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We are in the swamp in Washington, D.C., the sewer, if you will.
Anyway, we're here for the State of the Union tonight.
We're going to go through a good preview of what we expect.
We have Newt Gingrich today.
We got, oh, this is going to be great.
Dan Bongino, Geraldo Rivera.
You know what we're going to have them debate?
Let them debate what the president tweeted out that the radical, extreme, left-wing Democratic Socialist Party, you know, they're now with a party.
What are they fighting for?
They're fighting, oh, for late-term abortions, higher taxes, actually wealth confiscation, if you like Elizabeth Warren's policies, or the 70% tax rate of Ocasio-Cortez, or, you know, they're all trying to outdo each other, or the 90% tax proposed by others.
You know, what just happened, you know, just moments ago, you have Democrats in the United States Senate blocking a bill there that requires medical care for babies that survive an abortion.
I mean, you would think that there's got to be a limit here.
And it's so revealing in terms of the left wing in this country.
It's so revealing when you have a governor, a prominent governor of a prominent state saying, well, the baby will be delivered under those circumstances, and we'll make sure the baby's comfortable, and then the mother will decide.
Third trimester abortions, these are done with the consent of obviously the mother, with the consent of the physicians, more than one physician, by the way.
And it's done in cases where there may be severe deformities.
There may be a fetus that's non-viable.
So in this particular example, if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen.
The infant would be delivered.
The infant would be kept comfortable.
The infantry would be afraid.
The infant would be resuscitated if that's what the mother and the family desired.
And then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.
Oh.
If you don't feel the callousness in that, if it doesn't move you in some way, this is about brutality, utter brutality, infanticide.
And we just now had an opportunity to fix that in the U.S. Senate, but the president's right because this is now growing.
New York, the Commonwealth of Virginia, Rhode Island, New Mexico, California, now add to the list the entire Democrats in the Senate because they blocked the effort to pass legislation clarifying that babies who survive attempted abortions must receive medical care.
In other words, they're outside the mother's womb and alive.
They don't support that.
It's called the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.
And it's happened.
By the way, give a hat tip to our good friend Senator Sass.
What a disappointment he's been, but he's right in this case.
And he was right to fight for this.
And by the way, and if you think those bills have had, now look at Vermont.
Vermont, they're now going to take it to a whole new level.
I couldn't believe what I read today when it says their bill declares that every individual has a fundamental right to choose or refuse contraception or sterilization.
Okay, fine.
Every individual who becomes pregnant has the fundamental right to choose to carry a pregnancy to term, give birth to a child, or to have an abortion.
Okay.
A fertilized egg embryo or fetus, now fetus, think of that word, shall not have independent rights under Vermont law.
And what distinguishes the Vermont bill from New York, Virginia, Rhode Island, it would permit abortions.
This is on the blaze.
I'm reading it right now today, without consideration of any viability, which is obviously a major point of contention in the abortion debate.
And that is, okay, viability means the child is so developed, it doesn't need the mother to live.
It can live out on its own.
And that's a huge distinction.
You know, all the people that I know that describe themselves as pro-choice, I know people that disagree with some of my politics.
I've asked them all, as many as I can get a hold of, well, how do you feel about what the Virginia governor said?
Without exception, they were aghast, called it ghoulish, evil.
And I actually think it's making them rethink their position in some ways.
So we have what is now emerging, everything that I told you.
We don't have a moderate Democratic Party any longer.
This is now the opposition hate Trump Party.
Well, we're going to learn in the days and weeks ahead, do the Democrats in Congress led by Pelosi and Schumer, because I think the immigration deal that was offered, number one, Chuck Schumer almost sounded like Trump just a couple of years ago in terms of funding and building a wall.
They said they care about children and dreamers and DACA.
The president offered that as part of a deal they wouldn't sit and negotiate.
Actually sent aides to sit with the vice president.
They actually said no when invited to the White House to talk to the president, negotiate a good deal.
And then what do they stand for?
What, the Ocasio-Cortez green energy plan that she's now slowly beginning to unveil and literally saying yesterday that the Green New Deal is going to cost $7 trillion and that we're going to get off all fossil fuels in 10 years, but the world's going to end in 12 years, which makes no sense at all.
But all of that, or maybe you support Kamala Harris and her extremism.
She said Medicare for all in nobody can have private insurance.
Then she flipped back and then she flipped back to what she originally said, that the government health care for all, universal health care for all, nobody can have their own personal private plan.
Then you got Ocasio-Cortez 70% rate on taxes.
Some are talking about, I think, Congresswoman Omar, a 90% tax rate.
Then you've got Elizabeth Warren's brilliant idea, speaking of extreme radical socialist Democrats.
Now keep in mind, everywhere, every time socialism has been tried, it fails.
Look at Venezuela.
More oil reserves could be the richest nation on earth, and yet the corruption, the promises of perfect everything government provided everything, they live in poverty, squalor.
It is, look at what's going on.
It is such a waste.
Now, all of this is what they stand for.
Elizabeth Warren, well, let's have a wealth tax.
So in other words, after you've been taxed on your money, and I'm not talking about capital gains even, you've been taxed federally.
You paid your state income tax.
If you live in New York, New Jersey, whatever, California, 13.5%.
You pay your federal income tax bill.
Remember, the top 10%, well, they pay nearly 80% of the taxes.
20% pay 90% of the taxes.
The bottom 50% of wage earners, well, they only pay 2%.
I'm looking for the clock.
I don't know where it is.
Oh, there it is.
So, you know, by the way, there's a great point.
So she wants to then, after you paid all your property taxes, sales taxes, income taxes, state income taxes, federal income taxes, hidden taxes, fees, and everything else, whatever you get to save, let's say you just put it in a bank account.
If you're deemed to have too much that you saved, then Elizabeth Warren wants to empower the government and come in and take yet another huge chunk of it.
And then when you die, then they take a full 40% more.
And if you live in New York, the state of New York takes 10% more.
So that's half of anything you had left after you already paid all your taxes.
Well, how is that going to help?
Now, if you want to know what's going to happen, let's just look at the state of New York because Andrew Cuomo might have just basically, and this is going to happen in California, it's happening in New Jersey, it's happening in Illinois.
They are losing tens and tens of thousands of their population every year.
And guess what?
States like Florida and Texas this last year alone gained nearly 400,000 people moving into their states.
Huh, what do they have in common?
None of those states have a state income tax, and they have lower taxes, less regulation than any of the states where people are leaving.
So those states, low tax or no income tax states, 400,000 new people a year.
Oh, New York, tens and tens of thousands of people.
New Jersey said, same thing.
The only thing I'm going to say: if you're leaving these liberal states because of what they've done to it and how they've destroyed it, you got to understand, don't bring those policies with you and destroy the state you're going to and ruin it for the people that insisted on it in the first place.
Now, even the governor admits, listen to Governor Andrew Cuomo, there's a microcosm of what's going to happen nationally because revenue now, he announced yesterday, state income revenues have gone down $2.3 billion.
Oh, wait a minute.
I thought they were supposed to go up redistribution.
And he reveals something in this.
Listen to this.
We have one of the most progressive tax codes in the United States, which is a good thing, which means the richer you are, the more you pay.
However, that presents a very fragile economy because then you are relying on a very small number of people for the vast amount of your tax dollars.
1% of the taxpayers pay nearly half of all the taxes.
1% pay nearly half of all those taxes.
Those 1% are the richest people in the state.
They're the richest people in the country, and they are the most mobile people in the country.
And you see the chart on the bottom.
Top 1%, about 46%.
Top 5%, 63% of all the revenue.
Top 10%, 74% of all the revenue.
Tax the rich, tax the rich, tax the rich.
We did.
Now, God forbid, the rich leave.
Oh, God forbid the 1% that pays 50% of the bill says, you know what?
You're pretty much legalized stealing against me and I'm out.
I'm out.
And I'm taking my money with me.
Hello, Florida.
Hello, Texas.
Hello, nicer weather.
Hello, a beautiful ranch.
Property's cheaper.
Taxes are cheaper.
You know what?
Lifestyle is even better for a lot of people.
What is happening in New York?
Why wouldn't they leave?
You're pushing them out.
You know, it's funny, the mayor was talking about a guy named Ken Griffin, some hedge fund guy, in New York, bought this massive penthouse, $238 billion.
And the mayor, you know, this is about another chance of income inequality.
And when you look at the numbers, you know, all right, so some guy has a lot of money, buys this huge, massive apartment.
Well, the penthouse gives the city of New York $10 million.
They didn't do anything for that money.
But because that rich guy, whoever he is, spent $238 million on a stupid apartment, I mean, it's nuts.
But $10 million for the city, and that includes more than $6.7 million for paying for the real property transfer and mansion tax in New York.
Never heard of these things.
Then there's the mortgage transfer tax, which is 2.175%, the value of the all-home purchase over $500,000.
And it goes on from there.
This is good for the city of New York.
Now, let's say the guy doesn't want to pay those tax.
Maybe he'll buy his next condo in Miami, like so many other people do.
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One of my core complaints or concerns about the Kavanaugh confirmation process was the lack of a real FBI investigation of credible allegations of sexual assault.
And I think we owe the Lieutenant Governor the same sort of thorough investigation that was not done in the case of Brett Kavanaugh and those allegations.
Oh, really?
Where are all of the rush to judgment, no due process, no presumption of innocence, Senate Democrats?
Let's see, Richard Blumenthal, Diane Feinstein, Kirsten Gillibrand, presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, and so many others that went out there, and even with the most bizarre and unsubstantiated allegations.
Remember, in the case of the client of Michael Avenatti, you know, the story, it did change at one point, but the story originally was, well, it was almost on a regular basis on weekends, and that there was a group of boys.
And I remember Judge Kavanaugh was part of this group, and they would spike the punch at these weekend parties, and then the boys would line up in the hall and wait their turn to gang rape teenage girls.
And it happened often.
And, well, then the story changed.
Well, I saw him near the punch bowl, and I once saw him give a red solo cup.
He wasn't standing in line, and that story fell apart rather quickly.
There should be follow-up when allegations such as that are made.
Now, remember when Avenatti was accused of something, and I said, I will give him the benefit of the doubt and the due process and presumption of innocence.
He didn't give Judge Kavanaugh.
Interestingly, three separate investigations in Southern California into Avenatti exonerated him.
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We're in our nation's capital, Washington, D.C., preview of the president's State of the Union address.
So I went into great detail.
Now we just had the U.S. Senate.
Now we've got Vermont joining New York, Virginia, Rhode Island, New Mexico, California.
And in the Senate, Democrats block a bill that would, legislation that would clarify that babies that survive attempted abortions must receive medical care.
I didn't think it could get any worse.
Vermont's even goes further than anything they were talking about even on the surface in New York or Virginia.
Then I went over the fact that, oh, Andrew Cuomo's upset because tax revenues have plummeted by $2.3 billion.
That's just since he introduced his budget last month.
Now, maybe of the tens and tens of thousands of people that left last year, maybe because he even admitted that, you know, 1% of New Yorkers pay 50% of the state income tax, 1%.
And now he's saying, uh-oh, that's a problem.
New York's losing population.
New Jersey's losing population.
Illinois' losing population.
California's losing population.
And guess who's gaining it?
As I said, Texas and Florida, nearly 400,000 new people last year alone.
I mean, it's absolutely crazy.
Now, they're, and I told you about Mayor de Blasio.
He's angry at a guy that bought a $238 million condo.
Some hedge fund guy.
I'd never heard of him.
Anyway, well, that means over $12 to $15 million for the city of New York just for that one transaction.
Well, you could do a lot of good with the $10 or $15 million from that transaction.
And the idea is, what happens now if you push people out of a state?
Okay, then they go to another state.
What if the whole country, what if Ocasio-Cortez's green energy plan, which she unveiled, the Green New Deal, that she's introducing with Ed Markey and that she calls a national social industrial economic mobilization on a scale not seen since World War II.
But by the way, actually, World War II wouldn't even quite cover the cost or the price tag of this.
And though it lasted less than four years, World War II was the most expensive war in U.S. history, adjusted for inflation for today's dollars.
That war would cost over $4 trillion.
And Ocasio-Cortez is talking about $7 trillion in this green energy boondoggle.
But this is now, listen, Nancy Pelosi is afraid of Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez and the radical, frankly, the one who keeps making anti-Semitic statements, Congresswoman Omar.
That is a problem.
But this is the whole party.
This is now the party of late-term, partial birth abortion, of extraordinarily high tax confiscation, Casio-Cortez, you know, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Medicare for all.
And Kamala Harris says you can't keep your own health insurance plan.
Forget about keeping your doctor your plan and paying less.
How did that work out for you?
How did all those promises work out when Obama was pushing Obamacare?
Oh, it's not a tax.
Oh, it's a tax.
Oh, and it's not a tax.
And once you have legislation, we've learned something, haven't we?
Kind of hard to get rid of it as we've been trying.
You know, but what they're talking about, Ocasio, get rid of all fossil fuels for the first time in decades.
Thank you, Donald Trump, because I've talked about this for decades on my show.
We are now energy, the biggest energy producer in the world in terms of oil.
That's right.
More than Venezuela, more than Saudi Arabia, and more than Russia, the hostile regime of Vladimir Putin, the hostile actor.
That is great for the United States.
Why?
Remember in the boom in North Dakota and Texas and Oklahoma, what was happening?
Truck drivers were making $100,000 a year.
How do I know?
Because we partnered with the oil companies right here on this show, and people that weren't making anywhere near $100,000 were packing up, moving to North Dakota to pursue a better life for themselves and their family and their kids and their grandkids.
You know, she's literally talking about World War II-level mobilization.
Now, then you got the wealth tax.
Wealth tax?
Well, that's money that's already been taxed.
By the way, they'd get another bite when you drop dead.
You pay to die if you have any money left in this country.
It's not their money.
Now, look at what's happened in New York.
So Cuomo knows that 1% of the New York population pays over 50% of the state income tax bill.
Now tax revenues in a month have gone down $2.3 billion in projected income.
Tens of thousands of people have left.
Okay, let's say we put this on a national scale.
Let's say Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax becomes law.
Let's say Ocasio-Cortez's dream of no fossil fuels in 10 years becomes law.
Let's say that the Medicare for all you can't have private insurance plan of Kamala Harris becomes law.
Let's say that they're taking 70 to 90 percent of the wealth of people.
What do you think is going to happen nationwide?
In terms of repatriation, you know how many people in the Obama years slowly saw that this is going downhill?
They packed up and left.
So I would assume, maybe this is a crazy assumption on my part, that the people that left New York because of, and New Jersey and Illinois and California because of confiscatory taxes and burdensome regulation and moved to low-tax states like Florida, Texas, and others, and the Carolinas, et cetera.
Why do I think if that's what this government ends up doing?
Well, those people are going to leave the country.
Now, I know it's fashionable to have wealth redistribution because this is what Democrats always play to.
The idea that you'll confiscate from one group of people and you'll give to a whole other group of people and there's more have-nots than there are haves.
And we're going to do that.
Okay, the problem is, and I know that left-wing websites hate whenever I talk about this, but it's true.
As somebody that started my adult life with no money, and I have been financially independent pretty much since I'm out of high school.
Actually, since I've been out of high school.
And the only thing that my parents paid for then was, you know, my high school.
I went to a Catholic high school.
You know, papers delivered at 8.
That was my money.
Dishes washed at 12 by hand.
We didn't have a machine.
I still resent that.
I got $2.35 an hour.
And I got two St. Paul de Girl beers every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night.
And I'd fly home on my bicycle.
And then I worked my way up.
Then I was a short-order cook.
And then I was a busboy, then a waiter, then a bartender.
Then I got into construction.
I really thought I wanted to do construction for a living.
And I did everything.
I learned how to be a painting contractor.
My buddy Andy Feehan taught me how to hang wallpaper.
I learned then how to lay tile years later, but I learned framing and roofing and reconstruction and pulling down in New England, Rhode Island, old horse hair plaster and hanging wallboard and, you know, spackling and doing everything in between.
Then I slowly, I mean, I worked five years in Rhode Island with my hands after falling off a roof two and a half or three stories, whatever it was, and busting up my teeth and dislocating my arm and breaking the radial head.
But I didn't have insurance at the time, interestingly enough.
But I offered to do work for the doctor that took care of me.
And he said, sure.
Unbelievable.
But you're going to lose your freedom.
Everything they promise you, we're going to take care of your school.
How's our public school system working out?
We pay more per capita per student with the worst results.
You can't screw it up anymore with an unholy alliance with teachers unions and the Democratic Party.
Teachers in New York accused of sexual crimes of children.
Guess what?
They get paid for years and years and years.
You can't fire them.
Some of them should be charged.
It's unbelievable.
Where is this ultimately take us?
Where has this been tried and where has it worked?
Didn't work in Venezuela.
Didn't work in the former Soviet Union.
It's always the same promise.
They will take care of every need you have, every want you have.
They play on people's natural fears that, well, one day I might get old and not have medical care.
One day I might not have a retirement plan.
They're going to offer you cradle to grave, womb to the tomb care.
And what ends up happening every single solitary time a government makes those promises?
They always get rich themselves and the people are denied and the promises are reneged on and the people get screwed over.
And the only ones that get rich are the ones that were put in power by the people that lied to you.
The best, safest, the greatest wealth creation in the history of man is right here in the United States because it's predicated on some fundamental but absolutely core principles for our success.
And that is, we're endowed by a creator with certain inalienable rights, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.
That equals freedom and that equals liberty.
That equals choices that one makes in one's life.
You make choices.
For example, some of my best friends, I mean my best, best friends, decided to be teachers, and they're great at it.
Others decided to be firemen, policemen, first responders.
I know that they knew they would never get rich.
But they work in New York City.
At the time, you put in your 20 years, you get health care and decent retirement for the rest of your life, and then you get to do other things.
Some guys retired at 40, 42, because they joined the force.
Now you have to go 22 and a half years, and then they're going to make it 25 years.
But they knew going in, but they had it inside them.
They wanted to protect and serve and love the job.
Others I know go to Wall Street.
I could not function in a Wall Street environment.
And it's just, you know, move, pushing papers, monies, deals, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
I don't like that.
I like to create stuff.
I love doing finish work when I was a contractor.
I love detail.
I feel blessed beyond measure that I got here.
I remember when I couldn't afford to go to like a local hamburger shop like McDonald's because I just didn't have that money in the budget.
And I wanted it, craved it, still do.
Now I can't go for obvious reasons.
It's not going to look good on TV.
But nobody said life is easy, but you have, every time they give you something, some promise, some false security, you give up your freedom.
You're empowering your government to steal from other people.
Well, Elizabeth Warren is talking about, well, let's go back for another bite of the apple.
That would be the government legalizing theft at that point.
After the fact, the fact that they take half your money when you die, it's not their money.
They don't deserve a penny.
You already paid taxes on that money.
Now, there's a reason every time Reagan did it.
Now Donald Trump's doing it.
Reagan gave us the longest period of peacetime economic growth in history up to that point in history.
And Bill Clinton, after he got walloped in the midterms, his first midterms, 94, and Newt became speaker, era of big government's over, end of welfare as we know it.
Newt Gingrich came in, insisted on real balance of the budget numbers, and they did it.
Clinton was smart enough and agile enough and moderate enough.
He wasn't the rigid ideologue like Obama.
Obama never changed anything, couldn't convince him of anything.
But look, for example, Trump, largest tax cut, deregulation, those two big things, new trade deals that everyone said, oh, it's going to be a trade war, has now benefited us record low unemployment across the board for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, women in the workplace, youth unemployment.
Our vets are going back to work.
And we're breaking records from 1969 in terms of we now have a million more jobs available than we have people on unemployment.
Well, that's because he begged these companies that were parking their money offshore to bring it back at a low rate and invest it in factories and manufacturing centers.
I never in my life got a job from somebody that had no money.
I don't care when I was working in restaurants.
I loved when people could afford to tip me and pay my bills.
And I'd go home with a wad of cash at the end of a busy night.
I was a junior and senior in high school.
I attended bar till 4 in the morning, close the bar, out at 4:30, hit the diner and decide whether I'm going to school the next day or not.
My senior year was usually not.
And, you know, I love that.
But if the people didn't come in and spend the money, when I was doing painting, paper hanging, reconstruction, roofing, framing, tile laying, I never went into a poor person's house.
People had money, and I got to then get paid to provide a service.
You know, you only make money two ways.
You create goods or services.
Either one, the people want need and desire.
And that's it.
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Who is this new Democratic Extremist Socialist Party?
All right, glad you're with us.
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We're live.
We're in our nation's capital.
We're in the swamp and the sewer, obviously previewing the state of the union tonight.
We are getting a little preview of what the president's speech is going to be about.
The theme of the state of the union is choosing greatness, where the president will talk about an inspiring vision for all Americans and the policy agenda that both parties can rally behind to achieve the vision.
And the president's going to try again to get the Democrats to maybe work together for the good of the American people.
Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House, wrote an incredible column that absolutely went viral.
Trump and the trivialists, after State of the Union speech, I challenge you to do this.
And rather than me reading from it, I decided I'd bring our friend, former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, on to tell us, how are you, sir?
Oh, I'm doing great.
And I have to tell you that I was inspired, literally inspired, to write that by the way in which the elite media responded to the leak of Trump's schedule, which as a historian, I thought was a non-event.
And I did a series of tweets pointing out what Church Show's schedule was, what Lincoln's schedule was, what FDR's schedule was.
And frankly, one of our problems is that the group that I've now coined, the trivialists, which I think is a whole new way of thinking about what we're living with, the trivialists know so little history and have so little context that everything leads them to run around being excited and going, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, did you know this?
And so when I did that, I thought, you know, here you've got this clear effort, which we've now sent for four or five days.
And of course, you've talked to the president, and you know this fully.
He wants to reach beyond the partisanship.
He wants to bring us back to making America great again.
He wants to ask us to choose greatness.
I mean, this is potentially one of the great historic visionary speeches in the history of the States of the Union.
And you know, and I know, that the left is just waiting to attack it and oppose it.
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Speaker, you're already too late.
Chuck Schumer attacked it yesterday, declared it horrible yesterday.
I mean, how can you declare something horrible you haven't seen?
It's a great question.
It just tells you how sick these people are.
I mean, we're dealing with a pathology on the left, which is anti-American, radical, and stunningly destructive.
And I predict, you haven't heard me say this before.
I believe Trump is going to win a shocking majority in 2020 because I think the country's eventually going to get that this is just, this is sick.
This is a Democratic Party now running off the deep end.
Well, you know, the president sent out this tweet, and we've been spending a lot of time.
Now I have no idea how the issue of up-to-the-birthing process abortion now is the cause of, let's see, New York, Virginia, New Mexico, California, Rhode Island.
Now Vermont is even outdoing all of them.
And we know what the Virginia governor said.
And I'm thinking, oh, okay, so the baby will be delivered and we'll make the baby comfortable.
Then the mother will decide whether if the baby's in distress that we will resuscitate or not.
And then we'll have a discussion.
And I'm thinking, and then he got into trouble with the pictures of the Klan and all that stuff.
And then the lieutenant governor now is being accused of serious sexual assault.
And all the people that said, I believe, are very quiet as of now.
But my point is, they're the party of late-term abortion, high taxes, open borders, and with that crime.
How did they put themselves in such an extreme position so quickly?
You know, years ago, Speaker Tom Foley, who was a great storyteller, said that they used to have a member who would go on the floor of the House and he would start a speech and talk about this terrible situation.
And he would listen to himself talking about the terrible situation.
And he would get really angry about what he heard himself saying.
And then he would start talking about how truly angry he was about this terrible situation.
And then after a couple more minutes, he was so angry listening to himself be angry that he would become hysterical.
And he said, you could watch him in about seven minutes become totally irrational.
This is a Democratic Party which has accepted a series of premises.
Stealing from everybody else to pay off your constituents is terrific.
It's called raising taxes on anybody but you.
Having an open border is terrific because you don't actually believe in America anyway, so why not let everybody else come in?
The things we're seeing in the last few days, once you accept the premise, as a woman once said to me, this was the decisive moment in my commitment to right to life.
I'll never forget, I was at a lunch on a Sunday at the Ritz-Carlton in Atlanta.
This woman walks up to me with enormous fury, and she says to me, I am sick of all of you who are right to life.
She said, as far as I'm concerned, it is nothing but a malignant tumor.
And I stared at her and I thought to myself, okay, I get to choose baby or malignant tumor.
I think I'll choose baby.
Well, the Democratic Party chose malignant tumor.
And now they've gone a step further because after all, if the tumor survives everything else and is born, now the question I would ask the governor of Virginia before he resigns is, so how many days can the baby be born before it becomes a citizen?
Because in my judgment, the second you're born, you are an American citizen and the federal government has to protect you.
And if somebody kills you, they should be charged with murder.
Well, we know now that the president will address that tonight.
We know that the president, I think he's very serious, and this bothers me that Lindsey Graham has to go out there and tell his fellow Republicans that with 90% of heroin crossing our border and with fentanyl crossing our border, there's a Daily Mail Daily Caller piece out today.
Republicans plan to turn on Trump if he declares a national emergency to build the wall.
That tells me that they, once again, the Republican Party has no backbone.
It tells me, again, they're incapable of taking a tough stand on an issue that is literally, if you look at heroin alone, we're losing 300 people a week.
Now fentanyl, it's getting worse.
And on top of that, you know, all the people that have been victims of crime by that 1 or 2%, the criminal element that integrates itself, for example, with caravans or crosses the border illegally, there's a vulnerability.
Democrats supported all of this just a few short years ago when Obama was president.
Why won't the Republicans support the president and his right to secure the duty, frankly, to secure the border as commander-in-chief?
Look, let me give you a single set of numbers that you can post on your website.
They're 90 and 10.
In the Emerson poll in Iowa this week, when I ask among Republicans, if John Kasich challenges Donald Trump, who would you be for?
It was Trump 90 and it was Kasich 10.
And I would say to any Republican, idiotic enough to oppose the president at a point where, and remember, we're speculating now.
We're assuming that Nancy Pelosi is so unwilling to protect and defend Americans.
She's so representative of a city in which there are now more drug addicts than there are students in high school.
That's apparently, I asked my staff to research it yesterday.
There are in San Francisco today, there are more drug addicts than there are students in high school.
That's the city the Speaker of the House represents.
If she is nutty enough to block defending America and the President of the United States as commander-in-chief uses his power to defend America, any Republican who stands up against that, I think, should be primary and people should understand this is life and death.
This is about the future of America, not about the future of the Republican Party, not about the future of conservatism.
It's about whether America as a civilization has the courage to survive.
You know, it's interesting.
You watch that battle.
And listen, there's going to be a series of guests on both sides.
Democrats bringing in DREAMers.
You know, presidents bringing in angel moms and dads.
You know, the president in this debate with Schumer and Pelosi, he's been standing for safety and security and life and death.
And what is Chuck and Nancy standing for?
Because it seems like they just hate Trump.
Look, I mean, beyond our partisanship, which is obvious, isn't it just sad that having a mother come in who's lost a husband or a son to an illegal immigrant killing them is somehow a partisan statement?
Isn't it a terrible comment on how the anti-American left has now defined our politics?
So that if you want to defend America, that's a partisan issue.
Shouldn't defending America, you know, after 9-11, there was a brief moment when we all thought defending America was a good idea.
After Pearl Harbor, there was a whole period where we all thought defending America was a positive idea.
Today you have, particularly with Pelosi, somebody who is so committed to a San Francisco left-wing extremism that she just can't imagine why one would defend America or why, you know, she's far more concerned about illegal immigrant children at the border than she is about the children who may be killed in the United States who are American citizens.
You know, it's really a moment of choosing like we've never seen before.
What are your thoughts on this Virginia governor?
And now, you know, it's very interesting after the bludgeoning of Judge Kavanaugh and every senator without due process, any evidence, no presumption of innocence, declared, I believe any woman, well, now the lieutenant governor was expected to replace the governor.
Well, now we find out the lieutenant governor is being accused of a serious sexual assault with a woman back at the 2004 convention.
What do you think of all the people that said, I believe then?
And I only have about 30 seconds.
Well, one of my weaknesses is I'm a historian, and I've looked at this stuff over the years.
That's not a weakness.
That's a strength.
That's a strength.
I'm just saying, that is surprisingly.
You are seeing a left-wing ideology beginning to devour itself, and it will look more and more weird.
And my prediction is that it will be annihilated in 2020.
I thought it would take 100 days for them to expose themselves.
I was wrong.
It only took a month.
Mr. Speaker, thank you for being with us.
Always love having you.
All right, as we continue from Washington, D.C. All right, so the Lieutenant Governor Fairfax of Virginia, now accused of serious sexual assault.
And let's go listen to what Democrats, many of those that said, I believe, like Tim Kaine and Chris Coons, let's listen to what they have to say now about, it's one of their own.
Let's see if they believe now.
With respect to the situation with the Lieutenant Governor, I just don't know enough information.
Every person who has, you know, has a claim that they have been sexually assaulted or whatever deserves to tell their own story in their own time.
And that's not yet happened.
So to venture a thought or an opinion about it until she makes a decision whether or not she's going to do that, I just think that would be premature.
I think it's important that the allegations that have been brought forward against the lieutenant governor be thoroughly considered and vetted.
One of my core complaints or concerns about the Kavanaugh confirmation process was the lack of a real FBI investigation of credible allegations of sexual assault.
And I think we owe the Lieutenant Governor the same sort of thorough investigation that was not done in the case of Brett Kavanaugh and those allegations.
Oh, we have the me, well, let's go back to the Kavanaugh hearings, and everyone says, I believe.
Listen to this montage.
Not only do women like Dr. Ford, who bravely comes forward, need to be heard, but they need to be believed.
They need to be believed.
I just want to say to the men of this country, just shut up and step up.
Do the right thing.
Let me just say right at the outset, I believe Dr. Ford.
I believe Ms. Survivor here.
I believe her.
I stand with her.
Do you hope she shows up on Monday?
Do you hope that she talks about her?
I don't think she should be bullied into this scenario.
I believe her.
I believe Professor Ford.
I think she's credible.
Oh, you only believe if it's, you can bludgeon a Republican or a conservative.
You don't believe if it's a Democrat.
The Lieutenant Governor of Virginia Fairfax is accused of forcing a woman to perform a sexual act, physically forcing her.
Now, the accuser has actually hired Professor Christy Blassey Ford's attorney in that particular case.
Wow, this is getting pretty interesting.
All right, we'll watch all of that.
When we come back, we have a great debate on the issue of the radical shift, extreme shift of the Democratic Socialist Party, Geraldo and Dan Bongino.
Later on, News Roundup Information Overload with Kaylee Magenani, Jeff Lord, and your calls as we continue from D.C.
I don't even know why he wants to come and give the State of the Union.
The State of the Union under him has not been good.
And he has been divisive.
And I think he's putting us all in harm's way.
And so he's not worthy of being listened to.
I don't know why anybody wants to pay attention to anything that he has to say.
He lies over and over again.
Like I said, 6,000 lies have been documented since he's been there.
I just can't imagine what he's going to try and say.
But since he is a great liar, he'll say anything because he's capable of saying anything without facts, without research.
And so I'm not looking forward to his State of the Union.
And I hope that people will turn the television off.
Knowing this president, he'll then make some bold new promises and not even make an attempt to fulfill them.
The man has so little integrity that a promise that he makes at the State of the Union means nothing the next morning.
So tonight, it's logical to believe, based on his past speeches, that the president's speech will ignore the reality of his administration, the reality of our economy, the reality of our world, and instead weave a web of fiction.
If past speeches are an indication, the president will be in his own bubble.
Democrats are not focused on the president's rhetoric.
We're focused on fighting for workers in this unequal economy, fighting for American families struggling to avoid health care, fighting to bring a measure of accountability to this government, and fighting for a foreign policy that reflects both our interests and our values.
Yeah, let's trash, absolutely destroy and trash the president's speech before he even bothers to give it.
Pretty unbelievable.
Now, the president, they've given, well, a little bit of a hint of where they're going tonight.
The theme of the state of the union is choosing greatness.
By the way, what a great idea.
Why don't we choose to be as great as we can be, as rich as we can be, help everybody along the way as much as we can possibly do?
The president obviously will be talking about immigration and how to secure our borders.
Certainly, I guess this issue of now what he tweeted out the other night was, well, this Democratic Party has become the party of late-term abortion.
Now we see it in even another state.
And Vermont is worse than all the other states.
I mean, literally, they're saying you can decide on an abortion, like right after birth.
Kind of what the Virginia governor had said as, well, in the Senate, the Democrats literally are blocking a bill right now that would require the medical care of any baby that actually survived an abortion, born alive.
It happens.
It's happened.
Matter of fact, we've interviewed people in years gone by about this issue.
But they're also the party of high taxes, 70 to 90 percent.
They're the party of open borders.
And obviously, they don't care about the drugs coming into the country or the cartels or the gang members or the dangers to innocent men, women, and children that already live here.
Also, the president will be talking about lowering the cost of health care, prescription drugs, protecting our national security, and all of his achievements that the media will never tell you.
He's the only one that I guess can.
Anyway, joining us now, Dan Bongino, former NYPD officer, Secret Service agent, author of the bestseller Spygate, Geraldo Rivera back with us, Fox News legal analyst, author of the bestseller of the Geraldo show.
Thank you both for being with us.
You know, why would now six states, why would the Democrats at this moment in time be pushing so hard, Geraldo, for a bill that allows abortion even after the birthing process dilation has begun?
And think of the words of the governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Well, I'll tell you what will happen.
The baby will be delivered, and then we'll make sure the baby's comfortable, and then the mother will decide if the baby is in distress, whether to resuscitate or not, and then we'll all have tea and crumpets and a discussion.
That's what he said before we learned about the KKK blackface issue.
In terms of late-term abortion, were I the president, I would stress the Virginia example.
Stay away from the issue writ large, but focus on third trimester partial birth abortion and the savage nature of the procedure that would allow, as I read it, any mom with one doctor to declare a child severely deformed, maybe a Down syndrome child.
I've worked my whole life, Sean, to give rights to the developmentally disabled.
And to think now that a Commonwealth or a state would attempt to pass a law that would sanctify what is a brutal taking of a life of someone with real human potential is extremely distressing.
But when I hear Schumer, when I hear Congresswoman Maxine Waters, what I hear is a kind of cruelty, a small-mindedness, especially directed at the president, where they go so far as to undermine their own sense of nationhood and patriotism, Sean.
You know, well, I think it's well said.
By the way, I want to tell everybody in this audience, if you didn't, it did go national at the time.
You've been in broadcasting now for you're going to hit your 50-year anniversary at some point.
No, because I'm throwing you a big party.
I was thinking about that.
Some of the best work you did was exposing the evil, grotesque, horrific treatment of mentally disabled people at what place called Willowbrook in New York.
And that video is still online because recently I showed a friend of mine your great work from that time.
Dan Bongino, is this now the party, as the president says, of late abortions, high taxes, open borders, and crime?
Because I think it is.
Sean, they descended into ideological madness.
I mean that.
Think about it, right?
And it's a serious question.
I know it comes off hyperbolic, but how many breaths does an infant have to take before they're safe from the Democrats' legislative pro-abortion agenda?
I mean, that may sound like a ridiculous question, but is it?
Really?
I mean, we had a prominent governor, not a small timer, in a very important state, Virginia, a swing state, debatably, a swing state, on WTOP, a major radio station, argued that an infant should be kept comfortable while a decision was made.
This actually happened, okay?
This happened.
Everybody saw it.
You just mentioned the Vermont legislation, which is ghastly.
It's absolutely grotesque.
But how many breaths?
How long is there a timeline?
This is a serious question.
I'm posing to the liberals that listen to your show.
I know, because I read the nasty tweets you get from people.
How long is there a timeline?
Somebody reads them.
I don't read them, but go ahead.
No, and listen, you're saving your mental health by not doing it.
Don't worry.
I do it for you.
And I'm sure Linda has seen some of the nasty stuff too.
But it's a serious question.
Is there going to be a day now?
Is it a day five where the infant is safe?
Like, what's your new metric for the safety of an unborn child where they're safe from your legislation, where they're not a choice anymore?
And the answer, Sean, is I have no idea.
This is a ghoulish, ghastly party, and I feel that there's no room left for moderate Democrats anymore.
But damn, this is not even about abortion.
This is not even close to an abortion debate.
And I have friends that, and maybe even Geraldo is one of them, that say they're pro-choice, but they're all first trimester, not viable on its own people.
And when they heard the governor's description, I mean, every one of them used some form of it sickens them that this is grotesque, evil.
You know, an infant being kept comfortable is the essence of innocence, and it's a living, breathing human soul independently living on its own.
And we're going to decide whether we want to keep it or not.
Geraldo.
I think that what people cannot lose sight of is the law of the land now is encapsulated in the decision Roe v. Wade, as controversial as it is.
But if you look at that decision, that keeps the rights to the mother carrying the unborn child until the unborn child is viable, at which time that the viability gives the humanity, not in any religious sense, but in a legal, constitutional sense, once that child can live on its own, even with life support machines or whatever, that child then has the right to be born.
To think that you go, that the Democrats, rather than trying to hunker down as the Supreme Court composition changes, they have tried to and are doing an expansion of Roe v. Wade.
They are saying no, there is no rights in the unborn unless and until the mother and a doctor designate the child as Roe v. Wade.
If it ever, and I don't see it being repealed anytime in the near future, all the fear-mongering that goes on during a Supreme Court nominee and posturing about Roe v. Wade, back alley abortions, it would immediately go back to the states.
And, you know, look at all the states.
I think most of them would allow some form of abortion, and then you'd be able to go to a crazy state like New York.
Now, Vermont is even worse than New York, and what they're proposing, or Virginia, or Rhode Island, or New Mexico, or California.
So it's never, it's not going to be outlawed.
They are proposing in Virginia.
Sean, as you correctly say, and as Brother Dan also reaffirms, this is not about abortion.
This is about infanticide.
This is about a living, breathing human being having its life handed to the decision of a distraught mom and one doctor.
I mean, this is bizarre.
This is way beyond.
This is euthanasia.
This is what they did in totalitarian states when they're trying to purge who humanity is.
And when you look around, look around today.
Look around at every child you see with Down syndrome.
Now they live normal lives.
They work.
They get married.
You say hello.
You see them on TV.
Imagine that every single one of them under the Virginia law could have been snuffed out by a distraught mom and one doctor.
It's just, it is, you can cry over it.
And being pro-choice, pro-life, whatever, I'm pro-humanity, and this is so inhumane.
You know, Dan, but it talks about, look at the green energy proposal that will, you know, here in America for the first time in decades and decades, we are now the largest producer of crude oil in the entire world, beating Saudi Arabia, beating Russia.
We're on track by 2025 to be in a position to create as much energy between natural gas, oil, and coal for the entire world.
We will be, in other words, all of the money and riches you see in these Middle Eastern countries, that would be ours.
But Ocasio-Cortez and the Democrats and their new green deal for America and Medicare for all, which is, what, $32 trillion and Kamala Harris, no health care.
This party's gone so far to the left, I don't see America connecting with this.
You know, Sean, you just teed me up perfectly.
There's an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today, right?
So let's just contrast this.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is advocating for socialism, right?
That's her thing.
Her, Bernie Sanders, they love socialism.
It's their little, it's their thing.
It's their little nugget of goodness, right?
So Venezuela, I don't know if your audience knows this, has the largest oil reserves in the world, larger than Saudi Arabia.
Venezuela is socialist.
We do not have the largest oil reserves in the world, the United States, but we have a good amount.
Sean, do you know the state of North Dakota itself produces more oil than Venezuela, despite the Venezuelans having a ton more oil than we do?
You know why, Sean?
Because we have relatively free markets and we're not socialist imbeciles like these morons running the government, these tyrants in Venezuela.
That is why.
And once we get the Keystone and Dakota pipelines and drilling and AMWAR going, you know, we're talking about literally hundreds and hundreds of thousands of high-paying career jobs, game-changing jobs for all of those American workers.
Quick break.
Right back.
We'll continue.
More with Geraldo Dambongino at the top of the hour, our news roundup information overload hour and your calls.
All right, as we continue, Dan Bongino, Geraldo Rivera with us.
Geraldo is there.
When the president talks about late-term abortion and president talks about the good economy and president talks about the dangers of going back to raising taxes, when he talks about the importance of building the wall and securing our borders, what do you expect the Democratic reaction to be?
Because I pretty much can bet 100% what it's going to be.
I think it's going to be hostility, unremitting confrontation, rigidity.
See, if I were President Trump tonight, I would spend two-thirds of the State of the Union speaking specifically about the state of the Union being how people are faring in terms of the economy.
Thanks to President Trump, thanks to the 45th president, we now have an economy that is humming at basic full employment.
It is historic full employment for many minority groups.
And if I were him, I would stress that.
You congressmen from these urban areas, you want your constituents to get a fair deal.
They're getting a fairer deal with my administration than they ever have before.
Black unemployment at historic lows, Latino unemployment at historic lows.
And hit that and hit that and hit that hard because, Sean, I think that is the economy stupid.
Once you make that argument that everybody, that this rising tide is lifting all boats, then you go into the wall and you hit the wall.
I'm not sure what he's going to do.
I hope it's not a decade.
We're going to put up their Geraldo supports the wall because I finally got you to my side on this.
All right, guys, I got to run.
Replace, repair, expand.
I got it.
And every other technology, protect our country.
This is about, listen, fentanyl, heroin, cartels, gangs.
And by the way, they're only the one or 2%.
They're the ones we're worried about, not the 98% that Democrats say we're trying to hurt.
Quick break, right back.
News Roundup, Information Overload Hour.
Preview of the State of the Union continues.
We're in the swamp, the sewer of Washington, D.C. Coming up next, our final news roundup and information overload hour.
All right, news roundup, information overload hour, Sean Hannity show.
A lot coming up.
We're in D.C., and we are now presently, currently awaiting the president and his big State of the Union address.
That's why we're here in D.C.
Now, some people yesterday got to go and sit with the president and get a preview of what's going to happen today or tonight.
And they're going to join us in just a second.
I want to also get back to the difficulty in what is happening now in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
First, it was the abortion issue.
Well, first, the baby will be born and we'll make the baby comfortable.
Then the mother will decide whether to resuscitate or not.
She decides.
And then afterwards, we'll just have a little meeting together.
I mean, cold, callous.
It's even getting worse, believe it or not, in other states like Vermont, as the Democratic Party becomes more radical, more extreme every single solitary day.
Now we have, but the person who was set to replace the governor, the lieutenant governor, this guy Justin Fairfax.
Well, now he's facing real serious allegations regarding, well, issues with a woman in Boston at the Democratic Convention back in 2004.
And the question is: are all those same people in the Kavanaugh hearings?
That means Diane Feinstein, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, everybody else, Richard Blumenthal, are they all going to have a press conference and say, I believe?
Because what he is accused of is that what started out as consensual kissing resulted in a forced sex act.
So where are the we believe people?
Remember this?
You might recall all this.
Not only do women like Dr. Ford, who bravely comes forward, need to be heard, but they need to be believed.
They need to be believed.
I just want to say to the men of this country, just shut up and step up.
Do the right thing.
Let me just say right at the outset: I believe Dr. Ford.
I believe Ms. Survivor here.
I believe her.
I stand with her.
Do you hope she shows up on Monday?
Do you hope that she?
I don't think she should be bullied into this scenario.
I believe her.
I believe Professor Ford.
I think she's credible.
All right.
I believe.
Well, now we have the accuser of the Virginia lieutenant governor.
Well, he happened to have now hired Professor Christine Ford's attorney.
That's interesting, isn't it?
Anyway, joining us.
Now, they got to go to the White House and hang out with the president.
There's some big meeting and a preview of coming attractions for tonight, and I wasn't invited.
Kaylee McInaney is with us, joins us now.
And also Jeff Lord, two good friends of mine, ran into Jeff in the green room at Fox last night.
I'm like, what are you doing here?
Well, you got to go.
I know you're not allowed to give away everything that was discussed, but there are certain themes that the White House is saying that will be addressed tonight, including, by the way, late-term abortion, high taxes, immigration.
I'm sure the president's track record of success.
This is an opportunity for him to bypass the media that would never tell the country all of this success anyway.
So I'm sure he'll take advantage of that opportunity.
Yeah, absolutely, Sean.
You know, what I found most interesting about this, and you've known Donald Trump longer than I have, but in the time I've gotten to know him since 2013, I think it was when he first got in touch with me, I have heard him constantly talk about, you know, like in visionary terms, I know that's a term that's going to be bantied about here lately, but this whole making America great thing.
I have him on tape, and I'm going to have this in my new book, Swamp Wars.
I have him on tape from 2014 talking about in conversation how he wants to make America great again.
I mean, he really, really believes this.
And he gets up every day.
I mean, you should have seen him yesterday, Sean.
He was pumped up.
I think Kaylee will agree with this.
He is pumped up and ready to go.
He was optimistic.
He wants to do deals.
He wants to move the country forward.
He is all in for this.
And, you know, I'm sorry you weren't there.
You would have loved it.
All right, Kaylee, what was your impression?
I understand the president walked in.
The vice president was running the meeting.
What happened?
That's exactly right.
And the chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, was there.
And Jeff characterizes the president exactly right.
He was pumped up, in good spirits, excited to have this forum to share his accomplishments.
But also, I think an element of this greatness is the choosing part of this.
There will be a very clear contrast tonight.
You'll have a president saying, hey, I want to move forward on border security, and 54 Democrats once voted on that.
I want to move forward on infrastructure.
And all Democrats voted on that in the Obama era.
I want to move forward on the high cost of prescription drugs.
Several areas Democrats have said they want it.
And it's only in the Trump era that they're reversing course.
So I think you'll see a real choice for Democrats to choose greatness with the president.
But the Democratic Party, Jeff, has now emerged into the radical, extreme Democratic Socialist Party.
I mean, they're talking about, I mean, wealth confiscation.
That's Elizabeth Warren's bill.
Kamala Harris wants to take 177 million Americans' health care plans, take them off it, Medicare for all.
One of the big problems with that is, oh, that's going to cost us a fortune, like $3.2 trillion a year every year for 10 years.
Obviously, we can't afford it.
They want full and complete redistribution.
Some are even talking about tax rates at 90%.
Then, of course, oh, Ocasio-Cortez, oh, let's get rid of all fossil fuels in 12 years.
The lifeblood of every economy.
It would drive this economy into the sewer if this insanity was adopted.
Sean, the thing that caught my attention in the last 24, 48 hours is the governor of your home state of New York, Andrew Cuomo, basically coming out and saying, we've taxed all these rich people and they're leaving.
And now we've got a hole in our budget.
What do we do?
How many times have I heard you talk about the tax burden in New York?
Aside from federal taxes, you have the state and local taxes.
Well, they've done this to the max.
I mean, Andrew Cuomo has gone out of his way to make New York Venezuela, and it's working.
And so suddenly now, he is stuck with the results, and he's not happy.
So this is what they plan to do.
And the fact of the matter is the results are starting to backfire on them and, you know, sort of slow motion.
But notice, too.
You know, everything that I was saying to this audience the Democrats would hide in 2018, now they are cheerfully bragging about.
This is what they want.
You know, you mentioned New York is a microcosm.
So is California.
They're losing population by the tens of thousands every year.
And states that have no income tax, low taxes, limited regulation like Texas and Florida, Texas and Florida nearly picked up 400,000 new residents as New York, New Jersey, Illinois, California are losing huge portions of their population.
There is a, and it's all because they caused it.
Now, what are they going to do to solve it?
They're going to double down on stupid and then tax the people that remained even more and chase more people out.
Listen to Governor Cuomo.
We have one of the most progressive tax codes in the United States, which is a good thing, which means the richer you are, the more you pay.
However, that presents a very fragile economy because then you are relying on a very small number of people for the vast amount of your tax dollars.
1% of the taxpayers pay nearly half of all the taxes.
1% pay nearly half of all those taxes.
Those 1% are the richest people in the state.
They're the richest people in the country, and they are the most mobile people in the country.
And you see the chart on the bottom.
Top 1%, about 46%.
Top 5%, 63% of all the revenue.
Top 10%, 74% of all the revenue.
Tax the rich, tax the rich, tax the rich.
We did.
Now, God forbid, the rich leave.
Yeah, they're leaving.
You chase them out.
And states like Florida and Texas, Kaylee McEnany, are flourishing and absorbing massive parts of the population, which, you know what?
It makes sense, doesn't it?
It makes complete sense.
High-tax liberalism doesn't work.
There you have Cuomo admitting what we always knew.
When you raise taxes on the high up, on the billionaires and millionaires, people flee.
When you raise taxes on corporations, when you have the highest corporate tax rate in the industrial world before President Trump came on board, you had corporations moving their headquarters overseas.
High tax liberalism does not work.
Also, what does not work is socialism.
And I'm so glad, Sean, that Democrats are finally admitting what you have always said their true intentions are, which is the single-payer system, one that eliminates private insurance, late-term abortion.
Now we know infanticide, Senate Democrats just blocked a bill prohibiting infanticide.
Hidden intentions are coming out.
It is unbelievable and it is absolutely disgusting.
You know, the funny thing is, and Nancy Pelosi, with her phony Bible quote that wasn't in the Bible, you know, we sent our cameras to her district, Jeffrey Lord, and what do we find?
Needles everywhere.
Once you get out of that rich-specific neighborhood enclave she lives in, and she's worth tens of millions of dollars, and then you got all these homeless people.
Everyone mentioned the feces in the street and the needles all over the place.
And why doesn't she and her rich liberal friends in San Francisco, why don't they build a homeless shelter so that these homeless people have a place to go to the bathroom, take a shower, and maybe get some drug rehab if they're shooting up in the street and leaving their needles there.
You know, this is like watching people try and pretend that gravity does not exist.
These things have real world consequences.
And it doesn't make any difference if they're done in the 12th century, the 20th century, or the 21st century, or the 29th century.
You cannot do things this way and expect any other result than what you're getting.
And they don't seem to understand this.
I mean, listening to Andrew Cuomo, he is becoming the embodiment of Margaret Thatcher's famous saying that the problem with socialism is sooner or later you run out of other people's money.
Well, thank you, Governor Cuomo.
I guess you're catching on to the drift now.
The problem is that there are going to be plenty of people on their side that want to just keep going with this and really make us Venezuela.
And that's where I think they're going to lose big time.
But this has now become the party.
And that's the point.
Kaylee McEnany.
They'd become that party, you know, where they were once, look at the treatment even of Howard Schultz, who's no conservative.
And Joe Biden, you know what?
He will, anyone that gets the nomination is going to be pulled in that direction because that is the Democratic Party.
That's the danger to the country because this is what they want to implement.
And by the way, no energy, state-run energy, state-run health care, confiscatory taxation, 80%, 70, 80%, 90%, redistributing wealth.
It will chase people not only out of New York, New Jersey, California, and Illinois.
It'll chase them out of the country.
They'll leave and they'll take their money with them.
Exactly right.
They will leave.
And, you know, it is Venezuela socialist-like policies.
Make no mistake, that's the true intention.
In fact, go on Bernie Sanders' website right now.
His must-read section, he has a 2011 article where it literally says it's an editorial board that wrote it.
He's featuring it.
The American dream is more apt to be realized in Venezuela.
That is the true intention of the left.
It is sad.
It's disturbing.
But that democratic debate stage is going to expose that because the euphemistic terms of Medicare for all and free college, their ideas are being exposed.
They will take us the way of Venezuela.
People will leave.
They do not work.
They have failed everywhere they have been tried.
All right.
We got to take a break.
We're going to come back.
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We'll get to your calls next half hour, our State of the Union preview as we continue with Kaylee McEnany and Jeff Lord back with us.
All right, Jeff, so this is going to go down.
Chuck Schumer's already condemned the speech yesterday before the president's even given the speech.
So a predictable outcome, right?
Yeah, very predictable.
Although I think I heard him say today that the president was sowing something.
I think he meant sowing, but I'll give him a pass.
Well, he didn't say Navy corpseman five times like somebody else we know.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Yeah, I mean, there's no question.
I mean, this is just going to be a partisan reaction.
And the interesting thing is, since this is, in effect, has long since become a television show, what theatrics are going to we expect?
I mean, I would imagine that Nancy Pelosi will sit there stone-faced.
We've already got, I think, a couple people who are making much of boycotting it.
But, you know, the cameras will zero in, and we'll still see people sitting there stone-faced and rolling their eyes and sitting on their hands.
You know, you're going to have to be very, they are going to have to be very, very careful how they do this.
This is the president of the United States.
He was elected by the American people.
They are all elected officials, and you've got to be careful when you do this kind of stuff on television.
Last word, Kaylee.
That's exactly right.
And I will be keenly focused on Nancy Pelosi because she refused to meet with the angel moms.
Well, tonight she's going to be forced to look an angel family in the eyes that lost their parents.
They'll be the president's guest.
She's going to be forced to look at a young woman affected by the opioid crisis.
Of course, opioids crossing our border daily.
So she's going to be forced in a very uncomfortable situation.
Will she stand for that family?
She certainly should.
I met a young woman who's going to be sitting next to the first lady tonight, last night at Fox.
And, well, I'm just going to say, you're going to want to see this.
Her story is amazing, inspiring, incredible, and yet it reveals all the dangers of these drugs coming across our border.
All right, quick break, right back.
When we come back, we'll hit the phones.
800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
To me, off air, thousands of young girls smuggled into the U.S. take it from there.
Absolutely.
And I spent and raped 30 or 40 times a day.
34 times a day is conservative, frankly, for what's happening to them once they get into the United States.
These kids are coming in, they're being trafficked.
There's Mexican cartoons.
I have two stories just two weeks ago.
Look at these videos we'll see.
Yeah, these are traffickers.
These guys were making child pornography from Haitian children and sending them to our pedophiles here in the United States.
We are the demand.
This is an important part.
The United States is the demand for child sex.
We're the highest consumers of child pornography in the world.
How many young girls are we talking about and how young?
10,000 children, according to State Department TIP report.
10,000 children every year are smuggled into the United States for the single purpose of commercial sex.
And they go to states like New York, California.
They go to the big cities, New York, Atlanta.
How do you know they're raped 30, 40 times a day?
Because we rescue them and we have them out and we're talking to them.
I just talked to one of our survivors who's in our care surviving.
She's scared to death.
She said, it's bad at 10,000 a year.
10,000 children.
Children.
Adults.
You had the adults and you're going to double that.
Why hasn't this been discussed more?
I've been screaming for years about it.
All right.
That was last night on Hannity on the Fox News channel.
Tim Ballard, former DHS special agent, worked for 12 years and 10,000 children a year.
We don't ever talk about the human trafficking side.
They have videotapes.
They follow these kids from Central America, Mexico, sold into sex slavery in this country.
Nobody ever talks about them.
He mentioned to me he had just spoken with one of these survivors and how horrific.
And also how these children are abused and put into films, and the films are trafficked as well.
You know, I know the Democrats, I know Nancy Pelosi didn't have time to meet the angel moms and dads.
And when they were outside her office, she wouldn't take the time.
She didn't take any time for that.
There's nothing, if our Constitution, if our rule of law does not protect the essence of innocence as represented by children and infants that are just born, it will reflect what kind of nation do we want to be.
And now that one party seemingly has doubled down on the idea of this abortion concept in the ninth month when the child's viable, where a sitting governor of one of our great states can literally say, Well, I'll tell you what's going to happen with the new build.
Baby will be born.
Baby will be comforted.
We'll make sure it's comfortable.
Then the mother decides: does the baby live or die?
If the baby's in distress, do we resuscitate or not?
And then we'll have a discussion after she decides with the physician and the mother.
There was a very contentious committee hearing yesterday when Fairfax County Delegate Kathy Tran made her case for lifting restrictions on third trimester abortions as well as other restrictions now in place.
And she was pressed by a Republican delegate about whether her bill would permit an abortion even as a woman is essentially dilating, ready to give birth.
And she answered that it would permit an abortion at that stage of labor.
Do you support her measure and explain her answer?
Yeah, and I wasn't there, Julie, and I certainly can't speak for Delegate Tran, but I will tell you, one, first thing I would say, this is why decisions such as this should be made by providers, physicians, and the mothers and fathers that are involved.
There are, you know, when we talk about third trimester abortions, these are done with the consent of obviously the mother, with the consent of the physicians, more than one physician, by the way.
And it's done in cases where there may be severe deformities.
There may be a fetus that's non-viable.
So in this particular example, if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen.
The infant would be delivered.
The infant would be kept comfortable.
The infant would be resuscitated if that's what the mother and the family desired.
And then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.
So I think this was really blown out of proportion.
But again, we want the government not to be involved in these types of decisions.
We want the decision to be made by the mothers and their providers.
And this is why, Julie, that legislators, most of whom are men, by the way, shouldn't be telling a woman what she should and shouldn't be doing with her body.
That is not, we are better than that.
This is not about politics.
This is not even about abortion.
This is about infanticide.
And in the case of what Tim Ballard was telling me on television last night, and in the days to come, we'll show you more of these videos.
He's got hours of footage.
And I've asked if he would pull it out for us so I can show you, just like the 14 times I've been down to the border over the years for the sake of exposing the drug trade.
I sat in a big, huge, massive drug warehouse once, and floor to ceiling drugs aimed at small town USA, big city USA.
Yeah, the drugs that kill 300 or so plus kids a week, those drugs.
And, well, 90% of them are crossing our southern border.
We've got to increase security at our ports.
We've got to put up a wall.
We've got to do all the above because this for the cartels and the drug dealers and the human traffickers, they don't have a soul.
They don't care about the lives of those kids that they traffic or our kids that can get hooked on this stuff and die.
And that's what it's about.
Republicans want dirty air and water.
They want children to die.
The Republicans want to throw Granny over the cliff.
Well, they tell these lies.
At what point do people that support these policies not bear the responsibility and the culpability of what happens in light of their poor decision making not to safely secure this country and its people?
And because it is life and death, what is the president arguing?
Life and death, safety, security.
What was Chuck and Nancy arguing?
Nothing.
They just want to stick it to Trump.
The question they have as we now move forward: is their hatred for Donald Trump greater than their love of the American people and doing what they themselves once wanted done?
That's what it comes down to.
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
We will start in New York with Devin, the all-new AM710 WOR.
Hi, Sean.
Hi, how are you?
What's going on?
I'm great.
I was just saying I was very excited to hear about the State of the Union because I'm one of the 800,000 federal employees that was furloughed most of January and some of December.
And I was interested to see what Trump was going to have to say about the potential second government shutdown at the end of next week.
Well, I think the president's more inclined, although I'm so angry.
And it was Lindsey Graham who's now saying, Lindsey Graham saying, why won't Republicans, there are some Republicans that don't have the courage to let the president use the military or call a national emergency to do his job.
Same president that was promised by Paul Ryan if he signed that bad omnibus bill that did fund defense, did get rid of the health care mandate, the individual mandate, and he would have vetoed it, but he was promised, we'll get you the money for the wall.
Paul Ryan announces he's resigning.
He goes lame duck.
And then, oh, the president didn't get the money.
So I know him to be tenacious.
He's really unrelenting.
He's not going to stop.
Every single time there's any issue to be dealt with, this president is going to bring up the wall and wall funding.
Anyway, what else are you watching this evening?
Yeah, I'm actually, I was going to say that I'm from New York, so I'm very familiar with what's happening with the current abortion legislation.
And I am very much pro-choice, but I'm just horrified at this new bill.
I don't understand how this could be right.
When it came out, I thought to myself, I read it and I thought, I've got to be missing something here.
There must be some loophole that I'm not picking up on because this can't be right.
This isn't right.
And I don't understand how anybody can read something like that and read about something like that and not be completely angry and disgusted.
And we should just be shouting from the rooftops like, this is wrong.
I just, I'm flabbergasted.
And as a New York citizen, I'm embarrassed to live here.
It's embarrassing, but you know what's interesting?
New York now down billions of dollars because they're running people out of the state.
Remember Andrew Cuomo?
And by the way, thank you for the call.
Andrew Cuomo said, if you're a conservative, well, he also said, nobody needs 10 bullets to kill a deer, which is my favorite.
But Andrew Cuomo said, if you're one of those extreme conservatives and you're pro-life and pro-Second Amendment, and Bob, he says anti-gay.
Nobody's anti-gay.
Their problem is not me and the Democrats.
Their problem is themselves.
Who are they?
Are they these extreme conservatives who are right to life, a poor assault weapon, anti-gay?
Is that who they are?
Because if that's who they are, and if they are the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York.
Because that's not who New Yorkers are.
We have one of the most progressive tax codes in the United States, which is a good thing, which means the richer you are, the more you pay.
However, that presents a very fragile economy because then you are relying on a very small number of people for the vast amount of your tax dollars.
1% of the taxpayers pay nearly half of all the taxes.
1% pay nearly half of all those taxes.
Those 1% are the richest people in the state.
They're the richest people in the country, and they are the most mobile people in the country.
And you see the chart on the bottom.
Top 1%, about 46%.
Top 5%, 63% of all the revenue.
Top 10%, 74% of all the revenue.
Tax the rich, tax the rich, tax the rich.
We did.
Now, God forbid, the rich leave.
It's simple.
No one hunts with an assault rifle.
No one needs 10 bullets to kill a deer.
Unbelievable.
All right.
And then all these governors from Texas, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, all over the country started calling me on this show saying, we'd love to have you.
And you know what?
If my work didn't keep me in New York, I would leave with the tens of thousands of others and go to Texas or Florida.
I haven't decided yet.
All right, well, stay in New York.
Ellie next on the Sean Hannity show.
Hey, Sean, you're a great American.
Thank you for taking my time.
You're a great American.
Thank you.
Yeah, my brother listens to you live every day from Israel.
Oh, really?
That's awesome.
You know, it's amazing how many people we do have listening from Israel.
And every once in a while, nobody knows, we do a local show in Israel.
They promote it for a week, and then we take calls from Israel.
We do our show, but just for Israel.
We do it at Tel Aviv 102 FM.
Yeah, I'm familiar with that station.
Anyway, my comment about the...
They say my ratings go through the roof when...
Who's this crazy guy with the New York accent?
All right, go ahead.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, so my concern with the national emergency is that, first of all, it'll change the narrative.
Now it's going to, instead of being a crisis, it'll be, oh, Trump is losing.
Some liberal judge made a judgment against him.
That would be number one.
Number two is, what's going to happen in the seven, eight months while we wait for the Supreme Court to make a decision, what's going to be in this seven, eight months with a border wall?
It'll be, the border will stay wide open, and that's my main concern.
Well, in the meantime, you know, we have the military.
You know, my fear has been now we've got 2,000 people that the first of the caravan with the help of the Mexican government, which the president is going to have to address, we now have the first 2,000 people that are at the border.
Okay, what if 12,000 people get there at one time and, you know, they rush the border?
They decide to, you know, race right across that border and there's no opening.
What do we do then?
I mean, that is a, that's scary.
Is there going to be tear gas?
Is there going to be rubber bullets?
We have no protection.
The wall will protect people on both sides and it'll have a big door.
Anyway, LA, I appreciate the call.
Thank you.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
Full coverage right here tomorrow on the State of the Union.
Now, the State of the Union, well, we usually plan it goes about an hour and a half.
Then the Democratic response.
Then I come on right after that with immediate analysis.
We got a great lineup.
Lindsey Graham, Senator Ted Cruz, Eric Trump, Steve Scalise, Meadows and Jordan, Dan Bongino, and Lawrence Jones.
Right after the State of the Union, Hannity on the Fox News channel.
Thanks for being with us.
We'll see you tonight back here from the swamp in D.C. tomorrow.
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