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Uh we're going to spend a lot of time on the program.
President had a lot to say today.
Got a hero's welcome at the Value Voters Summit earlier today.
And the president also gave his remarks as it relates to Iran, which we're going to go over in great specificity in detail.
We're going to check in with a lot of members in the House to see if this economic plan is going to get done.
This tax plan will get done.
Kevin Brady is the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.
And then we're going to check in with a couple of Freedom Caucus members, Jim Jordan and Ted Yoho are going to join us.
We have not paid a lot of attention yet to what has been going on, the death toll from Northern California's wildfires are now at 31.
There's about 400 people missing.
It's getting a little scary out there, and there are some relief efforts we want to tell you about.
So we'll get that in the course of the program as well and try and help our friends out in uh California, those that would need it.
Um starting this Friday with some good news, consumer confidence now is at a 13-year high.
I mean, this is literally the highest since January 2004.
From 95.1 in September now, the sentiment grow grew to 101.1.
It's a 13-year high as the American people's perception of the economy and their own finances have been rebounding, especially following these major hurricanes that have taken place.
University of Michigan Michigan survey shows stocks again have set new records.
By the way, I don't put as much faith in I mean, look, when you're at to $5.2 billion in wealth growth created, you can't ignore it in the stock market.
I'm not the biggest fan of the market.
And I've said this to you for years, and I say it because I just always want to be honest with you, my audience.
And I think there's a certain if you're in the market for for the long term, and that means part of your portfolio has stocks and bond, whatever you happen to have.
And I would go obviously for the blue chip stocks.
I mean, if you go for the trendy stocks, if you go for remember the dot-com bubble that we ended up being in, everyone was going stock crazy, a lot of people lost a lot of money.
You know, but you gotta figure out okay, what are the things that people are always gonna need?
This is my thinking anyway.
You know, Johnson and Johnson, we're always gonna need toilet paper, shampoo, soap, we're gonna need food and and just the bare necessity.
So there's a way to work your way into the stock market.
How much risk and vulnerability you want to take is based on one's personal appetite for risk.
And I've always kind of been in the back of my mind, you know, if I work hard and I save my money and I don't want to gamble a lot of it away.
And a lot of people get into the market, and I can't tell you how many times over the years, oh, there's this new stock.
It's so it's so gonna be huge.
And and it's going public, and I can get you in in the friends and family thing or whatever.
And I'm like, no, thanks.
I'm not interested in gambling.
You know, real estate probably has a lot more stability, and you can still touch it.
You know, at the end of the day, your stocks they waste away down to nothing.
You can't tell you can't.
But look, it might be a bubble.
I don't know.
That's not how I've measured the economy.
I think the better indicators that the economy is doing well is the end of all of these Obama era regulations.
That's helped a lot.
I think opening up energy and drilling and Anwar and allowing coal miners to do their thing and and build clean coal.
Saw a great video of coal miners before they were going to work today.
I think I saw it on Fox and Friends this morning, where they they literally sang the anthem and they all stood.
Not one of them kneeled.
And I doubt any of them are being paid millions of dollars a year.
But these are good, high-paying career jobs for people, and then especially as we have developed some better safety procedures.
I just think mining is a very, very dangerous, difficult job, and it's hard.
I mean, I you're in a mine all day underground.
That's that's gotta be brutal.
That's gotta be tough.
And the risks are real.
There are a lot of real risks there.
Not the least of which is if you don't have the proper respiration, the threat of black lung is a real health risk for everybody.
Um, and not being in the sunlight is difficult.
You know, I don't I don't know anybody that has an easy job, though.
Everybody that works that I know has stress and a lot of a lot of issues to deal with.
I got a buddy of mine, and he has his own automotive producing company where he produced he actually sprays the inside of engines.
He he actually created this, he's an inventor, where they spray the inside of engine blocks, and it's done at a very high, high temperature.
It's like you watch it, it looks like the 4th of July and sparks flying everywhere, just like you'd see in an autoproducing thing.
Anyway, and he's he's got stress to get you know X number of thousand blocks done a day.
And then if for one reason they use the wrong wire or for one reason, the tip that there's manufactured, if that expensive tip gets clogged or blows, then he's got a problem that day.
You know, I think of my friends that in the you know that are policemen and firemen, their jobs are everyone's job is hard.
Being a teacher, how easy do you think it is being a teacher, you know, with 20 obnoxious kids in in front of your face every day?
It's not it's not easy, even if they're great kids, they drive you nuts.
And so if you're in a a business where you're producing food, okay, how much can you charge a customer for a piece of pizza?
You gotta sell a hell of a lot of pizza to make some money.
If you even have a steakhouse, you gotta sell a lot of steaks and a lot of booze to make some money.
Because by the time you pay your rent, you're by the time you pay your chef and your dishwashers and your line cooks, and then you pay your waiters and waitresses, and then your bartenders and your light bill, which is an obscene in in Long Island, it's everything ends up.
So you're just trying to work hard to put food on your table and produce a profit, and your hope and dream one day is that you can get a house.
And then you get that house.
I know more people that live in homes that are further away because it's more affordable and they get to get a bigger house.
Then you got to commute every day, and then you gotta get your car.
I mean, there's a certain grind aspect to all of life.
I mean, then you get your house, and then you realize you gotta furnish the stupid thing.
Although Linda doesn't believe in furniture, apparently.
You know, you're still sleeping.
I'm just never gonna hear the end of this, am I?
No, how I what uh what did I tell you when you bought your house?
I said, this is a this is a transformational moment of your life that you should be so proud of yourself.
Didn't I say get really nice air mattresses?
Don't go cheaply.
I net no, I knew.
So you actually remember that perfectly.
You had five days off around Labor Day.
First days everyone had five days off around Labor Day.
I didn't know if you don't have a stick of furniture and you go to your stupid house every weekend, which should be the pride and joy of your life.
And I'm like, do you not have a few years?
If you want to have this fight, I'm gonna have this fight because this is ridiculous.
I have three sticks of furniture.
Because you're now Eight m eight weeks into your new house and you're sleeping on an air mattress.
And it was a very nice.
That is a ridiculous thing to do.
It's got a velvet.
So what did I say to you last night?
I said, Do you have money?
Do you need I'll give you some money if you need the money for the for a bed?
Because sleeping in a bed is so much better than an air mattress.
Listen, Liam loves it.
We're sleeping on the air mattress.
He thinks we're camping.
He thinks we're camping.
So he wants to go camping in the house.
That's right.
It's a good thing.
You got a house.
You buy the house and you have no furniture in that house.
Now, Lauren's been in the house.
Lauren, doesn't the house need furniture?
It has great feng shui.
All right, listen, I know you think you're a McLaughlin now.
No way.
Doesn't the house need furniture?
Be honest.
You know, there's a design style called minimalist.
And I think that's what she's going for, the minimalist style.
It's working.
So there's really there is no bed in the house.
The only thing they got is an air mattress.
I have a card table from Tarjay.
It's lovely.
I will lend you the money.
Go buy some freaking furniture.
Show me the money.
Oh my God.
And you are the most stubborn human being on the face of this earth.
I'm an Irish woman.
It comes hand in hand.
Oh, all right.
Now I digress.
Anyway, so getting this economy going would be amazing.
You know, and what has this whole election been about?
And this is my fear.
The Senate's not going to get their job done.
I was a little disturbed.
I got to call Ted Cruz.
He was doing an interview yesterday and said, I'm not sure it's going to get done this year.
It might be early next year.
Well, that would the whole point is what have they done this year?
You know, a lot of senators, if the Republicans were smart and they passed this economic plan, we've already got rid of the regulations.
The president bailed their ass out this week when he was able to create an opportunity that now associations can buy health care plans and and and the buying power of a group at lower prices across state lines, including catastrophic plans.
This is a huge thing that is getting very little notice, and the only notice is getting is that, oh, he's demolishing Obamacare.
He pretty much did.
And this gives everybody now a shot that they didn't have before.
And every single person that works in the restaurant business ought to unite and find an and build an association.
And with the buying power of many, they're going to get much lower rates from Blue Cross, Blue Shield, Aetna, and United and all these other health companies, and they'll get the care and the service and the plans that they want, and you can now buy it across state lines because that carve out was already in existence for corporations that have been doing it.
So you're not stuck with the state regulations with the burdensome, and you're not stuck with the ACA Obamacare regulations.
There's so many solutions.
Now, same with energy.
The president got rid of all those burdensome regulations.
Now coal miners, which is where I started before I digressed.
Now they have their jobs and some security and production is up.
And now the president did the same thing with Anwar.
And if I was a big oil company, I'd get my ass up to Anwar quickly because at least while this man's president, you're going to have access to one of the biggest oil fields we'd ever have access to and get the pipelines built quick that now that the pipelines can be built.
And the president's doing what he can on his own.
I took on by the way, Ben Sass is like the biggest disappointment of anybody that I ever stupidly supported, you know, on top of all these other weak, pathetic Republicans.
But he's he's become the absolute most obnoxious jerk, you know, anti-Trump guy who says behind closed doors things that I can't even repeat on this program about President Trump.
You know, why don't you come out publicly, Senator Sass, and tell people what you really say and think behind closed doors in that cloakroom with all your arrogant senators that can't seem to get a thing done in there?
So sick of these people.
You know, why don't you start serving the American people?
Why don't you put your hatred of the president aside?
Is the president's plan to go from seven brackets to three good?
Is a 15, 20% corporate rate?
Is that going to stir economic growth?
Will corporations invest in America?
Was it a good thing he got rid of all these burdensome regulations?
Is it good to allow trillions of repatriated monies from multinationals at a low rate so they'll invest in in factories and manufacturing centers?
Is that good for the country?
Is it good for the country that we protect our border?
Was Neil Gorsuch good for the country to put on the court?
Is it good that he's not appeasing North Korea and Iran and radical Islamists like Obama did all these years?
You know, at some point, you gotta ask yourself, what what do they hate so much?
They just hate, they don't like his style, and his style is just the antithesis of what the typical bureaucratic style in Washington is.
That that is more than anything else, what frustrates the swamp in the sewer in D.C. Trump is not gonna stop tweeting because they don't like it.
He's not gonna talk talking about the national anthem because it's it scares them.
He's not gonna be direct because that's the way they want to see a president act in a particular style.
He's gonna be himself, and you ought to be you ought to find it refreshing.
And maybe some of you idiots can actually learn from him.
Because your approval rating is like 10%, and his is 45 and going higher as a result of him standing up for his honest beliefs.
I have come to have such contempt for politicians.
I it the level of and and the elitists, you know, the national review crowd, the Brett Stevens crowd, they're just all a bunch of phonies.
They're just so full of themselves.
All right, as we roll along, Sean Hannity show.
But a great week for the president, though, when you think of it, what he did on the health care bill, the executive order, the opportunity that that's gonna provide for him.
Uh he laid out his economic plan.
It is everything I, as a Reagan conservative, want, uh, with few exceptions.
I mean, minor exceptions.
If it gets passed, people will will benefit.
People will get out of poverty, off of food stamps, back in the labor force.
Just a fact.
He got a hero's welcome at the Value Voters Summit.
We'll hit on some of this later in the program today.
He gave a great speech.
Now we have no appeasement of Iran, and the president got great praise by Benjamin Netanyahu, who frankly everybody within the region is thanking him for taking the lead on it.
The only thing that the only missing piece of the puzzle is now the House and the Senate, and more the Senate than the House.
I mean, look, you've got to admit when when the House passes 280 bills, and they haven't even been touched by Mitch McConnell and company.
Now there are people that have just had it with McConnell.
And the number is is just growing by the minute.
Uh there's a piece on Breitbart today, the Tea Party Patriots, Freedom Works, Senate Conservatives Fund, are now calling on Mitch McConnell and the rest of the Senate leadership to resign.
And you know what?
If they can't get this done, they've got to go.
This is like their last test.
And I don't want to hear from Mitch McConnell.
Well, you know, these are excessive expectations, you know, and I'm a little angry, people saying we haven't done anything.
You know, I know the president, this is not this is a new line of work to him.
Excess expectations about how quickly things happen in the Democratic process.
Yeah, Democratic process, and you know, the the timelines that are artificial and the excessive expectations, you know, we have we have very busy schedules.
We get up at 9 or 10, and then we get served breakfast in the Senate dining room, and then we convene for maybe one meeting, and then of course it's lunchtime, and and then of course we got to plan our vacations, which are ever so numerous, and then get our hair cut in the Senate barbershops, and then we use the Senate gyms.
We've got to stay healthy so we stay in power forever, and we all live to be a hundred.
I'm like, oh gosh, it just that's the swamp.
Anyway, uh one piece at a time, the president's beginning to dismantle Obamacare.
Now can we get the wall?
And the president with North Korea.
By the way, there's war worry and concern North Korea may have had a earthquake that was caused by yet another nuclear test.
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We're learning so much about the left over this Harvey Weinstein issue.
What we're learning more than anything is that it appears, well, everybody kind of knew.
Everybody in Hollywood knew.
There's a Huffington Post piece out that back in August, MBC reporter Ronan Farrow had secured an interview with a woman who agreed to appear on camera and say that Weinstein had actually raped her.
Remember, we're up to like 31 women now at least.
MBC tried to put a stop to the interview with Ronan Farrow.
Ronan did a show, didn't he?
On uh on the conspiracy channel for a while.
He did, right?
He's a big liberal.
But he's also the son of Mia Farrow, the actress and Woody Allen, right?
Is that true?
And then they put those ridiculous stories in there that I thought I think are hurtful.
Uh about, well, maybe it was Frank Sinatra and all that crap, which I don't think is fair to do to any kid.
I mean, I guess he's not a kid, but you know what I mean.
Um anyway, so he so he didn't do well in cable.
Maybe it wasn't his format.
Anyway, so I've got to imagine, and I'm guessing here, that maybe the reason that Ronan Farrow, because he was very public in the New York tabloids, talking about how abusive his father was to young women.
And so I guess this is, you know, he's following this because of his a passion that he has to expose people because he grew up in a in the situation that he did, which by the way, would be a pretty noble thing.
You know, putting all politics aside, he seems to be standing up for women, and I like it.
Anyway, NBC tried to put a stop to the interview with the woman accusing Weinstein of rape.
The network insisted, well, then they went after Farrow.
And they said, well, he can't use an NBC news crew for the interview, and and neither was he able to mention his NBC News affiliation because he still works for them, even though he no longer does a cable show for them.
So he ended up funding it all out of his own pocket, and he filmed the interview.
He got over 30 women now accusing Weinstein of sexual harassment, groping, and rape.
A number of women have claimed that he's raped them over the span of two decades.
And now the NYPD crimes unit, and then you got London police.
You've got a lot of people now investigating the criminality that may be associated with all this.
So this story is not going away.
Um, the the UK Son actually had a creepy story out that you know, he would proposition in this particular case, a British TV reporter with a sex contract.
The woman's 32.
She declined the offer, told them to go blank off, basically used raw Linda language when when confronted at a lunch at the Cannes Festival.
I met him a few times, and he goes on to say when I went to interview him, it was something out of about a film.
We were having lunch, and as the appetizer arrived, he launched into it.
Then his production assistant comes over with a confidentiality contract, and I just thought, oh my God, your poor wife.
I don't want to be a marriage wrecker.
Well, good for her, by the way.
And Kloss fled the lunch, disgusted and angry.
So what did he have as a system offering contracts?
But now there's a lot of other stuff coming out.
I see that Mr. Mr. Cause himself, Jimmy Kimmel when he hosted the show.
Well, let's play him uh telling women to touch his private parts and guess what's in there.
Listen to this biddy.
This game show is called Guess What's in My Pants.
Now, I've stubbed something in my pants, and you're allowed to feel around on the outside of the pants.
You had 10 seconds to then guess what is in my pants.
You ready?
Go.
You should use two hands.
Two hands.
I thought it was like a Red Bull or something.
You think it's is that your final answer?
Wow.
You didn't make a fine wife.
Before, haven't you?
All right.
Right there.
Yeah?
Just a few more shaggy.
Good thing I wore the rubber underpants.
And your guess is Vibrator?
A vibrator?
No, it is actually a zucchini with a rubber band on it.
You can use it as a vibrator if you want.
Look.
By the way, this kicked the crap out of the Ben Stein show.
You work you worked on a farm, haven't you?
How old are you?
18.
Okay.
Are you sure of that?
Uncle Jimmy doesn't need to do time.
It's not gonna bite you.
He may hold a pen.
It's a very creative guess, but no, it is not.
It is actually a thing that goes in the sink.
You see, it's round, it's hard.
Yeah, yes.
A little quirky on the thigh.
Yeah, sometimes.
Well.
Yeah.
Maybe it would be easier if you put your mouth on it.
Mouth press, whatever you like.
Guess what?
Is in my pants.
I mean.
Oh my god.
Yes.
I don't know if I can't think.
Feel harder, feel a little bit faster.
Squeeze.
Squeeze.
Feels like what?
I have no clue.
What is in my pants is half a jelly donut.
I ate the other half earlier.
This is a good game.
That's a good game.
It feels kind of like squid.
chicken leg.
Mmm.
Tastes like my penis.
Oh no, wait, Martinez.
Yeah, feel around.
And if you could feel around in a back and forth motion.
Gradually getting faster.
That's a dildo.
Let's see if she's right.
It is actually a king crab leg.
You've got a nice technique there.
You could get in the Olympics with this, let me tell you.
Alright, we could keep going.
So basically.
What's in my pants?
Oh, you grab it.
Yeah, grab with two hands.
Uh, you should put your mouth on it.
How old are you?
18.
Oh, I don't want Uncle Jimmy to go to jail.
Fun?
Is it good in fun?
All good fun and humor.
Really?
Jimmy's been wanting to be the great political activist now that he is.
Hasn't been talking a lot about Weinstein.
Then you've got other people.
Now, this is where it's getting very interesting.
Let's listen to Ronan Ronan Farrow explain how MBC News passed on the story.
Why did you end up reporting this story for the New Yorker and not for NBC News?
Look, you would have to ask NBC and NBC executives about the details of that story.
I'm not going to comment on any news organization's story that they did or didn't run.
Uh I will say that over many years, many news organizations have circled this story and faced a great deal of pressure in doing so.
And there are now reports emerging publicly about the kinds of pressure that news organizations face in this.
And that is real.
In the course of this reporting, I was threatened with a lawsuit personally by Mr. Weinstein.
And, you know, we've already seen that the Times has been publicly threatened with a suit.
I don't want to describe any suits leveled at other organizations that I work with.
But, you know, certainly this is a considerable amount of pressure that outlets get as well.
And NBC says that you know you didn't that the story wasn't publishable, that it wasn't ready to go by the time that you brought it to them.
But obviously it's ready to go by the time you got it into the New Yorker.
Uh I walked into the door at the New Yorker with a uh an explosively reportable piece that should have been public earlier.
And uh immediately, obviously the New Yorker recognized that, and it is not accurate to say that it was not reportable.
In fact, there were multiple determinations that it was reportable at NBC.
Well, when we have the New York Times.
And we've got, you know, here's the proof that we know.
Let's go to 30 Rock.
This is them joking about who Harvey Weinstein really is.
Listen to this.
I'm not afraid of anyone in show business.
I turned down intercourse with Harvey Weinstein on no less than three occasions on five.
And then the same Seth McFarland did the same thing.
You want to hear something really creepy?
Ed Asner was on with Chris Jansing.
I happen to know Chris Chancing.
She's a lovely Person.
And um, anyway, and he actually goes on the air and says, Can I have a kiss?
What is wrong with these people?
Listen.
I'm joined now by a man who started one of those groundbreaking shows, the Mary Tyler Moore Show, winner of seven Emmy Awards more than any other man at Asner, who helped demonstrate the changing culture of independent women in the workplace for millions of Americans each week.
At Asner, wow, it's great to have you here.
Thank you so much for coming in.
Not even kiss.
No, nothing, right?
Oh my God.
Not even a kiss.
That's a great way to start an interview.
Then you got Hillary Burton alleging Ben Afflack groped her.
Listen to this.
You're always like, I'm just responsible.
So nice to see you.
And he wraps his arm around me and comes over and tweaks my left boo.
That was nice of Ben Affleck.
He since apologized.
Gwyneth Paltrow was on with David Letterman talking about Weinstein coercing people.
This is how well known this is.
Now listen.
You're going to be here with us, and then you go to with your family, right?
Yes.
What is that?
What is that like with a family?
A big family?
I have a big family.
This year we're sort of scattered all over the place.
And oddly enough, my parents, my brother, my mom's half of the family is in California.
Which is strange.
Normally we do the East Coast leaves and fire.
Yeah.
I think it is the East Coaster lends itself more uh gracefully to Thanksgiving than you know the desert.
I agree.
Yeah.
So are you excited?
You go out there and you go tonight, you go tomorrow.
What do you do?
Well, I would have ordinarily gone, you know, not on Thanksgiving.
But I'm here for you.
Oh no.
So tomorrow.
Thank you.
Buddy, are you?
Are you here of your own free will?
As someone coerced you into being here.
Do you count Harvey Weinstein as a coercer?
Now Harvey Harry Weinstein is a as a uh I I don't know whether he's in some kind of organized crime now.
But he used to be like some kind of junior mob kind of guy, right?
He was like in the mob auxiliary.
That's what they tell me.
Yeah.
And now he's like a big powerful film guy, right?
Yes.
I do all my movies for Harvey Weinstein.
That's Miramax for all of you.
And I'm lucky to do them there, but he will coerce you to do it.
And so Harvey said, I tell you what, go on and talk about your movie.
Is that what Harvey said?
Yeah.
And in return, what will Harvey do for you?
Nothing.
Really?
Well, what's wrong with that equation?
As the kids say, you do the math.
You know, I'm I'm kind of fed up with Harvey's behavior.
And because I'm grateful to him in the sense that he brought you here tonight.
Thank God for Harvey.
All right, there you go.
And it's all over.
You know, now here's where I went with this.
And Oliver Stone now being accused.
I don't know what's going on with Rose McGowan.
Kate Beckinsdale.
Now, wow, she was accused, said she was 17 years old, and you know, invites her up to his room, and you know, she's uh offered alcohol by Harvey Weinstein.
That's kind of creepy.
And she said she was young and naive.
It wasn't worse than that, but it could have been obviously based on all this behavior.
Um here's my question.
When is anybody now going to take this to the next step on the left?
And I have been saying on this program that there's something fundamentally wrong about the way politics is run in this country.
Where every two years and every four years, um, we have a playbook that is used by a Democratic Party.
And they falsely accuse conservatives of being racist.
They falsely accuse conservatives, Republicans of being misogynist.
Poor Mitt Romney.
How many weeks was it?
Oh, a binders with women's resumes that he wanted to hire.
What a horrible misogynistic, hateful person he was.
It was such a bunch of crap.
Everybody knew the media covered this up.
And here's what they've also covered up.
And I try I I tried my best.
Hillary Clinton herself has taken a fortune.
And she made the statement I was appalled.
I was disgusted about all of this.
I was shocked, I was sickened, I was appalled.
And I'm like, you weren't shocking, sickened and appalled by your own husband.
And nor were you shocking, shocked, sickened, and appalled by what the the countries you take millions of dollars from.
Millions and millions for the Clinton Foundation.
From countries that practice sharia, where women are treated like garbage.
Women are told how to dress.
Women are told if they can go to school, if they can go to work.
Women are told if they can even leave the house, and it's usually with a male relative.
They can't travel abroad.
Women couldn't can't drive cars in some of these countries.
Marital rape and domestic abuse in some of these countries are not even crimes.
And she took money from all of them.
Gays and lesbians are often killed just for being who they are.
Assassinated, murdered.
She took money from these countries.
You can't build churches and temples in a lot of these countries either.
Nobody ever during the election seemed to care except me.
Because it's morally repugnant.
So the very thing liberals claim that they're the champion are on they're not.
It goes for the media.
That goes for Liberal Hollywood.
You know, did they care about Bill Clinton shenanigans?
Did they care about all the money that Hillary took from all those countries?
No.
What does that mean?
That means they're phony hypocrites.
And this is all frankly feigned selective moral outrage.
All right, 800-941 Sean Tollfree telephone number.
You want to be a part of the program.
Um we got so much going on here.
We have the House Freedom Caucus members.
Kevin Brady is the head of the House Ways and Means Committee, and we've got new Gingrich today, and we'll get your call.
We're gonna do a deep dive into this tax plan, why it's so important it get passed.
It gets passed for the people that have been left behind, the forgotten men and women.
We have the head of the House Ways and Means Committee.
We got two Freedom Caucus members, the Iranian deal, the value voters speech with Newt Gingrich, and so much more on this busy breaking news Friday.
For eight years, you guys had a plan.
You you kept saying and promising you'll repeal replace Obamacare.
And I guess what people want to know is when are these things going to get done?
We're exactly on the timeline that we designed for ourselves.
Obamacare is coming next.
Our bill is coming in March.
First, it's regulatory reform because we have this window of time to cancel bad Obama regulations, then we're doing Obamacare.
After we're done with Obamacare, then we're doing our budget.
And our budget is what the second budget, which will be tax reform.
So we're doing two budgets in one year, which has never been done before.
This is faster than has ever been done before.
When I heard repair, my head nearly exploded.
That's not the plan.
The plan is reverse.
Like we said, we ran on a plan to repeal and replace it.
Tom Price helped write that plan.
He is now Donald Trump's secretary of age.
It is a consensus plan that's now being scored by the CBO.
Correct.
You're saying to the American people and conservatives that are impatient, including myself, you agree with every item I mentioned, even extreme vetting.
Yeah.
We passed that bill a year ago in the House.
I know you now agree with building the wall.
Yes.
Are you telling the American people vetting refugees, building the wall, repeal replace, tax reform, all of this is going to be done in 200 days.
Inside the 200 day window is the regulatory reforms we talked about.
It's the repeal and replace Obamacare.
It's the budget, it's the rebuilding of our military, it's tax reform.
Those are the things that we're working on.
And the infrastructure, those are the things we're working on in this 2007 countries.
That's in there as well.
We see that as part of regulatory reform.
But in 200 days, that's you think that's doable.
This is our plan, yeah.
And if and if there's any slippage, we'll finish it in the fall and get it done before the end of the year.
So if I come back in 200 days, I you're gonna you're gonna go, well, I made a promise, we've got to do it.
Well, because I think this is a so here's what I'm saying.
We we've met this out for 200 days.
We have a plan to do that.
We're on schedule.
But if if anything slips because of another Supreme Court justice, yeah, or or a filibuster on a cabinet nominee, that might slip us, but we're we're making sure that we do all of this in 2017.
Okay, let's go to the budget, which is such a big issue.
Uh the president, seven brackets to three, fifteen percent corporate rate.
I know you prefer twenty because that scores on the COVID-15.
It scores.
Yeah, I have to get what we can with the with the numbers.
You support repatriation multinational corporations.
That will be huge for that's a lot of money that can come back into the economy.
Probably about three trillion dollars.
Here's my headline of this interview.
That you're in pretty much full agreement with what Donald Trump ran on.
Yes.
And number two, in 200 days, from the legislative side, you are going to be implementing every aspect of that agenda that we talked about.
Yep, and and just to badline.
And we have and we have cushion in our schedule.
If if anything slips, because it's really because of Senate issues, we still have time to accommodate all of this stuff in 2017.
So I even have safety bills.
I have cushions built in the schedule to make sure this all gets done in 2017.
Because I believe in case something happens and goes sideways on the Senate.
I'm pretty sure that'll stimulate the economy, get people back to work and get the economy moving again, which I think we need.
That's what we're hired to do.
All right.
You'll see in 200 days.
I'm gonna ask for show advance, but I know everybody's saying we've been there, haven't done anything.
Which uh I find extremely irritating.
And I'm going to tell you why.
Congress goes on for two years.
And part of the reason I think that the storyline is that we haven't done much is because, in part, the president and others have set these early timelines about things need to be done by a certain point.
Now our new president has not been in this line of work before.
And I think uh excessive expectations about how quickly things happen in the democratic process.
And so part of the reason I think people feel like we're under under performing is because too many kind of artificial deadlines on uh unrelated to the reality of the complexity of legislating may not have been fully understood.
And of course, our political adversaries would be loved to say that any time.
So what I'm asking of you is to judge this Congress when it finishes.
How much have we done to make America competitive again and to grow again?
And that's part of America.
Making America great again, which is what uh the president talks about so much.
How many times do you pass something and it just goes over and it sits on the Senate gallant?
You got what?
We're gonna be able to do that.
More than a hundred items sitting over there waiting for the case.
Oh, it's two hundred and seventy-three, but who's counting?
Um we're gonna keep it weird till Christmas if we have to.
I mean, I don't care.
We gotta get this done.
I mean, it's just that important.
And so um we are actually on track timeline wise.
Uh the House passed its budget resolution, the Senate got it out of their committee.
Next week they'll move their budget resolution, then we'll go to a conference committee, get that done, pass that conference report, and then the Ways and Means Committee will put their bill out, because they have to get a revenue line from the budget conference report.
Uh then they'll put their bill out, and then we'll go to markup and we'll go to the floor.
Uh we'll get it over to the Senate in November, and and then the Senate will process it.
And that gives us time to get this thing done in law.
All right, there you heard Paul Ryan and what he has wanted to accomplish and the timeline he wanted to accomplish it to a larger extent.
Uh he certainly has done a lot more in the House, and the House has done a lot more than the Senate.
There's two hundred and eighty bills passed in the House, including really good bills like Kate's Law, Sanctuary Cities, and and a lot of other things that the Senate can't get done, like health care, for example.
And there is some worry and concern about this tax plan and whether it's gonna get passed in the House and then get held up again in the Senate.
What's what's John McCain gonna do?
What's Susan Collins gonna do?
What's Lisa Murkowski's gonna do?
Rand Paul was very clear that if he gets tax cuts for the middle class, he's on board.
Anyway, joining us now, Jim Jordan, former president of the Freedom Caucus, he's still a member, and Ted Yoho is with us.
Congressman, welcome both of you to the uh program.
Uh you know, I uh on the one hand, I know people are angry at all of Congress, but the House has certainly done a better job than the Senate.
And I assume both of you are hearing Jim Jordan, you're hearing Ted Cruz say, well, it may be next year.
That scares me.
No, it shouldn't be.
It should be now.
American people are tired of waiting, you're tired of waiting, we're tired of waiting.
Uh, and we're frustrated as you rightly point out.
Um, you know, six Republican senators, Sean uh voted against the very same leg on health care.
The very same legislation.
Exact same word, same sentences, same period, same comments, same punctuation, everything.
Same bill.
They voted against it back in July that they had supported twenty months ago.
That's what's frustrating.
So let's uh let's get this.
I'm confident as the speaker said we will get the tax bill out of the house.
Freedom Caucus supported the budget last week because we got a framework of where this plan is going, the rates that are coming down.
We we believe it's gonna do the three things that matter most.
Let people keep more of their money, simplify the code, and be conducive To producing economic growth.
And so we said we'll support it.
We'll pass the budget.
I think it will get through the House, but jeepers, who knows what happens in the United States Senate.
Yeah, it's true.
And Senator I'm sorry, Congressman Yoho, what do you think?
Well, I agree with Jim.
I I hear a lot of deja vu, you know, on the w what's going on with the tax plan that happened with health care.
And as Jim said, we passed the budget, and that budget is a framework and a vehicle to use reconciliation to uh get the tax reform.
We have to deliver on tax reform.
And you know, we tried to get the the conference to stay in through August um so that we could g do just this.
And I heard Paul Ryan on your interview, you know, the sound bites that, you know, uh we've got to get this done.
We may work through Christmas.
Well, we should have worked through August too.
And I don't want to I don't want to beat uh, you know, I don't want to um, you know, um say anything negative.
Let's see what we get done, but it has to get done.
Well, I agree it has to get done, but health care had to get done.
And I actually love what the president did yesterday.
I mean, going back to this nineteen seventy-four law, which, you know, corporations that have offices in different states are allowed to now bypass the whatever the state regulations are and federal like regulations under the ACA and Obamacare and form a cooperative or a group of some kind,
and now individuals, you know, all restaurant workers can now, you know, form their own association or co-op and they can negotiate uh down prices because of the volume of people that will be on the individual plans and they can buy across state lines and and catastrophic care isn't illegal and they can have many, many options for the very differing plans that people need, and maybe they'll buy their plan in Alabama and it'll serve every restaurant worker in the in the country and at a much lower rate, they're gonna start saving money.
Yeah, absolutely.
Sean, the association plans, uh, interstate shopping all make good sense.
What the president did uh yesterday and today with these with these executive orders was uh exactly what he told the voters he was going to do and why they elected him.
He's trying to make health care better.
Uh he's trying to bring back affordable uh insurance and bring down the cost of premiums.
And frankly, what he did on these bailout payments, these CSR payments, this is simply following the rule of law and following the Constitution.
Because the court has said you cannot do what the Obama administration had done.
He and and the President, just like you did on the DACA immigration issue, he said I'm not gonna violate the rule of law, I'm not gonna violate the Constitution.
And we're it's so I I applaud the President for the positions he has taken, not only on the DACA immigration issue, but on this health care issue as well.
And it's simply doing it's something we talk about in the Freedom Caucus all the time.
It's simply doing what you told the voters you were going to do when they elected you, and that is what we need to stay focused on doing.
Is there any conversations with the House and Senate?
Like I know Mark Meadows was spending a lot of time during the health care debate, you know, working with senators and trying to get that bill passed, and and he was fairly confident that they actually may get there a couple of times, and you just fell barely short on the thing.
Um is there a lot of discussions and do you have a feel at all that the Senate can stick to its timetable and and get their job done in the month of November?
Uh this Jim here, but Sean, I I do, and we are having those discussions.
I mean, we I talk with the senators all the time.
Uh you know, that's just the nature of our our our line of work.
Uh I do think the Senators are feeling as well.
Uh you know, you go back home and you talk to regular people, they're like, let's go.
So I think the Senators are feeling like, you know what?
The way this health care thing played out wasn't the way it was supposed to work.
People aren't too pleased.
Let's make sure we actually let them keep more of their money.
Let's make sure we simplify the tax code, and let's make sure we construct a code on the corporate side that's going to produce jobs and economic growth.
And I think they're hearing that from people back home.
So again, while I'm real confident about the House, I'm my confidence is growing that the Senate will be able to get there too.
Yeah, I agree with that.
And you think it'll get done by the end of the year by by Thanksgiving Christmas the latest.
Yeah, I think so.
I think so.
I think we have to again.
Sean, you you brought up about what the President did and and moving on an executive order.
You know, Rand Paul had the idea of association plans that he was pushing back at the very first of the year, and we should have gone with that.
And then um what we did is we introduced a bill called Hold Harmless that would allowed insurance companies to write policies that weren't restricted to the mandates of Obamacare so that they could craft new policies so that they could sell those to drive down the cost of insurance, and then the Affordable Care Act would die on its own demise.
Uh, and so we've got an initiative to get that passed through.
Um that's a way to dismantle the Affordable Care Act.
And uh I I applaud the President For what he's doing.
I think it's the right way to go.
And unfortunately, you know, via executive orders is not the best way, but we'll take it.
All right, we'll take a break.
We'll come back more with Freedom Caucus members.
Jim Jordan and Ted Yoho is with us.
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Quick break, right back.
We'll continue.
All right, as we continue with Freedom Caucus members, Jim Jordan and Ted Yoho is with us.
On the president, he laid out his plan on Iran today to get tough and appeasement is now gone, and especially on the Iranian uh forces, military forces.
Uh is this gonna be enough to stop them from fomenting terror, fighting proxy wars, and their of course their pursuit of nuclear weapons.
Jim Jordan.
I think so.
And uh I'm like you, Sean.
I think what I think what today's message was mostly about was uh just just telling the whole world appeasement, uh weakness, this whole Obama leading from behind approach is done.
It's over.
It there is a new sheriff in town.
There is a president who understands that the world is better and safer when America leads, and the world is certainly better and safer when Iran is not on the course to get nuclear weapons.
So what the president proposed today is right on top, and this is the large as as you rightly know and and and have talked about the largest state sponsor of terrorism, a group that is supporting Assad, a group that is supporting Hezbollah, uh uh uh a country that is you know wants to go after our best ally in the world, Israel.
Uh what the president did today is the right thing to do, and frankly, what we need to do now in the Congress is start working on the sanctions that we might need to put back in place and we might need to put them back in place ASAP.
You know, Ted excuse me, Congressman Yoho, you can call me.
Uh when I was in Harrisburg PA, yeah, uh I talked to a lot of people and I asked them three basic questions.
What do you think of the president?
What do you think of uh Congress, and what do you think of the media?
Well, they like the president, they hate Congress, they hate the media.
You think your colleagues know how much they're hated?
Well, I think they do, you know, and that you know, there's a lot of frustration, there's a lot of blame to go around, and you know, we'll take our share, but as you brought out in the beginning beginning, uh, you know, uh the House has passed over 250 bills and over or 300 over 300 bills and 250 of those are sitting idle in the Senate collecting dust.
So there's plenty of blame to go around, but we also have to look at the the things that have happened.
The American people allowed us to ha be able to say President Trump, not President Clinton.
We've got a judge called Neil Gorsuch, and that wouldn't have happened under uh Hillary Clinton.
We've repealed the Dodd-Frank bill basically in the House.
Well, I agree.
What are the other actions that are going to happen?
I'm afraid that that the President will make a deal, although he said this week he will not, on the issue of DACA without get funding for full funding for the wall first.
And it's always the same deal.
The deal is, oh, you get the consideration, you never get the wall built, you never get the protections.
You always get the tax increase, you never get the spending cuts.
Congressman Jordan.
No, I I'm I'm uh I look, I I know the president wants to uh do exactly what we told the voters, but I I get nervous about when when we have this spending deadline coming, uh the the government funding bills come to do on December 8th.
I get nervous that bad things can happen when you have this the big spending package come due.
So you're right.
Uh that this if we're gonna do anything on DACA, there should be actual block being laid on the border that to do the border security well like the American people demanded in the last election.
Uh or there should be uh uh the same time when that passes, there should be some mayor in in in in California and San Francisco and Romney Manual in Chicago standing up and screaming because we're actually taking away dollars from these sanctuary cities.
That's the kind of thing that has to get done in any type of immigration overhaul that we do, because that's what the American people elected us to accomplish.
And so we got to push for those things that if there is going to be some uh some addressing the DACA situation, those elements have to be a part of the any agreement that goes forward, and that's that's what we have to focus on.
All right, guys, thank you both for being with us.
We appreciate it.
Jim Jordan, Ted Yoho, uh 800 941 Sean is our toll-free telephone number if you want to be a part of the program.
Uh we gotta take a quick break.
We'll come back.
We also have Newt Gingrich coming up, and the head of the ever powerful House We Ways and Means Committee, Kevin Brady is gonna join us as well.
We'll get your calls in straight ahead.
We'll get your calls in straight ahead.
Holding them accountable.
Sean gets the answers no one else does.
America deserves to know the truth about Congress.
And you know, the Democrats told a very terrible fib.
They said that they read the brackets so that the brackets were inverted.
And if you read it that way, but that's not the way it goes.
And we've been praised for the amount of money, the middle class, this is really what I'm looking for for the middle class.
I call it the working people and the working people are going to get a massive tax break, and corporations and companies and small companies are going to get large-scale tax relief, and they'll be able to keep compete with anybody in the world.
Which is what we need.
You're trying to incentivize those trillions to come back here with a low repatriation rate.
How low will that be?
And how much do you think you can bring back into the United States and what does it mean?
Okay.
So right now you have probably, and nobody knows the exact number because it's I I actually think it's much higher than people understand, but it'll probably be over three trillion dollars is outside of our country, and our companies and they just can't get it back.
They're trying, but they can't get it back.
Number one, it's a bureaucratic mess.
Number two, the tax rate is so high it doesn't make sense.
So what they do is they invest it in Europe and other places where the money is.
And I'll tell you what they do also.
They leave the country because the money becomes so much and so valuable to them that they leave the country, our country, to go and get their money.
So they leave the country and they fire everybody.
Now what we're doing is we're lowering the rate so they can bring it back in.
We're giving them a shot to bring all that money.
It's all gonna come back in.
It's gonna come back in immediately.
It's gonna be more than three trillion dollars.
Probably we're looking at a ten percent rate.
It may be around that number, maybe a little higher, maybe a little lower, but it's gonna be right around that number, probably ten percent.
And right now, what it is is thirty-five percent plus.
Now, who's gonna bring money back when you have to pay by the time you finish almost half of your money in tax?
So nobody's never gonna bring it back.
So we're gonna have that money come back in.
It's gonna put people to work so fast, and the money itself is gonna go to work very fast.
And you know, uh say what you want about Democrats and Republicans.
For years, years and years, everybody's wanted to do that.
You have trillions of dollars outside of our country, offshore, and the Democrats wanted it back, the Republicans wanted it back, everybody wanted it back, and they couldn't do it.
They couldn't get a deal.
We're gonna do a deal, and we're putting it down as part of our tax cuts.
That's not really true that this is a tax cut for the wealthy as they're portraying it.
What is your answer to that?
Well, you know, you have some really well-run states that have very little borrowing, some have no borrowing, but they have very little borrowing.
And it's unfair that a state that is well run is really subsidizing states that have been horribly mismanaged.
I won't use names, but we understand the names.
But there are some states that have hundreds of millions and billions of dollars in borrowing, and it's unfair that those states really are being subsidized by states like Indiana and Iowa, and I mean I could name many states.
I could probably name three quarters of them.
They're so well run, and they're being penalized.
They're being penalized, and it's not fair.
And so what we're doing is we're showing that.
Now, with all of that, the tax cuts are so steep that the people in every state benefit.
But it's finally time to say, hey, make sure that your politicians do a good job of running your state.
Otherwise, you're not gonna benefit.
You know, you look at a place like Florida, it's really well run by Scott.
And you know, by Governor Scott, he's done a great job.
And so many people have done a great job.
The the people that had the intelligence to elect them should really benefit, and that's what we're doing.
We're creating an incentive.
And the dot the bottom line though, look, the tax cut is massive.
We're bringing it down to 20 percent.
We're bringing it down to uh twelve percent for individuals.
Uh we're bringing it down to zero in some cases.
It's the biggest tax cut in the history of our country, and it's gonna spur growth, and it's gonna keep our companies here.
Our companies are leaving because the taxes are so high.
All right, 23 now till the top of the hour on this Friday, toll-free on numbers 800 941.
Sean, you want to be a part of the program, and that was the president with me two days ago in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, explaining what his tax plan is all about.
Now, in the House, the person that is gonna be most responsible for getting this out is it's a change in tax law is the chairman of the ever so powerful House Ways and Means Committee.
The chairman of that committee, Kevin Brady joins us now.
And uh, sir, welcome to the program.
How are you?
Well, Sean, I'm doing great.
So I heard that uh boy, the crowd in that hangar in Pennsylvania love that interview.
Well, yeah, you can hear it.
Um, and you know what?
I love the tax plan.
Yeah.
Um I have a friend, I'm sure you've read his book, Larry Cudlow, and he's he chronicles the success of the Kennedy tax cuts and the Reagan tax cuts.
And you know, I could tell you Reagan went from seventy to twenty-eight percent in the top marginal rate, twenty-one million new jobs created, and and we doubled revenues to the government, and there's still a mentality and a mindset that you gotta tax people or else you're not gonna have any money.
But if you grow the economy, it's a far better option and all those people on food stamps and out of work and uh on the unemployment lines and in poverty would have an opportunity.
We want growth in jobs, we want growth in paychecks.
We want the growth of the United States.
We want to leave Frog America from we're nearly dead last among our global competitors into that top lead pack and keep us there.
That is that will, as the president predicted, that'll that'll bring those jobs, those research facilities, the manufacturing plants back to America.
And and all of that, you know, is incredibly important unless this country wants to settle this mess of the tax code in this slow growth economy where no one can really get ahead.
That's the thing.
And this election was about the forgotten men and the forgotten women.
You know, look at the numbers today.
I mean, you've got some of the the highlights, the sentiment in the country cons consumer confidence now is at a thirteen year high.
You know, you I I brought this up with the president, the the growth in terms of a million plus jobs already created.
Uh he's been able to eliminate a lot of the burdensome regulation.
I don't see the problem being in the House as I was talking with Freedom Caucus members just before you got on.
They don't see a problem in the House, but we see another big problem emerging in the Senate.
I mean, Ted Truth.
Look, um, no budget, no tax code, uh, no tax reform.
It's very clear.
And so the Senate takes this up uh next week and we're hopeful they finish it out because again, if they futz around, delay it, come up on some excuses, um, we're not gonna get tax reform done.
And we're on a timetable to get this the president's desk by the end of the year if we can get this budget in place.
Well, it really has to happen, and I'll ask Newt Gingrich about it in the next half hour, because if you want the economic growth that will jump start uh if look, if the American people start going back to work, people start getting out of poverty.
We do have a seven-year low now in terms of the labor participation rate.
It was literally the highest, the lowest that it had been in years, and now it's the highest in terms of participation, which is a good thing in seven years.
And similarly, we that we have a seven year low of people on food stamps, so there's certainly movement in the economy.
There really is, and and you'll hear from the skeptics.
They'll say, look, we're at full employment.
There really is nothing we can do to get out of this sub-two percent growth.
But the president's already showed in his first nine months, there's a lot you can do.
And just rebalancing regulations, trying to get Obamacare off people's backs, and now on tax reform, look, we can jump to start this economy in a big way.
We don't have to settle for stagnant paychecks.
And Sean, we talked about this the first time we visited, which is can you imagine a tax code so fair and simple?
Nine out of ten people will be able to file using a simple postcard style system.
That fair, that flat.
That that's the boldness we're going for here.
A couple of questions that I asked the president that I want to ask you is the top rate is what, 39 percent, that would go to 35 percent.
But you're gonna lose, for example, the alternative minimum taxes done away with, but also state and local tax income tax deductions go away.
Now, I live in New York in New York, so that means you know, I pay a a top rate of nearly ten percent in terms of state income tax.
In California, it's thirteen and a half percent.
They have a high rate in a state like New Jersey and in Illinois.
So probably if I'm doing the math right, my rate may be lower, but I'm gonna end up paying more because I can't deduct those things.
So I I think at the end of the day, you will have less of a tax burden than you do today.
In fact, our goal is to help people keep more of what they earn no matter where they live.
High tax state or low tax state.
And what that means is look, to get to the postcard style system, we're jettising a lot of those special provisions for some and lowering the rates for everybody.
And we're working with, I'm working with, So is the House uh leadership, uh working with our lawmakers and high tax states, they just want to make sure their families are better off.
And I'm and I'm confident we will uh make them better off.
Because look at the end of the day, you know, I I don't know how in New York and California, Illinois, well, those governors and mayors have been soaking really putting the screws to people for way too long, and they're being hurt.
So I think we need to provide tax relief to every American, regardless of where you live.
Let me focus on the middle class part of this tax cut, which I agree on the corporate tax cut.
I agree on on changing rates as the president corrected me the other night, it really is eight to four, not seven to three, because you have people that don't pay.
Okay, so but it's it's within his campaign promise.
And when you talk about the middle class, which is the overwhelming majority, and and Rand Paul was adamant about this yesterday, that the r he doesn't want that rate to be at twenty-five percent for people that are making say between seventy-five thousand and three hundred thousand dollars.
In other words, the middle class, upper middle class in this country, will they get a cut, a net cut in this?
Answer is absolute yes.
In fact, uh that is our top priority on the individual side, besides that simple postcard system, that middle class uh tax cut, and uh I know some of the some of the analysis that's been floating around.
In fact, I'm I'm Rand uses one of them from this very ultra-liberal tax group that hated Trump's plan, that hated Senator Paul's and Senator Cruz's plan uh to try to make the claim we're not providing middle class tax cut.
But I know the way we're setting the income uh limits, those brackets, increasing the child tax credit and doubling that standard deduction, the middle class, I think, uh will be the most pleased uh when they see this tax reform plan.
So the majority of those cuts, and then you'll still have you know the bottom forty or fifty percent of Americans at best pay two percent of the federal income tax bill.
They will they'll still have a majority of people or a near majority that paid nothing at all in federal income taxes, correct?
You know, that the answer is yes, because that's one of our challenges over the years is that uh that fewer and fewer Americans are paying uh those income tax at least, and more and more Americans are carrying fewer Americans are carrying the ball.
And so that's why when people say, Look, let's let's try to raise taxes on the successful, our answer is let's not.
Uh why punish people for being successful people built up a family-owned farm or a business or just worked hard, maybe two jobs, why are we punishing them?
Why don't we let everybody keep more of what they earn?
All right, we'll take a break, we'll come back, and Kevin Brady is the chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee.
We'll talk about the Senate and whether this bill is going to get through the Senate when we get back.
All right, as we continue Sean Hannity show, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Kevin Brady is with us.
Congressman, I want to ask, is a Washington Post piece out today, Finance 202, McCain could give the same thumbs down to a tax overhaul as he did to health care.
Uh Ted Cruz is quoted as saying this might not happen till next year.
And I'm just telling you somebody is an outsider, everybody's saying to me, why can't they get their job done in the Senate?
How hard is it, Sean, for us to, as Republicans in the House and the Senate and with the President, unite behind him on tax reform, and I'd add two on health care reform as well.
But here we are.
We need a budget out of the House and Senate, the House that delivered.
Uh we need tax reform out of the House and Senate, and as soon as the budget's done, Sean, like within twenty-four hours, I expect to bring forward uh the full comprehensive tax reform plan.
So we're determined to get this the president before the end of the year, and the budget I think is going to be the pivotal part of it.
It needs to be done this month.
Well, you're ha obviously in negotiations, you've talked to Mitch McConnell.
Have you talked to John McCain?
Have you talked to Susan Collins?
Have you talked to Lisa Murkowski?
Have you talked to all these other Republicans?
Rand Paul, uh, I know his one big issue has to be that it's got to be a middle class tax cut.
You said that's handled.
So you know, who do you look at that might be a problem?
Yes, so I've not talked to to why I I do talk to a number of the senators.
I've not talked to Senator McCain or Collins on the budget.
Uh I know that uh a number of the tax pro tax reform centers are talking those centers, and I'm in look, um uh I know Senator McCain has voted for the budget.
I think every year since he's been The Republican budget since he's been in the Senate.
So here, with the one in thirty years that will allow us to do pro-growth tax reform, I can't imagine why you wouldn't, especially this is probably the most important uh budget vote, and I voted on for the balanced, and this was even more important because of this Reagan-style reform.
Yeah, I mean, and you think of the success of Kennedy and Reagan, you'd think it would be a no-brainer.
Um, if they're not going to get it done in the Senate, I mean, why are we even bothering at this point?
Look, people around the country may have been divided about Obamacare.
I I'm not, it's failing in Texas.
But no one can defend this current tax code and how it costs families and young people in America's falling behind.
And I'm hopeful, whether you're a uh senator or a House member, you're getting an earful back home that people want you to deliver on our promises.
And so, you know, I'm I'm more optimistic here, and I think to the president has played a key role.
You know, sitting down, working on a unified tax reform plan with the House and Senate.
Um, that wasn't done even till very late in the Reagan uh process.
That took about two and a half years.
We're trying to be we're very ambitious and aggressive.
We want to get this done by the end of the year.
So pulling together on that key framework, I think that makes it gonna make a big difference going forward.
All right, Congressman, keep us in the loop.
We appreciate it from my mindset, it needs to be done by Thanksgiving, Christmas the latest, and to me it's it's we want to get the real economic growth the President wants the country needs that's gonna have to get done.
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We'll get to your calls.
Also, Newt Gingrich will weigh in and much more straight ahead.
This radical regime has raided the wealth of one of the world's oldest and most vibrant nations and spread death, destruction, and chaos all around the globe.
Beginning in 1979, agents of the Iranian regime illegally seize the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
The nuclear deal threw Iran's dictatorship a political and economic lifeline, providing urgently needed relief from the intense domestic pressure the sanctions had created.
It also gave the regime an immediate financial boost.
And over 100 billion dollars its government could use to fund terrorism.
The regime also received a massive cash settlement of 1.7 billion dollars from the United States, a large portion of which was physically loaded onto an airplane and flown into Iran.
Just imagine the sight of those huge piles of money being hauled off by the Iranians, waiting at the airport for the cash.
I wonder where all that money went.
Worst of all, the deal allows Iran to continue developing certain elements of its nuclear program, and importantly, in just a few years, as key restrictions disappear, Iran can sprint towards a rapid nuclear weapons breakout.
In other words, we got weak inspections in exchange for no more than a purely short-term and temporary delay in Iran's path to nuclear weapons.
What is the purpose of a deal that at best only delays Iran's nuclear capability for a short period of time?
This, as President of the United States, is unacceptable.
The flaws in the deal also include insufficient enforcement and near total silence on Iran's missile programs.
Congress has already begun the work to address these problems.
Key House and Senate leaders are drafting legislation that would amend the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act to strengthen enforcement, prevent Iran from developing an Internet uh this is so totally important.
An intercontinental ballistic missile and make all restrictions on Iran's nuclear activity permanent under U.S. law.
So important.
I support these initiatives.
However, in the event we are not able to reach a solution working with Congress and our allies, then the agreement will be terminated.
It is under continuous review, and our participation can be canceled by me as president at any time.
That was the President making his big announcement on Iran today and the Iranian deal, and he is now pulled back on this and offering a new strategy, core new elements that will focus on neutralizing Iran's destabilizing influence in the entire region and the world and constraining their aggression, particularly their support of terrorism and proxy wars and militants.
And anyway, Newt Gingrich is here to respond to this, Mr. Speaker.
I thought it was one of his best speeches today on foreign policy, and it was firm and it was tough and it was realistic and well thought out.
I you know they they have worked together as a team, and this is one of those things the elite media doesn't want to cover.
But you you had uh all the major elements of the cabinet.
I mean, Tillerson, uh Mattis, uh McMaster, Kelly, uh Manuchin at Sen uh at Treasury, everybody was working together to develop this strategy.
Uh they spent weeks on it.
They consulted carefully with key people in the Senate and the House.
Uh and the result is that they are, I think, announcing a very bold, very dramatic shift, but it's very nuanced.
They didn't pull out of the deal at this point.
They set the stage to either get a lot of stuff fixed or in the future pull out of the deal.
They uh got Treasury for the very first time engaged in uh taking on the revolutionary guard and cutting off their financial capabilities, uh, which is a big step towards making this a government-wide operation.
Uh they announced clearly their determination to to stop the Iranian effort to create uh all the way from Tehran to to Lebanon and the Mediterranean, an Iranian-dominated world.
And I think our allies in the region will be pleased to uh the Saudis and all the fifty-five countries who came to meet with uh the with the President in Riyadh, I think they will all be pleased by the speech and feel that it really sets the tone for taking on the Iranians.
Well, I agree with you wholeheartedly, and I think the crackdown on the revolutionary guard is clear.
Uh Netanyahu has congratulated the President.
So clearly there's there's just the beginning of support from those in the region.
There's been this emerging alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia, the Egyptians, and the Jordanians.
Um I had the opportunity when he was in town for the United Nations to sit down with the President of Egypt, El Sisi, and and get into this in detail.
He clearly seems to be one of the few that really understands the danger of radical Islam and has very courageously taken it on.
Well, of course, he gave a speech last year to the most prestigious university in the Muslim world, and he said to all these gathered professors, look, you are the people who have to fix this.
You have allowed us to scare the world, and we cannot continue to go down this road.
He was very tough, very direct.
And I thought uh made a lot of sense.
And I but he has shown enormous change.
Uh and as you know, in my new novel Vengeance, we have Mossad and the Saudis both working with the United States to try to stop terrorists who've gotten nuclear material from North Korea.
And I think that represents the future.
I think you're going to see all of these other countries coming together.
The the big divide is no longer Israel versus the Arabs.
The big divide is Israel and the Arabs versus Iran and versus the terrorists.
And uh that is an enormous change in the world.
And I thought Trump today did a superb job of laying it out in a calm, clear, I thought very well delivered speech.
Uh, and I thought his outline of the history of that period was very good.
I I'd actually written a paper a couple of weeks ago that circulated at the White House uh talking about death uh to America, which is what they were chanting uh in the uh Parliament in Iran when they were uh passing their military budget.
Uh and uh I'm gonna publish uh a new version of it tomorrow because uh you know the president did exactly what I thought he should do.
and I want to praise him and I want to praise the entire team because they all work together to make this possible.
President's had a pretty amazing week when you think of his executive order on health care and how it would allow, for example, it's legal now for corporations that have different offices in different states, they're not beholden to state law, they're not beholden to the mandates of the ACA or Obamacare,
and now he has expanded it and allowing any group of people, cooperative, whatever, uh or P or trade organization to do the exact same thing, which means that they then can have more purchasing power as a group, that they'd have more options because they could buy across state lines, they could add health care cooperatives as as a part of the solution, and catastrophic care, which is illegal under Obamacare, is now legal in this instance.
I mean, that's a big week.
Then of course you have him taking on the Iranians.
The only thing that and and again, the president has laid forth his economic plan this week, and the only variable here is he's done everything he can do on his own.
Will the Senate now pass this tax plan?
Well, and let me, you know let me also remind everyone that you had this week, you had uh Secretary Mattis, who's a retired Marine Four-star general of of uh absolutely impeccable ethics and honesty, who said that the reports in the press about President Obama being irresponsible about nuclear weapons were totally false.
Then you had General Kelly, a four-star Marine uh of impeccable credentials, come in as chief of staff and say, you know, you guys get things so wrong that I'm embarrassed for you, and I I kind of recommend you get better sources, uh, and and talking to the White House press corps.
I mean, what better evidence could you have that this is not a Trump problem, this is a news media problem than to have two guys of this caliber.
Uh and then last week you had you had Rex Tillerson say, you know, where I came from, we didn't cover junk, and I can't believe you guys are spending your time covering this kind of junk talking directly to the Washington Press Corps again.
Uh I I thought in that sense that beginning to communicate here is a team, they're working as a team.
They've produced a bold new strategy for Iran, which is a big deal.
Uh, they are methodically working on health system in ways that are very powerful.
And by the way, they're being very constitutional.
I mean, the decision they announced about requiring Congress to appropriate the money uh to subsidize low-income health care recipients.
That's a constitutional decision.
I mean, and and people say, Oh, do you this is really bad.
Well, yeah, it actually requires the Congress to do it.
But that's what the Constitution requires.
And I thought the president was exactly right in what he did.
And I think it will give real impetus to uh Senator Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray and the bipartisan effort they've already started.
But he but he again and again, he's coming back ironically for liberals who worry about him.
I did a the monk debate in Toronto last night with three thousand Canadians and uh my two liberal opponents.
How'd that go?
I meant to ask you.
Yeah, oh, it was great fine.
It was on C-SPAN, it's it's it's it was streamed uh and it also uh was on Canadian Broadcasting Live.
And uh great debate.
And my and my our two liberal opponents were we're talking about how Trump's gonna be an autocrat, and we kept saying, wait a second.
Trump is the guy who said he couldn't solve the problem of the dreamers under the Constitution, the Congress had to do its job.
He's the guy who's saying he can't build the wall unless Congress gives him the money.
He's not going out by executive order.
Obama would have written an executive order.
So Trump's actually obeying the Constitution and is actually circumscribing the presidency.
He's a very strong president, but he's very strong within the Constitution.
And I think that's just a remarkable thing that people can consistently in the elite media refuse to cover.
All right, stay right there.
We'll take a break.
We'll come back with New Kingrich.
By the way, his brand new book is in bookstores just out this week.
Uh it's destined, I'm sure, to be another big best seller, and it's called Vengeance.
And uh Newtz has a travel schedule.
If you want to find out where you can go see him, and he's signing books and giving speeches, it's in Hannity.com uh 800-941 Sean is our toll-free number.
We'll get to your calls on this Friday.
We'll get to your calls on this Friday.
All right as we continue with former Speaker of the House New King, which his new novel is out.
It's called Vengeance, was speaking last night at the University of Toronto.
Who are you debating with last night?
And it was two or three.
It's an auditorium, and it is they sell tickets and they sold them out in one hour for three thousand people.
Uh great audience.
And uh it's called the Monk Debates, M U N K after Peter Monk, who funded it and organized it.
I think this is the 14th or 15th year.
Uh I was very lucky on my side.
I had uh Kim Strassel, who uh writes for the uh Wall Street Journal is just a remarkably bright woman and did a great job.
Uh The other side you'll love uh Andrew Sullivan and E.J. Dion.
Um and if you ever get a chance, watch it with the sound off and watch these two guys melt down.
They get so frenzied uh and so frantic.
Uh at one point the moderator had to step in and say, No, let's everybody calm down.
Uh and they were just th they were so deeply vehemently viciously anti-Trump that I was actually a little surprised.
Um, not that uh I mean it was emotional, it was in their gut.
They would they were jumping up and down.
Uh they were so excited.
Um, you know, and I kept getting calmer the more they would get excited.
So it was it was kind of fun actually.
Wow.
I know the crowd was probably predisposed against you, correct?
Well, they were pretty much uh they're they were about two to one against me, but that was better.
Last year, Laura Ingram and I went up there, and the question was Trump or Hillary in Canada and Canada before the election.
Well, we started the night last year at eighty-six to fourteen.
Wow.
We got and we moved it up to eighty twenty, and everybody at the reception afterwards said to me, What a great victory.
That's so amazing that you did that.
Uh so last night we also gained ground.
Uh we didn't we we weren't as bad off.
We started at something like sixty-seven thirty-three.
Uh and we and we brought 'em down a good distance.
Uh but it but but you're right.
I mean, look, although I did say to the crowd one point, I said, Look, you know, you are a much better crowd than than folks would be in bur at Berkeley.
Um that was sort of You actually could get a word and a sentence out, so that makes it a better crowd by its very nature.
No, but it but it it's a great debate.
Uh they do it every year, they do one a year, and uh I've done it three times, and I I'm impressed with people really w we don't have anything quite like it in the US.
People want to come and hear both sides.
They love the debate format.
You see, I've always been confident.
And if you take a comedian out of the equation, because comedians are difficult to debate because they can flip on a dime and all of a sudden, you know, you you've literally made the best point you could possibly make against any argument they have, and then they just start telling jokes and everyone forgets the great point you made.
But you know, if it's a head-on debate and knowing Andrew Sullivan and EJD Yon, uh this was like, you know, taking candy from a baby.
Why do I suspect that you probably won the crowd over because they couldn't respond?
They they're just a lot of what they are arguing against Trump is emotional.
Well, I feel it would be a great case study for somebody who wanted to look at uh at debate styles and the you know because Sullivan, you know, is a very smart guy and was the head of the Oxford Union.
No, which is probably the greatest debating.
I mean, I mean, he's a very, very good debater, but his emotions both of them, I was always surprised.
Both of them, their emotions got to them so deeply.
I mean, don't take my word for it.
Anybody who's listening to us, you can go online and find it at C-Span, or you can find it at Monk Debates, I think dot com.
And just watch it.
And that's what surprised me.
I mean, all right, Mr. Speaker.
If you want to find out uh about the speaker's new book, Vengeance, it's on Hannity.com.
He's gonna be going around the country and giving speeches.
And then by the way, remember they should also look for Ellis the Elephant.
Yes and uh remember the ladies, Callista's latest book, which she's not allowed to talk about because she's now becoming an ambassador.
She's becoming and you're gonna be the Mr. Ambassador.
I wonder what I want to know what the rules are for that.
Uh good luck to you.
We'll do a show on it sometime.
All right, thank you, sir.
It's good to talk to you.
When we come back on this Friday, wide open telephones 800-941 Sean.
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Sean Hannity is back on the radio.
Uh I have been coughing up a lung today, but I don't think the audience knows it so much because I keep using the cough button.
So I'm trying to prevent the audience from hearing uh.
Well, I don't know.
I mean, I actually I think when you cough, your singing voice is better.
So maybe you should keep that up.
Yeah, you want me to just keep it you want me to just keep the cough going on.
Set that long all over the music.
It's beautiful.
You know what's weird.
I just woke up in the middle of la of the night last night, just could not stop coughing for twenty minutes.
And it was painful.
I was coughing so much, couldn't stop.
That's a nightmare.
well, it's you know, you don't want to know the color of it either.
That means you need, you know, some some type of medicine of some kind, which is on order.
If only we had a great health care plan that our president would try to help us with.
If only I had Dr. Josh Umper to call and I could just run down and say, okay, I need a Z pack, can I have a Z pack, please?
You better get on that radio union real quick.
You know, I it's you know how many people wrote me and said, Oh, that's a great idea.
I'm like, all right, why do I have to do?
Why did I open my big fat mouth and say, Oh, I'm gonna do that.
Well, that's what you do for a living.
It's not that shocking.
I uh but it think about it.
Now what President Trump did this week would allow every single person in every single state in radio to form their own association, healthcare group, and we'd have the buying power of however many thousands work in radio.
And I'm talking about everybody from sales receptionists, engineering that work on the shows, air talent or alleged air talent, and everybody can get on the same health care, or you get options, and you can buy across state lines, and younger people can get catastrophic care.
And all of that could be done, and it could be done with any association group.
It could be done with restaurant workers, it could be done with construction workers, it could be done with anybody.
It'd be great.
By the way, I felt like Hillary when I was coughing earlier today, and when she's having her coughing fits, uh that wouldn't be good in this business, would it?
I don't think that anybody beats Hillary in those coughing fits, and I really think it's odd that all of a sudden miraculously she's not coughing anymore.
We have 63 days to go.
Well, thank you.
Whoa.
You're spreading conspiracy theories like MBC.
Just like, you know, she has a book titled What Happened, and this is a woman who s sat up and testified that she couldn't remember because she was having brain issues and aneurysms, and she couldn't testify or tell anybody why she made decisions she made, and then she wrote a book called What Happened.
Well, how do you know?
You can't remember.
Okay.
There you go.
It was revealed this week that Congress has a delivery service, a government pharmacy will literally bring their medicines to their door.
Which I could use myself, but we don't have those benefits for ourselves.
But the weird thing about that article, and what's very scary, is that it's all about Alzheimer's medications.
So now you've got somebody bringing Alzheimer's medication.
Yeah, to people in Congress that are voting on bills.
Maybe they f well, maybe they forgot what the bill was, and maybe if they maybe that's the reason they they don't fulfill their promises, they forgot them.
Well, they forgot that they didn't vote.
That's why nothing's getting passed in the Senate.
Yeah.
All right, let's get to our phones.
Kurt is in Illinois.
Kurt, hi, how are you?
And we're glad you called, sir.
Happy Friday.
Oh, good morning and actually afternoon.
Thank you for taking the call.
Yes, sir.
Question for you.
Um, where's Gloria right now?
She lined up all those guys against all those women against Trump.
Where is she in this?
How come she's been I think you're referring to her daughter, you mean Gloria Allred and Lisa Bloom.
Probably because her daughter's involved was involved in the issue.
But she did this was pretty interesting.
She had said before Lisa Bloom quit working for Weinstein.
Apparently she's been working with him for a year to try and teach him how to be uh a normal human being.
I mean, because that's what you're talking about here.
It's you know, what he what we're describing here is just an abusive overall bully personality that has no respect for other people.
That's what you're describing.
Narcissism on a on a maximum scale.
And you know, I read the report yesterday that, oh, they have c sex contracts out in Hollywood.
Did you read that?
Well, we're gonna have sex, but you can't sue me after we have sex.
I'm like, wow.
This is such a world full of love, isn't it?
You know, you go from from prenups to to postnups to this nup to you know that they're people putting in their pre-nuptial agreements how many times they've got to have sex a week as a means of contractual obligations for marriage.
And I'm like, all right, what am I missing here?
Well, you know, what's happened to this institution that, you know, we're all grew up thinking, oh, we're gonna have a nice picket fence and a dog and uh and three kids And and a nice car, and we're gonna go to Disney once every three years.
And it seems that that illusion is being blown up.
But you know, we got we got real talk of rape.
We got real talk.
This this whole issue of the casting couch is real and the abuse of these women is real, and everybody knew it.
And the media covered it up, and the Hollywood people, including stars, covered it up.
And they joked it was an open joke, but it's not a joke if you're the victim of this.
800-941 Sean is our number.
We got Kathy is in Westchester in New York.
Kathy, hi, how are you?
Glad you called on this Friday.
Doing well.
Um, I've been listening to this whole NFL issue.
Should they say that they're gonna stand, are they gonna kneel?
But my point is who gets to decide what's w what to protest?
So today Colin Kaepernick makes this up.
I mean, tomorrow, what's the protest de jour?
Do they have the players vote?
I mean, at what point do we stop this protesting?
I mean, is is is the game going to be just a constant stream of the state.
But there's never been a defined reason for the protest, except just generalized discrimination or the the condition of of black America.
Um I've never heard in the case of Kaepernick.
I mean, this is a guy that's been all over the map in terms of what he's doing and why he's doing it.
And then he absolutely, but I'm not minimizing the cause or saying that we don't have issues.
But what about the players in the league that don't uh that don't want to protest that issue, and maybe they have another issue they want to protest.
So it's interesting that but the league won't let you put uh an emblem on your helmet to honor police officers that were assassinated in the line of duty.
They won't let you put on your cleats, remember never again 91101.
Right.
It doesn't make sense.
It's this it's to me, it's like raising children.
You can't get you can't let your children dictate what's gonna happen.
You can't let your children get away with a temper tantrum because at the end of the day, you're gonna end up in trouble.
So here we are, instead of nipping it in the butt and saying this is not the forum, this is a form of entertainment, they've now let it go like a rolling train, and now how do you stop this?
Well, uh well, I think it's interesting to listen to these players.
They're not gonna listen to the league, they're not gonna listen to Roger Goodell.
And now the question is, is the league going to allow them to destroy the organization?
Individuals will have the but look, I I just think a lot of people like me, they're fed up.
I'm not I'm not gonna I'm not it's Friday.
I normally would say, okay, who's playing this weekend?
I don't know who's playing.
I do know the Jets are playing the Patriots.
That I know.
And uh I know the Giants are 0-5, so it doesn't matter.
And I just I'm not interested.
And I've been watching a lot more college football than I've ever watched in my life.
Um, which by the way, in the South, I mean, it's college football is like religion day.
It's you know, you go to church on Sunday, you go to a football game on Saturday, and you go to high school football on Friday night.
So it's a it's a big deal, and I think there's something to be said about these kids that are student athletes, and it's like they've got a full-time job, then they're working on their education, a lot of discipline in their lives, and their the level of talent is off the charts.
It is off the charts fantastic.
And then you see, you know, you see the difference, the subtle differences between those in college and not at the pro level, and then you're trying to guess which ones will break through into the pros.
Um, and it's not many.
But that's what that's where I find my heart right now.
I'm I'm a big fan right now, just watching college football.
800-941 Sean, you want to be a part of the program.
All right, back to our phones.
We've got, let's say Drew is in San Antonio, W O A I. What's up, Drew?
How are you?
I'm doing well, Sean.
Hey, let me tell you something great to talking to you.
Great to talk to you, a longtime fan.
I want to tell you, I'm in rural Texas.
I am the pulse beat of the Hill Country in Texas, and what you are doing and what this president's doing, y'all are loved out here.
Regardless of what's said in the in the big cities and all that stuff.
Let me tell you something rural America is alive.
It's well and they're prospering, and we thank that to this president and you for supporting him.
You wouldn't believe what is going on out here, and the young entrepreneurs that have hope for the first time in many, many years.
You know, I get I get attacked a lot.
Donald Trump, if you look at his agenda and you compare it to, say, Reagan on his tax plan on his position on peace through strength, him standing up to evil in our time, uh, his position on immigration, his position uh any on limiting regulations and burdensome regulations.
It's it's all Reagan-esque.
And what most people can't get over is that he won't become, he won't stylistically be who they want him to be.
And unless and until he capitulates, he will always be looked down on by the quote, elite classes in the media, the punditry class, the never Trumper class.
Um, I have nothing but contempt for these people at this point.
I I think they're a bunch of phonies.
I think there has been a cabal of establishment insider, you know, back slapping that has gone on that while I always knew existed, I didn't know the level to which it exists.
And now it's all being exposed.
And the American people should be at the forefront of all these discussions, the forgotten men and women.
So we help them get out of poverty, off of food stamps, back to work, and prospering.
And I get the distinct impression that many of these people that say they're Republicans say that they are, you know, the never Trumper because they're so arrogantly elitist in their mindset, and they think they're so superior.
They would rather no progress at all for the country, as long as they could be proven right.
Oh, Donald Trump was not the right guy.
Sad.
You know, they they care about nobody but themselves.
They're doing fine, by the way, as so many others in this country are suffering.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
We have a great Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern, an important monologue.
This is the tip of the iceberg as it relates to Hollywood, the media, the Democrats, hypocrisy.
We have full coverage of that.
Sebastian Gorka, Joe Concha will join us also from the religious side of things.
We'll check in with Robert Jeffers and Jerry Falwell Jr.
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