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Last night, I'm going to start with a huge headline was unbelievable.
It was beyond what I thought was really possible.
It was, it exceeded all of my expectations going against the headwinds of history and past precedents and watching the media so angry and hostile at a press conference today led by Jim Acosta, April Ryan, and usual left-wing fake news suspects out there that it was, it couldn't have been, it just was amazing.
And nobody in the media is, you know, with very few exceptions, there's some people that I thought were phenomenal last night, Laura Ingram, one, Britt Hume, another.
But, you know, as I'm flipping dials and I'm watching some of these people, I'm like, you're the dumbest people.
How do you even get on television?
You don't belong on television.
You don't know what you're talking about.
And it is, it gets entertaining.
It really does.
Doing what I always did.
I started a little later last night.
I actually went out with Sweet Baby James.
I voted.
We just got a quick bite to eat at a local restaurant that I happen to like.
And I went back, buried myself before the TVs and computers and studied and studied.
And, you know, Florida, Rick Scott is huge.
DeSantis was massive.
You know how much money, how much effort, how many billionaires were helping out in some of these races, like in the case of Gillum in Florida.
And there was, of course, you know, same thing, Stacey Abrams in Georgia.
She hasn't conceded.
She's lost.
And, you know, poor Ted Cruz got slammed with almost $100 million.
And I'll tell you what Ted Cruz did.
He never wavered.
He never felt sorry for himself.
He said, you know, most people, you can do a lot of damage with $100 million.
You could basically walk the entire state of Texas, identify every Democrat, register every kid at every school, and get them out to vote on Election Day.
And they did that, but it didn't stop Ted Cruz from doing what he does and doing what he's done since he's been in the Senate, which is roll up his sleeves, fight the good fight, and look for every single solitary vote in the great state of Texas.
And the analysis of Texas couldn't be more off-base.
The Democrats wanted to create three new stars out of this election.
Bozo, Beto, Betho, whatever they call him, is one, and Gillum was another.
And I know they were hoping in Georgia too to pick up there.
I mean, and you look at some of the margins and some of these pickups.
I mean, Marsha Blackburn wasn't even close.
She blew out Bredesen in Tennessee, just blew it out.
It was a massive victory for her, a huge victory in North Dakota, a massive victory.
And it was a little tougher, by the way, for Mike Braun in Indiana because he had the Libertarian on the ballot.
And you even had his liberal Schumer Democrat opponent trying to get people to vote for the Libertarian because he knew he couldn't beat Braun's trade up one-on-one.
And then, of course, Missouri, which was phenomenal.
I did tell you that Nevada was going to be hard.
It always is, turned out to be.
Didn't surprise me one bit.
Martha McSally has the edge now as we go into the final vote count here.
I always say, watch out for cheating.
They're going to find votes all over the place.
Oh, wait a minute.
We just found four truckloads of votes.
Hang on.
We had no idea that they were here.
So we got to pay close attention.
I did make some calls about that today.
Was told that lawyers are being sent out there to help protect Martha McSally's victory.
You know, I love Rick Scott.
I've gotten to know him so well, but I don't think this guy ever wins by, I don't think he's ever won by more than 100,000 votes.
And the people of Florida just love him.
But they, you know, he's just not charismatic as a typical politician, which probably makes him a better servant of the people because he doesn't go out there except do anything except work for the people.
So we're going to get to all of this.
A lot of analysis here.
I want to go over a lot of the history of all of this, how wrong the media is, how angry they are.
Oh, they were angry today at this press conference.
It was, this is one for the ages.
How the historical trends, this does not happen.
What you saw happen last night, you made this happen.
And it is extraordinarily powerful.
I also have a prediction.
I'll go into more depth and detail as the program unfolds about how the Democrats will misinterpret the election results in the House.
I love the president tweeting out about Nancy Pelosi.
Well, look, I know there are some people that are pledging not to support you.
If you need a few Republicans to help put you over the top, we'll help you.
Which is just priceless.
You know what they're going to do.
I'm sorry, what, Linda, in my ear?
What are you saying?
Yeah, no, I'm getting to it.
I got it in my hand.
The Attorney General of the United States, Jeff Sessions, has just resigned.
Let me read the letter.
At your request, I am submitting my resignation.
Since the day I was honored to be sworn in as the Attorney General of the United States, I came to work at the Department of Justice every day, determined to do my duty, serve my country.
I have done so to the best of my ability, working to support the fundamental legal processes that are the foundation of justice.
The team we assembled embraced your directive to be a law and order Department of Justice.
We prosecuted the largest number of violent offenders, firearm defendants in our country's history.
We took on transnational gangs that are bringing violence and death across our borders.
We protected national security.
We did our part to restore immigration enforcement.
We targeted the opioid epidemic by prosecuting doctors, pharmacists, anyone else who contributes to this crisis with new law enforcement tools and determination.
And we have seen results.
After two years of rising violent crime and homicides prior to this administration, those trends have reversed thanks to the hard work of our prosecutors and law enforcement around the country.
I'm particularly grateful to the fabulous men and women in law enforcement all over this great country with whom I have served.
I have had no greater honor than to serve alongside them.
As I've said many times, they have my thanks and I will always have their backs.
Most importantly, in my time as Attorney General, we have restored and upheld the rule of law, a glorious tradition that each of us has a responsibility to safeguard.
We have operated with integrity and have lawfully and aggressively advanced the policy agenda of the administration.
I've been honored to serve as the Attorney General and have worked to implement the law enforcement agent agenda based on the rule of law that formed a central part of your campaign for the presidency.
Thank you for the opportunity, Mr. President.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Now, I wanted to read that.
I cannot explain.
I have always thought Jeff Sessions was a great guy, and I don't even think, I don't think that today.
I don't know what it was about this position, about these times, about the different role he played.
It was like to me, who's somebody that loved the decision when the president first made it.
He's going to be great.
He's the Attorney General of Alabama.
This guy was a great senator.
This guy understands.
He gets it.
He knows law, order, and he's not the type of guy that's going to mess around.
He's going to get the job done.
And I just, with amazement, like with the president, for almost day one, I mean, it was tough because they were always clashing because the president felt that he had the right to an attorney general.
And, you know, right after he is confirmed, he recused himself from what turned out to be the biggest, you know, case that the attorney general was going to have to deal with just because he campaigned against Hillary.
To me, it was not a reason to recuse.
Greg Jarrett has often pointed out he cited the wrong reason, law, statute, what he did recuse.
And I just think that there were so many other things, aspects of this that went uninvestigated.
And that being Hillary getting a pass.
Now, I know we lost 25 people in the Justice Department and FBI, retirements, demotions, firings, and we do have some ongoing investigations, et cetera.
But, you know, the fact that they had the exoneration before the investigation, lying to FISA courts, using bought and paid for campaign lies of Hillary Clinton, those lies being disseminated,
the abuse of our intelligence, the weaponizing of our intelligence against political opponents, fraud against FISA courts, disseminating false lying information from the tops of some in the Intel community to propagandize before the last election in 2016.
And, you know, everything from the leak strategy on through the, we have an insurance policy and all the people that we know did things.
Nobody was ever held accountable.
And the core of this always came down to Hillary Clinton's decision to avoid congressional oversight and put her top secret, classified, and special access programming information in a mom and pop shop bathroom closet.
And when it's subpoenaed, it ends up getting deleted and bleach bit and devices are destroyed and it just becomes one big mess.
And nobody wanted to get to it.
But so it is what it is.
Let me tell you the most important thing I'm going to tell you today about this midterm election.
There was no result, by the way, going into yesterday that I thought wasn't possible.
You know, I was kind of poking fun the other day at Nate Silver because he wrote a column and he had been saying 80% chance that the House will go to the Democrats.
And I told you that every day, or 87 or 80, it was going 85, 86, 84, 83, 86, 7.
And look, I'm not, I believe in polling.
I really do.
The most accurate polling to me is when you get people in a room and you ask them questions and you get verbatim answers.
In other words, you don't feed them any lines.
You just ask straight up and down questions and you could read verbatim answers of people because I think people tend to be honest.
Although I don't think anybody that is busy working hard, playing by the rules, paying their taxes, the majority of people that may support Donald Trump, I don't think they're going to spend 20 minutes an hour in a focus group because they don't have time in their busy days to do it.
They're too busy doing what they do.
So polling has really, really been way, way off in recent years.
And I'm not sure if it's ever going to be effective again in the age of Trump.
You know, and Nate Silver makes a, well, between 15 and 55.
That's not a bold prediction.
The number that really should stand out in our head, assuming now we're going to get four pickups in the U.S. Senate is my guess now, three for sure, maybe four.
Assuming that that's the case, we got to go back.
Let's just do recent history.
Bill Clinton was elected in 1992.
His first midterm election, he lost 52 House seats.
He lost eight Senate seats.
It was a mopping, a landslide, a 60-seat loss in a single night.
And not to be outdone, Barack Obama in 2010.
He was elected in 2008.
His first midterm, he lost 63 House seats and six Senate seats.
Now, Donald Trump made a decision.
He understood the history.
He understood the headwinds.
He understood what midterms usually result in.
And he made a decision.
And the states he went to, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, Indiana, Missouri, Texas, and Arizona.
He didn't win Nevada.
And all these states, I think I said Indiana, you know, all of them, he helped these candidates.
That is a now.
He can't go campaign for all 435 members of Congress and be unrealistic.
All right, I got to take a break.
We'll get to all of this.
Sessions is out.
We'll find out more as the day unfolds why and what's going on with that.
Who might be taking his place in an interim basis, who the other people would be.
I'm going to also tell you why the media is so screwed up, as evidenced by this press conference today.
It was so out of control.
All right, as we roll along, 800-9.1, Sean Tolfree telephone number.
At the bottom of this hour, I'm going to play after the news, the press conference, parts of it from earlier today.
I mean, Jim Acosta, April Ryan, and, you know, a lot of the predictable hostility from the press, and the president wasn't having it.
And he just unloaded.
And you know what?
There comes a point where you just have to wonder.
I mean, if you want to compare, I mean, Obama lost 69 seats.
And, you know, the president, what do we had?
32 or 1 House seats.
They needed only 23.
There's not a big margin here in a lot of ways.
But, you know, they did win.
Republicans had a headwind.
They had history.
They had 44 retirements, which were poorly timed.
I think a lot of it related to Trump.
His president's now bringing in people that are far more supportive of his agenda than some of the people that are now out and those that have left.
And frankly, the president having helped all of them will play a part in the president, you know, moving agenda items forward like Supreme Court nominees.
But if you compare when Obama lost so badly in 2010, he took 22 questions, 10 reporters, and the president today took 68 questions from 35 reporters.
Obviously, a happy president today.
So I just, you know, history mattered in all of this.
Headwinds matter.
It's very funny because if you go back to 1938, you can look at John Kennedy picking up a couple of seats in 1962 and losing four House seats.
You can see Richard Nixon after the 68 win, he picked up two Senate seats, but he also lost 12 House seats.
Ronald Reagan, his first midterm, he picked up one Senate seat, lost 26 House races.
And then it's like you look at Obama and you look at Clinton loses 52 and 8, net minus 60, and then Obama 63 and 6th, net minus 69.
All right, glad you're with us.
25 till the top of the hour.
Looks like Whitaker is going to be the interim Attorney General as the Attorney General has handed in his resignation today.
One Twitter person sent me a pretty interesting piece about who will be the acting attorney general, this guy Whitaker, and that he once said as a former U.S. attorney, this is Matthew Whitaker, about Hillary Clinton.
As a former U.S. attorney, I believe there was a strong case to bring against her.
She should be extremely grateful that has not happened.
Wonder what that means.
So we'll see what that, we'll see where that comes down.
Now, a couple of thoughts, too.
And look, if I had my way, I wouldn't want Nancy Pelosi as Speaker.
I would have preferred that the Republicans hold the House.
I would have preferred that Maxine Waters not be in charge of the all-powerful finance committee in the House and that Gerald Nadler, who's making threats himself about maybe impeaching Judge Kavanaugh, Maxine Waters saying, we'll do to you what you've done to us.
Basically, Finance Committee deals with Wall Street issues.
I have no idea what she's talking about, but Adam Shifty Schiff, the lying, the number one liar in Congress, is going to be the head of the House Intel Committee.
Look, I'd rather not have it.
But when I look at the potential and I look at what happened in the Clinton years, first midterm and the Obama first midterm, you can't help but be happy when you see so much money thrown at three specific candidates, Beto, Bozo, Beto, whatever people want to call this guy in Texas.
And I mean, I've never seen a race where so much money is thrown at one person.
And in this case, Ted Cruz, Cruz kept his cool, and he just, you know, slow and steady won that race, never panicked, never worried, never complained.
You know, it was unfortunate for him.
They wanted him out so bad.
They were going to spend whatever it took, and they did, and they still lost.
The same thing with Andrew Gillum running against Ron DeSantis.
As soon as the record and the radical side of him came out, that was it.
The people of Florida, this was unfortunately, you don't start getting a lot of the good information on these candidates till after early voting starts in some states.
Rick Scott always runs these notoriously close elections, but he's up 0.5.
That race is, you know, just it's been called now for Rick Scott.
That brings the net to three.
I know a lot of people looked at the Abrams race against Brian Kemp in Georgia for the governorship there, and that was not going to a recount either.
I mean, if it went below, if any candidate, both candidates go below 50, there would be another vote.
That's not going to happen, it appears also.
And then, you know, another lot of pickups that a lot of people don't talk about.
I'm looking at Iowa, New Hampshire, Sununu.
I'm just some of these races matter a lot.
And if you look at, you know, the fact that not only did they strengthen their Senate majority, you know, Jeff Flake, who's not a fan of the president, is gone.
And Bob Corker, who was never a fan of the president, has been replaced by a really strong senator, Marsha Blackburn.
And if we do have other chances to put people on the Supreme Court, which I suspect is a very strong likelihood in the next two years, you know, if you have that buffer, 54, 53, 55, whatever it happens to be, you know, that means that, you know, although Susan Collins was a rock star with Kavanaugh, but it was a concern from the get-go or Lisa Murkowski, they're not going to be able to block conservative legislation or conservative court nominees.
McConnell will be able to rely on the four, five, six new Republican senators who owe their jobs to the president, who did something that very few presidents are willing to do.
He went out there and fought for as hard for them as he did for himself when he was running.
It is an abject lesson that working hard does pay off.
And while it's hard to do a, you know, Trump is obviously a charismatic figure, but it's hard to transfer charisma to some of these people.
Mike DeWine's win is a huge win in Ohio for the governorship there.
That's another big win that most people haven't been talking about.
But, you know, if the Democrats do what they say they're going to do, which is endless investigation, and they want their crumbs back and they want to raise taxes, it's not going to go anywhere.
In terms of the investigations, the president was simply also clear.
We can do the same thing that you can do.
We can have investigations and special counsels till the cows come home.
And what he said at his press conference today is: I hope we don't go down that road.
But at the end of the day, this is a win for Trump because Trump wasn't campaigning for the House members.
He can't go out on the road and go to 435 separate districts and campaign for every House member.
So he did the next best possible thing, which is fight for governorships and fight for these Senate seats, all of which are hard when you have the headwinds in the history of midterm elections being what they are.
So, you know, and in fairness to both Obama and Clinton, and Clinton lost 60 seats, House Senate in his first midterm.
He still won and became, he got re-elected two years later.
And Obama lost 69 seats, and he still got reelected.
I mean, the person that has the worst record of all time in terms of losing seats, well, that was Barack Obama.
That's his distinction.
I mean, they lost over 1,000 seats, Democrats lost, under Obama.
When you start looking at the huge losses that they had, a grand total of 1,042 state, federal, Democratic posts, including congressional and state legislative seats, governorships in the presidency.
1,042.
So if history is our guide, you got to put that, but everything stops.
There's nothing that Nancy Pelosi is going to be able to do that the Republicans can't counter.
Can they make life hard for the president?
Yes.
If they're going to spend their days overreaching and misinterpreting what their win was yesterday for the House, and they don't serve the people in their states, it's going to be a big mistake on their part.
And I think that's instinctively where the Democratic Party is.
I think they're a far more radical party than they've ever been.
There's no more moderates in the Democratic Party.
And I would expect that that's what they're going to do.
But the bottom line is, look, Donald Trump carried a lot of these guys over the finishing line.
The 30, the 30 stops that he made out campaigning for governors, senators in these states were a massive factor.
I would argue without it, it could have been a massive blowout.
And like a lot of past presidents, he could have stayed home.
He didn't have to get out on the road.
And then when you look at the people that distanced themselves from this great success that we've all been talking about, this economic miracle, none of them did particularly well.
You know, with the new Attorney General and the Senate victory last night, you know, and all these people, I think we can finally look forward to having an attorney general that's going to take control of the Justice Department.
It's been pretty rogue to me under Rod Rosenstein.
And that means the days of Mueller, you know, are probably coming to a quick end.
There were some people that were very honest about the midterm elections.
Melissa Harris Perry said the current slate of Democratic presidential nominees looks like losers.
Poor Van Jones, every election year, he just can't hold it together.
Over there at Fake News CNN, what are you saying in my ear?
Okay.
Fake News CNN, he said, this is just heartbreaking.
It's heartbreaking.
The hope has been that the antibodies would kick in, that this sort of infestation of hatred and division would draw a response from the American people, really in both parties, to say no.
That doesn't seem to have happened tonight.
It's not a blue wave, but it's a blue war.
I thought he wanted civility.
I'm not getting particular civility there.
Nancy Pelosi starting out has a 31% approval rating.
31%.
Anyway, 800-941 Sean is a tollfree telephone number if you want to be a part of the program.
I want to play a media montage, and then Lindsey Graham is going to check in with us.
You know, there was a press conference today.
The president went out for an hour and a half, took questions from everybody, and just listen to this exchange with Acosta and April.
I'm sorry, what?
I can't.
All right, we'll take a break now.
All right, we're going to take a break now because Lindsey Graham's coming in.
We'll play that montage.
Then we'll talk to Lindsey Graham next, okay?
All right, so the president at his press conference today, let's hit.
Just see how hostile.
You know, they won because, you know, the president had a good night because they're so angry.
They thought this was, you know, Obama's new excuse is, oh, it's going to take many elections to straighten the country out because he was the biggest loser.
Oprah was not a big winner last night either.
And Obama had been out there and his rhetoric was way over the top for him.
Well, not really, but he has the impression that he's somebody that brings people together.
He wasn't bringing people together in those speeches.
And so he's angry that his candidates lost.
And, well, it's going to take many elections.
But you just listen to how hostile the media is in this country.
They wonder why they get called out for being fake news or people chant they suck.
The media coverage set a new record and a new standard.
One, I was tempted to ask you why you like Oprah so much, but I think I'll go on to the question that why do I like Oprah?
What kind of a question is this?
Yeah, just asking.
Just curious.
But the real question is a comedian here.
Thank you, Mr. President.
I wanted to challenge you on one of the statements that you made in the tail end of the campaign in the midterms.
Here we go.
Well, if you don't mind, Mr. President, that this caravan was an invasion.
As you know, Mr. President.
As you know, Mr. President, the caravan was not an invasion.
It's a group of migrants moving up from Central America towards the border with the U.S. Thank you, Vitamin.
All right, stop right there.
I just want to say one thing before we continue this.
They invaded Mexico.
They knocked down the fences.
They walked past the police and the military.
Some of them were injured in the process.
And their goal, their stated goal, was to walk into the United States illegally.
But the president has decided he's not going to wait to the last minute, and they're putting up barriers and they're preventing this from happening.
So what happened in Mexico doesn't happen here.
You could say planned, and I'm sure 99% of the people are fine.
But we do know the Department of Homeland Security, and we do know Mexican officials have identified criminals that have infused themselves into this caravan that don't have intentions of being very good, some 270 that we so far have identified.
Anyway, continue.
Why did you characterize it as such?
Because I consider it an invasion.
You and I have a difference of opinion.
Honestly, I think you should let me run the country.
You run CNN.
And if you did it well, your ratings are not.
Let me ask you.
If I may ask one other question.
Mr. President, if I may ask one other question, are you worried about it?
That's enough.
That's enough.
Mr. President, I'm going to ask one of the other folks.
That's enough.
Pardon me, ma'am.
Excuse me.
That's enough.
Mr. President, one of the questions.
If I may ask, I'll tell you what, CNN should be ashamed of itself having you working for them.
You are a rude, terrible person.
You shouldn't be working for CNN.
Go ahead.
I think that's on.
You're a very rude person.
The way you treat Sarah Huckabee is horrible.
And the way you treat other people.
By the way, I would go longer, but then a woman who works at the White House tried to take the microphone.
Jim Acosta wouldn't give it back.
He thinks this is like his own personal.
When the president says no more questions, where's the respect?
Lindsey Graham is with us, by the way.
Jeff Sessions out.
We have a lot of pickups to talk about.
You were right, and that is, well, we did well in Florida, North Dakota, Indiana, Missouri, and a good shot.
We got Arizona still.
All good.
All good.
You nailed it.
You're right.
Three, three, and three.
It looks like Martha has got a thin lead, but I like the way it's trending.
If we can hold on to Arizona, we will have nailed it on your show.
I think Maricopa County is where those votes still need to be counted.
Do you know how many?
Yeah, I can.
Okay, you ready?
Yeah, I'm ready.
There are about 450,000 votes out in Maricopa County.
Cinema had an 8,000-vote lead after 970,000 votes cast in Maricopa County.
So if the past is any indication of the future, McSally should go down about 4,000 votes.
There's an adjoining county that's been 12 points for cinema, 100,000 votes out.
If that holds true, then we're down to about 1,000 votes for McSally.
But here's the good news: there are 50,000 rural votes not yet counted, and Martha McSally has been winning them two to three to one.
So you think she wins by a couple of thousand?
If everybody performs in the mail like they did.
With the rest of the county.
That's the only way to really judge that.
So, all right, real quick, you had been saying about a couple of thousand.
Yes.
When will we know?
About 10 days.
I can't believe I know all this.
I mean, I've gotten so into this.
I know.
I do the same thing.
I got to ask you about Jeff Sessions quickly because we only have a minute.
I think it could be days before we know.
You got military ballots coming in, which is good for us.
Okay.
But anyway, it could be eight or ten days.
Sessions.
Go ahead.
Jeff.
Talk to the president this morning.
We've got to find somebody who's president trust that can get confirmed.
A lot of good choices.
I'm looking forward, not backward.
We've got a new chapter at the Department of Justice, and I'm excited about the opportunity.
Schumer is saying that Whitaker, the now acting Attorney General, should have to recuse himself.
Is that going to happen?
No, I don't know why he would.
I mean, I don't think he was part of the campaign, was he?
Yeah, no, I don't think so.
He might have waited on Hillary once, but that's not what it's about anyway.
Anyway, great calls yesterday.
A great day for the Senate, as you had predicted.
Lindsey Graham, thank you for being with us.
The Fox News decision death can now project that Republican Congressman Kevin Kramer will unseat one-term Democratic Senator Heidi Heikamp, scoring a crucial Senate pickup for the GOP.
Hekamp, who had long struggled against Kramer in this reliably red state, sealed her political fate last month when she voted against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
I want to really pay a special tribute to our president.
You know, he made a lot of promises.
He promised to never forget real America.
And he came here three times.
Our vice president's been here three times.
Cabinet officials have been here multiple times because they will not forget the once forgotten.
And I'm grateful that Donald Trump knows and remembers the heartland of America.
Fox News can now project that Josh Hawley will defeat incumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill after a long-fought battle there.
The incumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill.
Tonight, the good Lord and the people of Missouri have given us the victory.
We won.
I just had it.
I just had a nice phone call from Senator McCaskill.
She couldn't have been more gracious.
She conceded the race.
I want to thank her for her service.
And I had a very nice call with the President of the United States.
Thank you, Mr. President, for your leadership.
Thank you for believing in Missouri.
Tonight, the people of Missouri have delivered.
Another big call to make.
This one, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will win the Florida governor's race against Andrew Gillam.
I'd like to thank our president for standing by me when it wasn't necessarily the smart thing to do.
Mr. President, I look forward to working with you to advance Florida's priorities.
But I promise you this, as governor, I will fight the good fight.
I will finish the race, and I will keep the faith on behalf of the great state of Florida and the wonderful people we have here.
Thank you.
We can call now that the Texas race will go to Ted Cruz, the incumbent Republican.
That also gives us the ability to call the Senate for Republicans.
They will retain the Senate with a number of big wins so far tonight.
Texas came together behind a common sense agenda of low taxes, low regulations, and lots and lots of jobs.
Fox News projecting that Rick Scott will beat Bill Nelson in the Senate race in Florida.
That is another pickup for Republicans.
I didn't go to Tallahassee eight years ago to be everybody's friend.
I'm not going to D.C. to win a popularity contest.
I'm going to D.C. to get something done.
We're making a race call.
Indiana, Mike Braun, the Republican, will defeat incumbent Democrat Joe Donnelly.
This is a huge win for the Republicans.
This is a pickup for the Republicans taking down incumbent Donnelly, who Democrats really believed was in good shape heading into Election Day.
We've got two years to show that as conservatives, we can make things work.
We need to get our president reelected.
And what we're going to do is we're going to get more people from the real world that have had to do things that can fix things in a dysfunctional system.
You're going to find that other people across this country are going to stick their neck out and take a risk and try to fix things in Washington so the system works for everyone.
That's my goal.
So on the other hand, you had some that decided to, let's stay away.
Let's stay away.
They did very poorly.
I'm not sure that I should be happy or sad, but I feel just fine about it.
Carlos Cubela, Mike Kaufman.
Too bad, Mike.
Mia Love.
I saw Mia Love.
She'd call me all the time to help her with a hostage situation being held hostage in Venezuela.
But Mia Love gave me no love.
And she lost.
Too bad.
Sorry about that, Mia.
And Barbara Comstock was another one.
I mean, I think she could have won that race, but she didn't want to have any embrace.
All right.
That's the president talking about those candidates that did not want his help and support.
I can tell you that I think Menendez, for example, in New Jersey, was far more vulnerable, but the ads that Bob Hugin were running, we had him on yesterday.
I didn't have time to ask him.
A lot of them were anti-Trump.
I'll be independent from Trump.
So he was trying to be basically a watered-down Democrat.
That strategy didn't work.
Those that embraced the president did extraordinarily well.
You know, you can't underestimate the history of what happened yesterday.
You know, if you go back to prior midterm elections and you go all the way back to Franklin Roosevelt, and you see that in midterms, usually there are massive losses.
And if not massive, there are losses.
There are three occasions where there were, well, actually four, but where people picked up seats in the Senate.
John Kennedy picked up three in 1962.
Richard Nixon picked up two in 1970.
Ronald Reagan picked up one in 1982, but he lost 26 House seats.
Richard Nixon in 1970 lost 12 House seats.
John Kennedy lost four House seats.
And then you got the other latest example was in 2002.
That was right after the 9-11 terror attacks.
George W. Bush picked up eight House seats and two Senate seats.
But the two biggest losses, now think about this, was Bill Clinton in 1994, 52 House seats, eight Senate seats.
And then Barack Obama, the worst loss of anybody, when you add and combine the House and the Senate, short of Franklin Roosevelt in 1938, 63 House seats he lost, six Senate seats he lost.
And so the history of this is extraordinary.
And the president, as he had pointed out, he didn't have the ability to go to all 435 congressional districts.
So he did what he could do, and that is to help the nationalized Senate races, oftentimes in House races.
You know, 44 retirements, that's also a bit of history there, too.
A very high number of people that decided this wasn't going to be a good year.
I'm getting out, and they're putting in, you know, literally freshman players and people that don't have any name recognition in their home and their town and their communities.
And, you know, so then it becomes a local issue for most of the people.
And then those people that ran away from the president.
Anyway, John McLaughlin has been with us from the beginning, pollster, founder, McLaughlin and Associates.
I think you and I were pretty much on the same page.
You thought we had a little bit better chance of keeping the House than I did.
I thought it was very difficult.
Yeah, I agree with you.
And as you there I was trying to give hope to my candidates that we could win these races and hold the House, which I do think was possible, was possible.
Because we're going to be putting out a post-election survey that we did yesterday.
The president's job approval was $48.49.
And we had it a week, you know, a week out from the election.
It was $4,850.
So it was close.
And the states that they won in the Senate were states where the president was popular.
And he put his integrity and his platform and his issues and his political muscle on the line to carry those tenants, plus to win as many House seats as possible.
What's really interesting is in the same survey, Nancy Pelosi only has a 31% favorable rating.
That's amazing.
I thought the president tweeting out today that, well, if she follows a few votes shy, we might be able to help her with a few Republicans.
That basically is him saying, yeah, we want her to be Speaker because we don't, you know, he knows the low approval rating she has, and she's not liked by the American people.
I also think she is going to be the candidate, the speaker that is going to have to say yes to whatever the extreme in her party wants.
And that means no progress will be made.
The endless investigations are going to happen.
But the American people are going to get to then see compare and contrast, John.
And what they're going to see is and ask themselves, oh, okay, you want to have a fight over subpoenaing Donald Trump's tax forms from 1973.
And the American people are going to see it exactly for what it is, a witch hunt.
Even the exit poll showing that 61% of people see that whole Mueller investigation as a political attempt to hurt the president.
So I think if they go dig two more years into this, they're only going to help Donald Trump get reelected in two years.
Right.
It's very much very much like, you know, when at some point Bill Clinton, he ended up running against Newt Gingrich and Bob Dahl to win reelection.
Nancy Pelosi, the other part, she had a 52 unfavorable.
And when we asked all the voters, do they want her to be, do you favor or oppose her being the next speaker?
Only 29% favored, 54 opposed.
So I know you on the air were talking about her agenda, open borders, raising taxes, government-run health care.
You know, you saw this as an opportunity for the Republicans to be able to contrast.
But a lot of the problems were they were self-inflicted where, you know, the Republicans, when they passed a great tax cut plan that would create jobs and grow the economy, they decided along the way they were going to take away state and local tax deductions, which is, okay, maybe good policy, but it's bad politics when you have 30 some odd suburban legislators in New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, California, and Illinois that their constituents benefit from that.
And then all of a sudden you take that away and you don't give them a transition or a phase-in period or a higher cap.
You know, that put a lot of members at risk.
Plus, instead of us arguing about Medicare for all being single-payer national socialized medicine, we're defending a vote in the House where they were going to take away pre-existing conditions where it granted some sort of waiver.
And instead, we're on defense.
And Pelosi today is talking about, you know, that kind of health care, but she's not getting at what they want to do.
They want to government-run health care.
And ironically, in the same survey that we have today, when we asked them if you want, if you approve or if you approve or disapprove of repealing and replacing Patient Protection Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, they approved 51 to 42.
The Republicans didn't get it done.
They didn't get it done on that.
They didn't get it done on immigration.
And the economy, ironically, the voters say it's growing.
They see a better economy, 58 to 32.
So there's this economic optimism and then a disappointment with the Republican majority on immigration and on health care.
And it keeps you.
I think that was, look, at the time, I mean, I was just like, I was shocked when they finally took power and they weren't ready to go forward with their repeal and replace plan.
Then we began to realize for seven and a half years, 60 or 70 some-odd show votes by House Republicans, always voting to repeal and replace.
But when it came time where it would actually mean something and it would get to the Senate and you can negotiate in conference a better bill that would have repealed and replaced, they punted.
And then it became, okay, how much of this apple can we get?
And then there was great negotiation.
Remember, you know, Paul Ryan, you know, he wrote this thing behind the scenes.
And then the Freedom Caucus and all these other groups were like, this is not what we promised people.
And they eventually did it.
And then, you know, ended up being what it was.
It got passed in the House.
And then the Senate, they couldn't even vote seven senators that voted just a year and a half earlier to just straight on repeal Obamacare.
They didn't do it.
And yeah, I think there was a price to pay.
And I think the president, you know, wanted this fresh new attitude, people that I think are going to be more in line with his agenda.
All right, we'll take a quick break.
We'll come back.
John McLaughlin, the pollster, is with us.
Jim Jordan wants to be the leader of the Republicans in the House.
I think a good idea.
We need somebody who could fight.
Also, we're going to look at all the other aspects, the corrupt media.
I mean, the biggest donors to the Democratic Party wasn't these billionaires that we keep hearing about.
What's that guy's name?
Steyer and who else?
Michael Bloomberg and George Soros.
It really wasn't.
The biggest campaign contributor, this election cycle, more than ever before, was the news media.
And it is obvious during the press conference today just how angry all of them are.
Quick break, right back.
We'll continue.
He has delivered misogyny for these people, the same type of rhetoric, the same type of propaganda that you would have seen in Germany in 1938, the dehumanization, turning people into infested vermin.
Look, the young people in this country are not with this sort of evil, nasty authoritarianism.
Republicans have to call this out because their souls are on the line.
So he has a giant cult.
He also heads a party that knows very well that he's a giant cult.
Of his erratic behavior, his ignorance could pose a profound danger to every single person in this country and literally every inhabitant of the world.
It just was so vicious leading up to this.
I don't think it really helped.
I mean, I always talk about it, prepare people for it, and then it became Nazis and racists and kill your children.
I mean, Sometimes it's only a couple of ads, but I mean it was everywhere, you know, every second minute hour of every day all over cable news, which is insane.
Absolutely.
I mean, it was just the bias here.
We asked in this post-election survey, we asked if the media was fair and not biased towards the president.
34% agreed with that.
It was an unfair and biased against the president.
48% agreed with that.
And just recently with the shooting in the synagogue in Pittsburgh, we asked if it was appropriate or inappropriate for the president to go visit.
And 62% of all voters told us it was appropriate, and only 26 said inappropriate.
And we also asked them, was the media, the media coverage, respectful or disrespectful to the president in his commentary about his visit to Pittsburgh?
And only 30% said respectful.
44% said disrespectful.
So the voters know that the media is biased against the president, and they know that they're disrespectful towards the president, even at a time of important, solemn time for the country.
So, you know, I've seen this before with lots of candidates that are.
Let me tell you something.
It is history, and that is the untold story.
And the other untold story is it's Trump, his work ethic, and his success that brought a lot of these guys in a year that history shows they on paper are going to lose to victory beyond what anyone else really ever predicted.
It was an amazing night, actually.
But I got to run.
Thank you.
John McLaughlin, appreciate it.
Jim Jordan wants to be the leader of the Republicans in the House.
He'll check in with us.
We got all the other news of the day.
A lot of election fallout.
We're still watching, waiting for Arizona.
And, well, they want to recount Florida.
That's not going to work.
It will be Senator Rick Scott.
It will be the Senate-elect, is the Senate-elect.
That race has been called.
And whatever shenanigans they might try in Florida, I'd advise Republicans, get the lawyers out because you never trust anybody.
And the same thing in Arizona.
Quick break, right back.
We'll continue.
Media coverage, set a new record and a new standard.
Thank you, Mr. President.
I wanted to challenge you on one of the statements that you made in the tail end of the campaign in the midterms.
Here we go.
Well, if you don't mind, Mr. President, that this caravan was an invasion.
As you know, Mr. President.
As you know, Mr. President, the caravan was not an invasion.
It's a group of migrants moving up from Central America towards the border with the U.S. Thank you for telling me that.
And why did you characterize it as such?
Because I consider it an invasion.
You and I have a difference of opinion.
Honestly, I think you should let me run the country.
You run CNN.
And if you did it well, your ratings are going to be a good question.
Let me ask you.
If I may ask one other question.
Mr. President, if I may ask one other question, are you worried about it?
That's enough.
That's enough.
Mr. President, I was going to ask one of the other folks.
That's enough.
Pardon me, ma'am.
Mr. President.
That's enough.
Mr. President, one of the things that we're talking about.
If I may ask.
I'll tell you what, CNN should be ashamed of itself having you working for them.
You are a rude, terrible person.
You shouldn't be working for CNN.
Go ahead.
I think that's unfair.
You're a very rude person.
The way you treat Sarah Huckabee is horrible.
And the way you treat other people are horrible.
You shouldn't treat people that way.
Go ahead.
Go ahead, Peter.
In Jim's defense, I've traveled with him and watched him.
He's a diligent reporter who bustles.
Well, I'm not a big fan of yours either, so to be honest.
So let me ask you a question if I can.
You repeatedly said.
You are the best.
Mr. President, you repeatedly over the course of the year.
Just sit down, please.
But when you report fake news, no.
When you report fake news, which CNN does a lot, you are the enemy of the people.
You just have to sit down, please.
Sit down.
I didn't call you.
I'll give you voter suppression.
Take a look at the CNN polls, how inaccurate they were.
That's called voter suppression.
Go ahead, please.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Georgia, sir, you're not.
I'm not responding.
I'm responding to.
Excuse me.
I'm not responding to you.
I'm talking to this gentleman.
Would you please sit down?
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
Would you please sit down?
Please, go ahead.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Now that the House of Representatives is such a hostile media, it's so sad.
You ask me about, no, you rudely interrupted him.
You rudely interrupted him.
Go ahead.
What's your next question?
Come on, let's go.
Just a more exciting question than that.
See, when you talk about division, it's people like this that cause division.
Great division.
Who are you from?
I'm from Yahoo, Good Real.
Yahoo.
Yahoo.
Good.
Good.
I hope they're doing well.
All right.
That was from earlier in the classic press conference.
Really weird.
At one moment, Acosta's not going to shut up.
He's not going to sit down.
He keeps screaming at the president.
And so they actually have people that were in the room that are walking around with the microphones.
A young woman comes over to get the mic from Acosta, starts to take it, he pulls it, rips it right out of her hand.
And that is the greatest donors to the Democratic, liberal leftist cause in the country right there.
An amazing night by any objective analysis.
And it seems where the president campaigned, who he campaigned for, did extraordinarily well, couldn't campaign for all 435 members of Congress.
But these pickups in the Senate are unbelievable.
Looks like we'll also get Arizona based on the numbers that are out there, which will bring us, what, I guess, to around 54.
And so a big night for the president.
And that gives the president breathing room, especially with judicial appointments and Supreme Court vacancies.
And also all the investigative work that the House has been doing into the deep state, that can just continue via the committee and the Senate committee.
Remember, it was the Nunes memo, but it was also the Grassley Graham memo.
Anyway, joining us now is Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan.
And you're looking to be the House minority leader, sir.
And I think you'd be great in that position to be a checking of balance on Nancy Pelosi and what it is the Democrats want to do.
How are you doing?
I'm doing fine.
And Sean, you're exactly right.
Everywhere the president went, it made a huge difference.
Florida, we now have a Freedom Caucus member who's going to be governor of one of our largest states when he went to Indiana for Senator Braun, soon to be Senator Braun.
And then, of course, in Missouri, where it would just be Josh Hawley.
Yeah, every place he went made a huge difference.
Well, it was that.
It was also Tennessee.
And, you know, poor Ted Cruz, I mean, I've never seen one candidate in a Senate race ever.
Had close to $100 million thrown at them.
And it was a war down there in Texas.
And literally, Ted Cruz pulled it off in a pretty magnificent way for him.
Sure did.
And yeah, I mean, and much to his credit, right now, Martha McSally up in Arizona, that would be an extra seat.
Rick Scott was a big win.
Heidi Hekamp losing.
John Tester hanging on by the skin of his teeth, as I think still the final tally is being put up there, but he's ahead by a very tidy amount.
The problem is the president went in after half the votes in the state had been done.
And literally, the Libertarian got out too late, and that was the difference.
That would have been the difference, which I was warning the people of Indiana about.
Yeah, Sean, here's the other place he made a big difference.
Our state, Ohio.
He came in on Monday.
The conventional wisdom was our governor candidate, Mike DeWine, was in a tight race and likely to lose.
The polls had him slightly behind, but we won every statewide election.
We kept every Republican member of the congressional delegation.
We only lost one statewide election, and that was Jim Renac, who was running against Sherrod Brown.
And yet, Congressman Renac ran close to Sherrod Brown.
That is the president's involvement as well in our state.
So it made a big difference to have the president there on Monday and now have Mike DeWine going to be our next governor.
And he was not the most charismatic guy.
I put him on TV one night.
I mean, he's a nice man.
I'm sure he's going to do a great job as Ohio governor.
He's a good person.
But he needs a little 101 and Jim Jordan campaign style.
Roll up those sleeves and get out there and get a little more passionate.
I asked him a question.
I think he gave me a three-word answer.
I was like, oh, no, we're in trouble.
This is not good.
Yeah, but he's a hard worker.
And the president's speech there in Cleveland on Monday afternoon was just tremendous.
Huge crowds like he, you know, crowd like he always gets.
And it made a big difference.
And we had strong margins across the board in our congressional delegation races.
So, yeah, the president, I think it was a good day for him in many regards.
Unfortunately, we didn't keep the House.
But we've got to get back to work and make sure we're not going to be able to do that.
If they continue with what they are going to what we expect that they're going to do, which is endless investigations, the president's tax returns, everybody in the meeting, what about your tax returns?
We're going to be subpoenaed.
And the president said, well, we can play this game too because you have the Senate and he has the executive power also available to begin multiple investigations on that side.
I hope the better angels on the Democratic side, although I wouldn't expect it.
I mean, Maxine Waters promised revenge.
She said, we're going to do to you what you did to us.
She's going to be ahead of the House Financial Services Committee.
That would be Wall Street.
And then we also have the biggest liar in the entire Congress, Adam Schiff.
He's out there saying the same thing.
We're going to go back to a real Russia investigation.
I'm like, okay, Robert Mueller's finishing up his job.
Now he wants to go back there.
My question is, well, the House investigations being stopped by January, will that be the end of the deep state investigation?
Does that mean some people go away scot-free?
Or are all the documents available that they can be released before that?
We hope we get them all before then.
And obviously, the Democrats have been trying to not obstruct, but make it difficult for us to do the investigations that we've been talking about for so long here, and that we need to get to the bottom of it, the stuff with the FBI.
But you're right.
In the world of Adam Schiff, Maxine Waters, Elijah Cummings, and Jerry Nadler, they are going to go after the president.
And the president's response this morning in his tweet, and frankly, the attitude that he, I think was with the reporters at his press conference, that's what Americans love about this president, his willingness to stand up and fight and defend the things that matter.
So we're going to have to fight hard to try to get to the bottom of this FBI and what they did there in the next few months.
And then when they come with these investigations, it will be a fight because we got to be advocating and getting the truth out.
They're just going to come after the first family nonstop.
And anyone associated with the president, anyone in his cabinet, they've been clear about that.
And I don't think they will deviate from that because I think they can't help themselves.
I don't think Maxine Waters can help herself.
She's going to do what she said.
After all, she said impeachment, I think, eight times in one sentence.
And she's the one who stood up and said, anyone who supports the president, you should get in their face at the restaurant at the gas, harass them wherever they're at.
So I don't think they can help themselves.
And we've got to be ready for that.
All right.
So you have announced your bid for the House Minority Leader.
I guess you're going to be challenging Kevin McCarthy.
Is Steve Scalees still in this battle, or he hasn't stated yet?
I don't think he stated public what he's doing.
He hasn't stated that public.
But, yeah, I'm going to run.
Look, in 2016, the American people elected President Trump to come here and shake this town up.
And he is doing just that.
And they expect the same intensity from the Republican members of the House of Representatives.
And while we've been successful in doing some good things, like cutting people's taxes and reducing regulations, we haven't shown the intensity that the president, we haven't matched that intensity to get done what we said we would do.
Have we replaced Obamacare yet?
Have we reformed our welfare system yet?
Have we secured the border yet?
We haven't done those key things.
And it's going to take, I think, an aggressive approach, particularly in an environment where Nancy Pelosi is leading the House and you have Shift Waters coming to them or chairing these respective committees.
It's going to take an intensity.
We're going to have to step it up if we're going to persuade the American people and win back their trust so we can take this majority back in 2020.
It's an amazing thing.
You know, a lot of times as coalitions put together, I do think the Republicans lost their way.
You know, when the Republicans, you know, after the Obama years, Donald Trump becomes president, and so many Republicans were afraid of Trump's pacing and maybe they didn't like his style.
I don't know.
But for six years, they were voting over and over again, 60 times to repeal and replace Obamacare.
Then we learned pretty quickly on that a lot of those guys didn't have the stomach to actually stand by the promises they made to their constituents.
Now, many of them so didn't have their stomach that 44 of them resigned.
So I'm hoping that the new people that have been winning and are coming in will have the passion to actually fight the good fight and battle the way they need to battle.
Now, secondly, it doesn't matter what Nancy Pelosi passes.
They can send any bill they want over to the Senate.
And it can be changed.
It can be altered.
But if they're not going to work with the Senate and work with the president, it's dead on arrival, every single one of them.
Yep.
You're exactly right.
And the president has a veto pen.
If something does get to him that is not consistent with what the American people elected us to do, I do think some of the new members coming in are going to, we helped a number of them with the House Freedom Caucus.
We are involved in all kinds of races, and people like Chip Roy, Yvette Harrell, Denver Riggleman, Ben Klein, some good members, Russ Fulture from Idaho, some good members coming in who I think are committed to fighting the good fight.
And that's, again, exactly what we're going to need in the environment where it's Pelosi as Speaker and these other individuals.
Well, one loss of the Freedom Conference really bothered me, and that was Dave Bratt, and he lost by less than half a point.
All right, got to take a quick break.
We'll come back more with Jim Jordan of Ohio, 800-941.
Sean is on number.
You want to be a part of the program.
All right, as we continue with Jim Jordan of Ohio, he'd like to be the House Minority Leader now.
Is it true that Cantor was working against him?
I don't know.
I hope not.
I hope not.
But Dave had everything thrown at him, tens of millions of dollars.
He ran a great campaign and just came up a few votes short.
We had another great Freedom Caucus member up in Pennsylvania, Scott Perry, who had a tough, what they disclosed.
Yeah, we had him on.
Perry's problem is they redistrict five seats.
Oh, golly.
I mean, what they did in Pennsylvania, frankly, was almost like stealing five seats.
Yep.
It really was despicable when the courts got involved.
You know, that's part of the reason some of the big gubernatorial races matter a lot.
Ohio, where you live, matters a lot now.
Iowa, New Hampshire, they matter a lot.
Those were big gubernatorial wins.
Georgia, another.
Florida, another.
Those were huge wins in terms of redistricting.
And when we get the census, et cetera, going into 2020, it's going to be amazing.
Yep.
Sure is.
Again, we're back to where we started.
Sean, the president coming into Florida and helping Ron DeSantis is huge.
The president coming to Ohio and helping our entire team.
Mike DeWine is now governor there.
That is huge.
He made such an impact in so many races.
Unfortunately, like you said, he couldn't get everywhere.
And look, I also think some people ran local races.
I actually, I had a colleague tell me this the other day, and I think he's right.
He said all politics is national now.
And it's the truth.
Some people didn't embrace the agenda of the president, didn't run with the president, tried to distance themselves.
And I understand maybe there's some unique circumstance, but in most cases, we should have been running with the president and not running local races.
Listen, I talked about it.
I'll say it now the day after this election.
The 2020 election needs to be nationalized by the Republican Party.
I've been suggesting it now year in and year out.
I've actually taken the time and I've written out what the agenda should be.
And you know what?
I don't know.
There's this mysterious reluctance and resistance to just put on paper, sign your name, make a pledge, and then follow through on your promises.
Because when you do that, it's good politics.
You know, the reason that Barack Obama lost 69 House and Senate seats combined and 60 in the case of Bill Clinton is because they didn't do what they said they were going to do.
They did the opposite.
And they paid a price.
But I got to let you run.
Jim Jordan running for minority leader, and I support him in his effort.
I think he'd be great in that position.
And I assume there's going to be some type of coalition that'll be put together in the weeks ahead.
We'll watch it closely.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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As you know, Mr. President, the caravan was not an invasion.
It's a group of migrants moving up from Central America towards the border with the U.S. Thank you for telling me.
And why did you characterize it as such?
Because I consider it an invasion.
You and I have a difference of opinion.
Honestly, I think you should let me run the country.
You run CNN.
And if you did it well, your ratings are not.
Let me ask you a question.
If I may, let me explain what's going on.
This is Jim Acosta.
So hostile Acosta over at CNN.
And he's so angry and so mad.
By the way, evidence of everything I've been saying is that Jim Acosta, I think the media can't stand what happened last night.
They went to the mat.
They went to the wall.
They gave it their all.
And still they didn't get the result that they wanted.
And there's real fire, anger, and fury in them about that.
Well, when the president says that you have, we watched what happened in the border with Mexico and people are not respecting our borders.
And the caravan is planning on coming to the U.S. and entering illegally.
Yeah, we know it started out as a thousand miles and they made some progress, quite a bit of progress, actually.
And we know we're not going to wait till the last minute and not prepare the southern border for what we now know is coming.
We don't want what happened in Mexico to happen here.
And what happened down there was it was an invasion.
They just knocked down the fences.
They walked right past and in some cases were violent with some of the police in Mexico.
And they walked right through their country, disobeying their laws, not respecting their borders or their sovereignty.
So the president is saying, yeah, we're not going to allow that to happen here.
That's not that hard to figure out.
Now, I thought that this guy is supposed to be an objective journalist.
I don't make a claim.
I'm a talk show host under the banner of being a talk show host.
I have to explain it to people on a regular basis because so many in the media are so dumb.
But yes, sometimes we do straight news.
Sometimes, as you know, for two years, we've done a lot of investigative reporting on this program.
We also give very strong opinion.
And sometimes we talk about football and cultural issues.
It doesn't matter.
So I'd like to say as a talk show host, we're the whole newspaper.
We do everything, news, editorial, opinion, op-ed.
We have opposition sometimes.
Sometimes we don't.
And we talk about anything that's in the news that's relevant.
But they claim to be objective.
They claim that they're news people.
The hosts of these fake news networks think that they are fair and balanced, and they're down the line and they're doing their job.
They know it's not true.
We've got all the tapes proving it's not true.
They were so over the top just in the lead up to this election.
You know, you can't discern a hardcore leftist Democrat from what you're watching and hearing minute by minute, second by second, hour by hour, day by day on these channels.
Anyway, let's continue the rudeness.
Peter, I got a question.
Are you worried?
That's enough.
That's enough.
Mr. President, that's enough.
I'm going to ask one of the other folks.
That's enough.
Pardon me, ma'am.
Mr. President, that's enough.
Mr. President, one of the men, if I may ask, I'll tell you what, CNN should be ashamed of itself having you working for them.
You are a rude, terrible person.
You shouldn't be working for CNN.
Go ahead.
I think that's unfair.
You're a very rude person.
The way you treat Sarah Huckabee is horrible.
And the way you treat other people are horrible.
You shouldn't treat people that way.
Go ahead.
Go ahead, Peter.
In Jim's defense, I've traveled with him and watched him.
He's a diligent reporter who bustles.
I'm not a big fan of yours either.
So to be honest.
So let me ask you a question if I can.
You repeatedly said you are the best.
Mr. President, you repeatedly over the course of the day.
Just sit down, please.
But when you report fake news, no, when you report fake news, which CNN does a lot, you are the enemy of the people.
You just have to sit down, please.
Sit down.
I didn't call you.
I'll give you voter suppression.
Take a look at the CNN polls, how inaccurate they were.
That's called voter suppression.
Go ahead, please.
Thank you, Mr. President.
George, I'm not responding.
I'm responding to.
Excuse me, I'm not responding to you.
This is April Ryan now.
And then we go to a Yahoo reporter who basically says, Well, this person said you're a racist.
You know, look, there are tapes out there of many of the people that have made these accusations saying the exact opposite.
I mean, it's unbelievable that they don't bring that to the equation.
Anyway, glad you're with us.
800-941-Sean toll-free telephone number.
There is the biggest donor to the Democratic Party, lockstep.
But in spite of all of that, and I think this is where a lot of the hostility comes from, they didn't get the results they were expecting again.
They didn't get the results they desired again.
And on top of the hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars poured against candidates by all these left-wing billionaires, it didn't work again.
And they hate, you know, at the end of the day, as much as you think they may hate Trump, it's they hate we the people more.
They hate that you showed up.
They hate that Florida Gillum lost.
That Gillum was to be the next huge, big Democratic star, along with Bozo in Texas.
I mean, Ted Cruz, it's upwards of $80 to $100 million they threw in that race to help, you know, Peto, Bozo, or Rourke, and it didn't work.
And the people of Texas, they took the time to counter what was an orchestrated financial effort to elect somebody that doesn't represent the values of Texas.
I could argue the same thing in the gubernatorial race in Georgia.
And then what happens?
Claire McCaskill gets crushed, not beaten, crushed.
And the same thing with Joe Donnelly, crushed.
You know, Tester will hang on by like maybe 50 votes, it looks like, in Montana.
And Arizona looks to be going Martha McSally's way.
I mean, these are massive victories, and they had their sights at on.
You know, look, it wasn't the 60-vote House, Senate loss of Bill Clinton in his first midterm, and it wasn't the 69-seat House, Senate disaster that Obama had in 2010.
And it was far less than that, where he picked up seats in the Senate, lost about 30-ish in the House.
That's it, by the way.
And historical headwinds, as I went over earlier, it's very predictable.
Dr. Sebastian Gorka is with us, his brand new book, Why We Fight: Defeating America's Enemies with No Apologies.
Greg Jarrett, Fox News, legal analyst, his number one New York Times bestseller, The Russian Hoax.
Welcome both of you.
Let's start with you, Dr. Gorka, talk about the results from your perspective.
But I don't think things could have gone better for Donald Trump everywhere he went.
Everyone he campaigned for, everyone that embraced his agenda for the most part won.
The real metric, Sean.
When you look at people such as Ron DeSantis, who cleaved as closely as possible to the MAGA agenda and connected themselves to the president, what happened?
They won.
I have a lot of friends on Twitter, on Facebook, texting me who were nervous last night, started worrying.
And I said, look, at the end of the day, there's only three things you need to know if you love this country.
Number one, Donald Trump is still our president.
Number two, we are even stronger in the Senate.
And number three, and that's why Jim Acosta basically assaulted that woman today when she was going to get his microphone.
There was no blue wave.
That's why the left is doubling down.
And when it comes to the power balance, be very, very clear here.
I mean, the listeners need to understand this.
Yes, the House has the appropriations capacity.
I get it.
But when it comes to the truly important, really long-term cultural things, such as federal appointments to the bench, such as the Supreme Court, such as ambassadorial appointments, guess who controls that?
It's the Senate, and we are even stronger.
So, you know, as your show opens with, you know, don't lose faith.
May your heart not be troubled.
And we had a superb night last night.
Well said.
Greg Jarrett.
I agree with Dr. Gorka, but there's something else at play here.
Here come the crazies: Nancy Pelosi is speaker, Maxine Waters, Adam Schiff, Elijah Cummings, Jerry Nadler, all in leadership roles in the House.
And the argument is that this is actually, to some extent, a gift to Donald Trump.
These are all of the individuals who will undertake the kinds of investigations that will absolutely turn off Americans.
Schiff will be head of the Intel Committee.
He's going to do a shadow Russia collusion investigation.
He already said he's accusing the president of a money laundering scheme with Russia, and he's going to investigate.
Jerry Nadler likely wants to investigate Brett Kavanaugh, and we know how that went for Democrats.
The Ways and Means Committee will likely try to get their hands on President Trump's taxes, accusing him of emoluments violation, which is legally absurd.
And of course, Maxine Waters, once named the most corrupt member of Congress, is head of the Financial Services Committee, for goodness sakes.
By the way, she issued a threat like Shaw.
Schiff's in the hen house.
Well, she issued a threat, so we're going to do to you what you did to us.
I don't know what the hell that means to be.
I will be the first African American, the first woman to chair the powerful financial services committee.
That's all of Wall Street.
That's all the insurance companies.
That's all the banks.
What am I going to do to you?
What I'm going to do to you is fair.
I'm going to do to you what you did to us.
Sean, there's another point that Greg's absolutely right on the crazies taking over the committees.
There's the issue of all the people who were supposed to be the fresh young faces of the Democrat Party, whether it's Gillum, whether it's Beto, what happened to them, Sean?
The dust.
The President of the United States was very, very happy.
The MAGA agenda is still on the rails, and it's going to be for another six years, Sean.
I would argue it's not only on the rails, it's stronger than it's ever been.
I mean, as we continue with Dr. Sebastian Gorka and with Greg Jarrett, it has been two years of never-ending, and both of you have been on this journey with me, and we've been on it together.
And for two years, it has been non-stop destruction of Donald Trump to delegitimize Donald Trump.
First, it was the effort to stop him from ever winning, fixing an investigation into Hillary, never caring about Rio Russia interference, and that would be Hillary's bought and paid for Russian phony dossier with funneled money, etc.
Then, what we have is the bulk of information of her bought and paid for dossier, you know, used to commit a fraud on four separate FISA courts, never telling them she paid for it, never telling them it's not verified, never telling them it's not corroborated.
It's used to disseminate false information to the American people before 2016, and then to help destroy Donald Trump when they put the special counsel together.
Even though Lisa Page and Peter Strzok said there's no there and we found nothing in nine months, then we get a media leak strategy, which then puts some light on what the phrase the insurance policy was.
We have 25, literally 25 Justice Department FBI officials high-ranking, either retired, demoted, or fired as a result of all this, and we haven't even begun to get to the end of it.
What happens now with all of this?
Does this go away when Devin Nunes now hands over the gavel to Adam Schiff?
What do you think?
Some of it goes away, absolutely.
And by the way, everything you just said is in my book: how the FBI and the Department of Justice framed Donald Trump.
And there was no collusion.
There's no obstruction of justice.
What about the Senate?
Can't they pick up on this now?
Well, the House Judiciary Committee will be chaired, likely, by Lindsey Graham, who is point.
He is not going to let this go.
Acts of what I believe are illegality by the likes of James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Lisa Page, Peter Strzzok, and others.
He's not going to let that go.
So I think while the House will let it go under Democratic leadership, the Senate won't if Lindsey Graham has anything.
And I'll tell you something else.
Once Jeff Sessions leaves, and he will leave, he'll be replaced by somebody who is actually competent.
That individual will, I am confident, present the evidence against these individuals I've just named to a grand jury and let them decide whether criminal charges should be brought.
I wonder if Jeff Sessions would think about running for his old Senate seat again, because that's up in 2020.
I don't think he could get elected dog catcher in my life.
I bet in Alabama he could get elected.
That would be my guess.
But, you know, one of the things now is, and this is going to be interesting to watch.
I think it's predictable what Democrats do.
I don't think that Nancy Pelosi is going to be able to stop Maxine Waters from wanting to pursue impeachment or Gerald Nadler or Adam Schiff.
And my big prediction is the Democrats are going to do what they always do, and that is they're going to overreach.
They're going to forget they were voted into office by the people to solve problems.
They think they were sent there to destroy Trump.
That's not why they were sent there.
Maybe it's from some of the more liberal districts.
But if that is their agenda, which I would bet it is almost all of it, and then free everything, then I think it just, all it does is pave the way for even a bigger victory for Trump in two years.
2020 is now a cake walk for the president.
Look at the map.
Look at the, I posted it on Twitter.
Look at the map of who won where yesterday.
The Democrats won in the urban areas of the East and West Coast.
They are out of touch with America.
When they initiate impeachment proceedings, which they will, which will fail because you cannot convict without two-thirds of the Senate and we have the Senate, then Americans will realize that the $40 million Mueller has spent and proven no Russian collusion is going to be just the tip of the iceberg, and it will switch off Americans in the tens of millions.
And that's why 2020, we will be in even more powerful positions.
All right, we got to take a break.
When we do, we'll come back.
We'll talk more with Greg Jarrett and Dr. Sebastian Gorka.
This time, Attorney General Sessions resigns.
We'll get their take on all of that and more next.
All right, we've been talking all day, the election results.
Other big news today, the Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigning after the GOP has the huge pickup in the midterms for the United States Senate.
I cannot emphasize how big this was yesterday and how this history rarely happens and how it was on the back of Donald Trump and his hard campaigning that really made all the difference.
Anyway, so we continue with Greg Jarrett, author of The Russia Hoax, and also with us, Dr. Sebastian Gorkha, who we've been talking to about the election.
We're keeping these guys over because we've got to stay with this.
And Dr. Gorka's new book, by the way, is Why We Fight, Defeating America's Enemies with No Apologies.
All right, Greg Jarrett, it's something you've hoped for, you've prayed for, you've wanted, you thought should have happened a long time ago.
Let's go through what this means.
We'll have acting, oh, basically the same acting Attorney General, and that would be Rod Rosenstein in the meantime.
That's right.
Although there is some word that his chief of staff, Jeff Sessions' chief of staff, will take over the Attorney General position temporarily, or at least that role, which is interesting because that would mean there's no longer any conflict of interest, which means that Jeff Sessions, since he's not there,
Rod Rosenstein need not be any longer in charge of the Robert Mueller investigation, if it is indeed the chief of staff of Sessions who's taking over the role temporarily.
Would that mean that Rod Rosenstein would have to then defer to who the acting attorney general is?
That's correct.
It would.
And in fact, Rosenstein would no longer be Bob Mueller's boss and that the report that Mueller is preparing would not go to Rosenstein, but rather the acting Attorney General.
So that changes the entire dynamics of what will happen.
And, you know, obviously the president will nominate somebody to replace Sessions on a permanent basis.
I would suggest Representative John Ratcliffe, a Texas, former top U.S. attorney and former top official of the Department of Justice, a very smart man.
Is it conceivable, Greg, that with the appointment of a new attorney general, that that person could make the decision this Mueller witch hunt is over?
That's right.
He could order an end to it immediately and Do what he wants with whatever report is at hand already by Bob Mueller, but it would change the dynamics completely.
You know, the president, before this all happened earlier today, Dr. Gorka said, no, let him finish the job, let Mueller go.
No, I'm not firing him.
No, but that's not happening.
There's been a lot of talk of some shake-ups.
It doesn't seem likely that the president asked him to resign.
We know the relationship between the two of them has not been good almost from the beginning.
I mean, he gets confirmed and then he recuses himself from the biggest case that he should have been handling.
If he had such reservations, he never should have taken the job.
That's my point of view.
I also feel that he's been somewhat paralyzed in terms of making decisions about people and crimes that we know were committed that are being ignored and seemingly not investigated.
This is incredible news.
So, Greg's absolutely right.
So, the new AG, when he comes in, will be the equivalent of a new CEO.
He gets to make the key decisions.
The DOJ was the most corrupted agency of the Obama administration, along with the FBI and the CIA.
This individual has to be a real, real hardcore law and order individual, you know, somebody of the ilk and the standing of Judge Janine, our colleague.
But this is where the rubber meets the road on can we drain the swamp.
I'll tell you a personal story.
I said, I'd never speak ill of members of the Trump administration while they're serving.
The Attorney General has resigned.
Matt Whitaker is the acting attorney general that we know.
And the president did tweet out a nice thank you to Jeff Sessions, but they did not have a good relationship.
Sean, he was out of his depth.
We have to recognize that he was the first sitting senator to endorse candidate Trump, but he was totally out of his depth.
I remember meeting the Attorney General early on in the administration in the White House.
I just, in passing, mentioned the issue of leaks out of the White House.
He immediately got frustrated.
The veins on his neck started to pop.
And he said, if you've got leaks in this building, it's your problem.
Wrong, Mr. Attorney General.
If we've got national security leaks, it's not the security officer in the White House whose job it is to solve.
It is yours as the Attorney General.
So this is a man who's not fit for duty.
And let's bring in somebody who is.
He said in his letter, he said, I have been honored to serve as the Attorney General.
I have worked to implement the law enforcement agenda based on the rule of law that formed a central part of your campaign for the presidency.
He said in a letter to President Trump, the president was gracious back.
We knew this was coming.
We didn't expect it today.
But, you know, I'm going to let you both go.
I know we kept you over because I went long in the last segment before I got to this.
So I want to thank you, Greg Jarrett.
Thank you, Dr. Gorka.
Appreciate your time.
Thank you, Sean.
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You want to be a part of the program.
All right, let's go to Sandra is in Michigan, is disappointed.
And let not your heart be troubled.
Why are you disappointed?
Why?
Well, I'm in Michigan, and I put in 3,500 calls in three weeks to get people out to vote.
I worked poll challenging yesterday, and I could not believe all the people that were registered to vote.
They were registered to vote at the beginning of the year that turned 18.
And I really believe the real reason this happened was because they wanted to get that marijuana legalization on the map, and it did that.
The counties that I work in, which are Oakland Wayne and Macomb, which are the tri-counties of the suburbs of Detroit, are the ones that all went blue.
And I really believe if this wasn't on the ballot, this would not have been the result in Michigan.
You know, I will say this.
You know, sometimes people lose in elections.
You can go back and check history, and you'll find literally A wrecking ball in the early careers of some politicians from Abe Lincoln through Newt Gingrich having lost his first race to presidential candidates who have lost and come back.
But I'm just looking at history here and I'm looking at recent history, modern history.
And you look at Bill Clinton's first midterm.
He lost 60 seats, 52 House seats, eight Senate seats.
You look at Barack Obama and his first midterm.
He lost 63 House seats and six Senate seats.
You know, then you're like, looking at Donald Trump, it looks like four.
We're going to pick up four Senate seats, which is a massive, massive, necessary number to stop whatever the Democrats may do in the House.
Now, you also have 44 retirements, but I will say, I look at Michigan and I see a guy like John James, and I'm like, this man was unbelievable.
He was doing well.
He was doing wonderful at the beginning.
And then all of a sudden, he tanked.
And then the article that came out today, I believe it was in a liberal magazine that basically said, Debbie Stavanaugh said, take your squatskas and get the F out of here.
It was unbelievable.
I didn't see that.
You know, it's regardless.
Let me tell you what I saw in John James.
John James is somebody I'd like to be friends with.
An American hero, a great businessman.
He has a great passion and love for his country.
He is a you can just see the natural talent and ability, and it shines in him from within him.
And I just only see great things for him and his future.
And this will be but a little bump in the road on a way to a lot of great things, I'm sure, in his life.
It's been an honor for me to get to know him a little bit.
I very rarely am that blown away by anybody that runs for any seat.
And I was blown away by him in such a positive way.
He'll be back.
I think he's called to service.
It is who he is.
I don't know why most of these people do this.
I really don't.
I mean, it's hardly worth it.
Jeff Sessions resigning.
What's going to happen to our country now?
That's my other big concern.
Just came up with the money.
No, it's not going to be worse.
I can tell you right now, I don't think the president is going to make a mistake this time.
While we have an interim attorney general, I just kind of doubt that I don't see the president.
I think he will make a, I think it's going to be an improvement.
And I found it hard to criticize Jeff Sessions.
I really did because I'd always liked him.
And I thought he'd be good at this.
He was an attorney general in Alabama, great senator in Alabama.
And I will tell you that it shocks me.
It's inexplicable to me.
I don't know what happened to him.
But listen, let not your heart be troubled.
Michigan will be back, I am sure.
And if the president keeps helping manufacturing and farmers, people in Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, they're going to see it.
The American people see the success in two years.
They like it.
Now, maybe the coastal elites don't like it.
That's why yesterday was so huge.
Let's go to John.
He's in Atlanta.
News Talk, AM 750, and of course with 955FM.
WSB, how are you?
Hey, Sean, how are you doing?
I'm good.
What's going on?
Not a whole lot.
Hey, you and your staff have to be bionic because for you to have done all that you have done in the last four or five days and still be functioning like you are, you have all done a great job.
I want to say thank you.
Very nice to say that.
We are honored that you give us this chance every day, and we don't say that enough.
And that's thank you.
Hey, it needs to come back at all of you because it's a lot of work.
It's a million hours, but it turns out great, and you have worked to turn America around.
We appreciate every bit of it.
I am very, very proud of our country and what we were able to historically pull off yesterday.
It was the media is angry for a reason.
They're not just mad at Trump.
They're more mad at us.
They have values that differ from ours.
The media went all in.
Nazi, Nazi, racist, Nazi.
And it still didn't work.
People are getting hip to the same playbook, I think.
That's it.
The Kavanaugh effect was wonderful because more and more people looked at this Gog and Pony show and said, This is ridiculous.
There is no way this can be true.
It just can't be accurate.
And the media and, of course, the people who were running this were just caught out to where it's embarrassing.
And more and more people, even if they weren't following closely, had to scratch their head and go, you know, something?
This ain't right.
This just is not right at all.
And they've all gotten wised up.
It's, it's, that itself was.
Well, Stacey Abrams is going to have to concede the race.
She lost to Brian Kemp in a hard-fought race.
There was a lot of money in Texas and like with Gillum on Bozo O'Rourke.
And, you know, they threw a lot of money at the people of Georgia.
And the people of Georgia stood up and they made, I think, a good decision.
And Kemp, I think he'll be a great governor for your state.
When, you know, some of these people just never want to concede, but there's not enough votes mathematically out there for her to win.
It's not going to happen.
And he won by a pretty significant margin.
Same with Rick Scott.
Rick Scott, that race has been called.
And, you know, sometimes they got to, you know, take your losses with your wins.
Anyway, thanks, John.
Appreciate it.
800-941-Sean, you want to be a part of the program.
Let's say hi to Steve is in Tennessee.
Steve, hi, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Oh, how are you doing, Sean?
I'm good.
What's going on?
Nothing much.
I was, I spent a working vacation in Orlando, and my wife called Monday and said, you're going to be in Tennessee to vote, aren't you?
And I said, well, I'm in Florida, as you know.
She said, your vote might count.
I got in my car and I drove to Memphis, Tennessee, 800 miles, so I could make sure I voted for Barsha Blackburn and the ticket.
Let me say, I have heard stories that another guy called us yesterday, drove what, 18 hours, you know, to vote in Pennsylvania.
And I don't know if the congressional race came out the way he wanted.
I forgot which one it was.
I will tell you that it means so much to me to hear the people care this much because your instincts are right.
There's so much at stake here.
But we all need every spoke to make the wheel go round.
That means the candidates, the president going all in.
Everyone had to go all in here.
And we defied all expectations last night.
And it was a massive, great night on all accounts.
And I'm not in the least worried about Pelosi.
Not one bit, not even a little bit.
I don't think Pelosi is going to have the biggest impact that they think they're going to have.
I think it'll help Trump down the road.
I think in the end, they're going to ensure his victory.
And I'll predict it now.
They're going to overreach.
As I said earlier today, they're going to misinterpret the results of yesterday.
And they're not going to be working to make the country better.
And it's all going to be about getting Trump.
And that is a guarantee that he will win in 2020.
Then you watch out.
They will absolutely lose it.
I can't wait to get to the ballot in two years.
I'm excited about the upcoming presidential race.
I look forward to it.
All right.
That's going to be all for today.
We got great post-election coverage tonight.
The great one, Mark Levin, Nuke Gingrich is going to be on tonight.
Ed Henry, he'll join us.
Sarah Gregg, Jason Chaffetz, with the now resignation of, of course, Jeff Sessions.
This is huge, who is the interim AG.
And is he now in charge of Mueller?
It looks like yes.
We'll have all those details, all the election results, why this was a historic night, all coming up tonight at nine.
Set your DVR.
See you tonight at nine.
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