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I wrote at the time that we're in the battle for the soul of this nation.
Well, that's even more true today.
We are in the battle for the soul of this nation.
I believe history will look back on four years of this president and all he embraces as an aberrant moment in time.
But if we give Donald Trump eight years in the White House, he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation.
Who we are.
And I cannot stand by and watch that happen.
The core values of this nation, our standing in the world, our very democracy.
Everything that has made America America is at stake.
That's why today I'm announcing my candidacy for president of the United States.
Folks, America's an idea.
An idea that's stronger than any army, bigger than any ocean, more powerful than any dictator or tyrant.
It gives hope to the most desperate people on earth.
It guarantees that everyone is treated with dignity and gives hate no safe harbor.
It instills in every person in this country the belief that no matter where you start in life, there's nothing you can achieve if you work at it.
That's what we believe.
And above all else, that's what's at stake in this election.
As they say in my business, I'm going to give you the whole load today.
You got the first sort of mainstream African-American.
Yeah, who is articulate and bright and clean and nice looking guy.
I mean, this that's a storybook.
You're telling me we gotta go spend money to keep from going bankrupt.
The answer yes.
You don't know my state.
My state was a slave state.
My state is a border state.
My state is the eighth largest black population in the country.
My state is anything from a northeast liberal state.
You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Duncan Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.
I'm not talking about his mom uh lived in uh in Long Island for 10 years or so.
Uh God rest her soul, and uh um, although she's waiting your mom's still, your mom's still alive as your dad passed.
God bless her soul.
A man who will be the next president of the United States, Barack America.
Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America.
Let's get that straight, and quite frankly, um, it might have been a better pick than me.
So let me say it again.
Thank you, uh Terry, and thank you, uh Dr. Pepper, and thank you, Chancellor, uh Dr. Paper.
Romney wants to let the he said the first hundred days, he's gonna let the big banks once again write their own rules.
Unchain Wall Street.
They're gonna put you all back in chains.
Think about what happened out in where Gabby Gifford, my good friend, was shot and mortally wounded.
Well, I say they're gonna start to see unemployment grow uh this spring.
It's gonna take uh employment grow.
I'm sorry.
Number one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word.
Jobs.
J-O-B-S jobs.
See, I went to the big guys for the money.
I was ready to prostitute myself and the manner in which I talk about it.
Chuck Graham, state senator is here.
Chuck stand up, Chuck, let him see you.
Oh, God love you.
What am I talking about?
I tell you what, you're making everybody else stand up, though, pal.
Now is the time to heed the timeless advice from Teddy Roosevelt.
Speak softly and carry a big stick.
End of quote.
I promise you, the president has a big stick.
I promise you.
Now I'm like the token black with a token woman.
I was the token young person.
You are the best choice for the Democrats in 2020.
Why didn't President Obama of course?
I asked President Obama not to endorse, and he doesn't want to this we should whoever wins this nomination should win it on their own merits.
So why you?
Welcome to Delaware.
Well, you and your veterans be very clear.
I made this about a debate about President Trump.
But you're gonna have to get to the Democratic primary first.
Why are you the best choice for Democrats?
That'll be for the Democrats in the Senate.
How could you differentiate yourself?
What do you think about the Mueller reports?
Mr. Vice President, you should demonstrate all this stuff in time, okay?
I have to say, I'm I'm so touched by moved by that um video that he did.
I mean, yeah, I'm so old.
I remember all of that.
I don't remember, but I remember since then.
Yeah, you know, I mean, uh our uncles were in Normandy, our fathers were on the beach.
Yeah.
We were the good guys in this country, and now and we're not.
And now we're not.
People look at this country in horror and say, what happened to America?
It breaks my heart.
And I I love that he's doing it.
He's taking this tack and that it's not just about policy right now.
He'll get to that.
But America, look at this and say, do we want this America back or don't we?
I mean, basically that's what it's come down to.
Yeah.
I thought he totally nailed it.
When you think about an announcement, it's even though we know Joe Biden, yeah, first impressions matter.
And in politics, how you feel about the candidate matters.
As you said, we'll get to policy, but watching this, it gave me chills throughout my entire body because it reminded me, Joy, differently than than you felt, that there is still so much good in this country.
And Joe Biden, I think, represents that, and his family represents that in his service.
And what he's saying is, I'm here to sew this country back together.
He wasn't running for the primary, by the way.
He was running for the general election.
And that announcement.
He said, I'm here to win over the presidency.
He's gonna I can't wait for him to come tomorrow because we have so many policy questions for him.
But just in the basis of feeling, yeah, he completely nailed it today.
Even if you're a Republican, you can't watch that and not feel good.
And you often say that, Abby, that politician uh politics is about how someone makes you feel.
And I felt like that.
For the view at all.
I mean, there's only right so much of the view.
All right, crazy crazy creepy Uncle Joe has officially entered the race.
This is great news because I'm telling you what they don't know is what is about to happen is going to be remarkable.
Now, nobody, everyone is making comments, it's kind of funny.
Well, you've got the ultra-left wing of the Democratic Socialist Extremist Party and all of all of their crazy ideas, and Joe's gonna stand apart, and he's gonna he's gonna relate to the average quote Joe.
Um, Joe Biden, it's Obama Biden.
All the Russia uh incidents that happened was on their watch.
They didn't lift a finger to stop Russia from involving themselves in the 2016 presidential election.
And they were warned.
Why didn't you listen to Devin Nunes and others in 2014?
Now the president was funny today, he goes, Welcome to the race, sleepy Joe.
I only hope you have the intelligence long in doubt to wage a such a successful primary campaign.
It's gonna be nasty, and you will be dealing with people who truly have some very sick and demented ideas.
But if you make it, well, I'll see you at the starting gate if he makes it, which is pretty funny.
Oh, but he did get a big endorsement, and one it wasn't it wasn't Obama.
Obama's asked about it as you just heard.
Obama's uh what about Obama not supporting you?
Obama, well, he said nice things about Joe and uh best decision he's made, but he won't endorse him.
I think that kind of speaks volumes.
It's own owned by his president, but he did get Michael Avenatti.
That was a well-sought-after endorsement by him.
Now, what's happening is even Slate is writing this, not a conservative publication that even Democrats are just rank and file increasingly skeptical that crazy creepy Uncle Joe is ever gonna be able to defeat Trump next year.
Anyway, they point out if Democrats had any real confidence in Biden's political acumen, he wouldn't be facing so much competition in the nomination, and that's true.
I mean, uh I think all of these people think he's gonna be beaten.
Well, he's uh he showed up in a poll today for the first time and he's doing well.
Okay, that often happens.
He has more name recognition than any of the other candidates.
That's not gonna last very long.
Let's let me let me just put in perspective where we are here.
You know, we just had the midterm.
It's like we just had the 2000 uh well, let's use the example of of Obama.
Obama's elected in 2008, and it's the 2010 midterm.
Okay, you know, Donald Trump is walking down the escalator in a few months.
That and then you got the whole year of primaries coming up after this.
I mean, so it's going leading up to the general election.
It's going to be a long process.
And Joe doesn't seem like he's got the energy in the end.
But when Slate points out that the story of this 2020 presidential primary has been the historic size of the field, which will end up in the mid-20s, well before it's said and done.
And I mean, it is I I didn't even realize until today how big it's really been getting, but don't pay that much attention.
You got Corey Booker, you got Mayor Pete Budajudge, you got Julian Castro, John Delaney, Maryland representative.
Nobody knows him.
Tulsi, what is it, Gabard?
Uh Kirsten Gabbard.
Okay, sorry.
Hawaii representative.
Uh Gillibrand in New York, Mike Gravel, former Alaskan senator, not affiliated, Kamala Harris, uh, the former governor of Colorado, John Hickenlooper, John J. Insley of Washington,
former governor or governor, uh, Amy Klobuchar, uh Wayne Masam, who's a Miramar Florida mayor, I've never heard of, Seth Moulton, a Massachusetts liberal, Robert Francis Beto Bozo, you got Tim Ryan of Ohio, Bernie Sanders, you got Eric Swalwell, Elizabeth Warren, Mary Ann Williamson, wasn't she a self-help guru?
Well, she's running, and then Andrew Yang.
Wasn't he the one that wanted to legalize, I think, all drugs.
So with this slate of candidates, it's going to be interesting to watch because some of some one of these names is going to emerge likely out of nowhere.
Now, it was small in 2016, not because politicians with national aspirations didn't exist.
Everybody that is a congressman or senator, they want deep in their heart, they think that they're president.
They think they're presidential material.
They never are, but they think so.
But Clinton, with her name recognition and financial resources and party relationships, little do we know until Donna Brazil took over after the fiasco at the Democratic National Convention, that in fact Hillary controlled the purse strings at the DNC, and they had rigged the primary against Bernie Sanders, and it was rigged from the get-go, no matter how well Bernie did.
And by the way, Bernie people yesterday are saying if you try this crap again this time, we're going to be on it.
So she had it also early on in 2016.
She cleared the field because other candidates or those that desire to be president, you know, they kind of believe she was gonna win.
By the way, and no mainstream Bernie figured, you know, no nobody thought Bernie was do as well as he did.
And Biden is now something more like, you know, they could end up, they're saying in Slate, more like a 2016 Jeb Bush, weak establishment favorite whose time is past.
Should voters deprioritize his top perceived strength electability who could soon face the Wolves.
Well, he leads in national and some early state polling, but not by much.
The only potential candidates that bowed out for Biden to give him the space were Bloomberg and Terry McAuliffe.
And though he may have more charisma than Bush did, the financial resources are now harder.
And by the way, a broke Joe Biden is now sounding the alarm.
This was in politico, because as of last night, he had zero dollars in his campaign coffers.
Sanders has 18 million, Kamala Harris, 12 million.
Even Robert Francis Beto, he has the dirt eater.
He has 9 million.
So Biden's now sounding the alarm with fellow Democrats, warning that if uh they don't pony up in the next 24 hours, it's gonna make him look like a weak candidate.
Yeah.
Although he is saying, world leaders, I'm getting calls from over over the world, world leaders are begging me, begging me to do this to save the country and save the world.
What?
World leaders want another 150 billion dropped on the tarmac of Mullah's in Iran that chant death to America and death to Israel.
Oh, that's great.
All right, we got a lot to get to today.
800 941 Sean.
We're gonna get into the case of Eddie Gallagher.
I mean, when you read the New York Times and the Navy Times, you read two different stories about this case.
Uh Jonathan Gillam and Harald, also uh uh sex uh Secretary of Energy, former governor uh Rick Perry is with us today.
All right, as we roll along on a Thursday, 800 941 Sean, Tollfree telephone number announcement.
Uh, President Trump will be on Hannity tonight, Nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel and his first real interview since the Mueller report came out.
Um, let me go back to Slate for just a second here.
I mean, them saying that Joe Biden is like a 2016 Jeb Bush, their words not mine, and a weak establishment favorite whose time might be past, and should voters deprioritize his perceived strength and electability, he would soon face the wolves.
And then they go on to say that the biggest challenge of Biden in the primary will be a compromise pass spanning nearly 50 years.
Yeah, the vetting he's gonna get and face within his own party is going to be brutal.
You know, his position uh on Anita Hill, he went well that's why he went on the Anita Hill Apology tour.
His position on busing, his anti-bussing rhetoric, uh, most liberals find astonishing, their words not mine.
Um, some of that rhetoric is all gonna come back and haunt him.
And as a senator for 36 years representing Delaware, you know, that is uh state, as they say, run by banks, his economic record is more than a few blemishes, and I don't even think they've touched on his real weakness in terms of electability in a general election.
When we learn everything that we're going to learn about Russian interference in the 2016 election, we're also going to learn that it's in the top levels within the Obama administration.
This story now is creeping ever so close to Obama himself.
And if it's getting towards Obama, that means it's getting towards creepy crazy Uncle Joe.
And that will mean that wow, all of that abuse of power corruption, what did they know?
When did they know it?
And if justice is served, and all of these upper echelon people are in as much trouble as me and Sarah and Greg and John Solomon, if we all think, then it's gonna have an impact on all of them.
And the size of the field, I think they're right and slate represents you know the belief by the other candidates that all of this is gonna sink Biden on top of the horrific economic record, foreign policy record, and much more.
He's he's got more troubles than you can even begin to talk about.
All right, 25 to the top of the hour.
One other thing, there was a Fox News.com piece about Biden's entry into this race.
His advocacy of the 94 crime bill uh will be used against him, according to ex-Sanders staffers, and then he face scrutiny over his record in the Congress, particularly a strong advocacy uh for the 94 crime bill, and according to independent voter, former Bernie Sanders staffer, Teslan Figaro, who I've interviewed, very nice person.
I grew up in the 90s, my entire adult generation, those around me, we really suffered a major consequence with that bill.
And she made these comments earlier today on Fox.
First time nonviolent offenders who went to prison for 15, 16, 17 years, people are still in prison now as a result of that crime bill.
Noting that while former vice president Biden somewhat apologized for a support of the bill, he hasn't spoken about how it will be fixed.
By the way, every single person that wanted to fix the crime bill, uh, guess what?
They never got it done.
The person that got it done, well, his name would be President Trump.
And as much as, you know, look at Alice Marie Johnson.
I I can watch people like Alice Marie Johnson get released from prison uh every single day of every single year.
I mean, when she came out after 20 years, first-time offender, drug offense, it was serious, went into the arms of her family, and said publicly, thank you to the president, thank you to the United States of America.
I I just want to promise you all you'll not regret giving me a second chance.
I mean, that is that is a great remark.
Um she says the issue isn't we haven't seen anything to talk about how we're gonna fix it.
I want to talk about the policies.
What are you gonna do as president to fix what happened in the 90s bill?
All right, so that's just a small part of what they're saying.
Then his comments about bussing will come Up big time.
And then the issue of well, he has a track record now.
And it goes back, spans nearly 50 years.
I think he'd be 78 when he became president.
And it goes back all that ways.
And he doesn't seem to be the type that has the energy of, say, a Donald Trump.
And let me tell you something, with the president's comments right out of the box, low energy.
I mean, it's pretty funny.
And I to this president likes to fight and fight to win.
Anyway so he's starting it in a deep fundraising hole.
I told you earlier, Sanders, 18 million, Kamala Harris 12 million.
We'll see what the numbers look like in a week from now.
That'll be, I think, very telling.
And it's the largest presidential field now in history.
As uh, you know, we're at a record 20, hundreds filed each cycle, but only a sliver received sustained media attention.
Some of these names, I don't even know half of these people.
Do you know who Marianne Williams, the spiritual guru is, Linda?
You know her.
I mean, I we all know with Andrew Yang, nobody really knows who he is.
You know, even former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel, I barely remember him.
He was never, you know, I guess he was a serious player at one point, gained notoriety from uh for reading portions of the Pentagon papers about the origins of the Vietnam War.
Nobody's ever heard of this Miramar Florida mayor, Wayne Messum is his name.
He's struggling for media attention.
These guys, some of these guys are going to fall off fast.
So, you know, that's just obvious.
Um, as to the creepy side of Uncle Joe, we now know the Alabama Democrat that defeated Roy Moore last year, Doug Jones.
Um, he's now speaking out during an interview.
He defended Biden and said, uh, it's not for others to judge.
Okay.
If it was a Republican, I think he'd feel differently.
Biden says foreign leaders, this is the most arrogant statement, and I don't even believe it.
He's now saying his campaign isn't 24 hours old, and he's putting his foot in his mouth already.
I mean, if he thinks this much of himself, then he's a bit delusional.
Because I don't think there are a lot of world leaders that looked on favorably.
And I know there's a lot of appeasement socialist leftist governments in the world, so I I concede that point.
But in retrospect, the American people and the idea of dropping 150 billion dollars in cash and other currency from cargo planes sent by Obama and Biden to radical mullahs in Iran, hoping it will draw goodwill that maybe they'll maybe they won't talk about you know annihilating Israel anymore.
Maybe they won't talk about annihilating America anymore.
I don't know what the mentality is here.
It is a radical, rigid regime.
You know, the I think of how they treat their own people under the most rigid laws of sharia.
Women are treated atrociously in in Iran.
Gays and lesbians, we've seen the videos being thrown off roofs and murdered for no reason except being who they are.
And of course, you can't practice another religion.
Christians and Jews are persecuted.
You know, good luck building a temple or a church in Tehran.
It's not going to work out very well.
But he says this, I get calls from people all over the world, world leaders, they're calling me, almost begging me to do this to save the country, to save the world.
I'm like, okay.
All right, he's getting a little more crazy by the day.
One of the participants on the call stressed Biden wasn't making it sound as though he had a Messiah complex.
Of course not.
Why would anybody think that Joe Biden is really thinking very highly of himself?
Now he had two other factors that nobody in the media is talking about, that all of the Russia stuff, all of the abuse in our intelligence community and the DOJ and rigging Hillary's investigation.
And we learned from Strck and Page that that was all being directed by Obama Biden's attorney general.
And that would be Loretta Lynch.
Haven't heard Biden talk about that much either.
And then when more information comes out, and we begin to discover that, oh, well, everybody was warning about Russia doing this in the past.
You know, think back in 2012, Mitt Romney was excoriated for saying it by Obama saying that Russia's a threat.
We've known that Russia has done this type of interference in many other elections around the world.
This is not new information.
You know, Devin Nunes' direct warning they do it in 2016.
He warned everybody in 2014.
All of this deep state stuff happened on their watch.
The fact that Stefan Hauper recruited to spy on the Trump campaign, vis a v.
Carter Page and Papadopoulos and Sam Clovis.
And vis-à-vis, you know, Hillary's bought and paid for Russian dirty dossier, funneled money through a law firm through an op research firm over to a foreign national.
Christopher Steele.
And, you know, now hearing this week, gee, Bob Woodward, welcome aboard.
Washington Post, even saying, oh, you're going to have to admit Fox was right, especially Hannity, or the New York Times this week saying, um, that dossier, yeah, I think it might be part of a disinformation Russia campaign that influenced the election, and Hillary paid for it all.
And it's kind of despicable when you think about it.
How can that happen in America?
He's going to have to deal with that.
He's going to have to be questioned, and it will be reminded every day what the Obama Biden record for the economy was.
And I know in 2016 I was a broken record.
But you know what?
It matters, especially in light of record low unemployment in this country.
A growing burgeoning economy.
We're energy independent for the first time ever.
The tax cuts, the vast majority of increase in monies in people pocket, real dollars, went to the quote, poor and middle class in America, not to the rich, not to corporations.
You look at all of the companies now as a result of the biggest tax cut in history, the single biggest amount of deregulation in history, and the president.
Now we're energy independent for the first time in 75 years, the lifeblood of our economy.
Well, that's going to in and of itself create career jobs for so many Americans.
It's going to be life-changing.
It will be the biggest wealth producer ever in our history.
It's almost like we have a potential as a country to have a massive gold rush if we're just smart enough to do it.
Because all the other countries are doing it.
And we're now a net exporter of oil.
And you think, oh, okay, all these corporations now, because of deregulation, they want to invest in Wisconsin and Michigan and Ohio and Pennsylvania.
And they're doing it.
And that's the only way we got towards record low unemployment for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, women in the workplace, youth unemployment.
It happened for a reason, coupled with the biggest tax cuts ever in history.
You know, coupled with the promise of conservative justices, coupled with uh president that ended that idiotic Iran deal, stopped little rocket man from firing rockets over Japan every other weekend.
Understand the president's meeting, the Japanese prime minister on trade issues.
We're about to, we're in the middle of negotiating new trade deals with China that will benefit American manufacturers, American cars uh uh companies.
You know, just like everybody laughed at the idea, well, why are you pressuring our allies like Canada and Mexico?
Because these deals were unfair.
These deals were not just.
These deals took advantage of us.
And by the way, if the president gets that wall built and we get control of our southern border and it's happening, you know, it's so funny.
The president issues his emergency declaration.
Everybody complains about it.
He they they try to veto the legislation.
He over they can't override his veto.
He vetoes the legislation, overrides the V. And now he's reallocated 9 trillion.
And guess what's happening?
We're now building the wall, and he's got the resources.
And when Mexico said this week, you know, tried to take away guns from a law enforcement, this better never happen again.
And the president immediately sent down armed troops down there to help out our law enforcement because they need that kind of help.
And the president, both legislatively, Congress had given him the authority on the border, and Congress also, I mean, the mandate was clear.
President has the authority to build barriers, put up lighting, etc., etc.
If in fact Carter's drug dealing from the across the borders happening.
Okay, legislatively, he wins.
Congress passed that law, giving him that authority.
And it drives people crazy.
Then you start comparing, well, what are the Democrats going to stand for?
What?
They're going back to now it's Medicare for all instead of Obamacare.
Obamacare didn't work out.
You have uh a significant percentage of this party wants a 70% marginal tax rate for individuals, 90% for corporations.
Let me tell you what that means.
It means zero economic growth, negative growth, and money pouring out of the country.
People will leave the country.
You know, it's it's fairly inexplicable, isn't it, that they could, you know, be thinking at this level at this time.
You know, let me give you a statistic that we have today.
There are 41 states that are seeing tax revenues surge to all-time highs.
41 of them.
And by the way, as Trump now enters, you know, the Trump economic boom and enters its third year.
This is from Pugh.
Now, tax revenue rose in all but five states in the third quarter of 2018, lifting the number of states in which collections had fully recovered from the Great Recession to a record high 41 after accounting for inflation.
State tax revenue turned the corner in late 2017 after the weakest two years of economic growth outside of a recession in at least 30 years.
Um, oh, who became president?
Donald Trump.
You know, who was the president that we had our weakest years?
That would be the Biden-Obama administration.
As most states entered 2019, their budget in July, a fourth consecutive quarter of solid gains, pushing total state tax collections to 13.4% above their peak record in 2008.
Oh, what's the similarity?
You know, but Obama was elected, and then it got better as soon as Obama and Biden left.
And the states that aren't doing well, you got it.
Oh, let's see, New York.
Oh, they're down 3.5 billion the last I checked.
So, you know, he's gonna have to run on that record.
And Trump's gonna run on his.
Because eight years of Obama gave us 80, uh, 8 million more Americans on poverty.
Whatever the statistic is, I've given you many times.
It's it's it we're we're now looking at the greatest potential opportunity for growth.
And let me tell you, it's gonna say, are you better off than you were four years ago?
And why didn't you do anything about Russia?
How did you let this happen on your watch?
Unbelievable.
I know the media is gonna try and ignore a lot of this, but we'll do their job.
But I think the American people, you know what George Will used to always say?
Peace and prosperity drive elections.
The Trump economy versus the Obama economy.
I mean, 13 million more Americans on food stamps, 8 million more in poverty, lowest labor participation since the 70s.
We now have in America a million more jobs available than people on unemployment.
We now have a record low again of unemployment applications.
By the way, controlling the border, I didn't finish my thought.
Yeah, that helps Americans get jobs and higher wages.
Thank you.
That's good for every American.
We're not against immigration, just do it legally so we can vet you, make sure you can take care of yourself when you're invited to be a part of our family.
All of this helps.
Worst recovery, the eight years of Biden Obama.
Worst recovery in 40 years, lowest home ownership rate in 51 years.
Only administration never to reach 3% GDP growth.
Took on more debt than every other president before them combined, and vice president.
And Obama won't even endorse them.
Pretty funny.
All right, we got a lot to get to.
Secretary of Energy, former governor of Texas, Rick Perry is gonna talk borders, the election, and energy, obviously.
I uh I'm gonna ask if he believes as I do.
You know, those that want to get rid of oil and gas, the combustion engine, planes and cows, and everything's free.
What what if we just tapped into all the energy resources we have and become the biggest net exporter?
How would that impact the forgotten men and women in this country, job wise, finance wise, wealth wise?
All right, hour two, Sean Hannity Show.
Glad you are with us right down our toll-free telephone number.
It's 800 941 Sean.
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All right, I told you Biden got in.
I did forget one thing before we get to our friend, former governor, Secretary of Energy, uh, Rick Perry.
We have newly surfaced video.
Remember Bernie, remember Bernie's comments before the the fake news CNN town hall, and he said to the woman whose family fled the former Soviet Union in 1979.
Is it your assumption that I believed an authoritarian communism that was the Soviet Union?
I haven't.
I opposed it.
Well, okay.
We now have unearthed video footage uh on Fox News that shows Bernie Sanders recalling his excitement surrounding the Cuban revolution in the 50s.
I remember for some reason or another being excited when Castro made the revolution in Cuba.
By the way, you know what he did, right?
He stole all the land, took over all industry, and they went on a murdering rampage.
And I knew one of the survivors is uh sadly passed away.
This man named Armando de Quesada.
He's out of Decatur, Alabama.
Mando's Pizza.
I used to talk to this guy all the time.
He's such a good guy.
And his family were wealthy landowners.
Everything they had was stolen.
Part of the resistance, they were killed.
Whole family, everybody knew.
I was a kid, and it just seemed right, Bernie's appropriate.
The poor people rising up against rather ugly rich people.
Just like when he said that uh Senate millionaires are immoral.
Well, he's a Senate millionaire now.
And Bernie, by the way, Bernie Backers are vowing revenge if the Democratic establishment steals the nomination again.
Bernie or bust is their rallying cry.
And oh, Bernie was heckled and jeered at the woman of color event.
Yikes, didn't get much coverage, but it happened.
Um, all right, I just got done laying out two things.
Well, many things, challenges that Obama that Biden's gonna have as part of the Biden Obama team.
And obviously, 50 years, his positions on bussing, his stupid statements, his creepy behavior.
That's all part of it.
But I think the biggest thing that will stand out is number one, all the warnings and admonitions we had about Russia, election, interference, hacking, all of it.
They didn't lift a finger.
Specific warnings in 2014.
They didn't lift a finger.
All of this deep, deep state abuse of power and corruption, it all happened under them.
And they did nothing.
And then on top of that, I went through the last hour of the economic record, which is atrocious.
I also said that we could make every American richer than ever.
If we would finally we're now energy independent for the first time because of Donald Trump deregulation, and now opening up the pipelines, approving them, the quarter uh Dakota pipeline, Keystone Pipeline, opening up Banwar.
In other words, we have more oil and natural gas resources than the entire Middle East and Russia combined.
For the first time in 75 years, we're a net exporter of energy.
We're talking about high paying career jobs for the forgotten men and women in this country, like when we partnered with energy companies in Texas and Oklahoma, North Dakota during the recent boom.
Remember, they were trading truck drivers and paying them 80 grand a year.
And people saying, I listened to you, Hannity, I moved, and you're right.
I was only making 35 grand, 40 grand.
Now I'm making uh 100, and I just bought a brand new truck.
If we did this on the scale we're capable of, and we could also provide security for our allies on the one hand in Western Europe, once we figure out how to get it there cheaper, and then also we're not relying on countries that hate our guts for the lifeblood of our economy.
That means Americans, every American can get rich.
It's like a gold mine for every American.
Uh Secretary of Energy, former governor, friend of the show, Rick Perry.
Am I wrong in that?
Ooh, Sean, you were on fire today, brother.
How are you doing, my friend?
Good to hear your voice.
I miss you.
I haven't talked to you in a while.
Oh, I well, we've been kind of had our head down and doing our job there in DC and around the country, and and uh, you know, it it's a big swamp out there, man.
It's going to take a lot to drain it all and drain it in a in a timely way, but I can promise you the president every day is getting up and making a difference.
You know, whether it's uh watching this extraordinary energy revolution that you're talking about here occur across this country.
I mean, think about this, Sean.
Uh 12 years ago, 12 years ago, we were told that we had found all the energy that there was in America.
As a matter of fact, I think it was President Obama that said you can't drill your way out of this problem that you got today.
Well, Mr. President, you can drill your way out of this problem, and you're seeing Americans do it.
The problem was you were in the way, Mr. President.
You and your administration were putting regulations into place.
You were you were picking and choosing uh winners out there from the standpoint of if you were in fossil fuel, if you're in the coal business, you were in the nuclear business, you had to fight every day just to try to stay alive.
And president by the way, if there's anybody that would know this, it's you because we know the energy production in Texas over the years, and it's been a boom and bust over the years.
It's been hard, good times and bad times, but the good times are really good times.
Well, what we've seen in the in in in Texas, and you know, I tell people, I said, listen, uh, we're we're not perfect, but I think from the standpoint of developing an all of the above energy strategy, Texas is a pretty good example.
You'll recall while I was the governor, we developed more wind energy than any other state in the nation.
As a matter of fact, we produced more wind in Texas in all but five countries.
And we were complementing our diversity of of energy resources.
We were developing the oil and gases.
We were building pipelines.
And that is is a is a good segue into the president's executive order uh that he signed about uh ten days ago uh to go really make infrastructure uh at the heart.
And and these are real projects.
I mean, you think about if the previous administration had actually gone out uh and and spent dollars where you were creating uh real infrastructure.
As a matter of fact, what this president knows is you don't have to spend taxpayer dollars to do this.
You just need to get the federal government out of the way, get the permitting process uh expedited so that when somebody knows that there's going to be a permit.
Here are the rules, and if you meet these rules, here's the permit.
That's called permitting by rule.
That's where President Trump uh is taking this country.
It's the reason you've seen this explosion.
Well, let me ask you a question.
I and I don't have the numbers off the top of my head.
I'm usually pretty good with remembering, but now they include Anwar and our natural gas uh potential reserves.
I mean, they're massive.
I you know, I've read hundreds of years worth of natural gas, which is the lifeblood of our economy.
Now the new Green Deal wants to get rid of natural gas and oil in ten years.
The lifeblood of the world's economy, the dumbest idea I've ever heard.
But if we really if we really began to tap these resources, how vast are they compared to say Russia and the Middle East?
Well, and and and our reserves are growing every day.
I mean, that's the good point.
We're the oil, we're the number one oil and gas producing country in the world.
You know where the third largest oil and gas field in the world is?
It's the Permian Basin.
In West Texas is the I mean, right behind uh Saudi Arabia, Russia, and then there is the Permian Basin.
When you add all these other basins, the Marcellus and the Utica up in Pennsylvania and that Appalachian region, uh, by the way, that does reach out to the city.
No, you mean like upstate New York?
Yeah, they won't touch it.
But you can't, but you can't use it because you've got such small-minded people in all the time.
They're afraid to be able to do that.
By the way, Pennsylvania, they're sticking, they're sticking the, you know, you know they do the horizontal drilling, et cetera.
Yeah, I mean, they're just they're just literally stealing it right out of New York as we speak.
But I'm kidding.
I'm kidding.
Um, oh, by the way, this just broke.
Um, if I could do a little break in New York Times came out with a piece, Joseph's now, Joe Biden reached out to Anita Hill, but she wants real accountability, and she said in an interview that she left the conversation feeling deeply unsatisfied, declined to characterize his words to her as an apology.
She said she is not convinced that Biden truly accepts the harm that he caused her and other women who suffered sexual harassment and gender violence.
Here we go.
You know, it's fascinating because Democrats, you know, they care about believing, you know, a high school uh fairy tale about Justice Kavanaugh, I believe, but we have a lieutenant governor in Virginia.
If you're a Democrat, they don't care about accusations of rape and violent sexual assault.
They don't no believers there.
But anyway, so that's an interesting article that just came out.
I'm sorry to break in.
But so what is the what would this mean?
I say that the energy industry is gonna produce high paying career jobs for every American because where we've had energy and we have a lot of it we haven't even tapped.
We now, you know, truck drivers were getting trained and being a base salary of 80 grand and all the overtime they can handle.
Sean, this is a generational opportunity.
That's uh I I look at this and I share with people uh and and I've seen it happen uh in my home state, young people who uh had maybe two, three, four generations of of not even uh being able to get out of high school,
um they thought they just had to get out and get a job and get to work, and and not only is this allowing people the opportunity uh to get out, start a uh a family to be able to buy a home, which is by the way, that's the uh the the biggest source of net worth that most people are ever gonna have is to buy that first home.
And and these energy related jobs, and I might add the uh the the concentric circle of influence that comes out from there.
This isn't just about uh jobs in the energy industry.
It's it's the manufacturing jobs that come because of the uh energy prices that we're being able to have and and and building manufacturing.
So this is truly about generational changes.
I mean, uh I I think most Americans understand this.
It's like, you know, thank you, President Trump, for giving us the opportunity to take care of our families to have a better uh uh future, to to create this wealth.
I mean, the the the I'll give you a great example.
This one just blew me away when I saw it.
And this is a barber out in in uh in far west Texas, out in that Permian uh basin region.
He put an airstream trailer on the back of his pickup truck, went out to some of these man camps that were where the the labor uh and is making over a hundred thousand dollars cutting hair.
I mean, that's a yeah, I know that's anecdotal, but it's it it's not an elective of what's happening all over the part of the uh of the industry, whether you're up in the Bakken in North Dakota or whether you're in the Mar Marcellus, uh you're down in the Haynesville and Louisiana, all across this country.
Uh Sean, when we start building uh more pipelines to be able to move uh this product from where it's developed to uh to the markets, where there were those markets.
Western Europe, et cetera.
Uh speaking of Biden earlier, apparently the need of not happy with his uh call, but more importantly, if you removed your economy in Texas as governor, now we now have you know, 41 states uh m Mr. Secretary, 41 that have huge revenue increases.
We see population decreases all over the place in New York, New Jersey, California, Illinois.
People leave in these high-tax states.
You know, Texas nearly got 400,000 new people last year.
If they if you remove Texas's economic prosperity under your leadership from the Obama economy, they would have had an uh a depression on on paper.
Yeah, they would have been underwater.
Yeah.
I mean, it's true.
I mean, it's it's it's we we talked about it at the time.
Yeah.
It's really fascinating that um uh the the few states, you know, Florida was out there um uh under the leadership of uh a really good, capable uh governor, Governor Rick Scott, who's a United States Senator now.
Uh and without those few states, uh America would have been in uh in a real bind.
Uh the the the key here, and and I tell people this is that people always move around in the country.
I mean, they're free to move around uh fairly well.
Uh but here was my bumper sticker, Sean.
Capital goes where it's welcome.
And and today, when you have uh the the energy industry doing what it's doing, the manufacturing that's coming back under the uh the Trump administration.
Uh the there are states out there that are doing really, really well.
There's some states that aren't doing that well, frankly, where you live is one of them.
And and one of the reasons is why I'm stuck here, by the way.
Those state leaders uh would rather have their uh make their little political statements uh than look at reality.
For instance, the idea that you can't send a pipeline uh of of American natural gas to the Northeast.
And guess who's paying the price for that?
It's those citizens up there that are almost out of time.
You're right.
Electricity.
It's 60 percent higher for uh residential and uh uh uh forty percent higher.
Uh I mean, that's crazy.
And it's three and a half billion dollar shortfall in New York, forty-one states have massive surpluses.
You see people leaving in droves, they're going to, you know, your home state and Florida and Tennessee and the Carolinas.
Well, this administration is is making places in America really welcome for people's capital.
And because they know that if you risk your capital, you'll have a chance to have a return on the investment.
That's what the Trump administration's all about.
You're seeing it.
All right, I got a role board, whether it's at the EBA, wherever it is.
Don't be a stranger.
Governor, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, the story of Eddie Gallagher next.
Sean Gallagher, he is the brother of Eddie Gallagher.
Remember, um the story of Eddie Gallagher is a family has a father, he's a family of three, his wife Andrea decorated U.S. SEAL.
He's now uh confined behind razor wire in a military jail.
He served the country for nearly two decades.
Um many ways he has been a hero on the battlefield.
There is a new development in this case.
I read the New York Times piece, and if you read that, it reads one way stabbing a defenseless teenage captive to death, picking off school age girl and an old man from a sniper's roost, indiscriminately spraying neighborhoods with rockets and machine gun fire.
Navy SEAL commandos from Team Seven's Alpha Platoon said they had seen their highly decorated platoon chief commit shocking acts in Iraq.
They have spoken up repeatedly.
Um, and by the way, they eventually had a meeting with their platoon leader in San Diego.
A criminal investigation ensues.
Uh eventually, and anyway, long story short, when you start getting down into the actual specific allegations of this, now the platoon members eventually forced the referral of their concerns outside the SEALs is going to be a trial that begins May 28th.
The account of March 8, 2018, meeting in and other details is a 439-page report.
Um and it paints a subculture of people.
But when you get to the actual investigations, a lot of it sounds like SEAL talk.
Maybe the best equivalent would be locker room talk.
And if you ask if they've seen these things, the answer is no.
Now, a huge development yesterday by the Navy Times.com.
The headline is prosecutors, NCIS investigator accused of misconduct in war crimes case.
And a motion was filed this week in California threatening to derail the entire war crimes case against Eddie Gallagher.
Remember, the president stepped in and put him in better living conditions.
And it was drafted by Gallagher's civilian defense attorney, a guy by the name of uh Timothy uh Paulitori, and it paints A portrait of stonewalling prosecutors refusing to turn over evidence that could clear, in other words, exculpatory evidence that could clear the embattled chief and a federal cop who allegedly went rogue and cherry picking witness statements to salvage a rickety case.
Well, rather than conduct a proper investigation in search of the truth, the agent began with a predetermined conclusion and went about finding the evidence to support that conclusion while ignoring or suppressing anything that conflicted with the narrative.
I understand there's new evidence that has uh emerged in this case.
Congressman Duncan Hunter of California is taking a special interest in this.
So has former MYPD commissioner, uh Bernie Carrig, uh Duncan Hunter and Sean Gallagher, the other of Eddie Gallagher, join us now.
Uh thank you all for being with us.
Appreciate it.
My pleasure.
And hey, this is uh Duncan.
Here's what's happening too.
Well, you've been Duncan, you're reading what I'm reading.
You're reading two very different narratives here.
So here's what they're doing.
They're sucking us into their lawyer narrative.
Meaning, this is about do the American people want guys to go kill people for the country.
When the president and Congress says we're going to send you overseas to go do something, do you want guys that will do that, or do you want lawyers back here at home uh to to put these guys in jail?
The American people ask for guys to serve on the front lines.
I've served overseas.
Let us do what you want us to do.
And even you talking about it, people it's kind of you get lost in the weeds on all the lawyer stuff.
Do you want men to go kill bad people for the country?
If you do, then guys like Eddie are heroes.
Meaning uh and and by the way, if all of your listeners give money to Eddie's defense fund, please.
We ought to send all the lawyers to Iraq and Afghanistan and let those guys go and fight it out that we wouldn't have to pay them.
Number one, help Eddie out.
Number two, either you you believe that there that this country is worth fighting for, and you want men to go kill bad men overseas, or you don't.
If if you do, then Eddie's a hero.
If you don't, then we shouldn't have a military and I'll tell you what, Trump is kind of right.
Then let's get out of Iraq and Syria and Afghanistan.
Let's let's not have these guys go and do what we asked them to do and go fight and kill people, because that's what that's what we're paying guys to do is go fight and kill, and then bring them back here and put them in jail for what we as a nation asked them to go do.
This is ridiculous.
Sean Gallagher, obviously, this is your brother.
How many tours of duty did he was he involved in as a Navy SEAL?
So, yeah, Eddie went uh to Iraq in 2003.
So this is actually his last appointment, the one that's in question was the second time he had been to Missoula.
So if you think about a guy like him has been going to war for us for 15 years, eight times he's gone back to fight for us in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Bring us into whoever these people, other SEALs, apparently six or seven of them that didn't get along with your brother.
What what is the story behind that?
So the story behind this, and this is where the frustrating part comes in as a family.
My sister-in-law, my brother and me, and uh and a bunch of others have been what I say is cursed with the truth.
I've known about this whole thing before the investigation even started.
It has never been seven to nine guys of his platoon.
It's always been one to two who made up stories because they didn't want Eddie to be their boss again.
And I know that sounds simplistic, but in the SEAL teams, reputation is everything, your your honor and your code and all that stuff is everything.
And Eddie had seriously reprimanded guys who were brand new, had never been on combat before for their election of duty for a mutiny abroad.
And so he told them, hey, look, either get out of the teams or ship up or shape out.
And they didn't like that.
And so when they got home, they spun up these stories.
The thing that you had just started in the lead-in, the difference between the New York Times article and the Navy Times article is the frustration that we've been dealing with since day one.
The Navy Times article was finally another step where the truth is starting to come out, where investigators literally sat a bunch of guys from Space Platoon down, tried to coax stories to fit their own narrative out of them.
Are any of them willing to say that they were coaxed into saying something that's not true?
Absolutely.
So the Navy Times article that you started with last night, or that came out last night that you started the top of the show with in it.
One of the key witnesses, according to the prosecution, just flipped.
And he actually didn't even flip.
What he said in his follow-up interview was, I never said what you think I did.
I never saw Eddie shoot anybody like a little girl or an old man.
That's insane.
And also, by the way, I never witnessed the stabbing of an ISIS detainee.
I just saw Eddie treating him.
And so this is one of those things where eight months, nine months after this whole mess has started, seven months of Eddie in prison, all of this stuff, we find out that prosecutors are withholding exculpatory evidence from our team from Timothy Carlatori and in the family.
We finally, via an illegal leak of information sent to the media, we discovered that there was actually exonerating evidence that that so you know I know that the family and I have always been saying this, you know, this never happened, this is all concoction, but now there's some gratification in that we actually have proof.
Rather than the proper investigation, they start, as the Navy Times piece said with a predetermined conclusion you you're you're pointing out.
Your brother's accused of stabbing to death an unarmed and seriously wounded Islamic state prisoner of war during a twenty seventeen deployment and shooting an old man and a young girl in a violent spree that claimed hundreds of lives.
And then the Navy Times goes on to say, although the motion accuses prosecutors of withholding evidence benefiting Gallagher, records independently uncovered by the Navy Times, the motion expends much of its ink on the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which by the way, the I guess prosecutor in this case is accusing of botching the entire probe, and the lead investigator on the case, the NCIS special agent, apparently is in the crosshairs of the council here.
Does any such evidence exist in any way?
Duncan, I I I hear there is video.
Okay, so I've actually seen the the uh video that the prosecutors wouldn't show anybody.
And by the way, if they showed people the video, it shows Eddie trying to save the terrorist life.
And by the way, he's not a POW.
He's not wearing a uniform.
We're not fighting uniformed people.
We're we're fighting people that hate our country, that hate Christianity, that hate Western civilization, that dress like civilians, hide their guns, and and you're gonna treat Eddie like a police officer on the streets of San Diego as opposed to somebody that we're paying to go kill bad guys.
I mean, that that was his job.
And so I the answer is I've seen the video.
It shows Eddie trying to save the terrorist life.
That that's what it shows.
And and I I I can't wait till the video becomes public.
They've used the video to try and scare people to to go against Eddie Gallagher when the the video, once you see it, you're you're like, hey, uh I feel people that have no military experience saw the video, and they left going that exonerates him.
That that proves that he didn't do anything bad.
The hard thing I have a hard time understanding, why would his own guys turn against him?
And by the way, not all of them, just a few.
Why?
Yeah, it's kind of like a uh family, Sean.
I mean, you you ask, well, why doesn't Uncle Jim talk to you on Thanksgiving about politics?
It's it's the same kind of deal.
It's a it's a small tight environment.
He wasn't liked by a few guys, and by the way, not just like Sean said, not six or seven or eight or nine guys, one or two guys, and that are in the video and the pictures that I've seen.
So he's so these these guys that dimed him out are posing with him in some of these pictures, smiling, happy.
Then some of recanted, is that true?
No, so here's the problem, Sean.
They they lied.
So now they need immunity from the prosecutor to be able to tell the prosecutors that they lied.
And the prosecution doesn't want to give the the SEALs immunity to recant their stories.
You see what I'm saying?
Because if you tell a false story in the first place, and you want to go back and say, hey, that was that was not true.
That's what I said, I was coerced into saying what I said, then they'll get you on perjury.
The SEALs now want immunity to to say that what they said in the first place was coerced and not true.
And the prosecution, of course, is not going to give them immunity.
It's this is about leaks, it's about lies from the prosecutors and half truths, and they're leaking all this information to the New York Times.
I mean, this is the U.S. Navy prosecutors, it's it sounds early just like what our president is going through right now.
It's the exact same kind of thing by an overzealous and corrupt judicial system, but this one's in the military, so it's even tighter and harder to expose than the Department of Justice corruption.
All right, stay right there, Duncan Hunter, Congressman California Sean Gallagher is the brother of Eddie Gallagher.
When is this supposed to go to trial at this point, or is it in a delay because of the evidence issue?
We'll take a break, we'll find out, we'll answer that question when we get back.
All right, as we continue, Congressman Duncan Hunter and Sean Gallagher, who is the brother of Eddie Gallagher, um, and this whole convoluted story about you know being charged with war crimes, and then apparently there's new evidence proving that he was helping the person that other people said that he was responsible for killing when he didn't have to.
Uh Sean, how do you why are we there at that point if we have video evidence that Congressman Hunter just described to us?
Wouldn't that be exculpatory completely and end it?
That makes no sense at that point.
Absolutely.
And the best way that I can describe this is simply is just to say the process is broken, that the system is broken.
And the reason that I can say that is that this whole thing's been going on for nine months, right?
Eddie was originally charged with something like ten counts.
We have dropped, in a in including the article that you mentioned in the Navy Times, which has exculpatory evidence.
That's probably gonna drop four more charges.
So you're seeing now, Eddie, they treated him like a mafia boss.
All right, so two charges already dropped, four tr charges you're saying will likely drop, then what's left?
Then the only charge that will be left is the one where they claim that he stabbed the ISIS fighter that just moments ago was firing at him when he's actually trying to save his life.
So they tried to shoot described it that saw it.
I have not seen it, so I don't know that maybe he was he was seen trying to put a trach in or something.
So, yeah, the the the confirmed reports, the the quick scenario of the situation is that he pulled him off a hum.
The Iraqi special forces gathering, right?
So there's a compound that was hellfire missile.
It kills 50 ISIS fighters, one survives.
The 17-year-old boy, he gets taken off a Hummer.
Eddie says, I'm going to take him, I'm going to try and save him.
There's video of my brother cutting away his pants, bandaging a wound, and starting to provide medical care.
That's where the video cuts.
And that's the last charge you're saying involved in this?
Now, uh, are there eyewitnesses that will testify they saw him try to save that life, not take it?
Yes.
So this is another insane thing that I've been saying is that we actually have three to four times as many people who will say that Eddie never did this than those that did.
So let me put it to this way, Sean.
Every single lawyer I've ever talked to about this case has looked at this and said this would have never made it past a grand jury in a civilian case.
That you would have never heard about Eddie's name, that none of this stuff would ever come to light because the evidence is so bad and the story is so bad.
However, because it's a military court of law in the Article 32 equivalent, which is a grand jury, the evidence threshold is so low and it's political, Sean.
So they want to send a message.
This is all about politics.
It's about career brass saying, oh, Navy SEALs are going rogue, and we need to send a message to get their stuff together.
Well, now they're throwing Eddie under the bus to send that message, but they didn't expect for me and his his wife and her family to fight back tooth and nail, and for him as well.
I mean, he fought for the country for 20 years.
He's not going to just sit there and take it.
And so they they messed up.
And this is a major black eye in the military.
And that's why I've been pleading with the president to take a look at this, because I promise you, if I sit down with anybody for 20 minutes and explain to them, start to finish this entire case, they walk away shaking their head in shame that this is happening to Eddie.
And that it ever started in the first place.
All right, I gotta let you both go.
We're gonna continue to follow this story in this case.
Uh thank you both for being with us, Congressman Hunter.
I don't know when you can give us that tape, but when you can, we will air it.
Uh, thank you, Sean Gallagher, thank you.
And uh I understand Bernie Kerrick is with you.
Send my best to Bernie.
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I wrote it to time that we're in the battle for the soul of this nation.
Well, that's even more true today.
We are in the battle for the soul of this nation.
I believe history will look back on four years of this president and all he embraces as an aberrant moment in time.
But if we give Donald Trump eight years in the White House, he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation.
Who we are, and I cannot stand by and watch that happen.
The core values of this nation, our standing in the world, our very democracy.
Everything that has made America America is at stake.
That's why today I'm announcing my candidacy for president of the United States.
Folks, America's an idea.
An idea that's stronger than any army, bigger than any ocean, more powerful than any dictator or tyrant.
It gives hope to the most desperate people on earth.
It guarantees that everyone is treated with dignity and gives hate.
No safe harbor.
As they say in my business, I'm going to give you the whole load today.
You got the first sort of mainstream African-American.
Who is articulate and bright and clean, nice looking guy.
I mean, it's that's a story.
You're telling me we got to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt.
You don't know my state.
My state was a slave state.
My state is a border state.
My state is the eighth largest black population in the country.
My state is anything from a northeast liberal state.
You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Duncan Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.
His mom uh lived in uh in Long Island for 10 years or so.
Uh God rest your soul, and uh um, although she's waiting your mom's still, your mom's still alive, is your dad passed.
God bless her soul.
A man who will be the next president of the United States for Rock America.
Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America.
Let's get that straight.
And quite frankly, um, it might have been a better pick than me.
So let me say it again.
Thank you, uh Terry, and thank you, uh, Dr. Pepper, and thank you, Chancellor, uh Dr. Paper.
Romney wants to let the he said in the first hundred days, he's gonna let the big banks once again write their own rules.
Unchain Wall Street.
They're gonna put you all back in chains.
Think about what happened out in where Gabby Gifford, my good friend, was shot and mortally wounded.
Well, I say they're gonna start to see unemployment grow uh this spring.
Uh employment grow.
I'm sorry.
Number one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word.
Jobs.
J-O-B-S jobs.
See, I went to the big guys for the money.
I was ready to prostitute myself in the man in the manner in which I talk about it.
Chuck Graham, state senator is here.
Chuck, stand up, shop, let him see you.
Oh, God love you.
What am I talking about?
I tell you what, you're making everybody else stand up, though, pal.
Now is the time to heed the timeless advice from Teddy Roosevelt.
Speak softly and carry a big stick.
End of quote.
I promise you, the president has a big stick.
I promise you.
Now I'm like the token black with a token woman.
I was the token young person.
All right, there he is.
Uh crazy creepy Uncle Joe enters the Democratic campaign to run as uh president.
Ocasio Cortez, the speaker of the House of Representatives, Pelosi in name only, attacking Biden.
He's out of touch with the Democratic Party.
The president weighs in about Sleepy Joe.
Welcome to the race, Sleepy Joe.
I only hope you have the intelligence, uh, long in doubt to wage a successful primary campaign.
He said, warning Biden that the race would be nasty and he would be forced to confront people who truly have some very sick and demented ideas.
An apparent reference to other candidates, but if you make it, I'll see you at the starting gate.
And Obama breaks his silence.
Oh, the best decision he ever made, but he won't endorse crazy creepy Uncle Joe.
Uh apparently Biden's having some uh fundraising problems.
And I'll tell you the biggest problem Joe Biden has is the Obama record.
The you know, 13 million more Americans on food stamps, eight million more in poverty, lowest labor participation rate since the 70s, worst recovery since the 40s, lowest home ownership rate in 51 years, only president to never reach 3% GDP growth in any year of his presidency and vice presidency, and took on more debt than all 43 other presidents before him combined.
And when you compare it to Trump, there's no comparison.
And uh that's where we find this race.
And by the way, Joe Biden thinks a lot of himself.
I'm getting calls from all over the world.
World leaders are calling me.
They're almost begging me to do this to save the country, save the world.
You mean like dropping another 150 billion on a tarmac for radical mum mulas that chant death to America, death to Israel?
Okay.
Uh Joining us now, Jonathan Gillam, former FBI agent, Federal Air Marshal, Geraldo Rivera, Fox News legal analyst, author of the bestseller of the Geraldo show.
Heraldo, crazy, creepy Uncle Joe.
He's got a lot to defend.
And by the way, all the deep state stuff that's coming out, that all happened on his and Obama's watch.
He's gonna have to deal with that in the track record.
Nobody seems to think about it all.
Let me get this uh big stick uh going first.
Uh I think that's a good thing.
You know, you really can't help yourself.
What was very wicked.
Well, you know, it's like are you gonna send out another selfie 70 to new 30 or what?
One of the greatest moments on Twitter history.
You know, uh Joe Biden is a charming man.
He's uh uh he is beloved in many ways, but he has never been a big vote getter.
He's never any time as I recall, the last two times he ran for president on his own, he never even got into double digits.
So I think that the fundraising aspect of his uh the challenges that he faces are the are the least of it.
I think his problem is that uh though he is there are just some people that you like them a lot, but you can't see them in the role that they are seeking.
And I think Joe Biden is a classic example of that.
He's old school, old fashioned, old.
He's uh, you know, he's uh he's a retread and and and I say this and I honor him uh for everything he's done uh you know, for service for the country and his his family, uh how they have served and and what a great dad uh he has been.
Uh, you know, so there's many things that are about him extremely honorable and admirable, but I I don't think he has a chance in this field.
I really don't.
I think that all this leader uh ship in the polls is very transient.
Uh people look at him and he's comfortable, has a lot of name recognition.
I'd love to see how much money he raises by this time tomorrow, Marshall.
Well, there's a story about that already, that he's not raising a whole lot of money, and you know, you're right.
We'll see by the end of the week.
And you know, so far, not really a good start.
Many Obama donors have already committed to, you know, crazy mayor Pete and uh Kamala Harris and and Robert Francis.
Uh what are your thoughts?
How does how how does he come out in this, Jonathan, especially with a party that is moving towards radical socialism?
Uh it's sort of like, and he has to defend Obamacare.
That was radical enough.
That failed on a spectacular level.
Yeah, radical failure.
But it was uh I mean, if he's old school as Geraldo uh was uh describing him, he has no chance against these people.
Just like Nancy Pelosi has no chance against this uh new breed of socialistic, uh I would even venture to say communistic uh uh people that are coming along and getting and somehow getting elected.
But here's a here's the question I have to pose to Geraldo is what has Joe Biden done that's a success.
I mean, in in all the years that he's been in government, what has Joe Biden's name been attached to?
It's certainly not a winning government.
I mean, our government's been in extreme decline in effectiveness uh since Reagan.
So what has Joe Biden had any of these people done?
You can give him credit for Clarence Thomas being on the high court.
If it wasn't for Joe Biden cutting up Anita Hill, uh uh Wait a minute, he won a he went on a whole apology tour saying he was wrong, just like he's saying he was wrong when he uh supported segregation.
I I think that it the his strongest suit is is and Jonathan, you asked me very directly.
I think the loyalty that he showed to Barack Obama has forever endeared him to the people who love Barack Obama.
Uh, you know, that kind of loyalty, selfless loyalty, reliability, uh good old Joe, your best pal, your wingman, uh, has got your back.
Uh, you know, there's a lot to be said about that as the second banana.
Uh, you know, in some ways I feel like uh Sean Hannity's Joe Biden.
Uh button.
All right, stop.
I'm I'm not I'm not allowing this.
This is that is ridiculous.
And I'll tell you why it's ridiculous, because here you have what how many years in broadcasting now?
Is it you're close to 50, right?
49.
49.
I went back twice in the last year and watched your historic reporting on Willowbrook, which was a mental health facility in New York and Queens, and you single-handedly exposed the most awful conditions and horrific treatment of those suffering from mental illness of some kind or another.
Not only did you expose it, the whole world's conscience was shocked.
You changed it all by yourself.
I've never done that in my career, Haraldo.
And you think of everything that you've done and everything you've accomplished, every war coverage, uh war you've covered, war zones you've been in, being shot at.
You know, I can't accept that.
I can't accept that.
Who's the second who's the second most powerful person in the United States of America today?
Jonathan Gillam.
Jonathan's not me.
I can tell you that.
Don't worry.
Jonathan will tear the throat out of anyone who threatens you.
I have no doubt.
Another thing we will agree on is the number one most powerful guy in the world, uh, Donald Trump, the president, is on TV tonight, which is great.
And now how that is fabulous.
So what are you gonna ask him?
Um just gonna go everything.
It's the first interview really in depth about after the Mueller report comes out, so obviously we've got to talk about that.
Uh clearly, you know, we'll ask him about the 2020 candidates and the new deal, and you know, um, just get his thoughts.
I mean, you know, one of the things that I've learned in terms of being a better interviewer is you ask everything and you actually allow the person to talk if you're not playing gotcha.
It took me a long time to learn that.
Because I'm such an egotistical idiot.
It's a tragedy that that that any he can't go on CNN because every other word will be challenged, you know, in an in a disrespectful way that curtails the free flow of information.
You don't get the essence of what the person has to say.
The newsmaker has to say if you're so bent on hostility as they are toward the president.
That's why he is going to you because he wants the American.
Listen, I'm I'm dying to hear what he thinks about the deep state and all these things that are being exposed and whether the Pfizer warrants will be released, and you know, this is not Operation Crossfire Hurricane.
This is now Operation Boomerang.
All those people that tried to take him out, rigged Hillary's investigation, then tried to rig a presidential election, and then further tried to undermine a duly elected president, it's all come back on them.
It's all it's all coming.
We know we've seen most of it.
The story is being put together piece by piece.
The evidence is overwhelming.
There's there's going to be a sh a sh a counter shock to this system that is going to be like an avalanche causing an earthquake.
And it will draw everybody's attention.
But all right, stay right there.
We got to take a quick quick break.
Geraldo Rivera and Jonathan Gillum with us.
And as we continue with Geraldo Rivera and Jonathan Gillum and both great friends of mine and wonderful people.
You know, Geraldo, you picked up something, though, about the Democrats.
They don't they don't want this president to succeed.
Even when the president look at look at what the president offered as it relates to the border.
Now they supported in the second term of Obama funding a wall.
They talked about the need for the wall, and now they talk about walls being immoral, but he also put on the table DACA, put on the table Dreamers, put on the table other things to try and entice the Democrats, and they wouldn't talk to him.
You know, the country has grown into the Trump position on the border.
If you saw Thomas Friedman yesterday in the New York Times of all places, the most prominent op-ed writer in the Times saying how a wall was necessary.
He was down there, he took the same tour that uh that you and I did with uh the border patrol.
He saw for himself, the chaos on the border, the uh the fact that it's so very unsafe for the migrants themselves, it's disorderly, it's uh harmful not only to their home countries, but to ours, obviously.
I think that the president has to stay on message.
I think it's very important now that he also has to continue this uh resistance.
He should steal that word uh from the No, I agree.
I'm running out of time.
Last word, Jonathan.
No, I think he I think the president should continue to resist, and I uh I'll tell the give the Democrat all the Democrats that vote Democrat out there a little bit of advice.
If Joe Biden, based on what we've seen in the Democratic Party over the past uh uh year.
If Joe Biden gets a nomination, you're gonna know he was selected, not elected.
You are the best choice for the Democrats in 2020.
Why didn't President Obama's Obama not to endorse and he doesn't want to listen?
We should whoever wins this nomination should win it on their own merits.
So why you fuck a zero and your message bearing?
I'd need this about the debate about your hat to get to the different product my married first.
Why are you the best choice for giants?
That'll be for the Democrats in the Senate.
How could we differentiate yourself?
What are you thinking about the ballerings?
Mr. Vice President, Mr. Vice President, Democrats, All the stuff in time, okay?
That's something that they should look at because the Democrat Party does not have the people's interest at heart.
Alright, thank you so much for being with us 800 941 Sean.
Toll free telephone number, quick break, right back, and we will continue on the other side.
Alright, 25 to the top of the hour.
Alright, it's my Friday.
Uh, I just happen to be off tomorrow.
I've not I don't take a do I take any days off.
Wasn't I here last Friday?
You know it and take away.
It was good Friday, and we came in.
Holy Thursday, we came in.
Uh the day after Easter Sunday we came in, and I had been scheduled to be off Thursday and Friday for the Easter holiday, and I didn't take off, so here I am.
Uh so that means in honor of Friday, it's our Friday concert series.
And for those of you that still have Friday to work, just imagine it's Friday tomorrow this time, and this is playing our Charlie Daniels Big and Rich Zach Brown band concert series.
Let's hit it.
And a little bit of chicken fried Cold beer on a Friday night A pair of jeans that fit just right And the radio song.
See the love in my mama's eyes.
Be the touch of a precious child, and know a mother's love.
It's funny how it's a little things in life.
That means she come on M features.
It blows me away.
She's everything I want to say to a woman, but I couldn't find the words to say.
She got one M kids.
Every time I'm trying to tell her I feel it comes out, I love you.
You got whatever it is.
Keep me in mind Somewhere down the road you might get lonely Keep me in mind And a praise someday that you will love me only.
Think about your some days, and the way I would lay a wasted day after day with you.
Sweet A. Can't stay with you.
Cause this road's been putting miles on my heart.
Sweetheart, I've been living in a fantasy.
But one day that man will strike.
And my bart will lose his five.
But don't give up on me.
Sweet.
I got some good friends that live down the street.
Got a good looking moment with the wrong time.
He's in a small town.
I got it a bit on me.
And nothing that I know.
Oh no.
Oh, no.
I got my toes in a water.
Not a worry in a world of gold beard.
My head in life is good today.
How do you send my connects?
Yeah, I'm leaving, GA.
And if there weren't both Kila and pretty senioritas, I'd have no reason to stay.
And we're coming to your safety.
Don't make our guitar saying you will country so we'll all be a flyer.
Higher than a channel I know.
And if you want a little bang in the yin yang, come along.
When the devil finished, Johnny said, Well, you're pretty good, old son.
But sit down in that chair right there and let me show you how it's done.
Found the mountain run boys from the devil's in the house of the rising sun.
Pick it out, though.
No Town No!
Alright, and just a I we I just love music.
Doesn't music make you feel good?
Makes me feel so good.
Um, and by the way, when second we're gonna talk to our buddy Charlie Daniels, he's got a veterans nonprofit.
It's called the Journey Home Project.
They partnered with Rich Poverty Organization to assemble a new art exhibit at the Pentagon.
And the exhibit is entitled The Alliance Collection, a gallery literally of combat civilian photographs taken by vets and their families.
It's now on display for public viewing, and the Journey Home Project, this nonprofit, you know, assists uh other not-for-profits in securing the funds they need to help the causes that benefit vets.
And uh let's play it.
So we've been at this for a long time, and uh we got involved in recognizing veterans' needs that uh when our veterans are coming home, and especially it seems like from more recent wars,
the Afghanistan war, the Iraq war, that the our veterans administration and the government agencies that are tasked with trying to help our veterans transition from one life to another from military life to back to civilian life, are just dropping the bomb.
And uh my manager David Corley and myself got together with uh a couple of people with uh Joe and Mercy Longdriver and and uh Ed Hardy and said, let's incorporate this thing.
David did a film called The Journey Home, and that's where the name came from.
It just seemed like a good name.
It's a journey home.
I think describes what happens with our veterans when they come home.
I look at the concept of the journey home project.
It is a journey, it it is a path, a walk, a journey every bloody day, and it's it's a hard journey to suddenly not have the focus,
the organization, the discipline, the respect, the task, the commonality, the trust that you did when you were in uniform, and and then try to adapt to that the transition period into a society that for most cases bluntly does not hold itself to the same ethical or
moral standards that the armed forces do.
And so I I'm so appreciative of not only the approach of the Journey Home Project, but the recognition that our emphasis for my foxhole needs to be on that transition period because that that transition is different for everyone.
That walk along the path back home.
I think we as veterans need to recognize that we're among a select few that have done and gone and done what we have done.
Been a part of something that's been bigger than ourselves.
Just because we don't put our uniforms on anymore doesn't mean that we're not still a part of that.
We still have an obligation to our brothers and sisters to be there for them to support them and and push them just as we did in the military.
So we as veterans have to step up and and take it to the fight.
We've got to be there to support our brothers and sisters and point them in the right direction.
We have to learn from our own mistakes.
We have to learn from our own uh hardships.
But we can't do that alone.
I never would have gotten to where I I've gotten if it wasn't for the network that I've created and and the help from the journey home.
And that's where other Americans come into play.
There's a lot of nonprofits out there that are honorable and that are focused on serving veterans rather than benefiting from being associated with veterans.
The Journey Home Project is at the top of that list.
So that's what Journey Home is.
We are here for the veterans.
We are here to try to help them have a softer land and a smoother transition coming from the military life to the civilian life.
Wow, that's very powerful.
The man, Charlie Daniels, country music legend, dear friend, and probably the most one of the most generous people when it comes to our vets loving this country, patriotism, appreciating the sacrifice of others and giving back, which he's done his entire career.
Uh, how are you?
Good to I I can't believe I don't get to see you more often, and I only get to talk to you occasionally on radio and TV.
What's going on, my friend?
Wow, man, it's just good to talk to you.
I was sitting here trying to figure out how I was gonna say anything after that introduction you gave me, man.
Well, I mean, it's a great cause.
That's it.
And like so many other great veteran causes, like how many freedom concerts did you do for us uh over the years?
We raised a bunch of money, and that money's even still being distributed to this day.
Well, we had more fun than we should have had to, you know.
That's true.
It ain't it it ain't fair to be doing something good and having that much fun at the same time, you know.
Well, it's legendary me butchering the devil went down to Georgia on stage and you know you you you didn't butcher it.
No, I no, no, I I ruined the whole concert.
It it's your encore, and then you know, they're expecting Charlie Daniels' version, and they get the Hannity version, and I'm just I'm a mess.
I I'm not I tried my hardest though.
You know, Snothing.
If you were to go around the country and talk to a hundred people that it comes to that concert, and you ask them, what is the moment you remember the most?
Oh no, what is it?
80% up would say when Sean Hadney did Devil went down to Georgia and jumped all over the stage, man.
A combination of Mick Jagger and Garth Brooks.
Oh man.
That's a that is a combination.
By the way, I I stay in touch with with Charlie Jr.
Um, and uh I know you had a little health issues a while back, a pretty long while now.
You're doing great, right?
Back on the road.
Everything's fine.
Just had checkups this past week with uh my doctors, and everything's good.
Like you're all put up with me for a while off there.
Well, no, no, I think we'll be God willing, we'll put up with you for much longer.
And um, how many shows are you doing this year?
We've got a pack 11400 books right now.
We're probably gonna make a few more.
We're gonna we're gonna rock on out this year.
Uh we're doing we're doing, in fact, we're turning with Travis Trip part of the year, too.
And doing a lot of stuff on our own.
So I love Alabama and Travis.
They're good.
They're both, you know what?
I love that that that style of country.
I really do.
It's great.
Yeah.
Alabama, you know, sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth.
Boom.
Yeah.
How cool is that?
You know.
Great guys, for sure.
Uh but yeah, we're we're we're out here hitting it.
Getting on it.
We're gonna be at the bacon theater a little later on the year, maybe and come see us there in New York.
Oh, you're gonna be up in New York.
What are you coming up to New York?
I didn't know.
I can't remember.
I'll make sure that you know.
What's the where am I?
What state am I in?
All right, so when you're traveling, you travel in this beautiful big Charlie Daniel bus, you you tell me you love it.
It's home for you in many ways, although I know you love your home back in Tennessee, but and you travel in this thing.
Come on, over the years, there's gotta be days when you're when you're pounding it out night after night after night, entertaining so many people that you're like, uh, what city are we in today?
Well, I do that, you know.
I have to stop and think sometimes I'm getting ready to say good evening, you know, whoever.
But uh somebody you ever have to say where are we again?
What city are we in this time?
Well, I have made a mistake on that before.
People do not like it.
No, they don't like it, man.
They want to be loved in their state.
You know, and you still do music.
Uh when did you first know you loved music?
I love music all my life.
I can't remember time when I didn't, but I never got a chance to learn how to play until I was about 14 years old, and a friend of mine showed me a few chords on a guitar.
And once I learned three chords on a guitar and I could play a whole song, I was ruined.
That's all I ever wanted to do.
I just thank God I can make a living doing something I love as much as I do playing music.
I'm as in love with it now as I was when I first started out.
Okay, now for people that want to be a part of your charity, it is the Journey Home Project.
How do they do that?
We can go to our website.
Uh we got a link on Hannity.com.
I'll make it easy for people.
How's that?
Yeah, we go to the website and we, you know, you check us out and see what we are.
We're very open and above board about what we do.
We're involved in a thing right now with a art uh a picture display at the Pentagon at uh a X-green uh ex uh special forces guy uh Tim Wallace put together.
That's an interesting thing.
It's like they have done pictures, all vet pictures.
They've taken pictures of of of war, but they've also taken pictures of their surroundings and the places they were fighting from all over the world, the people and the places that they were in and around, and it's a it's a really interesting thing.
It gives a whole nother uh look at things.
And the thing about it is it's these guys get together and and it's unbelievable.
I I love I love you.
I love what you're doing.
I love your love of our veterans.
They need all the help they can get.
It's the journey home project.
We just threw it up on Hannity.com.
Uh and anything people can do.
We always want to support you, Charlie.
Thank you for all you do.
We love you.
You're a good man, Sean Hannity, and we love you too.
