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Got a couple of investigative reports.
We are going to get to.
Great, great story.
Ukrainians are now saying to U.S. prosecutors, why don't you want our evidence?
I mean, think of collusion.
Evidence of wrongdoing by American Democrats and their allies in the Ukraine, you know, ranging from 2016 election interference, collusion, and obstructing of criminal probes.
That would be Joe Biden.
I'll get to in a second.
You have the head of the prosecutor general's International Legal Cooperation Department, John Solomon breaking the story.
He'll be with us in a little bit.
We're supposed to share information during a working trip with the United States.
He said, however, the U.S. ambassador blocked us from obtaining a visa because they were going to give information that would have been damning about collusion and the influence of Ukrainians in the in the 2016 election.
You know, I'm telling it does it it does not matter what the issue is.
If it's if it's sexual assault, it doesn't matter unless you're a Republican.
You get the Kavanaugh treatment or you get the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia treatment.
I mean, it's pretty pathetic.
You know, the immigration, it's great in Obama's second term.
We're going to build a wall, we're going to fund the wall, but not of Trump's president.
Do they care about the issue?
Do they care about dreamers, DACA?
All that was put on the table.
They don't care about any of it.
You know, I'm watching all of these 20-20 candidates.
They're all losing their minds.
You know, now their big fixation is investigate the president on his tax returns.
Um, that's never gonna happen.
And if it does happen, every American needs to be scared to death.
You want to know why?
Because they're gonna want to look at your tax returns if you take a political position that you shouldn't.
In other words, they're weaponizing the IRS, which is not their first time.
You know, when you have a if uh Jay Seculos said this weekend, the White House, they're not turning over the president's tax returns.
And by the way, they have no intention of trying to obtain Nancy Pelosi's tax returns from the IRS.
You know, despite her past refusal to release them voluntarily.
You know, just like health care.
You get Obamacare, lose your doctor, your plan and pay more, and they keep their health care.
They're just a bunch of phonies.
I never saw such rank hypocrisy.
Where are all the I believers on the in the case in Virginia?
I mean, to you know, Pelosi has a minimum net worth of 29.3 million dollars, according to an analysis of roll call.
They have an estate in San Francisco.
Now, outside of the enclave of their caded community, um, what do we know that there are people that are homeless all over the place?
Feces, they're going to bathroom in the streets, and needles everywhere.
He hasn't done anything to use any of that those millions of dollars to help the people in our own district.
You know, it's valued between what, five million and twenty-five million dollars, the estate that Pelosi has with a wall.
And um, by the way, description of the property is posted on its architect's website, inspired by Baba Ba, a guest house and a Z-shaped pool.
Why didn't you let the homeless people down the block go in the Z shaped pool?
Whatever a Z-shaped pool is.
And the couple also collects, you know, between uh $5,000, $15,000 in income for the gross sale of grapes at their vineyard.
Well, isn't that nice?
I wonder what kind of wine they're drinking.
You know, you know, you get it's it's interesting.
Adam Schiff, the guy on tape colluding.
I won't play it now, maybe later.
Um he still sees ample evidence of collusion.
Now they've moved on.
So they're not going to get anything on collusion, but now let's try and get Trump's tax returns.
We'll move on to the next issue, the next fixation.
The next attack.
They don't care about collusion.
They don't care about sexual assault.
They don't care about people like they say they do.
They only care if they can use topics even as serious and significant as, you know, look at the case in Virginia as rape and violent sexual assault.
They can't bludgeon Trump or a judge for the Supreme Court or anybody that likes Trump, then why bother?
You know, Nadler's saying, well, the Mueller report, there could be grounds for impeachment.
We don't think this rises to the level.
It's they never want this to end.
They'd never cared about collusion.
Never mind that you have to with obstruction prove intent.
Never mind there's no underlying crime because Mueller was quoted in Barr's letter.
No evidence of any collusion of any type.
It's so interesting to watch even Obama expressing concerns about this radical move to the left.
And he went out there this weekend saying, well, it could end up undercutting allies in the Democratic Party.
Is that one of the things I do worry about?
I'm not worried about what he's worried about.
Anyway, and progress, one of the things I worry about is American progressives in the U.S. That's his whole party.
He was the first one that went that hard left.
Bill Clinton was not that hard left.
He tried to be for the first two years of his presidency.
Then he got a shellacking in the midterm, and New Gingrich and Republicans came to power for the first time in 40 years, and he thought better of it.
Sliff Willie.
So, you know, but that is your new modern Democratic problems.
Watching over the weekend, Bernie Sanders wants incarcerated prisoners to vote.
Democrats are pushing hard to get rid of the Electoral College.
And you're saying, well, why not have the popular vote?
Well, if you go back as we did last week and you read our framers and our founders, they were very adamant about protecting the states and their rights and not being gobbled up by big cities like, oh, New York, DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, or states like New Jersey and Illinois.
Because they'll decide every election.
If you're going to move to the popular vote, and let me tell you how that's going to end.
That's going to end with states saying, you know what?
See you later.
And it won't be the United States of America anymore.
Why is it that they want prisoners to vote?
Why is it they want open borders?
Well, I know that there are some, maybe even Republicans and business people, they want cheaper labor.
How about putting Americans to work now?
How about Americans?
If we need to, if we have openings, and we kind of do right now, for additional workers, sure.
But they got to come in legally, they got to be vetted, they got to take care of themselves while they're here.
So they want to get rid of the electoral college.
They want to stack the Supreme Court.
Prisoners now can vote.
They want to knock down any border walls.
I guess hoping that that anybody that comes into the country that might need government aid is going to love the new Green Deal that will pay you money whether you work or you don't work, or guarantee you health care in New York City under Comrade de Blasio, or you know, the United Socialist Republic of California under Gavin Newsom, which is offering anybody, legal, illegal, wherever you come from, free health care.
My advice is if you get sick, go to California.
They don't care.
They're offering that as an incentive.
Go visit.
Find a good hospital, maybe USC, maybe UCLA, get your medical treatment and go back home.
Gavin says it's free.
You don't have to be a resident.
You don't even have to be in the country legally.
You know, a party that is now clinging to during birth abortions and after birth abortion, even, you know, we'll deliver the baby, make the baby comfortable, let the mother decide.
Why do they want to stack the Supreme Court?
Because what they could never win at the ballot box, what they could never get done legislatively, they want the courts to do.
Of course, if you're going to stack the Supreme Court, it would be stacked during a when a Democrat's president.
You know, do you ever think you'd hear for the first time because of Donald Trump's policies?
America's energy independent.
How cool is that?
Why is that cool?
Well, it's good, number one, because the energy sector pays a lot of money.
I mean, the numbers of jobs we will ultimately create when we start drilling in Anwar, which has now been opened up, when we get the Keystone and the Dakota pipelines online, and those are finished, and now we're producing even more.
We are the biggest oil gas producing country in the world.
Okay, so you got truck drivers that are making a hundred grand and they'll teach you how to drive the truck.
Wow.
If you're making 40 grand right now, that is a drastic change to your lifestyle.
That means you're gonna hopefully get a new house, your first house, maybe, hopefully get a new truck, hopefully be able to take your kids to Disney, and all of a sudden life's looking good.
A lot better than it was.
That's called American jobs.
It's called them, and then you think of the national security implications of this.
Okay, countries that we've been importing energy from all these years, many of them hate our guts.
Yeah, let's start with the Saudis.
I'm not I'm I've been like the most outspoken person against Sharia in the country.
I don't know why civil libertarians and some of these groups don't join with me.
They treat women like garbage.
They tell them how to dress.
They tell them in some cases, there's no such thing as marital rape.
In some cases, women are beaten.
In some cases, women can't drive.
Women can't travel without their husbands' permission.
Women can't leave the house without a male relative.
You know, look at how gays and lesbians are treated.
It doesn't matter Shia, Sunni, Iran, Saudi Arabia.
You know, they're killing gays and lesbians for being who they are.
Why don't you leave them alone?
It and it's happening more often than you think.
Or they're throwing them off buildings or stoning people to death.
These are human beings.
Or the fact that they persecute.
You want to try and build a temple or a Christian church in some of these countries?
Good luck with that.
No, they you're persecuted if you don't believe in their views.
You don't hear a boo out of Democrats that claim they have a monopoly on of compassion for all these groups.
And now look at the proposal.
No oil or gas for 10 years.
In ten years from now, we're gonna stop.
But they'll no combustion engine.
You're gonna have to buy an electric car, but they're gonna have plenty of places you can charge it.
And then, of course, you're gonna be guaranteed your government job.
That's only if you're willing to work.
You'll still get the benefits if you're unwilling to work.
Your government Medicare for all, but you don't get any choices of private insurance.
You will take what they give you, and it will fail.
Guaranteed.
Then you're gonna end, you know, we're gonna end up like the health system even in Great Britain.
Oh, you you pass well, you know, the life expectancy for somebody like yourself, ma'am, is well, you've already passed your life expectancy.
You're not eligible for a hip replacement or a knee replacement.
Well, what if that person's about to live 20 more years?
And that's what happens.
We'll get rid of the combustion engine, great.
We're gonna get guaranteed government jobs, guaranteed healthy food, Guaranteed vacations, guaranteed health care, guaranteed retirement.
We're gonna, and the goal is as soon as we can to eliminate cows and airplanes, too.
And we're gonna build high speed rail.
Oh, we're are you gonna build it across the pond to Europe or under the pond?
How are you gonna get that to Asia?
I'm just curious.
Where's that going to be built?
How are we gonna get to New Zealand and Australia?
This is insane.
And I'm watching all of these people this weekend.
They cannot help themselves.
All right, we got a lot to get to.
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We have Kirsten Nielsen has been fired.
A lot of people now, I guess, pleading guilty in that college admission scandal uh issue, including Felicity Hubbman, I guess, has pled guilty.
I think she was the one that did the least amount.
I think she was only like 15 grand.
I don't think she put a picture of her kid playing a sport that the kid never played.
Imagine taking your kid's picture.
You know, I mean, you know, and you and some people don't seem to care.
I read an article today about it.
I'm like, well, I just happen to know a lot of college athletes, and you know, you can check my daughter's tennis record out from when she's seven.
My son when he's nine.
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You know, a lot of bad weekends.
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Wow, this there might be something in the Mueller report, but they don't care about obstruction of Hillary.
Hillary deleted 33,000 emails.
You know the story.
You know, Obama's worried about the far left of his parties.
He even discussed assimilation.
You know, I've used the term, you know, once you are you come in the country legally, and if you speak a different language, the most important thing I think because the language of success, we don't want anybody to not have access to all that we have to offer.
Uh so English in that sense is the language of success.
You want people to have that advantage.
They can't speak it, you want them to learn for their own benefit.
So that they're not gonna not get a job because they don't speak English.
But if a Republican said it, God help you.
I've always said it's the language of success.
Um, by the way, it is a Casio Cortez.
I have no idea what she's up to, but she's very sensitive to all criticism now.
And literally, she was featured, I guess at everybody was over at Al Sharpton's National Action Network, all saying they're for reparations.
Anyway, she was featured uh earlier in the day.
She said people campaigning against the Amazon campus are financially illiterate.
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You know how many jobs we're gonna be created?
High paying, on average, 150,000 a year jobs.
Goodbye.
Now, New York was overpaying for it, but New York is stupid.
Now we'll see what state those jobs land in.
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I just go over this list and you're thinking, wow, prisoners voting in prison.
You know, goodbye electoral college.
Let's let New York, New Jersey, and California decide every president.
Dumb.
You're not going to have a United States at that point.
During afterbirth abortions.
I can't even believe I'm saying those words.
But it's but you we played it enough.
You've heard it yourself.
Then you got open borders, no walls.
Let's stack the Supreme Court.
Let's let's t we will tell you how to run your business, Ocasio Cortez said.
We'll we'll tell you.
Oh, and we're going to tax corporations at a 90% top marginal rate.
Okay, what do you think?
What business is going to build anywhere in America with a 90% top marginal rate?
Nobody.
And people are in business to make a profit.
I know that's horrible.
But how do they make a profit?
They make a profit if they create goods and services that people, we the people want, need, and desire.
If you didn't want whatever it is they're selling, they'd be out of business.
If you didn't want their service, you'd be out of business.
You'd be painting your own house.
You know, maybe cutting your own lawn, or maybe doing your own plumbing, building your own house.
Good luck with that.
Because it's not going to be as nice as the one you're probably living in.
But that's what that's capitalism.
Now you take away the incentive that people are going to make a profit if they work really hard and offer you the best price, best service they can and build a reputation.
And yeah, well, maybe over time they get themselves a nice house and they're able to buy a nice car and they're able to pay for their kids to go on vacation and eat dinner and maybe pay for college, which by the way is not cheap anymore.
This is this, this is it.
And then we're gonna t we're gonna tax individuals at 70%.
Top marginal rate.
All right, what does that do?
Well, top marginal rate at 70% means, oh, all those people that left New York, California, New Jersey, Illinois, and then they're headed to Tennessee, Florida, and Texas, and the Carolinas and other low tax states.
Yeah, they'll probably, if it's nationwide, they might leave the country now.
And they're gonna take their money with them.
You know, all the then we're gonna have a wealth tax according to Elizabeth Warren.
Great.
We tax you, and then we're gonna, if you saved enough, we're gonna come back and take another big chunk of whatever you saved.
Because you save too much, and then we're gonna use that to pay for guaranteed gate daycare.
Then we'll get rid of oil and gas, the lifeblood of every economy.
You think about you wanna you want to stop Putin.
You really want Russia, the hostile regime, Putin, a hostile actor.
You really want to bring Russia to its knees.
I'll tell you how to do it.
It's not that hard.
Well, we've got we've got more energy resources in this country than all these other countries combined.
Right now, you know, when Merkel made this, you know, billion plus dollar deal with Putin on energy.
I'm like, what why are we allowing that to happen?
We do need to figure out a way, because obviously proximity comes into geography comes into and more proximity than anything else.
How do we get our natural gas?
How do we get our oil to our European allies?
And how do we undercut Putin?
You know what?
Guess what?
We start doing that, and he gets weakened dramatically.
That's the lifeblood of their entire economy.
And that's selling it.
What if he decides, knowing he's kind of unstable, knowing all he wants to do, he's he's he's not a reliable ally to anybody, except maybe Iran and Syria.
Now he's trying to nudge his way into Venezuela and the chaos that's unfolding there.
Want to get rid of the hostile regime, Russia, the threat.
Undercut their price.
Take over the market.
We won't have to be begging countries in the Middle East anymore.
By the way, huge important election in Israel.
If you're there, you have people that you know there, vote Lakud.
I know there are a lot of other, quote, conservative far-right parties, but the coud is the vote.
I mean, that we've never had better relations with the United States and Israel under, you know, BB was a lone voice of moral clarity on the world stage.
He is he is single-handedly confronted radical Islam.
And his country has been under fire.
And he's done an amazing job, but you know, they oh, they they indicted him for taking a box of cigars.
It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen, most blatantly political thing I've ever seen done.
Sort of like the witch hunt.
Then we're gonna have no gas.
We'll get rid of the combustion engine.
Do you like your car?
Maybe, maybe.
I have a buddy of mine.
Oh, actually, I have a lot of friends of mine.
They love sports cars.
Now, some of them like classic sports cars.
One friend of mine loves this, what, 96 or 7 Ferrari thing?
I don't know what it is.
And he goes, No, all you gotta do is drive it.
You're gonna love it.
I drive it.
I said it's nice.
I don't want to sit this low to the ground.
And then another friend of mine has one of those Porsche sports car things.
The Carrera, I guess they call it, yeah.
He's like, you gotta drive it.
Okay, I'll drive it.
Don't you want one?
No, not really.
I really don't want one.
It's not my thing.
Um so, but you could take, you'd say goodbye.
I mean, unless they come up with electric versions of them.
You know, my favorite car that I, my dream car growing up was always a Chevy Chevelle super sport.
They come in different models.
There was a square model and the more rounded model.
And it comes in a convertible, too.
They don't make enough convertibles today.
I know they have moon, you know, the sunroof, moonroof, whatever you call this stupid thing.
And you know, but I don't even open it, so why would I put air conditioning on?
Is put in the temperature you want, hit on.
And um, but we're gonna get rid of the combustion engine.
We'll have a government paid for job vacation, everything else.
I mean, they've gone nuts.
They have had they want to fundamentally transform this country, and they're willing to have open borders to do it, regardless, doesn't matter how many criminal alien immigrants come in with the population that wants a better life.
Doesn't matter the burden, the cost of the American people for health care and education in the criminal justice system.
Forget about angel moms and dads.
I mean, they're attacking Kirsten Nielsen for, oh, well, she will never live down, that she is the one that put children in cages.
Um, no, it was actually under hers and Trump's watch that it got stopped.
Notice they don't, Nancy Pelosi Company never wanted to meet with angel moms and dads, the ones that have permanent separation, in part because of, oh, sanctuary policies like the state of California, the city of San Francisco.
I mean, said what are the Democrats?
They said that they're gonna, you know, I guess it was Elizabeth Warren say, well, we can't just run anti-Trump.
Okay, they say that, but then all they they now want is tax returns.
They're never getting his tax returns.
You don't get to use the IRS to bludgeon a political opponent.
You don't.
Now, if you want to change the law, go ahead.
But you're not gonna get them just because Gerald Nadler thinks that he can subpoena the president's tax returns.
It's not gonna happen.
But that's where their head is.
It's not about creating jobs or an economic up economic opportunity in the country.
Well, Trump's done all that Alone, basically.
They haven't helped.
Ending burdensome regulation, securing our borders, keeping his promises, checking them off the list.
By the way, Don Lemon says the right is obsessed with Acasio Cortez.
Not really.
Acasio Cortez is very angry that people thought that she was using an accent at Al Sharpton's National Action Network Conference.
Um this has come up before with, you know, I don't feel no ways tired.
And now Gore, Republican is wrong for African emergence.
I mean, it's so it's just horrible.
And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed.
Stand with me for the economic empowerment that is the next great civil rights frontier.
And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed.
Don't tell me we live in a colorbland society.
The Republicans know that theirs is the wrong agenda for African Americans.
That's why they don't even want to count you in the census.
Oh, but then Hillary does the same thing, and she did it again recently.
I mean, for whatever reason, before predominantly African American voices of uh of audiences, their voices change.
I don't feel no ways tired.
I come too far from where I started from.
I haven't heard the audio of Ocasio Cortez, and she is saying, as much as the right wing wants to distort and deflect I'm from the Bronx, and I act and I talk like it when I'm fired up, especially when I'm home, she said in a tweet.
It's so hurtful to see how every aspect of my life is weaponized against me and complain it's somehow asserted as false at the same time.
I'm a proud bartender, by the way.
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But I let me play it.
I haven't heard it yet, Jason.
Do you have to find it?
Okay.
She got mad at the Daily Wire that actually said she might have broken laws.
That's a problem.
You got Stacey Abrams saying the Georgia fetal heartbeat bill is evil.
You can sense a heartbeat.
The thinking in Georgia is, well, maybe a heartbeat reflects real life.
And it ought to be protected.
She says it's evil.
Um, you know, I told you about the tax issue.
Then we got, oh, then you've got Democrats want Fox News to answer for why they didn't run the story about Stormy, and I've watched this back and forth with this, and there was a media article by the guy who was one of the editors at the time.
He said, I'm not going before any House committee.
I'm a member of the press.
You don't get to question why I make an editorial decision.
And I don't think any member of the press should be questioned.
They don't get to tell you what stories you can and cannot write.
I mean, it's absolutely ridiculous.
Anyway, I uh I'm gonna watch that one.
Yeah, let's play Acasio.
I'm proud to be a bartender.
Ain't nothing wrong with that.
I didn't think that doesn't sound bad to me.
Doesn't sound bad.
I don't know what's I didn't get that.
That's the first time I heard it, but everyone's making a big deal.
I don't blame her for being a man.
I'm proud to be a bartender, too.
I love that.
I think one of the best things that ever happened in my life is 20 years of real work.
It just keeps you grounded.
I don't I've said many times, I don't think fame is healthy at all.
And uh nobody wants to hear that.
Um so you got this new, I don't even know who this person is that the media is going all crazy about.
This Buddha judge, I guess he's the mayor in South Bend, Indiana.
You know, he's going after Mike Pence.
I, you know, and then you got an MSNBC, I don't know, somebody there saying that um that he represents the scene as a real threat to Kamala Harris and other diverse candidates seeking the Democratic presidential nomination because he's coming under attack by the mainstream media's diversity crowd or whatever.
But there's a whole segment, I guess, on MSNBC decrying what she was being framed as an extensive attention to the Bidens, the Bernie's, the Beados, and the Buddha judge.
Did I say his name right?
I don't know a whole lot about him except he's 37, mayor of South Bend, and he's running for president as a Democratic candidate.
Okay, when he gets, you know, some notoriety, maybe we'll pay attention to him.
Biden, by the way, is in trouble in Iowa.
East uh Emerson Paul, Iowa voters.
Biden's neck and neck with Bernie.
Bernie now is see seems to have prevailed as the front runner in this race.
And they, you know, there's a great article by Byron York.
Face it, Biden and Bernie are too old to be president.
They don't have the energy of Trump, I can tell you that.
Pathetic Democrats have become the party of apologies.
That was in the New York Post.
Uh there was a face-off.
Now it was interesting to watch uh Robert Francis Beto Bozo.
He showed up at a town hall, and there were literally, it was like a third of the way full.
Yeah, I'm not making that up.
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By the way, you you are do you now believe that it's a crisis at the border?
Does everybody now believe, does anyone have any doubt watching the largest, the biggest caravan to date headed right to the U.S.?
You know, even Obama is saying you better stop with the stop with the identity politics.
I'm worried about the progressives of my own party.
Now, one of the biggest problems we have is these the system now is so overwhelmed that people can just come in, claim asylum, they got a court date down the road, but we know that ninety-five percent of them are never going to show up for their court date.
You know, so now it's become oh, okay.
It's you get across the border, you're basically in unless you get caught.
And if it's a sanctuary city or state, you commit a crime, you get out of jail, they'll aid in a bet you to commit more crimes.
All right, we got New King Rich coming up and uh John Solomon breaking news on Ukrainian officials trying to influence the 2016 election next.
I think what we're talking about here is the difference between conduct that rises to the level of criminality and conduct that is deeply unethical, unpatriotic, and corrupt that may not be criminal.
And I think you saw from Mr. Mulvaney on your show last week, and indeed we see from Mr. Nunez and Mr. McCarthy an attitude that ethics don't matter.
Uh if there's no crime, there's no foul.
Uh, and I think if we get to that point in this country, uh then we are in a very desperate situation.
But there was in plain sight, open collusion with the Russians.
When the president's son and campaign manager and son-in-law go to a meeting with the Russians to receive, quote, dirt on Hillary as part of the Russian government's uh uh attempt to help the Trump campaign, and that was in the email inviting them to the meeting.
They go to the meeting, they say we want that information.
That is collusion.
Whether it's criminal conspiracy is another question.
As of right now, this is this may not be all of them, but this cleans up quite a bit.
Uh we have eight referrals that we're prepared to send uh over to the attorney general this week.
So I would say that first of all, all of these are classified or sensitive, and so because they a lot of them could contain sensitive or classified information.
Uh five of them are what I would call straight-up referrals.
So just referrals that are that name someone and name the specific crimes.
Those crimes are lying to Congress, misleading Congress, leaking classified information.
So five of them are those types.
There are three uh that I think are more complicated.
So you mentioned conspiracy.
So uh the the question on conspiracy is is what you know there's the conspiracy statute, and then what did they what do they need to look at under that statute?
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Uh first, of course, you're hearing from the cowardly Schiff and Nadler.
I mean, these guys just well, it's it's not a matter of criminal.
It's but it's it's bad.
It's still bad, no matter what it is.
It's bad.
We don't know what it is, but well, if there's no underlying crime, you just throw out the words unpatriotic.
Um we know the meeting was at Trump Tower about the Magnitsky Act.
That's what we know.
And we know that everybody thought it was a colossal waste of time.
And we know that Fusion GPS met both before and afterwards uh with the the Russian woman who went in there under false pretenses anyway.
But nobody seemed to care.
There was a Russian dossier.
I mean, it's just like, for example, you know, Democrats are hoping.
Well, the Barr and and Rosenstein, they decided uh the that that there's no obstruction.
Mueller didn't make a decision on that.
He just presented the facts to the Department of Justice, which by the way is what the Democrats wanted after the Clinton impeachment.
Put that aside.
Do Democrats really care about obstruction of justice when none of them ever talk about oh, the leading subpoenaed emails, 33,000 of them.
Acid washing your hard drive with bleach pit, busting up your devices with hammers and removing SIM cards.
It's not about that.
It's just like they don't care about the issue of women and potential sexual assault.
Otherwise, what they were doing to Justice Kavanaugh, they would now be doing to the Virginia uh Lieutenant Governor.
And then none of that is happening.
If they cared about walls and dreamers and DACA and furloughed employees like they did in the second term of Obama, they would have been out there supporting President Trump.
But they don't want that either.
So we have a great hypocrisy.
Now another question is now that we know an FBI investigation has shown this, two congressional investigations, the House Intel Committee, Bipartisan Senate Committee, and now the Mueller report have unequivocally said no Russia collusion, no evidence of collusion.
And it's gone on this these tinfoil hat conspiracy theories, all these anonymous sources.
None of it turns out to be true.
First thing I would say is why weren't you interested in the phony Clinton bought and paid for Russian dossier that we know was used to bludgeon the Trump campaign to influence the outcome of the 2016 election?
All of this is now coming home.
This is this is not far now from really being exposed for what it is in terms of those responsible, those being held accountable, as we promised you.
Now, Devin Nunes, he'll be on TV tonight.
He's gonna make criminal referrals as it relates to he's gonna send them to the DOJ for conspiracy leaking classified information.
It only matters, I guess, to the left if General Flynn does that, or if Michael Cohn lies to Congress, or General Flynn lies to the FBI, even though they didn't think he lied.
So that is coming this week.
Now here's another example.
Now, do they really care about the outside influence of the bad actor Putin and the hostile regime Russia?
Because John Solomon now has taken his article about real evidence of the Ukrainians trying to influence the election.
The headline of his new piece and his investigative report in the Hill, the Hill dot com is Ukrainian, Ukrainian to U.S. prosecutors.
Why don't you want our evidence on Democrats?
John Solomon joins us now with all the details on this.
How are you, sir?
I'm doing well.
All right, so I think there's a huge double standard as it relates to obstruction, huge double standard as it relates to allegations of sexual assault.
Same with building border walls, but also as it relates to collusion.
It you know, it is so amazing.
I I was listening to Adam Schiff's interview on Sunday, and he his whole collusion theory has collapsed now to the tower meeting.
And let's just think about the tower meeting and what we know the Democrats did.
In the tower meeting, an unsolicited uh meeting that came in over the transump.
They met with the woman, never followed up with her.
She said she had dirt on Hillary Clinton, then never got it.
The Democrats hired a foreigner, uh, Christopher Steele, and paid him to go meet with foreigners, including a Russian intelligence agent, to affirmatively fine dirt on Donald Trump.
That is a that's a a proactive action as opposed to the passive action.
There's far more evidence of collusion on the Democrat side than what now the Democrats are claiming on the Russia side now that all of this and the Republican side now that it is all collapse.
Here's what we know about Ukraine.
It's so important to focus on what the Ukrainians are actually saying.
They are saying they have a videotape of the head of their FBI, the NABU, admitting he tried to influence the election to help Hillary Clinton win uh by uh leaking some uh documents on Paul Manafort.
They have affidavits from two senior government officials admitting that they worked uh in concert to try to help Hillary Clinton win the election.
They have uh three million dollars changing hands in uh 2015 and 16 to Joe Biden's son.
They have uh correspondence showing uh both the State Department and the U.S. Embassy and Kiev were interfering or applying pressure to stop uh Ukrainian authorities from pursuing some of these allegations.
And this is the new one that I have today.
Con there are contacts between Democratic figures in Washington and Ukrainian government officials, some of those through the embassy in Washington that were designed to to pass along dirt on Donald Trump.
That's a lot of collusion, a lot more than what Bob Mueller found on the Russia Republican side.
Well, I mean, this is all out here and now available for everybody to see, and I think the details of your article are pretty stunning, and I think that you know, when you have Ukrainian to U.S. prosecutors, why don't you want our evidence?
Yeah.
Um I think it's pretty clear.
Um let's say that they do get the evidence.
I mean, where are they going to hand it over to the attorney general or that's a great question?
They've tried to do that.
So uh starting last fall, the Ukrainians sought a visa from the U.S. Embassy in Kiev to come here, and the prosecutors were not granted their visa.
They weren't rejected, they just weren't given it, which meant they couldn't travel and deliver the information directly.
So then they hired an intermediary, a former U.S. attorney who worked in the George W. Bush administration, to go to the Southern District of New York, uh same place where the Michael Cohen investigation is currently wrapping up.
And he brought an entire document of here are the allegations that they have and the evidence they could provide, would you be interested?
They delivered that last October, never heard back.
Uh more recently, the Ukrainians talked to uh Rudy Giuliani, the president's attorney.
He was in Ukraine because he has his own concerns as a member of the Trump legal team about what was going on there and whether Ukraine dug up some of the bogus dirt on Donald Trump.
And he's told the same thing again that there's a lot of evidence over here.
For some reason the Trump DOJ doesn't seem to be interested in it.
So three overtures in less than six months, and yet none of this evidence has yet to change hands.
And I think either someone in Congress is going to have to go over to Ukraine, or the new attorney general has to get briefed on this and make a phone call to his counterpart, Mr. Lushenko, who is more than glad to talk to me on the record and give me the evidence and see if they can have a conversation between two attorneys general.
It seems like, you know, we actually have real evidence in this case.
You have sworn statements from Ukrainian officials admitting that their agency tried to influence the 2016 U.S. election in favor of Hillary Clinton.
And, you know, it just shows you what I've been saying.
I mean, on all of these issues, straight on down the line.
What do we know?
We know one thing.
They d the Democrats have one standard for Republicans and another standard for everyone else.
You know, the contacts between the Democratic figures in DC, these Ukrainian officials, you know, passing along dirt on Donald Trump.
I thought we I thought that's what the whole Mueller thing was supposed to be about.
Did they collude?
You know, who was doing this?
Financial record showing a natural gas company in Ukraine in Ukraine routing three million dollars to American accounts tied to Vice President Biden's son.
I mean add that to the issue he has with China flying on Air Force Two and again millions of dollars involved in a deal while his father is in China.
That's beyond the pale to me.
Um and then we as we have the the tape of Biden bragging about firing the prosecutor that was investigating his own son.
It's remarkable.
And you know, I talked to um I uh earlier we had talked about the interview with Mr. Lushenko, who's the attorney general of Ukraine.
I interviewed one of his deputies last week, a guy named Kulik, Constantine Kulik, and he said, Listen, we have evidence that when the Ukrainians, our own officials, leaked the Paul Manafort documents to try to uh hurt Donald Trump and help Hillary Clinton, they redacted or removed from the documents they were giving to the New York Times, Washington Post, and others information about a prominent Democrat.
They hit a prominent Democrat's own complicity in certain things.
And he said that just goes to the heart of what was going on in our own soil.
There were Ukrainians trying to pick Hillary Clinton over or over Donald Trump and using their official government resources in Ukraine to tip the scales in favor of Hillary Clinton.
You don't see that reported anywhere except in the Hill and in a few other places, Fox News, and that's it.
But there is pretty significant evidence, a court ruling, affidavits of audio tape that would help prove right away that a foreign power was involved.
And one of the questions I have, did Hillary Clinton's campaign and did the Democratic National Committee have contacts at the Ukrainian embassy in Washington was at a strategic coordination point for some of this assistance.
Uh the Ukrainians are telling me it was.
We should find out from the the the Clintons and the DNC whether it was.
Uh all right, so Devin Nunes is uh going to release at least eight criminal referrals.
It may be the beginning of a cascade of of criminal referrals.
And um what's interesting about it is he intends to send it to the DOJ this week for conspiracy leaking.
A lot of this too, a lot of the people seem to have forgotten that Michael Horowitz is still investigating the FISA court and the dossier issue.
Um and I don't know what John Huber's doing.
What do you know?
I can't find any sense.
Uh I I wonder if he's in the witness protection program.
Can't find any evidence he's been really doing any major investigative work on this.
Well, I mean well, I mean, the evidence is overwhelming and incontrovertible on FISA.
I mean, it we we have the bulk of the information being the Hillary Bought and paid for Russian dossier.
Uh they can't verify the dossier because its author doesn't authenticate it himself, has no idea if it's true.
So wouldn't that mean that everybody that signed it committed a willful fraud against the court?
All of them were warned by Bruce Or in August of 2016.
Yeah, and keep in mind we have a a pretty significant body of evidence in my columns and other places now where you can see that they actually failed to tell the court about evidence of innocence of uh things about Papadopoulos and Carter Page that would have proved that they were innocent of the charges that the FBI wanted to monitor them on.
It's a really extraordinary abuse, and it's it's amazing to me that one the court hasn't done more publicly to to raise questions or that the DOJ hasn't held anyone accountable yet.
But I think there's another important thing that Devin Nunez said on television yesterday caught my ear.
He said he sees a sprawling leaking conspiracy, meaning intelligence came in, it was distributed to a small number of people, and then leaks began to occur designed to further the narrative for the FISAM.
If U.S. officials were involved in leaking to create evidence so that they could further a FISA that they knew is on shaking ground, you would have a major criminal case.
And I believe part of what Devin Nunes' referral will likely deal with is this leaking campaign.
He said so on Maria Barteroma yesterday, and I think we ought to keep our eye on that one.
That the leaking may have been more than just a damage uh Donald Trump.
It may also have been designed to create uh false evidence for the uh FISA uh uh application.
Unbelievable work again.
Uh John Solomon of the Hill be on Hannity tonight.
We'll update this story.
Uh I have a funny feeling, just pay attention in the days, weeks, months ahead.
You're gonna see a lot of movement on this.
Uh thank you.
I agree.
All right, eight hundred nine four one Sean Tolfrey, telephone number.
When we come back, Uh a look at the economy.
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I may shut it down at some point, but I'd rather do tariffs.
So Mexico, I have to say, has been very, very good.
You know that over the last four days since I talked about shutting down the border.
If they continue that, uh everything will be fine.
If they don't, we're going to tariff their cars at 25% coming into the United States.
So every time they make a car, it's a 25% tariff.
That means we make money as opposed to lose money.
We probably bring those car companies back into the United States.
But if on the other hand it doesn't work, which it will a hundred percent, the tariffs will work just like they've worked with steel.
Our steel industry is so hot right now because of what I did with tariffs.
Same thing with aluminum.
They'll work.
But if it didn't work, I will close the border.
I also am looking at an economic penalty for all of the drugs that are coming in through the southern border and killing our paypause.
The economic numbers just came out.
They're very, very good.
Our country's doing unbelievably well economically.
Most of you don't report that because it doesn't sound good from your perspective, but uh the country's doing really, really well.
We have a lot of very exciting things going on.
A lot of companies will be announcing shortly they're moving back into the United States.
They're all coming back.
They want to be where the action is.
Uh, I'm heading to the border.
We're building a lot of wall.
We're going to show you a section, and a lot of things are happening.
A lot of very positive things are happening.
Oh, good news for the country, bad news for Democrats, bad news for 2020 candidates.
24 till the top of the hour.
The big story is, you know, everyone's talking about creepy, crazy Uncle Joe Biden and all of the new Green Deal and the wealth tax and the 90% uh top corporate marginal rate, 70% top marginal rate for individuals, and everything will be free, free, free, free.
Oil and gas, which we now are for the first time in 70 plus years, energy independent and a net exporter of energy.
And it's only the beginning, as we have two pipelines online now, ready to go.
That means literally hundreds of thousands to millions of high-paying jobs.
Once we really begin to tap into the very deep resources of natural gas and and energy and oil and clean burning coal that we have in the United States.
Then also people forget the oil at Anwar.
That now has all obstacles have been removed.
Oil companies will be moving in, and again, there are going to be hundreds of thousands of new high-paying career jobs for our fellow Americans.
Assuming the world doesn't end in twelve years.
Assuming the new Green Deal is just this bizarre fantasy being bantered about, assuming the wealth tax does not come into play or those marginal rates that I just mentioned.
Yeah, the president is exactly right on the economy.
We've had great economic news now for a couple of days.
You know, the people that are benefiting the most, the people that I cared the most about in 2016, the forgotten men and women of America and blue-collar workers are enjoying wage hikes uh more so than at any other point in the past 15 years.
The people that have been benefiting the most from the president's deregulation and the biggest tax cut in history.
That's right, those that were in poverty on food stamps under Obama.
Millions have left those roles.
And uh when you look at the numbers, you see, oh, another two hundred thousand jobs created in March, as we move now closer to the creation of six million new jobs in America.
May sound like a small deal, but I'll take it.
Sears, after years of closures, they are now beginning to open open a more uh well, smaller, more concise uh stores around the country.
A lot of it's going to be focused on their tools, craftsmen and Kenmore, their washers and dryers and other appliances.
Uh and that means more jobs for people also.
Uh Steve Moore is with us, author of Trumponomics, the inside, inside the America First Plan to revive our economy, senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation.
And uh I understand that you will uh apparently be moving to the Federal Reserve uh board on some other name I heard is Herman Cain.
Hi, Sean.
Uh, how cool is that that uh Hermann Cain has now been uh nominated as well.
So uh we will be uh I think quite a team over there.
And uh, you know, uh by the way, everything you said on the economy is so spot on.
And I I am so proud of this president.
I w I was privileged to work as a senior economic advisor to Donald Trump.
And one of the one of the claims about me that the left is making is well, he's gonna be too loyal to Trump.
And I look, I there are things I disagree with Donald Trump about, but you gotta love the what this guy has done for the economy.
I saw the president two weeks ago, and and I just said him, you know, only half jokingly, I said, Mr. President, you have to stop creating so many jobs.
We don't have enough workers to create to fill all these jobs, and and that jobs report that came out today is a blockbuster.
And I'm gonna give you one statistic, Sean, that is just blows me away.
I don't know if it blows you away.
7.6 million.
That's the number of unfilled jobs in the American economy.
That's the surplus number of jobs.
That's that's bigger than the entire population of Indiana.
You know what's amazing about this?
Because I knew one statistic that I have been throwing around is we have a million more jobs at least available than we actually have people on unemployment.
So it almost brings you to the point of full employment.
You know, forget the records.
I mean, you know, it's amazing that you get I I'll debate liberals sometimes and I'll say, all right, well, this is Obama's eight year record.
He had 13 million more Americans on food stamps, eight million more in poverty.
And by the way, crazy Uncle Joe, creepy Uncle Joe's gonna have to run on this if he gets the nomination.
Uh the lowest labor participation rate since the 70s, worst recovery since the 40s, lowest home ownership rate in 51 years.
Uh he took on more debt than all 43 presidents before him combined.
And the only president never to reach three percent GDP growth in his entire two-year term ever.
And, you know, when you look at those numbers, well, they say, well, he inherited a bad economy.
I'm like, seven years ago, I mean, uh, he had time to fix all of this, but he made everything worse.
Well, well put, and you know, I I like to cite uh none other than uh Barack Obama himself, who I think it was about a month before the 2016 election.
You remember this.
I know you played on the air where uh Obama says, Well, how is Trump gonna create all these jobs?
How is he gonna bring manufacturing construction back with a magic wand?
Well, I think this president must have a magic wand because we here's another statistic for you, Sean.
Since the election of Donald Trump, the United States has created one million manufacturing, construction, and mining jobs.
And it's like a U-turn.
They were following, and then Trump's come in and and they're all uh back big time.
Well, I mean, those are the jobs that again, that's the forgotten men and women in this country.
Exactly.
One of the things that I I really think the president doesn't get credit for, he doesn't allow these companies to leave without getting on a phone and saying, why would you consider leaving this great country?
What what is the obstacle that exists within government that would incentivize you to leave?
Now, and and a lot of the companies, I guess it all started with carrier air conditioner.
You know, they left, but now they're all coming back.
Um companies now are able to what repatriate their monies back to America.
What is the percent on that?
Around 10%?
Yeah, yeah.
And we've we the l latest estimate is a little under one trillion.
Not one billion, one trillion dollars has been brought back to the United States in just the last uh what, a little about a year and a half.
And by the way, and that continues.
There's no time limit on on the amount of time companies can you know pick up companies that left America, they can come back.
It's gonna keep streaming in.
It's gonna keep streaming in.
And look, the tax cut has had a lot to do with this.
We wanted look, we were unapologetically pro American business.
We wanted businesses to succeed.
We wanted to make them competitive in the world because if you don't have healthy businesses, you can't have healthy uh jobs.
I maybe the thing I'm most proud of, I think the president probably would share this you know, this uh thought is that the wages are growing.
I mean, and not just wages for high income people.
In fact, the Wall Street Journal had an amazing report a couple of weeks ago, Sean, that the highest wage gains have been for the lowest income and lowest skilled workers.
That's what happens when you create a tight labor market.
Well, you know, the thing is is, and then I look at these proposals.
If there's you tell me, if there's a ninety percent top corporate marginal tax rate and a seventy percent individual marginal tax rate, tell me, you know, uh to me, if you want to know what's going to happen, just look at New York, California, Illinois, and New Jersey, where there is now been and continues a mass exodus of people with money uh that have their businesses and they're leaving in droves.
And you look at the population increases in places like Florida and Texas.
The the uh Tennessee, the Carolinas, they're leaving for these states, by which by the way, also offer better weather.
And right.
And but there's no the they don't have the burdensome regulation or the high taxation to deal with, and it is incentivizing all of them to leave, and they're leaving.
Well, that's exactly right.
There w I just wrote a column called The Four States of the Apocalypse, and I'll bet you can guess which four of those are.
It's New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and my home state of Illinois.
Those are totally democratic dominated states uh with very liberal policies, high tax rates, you know, high regulations, uh, you know, forced union rules, and those states are in a state of financial collapse.
Uh uh, you know, when I go to Florida, Texas, all I see is license plates from Connecticut and Illinois and New Jersey.
Well, yeah, I know.
All right.
So let's talk about now.
We had the historic low rates from the Fed and no increases barely during the Obama years, correct?
No, the r the rates were very low under uh under Obama, and you know, my concern is that the Trump, you know, the reason I've caught some flack lately is because I was very critical, as Donald Trump was, that the Fed was raising interest rates at a time when we had high employment, you know, the best labor force market in 50 years, uh, you know, high growth, four percent last summer, and no inflation.
And I I just couldn't understand why the Fed would start raising rates when everything is going so well for the American economy.
And and I've taken some flack from that, but I that's where I stand.
I want stable prices, but I don't see when you don't have any unemployment.
You get a booming economy.
Why do you why disrupt that that picture?
You know, look, America's done well with uh to me, they do it.
It's almost like the Fed was helping President Obama politically.
And then it almost seems like, oh, Trump's president.
What do we care if it impacts the economy?
That's the feeling I got.
Am I wrong?
Uh I there's some there may be some truth to that.
But the point is, look, we we have had actually slight deflation right now.
I mean, we show me anywhere uh uh prices are rising, and I guarantee you talk to farmers, you talk to the people in the old patch, they don't see any inflation.
They see their prices falling.
So, you know, I'm for stable prices.
I think that's the best the Fed can do.
And I'm for high growth.
And when I get over there to the Fed, I want to be the growth hawk, the guy who believes as Trump, you know, we used to tell Trump, Larry Cubbo and I, you know, sir, we think we can get it a three to four percent growth right with the right policies, and Trump, the ever optimist would put it for his hand and say, I want five percent growth.
You know, I don't know if we can get to five, but you know, you said it.
Uh Obama never got the three percent growth in eight years in office, and here Trump is in the second year, and we got three percent growth.
Unbelievable.
All right, stay right there.
Steve Moore.
Uh he, along with Herman Kane, there should be uh a major shift now at the Fed.
And um that would be good news for the economy.
It turns out that the current Fed chairman, Jerome Powell, uh is uh, well, there are people that have, let's say, policies that I don't think are conducive to the economic growth that America can possibly have.
Low interest rates for me mean, oh, people can buy their first home.
Uh that means that, oh, older people can refinance their homes at a lower rate and save money Every month and stay in the home that they love.
Quick break, right back.
We'll continue.
All right, as we continue, Steve Moore, author of Trumponomics inside the America First Plan to Revive Our Economy, Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, uh, and also here to set the record straight about all these attacks against him, uh, surrounding your personal life, taxes, etc.
etc.
I mean, I've known you all these years.
I just hate to even go down this road because I see it and okay for total political BS, but you know, it's part of the you know, it's part of the way thing goes.
Things go in Washington.
Well, what yeah, what's going on here, uh Sean, is that you know, I have a long record.
You and I have known each other for for many, many years, and you know I'm a staunch free market economic guy who believes in lower taxes and less regulation, and that's not where the left is, and they've really made they have seven full-time reporters, investigative reporters after me, looking at every aspect of my life, you know, the girls I dated in high school and you know, all of these things.
And you know, they went in a very uh I thought it incredibly underhanded and uh scurrilous way, they looked at my divorce record, and you know, it was what is what is my divorce ten years ago have to do with my qualifications for the father.
I mean it's fifty-five percent of the population is ridiculous.
Uh Steve Moore, though, listen, I'm sorry you have to go through all that.
It's so typical though, isn't it?
It's just predictable, typical.
You know, meanwhile, creepy Uncle Joe Biden is smelling hair, rubbing noses, kissing uh strangers and hugging them as tightly as possible.
It's weird.
All right, thank you, sir.
Appreciate it.
News roundup information overload hour coming up.
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We got two million people in jail in this country.
And number of them are in jail for felonies.
Uh many states say, okay, we're putting you away for long period of time.
You're gonna pay a heavy price for that, but we're also taking away your right to participate in a democratic society.
You can't vote anymore.
The US Israel relationship is one of the most important relationships that we have on the planet.
And that relationship, if it is to be successful, must transcend partisanship in the United States, and it must be able to transcend a prime minister who is uh racist.
All right, that was uh well, first Bernie and then uh Beto Bozo, Robert Francis of Rourke.
Uh, excuse me, the elections in Israel are going on now live in Israel as we speak.
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There has only been before President Trump, one figure on the world stage that has had a singular focus and understanding and moral clarity of evil in our time.
And that of course is radical Islamists.
And now with the partnership, which is the best relationship we've ever had, especially after eight years of Obama, we've ever had with Israel.
We're not dropping a hundred and fifty billion dollars in cash and other currency on the tarmac for mullahs in Iran.
He has been a Churchillian figure.
We're told the election's gonna be close.
I hope people in Israel, if you hear this that you're out voting for Lakud, Newt Gingrich is with us, former Speaker of the House.
How are you, sir?
Oh, and by the way, Newt has a new podcast that's out.
And uh Newt's World, we call it, and it's on uh all Apple products and wherever you might go for a podcast.
How are you?
I'm I'm doing well, and I think you sort of captured me.
It's a little hard to walk through the list and believe it's true.
This the Democrats have literally uh, I think in a way lost their head.
Uh they're just drifting into this mindless left-wing, you know.
I mean, a good example is one of the things that Sanders confuses in Florida.
The question was once you have paid your price, and once you are back out in society, should you be allowed to vote?
Nobody in Florida voted on a referendum to let you vote while you're in prison.
Um, but they just can't help themselves.
They keep moving in a direction that is, you know, less and less rational, but sounds really good if you're the left-wing fundraiser.
Well, it also sounds good, I guess, to people.
I mean, whether you're willing or unwilling to work, you get all the benefits, and they're gonna tax you at a seventy percent top marginal rate for individuals and a ninety percent uh corporate tax rate.
And by the way, if you save too much money, then they're gonna come back for another bite at the apple with the wealth tax.
That's gonna pay for government child care, according to uh Elizabeth Warren, and it's they're not done yet.
Then when you die, they'll take more.
I mean it's well but but let me tell you let me tell you why this all just strikes me as I've been here before.
In nineteen seventy-two, George McGovern, who up until this year was the most radical person nominated by the Democratic Party, he came out with what he thought was a very clever idea, which was gonna be a two thousand dollar demographic.
Everybody get two thousand dollars, and after a couple weeks of talking about it, it was overwhelmingly unpopular.
And people Americ most Americans believe in the work ethic, and most Americans believe that they shouldn't be taxed so somebody down the street can avoid doing anything.
And if you go out and you talk to folks in working neighborhoods, they'll tell you there are people who figure out how to get on welfare, how to get on food stamps, you know, how how to rig the system every way they can.
And hardworking Americans don't like that.
Uh that they actually have a distinctly negative reaction, which is why liberals do better among college professors than they do among blue-collar workers.
Well, I think you're right about the instincts of Americans, but you know, uh great line, by the way, I don't know if you heard Andrew Cuomo.
Andrew Cuomo's a tax the rich, tax the rich, tax the rich.
Now he's complaining that uh New York State has come up with a two point three billion dollar shortfall fall this year.
New York, New Jersey, California are all losing population.
No income tax states like Tennessee and Florida and Texas and even the Carolinas, they're all they're all gaining population.
Florida last year and Texas nearly 400,000.
Listen, listen to Cuomo, you're gonna love 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.
One percent of the taxpayers pay nearly half of all the taxes.
One percent pay nearly half of all those taxes.
Those one percent 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 one percent, about forty-six percent, top five percent, sixty-three percent of all the revenue.
Top ten percent, seventy-four percent of all the revenue.
Tax the rich, tax the rich, tax the rich.
We did.
Now, God forbid the rich leave.
They left, Mr. Speaker, they're leaving.
What happens nationwide when the c when the country adopts that policy?
Do you wait wait?
Do you remember when when you were a child and there was this children's fairy tale about killing the goose that laid the golden egg?
Right.
And this and this this was the sort of thing that was taught to people to sort of suggest to them, you know, uh, if you've got somebody who is being that generous, maybe you should be nice to them instead of nasty.
Um I've never heard by the I've never heard a liberal ever before admit what percent of taxes come from the top one percent.
I mean, that was an amazing moment for Cuomo to admit that half of all the taxes in New York State are the top one percent.
Uh, it's insane.
Exactly right.
I mean, at what point does somebody look look at their the budget?
I I I talked to a guy recently who moved out of California to Texas, and with the difference just to not paying a state income tax, could buy a house in Texas had no cost to his budget.
That's why they're getting popular people aren't stupid.
And by the way, no business with a ninety percent marginal tax rate is ever gonna oh let me build a business in the United States.
They're gonna leave and they're gonna take their money in their factories with them.
Right, and of course that's gonna make I think one of the central themes of two thousand twenty is gonna be the objective fact that this president continues to create jobs, uh has a pretty good model for how to continue creating jobs.
We have the lowest unemployment, I think now since 69.
Uh for African Americans, the lowest unemployment, for Latinos, the lowest unemployment, for women, the lowest unemployment.
And if some people want to have a reality check and say to people, okay, you have a party that's putting you to work.
By the way, we are also seeing wages rise faster for high school graduates than for college graduates for the first time in two generations.
So you're seeing more money in your pocket, you have a job, you have a look ahead to real prosperity, or you could go with these left-wing folks and decide to destroy the economy.
And I think that that'll be one of the central thematics of the campaign in 2020.
Well, you know, the lot of challenges.
I honestly think it's like the greatest gift in the world that they're they've gone so far and so hard to the left, and even in the primary, I think they're even going harder left, and I don't think anyone's going to come out of that primary that is not one of these new Green Deal people.
And I think that can't almost guarantees Trump gets a second term.
Let me ask you about another issue.
I know you've been following.
Um most people don't even know this, but China's first email and the rise of their online activities, and in other words, their building of the internet, I know initially they saw the internet as a tool for scholars and scientists, but something is happening that may impact this country and our security and privacy on levels that we never imagined before.
Well, I'm I I can't tell you how glad I am that you've raised this issue.
The whole transition to the fifth generation was called 5G is going to be enormous.
Uh it's going to have like a thousand times the capacity of our current system.
And as of today, according to the Defense Innovation Board report last week, the Chinese are so far ahead of us that we are in real danger for the first time of losing strategically to China and having China define the internet of the 21st century.
And this this would be catastrophic, and it's really been uh extraordinarily difficult.
I've been working on this issue for months now, and uh to watch the ATT CNN team uh just lie about it, which is what they've been doing.
I mean, they've been desperately trying to stop the kind of changes we need.
Uh worldwide right now, Huawei, which is the big Chinese company, is just cleaning our clock.
Uh we have no effective response, and uh the president gets it, he's trying to move the system.
But between the lobbyists for ATT and the bureaucrats who are just sort of mindlessly slow, um we are and and you you've known me a long time.
You've never heard me be quite this direct.
We are in danger of suffering a strategic defeat from which we may not recover.
Because once the Chinese control the internet across the planet, oh, they they can tell us, well, we're gonna keep them out of the U.S. Well, fine.
You want to you want to do business in India, you want to do business in South Africa, you want to do business in New Zealand, you're gonna be on Chinese equipment.
So, you know, unless we're prepared to really rethink this and launch an American offensive and do everything we can to define uh an American internet, uh, I really do believe this will be a catastrophic disaster.
All right, you know, look at a guy like, you know, um any of these big hackers out there.
A lot of them, you know, are now in their forties.
They were hacking into our Department of Defense, NASA, and all these agencies when they were 16.
Um we still have not built up uh an effective defensive measure so our government can never get hacked.
Forget about the average American citizen, which is important if you believe in privacy, as I do.
But if they're getting into our government and getting our government secrets, I mean that's what the whole Hillary Clinton email espionage scandal was all about.
We believe, and Homie was about to report it, that six foreign intelligence agencies hacked into that server in that mom and pop bathroom closet.
Well, and that's that's dangerous, but what's also dangerous is if you end up in a modern battlefield where information matters, and the Chinese have the ability to put false information into your systems, so you don't know where you are or what you're doing or where your equipment is, uh, you could be defeated before you ever fire the first shot.
And I mean that's how serious this stuff is.
Uh and uh you know, trying to my my newsletter on Wednesday is gonna be about the way in which the American news media just sold the country out.
Um, you know, you you look at the coverage of that people have given to pure junk and the inability to get the New York Times, the Washington Post, or others to take seriously the survival of the United States.
And that'll be a big issue, I think, in 2020.
We have a president who really thinks American survival matters.
You have a Democratic Party who thinks that that's all silly, that we can have open borders, weak defense, and be passive in the world and betray our allies and everything will work out fine.
Uh as you point out, I couldn't help but think when you were describing the 150 billion dollars.
I mean, what if Obama had by mistake sent the hundred and fifty billion dollars to Israel instead of Iran?
Think how much better off we'd be today.
What do you think of this wild?
You know, I'm I'm obviously concerned because now it's voting day in Israel, and you know, I I look at BB as as frankly for a long time until President Trump was elected as the you know sole single voice of moral clarity and understanding the real nature of the biggest threat in our time, which I believe is radical Islam, as we saw in 9-11, and um, but now Israel has its best partner.
You know, look at Golan now is the Golan Heights are now uh recognized as Israel's.
Uh look at the you know, the the embassy moved to Jerusalem where it belongs, the capital from Tel Aviv.
Um, and then you have people like you know, Robert Francis referring to this as uh, well, at least he's evil.
And I'm like, wow, the same guy that doesn't want any walls on our southern border, by the way.
Right.
I mean, you have to ask yourself, first of all, what what's what's the moral right of somebody who's not in danger, not at risk, is not suffering from rocket attacks, uh, hasn't hasn't lost their brother, as you know, BB lost his brother uh on the raid at Nebi to rescue the people who were in the in the airline uh years ago in Uganda.
Um, you know, hasn't had family members who are killed in the Holocaust.
I mean, people like Iran a privileged life who are uh personally wealthy, uh have never known hardship when they start criticizing somebody whose country's very survival is always at risk.
That's what people need to remember.
The Iranians are pouring missiles into South Lebanon for for Hezbollah.
The Iranians have been subsidizing Hamas, which regularly fires missiles into Israel.
Uh the Syrians, if they got the Golan back, would use it as a base to once again uh f fire down on the settlers and the and the tourists and the farmers uh down around the Sea of Galilee.
Um, you know, people like you know like Beto literally have no notion how dangerous and how hard the world can be.
And I think that's very dangerous in a national leader.
All right, former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, uh don't forget his podcast, Newt's World on Apple, any podcast near you.
Uh, thank you, sir, for being with us.
We appreciate it.
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You know, I'm really getting sick and tired of the lie, which is that, oh, uh, Kirsten Nielsen is a responsible for the separation of children.
By the way, we're getting lectured by the people that won't meet with angel moms and dads, the people that have permanent separation.
We're what we're literally the people making that allegation are the same people that want to tear down walls, eliminate ice.
They don't seem to care at all about the permanent separation of four thousand homicides in a two-year period, or thirty thousand sexual assaults in a two-year period, or a hundred thousand violent assaults in a two-year period by yes, criminal aliens in this country.
Is it the ninety-eight eight?
No, it's the two percent.
Real families, real crime.
Now, the other point of this is this is simple.
Uh, where were they when Obama had the same policy?
The person that fixed it was Donald J. Trump, the president.
The person that did not fix it or lift a finger to fix it, is their ever so beloved Barack Obama.
And now they want to blame Secretary.
She'll be forever be known as this.
Kirsten Nielsen is out as Homeland Security Chief.
Yeah, well, I I'd hold that applause.
And hold on.
Now to take an even supposedly it's going to be even tougher the stance at the border.
Families being separated, seeing kids in cages, how much tougher they're gonna be.
As much as people don't like Kirsten uh Nielsen, and she'll always be remembered for the separation of families.
It's not her fault that we're seeing these numbers come in.
Well, but to just shoe her out and expect that someone like Stephen Miller or someone's gonna be tougher is gonna solve the problem.
I don't know what they're gonna do to these kids.
What's fascinating to me is that um I I believe she sold her soul because she did become the face of separating babies from their parents.
We now know that it's gonna take about two years to even find out the true extent of this horror.
Uh, you know, because thousands of children were separated from their families.
And for the rest of her life, for the rest of her life, people will look at her and think, oh, that's the woman who put children in cages.
That's the woman who broke up uh families across the border.
And you know what?
They'll be right.
Because she implemented that policy.
Jeff Sessions, the attorney general, sort of created it, but she implemented it.
And, you know, she's gonna get what she deserved.
Remember, when it comes to Kirsten Nielsen service as Homeland Security Secretary is the uh matter that the administration uh dealt with with the zero tolerance policy in the spring of 2018.
It was Secretary Nielsen who uh said that it was not an intention of the administration to separate children from their parents.
She oversaw the family separation policy, which prompted protests across the country and heartbreaking images of children in cages.
And yet at the end of the day, this administration felt like that policy was not extreme enough.
That was not hard enough, and they're gonna try to take it even further in the days and weeks ahead.
You know, it's just ridiculous.
I mean, it's it's so backwards with with everybody on the left.
All right, let's get to our busy phones here.
Um let's say hi to Daniels in Michigan.
Uh Daniel, hi, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Uh, thank you, Sean.
Um, Sean, so California declared itself a sanctuary state, and then you had the sanctuary cities, and they ignore the federal immigration laws, and it's been that way for years, correct?
Yes.
Okay.
So Sean, here's a stunned me.
I'm for Michigan.
If Michigan declared itself a pro-life state, and and said it's going to ignore federal abortion laws, and if Obama was president, Eric Holder or Loretta Lynch were the attorney general.
Sean, I'll tell you, I'll tell you what will happen.
Within two weeks, well, if they'd sue Michigan, within two weeks, the federal court would say Michigan has to enforce federal abortion laws.
And if Michigan didn't follow the federal charges thing within two weeks, Eric Holder or Loretta Lynch would bring criminal charges against the officials in Michigan.
They would last two, three weeks, and they would be following federal abortion law.
How in the world can cities and states ignore federal immigration laws and it goes on for months and years.
Well, I'm gonna tell you something.
At some point, there's gotta be the charge of aiding and abetting.
Number one, they're ignoring federal law.
Uh I think these states now we have to consider if they're not gonna hand over, you know, look at the case you know, we've had on this program.
How many times have we had Steve Ronnebeck talking about his son Grant?
Is 22-year-old kid was killed.
He was working overnight in a convenience store.
Who did it?
Oh, a guy that had held a woman captive, kidnapped her, raped and abused her and assaulted her, spent a lot of time in jail.
What they didn't hand this person over to ICE.
Now he goes, he wants a pack of cigarettes for free.
The kid is handing over the cigarettes.
He still got killed.
And at what point do we not say, Okay, sanctuary cities and states are aiding and abetting in the crime when they let these criminal when they protect these criminal illegal immigrants from being deported.
And even now, after we deport them, we had a situation last week in Long Island, New York.
A guy that had been guilty back at what, 2005 of manslaughter.
Okay, he's back in the country, back in Long Island, MS-13 member.
That's because our borders are wide open.
And people now know how to get across.
Why do you think this caravan is as big as it is?
Because they know the wall's going up.
Democrats may not have figured it out, but they have.
And there's a certain urgency now building among those people that the kind of uh that want to come here, maybe a lot of them good people, but they don't want to come in legally.
And we've got to respect our our laws, our sovereignty, our borders, and we have the right to vet you to make sure that you're not going to bring harm to any American, and certainly you have the means to take care of yourself.
Anyway, you know, it's gotta happen.
Um we should take away funding from those states, those cities that do this.
Because they're helping, they are aiding and abetting future crimes.
And it's fairly predictable.
Recidivism rate for violent offenders is you know predictable.
It's high.
Some people perform in in prison, many do not.
All right, let's go to Dan in D.C. What's up, Dan the man?
How are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Thank you, Sean.
Yeah, retired Marine now working in DC as a contractor.
Well, Semperfy, sir.
Thank you, sir.
Semplify to you as well.
Um I had some thoughts on uh on Adam Schiff that I just wanted to throw your way and and get some feedback if you had some time.
And that was that uh, you know, he he continues to to run with this this preponderance of evidence that there was some form of collusion or some form of obstruction, and yet, you know, we know he has nothing.
Uh and yet he continues to insist in front of every camera that he ever gets in front of.
At what point does the Republican Party or or even Devin Yunid just call his punk card and say, look, either produce whatever evidence you claim you have or be cited for obstruction yourself.
I mean, is not withholding evidence.
Yeah, it would be justice, and I would throw that as I I would throw that at Swalwell as well.
You know, let's call our punk cards, let's hold them accountable for what they're saying to the American public.
Say, look, if you are withholding evidence because you've been doing it for two years now, oh, I have this, I have this.
I've seen this, I've seen this.
Well, show it or show it.
The only one that I know on tape colluding with Russians to gather dirt to influence elections is the cowardly shift.
Now, I think I've been pretty generous in offering him and Nadler, you know, all this time on my radio and TV shows, and whatever reason, they don't call us back.
I wonder why.
Maybe they'll call me into their committee and I'll bring the tapes with me there.
And I'll start playing them in their own words because they're a bunch of liars.
And let me tell you something.
If they care, look at the Ukrainian story we we broke earlier.
You you literally have a headline today.
Ukrainian to U.S. prosecutors.
Why don't you want our evidence on Democrats colluding to help Hillary win in 2016 with actual real evidence?
And then Joe Biden's own son up to his eyeballs and all of this.
I know I every time I mention the shift thing, everybody wants me to play because it's the funniest thing.
I play a little bit.
Uh what is the nature of the compromising material?
The naked thought.
Okay, and so Buseva met with Trump uh in uh New York at some point after the 2013 mismatch.
Uh yes.
Absolutely.
And she got uh compromising materials on Trump after their uh short relations.
Okay.
And what's the nature of the compromise?
Well, there were a pictures of naked Trump.
Okay.
And so Putin was made aware uh of the availability of the compromising material?
Yes, of course, uh Buzawa shared those materials with uh Sobchuk and Subshark shares those materials with uh Putin because she's uh Goddaughter of Putin and Putin decided to press on Trump.
Well, uh we have materials, uh materials uh on Donald Trump compromising short after the short relationship.
What is the nature of the compromise?
Uh pictures uh naked Trump, naked Trump pictures.
That's what we got.
Naked Trump.
Uh did Vladimir know has Vladimir's seen them.
Yes, but of course.
Uh the Vladimir, of course, has seen uh the naked picture Trump.
He's seen it all.
We have the pictures.
I mean, and he's leading the collusion thing.
I mean, if it's not so it is almost as funny as Alec Baldwin trying to be a radio talk show host.
Now, Alec tweeted out today, and I'm re I tweeted I think earlier today.
I hope it went on.
I don't actually do my own tweeting anymore.
I don't I can't even get in my own accounts anymore.
I I've been blocked.
My team says no more tweeting.
We'll do it for you.
Um but we put up that's interesting.
This is a real tryout for radio talk show.
Um when we come back, uh uh Oh, we got some time.
Okay.
Well, we're gonna uh when can we take some calls, Ivan?
How about now?
Whenever we want to we have calls that are on there now.
No calls yet.
What number do people call to get on the air, Ivan?
Do we have that number?
It's right there.
Oh, do I have the call number in front of me?
Oh, I'm so sorry.
So sorry.
Interesting.
Interesting.
Interesting at uh 1210 at PHT.
Of course, any other questions you have, any other comments you have, call us.
Um to the uh what else?
Uh call us, please at uh 215 1210.
Now, um if you don't call, we're gonna keep reading from the Scientology manual.
You might not feel it.
You might not feel the energy right now.
You might not feel uh the swell of what's happening here.
We have any calls yet there, Ivan?
No calls.
Let's talk more about Scientology.
Is Sean Hannity a Scientologist?
No.
Alec Baldwin posing the big questions tonight here.
Uh, do we have any calls here yet?
Ivan?
None.
Boy, it's just incredible.
Unbelievable.
Well, you leave us no choice, listeners.
Um, all right, some of you are saying that's this total be us.
No.
That was a real tryout on our affiliate WPHT in Philadelphia.
Now that was on the heels of a tryout at my former station in New York, WABC.
And that and Brian Whitman, who's a good guy.
I mean, he's very liberal, but I like him a lot.
I mean, we used to hand off to each other, you know, for a whole year, and I got to know him.
He's a great guy.
And um, we just don't agree politically.
Brian was brought in to help him.
To just, you know, help guide him through his tryout show.
He was trying out to be a host.
And then me and Levin called in, and he got so angry.
Come back.
Alec, come back.
They're gone.
Alec.
Alec has uh walked out of the studio.
Alec, please come please come back.
He is uh in the other room.
Alec Baldwin has put on his jacket, and uh he has left.
I just went into the station lobby to the elevator bank to see if I could find Alec Baldwin.
And to ask him to please return to the radio show, but he is gone.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
Let not.
We have loaded up tonight.
Newt Gingrich, Laura Trump, Devin Nunes, John Solomon, Devin and John are gonna be breaking news.
Kevin McCarthy.
Oh, this guy that worked for Obama on Borders, Mark Morgan, he's phenomenal.
