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	So much to get to today.
	One year ago today was Election Day 2016.
	We're going to take a trip down memory lane.
	The president's historic speech, 30 miles from the demilitarized zone, the DMZ, in South Korea.
	Nobody in the media will give this president the credit that he had.
	An amazing speech.
	We've got highlights.
	We'll examine it.
	Dr. Sebastian Gorka will join us.
	We have amazing and breathtaking developments as it relates to the dossier and uranium one and the fixes in with Clinton and Comey information.
	You don't want to miss.
	We will talk to the chairman of the House Budget Committee, Congresswoman Diane Black, today.
	It appears Republicans have abandoned any sense of Reagan supply-side conservative economics for fear that they are going to be labeled tax, that they'll be accused of supporting the rich people.
	Well, the top 20% pay nearly all the federal income taxes.
	So if you don't give them a tax cut, you can give people tax credits, but that's full, complete, pretty much redistribution, which kind of this bill does.
	It's great on the corporate side, corporate taxes, repatriation, the president's deregulation.
	He's doing all of this on his own, opening up energy opportunities for everybody.
	There's millions of high-paying energy jobs as we move towards energy independence, all of the above strategy.
	So we'll get to all of that in the course of the program.
	Before we get started, I want to take you back a year ago.
	One year ago today.
	One year ago today, In about two hours from now, the news media in this country got a document.
	Now, it's really funny because I know this is a fact.
	The document said it was the exit polls from one year ago.
	And it basically said Trump got trounced in the 16 election.
	Matter of fact, his former president, friend of mine, Bill Schein, he actually saved it.
	And when he saw Donald Trump the next time, he showed it to him.
	These were the exit polls that night.
	And Trump wrote him, I won't say it was on the wrote on those papers a note to Bill.
	And he has it.
	Part of history, right?
	Pretty cool, smart idea on Bill's part.
	But those exit polls come in about two hours from now, one full year, one year ago today, and everybody in the media is having an orgasm collectively.
	This is manna from heaven for them.
	Donald Trump lost the election, and he lost big.
	It had him losing in Florida.
	It had him losing in Ohio.
	It had him losing in North Carolina, in Pennsylvania, and Michigan, and Wisconsin, North Carolina.
	He lost everything.
	It was going to be just a few state, southern state wins for Trump.
	Otherwise, it was going to be a Hillary Clinton was going to be the next president of the United States.
	That's what they believed.
	And anyway, I made a phone call.
	The president, then candidate at the time, had a cell phone, and I was lucky he actually picked up.
	It was around 5:15.
	I took my first break, about 5:20 it had to be.
	And I said, in a few minutes, somebody's going to come in at Trump Tower and tell you you lost the election based on the exit polling data.
	And I said, don't listen to them.
	It's a true story.
	And then I told him the story about 2004 when George Bush was running for his second term.
	And the exit polls came out 5.15, Election Day 2004, and it showed that George W. Bush had lost.
	John Kerry was going to be the next president.
	And at 5:35, just as I was getting back from a break, the vice president of the United States at the time, Dick Cheney, called this radio program, imploring people to still go out and vote.
	There's plenty of time to vote.
	Now, last year, one year ago, at about 5:46 or 7, I remember, Donald Trump Jr. called in.
	And they were looking at numbers, particularly in Florida.
	For some reason, turnout in Southwest Florida and the panhandle, normally conservative areas of Florida, weren't coming in.
	Anyway, I do what I always do on election days.
	The way it is, is basically Fox has the opinion program, they have their news programming, and they always invite me.
	But, you know, I've been there, done that years prior.
	And basically, I sit in a green room that's filled with a lot of people.
	I'm annoyed because I like to be alone, and I like to have my three computers in front of me, and I like to be watching TVs, multiple, and I hook them up, especially just for this night.
	And I study, and I become a wonk, and I become a geek.
	And I start, and I already have in front of me the years 2012 and the times and what the percentages were in 2008 and 2004 and 2000.
	So I do my own studying and my own predicting of states.
	It wasn't long into the night when I began to realize as the polls began to close and as the election results started coming in.
	And you look at, I'll give you some examples: Key Counties, Hamilton County, Cuyahoga County, and Ohio, or Broward County, and Palm Beach County in Florida and Southwest Florida in the Panhandle.
	It wasn't long into the night.
	And then I started comparing the numbers in North Carolina based on what Mitt Romney had done in 2012.
	I began to see very early as the numbers were coming in.
	And remember, we got to a point where Florida, they got stuck at like 97% of the vote in for a long time that night.
	I said, they're stealing it.
	There's no reason for those numbers because we're looking right down in the southeastern part of Florida.
	And I'm thinking, here we go.
	How many votes do you need?
	One of those situations.
	You don't think it can happen?
	Hillary rigged the primary.
	That's my only answer.
	And I was watching on that night.
	Everybody was giddy at the start of the night on every channel, giddy with happiness because they see the they can't tell you what they know completely because that's not the way you're not allowed to.
	You're only allowed to report certain things at the exit polls or show, but they wouldn't give.
	Oh, by the way, the DOJ is demanding CNN sell.
	That's interesting.
	That's very interesting, actually.
	Anyway, that's on the Drudge Report.
	So anyway, the night starts unfolding, and I keep at every election, for whatever reason, I would always send my data to Bill Schein.
	He actually has years of elections emails for me where I would call the election way before anybody else.
	And that was the same this year.
	Anyway, at one point, he calls me on the phone and says, get to that studio near your house that we paid for.
	And I'm like, I'm not going to the studio near my house.
	I said, I've had a few beers.
	Number one, I can't drive.
	Number two, I'm in my sweatpants, a t-shirt.
	I have my baseball hat on backwards.
	And for me to get ready and change, by the time I get there, it's forever.
	I told you you needed to be in this night.
	True story.
	I said, I don't come in election night because they don't use me and it wastes my time.
	And I'm annoyed.
	I can't do what I like to do.
	Anyway, he says, call up this number now.
	And that was the control room.
	I'm going to play a little bit of that call.
	I think I was the only one showing a little bit of joy that night.
	And then I'm going to play for you the media throughout the night.
	This is worth it.
	And then tonight on TV, we're going to do something amazing.
	I can't even tell you.
	And we have Steve Bannon is on the program tonight.
	You're going to want to watch tonight's show.
	Okay?
	That's all I'm going to say.
	You see, I give my ideas away.
	People steal them constantly.
	Nobody has a brain in their brain cell of originality in their own head.
	Anyway, this is me calling into Fox as the night turned towards Donald Trump one year ago today.
	To me, this was predictable, but on the other hand, this is a modern day political miracle you're witnessing before your eyes right now.
	And that is to go up against everybody and all the pundits and all the pollsters and all the prognosticators out there and defy all the odds.
	And it's the American people that have said enough is enough.
	They're tired of the corruption, the cesspool, draining the swamp.
	All of these things were resonating.
	You know, when you look at a state like Wisconsin, what are they saying?
	They want their jobs back.
	They want the labor participation rate to be lower.
	In other words, more people having jobs.
	They want America to be energy independent.
	They're tired of a horrible educational system.
	They're tired of Obamacare rates going through the roof.
	This is not complicated.
	What's happening now is not working.
	And these guys, and Donald Trump has gone out there and he outworked Hillary Clinton and he put forward a much better agenda.
	And America said enough is enough with sales policies.
	That's what this election was about.
	Fundamentally, you know, what drives elections?
	Peace and prosperity.
	America's not prosperous.
	America's not working.
	Hillary lied about her emails, lied about Benghazi.
	She's corrupt.
	She's so dishonest.
	Look at the exit polls tonight.
	And at the end of the day, you know, is Donald Trump like every other person?
	Are we all flawed?
	Have we all sinned and fallen short?
	Yeah.
	And maybe he wasn't spending his entire life running for president, which is why he probably went on the Howard Stern show.
	If my plan is to run for president, I probably wouldn't go on Howard's show.
	And with that said, Americans saw through that and they saw a guy that was really successful and really had a dream that America could be a lot better.
	Look, we have nearly 50 million Americans in poverty, nearly 50 million Americans on food stamps, 95 million Americans out of the labor force.
	These are millions of our fellow citizens that are suffering.
	Things are getting worse.
	This president's taken on more debt than every other president before him combined.
	And Americans are looking at their children and grandchildren and say, this is immoral.
	This has to stop.
	And that is the reason why I felt confident coming into tonight that he had a very good chance, although a difficult path, as we've been following the news all night.
	And he was able to pull it off because the American people, deep down inside, they cut through the clutter.
	They cut through the noise.
	They cut through all the spin.
	And they said, we're not on the right path.
	You know, when Washington promises, keep your doctor, keep your plan, and save $2,500 per family a year, and people lose their doctor's plans and are paying, on average, $4,100 a year more, and then they're seeing increases next year of 100%.
	You know what?
	They begin to realize they've been lied to.
	When they see a foreign policy where there's 600 requests before the Benghazi attack, and our government did nothing, they say government's failing.
	When brave men and women fight, bleed, and die in Bosul, Ramadi, Fallusia, and Crete and Baghdad, and then we pull out and create an opening for ISIS.
	They say that's a failure.
	When you give $150 billion to the number one state sponsor of terror, that is a failure.
	And on every objective measure, you know, thank God the American people, this is about one thing.
	They see that Washington is broken.
	And by the way, Republicans are just as guilty.
	Paul Ryan is not going to be the Speaker of the House in January.
	I was going to save that for my program tomorrow.
	He's not going to be the Speaker.
	His state went for Donald Trump tonight.
	I mean, it's an amazing turn of events because the establishment on both sides, Republican and Democrat, have lost touch with the real lives of real Americans that are really suffering.
	And Donald Trump has now opened the door and said, we're going to fix it and we're going to turn that table over.
	And you know what?
	I wish him all the best because it's not going to be easy because all the same people that opposed him in the lead up to tonight are going to be opposing him tomorrow.
	Wow, that statement turned out.
	I went on.
	How long did I go on for that night?
	10 minutes.
	Are you sure?
	10 minutes?
	I went on 10 minutes.
	It was 10 minutes.
	And I think they didn't interrupt me barely once, right?
	There was no reason to.
	I just went off.
	And I think we captured it.
	And by the way, I'm more right than I thought about the same people opposing Trump, opposing him today.
	Way do you hear the media from that night?
	We've got the best montage.
	Oh, it's great.
	Don't miss tonight's TV show.
	By the way, you see in the story on Charlie Sheen that's breaking?
	You have a real quick headline.
	Yeah, there's a story coming out today that Charlie Sheen is actually the person that assaulted and raped Corey Haim, who was an actor at 13 when he was 19.
	So it's pretty devastating news.
	Oh, my God.
	And it's everywhere now.
	The Daily News, the Daily Mail, the Post.
	It's horrible.
	Oh, my gosh.
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	All right, a lot to get to today.
	Last night's election, the media is lying to you.
	I will get to that.
	Also, we've got the president's historic speech near the DMZ yesterday and incredible information on Fusion GPS.
	I'm going to play the media from the night, not as long as some of my comments.
	Why don't we put on the entire 10-minute call that I had on election night on Hannah?
	Oh, it's up on Hannity.com.
	I'll play the media at the bottom of the yard.
	This is now.
	I told you this was the tip of the iceberg.
	Casting couch, young girls, kids, they want to be in modeling, the music business, the movie business.
	It's all over the New York Post, Daily Mail, Radar Online, National.
	It's everywhere.
	This story about Charlie Sheen being accused of sodomizing 13-year-old Corey Ham on the set of the movie Lucas.
	And they're reporting that now.
	The Ham is just recently.
	Corey Haim, sorry.
	I don't know these actors.
	I don't know who they are.
	Corey Haim apparently was.
	I never saw Lucas either.
	Did you ever see Lucas?
	Okay.
	And he's now deceased.
	And he had told other people about he was allegedly raped as a minor.
	They're reporting by Sheen, who was 19 at the time.
	This kid was 13 at the time.
	Quote, Haim told me he had sex with Sheen when they filmed Lucas, another Bracio, former actor, Dominic Bracia.
	And he told me they smoked pot and had sex.
	And I don't even want to read it, honestly.
	It just is also a report that the New York District Attorney's Office may be indicting Harvey Weinstein for rape next week.
	And I told you at the time, this is the tip of the iceberg.
	All of that has been true.
	Now, Corey Feldman was in town last week.
	We have not aired the interview yet, but I did an interview with him.
	We aired it once.
	Well, the TV part, I said we didn't air.
	And we had him on radio and we had him on TV.
	And what he said about pedophilia, he said it is rampant in Hollywood.
	Rampant.
	And that it happened to him.
	And he apparently was best friends with Corey Haim.
	And off the record, I knew this story was coming.
	He knew this story was coming.
	And I asked him about it privately.
	And anyway, so I'll get you more details as it becomes available.
	All right.
	Also, we're going to go line by line with the president's speech today.
	We've got Jay Seculo is going to weigh in.
	Hillary, what?
	The fix was in for everything.
	It was the fix was in for the primary.
	The fix was in for the general false Russian propaganda.
	The fix was in on the tarmac with Loretta Lynch.
	The fix was in with Comey, changing the words and writing an exoneration piece before he even investigated.
	We're going to get into that with Jay Seculo.
	Sebastian Gorka weighs in on this historic speech in South Korea last night.
	And we're going to go over this budget that doesn't seem very conservative, Reagan-esque with Congresswoman Diane Black.
	Donald Trump, just last week, he confirmed the National Review that he is again considering a run in 2016.
	Do it.
	I will personally bring you a campaign check now on behalf of this country, which does not want you to be president, but which badly wants you to run.
	Donald Trump has been saying that he will run for president as a Republican, which is surprising since I just assumed he was running as a joke.
	Is that people think that Donald Trump is a clown?
	Donald Trump is a clown.
	I mean, does anybody seriously think that Donald Trump is serious about running for president?
	Donald Trump.
	You know, he's a clown.
	President Obama will go down as perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States.
	Exclamation point.
	At real Donald Trump.
	Well, at real Donald Trump, at least I will go down as a president.
	Basically, this is the beginning of the end for Trump.
	It'll be the beginning of the end.
	Beginning of the end?
	This is probably starting of the beginning of the end for Donald Trump.
	Donald, you're not going to be able to insult your way to the presidency.
	The strongest person usually isn't the loudest one in the room.
	So right now, we have Hillary's about a 75 or an 80% favorite.
	We have different bursts of pork.
	You can look at Paul has Hillary Clinton up by double digits nationally, 12 points, 50 by 38 in four-way race.
	Clinton leading in Florida, Clinton leading in North Carolina, Clinton leading in Ohio, Clinton leading in Nevada.
	I could go on and on and on.
	I continue to believe Mr. Trump will not be present.
	And so, right now, Mr. Trump, to answer your call for political honesty, I just want to say you're not going to be president, all right?
	It's been fun.
	It's been great.
	I love you.
	But come on, come on, buddy.
	We have a major projection right now.
	Donald Trump will take Ohio.
	That's CNN projects.
	Donald Trump will carry the state of Florida.
	Huge win for Donald Trump.
	Donald Trump while we project will win in Kentucky in Indiana with its 11 electoral votes.
	West Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, Mississippi, South Carolina, Alabama, North Dakota with its three electoral votes.
	And South Dakota, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, the state of Montana, North Carolina, Georgia, Iowa, Utah, Wisconsin, Arizona, Kansas with its six electoral votes, Nebraska with its five electoral votes, and Wyoming with its three electoral votes.
	Sorry to keep you waiting, complicated business.
	A lot of people have laughed at me over the years.
	Now they're not laughing so much, I'll tell you.
	Wow, one year ago tonight.
	I actually suggested at Fox they rerun the whole night tonight.
	I really did.
	I said, well, oh, you just want a day off.
	No, no, I said it would, people would watch.
	People would watch big time.
	I know I'd watch.
	You know, and here, well, it's perfect dovetail to, you know, I got accused by the media of not talking about last night's election.
	I'm waiting the entire time.
	I was told, oh, the president is speaking exactly at nine.
	So, okay, I had my monologue written.
	And then I said, all right, if it's going to be late, let us know.
	I'll go into my monologue.
	And then this way, you know, we'll deal with it.
	And also the breaking news about the election, everything that was, you know, that's what we do, the news.
	People said, well, you didn't cover the election.
	Six seconds, Hennany, six.
	And I'm like, okay, for the first part, I kept hearing every minute in my ear, which is annoying when you're on TV and people talk in your ear.
	Not like Lawrence O'Donnell annoying.
	I felt bad for him.
	I mean, you know, who's with the hammer?
	That's frustrating, especially my ears are so sensitive after 30 years of radio.
	Anyway, so of course I was going to get, but we were doing waiting.
	I kept hearing any minute, any minute, any minute.
	And then finally, 20 minutes into the show, out comes Donald Trump speaking in South Korea, 30 miles from the militarized zone.
	And I'm like, then he literally went to 50 seconds left in the show.
	And I handed the show off to Laura.
	That was it.
	So anyway, Ed Gillespie's loss in Virginia.
	Let me just point out, because they keep pointing to certain states.
	Donald Trump didn't win the Commonwealth of Virginia.
	He didn't win New Jersey.
	He didn't win New York.
	And New Jersey, all due respect to Governor Christie, is like a 2% approval rating.
	It's bad.
	There was no chance that the lieutenant governor was going to win.
	Gillespie, interestingly enough, he didn't let Donald Trump offer to go campaign for him.
	Also, Steve Bannon.
	Steve Bannon won't be Hannity tonight.
	He offered to go campaign for him.
	And Gillespie's campaign declined.
	He wouldn't even go on Breitbart Radio.
	We couldn't get him on this program on Monday.
	We had him yesterday, and I was like, okay, but the voting's almost over.
	They, quote, weren't available because they didn't want the news to go out, Hannity.
	And he, with all due respect, is an establishment guy.
	And he was trying to thread the needle, but it didn't work.
	And he never embraced the president and his agenda.
	Because everyone's, oh, this is a bad.
	Even Nate Silver, the polling god of the left, if you will, even he's saying with these victories in New Jersey and Virginia last night, Democrats dancing in the aisle.
	There's no doubt winning is better than losing.
	That's a fair statement.
	But all these left-wing pundits out there counting their chickens before they had, saying the Democrats are poised to take the House in 2018 and Donald Trump is doomed.
	They're going to impeach him.
	Well, that could very well work out, but that destiny is not in the hands of Donald Trump.
	The destiny of Republicans are now in their own hands.
	And right now, they're literally hanging in the balance.
	Can they get the tax reform bill done?
	Can they do something next year on better governance?
	Can they go back to the old Reagan principles?
	So far, when I look at what they're offering with this tax reform bill and raising taxes on the people that pay taxes and redistributing wealth on one side, they do a great job with the corporate side, a great job with repatriation.
	The president single-handedly did a great job opening up energy in the country.
	This is going to be up to the Republicans in the House and more specifically the Senate.
	And if they can't get their job done, they will lose.
	What did I just play in the last half hour?
	You don't keep your promises.
	Keep your doctor.
	Keep your plan.
	Pay less.
	Democrats lost.
	And if you look at Democratic losses over the years, they were spectacular.
	I'll explain all this tonight on TV.
	So, you know, it is what it is.
	By the way, the new governor of New Jersey wants to turn New Jersey into a sanctuary state.
	Great.
	Can't wait.
	Chuck Schumer threatening to shut down the government unless Dreamers get amnesty.
	Got a lot of fights here for Republicans.
	But if you won't fight to keep your repeal replace promise and you're no longer Reagan supply-side conservatives on the economy and you want to raise taxes on the rich, well, we can elect Democrats to do that for us.
	You're doing a good job on the corporate side, but they're afraid of the class warfare rhetoric of Chuck Schumer.
	It's stupid.
	It's dumb.
	It makes no sense.
	Anyway, but if you look at the economy under President Trump, it's done extraordinarily well.
	I mean, I've given you these numbers.
	And, you know, the numbers speak for themselves.
	1 million new jobs, seven-year low in food stamp participation, seven-year high in terms of labor participation.
	You know, we now have National Association of Realtors.
	Housers are selling at the fastest pace in 30 years.
	Consumer Confidence Conference Board has it as a 17-year high.
	Atlanta Fed projected a week ago that GDP growth for the fourth quarter will be 4.5%.
	That'd be stunning.
	Today, we have literally ADP saying 235,000 extra jobs on top of the million jobs created in October.
	So far, it's a million-plus jobs, the president, because of what he did on his own alone.
	And, you know, you look at, for example, black unemployment now has hit a 17-year low, the lowest level since December of 2000.
	Same things when you break down other demographic.
	The Hispanic, the Latino community is doing much better with jobs.
	The Asian community, the country as a whole, is doing better.
	And it's all because the president got rid of Obama era, burdensome regulations.
	You have company after company wanting to bring their money back here.
	That's all Donald Trump alone has nothing to do with the Republicans.
	They have yet to do anything.
	You know, I want to also get into, we'll get into this with great detail.
	We've got massive developments here as it relates to the Clinton House of Cards is now beginning to crumble.
	What do we learn from Donna Brazil?
	She stole and rigged the Democratic primary.
	What else?
	She tried to rig and steal the general election from Donald Trump.
	How'd she do that, Hannity?
	Well, she paid for Trump-Russia, no, Hillary-Russia collusion.
	Hillary paid for the salacious, lying dossier that was filled with information that was full of lies, propaganda, misinformation, disinformation.
	And she literally paid it both through her campaign and the DNC, but nobody knows where the money came from.
	And she funneled it through the same attorney and they paid for the Russian lies.
	Why?
	To influence the American people.
	There's one report out today that they may have even, meaning the Democrats, they may have actually been out there trying to pay through Fusion GPS.
	They might have been out there trying to pay off journalists to run with this crap.
	So she steals the primary, tries to steal the general.
	The fix is in for both.
	She tries to fix the email server scandal with Comey writing an exoneration of that and even changing the language from the statutory language of gross negligence.
	That happens.
	And then Loretta Lynch tried to fix it through the tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton.
	I mean, it's unbelievable.
	Everything they do, they try and, and this is a bought and paid for dossier.
	Then Uranium won.
	The money kicked back.
	You know, we're learning so much.
	So anyway, we have a new report, a key fusion GPS official.
	That's the company that they paid for the Russian dirt.
	Met with the Russian lawyer.
	Remember the Russian lawyer?
	Big deal.
	Media met with Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Trump Towers.
	Well, it turns out that the Hillary-funded, bought and paid for Fusion GPS dossier official met with the Russian lawyer just before the Russian lawyer sat down at Trump Tower with Donald Trump Jr.
	And then guess what?
	They met after the meeting.
	Well, that sounds like a setup to me.
	Then you got Donna Brazil.
	She was told she didn't need to know about the DNC funding the fake news, anti-Trump Russian dossier.
	And on top of that, we got now Judicial Watch is literally suing the Department of Justice to find out if former FBI Director Comey coordinated with special counsel Robert Mueller, who he leaked to the New York Times to get the special counsel before Comey testified before Congress.
	Then we've got John Solomon's report that is out there, and he's now reporting that an early draft of Comey's announcement exonerating Hillary Clinton accused her of gross negligence.
	There, at least, gross negligence.
	Well, that is the legal definition of a felony.
	And there were three iterations of this.
	And three times they put it out with gross negligence.
	And somebody picked up, oh, that's what the statutory language is.
	That means we're saying she's guilty of a felony.
	We'll change it to extreme carelessness.
	And that means Comey's original memo said Clinton had broken the law, should have been prosecuted.
	I mean, remember, he went along with Loretta Lynch.
	Oh, it's a matter.
	It's not an investigation.
	It's a matter.
	I mean, it's all pretty unbelievable tonight.
	The Clintons, they operate under their own set of rules.
	We don't have equal justice under the law.
	The fix was in.
	The primary fix was in.
	Bernie Sanders went along with the lie.
	The fix was in when she colluded with Russia, dishing out millions for fake news of Russian dossier-filled lies.
	The fix is in.
	James Comey's memo saying Clinton was grossly negligent.
	Don't worry.
	He was exonerating her before even investigating her.
	The fix was in.
	The tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton, Loretta Lynn, the fix was in.
	You know, we really supposed to believe that they talk for 45 minutes about grandkids.
	It's just as bully.
	Baloney.
	Anyway, and, of course, you've got all of this, Bill Clinton doubling his speaking fees, the kickbacks to the Clinton Foundation.
	We don't have enough uranium in this country at all.
	We have to import uranium, but yet Vladimir Putin, Mueller, and Eric Holder knew in 2009 that Putin thugs were in this country and that they were involved in kickbacks and extortion and bribery and money laundering and racketeering.
	And Mueller knew it.
	And Eric Holder knew it.
	A lot of people knew it.
	And that's only a small portion of this.
	But the fusion GPS official meeting with a Russian operative before and after the Trump Jr. sit-down, the Fusion GPS officials mentioned in the report that the firm's co-founder, Glenn Simpson, and the Russian lawyer, and that they know that Hillary Clinton and the DNC shelled out the money for this.
	This is beyond outrageous.
	By the way, Rand Paul says, I appreciate all the support from everyone.
	A medical update.
	Final report indicates six broken ribs.
	New X-ray shows a plural effusion.
	A plural effusion, by the way, is like an unusual amount of fluid around the lung, in case you're interested.
	Not exactly a doctor, but I had sisters that were nurses and a brother-in-law that's a doctor.
	That's where I picked up all my medical knowledge.
	Linda's impressed.
	Aren't you shocked?
	You didn't know I knew that, did you?
	You're just a man of wonder.
	I do have the list of celebrities that have said they will leave the U.S. if Trump won.
	Let's see, Miley Cyrus, Cher, Jon Stewart, Al Sharpton, George Lopez, Samuel L. Jackson, just a few that had threatened, who said they supported Hillary, they'd leave if Trump won.
	My offer stands.
	I got a plain champagne caviar to which you've all grown accustomed.
	But you have to make a promise you'll never come back.
	By the way, Tom Brokaw attacking Donna Brazil, calling the revelations beyond counterproductive.
	Oh, but there's no, don't worry about it.
	A bunch of lies.
	Glenn Greenwald writes about the Clinton-DNC agreement cited by Donna Brazil only applied to the general election, not the primary.
	No, that was a lie, he points out.
	Many other lies as well.
	Lie number two.
	Sanders signed the same agreement with the DNC as Clinton.
	That's a lie.
	Brazil stupidly thought she could unilaterally remove her as the nominee.
	That's a lie, too.
	And evidence emerged proving the content of WikiLeaks documents and emails were doctored.
	That's another lie the media is telling you.
	I've set at the table.
	I want to make room for others to sit at the table, but you've got to come into the room knowing that you've got to change the recipe.
	Yesterday was a wake-up call for the Democrats, too, because you know what?
	It's coming from the bottom up.
	So we learned this week that former Trump foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos traveled to London in March 2016.
	And then in April, he met with a professor who promised dirt on Hillary Clinton from the Russians.
	Have you seen any evidence that this dirt, these emails, were ever given to the Trump campaign?
	Not so far.
	Not so far.
	Have you seen any communications that suggested that the Trump campaign wanted them to release them through a different means?
	Because obviously they were ultimately released by Wikimedia.
	I have not.
	All right, that's Senator Dianne Feinstein.
	A year later now, Trump-Russia collusion, and we've got no evidence.
	We have stunning new revelations in these developing scandals surrounding Hillary Clinton and a new report about a fusion GPS official meeting with the Russian lawyer before and after her sit-down with Donald Trump Jr.
	That sounds like a setup to me.
	Then we've got all the comments we played earlier, former interim DNC chair Donna Brazil saying she was told she didn't need to know about Clinton and the DNC funding of the fake news phony Russian dossier as they were trying to basically Hillary Clinton bought and paid for to influence an election here in this country.
	Jay Seculo is with us, chief counsel, American Center for Law and Justice, and also counsel to the president.
	I don't know where you want to start, but let's start with this, the fact, the admission that the primary election was actually rigged and Donald Trump was right.
	And I see everybody in the Democratic Party say, oh, that's not a big deal.
	Oh, well, why go over something like that?
	And I'm thinking you rig an election, you take over the DNC, you have a private deal with the DNC, you have all of the superdelegates lined up, you have the Bernie campaign couldn't win for losing, people disenfranchised.
	That seems like a big deal to me, Jay Succulo.
	Well, I mean, it was just the whole thing cuts against the narrative of what they were saying with their open and transparent process.
	So what you got now in Donna Brazil's book, which it lays out in great detail exactly what was going on and what she inherited when she took over the DNC, which was not only the fact that there was a control mechanism in place clearly aimed against Bernie Sanders, but that, as you said, the deck was not only stacked against his campaign, but there was really no way in which anybody could have kind of bridged through or pierced that armor because of the way they had it set up and structured.
	So I know I hear a lot of friends of mine on the left and people that work in Democratic campaigns saying that, you know, saying, well, this may be overstated.
	But the fact of the matter is, she was the head.
	I mean, she was the chairman of the Democratic National Committee for that period of time.
	So if there's anybody who would know, would think it'd be down to Brazil.
	So I know they don't want that narrative changed, and it kind of goes like the Fusion GPS.
	They don't like the new narrative on that, that that was being funded by them or the Hillary campaign or the fact that this Fusion GPS meeting took place with the lawyer that ultimately met with the Russian Jr.
	Right.
	The Russian lawyer met with them before the Don Jr. meeting, met with them after the Don Jr. meeting.
	We know Fusion GPS was the one putting this whole thing together.
	So obviously the sunlight here has not helped them.
	All right, let's go through this.
	We had a rigged primary election.
	We've got now bought and paid for Russian lies, propaganda, misinformation, disinformation.
	That was to rig the general election.
	Hillary bought and paid for all of that funding.
	Then you've got Fusion GPS actually meeting the lawyer before and after the lawyer sits down with Don Jr.
	You have the fix-in with Comey because he had written her exoneration before he even did the investigation.
	Then you've got the fix-in with Loretta Lynch and the tarmac.
	Seems like, and you've got so many fixes here.
	Yeah.
	And then you've got Diane Feinstein saying after one year, as you just said, nothing.
	I mean, I think Jake Tapper was surprised at her response.
	Have you seen anything of evidence of collusion?
	But I have a three-minute montage of everybody over the whole year saying there's smoke, there's smoke, there's smoke, there's no fire.
	Yeah, well, I mean, I had a conversation with a reporter yesterday, and, you know, the conversation was, you know, what about collusion?
	First of all, I keep going back to this fundamental point.
	Will someone point me to the statute that actually codifies whatever collusion is, whatever the media is saying it is, that that's a violation of a law?
	And by the way, there's no evidence of, quote, collusion, but there's also no statute that involves collusion.
	So this is a lot of this is created by the media because the word collusion sounds like, you know, it has to be a bad word.
	It has to be illegal because it says collusion.
	So there's no statute on collusion.
	I've been saying that for, you know, six months.
	But now you've got the Democratic leadership with Dianne Feinstein saying, even with that undefined word, she's seen no evidence of it.
	Hey, Jay, I won't play it now because it's three minutes.
	But I have the following people: James Comey, James Clapper, Maxine Waters, Diane Feinstein, Joe Manchin, John Brennan, Adam Schiff, Jay Johnson, have all said the same thing.
	There's no evidence of Trump-Russia collusion.
	There's smoke, but there's no fire.
	We've heard it now for a year.
	But we do have a bought and paid-for dossier full of lies, salacious lies, that was paid for by Hillary Clinton and the DNC that she was running her money over $10 million.
	And that was paid for Russian lies to basically influence the American people so they could win the election.
	And a dossier that was held over the head of, or attempted to, being held over the head of the then president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, by no one other than James Comey, the then-current FBI director, who says in a private meeting at Trump Tower that, you know, hey, we've got this dossier and you just need to know about it.
	And it was like it was a J. Edgar Hoover move.
	And we've said that before.
	So now we know that the involvement with this dossier may have well included the FBI.
	Either they had paid for portions of it or were considering paying for portions of it.
	But the salacious details were leaked.
	It was regurgitated.
	It was repeated.
	There was a Rowan Scarborough piece that actually suggested that Fusion GPS may have actually paid media people to run with these lies.
	Well, hopefully we'll get to the bottom of that.
	But here's a question I have: Is there any chance?
	Because John Solomon and Sarah Carter first broke the story that there were warrants of Trump Tower.
	There was surveillance of Trump Tower.
	Well, here's my question.
	Did they use the phony Russian dossier information, the lies that she paid for, as a predicate or a premise and go and use those lies before a judge to get a warrant?
	And if they did, what would happen?
	So this is obviously the most critical question.
	And the legal issue presented would be this.
	Was the dossier a basis upon which a FISA warrant was issued from a FISA court?
	And if it was in fact issued based on this dossier, was it disclosed to the court the nature, content, scope, and who paid for this dossier when the court, if that's what the basis was.
	But that's doubtful.
	Because up until for a year they've been saying they didn't pay for it.
	Exactly.
	But if it was the basis upon which FISA warrants were issued, I think there is a serious legal issue for those that engaged in obtaining the warrant.
	And of course, finding out what information was given, and I hope that the House and Senate will conduct oversight and the FBI.
	Wouldn't that likely render it inadmissible in a court of law?
	I would file motions.
	Look, there's no question I would file motions to suppress that if there's any evidence on that, if I was a lawyer representing a party affected by it.
	Would there be a record of the arguments that were made to obtain the warrant?
	So even in a FISA proceeding, they have records.
	It's just not the records available to the public, is my understanding.
	They would have to be made available to any defendant.
	Well, yeah, if you've got exculpation issues or the issue of, in this particular case, a motion, let's say a motion to suppress, yeah, I would say the government would be compelled or the court would have to issue the order upon which it based its information.
	In other words, get the information upon which it issued the order.
	I think that would be paramount.
	What do you make of the new report that the key Fusion GPS official meeting with this Russian lawyer, both before and after the Russian lawyer meets with Donald Trump Jr. in what turned out to be a nothing meeting?
	Right.
	It was a complete setup.
	So now we know if this information is correct, we now know that Fusion GPS leadership meets with the Russian lawyer.
	They were working with the same law firm that Fusion GPS had utilized.
	They meet with Donald Trump Jr. on a pretense.
	Nothing happens in the meeting.
	And then they subsequently debrief her after the meeting.
	So you tell me what that means.
	I think that makes that.
	Well, listen, I never thought there was nothing in the entire Donald Trump Jr. meeting.
	There was no, in my view, no illegality issue there in having the meeting.
	What is interesting now is we now have the backstory of how these meetings apparently have been created.
	And that is raising more legal issues, frankly, than the meetings themselves.
	Let me ask you, in 2009, we now know in retrospect that Vladimir Putin had agents within the United States.
	They were using bribery, extortion, money laundering, kickbacks, and racketeering as a means of trying to get into the U.S. uranium market.
	Now, number one, we have to import uranium.
	We don't have enough uranium as a country that meets our own needs.
	So then the FBI director at the time was Mueller.
	The attorney general was Eric Holder at the time.
	Holder was one of the nine like Hillary that signed off on the Uranium One deal.
	But how is it possible that they knew in 2009 did nothing, and how can anybody investigate Russia?
	Yeah, this is what I call this goes to the realm of not believable.
	So the FBI is aware of this whole operation going on, right, with this Russian spy ring.
	They don't bring charges to 2014.
	They're aware of it in 2009.
	But only to one person, and they bury it.
	Right.
	Then the question is, you have the Uranium One meeting where the nine signatures sign off on it.
	You got to ask this question.
	What did those signators, what did those heads of those departments actually know when that took place?
	Were they informed by the FBI there was an ongoing investigation about Russian spying and interference?
	Or were they not?
	And I think those are, I mean, we know Congress wants the answer, but I think that that needs to be, look, that is an issue that needs to be investigated fully.
	We do need special counsel just for Hillary and all these issues, don't we?
	Here's the difficult issue.
	As you know, I'm not a fan of special counsel.
	So the question you asked yourself in the appointment of a special counsel, is this something that the FBI or the Department of Justice is so recused from or so conflicted that they could not investigate it?
	And that was the campaign.
	If that is the standard, then we all know that they were involved because the FBI informant who had penetrated this Putin ring has documents and emails and tape recordings and firsthand experience.
	Yeah, again, look, I think it's a fact-based determination made by the Department of Justice whether they can conduct the investigation themselves.
	I want to ask you about the FBI director James Comey changing the words gross negligence to extreme carelessness.
	Continue more with Jay Seculo.
	All right, as we continue, Jay Seculo, chief counsel, American Center for Law and Justice, also counseled to the president.
	All right, so going over all these different things, the John Solomon report that showed that one of the early drafts, as a matter of fact, numerous, I think there were at least three of them, of the former FBI director James Comey in his announcement exonerating Hillary.
	Well, there's a couple of things we learned.
	Number one, he's exonerating her and preparing a document to exonerate her when, in fact, he hadn't done the investigation.
	He hadn't interviewed key people involved in the investigation.
	He used the legal term, which is the legal standard of gross negligence.
	That showed up in numerous drafts.
	But in the final draft, it was removed to extreme carelessness.
	What is your take on all of that?
	Well, first of all, how do you finish up an investigation when you have 16 witnesses to go, some of which you granted immunity to and you're already writing the declination letter?
	So I've raised that issue with you and others.
	I mean, you had witnesses that were granted immunity from prosecution, and that means the FBI and the Department of Justice was so valuable that even if these individuals had committed a crime themselves, they would be absolved of that crime and not prosecuted because their testimony could be that important.
	But yet the FBI director is writing his declination letter before those interviews take place.
	That's one.
	Besides the fact that the candidate herself, Hillary Clinton, hadn't been interviewed yet.
	Okay, put all that aside.
	Then, so you got the immunity issue.
	Then you got the standard of criminality.
	Gross negligence, of course, is the statutory framework upon which the charge would have been brought.
	So someone in my guess is someone in the review of the probably multiple drafts of this document, Sean, said, let's not use that term because everybody's going to say, well, if it was gross negligence, that's a violation of the statute because that is the level of intent required under the statute that could have been brought for the prosecution.
	So let's not use that.
	Let's use extremely careless, extreme carelessness, which, by the way, definition is gross negligence.
	He said when he exonerated her that this had been an investigation, but then when he testified, he said Loretta Lynch asked him to charge.
	It's all in a matter.
	Yeah, he said, don't call it an investigation, which it was.
	Here's my argument.
	Now we know the fix was in as it relates to the Democratic primary.
	Now we know Hillary bought and paid for Russian lies and propaganda.
	She tried to have the fix in with that phony, salacious dossier.
	The fix was in with James Comey here as it relates to his exonerating her before investigating and taking all the language talking points from Hillary's campaign.
	The fix was in when Bill Clinton meets unethically with Loretta Lynch just days before Loretta Lynch is going to make her decision.
	So it seems to me that when you're talking about the Clintons, there's a lot of fixes in here.
	And yet a year later, as I mentioned earlier, I have on tape multiple times Diane Feinstein and James Comey and James Clapper and Maxine Waters and Joe Manchin and John Brennan and Adam Schimp and Jay Johnson all saying no evidence of Trump-Russia collusion, but we're still investigating that and we're not investigating any of this.
	And Paul Manafort's indictment had nothing to do with Russia, nothing to do with the campaign, nothing to do with Donald Trump.
	Right.
	In fact, that investigation looks like it was a previous investigation that was already ongoing with regard to foreign agent registration and some of these offshore accounts.
	So you look at it.
	Now, again, could there be investigations going?
	There could be.
	You don't necessarily know that there are.
	I have no knowledge that there are, but there could be.
	But it does raise the question, which is the unavoidable question, is what is the standard upon which this Department of Justice makes an inquiry?
	When did they start a investigation?
	I mean, you call it an investigation, call it investigating the matter.
	I don't really care what phrase you use.
	But the question is, when does what's the threshold for the current Department of Justice to engage in investigations if there is the potential for violations of the law?
	And I think, Sean, that we don't know.
	I mean, to be blunt, I don't know the answer to what that is under the current Department of Justice.
	All right, we got to leave it there.
	Jay Seculo, amazing insight, and you're an amazing attorney.
	We really appreciate it.
	Thanks, Sean.
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	Now, look what happened in New Jersey.
	And that's not all that's in the news today.
	The president gave a courageous, historic speech last night and laid down a gauntlet.
	We'll get to that with Dr. Gorka next.
	I'll read some of the critiques coming from the right and give you a chance to reply.
	They say that there's a hidden new tax bracket, that people, some people will actually pay more taxes.
	They're worried about the mortgage interest deduction going down.
	They're worried about the adoption tax credit potentially going away.
	These are things they say, they point to the middle class and say that's not going to benefit them.
	Shannon, this really is a work in progress.
	But a lot of these other issues, homeowners deductions, state and local taxes, these are a subject of a very healthy debate in the Congress.
	We're going to continue to work in a way that makes sure that working families, middle-class Americans benefit from this tax cut, and that we create the kind of framework for reform that will really cause this economy to take off even more than it has already.
	Well, let me ask you about Obamacare because some Republicans are saying that as part of tax reform, there's a discussion about repealing the Obamacare individual mandate, which would save about $400 billion to take it away from the deficit.
	Is that on the table?
	We have an active conversation with our members on a whole host of ideas on things to add to this bill, and that's one of the things that's being discussed.
	You say it's being discussed.
	So there is a possibility the House could pass as part of tax reform doing away with the.
	Again, we're listening to our members about what we can do to add to this bill to make it even better.
	So that's among the ideas that a lot of members are suggesting that we could add to this bill to make it even better.
	But it's on the table for this tax reform bill.
	It's one of the things that people have been suggesting.
	That's what I'm saying.
	Schumer says that you take away 70% of the state and local deduction, and he points out that one-third of the taxpayers claim that.
	He says you're taking away almost three-quarters of the value.
	Yes, so here's what we're doing.
	You see this postcard?
	This is literally the kind of tax form that nine out of ten taxpayers would be able to use.
	Right now, about 70 percent don't itemize.
	By doubling the standard deduction, we're making it so that people don't have to itemize their deductions.
	So instead of having the first $12,000 that you don't pay tax on, it'll be the first $24,000 for a couple you don't pay your tax on, and we're lowering people's tax rates.
	The difference here is we're basically saying instead of using a tax deduction to lower your tax rate, lower your tax liability, we're just going to make it easier for you to pay taxes in the first place.
	But this is a clear middle-class tax cut, no two ways about it, even for people in those high-tech states.
	All right, there's Mike Pence, the vice president, and he's talking about the Republican tax bill.
	And of course, then you hear from Paul Ryan.
	Before we get to the things that I have questions on, and there are many of them as it relates to this bill, I'm giving props.
	The president now, as a result of him just ending excessive Obama-era regulations, burdensome regulations, we've had a significant increase in the economy.
	Of course, we know all about the stock markets, up, what, 50, 60 percent or some astronomical number.
	We have a million-plus new jobs now, a seven-year low in food stamp usage of people, seven-year high in terms of labor participation rate.
	The National Association of Realtors reported houses are now selling at their fastest pace in 30 years.
	The conference board reported consumer confidence is at a 17-year high.
	We have the Atlanta Fed is now projected that the GDP growth for the fourth quarter is 4.5 percent, unemployment now at the lowest level it's been in, I believe, 20 years.
	And we have job cuts that have now hit their lowest levels in two decades.
	And that's all happening before Congress has done a thing.
	ADP said the economy added 235,000 jobs in October.
	The Washington Post excoriated Democrats for Pinocchios for stop lying about this is a tax cut for the rich because it's not.
	Black unemployment in the country, since the president has taken office, has now hit a 17-year low.
	And same with other demographic groups, the Latin community, Latin Americans, Hispanic Americans, and also Asian Americans.
	They're seeing now this is the lowest level in the black community since December of 2000.
	And the president is apparently preparing executive orders to end the Obamacare mandate.
	On the downside, you've got this Republican so-called hidden tax, which I'll get to in just a minute, of 46%.
	Joining us to go over a lot of this is Chairman, Congresswoman Diane Black.
	Oh, here he goes.
	He's bringing me on.
	How are you, Congresswoman?
	You're on.
	Yes.
	Hello.
	How are you today?
	I'm good.
	You're the chair.
	You're the chairman of the House Budget Committee.
	I want to discuss a lot of this with you.
	How are you?
	I'm good.
	I'm good.
	We're in markup today.
	Of course, for your listeners, they may not know what that means, but it's an opportunity to be able to add amendments to the bill.
	So we're doing that and a lot of discussion, a lot of moving parts today.
	All right.
	That's where I think we want to go over a lot of this here because, look, as I have said on the air, corporate rate to 20% win.
	That's a win for the American people, the forgotten men and women.
	The repatriation, that's a win for the American people.
	I do worry about the home mortgage deduction.
	I do worry about the top rate staying exactly the same.
	But you might, even if you're paying a lower rate, you pay more money because you're not no longer, if you live in New York like I do or New Jersey or California or Illinois, if you can't make a deduction to your state and local income taxes in the state's 10% in New York, that means I'll be paying a net increase in taxes, pretty dramatic, actually.
	What's your reaction?
	Yes.
	Well, Sean, let's just talk about what our goal was for this tax reform.
	The goal was to make sure that especially the lower income and the middle income really get a relief because that's where they need the biggest relief.
	The second part of that is to get the economy moving.
	And we want to get the economy moving by allowing companies to be able to have an opportunity to create more jobs, to be able to put more capital into their business, which we know creates more jobs.
	I mean, you did talk about what occurs right now with just the excitement of what's in the business industry about there's going to be more money for our job creators to be able to put into their own business.
	And so growing those jobs really does help the everyday middle income person.
	As a matter of fact, we see that through this, someone, let's just say, making $60,000 a year, and I know you live in a state that maybe that's not the average income, but that's a middle income for most parts of the country.
	They're going to receive about a $1,200 tax cut on that.
	And for them, that means making more.
	I'm all for that.
	Yes.
	I want, and I think the corporate tax cut, repatriation money, and what the president, frankly, has done with energy.
	If we really push towards energy independence, we're going to have career, high-paying jobs for millions of Americans.
	That's great.
	And they're my first concern.
	Here's what I fear.
	And tell me if I'm wrong.
	For example, in this bill, the plan maintains the top bracket at 39.6% for households earning more than $1 million.
	And when I look at the Reagan supply-side conservative tax philosophy, of which I am a believer in, you're doing everything right on the corporate side.
	But there seems to have been the Republican Party now has moved away from Reagan conservative supply side tax cuts because Reagan cut the top marginal rates from 70 to 28 percent.
	Yes.
	And what we're, you know, if you look at, and I wish that I had the charts to show you, and maybe that's one of those things like others who come onto your show and have a little chart where we could actually show these little charts because those in the higher income, those higher income earners, aren't getting as large of a tax decrease.
	They're not getting any.
	But hang on, the top 10% of Americans pay 70% of the taxes.
	The top 20% pay over 90%.
	The bottom 50% pay nothing federal income taxes.
	Didn't Reagan drop the top marginal rates?
	In other words, the people that actually pay taxes.
	You can't give a tax cut to people that don't pay taxes.
	You give them benefits, but you can't give them a tax cut.
	Reagan dropped that rate from 70 to 28 percent.
	It seems to me that there's a fear among Republicans that class warfare rhetoric will be used against them if they follow the Reagan supply-side conservative model.
	But we wanted to be sure that where we actually give the greatest income relief is right there in the middle, which we are doing in our plan.
	But everyone is getting a small amount of cut, even up into the larger earnest.
	So the $1.2 to $1.6 million earners only are going to be in that place where they will not be able to take advantage of that lower rate of 12% right off of the bottom.
	But everybody across the entire spectrum is going to be getting a decrease in their taxes smaller for those upper income owners.
	But here's where.
	Well, but if the rate remains the same and you take away deductions like the state income tax deduction, doesn't that mean I pay more?
	No, because you then get a benefit such as the AMT is taken away.
	So that makes a difference.
	We double the standard deduction for folks that are all the way across the range.
	So that helps out as well.
	I'm not saying this is about me, but I just believe if you're going to do the right thing on the corporate side, on the repatriation side and the energy side, you know, if only 20% really pay most of the bills, why not give them a real cut so they'll invest in the economy also?
	It's philosophical.
	It's not about me.
	I don't really care.
	If the forgotten men and women in this country get relief, I'm happy.
	But I'm saying that they can get a lot more relief if we believe in really blowing out and growing the economy.
	And Sean, you know that as we look at turning one dial and another dial, we have to get to what reconciliation says is that we have to have $1.5 trillion deficit at the max.
	And so when we look at, again, our goal being those in the middle income, we want to give them the greatest relief because that is the area that needs the greatest.
	Listen, I'm a big to take a break more with the chairman of the House Budget Committee, Congresswoman Diane Black.
	As we continue, the chairman of the budget committee, Congresswoman Diane Black of Tennessee, is with us.
	I've been a penny plan supporter for years, and you guys just passed a budget that has zero cuts.
	You're increasing spending every year due to baseline budgeting.
	Listen, and I'm not disagreeing with you, Sean.
	You know that the budget that I put out this year finally addressed mandatory spending because there are two sides to this issue.
	Unless we actually get very serious about cutting our mandatory spending and we address that as well, we will never be able to balance our budget.
	So we have got to get to that point where we recognize there is another side to this coin and the other side of this coin.
	But as we see the economy grow and as we see people having their wages increase, more jobs created, that does help to bring in more money to the federal government as well, which will help us to be able to start balancing.
	But what we can't do is say when more money comes in, we'll just spend more money, which has been here in Washington the way that people think.
	Oh, more money's coming in.
	Let's have more programs.
	And that's where we have to have the discipline.
	Yes, the economy will grow.
	Yes, there will be more money that will flow through offers.
	And I don't want to make this about you, but you've got to admit that the Republican Party is beyond timid here.
	And let me give you some examples.
	Republican Party couldn't get their act together and repeal and replace health care.
	You did do it in the House, but they couldn't get a deal out of the Senate.
	And as a result, in the minds of voters, that's a huge, massive, broken seven-year promise.
	And then on the issue.
	I agree totally with that.
	And that squarely goes on the steps of the Senate.
	Absolutely.
	On them.
	And then I'm looking at, well, John McCain saying that this budget's dead on arrival and comments from Murkowski and the usual suspects.
	And I'm thinking they can't even give us tax reform or real across-the-board tax cuts, and there's no spending cuts.
	And I say, in my opinion, that the Republican Party is a shadow of its former self with no identity.
	Am I wrong?
	No, you're not wrong.
	I think you're absolutely right.
	If the Senate does not come through on what we have promised the American people we would do, and that is tax reform, if they do not work with us and work with the president, then everybody over there needs to be available.
	I'm going to say, in fairness.
	I'm totally with you.
	In fairness to the House, there's 300 bills you guys passed, including Cates Law, Sanctuary Cities, and they haven't even begun to talk.
	They're not even giving the president half of his appointments for crying out loud.
	And these people are on vacation every other week.
	It's pretty disheartening to me.
	It is very disheartening.
	It's disheartening to us because we work so hard at getting implants out there with a repeal and replace.
	And now with tax reform, we've been working on this for seven years.
	I have been here for seven years, and this is what we've been working on.
	If we do not do what we tell the American people that we're going to do on this, shame on us.
	And so we have to get this done here in the House, force the Senate to do their work.
	Let's do a conference committee and let's give the American people tax relief where we will see this economy grow because at the end of the day, that's what will make a difference for our country.
	If we get beyond 3%, up to 4%, and even, gosh, if we could get up to the 7% that we saw under Reagan, we could really see a difference being made on bringing down our debt and deficit.
	But we've got to go back to mandatory spending.
	And those programs that we spend too much on, we've got to do something about those programs.
	They just passed the budget.
	They keep baseline budgeting.
	They didn't cut a thing.
	If you want more money for the middle class, that's the single greatest thing that you can do.
	I would prefer the penny plan.
	You cut one penny out of every dollar.
	Everyone.
	I like the penny plan, too.
	I'd vote for that.
	Worked hard on a budget that finally got us to the point where we were addressing mandatory spending.
	Took us a long time to do it, but we passed it out of the budget.
	We passed it in the House.
	I'm very proud of that.
	It was the Senate that, because we knew that this was the most important thing this year for a number of people, including the House and also the President, was to get tax reform done.
	But I am assured by my leadership that they are going to be doing mandatory reform, entitlement reform next year on the budget.
	And that has to be done because this is a balance.
	This is not just about raising or cutting taxes and getting the economy moving.
	This is also about not spending it when it comes in.
	All right, Congresswoman, I agree with what you're saying.
	I just wish maybe you can take these people in the Senate, put them in a room, turn off the air conditioner, and throw in occasional pizzas and they can't leave until they do their job.
	All right.
	Whatever we have to do to make them do their job is what the American people expect of us.
	I appreciate you being with us.
	Thank you so much.
	Congresswoman Diane Black, 800-941-Sean, toll-free telephone number.
	You want to be a part of the program.
	In 2009, the United States gave negotiations yet another chance and offered North Korea the open hand of engagement.
	The regime responded by sinking a South Korean Navy ship, killing 46 Korean sailors.
	To this day, it continues to launch missiles over the sovereign territory of Japan and all other neighbors, test nuclear devices, and develop ICBMs to threaten the United States itself.
	The regime has interpreted America's past restraint as weakness.
	This would be a fatal miscalculation.
	This is a very different administration than the United States has had in the past.
	Today I hope I speak not only for our countries, but for all civilized nations.
	When I say to the North, do not underestimate us and do not try us.
	All right, that was the president 30 miles from the DMZ in what was a historic speech.
	We don't see confrontation or conflict of any kind, but we will never run from it.
	One of the great things the president did last night is compare and contrast the two Koreas, South Korea, their economic growth, their health, their prosperity, and then the, of course, the corruption, the highest loyalty.
	You get to live within the capital city and you actually get to feed your children.
	Otherwise, you live outside of the city in starvation, where kids are literally dying as the monies that have come into North Korea are literally spent on weaponry almost all the time.
	How bad the unemployment is, the great history and the relationship between South Korea and the United States of America, about how, you know, $200 million in monuments built to literally worship these dictators, Kim Jong-un and his father, Kim Jong-il and his grandfather, and what a twisted regime this is.
	Starvation, stunted growth, malnutrition, because they don't care about their own people.
	On the other hand, you've got literally nothing but prosperity.
	You've got the 350 times what their GDP growth was in 1960.
	Their increase in trade, their life expectancy from the early 50s to the 82 years of age in South Korea.
	You go through it, it's amazing.
	Anyway, joining us now is Dr. Sebastian Gorka, and I can officially announce today he is a Fox News national security strategist, author of the best-selling book, Defeating Jihad.
	One welcome to the Fox family.
	You know how much I love having you on the program.
	You're a true patriot hero and an amazing, amazing political analyst and strategic analyst.
	Thank you for being with us, and we're so happy for your success.
	It's in large part really thanks to you, Sean.
	You've been a great supporter, not only of myself, but of the administration and the president.
	And it's great to be back as part of the superb Fox family.
	Thank you, Sean.
	Well, thank you very much.
	I appreciate it.
	All right, let's start with the speech last night.
	We didn't have time to analyze it.
	First of all, the president, I got whacked this morning by the corrupt news media.
	So Tucker hands me off the show last night.
	They're screaming in my ear.
	All right, POTUS is in the building and is expected any minute now.
	All right, so I put aside my opening monologue because you don't want to start your monologue and then in the middle of it say, oh, here's the president.
	I'll finish this later.
	It's not good TV.
	So I had you and I had Ambassador John Bolton on, and I kept hearing every other minute, oh, nope, he's there any second now.
	And then they started seating, you know, General Kelly and Hope Hicks, and the first lady came in with, you know, and I'm like, all right, so I'm waiting.
	And so we ended up doing like 17 minutes of really good, hard-hitting analysis on the situation in North Korea and around the world.
	And you guys were amazing.
	But we weren't talking about the election because I thought at any second I would be breaking.
	Of course we had the election covered.
	And the election is a result of Ed Gillespie saying no to Donald Trump and rebuffing Steve Bannon's offer to help in the closing days of the campaign.
	That's a big part of it.
	Anyway, what are your thoughts on the president's speech first?
	Just two words.
	Just leadership and truth.
	I mean, that was look, I am the child of people who escaped communist dictatorship.
	So it was an emotional evening for me listening to those words.
	It was two speeches in one.
	First half was about the amazing success that is South Korea.
	I mean, just that whole thing about the golf tournament and that, you know, eight out of the ten were, you know, women from South Korea that won the championship.
	It was just as you should be, you know, being a gracious guest to your wonderful host.
	But the second half, my word, that was just truth.
	That was a wake-up call to what North Korea is, that evil exists, that it walks the earth, that we have countries today, still today, that are made up of captive populations under the boot of people like the Kim dynasty.
	It was an amazing moment of clarity and also a statement that America is back and we will talk truthfully about the threats to not only ourselves, but to our friends and our allies.
	And it was a historic speech, in my opinion, Sean.
	I loved hearing that we don't want confrontation.
	We're not going to run from it.
	And he believes in peace through strength.
	Yes, I mean, this took us back.
	I don't know about you, but I felt like I was in a time machine going back to the 1980s.
	It could have been Ronald Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate.
	It could have been Margaret Thatcher talking about the evils of the captive nations of the satellites of the Soviet Union.
	It was no more apologizing.
	It was no more avoiding the issue.
	And it wasn't making excuses for evil.
	You've had eight years, for example, of the Obama White House saying, well, you know, jihadis are just unemployed and it's economics and they're disenfranchised.
	And really, you know, the terrorists might be the victims, really, at the end of the day.
	No.
	But there are evil actors out there, whether it's ISIS, whether it's North Korea, whether it's Iran.
	And the president spoke absolutely truthfully about those threats.
	And he said, we're not going to go to war.
	It's not our intent to go to war, but we will not back down if you threaten us.
	And that's exactly the message you give to a bully like the regime in North Korea.
	What did you think of the elections last night?
	Now, interesting, Nate Silver, who Democrats worship at the altar of, even he rightly said that the race in Virginia, for example, is not a good predictor of things to come.
	I know that the president had offered my understanding to go in there.
	We know Ed Gillespie wouldn't even declined.
	Apparently, Bannon offered a stump for Ed Gillespie, wouldn't go, wouldn't even go on Breitbart radio.
	I think that is a faction of the new Republican Party that nobody wants to pay attention to.
	That's the faction that actually has an identity, a vision, is fighting for principles and core beliefs, as say compared to Republicans in the House and Senate, which are weak and timid and visionless and literally lacking identity.
	I'm a resident of Virginia, so of course I'm sad and I would have loved to see the state go Republican last night.
	But let's look at the facts.
	These are neither states, they did not vote for President Trump, so that's issue number one we shouldn't be surprised with.
	And secondly, in a personage of a candidate like Gillespie, they're not MAGA candidates.
	They're not the Judge Moores.
	They're not the Kelly Wards.
	So why am I not surprised that he didn't want people like Steve Bannon, myself, or Breitbart to help him?
	Did you offer to go in, too?
	No, I mean, if he didn't want Steve to go, he was not going to ask me to go.
	So, you know, the bottom line is these are individuals, whether it's his advisors or not doesn't matter.
	It's an elite that still does not understand what happened on November the 8th.
	November the 8th, Mike Flynn, I completely agree with what General Flynn said last year.
	He said November the 8th was a political revolution.
	Everything changed.
	Billionaire from Queens, New York, had people from the Youngstown Steel Valley Democrat manual laborer community vote for him.
	That's a political revolution like the Democrats that voted for Ronald Reagan.
	And it's clear that Gillespie or his advisors or just the GOP writ large still don't understand what's happening to our great nation.
	I don't think they understand at all.
	And, you know, it's funny because there's so many times, so often they're wrong.
	All these reporters today saying, is this a big referendum on Trump?
	And I'm looking, you guys still don't get it.
	All right, we've got to take a break.
	We'll come back.
	We'll continue.
	Dr. Sebastian Gorka is with us.
	By the way, brand new member of the Fox News Channel family, as we welcome him aboard today, it's official.
	We call on every nation, including China and Russia, to fully implement UN Security Council resolutions, downgrade diplomatic relations with the regime, and sever all ties of trade and technology.
	It is our responsibility and our duty to confront this danger together because the longer we wait, the greater the danger grows and the fewer the options become.
	And to those nations that choose to ignore this threat, or worse still, to enable it, the weight of this crisis is on your conscience.
	I also have come here to this peninsula to deliver a message directly to the leader of the North Korean dictatorship.
	The weapons you are acquiring are not making you safer.
	They are putting your regime in grave danger.
	Every step you take down this dark path increases the peril you face.
	North Korea is not the paradise your grandfather envisioned.
	It is a hell that no person deserves.
	Yet, despite every crime you have committed against God and man, you are ready to offer, and we will do that.
	We will offer a path to a much better future.
	Joining us now is Dr. Sebastian Gorka.
	I'm going to go back.
	I'm actually going to play some of my call that I made into Fox on election night one year ago tonight.
	And I'm going to tell you something.
	It is how the faces of people all across the media landscape were shocked.
	And they're shocked today.
	And let me add this.
	If Republicans don't win in 18, it's because, what, they didn't keep their promise to repeal and replace?
	It's because they barely can get a tax reform bill done.
	They're so afraid of class warfare rhetoric of the left that they actually are raising taxes on the wealthy and abandoning conservative supply side, Reagan economics.
	It's absolutely stunning to me how afraid they are.
	We're both mature guys.
	We've been around the block.
	We've seen a thing or two.
	And you can only judge a human being or a group of human beings not based upon what they say, but we judge them upon what they do, right, Sean?
	Absolutely.
	Let's do that with the president and let's do that with the GOP.
	What has the president done in the last nine months?
	It's just stunning.
	I know it's shocking for most people that this is a man who promises things and then actually does them.
	But look at it.
	Lowest unemployment in 17 years.
	A million and a half jobs created.
	A stock market has increased by 25%.
	ISIS's caliphate destroyed.
	NATO revitalized.
	Our allies in Asia reassured.
	That's reality.
	That's not rhetoric.
	Okay, let's compare that with the GOP.
	What's the GOP done since January the 20th?
	Okay, they confirmed a Supreme Justice Gorsuch, which is great.
	What else have they done?
	Nothing.
	Exactly.
	Crickets.
	Nothing.
	Crickets.
	Crickets.
	Right.
	And they cannot get away with that because the American people, thanks to the president, thanks to his Twitter feed, are seeing through the lies.
	There's nothing conservative left about the GOP.
	It's business as usual.
	It's staying in power.
	It's about being milked toast.
	And that is what we have to try to build.
	But there are shadow.
	Listen.
	It's funny because I've been interviewed by a lot of reporters over the years.
	I keep saying to them, the Trump agenda has been the Reagan agenda, and it has been what I never changed.
	The Republican Party of today abandoned me.
	They're the party that didn't want to use the power of the purse, enumerated powers.
	They're the ones that were afraid they'd get blamed for a government shutdown.
	They're now afraid of Chuck Schumer's and Nancy Pelosi's class warfare rhetoric.
	They're not doing what Reagan.
	Reagan dropped the top marginal rates from 70 to 28 percent.
	They're raising taxes on every, basically every taxpayer except the middle class.
	I love what they're doing on the corporate side.
	It's right.
	It's Reagan-esque.
	But on personal income, on raising taxes, it's a big mistake.
	And the only reason they don't want to do it is they're afraid to fight.
	They don't stand for anything anymore.
	They're visionless and identity-less.
	Can I give you an example that just totally proved to me how deep the rot is?
	I spoke to a congressman when you were doing amazing work with Sarah Carter, blowing up the whole fusion GPS and Uranium One story.
	I spoke to a congressman about, you know, when is Congress finally going to look into this stuff?
	Not the Russian collusion delusion, but the Hillary corruption and the fusion GPS and Uranium One.
	And this congressman, who's a good guy, said, We've been trying for months, but the leadership is blocking us.
	The GOP leadership on the Hill is blocking us.
	And I said, why?
	Why would they block you investigating a Clinton Democrat massive pay-for-play corruption?
	And he said, the leadership does not wish to look biased.
	November the 8th is not one day and it's not about one person.
	It's about an agenda, and you're right.
	It is about what Reagan, Thatcher, true conservatives stood for, and that's what 2018 is going to be about.
	By the way, as they're getting their brains beaten in every night by a corrupt media.
	All right.
	Thank you so much for being with us.
	We appreciate it.
	Dr. Sebastian Gorka.
	Quick break.
	Right back.
	Your calls and a trip down memory lane when we get back.
	All right, 25 now till the top of the.
	I want to take you back.
	Way do you see what we have planned on Hannity tonight at nine?
	You are going to love.
	We're going to take you back one year ago tonight.
	I told the story, I think it was yesterday, of I don't work election night.
	So I never have, because when I get there, they like put me on five minutes and it's like it's a news night and it's not so much opinion and I've got strong opinion.
	Anyway, they begged me last year to be in.
	I said, no, I'm not going in.
	I like to do my thing on election night, not analyze Cuyahoga County, Hamilton County, Palm Beach County, Broward County, Southwest Florida, the Pan.
	I just, that's what I do.
	So I do my own analysis and how many votes do we need?
	How few votes do they need for this particular county?
	What was the vote count at this time in 2012 and 2008?
	I get very nerdy and wonky on election nights.
	I was called as the night was beginning to turn and my cohorts in the media were in their funeral mode and shock mode and being traumatized.
	I think they still have post-traumatic stress today that Donald Trump won one year later.
	My boss at the time, Bill Schein, calls me and says, get to that studio we built for you near your house.
	I said, I'm not going.
	I had three or four beers.
	I can't.
	And he goes, call in now.
	Call in right now.
	Call this number.
	I call.
	All right.
	So in the middle of Fox's coverage, I call in.
	I stayed on how long?
	I mean, you were actually technically on for 10 minutes.
	Oh, I was on for 10.
	What we have done is we have edited down to the best of Hannity from Election Night.
	This is me, Election Night, calling into the Fox News channel.
	To me, this was predictable, but on the other hand, this is a modern-day political miracle you're witnessing before your eyes right now.
	And that is to go up against everybody and all the pundits and all the pollsters and all the prognosticators out there and defy all the odds.
	And it's the American people that have said enough is enough.
	They're tired of the corruption, the cesspool, draining the swamp.
	All of these things were resonating.
	You know, when you look at a state like Wisconsin, what are they saying?
	They want their jobs back.
	They want the labor participation rate to be lower.
	In other words, more people having jobs.
	They want America to be energy independent.
	They're tired of a horrible educational system.
	They're tired of Obamacare rates going through the roof.
	This is not complicated.
	What's happening now is not working.
	And these guys, and Donald Trump has gone out there and he outworked Hillary Clinton and he put forward a much better agenda.
	And America said enough is enough with failed policies.
	That's what this election was about.
	Fundamentally, you know, what drives elections?
	Peace and prosperity.
	America's not prosperous.
	America's not working.
	Hillary lied about her emails, lied about Benghazi.
	She's corrupt.
	She's so dishonest.
	Look at the exit polls tonight.
	And at the end of the day, you know, is Donald Trump like every other person?
	Are we all flawed?
	Have we all sinned and fallen short?
	Yeah.
	And maybe he wasn't spending his entire life running for president, which is why he probably went on the Howard Stern show.
	If my plan is to run for president, I probably wouldn't go on Howard's show.
	And with that said, Americans saw through that and they saw a guy that was really successful and really had a dream that America could be a lot better.
	Look, we have nearly 50 million Americans in poverty, nearly 50 million Americans on food stamps, 95 million Americans out of the labor force.
	These are millions of our fellow citizens that are suffering.
	Things are getting worse.
	This president's taken on more debt than every other president before him combined.
	And Americans are looking at their children and grandchildren and say, this is immoral.
	This has to stop.
	And that is the reason why I felt confident coming into tonight that he had a very good chance, although a difficult path, as we've been following the news all night.
	And he was able to pull it off because the American people, deep down inside, they cut through the clutter, they cut through the noise, they cut through all the spin, and they said, we're not on the right path.
	You know, when Washington promises, keep your doctor, keep your plan, and save $2,500 per family a year, and people lose their doctor's plans and are paying, on average, $4,100 a year more, and then they're seeing increases next year of 100%.
	You know what?
	They begin to realize they've been lied to.
	When they see a foreign policy where there's 600 requests before the Benghazi attack, and our government did nothing, they say government's failing.
	When brave men and women fight, bleed, and die in Mosul, Ramadi, Fallujah, and Crete, and Baghdad, and then we pull out and create an opening for ISIS.
	They say that's a failure.
	When you give $150 billion to the number one state sponsor of terror, that is a failure.
	And on every objective measure, you know, thank God the American people, this is about one thing.
	They see that Washington is broken.
	And by the way, Republicans are just as guilty.
	Paul Ryan is not going to be the Speaker of the House in January.
	I was going to save that for my program tomorrow.
	He's not going to be the Speaker.
	His state went for Donald Trump tonight.
	I mean, it's an amazing turn of events because the establishment on both sides, Republican and Democrat, have lost touch with the real lives of real Americans that are really suffering.
	And Donald Trump has now opened the door and said, we're going to fix it and we're going to turn that table over.
	And you know what?
	I wish him all the best because it's not going to be easy because all the same people that opposed him in the lead up to tonight are going to be opposing him tomorrow.
	Now, compare that to the media on election night.
	I was flipping all over the dials.
	It was a funeral everywhere, except, of course, my call that you just heard.
	And we should put the whole call on Hannity.com.
	Anyway, here is the media freak out on election night.
	Donald Trump, just last week, he confirmed to the National Review that he is again considering a run in 2016.
	Do it.
	Do it.
	Look at me.
	Do it.
	I will personally write you a campaign check now on behalf of this country, which does not want you to be president, but which badly wants you to run.
	Donald Trump has been saying that he will run for president as a Republican, which is surprising since I just assumed he was running as a joke.
	Is that people think that Donald Trump is a clown?
	Donald Trump is a clown.
	I mean, does anybody seriously think that Donald Trump is serious about running for president?
	Donald Trump.
	You know, he's a clown.
	President Obama will go down as perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States.
	Exclamation point.
	At real Donald Trump.
	Well, at real Donald Trump.
	At least I will go down as a president.
	Basically, this is the beginning of the end for Trump.
	The beginning of the end.
	Beginning of the end?
	This is probably starting of the beginning of the end for Donald Trump.
	Donald, you're not going to be able to insult your way to the presidency.
	The strongest person usually isn't the loudest one in the room.
	So right now, we have Hillary's about a 75 or an 80% favorite.
	We have a different version of the forecast you can look at.
	Paul has Hillary Clinton up by double digits nationally, 12 points, 50 to 38 in a four-way race.
	Clinton leading in Florida, Clinton leading in North Carolina, Clinton leading in Ohio, Clinton leading in Nevada.
	I could go on and on and on.
	I continue to believe Mr. Trump will not be present.
	And so right now, Mr. Trump, to answer your call for political honesty, I just want to say you're not going to be president, all right?
	It's been fun.
	It's been great.
	I love you.
	Come on, come on, buddy.
	We have a major projection right now.
	Donald Trump will take Ohio.
	That's the end of projects.
	Donald Trump will carry the state of Florida.
	Huge win for Donald Trump.
	Donald Trump, while we project, will win in Kentucky with Indiana with its 11th electoral votes.
	Western Virginia, Tennessee, Mississippi, South Carolina, Alabama, North Dakota with its three electoral votes.
	And South Dakota, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, the state of Montana, North Carolina, Georgia, Iowa, Utah, Wisconsin, Arizona, Kansas with its six electoral votes, Nebraska with its five electoral votes, and Wyoming with its three electoral votes.
	Sorry to keep you waiting, complicated business.
	A lot of people have laughed at me over the years.
	Now they're not laughing so much, I'll tell you.
	You know, if in light of the media space, oh, Donald Trump lost last night in Virginia.
	Donald Trump was not embraced by Ed Gillespie.
	He didn't win Virginia last year.
	The same thing in New Jersey.
	What does Christie have a 5% approval rating in New Jersey?
	I mean, it's not happening in New Jersey this year.
	We'll need another John Corzine corrupt scandal, and things will move back, hopefully.
	In the state of Washington, Trump didn't win Washington.
	He didn't win New York.
	He didn't go out and campaign.
	Gillespie didn't want him on the campaign trail, which was a bad decision.
	Bannon offered to go help him and would have helped a lot.
	Bad decision.
	Anyway, let's get to our phones.
	Paul is in Bend, Oregon.
	Paul, how are you among the beautiful Redwoods?
	How are you, sir?
	Hi, Sean.
	I'm doing great.
	How are you?
	I'm good.
	What's going on?
	One year later.
	One year later, I've got a great stat for you today.
	I discovered through doing some research on the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
	Today, just one year since Trump was elected, the Dow has already grown 60% of what it grew in eight years under Obama.
	I think the better statistics are the housing statistics, the unemployment statistics, the demographic breakdowns of employment and the improvements we've made and a 17-year low of food stamp participation and a 30-year housing boom for the country.
	We haven't had a housing boom like this in 30 years and a 17-year increase in consumer confidence, and the Republicans haven't even done their job.
	Trump has only done his.
	Right.
	I agree with you 100%.
	I knew you're going to give those stats.
	I love stats myself.
	And the global stock market has gained $28 trillion since Trump's election as of today.
	I mean, that's pretty impressive.
	But your stats are right.
	Unemployment is down to 4.1, lowest in 17 years.
	1.5 million new jobs created since Trump took office.
	Pretty impressive day.
	Pretty impressive day.
	Look, it was a great night.
	I remember how I felt that night.
	And, you know, I started revealing some of the things that took place.
	I got the exit poll numbers.
	The second they're coming in, and I'm looking, North Carolina, done.
	He lost.
	Florida, gone.
	Then I got Wisconsin, gone.
	Pennsylvania, gone.
	Michigan, gone.
	Donald Trump is going to get trounced.
	That's what the exit polls.
	Same thing in 2004.
	John Kerry exit poll showed he was going to be the next president.
	And like in 2004, well, anyway, I got my first break in the 5 o'clock hour.
	I actually called Donald Trump, then candidate.
	I said, in a few minutes, people are going to walk into your office, and he was in Trump Tower that night, and they're going to tell you that you lost, that the exit polls show you lost.
	Don't believe it.
	And then I told them the Dick Cheney story and the 2004 story.
	And then the whole night unfolding.
	And I kept looking, and I said, this looks great.
	This looks great.
	This looks great.
	I have a tradition with Bill Schein, who's been my, up to then, had been my boss for, you know, 22 years.
	On election night, he always comes to me, what are you seeing?
	And he has all these emails he saved over the year for some reason that says, I'm always the first person that calls the race.
	I was the first person that told him Donald Trump's going to be the next president because I saw it unfolding.
	I saw the counties.
	I saw how much, you know, once the polls close and once the results start coming in in certain areas, you have a pretty good idea where that night was headed.
	And I said, I don't know how, but I'm seeing this combination and this possible combination.
	Anyway, thank you, Paul.
	Bonnie is in New Jersey.
	Bonnie, hi, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Good, Sean.
	How are you today?
	I'm good.
	What's going on, Bonnie?
	Sean, you are the spiritual Santa Claus.
	What does that mean?
	I was going to say, with your movie, I just do not even have words.
	Oh, so you went to see it?
	I went to see it Monday.
	I'm going back with a group.
	My mom, my aunt, my cousins, we're all going back again tonight.
	I just cannot say enough words about it.
	I think it's a gift to America.
	I hope it goes throughout the world so they all can have a Christmas blessing.
	This was such a spiritual renewal, and I think people have to go see it to understand it.
	You know, I did this, I think, for all the right reasons.
	I did it because I'm sick of Hollywood.
	I'm sick of their violence, sex, and cartoon character, comic character, movie formula, and Jennifer Anniston falling in love formula.
	So I just wanted a movie that would touch people's hearts, their emotions and their souls, and also be intellectually stimulating and be contemporary.
	It was.
	It was all of those.
	It hit every emotion possible to the human spirit.
	It was in a movie where you heard the crackling of people eating popcorn to the crackling of tissue wrappers being open.
	It was just amazing.
	I warned everybody.
	I have heard entire theaters are crying in this movie.
	Sean, I have to tell you, you know, Jersey guys are pretty tough, pretty tough group.
	And I had a guy that looked like he could have been out of Hell's Angels sitting two seats over from me, and he was crying.
	He was literally crying.
	That's powerful.
	That is a powerful thing.
	And you did it.
	And I just wanted to call it and say thank you.
	You gave a gift to America, and everyone should go and see it.
	I'm so glad you like.
	Listen, here's the other big news.
	I didn't even really know until today that because of the success in week two, remember, we started in 373 theaters.
	We think we're going to be in 800 this weekend.
	Now, again, we're doing this independently.
	We have no backing, no support, no studio at all because we didn't want their influence.
	Because once you get involved, then they have say over this and say over that, and they're annoying as hell, and they don't know what they're doing.
	All right, that's going to wrap things up today.
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