Sean Hannity Show - Best of Sean Hannity: Defending Against Media Matters - 11.24

Nov. 25, 2017 - Sean Hannity Show

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Best of Sean Hannity: Defending Against Media Matters - 11.24

In this "Best of Sean Hannity," Sean explains the attacks behind Media Matters and just how the battle for truth continues. Plus, a review of the GOP tax plan that is making its way through Congress. The Sean Hannity Show is live weekdays from 3 pm to 6 pm ET on iHeartRadio and Hannity.com. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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	The Senate is releasing their bill today and probably heard it might be drastically different from what you guys have put out over here.
	Either a phase in or phase out of the corporate tax rate.
	Not full repeal of the state tax.
	They will fully repeal SAL, even though you talked about the importance of that compromise.
	Is that going to be problematic for resolving?
	Also, a Democratic aide overheard you joking with Ms. McConnell about going to conference.
	Are you guys seriously going to conference?
	I think, put the political hack aside, we are going to conference, and that's the point I've been making is we're going to conference.
	That wasn't a joke.
	That was, I don't, the person, I don't even know who, which, which hack did that.
	But, you know, if you're there, it's we're going to conference.
	Why are we going to conference?
	Because we're doing this the right way.
	We're doing this regular order.
	And yes, the Senate bill is going to be different than the House bill because you know what?
	That's the legislative process.
	But what's encouraging in all of this is just as we discussed at the front end of this process, we have a framework that we established with the White House and the Senate.
	And these bills are being written with inside that framework.
	But the House will pass its bill.
	The Senate will pass its bill.
	And then we will get together and reconcile the differences, which is the legislative process.
	And that's how this process will continue.
	A lot of those analyses that you cited down say that in the out years, these families, more of these families, will see a tax increase.
	That seems primarily due to the sum of the trends.
	You're talking about the sunsets, right?
	Primarily due to the sunsets.
	Can you talk about why you've chosen to do those sunsets?
	Why, when so many of the things on the corporate and business side are permanent, why not?
	We'll make some of those things sunset to keep the milk.
	Bonnie, it's a good question.
	You see both.
	You see the expansion provision sunset.
	So you see business provision sunset and you see some individual provisions sunset.
	But in our bill, the primary provisions, the big provisions like the rates and the child tax credit, those things are made permanent.
	Why?
	Because certainty is really important for economic growth.
	And that's why we believe if you sunset the wrong provisions, you will actually do damage to economic growth and forward planning.
	But what we also learned from the economic standpoint, the things that are sunset are done in a way that they won't damage economic growth.
	They will actually encourage economic growth.
	And also, it's just to be conformant with the rules.
	We have Senate budget rules that we have to be mindful of.
	And we want to make sure that when we pass a bill out of the House, that that bill adheres to the Senate rules so that we can use the reconciliation tool that we need to use to pass tax reform.
	So those sunsets are things that are done to make sure that this bill conforms to the rules we don't personally like in the House, but we need to follow if we want to make sure that it's privileged.
	As a quick follow-up, I mean, there is this expectation that Congress will act later to extend those.
	I believe that as well.
	Two bits of information.
	The Republicans in the Congress took a pair of steps today to drive their tax reform bill.
	And you have a key committee now approve the tax package after some last-minute changes while Republican senators made public their details.
	Now, the downside of what the Senate is doing here is that they're now talking about a delay in the implementation of the lower corporate tax rate until 2019.
	Well, 2019 doesn't help anybody out.
	And as I've been saying, I think on the corporate side, it's great.
	20% corporate tax from a 35% rate, that's fantastic.
	Repatriation, multinationals, trillions of dollars parked overseas, bring it back.
	That's great.
	What the president has done on his own in terms of getting rid of burdensome big government regulations, Obama-era regulations has been great.
	His moves on pushing the country towards energy independence, all things he didn't need Congress to do, that's great.
	But if the Senate is going to wait to 2019, they're going to get slaughtered one year from now.
	Anyway, joining us is Steve Scalise, and he is the Republican Party whip.
	Why are you laughing?
	Was something I said funny?
	How are you?
	It's just good to be back with you, Sean.
	How are you?
	Yeah, you say that, but you're gritting your teeth.
	There's Hannity again.
	All right.
	Well, first of all, how are you feeling?
	I mean, you know, we watched in horror the day that you were shot on that practice field preparing for the congressional baseball game that you have for charity.
	And I know it was not an easy go for you.
	And the last time I spoke with you, you're still struggling.
	How are you doing?
	Yeah, doing really good, Sean.
	And, you know, obviously back then on June 14th, you know, there were a few times that day where I almost didn't make it.
	And, you know, luckily I had a great team of surgeons.
	I had great police officers, Capitol Police and the Alexandria Police officers who literally ran to the fire, ran to the gunman, and ultimately took him down.
	And, you know, and all of us lived, you know, and we're lucky, and you prayed for us.
	So many people prayed for me and my family.
	And I just want to thank you for that because those prayers really lifted me up.
	And I'm doing well.
	I had physical therapy again today.
	We're working on trying to walk again without crutches.
	So, you know, I can walk with crutches, but can't walk without them yet.
	So we're working on that.
	What is your prognosis long term?
	Are you going to get full functioning back?
	Well, they tell me that I will be able to walk without crutches, and hopefully that's coming up in the next few months.
	But whether or not I can run again and play the sports I played before is an open question because I've got some real nerve damage in my, especially on my left foot.
	So, you know, that's what we're trying to work on.
	But, you know, even if that doesn't come back, I'm lucky to be alive.
	I've got my family.
	Well, I knew how prepared.
	Listen, you know I have surprised everywhere.
	I had heard you had gotten within the first 24 hours like a dozen or more blood transfusions.
	Is that true?
	Yeah, when I came in to the emergency room by helicopter from the baseball field, they said I had a zero blood pressure, which, as you can imagine, that means you're kind of dead.
	Of people don't make it out from that.
	And I lost almost all of my blood.
	They had to do a massive transfusion.
	And there were a lot of blood draws after.
	Even Vice President Pence gave blood for those blood dries.
	And I appreciate all of the help there.
	But it was.
	I would have given you my blood.
	But your body probably would have rejected it.
	You can always take more.
	In all seriousness, thank God you're okay.
	And that day, I will say this.
	The Capitol Police were there for you because of your position.
	And I never saw such bravery in my life.
	And as somebody that is, I'm well-versed in the use of firearms, going up against a rifle at a distance, walking into an open field with a pistol.
	They're sitting ducks.
	You're done.
	The odds of them surviving that are limited if the guy is a good shot, a halfway decent shot.
	Yeah, he had a semi-automatic rifle, 762 caliber.
	That's what I was shot with.
	Massive bullet.
	Does a lot of damage.
	And both of them were shot.
	Both David Bailey and Crystal Griner, my two Capitol Police security detail officers, were shot while shooting at the shooter, and they never gave up.
	In fact, they went towards him, which with the heroism and bravery, I mean, they're incredibly well trained, but police officers every day risk their lives for people and it goes unnoticed.
	That's why we all need to stay.
	How are they doing, by the way?
	How are they with their injuries?
	I saw them today.
	In fact, Capitol Police gave the Medal of Honor to both Crystal and David, as well as the three Alexandria police officers who were involved in the shooting and taking down the shooter.
	And Crystal, she had her left ankle really blown out.
	The bullet went through her left ankle.
	A lot of bone damage.
	And she's now off of her, she had a boot on for a while.
	She's using one crutch now, so she's down to one crutch.
	She's looking really good.
	She was able to walk a little bit without a crutch.
	David Bailey is back into running shape.
	I mean, he is raring to go, just an incredible guy in a great spirit.
	And, you know, he's back again.
	We gave each other hugs this morning.
	It's great to see them every time I get that opportunity.
	All right, let me ask you about this tax bill.
	And look, I love the corporate side, as I said.
	But at the end of the day, the top rate is going to stay the same.
	To me, that is an abandonment of Reagan conservative supply-side cross-the-board tax cuts.
	I believe that all the things you're doing are going to help grow the economy and help the forgotten men and women that mattered in this election.
	But on the other side of it, I'm worried that Republicans are just too fearful that they're going to be blamed for tax cuts for the rich when 20% pay nearly all the taxes.
	So by definition.
	Well, first, Sean, every income bracket does better under our bill.
	And somebody making $30,000 a year is going to do really well under this bill.
	Somebody making $30 million is going to also do well because we cut taxes across the board.
	Even if you look at the 39.6% rate, people will be paying that percentage on less of their income because we move more of their income into the lower brackets, especially the 25% rate and the 12% rate.
	So just think about this.
	The first $90,000 of your income will be taxed at 12% now, which is an incredibly low rate for most families.
	And the first $24,000, we double the personal exemption.
	So the standard deduction.
	So your first $24,000 is not going to be taxed.
	And everybody across the board gets a tax cut, plus the corporate side.
	As you mentioned, in our bill in the House, Kevin Brady just passed that out of his committee.
	20% tax rate down from 35%, highest in the industrialized world.
	That's immediate.
	We wanted to make it immediate because we want to get that economic impact and bring jobs back to America.
	And we do that.
	Something else we do, we completely repeal the death tax, Sean.
	That's something that you know, everybody knows about it.
	I heard that six years away, though.
	You're not going to do it right away.
	It phases out.
	So each year it gets, we increase the amount that is exempt from the death tax until it finally completely goes away.
	Listen, I like the idea, but anytime you get, you know, we always get the spending, We always get the tax increase and we never get the spending cuts, and we always get the bulk of these cuts are immediate.
	For families, your lower income tax brackets, those are immediate.
	The corporate tax cuts are immediate.
	So you're going to get a lot of benefit there.
	But also, if you look at the phase-out, part of that is done because, look, I mean, we had targets we had to hit, and you don't want to increase the deficit.
	This is going to bring in a lot of new economic activity.
	So, you know, let's see how this works.
	It's going to work really well from the estimates we're getting already.
	You're seeing reports that average families will get over $2,500 more in their pockets.
	And you're going to see wage growth, something we haven't seen in a long time, Sean, because the economy was going so slow because of the bad Obama policies and the crazy regulations.
	Of course, President Trump has finally reversed a lot of that.
	You're seeing slow increase now in economic growth.
	That's actually pretty significant.
	Why not an across-the-board cut?
	The top 1%, for example, they pay, or the top 10% pay 70% of the taxes, 20%, 90%-some odd percent, bottom 50%, 0%.
	Why not go on all of the rates?
	And, for example, you're going to keep the top rate where it is, but then you're going to take away exemptions like state and local taxes.
	I got a 10 percent income tax in the state of New York, 3 percent city tax, state of New York.
	I can deduct that now, but that's going to be gone.
	So, even I have the same rate and less deductions, and that means I pay more.
	By the way, this is not about me.
	I'm just asking, you know, specifically, why wouldn't we go back to the Reagan philosophy of supply-side conservative tax cuts across the board?
	Well, first, these rates are a lot lower than they were under President Reagan.
	And President Reagan finally confronted tax reforms.
	Reagan was down at 28%.
	He was down at 28 percent.
	If you went from 70 to 28 percent, top marginal rate in his years.
	Right.
	But if you look at what we are doing, number one, there are rules that say you can't cut taxes more than $1.5 trillion in this bill actually.
	Reconciliation.
	Yeah, because of budget reconciliation, you need to make sure that the bill can actually get to President Trump's desk.
	So you can cut $1.5 trillion in taxes, which we do.
	And if you look at where we focused it, President Trump really wanted to focus this on middle-class tax relief.
	And so that's what we did.
	Blackway, everybody's going to get a tax cut.
	Millionaires still will have less of their income taxed.
	So everybody's going to benefit from this.
	We repealed the alternative minimum tax, by the way, something else that hits a lot of upper and middle-income folks in a very unfair way.
	That goes away under this bill.
	So when you look at the whole thing, and you'll be able to, there's going to be a calculator coming out real soon where you're going to be able to look at your personal situation.
	And I think you're going to find most people will see that they will pay less in taxes under this plan, and you get economic growth.
	I'm sick and tired of seeing companies move jobs overseas just because our tax rate is so high.
	Those jobs will now start coming back.
	And we've heard - listen, I'm supporting the bill in the House.
	What if the Senate waits?
	What if the Senate says 2019?
	That is political suicide to me.
	Well, ultimately, both sides are going to have to come to an agreement.
	You can see where we are in the House.
	But do you agree with me?
	Waiting until 2019 is dumb.
	Well, I want to see us make these immediate.
	By the way, you can say it.
	It's true.
	It's dumb because that doesn't help the men and women that are in poverty on food stamps and out of the labor force and grow the economy.
	Why wait?
	And by the way, one of the things we've talked to President Trump about, President Trump really wants to, after we get these tax cuts in place and you see job growth, you're going to need more workers.
	We need to confront some of these other problems in our society, like a runaway welfare program.
	And so we're going to have real welfare reform that President Trump wants to embark upon.
	Let's get people back to work.
	Welfare to work worked when it was done.
	President Obama gutted a lot of those laws.
	Let's put those back in place to help people get into the middle class and become part of the American dream.
	All right, Steve Scalise.
	So glad you're doing better, and we wish you a full, complete recovery.
	Please go to Mitch McConnell's office and tell him I said it's dumb, and he's going to get a lot of people fired if he does that.
	Anyway, well, we're going to go past the house.
	That's where my focus is.
	I'm really behind.
	I got a break, and we wish you the best, sir.
	We really do.
	One of the reasons I think, and I learned this in Atlanta, that I end up being right, and the media ends up being wrong so often.
	I learned this lesson in Atlanta, Richard Jewell, AJC, he fits the profile of the lone bomber.
	He lives with his mother.
	And everybody began to talk about the hero that turned into the villain that might have been responsible.
	Turns out he was innocent.
	And I was right.
	I didn't know that day he was listening to my radio show.
	Gave me one of the first interviews after it came out.
	He was innocent.
	You know, look at all these cases.
	Vetting Obama.
	The media wouldn't do it.
	I did.
	In vetting him, I knew he was a radical ideologue who would govern as a radical.
	He did.
	The media not thinking Trump would win, they were caught up in their narrative.
	They were wrong.
	Ferguson, Missouri, hands up, don't shoot.
	They were wrong.
	Duke La Crosse, they were wrong.
	In the case of Ferguson, Missouri, they were wrong.
	Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, they were wrong.
	Look up, Obama himself, a lawyer, was wrong on Cambridge, wrong on Ferguson, wrong on Baltimore, wrong on Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman.
	I actually believe in the presumption of innocence to be proven guilty.
	The media, now in the court of public opinion, there's 38 years later, you got a million Republicans now saying, oh, Judge Moore, if he did this, he's got to go.
	John McCain, even if you're innocent, you got to go.
	Even if you didn't do it, you got to go.
	They're all establishment figures.
	You see a pattern here?
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	All right, 25 to the top of the hour.
	Judge Roy Moore will talk about the allegations made against him in the next hour.
	This is a separate discussion.
	I'm totally making a delineation here.
	But we're at a point where political correctness now in society is just bleeding over into everything.
	For example, I like comedy.
	I think Chris Rock is hilarious.
	I just think he's funny.
	He's got the energy, paces back and forth around the stage, says a lot of jokes that if you ever said it on radio and TV, you'd be fired in 20 seconds.
	And I laugh.
	I hear jokes about Irish people on Irish.
	I laugh because I know they're jokes.
	And then you got this other whole group of people.
	But if you're a political commentator, every single, especially a conservative, there are people that are paid to watch every minute I'm on TV, listen and record every minute I'm on radio of every single day in the hopes that I say one dumb, stupid thing that they can take out of context that they can chop together and then use to try and attack my advertisers.
	Basically, they want to silence my voice.
	Now, we invited him, Jim Norton, with us.
	He's an outrageous, over-the-top comedian.
	And he's doing a town hall, by the way, tomorrow night.
	Where are you doing your town hall?
	I'm doing town hall here in New York.
	What's that?
	The actual venue on 43rd Street.
	All right, the actual venue.
	I thought you were doing like a town hall.
	I'm like Jim Norton when he's running for office.
	Nobody wants to hear me give political opinions in a serious way.
	You know, I've known you for years, and this is the amazing thing about you.
	You work for Jay Leno for how long?
	I did the tonight show probably on and off from 2004 until Jay left.
	I did a bunch of segments for them, the Jay Leno show.
	So I'm going to guess saying 10 years.
	And over the years, I've interviewed you on radio and TV a long time, right?
	And then I'll turn you on and I'll see you late on late night.
	They don't put you on in the early hours of HBO.
	And it is the most blue, over-the-top, outrageous, explicit stand-up routine.
	I mean, it's almost like the dark side of Jim Norton.
	Thank you.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, thank you.
	Look at me.
	Yeah, thank you.
	It is.
	All right.
	It makes me laugh.
	But you can't talk like that in real life.
	And there are people that hate what you do.
	Sure.
	But we've gotten to a point, everybody can turn the dial.
	If you're honest about what you do, like people who, nobody comes to see me and goes, oh, wow, I didn't expect them to use that kind of language.
	Like, you kind of know what I do when you come.
	After I've done five specials on HBO and then Netflix and Epic.
	So people kind of know what they're in for.
	So people, it's like when people turn you on, they know, all right, Sean's conservative talk.
	This is what he does.
	They come to see me.
	They're like, this is what Jim does.
	The problem is when you surprise people and they think they're coming to see you, like if they saw me in the tonight show and just came to see my act, I've gotten a few walkouts.
	People are like, we wanted you to be cute and pleasant like you were on Jay's show.
	And then I'm confessing the things I'm confessing.
	But this is the interesting thing about you.
	You've been on radio and TV with just about everybody, my shows, and you've been all over cable news over the years.
	And you have a filter.
	You know, okay, this is where the line is on this channel.
	I'm doing Jay Leno's show.
	This is where the line is on that show.
	When you're on filtered and you do your show, I don't think there's any line.
	There's no line you won't cross in terms of making a point or humor.
	No, there's not.
	As long as you're not defaming somebody, like the legal stuff.
	But, you know, I have a good filter for radio because I did regular radio for years, Opi and Anthony.
	And again, doing the tonight show, they would actually tell me I could go farther than I went.
	There were times where I'm like, I don't know if I should do this one or that one.
	And she'd go, oh, screw it.
	Just do it and see.
	If it doesn't work, we'll edit it.
	His executive producer.
	But I'm always careful.
	I don't want to screw up somebody else's gig with my filthy mouth.
	Yeah.
	And you make no apologies about it.
	Is it just for you about the laughs or do you want to shot?
	I think you naturally are just a creative guy that wants people to laugh.
	Sure.
	You want to laugh and be honest.
	I want people to be funny and be honest.
	That's my responsibility.
	I'm not trying to change anybody's.
	When you say honest, though, you mean you want to say things in life that people think that would never have the guts to say.
	Or maybe they would.
	I just want to say things that I think or opinions I have.
	And you know what?
	I'm wrong half the time.
	I'm comfortable being wrong half the time.
	I bet 500 like most of us.
	I'm not afraid to be wrong.
	I don't have to be right.
	I just have to be honest.
	And I think comics fall into this trap sometimes where they think our job is to educate the audience.
	No, it's not.
	A lot of them are smarter than I am.
	My job is to attempt to be funny with my opinions.
	And if I'm wrong, all right, I suck.
	I'm wrong.
	You know, all the years that I've done like my tours, when I first started, I started doing humor.
	And, you know, I do, look, it's my humor.
	I'm not you.
	I'm not claiming to be the funniest person.
	But I get the audience to laugh, really laugh.
	And I like that.
	There was nothing better.
	To rush, right?
	I swear.
	It's so great when you can make people laugh.
	And then sometimes you get in another environment.
	Like I get a paid speech to do at nine o'clock in the morning, and I try the same jokes that I did on stage the night before when there were a bunch of drunk Republicans that they were cracking up at.
	And these people look at me like, really?
	You think that's funny?
	Oh, I would love to see Sean Hannity bombing.
	That would be fun to watch.
	It's uncomfortable, isn't it?
	It sucks.
	It really sucks.
	So how do you get out of it?
	I mean, I just go to another joke, but when you're making a speech and you bomb, how do you get out of it?
	Then I go to serious.
	Oh, you clear the throat?
	But, you know, all kidding aside.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Pretty much.
	Is that what you call it?
	The clear the throat thing?
	Yeah, when you clear the throat, like when you do a joke and it gets nothing.
	But you know, folks, like you meant it to be serious.
	Like, I'm glad you guys didn't laugh.
	That was a real point.
	Yeah, it's embarrassing.
	You know, put politics aside in this sense.
	I don't understand why the left, they all hate Donald Trump.
	They do.
	There's a part of him that is funny.
	His tweets are funny.
	And I watch him, and I've known him for a couple of decades, so I know him better.
	And there's like a little twinkle in his eye.
	Oh, I know what I'll do.
	I'll say you have low ratings.
	Yeah.
	You know, or your fake news.
	And he's defending himself.
	He's serious on the one hand.
	On the other hand, there's like a little kid in there that loves kind of poking the caged animal in a way, the media.
	Well, you know, I think we're all like that.
	Like the conservatives hated Obama.
	We're just simply, we have a line in the sand and anyone who thinks a compromise is weakness.
	So nobody compromises.
	So we just stand there over this invisible line and scream at each other.
	And when something happens, like a shooting, this group takes this information from it.
	That group takes that information.
	And we just use it to bludgeon each other in the next argument.
	It's silly.
	What do you do in terms of do you make fun of all of that when you're out there?
	Everything.
	Yeah, I go after everything.
	I mean, obviously, I'm talking about Kevin Spacey and Weinstein and all the stuff that's been happening in the news.
	My own life, I talk about the present.
	You know, you have to talk about what's happening in politics.
	You have to talk about what's happening in the world.
	Yeah.
	And that's what drives your audience.
	And you make, how do you write, or do you just, how much of it is extemporaneous just based on your experience?
	How much just comes, it's you unfiltered.
	Here it goes.
	You plan a lot of it.
	My act is planned, but when I'm working out material, I'll walk on stage with a comedy seller and go, like, I want to make fun of Kevin Spacey.
	What do I do?
	And I'll just start kind of talking and working through it.
	So at the comedy seller, when reporters, they went down there last night and they kind of chopped up a bit I did about Harvey Weinstein and they put one of those lines like I was attributing that to Louie and I wasn't.
	So it's like they take these things that you're working out and they make it look like this is a serious statement he's making.
	But you're going to a comedy club.
	Sure, I personally love to go to comedy clubs.
	I and I like struggling comics.
	You know they have open mic nights.
	You ever see that.
	Yeah yeah, of course.
	Remember Tamara Holder.
	Tamara Holder, really courageously, she started doing that.
	She was funny too.
	You know what?
	She was funny and I kind of was.
	I said to her, you know what?
	I'm really proud of you because you're stepping out of your comfort zone and you're doing something that you normally wouldn't otherwise do and a lot of people won't step out of their comfort zone.
	Yeah, stand-up scares people and it's it's for me.
	It's like acting is scarier because you're trapped in a scene like if I'm bombing, I can go like oh god, am I dying up here, but you can't do that when you're in an acting scene.
	So I kind of find comedy to be less pressure than other forms of entertainment.
	See, I don't think this is getting any better.
	I think it's gonna get worse.
	For example, anytime there's been a free speech issue and you've known me over the years, this goes for Opi and Anthony, back in the day, this goes I've always thought Howard Stern is funny.
	Yeah, if Howard Stern didn't have the humor side or was viewed as you know who he was, any other person would probably get fired and he dealt with crazy program directors all of his life.
	I just think it's getting so confined when Bill Maher gets in trouble.
	I never say he should be fired.
	Back in the ABC days when he did politically incorrect, I hate Bill Maher.
	He's a jackass.
	I can't stand that.
	You know, like Bill Maher?
	No, but I believe in you like him?
	You know, I like Bill because I respect the fact that he defends speech and I respect the fact that he doesn't call people to get fired.
	I don't always agree with him, but I do like him.
	Personally, I like him.
	But you know, there's hardly anybody on the left when a conservative is under fire and a conservative is being boycotted.
	Liberals never speak up.
	Yeah, they don't defend what they don't like.
	And it's kind of like, that's kind of what makes them special.
	It's like, you're supposed to defend speech you don't like.
	Yeah, I agree with that.
	I don't like when people, we just target each other according to ideology.
	Yeah, but I make my living with free speech.
	I will never say anybody should be fired.
	I mentioned you on the air this morning on my radio show because you always stuck up for Opie and Anthony.
	I said, you're one of the guys who always defended speech.
	Wait, and I was a Catholic after all that had happened.
	Yes, and you were also a competitor.
	You were up against Opie and Anthony.
	You still stuck up for them.
	I did.
	But, you know, the other thing is, look, there's one other thing.
	We don't forgive people anymore.
	That's right.
	You know, if you say, I'm just talking about words.
	You know, you say something to somebody and you're like, or you look, how many hours of radio you do a day?
	Three?
	I do three a day.
	Three a day.
	I do three a day.
	One hour of TV.
	That's a lot of extemporaneous talking.
	We don't have scripts right now in front of us.
	I have no idea what I'm going to ask you next.
	And that's what live radio is supposed to be about.
	And you know what?
	You may screw up in the course of a day.
	Now, thank God there's a dump button.
	We have seven actually on this program.
	That's a little.
	How many times have you dumped yourself?
	You know, very not on satellite.
	I haven't had to because, you know, I know I can curse.
	And like I said, I'm not defaming people legally.
	So, you know, but the button is there if I ever need to.
	You can come on this show and not curse, considering you curse every other word in the morning.
	You know, we don't curse as much as you might think.
	And I also know that I can on terrestrial.
	Like I did, I'm more paranoid on terrestrial because all the bosses are in New York.
	So in New York, you can't say anything because those creepy lawyers will start calling.
	So I'll go to Pittsburgh and they'll be dropping words.
	I'm like, can you say that?
	And they'll be like, yeah.
	So I'm actually more conservative with my language on radio than most jocks are.
	What do you know about Louis C.K.?
	Lowe's been a friend of mine.
	I love him.
	He's been a friend of mine for over 20 years.
	He was one of the first guys in New York to be nice to me.
	In 95, I met Louis.
	Is he admitting all this?
	He came out and he admitted it and he apologized and he said the allegations are true.
	And, you know, it's kind of, it's hard to hear because I love the guy.
	I'm glad he's admitting it.
	But it's also like, look, when you're a boss and when you have a position of power over somebody, it's like, it's a different dynamic than when you're on a date with somebody and she's kind of into what you're doing.
	You know, it's like if somebody is afraid to tell you no because there's a power dynamic, that's where it gets really creepy.
	That's the thing.
	I look at this and a lot of these other cases and a lot of these people that have admitted it, but I do believe you can't rush to judge.
	If somebody says it didn't happen, now some people may be lying and it really did.
	Sure.
	But we don't give people the presumption of innocence either.
	I mean, how about the Duke LaCrosse case?
	How about Herman Kane and Clarence Thomas?
	What about hands up, don't shoot, never happen?
	Never, never, Jim Norton, never happened.
	The same with, look at everyone rushed to judgment with George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin.
	And the same thing with Freddie Gray and Obama with Cambridge police.
	People rushed to.
	Duke LaCrosse is a great example.
	Those kids were excoriated.
	88 professors took out a paid advertisement in the school newspaper.
	And what was his name?
	Kenneth Nifong or whatever?
	The prosecutor actually stepped down due to prosecutorial necessity.
	He got in trouble in the end of this whole thing.
	He got in trouble.
	He did, yeah.
	And he should have.
	I mean, what he did was he kind of knew that they didn't do it.
	And I think he believed he pushed anyway.
	Yeah, we do judge each other quickly like that.
	And a lot of times it's true, and a lot of times it's not.
	When you have 10 or five different accusers, like I know Louis very well and I love him, but I read those accounts and I'm like, they sounded like they were being honest.
	They didn't sound like they were lie.
	Like, you know, sometimes you hear that, BS.
	I don't get the creepy part of it.
	What guy does that?
	Let me give you an example.
	And everyone takes this out of context when I give it.
	Look, I wasn't the serial dater, but I was kind of like, let's say you're at a movie and you want to put your arm around a girl.
	I'm going very basic here.
	Yeah, yeah.
	You grab her hand and she's like pulls away.
	I'm so sorry.
	That's how I am.
	Yeah, I can't comprehend what he is.
	I can't comprehend it.
	That's what I mean.
	And I don't, I'm not marking.
	No, I can be a freak too, but that energy I don't get, like, just being in front of people doing that.
	Like, I'm a comic and I'm comfortable being visible there, but doing that in front of somebody who I'm not sure if they're into it.
	Are you as crazy in your real life as you are on stage?
	And I'm not really that crazy.
	No, honestly, not.
	On stage, you're insane.
	But because it's the ugly side of myself talking, and I'm telling on myself, and I'm theorizing, and I'm speculating, and I'm making fun of myself, my insecurities.
	You know, you exaggerate a little bit because just to tell the truth is it's a sad world.
	So you have to exaggerate somewhere and make fun of it.
	So I am making fun of it in myself.
	Because you're trying to make people laugh.
	That's my goal.
	Is it now to the point where it's so static, everybody's so afraid to say anything, and it's going to get worse?
	No, I think you have to be able to defend what you say.
	Like if somebody comes to you and says, hey, like they chopped up, like I said, they screwed up in this article today.
	This happened to me yesterday, too.
	They take it out of context.
	The good news is that, you know, if it's just words, a lot of times the news passes and people lose interest in it.
	But if you can defend what you say and go, hey, this is what I meant and this is why I said it, reasonable people will usually listen to you.
	All right, so you're going to be at town hall tomorrow.
	Saturday, 9:45.
	What street is that on?
	That's on 43rd Street.
	43rd Street in New York.
	Don't go and bring the kids.
	You can bring the kids to my movie, but they can't go to your show.
	Yeah, they probably should not come to my show unless they're 18 or over and really creepy kids.
	If you're playing tonight, I'd go.
	I'd go right after my TV.
	I'd love to have you come.
	Come tomorrow.
	Come into the city.
	I hate coming.
	You know what?
	I might because a friend of mine's in the hospital.
	Actually, I have to go see him.
	Yeah, bring him.
	Share him or make him feel worse.
	Whatever will happen.
	All right, Jim Norton.
	Thanks for being with us.
	Appreciate it.
	Thank you, buddy.
	Good to see you.
	Good to see you guys.
	Appreciate it.
	We'll continue.
	All right, when we come back, exclusive interview, Judge Roy Moore will respond to the Washington Post.
	And we have a lot of questions we're going to ask him.
	We have a lot more coming up in the course of the program today.
	Kellyanne Conway is going to stop by in the next hour.
	Also, Mercedes Coleman and DC McAllister will stop by.
	We'll go over all of the implications and all of the talk about, okay, how does the media get things wrong so often?
	What is it about the obsession to rush to judgment?
	Why do people constantly in the media get it wrong?
	Why do we get it right?
	Well, I explained why.
	I explained, I learned lessons, and I learned a valuable lesson.
	You know, I've said yesterday, I haven't said it yet today, you know, there's 10 commandments that 10 big ones.
	You know, thou shalt not kill.
	I'm the Lord thy God.
	There should be no false gods before me.
	Ten big ones that you get.
	Although it was broken down to love God with all your heart, mind, and soul, and your neighbors yourself.
	We know the nine commandments are absolutely broken all the time.
	Why is bearing false witness against a neighbor so wrong?
	Now, does that mean I think Judge Moore is innocent?
	I don't know.
	I wasn't there 38 years ago, nor does anybody else that is convicting him.
	You got to wait for truth, facts, information.
	Then you decide.
	All right, some breaking news.
	We've got Horia Allred momentarily is expected to hold a press conference.
	When that happens, we'll bring it to you live.
	It is assumed it is another accuser as it relates to Roy Moore.
	We'll bring you that information as it becomes available.
	Also, there is a deadlock in the Menendez trial in New Jersey, and the jurors have been told to go back into the deliberation room.
	Occasionally it works out.
	Usually it doesn't.
	That means hung jury, possible retrial.
	We don't know what's going to happen.
	And we've got so much other news today that we are going to get to.
	Newt Gingrich checks in today.
	You have two congressmen, Freedom Caucus members, Jim Jordan, Matt Gates of Florida, have literally decided the time for waiting is over on the email server scandal, on the dossier scandal, on all scandals involving Clinton, Uranium One, and more.
	And they're demanding that the Attorney General appoint a special counsel.
	And they said, Mr. Attorney General, it's time to do your job, and they will get to that today.
	Also, we're going to have a combined, what, almost 80 years experience in national security today, Bill Binney and Kirk Weeby, as they look into all of the issues involving hacking and surveillance and whether or not the tools of intelligence are being turned on we, the American people.
	You know, we've got to protect ourselves, but I digress.
	Let me start where I need to obviously start here.
	I want to start first with a very, very appreciative, humble thank you to all of you.
	And I want to explain what is really happening in truth because it is a clear and present danger that anybody that is a conservative, and frankly, it has to do with the president, a lot to do with the president.
	If you support the president, support his views, support his agenda, and you're a conservative and you're in the media, they absolutely, there are groups of people that want to silence conservative voices.
	It's that severe an issue.
	But so this weekend, I had a lot going on.
	My brother-in-law in an operation, sweet baby James, he's fine.
	I was in the hospital with him for a number of hours and actually worked out of my benefit because I had no idea all hell was breaking loose without me and I actually enjoyed it.
	But let me tell you what's happening.
	There is in this country, there are paid hired guns.
	That's the only way to describe them.
	And that their goal and their job is to silence any and every conservative voice in this country.
	And they have done everything possible over many, many years, have told so many lies about me over many, many years.
	They have purposely distorted me and every other conservative for many, many years.
	And what they try to do is write out of Alinsky's playbook, target, isolate, and go full force against one at a time.
	You've heard about these things in the past.
	It started up again.
	Well, it's really been an ongoing thing for a year.
	It's not, it just got heated up this weekend for a reason I'll explain in a minute.
	But I just want to first acknowledge this show and every conservative show and my show on TV does not survive without your support.
	Number one, they can't stand where number one in cable and the ratings.
	They can't, all across cable.
	My show is the number one show.
	You have made that happen, not me.
	We try to do our job and put on the best show we can every night.
	And there are many people that enjoy, like, hearing something that doesn't parrot the Democratic Party because most of the media is abusively biased.
	So this group is formed.
	Who is Media Matters for America?
	They are the number one anti-free speech, pro-censorship group in America today.
	This is a group that is funded.
	Well, in part, they got money from George Soros.
	But they're funded by mostly anonymous, although we know who some of them are, millionaires and billionaires.
	They want to stay anonymous.
	And a group like Media Matters, they're basically the hired guns of censorship.
	And their job is to go out there every day and lie and distort and propagandize against every conservative voice in the country.
	And you've got these anonymous people, millionaires, billionaires, that are paying them handsomely to be their hired guns.
	And the goal at the end of the day is to silence every conservative voice that they possibly can.
	This is the very definition of liberal fascism.
	Let me be clear.
	Imagine they're successful and Sean Hannity's off the air.
	I'm off Fox.
	Imagine Fox is off the air.
	Imagine a world where Rush Limbaugh is not on the air, 12 to 3 Eastern, 9 to noon Pacific every day.
	Imagine Glenn Beck.
	I have disagreements with Glenn Beck.
	They've been after him for years too.
	That you don't have Glenn 6 to 9 or 9 to noon, depending which time zone you live in.
	Imagine a world without Mark Levin.
	Imagine the great one.
	Thank me.
	Imagine a world where 3 to 6 Eastern or 3 to 6 Pacific or 6 to 9 Eastern, you don't hear his voice.
	Imagine you don't hear Laura Ingram's voice, Tucker Carlson's voice, Michael Savage's voice.
	Anybody that has and is a conservative, it is an unrelenting, well-organized, well-financed effort to silence our voices.
	Their tactics are lies, propaganda, distortion, selective editing, and every other thing that they can use to silence voices.
	So this is who they are.
	This is what they do.
	They are the biggest anti-free speech, pro-censorship group in America.
	And they are paid by anonymous leftists that if they had their way, ultimately they would alter and change America forever.
	Now, we're looking into, we're looking into, yeah, just tape it.
	We are looking into whether or not we're looking into the funders, the financers, the people, the tax status.
	And there's so much going on behind the scenes that I don't want to go through all of it now.
	And it's going to be powerful.
	I will say this to you today.
	If you want to know who runs Media Matters, I've discovered a website.
	It's called Angelocarazoni.com.
	Now, it's fascinating.
	They're hired guns to attack conservatives.
	And you will see statements that are racist.
	You will see statements that are anti-Semitic.
	You will see statements that are anti-gay.
	You will see statements that are anti-transsexual.
	You will see statements that if any conservative ever uttered them, they would use as a predicate to start a campaign to silence the conservatives.
	Now, all of this got started last week when the Judge Moore issue came up.
	And I could not be any more clear or unambiguous on this program about where I stand against evil, where I stand against pedophilia if it happened, where I stand against somebody that would be guilty of what Judge Moore is accused of.
	And the fact that the statute of limitations, you are not fit to serve.
	I went through chapter and verse and chapter and verse.
	Now, I have also, I went through chapter and verse that I have learned very valuable lessons being on the air for 30 years on radio and now my 23rd year at Fox.
	And some of the valuable lessons I learned is with Richard Jewell.
	I told the story a number of times.
	Richard Jewell was first thought to be a hero in the Olympic bombing case.
	Then all of a sudden, the AJC prints, well, he fits the profile of a lone bomber because he lives with his mother.
	I was on the air and I said, that doesn't mean he's a bomber.
	I believe in the presumption of innocence for every American.
	And let me also be clear.
	I will never, ever change that view.
	Well, Hannity, what about the Clintons?
	Yeah, I did my own work.
	I researched the Clintons.
	And what did I find?
	I interviewed Paula, Jennifer, Juanita, Kathleen, and so many others.
	And then I made my decision based on facts and evidence.
	Then the world found out it was all true anyway with Monica Lewinsky.
	And then the lies and the smear and besmirchment of her.
	That's a separate issue.
	So I just want to be clear.
	You are talking about Media Matters is run by a racist, an anti-Semite, anti-gay, anti-trans bigot.
	Angelocarazoni.com.
	We'll link it to my website, Hannity.com.
	Now, I am a believer in freedom of speech.
	You've never heard me in my life on this program ever support a boycott.
	I'm not going to support a boycott of Kerrig.
	Now, what's fascinating about this is they went out with a list of, I think they said five or six.
	I don't remember what the number was.
	All these people pulled off Sean Hannity's show.
	Boycott's working, working, working, working.
	Now, Kerrig, interestingly, gets a tweet from that president of Media Matters.
	And what we discovered is that some social media person, unbeknownst to them, had no idea that he is the biggest pro-censorship, anti-free speech guy in the country and runs that organization.
	And then they said, oh, well, we're taking it under consideration and we're going to pull our ads off to Sean Hannity or Hannity, the TV show.
	Well, I just checked with the advertising department.
	They're not a big advertiser on my program.
	All the people they listed are not big advertisers on my program.
	And many of you, unbeknownst to me, see all of this happening, see this effort to get me fired, see this effort to silence my voice, and you started breaking your Carib coffee machines.
	And it was hilarious.
	And I just kind of retweeted some of the video.
	You're dropping it from like the second floor and smashing it.
	Somebody's smashing it with a sledgehammer.
	Somebody's slashing it with a hammer or beating it with a hammer.
	Somebody's beating it with a golf club.
	I was stunned.
	And it's very much appreciated in this sense that you were doing it to defend me.
	You were doing it to defend the bigger principle of conservatives ought to have a microphone in this country.
	You saw this and you know this and it's happened to so many other people that you wanted to engage in this.
	Now, I don't have enough time in this segment.
	Now, the Kerrig people have taken notice.
	The CEO has apologized now for taking sides.
	And I, let's just say there are things happening that I can't talk about now.
	I'm going to ask a favor.
	Hold your fire, please.
	Please.
	There is, in my opinion, Kerrig was a victim of a group that has a radical agenda and they didn't know.
	I am convinced.
	I am going to be giving away a lot of coffee machines.
	All of you that broke yours will be getting one.
	I will, because you did that for me on your own.
	And I, you ought not, these coffee machines are expensive.
	All right.
	I don't know what brand it's going to be yet.
	I just don't know.
	You want me to keep going?
	Is that what you're telling me?
	Oh.
	Yeah.
	But I'm going to be giving away at least 500 coffee machines this week as a way of saying thank you for all of you who have supported me.
	But I also, I don't want to be unfair either.
	I truly and honestly, after reading the statement of the CEO of the Kerrig Coffee Company, and I have five Kerrig machines myself, I absolutely believe him.
	And I absolutely believe this was a social media person that had no idea who they were dealing with.
	There's also the bot campaigns that they use, which is, it seems like real people, they're not real people.
	And these companies get inundated 5,000 emails at once, and they think it's real people.
	And it usually is not.
	It's usually 100.
	They're all usually paid and bought and paid for hired guns to destroy freedom of speech.
	So it's a real threat.
	But I have so much more to say.
	And by the way, these videos, I think, are the funniest things I think I've ever saw.
	I was crying in laughter all weekend when I saw them.
	I'm going to explain so much more when we get back.
	I don't want to waste this.
	This is too important because if they win, okay, I'll be on a beach somewhere, but so will Rush.
	And Fox won't be there.
	And our voices will be smashed.
	And our country and freedom of speech, which we should all be embracing, will be gone in this country.
	And their efforts will be rewarded.
	Who are the millionaires and billionaires?
	So anyway, I want to just be clear.
	The Kerig CEO apologized for taking sides.
	And by the way, how cool is it that they advertise on my show?
	They advertise on Fox.
	They advertise on CNN.
	They advertise on MSNBC.
	They don't take sides.
	Guess what?
	Liberals drink coffee.
	And so do conservatives.
	They drink coffee.
	You know, oh, here's the latest thing.
	So all I'm just, by the way, it says on my Twitter, retweets are not endorsements.
	I just sent out videos.
	They expect me at Media Manners to research every single person I've ever retweeted.
	I have no idea who they are.
	Hannity just retweeted a white supremacist.
	I'm like, guys, this is how obscene and absurd it is.
	These paid hack hitmen, that's all they are.
	They are hired guns.
	The people that fund them are people that want to radically change America, not the Democrat liberal, radical leftists shred the Constitution as we currently configure it.
	And they want a world without me, Fox, Rush, Mark, Laura, Michael, and anyone else, Bill, anyone else you might like.
	They want to get rid of every conservative voice.
	What you did to support me is amazing.
	I accept the CEO apologizing today.
	And please stop breaking your Kerrig machines.
	And I'll tell you about our giveaway.
	25 to the top of the hour.
	Pastor Scott, in just a second here.
	You know, I just want to remind everybody of this, as we now talk about these very serious, important issues when these charges come up now on almost a daily basis.
	You cannot forget here as we examine the systemic, deplorable defense that has gone on 30 years of the most troubling, predatory conduct of Bill Clinton and sexual abuse allegations.
	It is now 30 years and up to and including last year.
	The destroy Trump media, now that it doesn't matter because Hillary lost, Now there begin a few of them that have a conscience and a soul that knew that they were lying.
	You know, oh, yeah, now we can look at Bill Clinton's record.
	Now it's open.
	Now he's, I believe, Juanita.
	I don't know whether to say better late than never, or is it just politically expedient?
	Because now that sort of gives you, you know, now we can just go after every Republican, and it's okay now because now we really mean it.
	You know, you have people in the media that did everything they colluded with Hillary Clinton's campaign.
	Never asked those questions.
	Nobody over at MSNBC, and I give Chris Hayes a lot of credit.
	I don't know him, but he actually said, you know, the real day of reckoning is now coming with them.
	Well, why wasn't that last year during a heated campaign?
	Because they wanted Hillary to win more is the answer.
	And that's the sad part.
	Not him in particularly, but people.
	So, okay, so some are now coming to terms with what they said and how they covered it all up and what they did and how they used every effort to protect Bill Clinton and how there was a systemic smear campaign against any woman that said anything against him and discredit all of his accusers.
	What they said and did is beyond despicable.
	By the way, Jennifer Flowers was the first.
	And then in the Monica Lewinsky years, it turns out Bill Clinton admitted he did have an affair with Jennifer Flowers.
	Jennifer Flowers, what did they say at the time?
	Oh, she's a liar.
	Oh, those tapes were doctored on and on and on, even though you can hear them talking and distinguish his voice.
	She went into some detail how she had a 12-year affair with him.
	All right, that's affair.
	That's consensual, but it's still his behavior.
	And then when he lied about it, he hurt her in that sense.
	And Hillary Clinton goes on 60 Minutes and she defended him.
	And then the same to Paula Jones.
	This was a case of exposing himself.
	Drag $100 through a trailer park, as James Carville once said.
	You never know what people are going to say.
	You know, it's all of this now is in the public record.
	And Paula Jones saying what she said, Kathleen Willie saying she was attacked in the Oval Office, groped, and fondled, and touched and kissed and grabbed by Bill Clinton.
	Then Juanita Broderick's story.
	You know, all of these women individually were smeared, slandered.
	They weren't believed.
	Hillary never believed one of them.
	But now last year during the campaign, she said, oh, every woman has a right to be believed.
	But look how they're look at their history here.
	You know what it is?
	I'm going to tell you something.
	Me pointing this out, a lot of people just don't have the courage to say all of this.
	They just don't.
	Because you're taking on the powerful forces of the left that it doesn't matter how deep their hypocrisy goes, doesn't matter how grotesque their defense of all of this was.
	It means nothing.
	You know, Kathleen Willie, Paula Jones, Juanita Broderick, I took the time to interview all of these women.
	Just like I am saying in every case, you have got to look for facts and truth and information and then make your determination, which now the people of Alabama are going through that process down in Alabama.
	And I have confidence in the people of Alabama.
	They're going to figure it out, sort it out between now and this election in December.
	There will be many things that come out between now and then that they can decide.
	Maybe the scientific side of this, the forensic side of this, is going to play a big part of it as it relates to the yearbook.
	And if the ink is newer, if the ink is from the 70s, or if it's his handwriting, according to experts, or it's not his handwriting, according to experts.
	I mean, that will tell a lot if Gloria Allred ever turns it all over.
	You know, but of course, Hillary said it was all a vast right-wing conspiracy.
	And then taking money from countries that abuse women, millions, and kill gays and lesbians and persecute Christians and Jews.
	You know one thing that money did buy those countries?
	Her silence, the great champion of woman, Hillary Clinton.
	All right, we'll have plenty more time for this later in the program today.
	What are you doing?
	Pastor Daryl Scott is here, my friend from Cleveland, the national director of the Diversity Council, right?
	Yep, Diversity Coalition.
	How are you?
	Doing good, man.
	Listen, I had to stop by and holler at my homie while I was in town.
	Well, first of all, I had the best time at your church.
	We had a great time with you.
	You know, I asked you before I got there.
	I said, well, do you have anything where I can put a couple of notes down?
	And what did you say to me?
	Oh, we've got a platform now.
	We've got a podium.
	It is the biggest podium I've ever seen in my life.
	It's hilarious.
	Yeah, that way, you know, you won't drop your books.
	You won't drop your Bible.
	It's great.
	Is that why you do it?
	You know what?
	Large podiums like that came into vogue in the black church.
	Right.
	And so, you know, there is a black church.
	You have the white church.
	Well, the white church has got those little metal rostrums.
	But your church.
	Well, we're mixed congregations.
	Yeah.
	But, and, you know, that was the vogue furniture, and I liked it.
	I liked the big platform.
	But, you know, my wife and I used to preach side by side for years.
	We tag teamed, and we would stand up there together and so we need a room.
	She took up all the space, so I needed a bigger platform.
	By the way, if you're anybody in this country today that supports this president, boy, you're not liked by a lot of people.
	Have you paid that price like I do?
	Oh, yeah, of course.
	You know, I'm still getting it every day on a regular basis.
	Do you really?
	Yeah, but you know, I have sort of like the same Twitter disease that the president has.
	Sometimes, I don't know, I might have some sick psychological, twisted psychosis that I thrive on some of that stuff, and I like to go back and forth and hit them back and make them mad and get them angry.
	But then my wife would come along and say, okay, Pastor, stop.
	And so I have to.
	Is that what she says?
	Yeah, I have to restrain myself.
	You know, I've gone through periods where I'm really active on Twitter and I'm just fighting away.
	And then I've been through a quiet period now.
	I don't tell you why.
	I'm just too busy.
	I got too much work to do.
	I'm doing too much research.
	I'm trying to do my part.
	And I've got four hours on air a day.
	I can hit back anywhere I want.
	And how many followers you got now?
	Not like you.
	I mean, I'm only up to like 40,000 or something like that.
	Oh, let's start retweeting everything Pastor Scott does.
	Yeah, help me get some Twitter followers.
	But you know what?
	You have a loyal army out there of Hannityites.
	You know, they went in on the coffee maker and tore him a new one.
	And anybody mess with Sean, you got to mess with us.
	So, I mean, he's got a whole army out there.
	You know, they rallied the troops, too.
	You know, I can tell you, come on now.
	They're going after Sean, so we got to get them.
	And so, hey, I jumped right in.
	You know something?
	There's one thing that I've the good book that you preach every Sunday.
	Actually, you preach how many days a week?
	I do.
	I do.
	My wife does Tuesday.
	I do Thursday and Sunday, twice on Sunday, once on Thursday.
	So I'm twice a week.
	She's one of the people.
	But, you know, you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.
	You know, one thing I just want in all of this, I just want to know the truth.
	Well, I stayed on Twitter, and I said, listen, if more, the judge did do this, it's very unfortunate.
	And if he didn't do it, it's very unfortunate because he's accused of doing it.
	You know, nowadays in this country, they begin with a verdict, and then they search for the evidence instead of taking the evidence and arriving at a verdict.
	So this country has become backwards.
	And it's because of the left.
	We just retweeted three of your tweets, by the way.
	Oh, good.
	Linda did, yeah.
	Isn't that nice?
	All right.
	So maybe, by the way, if you're on Twitter, what's your handle?
	What is it?
	At Pastor D. Scott, I think.
	At Pastor D. Scott.
	Hey, Linda, what is it?
	At Pastor D. Scott?
	Is that what it is?
	He doesn't even know his own.
	It's at Pastor D. Scott.
	At Pastor D. Scott.
	Okay, great.
	Now I know.
	You know, getting to the truth or saying that you don't rush to judgment, although all the liberals defended the Clintons for 30 years, which is amazing.
	And you do that, and it's like people think, oh, I'm guilty.
	You know, oh, you're It's not political for me.
	Let me say this, and it's something I thought about.
	In black America, Roy Moore might get more leniency because blacks are accustomed to being accused falsely of sexual impropriety, sexual crimes, among other things.
	And so in the black community, you know, the judgment is somewhat reserved on the street.
	You know, when you hear these guys in the barbershops and on the streets and then in the community, the judgment is somewhat reserved because a lot of people have been through the same experience, being falsely accused.
	That is one of the Ten Commandments.
	Yeah.
	And I shall not bear false witness.
	Why do you think why?
	It's interesting because I think the Ten Commandments have been broken down, and I'm giving you my little bit of seminary background.
	You shall love God with all your mind, heart, body, and soul, and your neighbor as yourself.
	And upon these laws rest all the laws of all the prophets, something to that effect.
	Okay.
	One of the top ten is a big deal.
	We know the other nine commandments are broken regularly.
	Is that one broken regularly?
	Which one?
	Bear false witness?
	Oh, all the time.
	I mean, basically, it's saying don't lie.
	Yeah, don't lie.
	You know, we used to have a saying in the church back in the day.
	We say, liars will be friars.
	They'll be what?
	We'll be friars because in the book of Revelation, it says all liars will be found in the lake of fire.
	Have their place in the lake of fire.
	All right, here's a quick thing.
	Liars will be friars.
	The book of Revelation, I know, how many people do they say in total will be saved?
	144,000.
	Is that literal?
	No, they didn't say that.
	Why are you laughing at me?
	The Bible doesn't say only 144,000.
	Those 144,000 were Jewish missionaries that would go forth during the tribulation and evangelize the planet Earth.
	They're coming forth from each of the 12 tribes of Israel.
	But it's an innumerable company.
	But everybody, even the apostles thought the end of the world was coming, right?
	I mean, you know what it is?
	We live like it might come at any minute, but we work like it's not coming for a long time.
	So you can't rest on your laurels and say, well, since Jesus is coming back and I believe it, I'm not going to do anything.
	So we work like he won't be back for a long time, but we live like he can come at any moment.
	But there are certain signs that we're supposed to observe and earthquakes and diverse places and the love of man will grow cold.
	Are we at that point?
	We're at that point with those signs, but there's some political things that have to be done.
	And to be honest, to be totally honest, I see, I've seen President Trump's presidency.
	It seems to me that because of his America first policy, you know, America is not mentioned in the book of Revelations.
	America, so there are a lot of thoughts concerning that.
	Will America have been destroyed or will America lessen its influence on the world stage?
	Because the events of the book of Revelation all take place over in the Middle East.
	So is America going to withdraw its presence or its influence from the Middle East?
	And I can see that happening, but it depends on who's going to be the president.
	But actually, I mean, this president, in many ways, I think, has done more than our ties with Israel rather than isolated us.
	Well, yeah, he strengthened our ties with Israel.
	But more importantly, you see, you know, as the Iranians seek hegemony in the region, you do see an alliance that has become unprecedented.
	And that's the Saudis, that's the Israelis, that's the Egyptians, that's the Emirates, that's the Jordanians, all against Iran.
	Because if you put, you know, the Iranian mullahs that chant death to America, death to Israel, and burn American flags and burn Israeli flags, that's kind of uniting everybody because if you marry radical Islamists with a weapon of mass destruction, that could be revelation-like, catastrophic.
	In the book of Revelations, actually, you know, Saudi Arabia is going to give refuge to Israel.
	So their relation is not going to be, they're going to have a stronger relationship than they do now.
	I'll be honest, I've read the book of Revelation.
	I don't understand it.
	I'll give you some material that will help you understand.
	I do not understand.
	I've got some good reading material.
	If I read the Bible, I usually, if you read about King David or if you read the Psalms or you read the words written in red, I understand those words.
	Revelations I don't understand.
	It's not really hard to understand.
	There's a threefold division to it.
	I mean, we can get into it.
	It will take a while, but it's not as hard to understand once you find the key to it.
	You know what I'm going to ask you?
	Okay.
	You believe in speaking in tongues.
	Yes, Kareem does too.
	We got Kareem here in the studio.
	Kareem believes in speaking in the tongue.
	You do believe.
	All right.
	So if I start speaking Russian, because the apostles got that gift, and they would speak to peoples in other lands, and they would speak in their language, which they had never studied.
	Isn't that what the Bible says?
	In that instance on the day of Pentecost, but the Bible also speaks of a man speaking in an unknown tongue.
	And Paul said, though, I speak with tongues of men or of angels.
	Then there's another scripture that says, when a man speaks in tongues, he's speaking unto God in mysteries.
	I can barely speak English.
	It's an angelic language.
	But you know why?
	Because you're trying to intellectualize this.
	Kareem, you want to weigh in?
	And it's better felt than tell.
	Because I don't, because that's the only thing I disagree with.
	But listen, I know you have a passion for this, and I know you help people, which is what your mission is.
	You want to help people, and you want people to live better lives.
	Yeah.
	And you want – why are you laughing, Kareem?
	Well, good.
	Come on, man.
	Go ahead.
	Well, this is like a barbershop conversation, right?
	And so at the end of the day, spiritual barbershop conversation.
	So at the end of the barbershop conversation, nobody ever wins.
	And it always ends with.
	You agree to disagree?
	Yeah, okay.
	And I think we just need to leave it there.
	This has been an ongoing debate in the body of Christ for years.
	Tongues or not tongues?
	That is the question.
	I believe it.
	It took me a while, though.
	My wife got him immediately.
	It took me a while.
	I was like, Listen, we believe in a simple thing, that God created the world, right?
	And he sent his only begotten son, and that he suffered, died, and was buried to reconcile mankind to his father.
	Right.
	And whoever believes in him shall never perish.
	I believe that.
	Do we agree on that?
	We agree on that.
	I had that conversation with someone about the president.
	It was actually on Christian television.
	I said, listen, all the basic tenets of the Christian faith, pre-existence, virgin birth, sinless life, vicarious death, burial, resurrection, ascension, second coming, President Trump believes in all of that.
	Now, his sanctification process, that's between him and God.
	He's maturing and is developing spirit.
	Pastor Scott, love you.
	Good to see you.
	Thanks for having me, man.
	I got to bounce.
	I got to catch a plane.
	God bless you.
	It's good to see you.
	Thank you for inviting me to your church.
	It was a great honor for me.
	You'll be back on a Sunday morning to preach.
	Love to.
	I'd love to do it.
	I really would.
	It was an honor to be there.
	We'll continue.
	As you know, President Trump has tried to flip the script and now says the Justice Department should be investigating you.
	And this week we learned that Attorney General Sessions is considering a special counsel to probe the Uranium One deal and alleged conflicts with the Clinton Foundation.
	What's your reaction to this?
	You know, I regret deeply that this appears to be the politicization of the Justice Department and our justice system.
	This Uranium One story has been debunked countless times by members of the press, by independent experts.
	It is nothing but a false charge that the Trump administration is trying to drum up in order to avoid attention being directed at them.
	I mean, even Trey Gowdy, somebody who's hardly a fan of mine, said that there doesn't seem to be the basis for a special counsel.
	And of course, there isn't.
	But if I try to take myself out of it, which, you know, is kind of hard because it's personally offensive that they would do this.
	But taking myself out of it, this is such an abuse of power, and it goes right at the rule of law.
	Uranium-1 case, I know you've been asked about it.
	Can you say, forget about whether it's under investigation, in the past, did the FBI or DOJ inform either President Obama, Secretary Clinton, or any cabinet secretary that it had uncovered evidence that Rossetta's main U.S. executive, Vadam McKieran, was engaged in bribery, kickbacks, and money laundering before the Obama administration approved the Uranium-1 sale in 2010.
	Is it that the Mickerin matter, the man that was prosecuted in Maryland?
	2014, but there was an informant in 2009, 2010 the FBI had evidence of bribery, kickbacks, and money laundering.
	Was that information conveyed to any of the relative people on the CFIAS board?
	Clinton, other cabinet secretaries, or was it given to the president?
	The way I understand that matter is that the case in which Mr. Mickerin was convicted was not connected to the CFIAS problem that occurred two to three years before.
	When the case came to the United States Attorney's Office, Mr. Rosenstein's office in Maryland, CFIAS had already been approved by two years or more.
	There was an FBI informant starting in 2009.
	Well, you're going to, I have not talked with him, but Department of Justice, I understand, has approved him providing information to the Congress.
	And he's, I understand, will be set up in a few days.
	And you'll be able to hear from him direct.
	You should, too, because, you know, from everything I've been proffered, he has evidence of illegal conduct 2009 and 2010 before this deal was agreed to involving uranium-1.
	It was all connected.
	All right, that was Hillary Clinton.
	Uranium-1 is false.
	And this is an abuse of power.
	Fascinating.
	You're talking about a dual justice system coming out of the Clintons.
	We'll get to that.
	That was Ron DeSantis asking Jeff Sessions about Uranium One.
	Sessions saying the informant will testify to Congress in a few days.
	Reuters released the name of the FBI informant.
	This is now all building into what is going to be a massive, massive case.
	I am telling you, TikTok, everybody, it's going to get really big.
	The person that got it all started is Peter Schweitzer, author of the number one New York Times best-selling book, Clinton Cash, The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Help Make Bill and Hillary so rich.
	And he's also the president of the Government Accountability Institute.
	Welcome back, Peter.
	How are you?
	Great, Sean.
	Great to be back on with you.
	Thanks for having me.
	I want to give you an opportunity just directly to respond to Hillary and what she was saying.
	Oh, this has all been, oh, this is old news.
	Oh, this is about the justice system and abuse of the justice system.
	What is your answer to that?
	Well, you know, look, here's what's happened.
	You have Hillary Clinton and her allies and some people in the media who are taking the Uranium One story, and they are cropping out of the picture certain key events.
	So what they will do is they will look at, say, 2010, the Uranium One deal, a certain time period, and say, look, if you look at just this time period, we don't find any evidence.
	And it's like taking a picture and cropping certain things out to distort what's going on.
	What we know, Sean, very, very clearly is you have the head of the Kazakh uranium ministry saying in detail in 2010 in a video deposition that Hillary Clinton extorted Kazakh officials to get these uranium assets that launched uranium-1.
	They extorted Kazakh officials and said she was not going to cooperate with them until those uranium assets were given to Frank Justra, who became a big Clinton Foundation donor.
	And this is important, by the way, Sean, because Kazakhstan at the time was receiving tens of millions of dollars in U.S. taxpayer money for nonproliferation efforts.
	And who was on the subcommittee with oversight of that?
	That was then Senator Hillary Clinton.
	So there's a lot to this story that rings true.
	And Hillary Clinton has never been asked about this.
	She has never dealt with this issue at all.
	And initially, the Clintons, Bill Clinton, claimed that he did not know this official, Zhakashev, and lied to the New York Times about it.
	The New York Times then produced a photograph of this gentleman, Zhakashev, meeting with Bill Clinton in Chappaqua, in the Clinton home.
	And then Bill Clinton had to change his story.
	So that in and of itself is interesting.
	But that's the beginning of this story that then moves to 2010, the flow of money, money that was never disclosed, this approval process.
	And what a lot of critics of the Uranium One story want to do is just isolate part of the story and ignore the rest.
	And you simply can't do that.
	And, you know, my position has been from the beginning, we need to investigate it.
	The only way you can find out what exactly, precisely happened is by investigating this.
	And it's ridiculous to me, this standard that people are setting up in the Clinton camp is because we cannot prove the actual crime being committed.
	You don't investigate.
	Well, in all these other cases of political corruption, you start an investigation when there is suspicious evidence.
	And there's more in this case than there has been in a number of other public corruption cases going back.
	I want to go to the FBI informant that had infiltrated this network set up inside of this country for over four years.
	Again, an FBI informant.
	And I am told there are tens and tens and tens of thousands of documents and notes and evidence that this individual has that he will now be presenting before Congress, along with him having his own experience having infiltrated this network.
	And this is the network where bribery and extortion and racketeering and money laundering and bribery, all that had happened.
	And now we have questions about who knew what, when, and where in terms of what Putin was doing in the desire of Vladimir Putin to get into the uranium market in America.
	Now, all of this has to be predicated on this fact that America does not have enough uranium and we import uranium.
	And then why we would ever allow any outside entity to have any control, you know, why we would ever approve it for national security purposes.
	It's just one of the dumbest decisions I've ever heard.
	Never made sense on the surface of it.
	But this all, they had all this information about Putin's desire to get a foothold in the uranium market in 2009.
	Now the evidence is going to show this is all true and that people knew like Robert Mueller and Rosenstein and people like Eric Holder.
	And then it will become what did Hillary know and when did she know it?
	Let's talk about that.
	Yeah, no, you're right, Sean.
	I mean, look, in 2010, the Moscow Times, which is an English language publication based in Russia, actually ran an article.
	People can go find it online, where the money that was used to purchase uranium-1 was released by Vladimir Putin himself at a public ceremony.
	There's an article about it.
	So, you know, the argument that somehow, well, this uranium sale, Uranium-1 is no big deal.
	Why is the president of Russia announcing the fact that they are purchasing uranium-1?
	That's the first thing that people have to get their hands around.
	So this was done at the highest level.
	But the second factor that is dismissed by critics is Uranium-1 not only has uranium assets in the United States, they have ones in Kazakhstan, those ones I mentioned earlier that Hillary and Bill Clinton helped the company get.
	Those are some of the richest uranium deposits in the world.
	They have deposits in Australia.
	They have them in Africa.
	And all of those had to, for this deal to be done, it had to get the approval of Cythius, the federal government, and the Obama administration.
	So we are talking about vast uranium deposits, not just those in the United States, that were signed off by the Obama administration.
	And look, let's remember, when this deal was being considered in 2010, you had senior ranking Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee, on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, on the House Financial Services Committee, on the Homeland National Security Homeland Committee.
	All of them were expressing their concerns about this deal and sent letters to Cythius saying we think that this deal is bad for American national security.
	So the argument that nobody was objecting to this and there's nothing to see here is simply not there when you look at the historic record.
	And the problem is a lot of people commenting on Uranium One aren't even looking at that historical record, Sean.
	That's part of the problem.
	I mean, you even have now, you know, the never-Trump crowd.
	It seems like they almost want to do everything they can do to defend Hillary Clinton on this, which is amazing.
	But I don't think they're going to be able to do it because the facts are clear.
	I have noticed people say, well, the timing of the payments and the money to the Clinton Foundation don't coincide with a quid pro quo.
	And I saw you had a very strong answer to that.
	Well, that's right, Sean.
	They don't line up if you cut out key events.
	Look, 2005, the Clintons helped Frank Justra get these uranium deposits in Kazakhstan.
	And you have the testimony of the Kazakh uranium minister.
	You had a big article in the New York Times about this.
	After those assets are procured in 2005, Frank Gustra sends $30 million, and that's the beginning of donations.
	That's key.
	So that explains the reason you get these early donations.
	Then in 2010, when it's up for federal review, you still have eight members of the board or investors in Uranium One who are contributing to the Clinton Foundation.
	And those donations were not disclosed.
	The actual chairman of the company, Ian Telfer, who's Canadian, donated $2.35 million that were never disclosed by the Clintons.
	When the Russians took over the company, he remained as chairman of the company.
	That has never been responded to.
	So, you know, look, what they want to do is exclude certain events, ignore certain facts.
	You can't do that.
	And my point is simply, let's investigate to find out precisely what happened and see how much evidence there is in the flow of money and the decision-making process that was made.
	I want to go back to the nine people that approved this, and I want to go back to the fact that the FBI knew of Putin's intentions.
	How could that not grab the attention of the FBI?
	How could that not have gotten to the Attorney General Eric Holder at the time?
	Well, clearly we know that there's a paper trail, Sean, of communication.
	State Department cables, for example, that came out in WikiLeaks, and I talk about them in the book.
	There are State Department cables going to Hillary Clinton from the U.S. Embassy in Kazakhstan, reporting on the fact that Russia is trying to desperately work to corner the world uranium market.
	Those cables exist.
	Those cables were sent.
	So those are not in dispute.
	And there was other evidence as well, statements.
	I mean, there was an article in Pravda about after the Uranium One deal went through, describing how the Russian nuclear industry was now dominating the world.
	So this has been well known in specialist circles, well known in the energy field.
	And for them to argue that, oh, you know, no, we didn't either know about this or it's not a big deal, again, just runs contrary to the historical record itself.
	All right.
	As we continue, stay with us.
	Peter Schweitzer is the author of the best-selling book, Clinton Cash, The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Help Make Bill and Hillary rich.
	And as we continue, Peter Schweitzer is with us, and he, of course, the author of the New York Times number one bestseller, Clinton Cash, The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Help Make Bill and Hillary Clinton rich.
	How rich did they get?
	Well, it's hard to say because the reporting has been incomplete.
	We know that they made millions of dollars in speaking fees from people that were directly or indirectly connected to the Uranium One deal.
	But we also know that those that were involved in Uranium One from 2005 up to 2010 donated a combined $145 million to the Clinton Foundation, which is an astronomical sum.
	And honestly, Sean, I've said this before.
	I cannot imagine a situation where a, say, Secretary of Defense that was not named Clinton had a spouse who was running a private foundation who took $145 million from, say, defense contractors who wanted to influence the Secretary of Defense, that that would not even be investigated.
	That there would be a serious discussion to say, no, there's nothing to see here.
	There's no conflict of interest.
	So it's a lot of money.
	The timing is there.
	Barack Obama had insisted, as did John Kerry, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when Hillary was appointed, explicitly said you need to disclose all donations.
	The Clintons promised to do that.
	And in fact, they didn't.
	They happened to hide and not disclose the donations that came from the chairman of Uranium One and some of the other shareholders.
	And to my mind, that alone merits investigation.
	How did that happen and why did they not disclose them?
	All right.
	Really good, informative session.
	I can tell you that starting next week, if I'm the Clintons, if I'm involved in Uranium One, there is going to be an avalanche that is coming.
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	All right, well, take a quick break.
	We'll have some fun when we get back.
	My buddy John McLemore is here, and I just love this guy.
	Thanksgiving is coming.
	When you're talking about the best food you've ever had in your life, absolutely.
	Quick break, right back.
	We'll continue.
	Mike, my favorite time of year, once a year, sometimes twice, I get to see my good friend John McLemore.
	He's the CEO of Masterbuilt Prior.
	And with Thanksgiving coming up next, why are you laughing?
	Why are you laughing?
	I'm always laughing.
	Why did you say you like Rick and Bubba better than me?
	What's up with that?
	You know what?
	That's funny you bring that up because when I was with them, they said that they are now number one.
	You're now right below them.
	I was like, I don't know, guys.
	Sean's pretty much.
	Did they really say that?
	They did say that.
	They are lying.
	They actually said.
	They're supposed to be good Christians.
	They're lying like that.
	That's right.
	You're supposed to get me a meeting with President Trump.
	And they said, well, if Sean can't deliver, they will.
	We'll deliver.
	Well, I'll let them do their thing then.
	I'll put the responsibility on their shoulders.
	We'll see if that happens.
	How you been?
	It's good to see you.
	I'm in great.
	We've been traveling around a lot.
	We were just in California.
	We're on our media tour.
	Obviously, we're doing it.
	You're on Steve Harvey Show, right?
	Yeah, we were on Steve Harvey's show.
	We were out there doing a little bit with Mario and Mario Lopez.
	Yes.
	Slater.
	Okay.
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	Do for two reasons, Sean.
	We love traveling and we love sharing great stories and all of our recipes and how Master Built can be a part of people's Thanksgiving.
	We're going to talk about the fryer in just a moment about what we cook for you.
	But I love it for that reason.
	And then I love Thanksgiving Day because we just unplug.
	We are home.
	We've got about 40 of our families.
	What's your favorite drink?
	Water.
	Is that true?
	I don't believe you.
	Oh, boy.
	Yeah, you know, Sean, I don't drink, so I probably have to say, you know, just a good old cup of coffee on Thanksgiving.
	Thanksgiving morning.
	Here's the thing.
	Now, I know people have to understand here.
	This is just a fact.
	There is the old traditional way of cooking a turkey.
	That's right.
	And then we've got our butterball fryer, the Master Built fryer.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	The difference is so dramatic.
	Amazing.
	It is honestly, it is the difference between dry, oh, I need 4,000 pounds of gravy.
	Yes.
	And you don't, I don't use gravy at all.
	My turkey being fried at all.
	So there's a lot of things to consider here.
	And Thanksgiving is that number one meal of the year that everybody stresses over.
	So we're going to help them out with the butterball electric fryer.
	We're not only going to help them fry their turkey, but we're going to allow them to free up their oven.
	Imagine that.
	When you think about getting the turkey done at the same time with all of the side dishes, it's almost impossible.
	So people fret over it.
	So we're able to fry a turkey in about an hour, and you can have the oven for all your side dishes and your discomfort.
	You didn't see my tweet last year when I pulled it out.
	I did it all myself.
	Did you see it?
	You never saw my tweet last year?
	Do you see it?
	Yes.
	Okay, wait.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I saw it.
	What happens?
	You go to Rick and Bubba's studio.
	They taught you how to lie with you.
	What's up with that?
	You're such a good person.
	I was.
	I was.
	No.
	It is so simple.
	It's so juicy.
	And here's what.
	This is the thing.
	And when you pull it out, you're like, it's so easy.
	So, what I want everybody to do is go to masterbuilt.com.
	I've got a short video showing folks how to take a completely thawed turkey, give it a warm water bath while you're heating up your butterball fryer.
	Takes about 40 minutes.
	Take it out of the warm water bat, pat it dry, inject it with your favorite injectable marinade.
	Today we use the buttery Creole.
	Inject it.
	I think that's my favorite.
	That is your favorite?
	Season the outside with Cajun spices.
	Get the turkey fryer or the electric fryer gets up to 375 degrees.
	It automatically maintains the temperature.
	Lower it into it very slowly, four minutes per pound.
	We can do a 15-pound turkey in one hour.
	I did it last year myself.
	And oh, is that my tweet?
	Yep.
	Oh, you got it.
	Okay, I've officially seen the tweet now.
	Okay.
	No, you're missing the one with me pulling it up and showing everybody.
	I tweeted that too.
	Okay.
	As a matter of fact, I'm going to tweet it out.
	If you can get that to Linda from last year, I'm going to show you what I did.
	I was so proud of myself, number one.
	That's awesome.
	And number eight, I watched my mother years ago agonize over the turkey, and she's up at seven o'clock in the morning, and she's there working the night before.
	It's simple.
	It's simple.
	So, Sean, that's the big question.
	And it tastes a thousand times better.
	It tastes better.
	So much better.
	It's not intimidating.
	So, for about 13 years now, almost 14 years now, MasterBuilt has developed technology that allows people to safely fry their turkey.
	And then when Thanksgiving is over, it's got a drain valve so that you can pour the oil back up and save that oil to fry another turkey for Christmas in between that for football.
	Fry your buffalo wings.
	Once you're going, once, you know what, you know what I learned from you today?
	What's that?
	Okay, if you buy biscuits.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	You just roll them in a little balls, right?
	You take just regular biscuits you buy at any grocery store.
	Most inexpensive canned biscuits you can find.
	Okay, there you go.
	Then you put it in for about a minute.
	Yep.
	Take it out.
	Take it out.
	And then you sprinkle cinnamon, sugar.
	Sugar.
	Done.
	Done.
	So you have an appetizer, hot donut, put it in a little brown paper bag and shake it up.
	It's exactly what they serve at the restaurant so that you can have fun doing an appetizer prior to serving up the turkey.
	Then do your turkey.
	And as you said, it's the juiciest, best way.
	Butterball is the number one brand in turkeys.
	Masterbuilt is the number one brand in our smokers and electric fryers.
	So the two companies have come together.
	Amazing.
	This is an amazing product.
	You know, I know years ago, I'll never forget, I was in this, you know, I lived in Alabama and I lived in Georgia.
	And I had never known about people literally in their backyards building a fire, heating up the oil, dropping the turkey in, and nearly blowing up the home.
	Yes, it was the YouTube videos that you saw out there.
	So what's amazing about the Butterball Electric Fryer?
	Never, ever have we had an oil fire with this product.
	What did they do wrong before you invented this thing?
	The reason is, it's just like your stove, John.
	If you cook bacon or fry something on your stove and you leave it unattended, the oil will get to a flash point because it overheats.
	With the technology of the Butterball Electric Fryer, it's guaranteed to never overheat the oil because it has a device in it just like the restaurants.
	Shuts it down.
	It shuts it down.
	And again, you not only have the safe way, the easy way, but imagine freeing up your oven so that you can do all the side dishes.
	So think about Thanksgiving.
	If you're going to do lunch, instead of having to get up at 3 o'clock in the morning to do it in your oven, you can actually turn the fryer on at 10 o'clock, lower the turkey in at 10:45, take it out at 11:45, let it last for 15 minutes, and you're having lunch.
	It's that easy.
	That easy.
	You know, you talked to about, you got me and gave me my first smoker.
	Yes.
	MasterBuilt smoker.
	Now, this is amazing.
	I have become the expert of smoking because my brother-in-law, you know.
	Yeah, he stole one of your smokers, right?
	Yeah, he did.
	He stole another.
	He stole my smoker.
	He tried to steal the next one.
	But he has become a master.
	He's at your level.
	Yeah.
	But the thing is, it works automatically.
	Yes.
	And you can use Bluetooth and control the settings and turn it on from another location.
	It's a similar technology with the electric fryer.
	It automatically maintains that temperature, just like our electric smokers.
	We also have new technology with smokers out there because we are, again, number one in that category.
	We have a new product called a thermo-temp propane smoker.
	It maintains your temperature.
	So if you want propane, you've got it.
	If you want electric, you've got it.
	And those also have a lot of fun.
	I like the electric one.
	The electric one is, that's still our number one product right now.
	All right.
	So I want to, look, everyone's going to make a turkey in Thanksgiving.
	If you've never used this, I promise it'll be the best turkey in your life, the most convenient way to cook a turkey.
	You'll be finding other great uses for your butterball.
	It's electric.
	That's right.
	All right.
	And I use it for all sorts of things.
	You use chicken wings, go through the list.
	You can use chicken wings.
	You can do southern fried chicken.
	What's amazing too is instead of putting in oil, you put in water.
	And it works.
	It turns into a seafood boiler.
	We do low-country seafood boils.
	You can also hang the basket with the patents that we've got on our basket, close the lid, and it turns it into a steamer.
	All right.
	Now, how do people get this for themselves?
	Because the website will have their website.
	You can go to masterbuilt.com.
	But if you want to go to a retailer, you can go to Lowe's, Home Depot, Sam's Club, Walmart, Academy Sports, Bass Pro, Cabela's, and really visit us at MasterBuilt.com to see if there's any other retailer in your area.
	Visit us on our Facebook page and send us your story.
	We want to see your pictures.
	We want to spend time with you folks.
	Everybody out there that's listening.
	If Sean can do it, trust me.
	All right.
	I am now going to go.
	I'm going to go to Twitter and we're going to retweet.
	Thank you very much if Sean can do it.
	Yes.
	If Rick and Bubba can do it, then anybody can do it.
	Rick and Bubba can do it.
	If Sean can do it.
	And Sean, before we get off the air here, I got to give a shout out to my team at MasterBill.
	By the way, we got a whole team here.
	We got a whole team.
	Yeah, I think we got in trouble bringing the entire company up here.
	But we really do have a, I have a blessed job.
	Everybody at Team Masterbill, from our customer service to our engineers to everybody in every single department, we have an amazing company that loves sharing their stories out there.
	So I want to say thank you to everybody at Master Build and the McLemore family for giving me the greatest life a man could possibly have.
	You're making our lives better and it is fun.
	I love using your products.
	I love the butterball.
	I love frying my turkey.
	I love your smoker.
	I love everything you do and the food tastes amazing.
	It's going to make your Thanksgiving Christmas happier.
	Yeah.
	And Herman Cain is still waiting on his smoker.
	Yeah, I know I'm going to.
	I'm going to call you out again.
	Oh, I'm sending this year.
	If he don't give you a smoker, call me.
	I'll take care of you.
	That's painful.
	All right.
	John McLemore, God bless you, man.
	This is the best advice we can ever give anybody for Thanksgiving.
	And you're right.
	We have a lot to be thankful for.
	Amen to that.
	Thank you.
	All right, quick break.
	Right back.
	continue.
	All right.
	We've got to take a break for today, and that's it.
	We're out for the week, but I'm in next week.
	Aha.
	We're finished with this week.
	Let not your heart be troubled.
	We'll be back.
	Yes, I'm live on Monday, Tuesday, in next week.
	And it's, of course, Thanksgiving week.
	We all need a break.
	It's so much to be thankful for.
	All right.
	Back here on Monday.
	Have a great weekend.
	See you then.
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