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May 5, 2017 - Sean Hannity Show

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ObamaCare Is Dead - 5.4

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	If you want to be a part of the program, this is a huge day.
	And it's not the perfect bill.
	I'm not going to sit here and tell you, oh, this is exactly the way I would have done it.
	Wouldn't have happened.
	Sad part of the Republican Party and the reality of the caucus is just very, very simple.
	And that is that there are too many moderate Republicans that had no desire to really take on repealing and replace.
	But that's fine.
	And so, but there's a number of things in play here that we've got to understand that we have been lied to for so long and that we have been this has become such an unmitigated disaster and so bad for so many millions of Americans.
	And every promise that was made, they failed you on, that it is imperative that we understand what this turn now provides in terms of an opportunity for the American people.
	And in that case, it's a win.
	You know, just to talk about the spontaneity of radio, just as I was coming on the air, I got an email from my friend Jeff Lord, who wrote the best-selling book about Donald Trump, the case for Trump.
	And he actually went back and looked at Donald Trump's book, Never Give Up, how I turned my biggest challenges into success, and how the book was written by Trump.
	And, you know, same guy that wrote the other bestseller, The Art of the Deal.
	And now he has finally passed health care.
	And we've learned a lot about the Republican Party.
	And we've learned a lot about the people that absolutely within the Republican ranks that are extraordinarily difficult to deal with.
	And then we learned a lot about the character of people like Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows and Louis Gormert and all of these people that were willing to work day and night, night and day to find that ability to thread that needle to literally find that secret sauce, to find the best that we can get and begin the process of saving what is now a precipitous, rapid death spiral, which is known as Obamacare.
	And what Jeff, I think, points out, which is so interesting to me, is with all the attention during the campaign about the Art of the Deal book, that he rightly points out that, in fact, Trump's book Never Gave Up gives a lot of insight into the type of guy he is.
	And of course, which kind of leads us to where we are today.
	And, you know, the book is 41 chapters with a number of chapters ending with a closing thought like from Coach Trump.
	You know, failure is not permanent.
	Wholeness in the art of the comeback.
	You know, the apprentice was supposed to be a big mistake.
	Get the best advice you can, then trust your gut.
	You know, is this a blip or a catastrophe?
	Be prepared for things that happen outside your game plan.
	When the other side expects a duel, offer a partnership.
	That's right out of the art of the deal.
	And he talked about Trump International golf links in Scotland, just like, you know, the Woman Rink in New York.
	Separate yourself from the whiny, complaining crowd.
	You can create your own luck.
	Be passionate.
	It's the only way to move mountains, building, you know, another golf club story.
	Don't let fear stop you.
	Somebody told me once, there's a book, I never read it, but I get everything out of the title, you know, and it's a really simple one, and that is feel the fear and do it anyway.
	I was not exactly comfortable my first day on the radio, my first day giving a speech or my first day on TV.
	But if you don't push through that fear, and some people don't, some people get paralyzed by it and it stops them.
	And they never get the advice from that older person with prospectus.
	Don't worry, that fear doesn't last forever.
	You know, once you push through it a few times, you'll be fine.
	I can't tell you how many people in my life I have given that advice to, how many people scared to death to ever try being a guest on my television show, and that I've walked through.
	Linda literally, you know, will walk through callers on this radio show.
	I've heard her do it.
	I said, all right, now don't be nervous.
	Take a deep breath and just focus on what you want to say, not her telling them what to say.
	You know, one time I was on TV.
	I don't know if you remember the Terry Shaivo case, and there was this very kind, wonderful, nice woman that had taken care of Terry Shaivo and that thought that there was some legitimacy to the argument, that Terry Shaivo had some level of awareness and wanted to tell her story.
	And she'd never been on TV before, and she's pretty, she's physically nervous.
	It was transparent.
	And I'm like, just look me in the eye.
	And I kind of grabbed her hand and squeezed it, not in a bad way, not in a mean way, but in a way to grab her attention and kind of shocked her out of her head.
	Because when you're in your head, remember, thoughts create feelings.
	Feelings create more thoughts.
	Your mind begins to spin.
	Then those thoughts create more and more feelings, more and more feelings, more and more thoughts.
	And then the next thing you know, you're shaken.
	And emotionally and physically, you know, it can impact your whole life.
	So that's a very good advice.
	You need to look down from the high dive and see a pool and just say, I have no idea how bad this is going to be, and just jumps once in a while in your life.
	And a lot of people never take that jump.
	And you got to jump, you got to dive, you got to take risk.
	And sometimes if you don't do it, you're just impeding any potential human growth in your life.
	So it's really important that you take risk.
	Anyway, don't give up.
	Be patient.
	You know, you may have to wait 20 years for a deal to pay off and where others fail and all these things.
	So, you know what?
	The story here is this: that we've learned that there are some Republicans that I don't like in this process.
	We've learned that there were 60 show votes by Republicans that they didn't mean it when they talked about repealing and replacing Obamacare.
	Just a fact.
	Now, with that said, we ran into that obstacle the Friday that the vote was scheduled.
	It was clear they didn't have the votes.
	Then we learned that Republicans weren't prepared to manage in the House yet, and they didn't build a consensus bill.
	And this was a top-down leadership bill that the rank and file members hadn't seen.
	No consensus was built.
	The varying factions within the Republican Party weren't consulted.
	So I remember talking, and I said this, I told you this story yesterday that I got on the phone with the Freedom Caucus members.
	They're the people, frankly, in Congress that I admire, respect the most, that are the most conservative, the most willing to fight hard, the most willing to stand on their principles, and without which this bill never would have passed.
	They'll never get credit for what they did behind the scenes here.
	The Mark Meadows, the Jordans, the Bratz, the Go-Merts, the people that worked night and day since the Friday that bill was pulled with the study group, the Tuesday group, the moderates, and even members of the Senate that worked day and night with them.
	By the way, the president is about to speak.
	So for stations along the Sean Hannity show affiliates around the country, we will be taking that when it happens.
	And we're being somewhat flexible in our first break here today to get the president's first comments after this health care bill of Obama's, the replacement bill was put in place today.
	So then what they realized, all right, we've got challenges.
	We've got a diverse caucus.
	We've got 100 people we didn't know didn't mean it.
	We know all of this.
	All right.
	So, but they never stop working.
	I can't tell you how many phone calls, how many hours I spent, and I was just a small piece of just trying to encourage and offer, you know, bounce ideas off of to get the bill to a point where it's going to meet the main goals.
	And the main conversation I had the Saturday after this was pulled with the chairman of the Freedom Caucus, Mark Meadows, and he'll back me up on this, was, all right, Mark, what is it that you need?
	Remember, he was getting blamed.
	His caucus was getting blamed.
	Oh, the Freedom Caucus.
	Even the White House thought it was the Freedom Caucus.
	It wasn't the Freedom Caucus.
	It was poorly managed by the House leadership.
	Fact, end of sentence.
	It was not the Freedom Caucus.
	What do we need?
	What are the goals here?
	And he said, well, we've got to lower premiums.
	We've got to bring in free market competition.
	We've got to offer Americans lower premiums, better care, more options, healthcare savings accounts emerging out of this, and healthcare cooperatives.
	Now, we'll talk to Dr. Umber.
	We'll get his take on this at the top of the next hour.
	And this is the guy that has created a model that I think can be duplicated around the world.
	And now there will be an opportunity to get there, which didn't exist before.
	By the way, I think here comes the president.
	Oh, there's Paul Ryan.
	There's Kevin McCarthy.
	Wow, I don't see Mark Meadows, do you?
	Linda?
	Oh, he's there already.
	Okay.
	Where is he?
	In the last row?
	Freedom Caucus is already in the front row right now.
	You're seeing the majority, minority whip.
	You're right.
	They're in the front row.
	Wow.
	I'm very impressed.
	That's where they should be.
	That's where they should be.
	So maybe they are getting the credit that they fully and truly deserve.
	I still don't see Meadows.
	He's a pretty tall guy.
	Meadows is over on the left.
	He's the left of the screen or the left of where the president will be.
	He's to the right of the president, the left of your screen.
	So he's to the right of McCarthy and Secretary Price.
	Yes, sir.
	He's right behind Ryan.
	He's right behind Ryan.
	All right.
	Oh, there he is.
	Okay.
	Very nice.
	We should reverse that, but what can you do?
	All right.
	Are you done?
	I'm trying to explain the story.
	And so through a series of difficulties, now it's made more challenging because of the parliamentary issues involving the Senate and reconciliation.
	But that doesn't, as I said to him that day, it doesn't matter.
	Most Americans don't care about reconciliation.
	Here comes boss.
	But anyway, here comes the president and the vice president up to the podium.
	We're going to dip in.
	Now shaking the hands of members of Congress.
	217 votes in the House.
	And Obamacare, as we know it, is dead and gone and thankfully buried.
	And there are a lot of conservatives that made this day happen.
	There are moderates that I'm disappointed in, though.
	There's Mark Meadows, Paul Ryan, and Mark Meadows shaking the president's hand.
	They're joking.
	I wish I knew what they said, but whatever it is, I'll find out later.
	And the president now, I guess the vice president up at the podium.
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	Speaker Ryan, Majority Leader McCarthy, Majority Whip Scalise, Chairwoman McMorris-Rogers, Chairman Brady, Chairman Walden, Chairwoman Black, Congressman MacArthur, Congressman Meadows, and all the principled members of Congress who are standing with us here today.
	On behalf of President Donald Trump and the First Family, welcome to the White House.
	And thanks to the leadership of President Donald Trump, welcome to the beginning of the end of Obamacare.
	It was March 2010, seven years ago, Democrats passed a government takeover of health care.
	And at that time, Republicans in Congress promised the American people that law would not stand.
	Today, thanks to the perseverance, the determination, and the leadership of President Donald Trump and all the support of those gathered here, we've taken a historic first step to repeal and replace Obamacare and finally give the American people the kind of health care they deserve.
	So today, with heartfelt gratitude for all he has done to keep his word to the American people and for all he will do to continue to make America great again.
	it is my high honor and distinct privilege to introduce to you the President.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Thank you, Mike.
	That's the group.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	This really is the group.
	What a great group of people.
	And they're not even doing it for the party.
	They're doing it for this country because we suffered with Obamacare.
	I went through two years of campaigning, and I'm telling you, no matter where I went, people were suffering so badly with the ravages of Obamacare.
	And I will say this: that as far as I'm concerned, your premiums, they're going to start to come down.
	We're going to get this passed through the Senate.
	I feel so confident.
	Your deductibles, when it comes to deductibles, they were so ridiculous that nobody got to use their current plan.
	This non-existent plan that I heard so many wonderful things about over the last three or four days after that.
	I mean, it's, I don't think you're going to hear so much right now.
	The insurance companies are fleeing.
	It's been a catastrophe, and this is a great plan.
	I actually think it will get even better.
	And this is, make no mistake, this is a repeal and a replace of Obamacare.
	Make no mistake about it.
	Make no mistake.
	And I think most importantly, yes, premiums will be coming down.
	Yes, deductibles will be coming down.
	But very importantly, it's a great plan.
	And ultimately, that's what it's all about.
	We knew that wasn't going to work.
	I predicted it a long time ago.
	I said it's failing.
	And now it's obvious that it's failing.
	It's dead.
	It's essentially dead.
	If we don't pay lots of ransom money over to the insurance companies, it would die immediately.
	So what we have is something very, very incredibly well crafted.
	Tell you what, there is a lot of talent standing behind me, an unbelievable amount of talent, that I can tell you.
	And, you know, coming from a different world and only being a politician for a short period of time, how am I doing?
	Am I doing?
	Okay, I'm president.
	Hey, I'm president.
	Can you believe it, right?
	I don't know.
	I thought you needed a little bit more time, they always told me, more time, but we didn't.
	But we have an amazing group of people standing behind me.
	They worked so hard, and they worked so long.
	And what I said, let's do this, let's go out, just short little shots for each one of us, and let's say how good this plan is.
	We don't have to talk about this unbelievable victory.
	Wasn't it unbelievable?
	So we don't have to say it again.
	But it's going to be an unbelievable victory, actually, when we get it through the Senate, and there's so much spirit there.
	But I said, let's go out.
	We have a little list of some of the people.
	And I think after that list goes, if they don't talk too long, our first list, we're going to let some of the other folks just come up and say whatever you want.
	But we want to brag about the plan because this plan really.
	Uh-oh.
	Well.
	Yeah, we may.
	But we're just going to talk a little bit about the plan, how good it is, some of the great features.
	I want to thank Paul Ryan.
	He has worked so hard.
	And I was joking.
	I said, you know, Paul, for the last week, I've been hearing Paul Ryan doesn't have it.
	It's not working with Paul Ryan.
	He's going to get rid of Paul Ryan.
	Then today I heard Paul Ryan's a genius.
	He's come along.
	I think what happened.
	You know, the groups have all come together.
	We have the Tuesday Group.
	We have so many groups.
	We have the Freedom Caucus.
	We have, and they're all great people.
	We have a lot of groups.
	But they all came together.
	Really, Paul, I'd say in the last three, four days, especially in the last day.
	I see Mark and I see Kevin.
	I see so many people, Jim.
	We just have developed a bond.
	This has really brought the Republican Party together.
	As much as we've come up with a really incredible health care plan, this has brought the Republican Party together.
	We're going to get this finished, and then we're going, as you know, we put our tax plan in.
	It's a massive tax cut, the biggest tax cut in the history of our country.
	I used to say the biggest since Ronald Reagan.
	Now it's bigger than that.
	Also, pure tax reform.
	So we're going to get that done next, and this really helps it.
	A lot of people said, how come you kept pushing health care, knowing how tough it is?
	Don't forget, Obamacare took 17 months.
	Hillary Clinton tried so hard, really valiantly, in all fairness, to get health care through.
	Didn't happen.
	We've really been doing this for eight weeks, if you think about it.
	And this is a real plan.
	This is a great plan.
	And we had no support from the other party.
	So I just want to introduce somebody to say a few words who really has been, I think, treated very unfairly, but it no longer matters because we won.
	And we're going to finish it off.
	And we're going to go on to a lot of other things, and we are going to have a tremendous four years, and maybe even more importantly, we're going to have a tremendous eight years.
	But we're going to start off with just a great first year.
	And Paul Ryan, come up and say a few words.
	Congratulations on a job well done.
	You get six families.
	Thank you guys.
	Thank you.
	First, thank you, Mr. President.
	Thank you.
	Thank you for your leadership.
	There are too many people to name who played such an important role in helping us get to this part.
	But I want to thank a few people in particular.
	I want to thank Chairman Greg Walden, Kevin Brady, Diane.
	And for our affiliates across the Sean Hannity Show Network, we will stay with this through the bottom of the hour.
	If you would like to be with us, we're going to continue to hold this press conference.
	The House has passed the new GOP health care bill.
	Not one Democrat supporting, and they are at the White House.
	Collaborative, consensus-driven effort.
	I also want to thank the team here at the White House.
	I want to thank Tom Price.
	I want to thank Mick Mulvaney.
	And I especially want to thank Reince Priebus.
	We could not have done this without you, gentlemen.
	You guys are the best.
	Of course, this would not have been possible if it weren't for these two gentlemen behind me.
	This is the fourth presidency I've served with.
	I have never, ever seen any kind of engagement like this.
	I want to thank Mike Prince, and I want to thank President Donald Trump for their personal involvement in working with our members and working to get this right, for getting this done and getting us to where we are.
	Thank you, gentlemen.
	Today was a big day, but it is just one step in this process, an important step.
	We still have a lot of work to do to get this signed into law.
	And I know that our friends over in the Senate are eager to get to work.
	They are.
	We're going to see that work through.
	You know why we're going to see this work through?
	Because the issues are just too important.
	The stakes are just too high.
	The problems facing American families are real.
	And the problems facing American families as a result of Obamacare are just too dire and too urgent.
	Just this week, just this week, we learned of another state, Iowa, where the last remaining health care plan is pulling out of 94 of their 99 counties, leaving most of their citizens with no plans on the Obama market at all.
	What kind of protection is Obamacare if there are no plans to choose from?
	And this is a trend that we are seeing all across the country.
	The truth is, this law has failed and is collapsing.
	Premiums are skyrocketing and choices are disappearing.
	And it is only getting worse, spiraling out of control.
	And that is why we have to repeal this law and put in place a real, vibrant marketplace with competition and lower premiums for families.
	That's what the American Health Care Act is all about.
	It makes health care more affordable.
	It takes care of our most vulnerable.
	And it shifts power from Washington back to the states and, most importantly, back to you, the patient.
	Like I said, we've got a lot of work to do.
	But one thing is now clear: Republicans are committed to keeping our promise to lift the burden of Obamacare from the American people and put in place a better, more patient-centered system.
	It is my pleasure at this time to thank and to welcome to the stage someone who helped make this so possible, our very talented majority leader, Kevin McCarthy.
	So, a big bear hug between Speaker Paul Ryan and President Donald Trump.
	The two have had some problems in the past, but they're on the all right.
	That was Speaker Ryan.
	And, you know, think about what he just said there.
	Iowa alone is now 94, 99 counties.
	You know, this was a death spiral.
	That's how big a deal this really was for you, the American people, on so many different levels.
	You know, I want to just have 94 counties in Iowa out of 99.
	Or not that they won't have very many choices, they'll have no choice.
	How do you care for pre-existing conditions when there's no care at all?
	Or you read the paper yesterday and you look at Aetna pulling out of Virginia or to Tennessee next year with 16 counties with no care.
	Or what about those families that paid into those 23 co-ops that Obamacare created with more than $2 billion?
	18 of them have collapsed.
	And the only answer that this American government gives them is a penalty.
	If you simply look at the facts, more people took the penalty or the exemption than actually signed up for Obamacare.
	I did not run to this office to promote a party.
	I ran for this office to make this country better.
	Yeah, and it would be easy to say no.
	It would be easy to watch it collapse.
	But I can't look at those families.
	I don't think that's right.
	And that's the exact message I got from this administration.
	So, Mr. President, I want to thank you.
	I want to thank you for your leadership.
	I want to thank the Vice President.
	You know, I've only been through a few presidents, but I've never seen someone so hands-on.
	Walk into my office yesterday morning, they say the president's calling again.
	I pick up the phone.
	I happen to be the majority leader of the former WIP.
	I know my members well.
	The president gives me a list of who he thinks I would be best to talk to on the list.
	And he was right.
	Mr. President, they all voted for the bill.
	Today is a start.
	Today is the start of a new beginning.
	Yes, it's about providing better health care, but I happen to have been a small business owner.
	I listened to my district.
	You know how many families no longer have a 40-hour job and now have to take two part-time jobs?
	Or how many small businesses told me that they couldn't expand anymore because they were afraid of what Obamacare would do for them?
	We are going to unshackle, build an economy, let people have greater choice in their health care, and protect pre-existing conditions.
	And I thank you for that word.
	I want to call up.
	I was this job before being majority whip.
	I never had to go through a bill like this.
	And I will tell you, being the whip really isn't one person.
	The deputy whip should get a lot of credit as well.
	Patrick McHenry.
	The Whip Steve Scalese never gave up, answered every question.
	And the team between Scalise and McHenry, I'd put beyond any team we've ever had.
	I give you the majority whip, Steve Scalise.
	Today we took the first step toward rescuing families from the failures of Obamacare.
	We've been seeing it play out all across the country.
	This isn't some hypothetical discussion.
	You see families struggling in every part of our country.
	I hear from families all the time in my district in southeast Louisiana sharing with me stories of double-digit premium increases every single year.
	When we had the 27 and a half hour markup before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, longest they said in the history of Congress to pass this bill out of committee, we had a long and important discussion about health care policy in America and how this isn't about achieving some kind of political goal.
	It's about families, families who are struggling under the weight of this law that doesn't work.
	And so I reached out to my own constituents and I said, share with me some of the stories and how this law, Obamacare, is affecting you personally.
	And unfortunately, I got a lot of horror stories.
	You know, we've talked a lot about protecting people with pre-existing conditions in the context of this bill.
	And there are so many things, multiple, multiple layers in our bill that we passed today that not only protect people with pre-existing conditions, but actually focus real targeted money on lowering premiums for families with pre-existing conditions.
	And so during the committee hearing, might have been around 3 in the morning, I shared a story of one of those constituents, Chris from Slide Dale, who sent me a letter and talked about their family having preexisting conditions.
	They have a family member with pre-existing conditions, and how because of the problems of Obamacare, they're paying double-digit increases.
	But this is the real story for families that have preexisting conditions that are truly being hurt by Obamacare.
	One of the untold stories are the dramatic increases in deductibles.
	So there are a lot of families across the country that have over $10,000 deductibles.
	Now, for most people, that means they really can't even use the health care that they have in Obamacare.
	And so what Chris told me was, not only when we go to the doctor, do we have to pay so much for our premium, but almost everything we do, we're paying out of pocket because we've got such a large deductible.
	So basically, I'm paying a lot of money for a health care plan that doesn't work for me.
	Please provide relief for my family.
	We hear these stories over and over.
	And what's been so encouraging about this debate is that from the very beginning, every member of Congress that's been involved in trying to get this bill passed has been focused on two main things.
	And the first one is lowering premiums for families that are struggling.
	And the second is making sure that patients and doctors are the ones that make their own health care decisions.
	Unelected bureaucrats in Washington should not have anything to do with the health care decisions made between a patient and their doctor.
	And that ends with this bill.
	And so as we went through this process, and it took weeks, some people wanted it to take a couple of days, but we said we're going to take the time to get it right because it affects every person in this country.
	And every change that was made along the way made this bill better.
	Almost every change that was made along the way was focused on lowering premiums.
	Of course, you had a lot of other things we wanted to do.
	We reformed the Medicaid program.
	One of the most broken parts of health care anybody will tell you is Medicaid.
	And so we actually give governors and states the flexibility to go and be innovative and do things that will, in a much more targeted way, help low-income families in a way that Medicare is failing them today.
	That's another important aspect of this bill.
	But we wouldn't be here today without the work and the help of the President and the Vice President of the United States directly getting involved.
	Because every meeting we had with members that wanted to get additional components added to the bill, President Trump said, bring him into the White House.
	I want to meet with him.
	Want to talk to him about how we can actually lower premiums because President Trump's focus from the beginning was the same thing.
	He knows Obamacare fails, but it's failing because it's hurting families.
	And he said, How can we lower premiums?
	How can we give patients more control of the health care?
	And ultimately, all of the meetings that we had along the way that made this bill better were focused on those objectives.
	And that's why it's so important that we got this first step done today.
	There's a lot of work left to be done.
	And I look forward to the Senate taking the action that they need to take, but ultimately getting a bill to President Trump's desk that he'll sign that actually rescue families from this incredibly failed law and put patients back in charge of their health care decisions and lower premiums.
	And the man that led the charge in starting this process in the committee was the House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman, Greg Walden.
	I want to bring him up.
	Hey, Mr. Gleese, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. President, Mr. Byron.
	All right, welcome back to Sean Hannity's show.
	We're staying with this press conference.
	This is at the White House.
	The Republicans have, in fact, now repealed and begun the process of fully repealing Obamacare.
	A new health care bill has been passed.
	Next stop is the Senate.
	I'll explain all the ins and outs and details in just a second.
	Well, you know what?
	I think we'll just stay with it here.
	If the Freedom Caucus is called up, we ought to get them up because, as I was explaining before, it wouldn't have happened without them.
	And how do I know?
	Because I talk to them every day.
	I talk to people in the White House throughout this process, and I know how difficult it was.
	And, you know, what I was saying before the break, and it's a little frustrating for me, is that, you know, yes, I think that the vice president, this is the beginning of the end of the government takeover of Obamacare.
	This is the beginning of the end.
	And the president went out there and explained, he was actually the only group he didn't mention was the group that I make up, which is the Saturday Night Drinking Group.
	But there are coalitions within the Republican Party, and we learned that moderates had no intention of doing what they said they were going to do, which is repeal and replace Obamacare.
	That presented a huge challenge to the conservatives or more conservative members, like Tuesday group members and the most conservative, and I think the best, the best group in Congress, which is the Freedom Caucus.
	But with that said, you know, to begin the process and to allow free market competition, you know, how do you argue when 94 to 99 counties in Iowa no longer have a single option?
	You know, you can allow the death spiral of Obamacare to continue, or you've got to stop it.
	And I think there was some perspective that was put into all of this by the president when he rightly pointed out: okay, it took 17 months for Obamacare to get done, and then Hillary couldn't get it done.
	And in reality, this is like an eight-week deal or a 10-week deal by the Republicans.
	So, under very difficult circumstances, and Paul Ryan rightly saying it's a first step in a process, and there are real parliamentary things.
	I know nobody wants to hear it.
	I don't want to hear it, but it is a reality of what they had to deal with because of how it was passed and budgetary rules.
	And there are parliamentary procedures and hurdles that exist in the Senate that they had to factor into how they structured this bill.
	All true, we didn't need the three-step process, as we learned.
	They never consulted the Senate parliamentarian, but that was it.
	But I want you to understand here: this is a huge win for the president because the president never stopped, never.
	And every time I talk to anybody around him or in the White House, every time, got to get this done, got to get this done.
	The urgency and the push came from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
	The death spiral of Obamacare had to be stopped.
	And the bill that passed the House is not perfect.
	The reason why is that you have these moderate Republicans who didn't want to repeal and replace completely.
	That's the reality of Washington.
	We should identify them maybe before 2018 and maybe we primary them.
	But with that said, you know, what is being put forward and what they were able to get done, mostly because of conservative members, and I'm speaking as a matter of fact from behind the scenes knowledge that I have personally.
	And what is put forward is so much better than the death spiral we were in now.
	And the final waiver, I was watching somebody on TV, I don't know who, blaming the Freedom Caucus.
	Oh, the waivers isn't a, the waivers is a huge win because the waivers allow the states to opt out.
	The waivers now allow for everything that every decision by any conservative or the Republican Party ought to be based on, which is free market competition.
	Democrats have been out to sabotage, destroy, and in spite of their public proclamations, they are not happy this happened today.
	The signature achievement that they claimed of Barack Obama, and how many times did I say this after the president was elected?
	It's going to be soon, and today was one of the biggest steps.
	It's like 90% between wiping out all of the Obama executive orders, wiping out Obama-era regulations, now getting rid of Obamacare as we know it.
	It's almost like Obama's eight years didn't exist.
	He just, you know, the only thing we're left with is the damage, the doubling of the national debt, the transition out of Obamacare into free market competition and health savings accounts and cooperatives, which we'll talk about these new options that now exist according to this bill, that this bill now allows, and we can duplicate some of these great models and medical health care savings accounts and cooperatives that exist.
	But if you look at the insanity, it's important to know that the Republicans, and I actually believe the president when he says this, finally came together, finally built consensus.
	They finally showed that they can actually get something done and lead.
	It's that they are willing to now take the risk of owning something.
	And Democrats, you know, all they did all day and all throughout this process is go down deep into the gutter.
	And all they, they have not, they're not willing to accept that everything they said to you in the passing and lead up to Obamacare turned out to be a lie.
	Let's go back down memory lane.
	Let's just take a listen.
	What they promised, and keep in mind this.
	Obamacare premiums on average nationwide went up $5,400, not including the on-average 35% increase this year, which means it's over $6,000.
	When they promised you'd keep your doctor, millions lost them.
	Keep your plan, millions lost their plans.
	And save on average per family $2,500 a year.
	No, this year alone, Arizona has 116% increase in premiums.
	And that was going to be the norm.
	This is a huge, huge, unprecedented failure that was averted today.
	Not perfect, but it was a disaster in the making, as evidenced by Iowa and Arizona and so many other states.
	But this is what they promised you.
	When you hear about the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare.
	And I don't mind the name because I really do care.
	System where we're going to work with your employers to lower your premiums by up to $2,500 per family per year.
	Add it all up.
	And the plan I'm proposing will cost around $900 billion over 10 years.
	We will start by reducing premiums by as much as $2,500 per family.
	There are also those who claim that our reform efforts would ensure illegal immigrants.
	This too is false.
	Here's what change is saying to people who already have health insurance, and the employers who are providing it will work.
	And all of those 217 members came from different districts that represented a different kind of people.
	And it's a good day because of the number one: a president who wouldn't give up.
	A president who got engaged.
	A president who said, you know, I don't care what the mainstream media is saying.
	We're going to get this done and we're going to make it better for the American people.
	And Mr. President and Mr. Vice President, for those late night calls, I'm glad that I'll get some rest.
	But I want to thank you on behalf of the most critical number, and that's the 318 million Americans who now, once again, will be able to get affordable health care to allow those decisions to be made between them and their doctor.
	And once again, make sure that they don't have to go begging and figuring out how to pay for their health care premium instead of their mortgage.
	So, Mr. President, it's a great day for America.
	It's a great day for this administration, but it's a truly great day for the American people.
	God bless.
	And I have the honor of introducing someone that I didn't know real well before this all happened.
	And I use the term gentleman in the most appropriate way.
	The gentleman from New Jersey, my good friend, Tom McArthur.
	Look, I'm just telling you behind the scenes, I'm giving you everything that I know.
	And the insight that I have is that without Mark Meadows, I don't see this happening.
	And by the way, there were some great people in the White House that worked with him every step of the way, and they deserve credit too.
	So that's just a fact.
	All right, so you get the idea.
	You were promised repeal, keep your doctor, keep your pan.
	It's all a lie.
	It was all predicated on a lie, all predicated on broken promises.
	You know, look at, for example, headlines from this week alone.
	Aetna to exit Obamacare in Virginia, citing $200 million in losses.
	Iowa may be without individual health plans if the insurer pulls out.
	That was this week alone.
	There was going to be no insurance option for anybody in Iowa.
	You know, this is the death spiral lie of Obamacare.
	It's why the entire foundation of Obamacare was built, predicated on a foundation of lies that was repeated by every one of these Democrats.
	Oh, this is, there's the Republicans.
	They're in trouble now.
	Well, the country was in trouble if we kept this.
	Probably they did Democrats a favor, but they didn't have any option to clean up the mess of all of these people.
	You know, since Obama became president, skyrockets, you know, premiums up, you know, over $5,400, up 35% this year alone.
	Arizona, 116%.
	Alabama, Alaska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Wyoming.
	People buying on exchanges have only a single insurer to choose from.
	It is almost one-third of all U.S. counties only have one option.
	Won in America today, which is why, in spite of how difficult, in spite of its imperfections, it is a massive win and a lot of leadership.
	As Mark Meadows said, the president was involved, and I know this as a fact.
	I know so many people he called on a nightly basis working the phones, just like he'd work the phones with all these companies as well.
	Anyway, I'm looking for my ad here to get it done and say, please stay, don't bring your, don't, don't build factories in Mexico, keep them here.
	All right, we're going to have full complete analysis.
	Christy Ford Chapin is going to join us.
	A professor and Josh Humber is going to join us.
	We're going to talk about the new bill and the disaster known as Obamacare, now gone, and a huge win for the president and a beginning of a process to really fix the spiraling, the death spiral of Obamacare and leadership at a monumental level, frankly, at a speed that is almost unprecedented for a Congress, especially on a bill like this.
	And as the president said, now I can do my, now I can do my economic plan.
	Now I can do this.
	Everything was predicated on it.
	It was that big.
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	Also, we'll get into the latest on this healthcare.
	Obamacare is no longer the law of the land as soon as the Senate passes and the president signs.
	Thank God, a huge development today.
	Big first step win for the president.
	We'll continue.
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	All right, there it is, Obamacare.
	The Republican bill to replace Obamacare has now been passed in the U.S. House of Representatives and a remarkable first step to undo the damage that has been so deep.
	Look, I'm giving you a behind-the-scenes insider's view because I have a day has not gone by, not one, where I didn't talk to the people that were most active and involved.
	And I'm not mentioning a whole bunch of names.
	Look, I will say Mark Meadows is one of them in getting this bill across the finish line.
	You know, think about the consequences if we didn't.
	94 out of 99 counties in Iowa, no choice.
	In other words, there was no plan available for them.
	You know, you think about every promise that the American people were sold by every Democrat turned out to be one big lie by the party.
	And, you know, if you look at the headline, Aetna exiting Obamacare, Virginia, why?
	Because they're losing money, just like Obamacare, and just like the president, I think it was Aetna that said this is a death spiral.
	And every insurer now pulling out by 2018, most of them pulling out or reducing their risk.
	And it's the first step in the process.
	It's the beginning of the end of this government takeover of health care.
	And now, Mitch McConnell has spoken up.
	Congratulated.
	I want to congratulate my colleague in the House of Representatives, you know, Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan.
	None of that stuff means a thing to me, but we'll see.
	I know that Senator Ram Paul was not happy with this because it's not a full repair and a full repeal.
	But, you know, the 2015 bill, which he said he wanted, that wasn't a full repeal either.
	A little better, but and there are parliamentary obstacles.
	Nobody wants to hear this, but you have to understand reality and facts as they exist on the ground, and there were parliamentary obstacles, reconciliation, cloture, scoring as it relates to CBO, bird rule, all this.
	They all mean something to them in the rules of the Senate.
	Now, with that said, it's just time for the Republicans to just do what they need to do and just have, you win the Senate, you get a 51-vote majority.
	The Democrats, starting in 2013, decided to get rid of all civility in the U.S. Senate.
	Now, the president did say today that he is confident that the Senate will, in fact, pass a health care bill.
	It'll go to conference, and I assume that it will be passed eventually, signed into law by the president.
	Anyway, here to go over what this means, what options now become available, free market options, buying across state lines, portability, job-to-job, healthcare savings accounts, healthcare cooperatives.
	And I think I've become the biggest champion of them after, I don't even know how I got to know poor Dr. Josh Umber, who probably hates me now, Atlas MD.
	And we have Professor Christy Ford Chapin also with us to discuss all of this.
	I agree with the vice president.
	This is not everything we want.
	This is a real, this is the beginning of the end of a government takeover of health care.
	And the American people have suffered enough.
	It has ravaged Americans to the tune of over $6,000 on average increases, which we were told we'd save $2,500 a year.
	Fewer options, millions losing their doctors and plans.
	What are your initial thoughts of where we are?
	Well, you know, again, thanks for having me on, as always.
	I think it's the right step.
	I think we're still trying to figure out what all is in the bill, but we know we want to move forward.
	I think everyone can agree what we had wasn't working.
	You laid that out very nicely just a moment ago.
	So we do need to move forward.
	And the reality, just like you said, is we can't do everything we want.
	We won't get everything we want, but we can't let perfect stand in the way of better.
	And I think this opens the door to getting us to better.
	Yeah, look, if there's one thing that saddens me in the process, it's my full understanding that there are moderate Republicans that are just absolute, you know, they're almost as bad as the Democrats.
	They acted one way, and every time there was a show vote to repeal or replace Obama, we're there all 60 times.
	And unfortunately, the real conservatives that really meant what they said, you know, they actually had to put together the coalition on behalf of the leadership, which I thought was lacking urgency.
	And, you know, they got it done.
	But, you know, the wrong people, in my view, are getting credit for it.
	But that's a side note.
	Christy, what's your take?
	Well, my take is that unfortunately this politically is playing because of it being rolled out in steps.
	This is just playing as if the big takeaway is people are having their benefits taken away.
	And you've been pushing for a while to get it.
	But that's not true.
	I mean, it's absolute ⁇ it's just ⁇ oh, you mean the Obamacare is taken away.
	Yeah, Obamacare has been taking away people's benefits.
	Right.
	Well, what I'm saying is the way this is playing in the media is that people are concerned about people with preexisting conditions and such.
	And so, you know, that was the last holdout vote.
	That was to protect people with preexisting conditions, which, by the way, I think most Americans understand and support.
	That they would be able to get insurance.
	Exactly.
	There's concern that the funding for the state polls isn't enough.
	And so it brings me to the point that I want to make is you've really been pushing the idea that we need to structurally change the system or Medicare and Medicaid are going to eventually bankrupt the federal government and state governments.
	And so that's the difficulty here is if this is playing as some people are going to lose from losing benefits.
	And it's hard to say, hopefully it'll bring down some costs as the Republicans are saying, but without any kind of structural change, going to some of the things you've talked about, I've been on this program before to speak about the fact that health care pre-ACA was not based on free markets, but on this very specific insurance company model that the AMA leaders designed back in the 1930s when physicians were trying to do the very thing that Dr. Umber is doing out in Kansas.
	And that's the kind of plan that brings down costs.
	Well, the big change for the Freedom Caucus, and they're the guys I rely on the most as being the most conservative.
	And they were the, remember, they stopped this bill, and they made this bill better than what it otherwise would have been.
	And their main focus, and I remember the Saturday discussion after the Friday vote was taken back with Mark Meadows.
	I said, okay, what are your goals here?
	We've got 100 Republicans that are moderates that, frankly, disgust me, but I won't reveal everything I said to them.
	So what are the goals and how do you get this across the finish line in a way that, again, 94 to 99 counties in Iowa don't have any options as of next year?
	None.
	Zero.
	Zip.
	So it's not like they could have just not done this.
	And he said, my main goal is to get premiums down, competition up, free market incentives in place.
	And after I spent a lot of time of him explaining this bill to me and him being on the program this week, he convinced me and Jim Jordan convinced me that they're there, that this is all existing.
	And when you add to this the flexibility, if you will, or the built-in authority, which is pretty broad under the current law where the Health and Human Services Secretary gets to make significant changes himself.
	For example, he will defund Obamacare himself.
	I'm sorry, Planned Parenthood himself.
	He will personally, he has the ability to do that.
	I just wish it was more permanent, and over time I'm hoping we get there.
	But Dr. Umber, explain how you think this is in that way good.
	Well, again, we need to move to something, Again, abundance mindset.
	What is a solution that's better than either party has come up with before, as opposed to stay in old rhetoric and that we want more care for more people more often, and we need it more affordably?
	That's what the free market, that's what the direct primary care Atlas MD model is doing well.
	And there's hundreds of doctors across the country proving this.
	And now we just need some support from the government, which is release the restrictions on the ACA and insurance rules.
	Let that go to state by state and customization and just flexibility.
	What we realized is maximal insurance for insurance sake isn't working.
	It's so affordable that people can't afford the care.
	They can barely afford the insurance.
	Let's reverse that.
	Let's get to something where health insurance comes down by 50%.
	The savings in that helps people buy the outpatient care they need.
	Now, unlimited visits, no co-pays, 95% savings on meds, labs, other things.
	Now, health care is affordable, and health insurance is affordable.
	So you'll get your health care regardless of any pre-existing condition.
	You can get your health insurance at a fraction of the price.
	This is the collective two from the Democrats plus two from the Republicans equals six for the American people.
	That's what we need to get to.
	We need to get to a solution that's better than we've had before.
	So based on what they're saying, now that you're going to have free market competition across state lines, et cetera, that does open up the options so that cooperatives like yours, which I mean, I look at your cooperative, I'm like, wow, that impresses me.
	Because, you know, the average adult pays 50, the average child pays 10 a month, $50 a month, 10 a month, unlimited care.
	What do you pay for an x-ray?
	48 cents if I need an x-ray in your office?
	It's more like $40, but it is about 80% less.
	So now you don't need insurance for that.
	It's become so much more affordable.
	It's a tank of gas.
	All right.
	And stitches and broken bones are all taken care of in your office.
	Stitches are free.
	90 days of medicine, 90 cents.
	90 days of medicine, 90 cents.
	Yeah.
	That's a great way to put it.
	To the attention we've gotten from you, we've had recent talks with some of the largest privately held insurance brokers in the country who are now seeing how we synergize.
	And when the insurance companies combine with this, that means better care for Medic, better cost, better care for Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance.
	Yeah.
	And can I just make a comment on that political?
	No, we didn't invite you on for comment.
	No, I'm kidding.
	How are you?
	Go ahead, Professor.
	I think this is a plan that sells politically very well to liberals and progressives.
	We're talking about decentering insurance company power and putting medical decisions back in the hands of physicians and patients and not having, whether it's a government official or an insurance company, telling physicians how they have to treat patients in order to receive reimbursements.
	And, you know, I've talked to Dr. Umber about this.
	What my research has shown in my publications is that this is exactly what physicians were trying to do at the beginning of the 20th century.
	And it was something that progressives and consumers and everybody absolutely love.
	But it was the AMA leadership at that time.
	I don't, you know, don't want to beat up on the AMA now, but they did everything they could to shut them down, to revoke the licenses of physicians who were participating in these plans to destroy this part of the market and create this system that we have today that is ridiculous as far as costs go.
	If you see that we are spending almost one-fifth of our economy on health care, and the number two countries in the world are so far behind us at between 12 and 13 percent, well, we're getting close to 20.
	Not to mention, you know, fragmented care and concerns about insurance companies controlling how medical.
	I'm mandating what people have to pay.
	Like, if I'm a young person, I'm healthy, I would join Dr. Umber's cooperative, get unlimited care for everything I need.
	I probably wouldn't even need to.
	You know, I probably could just walk in the day I get sick and say, okay, can I pay you, doctor?
	Would you let me do that, by the way?
	Well, we have people who enroll when they're sick.
	That's you.
	That's buying from the corner.
	All right, so I would walk into your place.
	You're going to throw me out because I need a Z-PAC.
	No, you're going to take care of me.
	If I need stitches and I'm laying in front of you, are you going to say you won't stitch me?
	Doctors care for people.
	We want to be able to find a way to get it.
	So if I'm having a heart attack, you're just going to say, well, pay up, Hannity, or else get out of here.
	Yeah.
	We're going to take care of people.
	And now we want a way to do that in a cheaper, more efficient way.
	That's even more of an interesting.
	All right, stay right there.
	We'll continue.
	Professor Christy Ford Chapin is with us, and Josh Umber, who probably hates us because we call him all the time.
	And 800-941-Sean.
	All right, as we roll along Sean Hannity show, 800-941, Sean.
	Obamacare, as we know it, dead in the House of Representatives.
	A huge win for the president today.
	Long, arduous, difficult path.
	And going forward, well, what does this mean for you, the average American, the average consumer?
	There were real challenges, as I've been pointing out, procedurally parliamentary maneuvers, which is just such an arcane pain in the ass, if I can just say it.
	I mean, ridiculous.
	Anyway, but the conservatives really were the ones that pushed this over the top, in my opinion, or my insider information, talking to these guys every day.
	We continue with Professor Christy Ford Chapin, Dr. Josh Umber of Atlas MD.
	And by the way, Dr. Chapin wrote a book on health care.
	And what's it called?
	Ensuring America's Health, the public creation of corporate health care system.
	So, anyway, I want to just ask you this: what are the odds that this can be duplicated, Dr. Umber, what you have created in Wichita around the country?
	By the way, have I ever gotten you any business?
	Has anyone called and said, I want to be on your plan because I heard that dope Hannity?
	Sean, you crashed our servers.
	It's ridiculous.
	You've gotten hundreds of doctors, hundreds of patients over the last couple of months talking about direct care.
	But you know what I like?
	I'm answering phones now.
	Because it's blue-collar concierge.
	This is what rich people get.
	This is what you're offering, concierge service for the hardworking men and women of this country.
	There's no other way to put it.
	Absolutely.
	And you agree, Dr. Christie.
	I'm sorry, Professor, right?
	That's fine.
	Absolutely.
	The great thing about these cooperative plans is they put the right incentives into place.
	We know that incentives matter.
	And it's the doctors who have the requisite expertise to think about when a patient needs care or not.
	Under the current model, we have a lot of problems with doctors overutilizing services for the insured, offering too many.
	In a way, they're over-controlled by insurers on one hand, but on the other hand, they're incentivized to run up the bill.
	I wish I had more time.
	We're going to continue this discussion, but also how Planned Parenthood gets defunded next.
	Reproductive care, including birth control and pre- and postnatal care and cancer screenings.
	That's why we have to defend Planned Parenthood.
	We don't have prenatal care here.
	Planned Parent offers abortions, so they don't offer prenatal care.
	Okay, just abortions.
	Yeah.
	Planned Parenthood has been around for a long time.
	They provide all kinds of prenatal and health care screening for women.
	No, we don't do prenatal services.
	I mean, it's called Planned Parenthood.
	I know it's kind of deceiving.
	Planned Parenthood is often the only option for women to get their annual checkup.
	It provides breast exams, contraception, prenatal care.
	We don't offer prenatal care at Planned Parenthood.
	We specialize in abortions.
	Prenatal services.
	Gone.
	We actually don't offer prenatal services.
	We're not licensed to do so in Oregon or Washington.
	I was just asking what kind of services you offer for pregnant women.
	Pregnant women?
	Yes.
	Pregnant women who want to continue with the pregnancy?
	Yes.
	We don't offer services.
	Planned Parenthood is about providing federal funds for care like mammograms and cervical cancer screenings and prenatal care.
	I was hoping that I could come into Planned Parenthood for a mammogram.
	Do you guys provide mammograms?
	We do not provide a mammogram.
	Do you have OBGYNs here?
	We do not.
	No.
	Oh, you don't?
	No, okay.
	Which is a deceptive name, right?
	I think the same thing, or you know, if you were looking at your termination options, we can do that as well.
	It's an attack on every preventive health service, every safety net, everything that you care about, whether it's early childhood education, whether it's PAP smears, whether it's mammograms, whether it's prenatal care when you're pregnant.
	No, Planned Parenthood does prenatal care.
	Oh, none of them.
	That leaves hundreds of thousands of expectant mothers without access to essential prenatal care and treatment.
	And that is where Planned Parenthood comes in.
	What pregnancy services do you offer?
	We only offer termination services.
	You defund access to referrals to other hospitals and specialists, and you deny prenatal care.
	No, see, we don't see pregnant women as a way of giving prenatal care.
	Okay.
	We see pregnant women, you know, if they are considering other options.
	Like, what other options?
	Like, what do you see the doctor for?
	At this location?
	Yes.
	So at this location, you guys do medication abortion?
	Medication abortion.
	The services that we provide through the federal programs are family planning, cancer screenings, prenatal care.
	So if you're choosing to terminate the pregnancy, we can make an appointment at this office.
	But if you're not terminating the pregnancy, if you're going to continue the pregnancy, then we would refer you out.
	It sounds like you really don't need to see us here at Planned Parenthood.
	All right, 24 now till the top of the hour, 800-941.
	Sean, you want to be a part of the program.
	Now, you know, one of the things with this historic final, you know, first big, huge step, which is so necessary as it relates to Obamacare and ultimately repealing replacement competition, pre-market competition, one of the big issues involving this is defunding Planned Parenthood.
	Now, you just heard that Planned Parenthood right there, that, oh, we don't offer prenatal services.
	No, we only offer abortion services.
	We only do this.
	We only do that.
	And I'm like, oh, but that's not what they say.
	Anyway, there is a group that has been active and involved in this for a long time, Live Action.
	Lila Rose is with us.
	She is the head of the Live Action group.
	And from what we're hearing, is number one, Planned Parenthood's 2005-6 annual report to its most recent one in 2014 and 15 show the numbers of breast exams, which they claim they do, is down 60%.
	PAP tests are down 77%.
	Total cancer screenings down 68%.
	And over the same period, forced taxpayer funding has more than doubled from $553 million a year, and abortions are up 27%.
	This is what this is.
	It sounds to me like abortion Inc.
	Anyway, and then you hear the very opposite of the talking points that liberal Democrats and Planned Parenthood spews all the time.
	I was watching on the circus the head of Planned Parenthood.
	What's her name?
	Cecile Richards, I think is her name.
	Yeah, she's out there.
	Oh, and it's about women's health.
	Oh, and it's about, well, these statistics prove otherwise from live action.
	And Lila Rose is with us.
	And from what I understand, the health care law and, of course, the ability of the Health and Human Services Secretary through the discretionary powers that they have is not going to fund Planned Parenthood, and that promise is going to be fulfilled.
	What have you heard?
	Today's the big day.
	I mean, Sean, they're going to be voting on the bill that would be done through reconciliation process.
	So that means that they can pass that filibuster in the Senate where the Democrats are trying to stop defunding Planned Parenthood with everything they've got.
	Pretty much every senator who's Democrat has received campaign contributions from Planned Parenthood.
	So, of course, they're very beholden.
	They're very pro-abortion.
	They're going to do everything they can to stop it.
	But the good news is this process with OblitCare and with defunding Planned Parenthood is being done through the reconciliation process to override that filibuster.
	And that vote's going to come down here any really any hour now.
	This has been anticipated.
	This has been anticipated for pretty much 10 years by the pro-life movement, which we have been educating and getting information in front of people showing that Planned Parenthood is not about health care.
	They claim it.
	They lie about it.
	Their friends like Senator Dianne Feinstein and Hillary Clinton was out there lying about it, saying we need them for women's health care, fear-mongering.
	But the reality is, like you just said, Sean, their health care services, breast cancer screenings, PAP tests have gone down over 65% in the last 10 years.
	Abortions are up.
	Taxpayer funding is up.
	And they remain the biggest abortion chain in the country.
	And that's why this vote is happening.
	That's why people are excited about this.
	And it is a long time coming.
	And so we're so glad that this day is here.
	And you've been assured that all of this is handled as long as Planned Parenthood does, in fact, is when you refer to them as abortion, Inc.
	Isn't it mostly an abortion business based on the dollars and the procedures?
	How many abortions a year and how much federally are they now getting?
	Planned Parenthood, they're doing over 320,000 abortions a year.
	So that's 887 children killed at Planned Parenthood facilities every day.
	That's one child every 97 seconds at a Planned Parenthood.
	And they're receiving every day $1.5 million.
	Repeat that again.
	One child every seven.
	What?
	One child every 97 seconds.
	Every minute and a half.
	Another child's life is snuffed out at a Planned Parenthood.
	They remain the biggest abortion chain.
	In fact, Sean, their abortion numbers have been going up each year, even as the cancer screenings decline, as the number of patients decline, as they have no natal services, no prenatal care services, virtually none.
	They have no mammogram services.
	They've never had any.
	And yet their abortion numbers are going up.
	You know, President Trump, he even said that if Planned Parenthood would stop doing abortions, this wouldn't even be an issue.
	And, you know, Planned Parenthood has been claiming only 3% of what we do is abortions.
	That's what they say to try to cover up that they are the biggest abortion chain.
	And actually, abortion dwarfs all their other services when it comes to the market share of what they do.
	But what did they say to President Trump?
	They said no way.
	They said they were insulted by his offer and they clung to their abortion because at the heart of what they do at the end of the day, they are an abortion corporation and they are lobbyists for the most extreme pro-abortion laws, abortion through all nine months, abortion sex selection killing girls instead of boys, abortion paid by the taxpayer directly.
	I mean, they are in line with North Korea and China and Canada for the most extreme abortion laws that they want on the books to protect their interests.
	And that's why, of course, even Democrats have voted to defund them in the past.
	They tried to get them defunded at the federal level.
	And we're going to see that legislation hit today.
	So the movement is really excited about this.
	We need to see it done, though.
	It needs to go through the House and then it needs to go through the Senate.
	Yeah.
	Well, with the passage of this repeal replace bill and options and waivers for the city, I'm sorry, for the states, and then, of course, the Health and Human Services Secretary pledged to defund Planned Parenthood and all of the other things associated with it.
	There were a lot of conservatives that were angry, Lila, that it wasn't done during the continuing resolution, but we were promised privately.
	I know I was by many people.
	That's handled.
	Were you told the same thing?
	We were told the same thing.
	You know, it has been really frustrating, Sean, because it's been 100-plus days now of the Trump presidency, as we all know.
	And every single one of those days, every single one, 887 children died at the hands of Planned Parenthood, pre-born in the womb, some of them 24 weeks in utero, old enough to survive outside the womb.
	And every single day of those 100 first days of the presidency, $1.5 million was handed over a check from taxpayers to Planned Parenthood.
	So every day is precious.
	Lives are depending on it.
	Money is flowing.
	So we're really excited that today looks to be the day.
	And we were made those promises like you just described.
	You know, they passed that bill, the continuing resolution that did include an earmark that could go to Planned Parenthood under Title 10.
	So today, this process using reconciliation to defund has been what we've been promised.
	It can be done with the repealing and replacing of the health care law.
	And that's why all the Pro-Life movement is saying, okay, we're going to see this happen.
	But keep in mind, when this passes, it's an 80% defunding of Planned Parenthood for one year.
	It's temporary because it's through reconciliation of the budget process.
	So this issue is hot.
	It needs to remain hot because we're not going to rest until Planned Parenthood, as long as they're killing kids, as long as they're lying, as long as they're selling baby body parts, covering up child sexual abuse, all of these abuses that have been documented for over a dozen years now, they should not receive a penny of taxpayer funds and they should ultimately be prosecuted and shut down, which is another matter we're looking forward to see the Department of Justice doing that.
	But in the meantime, we need to jump and seize this moment to get the 80% defund to happen for one year.
	Well, I got to let it go here.
	But Lila, I appreciate the good work you're doing.
	And yes, this is big news with the passage of the health care bill.
	I actually think it's the best thing that they also voted to make sure for once they're not exempt from the laws they burden us with, finally, which is another huge win.
	And finally, maybe these guys in the House are waking up and Congress are waking up.
	All right, as we continue, toll-free telephone numbers, 800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of this program.
	All right, let's do, let's say, I can't even see my screen.
	Is it Irene in Atlanta News Talk, WSP?
	What's up, Irene?
	How are you?
	Glad you called this health care bill today.
	And it's not perfect, as I said, but it is a huge start.
	Well, my call is actually about the wall that President Trump wants to build on our border with Mexico.
	And because so many Americans are deeply concerned about getting this done, I wondered if there could be something like a GoFundMe program set up, an account set up, that Americans, any American, anybody could send money to that account and help the president keep his promise.
	You know, that's really very, very incredibly kind, generous, sweet, and patriotic of you.
	But with all due respect, the American people pay enough.
	And Congress has enough money to get this done.
	The only thing they need is the will.
	And look, they're looking for ways to get the biggest bang of their buck.
	And, you know, people asking me, Hannity, do you care if it's concrete?
	Does it matter if it's steel, if it's American steel, and people can see through it, and there's a levy?
	And I just want it to work.
	I want it to do its job.
	In other words, it's got to be strong enough to do its job, impenetrable, and I don't give a flying rip what the stupid wall looks like.
	I don't care.
	I understand that, Sean, but I wonder if it isn't food for thought to allow the Americans to make their own contribution voluntarily.
	And have an opportunity to contribute and make this thing happen.
	Since the Congress doesn't seem to want to go with the plan, maybe the Americans could put the money out there on their own by choice.
	All right.
	Listen, you're everything that's great about this country.
	Do you know that?
	Because I know you pay your taxes.
	I know you've worked hard your whole life.
	I know that, you know, probably you would rather spend whatever you would plan to donate on something that would benefit you.
	And number two, I mean, I think the next most important thing is they can do the job.
	We shouldn't have to give them more money so that they can do the job that they were hired to do.
	But I get where you're coming from.
	I do appreciate it.
	Shannon, Portland, Oregon.
	Hello.
	How are you?
	Hi, Sean.
	How are you?
	I'm good.
	What's going on?
	Well, I was just, you know, President Trump, you mentioned a few times while he was campaigning about term limits, and I kind of think that we need to revisit that.
	I feel like the Republicans are watching out for their donors instead of the voters.
	And they're voting against stuff because maybe, you know, somebody in the health care industry donated a lot of money to their campaign.
	And they're kind of, you know, it seems like they're backpedaling on everything they said when they were campaigning.
	And I just think that term limits would maybe put in there as always.
	I love term limits because then maybe they'll stop doing what is in their own best interest.
	Maybe they'll go on the, you know what, let's serve the American people and not worry about whether or not we're going to get re-elected because of this controversial stand or that we may be standing on principle and blame for a government shutdown.
	There's so much of that.
	There's way too much on that.
	And it's beyond any understanding or comprehension I have as a conservative.
	Go serve your country.
	You asked for the right to vote on these things.
	Go do your job.
	We do our job.
	Go do yours.
	All right, quick break.
	News roundup.
	Information overload hour, Sean Hannity Show coming up next right here.
	Straight ahead.
	All right, news roundup, information overload hour, Sean Hannity show.
	All right, Obamacare, as we know it, is dead and it's gone.
	And yes, close margin, tough battle, not perfect, but certainly better.
	And that is the big story of the day.
	After a long battle, fight, nightmare, lies told, there is now an opportunity to fix America's dilapidated, broken down health care system that was nearly destroyed in a death spiral, no pun intended, because of all of the lies that were told and all the promises that were never kept.
	And this certainly paves the way for waivers and options, health savings accounts, and some of the cooperatives that we have outlined on this program with Dr. Umber and so many others.
	Joining us now, Chris Hahn, host of the ever-popular, ever-growing Chris Hahn Show, two days a week now on how many stations?
	How many affiliates?
	I'm on three.
	Three affiliates.
	I'm doing some big work and some filling work on some of the big boomers in New York City.
	Big boomers.
	Maybe the ex-wife.
	I don't know.
	Whatever big boomer you're on, that's awesome.
	We're proud of you.
	It's your ex-wife.
	It is my ex-wife?
	Yes.
	All right.
	So, and Melissa Francis, who is the Fox News host, author of the, by the way, of Lessons from the Prairie, debating the big news of the day.
	All right, Chris, just you got to answer some questions here before you give me your Chuck Schumer talking points, crocodile tears, talking points.
	Okay, so I need some simple answers.
	Okay.
	Did Obama promise, yes or no, that we're going to keep our doctors, keep our plans, and the average family is going to save on average $2,500 per family per year.
	That's a yes or no question.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	Did Americans, millions of them, lose their doctors?
	Yes.
	Did millions of Americans lose their plans?
	No.
	Yes.
	No.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Millions of Americans, Melissa Francis, back me up.
	Millions of Americans lost their doctors plan.
	All right.
	Now, next question.
	Now, did the average American see their premiums go up prior to this year, where it went up another 40%, but prior to this year, premiums went up per family $5,400 on average across the country.
	True or false, Mr. Hahn.
	True, but they are increasing at lower rates than they ever had in the history of this country.
	But, Melissa.
	I love the counterfactual.
	I love the counterfactual.
	That's always the best argument.
	I know.
	Melissa.
	Melissa, did that.
	I've never heard.
	Did Obama ever say, I promise to reduce the rate of growth?
	No, he promised to save $2,500 per family per year.
	Can that happen, Melissa?
	Sean, you want to halt on the past.
	Let's talk about the future here.
	Hang on.
	Before we get to all your scaremongering, I just want to set the table as how we got here today.
	Melissa, so all of what we were sold was a lie.
	Yeah, and it was obviously a lie before we even got there.
	And that's the point.
	Now, I personally am, it's a little frustrating because unlike the Democratic Party that just basically, you know, they salute and vote, Republican Party is a little bit more of a diverse party.
	And you've got moderates, and you've got the study group and the Tuesday group, and then you got the Freedom Caucus group, and then you got the Saturday Night Drinking Group, and every other group there.
	The American people are ecstatic today.
	All right, Melissa, you are really great on the economy.
	Tell us economically what the waivers do here.
	What health care savings would create in the marketplace?
	What health care cooperatives would do to the prices?
	What free market competition will now do for the average consumer in terms of the premiums they pay and the services they're offered?
	Well, step one, you would be able to buy the insurance that you actually want to have, as opposed to being forced to buy things that you don't want, you can't afford, and you can't use.
	Step two, I love the idea of having money put aside for people with pre-existing conditions.
	It's not just the $8 billion.
	There's already another $140 billion that the government has targeted at this group that they can take and put together.
	No one likes the idea that there's a group of people who need so much health care because they have preexisting conditions, that they're the ones that are eating up all of everything in the system, basically, that needs to be used.
	And those people don't want to do that.
	That's not their choice.
	I mean, they're sick.
	We all want to find a way to pay for them.
	Well, you know, that leaves us.
	Now, hang on one second.
	Just forget talking points because I'm not in the mood for today, Chris.
	I literally just am.
	By the way, had I known I was all Melissa, I would have shaved for this appearance.
	I love you, Chris.
	You're always here, Sean.
	But for the moment, I don't even know what to do with that insane statement of yours.
	I think you should apologize now and move on and eat your words, but whatever.
	The only thing I'm going to say to you, Chris, is here's the thing.
	I didn't like the Upton Amendment, to be honest.
	But I do believe we need to protect people with pre-existing conditions.
	Now, even you have to be happy that people that have them, that's a real problem for people, that they're taken care of in this bill.
	If you have any intellectual honesty, you'll say, yeah, that's a good provision.
	I don't believe that they're taken care of.
	I think that there's still a major shortfall in that area.
	And I think there just needs to be protection for them, period, so that insurance companies don't discriminate in that regard.
	And of course, it's hard for insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing conditions if you're not requiring healthier people to get into the insurance pool.
	No, no.
	We've got a real problem here in the world.
	That's the exact problem that blew up the system the exact time around, last time around.
	And you talk about insurance companies as if they're this entity out there that isn't made up of people.
	What we're talking about here is which people are going to pay for people with pre-existing conditions.
	Is it going to be the people themselves?
	We've decided no, okay?
	They're going to pay a portion of it, but who's going to pay the rest of it?
	When you say the government, that's not the government.
	That's me.
	That's you.
	That's every single listener out there.
	Everyone.
	It's called single payer.
	And Sean.
	By the way, slow down.
	So you mentioned single payer.
	Why do all these people that have a lot of money in Canada that need heart surgery and cancer treatment, and it's been so well chronicled?
	Why do they pick money out of their own pockets to come to the United States to get their care because they can't get the surgery they want fast enough, the treatment that is good enough under their quote, care system that exists?
	And by the way, the same thing with Great Britain with the health human services facility.
	Awfully overused misconception with wealth are doing.
	How much people like getting help from the VA?
	That's governmental.
	Hang on.
	Melissa brings up a good point.
	What about the VA?
	That's government-run, that's single-payer government-run?
	Yeah, I think the VA needs a lot of reform.
	I actually wait a minute, it didn't work, did it?
	I supported the president's bill to allow the Arizona VA to work out this VA choice method that they're doing out there.
	I hope they expand it nationwide.
	Melissa, did you know that in Great Britain, the health services down there, that if, let's say, you're older and you need hip surgery or hip replacement or knee replacement, that they will factor in your age?
	And if you are beyond your life expectancy, they'll deny you the care that you need because they can't afford it.
	I mean, talk about making cold, hard economic decisions.
	That's normally what we throw at Republicans and say that way.
	Chris, hang on.
	Chris, Chris, hang on.
	She's talking.
	The person you insulted earlier.
	Go ahead.
	You hear from people all the time.
	There's anecdotal stories everywhere.
	I mean, I had a friend who sent me a text today who's sitting in a hospital in Canada with her father trying to get health care for him.
	He's very sick.
	She's incredibly upset.
	And she said, it's ironic.
	I'm texting you on this day, you know, trying to talk about something else.
	And here I am.
	Please tell the American people that this is not the way to go, that this system doesn't work.
	It would be great if it did.
	I wish it did.
	But the problem is that people can't be forced to make decisions that aren't in their own economic interest.
	So they are not going to buy health insurance if they are healthy and you're paying more for your insurance than what you're going to get back.
	You can't force people to do things that don't work for them.
	That's why socialism failed.
	All right, let me go to a different topic we may actually all agree on.
	Let's play Stephen Colbert in the controversy over his maddening and vicious and vile attacks against the president.
	Mr. Trump, your presidency, I love your presidency.
	I call it disgrace the nation.
	You're not the POTUS.
	You're the BLOTUS.
	You're the glutton with the button.
	You're a regular Gorge Washington.
	You're the president, but you're turning into a real prictator.
	You attract more skinheads than free rogue.
	You have more people marching against you than cancer.
	You talk like a sign language gorilla who got hit in the head.
	In fact, the only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin's holster.
	Your presidential library.
	Your presidential library.
	Your presidential library is going to be a kids' menu and a couple of jugs magazine.
	The only thing smaller than your hands is your tax returns.
	And you can take that any way you want.
	All right.
	And of course, do you think that was a homophobic slur that Colbert made, Chris?
	You know, as a bald man, I'm really offended by that Rogaine joke.
	But I think comedians need to be given a wide berth.
	And I give them a wide berth and I give them a complete 100% pass.
	Not conservative talk show hosts, right?
	Look, I give you a pass all the time.
	Oh, okay.
	And last word we'll give you in this segment, Melissa.
	Yeah.
	I don't understand.
	I can't follow the rules.
	When is it okay to make gay jokes?
	When is it okay to make fun of someone's weight?
	I mean, if one group does it, if another group does it, then all of a sudden they're the worst people on the planet.
	I mean, I just, I can't keep track of what the rules are here.
	All right, got to take a break.
	We'll come back.
	800-941-Sean is our toll-free telephone number if you want to be a part of the program.
	And as we continue with the one and only Chris Hahn and Melissa Francis, and of course, Melissa, my colleague at the Fox News Channel, has a brand new book out, and it's called Lessons from the Prairie.
	You know, a lot of people don't know that you were on this hit television show as a kid.
	And, you know, one of the great tributes to you is, you know, look at all of these kids that grew up in Hollywood and were actors and actresses and ended up a mess.
	And look how normal you turned out to be.
	Well, I don't know.
	You had me there until you said normal.
	I don't know if my whole family would agree I'm normal.
	I'm not sure Chris would agree that I'm normal.
	I think you're more than normal.
	I am at least not in jail.
	And so that's something.
	And I didn't go into rehab.
	So that's something there.
	I do have a beautiful family.
	And I thank God for that every day.
	I have sincere faith.
	And I spend the book mostly making fun of myself and making jokes.
	So I will make you laugh.
	But at the end, there are some very basic lessons that I learned.
	There's a lot in there about fake news.
	And I have kind of a different take on this whole debate.
	See, I think that every journalist out there, every person on television has an opinion.
	If you don't have an opinion about what's going on, you are either brain dead or stupid or you don't care.
	You're not engaged.
	Why are you in news?
	And the fact of the matter is that viewers and listeners are too sophisticated to be sold on the idea that these people are neutral.
	So it's better for journalists and human beings.
	Just be honest.
	Just be forthright about where you're coming from.
	Do you expect that they should believe anything?
	Do you think they should all expose, for example, who they vote for in a presidential election, just to be honest?
	I don't think it's—oh, was that for Chris?
	No, that was for you because we don't really care what Chris thinks.
	On this show, you got to understand.
	We don't care what Chris thinks a lot.
	I love Chris.
	I love Chris.
	You're the only person that I've ever heard say that, but go ahead.
	I don't think that you need to expose necessarily who you voted for.
	I think the idea is that if you watch me on a regular basis, you know that I think the free market works, that I believe the government wastes our money, that sending your money to Washington so that they can waste $99 and maybe do something decent with one is inefficient for the whole economy and doesn't make any sense.
	That's my guiding principle.
	Smaller government.
	Smarter government would be great, but I think that's too much to hope for.
	Anyway, beyond that, you know where I'm coming from.
	So when I moderate a debate, when I participate in a debate, I can defend both sides.
	But I'm not lying about what my basic thinking is.
	So the viewer can judge for themselves, is she being fair or not?
	It's these other people that try and hide their bias, and then they try and feed you what they call facts.
	And people, you know, maybe don't give it the right hard look they would.
	They just accept it as fact.
	When I was at NBC, I was very censored.
	You know, I was trying to talk about Obamacare the first time around, and I said, these numbers just don't make sense.
	If we have more people who use more stuff, and how can they pay less?
	That's going to cost more.
	And they said, oh, you know, it's like with the widgets, if they're, you lose money on each one, you make it up on volume.
	I mean, it was this focus-pocus math that never made any sense.
	And when I said at CNBC that that didn't make any sense, the math just didn't work, I was called up to the principal's office and told that I was disrespecting the office of the president.
	And they were trying to censor me in a really false way.
	Not we don't like your political opinion or we don't appreciate your math, but you're being disrespectful.
	So you're not.
	Hang on, let's.
	If I don't let Chris talk, I mean, he's going to go and complain to Chuck Schumer and Chuck's going to cry again.
	All right, go on.
	Well, you know, just hold on a second, Sean.
	You know, 10 years I've known you and you don't like me anymore.
	What's going on here?
	Listen, stop.
	Stop.
	I do like you, but I don't want anybody to know.
	You don't want anybody to know.
	You're like Alex Jones.
	What do you mean like Alex Jones?
	You know, you got to pretend that we're in a physical battle.
	I mean, give me a break.
	Listen, I actually think Alex Jones is sincere.
	I mean, you can't take what happens in a divorce or a custody battle seriously because people say all sorts of stuff.
	They have to.
	Alex Jones on his radio show last week.
	All right, I don't want to talk about Alex Jones.
	Listen, I'm just saying in a divorce case, you know, plenty of people have been through that crap.
	Did they say anything?
	Sure, sure.
	The guy also said he fucked with 150 women before he was 16 last week on his radio.
	Okay, listen, this is way off course.
	Get focused.
	Okay.
	Good grief.
	What is wrong with you?
	I mean, this is why you only have three affiliates.
	Mike, is this what you talk about?
	Yeah, I do.
	I talk about this.
	Oh, all right.
	Listen, we do like Chris.
	You have an ability to annoy me, but I do like you, and we love Melissa's new book.
	It's on Amazon.com and Hannity.com.
	All right, big win for the president today.
	Lara Trump is with us.
	We'll also talk about the censoring that's going on at CNN and now NBC as it relates to they don't want to be exposed as fake news.
	Pretty fascinating.
	We'll talk to Lara Trump next, straight ahead.
	And so you would do your best to hold the seat up?
	Absolutely.
	We are the party of opposition, and that is our job.
	It gets to a point where they're just not doing their job.
	I did not hear better ideas coming out of the Democrats.
	Right.
	They were just delaying, and they were saying this is just wrong.
	You would not sit down with President-elect Trump if he invited you to the White House.
	Oh, no, I won't go.
	I'm not going to sit down with him.
	I'm not going to go.
	Each new president coming into office was allowed to get his cabinet in place.
	Donald Trump deserves the same.
	The party of Pelosi is trying to block every initiative President Trump wants to institute.
	But will that backfire?
	What could you work with President Trump?
	Well, first of all, we're not going with anybody who says we're going to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
	Donald Trump, just last week, he confirmed to the National Review that he is again considering a run in 2016.
	Do it.
	Do it.
	You're cooking.
	Do it.
	I will personally write you a campaign check now on behalf of this country, which does not want you to be president, but which badly wants you to run.
	Donald Trump has been saying that he will run for president as a Republican, which is surprising since I just assumed he was running as a joke.
	Is that people think that Donald Trump is a clown?
	Donald Trump is a clown.
	I mean, does anybody seriously think that Donald Trump is serious about running for president?
	Donald Trump.
	You know, he's a clown.
	Which Republican candidate has the best chance of winning the general election?
	Of the declared ones right now, Donald Trump.
	President Obama will go down as perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States.
	Exclamation point at real Donald Trump.
	At real Donald Trump.
	At least I will go down as a president.
	Basically, this is the beginning of the end for Trump.
	It'll be the beginning of the end.
	The beginning of the end.
	This is probably starting of the beginning of the end for Donald Trump.
	Donald, you're not going to be able to insult your way to the presidency.
	The strongest person usually isn't the loudest one in the room.
	So right now we have Hillary's about a 75 or an 80% favorite.
	We have different versions of the portfolio.
	You can look at the whole has Hillary Clinton up by double digits nationally, 12 points, 15 to 38 in a four-way race.
	Clinton leading in Florida.
	Clinton leading in North Carolina.
	Clinton leading in Ohio.
	Clinton leading in Nevada.
	I could go on and on and on.
	I continue to believe Mr. Trump will not be president.
	And so right now, Mr. Trump, to answer your call for political honesty, I just want to say you're not going to be president, all right?
	It's been fun.
	It's been great.
	I love you.
	Come on.
	Come on, buddy.
	We have a major projection right now.
	Donald Trump will take Ohio.
	That's innovative projects.
	Donald Trump will carry the state of Florida.
	Huge win for Donald Trump.
	Donald Trump, while we project, will win in Kentucky in Indiana with its 11 electoral votes.
	Yes, in Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, Mississippi, South Carolina, Alabama, North Dakota with its three electoral votes.
	And South Dakota, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, the state of Montana, North Carolina, Georgia, Iowa, Utah, Wisconsin, Arizona, Kansas with its six electoral votes, Nebraska with its five electoral votes, and Wyoming with its three electoral votes.
	Sorry to keep you waiting, complicated business.
	A lot of people have laughed at me over the years.
	Now they're not laughing so much, I'll tell you.
	All right, 25 now till the top of the hour.
	News roundup information overload.
	And, you know, you got to love this ad.
	So what's happening here is, well, Lara Trump, for example, she is the wife of Eric Trump, has joined a digital company.
	And it's being used by President Trump's successful presidential campaign.
	And the purpose of it is, you know, that they are now sort of a liaison outside source for getting news and information out there.
	Now, they wanted to run those ads on NBC.
	They wanted to run those ads on, of course, CNN.
	And it was censored.
	CNN won't run what is ostensibly an ad supportive of the president.
	And one has to ask why.
	Because you have, you know, and rightly so, the president's supporters are saying CNN and NBC are guilty of censorship for not airing an ad that touted the president's accomplishments in the first hundred days.
	And they rejected it because it was sort of what they called fake news.
	Interesting coming from all of them, of course.
	Lara Trump joins us now.
	How are you, Lara?
	Always great to talk to you.
	And by the way, I heard the great news.
	Congratulations.
	And of course, I'm so sorry that you and Eric have to deal with the BS from an abusive group of individuals and leftists in this country that can't even let you have a child without, you know, attacking you for crying out loud.
	It's really sad, but you know what, Sean?
	We're so used to it.
	Unfortunately, that campaign gives you extremely thick skin.
	So thank you, though.
	We're very excited to be able to.
	By the way, that's 30 years of my life.
	That's 30 years of my life, too.
	And it's going to be a baby boy.
	And it's your first child.
	Congratulations.
	Thank you.
	You know, I've had a chance to be around you and Eric a lot.
	I mean, you guys are just like the greatest couple.
	It's like if I ever met two people, every once in a while you meet these couples and you say, wow, those two people really belong together.
	That's how I see you two.
	Well, I agree with you, but thank you.
	That's so nice to hear.
	And, you know, I feel really lucky.
	I sort of feel that way around the entire Trump family.
	And this campaign, if nothing else, brought us all so much closer together.
	For as much hate and as much negativity as was thrown our way, we really all learned to stick together.
	And I'll say that I feel the same way about the whole family.
	Everybody is wonderful.
	The one thing when people ask me, either on this show or when I meet people, they ask, well, what's Donald Trump really like?
	What's President Trump really like?
	I said, the thing that stands out more than anything else, and I've known him for a couple of decades, is he's beyond courageous.
	There's very few people, I think, that have the ability and the desire to take on as many hits as he's taking, and also just freely.
	You know, I think one of the funniest things he does is when he's out on the stump, you see all those people in the back?
	All of those people, they're all liars.
	Fake news, all of them.
	They're all fake news.
	They're not going to report the size of this crowd.
	It just resonates.
	No other politician would ever do that.
	And it makes me laugh.
	I think it's hilarious.
	The rest of the media just doubles down on hating them and bizarre conspiracy theories.
	I think it's funny.
	Yeah, well, listen, I mean, he is the first person we have ever seen run for this office that does not need the job.
	You know, Donald Trump had an incredible life before he became the president, before he decided to run for the presidency.
	And he knew going into this that he would give up a lot.
	I don't think he could have predicted how much, but he doesn't need them because this campaign was, it was more of a movement, as we all remember.
	You know, it was the people of the country saying, we're tired of the fake news that we are seeing happen now.
	We are tired of people telling us what we should think.
	We are going to think for ourselves.
	We're going to choose for ourselves.
	And although you can skew the numbers, the entire campaign, we are going to vote for the candidate of our choice, and that happened to be Donald Trump, as we saw on November 8th.
	100%.
	Well, today was obviously a big legislative day.
	I've been pretty hard lately on the Republicans in Congress.
	You know, the phrase I use is that they need to keep up with the speed of Trump.
	They're obnoxiously slow, pathetically slow, lacking an urgency that I don't understand in my own life.
	But they finally got it done.
	Obamacare is gone.
	And I think this is going to be a huge first step towards a number of legislative successes, followed up, obviously, by his economic plan.
	And this will give a trillion dollars to the bottom line of that.
	So this was a very critical, important piece of advancing the economic agenda of the president.
	What did you think of today?
	Oh, well, I was so happy to see that it passed.
	And you know what?
	You're right when you say that they can't keep up with the speed of President Trump.
	I mean, this is a man who works tirelessly.
	We saw it on the campaign trail.
	You see it now that he's in the White House.
	And, you know, we all know the history of government.
	Everything is slow.
	I mean, it's sort of a joke.
	Things take forever to get done, to get passed.
	Legislations are extremely slow and tedious.
	And I think if there's one good thing that he's bringing to the Republican Party right now, it's him saying, guys, we have to get it together.
	We don't have time to waste on this stuff.
	And I was thrilled to see that it passed.
	And I think you're right.
	I think it's going to be a great first step for many, many more incredible things that are going to come.
	Let me talk about your involvement now.
	And I know that Ivanka and Jared, they went to the White House.
	Ivanka's now going to be a special assistant to the president.
	And she'll have an office inside the West Wing.
	And Jared is a top advisor in the White House.
	You, Eric, Don Jr., and his family, you guys decided to stay back and run the business, but yet you're getting involved again.
	And tell us what the process is and what you think about CNN and NBC and their censorship here.
	Yeah, well, I work for Giles Parscal, which was our digital media company throughout the campaign.
	And I've actually been hired essentially as a consultant to the campaign.
	So I work day in and day out with the campaign for 2020.
	And we're still here.
	You know, a lot of people, I think, are surprised to know that.
	We put on every rally that the president has done since his election.
	We still want to keep the movement strong.
	We want people to know that we are still here.
	Just because you cast your vote for Donald Trump on November 8th does not mean that the campaign shuts down.
	We want to stay here.
	We want to keep this movement going.
	We want to keep it alive.
	And so day to day, I work with the campaign.
	And as you mentioned, we wanted to do a 100 days ad.
	And we wanted to let the people of the country know what great things the president has done in his first 100 days in office.
	Because quite frankly, Sean, you watch any other network than Fox News, and you're hard-pressed to find anything positive that they'll have to say about the first 100 days.
	So we said, we have to do something about this.
	I think, Lara, I actually think I'm the only one that actually wrote it out.
	Put it on the screen.
	I honestly do.
	And it's all the truth.
	They're all big accomplishments.
	Yeah.
	You know, starting with Neil Gorsuch, now culminating a couple of days later with healthcare.
	But, you know, in terms of regulation and especially in the energy sector, it's such an important part of the economic recovery that we'll need.
	But, you know, I put everyone on the screen.
	Nobody else that I've ever seen in media ever did that.
	Yeah.
	And so we really felt it was important to highlight all of these incredible accomplishments.
	And we wanted to buy a standard campaign ad.
	And we sent it out to all the major networks across the board, Fox, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC.
	And I actually just heard right before I got on this show with you that CBS now has also rejected running our ad, as has NNBC.
	Yeah, it's follow the loser.
	I mean, one makes the decision and they're like dominoes and they all fall into place.
	And the reality is it's censorship.
	And we are trying to speak directly to the American people, just like Donald Trump did the entire campaign, just like President Trump does now at all the rallies that he continues to hold, because we feel it's important to let the people know what's really going on.
	Because if you watch mainstream media, you get a very different view of the things that the president has done in his first 100 days than what the reality is.
	So I was really disappointed to hear that they have all come back and rejected that.
	And quite frankly, it's un-American.
	It's censorship.
	And people should be outraged by this.
	People have a right to know this is part of America.
	You know, it's very, very disappointing to hear this sort of thing.
	Unfortunately, it's not that surprising.
	All right, let me play a part of the ad that you're talking about.
	And it's hard to understand the mysterious reluctance and resistance.
	Donald Trump, sworn in as president 100 days ago.
	America has rarely seen such success.
	A respected Supreme Court justice confirmed.
	Companies investing in American jobs again.
	America becoming more energy independent.
	Regulations to kill American jobs eliminated.
	The biggest tax cut plan in history.
	You wouldn't know it from watching the news.
	America is winning, and President Trump is making America great again.
	I'm Donald Trump, and I approve this message.
	They can't even run that ad.
	That's what's so offensive to them.
	Yeah, it's terrible.
	You know, our democracy was founded on a vibrant marketplace of ideas where every American has the freedom of expression, the freedom of speech.
	And this is detrimental to the American public, that they cannot run a campaign ad that tells the truth.
	These are all true accomplishments of the president, and it's really disappointing.
	You know, and this is why I sent out tweets.
	I hate Stephen Colbert.
	What he said about your father for that line with President Obama.
	But I also say no boycotts, no censorship.
	Turn your on and off, use your on and off button, use your up and down dial to click off and move to Kimmel or whoever else you want to watch.
	Conan.
	Yeah, Fallon.
	It's really sad.
	It's really sad that we live in a day and age where people have such little respect for the office of the presidency.
	Look, I don't care who you voted for in this election.
	Donald Trump is your president.
	If you are a United States citizen, he's your president.
	And that demands some respect.
	And it's really sad to think that someone like Stephen Colbert would have the audacity to say those sorts of things.
	I mean, it's vile, it's disgusting, and you're right.
	Could you imagine if anyone had dared even come close to saying something like that about Lara?
	I'm telling my conservative friends, no, don't call for a boycott.
	Turn the dial.
	Turn the dial because they're using that tactic to silence conservatives every day.
	Lara, we got to let you go.
	It's great to talk to you.
	I saw the interview you guys did in the morning on Fox and Friends.
	It was a great interview.
	Congrats on the baby.
	Thank you.
	We'll run the ad and make sure people are aware of it tonight on Hannity.
	You're going to join us on TV.
	Big health care vote for the president, big win for him today.
	And it shows that his hard work and perseverance pays off because he was actively involved up to the last minute making sure this happens.
	So thank you for being with us.
	We'll see you tonight on Hannity.
	Thanks, Sean.
	See you then.

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