Sean Hannity Show - Mike and Peggy Rowe - 11.13

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Mike and Peggy Rowe - 11.13

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	I I don't even know, and this is rare where this show is headed because the news that we have to cover is so vast, fascinating, amazing to me, important to me, and it's just one of those days where I am I'm like sitting here, what is going on?
	Uh we've got the CNN fake news lawsuit suing the Trump administration in the top page for revoking poor Jimmy Acosta's press pass.
	You read this, it is hilarious.
	And CNN's not banned.
	How many times does a president of the United States of America have to say after he answered the question, that's enough.
	That's enough.
	Uh before the reporter is respectful to the president.
	And they they first amendment.
	It's not a First Amendment issue.
	In any way, shape, manner, or form.
	And we'll get into all of the details of that.
	A lot of palace intry going on about uh General Kelly and what's happening there.
	Uh, we will get a report on uh I mean, what's happening in California is scary.
	We have 200 people missing, and a number of people already we know have confirmed have died.
	These fires is one in the north, one in the in Southern California in the Malibu area.
	It is they're devastating.
	Uh so we'll get to that.
	Um, what's going on with General Kelly and and rumors about Secretary Nielsen?
	I don't know what to say or put in about all of that, but we will find out.
	Um, and just a lot to get to.
	Um, there's news of a possible indictment as it relates to Mueller.
	Um, I'm assuming whatever's coming, and Jerome Corsey thinks he is going to be indicted.
	Remember Jerome Corsey, the Swift vote vets for truth.
	Um, he was a big active player in the quote, what they called the birther issue, Barack Obama's birth certificate.
	And he went on the air and he thinks that Mueller is going to charge him in this probe.
	Um, under close associate of Roger Stone, those Roger's been on this program saying he thinks that they're gonna do that.
	Uh, we'll get into that in the course of the program uh today as well.
	I mean, is this what it's come down to?
	This is a very scary thing.
	When you really think about this, if you're called before the special counsel or you're called before FBI guys come knocking on your door, whatever the topic happens to be, my inclination would be okay.
	Let me let me help you.
	You know, let me tell the truth, let me help you any way I can.
	If you talk to any good lawyer, any lawyer that knows the law, they will all say, say nothing, no matter what.
	In the case of the Muller, you know, I'd gone in great detail what I don't like about the team that he has put around him.
	The Andrew Weissman's the Genie Rays, and you know, Genie Ray was the lawyer for the Clinton Foundation.
	It I mean, the conflicts are unbelievable to me.
	And then you've got Weisman.
	I mean, you can't have a guy that's been more wrong more often than him.
	And what started out is Trump Russia collusion, you know, 18 months later, no evidence of collusion.
	And so the only thing they've got is oh, okay, we'll get General Flynn, who both FBI agents that interviewed him, said he didn't lie, but he still got charged with lying.
	And he's bankrupt, had to sell his house, life and reputation destroyed for lying to the FBI, but the FBI guys that interviewed him didn't think he lied.
	I mean, what what's going on here?
	Martha Stewart, they couldn't get her for the underlying crime of, I guess having insider trader knowledge of some sort.
	And so she gets what, a year or whatever period of time in jail for not lying for lying.
	Well, why would anybody talk to anybody at that point?
	You're better off just shutting your mouth, letting the attorneys handle it.
	And if they can't, they can't obviously, if they could get these people on the underlying crimes, they would.
	And that would be George Pompadopoulos, General Flynn, if course he is right in his case.
	By the way, he was a veteran.
	He did serve his country.
	General Flynn did serve his country for 30 years.
	And you know, you've heard the term perjury traps, they're real.
	And some people that I have such deep, profound respect for the FBI and law enforcement.
	That's my whole family growing up.
	My mom, a prison guard, my dad, a family court probation guy.
	You know, my so many of my relatives, NYPD, two relatives, distant, my grandfather's brothers' kids made it to the FBI.
	Amazing people.
	Met them, and I'm like, I'm looking.
	I'm like, wow.
	You know, I it was like deity in the family.
	And I still have that respect.
	All our reporting on the deep state, all our reporting on these top echelon people involved in all of the issues from exoneration before investigation, a witch hunt into Trump, to we've got an insurance policy,
	we've got a leak strategy, we had no evidence to Pfizer courts being literally lied to and fraud committed and leaking raw intelligence that Hillary had bought and paid for to impact elections.
	It's all real.
	And of course, we have the Florida recount, Georgia recount.
	We have a lot of news on that today.
	Um, so it is we'll see what this is.
	I've got to believe that it's this is now going to come to an end.
	I would expect that whatever is going on, whatever's been happening in the interim, while we have been busy following elections and now recounts and everything else, that uh that Russia issue is going to heat up again and probably very shortly.
	Um, here is the most unbelievable story, though, in terms of politics.
	You have a top Democrat, according to Politico, Elijah Cummings, very influential House Democrat, pleading with colleagues yesterday and incoming House freshman to reject the efforts, a small group of Democrats, he said, is trying to generate opposition to Nancy Pelosi's bid for the speakership.
	And he wrote a dear colleague letter to the incoming class of Democrats arguing that the American people obliterated the theory that Nancy Pelosi could not lead House Democrats to victory.
	And Cummings offered a preview of how Pelosi's allies will attempt to counter arguments that she's overstayed her welcome as a Democratic leader.
	She's led the party in the House for 16 years, has been a divisive figure that has jeopardized Democratic gains in swing districts.
	Look, nobody in the media, well, there's a reason why the media is not and has not talked about the election results.
	Because by almost every measure for them, what they had predicted, what they fought for, what they hoped for never materialized.
	And that, of course, the major massive blue wave.
	And the guy that beat them again, well, we the people you the people.
	You went out and voted.
	Listen, you it's always in our hands.
	Now they did get a they did get the house.
	All right, I would prefer to win it all.
	I like winning it all.
	Not a big majority by any stretch, by any means at all.
	And so we see now where they're headed.
	They're finally revealing.
	I went through all this yesterday.
	They're now revealing all the investigations.
	There's now a hundred of them they want to begin against Trump.
	And I'll analyze this later.
	This is going to all boomerang right back on them.
	They say to watch the fighting, it is almost worth the price of admission.
	The Democrats already are at each other's throats, which I'll explain in a second, too.
	But for the president, if you compare 2010, that was Obama's first midterm.
	Obama lost, lost six Senate seats.
	And he lost, now get this a whopping 63 house seats.
	69 seats total.
	If you look at Bill Clinton, he lost eight Senate seats, and I believe it was 52 House seats.
	Okay, Donald Trump, it looks like picked up three Senate seats.
	Assuming, of course, in Florida.
	Um, and he did it.
	He went out, he fought, and it is a good thing that he did because as he said, well, if the Democrats want all these investigations, well, we can play the same game too because we've got the Senate.
	And that is all true.
	But watching what's happening here, Nancy Pelosi is literally hanging on by her fingernails here.
	As Democratic colleagues are trying to pry the speaker's gavel out of her hands.
	So desperate, political reports, she's now making gender a central part of her bid to reclaim the speaker's gabble.
	Remember, a lot of these Democrats, well, they they lied.
	They basically said, and to have any shot, they had to say, Oh, I wouldn't vote for Pelosi.
	So they're in a pickle, they're in a box right now.
	And she, and again, the moderate Democrat, any myth of that is just an illusion.
	There's no such thing as a moderate Democrat.
	But in arguing that she's quote, best qualified for the job, she and her allies are now framing, according to Politico, I'm reading from them, a Pelosi victory as a matter of protecting political progress for women at a critical moment.
	In other words, the gender card.
	Push her out.
	Men may take over the party at a time when more than a hundred women are headed to Capitol Hill after female voters have been thoroughly uh alienated by President Trump.
	Embrace her, she'll prioritize legislation empowering women on issues ranging from equal pay to anti-harassment legislation.
	I think it would look ridiculous if we win back the House.
	We have a pink wave with women who have brought back the House, and you're not going to elect the leader who led the way.
	That was one of the arguments quoted in Politico.
	And you know, the headline is Pelosi warns against ousting a woman.
	Now, here's where it gets even more interesting.
	You have this socialist, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, the new really radical left-wing congresswoman from New York joining a protest today, this morning, inside Pelosi's office calling for immediate action on climate change.
	Now, this is the amazing thing.
	Democrats have no agenda.
	They've ran on one thing.
	Impeach Trump, investigate Trump.
	Um, it is the Pelosi destroy Trump Democratic House.
	And watching all of these hardcore left wingers, and you know, say by the way, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez actually said she can't afford an apartment in DC.
	There's one little it'sy bitzy problem.
	She actually can.
	She apparently has $15,000 in the in the bank.
	Oh, and she, oh, she spent her Friday night making macaroni and cheese and flirting with the idea of running for president in the future uh during some live Instagram QA session that she did, which I thought was pretty entertaining, also.
	Um, let me make the quick prediction, and we'll get into more details, and then we'll get to the Florida recount and everything that's happening there.
	They are gonna so overplay their hand.
	They are gonna so misinterpret these results.
	Compared to the losses of Obama in his first midterm and the losses of Clinton in his first midterm.
	This was a massive victory for the Republicans and Donald Trump.
	And that's why the media won't talk about it.
	That's why they've all moved on to other things.
	They don't do not want to touch this.
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	I mean, let me just go through all the the I mean I I love that Alexandria Casio Cortez.
	He's now thinking of running for president, can't afford a house, and flirting with a run for the presidency and becoming the chief opponent of Nancy Pelosi in a you know, I guess a sit-down.
	And Nancy Pelosi is literally, according to Politico, using the gender card to win.
	Let me tell you what's gonna happen.
	And it's not even even I'll warn them, and they won't they won't be able to control themselves because the crazy left now dominates the Democratic Party.
	I mean, the resistance, the radicals, the people that I think I quoted yesterday when I was citing that poll about, you know, the thinking Republicans are evil, racist, sexists, whatever else, you know, they 60 plus percent believe that part.
	20 some percent thought the republic Democrats thought Republicans are evil.
	By the way, and it was in reverse.
	Republicans don't think very much of Democrats, to be uh fair here.
	But this is what's gonna happen.
	They're not going to learn the lessons.
	For example, when Republicans got 54 seats in 1994, and I think it was a total of eight Senate seats lost.
	That was 94 was two years into the Clinton presidency.
	That was the biggest gain of seats for either party since 1948.
	What happened with Obama was even worse because he lost six Senate seats, and I think it was 60, 61, two or three house seats.
	It was, I think it was 69 total.
	I mean, massive.
	Trump's wins in the Senate, and far fewer seats lost.
	Devastated the media, devastated the Democratic Party.
	They think this is a mandate.
	Well, 44 Republicans had retired.
	You had horrible, some a slate of some horrible candidates out there, and to be fair, Republicans, they kind of blew it on a few issues, and it pissed people off.
	So I'm gonna tell you what they're gonna do next.
	We also have the Acosta lawsuit, much more straight ahead.
	All right, 25 now till the top of the hour.
	800 941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
	All right, this is a really eerie thing.
	Um, first of all, the people in California, I am so sorry, so many of you are going through this.
	It is it I I'm looking at this and it is scary.
	For five years of my life, I lived in Santa Barbara, California.
	By the way, I was the poorest person in town, except for the guys that it was a big tree that a lot, there were a lot of homeless people in Southern California and Santa Barbara at the time.
	But I mean, a very expensive place to live, beautiful part of the country.
	It's on the 101 freeway.
	I mean, the the Pacific Coast Highway.
	If you haven't taken that trip one day, just drive it.
	And it is majestic.
	It's beautiful.
	And anyway, so we've got these wildfires going on, and what is really scary as you're watching it is you've got this this is so out of control as uh the drudge report had up is it's the deadliest in American history, this inferno.
	And a you know, wom woman was apparently this might have started because of sparks from some power lines.
	Um you have new blazes, you have winds blowing, you know, at some point 60 mile an hour winds that's not helping at all.
	It's just blowing the fire all over the place.
	You have 200 people still missing.
	You got more than 90 first responders themselves that have lost homes.
	You have evacuees, you know, back to deal with nothing but ashes.
	And the smoke, you know, according to one report I read may actually go all the way to the East Coast.
	This was on Drudge 2.
	And quote, everybody's at risk from the bad air.
	And um Malibu, Hollywood sites destroyed.
	Um sad stories about what's been happening to animals.
	I actually saw James Woods on Twitter.
	Well, I he's so funny and outrageous, and he loves to cross lines.
	I thought he got banned permanently, but I guess they allowed him back on.
	And um, and he's like the only not liberal in Hollywood, but apparently, like Alyssa Milano, you might remember she was sitting in the hearings with the lawyers or friends or of Professor Ford, very radical left wing, hates Trump, but she tweeted out as anyone can help me get rid of uh move five horses that were in jeopardy.
	And and you know, James would say if anyone can help, let's help, which I like in I think people should do.
	Um anyway, Joe Bastardi, you know, actually predicted this, and it's kind of a freak out.
	When did you send this email?
	I I was not the one that remembered it.
	Linda remembered it, that you had predicted that something like this could happen out there, and I wondered why.
	Well, back in uh back in uh last year, we started in March, this year, May 17th.
	So what happens is when first of all, California, because of uh uh the policies out there, um uh uh there are 42 million people living out there now.
	There were 14, 15 million people back in the 1950s.
	There's so many people living in places that are now susceptible to this, and uh so many policies, and the president the president largely had it right when he was saying what he was saying about the policies out there.
	We have a hundred and twenty-nine million dead trees in California.
	And we why don't they chop them down?
	Well, there it is right there that the uh PGE wants to it wants to take those down, and a bipartisan bill was passed in 2017 to help fund that, and it was vetoed by Governor Jerry Brown.
	And folks, I'm gonna tell you something right now.
	You can't stop these things, these are part of nature, but we you can mitigate them.
	And we have a lot of people, we have progress, we have these power lines up, the slightest sparks can call causes.
	But what you're seeing being done here by Governor Brown when he turns around and says it's climate change, is right out of the book because Saw Alinsky simply blame somebody else for a problem that you might be complicit in.
	Now, if I were him, given he vetoed the very bill that can help out with this, I wouldn't be saying things about uh, well, it's this guy's fault or that guy's fault.
	And it is it is amazing watching this go on.
	I call it climate ambulance chasing.
	It's in that book I have out on the climate chronicles.
	This is exactly what is going on.
	Now I don't want to get too into like the debate over.
	Let me know.
	There's gonna be plenty of time post-fire.
	What I'm really, you know, at this point, it's got to be all hands on deck.
	We have people in trouble.
	We have people's lives in in jeopardy and their homes, everything they own in jeopardy.
	Um, and I know that what I'm saying, Sean is what I'm saying is it is the nature of the game.
	When you get rainy springs or winters in California, in this particular case, you had a dry winter and then a wet spring.
	Guess what happens?
	More vegetation grows.
	The fact is, and folks that have lived in California 50, 60 years, know you have a dry climate in the summer, and if you get a lot of rain, that stuff is going to dry out in the in the summer season and provide even more fuel.
	The crazy thing about this is to some extent is if you know that kind of thing is happening, you should be you should understand the risk that's going to happen uh every year, there's going to be some strong wind cases, the Santa Ana winds, because that's what the atmosphere does.
	It's not like this is anything new.
	Now, how many dead trees?
	In December of 2017, uh uh got cut off on my page.
	The U.S. Forest Service announced California had how many dead trees?
	129 million dead trees on 8.9 million acres, uh, but as tree mortality task force had only m removed about one million.
	Uh I'm just saying this.
	Look, when you combine what is going on, what has been happening, you look at the situation, and in May, on May 17th, we quite publicly said another big wildfire season is on the way, so you should be getting ready and you should expect things like this to happen.
	We are putting people, you know what, I'm an environmental.
	See, but but they but they but they do have a fire season.
	All right, go ahead, finish your thought.
	I didn't mean to interrupt you.
	I apologize.
	Well, no, well, no, but no, but what I'm saying is you can't, yeah, it's like people say to me, Oh, the hurricanes are doing this.
	You can't just put houses on beaches and expect nothing to happen.
	You cannot build on land all over the place, expect to have this go on and not see nature try to take its toll.
	And the interaction between man and nature, we have power lines up, we have to have energy, and and so what happens is if you don't go clear the trees, if you don't uh say to yourself, wow, we had a rainy spring, guess what that means?
	We better start taking preparations and understand what can happen.
	This is what's going to happen.
	So on May 17th, we issue that forecast, and it was not it's not May 17th of this year.
	You you said this is a dangerous this would be a particularly dangerous year for this.
	I uh no, I understand.
	I listen, I I live by the way, Sean, Sean, Sean, the same thing, believe it or not, when you have a dry winter in California, wet spring, there's usually El Niño coming on.
	Bang, that led to the summer forecast, led to the hurricane forecast, and the cold stormy winter that we've been saying since August is coming this year, and but it's going to get started.
	Now, all this my point is, folks, and I'm sorry I'm getting charged up over here.
	What happens is all this stuff is linked together naturally, one thing after another.
	What man men have to do is they have to quit blaming nature and sit there and say, Well, if we're going to coexist with nature, how do we do things to mitigate these things?
	And one of the things you can do is clear out as much of this dead wood and the and the brush and all this other stuff.
	Why is there reluctance why if they pass the bill and were willing to fund us this, what was the resistance?
	No, no, I mean, I'm just I'm not I'm not trying to make this political.
	Right now, why would they have a lot of people?
	Why would they resist doing that?
	You know, if you especially if you're talking about brush and dead trees.
	I'll never forget it.
	Look, it was horrible.
	I I Santa Barbara is one of the most beautiful places in the world.
	And I was fortunate enough to actually live there for for years of my life.
	Not many, but a a number.
	And I mean, it's spectacular.
	Then I went back.
	There was a big fire in what was known, a really nice neighborhood known as the Hope Ranch Area.
	And the I think what is it?
	The Santa Inez uh mountains, if I recall the name properly.
	I you know, all these beautiful mountains and you know, I think it's where Michael Jackson, where Ronald Reagan lived, by the way.
	That's where Reagan he had his uh ranch up there.
	But here's my point.
	And I go walk, I drive through this neighborhood, and it's gone.
	It's like even the logging industry.
	They don't I mean, the logging industry is continuing its free fall in California.
	All these things are going on.
	So there's some of these things we we can't stop what nature's going to do.
	How do we stop?
	How do we get these fires under control?
	That's what I want to know.
	Well, we need the weather to cooperate.
	We got another, it looks like another windy day tomorrow.
	The winds drop off Thursday, and it's going to start raining next week, and the and the the core of the wildfire season is going to come to an end next week.
	But when when you're looking at these things, and you can get a jump on it in the spring.
	Believe it or not, believe it or not, if you actually look at the statistics when California was in the the drought, the so-called perma drought.
	They're screaming and yelling about drought.
	If that drought had not reversed, we we we had uh several years where we were below normal with the amount of wild.
	Listen, they've they've had so many droughts.
	I remember when I was there, they were talking about desalinization plans because they had no water.
	This is it.
	My appeal to people, what I'm trying to say, folks, nature's going to do what nature's going to do.
	If you want to coexist with nature, you have to work with nature, adopt policies that can mitigate these things.
	You're never going to shut it out completely, and you have to pay attention to what the weather has done.
	The what the weather is doing today, it was set up five, six, seven months ago, years ago, and it's pointing to where the weather's going to go also.
	And when you look, you understand things.
	Look, I my main concern now is to get people safe to protect as much property as we can, get these fires out.
	These are much harder to predict than hurricanes, Sean.
	Much harder to do that.
	No, I listen, and I I and listen, there's gonna be plenty of time to debate all of this.
	Look, if we need 129 million dead trees taken out, that's a lot of jobs for people.
	And Obama.
	No, no, I'm serious.
	I mean, it's if that's right with you.
	And cleaning the brush out, you know what?
	Um, we could do a lot of good work there.
	I I don't know what the political ramifications or debates are, but I know you couldn't, for example, farmers had no water um in the San Joaquin Valley because of the Delta smelt, which was ridiculous.
	I did a show out there about that.
	But you know what?
	Oh, I'm gonna do that.
	You're just saying it's not climate changes.
	I mean, why do you have to do that?
	You just look at look at the total picture all the time.
	Totally.
	I think they should have just one thing.
	Why don't we everyone says all the science has been decided?
	Why don't they just have a discussion how to save people in the future from the from this devastation?
	It's horrible.
	But I gotta run.
	Thank you, uh Joe Bastardi.
	Weatherbell.com, the official meteorologist.
	Um our prayers are with all of you in California.
	And it's um I it's scary how big this thing is.
	It really is devastating.
	Um John is in Vegas, K Don Radio.
	What's up, John?
	How are you?
	Hi, Sean, uh Mr. Hannity.
	Very excited to talk to you.
	Uh I'm gonna try I know there's a lot of important stuff going on in the country, uh, so I'm gonna try to be quick.
	Uh I'm a huge fan of but I was not not as big of a fan as my great-grandfather was.
	Uh he passed away last week.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	That's painful.
	No, I'm uh uh I'm sorry.
	I didn't think I'd get emotional.
	But um, okay, so he was a World War II vet and he listened to your show pretty much every single day.
	Wow.
	Uh yeah.
	His name, he he was Sergeant Mike Riley of the United States Army.
	Yes, sir.
	Everyone just knew him as new Miss Sarge.
	That's that's what I called him.
	He loved the show.
	He was always afraid to call in.
	He was worried he'd be terrible on the radio.
	I wish he did.
	He was probably he he probably would have stumbled and been awkward.
	He was not cut out for radio.
	But but but anyways, I'm I'm gonna go to the city.
	Let me tell you though, let me tell you about these guys because uh I lost my dad.
	He served four years in the Pacific.
	We had Veterans Day yesterday.
	You know, uh Brokow once referred to it as the greatest generation.
	I mean, they were the greatest generation.
	They built this country, they sacrificed.
	You know, my parents they just everything was for their kids for their future, nothing about themselves.
	Amazing giving self-less people risking their lives.
	Um, I'm sorry for you and your family, and I um uh he's in our prayers.
	You're you and your family are in your prayers.
	I don't care how old somebody is when you lose them, it's it's painful.
	And I I appreciate that, and I will I will just leave it with this.
	I'd like to give you the highest honor he could bestow upon any of his great grandkids or friends or anything.
	I want to give you an honorable Sarge salute.
	Thank you, Mr. Hannity.
	Thank you for everything you do.
	You are a real American.
	I am I'm humbled and I'm I am honored.
	Thank you, sir.
	And uh my many prayers to you and your family.
	I'm I know people like him are in a much better place.
	Um I believe that with all my heart that there is uh there is another world for us to head to next.
	And uh I know he's there.
	Um thank you, sir.
	It it means a lot.
	Um all right, we we've got a lot to get to.
	Uh we're gonna get into this election.
	I'm gonna give you the updates on what's going on in Florida, what's going on in Georgia, uh, also the the turmoil within the Democratic Party.
	New Gingrich is checking in with us, and you know, we'll also check in with our legal team, Greg Jarrett, David Schoen.
	Of course, this whole issue of Acosta, we'll get to that.
	Joe Concha is coming.
	Mike Rowe, I love Mike Rowe, especially when he hosted that show.
	Uh Dirty Jobs.
	Oh, Besh, I love that show.
	Shows you how great Americans are like John's great grandfather.
	Amazing people.
	All right, glad you're with us.
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	All right, we we have so much news.
	We've got CNN's Acosta lawsuit, which on so many levels is ridiculous, flawed in their analysis.
	Well, I'll get to all the details of that.
	We've got the recount going on down in Florida and all of the issues involving corruption, laws not abided by, but only in two counties.
	And the 65 of 67 counties did this all right.
	We've got turmoil in the Democratic Party and infighting already has broken out and literally an attempt to uh prevent Nancy Pelosi from becoming speaker, and literally the gender card now being played.
	Uh, here to uh weigh in on all of this is former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich.
	By the way, Brenda Snipes has now told the my Miami Herald, the Broward County uh who's in charge of Broward County and all that has gone on that in fact it might be time for her to move on.
	Jeb Bush has said she should be removed from office, and the you know, we we've gone through the history of attacks here, and we even had Broward County ballots found in a Fort Lauderdale rent a car.
	That's how bad this is.
	And we've gone over the history of all this.
	Joining us now, Mr. Speaker, how are you, sir?
	I'm I'm doing well, and I do want to point out that this is a person who shouldn't just be removed from office, but she ought to be on trial.
	I mean, the number of laws she's broken, the number of court injunctions she's ignored, uh, the whole procedure there, you know, I refuse to believe um if you find out that your local bank is short three million dollars, that it's just an accounting error, I think it's much more likely to be theft.
	Unless Mr. Potter stole it.
	Remember the and that's a wonderful life.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, exactly right.
	And so if you think if you think about it, but if you watch what she has done over the years and you watch this most recent example, no normal person could reach any conclusion except this is theft.
	A deliberate, willful attempt to steal a U.S. Senate seat and if possible, steal a governorship.
	And it does far more damage.
	I mean, after all the less screaming about Russian collusion and all that stuff, the Democrats are doing much more damage to our process of free elections than Putin ever thought possible.
	You know, we have what 15,000 new ballots that just magically appeared in Palm Beach County.
	Almost 80,000 so-called uncounted votes turning up days and days and days after the elections.
	Now, Florida law is clear, it is unambiguous that the canvassing board shall report all early voting and all tabulated vote by mail results to the Department of State within 30 minutes after the polls close.
	And the canvassing board shall report, with the exception of provisional ballots, updated precinct election results to the department every 45 minutes.
	Sixty-five counties abided by and complied with that law, except these two.
	And you know, it appears when you look at everything that has gone on here, that it is and then you look at the history of it.
	You can't help but think there's something drastically wrong year in and year out here.
	Why it is allowed to continue is even more shocking.
	Well, of course there's something drastically wrong.
	Um these are people who do not believe that they can win an honest election.
	They do not believe they can win an election in only which uh legal Americans are allowed to vote.
	Uh And so, as you know, in in uh I think Brown County, they actually had the Democratic lawyers arguing that uh illegal immigrants should be allowed to vote and their votes should count.
	Uh and so you know, they they did make that argument.
	I want to they made that argument before a judge.
	They objected when a ballot was rejected because it was from a person that is not a legal resident.
	Right.
	And that fits, of course, with what we've seen across the whole country.
	Mm-hmm.
	You know, here's what we now know.
	We know the the track record here.
	We know that last week that Brenda Snipes, quote, accidentally, Mr. Speaker, mixed in rejected provisional ballots with hundreds of valid ballots.
	That means the entire vote now has been irreversibly corrupted.
	And in August of this past year, a judge ruled that Snipes systematically mishandled mail-in absentee ballots.
	In 2017, a judge ruled that she illegally destroyed ballots following a primary race.
	In 2016, Broward County election results were posted online before the polls even closed.
	And in 2012, a thousand uncounted absentee ballots were mysteriously discovered in Broward County a week after the election.
	And then in 2004, it's Snipes simply just lost track of 6,000 absentee ballots.
	This is not a one-off, Mr. Speaker.
	Oh, it all right.
	We apparently just lost the speaker.
	But there is no question.
	You know, I I just went through the history.
	2004, 2012, 2016, 2017.
	In August, a judge rules Snipes mishandled mail and absentee ballots, and she accidentally mixed in this election, rejected provisional ballots with several hundred valid votes, Mr. Speaker.
	Right.
	The point I want to make to people is this is not an accident.
	This is not some nice pleasant person who, in between uh, you know, baking cookies and serving apple cider happened to have a boo-boo.
	There is a pattern in the Democratic Party, which in my own lifetime goes back at least to the 1960 election and the theft of Illinois and Texas by the Democrats.
	There's a continuing pattern that when things get close enough, if they think they can steal it, they will.
	That's what happened, frankly, to Senator Norm Coleman in Minnesota, where all of a sudden, after the election, I think some 800 ballots showed up that didn't exist before the election.
	Uh we've seen that happen again and again and again.
	And we're watching it play out right now in Florida.
	Mm-hmm.
	Well, we we know that, and then by the way, it's not uh uh we got some similar issues, not as a not as profound in Florida, in Georgia.
	Um Gateway Pundam put out a report that the Georgia Democratic Party announced on Saturday.
	Now the election was on Tuesday, that a handful of Georgia counties have suddenly now discovered thousands of new votes that needed to be counted.
	And the interesting part is the Democrats say, well, that news stash included absentee early and election day votes, but weren't counted.
	And guess what?
	They found 5,569 votes, of which 4,804 were for Stacey Abrams.
	Now that's 85%.
	That's a pretty good voting margin because she wasn't winning Georgia by 85%.
	No, but that's what you're seeing happen all around the country.
	I mean, what you have is uh a deliberate systematic use of a variety of things like provisional ballots, uh the number of people who may not legally be American citizens who are being allowed to vote under these provisional ballots, as you yourself wanted out,
	uh in uh Florida is it's just blatantly open, and there's just no question that there are specific people, and in fact, the Democratic Party lawyers were arguing for including people who are illegal immigrants uh as uh voters in an American election.
	Unbelievable.
	Um we I don't know how all of this is going to play out, but I'm very concerned.
	Um, and I don't know how you go from a 57,000 vote margin lead and every day it's another 10, another 10, another 10,000, 10,000, 10,000.
	I I've never seen anything like this.
	It's it scares me.
	Um let me ask you, and I'll get into this in more detail with with George uh with Joe Concho later.
	So Jim Acosta's press credentials were removed.
	And of course, the White House correspondent.
	There's a great piece in Law and Crime.com.
	It's a great website.
	And I read this, and they rightly point out in this piece that in fact it is false in what they're saying in the or in the in the lawsuit.
	Acosta didn't just ask a question.
	How many times does the president have to say that's enough?
	And somebody tries to move on to another reporter after he answered the question, and the president gets to say, You're too rude, you've been rude to my press secretary, that you can say, sorry, you're not you're not meeting the protocol to be here and the respect this this house deserves.
	Look, I mean, this is a very important, I think very useful debate for the American people.
	This handful of professional left-wing anti-Trump reporters don't have an automatic legal right to be in the White House.
	I mean, nobody ever said that Acosta somehow is superior to every other American citizen.
	If you you know, if the average citizen went up to the White House tomorrow morning and said, Hi, I'd like to go to the press conference, they'd laugh at him.
	They say, if you have no credentials, what what what's your guarantee?
	Now, what you have now is that the elite media, the the anti-Trump liberal media has arrogated to itself a belief in its own importance, that it's somehow a legally entitled you know, special class, uh, and that uh the president of the United States has no choices except to allow this special class, uh these privileged reporters to do whatever they want to.
	Uh I argued over a year ago, put them all out of the White House.
	Send them over to the office, the old executive office building, send them anywhere.
	Um, but don't treat them as though they are a privileged aristocracy of the media who are allowed to act like lords and ladies and be arrogant and ignorant and nasty, and we still have to call on him.
	And Acosta, of course, has worked overtime.
	I mean, he's made look, this is a guy who was unknown before Donald Trump.
	Uh he's desperately working to make his career as the Sam Donaldson of the Trump era.
	Uh, and so he's deliberately nasty, deliberately confrontational.
	I don't think a pre I don't care who the president is, no president of the United States has to put up with that kind of abuse.
	Let me move on.
	We have now a hundred separate issues where Democrats, the things that they didn't tell us before the election, that they want all investigations.
	It's like the Nancy Pelosi hate destroy Trump Congress of this year.
	Now, by standards, this was a good election year, especially Obama loses six Senate seats and what, sixty-three House seats.
	Clinton lost eight Senate seats, fifty-four house seats.
	I mean, Donald Trump gained three house three three Senate seats.
	Um they don't have a big margin in the House, but there's a big fight.
	Nancy Pelosi of Elijah Cummings is trying to help her.
	She's now playing a bit, I think it would be ridiculous to win back the House with a pink wave, and you're not going to elect the leader who led the way, and so that's now the headline is in political Pelosi warns against ousting a woman.
	Alexandria Oscario Cortez is now protesting in Pelosi's office over things.
	What about all this infighting?
	This is going to be pretty interesting to watch.
	Sure.
	People just need to remember that that the the great drama never quite ends.
	Um now you're gonna have, first of all, uh, the biggest single loser election night was Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader of the Senate, uh, who is now consistently been losing, and at some point his conference is gonna turn a biting, and his activists are gonna bite him uh because he's not getting anything done.
	He can't stop Trump's judges, he can't stop uh the tax cut.
	He can't stop the things that matter.
	And he's losing seats.
	And at some point, Schumer may be the biggest single loser.
	Second, um, Nancy Pelosi uh is gonna have a significant minority in her party who want to work with the president.
	I think there are sixteen Democrats who just got elected from districts that Trump carried.
	Well, they don't want to go into 2020 as anti-Trump Democrats.
	Uh and so the pressure on them to find ways to work with the president.
	Remember, if Joe Manchin had not voted yes on Judge Kavanaugh, he would almost certainly have been wiped out.
	And so I think as you come into this next cycle, the pressure on her from both the right and the left is going to be amazing to watch.
	She's already the most unpopular politician in the country.
	Uh and I want to ask you one question about it.
	Uh uh one question and and when we get back, I want to ask you how Republicans need to deal with this more with Newt Gingrich on the other side.
	Uh Joe Concha, the legal side, what crimes were committed down in Florida?
	We know crimes were committed.
	All right, as we roll along, Sean Hannity Show, 800 941, Sean, our number as we continue with New King Rich.
	We don't have a lot of time.
	How do Republicans deal with the fact that now they're revealing they want a hundred investigations into Trump?
	Oh, I think we make it very clear.
	Look, um I lived through this, and frankly, we didn't handle all that well.
	You were there at the time.
	Uh, and I think Clinton brilliantly played off uh our serious and legitimate efforts and got people to decide you know, do you want do you want to have investigations or do you want to have progress?
	And ultimately the country decided they wanted to move forward.
	It's the Democrats are in real danger, I think.
	Let me say up front.
	As as a person who believes in our constitution, I think the legislative branch has a serious obligation to investigate where it thinks something is wrong.
	And I I strongly support whether it's a Democratic Congress or Republican Congress, they have every right to investigate.
	But if the country begins to figure out that this is just a witch hunt, that this is not serious, it's not about improving things, it's sort of gotcha.
	What'll happen is it'll turn sour very fast.
	Now, not for the hardline left wingers.
	They'll love it, they'll be thrilled by it.
	But the average you know, the independents, the people who are gonna make the decision in 2020, they're gonna look up and say, Boy, if the Democratic Party is purely destructive and purely negative, I don't think that's good for the future of America.
	All right, Mr. Speaker, thank you for being with us.
	So in Florida, what specific laws do we know that were broken?
	And how do we get this fixed?
	Greg Jarrett, David Schoen, later Mike Rowe, Joe Concha on Acosta and CNN's fake news lawsuit.
	He's clearly a sore loser.
	He can't stand the fact that he's not going to be elected for, what, the first time in decades.
	And he won't.
	He's he's just here to steal this election.
	That's what he's done.
	His lawyer came down here and said, I'm here to win the election.
	I'm not here to get it get a free and fair election, make sure votes are c are counted.
	No, he wants to win the election.
	That's his only purpose.
	All right, 25 now till the uh top of the hour.
	Brenda snipe saying, Oh, this office uh and I am first time ever in this office.
	I have been under attack, not true.
	The lieutenant governor on the consequences for Brenda Snipes, nothing is off the table.
	We now know an investigation is ongoing with the attorney general and and Florida law enforcement are now up to their eyeballs in all of this.
	And uh Rick Scott blasting Bill Nelson, which by the way is is the right thing to do.
	Um, and we you know, the idea that this has never happened before is just inaccurate, it's false, it's not true.
	Um we know for the the track record in Broward, especially and Palm Beach to a lesser extent is atrocious.
	They've been allowed to continue in this powerful position.
	How it's happened, I don't know.
	It's beyond comprehension.
	You know, we learned that just last week that snipes, quote, accidentally mixed in what were rejected provisional ballots with several hundred valid votes, which means the entire vote count is now irreversibly corrupted.
	And this past August, the judge ruled that snipes systematically mishandled mail-in absentee ballots.
	And in twenty seventeen, a judge also ruled that she illegally destroyed ballots from a primary uh following a primary race.
	That was the Debbie Wasserman Schultz case.
	And we have Broward County election results were posted online in 2016 before the polls had even closed.
	And you go back to 2012, a thousand uncounted absentee ballots mysteriously discovered in Broward County a week after the election.
	You can even go back to 2004 where Snipes simply just lost track of 6,000 absentee ballots.
	How do you lose track of this?
	You know, d this now how do you go from fifty-seven thousand, a fifty-seven thousand vote lead to where we are now around twelve thousand plus?
	Jeb Bush, who appointed Brenda Snipes says it's time for her to be removed from office.
	Florida election supervisor, you know, has this history.
	Uh oh, Broward County ballots were found in a Fort Lauderdale rent a car.
	That was big news yesterday.
	And of course, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, so she was happy that those ballots were destroyed before the legal time that it was allowed.
	A lot of laws have been broken.
	We also have a case in Georgia, Gateway Pundit reporting that in fact eighty percent of new ballots that were discovered in the governor's race.
	Oh, of the five thousand five hundred and sixty-nine votes, four thousand eight hundred and four went for Stacey Abrams.
	They found the Saturday.
	Uh, joining us now to get into all of this and what the legal remedy is, what the crimes might be in this case now that it's an ongoing criminal investigation.
	Uh, Greg Jarrett, author of the number one bestseller, the Russia hoax, Fox News legal analyst, David Schoen is with us, civil liberties attorney, criminal defense attorney.
	Thank you both for being here.
	Uh let's start with the law, Greg, and specifically if we now have this investigation ongoing.
	Well, we know certain laws were violated, which I've been listing every day.
	Oh, they were.
	Brenda Snipes is the epitome of gross incompetence and recklessness.
	She managed to break just about every election law you can think of.
	She missed every statutory deadline.
	She was spanked by the judge for that.
	She mixed up ballot ballots with invalid ones.
	She suddenly and magically discovered tens of thousands of ballots that inexplicably appeared out of nowhere.
	But here's the problem, Sean.
	Florida laws you can break with uh impunity.
	These election laws are for the most part civil violations.
	They have no teeth.
	Now there are several election fraud statutes.
	Three different Florida departments say so far they haven't seen fraud, but their investigation uh has been cursory at best.
	So as you point out, it is good that Pam Bondi, the attorney general, has ordered a complete and thorough investigation to determine if crimes have been committed.
	Is Snipes capable of fraud?
	Absolutely.
	You know, several months ago, judge determined she unlawfully destroyed ballots.
	That does not happen accidentally.
	That is intentional.
	And every election she's handled for the last sixteen years, every one of them have been marred by her incompetence, if not corruption.
	David Joan, your thoughts legally.
	Well, uh legally and as a matter of policy.
	I mean, the whole situation is very, very troubling.
	These deadlines for certification are set for a reason.
	There's an important uh public interest in finality.
	It's true.
	Everybody in an ideal world wants to see every eligible voter vote count.
	But there's a reason again that we set limits to this.
	These provisional ballots, you know, for example, in Georgia, there are 21,900 provisional ballots.
	Provisional ballots means people with this question about their eligibility, they may have voted in the wrong precinct or something like that.
	Um this judge in Georgia now has changed the certification deadline from this evening until Friday.
	Uh no one knows whether they're gonna be able to count all of those provisional ballots, determine eligibility questions on all of them.
	But it's very, very suspicious that this is coming up at the last minute in the Florida race and the Georgia race.
	It was so hotly contested, and that all of the question now is on one side of the ledger.
	Well, you know, the thing that we all have to look at here, there's sixty-seven counties in Florida, Greg.
	Sixty-five of the Florida counties all complied with the law, including every county in the panhandle of Florida that was absolutely ravaged by Hurricane Michael just twenty seven days prior.
	Uh Broward, Palm Beach County, well, they, you know, county officials continue to tally tens of thousands of votes.
	That was in violation of state law.
	And remember, we've gone over all the different laws that are involved here.
	And, you know, within 30 minutes after the polls closed, the canvas, the canvassing board and all of these counties are to report early voting, all tabulated voting by mail results to the Department of State.
	Thirty minutes.
	Well, that number changed six times.
	And nearly 80,000 plus votes added in the case of Broward County, 15,000 Palm Beach County.
	And we also know that, well, the canvassing board expects every 45 minutes, they expect a vote count update until the results are completely reported.
	That never happened.
	We'd go we would go a whole day and we'd get a dump of tens of thousands of votes at three in the morning for crying out loud.
	Um I I we are never going to get the truth of what this vote is.
	The question is, is it going to be allowed to stand?
	Well, the fact that 65 counties uh easily complied with the law, but Brenda Snipes and Broward County and Susan Butcher and Palm Beach County could not suggest, in in my judgment, more than incompetence that something is amiss here that may be fraud.
	What should happen here is that the judge in Broward County who determined that Snipes uh broke the law should hold her in contempt of court.
	That would trigger a criminal penalty and not just a civil fine.
	That hasn't happened.
	It should happen.
	David.
	I want to tell you, in Broward County in particular, and there's a reason the focus is on there.
	They've had problem after problem, as you know from Gore Bush.
	But even in this most recent election, it's not just in big races.
	They had an election recently for a Broward County judge.
	When everyone went to sleep, that judge lost.
	He's the incumbent, very controversial guy put in office by the union.
	By the next morning, they somehow found, in their words, 700 votes, and he won the election.
	You talk about the uh Fox guarding the hen house, these are the local judges now who are going to be called on about certification questions and things like that.
	There's something rotten there.
	You see, this goes back so many years, and you just it it it boggles the mind to know that with this history, I mean, we are talking really about just malfeasance on a massive level here, and we'll find out about the law.
	Let me switch topics to uh both of you, and and I know there's been a fire storm over the fact that Matthew Whitaker has been tapped to, at least temporarily, fill the void uh with Jeff Sessions uh retiring or being asked to retire by the president, and the media is going apoplectic.
	And Greg, I I went to you first and I said, Well, I'm I'm listening to all these so-called fake news lawyers, and they're saying the president didn't have the right to do this, and you sent me the federal uh vacancies act, five USC 3345.
	I'll let you explain it.
	It says the president can appoint a person holding a Senate confirmed office, or and this is the important part, quote, an officer or employee of such executive agency who has served in a position in such an agency for not less than 90 days.
	So Whitaker easily meets that second legal standard.
	And so these legal commentators I've been listening to on television and some in print are absolutely 100% wrong.
	And I'll tell you why I know they're wrong.
	Supreme Court has issued a ruling on this subject in U.S. versus Eton.
	And it rejected the claim that only a principal officer confirmed by the Senate can temporarily fill the shoes of the head of a department.
	Uh it said just uh the opposite.
	And then, of course, after that ruling, the vacancies reform act elaborated uh on it and laid out the two methods by which somebody can be selected.
	Listen, the language you sent is clear, it is unambiguous, and I'm thinking these guys are supposed to be lawyers.
	And yet they clearly don't know or care about what the actual law says.
	David, I would assume you probably agree with Greg on this.
	Yeah, that's Section 3345 A3.
	That is clear.
	Look, they're drawing uh there is a conventional wisdom about this.
	You know, it had to have been a person previously confirmed by the Senate.
	They draw on a dissenting opinion, just Calia wrote in the case once it was completely dicta in the case.
	But listen to this this there's a motion filed now by the Attorney General of Maryland demanding that Ron Rosenstein actually be put in the position, Whitaker be stripped of it, and he's relying on this success of uh succession statute for the Justice Department that's been overridden by an executive order and by this vacancy reforms act, which uh a court has also ruled is the later enacted statute, and therefore that controls.
	But can you imagine we've talked before about separation of powers concerns and all that?
	The Attorney General of Maryland wants to be able to dictate that Ron Rosenstein and nobody else should be able to do that.
	Well, I mean, this is the hypocrisy.
	I mean, Rod Rosenstein has been conflicted from the get-go, uh recommending the firing of Comey, signing the fourth FISA warrant application.
	Um he's a he would be a witness, and yet he is in charge of the whole Mueller investigation.
	None of the people that are out there complaining about so-called conflicts, because Matthew Whitaker apparently thought with and rightly so, in my opinion, strong opinion, that in fact Muller has exceeded his statutorial uh um mandate by going way too far.
	I mean, look what the news is today.
	All right.
	So we expect Darome Corsey, controversial figure, granted, he also served his country, and he says he expects to be indicted over lying to the uh to investigators.
	And I want to ask you both about that when we get back on the other side of it, because why would anybody ever want to testify or talk to the FBI is if if they can't get you on the underlying quote crime, but they always gonna get you online, i.e.
	Papadopoulos, i.e.
	General Flynn.
	If course he is right, him too.
	Uh 800-941 Sean, our toll-free telephone number.
	Um we got a lot more to get to in the course of the program today.
	Also, the CNN Acosta lawsuit and all of the all of the different problems associated with that.
	All right, as we uh continue now with Greg Jarrett David Schoen, all right.
	Real quick answers, I have about a 45 seconds for each of you on the idea that it looks like if Jerome Corsey's right and they're gonna go after him from Mueller's office for for lying, not for any underlying crime, apparently.
	He believes it's just lying to either a grand jury or special counsel, FBI, whatever it's gonna end up being.
	Then it's the same thing with Flynn, although the FBI didn't think he lied, and the same thing with Papadopoulos.
	Why would anybody ever have to talk to anyone at that point?
	Why would they bother?
	And they should have all invoked the fifth and refused to talk, because talking to Robert Muller will result, it doesn't matter if you tell the truth.
	It will result in a uh perjury or false statement charge uh because Mueller doesn't care about the truth.
	He cares about uh prosecuting people who are supporters of Donald Trump.
	I met Martha Stewart, and it was the same thing with her, um David.
	They they didn't get her on any underlying crime.
	It was quote, lying about what or an inconsistent answer.
	I nobody has a perfect memory.
	I mean, how do you tell the difference between a bad memory and a lie?
	Right, and that's the point.
	That's the problem when you have a committee like Mueller's uh which has a complete agenda when you have people like Andrew Weisseman who've made a career out of doing this kind of trickery.
	Um you'd be crazy to go in there uh and bel remember, under the special counsel regulation, they determine whether someone's obstructing their investigation or lying to them.
	Muller and Weissman are the arbiters of the truth.
	One last thing I want to say the irony of this whole conversation about Whitaker, whether he had to have been confirmed, is that there's the same legitimate argument.
	There's a legitimate argument about Muller that his appointment exceeded the appointments clause.
	Uh it required triggered the appointments clause, and he should have had to be uh confirmed by Senate because of the broad powers he's been given.
	All right, I gotta thank you both.
	Uh David Schoen, Greg Jarrett, thank you, 800-941 Sean.
	Uh the problems for CNN and this phony lawsuit, It's all about them.
	Uh, because Jim Acosta was rude to the president.
	We'll get into that.
	Joe Concha coming up.
	Also, you know Mike Rowe?
	Oh, he's gonna join us.
	He's such a great guy.
	Do you ever watch him?
	Dirty Jobs, it's the best show ever.
	Uh he's gonna check in with us, and we'll get your calls in as well.
	Straight ahead.
	May I ask one other question?
	Mr. President, if I may ask one other question, are you worried?
	That's enough.
	That's it.
	That's enough.
	The other folks that's enough.
	Pardon me, ma'am.
	I'm I'm Mr. President.
	That's enough.
	Mr. President, I'd one of the time are you?
	That's enough.
	Put down the mic.
	Mr. President, are you worried about indictments coming down in this investigation?
	Mr. President.
	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, please.
	Thank you, Mr. President.
	George George?
	Uh I'm not I'm not responding.
	I'm responding to I'm not responding to you.
	I'm talking to this gentleman.
	Will you please sit down?
	Would you excuse me?
	Excuse me.
	Would you please sit down?
	Please go ahead.
	CNN's argument is very straightforward that the first amendment is meant for the press to be able to act on behalf of the American people and the public in getting information.
	And here, when the White House revoked Mr. Acosta's press pass, it's clear it was based on the content of his reporting, the fact that he was asking uh tough questions and has been doing that.
	Uh the President Trump in the White House is has repeatedly challenged and attacked CNN and Mr. Acosta.
	And it's really a classic uh First Amendment viewpoint content-based discrimination against speech, and we can't have the White House or government officials arbitrarily tossing people out of the White House or other government facilities just because they don't like what they're saying or what they're reporting.
	That's what happened here.
	That violates the first amendment.
	CNN tried to work this out, uh requested that the pass be restored.
	Uh Mr. Acosta was denied a day pass in France, even though the French government allowed would have allowed him to go cover President Trump's appearance at a cemetery.
	But the White House has basically just been uh uh ignoring these requests.
	So we really had no choice but to sue.
	We we didn't want to have to go to court.
	Uh we wanted to just report the news.
	Mr. Acosta wants to report the news, CNN wants to report the news.
	So that's what the courts are for.
	Uh the first amendment and the Fifth Amendment uh arguments, the due process arguments are very strong.
	We're asking for emergency relief because every day that this pass has been revoked is a first amendment violation, and it's irreparable harm in the words of the law.
	I'm gonna make my David Clinton the president's tone to the president.
	The president's tone towards the press obviously is not helpful at times, and I think that that's plain to see.
	There are some fears up on Capitol Hill, and we understand some in the White House uh that a democratic wave is coming and can sweep the Republicans out of power in the House, and that could potentially lead to an impeachment proceedings uh that the Democrats could bring forward.
	What is the president's uh thinking on that?
	What what is your thinking on that?
	You understand how the law could be different than border security, sir.
	Border security can be a good thing.
	No, actually I don't, Jim.
	It could mean agents, it could mean more fencing.
	It doesn't necessarily mean a physical That's part of the negotiation that we expect Congress to have.
	But you understand Democrats are saying that they may not be in favor of this kind of deal.
	If they say thanks but no thanks for a wall.
	Jim, I'm not negotiating with you.
	I'm gonna let Congress take care of that.
	What we're witnessing right now is just this erosion of our freedoms in terms of covering the president of the United States.
	I think that there are moments when this president is is just really sensitive to criticism, and he lashes out in this fashion.
	That is just a a strange and unpresidential thing to do to me, throwing rolls and paper towels at people.
	The last three news conferences, Wolf, all of the questions to the American news media have been handled by conservative press.
	And I I think Wolf, there's no other way to describe it but the fix is in.
	For people to say, and they're not always going to speak English, Stephen.
	Do you believe it's gonna be highly skilled?
	They're not always Jim.
	Jim, Jim, I I appreciate your speech.
	I think we saw the president's true colors today, and and I'm not sure they were red, white, and blue.
	This is CNN.
	All right, News Roundup, information overload.
	It's only a small little portion of Jim Acosta and his phony moments...
	Uh with the president.
	There's a great column today by law and crime.
	It's a it's a great website.
	If you want to follow legal issues in the news and uh it is a sister website to Dan Abrams Mediaite, and it's really good.
	There's great coverage.
	I don't always agree with it, but it's you get some really good information.
	There's a great column.
	I don't know who wrote it today, but it was really well done.
	And they are claiming claiming that the constitutional rights of Jim Acosta and CNN have been violated here.
	Um when Acosta, how many times does a president need to say to one reporter when he has other reporters that want to ask questions?
	That's enough.
	And when a White House aide attempted to take the microphone to give it to another reporter after the president says ten times, that's enough.
	Um he didn't relinquish the microphone.
	Now, what's great about this article is you know, CNN's claim, well, we Acosta just asked a question about one of the president's statements during the the midterm.
	Um, as long crime pointed out, that's false.
	Acosta did not simply ask a question.
	He made a statement.
	He said, I want to challenge you.
	He's the president on one of the statements you made in the tail end of the campaign, and he cited the president's characterization of a migrant caravan as an invasion.
	Well, if they make it to the border, and what happened on the Mexican southern border happened here, then that would be accurate.
	And the president won obviously wanted to get it ahead of it, or the potential caravan uh becoming an invasion or some type of conflict, innocent people could get hurt, it would be horrible.
	Anyway, 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 of the U.S. Well, with the stated goal of walking across our borders illegally.
	Why did you characterize it as such?
	Do you think you have demonized immigrants in this election?
	And and then it goes on from there.
	Um the president did respond to Acosta.
	Now, by the way, Acosta and CNN, they have an opportunity to send anybody there.
	Nobody shut them out completely.
	So the president responded regarding the characterization.
	He says, Because I do consider it an invasion, you and I have a different opinion.
	And you know, and from there, it just disintegrated.
	And at this point, the the White House is rightly saying, and I I think they're right in their characterization of this.
	Of course, the White House correspondence people, they love it.
	Um, more grandstanding from CNN.
	Now, CNN claims that they are news.
	I've I it's almost every second, every hour, every minute, every day bashing the president.
	And they have their own issues of credibility.
	Everything from racist on down.
	Uh anyway, here to weigh in on this is Joe Concha.
	He's a media reporter, columnist for the hill.
	He actually does his own online TV show now.
	Uh, congratulations to you for that.
	Um, what's your take on it?
	I'm pretty interested where you go with this.
	Well, Sean, I think the lawsuit is silly and it's a grab for attention while you know making Acosta and CNN the victim, which they're both exceptionally accomplished at.
	Uh CNN, as you said, can still report from the White House, just not Acosta.
	When you break the rules, there has to become there has to come accountability.
	And the bottom line is that CNN has nearly 50 other press credentials, White House press credentials.
	So they're certainly not locked out, right?
	And look, Acosta, as you said, doesn't want to report the news, as we heard in that sound bite just a little bit earlier.
	He wants to opine, he wants to share his feelings.
	He wants to act like a 47-year-old version of the Captain of the Debate team.
	And since when is it a First Amendment, by the way, to attend press briefings?
	Because that means, because I don't have a hard pass to the White House, I'm a media reporter.
	So I mean I get to go, you get to go, the guy in the grease truck outside gets to go, my local librarian gets to go, because you're gonna need a bigger boat if everybody gets to go there and ask questions of the press secretary or the president.
	And the bottom line is if this is kind of a move to put CNN and Acosta front and center, so we're talking about it, so it drives ratings.
	It ain't working because that network has lost viewers when you compare it to October 2017, October 2018.
	And remember, October 2018 had the Kavanaugh hearings, which was a ratings juggernaut for a lot of people.
	They lost viewers by nearly 10%.
	They're getting beat.
	And this isn't a joke.
	I'm not being snarky.
	I'm just a guy who's like reporting sports scores.
	They're getting beat in total viewers by the Hallmark Channel, which is really hard to do.
	I don't care what they do over there.
	In all seriousness, they they have that they claim that they are journalists.
	They claim they don't have opinions.
	They actually say they don't have opinion shows.
	And like Don Lemon's an anchor and Chris Cuomo's an anchor, and Anderson Cooper's an anchor, and then all your opinion from those three guys.
	Just own it.
	You know, and it's and it's funny because people all the time will say, Well, you're not a journalist.
	I say, I don't claim to be.
	But I do claim to be a talk show host.
	And I can play for you right now.
	I can literally go in the archives, radio and TV, and play hours and hours and hours of coverage over the years of me doing straight reporting on important news stories.
	No opinion, straight reporting, be it about a war, a hurricane, all sorts of issues.
	Right.
	But I also as a talk show host.
	That's why people are tuning in to you.
	Okay, but but wait a minute.
	I would argue argue that we do investigative reporting.
	Obama, his radical associations, his record after eight years that nobody else talks about.
	More recently with the deep state.
	So we do investigative reporting.
	Sometimes we do straight up reporting.
	We absolutely do opinion with me telling everybody I'm a conservative.
	You're like a newspaper.
	I'm the whole newspaper.
	They're supposed to be the nukes.
	In my opinion, which I used to be a sports columnist, so you ever need anybody to talk about the question.
	No, I can never win with you.
	I just, you know, you always there's always something.
	I'm I can't please everybody.
	Go ahead.
	Anyway, uh look, the the president took 68 questions during that press conference last week.
	I mean, that's a lot from 35 reporters.
	I'm not very good at math.
	I believe if you divide 68 by 35, it comes to about two per reporter.
	And Jim Acosta tried to ask four different questions after, as you said, said, I want to challenge you, then went into a debate, then gave a lecture on what an invasion is and what isn't.
	And after two questions, every other reporter was says, okay, well, that's the way it's always been when you go through Reagan, Clinton, Bush, Obama, doesn't matter.
	You basically get one question, one follow-up, maybe, and that's it.
	Acosta, after four questions, doesn't give up the microphone the way my three-year-old doesn't give up a lollipop when it's time to go to bed.
	So how could anybody defend him at this point?
	And all I ask, and it's not gonna happen, but I'll throw it out there anyway.
	It just takes one major White House correspondent, just one, to say, look, Jim, what you're doing is hijacking these press briefings.
	You've been doing it for two years.
	There are some serious reporters in this room like John Roberts from Fox or Jeff Mason from Reuters or John Carl from ABC, people trying to get answers to inform the American people, and you're making it about yourself every time so you can go viral and expand your own brand.
	Please stop.
	We don't appreciate maybe the way the president's talking about us, okay.
	That's fine.
	But we also don't appreciate the way that you're making this about yourself.
	If it one reporter did that within that room, I think you'd hear a whole different narrative.
	But the hive mentality and the fear of reprisal, probably from their employer and from others in the industry, you're not going to see anybody do that.
	But hey, one can ask.
	You know, and it's such a good point, and I think Law and Crime made a great point on this too.
	If a Costa's reporting were the real reasons Trump, you know, he wouldn't have called on him in the first place.
	And by the way, she he has been repeatedly um rude to Sarah Sanders.
	The President was dead on accurate about all of that.
	Quick break, right back, we'll continue.
	Joe Concho from the Hill.
	All right, as we continue with Joe Concho, he's a media reporter, columnist, now actually TV star for the Hill.
	Where is there a constitutional right?
	It was free press.
	Nobody's saying he can't report what he wants to report.
	He doesn't have to be in the room.
	They can watch it on TV.
	It's being published.
	But the idea that they they think they have a right, not only there they think they have a right to be constantly, consistently agenda-driven and rude to the president of the United States.
	And I don't think they have a particularly strong case here.
	And CNN can make all the legal arguments they want that the White House acted improperly and how they are suspending a cost access, but you know what?
	Certainly the White House has the ability to say, no, where you're being rude to the president of the United States.
	And but by the way, if I did this to Obama, just think for a minute.
	Oh what would the reaction be?
	Yeah, I I got an example for you.
	So Major Garrett was with Fox, went over to CBS, and he asked President Obama in 2015 about the Iran deal.
	He says, Well, how can you make this deal and be content with the fact that there's still four Americans imprisoned over there?
	Like why weren't they included in the deal?
	Perfectly legitimate question.
	Nothing wrong with that.
	And Major Garrett got eviscerated by CNN's databash and Don Lemon and several other people over at that network for being disrespectful for the pres to the president for actually asking that question.
	Bill Barr actually said, you know what, Major, you should have just called him the N-word for asking such a question.
	So when anybody remotely Challenged the other president and asked a tough question.
	They were seen as being disrespectful.
	Hecklers.
	Now, if Jim Acosta does it, he's being praised as somebody who's just seeking the truth and asking aggressive questions.
	But here's the bottom line.
	It didn't seem like an aggressive question.
	It seemed like he starts with a debate, a premise that is in his in my view, false.
	He wants to debate the president.
	He and again, he wants to ask four questions, not one question.
	And not to get information to to evoke a response, right?
	And then so I I I've argued, well, maybe they should just box him out because during President Obama's first thirty-six press conferences, he called on Fox 14 times.
	Which when you're the number one uh news organization in cable news, you probably don't want to shut out twenty-two times.
	But he did it, and you didn't hear Fox saying, Well, we have a constitutional right to be afforded a question and we're gonna sue you.
	They just took it on the chin because I guess, well, you know, elections have consequences and he doesn't like Fox all that much.
	So uh yeah, th this is a mess, and it's all just to draw attention, and I I think it's gonna end where either the the the White House, I think the White House is actually gonna hold firm on this because they're probably on on firm grounds, and all it's all gonna come down to the judge that's assigned in this particular case.
	What if the White House decided that they want to move everybody out of that press room and put them across the street?
	They proposed that, Sean, in the beginning of the year.
	That's why I'm asking it.
	Yes, sir.
	And they said, Well, we can't move it out of the white house.
	That that's against the quorum.
	Well, a lot of things have been against decorum.
	I think I told you this idea a while back.
	I say rotate in different reporters.
	White House press corps gets Mondays, business reporters, Tuesdays, foreign press, Wednesdays, take a day off Thursday, and then rotate one of those three back in on Friday.
	And this way you're gonna get different questions about different things, particularly the economy and international affairs, get a little more sizzle in that room.
	Take out the cameras, by the way, because that's where the grandstanding happens.
	Recorded, of course, but don't play it live.
	And I think that would help.
	It would manage the situation.
	It wouldn't solve the problem, but at least it would manage it, that's for sure.
	All right, great analysis.
	Joe Concha, media reporter, columnist, and now TV host for the Hill uh.com.
	Thank you so much for being with us.
	Uh 800-941 Sean, toll-free telephone number.
	I'm actually really excited.
	I used to love this show by Mike Rowe called Dirty Jobs.
	As we continue.
	Hannity, tonight, nine Eastern.
	We got a great show tonight.
	Tell you about that in a second.
	I think unemployment numbers are down.
	The importance of getting jobs, why is that so important for our country?
	Well, it's it's a uh it's our identity.
	You know, what we do has always been the centerpiece of who we are.
	And for the last ten years, my foundation has been focused on opportunity that actually exists.
	Right.
	So there's this narrative, we've discussed it a thousand times that the reason people aren't working is because opportunity's dead.
	That's just not the case.
	We have nearly seven million jobs now that are available.
	If you want a job, there's a job waiting for you.
	Well, 75% of them don't require a four-year degree.
	They require training.
	So my little foundation has always been focused on that.
	Uh my grandfather, who was kind enough to bring her into the world, or at least in part, uh, was an electrical contractor, lived right next door to us.
	So I had a I had a front row seat growing up to the kind of work ethic and the kind of skill uh that built our country, you know.
	Your grandfather.
	Uh, where is he?
	Uh yes, that's your dad.
	That's your dad, mom, and that's Nana, right?
	And which brings us to a full introduction.
	This is Peggy Rowe, right here.
	And that's you were kind enough to how did you get your son to write the forward on your book?
	That was a big coup.
	He's famous.
	I know he is.
	Right.
	He but he's still my son.
	And he does what I tell him to do.
	What was he like?
	Yes, we would love we would love it.
	We love the fact that he you are now uh a hundred percent employed uh promoting this book.
	It's called About My Mother.
	Yes, it is.
	About and it is about my mother.
	Back growing up with a mother who was always in charge.
	Always in charge.
	What does that mean?
	Always in charge.
	She made all the decisions, all the decisions.
	She told me which political party I was in when I was when I was little.
	Which party were you in?
	Well, that's personal.
	Tell him.
	Don't tell him.
	But now everything.
	Now I think for myself.
	How important is that to be a strong mother?
	What'd you learn from her?
	She was honest, first and foremost.
	Um like I say, she was always in charge.
	She made all the decisions.
	We didn't do anything unless it was okay with my mother.
	Get to your calls here in a few minutes.
	800 941 Sean is our number.
	You want to be a part of the program.
	I I know people get sick of when I talk about my my jobs that I've had.
	Paper boy at eight, dishwasher at twelve, short order cook at well, I did steaks and lobsters, so maybe not short order.
	At 13, bus boy, 14, 15, waiter, bartender, and then my years in construction as a house painter.
	I learned how to hang wallpaper, made a lot of money doing that, laying tile, framing houses, doing roofing and reconstruction.
	It was, you know, over two decades of my life.
	And I was just obsessed with Mike Rowe's show about dirty jobs.
	And I could because I felt like, you know, look, I even worked in a shipyard once.
	It was a pretty dirty job at times.
	And I see these crazy jobs that he goes see, and it's it fascinates me to see the hard work, the the lives of other Americans, what they do to support themselves and their families.
	Um, it's it's amazing.
	It's just it's fascinating.
	Things that we don't know about other people.
	Anyway, Mike Rowe is uh back with us, and believe it or not, his mom is with us.
	This is amazing.
	He brings his mother with us, and he's authored a new uh book about my mother.
	True stories of a horse crazy daughter and her baseball obsessed mother, a memoir from uh from the book.
	Um anyway, welcome both of you to the program.
	Uh Mike, how are you?
	Sean, everything is great, but let me just set the stage for you right now.
	We are stuck in cross sound traffic.
	I'm in an SUV with my parents.
	My mom is just eating a hoagey.
	She's sitting here next to me, thrilled to be.
	By the way, people people in New York, are you in New York?
	They don't know what a hoagie is.
	That's a Rhode Island term.
	Yeah, well, it was some sort of meat thing wrapped into some sort of bread thing.
	And uh, you know, my It's called a sandwich.
	It's called a uh it's it's called a uh I don't know, what is Subway call it now?
	I don't even know.
	I a foot long, whatever it is, my mom destroyed it, and now most of it's gone from her mouth, so she's ready to speak.
	Mom, say hey to Sean Hannity.
	Hi, Sean Hannity.
	How are you?
	Now, hi, Peggy Rowe, how are you?
	Now you've got to be so proud of this crazy son of yours.
	Um, but also you write this book about true stories of a horse crazy daughter, her baseball obsessed mother, and you know, um a pretty fascinating life with this crazy son of yours.
	Well, what can I say?
	It's part of my life.
	My mother was part of my life for what, 70?
	How many years?
	70 years.
	Yeah.
	And um, and Mike's been part of my life for 56 years now.
	And uh, if it weren't for Mike, I don't think I would have published this book.
	And if it weren't for mom, I wouldn't be sitting here in the next one.
	You wouldn't even you wouldn't if it wasn't for mom and dad, you wouldn't be here, period.
	Let's be very blunt and honest about this.
	Um, you know, it's funny because I think we just had Veterans Day yesterday, and I was talking about how we don't have any freedom, we don't have any liberty, we don't even have a country.
	But for all those people that bravely they sacrificed ever they put everything on the line.
	I love people that put everything on the line with heroism and courage, and just you know, they do what needs to be done.
	Forget Washington.
	It's the the heart and soul of America is the people that get up every day, shovel coffee down their throats, get their kids dressed for school, pack their lunch, uh race out, do their 10, 12, 14 hours, you know, cook something as quickly as they can, do the homework with the kids, pass out from exhaustion.
	You know, the ones that obey the laws, play by the rules, pay taxes.
	They did they're the ones, Mike, that make this country great.
	You covered them with dirty jobs.
	I I that was my like my favorite show.
	Well, why did you stop posting it?
	Well, um we did 300 of them, and there was a genuine concern that I was going to uh collapse permanently.
	Um but look, believe it or not, never say never.
	It wouldn't shock me to see dirty jobs come back around because I love that.
	I I I would uh I would want to do that's a show I would want to do myself.
	That's how much I love it.
	Careful what you wish for.
	If I'll make you a deal.
	If you want to switch careers for uh for a couple of months, I uh standing by the way, you really want all the bad press I get people like you.
	People love you.
	They don't love me.
	I have some people that love me, but I have a whole group of other people that would love to hear the news, Hannity's dead being reported at the top of the hour news.
	Trust me.
	Well, listen, I'm not sure what to say to that, except that the only person I've ever met on planet earth who was universally loved by every single person who ever met her, is is trapped in this SUV with me right now.
	It's my mother.
	And that's I mean, I'm not even obviously I'm biased, but I'm sitting here.
	You've been in the book business a long time.
	She's she's going to the top of the charts, Sean, and she's not going to be able to do that.
	No, no, no.
	She beat Bob Woodward's book in sales.
	That was that blew my mind.
	I was like, that is awesome.
	I thought that was great.
	How did that how did that make you feel, Peggy?
	Oh my golly.
	I was beyond excited.
	That was great.
	And I might do it again.
	Who knows?
	I hope people go buy the book just for that reason.
	Uh and and you wonder why I have enemies.
	She's gonna be 81 years old uh in an in two weeks or or something like that.
	When is your birthday?
	January or something.
	January.
	How could you be 56 years old and not know your mother's birthday?
	What's wrong with you?
	I'm under a lot of pressure, Sean.
	Okay.
	I I I I host a lot of high pressure shows, and it's very hard for me to remember obvious things.
	But I know this much.
	I know this much is true.
	The the divide in the country will never ever go away unless we find things that still unite us and and truly join us.
	Motherhood is somewhere on that list.
	And what my mom has done, whether she meant to or not, is prove it.
	She's written a book that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that decency is alive and well in households from sea to shining sea.
	You just have to look for the American the American people are the best.
	It's the people that do all those crazy jobs that you would cover on your show.
	Let me ask you that question.
	What are the craziest, dirtiest jobs of all those three hundred episodes?
	Well, look, I mean, it's very difficult to compare, you know, a bridge builder uh with a skull cleaner or an opal miner.
	I couldn't be a bridge builder because I would freak out at the height.
	You think you couldn't do it, but if you compare it to mining opals, which involves being lowered down, I wouldn't want to do that one.
	By the way, I fell off a roof three stories once in the middle of where a lot, Sean.
	No, it well, it's the moment I woke up and became a conservative and I busted my arm.
	Literally, I hit the ground, and imagine from your elbow, from my elbow down, was totally disconnected from my arm and dangling.
	And yeah, and and interestingly, I went, ah ah, and I snapped it perfectly back into place.
	That's true story.
	You've got to write a book called I Fell Off a Roof and Became a Conservative.
	It's true.
	I mean by the way, I bet your mother's a conservative.
	Are you a conservative, Peggy?
	Don't sell it.
	In some respect.
	No, Peggy, don't listen to him.
	He doesn't even know your birthday.
	What my he's not selling your book.
	I am.
	Tell me.
	In some respects, I am a conservative.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	In some respects, I'm not.
	Listen to me, Sean.
	There is no hate.
	There is no hatred in my book.
	My book is kind of a feel-good book.
	It's humorous.
	And it has 19 stories in it that we can all relate to.
	If you have a mother, you can relate to my stories.
	You can read my stories and say, hey, my mother was like that.
	Um, I do miss I lost my parents.
	Uh my father, six months I'm in my 23rd year at Fox, six months after I started there.
	I um there's hardly a day that I don't think about them.
	Um, but I was an incorrigible child.
	Was Mike an incorrigible child?
	No.
	No, he really wasn't.
	He was a rule follower.
	He was he was no.
	We wouldn't have been friends.
	We would not have been friends.
	I wouldn't have allowed him to play with anybody like you.
	No, you would listen.
	There were a lot of there are a lot of kids that weren't allowed to play with me.
	And and um I don't know why I was so my mother would say, Don't leave that house.
	You and my mom, by the way, was a prison guard.
	Just so you know, she wasn't she was a pretty tough lady.
	But I'd look at her and say, you can't stop me.
	And I'd walk out.
	It's horrible how I treated uh how I was.
	And I don't know why I was like that.
	Sean, let me just explain what's happened.
	All right.
	This is the power of my mother from an SUV, trapped in crosstown traffic.
	She's got you to reveal that you fell off a roof, became a conservative.
	You're sharing you you're you're sharing secrets in your life.
	You lit she literally got you on the couch over a cell phone from an SUV.
	A lot of people have been saying for years I need to be on a couch.
	So maybe maybe I'll just call your mom once a week and we'll have conversations with her.
	Remember David Letterman used to put his mom on all the time?
	Sure.
	Your mother sounds a lot like my mother.
	I think my mother could have been a prison guard if she wanted to be.
	But as it was, she was a homemaker and raised two children.
	But she had the wherewithal to control the circumstances around her.
	She knew how to make decisions.
	And she could be a little bossy.
	Was your mother a little bossy?
	Oh, tried to be.
	But here's the thing with the wonderful thing about my parents.
	Is and she worked many 16-hour shifts.
	I mean, and they did it for their kids.
	They they literally, no new cars.
	The first new car I think they got was in, you know, I was in ninth grade.
	No vacations, private schools for their kids.
	And I I deser I owed them more than I gave them to be blunt, you know, if I'm gonna be truthful.
	Uh-huh.
	And but in the end, you know, I realized they were wonderful people.
	Just amazed, but far better than I could ever be.
	You know, that's the interesting thing about my book, which by the way is called About My Mother.
	By the way, you you do you like what did Mike tell you to say it every 30 seconds?
	I mean, no, no.
	I don't, this is the first time I've said it.
	Listen, Sean, do you have a couch?
	Pull up a couch.
	I want to talk to you about your mother.
	Okay, I'm listening.
	Did your mother have any obsessions?
	Was she crazy nuts about anything like baseball?
	My mother was crazy about baseball.
	She embarrassed me every day of baseball.
	Um, she actually used to be a big crocheter, and she'd make me these hideous, ugly sweaters and give them to me.
	I'm like, mom, I'm not wearing that thing anywhere.
	It's so mean.
	And um, but she was really she loved it, was good at it.
	I know you know, I'm r I am ruining my career here.
	Mike's the greatest son in the world, and I'm horrible, but I've got to run.
	Mike Rowe, we love you.
	Thank you.
	Peggy, you are a delightful, wonderful woman.
	Made me laugh all day about my mother, true stories, horse crazy daughter, her baseball obsessed mom, a memoir, Amazon.com, Hannity.com, bookstores anywhere.
	Mike, I need to see you soon.
	I'd love to do dirty jobs with you.
	Uh careful what you wish for, brother.
	And I'm uh next time we do it in person.
	You you just by the way.
	What?
	It it's been decided.
	Uh my mother is it's my mom is now America's grandmother.
	Thanks to you.
	Congratulations.
	Yeah, well, I remember I was the incorrigible one.
	Good luck.
	She's gonna have a lot of trouble reining me in.
	Uh, thank you guys.
	Good to talk to you.
	Peggy, God bless you.
	You're you're a wonderful woman with a great heart.
	We appreciate it.
	Thank you, Sean.
	This was fun, and good luck in the future.
	Thank you.
	You too.
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