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Dec. 27, 2018 - Sean Hannity Show

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	Hey, welcome to the Sean Hannity show.
	It's Mark Simone here for Sean.
	I'm on uh our big flagship station in New York, W O R along with Sean and uh Rush and all the great uh the number one talk station in the in the world, but uh here we are on the greatest radio show of all, the Sean Hannity Show.
	Sean taking a day off, he'll be back soon.
	Uh, we got lots to get to.
	There's breaking news all over the place.
	The president uh it turns out has made a surprise visit to Iraq.
	The Dow has stunned everybody by making a huge comeback.
	Now, this is all very bad news.
	I feel terrible.
	Uh, you know, these Democrats, it's getting tougher and tougher.
	It's two years in now.
	Uh, and again, all these Democrats sit around all day trying to figure out how to make the president look bad.
	And after uh you've come up with 1,700 uh scandals that fizzle and are forgotten about a day later and don't work and nobody cares about.
	It's so hard for them to come up with something.
	This endless campaign of uh what President Trump calls presidential harassment.
	It's a great term.
	Presidential harassment.
	So they worked really hard uh over Christmas.
	You know, it's tough because he's not you know, there's not a lot going on.
	You can't find a scandal to gin up.
	So they came up with uh he doesn't visit the troops.
	First president.
	You always hear this first president in ten years, first president in eighty years.
	First, they always got this first president.
	So this was the uh big scandal.
	They worked so hard on that.
	He's the first president not to visit the troops.
	Well, it turns out, and this is not in response to that.
	This is a visit that had been planned for some time.
	In fact, uh the reporters were starting to learn about it a day or two ago, but were sworn to secrecy, believe it or not, even the fake news kept it secret.
	So it was quite a secret visit to Iraq, flying over there, curtains drawn, lights off on the plane, obviously for security reasons, and the president visited the troops in uh in Iraq, spending a lot of time with them on Christmas, addressing a huge gathering of troops, then meeting individually with them, taking selfies with them, all of this stuff.
	So it completely screws up this latest democratic uh scandal narrative they came up with.
	So they had to go back to last week's uh fake scandal they've ginned up, which is that the Dow is crashing, the economy is crashing, we're going to a bear market.
	This was the big thing they had before that.
	And now the Dow comes roaring back today, up 600 points today.
	Completely screwing up that fake narrative.
	So I don't know what they're gonna do.
	I don't know what they're gonna come up come up with next.
	And you gotta feel bad for them.
	Uh they had their hopes pinned on Russia and Mueller and uh collusion and uh I think even uh most Democrats are starting to realize now.
	You know, it's uh it's a couple of years.
	If he was gonna find any collusion, he would have found it by now.
	So uh and they've expanded this investigation into everything.
	You know, uh every inch of everything Donald Trump has ever touched is now under investigation.
	They put that in big headlines in the fake news.
	Every organization Donald Trump has ever been involved with is now under investigation.
	I guess you're supposed to think, wow, he must be a bad guy if that's the case.
	No, actually, it's the opposite.
	It when you hear that, it means they can't find a darn thing.
	That's why they have to keep expanding and expanding this investigation.
	Anyway, we've got lots to get to today.
	got a lot of great guests coming up.
	We'll get to uh we'll get to Russia.
	We'll get to the stock market.
	We'll get to hey, there's a movie out.
	This is another democratic plot.
	We'll get to this.
	Uh we'll get to Ruth Brader Ginsburg.
	We'll get Kevin Spacey.
	Have you seen this?
	Very bizarre comeback he's trying to make.
	I don't know what the heck that's all about.
	We'll get to that coming up.
	And we'll get to the retail world.
	Is it dying?
	Is it retail sales strongest in 10 years?
	They've had a big season, but the retail stocks are dropping.
	Well, we'll get to why uh coming up.
	We'll get to the shutdown, of course.
	It's day five of the shutdown.
	I love a government shutdown.
	It is great.
	The only uh real danger with a shutdown is every time they reopen the government.
	So if it could just stay shut down, now what's going to happen here?
	And first of all, it's a shutdown.
	How come I'm on the Sunday shows?
	I'm seeing Schumer and uh was that beady-eyed little guy, Adam Schiff.
	If the government is shut down, why do I keep seeing these guys on my television?
	Adam Schiff, Chuck Schumer, Pelosi, respect the shutdown.
	Please stay home.
	It's Christmas.
	We don't need to see you right now.
	Here's what'll happen.
	Uh it's like, you know, they think Trump has uh painted himself into a corner.
	It's the other way around.
	Uh January 3rd is going to roll around.
	When is that?
	That's uh a week from today, right?
	Uh it'll probably stay shut down until then.
	They're not going to compromise, and he's not going to budge.
	But what's going to happen is January 3rd, they're supposed to take control of the House, and they've got four million hearings that are going to begin.
	They're going to investigate everything.
	They're going to investigate the Trump organization.
	They're going to investigate his tax returns.
	They're going to investigate uh.
	Oh, January 3rd is Thursday.
	Oh, it's a week from tomorrow.
	So here's the problem.
	With the government shut down, they're going to realize uh-oh, we can't hold any hearings.
	The government shut down.
	Then what are they going to do?
	You know, I say leave it shut down until 2020.
	That way there's no hearings, nothing.
	Now, listen, there's some people in the federal government.
	A lot of it is funded already.
	This is not a full shutdown.
	It's like a 20% shutdown.
	But if you look at it employee-wise, it's like a 14% shutdown.
	So you got to get those people paid.
	They're all paid, by the way.
	It's just they don't get their checks uh every week.
	They'll have to wait till the shutdown's over to get paid.
	But I bet they're looking into something right now, some way of getting them their money ahead of time.
	They don't lose any money, but obviously you don't want to wait weeks for your paycheck.
	So they'll, I bet they'll figure out something of that and just leave it shut down.
	Who needs it open?
	So uh and the other thing is, you know, when you see these Chuck Schumer types on television trying to terrify you with the idea of a government shutdown.
	It's not that terrifying.
	I mean, does he think we're that dumb?
	We've uh all been through in uh recent years 18 government shutdowns.
	It doesn't really affect a whole lot.
	Uh couple of memorials get closed down, the Jefferson Memorial is closed.
	You can still go look at it, but you can't walk inside.
	Here in New York, it means the Statue of Liberty is closed to visitors.
	You know, the Statue of Liberty, a lot of people go to the uh the Battery Park Fair and they look at the statue, but you could actually take a ferry and ride over there and go around the Statue of Liberty into the Statue of Liberty.
	So that that becomes closed.
	But what they did here in New York, they've decided to pay to keep it open.
	It costs, I forget some number, like 60,000 a week to keep it open.
	And it looks very generous on the part of the local officials that they've they're gonna chip in and keep it open.
	But it turns out it brings in millions in revenue.
	So that's the reason they're chipping in to keep it open.
	So it's not the worst thing to shut down.
	If it'll keep uh Congress home, it's probably a good thing.
	And again, we've had a lot of shutdowns in the past.
	Do you remember the last shutdown?
	No.
	Remember the one before it?
	No.
	It really wasn't much, didn't have much effect on your life.
	Uh so uh but again, these poor Democrats having to come up with a scandal a day.
	Uh they thought they had something there with Mattis.
	You know, that was that was big fake news.
	General Mattis out, this indicates total chaos in the administration.
	But I know they don't want to hear this, but if you look back, oh, wait a minute, President Obama fired Mattis too.
	In fact, when uh President Obama fired Mattis, it's quite humiliating.
	Mattis found out by watching television that he was fired.
	But they make it sound like if uh if you switch uh secretaries of defense, what?
	Uh what chaos?
	Uh they forget to remind you There was a period where Obama went through four secretaries of defense quickly, very fast, just kept switching secretaries of defense.
	It's not uh chaos.
	Uh Mattis, a good guy, but but he just disagreed with the president on everything.
	I mean, this is going back a year or two.
	He he even disagreed on the Paris Climate Accord.
	He didn't want to pull out.
	So they've been disagreeing all along.
	Uh Mattis is gone.
	Uh he had originally been recommended by General Jack Keene.
	That was first choice for Secretary of Defense.
	That's who President Trump wanted.
	General Jack Keeney went to Keene and asked him to take the job.
	Keene couldn't at the time.
	His wife was sick.
	He was having uh things to deal with his personal life.
	Just couldn't do it at the time.
	But he recommended Mattis.
	Mattis had been his number two guy for a long time.
	So that's how Mattis got in there.
	Hopefully, now that he's out, General Keene will consider taking the job.
	He'd be great.
	He also would get to the wall.
	I love these Democrats, these Schumers and Pelosi's, all over CNN, all over MSNBC, all over the fake news, New York Times, the Basis Post, all saying, you know, a wall doesn't work.
	Experts say a wall doesn't work.
	What experts say?
	Have you heard any experts say a wall doesn't work?
	Border Patrol says it works just fine.
	Have you ever heard of prison say, you know what, the walls aren't working.
	We're going to take them down.
	Every prison has a wall.
	It works just fine.
	Remember East Berlin when they had the wall?
	Boy, did that work.
	Nobody got out.
	That wall was great.
	In fact, it was so strong.
	Democrats, everybody kept yelling, tear down that wall.
	38 countries have a wall.
	Israel's got a wall that works just great.
	I mean, it's doing a phenomenal job.
	Obviously, walls work.
	Hey, if there's a Democrat listening, would you call me and explain to me this fear of walls?
	What is this wall hatred all about?
	I've never quite understood this.
	I know it's a symbolic of uh, you know, uh uh anti-illlegals, it prevents illegals from breaking into the country.
	But when uh Pelosi and Schumers are argue uh, you know, it's it's immoral, what is the actual argument against a wall?
	First of all, Democrats are always crying for infrastructure.
	This is infrastructure.
	It's a great infrastructure project.
	And at five billion dollars, it'd be one of the cheapest infrastructure products uh ever.
	You know, uh here in New York City, here in Manhattan, if you live around the country, this might not seem like a big crisis.
	But to these New York politicians, this is a crisis.
	We have uh two, we've got tunnels that go from uh Manhattan to New Jersey.
	There's the Lincoln Tunnel, there's the Holland Tunnel, and then there's also two railway tunnels.
	The trains come in under the Hudson River on the on a tunnel.
	So supposedly we need a new railway tunnel.
	Now it costs 11 billion dollars to build this railroad tunnel just to get into Manhattan.
	And if the government says 11 billion, you can figure it's probably a billion.
	Anyway, it's like a 10-year project.
	Schumer, uh, our governor here Cuomo, our mayor in New York, they're always going to Washington pleading, begging, crying.
	We have to have this tunnel.
	It's a low, it's only 11 billion dollars.
	They begged the president.
	Uh they they run articles here in New York all the time.
	What kind of miser is this that he can't give us 11 billion for the tunnel?
	Supposedly that's nothing, and he should be paying it right away.
	He should be writing the check today.
	But when they ask for five billion for a wall, they'll tell you it's a fortune, you can't spend it, it's a waste of money.
	So this is one little tunnel to get make it easier for commuters into Manhattan.
	But a wall to protect the entire country, the entire border, they can't do it.
	They can't do it.
	Uh anyway, let's take a uh call or two.
	Let's go to let's go to Jim in Houston, Texas.
	Hey, Jim, how are you doing?
	Welcome to Sean Hannity Show.
	Hey, thanks so much.
	I'm glad I got on.
	First time caller.
	Really?
	Um I I would uh I would think that there would be a way to fund the wall and bypass the government and still make um you know the uh the Mexican people pay for it, and that would be simply by putting a tax or a fee on money that's sent south of the border.
	You know, these people uh, you know, send the money home.
	That's why they're here working.
	Yeah, there's a lot of uh illegals who send money home.
	It's a huge amount of money.
	It goes back to Mexico.
	If there's a way to seize that and use that for the wall, he could also get Mexico to pay for it in different ways.
	We uh have a lot of trade with Mexico.
	You could yank the five billion out of there.
	Just the renegotiating of uh NAFTA, you know, that freed up a lot of money.
	Uh, the president's pointed this out.
	If you look at how he renegotiated the NAFTA agreement, we probably easily save five billion there or get five billion back.
	So that could be used uh for the wall.
	There's a lot of ways to do it.
	I'd love to see uh a GoFundMe.
	Maybe not a gofundme because they take a fee out of that, but something like that.
	Do you know if you took all the Trump supporters, all the people that voted for Donald Trump in America?
	If each one chipped in 80 bucks, you'd have the wall paid for.
	That's all it would take.
	80 bucks from every Trump supporter.
	Now, obviously, you don't have to get 80 from everybody.
	Some people could give eight, because some people give eight hundred, that sort of thing.
	But you could easily fund the wall that way.
	Well, we'll we'll see.
	Anyway, we've got lots to get to today, lots of stuff to talk about.
	Remind me to get to this Dick Cheney movie.
	It is really uh this is quite a plot by Democrats.
	We'll get to that.
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	Music Music Hey, welcome back.
	It's the Sean Hannity show.
	It's Mark Simone here for Sean.
	He'll be back soon.
	We got lots to talk about.
	Uh you know you about this movie Vice?
	It's a movie, it's a brand new movie.
	Uh is it Christian Bale?
	There's a bunch of big movie stars in this, and it's about Dick Cheney.
	Now, this is another democratic tradition when there's a conservative that they hate.
	Uh after they're out of office, they often put together a movie just to trash the person.
	Do you remember Nixon?
	It was a movie by Oliver Stone, and they're really the most biased, distorted, slanted films.
	For instance, with the Nixon movie, Nixon did a lot of great things in his presidency.
	Uh there was some great successes in the Nixon years, including opening a door to China and all that.
	So when Oliver Stone makes the movie, it's basically two things.
	It's about him drunk at the end in the middle of Watergate, running around the White House drunk, not knowing where he is.
	It's just him the last few weeks in turmoil.
	And then there's a couple other scenes where he's meeting with donors.
	It looks real shady.
	So that's the whole story of Nixon according to this movie.
	I mean, just totally biased.
	And then you remember the great Margaret Thatcher gets out of office.
	Remember the movie Thatcher?
	It was Meryl Streeper, some great actress.
	Was it Glenn Close?
	Somebody played Thatcher.
	But the whole movie, nothing about Thatcher's great career, nothing about the brilliance that Thatcher showed in office.
	The whole movie was about Thatcher at the end the last year where she had Alzheimer's and she's bumping into walls.
	That was the whole movie.
	So now Dick Cheney is getting that treatment.
	Hollywood has made a movie about Cheney.
	It all it focuses on is the worst of Cheney, exaggerated to ridiculous extremes.
	They've made up quotes and scenes that never existed.
	So this is just for liberals.
	This is uh it's like revenge porn for liberals.
	So it's actually doing pretty well, uh, believe it or not, because there's a huge audience of uh of liberals that love this kind of stuff.
	Uh so avoid it if you if you can.
	Hey, we got lots to get to on the Sean Hannity show.
	Greg Jarrett will be us a little later, one of our favorite guests.
	Also, what's the next Trump scandal?
	It's not a real scandal, but what are Democrats planning to be the next big scandal?
	You know, they just got the like research and development uh coming up with a new scandals all the time.
	I'll tell you what it is in a moment.
	We'll take your calls.
	It's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
	It's the Sean Hannity Show.
	Hey, welcome back.
	It's the Sean Hannity Show.
	This is Mark Simone here for Sean, the breaking news just uh a little while back.
	Uh the president has made a surprise visit to Iraq with the first lady.
	This has screwed up at newsrooms all over the country.
	You know, uh yesterday they started at uh first president uh ever not to visit the troops on Christmas, all that kind of stuff.
	You saw all those little things.
	Well, a lot of columnists were uh writing columns for tomorrow about they're going to attack him on this.
	Well, it turns out he uh visited Iraq yesterday.
	And this was not in response to those uh jabs in the news.
	This had been planned for some time.
	Uh in fact, some in the press actually knew about it, but were sworn to secrecy for security reasons.
	President spent a lot of time with the troops, uh, not only speaking, uh making a speech to them, but uh uh taking a lot of selfies with them, shaking a lot of hands, a lot of conversations with the troops.
	So uh that's one uh one one scandal they won't get away with, they'll try something else.
	Also, we're planning on uh going after the stock market.
	It's crashing, this is it.
	We're plunging into recession.
	Remember about uh 20 minutes ago I told you the Dow roaring back up 600 points?
	Uh it's up 750 now.
	So uh there goes that narrative too.
	But they'll they'll try whatever they can try.
	Hey, also retail sales, uh, the biggest year in ten years.
	It was a big boom in retail sales.
	Now I don't know how 2019 is gonna be, but it was probably the biggest Christmas season in many, many years.
	Now, it's just not uh, you know, uh uh in stores, but also online, but a huge, huge Christmas season.
	You know, when they talk about the Dow dropping, one of the problems, uh the top smartest guys in Wall Street will tell you.
	The problem is you we got used to one thing in the Obama years.
	The Wall Street was doing fine, and Main Street was a disaster.
	Well, under this Trump economy, Main Street business is doing great, better even than the stock market.
	It's the first time we've had that in many, many, many, many years.
	So some of the top Wall Street guys tell me that's part of the problem.
	They don't know how to play that.
	They're not used to that scenario.
	So they haven't figured out exactly how to adjust to that.
	Dow up 800 now.
	Uh so it's a good day on Wall Street.
	But uh Main Street doing very well.
	You know, you always hear the GDP and all that gross domestic product.
	It's up, it's way up.
	It's been a big year in the economy.
	But GDI is very important.
	That's gross domestic income.
	And that's way up for the year.
	That's a key thing.
	You got two key factors.
	Income is up for the first time in years, and gas prices are dramatically down.
	So that's like another tax cut.
	So you got income up, gas prices down.
	That's like another tax cut, more money to spend, and it's showing up in the retail world this holiday season.
	Hey, John McLaughlin, he's the best pollster around.
	He's got a great article.
	You know, you check this out.
	It's in Newsmax right now.
	You know, they tell you the president is dropping in the polls, it looks bad for 2020.
	He goes over it in real detail.
	Read that article.
	The president's doing fine, and he looks very good in the polls for 2020.
	And if you look at the midterms and say, well, it was drawn down from here and down from uh well, read the article.
	That's pretty good.
	It it really explains that Trump is fine.
	The Trump movement is fine.
	It's the Swamp Republicans, the old Republicans, the old RNC who are deep down secretly, uh, never Trumpers.
	They're the ones that are hurting things.
	They're the ones that had a problem in the in the midterms.
	You know, the uh Paul Ryans of the world, uh, who's basically uh, you know, the Republican Chuck Schumer, just uh says one thing, does another thing.
	For example, the president takes office.
	You think this is it?
	We'll get this health care straightened out.
	We'll have an alternative to Obamacare.
	You assume that in all these years, uh Ryan and company were putting together the alternative.
	Trump takes office.
	Even he was stunned.
	Not only didn't they put together any alternative, uh secretly, they're all for keeping Obamacare.
	Uh it was put together by drug companies, insurance companies, both insurance and drug companies love it.
	They happen to be the biggest single lobbyist on uh uh uh on in America, the biggest lobbyist of all, more money flowing into Congress from drug companies, insurance companies, uh so Ryan and company making sure uh that Obamacare stays the way it is.
	So it's good to see him gone.
	It's good to see one rhino swamp Snake after another leaving Washington.
	Hopefully in 2020, you not only have a Trump victory, but uh clean house some more out of these swamp creatures.
	You know, uh, as a lot of people pointed out, you know, it's nice to say drain the swamp, but this swamp was built over fifty years.
	You're not gonna drain this in two years.
	This swamp has deep infrastructure.
	It's gonna take a long time uh to drain this swamp.
	Hey, what's the next big scandal coming?
	Not a real scandal, but they'll, you know, Democrats busy with the fake news trying to gin up some big scandal.
	Here's the next one.
	Bone spurs.
	You uh you know, sometimes they'll pick on the president for not serving in Vietnam.
	Uh bone spurs, you know, he had a medical excuse.
	Bone spurs got you out of the draft back then and the doctor diagnosed him with bone spurts.
	So but sometimes you'll see them make fun of uh the president over that.
	They love to make fun of who didn't serve when it's a Republican.
	Meantime, if it's Bill Clinton who went to great lengths to dodge the draft, no mention of it.
	Uh President Obama didn't serve, but of course he was uh after Vietnam.
	You know, the last great real combat veteran in office was George H. W. Bush.
	And then you went into a world of uh a lot of baby boomers and younger where they just didn't serve.
	It just wasn't uh that common to serve.
	You know, it's uh I think um something like five percent of America serves.
	So you're gonna have presidents who didn't serve.
	And the president uh got that medical deferment.
	So what uh is coming out now?
	This is years ago in Queens, New York, where the president uh was eighteen years old or nineteen and eligible for the draft, and the doctor diagnosed him with bone spurns and wrote up the medical report, and that got him out.
	I think there was another doctor uh that also backed it up.
	So the doctor who diagnosed him with a bone spurs is dead.
	He's no longer with us.
	But his daughter has now come forward and said the whole report was a fake.
	He faked this medical report.
	The president didn't really have bone spurs.
	This doctor wrote him a fake medical excuse, and the reason the doctor did it, according to the daughter, who knows if she's telling the truth, but this doctor, uh his uh landlord was Fred Trump, the president's father.
	He was in a Trump building.
	He did it as a favor to Fred Trump, and then in exchange for that, they got very favorable treatment for years after that as far as rent and uh renting space and all of that.
	And what about that other doctor?
	Well, supposedly he was also uh in a Trump building and backed it up just to get uh favorable treatment from uh the landlord.
	But there's no evidence of this at all.
	This is the daughter saying it, who knows?
	She's probably one of these uh very liberal democratic Trump haters.
	She may have just made the whole thing up.
	It's also, I mean, the father's dead, but it's also a terrible thing to do to your father.
	I would assume if you write up fake medical reports and then submit them to the government, I assume you're committing all kinds of crimes there.
	So she's basically turning her father into a totally crooked doctor and criminal.
	I don't know who would do that to their own father.
	Anyway, let's take a call or two.
	Let's go to Matt in uh Florida.
	Hey, Matt, welcome to Sean Hannity show.
	Hello, sir.
	Uh just a little note about the wall.
	If if a wall is good enough for the Pope, then how come it's not good enough for the United States?
	A wall is great.
	Every prison uses it.
	What prison ever said, you know, that wall's not working, tear it down.
	Every wall works.
	You're right.
	Good call.
	The Pope has a wall.
	Hey, remember when Barack Obama got out of office, he bought that beautiful house in Washington, D.C. First thing he did was spend a fortune to put a wall around it.
	They work.
	Everything has a wall around it.
	What is this thing that walls don't work?
	Who came who could say that with a straight face?
	You gotta be Chuck Schumer or Nancy Pelosi.
	To actually look somebody in the eye and say, Yeah, walls don't work.
	Remember a few years ago they were all for fences.
	Fences they don't mind.
	The walls they mined.
	Uh that's why the president lately starts calling it a fence.
	You know, it's just gonna be a big concrete fence.
	Actually, if you look at the latest design for the wall, it's these enormous steel spikes that go up like uh thirty feet into the air.
	And uh the reason it spikes, you can see through it.
	And border patrol has told the president, very important.
	It's a big help to be able to see through the wall.
	Because if you do have the wall, you really don't know what's going on on the other side.
	Who's approaching it?
	Could be somebody with uh explosive trying to blow the wall down.
	You you gotta be able to see through the wall.
	So that's why the latest design is made of enormous steel spikes.
	You can go online and see it.
	It's really uh impressive looking.
	And the steel uh poles have these spikes on top of it, making it uh really impossible to climb over.
	But the way it looks, it looks like you could call it a fence.
	I guess that's why he's calling it a fence.
	It looks like an enormously strong state-of-the-art sort of fence.
	Anyway, let's take another another call or two.
	Let's go to uh let's go to Gerald in uh Bakersfield, California.
	Hey, Gerald.
	Yeah, hello, Mark.
	How are you doing?
	Merry Christmas, sir.
	You too.
	Say, I just wanted to touch base and uh just express my uh stop, wait, stop right here.
	I hate when people touch base.
	That's the worst thing.
	Let me do this.
	You ever get these calls, they leave a message.
	I just wanted to touch base.
	How about I dying to talk to you?
	I'm sorry.
	How about I've been waiting forever to call you and talk to you at just wanted to touch base.
	Sounds like you're not really that interested.
	Oh, I am very interested.
	All right, let's start over again.
	Say uh you've been waiting to talk to me.
	I've been waiting to talk to you.
	Oh, that's great.
	Looking f looking forward to it.
	All right.
	Well, my um what I would like to express is my disappointment, and I didn't haven't heard it made that often.
	The Howled Republicans, as it turned out, some 41 incumbents uh retired the during the midterms.
	And the Democrats picked up 40 seats.
	Now, some of these guys that retired, I have to say, including Ryan.
	Now he may have been around.
	Well, let me just uh let me just explain this.
	A lot of people didn't realize this.
	The loss of the house was all Paul Ryan's fault.
	When you're the speaker and you got 40 guys retiring, this is traditionally done.
	You go to ten of them and convince them to stay one more term.
	You can do it, it can be done.
	Ryan didn't do it.
	A lot of people believe he deliberately didn't do it.
	I don't trust this Ryan for a second.
	He's got all sorts of lobbying jobs lined up and waiting.
	Uh Chamber of Commerce Business Roundtable, basically, he's in league with them.
	A lot of people think he deliberately didn't ask anybody to stay.
	I hate to say it.
	I believe that too, because I think the next thing he's gonna do is become a huge lobbyist, and I'm not sure what side he's gonna be on, but you know, it's not gonna be ours.
	Don't worry.
	I know.
	When 90% of the incumbents succeed in re-election, and 40 retire.
	I mean, it basically handed the base, it handed the Democrats the the house.
	And um anyway, I I just wanted to.
	Touch base, I know.
	You want to touch base.
	All right.
	No, Gerald, excellent point.
	Excellent call.
	Thanks for calling.
	Boy, you know, you gotta always keep your eye on this Ryan.
	Watch this, Ryan.
	He's a slimy, dangerous character.
	He deliberately you can you can do it.
	It's been done by other speakers.
	You can convince ten people to stay one more term.
	That way you won't lose the house.
	You could have had 10 stay.
	It would have been easy to do.
	He deliberately didn't do that.
	He lost us the house for whatever money lobbying reason he has.
	Uh Paul Ryan, one of the biggest snakes in the swamp.
	Uh anyway, Mark Simone here.
	Hey, if you want to follow me on uh Twitter, it's Mark Simone NY at Twitter.
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	Back in a moment, it's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
	Hey, welcome back.
	It's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
	If you're uh a Democrat, you might turn the radio down for a moment.
	I don't want to get you upset.
	You might uh start to cry or something.
	The Dow is having a phenomenal day.
	It's gonna close uh up over 900 points.
	Uh this messes up every Democrat who all weekend, if you've been uh at Christmas dinners, family dinners, arguing with everybody, they always say, yeah, but what the stock market's crashing.
	What are we going into a bear market?
	Well, it uh it had a huge day, up almost a thousand points today.
	Now, look how how will fake news report that a thousand points up in one day?
	How well uh here's uh one of the fake news headlines.
	US stocks whipsaw.
	Uh erratic.
	So this is bad that it's going up.
	And it says with bear market looming.
	Well, we don't know if there's a why would a bear market be looming?
	Again, earnings up, fundamentals very strong.
	Uh anyway, the best economist, three best economists in the world Larry Cudlow, Art Laffer, Steve Moore.
	Steve Moore will be with us in the next hour, and we'll talk to him about that.
	We got Greg Jarrett coming up.
	We'll go over the latest with uh Muller and all of that.
	Government shutdown.
	Uh believe it or not, it doesn't affect the special council.
	They passed some little uh weasley little law somewhere that the special council is permanently funded no matter what.
	No matter what happens, the special counsel keeps working.
	And uh the latest uh word coming out of there is they'll be done in February, and in February they will finish and submit the report.
	The report from the special counsel goes to the attorney general.
	That's it.
	That's how it ends.
	Special counsel writes a report, hands it to the attorney general.
	He can throw it in the drawer and not tell anybody about it.
	He can look at it and uh you know decide on action to be taken.
	Uh but here's what's going to happen to Congress.
	The House, the Democrats are gonna subpoena the document.
	They're gonna demand to see it.
	So that'll be the big fight coming up.
	Now, as I said, we got Greg Jarrett coming up in the final hour.
	He's the expert on this.
	Best book, The Russia Hoax, all about the Mueller investigations.
	We'll get all the latest from him, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
	They say she's working from the hospital.
	Uh right.
	Uh I'll believe that when I see it.
	But uh, we wish her well.
	I hope she recovers.
	First of all, she God forbid anything happens to her.
	You think the Democrats are hysterical now.
	Can you imagine if President Trump gets to fill a third Supreme Court seat?
	It will be unbearable.
	All family uh holiday dinners will have to be canceled.
	There'll be too much screaming.
	Did you fight with anybody over the holiday uh dinners and all that?
	It's terrible.
	You can't listen to it.
	You just can't listen to it.
	You gotta get those little earbuds, stick them in your ear, just crank up the music, just tune it out.
	Anyway, we've got a big hour coming up.
	Steve Moore, the great economist, will be with us in the next hour.
	We'll talk to him.
	Anyway, we'll go over everything coming with Mueller and Company.
	What's the latest on all of that?
	We'll uh have all the latest for you on the shutdown.
	Uh Sean will be back soon.
	It's Mark Simone here.
	Normally I'm on uh W O R, our big flagship station.
	Well, another two hours to go.
	Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
	Well, welcome back to the Sean Hannity show.
	Mark Simone here for Sean.
	Uh normally I'm on W O R, our big flagship station here in New York, but I've been off uh all week.
	So I'm actually wiped out here.
	I'm tired.
	I'm not used to you know, I'm not used to doing a radio show for the last uh five days.
	Like, you know, you take a week off and then you go back to the gym for the first time.
	But we got a big hour coming up.
	Doug Schoen, we don't have him yet, do we?
	No.
	What happened to him?
	Well, find him.
	Doug Schoen's a great guest.
	Oh, and then we got Steve Moore, the great economist.
	Uh we've got breaking news all day today.
	Uh at the beginning of uh the show, we found out that the president has made a surprise visit to Iraq to see the troops uh upsetting Democrats who had uh planned to attack him for this uh week, but uh he uh and this is not a response to that.
	This was something that had been planned uh in the planning stages for many days.
	Secret visit to Iraq, but it was unveiled today.
	Now the other big news the Dow has made a roaring comeback.
	It closed up over a thousand points, a thousand eighty-five.
	The Dow up in one day.
	That's the biggest day in the Dow in seven years.
	That is huge.
	A roaring comeback.
	What's today?
	Wednesday, so you got uh two more days of the Dow.
	Uh it could be a big week.
	Uh the year ends.
	We didn't find him.
	Doug Schoen?
	No.
	What?
	I'm worried about him.
	He's usually a very reliable guest.
	So the Dow up a thousand points.
	This is great news.
	Now, here's uh what's you know, uh the controversy has been the Fed chairman, uh Chairman Powell, who even if you're willing to accept the rate increase, the that is justified, the quarter of a point.
	His language upset everybody.
	Uh the last Fed announcement, everybody kind of got it through their head.
	We're gonna have a quarter of a point increase, and that'll be it for a while, and we'll live with it.
	So he did the quarter of a point increase, but then afterwards made this incredibly hawkish statement.
	Very unusual for a Fed chairman, and after the Dow had been through a really rough, choppy month, usually you watch your language, but he was brutal.
	Not only the rate increase, but he said there's more coming, probably a lot more coming.
	It was extremely uh antagonistic language from a Fed chairman.
	So that's why all the calls to uh for the president to fire him.
	Now there's some controversy as to whether a president can fire a Fed chairman.
	He's a governor, you can fire a governor, but there's a lot of uh legal thinking out.
	You can't actually fire a Fed chairman.
	But we'll get back to that.
	We found Doug Schoen, who's the great upholster, uh author, political analyst, great guy, very smart guy, Fox News, uh columnist for Newsmax.
	Doug Schoen, how are you doing?
	I'm doing just fine.
	Thank you as always, Mark, for a very, very kind interrupt.
	Well, thanks for being with us.
	And uh listen, we explain these Democrats to us.
	Uh they just seem to lack basic coping skills.
	Uh they just seem to be hysterical about everything.
	They just can't seem to accept the fact that Trump won and uh come back in four years and try again.
	What's wrong with them?
	Well, I think they see Trump's approval rating sinking.
	Uh they see that they've got the house now, and they're digging in ways that may not be productive for the country, but they believe is productive for them politically.
	I think that's the best quick explanation I can offer, Mark.
	Yeah, but you know, he's all right as approval raising.
	I mean, he's fine.
	Now you know the Democrats are going to start a hearing on everything.
	They've had a hearing on his tax returns, uh hearing on this, on that, and it's a the whole thing aren't they going to shoot themselves in the foot with all these hearings?
	Well, they they could, but uh, you know, his approval rating is about 42 this morning as of real clear politics.
	So I think the Democrats' attitude is it worked pretty well in the congressional midterms.
	Uh why not stick with it, especially given a left wing that you know as well as I do, is emboldened and arguably empowered.
	And also nuts, wouldn't you agree?
	Well, I'm not gonna call them nuts, but I certainly don't share their worldview.
	I think that's fair.
	We certainly uh differ uh on that and differ fundamentally.
	Look, I'm not free market capitalist who believes in a social safety net.
	A lot of the far left believes in socialism.
	I'm not a socialist and never will be.
	Hey, uh, but you know, listen, you're the expert pollster.
	You know, if you look at these network polls, the New York Times, all these polls, the metrics are terrible.
	They use uh they put Republicans like a 23% in the sample, which is idiotic.
	So really his approval rating is probably fifty.
	I don't know.
	I don't think it is fifty.
	I think he is underwater.
	And I think what the Democrats believe, rightly or wrongly, is confrontation, keeps the party together, and you know, is passable as a political strategy.
	Look, I believe in compromise.
	I think we should compromise on immigration, uh do some sort of border security enhancement combined with a path to citizenship for DACA and uh for the illegals to give them a right to stay here legally.
	I think that makes sense.
	It's passed before and arguably should pass again.
	That's that's what I think.
	Yeah, but you know, uh what is the fear of walls?
	What is this wall hatred among Democrats?
	When you say border security enhancement, you build a big wall.
	Problem solved.
	Well, Trump himself said build a wall or a fence.
	And if that represents a little softening, hoping hopefully we can get to a consensus, because one thing's for sure, we do need border security.
	Yeah, well, uh I think the reason is if you've seen the uh latest design of what the wall will be, it's these big steel spikes.
	Uh I saw that.
	It's like the most incredible state-of-the-art fence on steroids.
	So I guess under you know, if you look at it, you could technically call it a fence.
	But it's it's bit it's as big as a wall.
	So uh what when Chuck Schumer and these people say with a straight face, walls don't work.
	What on earth are they talking about?
	I uh that I don't know.
	I mean, Mark, look, they voted in the past for walls.
	I'm not against walls per se.
	I'm for enhanced border security.
	Any way we can get it.
	I think the issue was not to fight politically, but to make the country safer.
	But don't you think if they do hearings, and they will, uh the problem is it's not like Muller where it's mysterious and secret.
	The hearings are on TV.
	You can watch them live, and people start to watch this and say, it's a lot of trivia.
	They don't seem to really have anything here.
	Well, until it happens, we don't know that that'll be the case.
	Certainly the Democrats could overreach.
	It's happened before.
	I remember in 1998, the impeachment when I was working for Bill Clinton, and clearly that did not help the Republicans one bit.
	Uh but until we see what happens and what's done, I don't think we can say definitively what the outcome will be.
	Mark.
	Hey, you're the you're a great pollster and analyst.
	Uh 2020.
	Who do you think is the leading Democrat right now?
	Like a couple of the Well, I think Joe Biden is probably the leader.
	Uh uh Bernie Sanders second, but I have no certainty that either of them will be the nominee.
	My only certainty is that it'll be a chaotic process.
	And the probable beneficiary of a chaotic process, notwithstanding what I've said before, will probably be the incumbent Donald Trump.
	Yeah.
	Hey, but you've worked with Mike Bloomberg, and you know when he wants to do something, he's determined, he'll spend money, he'll open up the checkbook.
	What if he wants to really do this and spend a hundred million or billion or whatever he wants to spend?
	He's a I mean, he's a big force.
	He could take that nomination uh from everybody.
	Well, look, I I obviously have worked for him for twenty years, have great respect and affection for him.
	He's not made a decision, but I would agree with your assessment when he puts his mind to something, he uh is purposeful, committed, and willing to do what it takes to win.
	So look, uh, he would be a very good president in my judgment, and it would be a I think a great race between Trump and uh Bloomberg, but we're not we're not there yet.
	Yeah.
	But when you say Biden, isn't that kind of um uh doesn't say much for the Democratic Party?
	There's not much bench there if you got uh Bernie and Biden, two eighty-year-olds.
	Well, I I have to agree with you.
	You know, Bernie is outside uh what I think makes sense and don't think he could get elected, and Biden, uh you know, I my sense is his time has largely passed.
	He may well have a broader appeal than most, but he is a gaff prone guy who has not exactly been too successful when he's run on his own.
	Yeah.
	Uh when they talk about Beto Auroric or somebody like that, it's just another Obama.
	It's a you know charismatic guy with no resume.
	That's that's also a bad formula, too, isn't it?
	Well, I mean, compared to Obama or compared to a Rourke, Obama did have a resident.
	The Senate for a couple of years, uh Rourke's been a congressman, what, six years of our member?
	Correctly?
	And you know, I mean, uh I thought he ran a novel campaign, but it wasn't clear to me what he stood for or what he said that that was so distinctive.
	Well, he looked good.
	You know, they say he's the new Bobby Kennedy.
	He took his jacket off, he rolled up his sleeves, he instead of standing still, he walked back and forth on the stage.
	It's all gimmicks and uh image and uh Well, I was gonna say looking like Bobby Kennedy is not a criteria to be elected president.
	And uh but explain the phenomenon of Democrats embracing uh people like that.
	Like look at this so Casio Cortez, he was a bartender eight months ago.
	How does this happen?
	Well, I think the left wing of the Democratic Party, like the right wing of the Republican Party wants something new and different.
	And at least in the Democratic Party, there is a willingness to opt for socialism, left-wing politics, and policies like Medicare for all, jobs for all, $15 guaranteed minimum wage for all, that I think are unrealistic and potentially uh destructive.
	Yeah, and what is this Democrats' love of socialism?
	You know, any socialist uh country that has a problem with illegal aliens trying to break in the other way around.
	It's the other way around, and I remember my dear friend, client, teacher, Pat Moynihan, saying he hasn't seen a country, a communist country that people are fighting to get into.
	They're fighting to get out of it.
	And I think, you know, that's basically right.
	So but you understand the democratic mind.
	What is it with these uh uh I mean it all sounds great, you know, bleeding hearts sort of uh help everybody, but it's not real, it's not uh practical.
	Well, and the reason I said it was destructive is I mean, the principles themselves are good.
	I I want more people covered by health care.
	I want more people uh to be employed.
	I want more people to earn more income, but we gotta pay for all this.
	And I I'm like you, I think, Mark, I'm very skeptical of government run programs.
	So those are my key objections.
	Yeah.
	So uh what do you think is gonna happen uh as far as the shutdown?
	You know, I think and hope that the Democrats and the Republicans move closer together, Trump having called the wall potentially offense, and the Democrats having in the past embraced uh uh a wall or enhance border security.
	I hope that happens, but so far there's no evidence it is.
	You guys gotta stop saying enhance border security.
	It sounds like one of those Pentagon terms.
	How about a bid wall?
	I don't mean it that way.
	I mean it as a way of protecting our country from people who shouldn't be here.
	Yeah.
	Well, there's no right to be here.
	Doug Show, where should people go to read you?
	Uh uh what's the best question?
	I'm at uh box News.com and uh uh you know at Douglas E. Schoen on Twitter.
	And Mark, I can only say it's a great pleasure to be with you uh during the holiday season and any time your graciousness is only exceeded by your intellect.
	Oh my god, I love this flattery.
	But he's a great guy, a very smart guy.
	So uh follow Doug Schoen at uh Fox News.com.
	Hey, Doug, thanks for being with us.
	Mark, thank you.
	Pleasure as always.
	Take care.
	Uh oh, coming up, Steve Moore will be with us in a little while.
	He's one of the great economists.
	It's been an amazing day uh on Wall Street, the Dow up over a thousand points.
	Biggest day in seven years.
	We'll talk to him about all of that and what it means.
	Coming up, it's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
	Hey, welcome back.
	It's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
	Sean will be back soon.
	You can follow me on Twitter.
	It's Mark Simone NY at Twitter.
	I was just checking Twitter.
	A lot of people writing to me.
	There is a GoFundMe for the wall.
	Yeah, that's true.
	There's a uh great guy, triple amputee, a veteran.
	Uh GoFundMe for the wall.
	It didn't start uh that long ago, about two weeks ago.
	He's up 18 million uh already.
	So you can uh you can look that up.
	Uh biggest day in seven years on the Dow.
	Amazing day, up a thousand eighty-six, almost almost eleven hundred points.
	Phenomenal day.
	Uh let's take a call or two.
	Let's go to Greg in Ohio.
	Greg, welcome to the Sean Hannity show.
	Thank you, Mark.
	Appreciate it.
	Thanks, Greg.
	Um, uh, I keep hearing uh Democrats, you know, talking about gun control.
	But how can they ever have gun control if they don't shut the border?
	Well, that's a good point.
	It's a big source of illegal guns coming over the border, not to mention drugs coming over the border, not to mention who knows what.
	Uh we've caught terrorists coming over the border.
	You know when I show you that video, people crossing the border illegally.
	You notice they got knapsacks, suitcases, packs that who knows what's in there?
	Terrorists bringing stuff into the country.
	Uh, where are you in Ohio, Greg?
	Uh I'm in central Ohio.
	Not too far from Columbus.
	And what have you noticed this past year?
	People doing better, people happier, people making more money.
	I think people are doing better, and people people seem to be happier, I think.
	Um, you hear a lot of people negative talk about uh people having fights and this and that and the other, and there's a lot of root rage.
	I do see a lot of that, but when I'm in the stores and people just stir go out of the way to be nice and hold doors for people and help each other.
	So it just seems different than uh what you hear.
	Well, you know what?
	You ought to come to New York for a couple of days.
	You'll love it.
	It's so different.
	You get pushed and shoved.
	Nobody holds the door for you.
	They'll knock you over to get through the door.
	But we love it here in New York.
	But Greg, uh welcome to uh show.
	Thanks for calling from Ohio.
	Great talking to you.
	Uh yeah, it's uh I I don't know.
	It's we're gonna talk to Steve Moore in a moment, but the thousand points, it's a huge day in the Dow.
	Uh he'll he'll explain it to us exactly what's causing it.
	It was down for all the wrong reasons.
	A lot of people like to point to the China negotiations, the battle with China, the tariffs.
	That would that is a slight factor, but not a big factor.
	You know, uh one thing that got buried by the fake news, they don't make m mention of it anywhere in that China fight.
	China made an enormous concession about 10 days ago.
	A startlingly big concession for round one.
	They agreed to cut auto tariffs from 40 to 15 percent.
	That's a huge, huge concession from China, especially in the first round.
	So that that fight is going well.
	Uh earnings are very strong.
	Retail sales, we've had the best retail year in I think 10 years this holiday season.
	GDI, that's an important number.
	Gross domestic income, it's way up.
	Fundamentals in business, very strong.
	So we'll talk to Steve Moore when we come back.
	He's one of the great economists in the world, and we'll see what he's got.
	He can explain all this to us.
	Record day on the Dow, biggest one day uh rise in the Dow in seven years, up almost eleven hundred points.
	It's Mark Simone here.
	Follow me on Twitter, Mark Simone NY at Twitter.
	And of course, don't forget to go to Hannity.com and watch Hannity tonight, every weeknight, nine o'clock on the Fox News channel.
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	Back in just a moment.
	We'll talk to Steve Moore.
	Coming up.
	Don't go away.
	Well, welcome back.
	It's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
	The big news is today the Dow had the biggest day in seven years, up almost eleven hundred points.
	Huge day on Wall Street.
	And we've got with us the three best economists in the world, uh Steve Moore, of course, Larry Cudlow, and Art Laffer.
	Uh, all three of them got together on a book, and it's come out now.
	It's a book you should get.
	It's actually uh Larry, of course, left to join the Trump administration, but it's Steve Moore and uh Art Laffer.
	It's Trumponomics.
	If you want to have all this explained to you really well, it's Trumponomics, get the book.
	And the author, best selling book, the author is on the line.
	Steve Moore, how are you doing?
	Well, Mark, uh, I do believe in Santa Claus.
	Yeah after today.
	That was an amazing what did you say is this the biggest day for the Dow in how many years?
	Seven years.
	Seven years.
	Wow.
	Uh well, he Santa Claus was bearing gifts this year.
	Uh Alec, I predicted that you know, that when the Martin Dow went, you know, what to 22,000, there were a lot of tax stops uh are very cheap right now, even with the thousand point gain, you know, the real economy, Mark, is very strong.
	I mean, Trump has created an economy where 2018 was probably the best year for the economy in 20 years.
	We had three the three and a half percent growth, we have the lowest unemployment rate in fifty years, we have construction manufacturing through the roof.
	We have seven million more jobs than people to fill them.
	So I don't know, you've been in this game a long time, Mark, but I've not rarely seen where you know the economy's one head headed in one direction and then the stock market's been headed in the other direction.
	But uh look, I think fundamentally this U.S. economy continues to steam forward.
	You know, uh very smart guy in Wall Street told me that one of the big problems, not China, not the other stuff, but he said uh they're not used to Wall Street not doing as well as Main Street.
	Mainstream has been booming more than Wall Street, and they haven't figured out how to play that yet.
	That's part of their problem.
	Does that make sense?
	I think it is.
	Look, I think that the Fed did a disastrous job uh and made a catastrophic decision last week to raise interest rates.
	Well, we have I mean, think about this.
	We've got the perfect economy up until when the Fed raised interest rates.
	We had very strong economic growth, the strongest economic growth in something like 15 years.
	We had um, you know, nice industrial production numbers, high consumer confidence, and no inflation in the economy.
	It you know, it was like, you know, what's the old cliche that the Fed really truly took the punch bowl away from this party just when it was go getting going, and there were no signs of inflation.
	So I don't really understand that in fact, if anything, there's deflation.
	Look what's happened to the oil price, look what's happened to prices to of things like silver and to you know, ask farmers what whether they think there's inflation in the economy, you know, with the price of soybeans, the price of wheat and cotton have been falling.
	So, you know, there is not inflation.
	We've got high growth.
	Uh Mark, somebody has to explain to me why the Fed would be raising interest rates in that kind of environment.
	The other thing, of course, that's you know, out there is as you know, the 800-pound gorilla is this trade war with China, which I believe Trump is right to fight because I think China is is uh you know increasing menace on the international scene.
	But if tr you know, Mark, I'll tell you this.
	If Trump can get this trade war fixed, and he can you know win some concessions from China on opening their markets and stop stealing our intellectual property.
	You think it was a good day for the stock market today.
	Wait till we get that deal done.
	Hey, China made a big concession the other day on auto tariffs.
	They lowered from they lowered him from 40 to 15 percent.
	That's an astonishing concession.
	But the media hid the story and buried it.
	So they may have heard the market by not publicizing that enough.
	And you're exactly right about that.
	And you know what's so interesting about that is it's just the opening bid for China.
	I mean, China's gonna have to make some very significant uh you know concessions here.
	I mean, they they imposed very high, you know, costs on American uh goods.
	It's very difficult for American uh businessmen and women to do you know business in China.
	And then as you know, they've been stealing and cheating and uh you know this you saw what happened with their hacking into the you know uh the databases of American companies.
	That's that's fevery.
	So I I I think Trump is writing the fighting the good fight here, and I think it's about time somebody confronted Beijing.
	Um we'll see whether Trump can get them to back down.
	I think they're going to, as Trump once told me, look, if we you know, if we can't trade with China, we sneeze.
	If they can't treat with us, they they they uh you know, catch pneumonia, and there's a lot of truth to that.
	Yeah, now Steve Moore has been advising President Trump all along, and he's written a great new book with Art Lafford called Trumponomics.
	Get this book if you're interested in this subject.
	There's no better book than uh Trumponomics.
	Hey, getting back to this Fed Commissioner, since the economy is doing so well, maybe you could justify a quarter of a point increase.
	But his language his language was ridiculously aggressive about many more rate increases coming.
	Why would he do something like that?
	Because I think the Fed has a failed model, um Mark.
	I think that the Fed has been operating on the principle that there's a kind of limit to our economic capacity and our growth, and that you know, we can only grow at say two percent, and if we get past that it's gonna cause inflation.
	That's that's wrong on two counts.
	Number one, there's no limit to our growth.
	As you remember, Mark, we had rates of six percent growth under Reagan and you know, six percent growth under John F. Kennedy after his tax cuts.
	So you expand the productive capacity of the country, there's no reason we can't grow it three, four, five percent with the right set of policies, which by the way, Donald Trump is putting in place.
	The other fallacy is that liber you know, a lot of these liberal economists believe that you know, increased growth causes more inflation.
	But as uh you know, you mentioned our laughter is one of the great economists, you're exactly right about that.
	You know, as our laughter has taught us when the economy produces more apples, the price of apples goes down, it doesn't go up.
	So an increase in growth should re le lead to more products and lower prices, not higher products.
	You see what I'm see what I mean?
	Yeah.
	Hey, now it turns out the retail uh Christmas season is the biggest in ten years.
	A lot of money was exactly.
	And and explain the number GDI, that's gross domestic income.
	That's a crucial number.
	People do have more money now, don't they?
	They do.
	And you know, this is a point that uh, you know, economists like myself and Larry Cudlow and others have been making uh, you know, throughout the years that the average for all the talks about this being a tax cut for the rich.
	I mean, as you know, uh Laffer and Larry Carlow and I helped write the plan for Trump.
	So we know that bill better than just about anyone.
	This was not a tax cut for rich people.
	It was a tax cut for our businesses so they could invest more and hire more and pay more.
	And guess what?
	That's exactly what they're doing.
	They're investing more in their companies, they're paying workers more in terms of bonuses and pay raises and more benefits.
	And we estimated at the Heritage Foundation, uh, that the average family saves about $2,500 a year.
	Well, guess what?
	You know, you you give the average, you know, fifty or sixty thousand dollar worker a twenty five hundred dollar raise.
	I don't care what Nancy Purosi says, Mark, that ain't what did she call them?
	Uh crumbs.
	That that is the crumbs.
	And and guess what?
	People feel better about their financial situation.
	They feel like they got a little bit more money in the bank and their and their wallets, and they spent, yeah, you know, look look at the um the the uh uh the retail, not the retailers, but the uh you know online sales for Christmas.
	I think they were a record high this year and shattered the old record.
	Yeah, uh Amazon had a record and also what they call the FAING stocks, Facebook, uh Apple, Netflix, Google, all that stuff, uh they were having the only problem with those companies is their stock, right?
	Their stocks have fallen a lot, but they're still selling a lot of goods.
	Yeah, but they had a they even that's one of the thing is that they've been in trouble, but they had a big comeback today as part of this rally.
	So that's good news.
	Uh biggest uh look, I I I think I'm really bullish on the uh US.
	I think there's way too much negativity.
	There's way too much uh, you know, concern that we're gonna headed into a recession.
	Now look, uh, I don't have a crystal ball.
	Uh I can't tell you what the economy is gonna look like a year or two from now, but I can tell you uh this, Mark, that Donald Trump has put in place very pro-growth economic policies on regulation on energy.
	By the way, Mark, did you see the story a few weeks ago that the United States is now producing more oil and gas than we're consuming?
	And that's the first time that's happened in what our lifetimes practically.
	Yeah, also gas prices way down now.
	People forget that's another tax cut, basically.
	Yep.
	Uh oh yeah.
	Yeah, every every penny reduction in the price of gasoline at the pump puts over a billion dollars into the hands of consumers that they can spend on, you know, going to the store or buying groceries or paying for their health insurance or going out and taking their uh spouse out for dinner or whatever it might be.
	So that's a real stimulus to the economy as well.
	It's like a tax cut when the price of gasoline goes down at the pump.
	Wow.
	Hey, uh we had Dow had the biggest day in seven years, up eleven hundred points.
	You know who I felt really bad for?
	I saw you on some TV show yesterday.
	Nice woman, but you you you were saying the economy's strong fundamentals, and she was screaming at you, there's a recession, the whole market's gonna crash.
	I feel bad for her.
	What must she think today?
	Well, you know what?
	There's a lot of people who hate Trump so much that they're rooting against the American economy.
	These are a lot of people who just want the economy to fail.
	And you know, that's that's too bad because this we want everybody to succeed.
	We want everybody to get a pay raise and more money in their pockets.
	And so I'm rooting for America, as I said today on CNN, I I I'm just bullish on America.
	And and if we keep with these policies in place, we're gonna get more growth, more and and middle class workers, that's what it's all about, Mark, is helping the middle class have more jobs and higher salaries and higher take home pay.
	Yeah.
	Well, uh Steve Moore, you advised the president.
	Uh uh, you, Art Laugher, Larry Cudlow, our best economist.
	What what do you think is next?
	What can he do this year?
	Could there be another uh tax reform bill?
	I think we've got to get the Fed to stop raising interest rates because I think that's sucking a lot of the oxygen out of the economy.
	I think he's got to get this trade deal done with China.
	That's the number one, you know, goal of the Trump administration.
	And by the way, think about this, Mark.
	There are how many people live in China?
	Over a billion, right?
	Over a billion Chinese.
	Imagine if we can sell our products in an open market to China, what that would mean in terms of our productive capacity to sell things to you know, countries like China and India and you know, these Asian countries that have so many people.
	So, you know, it's let's open up our trade, but do it in a way that's fair.
	And as Trump uh Trump has always told me, Mark, should I I believe in free trade, but it's gotta be fair trade and it's gotta be a level playing field.
	If we've got that level playing field, I believe America can uh compete anybody.
	Hey, Steve Moore, just explain to there's probably some Democrats who are listening to the radio right now that's screaming about uh all these tax cuts, all they do is help the corporations, this tariff war.
	If you win it, all it does is help the corporations.
	But explain how that helps uh the average American.
	Well, as I said earlier, you know, if you get uh a better business climate and you help businesses, you know.
	My old boss, Dick Army, who used to be the House Majority Leader for the Republicans many years ago, used to say, you know, liberals love jobs, but they hate employers.
	And uh, Mark, you can't have a job without people, you know, providing the jobs.
	People, you know, entrepreneurs and and uh businessmen and women set uh you know establishing their own businesses.
	Did you know, Mark, today we have something like twenty-seven million small businesses in America?
	And this was a tax cut for those businesses, so they could instead of hiring ten people, maybe they can hire twelve or fifteen.
	And you know, small businesses become medium businesses, and some of them may become the next, you know, Google or Apple.
	So that's how you do it.
	You you make your businesses, American businesses succeed and they can hire more workers.
	And incidentally, if you look at the situation today in terms of the global economy, Mark, you know this.
	Guess what country has the high best performing economy this year?
	The United States.
	Wow.
	I love Steve Moore, because not only is he smart, but he always throws in that uh and Mark, you know this as well as anyone else.
	I know it, because you follow this stuff, and you've probably followed it as long as I how long have you and I known each other twenty years, I'm sure.
	Half the time you're nine steps ahead of me on this, so I don't always know.
	Well, you hang out with smart people like Larry Cudlow, so I know you can know this stuff too.
	Yeah, well, hey, if you want to re if you want to really know this stuff, if you want to really uh learn this stuff, it's a great book.
	Steve Moore wrote it with Art Laffer.
	And didn't Larry Cudlow have a hand in it too?
	Oh, yeah.
	I mean, he was we're working on it with us, and then all of a sudden Donald Trump stole them away from us, and now he's the chief economist for the White House, and that's a you know what a what an honor that is for the country and for Larry and for Trump.
	I mean, it's a great combination.
	Yeah.
	So if you want to really understand all this stuff, actually, if you want to uh sound like a genius with all your friends, get the book.
	It's a great book uh by the by the three best economists.
	It's called Trumponomics.
	Uh it's a new book, it's already a bestseller.
	Trumponomics, go out and get the book.
	And uh Steve Moore, where should people go to read your columns?
	Well, then let me just say one thing about the book.
	You know, people say, I don't want to read that book, I don't like economics.
	This isn't really about economics, it's about how Trump did it.
	How we re you know, made America first and when his philosophy behind this, and you know, so uh people can read my stuff at heritage.org.
	And Mark, I hope you have a happy, happy new year, my friend.
	All right, Steve Moore, I get us another tax cut uh coming this year, and thanks for being with us.
	Take care.
	Thank you.
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	We'll get the latest on uh Muller and the Russia hoax.
	That's the title of his great book.
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	It's the day after Christmas.
	Is this a holiday?
	I mean, we're all working.
	There's Kylie.
	There's uh Jason in the control room, but uh uh during the break.
	I walk out there in the office.
	I don't see anybody, a lot of empty desks, but uh uh it's a day after Christmas.
	Have we had enough of those Christmas songs?
	Or those Christmas movies.
	What's your favorite Christmas movie?
	Christmas story?
	Yes.
	Uh Christmas story or a Charlie Brown Christmas.
	Charlie Brown Christmas?
	No.
	What?
	Is that really a cr I guess that's a Christmas movie?
	Oh, yeah, Kevin McAllister.
	Yeah, now listen, that home alone, that kid who's now uh looks like he's 70.
	No, how old is he?
	Must be like 30.
	He's got a new commercial.
	You can see it online.
	It's a it's actually for Google.
	It is a great commercial uh where he's home alone, only now he's a helpless millennial and he uses his Amazon.
	No, no, it must be the Google home pod, actually, uh, to do everything for him.
	That would make a great movie.
	You know what the worst Christmas film is?
	It's a wonderful life.
	I don't get that film at all.
	I mean, it's brilliantly done.
	It's well acted, but it makes no sense at all.
	You know, they show you what the town would look like without Jimmy Stewart.
	It looked much better without him.
	It had nightclubs, it had casinos.
	With him, it was the dullest town in the world.
	So the whole movie makes no sense at all to me.
	Uh anyway, when we come back in the next hour, Greg Jarrett will be with us.
	He's got a book that you gotta read called The Russia Hoax.
	Now, uh, when it comes to Mueller, when it comes to what the hell went on at the FBI with McCabe, Strzok, Paige, Comey, and all their biased partisans, shenanigans tampering with everything.
	He is the expert on it.
	So we'll talk to him uh coming up next.
	We'll get all the latest developments.
	Muller report is supposed to wrap up in February, but we'll go through that with him, and then it's a report that's delivered to the attorney general.
	Supposedly he can just throw it in his desk and ignore it if he wants, but Congress will try to subpoena it.
	We'll find out all about that coming up in the next hour.
	It's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
	Big hour coming up.
	Hey, welcome back.
	It's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity, one of the best books of 2018.
	In fact, the number one bestseller is Greg Jarrett's book, The Russia Hoax.
	You've got to get that book.
	No better book on the subject of Comey, Muller, and all this uh witch hunt.
	Uh Greg Jarrett's latest book, and he's on the line with us now.
	Of course, you see him on uh Fox News.
	Greg Jarrett, how are you?
	Mark, I'm well.
	Great to be with you.
	Merry Christmas.
	Merry Christmas.
	Uh is uh no, I'm hearing rumors that the Mueller report will be wrapped up and completed and handed in in February.
	Now, is this true?
	It just goes to the attorney general and it's up to the attorney general what he'll do with it.
	That's right.
	Under the special counsel regulations, it goes to the A. G. He can give it to Congress, he can make it public, or he can divide it up and only give a summary uh to the public.
	Uh, but you can expect the Democratic House to subpoena the inspector general and try to elicit the information that way if the attorney general doesn't make it public.
	So a lot of uh ifs in that scenario, so we'll have to wait and see.
	I'm skeptical that Mueller will finish up by February.
	We've heard these reports before.
	Uh he was going to be finished up in October and November and December, and you know, here we are, almost January, so we'll wait and see.
	Now uh Adam Schiff on one of these shows has pretty much said they will definitely uh the Congress will definitely subpoena this report.
	What uh legal authority do they have to actually do that?
	Can they do that?
	Well, they can.
	Um there's nothing in the special counsel regulations that say in response to a subpoena you may withhold the information.
	Uh now if the attorney general thin that there is some privileged information in there, uh he could always go to court and fight the subpoena, and that of course, as you know, is a very long process.
	So I I have no doubt that Schiff and others in the house will attempt to get their hands on the document.
	The attorney general may just decide to give it to them anyway, and of course it'll be immediately leaked.
	Yeah.
	Now also, could the attorney general read it and then throw it in his drawer and not say a word about it?
	Is he legally allowed to do that?
	He absolutely is.
	Uh, and in fact, that's happened before with independent counsel, you remember uh uh Patrick Fitzgerald um decided that essentially in the Scooter Libby case, uh he was only gonna make public that portion of the investigation.
	Everything else was kept confidential to this very day.
	So uh just because a report is written doesn't mean it's made public.
	So let's say it's not made public.
	Can they uh Congress legally can they subpoena Mueller to testify?
	And is Mueller free to talk about what's in there?
	He probably would be unless the attorney general sought an injunction or a temporary restraining order.
	Uh and then, as I say, it would become a battle in a federal court.
	Um so, you know, one way or another, Democrats in the House are going to try to make it public.
	And uh, you know, we're assuming, of course, that the information contained therein uh is negative.
	It it may well be something that even Republicans are are welcoming uh in a public venue.
	Well, you listen, we all started out thinking Muller is a straight arrow, Muller will do the right thing.
	But after I used to think that about Comey years ago.
	After watching that and reading your book, I'm not counting on uh Muller doing the right thing.
	I'm I'm looking like the rest of them, he's gonna make it as negative as he can make it.
	I I was actually surprised that the the moment Muller was appointed, everyone jumped on board and said he's the perfect person.
	He's got impeccable credentials.
	I wrote a column the next day saying, wait just a minute.
	He is conflicted by virtue of his close relationship with James Comey, who may w very well be a key witness.
	And in fact, uh Comey has been interviewed by the special counsel as well as Rod Rosenstein.
	That's a disqualifying conflict of interest.
	Muller should never have taken the job.
	Uh and you know, he has more than one conflict of interest.
	He actually has three, as I identify in my book.
	So I, you know, and the fact that he hired a team of 17 partisans, uh, some of whom represented Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation suggests to me that he cannot and will not be fair and objective and neutral.
	Yeah.
	Um what can the president do?
	I know he's talking about uh releasing his own report about the Mueller report.
	Uh well i i mean is that gonna have any effect?
	I mean, what can he say that it would be?
	Uh you you mean the lawyers for Donald Trump?
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	And in fact, I've talked with them about it.
	They have pretty much concluded their report, although they'll modify it depending upon what's in the Mueller report.
	Uh but they're very prepared for this.
	Uh and if the Mueller report is made public, they'll immediately and simultaneously make their report, their counter-report public as well.
	And when you think about it, that's only fair.
	Yeah.
	Uh, you know, Mueller and his team of partisans will uh probably uh write a report that is highly critical of Trump, although it may be entirely circumstantial evidence.
	They may conclude we have uh no definitive proof of collusion.
	Um it's only fair, therefore, that uh that the president's lawyers be heard as well to present their side of the story.
	This is the problem with prosecutors.
	Prosecutors always only present their version of events, and to any potential defendant or defendant, that's inherently unfair.
	Yeah.
	Hey, the best book on this subject is Greg Jarrett's book, Get It, The Russia Hoax, uh, number one bestseller, best book on this subject.
	Now, can the uh I guess the acting attorney general is afraid to do too much here, and there's probably no chance that we get the new attorney general confirmed before the Mueller report.
	But if we did, couldn't he step in and say uh he could fire Rod Rosenstein?
	He could say, you know what, you're all over the map here.
	Stick to this, just look at this.
	Yes, and you know, much depends on how quickly uh the Senate Judiciary Committee can confirm William Barr, the uh nominee.
	Um and uh, you know, the people I've talked to up on the Hill uh on the Senate side say they think he can get done pretty quickly within about five or six weeks.
	Uh Democrats will drag their feet, so we'll wait and see.
	But you know, the the person that is more conflicted than anyone else is Rod Rosenstein.
	You know, the the special counsel regulation specifically state that if you have a personal or political interest in the case, you must recuse yourself.
	My goodness, he's a witness.
	He wrote the memo for the Firing of James Comey and Mueller interviewed Rosenstein.
	So think about this.
	Rosenstein is Mueller's boss.
	Uh, and yet the subordinate interviewed the boss, who may in the long run determine what action will be taken.
	That's uh that's uh a terrible conflict of interest.
	Rosenstein should have recused himself a long time ago.
	And the fact that he hasn't suggests that he is biased and motivated against Trump.
	Well, you've been saying this since day one, and of course you're absolutely right, but w wh why doesn't somebody just throw him the hell out of there and say you you gotta you gotta recuse yourself?
	I think the political optics were negative for Trump.
	Uh Trump certainly had the authority to fire Rosenstein, especially when uh evidence emerged that Rosenstein was trying to get others to tape record secretly the president and depose him under the 25th amendment.
	Uh and of course, you know, Congress wanted to hear from Rosenstein to answer those questions.
	Did you do this?
	And he continued to defy their requests and slow walked it uh until Democrats uh took over the house.
	So, you know, uh Rosenstein could have been fired, should have been fired more than any person at the Department of Justice.
	Yeah.
	Hey, uh Greg Jarrett, we only got like a minute left, but the Southern District of New York, that's the local U.S. attorney here, is looking all through uh Trump uh organization business here in New York.
	W wouldn't a new attorney generalist just say, stop that.
	There's no report of any crime there.
	Wait till something is discovered.
	Well, you're right.
	A good incompetent and responsible attorney general uh would say, show me why you are doing this and what real evidence that you have that connects uh the president of the United States to any of these things.
	And especially since it was motivated by Robert Mueller.
	None of this has anything to do whatsoever with Trump Russia collusion.
	These are collateral issues that are being driven driven, I think, by a personal and political animus toward Trump.
	Yeah.
	Uh hey, and the U.S. attorney seems to be a very good guy, Jeffrey Berman here in New York.
	So he's had to recuse himself.
	It's the uh people under him that are doing this.
	But uh we're not gonna get anything really happening here until we get a new attorney general, right?
	The acting attorney general, probably a little afraid to uh take some action here.
	Well, I think you're right.
	Matthew Whitaker, the acting AG, feels handcuffed by virtue of the political salvos he's been taking.
	So I I you know I think much will depend on how quickly William Barr can be uh confirmed and and take over.
	And you know, not that he is a you know Donald Trump sick of fant.
	Um you know, this is a guy who served as attorney general for two years back in the 1990s.
	He's uh a brilliant legal mind, highly regarded, impeccable credentials, and I think he'll do what's fair and honest and equitable.
	And that's all you can ask in an attorney general, as opposed to Jeff Sessions, who had no earthly idea what he was doing in that position.
	Yeah.
	Well, Greg Jarrett, uh, thanks for taking the time today.
	Uh you got to get his book.
	It's the best book on the subject, The Russia Hoax, number one bestseller.
	It's Greg Jarrett's book, go to Amazon or wherever you want to go, and just get the book, The Russia Hoax.
	Greg Jarrett, thanks for being with us.
	Yeah, you're very kind, Mark.
	Good good to be with you and and happy holiday.
	All right, happy holiday.
	Thanks for thanks for being with us.
	That's right.
	It's uh the day after Christmas, New Year's Eve coming up.
	When is New Year's Eve?
	Monday night, right?
	That's the worst night of the year.
	Every there's so much pressure on you.
	Everybody you talk to.
	What are you doing New Year's Eve?
	Where are you going New Year's Eve?
	You better have a hell of an answer, or they look at you like you're the biggest loser uh to people like me who go out every night to every party, every club, everything.
	I hate New Year's Eve.
	It's the worst night of the year.
	Any place you'd go normally, even the greatest place, if it's New Year's Eve, suddenly it's five times the normal price.
	They don't have the regular menu.
	They got a special New Year's Eve menu, which means like three things that are cheap to serve uh on New Year's Eve.
	Everybody's drunk.
	It's uh the worst night of the year.
	Uh you got every cop in America all over the roads looking for drunk drivers, even if you don't drink or stop on everybody.
	It's a horrible night.
	Stay home, watch the ball drop.
	Uh anyway, we'll come back in a moment and take some calls.
	The uh numbers 800-941 Sean 800-941 Sean.
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	Back in a moment on the Sean Hannity show.
	Hey, welcome back.
	It's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
	Let's take some calls.
	Let's go to uh let me see.
	Let's go to Jane in Arizona.
	Jane, welcome to the Sean Hannity show.
	Well, thanks, Mark.
	How are you?
	Good.
	How are you doing, Jane?
	I'm doing well.
	I just finished the cleanup from Christmas dinner.
	And did you have a big fight at the table with all the relatives?
	Nobody spoke of politics.
	Oh, that's good.
	I know it was dull.
	But at any rate, we had a lovely time.
	I hope you did too.
	Yes.
	And uh what'd you want to say, Jane?
	I wanted to say that as frustrated as we all get as conservatives listening to the mainstream media, Pratt and why, and oh my word.
	I think, and I have done it myself, I decided, all right, I'm wearing my colors.
	And I think if all our conservative friends would wear their colors, I have my magma hat, I go to Costco with it.
	Uh and any other errand I might make, and more often than not, I get many compliments.
	Yeah.
	So we can all if we all started to do that, we could, you know, annoy a liberal here or there, and then find um like-minded people.
	All right, well, that's a good idea.
	Everybody should wear their uh MAGA hat.
	The only thing is it depends where you live.
	If you live in Arizona, you can probably wear your MAGA hat.
	And if you're in, let's say you're in the New York City area, you go up into Westchester or out in Long Island or Connecticut, you could wear your MAGA hat.
	But if you live right in the middle of Manhattan, uh you go to the Upper West Side where all the crazy liberals are, you probably uh can't wear the MAGA hat.
	And if you go down to there's incidents here downtown, you know, Greenwich Village, Soho, where when you wear the MAGA hat, people chase you out of a restaurant, they refuse to serve you, they start uh yelling at you and screaming at you.
	I don't know who's gonna want to have to deal with it.
	But you're right, it's a good point.
	If everybody starts wearing their MAGA hat, what are they gonna do?
	What are they gonna do?
	Throw 50 people out of a restaurant?
	What are they gonna do on that upper west side of the 200 MAGA hats?
	I think that's the key.
	Uh we all got to start wearing it.
	Let's go to Earl, call him from Kentucky.
	Hey Earl, welcome to the Sean Hannity show.
	Yes, thank you for taking the call.
	You know, since the Debs have been playing months, if not years, to impeach Trump because he's not one of the party, one of the good old boys, uh, to be able to change up the plans of the socialist democrats.
	Since Prince President Trump picked Vice President Pence, if he was to publicly come out and say, if you even think you will impeach President Trump, I was picked to follow his goals.
	And I will follow out all of the plans that Mr. Trump has put in place to make America great again, and that would throw them off their game if he was to sick stick the lock and step with Mr. Trump as long as Pence is not also going to try to play the other game and be with the.
	Well, that's a good uh good point.
	Earl, that's an excellent point.
	If uh Pence would come out and say, I will follow up on everything Donald Trump is gonna do, uh maybe that would head off an impeachment.
	But I don't think so.
	I think they'd rather deal with Pence.
	You know, it's not just the policy, it's something about Trump.
	Maybe it's the brashness, the bragging, the boldness, something about Trump that just sets them off.
	They just go nuts when they see him.
	Uh and again, you know, I I like Pence, but who knows if you, you know, he comes from the swamp.
	He's not the outsider.
	Uh, but it's just they just go nuts.
	It's the personality of Donald Trump.
	It's uh he's called them every name in the world.
	Pence hasn't.
	And the other thing is I know they're secretly plotting Democrats to find some way to impeach them both.
	Impeach Pence and Trump together.
	That way, Speaker of the House, Pelosi becomes the president.
	Can you imagine that?
	Uh anyway, back uh in a moment.
	There's more on the Sean Hannity show coming up.
	Hey, welcome back.
	It's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
	Sean will be back soon.
	Uh you got the fake news.
	You know, you can't trust anything you watch on CNN or MSNBC, or I mean, can you take the New York Times seriously anymore or the Jeff Bezos Post or any of that?
	But uh one of the things, and you know, this fake Chuck Todd and fake news, Lester Holt, and whenever you see them say, uh, and they'll quote this all the time on these shows, and the president has been caught lying 7,546 times.
	Now, the way that works, besides uh totally corrupting the news media, uh all the fact-checking sites have been totally corrupted.
	Fact check.org, PolitiFact.
	You can't trust them for a second.
	Even that Washington Post uh fact checker, Pinocchio guy, can't trust it at all.
	For instance, I took a look at them.
	Now, the Washington Post fact checker says President Trump has made 7,546 false statements over 700 days.
	Well, now, if you look into that, you got the most biased guys evaluating this.
	So uh most of them are not lies.
	And here's another thing they did, and this is preposterous.
	Uh, if the president said in one of the rallies or one of the speeches, this is the best economy in history, that's counted as a lie.
	And then they found uh 240 times where he said that in rallies.
	So they're counting that as 240 lies.
	Or uh another one where he said it's the biggest tax cut in history.
	So that's counted uh 390 times that he said it as a lie.
	Now, obviously, every president does that, whether it is or it isn't the best economy in history.
	You can go back to any president out on the campaign trail, they speak in those slogans, best economy in history, the best tax cut in history.
	It's a normal thing for any president to say.
	It's a campaign boast.
	You can't count that as a lie.
	So whenever you see these uh crazy numbers, president has been caught lying, 7,500.
	It's remember, it's a lot of nonsense like that.
	Uh hey, the other thing going on, this has been uh the year you look back at 2018.
	What a me two year this has been.
	I mean, if you went back a few years ago and you told somebody you'll see Bill Cosby go to prison in your lifetime, they would have thought you were insane.
	But here he is sitting in prison right now, less moon vests.
	You couldn't be a bigger, more powerful guy in the entertainment industry.
	He's gone, doesn't even get his severance.
	They said he lied to the investigators, covered up in the investigation.
	Hey, by the way, a lot of top CBS people wanted to see the report.
	CBS brought in some big law firms to do a massive investigation.
	And there were people at CBS that uh were waiting to read these uh this final report.
	Well, it turns out there's no written report.
	Uh CBS hired these big law firms and uh totally uh unprecedented, you never do this.
	They said to them, don't write a report, just report to us verbally.
	So nothing is in writing.
	That gives you an idea of how creepy whatever he did uh was, is they don't even want it in writing.
	Then of course you got Harvey Weinstein.
	You know, uh one of the interesting cases is Kevin Spacey who got caught.
	In fact, it's so bad, uh, one of them has gone criminal, and on January 7th, he's gonna be arraigned in Massachusetts.
	Now they say they're gonna arraign him in Massachusetts.
	They don't say whether he'll be there to be arraigned, but it's January 7th.
	One thing about Spacey, it was 2017.
	He vanished off the face of the earth.
	Even his friends, people that know him said they had no idea where he was.
	And the uh best word was that he was hiding on some island in the South Pacific, totally hiding.
	Maybe that's what you do if you're uh Me Too guy, but he's just released a video.
	It's on YouTube.
	It's already gotten seven million views.
	It's the creepiest thing you'll ever see.
	We're not gonna play it, it's just too creepy.
	It's Kevin Spacey, and he's in character as the creepy guy on House of Cards, as Frank Underwood.
	And he does the same Frank Underwood creepy character, and he looks into the camera and he purrs in this creepy voice, you knew what I was up to.
	And then there's a part where he says, I know you want you want me back, as he pur I don't know what the point of this video was.
	And why do this when you're finally about to be arraigned in a criminal charge, a district attorney in uh the Cape and Islands, Massachusetts, is going after him.
	But as I said, it's got seven million views already.
	Hey, the big news today, uh two things, two big breaking stories today.
	President Trump visited Iraq.
	It was a surprise visit for Christmas.
	It was the president and the first lady, uh, the press, the fake news Starting to go after him for being the first president.
	This was their big scandal of the day.
	Big first president not to visit the troops on Christmas Day.
	Well, it turned out he had.
	And it wasn't in response to those stories.
	This had been planned for days and days and days.
	Takes a lot of planning, obviously for security reasons, to get the president over there and back.
	It was a very secret flight, curtains drawn on Air Force One.
	Uh I don't actually Air Force One.
	They probably took a different plane.
	Curtains drawn, lights out on the flight, top security.
	He was on the ground for several hours in uh Iraq, addressed the troops, then met with them and took selfies with him, all that stuff, and he's back.
	It was a great visit.
	He said he plans to visit Afghanistan at some point.
	So that's a big breaking story today.
	Now the other thing, this will really infuriate Democrats, because the other big uh narrative was how the whole economy is crashing, the market is crashing.
	Today was an unbelievable day in the stock market.
	It closed up almost eleven hundred points.
	That's huge.
	Up a thousand eighty-six points, almost eleven hundred points.
	That's the biggest one day increase in seven years.
	Phenomenal day in the economy.
	You gotta figure tomorrow uh will be more of the same.
	Anyway, let's take some calls.
	Let's go to uh let's go to New Jersey.
	Uh let's go to Rob.
	Rob, welcome to the Sean Hannity show.
	Hey, Rob.
	Hey Mark, how you doing?
	Thanks for taking the call.
	Yes.
	What'd you want to say, Rob?
	I love you.
	If I didn't have to work so much, I'd love your show more often in the morning.
	Oh, thanks.
	Well, normally I'm on WOR here in New York, 10 to noon.
	But what do you want to say?
	Well, I uh I took a little note and I dialed the phone because I heard what you said about the hatred for Donald Trump, and I owe and I always hear this phrase, hatred for Donald Trump.
	I have a little bit of a different opinion about that.
	I don't think it's the hatred.
	I think it's the fear about the uh the agenda over the last 20, 30 years at least of the intentional downfall of the middle class and America in general, as both Republicans and Democrats enrich themselves as they're really all on the same team.
	Uh both paid actors, they're all paid actors, whether it's from campaign donations or what have you.
	So I just I think the hatred thing is an easy scapegoat as opposed to really what the true agenda is of the establishment, really.
	Well, okay, I know I understand what you're saying.
	And you're absolutely right.
	Republicans and Democrats have been awful on this for decades, whether it's both parties leaving the border wide open, both parties allowing Obamacare, they've been in all both parties in bed with the lobbyists.
	It's been horrible.
	I can see why the Swamp hates Donald Trump.
	He's there to bust up their game.
	But the public, the liberals and the public joined in.
	Suddenly they're uh engaging in McCarthyism uh with Russian witch hunts.
	Uh suddenly they're defending the Swamp.
	Why do you think that is, Rob?
	Well, uh, you know, you mentioned the public.
	See, the establishment is a lot more uh they're profiting from it directly, so you know why they want to keep them uh out of power.
	But the I have a phrase uh on my page that I I use is called media zombies.
	Uh it's unbelievable to me that such a large percentage of the America, and I think it's it's really is changing, um, but they're really don't think for themselves.
	So this media zombie uh mentality is just unbelievable.
	They believe what they're told, and it's slowly starting to turn.
	But you know, on my page, I try and do my part every day, and uh it's really it's a shame when you see and you run into people and you try to talk to them, and they really have no idea what's truly going on with that.
	I call them evil geniuses about their intention of this country.
	All right, well, Rob, thanks for calling.
	Yeah, uh, I mean, listen, the media was always crazy liberal, always you go back to Dan Rather.
	He listened he was the founder of fake news.
	I mean major modern day fake news.
	You remember he had a whole fake story on Bush going A-Wall.
	It was so bad that CBS fired him.
	He was the main anchor.
	He was the face of CBS News, but his fake news was so bad, even CBS had to throw him out and fire him.
	And then uh I I'm trying to remember after rather it uh I guess it calmed well, oh Obama won.
	I guess that's what calmed things down for a while.
	And I I don't know if it's just uh 2018, people are so spoiled and immature, they just can't cope with uh losing anything.
	You know, normally when you lost the election, uh the other side won.
	All right.
	So, you know, you wait four years and you win it back.
	You look for candidates, you look for issues.
	Of course, you uh you attack the current president when you can, you know, when it when you're asked, you attack him on issues, but this crazed, insane presidential harassment trying to take him out every day with another fake made up scandal.
	And it, you know, uh everything they point to, you know, uh he fires uh General Mattis.
	Uh, all of a sudden, fake news, the public, the liberals go crazy.
	It's total chaos in the White House.
	How could he fire?
	Total chaos.
	Obama went through four secretaries of defense in rapid fire.
	There was a period where Obama had four secretaries of defense.
	In fact, Obama fired Mattis at one point.
	And it was a nasty, ugly firing.
	He didn't even tell him.
	He just fired him, and Mattis had to hear about it on TV.
	So I didn't hear much about that back then.
	You know, whatever thing they bring up, they call this whataboutism, but uh whataboutism pretty much proves the Democrats to be uh like industrial strength hypocrites.
	You know, like they talk about paying Stormy Daniels to keep quiet.
	That's obviously uh uh campaign finance uh violation.
	Well, no, it's not.
	Uh and you think about Obama.
	You know, there was a point where he offered uh to pay Reverend Wright to keep quiet.
	Remember how Reverend Wright was screwing up the election for him.
	So uh Reverend Wright was approached, offered uh a hundred and fifty thousand dollars by Obama.
	Obama admitted to it.
	So in fact, that offer is actually better.
	So uh Stormy only got 130 there.
	But anything that they're upset about went on all the time.
	It's just the most ridiculous, over-the-top hypocrisy and crazed anger.
	Uh let's go to Joe in Las Vegas.
	Hey, Joe, uh uh welcome to the Sean Hannity show.
	How are you doing, Mark?
	Merry Christmas.
	Merry Christmas.
	Uh, two quick points.
	The first there was a caller that said if Pence would come out and say what, you know, that you would follow the Trump agenda.
	The problem is uh they would go after Pence just like they'd say, ah, he was part of the deal.
	Just like look what they did to uh you know Romney Romney was about as sweet as anything.
	So they'd go after Pence just as hard.
	Yeah.
	And my second my second point was like the reason why they really fear Donald Trump, because he'll actually do what he says.
	So for example, everyone's been talking forever to move the embassy to from to Jerusalem.
	Trump actually did it.
	Trump said he was going to cut all these things, he did it.
	So when Trump says he's gonna build the wall, Republicans, these finals, and the Democrats for sure, are really afraid to say no, he's gonna do it.
	No, that's a good point.
	Well, Joe, thanks for calling.
	Yeah, maybe that's part of it.
	You know, obviously they didn't agree with Bush, and when Bush was president, they sure went after him a lot, but nothing like this.
	But maybe uh as much as they disagreed with Bush, they knew he was a real swamp guy, and they took some comfort in that, that he wouldn't really uh rock the boat too much.
	But uh, this is unlike anything we've ever seen.
	Hey, I mentioned this before.
	Let me just go over this again, because I've heard some serious talk among the hierarchy of the Democratic Party.
	This is a strategy.
	They they've been thinking about this.
	You find a way to not only impeach Trump, but impeach Pence and Trump together.
	You impeach them both somehow.
	If you do that, if you impeach the president and the vice president, speaker of the House becomes the president.
	Uh here's the part two to that.
	Anyone can be Speaker of the House.
	They may not want Pelosi as president.
	Anyone can be Speaker of the House.
	The Democrats with control of the House can vote anybody they want as Speaker.
	You don't have to be a Congressperson.
	You don't have to be a member.
	So let's say they want Joe Biden as president.
	They could remove Pelosi and appoint Joe Biden as Speaker of the House.
	In other words, they impeach both Pence and Trump, and then they pick who they want as president, appoint them Speaker of the House, and they would get the job.
	I know it sounds crazy, but it's possible.
	Uh odds are a million or when they could pull this off, but I know they've thought about it.
	Anyway, we'll come back in a moment.
	It's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
	Hey, welcome back.
	It's the Sean Hannity Show.
	Mark Simone here for Sean.
	You know, you Democrats, you've got a real problem with this Hillary Clinton.
	I don't know what you're gonna do about this, but you're not getting rid of her that easily.
	You know, every poll shows Democrats want a fresh new face.
	Obviously, uh Hillary is the biggest loser of of all time.
	I mean, just loses every you know, first time she runs for president, a rookie came out of nowhere and took the nomination from her.
	Second time she runs for president, a total amateur in his first race ever in the history in politics uh takes it away from her.
	So uh yesterday she tweeted out uh a Christmas message, and the picture with it is a picture of her in the White House.
	I mean, this is getting creepy.
	Uh you know, remember when she was running and they would tell you the most qualified uh person ever for president, which of course wasn't true.
	George H.W. Bush had a far greater resume.
	Nixon had a greater resume when he ran.
	Uh most qualified?
	You know, they said she's destined to be now she's like the old woman in Sunset Boulevard, you know, trying to make some sort of weird comeback.
	So I don't know what you Democrats are going to do about her, but uh uh if you hope to have any chance in uh 2020, you're gonna have to like lock her up somewhere or kidnap her or something.
	Hey, it's been a great day, unbelievable day.
	The Dow up almost eleven hundred points, biggest day in seven years.
	The president uh visited Iraq.
	That was the breaking news earlier, and it was a great visit.
	Uh, we're just about out of time.
	Uh, Sean uh we'll be back soon.
	I'm Mark Simone.
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	Uh follow me on Twitter, Mark Simone NY at Twitter.
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	It's New Year's Eve coming up.
	Then it's 2019.
	Predictions.
	Uh see.
	I think the tech industry has a big problem.
	I think finally Congress steps in and starts regulating it, uh, controlling your privacy.
	I think if anybody's gonna have uh a bad year, it's the tech industry.
	But it'll be a good year for us.
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	Thanks for listening and have a great new year.
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