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For those folks who've lost their job right now because a plant went down to Mexico.
You know, that isn't gonna make you feel better.
And so what we have to do is to make sure that folks are trained for the jobs that are coming in now because some of those jobs of the past are just not going to come back.
The truth is we aren't a single issue country.
We need we need more than a plan for the big banks.
The middle class needs a raise, and we need more jobs.
We need jobs that pay well and can't be outsourced.
Jobs that provide dignity and a future.
We can do it by unleashing the innovation of our entrepreneurs and small businesses.
We can do it with new investments in manufacturing infrastructure.
Moments ago, the numbers for America's economic growth or GDP were just released.
And I am thrilled to announce that in the second quarter of this year, the United States economy grew at the amazing rate of 4.1%.
We're on track to hit the highest annual average growth rate in over 13 years.
And I will say this right now, and I'll say it strongly.
As the trade deals come in one by one, we're going to go a lot higher than these numbers, and these are great numbers.
During each of the two previous administrations, we averaged just over 1.8% GDP growth.
By contrast, we are now on track to hit an average GDP annual growth of over 3%, and it could be substantially over 3%.
Each point, by the way, means approximately three trillion dollars and 10 million jobs.
Think of that.
Each point, you go up one point.
That doesn't sound like much, it's a lot.
It's three trillion dollars, and it's 10 million jobs.
All right, as we continue Sean Hannity's show, there was Obama saying, yeah, in his own words, that uh some of these jobs didn't ever come back.
The only president in American history never to hit three percent GDP growth in a single year, and he's accumulated more debt than every other president before him combined, including 13 million more Americans on food stamps, eight million more in poverty, and we've gone from the lowest labor participation rate in history now to the highest, and that's only part of the economic story of today.
Explosive 4.1 GDP growth.
Joining us now is the president of the United States, uh Donald Trump.
Mr. President, congratulations.
Uh and on top of that, I think one of the more underreported stories is that we now have a trade deficit that dropped by more than 50 billion dollars.
Well, thank you very much, Sean.
And you're right, that's to me is so important.
Your phase two of the question uh fifty-two billion dollars drop in trade deficit.
That hasn't happened in decades.
And it's really uh something very special, and a lot of that is because of the policies that we're putting in place.
And it's going to get better, Sean.
It's totally sustainable.
Uh I look so forward to next quarter.
Uh I look forward to watching what happens over the years.
It is uh something very special that's taking place.
How is it that trade is so interconnected to all this?
And a lot of people thought you're going to start a trade war with Europe.
Well, that was put to rest pretty much this week.
And you said you found a new favorite word, which is reciprocity.
Well, reciprocal is very important to me, uh, because you know we have uh countries out there, Sean, and uh most of you folks know exactly what I'm talking about because they'll watch and they'll see.
We have countries that charge us a 100 percent tariff or tax, and we charge them nothing for the same product coming into our country.
Uh we have countries charging us far more than that, uh close to three hundred percent in certain cases, and yet when I say, Well, we're gonna tax them or we're gonna be reciprocal and charge them the same three hundred percent, everyone goes crazy and they say, Oh, you can't do that, it's not free trade, which is sort of laughable when you think about it.
In other words, they can do it, but we can't.
So those days are over.
And I think that's had a huge impact, even though it's very early.
I've only been doing this a little more than a year and a half with uh, you know, with some of these and the policies really it takes a while to get them enacted.
But uh it's having a tremendous impact.
And if we can straighten our trade, which I'll do absolutely, and it's already happening.
You see what happened with Europe yesterday.
But as we straighten out trade, we can pick up a lot of points on GDP.
To be clear though, you don't want a trade war.
You want free trade, but you want fair trade.
Right.
I want fair trade.
I don't want uh trade that uh people think is fair and free, but uh, we're being charged fifty percent.
As an example, uh, China, uh, and I have great respect for uh President Xi.
I think he's a friend of mine, he may not like me so much anymore, but we'll be friends again.
But China charges us twenty-five percent when we send a car to China to be sold.
When they send a car to us, we charge them essentially nothing.
They say two and a half, but it's not even collected.
Uh so they get twenty-five percent, we get like nothing.
And it doesn't make sense, it's not fair.
You can't compete.
That's like a baseball game, I give it an analogy.
That's like you're having uh a big game with a very good team and they score fifteen runs in the first inning.
So the score is fifteen to nothing.
Now you're going into the second inning, it's not looking good.
That's what happens when they charge twenty-five percent, and we're charging two and a half percent and not collecting.
Essentially, that's what's happening, and we can't do that, and we don't do that anymore.
You know, one of my criticisms often a theme on both radio and TV is the fact that the media is so corrupt and so one-sided, and it's like every day they have a breathless thing, negative thing to say about the president.
Uh, we're 101 days away from the midterm elections.
I'm I'm arguing in my view that it's the most important midterms in our life.
But if we go back to 2016, the gateway pundit actually actually picked up some really interesting headlines that if you were to become president, you would lead the economy off the cliff.
I'll read you a few of them.
CNN Money said Trump promises four percent growth, economists say no way.
The L LA Times said if Trump thinks he can get more than three percent economic growth, he's dreaming.
The Wall Street Journal said Trump's three percent growth target looks out of reach.
Uh Hill wrote Trump's growth projections leave economists in disbelief.
And you got your Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman.
Trump's election means we are probably looking at a global recession with no end in sight, and I can keep going.
And d Barack Obama, who never reached three percent growth in a year said, what magic wand does Trump have to revive the economy?
Usually the answer is he doesn't have an answer.
I guess their predictions were wrong, sir.
Well, we've had the answers during the debates, and I think we were very strong in the debates on what we want to do.
And if you look at uh the predictions, they've all been wrong.
I mean, we are far ahead of what anybody thought except me.
Uh we can go a lot higher than this.
You know, uh if you look at regulations, nobody talked about regulations.
Had my opponent won, the Democrats, you would have had an economy that instead of being up close to 40 percent in the stock market, they would have d been down forty or fifty percent because the regulations were choking this country and I'm all for regulations for clean air clean water we want to have great environmental control but they had ten regulations when you could have used one and as you know I've been cutting twenty two regulations for every new one new new regulation that's put in which are very
you because we were totally over-regulated.
You couldn't do anything.
Highways were taking 20 years to get approved.
You have a highway that's really important.
It would take from 17 to 20 years to get your approvals.
By that time, the highway system is different than the roads are being built a different way and you couldn't make changes.
No, this is, we're doing great.
We could do a lot better.
The fact is that if I can cut the trade deficit from $817 billion, think of that.
We have a trade deficit with other countries.
That's trading with other countries.
$817 billion.
If I cut it in half, right there, we'll pick up three to four points.
So you could add that to the four or five and so would be at eight or nine.
Now, I don't want to say that too much and I didn't want to say it too much during the campaign because I would have been criticized.
People wouldn't have believed it, but now they're starting to believe.
And you're right.
You look at a guy like Krugman, he doesn't know a thing.
I mean, the predictions were so...
they were so bad.
Uh a big factor though Sean was regulation and obviously a big factor was the taxes but a lot of this uh really the taxes are gonna help in the future I look so forward to seeing the next quarter because this is so sustainable this is going to go for a long time.
You know, we have numbers that are in now and all during the 2016 campaign.
I gave statistics out.
I did it every day because I wanted people to know what eight years of the Obama economy were.
And, you know, lowest labor participation rate, 13 million more Americans on food stamps, 8 million more in poverty.
He took on more debt than every other president before him combined.
You now have accumulated your track record.
We have nearly 4 million new jobs in the country.
We have the largest labor participation rate in history.
We have literally nearly 4 million new jobs created in manufacturing jobs.
jobs that people thought weren't going to come back well that's nearly 7000 then we've got two or three million fewer people on food stamps record low unemployment in 14 states for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans and a 65 year low for women in the workplace that's pretty impressive and now 4.1% GDP I think that we can make a comparison that some economic policies work and others do not well you're really right and
I I've heard those statistics from you for even a long time and now uh when you look back it's hard to believe that we put up with it and much of it was caused by bad trade deals people don't want to say much of it was caused by regulation and and overtaxed.
I mean you're overtaxed.
Think of it in the election coming up in now just a little more than three months the Democrats want to raise everybody's taxes.
They want to give back these massive tax cuts that we got and reforms that are so good for everybody but the tax cuts so they want to raise people's taxes they want to open up borders they want to get rid of ice I mean the things they're doing are so destructive.
We won't have a country so uh they want they want their crumbs back though.
They want their crumbs back they want open borders they want Obamacare they want to impeach you and they want to stop all investigations into deep corruption.
Yeah no there's a lot of corruption out there but it happens to be on the other side of the ledge of the Democrats and if you talk about collusion the collusion is there.
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We're gonna have more with the president coming up in just a minute an exclusive interview he gave us after these four point one percent GDP numbers huge win for the American people bad news politically for Democrats but I want to play something That is really important.
All these Democrats that predicted nothing but failure.
And the same ones that supported Obama's eight years of failure.
Some of those jobs of the past are just not going to come back.
And when somebody says, like the person you just mentioned, who I'm not going to advertise for, that he's going to bring all these jobs back.
Well, how exactly are you going to do that?
What are you going to do?
There's there's no answer to it.
He just says, Well, I'm going, I'm gonna negotiate a better deal.
Well, how what how exactly are you going to negotiate that?
What magic wand do you have?
Imagine him being in charge when your jobs and savings are at stake.
Imagine him trying to figure out what to do in case of an emergency.
So it's no wonder, is it that risk analysts listed Donald Trump, a Donald Trump presidency, as one of the top threats facing the global economy ahead of terrorism.
He has no real strategy for creating jobs, just a string of empty promises, and maybe we shouldn't expect better from someone whose most famous words are your fired.
Trump and conservatives in Congress are planning a big tax cut from millionaires and billionaires.
To justify it, they're using the oldest song in their playbook, claiming tax cuts on the rich will trickle down to working families in the form of stronger economic growth.
baloney.
This isn't just about the unemployment rate.
It's about wages rising in our country so that consumer confidence is restored because our economy will never fully reach its possibilities unless we increase the consumer confidence.
And that can only be increased by the better deal, better jobs, better wages, better future and lowering costs to families.
Frankly, even on the economic front, he got a lot of grief about trade from even fellow republicans while traveling in the midwest.
So, So today felt like an attempt, and you could even hear it.
He kept veering from his remarks and then going back to the remarks and extending them even longer, but all in a sense of trying really hard to say, hey, please pay pay attention to the economic story and ignore the all the other stuff.
I get it.
Politically, he needs to do this, uh, Savannah, but I can tell you there is a sense of where you overhyped something, and there were so many times in that in those remarks that it felt overhyped on how he was talking about the economy.
I feel like the bottom has to fall out at some point, and by the way, I'm hoping for it because I think one way you get rid of Trump is a crashing economy.
So please bring on the recession.
All right, unbelievable.
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Veterans' unemployment is at its lowest level in 18 years, and that number is rapidly going up, on top of which we just received and won from Congress choice where veterans can go out and see a doctor if they can't get service, the service that they deserve.
Unemployment for disabled Americans has hit a record low, lowest in history.
More than 3.5 million Americans have been lifted off food stamps, something that you haven't seen in decades.
3.5 million Americans have been lifted off food stamps.
That's because they were able to go out and get a job, and they're going to love their jobs.
95% of American manufacturers are optimistic about their company's outlook.
And that's the highest level, also in history.
And that's an old survey, been around a long time.
Manufacturing wages are expected to rise at the fastest rate in over 17 years.
Business and consumer confidence has reached historic highs.
So far this year, American exports are up nearly 20 percent.
I've only been here a little more than a year and a half.
Over the same period in the year before I took office.
We've become a net exporter of natural gas for the first time since 1957.
When I came into office, 1.5 million fewer prime age Americans were working than eight years before.
We had lost almost 200,000 manufacturing jobs under the previous administration, and you know all know they say, well, you have to lose manufacturing jobs.
It'll get worse and worse.
Manufacturing jobs are obsolete.
No, they're not obsolete.
They're the greatest jobs we have.
More than 10 million additional Americans had been added to food stamps.
Past years.
But we've turned it all around.
Once again, we are the economic envy of the entire world.
When I meet the leaders of countries, the first thing they say invariably is Mr. President, so nice to meet you.
Congratulations on your economy.
You're leading the entire world.
All right, the president from earlier today, GDP growth at 4.1 percent, as we continue with the President of the United States.
I was with you in Singapore.
I was also in London and in Helsinki.
Uh now one of the promises that Kim Jong-un made to you, and we still have not had rockets fired over Japan or hostages were released.
We're talking about denuclearization.
One of his uh launch facilities has been dismantled, but now the remains of Americans have come home, are coming home, and we saw that earlier today, but also NATO is also paying more money.
Well, a lot of things have changed since I became president.
And when I was with President Obama in the Oval Office, which I guess is something that uh presidents do, they have a meeting, and I had a very interesting meeting.
But he did say the biggest single problem that our country has is the problem with North Korea.
And he was very perplexed, and I can understand that, and it could have led to war.
And I did ask, have you spoken to him?
And the answer was no, and I said, you know, to myself it would be a good thing to speak.
Uh we did meet, we had a great meeting, uh, very, very great meeting.
I mean, I think you could have lost fifty million people more.
Uh if you think that Seoul is 28 million people, it's right on the border.
You know, people say hundreds of thousands, not hundreds of others.
We're talking about fifty, sixty, a hundred million people could have been wiped out and lost.
We had a great meeting, uh historic, and among other things where the remains are starting to come back, missiles have been stopped.
We don't have rockets and missiles shot over Japan.
Uh the hostages we got them back, even before I left, we got them back.
Uh, nuclear testing, no more, uh rocket testing no more.
So many things have changed.
And you know, uh, one thing, all of their propaganda material and the propaganda, which has been up for years, propaganda, the signs, the music, it's all stopped.
It's all been taken down.
So many positive things have happened, and you know, we have time, we had there's no rush.
I I told my people, don't rush.
We have sanctions on, we haven't taken any sanctions off, and uh we hope uh I look forward to the time when we do take the sanctions off, because when that happens, a lot of good things will have happened on the other side.
But so we're very proud of that.
I'm very proud of the fact that with NATO uh they were taking in less and less money every year, but last year, which was my first meeting, they took in 44 billion more because they said you have to pay your bills.
We were paying for everybody else.
And this year we raised by at least hundreds of hundreds of billions of dollars.
So we took in 44 billion last year, and all of that goes toward protecting most of it, toward protecting against Russia.
And then they say I'm friendly with Russia.
Russia's not happy about what I did with NATO.
Russia's not happy uh about all of this tremendous amount of money that now is flowing into these countries who weren't paying their bills.
I mean, they were delinquent in many cases, and uh certainly bringing up the pipeline where Germany is paying, as you know, Sean, Germany, nobody brought this up.
It was nobody even knew about it.
But Germany is paying to Russia billions and billions of dollars for energy coming out of that pipeline.
And they said, wait a minute, we're protecting against Russia.
But you're paying billions of dollars toward Russia.
Nobody brought that up but me, and I'm very unhappy about it.
And I told them that.
I hope we can eventually, because we have more uh energy resources than anybody in the in the world.
Last question, sir, because I know you gotta run.
Lots of millions of jobs for Americans in the energy sector.
That would be great.
That's right.
Let me ask you a last question because I want to go back to the election in 101 days.
And I see the agenda just as you described, and I've been saying it as well, that they want to p impeach you.
We know they just tell everybody to stop saying it.
They want the tax cuts reversed, they want their crumbs back.
They want to eliminate ICE, open borders, keep Obamacare, stop investigations.
I don't think I I don't hear anything that is gonna help the American people.
Um but in midterm elections historically, the party in the White House in power usually loses seats.
And I know to prevent that from happening, uh, you kind of have to buck the trend.
There's usually about a 15-seat loss.
Um what do you say to people in this audience that maybe well you're not on the ballot that support you but don't particularly like their rhino congressman or senator?
Well, my endorsements seem to have a lot of weight.
If you look at Georgia, the governor of Georgia, he was down five to ten points, and he won 70 30.
So he won by 40 points.
Uh many others.
I mean, uh, you can look at New York Congressman, you can look at all of these different uh endorsements.
And what I told my people just now, I said to uh General Kelly, I said to a whole group of people, we have to get uh a group together, give me the top twenty-five Congress people that are, you know, could go either way, and I want to go out and campaign for those people, likewise with the Senate, because we're gonna fix everything once we have the votes.
You know, we really don't have when they say a majority.
Uh it's 5149, but it's not really because you lose a couple and people are sick, people are ill, people can't come to vote.
So in the Senate, we're really don't have a majority at all.
And a very so it's a very small in the House, it's a very small majority.
So I think we can actually, because of a couple of things that are happening.
Very special things are happening for our country.
You mentioned North Korea, you mentioned uh our military is being rebuilt, so many other, but look at the economy.
The economy may be the strongest it's ever been in the history of our country.
Now, you know, the famous quote, it's the economy stupid.
Well, if it's the economy, then we should do very well.
I just don't know any reason why we shouldn't do well.
We're doing well with our military.
We knocked out ISIS.
We've done so well and so many, and and ISIS would have never been knocked out.
Now you gotta keep on it.
I don't want to be saying we knocked it out.
You gotta keep on it.
But we have decimated ISIS.
So many things have taken place, but the economy is the strongest ever.
And I think that's gonna have a very positive impact.
And I am gonna work very hard.
I'll go six or seven days a week when we're sixty days out, and I will be campaigning for all of these great people that do have a difficult race.
And uh, we think we're gonna bring them over the line.
So I really believe that because we're doing so well as a country and so well with the economy.
I think we're going to be uh surprising a lot of people.
All right, Mr. President, I know you're busy.
Thank you for taking the time.
Congratulations, 4.1% GDP growth.
Uh, thank you, sir, for being with us, and uh hopefully we'll talk soon.
Thank you.
Thank you very much, Sean.
Thank you.
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We have a very special guest today, and uh we're very honored to have him, Elwood, or his name is really Woody Snell, and today is his 100th birthday.
Born July 27th, 1918, raised on a farm in Ohio, and literally was uh a hero, went to w fought in World War II for this great country, has an incredible life, and we wanted to say happy birthday to Woody.
Woody, uh thank you for being with us.
Happy birthday, sir.
And you're a great American.
Yes, sir.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, and I think you're a great American too.
Oh, thank you so much.
You're very kind.
I mean, did you ever in your life think you'd make it to a hundred years old?
Well, I never thought about it.
I just kept plugging along and finally when I got up to ninety-nine, I got to wondering about it.
I thought maybe I might make it.
Now your health I hear is very good.
Obviously, your mind is very sharp.
Uh is there anything special you've done to keep yourself healthy and so strong these years?
Well, I try to walk as much as I can, which is getting shorter all the time, and I'm quite a vitamin freak.
I take a lot of vitamins.
Mm-hmm.
And uh and I had a wonderful, wonderful wife for sixty-three years, and she took good care of me.
Let me ask you about this.
So you grew up, as I understand it, on a farm in Ohio, and uh you graduated from high school in 1938.
I read your whole bio, and then you went to fight in World War II.
Tell us about it.
Well, I graduated in 1936.
Okay.
And then I didn't I didn't go to war to fight a war.
I went to the air corps to learn how to be an airplane mechanic.
I thought that was a coming thing in this world.
And then the war came along, and well, I was very, very fortunate that war.
I was sent, I was uh uh finally became a crew chief on a C-47 in a troop carry outfit.
And then uh and I got to when I got to be a crew chief, I got to flying all over the United States hauling different things to different air bases.
And then in January, January 43, we were sent over to India, and we went into the northeastern area of in India, and we had to fly into China through a valley in the Himalayan Mountains called the hump.
And the reason we had to do that was because China was completely blockaded by the Japanese, and the only way the 14th Air Force could get any material was through this hump by us taking it over by plane.
And we did that, and we also flew down into Burma.
You're a member of the India China Burma Wall of Fame.
And by the way, you even got a medal from the government of China honoring your service uh in World War II.
Wow.
Well, I got all those medals, but uh what I got is called the Air Medal.
It's it's a medal from the Air Force for flying those fifteen hundred hours.
And uh I'm very proud of him.
I was a master charging sergeant when I was discharged, and I'm a very proud American, and I always be a proud American.
I want everybody to know because a high percentage of these planes and crews crashed, and at that time there was no way to rescue any survivors.
No, there wasn't.
And that was called the Luminum Trail, because when you flew over from India to China or China to India, you could look down there and you could see these crashes laying around different places.
It didn't give you much space in your where you were going over there at the time.
Well, well, I want to say, listen, first of all, happy birthday.
Second of all, um, you know, you just remind uh my myself, my dad fought in World War II.
He's been gone a lot of years now, but um all of the World War II vets were heroes.
Um, and you know, your love of of God, family, country shines through you.
I wish you another hundred years uh of good health and happiness and uh and peace and thank you for all you did for us, and happy birthday.
Thank you.
It's a ma it's a very honored, deeply honored thing to be able to talk to you, sir.
Very honored you're a great American.
Sir, you're a great American, and the honor is all mine.
God bless you and happy birthday.
I hope you have a great day today and every day.
Thank you, sir.
Can I say one more thing?
Yes, sir.
I'm very kind of upset about these famous millionaire football players desigrating our flag and our national anthem.
I wish I could take one of them guys over there and show him where these people are what they did for our country.
But I am so ashamed of these guys that can't even stand up and salute the flag.
That really bugs me to death.
Bothers me too.
I I'm not even gonna watch.
I'm watching college football now.
That ought to be the one thing that unites everybody.
I think so too.
I'm greatly appreciated to be able to talk to you, sir.
All right, my friend.
God bless you.
Always, we appreciate all you did for us.
And happy birthday, sir.
Thanks, Woody.
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A couple years back, you gave a speech saying if we fall in love with our own virtue, we can go sideways.
Excellent.
At any point over the last two years, did you fall prey to that?
Did you fall in love with your own virtue?
I don't think so, but I worried about it constantly.
And the guardrail for that, because that's a big worry I have about myself was to surround myself with people who will hit that, hit at the certainty, hit at the pride to make sure I've thought about things well.
But at the end of the day, you gotta look at yourself in the mirror, and you've got to make the decision, the right decision, but most of all for the right reasons.
Yeah, James Comey's virtue and his superiority and his honor.
Well, is that exactly right?
Uh well, we have a new book out, and we've been telling you about investigating the investigators, follow the money, and something that, you know, and then it's interesting but considering that all the Trump Russia collusion as it relates to Paul Manafort and his trial and all of that that we have followed.
This is the great work of Robert Mueller and his merry band of Democratic donors and you know, real winners like Andrew Weissman and Jeannie Ray, and uh it just is uh w how did we get here?
How did we start Trump Russia collusion in the 2016 presidential race and end up with a a tax case of Paul Manafort from years ago that had already been dispensed of that they dug out of mothballs for the very purpose of putting the screws to him so he'll sing or compose in the hopes of getting the president impeached or impeached or prosecuted.
Then we're gonna raid the president's attorney's office.
We'll do that.
Now we got you know a taxicab medallion issue.
Oh, okay.
Well, if we're gonna follow the money, this new book that we have been telling you out is is pretty interesting.
Now, if you remember our good friend Peter Schweitzer, he's the one that told us about Clinton Cash and he wrote about secret empires, how the American political class hides corruption and enriches their family and their friends.
He's the president of the government accountability institute.
And uh also with us is Seamus Brunner, and he is the author of this brand new book that is telling the story.
It's called Compromised, how money and politics drive FBI corruption every day.
Welcome both of you back to the program.
Now, Peter wrote the uh introduction to this book.
Uh Seamus listen, you work for a great guy, he's very good on TV and radio.
I hope we don't you don't mind him stepping on your book a little bit here.
No, happy happy to have Peter with me.
Yeah.
But so with all this talk and again, Trump Russia collusion, 2016, election influence and all this.
How did we spin off into oh, Paul Manafort's taxes and a tax fraud case, an issues going back to 2005?
How do we spin off into Michael Cohn's medallions?
And then we look into the investigators, and this is what I see in your book.
And and tell me if any of this is wrong, but you're reporting in the book Compromised, how money and politics drive FBI corruption, which is now out at James Comey's net worth went over skyrocketed over four thousand percent when he left the DOJ in 05 and returned to the FBI in 2013.
You point out James Comey made six point one million dollars after Muller's FBI granted his employer at the time.
I guess he had a consulting firm of some kind, but James Comey made six point one million from Lockheed Martin and one of the largest contracts and contractors in American history in what you describe as a billion dollar boondoggle, and under Muller's direction, he was the FBI director at the time.
The FBI granted multiple spy contracts to the very firm that employed Comey or his team uh to Lockheed Martin while Comey's advising them on the legality of their operations, and that Comey received another six million working for one of the world's largest hedge funds and an additional five hundred grand for unused vacation time.
Um do I have any of this wrong, Seamus?
Or is that exactly corroborated, right, just and true?
Because they're not getting back to me.
We've tried to confirm it with them.
No, you have it exactly right, Sean.
This is uh this is a familiar story, the revolving door, turning public service into self-service.
And uh I think the question you asked, how did we get here?
It's a very smart and important question.
So we uh we followed the money, we followed it to the top, and we found that these choir boys or boy scouts, as the media likes to depict them, James Comey, Robert Muller.
They're really no better than anyone else in the swamp.
They use their public service, they use their contacts, and they cash in through the revolving door.
So we followed the money, did a full cash analysis, and like you said, we found James Comey's net worth was a modest two hundred and six thousand dollars before he went to Lockheed Martin.
And uh, by the way, he wasn't just consulting Lockheed Martin, he was their general counsel and a senior vice president at the corporation, which kind of begs the question why would you choose a young James Comey?
He's got no corporate experience of that kind.
So he was working directly for Lockheed Martin and directly.
All right, and explain this six point one million dollars that Lockheed Martin, who how much were they paying him a year?
Do you know the yearly salary?
Right, so that's it's a good point.
And in fairness to James Comey, he could have been making six point one million dollars before Lockheed Martin received a billion dollar boondoggle from Robert Mueller's FBI, but this is according to SEC documents.
They only disclosed the full compensation to James Comey in the year two thousand and nine.
So it's possible he earned that much before then.
We just don't know.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, you're saying the six point one million was only made in one year?
Just the year two thousand nine, a single year, six point one million dollars.
And how long did he work for Lockheed Martin?
He worked there from two thousand and five until two thousand and ten and then jumped over.
Well, wait a minute.
If he made six point one million in one year, I'm assuming he made a lot.
Why don't you know the other years?
Right.
So it's it's the way financial disclosures work.
We uh we only have what they give us.
Um we'd obviously like a lot more.
So let's say he was making three million dollars a year for the other how many years now?
It's five years total, so if he was making three dollars for it could be eighteen million dollars.
Exactly right.
Exactly.
And what does somebody do for five years to make, you know, at least in one year six point one million dollars?
What did he do for the six point one million?
That seems like a lot of money to me.
Um I think most Americans are gonna open their eyes and say, How much?
Right.
So in in uh Lockheed Martin's annual reports, James Comey has power of attorney for all of the executives, so he literally signs off on all of their operations, including some of the invasive surveillance programs like this billion dollar boondoggle.
Uh that's not my word, that's uh it was reported in Huffington Post that it was called a boondoggle, and that's because it was plagued by cost overruns and delays.
But this program, the billion dollar program to Lockheed Martin was called next generation identification, and it was a biometric uh facial recognition program trying to capture all of the faces of every man, woman, and child in America and turn them into a fingerprint essentially.
So that's the the that came the year before.
Can I just go back to he worked there from two thousand and five to two thousand and ten?
Correct.
And you only could get his pay for two thousand and nine, which was six point one million dollars.
Correct.
Where are the other four years?
That's a great question.
What about the years before?
If you can get oh nine, I'm I would have think you can get oh eight, oh seven, oh six, and oh five.
Why wouldn't you get those years?
I would think they would be released first.
Yeah, I trust me.
I went through every single year and looked for it.
Uh they just don't n uh uh total James Comey's compensation for those years.
But what we do know is in two thousand and four the previous general counsel made about six point one million dollars.
So we used very conservative estimates here.
We didn't want to go a bridge too far in the city.
So he made six point one million and uh is it possible it could have been for the four years together?
No not possible.
Um, you know, I guess I guess anything's possible, but it specifically lays out the compensation for each executive in the year two thousand and nine, and this is a combination of cash and stock options, which interestingly the stock options uh were valid through twenty twenty, so he could have exercised them when he returned to the FBI.
We just don't know.
Uh so if he has the power of attorney of all the executives at Lockheed Martin, doesn't that mean that he signs off on this stuff?
Correct.
He signs off on all of their operations.
In the annual reports from Lockheed Martin, they state that James Comey helped successfully resolve certain litigation, they're often sued for various reasons.
So he's he's signing off on operations, he's in advising on the legality of them, which helps when you're getting surveillance contracts that many civil rights organizations say are too invasive.
And uh he and he and his buddy Robert Mueller, it looks like worked like kind of like a pitcher and a catcher.
So in other words, so it would have been on the Lockheed Martin side, you know, pushing to get the government contract, that would be Comey's role, and then on the other side, the person that signed off on it was Robert Mueller?
Right.
Well Robert Robert Muller know that he was getting six point one million dollars in two thousand and nine?
The the annual report comes out at the end of the year, so it's not I mean it's it's not clear, but it he he obviously would have known that James Comey was at Lockheed Martin, and he obviously would have had to sign off on a billion dollar program.
So both but you based on what you perceive and your research shows that the role that Comey had at Lockheed Martin, it was his job to sign off on such such projects like this, this new generation of ID and facial recognition.
Correct.
Mm-hmm.
And on the report.
And would this be something that Congress had to sign off on, or would it be something Muller wanted needed to approve within the FBI as the FBI director.
Right.
Well, James Comey and Robert Mueller have this long history together going back to the nineties at the DOJ.
And they've been very concerned with you know matters relating to surveillance, especially FISA and the Patriot Act.
So we see repeatedly throughout the early 2000s and all the way up through today.
Robert Mueller, James Comey wanted to tear down the wall, so to speak, between intelligence agencies and had uh, you know, issues with what they called the going dark problem where they didn't have enough information.
So they really rapidly expanded, and I I call it the surveillance state, um, which is now, of course, being used against uh journalists, citizens, and even uh now a presidential candidate.
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They have a brand new book.
It's called Compromised, How Money and Politics Drive FBI Corruption, which is now out today.
I mean, it sounds like a lot of money, but on the other hand, there is a certain expertise that one would have that I could see somebody like Lockheed Martin wanting an FBI director and a security clearance would be of great value to them, and the contacts that they have would be of great value to them.
It doesn't necessarily mean something nefarious happened here.
And if you're looking at a company that is getting what, fifty billion dollars uh uh a year in and taxpayer funded contracts, six point one million is kind of small potatoes, isn't it?
Well, Sean, I think what what this highlights uh is this problem.
Um it happens at Health and Human Services, it happens at DOD, where you have government officials who basically, while they're in government, create demand for their own services when they leave.
And so in the case of uh, you know, Jim Comey, he goes to Lockheed Martin from the Department of Justice at the Department of Justice, he helped establish some of these very programs that Lockheed Martin was getting contracts to implement and carry out.
So he sets up these programs.
Who is Lockheed Martin going to look for to give a paycheck to, who understands his program better than anybody else, the government official who helped put it together.
Um and that is sort of a tried and truth story uh in Washington, D.C. And the point is that, you know, you played that clip at the beginning of Jim Comey talking about, you know, how sensitive he is to the appearances of of uh, you know, doing something wrong or wrongdoing.
Uh the fact of the matter is this is a very familiar story, unfortunately, uh, in the swamp.
And that I think is what's so troubling about it.
And what Seamus shows is this pattern where, you know, when Mueller is in the private sector and Comey is in government, there seem to be contracts and resources that flow in that direction as well.
It's it's kind of a uh a tag team arrangement that these two have.
And so it speaks to the financial underbelly that exists even at the Department of Justice, which is an agency, the FBI that we expect to be focused primarily on enforcing the law.
There are lots of ways in which these officials uh self-enrich themselves.
Wow.
This is a mind-blowing episode here.
Uh, by the way, if you're just joining us, the book is called Compromised How Money and Politics Drive FBI Corruption, now out in bookstores, Amazon.com.
It's eye-opening, and I think a lot of questions need to be asked by Congress of the people involved, so that we know nothing nefarious has happened.
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Do you think that John Brennan's hyperbole is an issue here?
Is one of the reasons we're having this crisis?
Well, I think it is.
I think John is sort of like a freight train, and he's going to say what's on his mind.
I think, though, that the common denominator among all of us that have been speaking up, though, is genuine concern about the jeopardy or threats to our institutions and values.
And although we may express that in different ways, and I think that's what this really is about.
But John and his rhetoric have become, I think, an issue in and of itself.
You indicated that you've had lawyers contact you about possible legal action.
It's 48 hours later.
What would that look like?
Is that something you're serious about?
Well, I have been contacted by a number of lawyers, and they have already given me their thoughts about the basis for a complaint, an injunction, to try to prevent him from doing this in the future.
If my clearances and my reputation as I'm being pulled through the mud now, if that's the price we're going to pay to prevent Donald Trump from doing this against other people, to me, it's a small price to pay.
So I am going to do whatever I can personally to try to prevent these abuses in the future.
And if it means going to court, I will do that.
This is a dictatorial exercise of power that should frighten and call on all Republicans to say, Mr. President, you cannot do this.
You are trying to inhibit the free speech of people who may be in opposition to you.
So to use this kind of punishment to chill speech is a violation of the First Amendment.
I mean, this is a striking move towards authoritarianism.
You know, this is what dictators do.
They shut down the press.
They shut down dissent.
They jail their opponents.
Or in this case, they steal their security clearance.
What happened here was a pure authoritarian act from an intemperate president who wanted to punish one of his critics.
Nothing more, nothing less.
The White House is threatening him right now by taking away security clarity.
And they've already rate it doesn't influence.
So doesn't that say to everybody else?
Shut your mouth.
A lot of these people that have these security clearances, and this is the secret in in the swampy Washington, D.C., they have them and they keep them because it's profitable for them after they leave government.
Because if you have a security clearance, especially high-level security clearances, your contracts and your consulting gift pay you a lot more money because of the access that you have.
I hope the president continues to do this, and I hope he adds Amarosa to the list because if she has a clearance, she too, because of her actions, uh should have it revoked.
Well, I don't know if I put Amarosa in the same category, the 75 people who signed those letters, but Phil Mudd uh I imagine wanted react.
Profitable Paris.
When I am requested to sit on an advisory board, let me ask you one question.
How much do you think I'm paid to do that at the request of the U.S. government?
Give me one answer and you got 10 seconds.
How much?
I'll give I'll ask you a question.
How much are you paid for your acting gig for for being a force?
I have no contract with the U.S. government that pay money.
I'm not talking about it.
And this is the thing, I'm not talking about to offer advice to the U.S. government.
Let's be honest.
I'm not talking about your role with the federal government.
I'm talking about who I'm talking about.
That's talking about getting a consultant and a contractor.
The consulting firms that they form and that you all get is because you get more money when having a consultant for having the security clearance.
That's not acting like that doesn't happen.
I have zero consulting relationships with the U.S. government.
Zero.
I'm not talking Phil, that's a good talking point.
I'm not talking about relationships with the government.
I'm talking about in the private sector.
When you have a security clear, I have pure relationships with the private sector that involve my security clearance.
Zero.
I get zero dollars from consulting companies that deal with U.S. government.
Are we clear?
Well, I will be clear and saying that everybody in Washington, D.C. knows if you don't want to be honest about it, that's on you.
That was a phenomenal debate, believe it or not, on fake news CNN.
Now I wasn't watching fake news CNN.
I saw it on media because they had the clip up.
Uh Paris Denard clobbering this the Sante Trumper uh Phil Munda.
I never I tell me what what contracts I had with the U.S. government.
That's not what he's talking about.
Now I told you about this new book last week, and we had Peter Schweitzer on and Seamus Brunner on the program, and it's called Compromised.
How money and politics drive FBI corruption.
Now, what are these security clearances worth?
Now the book points out that James Comey's net worth skyrocketed over 4,000 percent between leaving the DOJ in 05 and returning to the FBI in 2013.
The book chronicles how Comey made six point one million dollars after Muller's FBI granted his employer.
In other words, Comey's working for Lockheed Martin, which is the largest contractor in history in what was m many described a billion dollar boondoggle.
And under Mueller's direction, he was the FBI director at the time.
The FBI granted multiple spy contracts to Lockheed Martin while Comey advised them on the quote legality of their operations.
That's six point one million dollars we're talking about.
It's a serious amount of money.
Well, what are they paying for?
They're paying for contacts, which by the way, can be totally completely legitimate.
But the point is that security clearance is worth something.
And that's the point here.
And to have Clapper even recognizing that the rhetoric of Brennan is so over the top is unbelievable.
But this isn't the first time that this has happened.
Sean Bigley is a partner with Bigley uh Ranish uh LLP, specializing in federal security clearance defense, and you represent Adam Lovinger, who lost his security clearance after Stefan Halper complained about him.
And you wrote an op-ed uh about your client.
Why don't I just let you tell our audience what you uh found and what you said?
Hey, Sean, good to be with you.
That's right.
Uh I do represent uh Mr. Levinger.
He's a longtime uh defense department employee uh who is uh very strong supporter of the president.
And uh in 2016, he complained numerous times to his superiors, uh, all of whom were Obama appointees at the Pentagon about these egregious contracts that were being awarded to Stefan Halper and also to a uh close friend of the Clinton families.
And uh subsequently several months go by and his mysterious uh his security clearance is mysteriously revoked, and he's now uh sitting at home uh trying to figure out ways to feed his family.
All right, so now this is fascinating.
So when did this happen?
What year?
So the complaints originally were filed in the fall of 2016, right around the election cycle, and they were ignored.
And uh subsequent the administration comes in, he uh moves over to the White House as a by name request from the new administration.
They had heard about his uh reputation and wanted him serving in the White House.
And by May 1st, he had been recalled to the Pentagon and his security clearance had been stripped.
You know, when you look at all the FBI departures, for example, and the reasons why, whether there are people are fired like James Comey, Andrew McCabe, fired, Peter Strck, fired.
Then you got the resignations.
Lisa Page, she got out while she could.
James Rabicke, James Baker, uh, and and others.
And then you look at the others in the DOJ.
The number of people that have resigned, people aren't even beginning to pay attention to any of this.
But you got a a list between the DOJ and the FBI top people that have either resigned, been fired, or demoted twice like Bruce Orr.
But the reality is uh these clearances are worth money in the private sector.
And I'm not even saying that anything nefarious necessarily goes on, except it's all this that they're all the same people all the time.
Why is it Comey is getting paid all this money from Lockheed Martin, according to this book compromised, at a time when Mueller is the FBI director.
I mean, these I mean we keep running into the same group of people.
Seems to me like who you know matters in Washington.
Oh, absolutely.
And I mean, I think a lot of people outside the Washington DC beltway may not understand that really a security clearance is a meal ticket.
It's the equivalent of uh a professional license for a doctor or a lawyer, and without it, you're not gonna work in the field in which you practice.
And so for somebody like a comey or a Brennan who's spent their career in government and who's gonna go on to lucrative uh consulting gigs or sit on boards at various defense contractors, without that clearance, they're not as valuable.
And and the same thing, the reverse goes for somebody like Mr. Levinger.
He's stripped of his clearance, he can no longer work, and now we're fighting that on appeal.
Uh, and meanwhile, they are do pulling out all the stops to make sure that he doesn't get his due process.
It's really outrageous.
Let's go into your original article, how the Pentagon bankrolled an alleged uh spy inside the Trump campaign and other sort of tales.
Um because you you literally write, you know, chapter and verse on this.
So I want you to explain it in detail.
Sure.
So uh back in 2016, Mr. Lovinger started to notice that uh Mr. Halper and others in this office were really getting uh very, very generous contracts to do what he perceived as very little.
Uh the contracts were kept very close to the vest, they were run by people who were uh ardent Obama and Clinton supporters, uh, including one of whom was a vocal anti-Trumper.
And he started raising issues and saying, look, you know, there this is a perception of impropriety.
What are these people doing for the money?
These are taxpayer funds.
Why are we bankrolling to the tune of millions of dollars people to go out and conduct research studies on things like whether or not there's enough coastal elites in the national security bureaucracy?
I mean, ridiculous, patently ridiculous subject matters that do nothing to inform anybody, and were being paid hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars to perform this work.
On top of that, he also said here's a specific statute, a specific federal law that prohibits contractors from being used to conduct foreign relations, which is precisely what he perceived them as doing.
And he was completely ignored, completely shut down on multiple levels.
Uh he goes off to the White House, and I think they viewed him as a threat there and uh essentially did whatever they had to do to yank him back, strip him of his clearance, and shut him up.
And you know, Sean, this is a real problem.
It's not just Mr. Levinger, it's an epidemic across the government.
I have people who I represent in the administration on multiple different levels, very senior folks, all the way to lower level folks, and their experience is probably experiencing this problem right and left.
It's a tool that the the deep state is essentially weaponized, it's the low-hanging fruit, if you will, to keep people out of government, to keep the president's appointees out who are going to effectuate his agenda.
And it's something that they've been doing over and over and over.
Who are the people responsible?
Because you wrote another great column on that, how the deep state has weaponized the vetting of Trump appointees.
And I know numerous people that have incredible qualifications, and it seems the only strike against them is that they recognize that there are either holdovers from the Obama administration or people that are at odds with the current administration that are inside these important jobs.
Oh, absolutely.
And you know, we're DOD is the tip of the spear on this.
I mean, let's be clear.
There are a good half dozen folks at the Department of Defense who are actively out to thwart The president's agenda and who are using this process as the means to do it.
But it's also happening in the State Department.
It's happening at Homeland Security.
It's happening in a number of places government wide.
And they're they're doing it in very sneaky, very technical ways that they they use to sort of keep people out.
And you know, here's another irony, too.
Under Brennan, the CIA was one of the worst and remains one of the worst offenders as far as due process.
I have people who have literally put their lives on the line for this country, who have been frozen out on bogus security clearance concerns, one of whom was been sitting since 2014 and is now working the drive-thru at Chick-fil-A to make mets meet.
So, you know, for him to turn around and whine about essentially him being mistreated is really ironic.
Well, let me go through because you went through all of this.
Our friend, well, I gotta take a break here.
I'll ask you my friend Rowan Scarborough had a great piece on this that we'll get to uh as well.
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As we continue with Sean uh Bigley, and uh by the way, he represents Adam Lovinger, he's the guy that lost the security clearance after Stefan Halper complained about him.
Uh, you know, I read the piece, your pieces, and then I also read Rowan Scarborough.
I've known a long time and respect a lot from the Washington Times, and he's pointing out your client, which by the way, a uh Pentagon analyst stripped of his security clearance by Obama appointed officials after he complained of questionable government contracts that Stefan Halper had.
Now, this is what over 400,000, which we're talking about.
And anyway, Adam Lovinger, your client is a 12-year strategist at the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment, and he complained to his bosses about these halper contracts, and uh then they yanked his security clearance.
How often is this happened that we don't hear about it, maybe not as high profile as say John Brennan.
Yeah, it's it's definitely happening uh on a pretty consistent basis, not so much in the whistleblower retaliation context as it is in the political sphere.
Uh, in other words, if you uh are somebody who identifies as a you know supporter of the president, uh, somebody who maybe the president has selected to fill a specific role.
Uh, we've seen case after case where uh there are entrenched bureaucrats, many of them Obama holdovers, uh, at various agencies who are pulling out all the stops uh from a security and a vetting standpoint to prevent people from getting in.
And I'll give you a couple examples.
Uh, we've had some agencies where they have essentially instituted a policy that says we're not going to give uh what's called interim clearances anymore to political appointees.
We're gonna give them all day long to to career officials, but we're not gonna give them to people who the president appoints because we just don't trust them.
We've had other agencies that have essentially a year after somebody has been onboarded and started work, come back and said, you know what, uh that little minor uh thing that you self-reported, maybe you had a DUI a few years ago, or some other minor thing that we didn't think was the problem when we hired you.
Now it's an issue, so now we're gonna kick you out to the curb.
So it's that kind of behavior that's happening over and over and again.
Again, and really the only conclusion that you can draw on a systemic level is that this is a coordinated effort to essentially prevent the president from effectuating his policy agenda because as we know, you can't you can't you don't have people to execute the policy, you can't execute it.
And I think that's precisely what the what the idea is.
All right, Sean Bigley, uh, keep up the good work.
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Very honored for the opportunity to represent the voters of the 12th Congressional District and who had they have bestowed on me.
I have so many people to thank tonight.
Some behind me right here, my son Joshua, his fiancee.
Yeah.
Chelsea.
He's getting married next April.
My girlfriend Melanie.
I want to thank God.
More importantly, my mom, my mom and dad who aren't be able to hear with us this evening.
I'd like to thank President Trump.
Tonight, I'm going to promise to you that I'm going to work relentlessly, relentlessly for this 12th Congressional District.
Thank you.
America is on the right path and we're going to keep it going that way.
It's time to get to work.
Over the next three months, I'm going to do everything I can to keep America great again.
Again.
So that when we welcome when we well we come back here in November, get ready.
We got to come back here in November.
I have earned your vote for a second time.
You're live on CBSN.
Uh what's your status tonight?
Have you conceded?
Are you waiting for?
No, we feel great.
This is too close to call.
Uh, we're fighting for every vote.
You know, this this fight continues.
Working people need a voice.
They need a champion.
What's your understanding of how many votes remain outstanding at this point?
Too few to you know call this a night.
I think we we need to make sure that this process is respected because too many people have worked too hard, too many people want to have a real voice in Washington, too many people want a congressman that's gonna represent every county.
And we need to make sure that we're doing this the right way.
All right, that was the uh important Ohio 12 uh yesterday, which was held by a Republican in what was a tight race.
Uh there still are votes out to count and uh some provisional ballots, etc.
absentee ballots.
What was really fascinating about it is the early voting.
I talked to a friend of mine who knows Ohio politics so well, it was devastating.
This guy was going to lose.
Anyway, uh meaning Troy Balderson.
Trump went in on Saturday, and it was day of voting that ended up saving his opportunity here, or certainly would have been a seat that got lost.
Uh he made a couple of dumb decisions in the course of the campaign, uh, talking negatively About one of the biggest counties that uh is in his district, Franklin County.
We don't want to elect a guy from Franklin County.
Great.
I'm sure the people of Franklin County really love that remark.
Did it about another county, and then he also talked about the third rail taking get, you know, changing and shifting and getting rid of Medicare.
I mean, to it, this is the dumbest campaign I've ever seen, so he's gonna have some work to do with the constituents in the Ohio 12, but I don't think there's any doubt about it that uh President Trump uh helped him.
He's now point nine percentage points ahead, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-four votes exactly.
Danny O'Connor, you know, we have a hundred percent of the precincts reporting, but the president also now declaring victory this morning after the candidates that he endorsed in yesterday's primaries all scored big wins.
And he tweeted at uh about 10 30 this morning, five for five.
And in a second tweet, he accused the media of downplaying the Republican Party's record of success in special elections.
Republicans now winning eight of nine House seats, but yet if you listen to the fake news media, you'd think we'd be in Ben clobbered.
You know, why can't they play it straight?
So unfair.
Republican Party in particular, your favorite president, he wrote, he also claimed that as long as I campaign and or support Senate House candidates within reason, they will win.
And he said Republicans could have a red wave in November uh in November's elections.
We're now 90 days out.
It is to me the most important midterm elections in our lifetime.
I see absolutely nothing from the Democratic Party in terms of helping the forgotten men and women, except they would stop the progress that the president has made in 18 months, and by that time it'll be two years.
Um, and you know, this is an important election.
We know that Democrats have stated publicly, although now they're being silent, but they want to impeach Trump.
We know that Nancy Pelosi and Elizabeth Warren have said the tax cuts are crumbs, and well, that's a thousand, two thousand dollars for working families.
And excuse me, if they're just crumbs, why are they demanding to have them back?
They want to rescind the tax cuts.
Uh they want to keep Obamacare.
That has not exactly worked out well for people and keeping their doctors and their plans and paying less.
And we know they want to eliminate ice and they want open borders.
I don't think that's a good idea either.
Anyway, here to discuss John McLaughlin, polster, founder of McLaughlin and Associates, Doug Schoen, also a pollster, political analyst, Fox News contributor.
Uh welcome uh both of you back to the program.
Thanks, Sean.
Uh, let's get a headline from you, John McLaughlin.
Uh I'll tell you, having polled for the president in Ohio during his campaign and set up a strategy where he could win the rust belt by bringing in millions of new voters in a record turnout.
The president saved the GOP establishment's butt yesterday by bringing out Trump voters.
Trump got two hundred and six thousand votes in that district.
Uh Baldison got a hundred and four thousand votes less than the president.
Now, uh here's a fun fact from the Gateway Pundit article.
87% of the Democrats that voted in 2016 turned out in this race.
Only 40% of the Republicans.
The Republicans were losing until the president went in there.
They better get on his agenda and get things done, like immigration, like making the tax cuts permanent.
They better get with the president's agenda, or they're gonna get a shock in November, because the president can only pull so many of these guys out of the fire, and that's what he did.
No.
And by the way, there's you you really can't do a transplant of charisma.
I mean, I watched this guy on Saturday night.
I was like, oh my gosh, this is not gonna be easy.
Uh Doug Schoen, you know that from years past as well.
I do, but uh what you haven't said is that there's been at least an eleven percent swing because of the absent voters to the Democratic Party.
And if we get that in the midterms, we'll have a Democratic pickup of far more than the 23 seats they need to put the House in the Democratic column.
So uh there were a Harbinger's ill.
I I wrote a piece for Fox News.com, which uh said it was a good night for the Democrats and a good night for Donald Trump.
That's how I see it.
All right, let's now look at, you know, there had been predictions of a massive blue wave.
I think the senatorial map in particular looks good for Republicans.
I I I certainly see a pickup in Florida.
Uh I think Rick Scott is a very popular governor, and I think he'd beat Bill Nelson there.
I think Claire McCaskill is in a heap of trouble in Missouri.
You've got Heidi Heikamp, you got Joe Manchin, and and you got a bunch of others.
I would imagine that the Republicans have an advantage in the Senate.
Uh Doug, what do you think?
I think there is a slight advantage, but uh John McLaughlin is pointing to what the issue really is in the election.
Not so much a democratic wave in the sense of people rallying to the Democratic Party.
There's enthusiasm among Democrats to come out and vote for change, and the Republicans uh not so much.
And that's really the issue.
I think John put it exactly right.
But what do they want to change to?
Let's be real here.
What are the Democrats?
Give me a specific program that they're advocating that's gonna make our lives better.
Because I don't see it.
They want policies other than Trump.
They don't want to wall, they don't want uh uh uh the kind of immigration policy the president has pursued.
They want different policies.
It's unfocused, Sean.
I'll be the first to agree.
Is it is it unfocused, or they basically want us to go back to the horrific eight years of Obama.
Even you acknowledge they were horrible.
I I've said it many times on your program.
A large percentage of the Democratic primary voters disagree.
I disagree with heartily, they're socialists.
I'm not, I'm a capitalist.
But you know what?
You can win elections by voting for things and against things, and this is gonna be a negative election.
Of that I am certain.
What do you think uh John McLaughlin?
I would say historically, just a matter of fact that yeah, it's gonna be very difficult as it relates for any Republican.
Well, you've got uh you know, in this race in Ohio 12, the Democrat rejected Pelosi.
So the Democrat ran to the to the right, if not the center.
And you've got Senators like Donnelly in Indiana today was talking about supporting the uh uh border wall.
You're gonna see Democrats trying to blur that distinction that Republicans really need to vote on and make the Democrats have a clear contrast.
And by the way, the primaries are still going on.
Like yesterday and yesterday's primaries, Chris Kobach comes out of nowhere to look like he's gonna beat the incumbent governor in Kansas because President Trump supported him.
You had John James up in Massachusetts, who is r uh Michigan, pardon me, Michigan running for U.S. Senate.
He won decisively in the primary.
And and the the Trump like candidates, like uh, you know, uh uh I'm running races for candidates who support who are like President Trump, like Bob Stefanowski in Connecticut.
He's running for governor, he's got a plan to phase out the income tax.
And he's he's on the he's on the ballot on Tuesday, and everybody's attacking us because they Donald Trump has put his imprint on this party, and the Trump candidates are winning the primaries, and with that, hopefully they can carry an agenda that can that will basically create the red wave instead of having a blue wave going on.
Because right now the Democrats are blurring the issues.
Yeah, I think there's some truth to that, and there, but they seem to always go back to the same playbook.
And we know what the playbook is.
Republicans are racist, sexist, uh, xenophobic, homophobic, islamophobic, misogynistic, uh, they want dirty air water, they want to kill children, and they want to throw Granny over the cliff.
It doesn't change very much.
Now we could use you on our side.
Yeah.
You do that very well.
I I've I listen, I've been in this business too long.
It's every single election cycle.
It never changes ever.
And it, you know, the sad part is is, you know, then America forgets, you know, how how bad it was under people like a I mean, 13 million more Americans on food stamps, eight million more in poverty, accumulated more debt than every other president before him combined, lowest labor participation rate since the 70s, and then you compare it to what Donald Trump has done in a short period.
I mean, I would say if I would say to Republicans that their biggest problem is they've been weak.
Yep.
And and I agree with you a hundred percent true, because I'll tell you what, if the Doug Schoen Republican uh Democrats, who almost Republicans on a lot of issues, if we asked, No, no, no.
He's done let me tell you something.
He's not a Republican.
He's got to be fiscal conservative.
I don't go for all this debt, Sean.
I'm with no, I'm listening I agree with you on that too.
But you know, if we get the GDP growth to where we need it to be, you and I both know that it's gonna be great for the American people and the economy.
All right, I got I gotta take a break.
I hope it happens.
Well, just stay tuned.
I mean, certainly we have four million new jobs.
We got two or three fewer million on food stamps.
We got manufacturing jobs that Obama said were never coming back, coming back.
Uh, we've gotten rid of burdensome regulation.
Companies now are incentivized to actually build their factories and manufacturing centers in America, and we see dramatic increases in those jobs uh all across the Rust Belt, and it's looking good for people.
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All right, so one of the other things is all right.
So it was a Trump sweep in terms of the people that he endorsed, which is good for him.
Washington Post has a headline.
Democratic resistance hit a wall in last night's election.
The Democratic Party's left wing insurgency found its limits.
Um we know that you know Hollywood nut jobs are now blaming Vladimir Putin for last night's loss in Ohio, which is a little nuts.
Every single candidate endorsed by the rising Democratic star.
Uh Casio Cortez, they all went down to defeat.
What does that say?
Doug Schoen.
I I hope it says that the Democrats' flirtation with democratic socialism is over and that we'll have more Danny uh O'Connors and uh Connor Lambs who are centrists who vote against Nancy Pelosi explicitly, clearly and unabashedly to set the party in a new centrist, fiscally conservative.
And the odds of that happening, let's be real here, are zero.
Yeah, I mean, you know, and I know and John knows that the party's going solidly left, which I actually think helps Republicans in the end come this midterm election in 90 days.
John.
Absolutely, because like most of these Democrats winning primaries, they're supporting like Medicare for all single single payer, government-run health care.
The Mercatus Center found out that's going to cost us 3.2 trillion dollars over ten years and would double the personal income taxes, all the personal income taxes and all the corporate taxes uh in the country, and that's why you don't have it.
The Democrats who tell you they want to repeal the Trump tax tax, guess what that means?
You cut the child tax care credit in half from 2,000 to 1,000.
You cut the personal deduction in half from 2,000 to 1,000, and you raise the rates on 90% of the of the uh uh taxpayers, and most of them are middle class, the vast majority.
So we ought to make the Democrats vote on this.
We ought to let uh let those votes percolate so that Doug Schoen Democrats will bail on these crazy ideas that are just nothing more than socialism.
Is it a good idea, John, to demand wall funding up front before the election and maybe shut down the government?
Uh uh I I don't I don't like to see the government shut down, but you know what?
That funding ought to be in the middle of the state.
I must be the only person that doesn't care because we all know the government doesn't shut down.
It's just a big game that Washington plays, and the few people that get paid holidays, you know what, they're happy as can be.
Well, the last time Schumer misplayed it because you know what happened?
The military didn't get paid because they hadn't passed that appropriation bill.
So they're willing to shut down the government for illegal illegal aliens and not pay the military.
That's how crazy these democrats are.
Uh all right, we're gonna let you both go here.
We appreciate it.
Well, uh 90 days we'll be having you guys on regularly, looking at the polls, looking at the numbers, seeing which way this important midterm election is headed.
Uh Doug Schoen, thank you for being with us.
And John McLaughlin, 800-941 Sean Tollfree telephone number will come back on the other side.
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Iran is in deep trouble.
We now see a uh restlessness that is taking place among their very high youth population, and with the president's new sanctions, does that mean a change could be on the horizon?
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Happy Friday.
And we're gonna have our Made in America series in just a second.
You're gonna love this guy, the president of Nine Line.
I'll explain in a minute.
Uh Tyler Merritt.
Uh, but first it's Friday.
These weeks are long, these weeks are hard.
It's what 81 days now till election day.
Labor Day's coming up.
That means everyone's going back to school and work schedules remain.
Uh go back to normal.
Little vacation stops, and you know, we get back in the grind full time.
That also means that we're getting ready for the most important midterm election in our life.
But this Friday, well, you can put your hands up, fire a few bullets in the air, and uh put your party hat on.
Our Friday, Florida, Georgia line, Zach Brown concert series.
Let's hit it.
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We burning down the mashing bullets at the moon, baby.
This is how we roll.
And a little bit of chicken tried.
Don't be here on Friday night.
A pair of jeans that fit just right.
And the radio season song.
See the love in my mama's eyes.
Be the touch of my precious child.
And do a mother's love.
It's funny how it's a little things in life.
That means she never empty.
It blows me away.
She's everything I want to say to a woman But I couldn't find the words to say She's got what it is I don't know what to do Cause every time I try to tell her I feel like Comes out, I love you.
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Somewhere down the road, you might get alone.
Keep me in mind And I pray someday that you will love me only Think about your Sundays And the way I would lay waste Today after day with you And I pray someday that you will love me only Sweet Anne.
Can't stay with you a while.
Cause this road's been putting mouths on my heart.
Sweetheart, I've been living in a fantasy.
But one day that never will strike.
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I got everything I need.
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There it is, our Florida uh Georgia Line Friday concert series, Zach Brown concert series, 800 941 Sean.
You want to be a part of the program.
So we started a Made in America series on the program.
And we want to do this every other Friday or so.
And the whole purpose of it is every company that succeeds in America.
Well, those are also jobs being created for Americans.
And I like the idea that we support American companies.
We see a lot of these veteran companies now taken off.
BlackRifle Coffee.com slash Sean.
It's the best coffee you've ever had.
And it's amazing.
It was put together by vets that when they were serving over in Iraq and Afghanistan, they didn't like the coffee they were being given.
And they'd order coffee beans where they were into a war zone, and they experimented and they came up with a better product.
And now we have the benefit of being able to buy it.
And anyway, today we bring in the uh co-founder, he's the president of nine line, Tyler Merritt is here, and he's gonna talk to us about how great it's been.
He runs a veteran-owned and operated company right here in the U.S. Now they hire, they make, they buy, they sell American, and the company is doing great.
And uh welcome uh to the program, sir.
How are you?
I saw you recently donated 30 grand to young Marines.
Yes, sir.
That's an incredible organization.
You mentioned a few other awesome organizations uh uh that that very, very flattering introduction to us.
You know, we work with Black Rifle, we work with a lot of different organizations.
That veteran community, uh you know, they're they're doing a lot of great things in business, and you guys highlighting it, it really does mean a lot to be.
Why don't you explain exactly what it is that you do?
And um by the way, and I saw that you're you were ranked as one of the top hundred fastest growing companies in the U.S. for the past two years, 31 uh and 85, respectively.
That's huge.
Yes, sir.
Yeah, it's one of those incredible blessings.
You know, we just kept on growing.
I was active duty military until about 11 months ago.
So watching this thing go from my garage while I'm deploying with special operations to try to grow that staff here in Savannah to where I am right now.
I'm standing in my facility overlooking over 160 people as they're printing uh flag faith firearm and friends, one of our best-selling designs.
Uh, we just can't keep these things in stock.
Well, let's talk a little bit about it because uh at a growth rate of what, 5,000 percent per year, and that's year over year since I guess you began this in 2012, and you started this this company in your garage.
Let's talk about the origins.
Yeah, I I was uh in the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, uh, some of the finest uh pilots in the nation.
It was an honor to serve there, and I got to learn, you know, about the importance of time on target, plus or minus 30 seconds.
That's our mantra.
You know, and and we deliver our special operators everywhere to the to support and defend us to this day.
And that's an incredible challenge.
You take all that expertise that you've gained over the last decade in military servitude, and you apply it to the civilian world, and and it and it has incredible handovers.
You know, you take that mentality of mission men me and you hire veterans who have that same understanding.
You know, there's a lot of initiatives out there to encourage people to hire veterans in different states.
And I get to work with Secretary Kemp, who should be our next governor of Georgia, hopefully.
Um and there's there's a lot of really incredible initiatives that business can take advantage of.
We just did it early on, and the veterans and the spouses that work for us, that's the reason we grow so fast.
That's great.
You know, one of the we keep talking about employment records in 14 states and uh for Hispanic Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, but also women in the workforce and vets now are are their employment levels, and we now have a 50-year low youth unemployment number that just came out yesterday.
But you know, one of the things I know you're focus on is textile and manufacturing.
Um, and the interesting things, those are the jobs that Obama said were never coming back, but we're seeing a massive growth in the area of manufacturing.
Yeah, I think I think it goes back to leadership.
I think it goes back to what you hit on earlier before we came on of the importance of this upcoming election to make sure that we continue in the right direction.
The the there's a lot of initiatives out there that I've been able to take advantage of, you know, working with our our state government, you know, here in Georgia, which is very pro-business.
And the internal workforce training, all these other initiatives and tax cuts have allowed us to really reinvest back in our own company.
And you know the the minorities, the the spouses, the veterans, all those initiatives and and here in Georgia it's it's been incredible.
All right let's talk specifically about the the companies that you work directly we're with you work with one of our advertisers who we love our friends at BlackRifleCoffee.com.
Um oh they're by the way they're amazing guys and you know what from everything I hear their their company is exploding.
Absolutely I I would say that we are the the T-shirt equivalent that they are in the coffee space.
And Evan and I met about a year ago.
I the day I left active duty I actually flew out to Colorado and I get to hang out with Evan and Matt and and got to know if we want to do business together.
And these are some really awesome guys similar background we ended up you know going out shooting some guns, throwing some hatchets, having fun, riding dirt bikes and realize you know what not only do we like working together, uh hanging out together, we like working together and we have their first uh full scale franchise here in Savannah, Georgia um and and the mutual partnerships that we've been able to curate, you know we've got a car in NASCAR together with Extreme Concepts and Jeffrey Earnhardt, you know the the grandson of of Dale Sr.
You know, a lot of these these uh companies that you mentioned the synergies that we have together and how we all recognize you know the added benefit we give to one another um it it's it allows us to all grow at the same time.
You know that's and uh the one of the things that I love is when people actively seek to hire veterans is the point is is they've got more discipline than the average bear.
Um they know how to deal with stress better than the average person.
Uh they've been tested under the most difficult of circumstances and and no matter what they're gonna face in the business world it's it's not quite the equivalent of having uh IEDs blowing up nearby you or your friends you know having their legs blown off or being shot in the face.
So um I I just see that the the amazing accomplishments that uh they've made and then I think you know the fact that they're focusing now on building their own business so that they can be owners and entrepreneurs I love that it it's true.
I mean the purpose of our brand is try to close the gap between those who serve and and those who don't you know so there's a mutual respect and understanding.
And in the employment world, you know, when it comes to looking at a veteran's resume, they don't understand it.
You look at a special operations resume and say, hey, I'm an air mission commander.
I used to fly, you know, to countries we're not supposed to be in the most austere conditions and had to land, you know, people plus or minus 30 seconds timeline.
When I went over to Iraq, I went in a C-130 once and with two midair refuelings and the pilots were like in their young 20s and, you know, I'd sit up there in the in the cockpit.
I'm just stunned at their uh their flying ability their professionalism and then you know when you when you at the time it was a war zone and you you had corkscrew down that pretty much means you know you're going straight down it's almost like a vertical descent you don't take a lot of time to get to the to the ground in case somebody's gonna fire a surface to air missile.
Absolutely but how do you translate that to your resume?
And the employers out there have to be a little bit more I'm really good at corkscrew landings.
I'm really good at that I'm amazing at it it's credible but the the skill set that they have to be able to calculate you know uh to the to the NAT's butt to make sure that everyone on that plane survives it translates to almost every aspect of business attention to detail you know the grit the determination then the not giving up on a task because it's five o'clock on Friday.
My guys will be here till midnight or they'll be gone at four if there's nothing else to do.
But they don't know how to fail.
And that's what you get when you hire a veteran.
You know, I actually think that's the thing.
I mean it's a lot of it is about attitude.
What other companies are you working with by the way?
Man there's a laundry list between SIG, Glock, US ECA, NRA, Fielding Stream, Cabellas, Bass Pro, I mean all these organizations see the value in what we bring, you know, in our name brand.
You know the fact that we're in a we're making conscious efforts to move to U.S. manufacturing when it's not you know technically the the cheapest route but you know we can leverage technology and get the cost down but uh you know all of these organizations uh see the value and and recognize wanting to partner with us our problem is I can't I can't deliver fast enough you know we grow way too fast I've got a a laundry list of people waiting to get products uh lined up what about people that maybe you would want to employ people that are looking for
good jobs careers you know what are the states that you're working in and and where might people go if they're interested in either helping you in one of your projects or maybe working for your one of your companies or what?
Absolutely we're in Savannah Georgia right now we're headquartered here we're actually starting up our you know one of our first franchise locations in the next few weeks but we do have plans very similar to Black Rifle to expand and grow all throughout the country have 160 people right now about 30 people short so if you're interested in joining my organization it's a lot of fun uh we work hard we play hard and and head on down to Savannah.
Give us your website and then we gotta run here on a Friday.
Yeah absolutely it's uh nine lineaparel dot com and uh for some of our philanthropic endeavors we have nine linefoundation.org we're uh building a um a homeless village for veterans uh it's uh it's a hand up to try to get them off the street get them educated with Georgia Southern and certified and specific skill sets and then get them employed that sounds great all right we really appreciate you being with us uh my best to you and uh all the guys you're working with and the great work you do Tyler Merritt uh thank you president of nine line 800 941
