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Yesterday, the Democrats voted to potentially nullify the votes of 63 million Americans disgracing themselves and bringing shame upon the House of Representatives.
They've been plotting to overthrow the election since the moment I won, but the people here that are highly sophisticated know long before I won.
19 minutes after I took the oath of office, the horrible newspaper, fake, fake, fake, Washington Post, declared the campaign to impeach President Trump has just begun.
At least they gave us 19 minutes.
Yesterday's vote by the Radical Democrats is an attack on democracy itself.
But I'll tell you, the Republicans are really strong.
The strongest I've ever seen them, the most unified I've ever seen.
The American people are fed up with Democrat lies, hoaxes, and extremism.
The Democrats' outrageous conduct has created an angry majority that will vote many do-nothing Democrats out of office in 2020.
Make no mistake, they are coming after the Republican Party and me because I'm fighting for you.
They don't like it.
This is different.
They've never had anything like this.
Well, they've never had an election like 2016 either, have they?
They've never quite figured it out.
And they know they can't win.
So let's try and impeach them.
How about that crazy representative, Al Green, right?
You know, we got to impeach him because we can't beat him.
I don't think so, right?
I don't think so.
Al Green, he's another beauty.
He's another beauty.
A great rally on Friday.
That was in the great state of Mississippi, 800-941.
Sean, toll for a telephone number.
You know, I love what the president's saying, especially on Ukraine.
And we got into this in the last hour.
Read the transcript.
What do you know?
What do we know?
We know Ukraine interfered in the 2016 elections.
We know they did it to benefit Hillary.
We know a court decision confirms such in Ukraine.
We know Ukraine leaders offering us all the evidence we want.
We know Politico wrote about it January 11, 2017, and that they were effective.
It was like, you know, election interference doesn't matter if you're buying a dirty Russian dossier and leaking it before the election, and then you use it as the basis of FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign transition and presidency.
That's fine in the world of insane liberal Democrats and the mob and the media.
But, you know, Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, no, but you're not getting the billion dollars.
You got six hours.
You just fire him, you get the billion.
You don't fire him, you don't get the billion.
Quid pro quo Joe.
And I can only imagine what would happen to anybody with the last name Trump if they give an interview.
What experience do you have in Ukraine?
None.
Oil, none.
Gas, none.
Energy, none.
Wow.
What experience do you have?
I was on the Amtrak board once.
What does that have to do with anything?
Same with China.
No experience.
10 days after flying there with Daddy.
$1 billion.
Bank of China later becomes a billion five.
I haven't gotten a penny from China, but then his lawyer says, yeah, but he has all this equity that he just hasn't cashed in yet, which he will do.
And millions of dollars for no experience.
The second most powerful guy.
And what does the media say?
No evidence that he did anything wrong.
None whatsoever.
He's on tape bragging about a shakedown and literally using a billion taxpayer dollars to do it to fire the Ukrainian prosecutor.
We now know was investigating his kid.
Oh, no, no evidence of wrongdoing.
None whatsoever.
Like, oh, we're living in a crazy world.
Anyway, Don Jr. is with us.
He's releasing his new book today.
It's called Triggered.
Well, that's the perfect title, right?
Triggered?
How the left thrives on hate and wants to silence us.
He has been one of the strongest people out there defending his father day in and day out.
He does it fearlessly.
Not loved particularly by the left.
Don Jr., how are you, sir?
I'm doing well yourself, Sean?
I'm good.
You know what I did like about the opening of the book, and I just got my copy over the weekend.
You dedicated the book to the smelly Walmart people, irredeemable deplorables, those that cling to their gods, their guns, their Bibles, and religion.
Those of us that are bitter Americans, as Obama said.
But you dedicated the book to the deplorables.
Explain.
Yes.
Listen, I think they deserve it.
You know, throughout all of the crap, all of the travails that we've gone through through, you know, the Mueller hoax, the impeachment, not just the one, you know, that they're talking about now, but when it started on November 9th, 2016, those are the people that not once did they waver.
Not once did they buy into it.
Not once did they doubt my father.
You know, they all recognize he's the last guy in the world that needed this job, but he's doing it and he's doing it well despite unprecedented incoming, Sean.
And so, you know, honestly, it was those people who he did it for, who he's running for.
It's those people who, you know, motivates me to go out there and fight, you know, those people and my kids and their future.
You know, that's my motivation for doing all these things.
So I figured if someone deserves the dedication, it is them because they've been there.
I believe they will continue to be there.
If they know what's good for them in their future, they will continue to be there.
But I think they get that, you know, tongue-in-cheek aside.
You know, I got to tell you anecdotally.
I was in Chicago and Detroit over the weekend giving speeches and going to some of my radio affiliates and meeting a lot of people.
I will tell you that the anger is palpable and I can see it.
We're now 364 days away from, I think, the tipping point election in terms of the future of this country.
There's such a stark difference in terms of what they would do and how they would.
I mean, the new Green Deal alone, Elizabeth Warren's $52 trillion 10-year Medicare for all program.
We only take in $4 trillion a year.
$5 trillion a year, it's basically 90% of U.S. government revenue.
No, it's more.
It's more.
We wouldn't take in $52 trillion in 10 years.
That's the problem.
Then $94 trillion on the new Green Deal.
It's nuts, Sean.
There's no rhyme or reason to it, but you're right.
I mean, the left is motivated by hatred, not logic, not facts, because facts, that's like left description, right?
They don't work.
But hatred is the big motivator.
So what we need to do is make sure that our guys turn out, that reasonable people in the middle see what's going on, that they recognize that whether it's the Mueller hoax, whether it's the new impeachment hoax, it's like what they tried to do to me with Moan.
I take an unsolicited phone call and I spend 30 hours, millions of dollars, 30 hours testifying in front of Congress.
Hillary Clinton literally pays foreign agents to go amass and compile a fake news done.
It gives it to the FBI, who then leak it to the media, who then use that story as a justification to start an investigation of a sitting president to try to nullify the results of the 2016 election in a coup.
That's no problem.
But literally taking an unsolicited phone call is, I mean, that is the sickness.
That is the hypocrisy that we were up against, Sean.
I mean, I cover this really extensively in the book, and it's sort of the first time I've been able to speak about it in long form.
But people have to recognize that is the lunacy of the left.
And in places like that, if you're in Chicago or some of these places, obviously leftist strongholds, but even in reasonable middle America, Sean, where there is a strong Democrat presence, or there has been, at least historically, the blue-collar Democrat towns and union workers.
I asked those guys because the history of the tradition of voting that way is important.
I go, what would your grandfather think about?
You got into this, your grandfather voted Democrat, your father voted Democrat.
What would your grandfather or father think about two days?
Two days, Democrats.
You know, I'm going to look at, you know, the greatest example though.
You're right.
These people have lost their minds, Sean.
The greatest example of how appropriate the title of this book is triggered.
By the way, it's on Hannity.com, Amazon.com, now in bookstores everywhere, just out today.
You know what the amazing thing, Don, is, though, is look at what they did to 16-year-old kid Nicholas Sandman.
Now, in the end, because he's not a public figure like us, they basically can say anything they want about people like you and me, and we have no recourse.
I mean, libel laws are such in the book.
You know, if they are, if they are willing to destroy a 15-year-old's kid's life, he did nothing.
He did nothing wrong.
Everyone acknowledges that now.
That didn't stop them from, hey, he was a white southern male who happens to be Christian and wearing a MAGA hat.
That was like the holy grail of leftists, like we got to cancel this guy.
This guy can't have an opinion.
He can't have a voice.
He must be every iss, you know, in the book, and we got to destroy him.
But think about that.
If the left and the mainstream media would destroy willingly, knowingly, a 15-year-old kid's life, his future, based on no evidence, no fact, no nothing, who won't they destroy it?
It was just the listen, I don't think you or I are capable of handling it as well as that 16-year-old kid did.
First, he has to go through the black Hebrew Israelites, you know, using racial comments and taunting these young kids.
Then this narrative goes out.
Then you have the Nathan Phillips, the Native American activists.
Unfortunately, they got a 10-second snippet, and then they built this whole narrative, none of which was true, because it was Nathan Phillips that went up to and got right in the face of Nicholas Sandman banging that drum.
And why?
Because he had a MAGA hat on, Don.
A MAGA hat.
Well, because it was every, you know, he had a combat vet Native American.
Oh, this guy's perfect.
You know, they didn't bother to check that he's not.
You know, minor details, because, again, it was too good for it to be true.
It was, oh, we have to run with it.
But again, if they could destroy that kid's life, who won't they destroy if you don't buy in entirely to their nonsense?
Look at what they did.
Just look at Kavanaugh.
I mean, a guy that, you know, the only thing I'd heard about Kavanaugh before, that I'd seen pictures of him in soup kitchens every weekend for the last 10 years, you know, serving food to people and the less fortunate.
You know, they would take him, destroy his career, but more importantly, destroy his children, destroy his family, destroy anything, anything that stands in the way because they believe that he'd be a threat to their leftist values.
I mean, that's how these people fight, Sean.
You know, Trump's two aspects of modern times who's actually fought back against this stuff, and it's why we're actually finally winning and hopefully creating a new class of Republicans who have the guts to actually stand up for what they believe and not just pretend they did do in stump speech and then turn the other cheek and get steamrolled like we've done for the last 50 years.
You know, I think their hatred is bringing out those in the Republican Party and creating stars in the Republican Party because they're actually willing to fight back against that hatred.
You know, that's an important thing because if we just take this lightly, if we just sit back, oh, it's not a big, it's over, Sean.
I don't think that's an overstatement either.
And I don't think it's hyperbole.
There's that much at stake.
And I just mentioned two things.
I mean, you add a wealth tax and Medicare for all $52 trillion and the new Green Deal and eliminating the lifeblood of our economy, oil and gas and the combustion engine and everything's free.
It is so beyond unsustainable and so spectacularly dangerous.
It's remarkable that the mob and the media, they don't, they have no, there's no critical analysis ever.
One thing in the book that I did.
Well, the critical analysis only goes one way, Sean.
Elizabeth Warren, $52 trillion over 10 years, the new plan.
But think about that.
She goes, it won't raise any, not a penny to the middle classes.
She goes, we're going to take it all from billionaires.
Well, there's 600 billionaires.
Okay, 600 in America.
If you take 1 billion from each of them, because a couple of them were 3 or 4 billion, maybe they could take, well, some may only be worth a billion, so you'd probably take all of their money, but take a billion dollars from each of them.
It covers 1% of her plan.
So if you cover 1% of the plan by taking $1 billion from every billionaire in America, it doesn't exactly seem fair, but the minor details if you're a leftist.
How do you pay for the other 99% of the plan?
You destroy the economy.
You create debt and an interest load that is not sustainable for the future.
These leftists are playing with our children's futures, their livelihoods, our grandchildren's futures and their livelihoods by making unrealistic promises because it's really easy to be Santa Claus and pretend that everything's free and everything will pay for itself.
Green New Deal is $93 trillion.
It's going to pay for itself.
How?
You can't ask that question.
That's terrible.
There's no one that can justify these things.
But because the best of the leftist party in 10 years, I got to take a break, though.
Stay there.
Donald Trump Jr. with us.
He's just released right now Triggered, How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us.
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Donald Trump Jr. with us, just releasing his first interview.
His brand new book, it's called Triggered, How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us.
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Well, there was one anecdote that I really enjoyed you telling in the book, which is about your dad.
And it's pretty funny that, you know, as you said, the tweeter-in-chief, the so-called Shakespeare of 140 characters, told you that you're getting a little bit too hot on your social media accounts.
And I kind of chuckled when I heard that because, yeah, I think your dad gets a little hot on there also.
Yeah, that's right.
I think we found out some things are genetic and some things you can't exactly.
But that was the one phone call I got.
John, it's like, you know, Donna, you know, getting a little aggressive on there.
Like, wait a minute.
Like, you?
You know, I will listen to this.
Pot kettle.
I'll take your advice on business, on life, on just about anything.
This is the one place where you may not have, you may not be able to get me on this one.
But it was pretty funny.
And it was, you know, here's my observation.
I think you are most like your dad of all the kids.
And I think Eric is, look, all of you guys are brilliant.
You're all successful in your own right.
I've known you all for many years because I remember years and years and years ago, long before your dad ever thought about really running for president, if I'd do an interview with your dad or I saw him at Trump Tower, he'd always walk me over to say hi to you, walk me over to say hi to Ivanka and Eric.
And, you know, so I got to know you guys over years.
But in terms of fighting, battling, being combative, I'd say you are as close to him as anybody else.
Do you agree with that assessment?
I think so.
And it's sort of funny.
I think if you would have asked even, you know, whether it was in business or otherwise, you know, I would have probably been the one that they would not have said that about.
It was once we got into politics, once you sort of, you know, back us in the corner and try to attack us viciously for years.
You know, that's when we realized that, hey, we sort of fight the same wave.
We both have that sort of, you know, we're willing to fight back.
We don't mind battle.
We will go at it and we will go at it hard, you know, defending ourselves, defending our family, defending our values.
And so, you know, it took us sort of 41 years to realize that we were probably a lot more like each other and a lot closer that way than we would have ever otherwise thought, frankly.
And it took the hateful Democrats to bring that out of me.
So I appreciate that from them.
You know, it was an interesting piece.
I don't know if you ever, I don't know if you know Willie Brown.
I've known Willie Brown for years, former San Francisco mayor.
What was his highest position?
I don't even remember.
But anyway, Willie Brown, just he is the fun-loving guy, smart as hell.
And he wrote an article about this impeachment madness of the Democrats.
And he goes on to say, yeah, if your goal was to damage the president by formalizing the impeachment inquiry, okay, mission unaccomplished for House Democrats.
If anything, the vote solidified the president's hold on power, zero GOP defections.
Maybe one guy in the Senate will be, I guess, Mitt Romney points out.
And he said, the Democrats, it gives the people little reason to be glued to their screens because it's anticlimatic.
And the bottom line is that the American people see this for what it is.
They'll spend the next number of months acting out a pretend cliffhanger to which everyone knows the script and the ending.
No plot twists and sights.
And, you know, maybe you think this is good for reelection, but he said, come next year, Trump will have an impeachment victory and quite possibly a solid economy.
The Democrats will have.
And he says, what?
And that's a great question because he's rightly saying Democrats have done nothing except hate your father and those of us that like him.
And he's not exactly a conservative.
So I think he's 100% right.
The reality is this.
Look at Nancy Pelosi's desk.
She's sitting there with USMCA for nine months.
She won't vote on it.
She won't bring it to the people because she's focused on this.
By the way, she's pretending you can't walk and chew gum.
I mean, this is something that the Democrats would all overwhelmingly vote in favor of.
You could pass it in about five minutes by actually putting it on her desk.
That would renegotiate.
That has renegotiated NAFTA, which everyone said you could not do.
My father did it.
He just needs the House to vote on it and it's done.
Okay.
But she won't do that.
She won't, doesn't want to create jobs for more Americans, obviously, doesn't want to give Trump even a modicum of a win, but instead they'll waste time focusing on this on the opinions of those who are listening to a call of a transcript that's already been released, Sean.
I mean, that's the insanity of this.
He's like, there is no whistleblower because here's the transcript.
Here's what it is.
And so to do this, you know, all it's all smoke and mirrors, where they let Adam Schiff be judge, jury, and executioner.
Not exactly the way it works in the American system, but they're trying to change the rules so that they can pre-vet and pre-screen candidates who will then be the only people who will be allowed to testify in public on this to try to have some sort of optical win.
This is insanity.
This is kangaroo court stuff.
This is Soviet era tactics.
This is the stuff I write about in the book about, you know, my mom escaping communism in those systems and, you know, my grandfather and grandmother being from there and me growing up there, seeing that being pulled out of a line because I was wearing a jean jacket with like the stars and stripes on it.
Like this is that kind of mentality.
And it's being pushed out there by the quote-unquote, you know, party of tolerance.
They're not so tolerant when you don't agree with them.
They're far from it.
Frankly, there's nothing less tolerant than a leftist who's preaching tolerance.
And we've seen all of that.
So the whole thing is crazy.
And the fact that the media is totally complicit in it, Sean, you know, democracy dies in darkness, except for when we get what we want, you know, they won't question it.
They don't want to know about what's going on.
They have no interest in hearing anything other than what Adam Schiff is willing to leak them.
They won't question the process or say, is this even remotely fair that the president can't ask questions?
They can't have his council present.
He can't have any.
I mean, this is Gestapo tactics used against the duly elected president of the United States to try to overturn an election because they didn't like the results.
And it's disgusting.
And if it doesn't tick off, even your favorite leftists, even people who are pretty Democrat, they should be really upset with this process because if it can happen here, it can happen to their guy one day.
And this shouldn't be going on in the United States of America.
Not now and not ever.
The best part of Willie Brown being right is, yeah, okay, Trump will have the impeachment victory.
You know, I think the best, look, your dad has a lot to run on.
He beat the caliphate in Syria, beat them because he took off the rules of engagement, the handcuffs that the military had under Biden Obama.
But then he takes out Baghdadi, his successor, his spokesperson, and three others.
You mean the austere religious scholar, Sean?
Yeah, the austere religious scholar himself.
Yes, that guy.
And then you look at every economic measure.
More importantly, I remember, you know, your dad was talking about what have you got to lose to minorities in America and record low on Friday, another record low unemployment rate for African Americans.
Same with Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, women in the workplace.
It is, he's got, yes, we're better off than we were four years ago.
Yes, I made promises about cutting taxes, ending bureaucracy, building a wall, originalist justices, new trade deals, and not endless wars.
And we're going to fight him.
We're going to beat the crap out of him.
And he did.
So then the only other thing, there was an article last week.
Well, if you take out Trumpism, Trump would win by a landslide.
And I'm like, well, if you take out Trumpism, then you're basically telling him not to be who he is, which got the success.
If you take out Trumpism, you wouldn't have gotten anything because you wouldn't get anything done because you wouldn't be willing to fight back.
That's the problem.
That's the difference between Trump and so many in the Republican Party for the last few decades.
They turn the other cheek and they talk great about their principles, but when they actually are questioned, when they're pushed by these leftists, they don't actually stand up and fight for them.
And that's the difference.
You need some of that fight.
And I get that not everyone loves it all the time.
But if you weren't fighting, you wouldn't get anything done because that's how the other side plays.
Just like they're willing to destroy.
Everybody wants to be liked.
I can tell you people in the industry I work in, radio and TV, one of the things I'm most proud of, 24 years now at Fox, 31 years on the radio, I've never ever been to a White House correspondence dinner.
I'm going to tell you why, because I don't like them and they don't like me.
But there are so many people that want to be a part of that little bubble club that is known as DC, the swamp, the sewer, social circles in New York.
I'm perfectly comfortable not being invited to anything.
Sean, that's like Mitt Romney.
Okay.
He can be a conservative, but he would, right now, he would rather be loved by the press.
The same press that called him a misogynist and a racist and a terrible, the same press that destroyed his campaign.
He would rather be loved by them than actually stand for what he believes.
And frankly, what his constituents over in Utah stand for and believe in, because they've all spoken to me about it.
He would rather, he thinks that they actually like him.
They don't like him.
They're just using him as a tool.
How does he feel?
If he ever ran again, which he has no chance for, but if he ever ran again, they destroy him again in a second.
And that's the difference between someone who's strong and someone who's weak.
Let me ask you, you get personal in the book, which I found interesting.
Some stuff I knew, but not that I knew any of you kids ever talked about.
You talk about how when your mom and dad got divorced, the relationship with you, Eric, Ivanka got really stronger.
And you talk about that you're different people and you've always got along very well.
What was it like to grow up?
I mean, you've said wealth, opulence, unprecedented.
You kind of talk in the book as you kind of wanted to reject that part of that life.
Yeah, listen, I think there was aspects of it that I didn't love and didn't like.
I mean, obviously, you know, I understood some of the experience were afforded me because of it.
And, you know, I got killed on your show last week in the press for not caveating that I, too, am the son of a rich guy when I was hitting Hunter Biden.
Now I did the week before on the show, and there's only so much time you can do.
But the reality is I've always had a sort of a comfort zone with more regular Americans.
It's, you know, whether it's hunting, fishing, competitive shooting, my hobbies always bring me to there.
It's sort of, that's, that's where I am.
I was never, never was or never wanted to be sort of a fixture on the New York City rubber chicken black tie dinner circuit.
It wasn't really my thing.
And I don't think it's your thing.
By the way, you want to guarantee Hannity's not going to an event?
Say it's black tie.
I'm not going.
Exactly.
And so I've sort of been that way.
And so, you know, again, while I recognize I'm the son of a rich gun from New York City, you know, I think my comfort zone has always been in middle America.
It's where I spend my time.
It's where I spend a lot of my vacations.
It's where most of my friends are.
And so it's sort of an interesting dichotomy.
And I think it's been sort of helpful as it relates to politics because you can actually relate to real people as opposed to just pretending to relate to them, but not having a fundamental understanding.
And so, again, one of the topics I sort of cover in the book because it is different.
Again, and you obviously always get canceled.
You're the son of Donald Trump.
How can you not?
I do know that.
I recognize that I am who I am and where I am in large part because of my father and all of that.
But there are distinctions and there's reasoning beyond that.
And so it was cool to be able to kind of cover that in long form in the book because it's not something you can usually get out to easily.
What was the expectation of your dad?
Because as I understand it, you were sitting in coach in the luggage department and he'd be in first class or you weren't flying around on his private jet.
That was what it was.
I think it was important.
Hardworking dad and Eastern European mother who escaped communism and grandparents from there that were blue collar people bringing us up.
I mean, one of the big things they instilled in us that was probably lost on a lot of our peers growing up was really the value of a dollar, having a work ethic.
My father, we talk about it a lot in the book, but he put Eric and I on job sites, on construction sites.
We talk about we're the only probably sons of billionaires who can drive a D10 caterpillar and run chainsaws because that's what we were doing in our summer jobs.
It wasn't, congratulations, here's your gilded office.
We got some of that now, but we did everything up until that point.
And we started off at the lowest rungs of the company and built up.
And I, man, I'm glad for it.
It's a big part of my life.
It's the way I want to make sure my kids are brought up.
And not to say that they don't have blessings and good fortune and won't be spoiled in their own rights.
We just want to make sure you kind of do it in the right way and that they get what life is all about and that they go through it the hard way and don't expect everything to be handed to them.
And honestly, as part of our culture, and frankly, the book talks, you know, as much about culture as it does about politics.
You know, in a world where everyone gets a participation trophy and everyone wins no matter what, even if they don't win, it's a little bit scary and it's getting harder and harder to do, but it's a value that was instilled in us at a very young age, and I want to make sure to try to do the same for my kids.
One of the things that I like that you took on in the book is like Bill Crystal and the establishment that failed.
You know, I read last week that there might be a group of establishment Republicans working with Democrats to field a third-party candidate to try and trip up Trump and some of the closer purple states just to ensure your dad loses.
And, you know, I say this about Romney.
Romney wanted tax cuts.
He wanted to end a burdensome bureaucracy.
He talked about securing our border.
He talked about originals on the Supreme Court.
He talked about all the things that your dad is doing.
So it's just stylistic differences.
All right.
Romney was nice and he lost.
They pounded him.
They pummeled him.
Your dad gets pummeled, but he fights back.
And fighting back, I would argue the American people are now accustomed to his style.
Quick, I got 30 seconds in a second.
More importantly, they see the results.
I mean, again, there's not an economic metric where we are not better off today than we were three years ago.
And that didn't just magically happen.
That's because of politics.
That's because he's willing to fight to get those things done.
And that shouldn't be lost on people.
All right, stay there.
I got to take a break.
Our final moments, though, with Don Jr., his new book out today.
We just threw it up on Hannity.com.
It's on Amazon.com and now in bookstores across the country as of today, triggered how the left thrives on hate, wants to silence us.
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Let me ask you about the power of the pardon, which is absolute for a president.
One night, I know you were watching my show, and I had the mother of this young sailor who is spending a year in jail because he took six pictures for his own use in a submarine, and you were comparing it.
Would that be something early on you would consider?
I'm actually looking at Christian Sauciette.
I think it's very unfair in light of what's happened with other people.
I think it's very, very guy who got 30 years he was doing his job protecting his team in Afghanistan.
We're looking at a few of them.
And by the way, if another event didn't happen, I would look at him.
But how can you have somebody else get away with such a tremendous amount and then this person who takes a picture of his desk on an old submachine?
Look, if China or Russia wanted information on that submarine, they've had it for many years.
Yeah, that I can tell you.
And the president did, in fact, step in in the case of Christian Saucier.
He had already spent his year in jail, though, but you know what?
Justice is justice.
I have some really, really, really good news.
It has been an issue.
We have followed on this program for a number of years.
That interview with the president was in January of 2017 when the president just got into the White House.
And what is really good is that the president now has said action is imminent on the issue, quote, of war crimes cases of Army first lieutenant Clint Lawrence.
We have told you his story over and over and over.
This guy takes over for a platoon.
Just weeks earlier, had been decimated by these suicide bombers on motorcycles.
They lost the platoon leader in that particular case and others injured.
And anyway, so he's now just on the job and he sees, yeah, two guys on motorcycles, you know, going past the checkpoint, driving right at him, and he has to make a decision.
And he doesn't know.
I mean, I love how we second-guess guys in the field.
We second guess their decision-making.
It ended up they took these, they ended up having to take these guys out.
And this guy gets, you know, what was it, 30 years in jail?
It's unbelievable.
We're going to sit in the comfort of our air-conditioned office and judge what these guys are doing in the spur of the moment.
And we have the rules of engagement issue.
It has resulted in a lot of these guys that are innocent, that were doing their job and fighting wars we asked them to fight.
And then we put handcuffs on them and rules of engagement that make no sense.
That's how come Trump was able to beat the caliphate in Syria.
He took the rules of engagement, got rid of them.
This is war.
You fight wars to win wars.
If you're going to send guys, you don't put handcuffs on them, you know, because then other innocent Americans die.
Well, I have in my hand a document, the White House, disapproval of the findings and sentence in the general court martial of the United States of America versus Army First Lieutenant Clint Allen Lawrence.
And now the president is taking action.
He says it's imminent on the case of Clint Lawrence, Army Green Beret Major Matt Goldstein.
And you know about the case of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher.
Now, my friend and colleague Pete Hegseth was able to break this story at FoxNews.com with the imminent action on the cases.
Three former U.S. military service members accused of war crimes.
Our own Linda, what, two months ago or so, went down to Leavenworth.
Leavenworth's full of these guys with similar stories.
They're fighting for their country.
They get accused of war crime.
You saw what happened in the case of Eddie Gallagher.
That goes to trial.
And one guy finally stands up and said, actually, I'm the one that did it.
I did it.
It wasn't Gallagher and all that he had gone through.
Now, it doesn't have to be a pardon or a commutation.
It could be, you know, that would imply guilt that you've done something wrong and you need to be forgiven for it.
The president, his commander-in-chief, has a lot of latitude under the Uniform Code of Military Justice to dismiss a case or change a sentence.
And the president actually says, I, Donald J. Trump, president of the United States, pursuant to the power conferred upon me by Article 2, Section 2, the Constitution, as commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the United States.
And under Article 22 and Article 60 of the Uniform Code for Military Justice, rule for court martials 1107 under the laws of the United States, hereby set aside, vacate, disapprove, and dismiss with prejudice the charges, findings, and sentence imposed upon 1st Lieutenant Clint Allen Lawrence, United States Army, for all offenses against the United States, which he,
First Lieutenant Clint Allen Lawrence, has committed or may have committed or is alleged to have committed or taken part of during the period between June 28th, 2012 and July 4th, 2012.
And this is what, thank God, the president cares about our military.
This is a big deal.
Anyway, my colleague and friend Pete Hegseth and Don Brown is with us.
He's the attorney for Clint Lawrence.
Been on the program before.
Our buddy Louis Gomert's with us.
He's been all over this issue for years fighting for these guys.
A big, big day.
Thank you all, all of you.
Linda, thank you too.
She went down to Leavenworth, met with Clint Lawrence, met with a lot of these guys.
Pete, why don't you give us the news side of it first?
Well, listen, Sean, thank you for everything you've done, for what members of Congress have done, other members of the media have done.
There's too many of you.
Not many of them, let's be honest.
Not many, not many, but a few.
And folks like you who have focused on this issue from the beginning, this does not happen without the constant drumbeat and effort that folks like you have put into it.
Linda, others, I could not agree more.
But number two, it does not happen unless you have a commander-in-chief who's truly committed to putting America first.
And that means the warfighters that we put into harm's way.
This is truly Obama's rules of engagement versus Trump's rules of engagement.
And under Obama, you were guilty until presumed innocent.
Your hands were tied, and you were second guests from the Pentagon at every turn.
Under President Trump, he's saying, We trained you, we sent you.
You made a tough call in the fog of war in a split second, and we're going to give you that benefit of doubt.
And in doing so, we're going to boost the morale of everybody who would ever want to join the armed forces.
All you want is a commander that has your back.
The president is saying, before Veterans Day, I'm going to look at this case.
I'm going to look at Clint Matt Goldstein, and I'm doing something about it.
I'm going to give the rank back.
They're trying to take Eddie Gallagher's trident.
His Navy's still trident away from him.
All because the administrative state, the deep state of the DOD or other rogue prosecutors want their way and they want to undermine the commander-in-chief.
So this is great news.
I believe it's going to happen, and I don't think it'll be a pardon for the reasons you said.
The commander-in-chief is in charge of what happens under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
He can dismiss these cases out of hand, and I believe that what will happen, and it'll have an amazing ripple effect for those who fight our wars.
What a vote of confidence.
Louis Gomert, God bless you.
And by the way, also Lauren, who, well, left because she married Linda's brother and had a baby.
She went down with you to Leavenworth.
She reps Justice Warriors.
These guys were all over me constantly if I didn't do a segment in an X number of months to get back on it to their credit.
And Louie, you've been working behind the scenes and I'm on this for a long time.
It was a great day.
It is.
And thank you for all you've done.
You've been fantastic, as has your staff.
Linda, of course, and Lauren when she was there.
And now she's continued to work on these issues.
But really, Sean, it's been of an emotional day when you know these guys.
And some of us went and met with Clint Lawrence at Leavenworth last month.
And, you know, thank God for Donald Trump.
I just can't say that.
These military guys were served up on the altar of political correctness when they were out there protecting their brothers and sisters in arms.
And also, you know, they answered the call of their country.
This was no way to treat them.
And the best thing that could happen is what we're talking about.
You just set aside all of the findings so that it's as if there was no finding.
There was no court martial.
And that is a great day.
Yeah.
And Don Brown, thanks for all you've been doing.
And I think you've been doing all this pro bono with a lot of other attorneys.
You know, these guys can't afford the defense that they need.
Well, we do it because we love our country.
We love these guys.
And I want to shout out also to UAP, the United AmericanPatriots, UAP.org.
They've helped us support a lot of lawyers in trying to fight these battles.
But I want to not only thank you, all y'all, you three guys and Linda, I'm on a phone call with four of the greatest living Americans, and I got to finish myself.
But I do all want to thank President Trump for making this a special day.
You know, Sean, I mentioned this, but the 4th of July, President Trump was, he may have been at his most brilliant with that great celebration.
You remember the day that the Blue Angels were streaking over the Jefferson Memorial and Lee Greenwood singing, proud to be an American?
The president issued a clearing call that day.
It was almost like John F. Kennedy's ask what you can do for your country.
He said, I want to encourage all young people to consider service in the United States military.
And Sean, there's no greater calling really of service to country.
But, you know, we got to make sure that the commander-in-chief has our back to these young men.
And by the brave and audacious move this president may be taking to sign this order to disallow, to disapprove the findings and sentencings of these court martials, he's going to send a powerful message that if you shoot the enemy, we will no longer prosecute you.
We've got your backs.
You're not going to be sacrificed, as the congressman said, on the altar of political correctness and that Obama's rules of engagement are gone forever.
This is a national security question.
Our guys have got to know that the commander-in-chief has their back.
This great president is about to do that, we hope, and we thank all of you for the work that you've done in bringing this day about.
I got to tell you, Linda, you need to take a bow.
Put your mic on because I'll just give the behind the scenes.
Look, I'm literally gulping water every second of every day.
And like, if I, if I went any extended period of time not being on this topic, hey, hey, you know, she's all over me.
And not that I didn't want to do it.
It's just, you know, this was a real passion of yours, which, you know, brought you and Lauren all the way down to Leavenworth.
I mean, Lauren, you know, went down, you know, literally in one day because she just had her baby girl.
And Don and I were there together.
And, you know, Pete's been going down regularly and Louie's been going down with Duncan.
And, you know, this Justice for Warriors caucus is no joke.
You know, this is the real deal.
These are people that serve in Congress.
And all three of these men have all served our country.
So they know from where they speak.
You know, it's really hard to give up your free time and not get paid and take time out of your schedule to go down and care about somebody else's life as if it was your own.
But that's what these men have done because they gave their life to country and they see the same thing happening to these poor guys.
And when I met Clint in prison, you know, and I, my, first of all, he looks like he's 12.
And you're just staring at this, you know, babyface.
And I'm thinking to myself, here's a guy who, when he gets out of Leavenworth, all he talks about is either running for Congress or going back into the military and serving his country again.
God bless his poor mother, Anna.
You know, her heart breaks every day.
Her baby boy's in jail for doing what we asked him to do, which is to protect his fellow men and women in the line of duty.
You know, so it's like, this is all we can do.
You know, I get this microphone.
I get to yell at you on the mic and off the mic.
It's my, it's my duty.
That's my pleasure and my duty.
So annoying, it's very annoying.
I get paid to be annoying.
You know, it's what I do.
But, you know, everybody's doing their best here.
Everybody, this is why I look at this in 364 days.
It's an all-hands on deck moment.
And I hope this is just the beginning.
I hope, you know, Pete, you've been all over it.
Don, God bless you.
Louis, we love you.
Linda, Lauren, everybody.
You know, like the election in 364 days is a tipping point.
You know, we as a country, our soul has got to be that we have the backs.
If we ask these young men to go fight, we can't put handcuffs on these guys and then throw them in jail if they didn't make the perfect decision.
You know, Pete mentioned the Faggo War.
You don't know.
You know, I can't even believe we second-guessed their decisions.
You know, Louie, go ahead.
Well, I can't help but think about the fact that under Commander-in-Chief Bush, we lost about 600 precious military lives in Afghanistan in the worst part of the war.
And then under Commander-in-Chief Obama, because of the rules of engagement and prosecuting people like this, we ended up losing three times that many.
And I was shocked to read a brief that said from the World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, there were seven Americans convicted of war crimes in combat theaters.
And in Iraq and Afghanistan, there have been 212.
It shows how political correctness had done so much damage.
And thank God you have promoted this the way you have.
And now it's come into fruition.
And we just thank you.
Thank you so much.
Final word from Pete, Pete Hegseth, my colleague in Prussia.
You know what?
Absolutely.
Thank you.
But I'll tell you, I can't help but think back during the Obama years.
We knew the eight-digit grid to the headquarters of ISIS in Mosul.
We knew where it was, but we wouldn't hit it because of all the layers and controls of what we could and could not do.
President Trump comes in and it's eradicated.
And our guys are empowered to do it.
But any one of us could have been leading that platoon.
I could have been Clint Lorentz.
I was an infantry platoon leader in Afghanistan and in Iraq, but then I served in Afghanistan.
Those last-second decisions, you've never planned what it's going to look like.
So it's personal for the guys that have been there.
Clint's a symbol of it, the beginning of even more stories that need to be told.
But it's, hey, let's take a victory lap on this because it is a reflective of values.
Our country values those we leave behind on the battlefield and are wrongly accused.
Kudos to everyone that stuck with it on this because it's not popular to take this position.
Oh, you're backing up these guys.
They made the wrong call.
Who are you?
You weren't there.
You don't know what they faced, and you don't know the viciousness of our enemy.
So it's the right thing to do.
And thanks for beating the drum, Sean.
Last word, Don Brown.
It's about putting America first, putting America service members first, and ending these rules of engagement forever that put the enemy's lives more important than American lives.
I'm hoping that once Clinton is free, that Louie and his colleagues at some point will take action to change the Uniform Code of Military Justice so this foolishness doesn't happen again.
God bless America.
That's a great day for America.
It's going to be a great Veterans Day.
All right.
I want to thank you all, Pete Hegseth, Don Brown, Louis Gomert, Lauren, Linda, and all the people involved, too many to name, that made this day possible and the president for sticking by these brave men and women.
Quick break.
We'll come back on the other side.
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This week is Thanksgiving.
If the president is watching, what do you want to say to him?
I love you, sir.
You're awesome.
You and your, you know, I'll say this, Mr. President.
I wish you had a better team around you.
You need more people watching your back.
And I think you don't have a lot of that.
And that is absolutely unfortunate.
And that infuriates me to no end.
I've got to get your comment on this.
Because someone who wants to be the next commander-in-chief tweeted about your case in Matt's case and Eddie's case.
It was Joe Biden.
He tweeted this.
He said, Trump's intervention in the American military justice system to pardon service members accused or convicted of war crimes betrays the rule of law, the values that make our country exceptional.
And in the men and women who wear the uniform honorably, he is not fit to command our troops.
What would you say to that?
Well, I would say with all due respect to the former vice president, you know, that seems to be a partisan answer.
That seems to be something that he's just towing the party line on.
I highly doubt the vice president being the patriotic man with a son in the military like he had.
I highly doubt that he really believes that.
And I think that what he's doing is he's towing the party line and he's doing what he thinks his donors and the people that are signing his paycheck are expecting him to do.
And I think if you were to sit down with him face to face, I think he'd have an issue saying that right face to face.
All right, that was Clint Lawrence on with our buddy Pete Hegseth.
We have followed Clint Lawrence's case now for six years.
We have now followed this case of this grave injustice.
And thanks to the president, we now have, he has granted pardons and restored the rank to Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher.
But he signed full pardons for Army First Lieutenant Clint Lawrence and Army Major Matthew Goldstein and directed promotion to special warfare operator first class Eddie Gallagher, which we interviewed Eddie before.
And I got to tell you, this is a case I cannot believe we have gotten to this point where we have people in air-conditioned offices now second-guessing what our brave men and women, when they have to make a life and death decision for themselves and their platoon members.
And if they make the wrong decision, well, they're in trouble.
And we end up putting them in jail.
And that's basically what happened to Clint Lawrence.
This goes back to July of 2012.
He's leading men on combat through heavily planted Afghan minefields, risking his life for his country.
Anyway, they're moving single file to avoid the IEDs, which are planted all over the place.
And then three Afghan men start charging Lawrence's men on a motorcycle on a road that's controlled by the Taliban, ignoring signs that they were supposed to stay off the road.
And he asked to his platoon leader, maybe he has five seconds to make the decision.
What do I do here?
Do I save my guys?
Now, here's an interesting side note to all of this is that that very platoon had been ambushed by these motorcycle IED guys.
What was it?
Two weeks prior.
Yep.
And they lost the platoon leader, didn't they not?
And others were injured.
Right.
Correct?
Right.
So these guys are coming right at him.
Anyway, so he goes on trial.
And how many, and by the way, Clinton Lawrence is with us, Army Lieutenant Clinton Lawrence, and also as his attorney, Don Brown.
How many years have you been working on this now, Don?
Going a couple of years now, and the legal team's been involved with this for five years.
John Marster, the team, we're so grateful for today, Sean.
We really are.
A big day today.
It's great to finally meet you.
You too.
You too, Sean.
Have you heard we've been talking about you a little bit?
Were your ears burning?
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
And first, you know, if I can, you know, I try to, when anybody asks me anything about the last couple of days, the first thing I say is thank you to President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.
And I think that's something that I'll probably do for the rest of my life.
They just saved my life, and I owe them my life.
And the men and women of the United States military, they have a real good man in the White House.
Well, certainly he's supporting his military.
What was very interesting, and you could maybe, why don't you walk us through that day?
Because I want people to hear what happened from you.
Okay.
So I'll walk you through it, but I'd like you to consider that it's been about seven years now.
So my memory is kind of fading.
I've sort of, you know, I think some things have kind of melded together over the years.
But essentially, we were on a dismounted foot patrol.
And the reason we were using dismounts, which is, you know, for your non-military listeners, you're walking.
So we were foot patrolling.
And you're the new platoon leader.
I'm the new.
Yep.
I'm the new guy.
I've been there.
Single file.
Right.
Single file.
I'm the new guy.
I've been there about 72 hours by now.
So I don't know any of these guys.
None of them know me.
And, you know, I still, to be honest with you, I can't even remember most of their names.
And, you know, there's still some people like in the Stars documentary that came out that I'm like, who is that?
Like, I don't know who that is.
How long prior to you getting there was the platoon leader killed in a very similar situation you're about to describe?
Well, the platoon, the previous platoon leader was not killed, but there were soldiers that were unfortunately killed by those animals that were fighting over there.
Cowards, really.
But the previous platoon leader that I replaced, he was wounded in action, unfortunately.
He's doing well these days.
But I can't remember exactly how long it was.
It was a few weeks that the platoon was out.
So was out there without a platoon leader.
So motorcycles are coming at your platoon.
Yep.
So what happened was in an overall helicopter view.
So essentially we had a group of Taliban who were amassing on our position.
And so they had collected in a large area up to the north of our position.
And they split up from that area.
And then I ordered, and mind you, I'm giving these orders to my soldiers who are telling me what they're seeing.
I can't see everything, right?
Because it's just the nature of where we're at.
And so I can't see anything.
I'm hearing all these reports coming out.
I'm hearing reports coming in from the Army attack helicopters that are up above the area.
And so I've got all these reports coming in.
And I know that the commander's instinct is very important.
The commander on the ground is very important.
And there's a reason why one guy wears lieutenant bars.
There's a reason why one guy or gal is in charge because they have to make that very difficult decision that nobody else has to make.
You legally have to make that decision.
The problem is with, you know, when we have, when we don't have President Donald Trump in the White House, we have people who will not stand up for our soldiers and will not let our leadership interest.
I want to make sure we get this in, though.
So these motorcycle guys are coming at you.
Right.
This is a known tactic.
They blow themselves up and they literally are coming to kill you.
Right.
All right.
You're getting all the reports coming in.
You got to make it.
How long did you have to make a decision?
And what did you say to your troops?
Oh, wow.
It was a few seconds.
Everything was happening just, I mean, rapid lightning fast.
And, you know, I'm thinking to myself, I'm thinking, my God, I just took over.
These guys are all young.
I'm going to have to write letters and talk to their mom and dad.
I'm sorry I got your son killed because I made a bad decision.
There's just so many things going through your head and you're sitting there thinking, my God, we're the United States Army.
You know, we can't lose.
We won't lose.
But I don't want to lose my men.
I love them.
They're Americans.
They're 18 years old.
And so you're thinking, all of those things are going through your head.
And that's a lot to go through your head at the same time as what tactical decision do I make in terms of how do I respond to the Taliban that's attacking my position.
And so I made the best decision that I can make given the conditions on the ground.
And I'll tell you this, Sean, I would make the same exact decision again today if I was faced with that decision, because if I had come home with my soldiers, any of my soldiers, having been killed on my watch, then that would have been far worse than living in Fort Leavenworth for six years.
So you make the decision, you take these two guys out.
When did you know you might be in trouble over this?
Well, to be honest with you, I had never given any thought to the military justice system.
It's known as the Uniform Code of Military Justice, or as we soldiers call it, kangaroo court.
And so essentially, I never thought about it.
I never thought that my chain of command would second guess what the decision I made.
When did you first find out that they were second guessing?
They had my brigade commander essentially made a, it was almost like a predetermined decision, made a decision.
He basically decided I was guilty before even talking to me.
And the military and the army, especially in the combat arms part of the army, when a brigade commander, when a senior officer makes a decision about something, he doesn't even have to say anything.
He can have a frown on his face when he's talking about it.
And all the rest of the butt-kissing officers that are underneath him are going to follow his lead.
That's just the way it is.
How many days after this did you realize, holy, I'm now being, I'm being put on trial for making a split-second decision?
Well, I'd say maybe a couple of months started to build up.
And then what was interesting about your case, because then you got sentenced.
How many years in jail?
20.
Initially, it was 20.
Then the, and sort of a joke, the convening authority reduced it by one year to 19 years.
And so how many years in Leavenworth did you spend?
Six years and about a couple of months.
And we then found out later, because they were trying to say, Karzai, I guess under the Obama administration, they were trying to say that you had killed innocent farmers.
That was what they had said at the time.
But then when new information came back that they had biometric evidence that they apparently withheld this evidence, which is exculpatory for you, that in fact tied the guys that you did kill to planting IEDs.
Didn't they find their DNA on IEDs and they were able to definitively say that's the DNA of these guys on these IEDs?
Well, that should have freed you immediately.
Why didn't that happen?
Let me ask your lawyer on this.
Sean, thanks for the question.
The Army dug in deeper.
They dug in deeper to protect the system.
They dug in deeper at multiple levels.
The United States government has never denied that these were Taliban bomb makers.
Their position was, well, Clint had no way of knowing it.
Well, nobody has any way of knowing what a farmer is with a weapon over there.
They dug themselves in to protect a corrupted system and to this day have not apologized for it.
As soon as this evidence came forward, they should have let Clint out of prison.
They hid it initially from the initial defense team, which is why we got a corruption.
That's withholding exculpatory evidence.
Six years of this guy's life now have been wasted in jail.
Not wasted, but you know what I mean?
That he had to live in prison.
U.S. Supreme Court Brady versus Maryland, they got to turn that over initially.
That's not the Fifth Amendment right.
That's the Brady law that our friend Sidney Powell often speaks of on the shows representing General Flynn.
So does he have any legal recourse here?
At this point, we still haven't gotten an official notification.
The defense team is not from the Department of the Army as to the status of his discharge.
He's been legally pardoned.
There's no crime at all.
We're still looking into the issue of the market.
No, I'm looking about who you can sue.
I want to know, you know, what legal recourse he has to get recovery for the six years of his life that was stolen from him when they withheld exculpatory evidence.
Can I interject something there, Don?
Yeah, yeah, just don't.
Yeah, go ahead.
I know, you know, I get these looks from my lawyers all the time.
First of all, I have an amazing legal team.
There's so many of them.
Mr. Brown here is the lead with Colonel Maher.
They're amazing.
But I'll say this.
If given that you ask who you could sue, I don't want to sue anybody.
And I'm going to ever say those words.
No.
Well, let me say this, Sean.
Let me explain myself.
I'm not going to sue the United States government as long as President Donald Trump is in charge of it.
But I'll say this.
You're not suing Donald Trump.
Let me tell you something.
You're suing the people that stole six years of your life by withholding exculpatory evidence.
That's who deserve.
They need to be held accountable.
Right.
I absolutely agree.
And we're going to hold them accountable by reforming the military justice system so it doesn't ever happen to anybody else.
We cannot let this happen to anybody else.
What is his legal recourse, counsel?
Don't let him say the words, I'm not going to sue.
Well, his legal recourse is his legal team's going to have to discuss that.
But, you know, you're correct.
Somebody made decisions up the chain of command to deny Clinton not only his constitutional rights, but take away six years of his life.
This prosecution should have never taken place to begin with.
There are some things that active duty can and cannot do because of the fairest doctrines and the money.
How did they get to this conclusion, though?
You know, he's got three seconds to decide.
He knows the situation that he just immersed himself in in 72 hours.
How did they get to second guess that anyway?
They were hacked off because they wanted to get him for violating Obama's rules of engagement under what I call the battlefield lawyer rule.
In other words, he has to wait until his men get blown up or shot before he can fight back.
You know, you have to, they're the hot.
That's insanity.
Right.
So they want to make an example of him.
And by the way, they lost on.
That's how Americans die in war.
If we're not prepared to send our brave men, we're going to ask them to go fight.
Don't put handcuffs on them and let them fight and win.
That's it.
Three times as many Americans died under President Obama than President Trump in Afghanistan.
And the reason is because of suicidal rules of engagement that put the lives of the Taliban over the lives of Americans.
Well, if we have to wait to get shot at first in that environment, then we don't belong sending our sons and daughters there, period.
Welcome home, sir.
It's great to have you back.
Thank you, sir.
You got a great team of lawyers here.
I know you got to meet Linda and Lauren and the whole team down there at Leavenworth.
Thank God you're home, and I wish you only the best for your life.
Thank you, Sean.
And I would sue the living crap out of all of them.
First off, do we thank you for what you've done, Sean?
We appreciate it.
We've talked about this case for six years.
Yeah, but we couldn't do it without you.
God bless you.
It should never have happened.
And there are other people, too.
We're going to fix it, Sean.
We're going to fix it.
All right.
God bless you.
Thank you for joining us.
And we're so glad you're free.
Yes, sir.
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We had a pretty spectacular moment.
We didn't spend enough time on yesterday, but that was the debate Wednesday night on the Area 51 conspiracy theory channel of Rachel Maddow and Elizabeth Warren as part of this debate.
And I didn't think we'd ever get worse than Nancy Pelosi, you got to pass the bill to find out what's in the bill.
I'm like, okay, wow.
And then, of course, we got Obamacare and that was sold to us as, well, you get to keep your doctor, you get to keep your plan, and you get to save money.
Well, that didn't work out because millions of Americans lost their doctors, lost their plans, and everybody is paying more money on average, over 174% more in money.
We were supposed to say you saved average family is going to save $2,500 per family per year.
No, that didn't happen.
Now we doubled and now we're tripling it.
So it was pretty spectacular.
So she's now trying to ram down America's throat her $52 trillion 10-year spending plan, Medicare for all, with no private option of any private health care.
And remember one other fact: 37% of American counties only have one option for health care under the Obama exchanges.
They got one choice and one choice only.
That's 40% of the country.
That's how bad this has become, what this lie evolved into.
Now we're going to take Obamacare, every promise broken, failing at a spectacular level.
All the big insurance companies said thanks, but no thanks.
We're out of here.
And now people have one option.
And now they want to say, okay, not only going to pass it to know what's in it, but now you're going to have to, we're going to pass it and you're going to feel it and you're going to live under it and you're going to taste it and then you'll like it.
Here's Elizabeth Warren.
And in the first hundred days, I'm going to bring in 135 million people into Medicare for all at no cost to them.
Everybody under the age of 18, everybody who has family for income less than $50,000.
I'm going to lower the age of Medicare to 50 and expand Medicare coverage to include vision and dental and long-term care.
And then in the third year, when people have had a chance to feel it and taste it and live with it, we're going to vote and we're going to want Medicare for all.
Feel it, taste it, then you'll want it.
Wow.
That is scary.
We have had a longtime friend of the program.
One of my biggest complaints about Republicans on this whole healthcare thing is, so they got Obamacare passed and lo and behold, Republicans, they have, what, 65 or so show votes in the House of Representatives to repeal and replace Obamacare.
It was never going anywhere because Obama was the president.
He was not going to repeal his signature legislation.
And we even had in the U.S. Senate, we had Republicans vote up and down, up or down on a straight repeal bill.
And seven senators in 2015 that voted for a straight repeal, Republican senators, when they had a chance where it would matter in 2017 with Donald Trump as president, they changed their minds.
Show votes.
That's where the disconnect is with the Republican Party and Sean Hannity.
Because the fact that seven years passed and they didn't talk about health savings accounts.
I've been talking about Patient Power, Cato Institute, Goodman and Musgrave, their book years ago, in other words, healthcare savings accounts.
We have had Dr. Josh Umber, Atlas MD, on this program.
We've sent him to Washington.
He's met with Newt Gingrich.
He's met with members of Congress because he's created a system in Wichita, Kansas, Atlas MD, where, okay, you pay $50 a month as an adult, $10 a month as a kid for unlimited access to your doctor 24-7, 365.
And what's even more amazing, take care of stitches.
They take care of, you know, most of the stuff that we need taken care of.
You need a ZPAC.
You got high cholesterol.
You got high blood pressure.
And then he wisely went and negotiated directly with pharmaceutical companies.
So he gets the drugs that people usually need at 90, 95% discounts and then passes the savings on to his patients.
And guess what?
They walk out of the doctor's office.
They don't have to go to the pharmacy.
How cool is that?
Then he's taken this model, which is not only producing a good living for him, and it's, you know, he gets more patients than he can even handle.
And he's now duplicating it around the country.
Anyway, Dr. Josh Umber is with us and Dr. Lee S. Gross is with us, the presidents of Doctors for Patient Care Foundation and the founder of the Epiphany Health Direct Primary Care.
Now, both of them, by the way, have come up with a pretty interesting idea that I like.
And I'm going to let them tell you about it themselves.
But, you know, is that what we need now, Dr. Josh?
We're going to have to feel it and taste Medicare and swallow it for years.
And then we'll really come to appreciate it.
You know, it was a bizarre way to describe it.
You have to elect me to see what you'll get because I think it's such a hard premise to pitch on your own.
But so thank you for giving us the opportunity and sharing the airtime with you to explain how it could work.
She's looking at a bigger system, more complication, more bureaucracy.
And what we're trying to do is show that less is actually what we need.
The direct care model or direct care for all could make medicine great again.
We can offer unlimited visits, no copays, free procedures, wholesale meds and labs for up to 95% off.
If we can do that at now over 1,200 practices in the country, and Dr. Lee just put on the largest conference all year with over 400 docs in attendance, then we can do this everywhere.
And we can decrease insurance premiums by 30 to 60%.
This is a real viable model.
It skips the DC swamp.
It skips the divided Congress.
And it actually gets meaningful health care reform down to Main Street.
So Sean, so here's what happens, though, is that where Congress was not able to step in and repeal Obamacare, the president and the administration has done everything they can through changing of regulations, relaxing things, so that you can actually return medicine back to the doctors and patients.
Because frankly, patients trust their doctors to reform health care.
But as you're seeing all these things unfold in Washington, you're seeing the games being played in Congress, you have to wonder what they're distracting you from.
And what Congress is working on behind the scenes is actually quite dangerous.
So the president signed an executive order that expands access to direct primary care.
It frees doctors and patients to engage in these direct care relationships.
But Congress is actually working on regulations that undermine the president's executive orders.
It's re-weaponizing the Internal Revenue Service, just like we saw back under Lois Lerner.
We're re-weaponizing the Internal Revenue Service to go after doctors and patients for using their own health care dollars for their own health care services, setting the stage for socialized medicine.
And we can't let that happen, but it's happening behind the scenes with all these distractions.
So you guys got this bill out.
It's actually being represented by or put into Congress.
It's called H.R. 3708, would bar some doctors from providing direct primary care, which, by the way, separate it apart.
But, you know, you got a powerful lobby in the healthcare industry all over Congress, but bar doctors from providing direct primary care, block prescribed treatments from qualifying for medical reimbursements, and impose new restrictions on how patients use their health savings accounts.
Well, that wouldn't work out very well for the patient, in my mind, Dr. Umber.
I don't think it would work out very well.
We're in a system where we want to see patients thrive and have less of the IRS in their household, less decisions being controlled on how they spend their health care dollars.
And I think the idea with the party that wants Medicare for all is, well, you don't need your own dollars anyways because we're going to try to manage that.
So anything they can do to weaken the health savings account rules, like Dr. Lee said, through weaponizing the IRS, would help in their cause of limiting patient choice.
And so we really are trying to fight hard and punch above our weight class and encourage any listener to reach out to their representatives.
They'll be closed for the holiday break, so they'll be coming home.
They'll be near you and let them hear you that you don't support a bill that would damage their HSA spending abilities or damage their access to a direct care practice that could really revolutionize health care.
It really could.
I mean, and it's where many times have you been able to duplicate what you're doing at Atlas MD around the country?
In other words, where people pay 50 bucks a month, adults, kids, 10 bucks a month, unlimited care, 90 plus percent reductions in prescriptions.
And then if you couple that or accompany that with a catastrophic plan, if God forbid you get cancer, have a heart attack or have a bad accident, which is, you know, catastrophic care is relatively inexpensive, especially the higher deductible you have.
That then brings your monthly health care total for an individual adult down to what?
$400 a month?
I think we could, you know, we've been able to do this now with about 50% year-over-year growth in the model.
So it really is picking up fast.
We opened 29 new clinics in October alone.
So essentially one a day just ourselves.
I mean, these are all independently owned physicians, so they're doing the grunt work, but we're helping guide the path.
And with Dr. Lee, I think together we've touched about 80% of the new practices.
But you're right.
We could, in best case scenario, decrease the cost of health insurance premiums to under, I think, $500 per household.
So on average.
It's definitely not health care for the wealthy.
You know, this is not health care for the wealthy.
This is health care for rural America.
This is healthcare for inner city America of all shapes, walks.
Everyone can afford this.
If you can afford a cell phone, you can afford health care.
You do not need to get people in the middle of this relationship.
It just clouds this.
And we're thankful that the president did sign executive order.
We're looking forward to this rule being released in a few weeks from the Treasury that expands opportunities for patients and doctors.
And we can't let Congress get in the way and undermine the efforts of the president, his administration.
And the idea is if this bill happens, what you do has to end, Dr. Umber, your successful model practice that you've developed and duplicated nearly a thousand times around this country.
By the way, let me ask you, how many patients do you have in your practice?
How many doctors?
How many patients?
We have five doctors in our practice and a little over 3,300 patients.
And by the way, every patient has access to a doctor 24-7, 365, right?
Yep.
I was just emailing a patient back right before we got on with you.
And they have your own personal text number.
Yep.
And most people like me, they don't want to go see the doctor, but they only call when they have a problem, right?
Right.
Right.
But then you have the few people that call you every freaking day and drive you nuts and really get their 50 bucks a month or the 50 bucks.
Is it 50 a month, right?
Yep.
Yep.
We get a mix.
And so it ends up at least being a sustainable model, better for the patients.
That's $300 a month if you get catastrophic insurance then.
Right.
And you're able to absorb your five doctors, 3,300 patients, 24-7, 365.
And that includes their yearly checkup, a full exam, stitches, what else?
Broken bones?
What else is included?
Basically anything we can do in our office.
So, you know, some broken bones are big enough.
We'll need an orthopedic surgeon.
And some, especially in young kids, are called green stick.
They're just more of a crack.
So we can manage that with splinting in our office.
But basically decrease the cost of all your care by 80 to 90% and your insurance premiums by 30 to 60%.
So if we could put, if we just had a local hospital that integrated this with their employees and allowed their employees to sign up for this, we saved the hospital 60% on their employee health costs.
The employees had 20% reduction in premiums, 30% reduction in all-out-of-pocket costs while eliminating co-pays and deductibles.
We want people to oppose this HR 3708.
It restricts doctors working from their patients.
It restricts access to affordable medications.
And it controls and restricts for the first time in history a patient's ability to use their own money to pay their doctor.
It's unbelievable.
All right, quick break.
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All right, as we continue with Dr. Josh Umber and Dr. Lee S. Gross, he's the president of Doctors for Patient Care and that Foundation.
Are you asking people to contact their congressmen and women?
Do we know we have a date on this vote or what?
Yes, absolutely.
Contact your congressmen.
You know, phone calls are great.
Emails are still very helpful.
And just let them know to vote no on 3708.
We're hoping it never gets even to a vote.
We're hoping that the Republicans see that this isn't a bill that helps everybody.
And this is not going to be something that makes health care affordable for everyone if this gets a vote.
So the more we can educate representatives that this is a bad bill for the innovation of health care, the more successful we'll be.
All right.
Thank you both for what you do every day.
Dr. Josh Umber, Atlas MD.
If you're in Wichita, that's the practice you need to be a part of.
Dr. Lee Gross, where's your practice?
In Florida, Northport, Florida.
Northport, Florida.
So get in touch with Dr. Lee Gross there, and you'll have care like you've never dreamed of.
That's basically concierge care.
You understand?
We could have this for every American.
I mean, look, I'll be honest.
I have friends that are doctors.
If I need to call my doctor's friends at two in the morning, I'm going to get through.
But I know that I'm just lucky that those are my friends.
I just happen to have friends that would care enough to take my call at two in the morning.
A lot of people may not have a doctor friend.
And it's like this is what they're going to do, but we have to feel it and we have to taste it.
We have to live with it.
And then we're going to like it.
I'm not so sure.
Trust me.
Is that how it's going to go now?
We've got to trust us.
Trust the government.
Wow, works out so well when we trust them, doesn't it?
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That was the president on this Veterans Day.
First time ever a U.S. president actually took the time, first president in history, to attend a Veterans Day parade in New York.
And I thought he gave a great speech today.
The president also, he broke news last week.
People like Clint Lawrence, Eddie Gallagher, all these guys that have been treated so unfairly by a military.
You know, we ask these guys to go fight, risk their lives, come back without their arms and legs way too often if they come back at all or disfigured.
And then we're second-guessing choices in the battlefield.
And there has been so much unfairness that we've been able to expose, too much to go into now.
But on this Veterans Day, we've had Tyler Merritt on this program before.
He's the founder of Nine Line Apparel, and it's a veteran-owned and operated company.
And what this great company does, they have a great role in the workplace and a sense of purpose.
And so they help vets with jobs and re-acclimation.
And we have just partnered with them.
We call it the Hannity Store.
And what we put in there is all made by Nine Line.
This Nine Line apparel is a veteran-owned company.
They have created jobs in the U.S. manufacturing here.
And so far, 150 guys are working in and around the Savannah area since their founding, primarily for veterans and their families.
It's an American brand, American-focused company.
Their designs are kick-ass, to be very straightforward.
And anyway, we kind of now have partnered with them, and we've got a lot of great stuff we're putting up on Hannity.com.
We'll remind you about it.
And also with Tyler Merritt, we have our buddy Eddie Gallagher.
You knew about his case recently.
The president mentioned him the other day as well as somebody that will be reinstated back to his full rank.
And after the hell that they put him through, I mean, we send these guys to fight.
We put handcuffs on them, the rules of engagement.
And then when if they have to make a split-second decision, then we've got some guys in an air-conditioned office questioning their decision-making.
It's insane.
Anyway, welcome both of you, our partners, Tyler Merritt.
Welcome aboard, sir.
And Eddie, good to see you, my friend.
Thanks for having me, Sean.
Hey, thanks, Sean.
Actually, Eddie and I had the honor and the privilege to be at the address with the president earlier today, sitting next to his son.
And it's an honor to work with you.
And just like it's an honor to be able to sit next to people like Eddie Gallagher on this Veterans Day.
So thank you so much for having us on.
Talk about Nine Line, how you started this, how you ever were crazy enough to partner with us, how many jobs you're creating, the types of stuff you're manufacturing, and you're doing it here in America, and you're hiring a lot of vets and helping them out.
Yeah, Sean, actually, I was still in the military serving in special operations.
I was a glorified bus driver for people like Eddie.
So I would take them and put them in the places that no one should ever go and hopefully never have to hear that nine line call because in the military, that term nine line is a distress call.
And when we set off to create this brand, I wanted something that resonated with our fan base, something that would bridge the gap between the civil and military divide that was really prevalent at that time around 2012.
So the idea, the name came out about from my brother.
He said, hey, let's call it Nine Line.
Let's reinvigorate patriotism.
Let's try to have a call to action to have people put their money where their mouth is.
And that's essentially what we wanted to do as well.
So we started Nine Line Apparel in 2012, 2014.
I had a buddy of mine from West Point who lost pretty much all of his limbs.
And we started Nine Line Foundation.
And since then, we've been able to build wheelchair adaptable homes for severely wounded veterans.
And now we're on an initiative to build tiny homes for homeless veterans.
We actually, with your help, Sean, actually, we built our 20th home.
So awesome.
All right.
So bring everybody up to speed.
I know we got the Quid Pro quote Joe t-shirts up, and apparently, I guess people like them.
I like them a lot.
Hashtag quid pro quo Joe.
They're going pretty well.
And obviously, there's a lot that needs to be discussed.
And the cool thing about Nine Line is that we've been able to have a voice for the veteran community and for the, I would say, patriotism in general.
That's why partnering with you and allowing us to have an even bigger voice to call out the injustices.
The injustices like Eddie Gallagher being put in prison for nine months, the injustices like Joe Biden and his children making millions and millions of dollars when there's no place for those type of actions in politics.
Politics and business needs to be separate.
That seems to be what the Trumps are doing.
They've stopped doing international politics instead of trying to make money off the government.
They're trying to better our country.
And I think you putting it out there is important.
How did you become friends with Eddie?
By the way, if you don't remember Eddie Gallagher, he's the Navy SEO special warfare operator, and he went through well over a year of hell facing a court martial on premeditated murder, attempted murder, obstruction of justice, after a picture emerged of him with one of the casualties.
Turns out that he was trying to save the guy's life.
And in the middle of these proceedings, somebody stood up and said, no, I'm the one that did it.
And how we got to that point where nobody would listen to him from the get-go and that a couple of people with an agenda had just told outright falsehoods about him.
It became a pretty high-profile, terrible case.
My buddy Bernie Kerrig was active in this completely.
But what do you think about the president saying that you're going to be reinstated and your full rank and everything else put back?
Yeah, I'm once again, I'm grateful for the president stepping in and doing the right thing.
He's stepped in twice before, and I think he takes a look at my case and can resonate with it.
The way that I was treated from the get-go, it's guilty until proven innocent.
And there was nothing I could do to talk to anybody or try and prove my innocence.
And they threw me in prison for no reason at all.
How long were you in jail for?
It was nine months.
Nine months locked up.
We talk about going on deployments and it's that justifiable reason to leave your family behind.
but this is an individual that was pulled from his house.
You know, children were taken out at gunpoint.
And I had the pleasure to hang out with Andrea.
We just finished hanging out with Bernie Carrick and seeing your children.
I mean, you're a great father.
You're an incredible soldier.
And to watch this man get ramrodded and falsely accused.
And it became just so political.
You have Hillary Clinton out there saying that this man is grotesque and she has no idea who you are.
And I think that's where this just continued to steamroll out of control.
And luckily, we have a commander in chief that doesn't pull any punches and he can call a spade a spade and he saw the injustices that were occurring.
And I think it's incredible that he was willing to, despite any of the backlash that he gets, stand up for what was right.
And I think that's one of the things that I'm really proud of our organization to be able to work with you and help raise funds for your defense counsel and to try to tell everyone the real story because Eddie Gallagher is a hero.
Eddie Gallagher was almost put in prison for the rest of his life for absolutely no reason.
And on Veterans Day, we should remember that, that you're not a disposable SEAL.
These are individuals that have sacrificed so much.
And Eddie, I love you to death, man, but I woke you up last night in the middle of the night and you're about ready to fight me.
And that's that fight or flight mentality because you're still in it.
You talk about going overseas and then coming back and being put in prison.
And this individual has such an incredible outlook in life.
And on this Veterans Day, I couldn't be prouder to say that I've served with you overseas.
And I'm so glad that you're not.
There's so many other guys that are, you know, we have to identify all of them, make sure every case gets heard.
Are there times, occasions that maybe people, you know, lose it, lose their power, lose control, make mistakes?
Yeah.
But under the fog of war, it's to me, there are always special circumstances that have got to be factored in.
And, you know, when you put handcuffs on brave men and women, you tell them to go fight.
And if they do fight and they only have a split second to make a decision and maybe it's not the right decision, there's got to be some application of understanding of the environment that they're working in.
And I think we've gotten to a point where we really forget that.
Yeah, go ahead.
Yeah, you're absolutely correct, Sean.
And I think, you know, during this whole, you know, trial that I went through and just the imprisonment beforehand, me and my wife, you know, would sit there on the phone and like, how can this happen?
And, you know, we've come to the conclusion that this happened for a reason.
And there's a light that needs to be shown on, you know, the UCMJ and the injustices that happen to warfighters and how they treat them when they come back.
And we're hoping to, you know, keep shining a light on that and maybe do some justice reform.
Yeah, you're talking about warfighters being tried by people who have almost zero combat experience.
None.
You know, these are individuals.
I flew Apaches and everyone loved to double, triple, guess my decisions to pull a trigger.
You know, everything is videotaped and it's, hey, are you sure that you felt threatened?
Yeah, a dude's shooting at me.
Look at the machine gun.
But that's what my friends have to go through.
That's what we have to go through on a regular basis.
And yeah, there is a extreme responsibility with taking another human's life.
But if you're asking us to go overseas and do bad things to bad people, the least you can do is stick up for us when we get back.
Exactly.
All right.
Let's go through the nine-line apparel.
Linda, why don't you explain how we put this up on the website?
You were very, very instrumental in putting this all together.
Well, you know, I got my buddy Tyler here, you know, and I got this other troublemaker, Eddie Gallagher.
So, you know, who's been saying, who's been dropping more F-bombs?
You guys or Linda?
I'm just guessing.
Oh, it's me for sure.
Every day we actually, we are blessed today with Tyler's little girls here.
So we're keeping it.
We're keeping it very clean.
It's a clean show.
This is the PG version.
Exactly.
My two little girls.
Zero F. Actually, she caught me in the back room and I owe her money for this swear jar.
How much does it cost?
Oh, I think it's up to like $20 a swear jar.
He's putting his kid through college on his job.
By the way, I think, Linda, we ought to do this for Liam.
I mean, he'll be a millionaire in no time.
My poor son, forget about it.
He's four years old.
I think up to now he'd probably be a millionaire.
For sure.
But no, listen, we're super excited.
Nine Line Apparel and the Hannity Show are together at last.
We're doing an awesome kickoff today for Veterans Day.
10% off anything you buy on the Hannity Show.
We've decided that we are both going to donate part of our proceeds to a charity.
You know, maybe we'll think of what we know, K-9 Companions or Operation 300 or the Justice for Warriors Fund.
There's so many.
And we've just got awesome clothes out there.
Nine Line makes the best t-shirts, the best hats.
I wear tons of them.
We have tons of shirts up there.
We want you guys to go today and honor Veterans Day.
And every day we should be honoring veterans.
Let's keep that real because our freedoms don't exist without them.
That's the bottom line.
And so go there today.
Go to Hannity.com, go to Nineline Apparel, you know, check it out.
We've got awesome shirts like Quid ProQuo Joe, which we just launched on Friday.
And we've got, you know, girls' shirts, guys' shirts, and it's going to be really great.
And stay tuned for Black Friday because we're going to have awesome sales on Black Friday, too.
That's right.
It's awesome.
Awesome work you're doing.
Guys, always great to see you.
Eddie, how does freedom feel these days?
I bet you're feeling a lot better than you did just a couple of months ago.
Oh, yeah, definitely.
I mean, it's actually pretty crazy.
I was on the veteran show last, the taping last week, and I think Pete had Seth asked me the question of, you know, the difference between last Veterans Day and this Veterans Day.
And I told him, I was like, well, last Veterans Day, I was actually watching this in prison.
So scary.
I'm completely grateful for everything that's happened.
Another promise the president kept, taking better care of our military, fixing the VA hospitals, getting rid of the rules of engagement, ending endless wars.
And when you got rid of the rules of engagement, oh, we beat the caliphate in no time in Syria and Baghdadi and six others are dead.
Yes.
Unbelievable.
All right, guys.
Thank you.
Nine Line Apparel, partner now with Hannity.com.
Just go there anytime.
They got a lot of great products and a lot of good stuff for Thanksgiving and Christmas for the family and people you love.
Quick break.
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