say attendant, but you're just specifying that you're in flight, so it's a flight attendant.
I don't know.
Attendant, it sounds like a gas station.
I think someone like you would like to be attended to.
I know.
Mr. Private Planes.
I don't know anything about commercial airlines.
Stewardess.
It's got a nice ring to it.
You're the one who wanted the pilot to come and take care of you.
All right.
We'll take some calls in a moment.
Hey, welcome back.
It's Mark Simone here for Sean.
He'll be back on Monday.
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We'll take some calls.
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Hey, a lot of people are worried about Hillary Clinton.
Democrats are very worried about Hillary Clinton.
The last thing they need is this gangstery bureaucrat coming back into the picture.
Even here in New York, you got the New York Post, which is a great paper, and then you got the Daily News, which is the super liberal, the Democratic paper.
Even they ran a big piece today, and the title was Hillary Clinton, Go the Blank Away.
They're really worried in the Democratic world about her just not going away.
She's back this week.
She's spoken at three big women's forums, and she's been speaking out.
She's contacted the Speakers Bureau.
She wants to go back out and make a lot of speeches everywhere.
She's put together a super PAC to raise money.
It's going to be called, this is a great name, Onward Together.
That's why she lost.
She's the worst brander in the world.
Now, you can't do this Clinton Foundation anymore, or she can raise money.
Nobody's going to give her any money.
They know she's not going to win anything.
But you do the super PAC, and then you can dole out money to candidates and causes, and that way you buy some influence.
But Democrats are very nervous about this loser coming back into their world.
They're done with the Clintons.
That's old, old news.
I mean, if they got to have a Clinton around, they'd rather have Bill.
At least he can talk.
At least he's persuasive.
So they're going to have to figure out how to get rid of this woman.
She's going to screw them up again.
They don't need to hear about all this baggage that she brings with them.
They're trying to get ready for the midterms.
The last thing they want is her around.
And I think, are we done with the Russia stuff?
I haven't heard that in a couple of weeks.
Did they give up on that?
No?
You don't hear about it anymore.
Russia tampered with the election.
You know, if you try to pin somebody down, I mean, like even a Rachel Maddow, exactly what did they do?
They tell you about they used bots on Twitter and they flooded everything with fake news.
You know, they tell you these whole stories.
Did you ever see this fake news?
You did?
What fake news?
On CNN every night.
No, I mean, but this Russian fake news.
I know they tell you about some story about a pizza place in Washington that was fake.
But nobody ever saw this.
What is all over Twitter that influenced the election?
I don't know.
Anybody's ever seen this stuff?
George Soros.
You want a guy influencing an election?
Tampering with an election?
George Soros.
He's like three blocks away tampering with the election.
Let's take some calls.
Let's go to Jacksonville, Florida, and say, hello to Scooter.
Hey, Scooter.
Yes, sir.
Yes.
Hold on.
I'm right there with you.
Oh, take your time.
We're not doing anything.
Whenever you get a minute, maybe you can say something.
Just jump in whenever you feel like it.
I've got two quick comments here.
One is about the airline thing.
Go ahead.
You know, I mean, nobody's talking about that the guy did accept $800.
He was off the plane, ran by the baggage guy to get back on the plane again.
Yeah, that doctor that got dragged down the aisle did get off and he got back.
Well, yeah, but he got off the plane.
You see, he was going to take 800.
No, no, no, no.
But you get off the plane thinking, well, I'll leave in two hours.
Then he found out there's no plane for like two days.
That's why he went back.
You take the 800, you go to the bar.
You know, you can even meet a girl with $800.
First of all, a guy like you, by the time you get down to the bar, that's $600 right there.
That's only $200 left for the girl.
No, but you, he's a doctor.
He had to be back tomorrow.
You get off the plane thinking you'll take the next plane, but it turns out there's no planes.
Hey, Ethan, what did you say?
It was like a day you'd have to.
Yeah, it was a full day.
You had to wait 24 hours to get the next flight to St. Thomas and American Airlines.
Was even separating kids from they were telling parents, oh, your child doesn't have a seat, so we don't know how this is going to work out yet.
And parents were crying at the terminal.
It was horrible.
Yeah, you got to know.
Like they said to you, hey, there's another flight in an hour.
We got you booked on it.
That's one thing.
But if you get off the plane, find out it's a day and a half, and people have to get back to work, Scooter.
Yeah, you got to run back on the plane again.
Yeah.
Well, I don't know.
I don't know.
First of all, anyway, the reason I did call was here in Jacksonville, we have a Congresswoman named Corinne Brown.
And yes, we're all fascinated by this.
We're going to have to spite of every sound bite for probably the last 24 years of her being in Congress.
Oh, well, you guys elected her.
Not us, man.
I mean, I moved here and it's been a full Democratic city, and that's why our pension is $2 billion upside down.
And, you know, now we got a Republican, Lenny Curry, in there, and he's firing people, and he's trying to straighten it out.
So we've got a good, you know, good things coming up for us.
But I don't even know if she's going to get indicted.
Well, she is a politician.
There's always a chance.
But anyway, Scooter, thanks for calling.
Let's go to Joe in Indiana.
Hey, Joe.
I'm Mark Joe in Plumsville, Indiana.
A retired FedEx pilot flown a lot.
And just had an observation.
I like your comments about the guy that can fix this problem.
And nobody's pointed out yet that I've heard is that don't forget Donald Trump actually ran the Trump shuttle.
So he probably does have a little bit of experience operating an airline and has probably an idea of just how to make an airline run right.
A few years ago, he seems to be a pretty quick learner.
Yeah, no, he did have an airline.
It was called the Trump Shuttle.
But it's not just about knowing how to run an airline.
Listen, I'm sure they know how to run the planes and the airports and all this stuff.
This is about how to treat the customers.
And remember, one thing about Trump, he runs hotels and resorts.
Everything he does involves treating the public well.
He runs hotels.
Can you imagine you went to the hotel and they knocked on your door in the middle of the night?
We're overbook.
Get out of the room or we'll call the police.
And they dragged you down the hallway and threw you in the elevator.
No, you go to a Trump hotel or resort.
Nobody has better customer service.
Somebody's got to stand up to these airlines.
At some point, it's got to be Donald Trump who calls all the airline heads into a room and says, we've got to fix this.
You can't keep treating people like this.
Let's go to Kathy in Louisiana.
Kathy, how are you doing?
I'm doing fine.
Thank you.
I just wanted to say that I think you are a little short with callers.
All right, next call.
Let's go to the next call.
No, I'm kidding.
I am a little short.
I'm sorry.
And sometimes a little smart, Alec.
Oh, I plead guilty, but you see, this is New York City.
This is how we talk here.
It may be.
But John's from New York.
I know, but you know, Sean, he's like Mr. All-American.
He's so polite.
He's so friendly.
But I'm like Linda.
You know, when we go out in the street, if there's somebody in the doorway, we go, get out of the way.
And we just push them.
That's how it is.
That's probably why I don't live there.
Now, listen, I think that we should put Mary on with Kathy because Mary's also from Louisiana, and there seems to be conflicting reports in Louisiana about Mark Simone.
Mary, don't go away, Kathy.
Mary, are you from Louisiana too?
Yes, I am.
Do you agree with her?
I'm too short with the callers.
Well, we could all talk for hours.
I agree with that part.
You like to sit down and have a cup of coffee and talk about it?
That's what we do here in the South.
Tea or coffee.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Kathy, you hear how nice that Mary is?
She doesn't complain like you.
Well, I understand that a caller cannot be on the phone for hours.
I know, but look how friendly this Mary is.
Complimentary, pleasant.
Here you are complaining about her.
Oh, she's not complaining.
She's southern.
She wants to make her point.
That's what we do.
We make our point.
Well, that's true.
Do you two live near each other?
Maybe you two should get together and have coffee.
I don't know what town she lives in.
I live in Shreport.
If you call that Linda.
Oh, no, I'm kidding.
I'm kidding.
It was a joke.
It was a joke.
I live in Eris.
Oh, see?
New York, Louisiana.
You two should get together.
Yeah, I know.
We should go with you, Mark.
And Linda, I got to talk to Linda.
Oh, my gosh.
Her accent is really true.
It's not fake for the show.
That is awesome.
Linda sounds okay.
John Twilight.
Linda's great.
You can't copy her.
He can't.
Hey, I hate to break it to you.
We think you two have an accent.
You don't think you have an accent, right?
Kathy, you don't have an accent, dude.
You're not from Freeport.
No, you can't talk about it.
They don't know what they say.
This is how God talks.
They think they don't have an accent.
They think we have an accent.
I know Linda does.
That was amazing.
When she answered the phone, it shocked me.
I didn't understand what she said at first.
I hate to break it to you.
I got that part because I hear that all the time out of her.
Come on.
Almost got it down.
I can almost say it like her.
There's 10 million people here in the city.
They all talk like that.
That's normal.
What are you trying to say?
That I'm not original?
Is that the point that you're trying to make, Mark?
I'm saying you don't have an accent.
I was saying everybody was faking their accents, and I wasn't sure.
I was kind of wondering.
Who said we were faking our accents?
No, John was copying everybody.
He was.
Oh, yeah.
Well, Sean has spent years perfecting his non-accent, and then he lived in Alabama for a while.
Yeah, Linda doesn't have an accent.
Hey, you two Andy Griffiths are women.
Hey.
No, it's nice.
Hey, it's nice down here in Mayberry.
Y'all should come down here.
We ain't got all of them Democrats.
It is a beautiful accent.
But you all sound so friendly and so warm and so sweet.
But tell the truth, underneath, you're like cold-blooded, right?
No.
No.
That's real?
That nice southern church?
That's real.
No.
The only thing you got to worry about being cold is can.
Oh, okay.
And then they say, co-hands, warm heart.
All right.
We don't have to go over everybody part here, but Mary and I think Mary wants to.
The heart wants what the heart wants.
Yeah, so Mary, you're single, right?
No, I'm married.
Oh, and Kathy, you're married.
I'm married.
Yeah.
And now, let's be honest, all the men out there.
If we took a survey right now, who'd you rather be married to, Mary or Kathy?
This Kathy sounds like she's got a complaint every minute.
That's not true.
No, I'm just giving you a hard time.
This Mary sounds perfect.
Like, she'd never complain about anything.
You just like Mary because Mary likes you almost as much as she likes Trump.
That's all.
You're just a little biased is all.
Kathy's calling you on the carpet like a New York woman.
Yeah, you don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure that out.
I like Sean, too.
I mean, you two are both great, Mary and Kathy.
Thanks for calling.
And we'll take some more clothes in a minute.
800-941-Sean is the number.
They do sound great.
I love that accent.
It is so good.
But we got lots to talk about.
We'll get to Donald Trump and more.
Coming up, it's Mark Simone here for Sean.
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Welcome back.
It's Mark Simone for Sean Hannity.
Sean will be back on Monday.
We got time for one call.
Let's go to Monty in Dallas, Texas.
Monty, you work for an airline?
Yeah.
You got to admit, though, it's not flying is not the experience it was 10 years ago.
No, it is not.
Absolutely not.
Because ridership it up, most people aren't aware of the fact that there's an extreme pilot shortage that's happening and it's getting worse.
And the only way the airlines can combat it is to pack more people on the same planes because they don't have enough crews to add more planes.
Now, that's interesting.
Why is that pilot shortage?
That's a pretty good job, isn't it?
Stop and think about it.
Many of the pilots are hitting their mandatory retirement of 65 now.
It used to be 60.
They extended it.
That hastened that.
That gave a little extra time on the shortage.
But the problem is a lot of the pilots retiring out are pilots left over from the Vietnam era when the military was turning them out by the hundreds.
That doesn't exist anymore.
And those were well-trained pilots.
But younger guys don't want to be pilots.
Younger people aren't becoming.
Well, it's not so much that.
You could also, you can go to college and get federal student loans, but you couldn't get, there were no colleges teaching aviation.
So if you wanted to go get a, to get your ATP, which is the license required to fly for commercial airlines, you're going to spend probably close to $100,000.
So you got to go get that financed yourself.
You know, I never thought about that, though.
You're right.
But the Vietnam War, when that was over, you had tons and tons of pilots looking for jobs.
Tons of pilots.
Absolutely.
And then there was the economic times of the late 70s and the early 80s when a lot of them got furloughed and then they came back on board.
But also the economic times since 2000, 60, AOPA, Airline Pilots Owners Association, did a survey.
About 60% of the flight schools in this country in the last 10 years have gone out of business.
Wow.
But the idea of making the seats smaller and tighter and smaller to cramming more people in a plane down.
Well, and they're also flying bigger and bigger planes now.
I know, but more people cramming those planes.
That's a recipe for trouble.
You put those people in too tight and too many people and you overbook.
Things are going to go wrong.
Exactly.
But the thing is, what's happening, as I think, and I'm a longtime conservative all my life, love Sean Hannity, Trump supporter, and all this.
But what I'm hearing lately on some of the shows disturbs me a little bit because it's almost like the way the media treated the Ferguson incident.
Let's jump to judgment based on what we see right in front of us right now.
That's not what's happening with the airline industry.
They're taking these few incidents and blowing it up as though the airline crews have become dictatorial.
That may be true, but it is becoming a more and more unpleasant experience.
The tighter seats, the overcooking.
You don't hear any stories about, you don't hear stories about how bad the flight crews are being treated and how unruly passengers have become.
You do hear that now and then.
No, you don't.
Not like you do when there's a flight attendant accused of hitting a woman with a baby with a stroller, which, by the way, in that story, got recanted.
The lady recanted the story.
The flight attendant was not at fault.
Hey, I don't mean to cut you short because you're the most interesting call, but we're out of time.
Monty, thanks a lot for calling.
That's an interesting debate.
It'll go on for a while until somebody solves this problem.
Anyway, we're out of time.
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