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July 4, 2019 - Sean Hannity Show
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Happy July 4th

The Best of Sean Hannity brings John Mclaughlin, Matt Towery, Lisa and Al Robertson, Austan Goolsbee and a very special interview with President Donald Trump!  As we celebrate America, we should look toward the very important 2020 elections!The Sean Hannity Show is on weekdays from 3 pm to 6 pm ET on iHeartRadio and Hannity.com.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Thank you, Iowa.
Congratulations to tonight's honorees and welcome to my fellow candidates whom I consider we are all a part of being the Avengers.
The Republicans in 2016, that was the hunger games.
He promised health care, and then he tried to rip health care away from millions of people.
What's that called?
Health care fraud.
He said he was for working people.
Then he passed a tax bill benefiting the top one percent and the biggest corporations in this country.
That's tax fraud.
He believes the president of Russia and a North Korean dictator over the word of the American intelligence community.
Securities fraud.
And then he claims to be the best president we've seen in a generation.
Well, I say let's call Barack Obama because that's identity fraud.
I'm running for president because we can't take four more years of Donald Trump.
We are for every American having access to health care.
And make no mistake, abortion is health care, and health care is a right, not a privilege.
The days of dismissing maternal mortality or adoption rights or paid leave or affordable daycare or universal pre-K or equal pay for equal white right.
Work is just a woman's issue.
Those days are long gone.
When I saw the program for today, I thought the same thing you all did, which is this.
Joe Biden must really not like to travel.
And I am the man for that job because the opposite of Donald Trump is an Asian man who likes math.
Thank you very much, Iowa.
Love you all.
Thank you.
All right, there you have your crop of 2020 candidates in uh Iowa over the weekend, some of it very entertaining, and you have an Iowa poll out that shows uh Joe Biden leading with Sanders, but Warren and Mayor Pete Budejudge are gaining a little bit of traction in in at least that state.
And uh the Democrats on Democratic attacks now have begun.
Who's liberal enough, who's more radical, the most radical to take on Donald Trump, and the only one that took a you know, a realistic view of beating Donald Trump being hard was Bernie Sanders, which is pretty interesting.
And of course, Biden was nowhere to be found.
Um so you have almost even with Biden, Warren is surging in the Iowa poll.
Not sure what that means.
Uh we do have news of the big announcement and accomplishment that of course uh Mayor Pete never really wants to talk about, apparently, because he was able to coax the city of 4500 uh undocumented immigrants in South Bend uh Indiana uh out of the shadows and helped them access services in South Bend.
And what he ended up doing was a first of its kind, governmentally endorsed privately run program that he could tout on the campaign trail where illegal immigrants um he's out there, he set up a system to make it work.
He signed an executive order requiring local services and institutions and law enforcement and schools and water utility and libraries to accept what is a card uh put together by a nonprofit saying that they are a community resident.
So meaning legalizing them without really legalizing them.
Anyway, here to look at where do we stand, where are the polls, what do they mean?
We have John McLaughlin, pollster strategist, and Matt Towery is with us.
He says he's retired, but then he sent me sends me these great notes on polling that uh I keep saying to him, you know, we're dragging you back to work every day, whether you like it or not.
And last week's on a really interesting note is he looks as at the president and all the recent polls about him, and and you have the same perception that I do.
You don't think the president polls like any conventional politician, you think he's about five points higher than what is coming out in the numbers.
Uh, but you see the president beginning to surge, and you think there's a reason for it.
What is it?
Yeah, I I do, Sean.
Um first of all, greetings from your other state of Florida, where we're having a little rain today.
Uh I think he's surging for various reasons.
First of all, let me give you an example.
Here in Florida, I had dinner with the chairman of the Republican Party, um, Joe Gruders, uh, who you know, over the weekend, and I feel really good about Florida, which I didn't feel good about uh four years ago.
Uh so there's certain areas where the president's surging, I don't think the media picks it up.
But on a national level, I'm beginning to see I'm sure John's seeing this.
The president's numbers, and these numbers are off because they overly rely on cell phones as a social before, and that leans uh heavily to the left.
A lot of reasons, but the the fact that they don't wipe them properly, the president's usually about three points ahead of where he shows.
But the what I'm seeing is the president is beginning to see a consolidation in his numbers.
He's drifting upward.
Most of this nonsense is now out of the way, no matter how much they try to push impeachment and the like.
And think about this.
There's a theme that's beginning to emerge.
The president seems to be fighting for the American people.
Let's use Mexico as an example.
This morning, you had uh a guy named Mr. Brilliant from the U.S. Chamber, they decided to get on and lecture the president about not using tariffs in order to um bring about what what we want in terms of the border security.
Well, the president took him right on immediately.
So you have a president who appears to be fighting for the public and for the American people, and then you have all of these self-interests, whether they're on the Republican side or Democratic side or these candidates trumping about issues that people don't really care about, and you get polls.
It's just a complete dichotomy.
And the president now, you're beginning to see people who didn't support Donald Trump are beginning to say, forget it, the economy's great, what he does works.
I may not like watching the the uh the sausage being made, but the results are fantastic, and those numbers are coming home for Donald Trump.
And the thing is did the president lose any voters from 2016.
I think that's something we're gonna have to look at.
And then we always have the main question, which is are we better off than we were four years ago?
Well, if the election were held today, uh the records economically speak for themselves.
Uh say if it's somebody like Biden, you get to compare and contrast eight years of their economic record.
Uh if you want to talk about Russia and impeachment, all of this deep state, these deep state shenanigans happened under Biden Obama.
Um, and then if you look at the more radical Democrats that want the new Green Deal and they want to impeach Trump and they want a fifth investigation into Trump Russia collusion that didn't happen, John McLaughlin.
Well, I think people perceive that for what it is, and that's that's pure politics putting themselves and their desire for power over serving their constituents, and I don't think that's ever a good strategy.
Uh no, it's not.
And and as Matt was saying, the president's number, he's grinding up.
I mean, he gave a great State of the Union back in February, his policies were outlined.
People who saw that were overwhelmingly favorable to him.
And the Democrats are doing their best to get him off track.
And it's real clear that Mueller exon, you know, basically that report came out exonerated the president, said there was no collusion and it was the biggest myth going.
And you've got a straight shooter like Bill Barr, as AG, who's who's really a true law enforcement professional, uh uh Justice Department professional saying we need to get to the bottom of where this started and how did this come about?
Because it's all it's been has been an attempt to stop the president from moving ahead from raising his job approval.
And as Matt has pointed out, last month we had him at 47% job approval.
Rasmussen, the ones who poll likely voters, we've got him in the high 40s.
And actually, if you look at those people that say I may not like his style sometimes, but I like his policies, he goes over 50 percent.
And and the president but most of your career, you you've had a certain level of clientele at different times that you recognize will never poll well.
Right.
Uh one when you years ago when you would did Jesse Helms or Prime Minister Netanyahu.
You do you do the president.
These are not people that that poll traditionally because they're not traditional candidates in many ways.
Well, first of all, you can't trust the media polls on a lot of these exit polls because they're not like Matt's polls or my polls, where you're really looking at voters.
And then once you get by that and you're looking at it, yes, there's things in the polls that say these people that are undecided aren't really undecided.
Gee, they look like Trump voters.
And there's what we've called a hidden vote.
It's really not hidden.
If you can analyze a poll, you can see that they like the president, they like his policies.
And now what's going on is Joe Biden, their front runner, there's a poll Des Moines register poll.
He's only a 24% in the Iowa Iowa Des Moines Register poll.
Caucus goers have to show up in Iowa for four hours, go through the rules, all that, you know, you just may not want to stand there for that all that Pressure with Biden, and all of a sudden the ones who are really zealots, whether it's Sanders, Warren, Buddig, and there'll be more coming, are picking them apart.
And once they start picking them apart, it's only June.
They haven't even had one debate yet.
There's a gauntlet ahead for Joe Biden, and the president looks very good up against this derangement derby where their policies of extreme liberalism, socialism, and really a breakdown of of values where they they they just abhor anything American and they want to apologize for anything good that we've done.
I mean the president of this is going to come into play.
I think even the the issue of the borders, you know, but Bozo, Beto, Robert Francis wants all the walls that already have been built taken down.
Um then you have others saying walls are immoral, then we've got a crisis at our southern border.
Then people now have benefited from the tax cuts.
I mean, yeah, I mean, when you have record low unemployment for African Americans and Asian Americans and women in the workplace and youth unemployment, and the economy's humming, and we have peace and prosperity abroad.
The president successfully brought Mexico to its knees.
They capitulated out of the fear that the president meant what he said when he said he was going to impose a tariff.
Um, so that's another win for him.
Uh meanwhile, other Republicans don't seem to understand that like it's like Matt, they've never negotiated a deal in their life for crying out loud.
Well, it's it's here's the thing.
I can sit here this far out, and and every word that John said, I agree with.
Every single word.
And he's been around for a long time.
We've known each other.
He's an old man.
We all know that.
Hey, today's my birthday.
See, you're even older today than yesterday.
So, but I will say this.
I believe Donald Trump will be re-elected, and I believe there's only one state that worries me, believe it or not, Sean, and you'll be shocked when I say it.
Georgia worries me immensely because that state, because of demographics, it has nothing to do with Stacey Abrams, has nothing to do with policy.
But the demographic shift in that state is not is not in is not our friends.
We're gonna have to work extra hard at Georgia and North Carolina to extent because it blends over.
And I'm sort of a North Carolina Georgia Florida expert beyond that.
I leave it all to John because he's the expert.
But but what I what I could tell you is even with those problems lying out there, right now I feel so confident in saying that I expect the president to be re-elected.
And not only do I expect him to be re-elected, I think he's going to carry states that we don't even see on the radar right now, because you're going to have a Nixon McGovern style, Mondale, Reagan style election in which the other side goes so far to the left and looks so crazy that we pick up states that we're not even looking at.
Maybe maybe John is, because he's actively out there every day.
But I wouldn't name them, but I think they're going to be there.
And we're going to be really shocked.
And the Democrats are really going to be shocked when they look at the results in this next election.
All right, it's John McLaughlin's birthday today.
I don't know if that means he should get the left first or last question.
All right.
So, you know, is it going to help Democrats in California when they're going to give health benefits for illegal immigrants, which is their new proposal?
Like it's the proposal of Comrade de Blasio in New York or the wealth tax of Elizabeth Warren or the 70% uh personal income tax rate, the 90% corporate rate, is this going to sell overall because that's pretty much where every Democrat is.
Absolutely not.
It's not going to sell.
And and if they think that that's a way to reclaim the working middle class back from uh uh the pre back from President Trump, they're absolutely wrong.
Because there's one thing people in America don't like, because last time, four years ago, we were appealing to people who were like one paycheck away from disaster.
We got working class voters, whether it was the Rust Belt or the Sun Belt, they came out of the heartland to vote for the president.
Now they're not only talking about turning things back, they're talking about raising uh taxes on them to pay for things for people that are here illegally that don't even vote.
And and maybe they'll let them vote.
I don't know.
But they're it's it's gonna cause uh a real middle class backlash against the Democratic Party.
And I don't know what they think they can do where they're promising free to some everybody and and the actual working taxpayers don't believe it.
So let me get a final thought, Matt Towery.
Well, I I think that I mean, you you mentioned earlier, of course, any election comes down to the very last day.
So my predictions, although I feel strong about them, anything can happen.
That said, this election will turn out to be a couple of things.
One, turnout, obviously, that's always the major driving force.
How motivated are are the various sides.
I think in the end you're gonna have a lot of people if Biden didn't get the nomination, you have a more extremist candidate, which I I thoroughly expect to emerge.
You're not gonna have that middle class that that that sort of swing vote that the Democrats relied on in the past.
They're not gonna be motivated to turn out the polls in huge numbers.
And if you don't have an African American uh nominated, historically we've seen that no matter what they say, you don't have the demographic push that you saw with Barack Obama.
With President Trump, the intensity is just over the top.
And I expect that intensity to continue to grow, as now he's not under assault every day on this impeachment nonsense and the Mueller investigation, and the shoe ends up on the other foot, and the other side is on the defense.
All right, thank you both for being with us as we get a snapshot view.
And uh watching these people form their circular firing squad in Iowa this week it was pretty entertaining.
And you know, I've just read this book, and I am actually amazed at people that can do something that is really hard to do.
Like when I talk about religion and you talk about your faith, you know, I I don't talk about it in terms of I was raised Catholic, but I really consider myself a Christian, and I've gotten to know the Robertson family.
And remember, d this show is such a massive hit that they have Duck Dynasty, and at the end of every episode, they would pray.
And the America took to it.
They loved it because that is a big part of this country.
This country was founded on Judeo Christian principles or b biblical principles, if you will, old New Testament.
And it's amazing how good the American people are.
We we remembered the brave Americans in this nation joining the fight, and the world needed us and all the blood and sacrifice of others, amazing.
You know, the good book says there's no greater love hath a man than to lay down his life for another.
Think of those guys slamming the beaches, Omaha Beach and and the beaches of Normandy, you know, and how many knew they were going to their death, but they did it anyway.
And the whole story of Christ, you know, on a cross, the one perfect human being, and that was his purpose, and he knew it was coming and humiliated and spit at and beaten to near death and murdered on a cross for the purpose of reconciling man to God, the creator.
And I don't know how anyone can be an atheist if putting all religion aside for a second, how can you look at the majesty of creation and see universes within universes within universes within universes and the sun and the stars and the planets and the moon and the sky and you know all of the the world of nature before us and the magnitude and and specificity in the of a lion,
a leopard, uh a giraffe, a rhinoceros, an elephant, a dog, a cat, and you know, through human beings which are imperfect, obviously, you know, down to the littlest, you know, insects you barely discern.
Pretty amazing.
Well, just gravity alone.
How people believe that there was a big bang, and uh my question, well, where did the bang come from?
Where did the energy for the bang come from if you don't believe there's a a greater being?
Anyway, but it goes further because in that moment Jesus said forgive them for they know not what they do for people that kill them.
And I don't think I'm the greatest forgiver in life, I'll be honest.
I uh, you know, people can get off my list pretty quick, and I think Linda's worse than me.
Uh you get on her hate list, God help you.
You know, she's gonna keep that high heel on your neck for a long time, from what I can see.
But there's a new book by Alan Lisa Robertson, it's called Desperate Forgiveness, and it was uh just released, and it's about this topic, and they tell stories about the Columbine victim's daughter was in the news because she's now friends with and meets regularly with the mother of one of the school shooters, or Steve Scalise, how's Republican uh major uh majority leader, uh minority leader rather, making headlines discussing his road to forgiveness when he was shot on that bald field and so many other examples.
Anyway, Alan Lisa of Duck Dynasty fame are with us.
How are you guys?
By the way, and I forget I forgive I forgive the patriarch Phil Robinson for wanting to baptize me in a swampful of alligators.
I said no.
He wants to he wants to make it as difficult as possible, no doubt.
But see, you're already you're already in the spirit of desperate forgiveness because you got it.
And by the way, we gave a book to Linda as well.
And see, I didn't know what you just said.
Oh, no, no.
Linda has a hate list.
Linda, do you gotta you gotta come straight here?
You need to tell them what happens if you you get off the list.
If you get on that list, you're dead.
I mean, it's a very uh it's a short list.
It's under 20 people.
Short list under 20 people that you won't forgive.
I love Alan Lisa, and I told them when they were here, I was like, You guys are awesome.
First of all, Lisa is like gorgeous.
And she doesn't look like she could be old enough to have written a book with this much information and knowledge, so bless your heart.
And you know, they are just the most lovely people.
And I said, Are you writing a book on what?
Forgiveness.
I'm like, God bless you.
Because I just, you know, my whole thing is I yeah, I forgive you, but I also won't ever want to talk to you again.
I just never do.
By the way, is that a fair thing if you can forgive somebody but you don't want anything to do with them?
Well, look, we say in the book, Sean, that you can have you can forgive people that you don't necessarily continue a relationship with.
It happens all the time.
Uh you know, an ex-spouse or someone else that that it doesn't it doesn't make sense to have a continual relationship, but when you can extend forgiveness in your own heart, then you release them continuing to hurt you and cause bitterness.
That's the key uh for you.
Forgiveness is as much for us as it is for some other person.
So you could like just forgive somebody, but you know what, but we're done.
I you know, Lisa, does that make sense or well sure it does.
If they hurt you bad enough, I mean it's that way with you know, with a family member that uh molested me as a child.
I've forgiven him, but I have nothing to do with him.
And on this side of heaven, that relationship's not gonna be restored.
But you know, hopefully one day in heaven that relationship will be um as you know, as a family member should be.
Well, you're really saying to me, and what I'm hearing is that if you hate somebody and you hold on to it, you're really hurting yourself as much, if not more, than the other person.
Exactly.
It's the it's the way that bitterness works.
The Bible says that bitter a bitter root sets up.
Hang on one second.
Linda, you need to pay very close attention that this is listening.
Okay.
You look distracted for a second.
Never.
When a bitter root sets up in your heart, it causes trouble and defiles many.
And that defilement starts with you because it then it's in separate.
It goes in every part of your life, and it can really ruin people.
I mean, you have people that can't get past things, you know.
And like Lisa described, we talk about in the book.
She was she was molested.
Obviously, that had a huge impact, not only on her, but also our family, our marriage, and yet finally, when she was able to release that to God, we still don't want to be around this man.
I don't want my kids or grandkids around him, but at the same time, now he holds no more sway over her us.
And that's the key to what forgiveness does.
You know, I I I think I hear you, and I think you I understand it completely.
And um, don't people that you forgive, don't they have to really want to change?
Don't they have to want to make the the move the like for example, say, all right, I can forgive you, but you need to you need to do A B and C for yourself or for us to have a relationship in any way.
You know, I don't know, um either a personal relationship or whatever.
Well, sure, if you're gonna have a relationship with them, then you know, change has to occur.
But you know, if you choose to not have that relationship with them, then they can do whatever they want to.
If they decide to not ever change, they don't ever have to.
But it it's what it does within you, it releases you uh as being a victim, so you're no longer a victim, you know, of of their um hate and what they have done to you.
What about people when they ask forgiven, they go, Well, if I hurt you in any way, I'm sorry.
That doesn't sound like an apology to me.
That's not an apology.
No, it's not.
You're right.
Yeah, I mean, you have to say, you know what, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, like Linda had to tell me the other day on that she was sorry, she shushed me in the middle of a conversation.
Oh, really?
I think I think you flipped the script on that one, my brother.
I'm pretty sure that was the other way around.
So Alan Lisa, what actually happened was he shushed me in a meeting with people we were meeting for the first time.
He was interrupting me.
That was rude.
And you know what?
I forgave him.
That's very good of me, Linda.
Thank you, my friend.
It just it it just occurred to me that you Linda, you're like Sean's work wise.
Indeed, I am.
Great.
I get it.
I get it now.
No, okay, great.
Um no, she she thinks that the name of the show is the Linda McLaughlin show.
I do not.
Come on.
And she thinks we can survive a day without her, and we do fine without her.
Uh, first of all, you do not do fine without me.
You do better with me, you do all right without me.
We always do better with you.
But you can go away and stop being neurotic and calling and obsessing.
So, Alan Lisa, where can we find out more about your book and where can folks get it?
You can uh you can get it on all the typical book sources uh Amazon.
Amazon.com.
We'll put it up on book Hannity.com, bookstores everywhere.
All right, last last question.
Why does Phil now I've watched Duck Dynasty?
The swamp outside of his trailer, and it is a trailer, and he needs a new chair, it's disgusting.
The swamp has real alligators in it.
Why would he ever and I read a story about a pastor that died and was killed and eaten by an alligator?
Why would he ever want to take me out in that swamp and baptize me there?
Well, I don't he hasn't said for sure, but it may be Sean.
He's thinking you've got enough stuff going on in the past that he said he wants you to have the full count of the cost before you make that move.
And so a dangerous path might be the best way for you.
You know, you are you are pretty much you are pretty much in the crosshairs of of a lot of people.
So you're you're a dangerous man.
I don't think those alligators will stand a chance for Charlotte.
I ain't going in there without a number of guns in my hand that are gonna work underwater.
Uh all right, guys.
Al Lisa, it was great to see you when you all were up in town, and I hope Linda paid very close attention to today's Bible lesson.
I did indeed, and I will buy their book.
And by the way, the book is called Desperate Forgiveness, Hannity.com, Amazon.com, bookstores everywhere.
Thanks for being with us.
Has Mexico done enough to avoid tariffs which will be imposed in some six days from now?
No, we haven't started yet.
And and but the threat is out there.
Yeah, the threat is out there, but we haven't really started yet.
No, this will take effect next week.
15%.
And what do you think of Republicans who say that they may take action to block you imposing those taxes?
No, I don't think they will do that.
I think if they do, it's foolish.
Uh there's nothing more important than borders.
But our laws are bad because the Democrats don't want to pass laws that could be passed in 15 minutes that could be passed quickly.
In one day, it could change.
But even beyond the laws, Mexico shouldn't allow millions of people to try and enter our country.
And they could stop it very quickly.
And I think they will.
And if they won't, we're gonna put tariffs on.
And every month those tariffs go from 5% to 10% to 15% to 20, and then to 25%.
And what will happen then is all of those companies that have left our country and gone to Mexico are going to be coming back to us.
And that's okay.
That's okay.
And our policy can be summed up in three very simple words jobs, jobs, jobs.
The United States economy created another 260,000 jobs last month.
Way, way, way above what people thought.
They were making predictions much lower than the big one.
They were thinking about 1%, 1.2%, maybe 1.5, and our growth number came in for the first quarter, which is almost always the lowest quarter of the year, historically.
3.2% crushing expectations.
A lot of surprise people.
I wasn't surprised.
Since the election, we've created nearly six million new jobs, including more than half a million manufacturing jobs, and nearly 700,000 new construction jobs.
Unemployment just reached the lowest rate in more than 50 years.
The women's unemployment rate is the lowest in more than 65 years, and soon will be a record number.
Women, women.
Remember last election?
Oh, he's gonna do so bad with women.
I did great with women.
Oh, there it is.
The best job market since 1969.
We now have almost two million more jobs than we have people on unemployment.
And just in case you're interested, record low unemployment now for African Americans, Asian Americans, uh, Hispanic Americans, women in the workforce, and youth unemployment is at a 50 year low.
The best economy that we have had in a long, long time.
Anyway, uh more than four million workers got direct bonuses.
You see economic growth on an unprecedented scale.
Anyway, joining us now is Austin Goolsby, and he doesn't understand uh any of this uh because he was the economic advisor on the economic advisory board for Barack Obama.
Obama gave us thirteen million more Americans on food stamps, eight million more in poverty, lowest labor participation rate since the 70s, the worst recovery since the 40s, lowest home ownership rate in fifty-one years, the only president never to reach three percent GDP growth in his entire eight years as president, and he took on more debt than every other president before him combined.
All 43 presidents before him combined.
Now Austin's gonna say that Trump's economic success the last two and a half years is because of Obama.
Obama had eight years and he never had any of this success.
Hi, Austin.
John, I was gonna feel bad about myself and say how could I be so dumb?
But then I remembered that sitting right here in my hand is the football that says you are a great American and it's time to show it.
You know, just but just better about myself.
Well, you should feel better about yourself because you know what, in spite of your policies, America's back, better, stronger than ever.
And not only that, we're not even dropping a penny, never mind a hundred and fifty billion dollars on a tarmac for Mullers and Iran, the chant death to America.
I mean, I think Oh, no, no, we're back on that again.
Look, well, back I will never root against the economy, cheer something bad in the economy.
I think it's great that the economy is doing well.
I was a little nervous.
I hope it's a blip that yesterday they just put out an estimate of the monthly jobs numbers, and it was the worst job growth in nine years.
I hope that's just a blip.
I want the economy to do great.
I will observe that we are about to become the longest expansion ever on record.
We will have added twenty million jobs, fourteen of those million were under Obama, six million are under Trump so far.
Hats off to both of them.
Uh the problem is is that it all happened in the Trump years.
Now you did it.
I just told you 14 of the 20 million were on the Obama years.
Okay, but you can't why do you try and escape your eight-year record?
I'm not trying to escape Trump's record.
Okay, you point out you point out, May, we had a bit of a slowdown in job creation, but we still have a net positive job creation.
We're almost at full and complete employment to the point where we have That's great.
That and what's happening is because of deregulation, lower taxes, uh, and now the president with a we're energy independent for the first time in seventy-five years, no thanks to Biden Obama, and we're now a net we're now a net exporter.
Started under Obama.
No, it did not start under Obama.
Of course, it did.
No, it didn't.
He didn't support.
He didn't support the he doesn't support fracking.
He doesn't support the the Keystone at uh pipeline.
He didn't support the Dakota pipeline.
Keystone pipeline has done nothing about that.
Excuse me, the president is now continuing and he opened Anwar.
Well, let me the next thing.
Well, let me guess.
You're a you're a new Green Deal guy, aren't you?
You really believe I am I'm not that big of a new Green Deal guy and uh the AOC version is is not my thing.
But I know a bit about fracking and oil, because my parents live out in West Texas, right on the edge of the Permian Basin.
So uh so I do have some exposure on that.
Okay, so here's the bottom line.
America is back economically.
America's stronger abroad.
America now has gotten rid of burdensome regulations for business.
We had the lowest tax cuts.
We have record low unemployment for the groups that were disproportionately negatively impacted in the Obama years.
We have millions of Americans off of food stamps that were put on there by the Obama Biden policies, and millions more uh that were in poverty that came out of poverty.
So I would say uh if you're gonna grade, and I know you're a professor, uh Donald Trump's economy, you'd give him an A, and the Biden Obama uh failure, you'd probably give them an F. Look, John, I told you we we're in the longest recovery.
Next month will become the longest recovery ever.
And there's nothing wrong.
I am w I am willing to say that the the economy has continued to improve, bringing its level to a very nice level, especially in the job market under President Trump.
And there you shouldn't have to try to go back and change history from the fact that thus far most of this recovery and the entire turnaround from the epically worst economy of our lifetimes to one that was dramatically improving.
You know I really I really kind of look okay I love how I I love how you Obama Biden supporters are something I'm saying I'm not criticizing President Trump.
Okay not emphasizing Cherry picked the best things and you chose none of the worst things of the Trump there's nothing there's nothing bad about the Trump economy.
That's the point.
You see this is what you you say you can't have it both ways.
Why why would you invite us to get into a fight about whether there is in the economy you defend socialism redistribution.
What are you talking about?
I'm talking about the Obama economy.
All right.
So here's the deal.
So if you support Obama's economy, you believe that you inherited the worst economy ever and that you have your state.
That's true.
And then for eight years, you have the worst recovery since the 40s.
No.
And hang on.
Not even worse than the last recovery.
Well, hold on.
So you take no responsibility for the eight years you're in office and then you take the Trump economy and you're going to be a little bit.
you grab credit for that.
I mean it's kind of a a stunning you know circular argument.
100% true legit I don't want to count the first year of declines of big increases in unemployment of all of the problems that were clearly started before President Obama took off we heard that for years want to give President Trump much credit for his first year in office either because those were things that were clearly going before he got there.
But other than that, I'm totally fine with saying that we had a dramatic turnaround and a substantial improvement of the economy under Obama.
President Trump received one of the three vast economies that a new president has received in the last century.
All right, let me ask you this.
How can you say that when it was the worst recovery since the 40s?
Let me finish.
Even the worst recovery since the last recovery.
How can you say that when all of these people suffered under the Obama economy and all of a sudden we change course, we change policy, we get rid of regulation, we drop the tax base.
The president incentivizes.
He brings in industry and says, what do we need to remove that is stifling your business growth and your willingness to invest in factories and manufacturing centers?
and he opens the door, paves the way, personally negotiates, all of these these with all of these companies to that they build in America plant that he personally negotiates to keep open and then shuts down.
Oh okay you know there's nothing you know what if Donald Trump cured cancer in your world you'd give credit to Obama.
No Sean there's nothing there's nothing multiple times you cherry pick what you said to President Trump that the economy has continued to do well.
And I give him credit we've got twenty million jobs added in the recovery 14 million under Obama six million under Trump so far I hope he doesn't have a second term you hope he does have a second term.
Okay so who do you want who would you like both of them that's I'm not buying your arguments because when you look at it at the end of the day, he accumulated more debt.
He never reached three percent GDP growth.
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
He never achieved three percent GDP growth for a single year of his presidency.
President Trump 2018, three point one percent.
No, two point nine percent three point one percent adjusted.
Yes, sir.
We have the Bureau of Economic Analysis data.
Well you need to get the updated data.
I need to for last year was two point nine percent.
So here's my next question.
Who do you want to run?
Who do you want to get the nomination now?
Crazy, sleepy, creepy Uncle Joe or who?
I I think I want better.
Now you want to buy it.
Robert Francisco Texas bias, you know that.
And what is Robert Francis O'Rourke supporting that you like?
Because I think I remember him supporting the new Green Deal.
Not it was a different version of the different version.
Quick break more with Austin Goolsby on the other side.
As we continue with Austin Austin Goolsby makes up facts as he goes.
Okay, here's the new Green Deal.
Tell me what parts of the new Green Deal you agree with and disagree with.
Uh the new Green Deal will eliminate oil and gas within ten years, the light blood of our minute.
Excuse me.
I have it in front of me.
Excuse me, in ten years.
We would know what it said.
Ten years.
In ten years, you're correct about the ten years.
That's correct.
But what it says is that cost what it's aiming for is that the cost of renewables would be so low that within ten years people would choose not to use.
No, there wasn't any choice in the ban.
It is not a ban.
That is not correct.
Okay.
So we're gonna get rid of oil, gas, the combustion engine.
Do you want to keep the combustion engine or get rid of the combustion engine?
I am fine with keeping the combustion engine.
Okay.
Now, are you a big believer that everything should be free?
That we have a guaranteed job, guaranteed vacation.
That's the guaranteed retirement, guaranteed health care.
As it moves into the people who don't want to work, should be given a universal basic income and and whether you're no that's the you're getting ahead of yourself.
That's when it reads whether you're willing or unwilling to work.
You still get all the benefits.
Yeah, that that's what they there and fact sheet.
That wasn't in the bill.
That was like somebody's quote quote fact sheet described.
No, no, no.
That was the author's fact sheet on what the bill.
That's what I'm saying.
That's not the bill itself.
That was uh that was somebody's description of it.
But that's where I think it's you're going kind of out into the lala belt.
Um your buddy, by the way, Beto Bozo, um Robert Francis says that climate change is the greatest threat this country faces.
Do you agree with that?
I think it's a pretty serious I didn't ask you if you think it's serious.
I asked you if you agree with Bozo that it's the greatest threat.
Okay, wait.
Why why do you keep adding that?
Are you you it sounds to me like you're kind of afraid of him because you know that's one taxes the election.
He's got like two percent of the in the polls, and it's like he's That's the problem so far.
He's like four percent.
But I'm telling you, d you keep your eye out for him.
I gotta go.
Okay.
Telephone number will continue.
Coming up next, our final news roundup and information overload hour.
All right, news roundup information overload hour.
Sean Hannity show, toll-free eight hundred nine four one.
Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, clearly a lot's going on.
I think the president is just taking his sweet time and letting the world know that this is going to be on h his timetable.
And you know, remember one of the reasons we are here is because the president was very clear with Iran.
No, the years of Biden Obama are over.
We're not dropping cash to the tune of 150 billion on your tarmac after you threaten to wipe Israel off the map, wipe the United States off the map, burn our flags, and chant death to America.
Not gonna happen.
And so the president through sanctions now, and of course the added defense of energy independence.
Well, now we are in the driver's seat in terms of what the response will be, when the response will happen, and you know, what will the Trump doctrine end up looking like as it relates to Iran?
Certainly it is you will never get nuclear weapons.
Um anyway, so I interviewed the president this week and um after his big announcement in Orlando, we talked about this and other subjects, and a lot of you have been asking, you know, for that interview on radio or you missed it.
Uh here are some of the highlights of President Trump on with me this past week.
Well, the media's not talking about Russia so much.
You know, the Mueller report concluded that on Russia there was absolutely no collusion.
And frankly, they led to the conclusion by our great attorney general that there was no obstruction.
It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of.
It's a hoax.
It was a hoax, a witch hunt, but a hoax.
The whole thing.
Uh Greg Jarrett said it very well when he named his book, The Russian hoax.
And uh it it is disgraceful that they're allowed, and they're very upset now because it didn't turn out like they thought, because we did.
We had eighteen angry Democrats that hated Trump, and many of them contributed to Hillary's campaign, and it came out there was no collusion.
So they don't I don't hear Russia much anymore.
You know, they've given up on that one.
Uh but uh, you know, they uh they did something that is a disgrace.
I I will also say if the other side had won, if Hillary won, uh you would have instead of being up almost fifty percent since election, uh, five million jobs plus plus, five million jobs, that's unthinkable.
If I would have said that we're gonna create five million jobs in two and a half years, people would have said, how ridiculous.
I would have been uh skewered by the press.
Uh all of the things that have been uh done that we've done, and nobody's seen it.
Uh we have the best and lowest unemployment rate for African Americans, for Asians, for Hispanics.
Nobody's ever seen numbers like this.
We have the the best numbers on living standard for African Americans, the best numbers that we've ever had in history.
Uh so many things are I mean, just one thing after another.
If the other side would have won, we would have gone into a depression.
And we were headed that way.
We were headed that way.
The rules, regulations, we cut more regulations on any president, and unmeaningful regulation.
We want regulation, but it's got to be meaningful.
Uh it stymied our country, Sean.
We weren't able to do anything.
Jobs numbers would have been a disaster.
Instead, we have more people working today, almost a hundred and sixty million people, than have ever worked in the history of our country.
Think of that.
That's a great number.
So it's really been something.
The other side you would have had, I really believe you would have had a crash.
Well, we're now number one in the world in energy.
It used to be Saudi Arabia, then Russia.
Uh it's now we're number one, and soon, as soon as I get the pipelines in Texas approved, which I'll do pretty quickly, it would have taken ten, fifteen years.
I'm gonna have it done very quickly.
We could increase our production by thirty and forty percent in terms of sale.
So it's uh, you know, what what we've done in the last two and a half years has been great.
We've had a lot of great people and they've worked hard.
But the the great people are the people of the country.
They were they were being strangled.
You look at what we've done, just energy all energy all over, all types of energy.
LNG now is we're the hottest in the world.
There's nobody even close.
So it's been an honor.
It's been an honor.
We freed it up, but you would have had uh I really believe you would have had a depression or very close had the other side won.
And my question to you is there really was some collusion, wasn't there?
There was Russian interference, we know that.
But we also had a bought and paid for Russian dossier.
And we didn't look into that in the whole two plus years of Mueller.
The media's ignored it, and even the New York Times suggesting that it was likely Russian misinformation from the get go, the dossier.
What are your thoughts about that?
I think it's a disgrace.
It's turned out to be totally discredited.
Uh Steele was sued by somebody, uh I understand a wealthy gentleman in uh in London.
I hear that what was revealed was incredible, uh just a total phony deal and yet they didn't look into any of that.
One of the things that amazes me because it's so simple and you know it's uh it's when you get right down to it the whole thing is very simple what happened.
The fact is they were spying on my campaign using agencies to uh intelligence agencies to do it going after Paige and Papadopoulos and probably others I'm trying to we're trying to find out whether or not they actually listened in on my calls that'll be the uh that would be the ultimate we'll see what happens.
I think if if that happened we'll probably find out we have a great attorney general who's working very hard and we'll see what happens.
I stay uninvolved.
I like to stay uninvolved, but a lot of things are going to come out.
I mean, if they spied on my campaign, and they may have, it will be one of the great revelations in history of this country.
And I will tell you, it's going to be very interesting.
I think we're going to find out.
Can you imagine if it were the other way around and I spied on President Obama's campaign?
Could you imagine what the repercussions would be?
Or I spied on Crooked Hillary's campaign.
campaign.
Can you imagine what the repercussions would be do you believe that there was a premeditated fraud committed against Pfizer court judges and these applications.
Well again uh people are looking into that if you're asking just my opinion I would say absolutely yes it would seem to be yes you know when you get the struck page the two lovers who uh put right out on the public waves I mean they put the insurance policy well we've been living through the insurance policy that she was going to win but just in case she didn't win we need an insurance policy.
Well that's to subvert government what they did was unbelievable that they could do a thing like that and they reported to McCabe who I think is a terrible terrible guy and you know the FBI you have some of the finest people in the world that you know that we say it all the time and I'll bet you if we took a vote I'd be so high in that poll you wouldn't even believe it.
They're great people.
I know so many.
But the top people were terrible.
They were leakers.
They were liars.
I mean, look at the leaking and look at the lying.
Comey admitted he leaked.
Think of it.
The top of the FBI, he leaked.
And when you look at what went on, Sean, it's disgusting.
But the whole concept of they wanted insurance policy just in case she loses.
The House committee, which I understand today was in a very closed, confidential meeting with the wonderful whole picture.
She's a wonderful person.
She's been through hell.
They put this young woman through hell.
What she's had to pay for legal fees and everything else.
I hear they were taking pictures of her, congressmen, two congressmen in particular that I see on television all the time.
I won't mention their names.
We don't want to make them any more famous.
But two congressmen, but they were taking pictures of her with their cell phone and then leaking the pictures of her testifying.
And this was in a closed room.
Look, it's.
out of control these people are are absolutely you know they use they use the word it's a good word I guess unhinged what's happened to the Democrats and in the meantime they're not doing any work in Congress we could do legislation to lower drug prices very substantially easily we could do maybe almost like the thing we need the most quickly is border security we've done an incredible job but I have to do it myself I can't get any we can't get any votes from the Democrats.
We can't get any votes and infrastructure we could do it so easily but they're so busy interviewing Hope Hicks and taking pictures of this incredible young woman and putting the pictures out to the press of her testifying and they're not allowed to do that.
It's probably illegal it's a terrible thing going on.
But I wanted you to declassify the 302s declassify uh all this information the Pfizer applications declassify the gang of eight declassify exculpatory information you have done so but you gave it to the attorney general why because I think that he is uh a very honorable gentleman who wants to do the right thing and he is allowed to,
under my agreement, he's allowed to give it out to whoever he wants.
But I think it's really, you know, maybe some of this you need to have for purposes of other countries, because I think other countries were involved.
I think they perhaps, just based on what I'm seeing, they used other countries because they didn't want to get caught doing what they were doing in this country.
You know that very well.
I I didn't speak to Russia.
Russia has when I was winning in Wisconsin, when I was winning in Michigan and Pennsylvania and Ohio and Florida and all of these states, North Carolina.
Uh the last person or group I ever thought of calling would be Russia.
It's a hoax.
It's a terrible hoax, and it should never happen to another president again because many of them would not be able to handle it.
I don't care who they are.
Many of them would not be able to handle it.
Do you think Joe Biden could handle it?
I mean, Joe Biden right now, he looks like he's got some big problems.
But do you think can you imagine if this happened to Joe Biden?
It wouldn't be good.
But it should never happen to another president what happened to me, and it should never happen.
Nobody should ever allow this to go forward again.
And people have to learn.
There has to be a lesson taught.
It has to be a lesson taught.
Should never be allowed.
So bad for our country.
But you know, Bob Mueller was conflicted because he wanted to be the head of the FBI, the director.
Again, he was already there for 10 or 12 years.
But he wanted to be, and I I didn't allow that.
I said no.
I said it respectfully.
Uh we had a business dispute in the private life.
When he was out of the FBI, we had a commercial business dispute.
I had a bit how about having a business dispute with somebody?
Think of this, and then he's supposed to be ruling on you.
Uh, but uh it was a business dispute, and it was a nasty little dispute, you know, not the biggest one I've ever been in, to be honest with you, but we had a real business dispute.
So you look at that, that's a total conflict of interest.
How can somebody where you have a dispute be ruling?
And his best friend or very close to it is Comey.
And Comey played a big part in this because McCabe didn't do anything without Comey.
McCabe was totally dominated by Comey.
He did nothing.
Andrew McCabe was a bad guy, but Andrew McCabe did nothing without calling Comey.
Uh he wouldn't uh there's an expression, he wouldn't go to the bathroom without getting Comey's approval.
And so Comey's in.
And Brennan, you take a look at Brennan, you talk over the horrible rhetoric, the horrible uh the horrible words he used.
He accused you of treason.
Then he said, Well, I guess I was misinformed.
You know, he was making all these predictions, and then when the it said no collusion in the Mueller report, which is amazing because they had 18 people that that were Hillary Clinton people that m I gu I think all of them actually were anti-Trump people in one form or another.
Mr. President, just as an aside, you did have constitutional authority under Article Two with a conflict to fire Mueller who would have been replaced, and I wouldn't have it will be.
I had absolutely Article 2 powers.
I could have done anything I wanted.
I don't even bring it up because we don't even get there.
Absolutely, I have Article II.
We could have used that and I wouldn't even have to bother talking to you about all of the other things.
I wouldn't have to talk to you about conflicts.
I could have fired Mueller for conflicts, I could have fired anybody, but I didn't want to do it because they said let it play it play out.
It's a hoax.
It's a hoax.
It's a disgrace.
And that they're allowed to go forward with you know, interviewing people, having people like Hopix and others having to pay for a new set of lawyers.
Same question.
He just went through it with the Mueller report.
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