Sean Hannity Show - Remembering 41 - 12.3

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Remembering 41 - 12.3

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	Al Sharpton, this is the funniest story I've ever seen.
	He pays himself a million and a half dollars from his own National Action Network.
	What for?
	For the rights to his life story.
	This is his charity.
	He paid himself from his own charity 531 grand, according to his latest tax filing.
	500, but they only get it for a 10-year period of time.
	I guess he'll sell it again for a million dollars next time to the same people to go sell his life story.
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	Mexico, NAFTA, Canada, now China.
	So we're making huge progress, which we'll get to also today.
	We have a lot of deep state news we're going to get into in the course of the program.
	We'll make it all happen.
	What do you say about a guy like President George Herbert Walker Bush?
	Except he just embodies, it's all part of, I mean, this is my dad's generation.
	My father bought four years in the Pacific in World War II.
	And he, by the way, I didn't know he was the longest, he lived longer than any president in American history.
	Only two families have had a father and son become president, and he obviously being one of them.
	And you think of his years as ambassador to China, director of the CIA, eight years, the Reagan, Reagan got me in love with politics.
	Reagan convinced me.
	That's when I became a conservative.
	And here we are, 30 years later in radio, in my 23rd year at Fox.
	It's amazing how many people don't get how consistent I have been in terms of my conservative ideas and philosophy.
	Now, of course, you can't be intellectually honest and not at times change opinions on certain issues, which I have evolved over time.
	I consider myself a little more civil libertarian, certainly than I ever was before.
	I think the main things government ought to do ought to be limited in nature.
	I've always believed that.
	Reagan always said, you know, government is the problem.
	I've always believed in lower taxes, free markets, liberty and freedom.
	I've always believed that every individual is brought on this earth is a child of God.
	Every single person has natural talent and ability.
	That's where the word education comes from.
	And that is, you know, to bring forth from within.
	That's because God put it there.
	That's why I've always believed in that.
	We're endowed by our Creator.
	Our founding document.
	I believe that.
	Our great constitution.
	But government becomes more intrusive, more intrusive.
	And Reagan taught me something.
	I studied the eight years he was president.
	I was on radio just as he was, you know, I guess I started in 1987.
	And I remember I was like, you know, here's a guy that gave us tax cuts and created the single longest period of peacetime economic growth in American history.
	He left the presidency having created over 20 million new jobs.
	He literally, and this happened actually in the Bush years, but it was Reagan who said, tear down this wall.
	And George Herbert Walker Bush presided over that.
	And, you know, I look at the life of military service.
	I look at the life of, as a businessman, I was watching 43, George W. Bush, talking about his dad.
	And, you know, he could have joined a hedge fund after college.
	He went to Yale.
	He was a great athlete.
	And, no, he wanted to be in Odessa, Texas.
	And, you know, the living conditions weren't particularly great.
	He said his mom would describe their living next to prostitutes, apparently.
	I never knew that story before.
	Anyway, on a personal level, I've just gotten to know him.
	And I've known the family and I've known him for many years.
	And just they represent everything that is good and decent.
	And this man spent a life serving his country.
	Just in every capacity, his entire adult life was about service for others.
	And he did it with a passion.
	It was only a couple of years ago.
	And, you know, he's still jumping out of airplanes.
	And, you know, at the end of the day, for any of us, when that moment comes and we've got to meet our creator and cross over to that other side, I think all of us want to have lived life.
	And the world is a better, stronger place.
	The United States is better and stronger because of George Herbert Walker Bush, especially in his years as vice president and president.
	It wasn't without controversy.
	It wasn't without his own tough moments in life.
	I mean, that's really what creates character in people, isn't it?
	When we get tested.
	And then those roots inside us, we need to go deeper and deeper, don't we?
	Otherwise, we're just going to get blown away in the wind when the rains come and it's not good.
	I did an interview with both 41 and 43.
	I'm going to air parts of this tonight on Hannity.
	And there was a love between 43 and 41.
	It was unbelievable.
	I went down when the President Bush, George W. Bush, invited me to his museum down there.
	And I went down on SMU campus.
	I forgot, was it Father's Presidential Museum?
	I forget where.
	I don't remember.
	But anyway, his dad and his mom were there.
	His mom had recently passed away, as you all know, Barbara Bush.
	And so I'm doing an interview just with 43.
	And 41 was in a wheelchair.
	And so anyway, we're about to do the interview.
	And he says, no, no, I want to watch.
	And he literally sat and watched the interview with his son.
	Couldn't be more proud.
	And I won't give it away, but when I interviewed them together, you know, and George Bush said this in an interview that I saw last night or over the weekend when I was watching, maybe it was 60 minutes last night.
	And he said, you know, told the story when he first went into the Oval Office and his dad called him Mr. President and how his father really let him be his own man.
	And he said, just love him and be a dad.
	It's just very touching.
	And it just, you just, it just embodies greatness, goodness.
	You know, so many Americans never become famous.
	And by the way, if you want it, you can, you may not be all it's cut out to be.
	Let me just say that.
	But at the end of the day, you know, whatever you do for a living, whatever talents you have, we all have to serve other people in some capacity.
	You know, I can't imagine anything worse.
	I've said this many, many, many times, than what it must be like if you don't have a purpose and a job in life and you're not giving back.
	And I don't care what it is.
	Listen, I know we've always scorned almost, some people have scorned on the left, stay-at-home moms.
	Let me tell you, staying home, being a mom, full-time, that's a full-time job.
	Loving your children, raising them right, feeding them well, giving them great life experiences.
	You're serving a child.
	I don't think there's anything greater than that.
	You're influencing who that person, you're shaping that person, helping shape that person into becoming the person they were created to be.
	I don't care if you're at McDonald's, you're serving hungry people.
	So that's a valuable service.
	You know, if you're building homes, if you're doing plumbing, if you're doing electricity, if you're doing legal work, if you're a doctor and you save lives every day, it doesn't matter.
	And I've always felt that people that do their jobs publicly, you know, get too much adulation.
	It's just true.
	But it's the people that get up every single day and shovel coffee down their throat, dress their kids, you know, pack them a lunch, send them off to school, go put in their 12 hours, come home tired, do homework, make dinner, you know, read to the kids, fall asleep, get up and grind it out again the next day.
	But all of those people collectively in a free society make this a better world and a better place.
	And then you have great leaders.
	I mean, we can put athletes on a pedestal.
	And look, there's only so many people that can throw a ball over a tiny plate at 100 miles an hour and strike out people.
	There's only so many guys that can hit that 100 mile an hour fastball, you know, long enough that it's a home run or, you know, playing hockey or basketball or tennis or golf or whatever it happens to be.
	And so we marvel at people that are at the top level of whatever their profession happens to be.
	But whatever you do matters too.
	And so his job was more public than what most people have.
	But it's not any, even if you're the president, it's not any more important.
	For this country to be great, its people have to be great.
	And there are so many people like George Herbert Walker Bush, who did so much good in his life with a decency and a quietness that is his nature.
	And by the way, it's amazing to me that the number one complaint about Donald Trump, it's not about even people that say they're conservative.
	I'm looking at them.
	Okay, so he's a disruptor.
	He fights hard on every issue, even if it's better politics, maybe not to fight hard.
	But he's fighting hard with China, North Korea, the Iranians.
	He doesn't care.
	He made a promise to Israel about moving the embassy to Jerusalem, keeps it.
	He keeps his promises on regulation, on tax cuts, on judges, fighting every day for the wall.
	And people that were conservative cuts taxes, originalist justices, energy independence, and they can't find a good thing to say about the guy.
	They just don't like his style.
	Well, there's a time and a place, in my opinion, for a George Herbert Walker Bush and a Ronald Reagan.
	And there's a time for a disruptor, somebody that's going to fight hard, break things, and get it done.
	Because so much of Washington has been broken, corrupt, and horrible.
	But as long as you have the intention and you apply the principles that work and people benefit, you know, I think people feign more outrage than they do.
	Here's the sad part of the whole coverage I've been watching this weekend: you know, literally you have the coverage where people that were horrible.
	I saw this with John McCain too.
	People that refer to John McCain as a racist, you know, when he was running for president, a horrible treatment of Mitt Romney, binders of women's resumes, bludgeoned him, but now they like him only because he criticizes Trump.
	You know, the horrible things said about Ronald Reagan, the horrible things said about McCain, the horrible things said about George Herbert Walker Bush, corrupt.
	He ought to be in jail, Iran-Contra, blah, blah, blah.
	Oh, he's the nicest man.
	But they're basically doing is using the death of George Herbert Walker Bush now to bludgeon President Trump.
	But the same people were bludgeoning or people like them were bludgeoning George Herbert Walker Bush.
	And just like I supported John McCain because I thought he'd be a better president than Barack Obama.
	I was right, by the way.
	And, you know, all these people now that said horrible things in life, now, you know, oh, the greatest man ever.
	Reagan was the greatest man.
	Bush was the greatest.
	I can't stand that phoniness.
	That more than anything drives me nuts.
	We pray for his family today.
	And they're a very close family.
	This is not easy.
	And especially, it wasn't long ago that President Bush's father, mother had passed away, Barbara Bush.
	And I know the president has sent Air Force One to Houston to pick up the 41st president and his family.
	And there's going to be a lot of ceremonies.
	We'll be carrying it all this week for you.
	Godspeed, George Herbert Walker Bush.
	You're a good man.
	Thank you for a lifetime of greatness and service to the country you loved.
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	Even the AP didn't get the memo.
	It's now okay for the Democratic media.
	And it's okay now to say nice things about George Herbert Walker Bush.
	AP had to delete a tweet about the death of the former president.
	There was a huge backlash on this.
	And it said, we've deleted a tweet and revised a story on the death of President George Herbert Walker Bush because the tweet and the opening story referenced his 92 electoral defeat.
	And they didn't even talk about his World War II service.
	I mean, it's just so typical.
	You know what's sad?
	You know, John McCain, I'll use this as an example.
	John McCain and I had our battles over the years.
	We really did.
	When it mattered, and I thought he was a better person for the job, and you got a choice coming down to two people.
	And I knew Obama was a rigid radical ideologue that was never going to ever change and his policies would be bad for the country.
	And by the way, all my predictions were borne out.
	And I supported John McCain.
	And I know he said, you know, the hell with these people on talk radio, the hell with these people on cable news.
	And I'm like, really?
	You didn't hate me back in the days when you were running for president, but that's fine.
	It's, you know, everyone trying to now use the death of President Bush to attack President Trump in the media.
	This is NBC news, despite the resentments between these two families.
	All right.
	You want it.
	And then the stylistic differences.
	I can play some of this.
	We have them.
	We'll play them later in the program.
	And I'm just thinking, you know, I watched the treatment of Ronald Reagan.
	In death, these people were so gracious.
	In life, they were horrific when it actually mattered.
	You know, they never saw the wisdom of what Ronald Reagan sought to accomplish and what he did for the economy and how many jobs he created and, you know, bravely challenging gorbitch off, Mr. Gorbert, tear down this wall.
	Or, you know, the things that were said and the allegations made in Iran-Contra, et cetera, et cetera.
	You know, it matters to me more how do you treat people in life?
	Not the things you're going to say in debt to me.
	It's just phony.
	And now, you know, any of these men that I'm talking about, John McCain, Bush 41, Ronald Reagan, even Mitt Romney is now headed to the Senate, were treated horribly.
	John McCain dies, the nicest thing said by people, some of whom were like involved in destroying this man's character.
	You know, same with Reagan, same with Bush 41, same with Bush 43, even Mitt Romney.
	And it's just, it's a phoniness that they have that just fries me a little bit because it's, you know, now they're doing it.
	Okay, well, he was so nice.
	He was such a good guy.
	That's not what they were saying back in the day.
	Trust me.
	All right, a lot of news we're going to get to today.
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	If you have young kids, Santa Claus, I'll probably have to give a disclaimer.
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	Air Force One, President Trump had sent his plane to pick up the family and the casket with the remains of President George Herbert Walker.
	Bush had just landed, arrived, Joint Base Andrews.
	And as we speak, the casket is about to come off Air Force One.
	Some news, the president, meaning President Trump is apparently expected to be at the rotunda tonight in the Capitol as the casket lies in state for the former president.
	We expect that to happen.
	I have a really cool interview that I did with Bush 41 and Bush 43.
	I'm going to air some of this tonight on Hannity 9 Eastern if you want to hear it.
	I did have an opportunity to talk on another occasion to George Herbert Walker Bush about his son.
	And this is a small part of it.
	It's got to be harder to watch your son the president than to be president.
	It is far worse when they go after your son, and I would say unfairly a lot of the time than when they used to, when I was in the cross crosshairs and would get condemned and criticized.
	Even when I thought it was unfair about me, it hurts much more when it's your own son.
	Not even close call.
	Not even close.
	Because I think about my son, who's a lot younger than yours, but I would think it's got to be a lot harder.
	And you may have to go through this one more time.
	You know, I just talked to that other son of yours in Florida.
	He's good.
	He's got a lot of potential.
	Oh, God, he's good.
	And they singled him out for two years ago as the number one target for the Democratic Party nationally.
	Not just for governor, but for Senate Terry McAuliffe, for whom I don't, well, put it this way, I'm not very high on him, came and made this the number one goal for the Democratic Party nationally.
	And Jeb won by 14 points.
	They did.
	And the polls were a little closer going into that election.
	That's right.
	And he won by a much wider margin.
	And I guess made Mr. McCullough a little unhappy about that.
	You know, your son said something the other day that really struck me.
	He really did want to go to Washington and change the tone.
	Something that he was able to accomplish in Texas.
	Yeah.
	Since he's been there, and I'm not talking about the Michael Moores or the pundits on TV.
	Yeah, we'll get to him in a minute.
	Oh, well, good.
	Hurry up.
	Have you heard the leaders of the Democratic Party that shrill?
	I've heard him shrill and I've heard some of ours shrill in the past, but I've never felt the climate like it is now nor the shrillness of the political opposition.
	It hurts.
	Well, yeah, you expect some of it, but when it's your son and they call him a liar, when they impugn his motives, it hurts a lot.
	Yeah, you think I feel strongly about it?
	Talk to Barbara Bush.
	Because she just tells me not to watch and all of that.
	But I can't.
	I can't not watch.
	You're engaged.
	I read recently that she won't read the New York Times anymore.
	No, she doesn't.
	Tells you to stop whining about it when you do read it.
	Yeah, well, I still read about it, and I'm whining more and much more publicly than I used to.
	Because I think they've gone too far.
	I think they are advocates for the Democrats.
	I think they have lost their objectivity that they did have many years ago.
	I think there's a certain arrogance amongst a lot of their people.
	I think, you know, you expect this on the op-ed page.
	You got people in there that smear George and slam him every day, but that's, you know, that's different.
	But when the news columns, when you see subjectivity creeping into the news columns, it concerns me.
	Yeah, I think they'll deny it's happening.
	And I say, well, too bad.
	I think it is.
	I mean, that was just one of many interactions I've had the fortune of having with President George Herbert Walker Bush.
	And I think the best moment was when I interviewed him and George W. Bush together.
	It was a pretty special moment.
	You know, let me just say one thing as media people and pundits and TV people, and I'll play it later in the program when we get back to the topic, and how they're basically using the death year of President Bush, 41, to attack President Trump.
	Let me just dissuade anybody.
	I understand the Bush family's resentments at times, or maybe hostility even at times, towards Donald Trump.
	But, you know, let me tell you something.
	George W. Bush went into South Carolina in a battle with John McCain, and it was brutal.
	It's just the nature of politics.
	Unfortunately, it's a blood sport.
	It's not beanball.
	And if you don't have the fight in you or the ability to take on that criticism and fight back on some level, some capacity, you know, you're going to get eaten alive.
	And the only thing that frustrates me is I listen to all these never-Trumper people.
	And some of them have been writing and commenting on conservatism throughout even my whole career or longer.
	And it's just stylistically, they can't stand the current president.
	But I remind you, how did they treat McCain when it mattered in his life, when he was running for president?
	He was a racist.
	How did they treat Ronald Reagan, an amiable dunce and a grade B actor?
	And, you know, another guy that they just bludgeoned him.
	Not as bad as today.
	It's never been this bad.
	And you just heard Bush 41 saying it was really bad when his son was president.
	It's worse.
	And the same thing for Mitt Romney, binders of women.
	Somehow, I mean, it's stunning what they did to that man.
	And let me tell you, Romney's one of these guys that is pretty, he's just decent to the core.
	I don't like what he did in the election.
	And I kind of understand it.
	Maybe somebody doesn't understand a New York sensibility.
	grew up in New York, but I also had the advantage of living in Rhode Island, New England, and living in California and living in the South in Alabama and Georgia.
	And it has given me great perspective and been to almost every state now about the middle of the country, the red part of the country that is so much different than what you see in D.C., New York, L.A., and San Francisco.
	So it's a very tough sport.
	There's a lot at stake.
	And if you have a strong passionate belief system that if you believe in limited government, you're going to fight for it.
	You're going to take on a lot of incoming.
	And, you know, sometimes it does get personal.
	And I would assume at some point, I guess, you know, a lot of times differences eventually get put aside.
	I mean, Clinton and 41 used to go on tour together.
	And if, you know, I know that there was no way George W. Bush was going to criticize Barack Obama.
	I tried to get him to say something a number of times.
	I never had any luck doing it.
	But at the end of the day, for the people that step up, take the heat, it's nonstop, and it's their calling, their service, what they believe.
	So I think some people are just genuinely trying to do their best and might be wrong on the policy.
	But I also think there are people that are just pure power hungry.
	And that's a lot of the people in Washington.
	They love being called senator and congressman and governor, whatever it happens to be.
	And that's unfortunate, too, because we don't benefit from that when they're looking out for themselves.
	All right, a lot of other ground we're going to cover.
	As we speak, by the way, the casket is coming off of Air Force One that President Trump had sent, landing now in Joint Base Andrews on its way to the Capitol Rotunda.
	This is going to anger a lot of you.
	But if you're a parent, you have young kids in the car, you may not want your young kids to hear this, but I think it's going to make you mad.
	So you got this school in New Jersey.
	It's called Cedar Hill Elementary School.
	And you get the substitute teacher comes in.
	And this is one of the things that just fries me about the entire educational system and this unholy alliance that exists between teachers' unions and the Democratic Party to the point where New York City is paying literally hundreds and hundreds of teachers that can't teach, but they can't fire them in case, in some cases, for literally having sexual contact with kids.
	You still can't fire them.
	Why they're not in jail is another question.
	But putting that aside, but the fact that you have a captive group of kids, usually it's in junior high, high school, college is the worst where all these ex-hippies have gravitated for because the jobs might not be, I don't know.
	And they feel that they can take a captive audience and just indoctrinate them into their belief system.
	We spend more money per capita per student than any other country on earth.
	And we're like 37th in reading, writing, and math overall.
	It's pathetic.
	You know, there was once a famous study in the Reagan years, a nation at risk that actually said that what has happened to the educational system in America, were it done by some outside entity or force would be tantamount to an act of war.
	That's how bad it's gotten.
	You know, but mostly we've kind of left the really young kids alone, except to, you can't play dodgeball anymore in school because if you play dodgeball, you're going to hit the kid with the ball and they may not like losing.
	You can't keep score because somebody's feelings are going to get hurt as if kids can't keep.
	Kids are keeping score, whether they're allowed to or not.
	We beat you, we beat you, whatever.
	I mean, you can't choose sides because one kid that maybe is really smart in math and really more academically oriented, that's where the natural gifts are.
	Well, that kid's going to feel bad that he's picked last.
	So, you know, we'll just divide teams some random other way.
	I mean, it's gotten crazy.
	But think about this.
	So, imagine you're sending your five, six-year-old kid to school, and you have a teacher is telling five and six-year-olds that Santa Claus isn't real.
	His reindeer aren't real.
	Telling them reindeer can't fly, telling them Santa is not real.
	And parents, can you lower this a lot?
	Just buying presents and putting them under the tree, not some guy named Santa with a red suit and a big children singing and all that.
	All right, I can't, yeah, all right.
	So, Santa Claus, your parents are Santa Claus, and then reindeer can't fly.
	Elves aren't real.
	Elf on the shelf is just a pretend all that your parents move around, and then she doesn't stop there.
	Then the teacher says the tooth fairy isn't real, and mom and dad sneak into your room in the middle of the night when you're sleeping, they put the money under your pillow, and then the Easter bunny that doesn't exist either, and tells them magic doesn't exist, there's no such thing.
	This is a grown woman thinking she has the right to literally rob kids of the utter joy, anticipation, happiness of Santa, and thinking without any sense that this might be wrong, that you're going to crush a kid's spirit for Christmas.
	And it goes, you go back to this whole war on Christmas.
	I mean, Bill O'Reilly followed this for years, and he was always right about it.
	In as much as what he was saying is, you can't, you know, stores say you it says Christmas sale, but you can't say, or an employee can't say Merry Christmas.
	And or telling these kids, or feeling that you have the right to contradict deeply held values that you have.
	And whether it be about religion or about Santa or the Easter bunny or the tooth fairy, I mean, crushing five and six-year-olds.
	One of them was quoted in this article in New Jersey saying, My granddaughter came home and said, Mimi, Santa isn't real.
	The woman flipped out and explained, No, no, no, Santa's real.
	Don't listen to the other kids.
	Didn't realize it was the teacher that said this.
	And the substitute teacher launches into a Grinch-like diatribe during what was supposed to be a writing activity.
	Now, when you think we don't teach kids to read and write, we spend more money per capita per student than any other country with like the worst results, the worst return our investment than anybody else.
	And this is what happens.
	And it gets, you know, you see this everywhere.
	Like, for example, Hanukkah is going on right now.
	And when I see my friends that I know are Jews, I say, happy Hanukkah.
	If I see my friends at Christmas, Merry Christmas.
	And if it so happens I got it wrong with a friend, they know what the spirit is behind it.
	I'm trying to be nice.
	Unlike Saturday Night Live, all they want for Christmas is for Mueller to lock up Trump.
	And the other option is a coup.
	And by the way, Sarah Palin had a great line, suck it up, cupcake.
	She said that to Joyless Behar after Kid Rock took a shot at her.
	And Joy Behar, Trump better save pardons for his kids.
	I'm just saying, listen, we're going to have to make some decisions here as a culture, as a society, as a country.
	You know, Stanford University told the Sigma Chai fraternity to remove its American flag.
	Why?
	Stanford, to improve their image.
	Administrator reportedly told the fraternity that the flag could be seen as intimidating, aggressive, and alienating.
	Is this the country we want?
	The greatest generation of George Herbert Walker Bush and people like my father that fought four years in World War II and so many others in that, what Tom Brokaw called the greatest generation.
	An American flag.
	We're going to now teach kids in college that that flag is seen as intimidating, aggressive, and alienating when all our treasure, our kids' blood shed, lives lost, limbs lost, you know, faces destroyed in war, no country ever accumulating more power and using it for the good than this one.
	And we're saying that in college to our kids, and we're telling five-year-olds that Santa doesn't exist because we don't, we let them run away with the culture.
	There's no stopping them.
	And this is where I keep warning you.
	If we have a dual justice system, we don't apply the laws equally.
	We don't have equal justice under the law or equal application of our laws.
	We're going to lose it.
	And remember, Reagan said, you know, freedom is but one generation away from extinction.
	It's scary.
	All right, glad you're with us.
	Sean Hannity's show, toll-free.
	It's 800-941.
	Sean, you want to be a part of the program?
	So Air Force One has landed.
	It joins Base Andrews and the casket.
	And now Hearst carrying Bush 41 is en route to the Capitol Rotunda where he will lie in state.
	It's expected that the president, President Trump, will stop by sometime this evening.
	I just heard in the 9 o'clock hour when I'm on Hannity.
	Obviously, we will cover that.
	One of the things I want to share with you tonight is an interview I did with both Bush 41 and 43, which I think captures more of a love between father and son than anything else.
	Joining us now, former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, is with us.
	How are you, sir?
	Good to have you back.
	I'm doing well.
	And I think part of the reason for the great outpouring for President Bush is that he is the last of the World War II heroes, the youngest naval aviator.
	And I think his deep love for Barbara was a model for the whole country.
	So it really is, in a sense, the passing of a generation of leadership.
	I think all of that's true.
	There's one little thing that irks me, and I bet it probably irks you as well.
	And I'm watching the media, and I'm watching their coverage.
	And frankly, people that didn't treat him well at all, they're actually, oh, there's nothing bad they could ever say about him.
	And you know how he was treated in the course of his presidency.
	Oh, he can't.
	He doesn't even, he's so out of touch, he can't even use a grocery store scanner because he doesn't know what it is.
	Or obviously, Iran-Contra.
	Or, you know, the Democrats kind of push and push and push.
	And he tries to compromise, but he broke a campaign pledge about read my lips, no, no taxes.
	And they bludgeoned him with that.
	And they're also saying, well, he's such a good man.
	Now they're using his demeanor, which is obviously different than President Trump's, as if, you know, somehow 41 or 43 didn't know that presidential politics was a blood sport.
	After all, it was 41 that called Reaganomics voodoo economics.
	And the runoff or the primary between President Bush and 43 and McCain in South Carolina was about as tough as it gets.
	And, you know, this is part of politics, isn't it?
	Well, part of it, of course, look, if you are a liberal and you have a chance after they die to say nice things, whether it's, they did the same thing to Ronald Reagan.
	I mean, people who had despised Reagan for his entire career, you know, waxed eloquent and rhapsodic about him once he died because it gives them the veneer of being reasonable and fair.
	But, you know, in both the case of President Reagan and President Bush, the same liberals did everything they could to defeat them.
	And I think that's just part of where we are as a country.
	I mean, you should never, and you don't, of course, but no one listening to us should ever kid themselves about where the left is and what the left's trying to accomplish.
	Oh, they did the same thing with John McCain.
	I mean, when John McCain, when it wouldn't have mattered to say nice things about him when he ran for president in 08, which, by the way, I supported him over Obama, and I was glad to.
	And I think I ended up being proven right how disastrous Obama's rigid ideology would be for the country and his policies would be.
	But same with John McCain.
	And look at what they did to poor Mitt Romney.
	Look at how they treated Reagan.
	Look at how they treated Bush.
	But you die.
	They may even say a nice thing or two about you or me.
	Who knows?
	Not saying it now.
	I wouldn't go overboard.
	And I'm not children to wait in any expectation.
	But no, Senator McCain is a great example because Senator McCain got great press until he got the nomination.
	And then for four or five months, and I think I know he was just deeply hurt and frustrated because for four or five months, the left-wing media went after him and sided with Obama.
	And he thought these had all been his friends.
	And then it didn't work.
	They ended up doing everything they could to defeat him.
	But I think that's just part of it.
	And, you know, and I also do think, I mean, let's be clear, as much as you and I think that President Trump is a historic figure and is changing the country, from the standpoint of the elites, the country club set, President George H.W. Bush was just a, you know, a kinder and milder and nicer person.
	He fit naturally into that group.
	Look, he deserves all the credit.
	The Reaganomics, which he did call voodoo economics in the primary, but you know what?
	They got along great.
	The team of Reagan and Bush 41 was an amazing team.
	And you know what?
	All the things that we love, we cut taxes.
	21 million new jobs were created.
	Longest period of peacetime economic growth.
	And you want to talk about inheriting a bad economy.
	Nobody inherited a worse economy than Ronald Reagan and George Bush.
	But when it came time to take the gloves off and bludgeon George Herbert Walker Bush, you know, some of the people saying nice things today were nowhere to be found.
	They wanted him out then, just like they want Trump out now.
	By the way, that reminds me, one of the interesting side notes of where we are today.
	People on the left talk about, you know, Trump not being popular.
	He's at about 44% approval despite two years of overwhelmingly negative press coverage.
	Ronald Reagan in January of 1983 was at 35% approval.
	And the darling of the left, President Macron of France, is currently at 26% approval.
	So it just goes to show you sometimes the people see past the media.
	Well, you know, and look, there's sometimes the right people, right place, right time.
	I mean, I'm watching people now, this never Trumper crowd in particular, that they, they're so, they're with the leftists.
	They're with Schumer.
	They're with Pelosi.
	With, you know, Maxine and Peach 45 and get in their faces and follow them into grocery stores, et cetera.
	And I'm listening to them, and I'm like, these are people that wrote for longer than I've even been on radio, which is now my 30th year, about the need for lower taxes.
	Well, that's Trump.
	Conservative justices, originalists, that's Trump.
	Energy independence, that's Trump.
	Securing our borders, that's Trump.
	All of these accomplishments that he's had that you wrote about chronicled really well in your book.
	And not only that, peace through strength, that's Trump.
	Look at this.
	Despite everything they're trying to do with Mueller, notice he's been tougher with Putin.
	Trump or Obama?
	And it's clearly Trump.
	Trump has been much tougher with Putin than anybody else and gets zero credit for it from the left.
	What do you think of the president?
	Now, two things that I think happened that nobody's paying any attention to.
	One is the president was able to extract a number of concessions from the Chinese in exchange for not imposing new tariffs on Chinese goods, a major agreement while meeting with the world's leaders at the G20 in Argentina, but they spoke for two and a half hours longer than previously scheduled.
	Amazing and productive is how it was described.
	And, you know, immediately China began buying more agricultural products from America, along with a pledge to purchase more industrial and energy products.
	And also, it looks like a report that the Trump auto tariff tweet lifts the stocks and Beijing's been silent.
	But we have a better deal with our European allies.
	We have a better deal with NATO.
	People are now paying more of their fair share.
	We have a better deal with Canada and Mexico.
	Now a better deal with China.
	Oh, and by the way, the president's being tough with Iran.
	He's being tough with everybody in the Middle East, moving the embassy to Jerusalem.
	North Korea's obviously moved in quite a big direction, and you're right about Russia.
	This is unprecedented movement by, yeah, somebody that's a disruptor, a little bit louder and breaks some dishes.
	So what?
	Well, no, not so what.
	That technique is working.
	Look, if he had not been as tough as he was with Kim Jong-il, I am confident that we would not be seeing any movement.
	If he hadn't been prepared, and this is very much the Trump model, if you read his book, The Art of the Deal, the Trump model is to be personally friendly while being very tough in negotiations and to keep the two separate.
	So he and Xi Jinping, I think, have actually developed a reasonably good personal relationship.
	Well, he has said to him, look, you know, you don't cut a deal.
	I'm just going to have to get tougher and tougher because I represent America and you have been ripping us off.
	And I think it was a clear signal that Xi Jinping decided it was very much not to their interest to get involved in a head-on knockdown, drag-out fight with the United States.
	I think that Trump's proven he's willing to engage in the fight.
	And if he didn't have believability, then there's no way NATO is going to step up and pay their fair share.
	We're paying 72 cents of every dollar in countries like Germany of making Putin rich again with energy deals.
	That's ridiculous.
	Right.
	Remember Russell.
	The book he wrote was The Art of the Deal, Not The Art of the Fight.
	He doesn't start a fight to have a fight.
	He starts a fight to move you to a position where you're going to get a better deal.
	But that's the whole thing.
	I've told many of my conservative friends who were so worried about trade issues with Donald Trump.
	I said he doesn't want a trade war.
	He doesn't want tariffs.
	What he wants is freer, fairer trade.
	And if you don't convince the people that you're negotiating with that you're going to walk, what's going to happen?
	They're never going to give in.
	And then the bad deals that have been accumulating over the years that cost the American taxpayers billions of dollars and jobs and opportunities.
	Guess what?
	Now we're getting them back.
	Now we have better trade deals.
	Now they're freer and fairer.
	No American president has negotiated as many economic deals in as many different countries as Trump did while he was a businessman.
	That's why you see Trump towers in places like Panama City.
	And, you know, we saw them, they're building a new Trump Tower down in Uruguay, which I think is now Eric's project.
	But, you know, so this is a guy who understands that you have to have, you have to understand the country you're negotiating with.
	You have to understand the local system.
	And you've got to figure out a deal that makes mutual profit.
	Because if you don't both gain something, in the long run, it's a bad deal.
	It's got to be win-win.
	Agree.
	Yeah.
	Let me ask you about.
	Yeah, go ahead.
	Go ahead.
	You're watching the issue of Robert Mueller.
	We're going to have a lot of news at the top later on in the program today, but you have some updates.
	One article came out today and actually suggesting that there's no end in sight.
	You know, the Cohn and Manafort developments, you know, that's going to keep Mueller's pro going deep into 2019.
	And I'm thinking, you've got to be kidding me.
	That there's never going to be, and now all the...
	I am writing a paper.
	This can...
	This came out of doing your TV show the other night.
	And I was trying to, this was right after the Cohen news.
	And I was trying to figure out how to put this in context because it is so nutty.
	And I finally concluded, and I'm writing a paper that we should rename this the Mueller Destroy Trump Project.
	This is not an investigation.
	This has nothing to do with an investigation.
	This is Mueller doing everything he can to destroy the president of the United States.
	And it's one of the reasons I made the point that Trump is more popular today than Reagan was at this point, and he is more popular today than Macron of France.
	And that there's no legitimate basis.
	By the way, the Harris poll had him at 48% the other day, last week.
	Okay.
	So here you have a guy who won constitutionally.
	48% of the country favors him despite two years of unending negative press.
	And Mueller has taken it upon himself as the agent of the establishment to destroy him.
	And there was a column written by somebody at the post that absolutely captured it when they pointed out that Trump thought he was going to Buenos Aires to a really positive event and that Mueller messed it up.
	And this person said, you know, Mueller does this over and over again deliberately.
	Well, that is such a total violation of our entire system.
	By what right does this guy go out of his to try to destroy the president of the United States?
	Well, look, I think you, and maybe there's only a handful of us that have seen through Mueller and his team from the get-go.
	I remember back a year ago, it was, oh, no, it's going to all be over right after Thanksgiving.
	It's done.
	Right after Christmas, right after the new year, right after March, right after April, right after the 4th.
	And I look at the team he hired.
	No, it's not.
	And I don't see anything that warrants the continuation of this at all.
	You know, when he was first appointed, I tweeted a very positive tweet based on his background, his record.
	And then I watched him hire people like Weissman, and every single person he hired was a left-wing cutthroat prosecutor.
	And I began to realize this guy was building a hunting party that anybody who doesn't believe me reads Sidney Powell's amazing book on lies.
	Licensed to lie about the Justice Department.
	Scary.
	And these guys, you know, I mean, Weiseland was described by one of the Justice Department people as a terror.
	And this was back involving a different case, the Arthur Anderson case, where the Supreme Court by 9-0 repudiated the prosecution, but in the process they had destroyed the company and put 85,000 people out of work.
	All true.
	These are the kind of guys we're dealing with.
	And I think I queued off with two people.
	Alan Bershowitz, the Harvard law professor, and Andy McCarthy, the former prosecutor for the Justice Department.
	And they both have been saying over and over again, where's the underlying crime?
	I mean, if you look at the things that Cohen lied about, and he shouldn't lie, and it's perfectly appropriate to punish people who lie to Congress or who lie under oath.
	So I'm not defending him at all.
	But you look at the underlying question, nothing that has been alleged about Trump was illegal.
	I got to let it go there, Mr. Speaker.
	Thank you.
	We appreciate your time as usual.
	Well said.
	Treated people with respect and dignity and put country ahead of party and self time and time again over his half century in public service, half century.
	Over the last two years, deviancy has continued being defined down by this current president, his cronies, his supporters, who love telling reporters that they don't care how deviant his behavior becomes.
	Let's see what happens at Wednesday's memorial service.
	My prediction is that Trump fakes more respect for a family whose unprecedented history of public service has repeatedly belittled.
	Then he goes back to making a mockery of the very office George Bush and this nation long revered.
	Just as President Bush's character was set even during his earliest days at Andover with the stories that you all have told, Donald Trump remains the man, think about this, the man he was while avoiding the draft, and then telling Howard Stern on the radio that sleeping around with women in New York City while avoiding sexual diseases was his own personal Vietnam.
	He said that.
	As is always the case, the presidency does not shape character.
	It reveals it in a raw fashion.
	And that is why we celebrate George H.W. Bush's legacy and fear the next two years of Mr. Trump's wild White House riot.
	I want to say one thing about him that was not picked up really because as a candidate, he said, those who think we're powerless to do anything about the greenhouse effect are forgetting about the White House effect.
	And then he signed into law the Clean Air Act amendment of 1990, one of the most sweeping environmental statutes ever.
	This president that we have now is trying to unravel everything that he did and Obama did.
	And if I ever become a one-issue voter, it will be about pollution and the greenhouse effect.
	Can we focus on the president, please?
	I don't want to talk about Trump presidential.
	Please, I want to talk about it, but we're just honoring, but I'm not interested in your one-issue.
	I don't care what you're doing.
	I'm interested in that way.
	Another great moment, I guess, on the view.
	25 now until the top of the hour, 800-941.
	Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, Ari Fleischer is with us.
	Of course, he was the White House press secretary under President George W. Bush, Bush 43.
	And he joins us.
	He wrote a column today that really captured my attention, and I agree with it wholeheartedly.
	It is amazing how short people's memories are.
	And the same thing happened with President Reagan.
	For eight years, Democrats bludgeoned him.
	And in death, they say just the opposite.
	You know, remember Iran-Contra?
	Remember all that they said?
	You know, they mocked the fact that George Herbert Walker Bush, they said, we got to get this deal done.
	He made a deal with Democrats that did raise taxes, and they bludgeoned him with that, even though that's what they wanted.
	And now in death, what do we have here?
	The media's love for George H.W. Bush that didn't exist when it mattered, when he was alive, when he was president, is more about hatred for Donald Trump, as you just heard.
	Harry Fleischer, how are you, sir?
	Great to be with you, Sean.
	You know, look, for me, well, let's go into the analysis that you have, that the media, Democrats, their praise of George Herbert Walker Bush.
	And by the way, the man deserves nothing but praise.
	His whole life was about service to his country from a young age, ambassador to China, CIA director, loyal, wonderful VP for eight years, president for four years.
	And I'm listening to the people that bludgeoned him all 12 years that he was in D.C. in that capacity.
	And, you know, now he's the greatest guy that ever lived because the guy we have now is horrible.
	You nailed it, Sean.
	And, you know, Charles Hurd, who wrote that op-ed piece, nailed it.
	And I totally agree with it.
	Here's the problem.
	And I lived through the Bush years when I was a presser here on Capitol Hill in Washington.
	The press back then crucified George H.W. Bush for the very things they're today praising him for.
	They called him patrician.
	They called him out of touch.
	They called him part of the old noblesse oblige that is part of an era long gone by.
	Today, in his death, now they are praising the things that they back then used as a hammer to talk about how out of touch he was, including the New York Times story about him not even knowing how to read a cash register at a supermarket.
	Yeah, you remember that part of him being out of touch.
	And now you would have everybody believe, and I'm glad they're covering him like this today.
	I wish they only did it when he was in office.
	What a decent, good man he is who represents some of the highest ideals of America about service, noblesse oblige, and giving to your country.
	Now they praise him for it.
	You know, it's funny because I noticed the same thing happened with John McCain.
	If you go back in John McCain's political run, you know, and it's interesting from my perspective also, because when John McCain came back after he'd had his surgery, and by the way, which I thought was an act of courage and bravery and the five years he spent in Vietnam, I can't do anything but praise a man that had an opportunity to leave because of his name and didn't and had bones broken in five long years.
	I mean, it's heroic.
	There's nothing, there's no other way to describe it, but I supported him and went to battle for him as hard as I could when he was running because I believed, and I still believe today, he would have been a far superior president than what Barack Obama was and what he represented.
	And I think the truth bears out that I was pretty right about Obama being a pretty radical, left-wing, indoctrinated leftist, and he's going to stick to those policies.
	And he didn't show the trajectory of growth, for example, that I think Clinton showed at times in his presidency.
	But the point is, then John McCain goes back and he bludgeons conservatives, those people on talk radio and cable news to hell with them.
	He actually said those words, but he kind of liked us when he was running.
	But I never thought it was personal.
	And then all these accolades coming from the people that called him a racist in that campaign.
	That's right.
	And everything else in between.
	And I'm like, wow.
	I mean, how things are reversed.
	And they'll do the same thing now with Mitt Romney.
	They were terrible to Mitt Romney when he ran for president.
	And not to project that, but when Mitt Romney is no longer with us, they're going to praise Mitt Romney for these same reasons.
	Look, Sean, I come from Bush World.
	I come from establishment politics.
	I'm much closer, as you know, to that way of thinking than I am to the Donald Trump way of thinking.
	But I walk in both worlds with my eyes open, and here's what I say.
	One of the big reasons that the American people, particularly Republican Party, rose up and wanted a Donald Trump is because they were sick and tired of people who weren't able to fight back.
	There's a graciousness of Republicanism.
	It was represented by George H.W. Bush, John McCain, Mitt Romney, my old boss, George W. Bush, not to the same degree as his father, because George W. Bush was a bit more of a punchback, willing to punch and engage and fight than his father.
	But one of the things I hear all the time from Republicans is that Donald Trump at least fights.
	He knows the press will never be fair, never give you a fair shake, and so he'll fight back.
	And if only you Bushies had done that.
	I hear that all the time from people.
	By the way, that's interesting you said, because I hear that all the time, too.
	And then on the other side of it, people are saying, well, could he fight just a little bit less?
	And I think that's valid as well, Sean.
	I mean, there's a hand on a dial here, isn't there?
	How much do you fight to be the best fighter and to be the most effective?
	And we can argue about where the hand on the dial belongs.
	But the point I'm making is Republicans know that the press will go after Republicans with everything they got when it counts, when they're in office.
	And they're not fooled when the press then starts to praise you after you're gone and it's too late.
	We know that about the press.
	You know, you're bringing up a lot of great points here.
	And you're saying, you see, as a conservative, I've often been so disappointed, not with the Bushes as much as with Republicans in Congress for not having even the health care promise, the 65 votes to repeal or replace health care when it doesn't matter.
	And then when it matters, about 100 of them in the House were nowhere to be found.
	They never really had the intention of doing the hard work.
	Or in 2015, you know, they're in the Senate and they're willing to repeal only Obamacare.
	But when it mattered two years later, they weren't willing to do it.
	Seven of them changed their votes on the exact same language.
	And that's why I'm a registered conservative.
	I think that, you know, different times call for different things.
	And I think that, you know, in many ways, the establishment side of the Republican Party, and I'm a registered conservative, has they created Donald Trump.
	No question about it.
	There's no question about it.
	Different times call for different things.
	And that's true for just the history of our country.
	We react to the era we're in.
	We learn lessons from it.
	We move to a slightly different era or a largely different era.
	And maybe sometimes we swing back.
	We've always been like that because we're a self-correcting democracy.
	But the broader point here goes back to George H.W. Bush.
	He was gracious.
	He was decent.
	He was kind.
	And the press never covered him that way in life.
	By the way, that's all true.
	And then, by the way, the same, I always love 43.
	I thought to this day, I think that he was the right guy to deal with 9-11.
	Yeah.
	And look at how they bludgeoned him over 9-11.
	I mean, it was awful at times.
	And not saying that he made every right decision thereafter.
	And we can look back in history and maybe had we known things, if we could see the future, we'd make different decisions.
	Here's what I want to understand, though, because you're right in all your observations.
	How is it, though, Donald Trump, if we put style aside, Donald Trump on justices and judges, Donald Trump on tax cuts, Donald Trump on eliminating burdensome regulation, Donald Trump on issues like energy independence.
	We're now pretty much an energy independent country if we want to be on the borders on the concept of peace through strength.
	A guy that puts America first, and we've got to get our own house in order if we really want to help other people around the world.
	And we don't exactly always, we don't have every American working yet, but we're getting there.
	These principles work, and people that said their whole political lives as pundits or writers or observers of politics that say they're Republican conservative, they hate him only over style and will never even acknowledge that what he is doing is the very things that they advocated for, in some cases, 20 or 30 years.
	Well, there's a simple answer to that, Sean.
	Presidents get graded on two levels.
	One is substance, what they do, but the other is symbolic.
	And the symbolism of who represents our country is tremendously important to many people.
	And that symbolism represents a lot of dreams, hopes, wishes, and the embodiment of personal values and virtues that people want to extend into that one person who represents the entire country.
	And that's the symbolic area of the office where it comes down to the president's fight and the way he goes after his opponents, the words he uses, Charlottesville.
	Those type of symbols that people look to the president to be the leader of all Americans for.
	And given the press's animosity to President Trump, it's doubly hard for President Trump.
	But I'm with you on substantively.
	We can't see anybody making an intellectual argument against what President Trump has done.
	You see, this is where I...
	But you really stand out, though.
	I mean, you have made an effort to study and understand Donald Trump.
	I really believe that.
	And I'm sure you wince at times at maybe something that he tweets out or a shot that he takes or whatever.
	But at the end of the day, for me, I care too much about the people of the country.
	And if you've got to break a few dishes and offend a few people to get things done that weren't getting done and to, you know, four and a half million new jobs are created.
	We have eight million fewer people on food stamps and in poverty in America.
	I care more about them than I do about the feelings of the media or maybe some establishment Republicans because that's not their way of getting it done when, frankly, they didn't get it done.
	Well, and this is why I've never been a never Trumper.
	I've always gone into this with my eyes open and trying to be a good analyst as opposed to an advocate.
	And I'm willing to call it the way I see it.
	If I think the president's gone too far and says something that is hurtful, I will call him on it.
	Such as when President Trump made fun of President George H.W. Bush over points of light.
	I said back then, I don't mind that President Trump's a fighter.
	I do mind that he can be rude.
	I didn't like that.
	I'll praise President Trump when he deserves praise, just as he did at the G20 and what he's accomplishing with China, which is monumental.
	Monumental.
	Well, and North Korea.
	Stay right there.
	I don't mean to interrupt you.
	We'll pick it up on that point.
	Ari Fleischer is with us, media consultant, also White House press secretary under President George W. Bush, 43.
	As we continue, we really have, I had a great interview with both 41 and 43 together.
	And this only happened twice now in American history where father and son become president.
	Amazing interview.
	I will say this, the love that they clearly have for each other is inspiring.
	It's a father-son relationship from my perspective on the highest level imaginable.
	Right, as we continue, Ari Fleischer is with us, remembering George Herbert Walker Bush.
	Have you spoken to the Bush family, anybody, 43?
	I haven't.
	I was with former President George W. Bush about two months ago, and it's interesting because I asked him how his dad was doing, and he didn't give a direct answer to the question.
	He talked about his mom and what her death meant.
	But I have not spoken to him since.
	Yeah.
	Well, he's getting the treatment that he deserves.
	And I know that the president is expected, I guess, tonight, I think during my hour, to actually go over to the Capitol Rotunda where he will pay his respects.
	I'm sure the First Lady will be with him.
	Ari Fleischer, thanks so much for being with us.
	We appreciate it.
	And listen to my Don't C, have a great holiday, and we'll talk soon.
	Same to you, Sean.
	All the best.
	All right, 800-941-Sean, toll-free telephone number.
	You want to be a part of the program.
	Why is Comey's lawyers now putting out legal challenges to squash congressional subpoenas?
	Is James Comey in any legal jeopardy?
	We'll get into that.
	David Shoan, Greg Jarrett, and we'll get a lot of your calls.
	And I'm going to get back to my Santa bad teacher story, which is so outrageous, it makes my blood boil.
	How do you tell kids at five years old, oh, that Santa Claus doesn't exist?
	None of that's true.
	What is wrong with people?
	Quick break, right back.
	We'll continue.
	Stay right here for our final news roundup and information overload.
	President tweeted on Friday after I got fired that I better hope there's not tapes.
	I woke up in the middle of the night on Monday night because it didn't dawn on me originally that there might be corroboration for our conversation.
	There might be a tape.
	And my judgment was I needed to get that out into the public square.
	And so I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter.
	Didn't do it myself for a variety of reasons, but I asked him to because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel.
	Unbelievable.
	A lot of news on the front as it relates to the deep state.
	Why was the FBI director he had a legal challenge that he ended up withdrawing, seeking to quash a congressional subpoena that would compel him to testify in secret about the Bureau's decisions on the investigations ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
	More specifically, I'm sure it has to do with the fact that they changed the actual wording.
	They were writing an exoneration in May, early May 2016 to Hillary Clinton, the server that she had in a mom-and-pop shop bathroom closet.
	He had the one with top secret classified special access program information on it, which is a clear violation of the Espionage Act.
	I mean, if Paul Manafort's going to get in trouble for, you know, putting false information on a loan application, and Papadopoulos is going to go to jail for two weeks for lying to the FBI and a 30-plus-year military servant, Lieutenant General Flynn, if he's going to go to jail for God knows how long, and he has to plead to lying to the FBI when the FBI didn't think he lied, then I'm thinking that maybe Comey has to answer for why did you let her off the hook?
	And how many other Americans get away with, oh, let's delete the emails, bleach pit the hard drives, and beat the crap out of the devices so that we don't have to comply with a congressional subpoena.
	Anyway, so Comey finally agrees to sit down.
	We have Jerome Corsi, who spent an hour with us last week earlier today filing a criminal and ethics complaint against Robert Mueller and his team, accusing the investigators of trying to bully him into giving false testimony, which gets to the heart of what we call the Sammy the Bull Gravano.
	You tell us what we want and we're going to get you a get out of jail free card.
	And that is a very scary scenario for the rest of the world, in my opinion.
	We can't have, oh, we'll bribe you.
	And Juliani is now accusing Mueller of pressuring witnesses to lie, which is exactly what's happening.
	Anyway, joining us to get to the latest developments on all this, David Schoen, civil liberties attorney, criminal rights, criminal defense attorney, Greg Jarrett, Fox News legal analyst, author of the number one bestseller, The Russia Hoax.
	Welcome both of you.
	Let's start with you, Greg, and let's talk about Comey and his decision and withdrawing his legal challenge.
	What do you think is going on?
	Well, Comey is a crafty and cunning guy.
	He's as slippery as an eel.
	And look at what he's done.
	He twisted the law to clear Hillary Clinton when he knew she committed crimes.
	Then he launched an investigation of Trump without evidence.
	Then he lied to a FISA court to spy on a Trump associate.
	Then he stole government documents and leaked them to the media to trigger the special counsel, who's his pal.
	And then he continuously has given deceptive answers to Congress.
	You know, if anybody should be charged with making a false or misleading statement, it should be Comey 10 times over.
	So it'll be interesting to see how he holds up under cross-examination in front of Congress, and we'll know the results within 24 hours.
	In a radio interview on Sunday, Giuliani accused Robert Mueller, David Schoen, of pressuring witnesses to lie.
	Now, that pretty much is what was described in detail on this program by Jerome Corsi.
	Both Jerome Corsi and Roger Stone have repeated to me that they never, ever in their lives, ever, had any contact with WikiLeaks, a representative of WikiLeaks, a third party associated with Wikileaks, or Julian Assange.
	Now, if that's the case, if they're sending emails back and forth and wondering what else Wikileaks might have, which was, frankly, the widespread speculation after the DNC emails dropped, would that be a crime?
	Is that something nefarious?
	Is that anything outside of the ordinary when it comes to politics, especially when you compare it to Hillary Clinton, you know, hiring a foreign national to put together a dossier full of Russian lies that were fed to the American people and used to bludgeon Donald Trump?
	Right.
	You're 100% right.
	Listen, the underlying issue here that you've put your finger on is absolutely huge.
	This Jerome Corsi thing is sensational, frankly.
	I don't know that it'll go anyplace.
	If they indict and there's an ongoing criminal case, then it's going to be very difficult and they're going to be hesitant to interfere with that.
	On the other hand, because it's an ethics complaint, clearly the Justice Department could do something.
	This is where the overseer of the special counsel must act.
	You have Whitaker in there now.
	He has the authority and I would say even the obligation to act.
	When he learns about this kind of conduct, which was completely to be expected when you have a team of people like Mueller, Weissman, Andres, Re, et cetera, this has been their M.O. throughout their careers.
	Tell us what we want, you get off.
	Don't tell us what we want, you're going to have more trouble than you ever could have imagined.
	That's not about getting it.
	But let me just add some context to that.
	That is exactly what Jerome Corsi told us, David, this week.
	He said that he was told exactly what they wanted him to say.
	Now he's 72 years old, and he knows he's risking potentially his life in jail.
	By the way, so is Paul Manafort.
	I don't know, but how old is Manafort?
	He's got to be close to 70, right?
	So Manafort comes up with a cooperation deal after he had the partial convictions in the one trial that took place to avoid the other trial.
	And now we hear that Mueller is just out for blood.
	I mean, how many years do you want to put Manafort in jail?
	You want to guarantee that he dies in jail because of taxes and a bank loan fraud?
	I mean, if that's what the penalty is, I guess that's what he's going to get.
	It's called the justice system.
	This is a complete injustice.
	Nobody out there believes that this is how they operate day to day.
	I'm telling you, this is what these people have made a career of doing in the run-of-the-mill cases that don't get the attention this is getting.
	Nobody's done much in the past what Corsi has done now.
	He's at least putting it out there, whether it goes any place or not.
	He's putting it out there.
	And I believe within the Justice Department, they have an obligation to find out if this is happening.
	You know that it is, and to rein it in immediately and to stop the special counsel from doing this or get rid of them.
	Well, we've been saying it for a long time.
	Now, I'm assuming here, there was an article that came out, no end in sight, Cone Manafort developments seen as keeping Mueller probe going well into 2019.
	So I guess now we've got a two-year process in this, Greg Jarrett.
	But yet, you know, people ask me, well, why do you keep bringing up Hillary Clinton?
	Because, well, if you don't, Hillary Clinton, who pays for Russian lies that are disseminated by top intelligence officials within our government to the American people before the election and then used to commit fraud to get warrants to spy on a Trump campaign associate, and they don't do the proper vetting and corroboration, then that's fraud on the FISA court four separate times.
	And then when it's used in a media leak strategy as part of an insurance policy by top FBI people that think that Hillary should win $100 million to zero and were also involved in her exoneration before investigation, I'm thinking that it's pretty relevant if we're going to consider principles of equal justice under the law and equal application of our laws.
	The only collusion with Russia involved Hillary Clinton.
	Clinton paid for Russian information, fed it to the FBI and the Department of Justice, who used it to launch an investigation fraudulently and in violation of their regulations, and then used it to spy on a Trump associate.
	Yet there is no investigation that we're aware of, no legitimate investigation of Hillary Clinton, Fusion GPS, Christopher Steele, James Comey, and the whole gang of corrupt individuals at the FBI and the Department of Justice.
	And yet, juxtaposed the investigation of Trump.
	There's no evidence that he ever colluded or had an agreement of conspiracy or coordination with Russians to win the election.
	No.
	But there are two tracks, though, that Mueller is obviously taking.
	If they can tie anybody that knows Donald Trump, whether they communicated with him or not, and in the case of Roger Stone, he said absolutely not, that they can somehow tie him to some knowledge of the WikiLeaks release.
	Well, if Donald Trump didn't steal it and Donald Trump didn't conspire to steal it, my reading of the Pentagon Papers ruling and 6-3 Supreme Court decision is that they would have as much right to get that information as the New York Times has a right to get it and print it.
	Coursey did exactly what I did.
	I reached out to Wikileaks and Julian Assange to get more information.
	Did you get it?
	I had no crime to do that.
	No, I got nowhere, like hundreds of journalists.
	I agree with David that what you're doing.
	By the way, I don't mean to brag, but I got somewhere.
	I got an interview.
	I got a radio and TV interview.
	You're the only one who got anywhere.
	I'm not bragging or anything.
	I'm just saying.
	But Jerome Coursey has now laid out a complaint with the Department of Justice that Mueller trying to get him to sign on to a lie, to agree to a narrative that Mueller has conjured out of thin air of Trump-Russian collusion.
	And Coursey won't do it.
	He said, I'm not going to lie about this.
	And apparently, Manafort is doing the same thing.
	This is test the line.
	It's bribery, it's extortion, intimidation, threats, and judicial bullying.
	And the person who should be held responsible is Robert Mueller and his team of partisans.
	Well, if that's the case, and, you know, it is bribery.
	It is a thing of value.
	And I understand prosecutorial discretion, but there's a difference.
	You know, when you see a person and you go looking for a crime here and you're willing to say to a guy that is going to jail, maybe for the rest of their life, you tell us what we want, and we're going to take that jail issue away for you.
	That's a pretty large incentive for most people.
	What do you want me to say?
	Okay, I'm Sammy the Bull.
	I murdered, what, 19 people?
	David, you do these cases.
	He murdered 19 people, but he testifies against Gotti and some other top mob guys, and he gets a witness protection program house in Arizona.
	Pretty good deal.
	No jail time for 19 murders or time served when he was first caught.
	Listen, legitimately, it is called obstruction of justice.
	You don't see it prosecuted because all of these folks are in it together.
	On the state level, you know, the state DA is elected, and they all work together, et cetera.
	You have an opportunity now to really send a message.
	Again, Whitaker, under the special regulations, under special counsel regulations, has an obligation to oversee all of this and to rein him in.
	Specifically, the regulations provide for him to call back conduct that's inappropriate and to report that then to Congress.
	This is an opportunity now.
	He's independent from Mueller.
	That's, you know, the nature of it by definition.
	And when he hears about this happening, he must investigate.
	He must take action.
	Even if the courts try to stop it because it's interfering with a case against Coursey, Whitaker has an independent obligation to get into it.
	Well, there's a story out today that Mark Warner, the Democrat from Virginia, and that he has sent a number of referrals to Bob Mueller.
	And he said this in a Sunday interview, and it signals: you know, quote: If you lie to Congress, and I'm your chairman, Chairman Burr on Friday said, if you lie to Congress, we're going after you.
	Now, I had a whole list of people that had lied to Congress that have gotten away from it, gotten away with it time after time.
	The only person I know that's ever been held accountable is Michael Cohen.
	Yeah, and by the way, you know, Christopher Steele, who phonied up this dossier that was used to damage Trump, the whole pretext for the investigation of Trump.
	He lied to the FBI agents.
	Why isn't there an outstanding indictment and order for extradition for Christopher Steele?
	Why?
	He lied to the FBI when he said, I never talked to the media.
	Clearly, he did talk to the media about the dossier.
	He and Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson were feeding this.
	Simpson, by the way, has taken the fifth against self-incrimination.
	And so why aren't there charges and prosecutions and indictments against these individuals?
	Why hasn't this been presented to a grand jury?
	Stay right there.
	Greg Jarrett.
	David Schoen on the other side.
	I'm going to get back to this issue of this teacher corruption that is now abounds everywhere, sadly, in just a minute.
	And as we continue with David Schoen and Greg Jarrett, I only have about 30 seconds left each, and we're going to get to calls.
	And by the way, teachers telling five-year-olds that Santa doesn't exist.
	Do you think both Warner and Burr really mean it for those people that we know that lied to Congress, Greg?
	Are they really going to bring in all those Clinton people and charge them?
	I doubt it.
	No, of course not.
	No, they never will.
	Hillary Clinton gave deceptive answers on numerous occasions under oath.
	She deceived the FBI during her interview.
	She'll never be held accountable unless there is a new appointed and confirmed attorney general like a John Radcliffe, who's a congressman from Texas.
	He would clean house and hold those accountable.
	Why do you have so much confidence in him?
	All right, well, let me give David the last 30.
	We'll talk about that later.
	What do you think?
	Are all these people going to be held accountable?
	Because I doubt it.
	It seems the Clintons, we have a two-tier justice system, David.
	Absolutely, and they absolutely will not be held accountable by that Congress.
	Listen, we saw it with when Strook when he testified, people like Jerry Nadler made him out to be a hero.
	They're not looking for the truth.
	Let me say this: this Comey situation offers a great opportunity.
	They have to be prepared this time.
	They had Struok making them look like monkeys last time.
	They must be prepared to ask him the tough questions.
	He has a lot to answer for Comey, and he can't make it a circus in public like he wants to do.
	Get him under oath and lock him in.
	Have some people who know how to ask questions asking him the question.
	Even the IG noted Comey's conduct in the slow-rolling the Wiener laptop business, all of those kinds of things.
	The leaks, the leaks.
	Listen, I hope it happens, but I'm going to be honest, I don't have a lot of confidence.
	All right, David, thank you.
	And happy Hanukkah, my friend, by the way.
	And Greg, thank you.
	And happy holidays to everybody.
	Merry Christmas to everybody, too.
	800-941-Sean, tollfrey telephone number.
	Quick break, right back.
	Your calls.
	Yeah, they're trying to tell five-year-olds now in school Santa doesn't exist.
	Really?
	You want to take all fun out of kids' lives completely?
	They can't keep scored.
	Now they can't do this.
	Can't play dodgeball.
	Somebody might get hit.
	All right, 25 now to the top of the hour.
	800-941-Sean toll free telephone number.
	I'm going to get to your calls here, the story I mentioned earlier.
	By the way, little disclaimer here: if you have kids in the car, you may want to monitor the volume a little bit as you drive because we're talking about a teacher that said some really dumb things to five and six-year-olds.
	Can you believe this teacher in New Jersey?
	I mean, it's Cedar Hill Elementary School.
	And, you know, you got this New Jersey substitute teacher.
	These are five and six-year-olds.
	And she's telling them Santa doesn't exist.
	Santa Claus doesn't exist.
	And his reindeer aren't real.
	And it gets worse.
	She goes on and on and unleashing on five and six-year-old kids.
	Santa isn't real.
	And parents are the ones that put the presents under the tree.
	She tells them reindeer can't fly.
	Elves aren't real.
	Elf on the shelf is just a pretend all that your parents move around.
	And the tooth fairy's not real.
	Mom and dad sneak into your room in the middle of the night and put money under your pillow.
	The Easter bunny's not real.
	Magic doesn't exist.
	There's no such thing as magic.
	This is a grown woman.
	You know, why do people think that they have the right in school teachers, in this case, five and six-year-olds, that they can contradict values of parents?
	Because most parents want their kids to enjoy the anticipation, the excitement, the fun of Christmas and that season and Santa Claus.
	And some of the kids, to their credit, they didn't believe the teacher.
	You know, some did.
	My granddaughter came home yesterday and told me, Mimi, Santa Claus isn't real.
	And I flipped out, the woman recalled.
	I had to explain to her, Santa's real.
	She said, of course, Santa is real.
	Anyway, so I don't know why people want to take people's joy away all the time.
	All right, before we get to your calls on this, 800-941 Sean, I think the other great story of the day, too, is Al Sharpton's National Action Network.
	Al Sharpton actually, he gave himself $500 and I thought, $31,000 to give his life story rights for a 10-year period to his nonprofit in his latest tax filing.
	Oh, man, I got to pull this one off.
	You know, this is sort of like Hillary.
	Don't try this at home.
	Don't try subpoenaed email deletions and bleach bit on your hard drive or busting up devices.
	Before we do that, I want to just tell you, I picked up a novel.
	So I work with wonderful people, the best people ever in radio.
	I have the best team I've ever had in all my years at Fox.
	And for many people, I'm literally worked with me 20 plus years.
	And you get to know people and I just have the best teams everywhere.
	And one guy is a really, he works over at Fox with me.
	His name is Deion.
	And he actually wrote this book.
	And I picked up the book and I was blown away because it's called Blood in the Streets.
	It's over the course of seven days in New Haven in the 70s with a veteran homicide detective by the name of Frank Suchi, gradually losing his grip on sanity and sobriety while he's investigating the murder of his best friend's child.
	And he tells this whole story.
	I couldn't put the book down.
	And what even shocked me more is the nice thing.
	Why did you say all these nice things about me in the book?
	There's a lot of people that really hate Hannity, but he's really not that bad in real life.
	Dion is with us.
	How are you?
	Good, Sean.
	How are you, Uncle Sean?
	How's everything?
	Thank you for having me on.
	It's great to have you.
	I couldn't put the book down.
	So I work with all these talented people at Fox.
	And now you've done some acting work in the past, correct?
	You've been on Neil Cavuto's show as another friend, a mutual friend of ours, right?
	Yeah, that's correct.
	Yeah, I was going on Neil's show, helping him to demand Fox Business Network starting back in 2011.
	And then I graduated to like a panel position on his Friday show he occasionally does.
	But yeah, I've been working with you, and it's so funny.
	I like to jokingly refer to you as the big brother I've never had.
	Oh, yeah, you do every day.
	I refer to me.
	Yeah, and you jokingly refer to me as a little brother you never wanted.
	Exactly.
	Well, I've got to say this.
	I'm very proud of you because the book is great.
	We're going to put it up on our website, and I wanted to give it a plug, but go ahead.
	What do you want to say?
	Oh, no, I just want to, you know, I love telling people how awesome you are, and it just sometimes I just don't like the raw deal you sometimes get.
	And I wish the stories of how nice of a person you are and how good you are to your friends and to your coworkers, you know, would get out there more.
	You know, I just.
	You're just saying that because I have pizza day once a week.
	That's the only reason you're saying that.
	Yeah, well, I mean, going on 16 years working with you day in, day out, it's great to see this side of the world of, you know, I'm usually just at the TV show with you.
	I never get to see you on this side on the radio show.
	It's really exciting.
	Yeah, the book is Blood in the Streets.
	It's out tomorrow.
	It's a historical fiction, a thriller that I've written.
	It started, I wrote it as a screenplay.
	It started it back in 2003, and it's taken me 16 years to get the thing out.
	And in 2012, I finally turned it into a book, and I'm finally getting it out there.
	So, you know, it's been a long road for me to get this out to pasture and get it to the market.
	By the way, it's a true, you wrote in the acknowledgements that, you know, talking about me, you can literally ring Hannity up at 3 a.m. and say, I need 10 grand for bail money.
	And his only question would be, where do I send it?
	It's true.
	It's probably true.
	Yeah, it's, you know, just how great of a guy.
	I mean, we work in a business where people can be, you know, sometimes not that mean or they can have, or not that nice, and they can have a persona where they're very nice on TV, but then they're quite different to the people they work with day to day.
	And you're one of those exemptions where you're nice on and off.
	And it's just except when you grab my back.
	I can't stand.
	We have to give a context to that because that sounds awkward.
	Yeah, I do audio, so I put the microphone and the earpiece on them every day.
	And sometimes, you know, Sean will be running in and he'll have other things on his mind, and I'm getting there trying to wire him up.
	And then, you know, if something doesn't go right, you know, you've got your mind on other matters.
	So sometimes you just don't want to be, you know, I just don't like to be.
	There's two things that are really sensitive in my life.
	Number one, my hearing is so shocked from 30 years of radio.
	If anyone like pulls in my ear, I'm like, oh, it's just the worst feeling.
	And then the other one is, you know, somebody groping your back instead of just, you know, having a system where we have now where it just takes two seconds and it's done.
	Yeah, and it took a while for us to get that down.
	But yeah, you know, it's just, it's, it's all good.
	It's great to work with you day in and day out.
	It's very nice.
	Well, I'm really proud of you.
	And by the way, this is a 16-year labor of love, and it's called Blood in the Streets.
	We're going to put his book on Hannity.com.
	You can get it on Amazon.com.
	Dion, we're proud of you.
	We'll see you tonight.
	Thank you, my friend.
	Sean, thank you so very much for everything.
	Thank you.
	All right, 800-941-Sean Tollfrey telephone number.
	All right, let's get to our busy telephones here.
	Allison, Louisiana.
	Allison, hi.
	Glad you're patient.
	Thanks for calling.
	Merry Christmas.
	Happy New Year.
	Happy Hanukkah.
	I think we can say it all.
	Yes.
	Merry Christmas to you, Sean.
	And it's quite an honor.
	You're very talented at what you do, and I appreciate you keeping us informed.
	Well, I'm glad to do it.
	It's my honor every day to have this microphone.
	Can you believe this teacher?
	Is this unbelievable?
	I'm sad to say I'm not as shocked as I would have been a few years ago, but after the whole Rudolph incidents and taking certain Christmas songs off the air, I just, yeah, I guess for a five-year-old, it's a little extreme, but yeah, it's crazy.
	They shouldn't do it.
	It's a parent's job to teach the traditions they want their children to have and to grow up with.
	It's not a teacher's and definitely not a substitute teacher's job.
	Yeah, look, you know, it just is, it's like for a five-year-old kid, this is like Santa.
	You know, they're just at the age where they're realizing that, oh my gosh, once a year, this guy in a, you know, a real, real heavy guy in a big red suit with a big white beard and a nice hat and reindeer with Rudolph leading the way, you know, flies and they're going to come down my chimney and they're going to, and they're going to put presents under the tree.
	And if I've been a bad boy or a good boy or a good girl or a bad girl, you know, I might get cold or whatever.
	And it's unbelievable that this is what teachers do, though.
	They have a captive audience and many of them indoctrinate.
	They don't teach.
	And the idea that they feel that they have a right somehow to abandon a mission of reading, writing, and arithmetic, of which they're not doing great in themselves in terms of where we pay more money per capita per student per education with some of the worst results.
	And you have this unholy alliance with teachers unions and that protect bad teachers and the Democratic Party can't fire bad teachers.
	I mean, it's horrible.
	And now we're going to shatter kids' dreams.
	And then too bad for you if you don't like it.
	That's where you have one choice.
	Anyway, thank you, Allison.
	You know, you live in a state of New York, and let's say you're in Westchester County, the number one property tax county in the country, or you live in Nassau County, the number two property tax county in the country.
	And New York, forget it, real estate through the roof.
	And so you pay for these schools with these high property taxes, supposedly, and then all the lottery money that's supposed to go to education.
	And you have one choice because you're paying so much in taxes, then the idea of them putting another $40,000 down for a private education for your kids, then you're paying for schools you don't use, and then you're paying for on top of the high property taxes, you just get you coming and going.
	And then it doesn't matter what values you may have as a parent.
	They're not going to honor them.
	Unbelievable.
	Guy is in Maryland.
	Guy, hi, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Oh, hey, Sean.
	Thanks for taking my call.
	Hey, listen, Sean, that teacher was a total jackass.
	But listen, you can turn a negative into a positive.
	Listen to what my wife is starting to do.
	When people say that Santa Claus doesn't exist, she says, wait a minute, he definitely existed.
	We have his history.
	He gave presents.
	He did all this.
	But if he is passed on, now the parents have picked up and now the parents are doing the Santa Claus job.
	So that's what we've done to lighten the load when you have idiot teachers like that.
	The problem is it's at every level.
	I mean, it's in grammar school, grade school, high school.
	Now we're going after five-year-olds.
	Now we can contradict every value that parents want to instill in their kids.
	And still our kids can't read or write.
	I'm a teacher.
	And I'm telling you, education has moved so far to the left.
	And until we get the value education back into schools, it's never going to get better.
	You got to teach values first before you can straighten up education.
	Okay.
	There's no values.
	These people that these people that are running the show have no values.
	So how the heck are we expecting the kids to have values?
	You know?
	I mean, it's so true.
	Listen, I get it.
	But I will tell you, most parents don't agree with this.
	This whole war on Christmas, it is a war on Chris.
	Happy holidays.
	Right now is Hanukkah.
	I have so many of my friends.
	I have no problem calling them, hey, happy Hanukkah, you know, because and they'll, they'll tell me on Christmas, Merry Christmas.
	Then you got a bunch of other people that are so uptight that they might get something wrong that they say, oh, we can't, you can't say it in the store.
	Christmas, meanwhile, they have big Christmas savings, but they can't say their employees are forbidden from saying Merry Christmas.
	It's unbelievable.
	Back to our phones.
	Is it how do you say this?
	Kaya?
	What is okay?
	You're right, CJ, C-I-A-Y-E.
	CJ, how are you?
	You're on the Sean Hannity show.
	Hey.
	Hey, Hannity, it's CJ.
	I'm with that group, the deplorable choir that literally sing about Trump.
	I've called in before.
	I remember you calling in.
	Yeah.
	How you doing?
	You sing, I'm doing great.
	You sing the devil went down to Georgia to me, and it was like the highlight of my life.
	You know, it's funny because a lot of people said, What do you mean you don't know them?
	And I didn't.
	And I'm like, I'm sorry.
	I don't know everything.
	I'm trying my best.
	Hey, what's going on?
	How are you guys doing?
	Are you all doing all right?
	Oh, we're doing great.
	We're just like constantly trying to champion causes that we believe in.
	Like we make fools of ourselves singing on the internet.
	We might as well, you know, stick up for things we believe in, like Trump.
	And I called you actually to talk about the border wall.
	I heard all this stuff going on about Christmas, and I've just got like words in my head.
	But we're right now, we just did a song called Brick by Brick for the American Border Foundation.
	And I don't know if you or your listeners know about them, but we want the Border Wall Bill.
	Well, I love what you're doing.
	And you know what?
	Maybe we'll put a link on my website.
	I'm a little bit behind, CJ, but I will say this.
	It just irks me with all the tax money we pay and all the money that gets spent and all, you know, for all these countries, including those that, you know, where their citizens are not respecting our laws and sovereignty.
	And I'm just like, why?
	Why do I have to?
	I mean, I get it, and other people have suggested it to me, but I'm like, ugh, it just is wrong that government can't do their job.
	Securing our borders is their job.
	It's about national security more than anything else.
	And it's about the rule of law.
	And you have so many people literally now.
	We have aiding and abetting.
	States are aiding and abetting.
	Cities are aiding and abetting sanctuary cities, criminal activity.
	And there's no consequences.
	But if you're a Republican, you're going to be locked up.
	Don't do anything wrong.
	All right, Hannity tonight, Nine Eastern Fox News Channel as the casket now of 41.
	President George Herbert Walker Bush lies in state in the Capitol Rotunda.
	We expect President Trump, Alania, to be actually going over in my hour, 9 o'clock.
	And so we'll cover that live.
	The media literally, many of whom hated Reagan and Bush, and bludgeoned them.
	Oh, now he's the greatest thing in the world because then they can go after Trump.
	I mean, it is as sick and twisted and ugly as you would imagine.
	Well, the latest on the borders and much more.
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