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I'm so stunned.
I just was talking to Mike Lindell, so I'm a little behind the eight balls I start today, but what a great guy.
He's got this new book out from Crack Addict to CEO.
It's the most unbelievable story ever.
He's our friend from mypillow.com.
I never saw a cover like this.
It's got a hologram of him at his lowest point, and now where he is today is his 11th year now, clean and sober.
He's creating this crazy network where he's going to try and help every addict in the country.
We need to do that.
And it is, it just is, it's so amazing when somebody comes from such, you know, everything in his life was destroyed.
Everything.
He'll tell a story coming up later in the program today.
But we're glad to have him here, which is great.
All right.
So you got all this impeachment.
I'm watching it closely.
And I'm just telling you this.
There is nothing that is going on here that is of any meaning or significance whatsoever, except they are dragging this country through the mud out of pure rage, hatred, psychosis, and insanity.
That's really all you need to know.
I mean, I want everybody, even if you're a Democrat, you think in your mind's eye right now.
I want you to think all the things that Democrats have done to make this country more safe, more secure.
Well, last big thing they did was giving Mullahs $150 billion.
They couldn't even praise the president for the number one general, the elite military force, the Quds forces, Soleimani.
They couldn't even say that was a good thing.
And predicting, oh, World War III is breaking out and Trump's Benghazi.
Trump prevented Benghazi in the Baghdad embassy.
Think of what have they done to make, to create jobs and prosperity?
What have they done for the last three years except hate, focus, fixate, rage, you know, lie, conspire, conspiracy theories, the whole thing.
Now you got this whole, there's an interesting cover on the New York Post today, which is the New York tabloids.
Sign of the Times.
And then on one corner, you got Nancy Pelosi inking impeachment.
On the other side, you got the president and his new deal with China.
This is that deal never has happened ever.
He promised he'd get it done.
It's like he's every promise.
Think about this.
What politicians have been fulfilling their promises, keeping their word like Trump?
Whether you like it or not, he did say he'd give us this big tax cut, the biggest in history.
Check.
He did promise from this list, I'll pick my Supreme Court justices.
Check.
He did say he'd appoint originalists, constitutionalists to the other core positions.
Check.
He did say he'd end burdensome regulation.
Check.
He did say he's going to fight to get the border secure.
Well, good news is that the president won another court decision this week that allows him to go forward and reappropriate the funds that have been unspent from the Defense Department.
That's $7.2 billion.
We expect 400 miles of new fence by election this year.
That's a hell of a start.
Now he's got the money for the rest of the wall.
That's great news.
Check.
He said he wants free and fair trade.
Nobody's taking on China.
They've been ripping us off forever.
He got this deal done.
$220 billion.
Now, what does that mean?
Well, that means now the Chinese have promised they're going to buy American farmers' products, agriculture.
That helps America's farmers.
They need the help because prior to this point, they've been pretty much shut out of China.
Then we're going to have our service industry.
Some $40 billion for that sector.
Some $50 or $60 billion for the energy sector.
Well, the energy business, that's great news for the energy industry.
Those are high-paying career jobs for Americans.
Now, the president, that was another promise we're going to be, you know, tap into.
We have more resources than every other country combined in the Middle East.
Well, now we're energy independent for the first time in 75 years.
We're a net exporter of energy for the first time in 75 years.
Another promise.
Check.
And the president said he'd get the deal done.
So our manufacturers are going to benefit.
Our car manufacturers are going to benefit.
I mean, you got farmers, the service industry, the energy sector, manufacturers in America, and the auto industry impacted.
That means, well, what does that mean?
That means that now it's going to be money that is put into those sectors by the Chinese because of the president's pressure campaign on top of the trade deal he got with Japan already, on top of the trade deal we just got done with Canada and Mexico, on top of the trade deal with our Western European allies.
Oh, but he's a protectionist.
No, he's not.
He wants free, fair trade, fair being the operative word.
And what's also amazing, the deal with China also has penalties if they don't live up to their word.
And intellectual property theft is part of this deal.
They're stealing our technology is, you know, they just take anything they want, especially in the pharmaceutical industry.
That's a part of the deal.
Tell me, just anybody, call and tell us, what have the Democrats done for you to make this country more safe, more secure, more prosperous?
What have they done to create jobs?
We can compare it to the Biden years and Obama years.
Yeah, we put 8 million more Americans in poverty.
8 million more.
13 million more Americans on food stamps.
Lowest labor participation rate.
Now we got the best employment situation since 1969.
This stuff matters.
These are not just statistics because behind every million new jobs, that impacts real people, real lives, fellow Americans, real families, and that benefits us.
You know, it's actually a pretty spectacular story.
Now, I'm sure fake news, CNN didn't like this part of their poll because 76% rate the economy of Donald Trump is really good.
Wow.
If you look at the statistics, well, he's looking out for the rich.
No, it's actually just the opposite.
You know who's done the best?
Not only record low unemployment, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, women in the workplace, youth unemployment.
Okay, well, what did Biden, Obama, and the Democrats do?
Why are they so busy impeaching Donald Trump and demanding witnesses and lecturing the Senate?
We have an election in 292 days.
Let the American people decide.
That there's urgency in all of this.
There's no urgency in any of this.
It was so urgent, you wouldn't have gone on vacation for weeks after you impeached the president.
You would have stayed there.
If it was so urgent, you wouldn't be playing politics and holding on to the articles of impeachment, which backfired and blew up in their face.
If it was so urgent, the seven people that you picked wouldn't have been so abusively biased and corrupt and have been calling for impeachment forever.
And since the president's election, look at this: blue-collar workers, the Sean Hannity's of the world, the dishwashing, busboy, waiter, bartender, house painter, paper hanger, a former construction worker, hack, according to Alec Baldwin.
I did all those jobs two decades of my life.
He tried talk radio, man of the people, and he failed spectacularly every time he tried.
You know, but look at this: blue-collar workers, they're the ones that have seen the largest growth in household wealth.
Not the top 1%, no.
The net worth that is now held by the bottom 50% of households.
By the way, bottom 50% pay basically nothing in federal income tax.
The top 10% pay 70% of the taxes.
I mean, the 1% pays 40% of the taxes.
But anyway, look at this.
The bottom 50% of households have increased their growth in household wealth by 47%, more than three times the rate of increase for the top 1% of households.
Well, this income redistribution that the Democrats talk so often about, well, it's happening because the economy has jump-started the investment, and the investment now is resulting in the rank-file great Americans that make this country great every day.
Their opportunities have gone through the roof, limiting now illegal immigration.
That's having a big impact.
And the Democrats, they're focused on what they're always focused on, hating Donald Trump.
Again, you know what's happening that's cracking me up?
We had Senator Ted Cruz on Hannity last night.
He says, okay, well, we're going to have the reciprocity rule.
And Rand Paul, same thing.
Okay, now the House has the sole power to impeach.
I'm arguing constitutionally, it's not even an issue.
This has been so lacking in due process.
It's been such a corrupt process.
It has been so one-sided.
There's been no consideration given to the president and his attorneys to do anything.
It's been a total shift show.
And okay, well, now they've made their case.
The House of Representatives constitutionally has the sole power to impeach.
The Senate has the sole power to then have the trial.
All right.
Now that that has been handed over to the U.S. Senate, we expect, well, it starts today, but today is only they're reading into the record the articles of impeachment.
And the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, presiding, will swear everybody in, fine.
Democrats say, we need witnesses.
Well, wait a minute.
You had all your impeachment information.
You impeached him.
So now these hack, hate Trump, psychotic Trump derangement syndrome managers get to present their case to the U.S. Senate.
And then the president will allow his team, I would not expect they spend a lot of time defending the president because we know there's nothing there.
But then they're saying, well, we need witnesses.
Well, that was the House's job.
Okay, but Ted Cruz says, well, if weak Republican senators insist on witnesses, we'll have one for one.
So if they want Pompeo, okay, well, that means we can bring in Joe Biden, quid pro quo, Joe.
If they want John Bolton, well, okay, give us Hunter.
If they, because what do we, in that case, we got a slam dunk quid pro quo.
You're not getting the billion unless you fire the prosecutor investigating my son.
That brings us to all this new evidence.
We got new evidence.
We're going through it.
We're sifting through it.
We're sending it in now.
Well, okay.
What did Adam Schiff put in the new evidence?
Oh, Hunter and Joe are totally innocent.
No, they're not.
What company would ever pay a zero experience consultant millions and millions of dollars?
Now, think logically about it.
I can't think of why a company would ever pay somebody with no background in oil, gas, energy, or Ukraine.
None.
Why did they pay him millions and millions of dollars?
The answer is obvious.
We all know the answer.
Why did Joe say you're not getting the billion unless you fire the prosecutor?
If you fire him, I'll give you the billion.
You got six hours.
Son of a bee, they fired him.
Why?
Because his son's being investigated.
So he's leveraging quid pro quoing the country of Ukraine to fire the prosecutor.
Adam Schiff in his new evidence says, oh, no, no, the prosecutor was corrupt.
Joe Biden and Hunter Biden did nothing wrong.
That's not true.
Do you believe in due process?
Do you believe in equal justice and equal application of our laws?
Because if you do, you've got to be willing to look at all the issues involving this.
Now you got Senate Democrats along with House Democrats.
They're scared to death that Hunter Biden, who had all the time in the world to prepare for his interview, the worst interview I've ever seen on GMA.
Why did they pay you?
You have any experience?
No.
No, none.
Why do you think they gave it to you?
I don't know.
Maybe because your father is the vice president in charge of Ukraine?
Probably so.
Well, it's amazing.
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What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and, frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
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All right, the president just opened up the cameras.
I think this is in the Oval Office.
I can't tell you.
Let's just dip in.
We're all about 2020.
You just wanted Joe Biden out.
What's your response?
Well, I don't know him.
I don't know Parnas other than I guess I had pictures taken, which I do with thousands of people, including people today that I didn't meet, but just met him.
I don't know him at all.
Don't know what he's about.
Don't know where he comes from.
Know nothing about him.
I can only tell you this thing is a big hoax.
It's a big hoax.
We call it, this is the current hoax.
We've gone through the Russian witch hunt.
We've gone through a lot of them from probably before I came down the escalator, but certainly since I came down the escalator, you take a look at what's happened.
And in the meantime, our country, it doesn't matter what he's doing.
He's trying to probably make a deal for him with you in Ukraine.
I don't even know who this man is other than, I guess he attended fundraisers, so I take a picture with him.
I'm in a room.
I take pictures with people.
I take thousands and thousands of pictures with people all the time.
Thousands during the course of a year.
And oftentimes I'll be taking a picture with somebody.
I'll say, I wonder what newspaper that one's going to appear in.
No, I don't know him.
Perhaps he's a fine man.
Perhaps he's not.
I know nothing about him.
He just wrote a lot of people more than just taking pictures of the person.
I don't know him.
I don't believe I've ever spoken to him.
I don't believe I've ever spoken to him.
I meet thousands of people.
I meet thousands and thousands of people as president.
I take thousands of pictures and I do it openly and I do it gladly.
And then if I have a picture where I'm standing with somebody at a fundraiser, like I believe I saw a picture with this man, but I don't know him.
I had never had a conversation that I remember with him.
Let me just tell you, you just have to take a look at the polls.
Quiet.
You just have to take a look at the pictures.
You just have to take a look at the polls.
You see, I don't need anybody's help.
We're doing phenomenally well.
The economy is the best it's ever been.
We have never had an economy like this in history.
We just made the two best trade deals in the history of our country.
We are doing well.
I don't need the help of a man that I never met before, other than perhaps taking a picture at a fundraiser or something if that's where we stand.
It doesn't sound like this was just about picking out Joe Biden.
Are you still going to Davos?
And if you are, let's message you on the phone.
I will probably be.
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What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
I'm Leon Nafok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco, Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yes, that's right.
Lock her up.
Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
You know, you would think the media mob would learn something.
Remember, Michael Avenatti is on day and night, night and day, day and night, night and day.
Never ends.
The conspiracy theories, the lies, the hoax.
Now they put all their hope in a guy by the name of Lev Parnes.
Let's see.
U.S. prosecutors, and I'm reading today, this would be the Southern District of New York, accused Lev Parnes of receiving and trying to hide $1 million in a payment from Russia.
Wow, this is who they are now, the mob and the Democrats are putting their faith, hope, and great, we got him in this time.
Just one month after he was charged with, oh, campaign finance violations.
That's the guy the president's saying.
Now, by the way, I have experienced this myself.
I've done photo lines.
You know, I'll say something.
How many clicks?
You know, 600.
He's staying there.
Hi, how are you?
Nice to meet you.
Hi, how are you?
Nice to meet you.
Hi, how are you?
And then all of a sudden, the picture shows up somewhere.
What are you doing with this person?
And I'm like, I don't know this person.
It's just, you know, you're trying to be nice and polite.
People want to take pictures.
You know, I'm glad to accommodate.
You go to a baseball game.
Same thing.
Can I take a picture?
Sure, take a picture.
I don't know who that person is.
Well, there's pictures of this guy with Trump.
Yeah, and there were probably 400 other people that got pictures with Trump that day.
And, but this is who they're putting their hope in.
This is it.
There's so many holes in this guy's story.
So much BS associated with this.
You know, like, for example, the guy makes comments to the New York Times.
Guess what?
Daily Caller, your great piece.
Well, I happened to conflict with CNN's report about the secret mission for Trump.
He said Trump followed my every move.
Trump doesn't follow anybody's every move.
I mean, it is a joke.
And then you got the same people, the New York Times.
Then you got MSDNC, Area 51, Roswell Rachel Maddows, big interview with the guy that, let's see, let me read you, was accused of receiving and trying to hide a million-dollar payment from Russia.
Oh, I thought that was a bad thing.
You know, this guy's, you know, he's got a multi-count federal indictment.
This is worse than Avenatti.
I mean, Avenatti was just arrested again.
I'm not trying to pile on the guy.
I mean, but Avenatti was front and center all over fake news, CNN, and MSDNZ.
Multi-count federal indictment, making false statements and falsifying records.
Oh, let's put our hope in him.
Let's see.
Now, this is what happens.
Well, all of a sudden you get arrested and you start trying to cooperate.
Well, what do you want to hear?
I'll tell you anything you want to hear.
Can I lower my sentence?
I'll work with you.
And this is why I have a problem with these plea deals.
You have cooperation agreements.
You know, they'll pretty much say what they want you to say.
If you say it the way they want you to say it, you get the lower deal.
It's not a good system because you're now incentivized.
They're offering you something of great benefit, your freedom, if you say this about this person or this about this person.
It's not a good system.
And despite of the media's attempts, the president just went through, you know, he's admitted that he was no friend of the president.
That's a big fact because now we say, well, I got pictures with the president.
Yeah, like a million other people.
But the mob and the media, they'll give anybody time to attack the president.
You know, I hate to say it.
You know, people that lie and then are convicted of lying become their most valuable asset and guest on these fake news channels.
Now, he's been directly contradicted.
His claims, you know, secondhand ramblings from a discredited source.
I have zero problem with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani investigating the obvious real corruption, which is Joe and Hunter, quid pro quo, Joe.
You're not getting a billion taxpayer dollars unless you fire the prosecutor who's been investigating his zero experience son who's being paid millions.
It's that simple.
But when the new evidence came out this week by the corrupt congenital liar who's compromised in this case, the leader of this mob against Trump, Adam Schiff, well, you know, he's compromised.
Everybody's compromised.
His indictment makes clear he was pushing for the ouster of Yovanovich.
They said I was pushing for the, I have never talked to a Ukrainian in my life.
You know, and I'm like sitting there, I don't know who this guy is.
I know that, and to my staff on TV's credit, they're like leaking emails from them saying, oh, Hannity wants to interview Shokin.
That was the fired prosecutor.
I wanted to hear his story.
He's what we do.
We break news.
And so members of my staff, I'm going to give them a bonus for this.
They were trying to book the interview, whatever.
And that's their job.
I don't make, I'm not a booker on my own show.
I don't have time to book my own show.
That's their job.
Anyway, the president did nothing wrong.
They're grasping at straws.
And, you know, you got fraud incorporated with Nancy Pelosi, Parnis under federal indictment.
Is he going to be a credible witness?
Pelosi replies, he'd be a credible witness if what he is testifying to relates to the issue at hand.
Oh, if he's going to attack the president.
Even the congenital liar compromise shift won't say whether he's a credible witness.
Anyway, let's go back to the president.
Are you going to build a Davos on the QRS message or something?
I will probably be going to Davos.
I've been invited.
We have tremendous world leaders, and we also have the great business leaders, and we want those business leaders all to come to the United States.
Some of the businesses left the United States because they were disgusted with what happened, and now they're all coming back.
We are booming.
Our country is the hottest country anywhere in the world.
There's nothing even close.
Every world leader sees me, they say, what have you done?
This is the most incredible thing that we've ever seen.
I understand the stock market today broke 29,000.
When I came in, it was a fraction of that.
It was a number that, frankly, would have gone, and it would have been cut in half had the other person or the other party won.
The number would have been cut in half.
We are doing so well, and I want to get more.
We have tremendous room for growth in our country in terms of the economy.
We have tremendous, powerful room for growth.
So I'm going to be going to Davos.
I'll be meeting the biggest business leaders in the world, getting them to come here.
I'll also be meeting with foreign leaders.
We talked about prayer and things today.
What's your message to the millions of Catholics in the United States?
Why should they vote for you in the upcoming election happen?
Well, I have a great relationship with Catholics.
I've done so much for Catholics.
You take a look at the abortion issue.
You take a look at many of the issues in Mexico City.
You take a look at so many of the different issues.
My relationship with Catholics and the Catholic Church has been very, very good, as you would know very well.
That's Jeff Cook.
Mr. President, Rudy Giuliani wrote a letter to Zelensky requesting a private meeting, and he said it was in his capacity as private counsel to President Donald J. Trump.
This was before the inauguration.
Did you authorize him to write that letter?
And what was your understanding of what the meeting was supposed to be about?
Well, I don't know anything about the letter, but certainly Rudy is one of the great crime fighters in the history of our country.
He's certainly probably the best over the last 50 years.
He was also the greatest mayor in the history of the city of New York.
I think Rudy was truly an outstanding mayor.
It's an example.
His endorsement of Bloomberg got Bloomberg elected.
He wouldn't have even been mayor.
But Rudy was the greatest crime fighter, and Rudy is somebody that, frankly, having him on my side was a great honor for me, and it has been a great honor for me.
Rudy Giuliani, Rudy Giuliani did a phenomenal job over a long period of time in fighting crime.
And frankly, he's a very legitimate guy, a very straight shooter.
I didn't know about a specific letter, but if he wrote a letter, it wouldn't have been a big deal.
Rudy was always in.
It was very important to Rudy that I be a great president, and that's okay with me.
It was very important to a lot of people because our country was going to hell, and now our country's on a path that we haven't seen in decades and decades.
We've never done better.
Go ahead.
No, no, not your best.
There's a trial starting next week.
What's your view on how long it should take?
Well, I think it should go very quickly.
It's a hoax.
It's a hoax.
Everybody knows that.
It's a complete hoax.
The whole thing with Ukraine.
So you have a perfect phone call.
This is a call, fortunately, it was actually two phone calls.
You people don't report that.
There were two calls.
They were both perfect calls.
In fact, probably among the nicest calls I've ever met, made to foreign leaders.
Now, so you have these perfect calls, and everybody says it now.
Before they knew they were so good, because fortunately they were transcribed, you had other people saying terrible things about the calls.
You had a fake whistleblower that wrote a report that bore no relationship to what was said.
Everything was false.
You have now the Ukrainian president and the foreign minister of Ukraine saying there was nothing done wrong.
In fact, they said there was absolutely no pressure whatsoever.
Everything was perfect, and they impeach.
It's totally partisan.
We had 195 to nothing Republican votes.
I guess we got a Democrat actually came over to the Republican side.
We had 195 to nothing.
This is a hoax.
It's a shame.
I did the biggest deal ever done in the history of our country yesterday in terms of trade and probably other things too, if you think about it.
The deal with China.
And that was the second story to a total hoax.
Today we just had passed the U.S. MCA.
It's going to take the place of NAFTA, which was a terrible deal.
And the USMCA will probably be second to this witch hunt hoax, which hopefully everyone knows is not going anywhere.
There was nothing done wrong.
This was a perfect phone call.
Think of it.
The president of the United States, who's led the greatest growth, the greatest, the greatest economic revival of any country anywhere in the world is the United States, as big as it is.
We're doing better than any other country by far.
Our unemployment numbers are the best they've been in over 50 years.
African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, unemployment, the best in the history of our country.
And I've got to go through a hoax, a phony hoax, put out by the Democrats so they can try and win an election that hopefully they're not going to win.
It was put out for purposes of winning an election.
Our country is doing great.
Our country has never done better.
So they figured the only thing they can do, they failed on the Mueller report.
That was a bomb.
After two and a half years, they failed.
Now they said, what can we do?
And they pick up a phone call that was perfect.
But they didn't know it was perfect.
They only found out later.
They made up a phone call.
What they did, look, what they did, you have a corrupt person.
He's a corrupt politician named Adam Schiff.
And he made up a phone call.
He went out.
You'll hear about this as you grow older.
He went out and he said things that he said quid pro quo eight times.
It was no times.
He said, don't call me.
I'll call you.
That's a mob statement.
I never said that.
Fortunately, I released a transcript of the call.
The transcript was perfectly accurate.
And now everybody agrees because it went through a lot and they said, well, could you add one word here?
Our lieutenant colonel said, well, I think they should add.
They added the word.
Everything, everyone agrees the transcript is perfecto, done by total professionals, right?
But I released that after they had done these fraudulent acts.
And you get impeached on this.
We have the greatest economy in the history of our country.
We have the highest job numbers today.
It was just announced.
We have more people working in the United States than ever before in the history of our country, almost 160 million people.
We're doing an incredible job.
And for absolutely no reason.
And for absolutely no reason.
I got a page.
It's a disgrace and it's a hoax.
Thank you very much, everybody.
All right, that was the president of the Oval Office.
I mean, it is spectacular to watch this epic fail.
The DOJ flat out rejecting what they're calling 100% false lies about the Department of Justice.
I mean, you got a guy now being brought up on serious charges.
And this is the amazing part.
The same networks that loved Avenati, loved Avenatta.
Everything Avenati said.
Leading up to, of course, the woman that he was representing in the case of Kavanaugh.
Loved him.
I'll find out tonight and tell you how many times.
Then they ignore everything that we know about this guy.
A million-dollar payment that he tried to apparently hide, according to prosecutors, a month before he was charged with campaign finance violations.
A guy under a multi-federal indictment.
Let's make him our star.
You know, truth doesn't matter.
As long as he bludgeons Trump, we're good.
You know, well, if you face an indictment, does the guy have some type of incentive to maybe tell a story that he thinks might get him out of trouble?
Of course he does.
You know, secondhand ramblings, what is now a discredited source.
An indictment makes clear he was pushing for the ouster of Yovanovich at the behest of a Ukrainian official.
Okay, no actual first-hand knowledge of anything involving the president.
The president just said that.
Well, he might have a picture, but I take thousands of pictures every day.
You know what?
I've been in the White House.
I've seen it.
I've been to events.
I've seen it.
So this, now we're going to go here.
And then the conflict and statements, the New York Times versus CNN Daily Caller pointed out that his comments to the New York Times Wednesday appear to be in direct conflict with what CNN reported about Parnas in November.
He told the Times he didn't speak directly with President Trump about his Ukraine-related efforts.
But CNN reported November 16 that, in fact, associates of Parnas say he claimed he did speak privately with Trump in late 2018.
Whoopsie Daisy, what do you do when there's a conflict and a guy's being brought up in charges that involve corruption and lying?
I think one of the more interesting charges against him is, you know, this guy, apparently, that has so much credibility, you know, that he's admitted, you know, he's admitted he was no friend of the president.
You know, he claims that he has no actual firsthand knowledge of the president's thinking or actions, but he followed me everywhere.
Okay, it's not adding up.
But Pelosi wants him as a witness.
Well, you already impeached the president anyway, so I'm sure your case is so strong.
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What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith political warfare and, frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
I'm Leon Nafok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco, Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yes, that's right.
Lock her up.
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CNN reported yesterday that, and Senator Sanders, Senator Warren confirmed in a statement that in 2018, you told her that you did not believe that a woman could win the election.
Why did you say that?
Well, as a matter of fact, I didn't say it.
Senator Sanders, I do want to be clear here.
You're saying that you never told Senator Warren that a woman could not win the election.
That is correct.
Senator Warren, what did you think when Senator Sanders told you a woman could not win the election?
I disagreed.
Bernie is my friend, and I am not here to try to fight with Bernie.
When it comes to health care, you can do it in two moves.
Of course, my plan costs $1.5 trillion over a decade.
No small sum, but not the 20, 30, 40 that we're hearing about from the others.
I think you called me a liar on national TV.
I think you called me a liar on national TV.
Let's not do it right now.
You want to have that discussion?
We'll have that discussion.
You called Neil.
You told me.
All right, let's not do it right now.
I don't want to get Neil.
I just want to say hi, Bernie.
Yeah, good.
Okay.
I think it's a mistake to pull out the straw, the small number of troops.
The reason he made the strike was because our embassies are about to be bombed.
I would not meet with absent preconditions instead of poking our eye and poking our finger in the eye of all our friends by stealing our intellectual property, their corporate state system to our significant disadvantage of anyone running up here.
It's reduced the cost of drug prices.
It sets up, allows all the drug companies, excuse me, it allows you to Medicare to negotiate what should be fair universal infant care.
But here's the deal: over 500 miles a day, excuse me, 250 miles a day.
There's no choice but for Nancy Pelosi that I think about the American people.
I headed up the Recovery Act, which put more money into moving away from fossil fuels to enter to solar and wind energy.
The vast majority believe their children will never reach the stage that they've reached an economic security.
All right, hour two, Sean Hannity's show.
We're not even trying hard.
I mean, this bumbling, this babbling, this incoherence, it's getting worse every single day with sleepy, creepy, quid pro quo Joe.
And I know everybody's circling the wagons.
The Democrats, oh, we can't have Hunter.
Zero experience, Hunter, paid millions.
Oh, we can't bring that up in the impeachment trial.
It's unbelievable.
And then I think the other big moment that took place is you got the two, you know, radical New Green Deal, Medicare for All socialist, leftist, statist that can't do simple math because you can't spend $94 trillion on a new Green Deal in 10 years and $52 trillion on Medicare for All in 10 years when the country only takes in $4 trillion every year.
That's only $40.
You don't even meet, you can't pay for one of those programs.
It doesn't pay a penny for national defense.
Anyway, ups downs, what it means for the general election, the impeachment aspect of this too.
We welcome back to the program our pollsters, John McLaughlin, pollster, McLaughlin Associates, Matt Towery, now officially, due to my influence, out of retirement, syndicated columnist, attorney, pollster, here to discuss all of this.
I listened to Biden.
Let's start with that.
I mean, he's incoherent, and this is just one debate.
I don't think this bodes well for the Democrats, but, you know, because when you look at the real clear politics average, I mean, he tends to have a lead still, not a lot, but a lead in these primary matches, maybe not Iowa.
So it would give him an advantage, right, Matt?
Yeah, you know, I'm beginning to think this is a sail-and-witch trial situation for the Democrats in the sense that you remember the old way that took place, that they would put you underwater, and if you drown, you were innocent, and if you were guilty, they burned you at the stake.
Well, what the Democrats have going on right now is you either get Bernie or you get Elizabeth Warren, who is so far left field that she scares a lot of, or he both, they both scare way too many Democrats who would normally vote Democratic and a lot of independents, or you get Joe Biden, who simply is not up to the task.
I mean, it's sad to say this.
I don't ever want to talk about anybody's, you know, where they are in life, but I don't think he's up to being able to debate Donald Trump.
He doesn't seem like he can keep up with the issues, and it's becoming increasingly obvious.
But he does have an appeal in these southern states to the African-American voters who don't have anywhere to go right now.
So he's going to do well.
He's going to do well in several of these primaries, South Carolina and others, on Super Tuesday.
So they either get a liberal who's too far to the left, or they get a liberal in the form of Biden who simply can't articulate.
Your thoughts, John McLaughlin.
I think what you're seeing is a panicking among the Democrat establishment.
Because remember, the real goal for the establishment in Washington and for the Democrats is to beat Donald Trump.
And the rise of Bernie Sanders in the Iowa polls and the New Hampshire polls has caused the Democrat establishment to panic.
And they know Biden's not up to it.
The clips you played, you could play lots of clips where he's stuttering.
He doesn't know what the question is.
He's not only gaff-prone, but he's just not up to it.
But on the other hand, with Sanders, he represents policies that would cause a lot of Democrats to abandon their own nominee and go to President Trump because the record here, what you're looking at is President Trump, the Senate just passed the USMCA deal today, the new trade deal with Canada and Mexico that no one said that could be done.
The China deal was signed yesterday that no one said could be done.
The economy is growing.
America is strong.
I mean, he stopped 40 years ago, the Iranians took over our embassy and took Americans hostage.
And Donald Trump stopped that from happening with the same bad actors, wanted to come to our bad dag embassy, and he stopped it just by killing, in effect, the leader of that terrorist attack.
So the Democrats are a real panic because they know Trump is a lot stronger than they expect, and they have no candidate to put them back in power.
So Bernie's going up in the polls, and we'll see if he can pull it off in Iowa and he can pull it off in New Hampshire.
But that would cause real panic in the Democratic establishment, which is why they've got Bloomberg out there as a backup.
Well, you had thought that maybe Deval Patrick was going to be the backup, Matt Towery.
I mean, I don't even know if he is even still in the race, or did he bail out?
Because I never seen him.
You know, I always like to say I have a pretty good crystal ball prediction, but I may have totally failed on that one, Sean.
Listen, I actually made sense to me, and I knew that the Obama team, a lot of members of the Obama team were supporting him.
Does Michael Bloomberg now take over the role of, well, I'll come in after Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and I'll make a big push and spend.
He's hired over a thousand people, and he's spending hundreds of millions of dollars now on ads.
His problem is, and I think John would agree, that the states that he could possibly do well in either come too late or they have proportional delegates like California, where he can't really win a substantial number of delegates on his own.
He's a poll that just came out here in Florida.
He's not really even scratching here.
So the real issue, I think, is that this guy is going to be too late to the game.
And unless you have a brokered convention, which is, you know, everybody always talks about it, but we never see it.
I don't see Bloomberg making it.
The Duval Patrick matter, it would take a direct intervention by someone as a proxy of Barack Obama to push him forward and to say, we need this guy because these other people were failed candidates.
And that would have to occur around the South Carolina primary.
We're running out of time for that to happen.
Let's talk about the impeachment in the background.
There was a really good cover on the New York Post today, Signs of the Times, the ever-so prayerful and serious and sober Nancy Pelosi doing her duty, you know, using a dozen gold pens and handing them out and smiling and taking pictures, you know, inking the impeachment nonsense.
Meanwhile, the president lands a trade deal that no one's ever been able to pull off with China because his tariffs now have set the Chinese economy down to a 59-year low.
And this is going to benefit farmers, the service industry, the energy industry, manufacturers, car industry, just $220 billion in two years, and intellectual property theft.
And on top of that, the president still has his tariffs in place, John McLaughlin.
Well, I tell you what, when you look at the record of success, the Democrat establishment is right to be in panic.
And Deval Patrick's not going to make it.
But the idea of Donald Trump with impeachment where two-thirds of the voters have known that this is a waste of time.
We asked the question in October.
It's on our website.
Two-thirds of all voters think impeachment is a waste of time.
We re-asked it in December on December 18th after the hearings.
67% of all voters said this is a waste of time.
It's going nowhere.
And the Democrats have exposed themselves that this is really political to stop Donald Trump from being reelected.
So they're really upping the ante here because now you're taking the president into the Senate for a trial where the Republicans, if the Democrats want to call witnesses, okay, get Hunter Biden in there.
Get Joe Biden in there.
Get the whistleblower in there.
I mean, if they really want to have a trial, they're going to expose to the American people what a political farce this is and how it's when people outside the beltway care about their health care, care about their jobs, care about paying their bills every day.
This is what the Democrats in Washington are wasting their time on.
All right, quick break more with our pollsters.
Matt Towery and John McLaughlin.
We have an awesome handed tonight, 9 Eastern.
Buddy Mike Lindell.
Wow, what a story he has to tell us.
That's next.
We'll get to that.
And your calls coming up straight ahead in the next half hour, 800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
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We've been in political media for a long time.
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That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
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What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and, frankly, bullshit.
We killed the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
I'm Leon Nafok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco, Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yes, that's right.
Lock her up.
Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
And as we continue with our pollsters, John McLaughlin and Matt Towery are with us.
All right, so now I think there's a big case to be made.
And, you know, the China deal, that was a big promise made and kept.
The president got a great court ruling.
He can redirect or appropriate funds from the Defense Department.
He's got $7.2 billion.
They expect 400 miles of wall to be built.
We now have, for the first time in American history, in 75 years at least, we're energy independent, a net exporter of energy.
That's great for the American economy.
The jobs that will be created based on the China deal, trade deal, one with Japan.
Now we have it with Canada, Mexico, Western European allies.
Biggest tax cut, check, in history.
Ending burdensome regulation, check, nobody's cut more regulation than him.
The promise on originalist justices, check, that's kept.
Not getting into foreign entanglements, you can check there too.
And building up our military and beating the caliphate, El Baghdadi, and Solomani.
I would say that's a pretty darn good track record.
What have the Democrats done the last three years?
Matt Towery, because I can't really think of anything except hate Trump.
Well, that's all they've done.
And to your point, the president has so many accomplishments, and they feel like no one realizes it.
But what people really don't realize and they're not paying attention to is all this impeachment nonsense.
Give you an anecdotal, and then I'll give you some polling information.
The anecdotal is this.
The other night on Jeopardy, these are smart people on Jeopardy, right?
It's why they're there.
They show a picture of Adam Schiff.
They can't identify that.
No, no, no.
No idea who he was.
Right.
They don't know who he is.
So if they don't know who he is, the average American could care less about this.
See, but that bothers me.
You might like that.
I don't like that.
Well, but the guy's lied to us for three solid years.
He's a congenital liar and he's compromised and he's corrupt.
I mean, I wish they did.
The only reason I like it is this, Sean.
This impeachment is going to be the undoing of the Democratic Party in this country.
He's sucking all of the energy out of their own primaries and caucuses.
This thing is going to be a complete nothing burger.
No one's going to care about it.
Then you're going to have House seats.
I promise you, you're going to find House seats that they think are safe right now.
That when the last few weeks of the election, just like when Newt Kingrich took over in 1994, we didn't know that Newt was going to win until the last 72 hours that the Republicans, you know, that you were right with it.
And I'm telling you, we're going to see that same thing happen this time.
Trump is going to win substantially, and you're going to see a chance of the House of Representatives going back to the Republican Party.
Not by a big margin, but I think it could happen.
I think it could happen too.
Although I will say the Senate is, you know, this is a tough year for Republicans.
But I think it's possible.
What do you think, John McLaughlin?
Well, this will help us hold the Senate because the seats that are in play is more of an advantage to the Democrats.
But I fully agree with you on that.
The 30 Democrats that are sitting in seats that Donald Trump won in 2016 are in big trouble because when voters ask them, what did you vote for?
They're going to say, we tried to impeach your president and we have no accomplishments.
And when you think about that, people like there's a guy out in Illinois 14, Jim Oberweiss.
He's running an ad attacking Lauren Underwood for voting for impeachment and wasting the country's time and money.
And that's what everybody believes.
And the fact that Democrats was amazing in December, they were holding weeks of hearings that people could watch and see the news from, and they saw nothing there.
And all of a sudden, independents, particularly in battleground states, were turning against impeachment and saying this is a waste of time and money.
So there's a big, there's a big incumbent position on the Democrats where they need to prove what this is about.
And it looks totally political and it looks totally, you know, that by the way, even though they don't know Schiff, they know Nancy Pelosi and Nancy Pelosi, who's, by the way, if she could get Trump and Pence, she'd be president because that's the Constitution.
People don't want that.
They don't like her.
And I think that the Democrats are really cooking their own goose in this.
I agree with you both on that.
All right, to our pollsters throughout 2020, Matt Towery and John McLaughlin, thank you both.
800-941 Sean, you want to be a part of the program?
We'll continue.
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And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
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That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
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When I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
I'm Leon Nayfak from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yes, that's right.
Lock her up.
Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump.
We are looking at the possibility that the president of the United States and those around him during an election campaign colluded with a hostile foreign power to undermine the basis of our democracy.
This is evidence of willingness to commit collusion.
It does look like collusion.
It does look like he's listening to Putin more than he is American intelligence.
So this picture that the president is so desperate to avoid, this picture of collusion begins to fill in.
The president sees the walls closing in and is lashing out.
He's desperate.
He's obviously flailing around because he feels the walls closing in.
He is a hate monger, and he is really bringing fascism to America.
Paul Manafort, the president's former campaign chairman, paid secret visits, multiple ones, to Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
What a great case officer Vladimir Putin is.
He knows how to handle an asset, and that's what he's doing with the president.
All right, all of what you just heard there was fake news from fake news CNN.
25 now till the top of the hour, 800-941.
Sean, you want to be a part of the program?
This is CNN.
Fake news.
So CNN has this, well, he's really like a stalker.
He's Jeff Zucker.
Jeff Zucker is the president of CNN Fakes News, hates Trump.
And we now know from Project Veritas gives directions about how they must go against Trump every second, every minute, every hour of every day.
Now, it's not working for them.
And if they're not attacking Trump, those few extra minutes is always, you know, attacking Fox News because we're successful and we actually have a real audience.
And you got this guy that's supposed to be their media critic.
He's Jeff Zucker's stenographer.
He's got an assistant, apparently, named Oliver.
Oliver thinks that I know who Oliver is.
I really, twice this guy comes up.
Hey, it's me.
I'm like, do I know you?
Who are you?
Oliver.
I'm like, Oliver who?
Oliver, CNN.
And I'm like, fake news.
You know, and Humpty Dumpty, this poor guy, the assisting guy, the poor guy's major goal in life is to be Humpty Dumpty.
And Humpty Dumpty apparently doesn't like that I call him Humpty Dumpty.
You know, I really do it because he's just a liar.
He's a propagandist.
He's, you know, everything we just played was all fake.
And they don't ever report the president's success over there.
They don't ever talk about how Donald Trump is doing so well.
They never talk about the dirty dossier.
They missed the biggest abuse of power corruption scandal ever.
So what's funny is, I'm reading a story today.
Apparently, HBO is teaming up with Humpty Dumpty.
I don't know if his assistant is involved, Oliver, whoever Oliver is.
Like Oliver, please, sir, I won't, Samo.
I know that Oliver better than whoever this Oliver CNN guy is.
Anyway, it's like, rant, rant, rant, rant, rant.
You know, it's like constant stalking, but they're going to do a documentary about the rise of fake news.
I mean, this is the greatest irony ever.
But they never talk about their fake news.
Now, apparently, this stenographer Humpty Dumpty does a show on unreliable liberal sources, it's called, on fake news, CNN on the weekend.
The show gets like a 0.7, which means nobody's watching.
And it just is amazing that, and all it will be is an attack, a never-ending attack on anybody that's a conservative that actually told the truth.
We were right about the Clinton email and the Clinton email server.
We were right about Bleach Pit.
We were right about the unverifiable dirty dossier, premeditated fraud on the FISA court, illegal surveillance of the president, spying, to use the words of Attorney General Barr, Inspector General's report, everything that we had reported for three years.
I'm very proud of our investigative team together.
We got to the truth.
We were over the target.
Pitch perfect.
Every fact accurate.
And you went, so they put this new guy out.
Well, you got new evidence.
But they, okay, what is it?
Oh, Trump threatened to withhold money from Ukraine.
Well, here's what we know.
We know that Donald Trump never talked about aid in the phone call with President Zelensky.
We know President Zelensky didn't think that he was pressured.
We know that they didn't know that aid had been withheld.
The president did say, we're worried about corruption in your country.
We are worried that you're surrounding yourself with bad people.
There were five high-level meetings with Zelensky and Americans, including with Mike Pence.
How many times did they talk about aid?
Not once.
This is after the phone call.
Every witness that they called was either a hearsay witness or an opinion witness.
We know that too.
You know, so now we're going to count on a guy that is being charged by pretty serious.
I wouldn't want to be chased down by the Southern District of New York.
They're really good.
They have a good reputation of being hard-nosed, kick-ass prosecutors.
He implicated the Attorney General.
The Attorney General said, no, none of what you are saying is true about the department, just flat out rejected it as an outright lie, absolutely 100% false.
Well, now liberals have told us for years that if you use enhanced interrogations, probably the guy you're interrogating is going to say anything, just anything you need to hear, so it ends.
Well, wouldn't that impact, for example, if you're facing jail time?
Do you think that maybe you might say whatever they want you to say to lower your jail term?
Does that not taint the big interviews of the DNC state-run television for the Democratic Party?
Trump knew exactly what was going on.
No, I don't think Donald Trump knew any of what was going on.
He alleged Pence skipped Zelensky's inauguration because of pressure.
Okay, it's a nice conspiracy theory.
Prove it.
Asserting Ukraine campaign was never about corruption, strictly about Barisma.
I've said the whole time, well, a president takes an oath to faithfully execute the laws of the land.
We have Quid and Pro and Quo and Joe on tape bragging.
You're not getting the billion taxpayer dollars unless you fire this prosecutor.
This prosecutor turns out to be the one that we now know Biden knew was investigating his zero experienced son.
Now, I know that Hunter Biden tops the Senate GOP and Pete Witness wish list.
I think they're right.
Now, if you look at the new evidence that the congenital liar sent out the other night, they exonerate the Bidens.
No, they've done nothing wrong.
And then they take this spectacular leap and accuse the prosecutor that was fired because of Quid Pro quo Joe.
They accuse him of being corrupt.
Now, why would a prosecutor be wrong in investigating zero experience Hunter?
Why would any company pay somebody who has zero experience, millions and millions of dollars?
Ask yourself that question.
Well, if you have no experience and you're a company and the job of your company, you have a fiduciary responsibility to your shareholders and to your employees to make money for the company.
So the media just goes along with the big lie.
They went along with the hoax.
They went along with all the conspiracy theories.
They ignored the biggest abuse of power scandal, corruption scandal in history.
They did all that.
Now they're just pushed.
We can't talk about Joe or Hunter.
Why not?
If you want a real quid and a pro and a quo, you have to.
It is so spectacular in the level of lying in breathtaking hypocrisy.
All right, let's get to our phones here as we now say hi to Mike, a very important state we're going to be paying a lot of attention to in 292 days, the Buckeye State, Ohio.
No Republicans made it to the White House without Ohio.
How are you, sir?
I'm great, Sean.
How are you?
I'm good.
What's going on?
By the way, Ohio will definitely go for Trump, especially down here in Cincinnati, Billy Cunningham country.
So here's my point.
Sean Hannity, you're a great American.
I want a full report.
Pretty good, right?
You sound like him.
You sound exactly like him.
He's a great guy.
I run into him every now and then.
Here's my point.
I know time is limited.
Just as a preface or a prelude to my main point, if a society or any population is to succeed, people have to procreate and replace ourselves.
And we have to replace ourselves with children who are net contributors to society and not net drains on society.
So here's my main point.
I hope and pray to God Almighty, and I think it's going to happen anyway, that Bernie Sanders gets the nod and becomes the nominee.
Because when it comes to the debates between he and Trump, or Trump's program and Bernie's program, one is capitalist, one is socialist overall, it will be an educational opportunity like we've never seen because Bernie's, all Bernie's little snowflakes by the tens and millions will be watching.
So it's a great time if the Republicans and Trump can just get their act together and turn it into a fun show, which we know it will be, but a teaching moment to teach these kids who will be listening what a horror show it is when most people are net drains on society, i.e. socialism, and versus net contributors to society.
So last thing, there's 12 states that have closed primaries.
I have a good friend in Maryland, Randy, is his name.
He's a staunch Trump supporter, but he's registered as a Democrat.
And there are tens and thousands and hundreds of thousands of them in the closed primary states.
And if you closed primary state registered Democrats who are really Republicans will simply cast your vote for Bernie in the primaries, that will help get them there.
And then it'll be a slaughter like no other slaughter.
Bernie and the Democrats will lose by McGovern-like or Mondale-like proportions, maybe even bigger this time.
But it's all about a good chance to educate the population.
I'll shut up now and let you say what you say or hang up or just listen.
All right, I appreciate the call.
Thank you for being with us.
My answer to you is very simple.
I think we can beat all of these guys.
I think if America, when push comes to shove, I hope the American people pay very, very close attention in this election.
Because if we don't, we're going to get the government we deserve.
And unfortunately, what they are promising may sound great to some of you.
New Green Deal, $94 trillion.
We're going to invest and we're going to get rid of the lifeblood of our economy, which is what?
Oil and gas.
And we're going to get rid of the combustion engine and we're going to, you know, everything's going to be free.
May sound great to some people.
It is a promise that is mathematically impossible to achieve.
All right, as we continue, back to our busy phones.
We say, hi, another important state we'll be watching in 292 days, Flash in Florida next.
Good afternoon.
How are you?
I'm good, sir.
How are you?
I'm good.
What's going on?
I'm doing fantastic.
First of all, let me say you're an American patriot, and we really appreciate your service you do for this country.
It's hard to get the truth out these days.
It's not that hard for us because you give me this microphone, you give me a camera every night, and that's what my job is.
I'm working hard, I promise.
Yes, you are.
I appreciate every minute of it.
You know, you get so inundated with things, the hatred coming out of the left, and you always hear people say, why are they doing this?
Well, because they hate Trump, because they hate Trump.
Well, finally had to stop and guys trying to figure out why they hate him so much.
And I got to looking.
And something has been totally unreported.
You've kind of touched around the fringes and some of the other shows a little bit, but talking about the people leaving states, you know, moving to other low-tax states.
But what they don't see there, what they're not talking about, is the genius of Donald Trump's tax plan.
He put a friggin termite in his tax plan because these liberal Democrats have been constructing these towns and states and jurisdictions for hundreds of years, and people were just buying into the liberal policies because it wasn't costing them anything.
They didn't see the cost of it financially, so they never questioned what the policies these nutballs were enacting were all about.
Well, when Trump removed that federal income tax deduction for the laymen out there, the government needs, let's say, $100 a year from the country.
That's $2 a state.
Well, California, New York, New Jersey, and Illinois were able to deduct the amount they were supposed to send to government because of their high in their state.
I'm paying more in taxes because of the Trump tax plan.
You want to know why?
Yes.
Because you can't deduct it.
I don't have the deduction of the 10% income tax in New York State, the 3% city income tax, the second highest property tax county in the country.
I don't have that.
But I will tell you this.
It is the right, fair thing to do.
Why would states be rewarded for hiring, electing these liberal politicians that tax them to death?
They get a benefit that nobody else got.
And let me tell you something.
That's fundamentally unfair.
That is fundamentally unjust.
I didn't deserve that cut when people in Florida and Texas that were smart enough to elect good governors and don't have state income taxes, they don't get that same benefit that I was getting.
So I'm admitting it.
I need to get out of New York.
There's your answer.
Anyway, it won't let me.
That's the hard part.
No, you got to be in New York for your show.
I'm like, I don't need to be in New York.
I can do my show from anywhere.
There's microphones everywhere.
Well, TV, we need you in the studio.
I don't need to be in New York for the studio.
I can build a studio anywhere.
Stay right here for our final news roundup and information overload.
This guy with the pillows on Fox.
My pillow guy, Mike Lindell.
He is the greatest.
I have never seen so many ads for so long.
And you know what?
I think he gets them for like peanuts.
First of all, he does make a great product, great pillows.
I actually used him, believe it or not.
But he's been a supporter from day one.
And I said, you know, I want you to be my ad buyer because I guarantee you he makes great deals.
So I haven't asked him yet, will you be my ad buyer, please, Mike?
The My Pillow Guy, thank you.
And he's been with us right from the beginning, along with a lot of other folks, actually.
All right, that was the president when he was in Minnesota with one of his rallies.
Glad you're with us.
News Roundup information overload.
Now, you've heard me talking now about for a long time about all the great products.
When you go to mypillow.com, Sean Hannity Square, and they're the best products.
And they work for me.
They work.
And I've gotten to know Mike Lindell.
And he's in studio with us.
This is not an infomercial about his pillows.
They are the best.
Always go to the Sean Hannity Square because you're going to save money and you're going to get twice the value.
Just a hint.
But I've gotten to know Mike Lindell.
I consider you a friend.
Absolutely.
You now employ, what, 1,600 people in Minnesota.
Yep.
Yeah.
And now, what is more fascinating about you is what you do outside of work.
Because you've gotten pretty wealthy, I would imagine, at this point.
You have a new book, and I've never seen a cover like this.
We'll put it up on Hannity.com.
It's a hologram on both sides.
And I don't know how you do this.
This is your mug shot, the ugly one, right?
Well, that's for the day the drug dealers did an intervention.
I wasn't in jail that day.
Okay, you look terrible.
Yep.
Okay.
And then the happy Mike Lindell, from crack addict to CEO.
What are the odds?
That's the name of the book.
From crack addict to CEO.
On the back of the book, there's a hologram.
You speaking, and this is you giving your testimony because you now are devoting a very big portion of your life telling a story that is unbelievable because people get so hooked into these drugs and you were there.
You hit bottom.
Absolutely.
That they never come back.
We're losing every single week 300 people a week in this country because of opioids.
So I want you to tell us, I mean, you tell a story in the beginning of the book.
There's a great foreword by Dr. Ben Carson, which I liked.
And I thought that was great.
I like with the president.
You talk about the day in February of 2007 in your prologue when your family business, you're renting it out of a shed on the verge of a hostile takeover, about to lose your house.
Your bank accounts were down to nothing.
You had been married to your wife.
Today is the 11th anniversary of you being sober, right?
Yep, January 16, 2009.
All the hidden stuff you write, alcohol, drugs were taken their told.
You owed your bookie.
You were a big gambler.
$45,000.
That's not easy to pay off when you're addicted to crack.
That's right.
How did you do it?
God, faith, Jesus.
I mean, but what happened when I, you know, I believe all addictions come from childhood.
You know, my parents divorced when I was seven, back when divorces weren't common.
And I got put into a new school.
I couldn't, I was shy then.
I just, I would either show off like, hey, watch me jump out of a bus window, you know, do things like that to try and fit in.
And I couldn't talk to people.
I was very kind of almost like introverted, but I look back now and it was, you know, my self-worth inside.
Things that happen in childhood are trauma.
Our veterans, when you get trauma, any trauma can manifest into pain and unworthiness.
And then you take drugs and stuff to mask the pain.
And that's what I did.
Got into cocaine first, then crack.
Start with the cocaine, 1990.
No, cocaine was about 1983, 84.
Okay.
And you started out.
It was a fun drug, I guess, to you.
You thought?
Well, I could talk to people then.
I could take it.
I felt good.
I felt, you know, I didn't feel like, you know, I could talk to people and not feel, you can't get rejected if you don't talk to people.
So then we took cocaine.
Well, I could talk to people and I felt like I was on top of the world.
And I was a very functioning cocaine addict for 20 years.
I mean, all the way through the 80s.
Almost unheard of.
I had family, raised a family.
I had successful business.
I was always an entrepreneur.
I had lunch wagon, carpet cleaning business, but I had bars, I had bars and restaurants, not good for an addict.
Right.
And how much were you spending on cocaine a day?
Oh, back then, you know, maybe $100.
But back then, I had a huge gambling habit.
I bet on football.
I don't bookies, you know, big money.
They'd come and they'd show up on Tuesday to get their money, and it wasn't fun.
How did you not get your legs broken?
Well, I ended up paying them.
And, you know, there's, you'll see, I'll have to read a lot of that in the book.
I was a lot of, you know, paying them.
I had a guy that would, you know, they'd give me time, some time to pay.
But I would never learn my lesson on that.
It was, it was almost, I would just keep doing it over and over.
But when it all switched to crack in the early 2000s, that's a different drug than cocaine.
It was just so, you get so paranoid and the stuff that goes with it.
But at this, about the same time, I invented my pillow.
God gave me this dream of my pillow so I could put all my, everything I had into this pillow.
And it gave me good self-worth.
When I sold it, I was turned down everywhere.
When I sold it at home shows and fairs, I could talk to people where I couldn't talk to them otherwise because they come back the next day and tell me how it helped him so much.
So it helped him so much.
It made me feel good inside.
It wasn't about the money.
And that, you know, I went on for all through that.
You got a divorce.
Everything happened.
Like you say, in 2007, I lost everything.
I lost my wife at the time left because she couldn't take more.
These guys were taking it.
We were labeling the pillows in our living room.
And we got into two.
So we got a divorce 20 years.
And these guys were taking the company.
In 2008, though, that's when the drug dealers, I was up 14 days and had a bender, they call it.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, a big one.
Yeah, that's a big one.
When you say you were up, you were awake for 14 years.
A week.
A week, yes.
And doing crack.
I was downtown Minneapolis.
I was hiding out.
I actually had a warrant out for my arrest for a driving thing.
And if I got put in jail there, I was avoiding that because I was going to be found innocent.
So I was hiding out.
But I was up 14 days.
I come out of the room and they're all three standing there and there was an intervention.
And I go, what are you guys doing?
They go, you've been up for 14 days.
We're shutting you off.
And I went down to the intervention by drug dealers.
Unbelievable.
Right.
And the two of them left.
And the one guy stayed there and I waited him out until he fell asleep.
I was almost out of crack.
And then they did run out and he fell asleep.
I hit the streets in Minneapolis.
Isn't that amazing?
You wouldn't think drug addicts would want you to stop doing drugs, but you got lucky, really.
Right.
Well, here's what happened.
I went down the streets for an hour.
I couldn't find any crack.
Nobody would sell it to me.
I'm offering $20 for a $5 rock.
I came back upstairs and here's what he said.
He's sitting up for me.
He goes, give me that phone.
I'm going to take that picture you're going to need for that book you've been telling us about.
And he said, you've been telling us for years, which I had told them and all my friends too, that this pillow is just a platform for God.
And you're going to come back and help us all out of this addiction life we're living someday.
And we're not going to let you die on us.
In other words, I was their hope.
And that meant a lot to me.
I think back to that, they're going, wow, these guys really believe me.
And that's the picture in the hologram.
That's the picture in the hologram that he took that day.
And they, and, you know, they, and two of those guys work for me.
Now they're born-again Christians.
I want people to know.
We put the book on Hannity.com from crack addict to CEO.
What are the odds?
Michael and Dell.
You're not making a penny on the book.
You're putting it into your foundation to help people get off drugs.
Right.
It's called the Linda Recovery Network.
When I launched that, Sean, in about two months, it's going to help.
This is a God idea that I got in prayer.
I've been working on it two years.
This money is going to go launching the Linda Recovery Network, which is going to help millions of addicts and employ tens of thousands of ex-addicts.
Tell me how, so you make the decision, intervention occurs.
They're not even selling you crack.
Which I've watched enough of these drug shows.
Right.
And they, and the ones that have the dealers, they don't care.
They'll purposefully put a hot shot in a bag of heroin because then the addicts on the street think, oh, that's a really good drug because it's more powerful.
People, you know.
Well, I didn't quit.
I didn't quit that day.
That was the spring of 2008.
One thing happened to me in December of 2008, one month before I quit.
My friend came to me.
His name was Dick.
And he came to me.
I was losing everything was going on in my next house I was losing all in the lone in these woods.
And he showed up and he had been clean for four years and I knew about it, but I hadn't seen him in four years.
Now he was my equal.
We had both, we grew up together.
We both started cocaine at the same time.
We had both started crack at the same time.
And he had quit four years earlier.
I heard he found the Lord and he came walking.
I go, Dick, what are you doing here?
He goes, he goes, what's going on?
And I said, well, as long as you're here, I got a question.
Is it boring?
I asked him if it was boring.
And I asked him questions for almost an hour because, oh, he was my hope match.
I call him a hope match.
That guy was my equal.
And if he could do it, I felt there was my hope.
And then a month later, on January 16, 2009, I said, I knew that day, people say, was that your bottom?
I knew that the next day that, you know, bottom, I made sure I didn't have any money, so it'd be the greatest comeback ever and show people that, you know, with God, all things are possible.
But that day I quit, I knew the next day I would get two reels in my life, like a drive-in movie.
We had changed the reels I used to work at.
Reel A would be my calling and reel B would be whatever was going to happen if I didn't quit that day.
And I knew that.
And so I, that day, I could tell you what it is.
You'd be dead.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
You're 100% right.
But I did quit.
I woke up the next day and I prayed for the desire to be gone.
Now, the desire was gone, but two months later, I went to, I felt drawn to go back to our faith-based treatment center at a church.
And I went in there.
It was different than any secular center I'd ever been in where they shame you.
You know, you do these drugs and you hurt your family and you feel bad enough as it is.
But this place was different.
I walked in.
He says, Tell us about your father.
I go, well, what do you mean?
My parents divorced.
I had a great upbringing, you know.
He starts digging into stuff that happened in childhood that made me feel like I wasn't worthy.
So now you're getting to root causes.
At root causes.
That you're never going to get to if you're numbing yourself.
You're never going to get to.
And you're not going to get to.
And I hate to say it in secular treatment centers.
They're praying in our country right now.
See, I view Sean as that we have an opportunity.
I was with the guy a month ago, and you know what he said?
He goes, Mike, he goes, he was this billionaire guy.
And he goes, you know what, to get our country back to God, he knew the stuff I was doing out there.
It would take the Great Depression because people then pray and they think things are bad.
And I said, no.
I said, the Great Depression, they were praying for physical things.
Right now, we have the biggest opportunity in history.
We have addiction.
Addiction, everybody's praying for their addicts, their addicts, families are praying for their souls.
And addiction affects every single person, no matter how many forks you eat with in one form or another.
I watch all those shows.
You watch the intervention show.
Yeah.
The interventionist, this lady that used to be addicted to drugs, and she just takes on individual cases.
Right.
All right.
Stay right there.
You know, you're just fascinating.
I think I'm going to keep you because I can't.
I just, I sit here.
I'm mesmerized when you talk.
The book is a you got a hologram cover from when he was a crack addict, and then the beautiful face that you have today, and then a picture when you were a young boy.
This is when you went all the way on the trumpet, and then you happy speaking before.
University, when I got a doctorate degree at Liberty University, I could speak finally without a problem.
I have a doctor from there.
Awesome.
Yeah.
All right, 800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Our buddy Mike Lindell is with us.
Mike Lindell is with us.
This cover, I can't get over this cover of his new book.
All the money is going to be used to help addicts.
We're losing 300 people a week in this country because of addiction to opioids.
And him, when he was at the height of his addiction, and where he is today, 1,600 employees, mypillow.com, the Sean Hannity Square.
But this book is phenomenal.
Every penny is going to go to help those that are addicted from crack addict to CEO.
Where are you with your family now, your ex-wife, your kids?
You know, they work for my ex-wife, very amicable.
And I have grandkids now.
And my kids.
And you got along with your kids.
Yeah, they're all working.
They all worked for my pill at one point or another.
And it took a lot.
You know, it took a lot of healing.
It took a lot of time.
And I think any addict, once you're set free and get your heart restored, I think if you don't get that foundation of getting foundation, that foundation of having God in your life again, I think a lot of addicts will get out of these secular treatment centers and they expect the world.
They expect like a country song.
Boy, my dog will like me again.
My kids will like me.
I'm a truck will start.
You know, this isn't a country song gone backwards.
This is the real world, and you're not going to get trust right away.
You know who trusted me right away?
My drug dealers and my friends I did drugs with because they knew I was done and they knew I was going to are they out of that business.
Two of them work for me.
They're born-again Christians of the three that did that intervention.
All my friends, every one of them, is off crack that I had back then back in the day.
And they've seen my hope.
A lot of them just seen that I could do it.
A couple of them seen me when I was in the White House with the president on the Made in America Summit.
They're looking on TV.
I'm sitting next to him.
They go, Jesus is real.
There's no way this crack addict is on TV in the White House.
Unbelievable.
That is hilarious.
All right, we got to take a break.
We're going to come back.
What are the odds from crack addict, CEO?
Our buddy Mike Lindela is here.
All the money's going to this new foundation of his to help people get off and off whatever drugs they happen to be on.
It is an insidious evil.
It's killing 300 Americans a week.
We've got to end it.
It's that serious.
And the devastation and destruction to families all across this country is unbelievable.
Quick break, we'll come back.
Mike is, you know, he's running out of things to say, so I guess it'll be a very short segment when we get back.
You don't ever stop talking, dude.
No, no, no, I could talk for a lot of years.
No, I can't.
Quick break, right back.
We'll continue.
All right, 25 days now to the top of the hour, 292 days.
Yes, a tipping point.
America, the world on the brink, and you get to shock the world and force these fake news so-called anchors to say the words, we can now project Donald J. Trump has been re-elected president of the United States, and you will watch a mass meltdown of the mob in the media, which is nothing but an extension of all things radical, extreme, socialist, Democratic Party today.
And of course, that'll just further their hatred and rage towards Donald J. Trump.
Amazing, though, the country's doing better.
Our manufacturers, our car industries, $220 billion just for this year and next year alone.
And still, the president has kept on the table.
He's still putting the tariffs on China.
That's how desperate China's become because of the president's tough economic policies.
And the trade deal with Canada, Mexico, done, finished.
Japan, same thing.
Western European allies, same thing.
Showed a lot of restraint when it came to Solomani.
I probably would have popped him after taking down U.S. drones, but you know what?
The president was more patient than I was.
No boots on the ground, no never-ending, you know, conflicts abroad, protracted wars, boots on the ground.
He took out the caliphate, bombing the crap out of them and getting rid of the Obama-era rules of engagement and unleashing our military might with the force that we're capable of.
He took out Baghdadi and many of his top associates, and he took out the leader of the number one state sponsor of terrorist, Solomoni.
I'd say not a bad first three years.
What have the Democrats done?
Nothing.
Anyway, Mike Lindell, you know the president.
You're friends with him and you supported him from the get-go.
Yeah, you know, and I have a unique position.
When I first met him, I was an ex-crackheck.
I never voted.
I didn't know anything about politics.
I didn't know the role they play in our daily lives.
When I came out of a Dixon Sean, I had a president giving money to evil empires.
All my friends were unemployed.
People were losing their houses.
I had already lost mine.
But when I met him then, and it was just him and I, we met for a half hour.
I walked out.
I go, this is the most common sense person and solution.
He's going to be the greatest president ever.
I went all in.
Well, actually, I talked to a lot of his employees, and everyone 11.
You can learn a lot about someone and how their employees, how their employees feel about them.
And I went all in, and of course, I was attacked right away after, you know, right away.
I put in a press release that I had met Donald Trump.
And I went back to Minnesota.
And I, you know, normally I could say, I walked across the street, how fast you're walking.
And I did this press release, and I was called a racist.
I was called boycott him, all these stuff.
They don't even know what we talked about.
By the way, they've tried to attack you because you advertise on Fox or you have a show.
Yeah, all that.
By the way, all of our advertisers go through this.
And you have told me in the past that when they do that, our audience buys more.
Oh, absolutely.
Great audience.
And now on Twitter, they'll say, boycott Mike Lindell and my pill.
And the other guys will say, they'll say, don't boycott him.
He'll double his ass.
We see enough of that guy.
But I want to say something about with the president.
So I went all in on faith there.
And now I tell people all around me, I said, you know what?
I told you so.
I said, I was there.
I don't say it enough.
I was there.
And I did my dream.
I got to meet him, get to know him and all this and see his promises that he's kept.
But I'll tell you one that's everybody right now that I see around me, how politics does affect your daily life.
If I was telling you during the show, I couldn't do my ministry work and my thing for addiction if he didn't get rid of the bureaucracy that surrounds that.
And another thing right now that I see that I, when they brought the fake news, they'll call me all the time, wanting quotes and stuff.
They were talking about, or recessions coming.
I kept him on the phone for 40 minutes without him saying, and I go, you know what?
Maybe even you can get a new job at a nice station.
The economy is so good.
That's great.
But I want to tell you what's happening now: entrepreneurs are taking chances again on service, business, and products because the consumer confidence is at an all-time high.
And they have a safety net to fall back on because the wages keep going up.
It's just amazing.
And it's amazing.
And I just so thrilled for all these people that can finally live in no fear because they can just take chances now.
When you look at the statistics, every, I mean, one of the things I'm happiest about is, you know, we now have on the economy, we have the best employment situation since 1969.
Record after record, low unemployment for every demographic: African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, women in the workplace, youth unemployment.
There was a fake news CNN poll that they had to even report that 76% of Americans see the Trump economy is in good shape.
It's doing well.
Trump's blue-collar boom is shrinking income inequality.
Nobody really wants to talk about that, but since the president's election, blue-collar workers have seen the largest growth in household wealth, net worth held by the bottom 50% of households.
By the way, they only pay 1% of federal income tax.
I'm not critical.
We have redistribution.
Absolutely.
You and I pay a lot.
And way too much in New York and in Minnesota.
But think about this.
And more than three times we're seeing the net wealth, household wealth, increase for the bottom 50%, three times the rate of increase for the top 1% of households.
I love that because I'm a former paperboy dishwasher, pussboy waiter, bartender, the guy that painted houses, hung wallpaper, laid tile, framed roofs, fell three stories from a roof.
That was two decades of my life.
This was not a one-day deal.
Absolutely.
And then for me to have the opportunities I have are amazing.
So let me ask you this.
You go through all of this pain in your life.
You see all of the pain, the destruction, the misery that goes along with addiction.
We lose 300 people a week.
They die, fellow Americans, because of addiction.
And I know it's complicated.
You talked about when you were seven, your parents got divorced, and it was tough on you, and you've dealt with those underlying issues.
How did people do it?
I guarantee you, there's somebody listening to this show.
Well, until my network comes out, I'll tell you where you go.
The faith-based treatment centers in this country, there's 3,600 of them that I've had.
That's your teen challenge, your Salvation Army, your Union Gospel.
They work.
It's like 80% and above.
You know what secular treatment is?
Like 10% and below.
And you need to get the right help and to get those wounds addressed.
And what I have seen out there is addiction, it's not just, you know, it's just becoming everyone's now.
It's affected ammo because you are.
People are dying.
But to have a president like we have, and I just talked to President the First Lady, the stuff they did with the opiate bill and the things they're doing that allows the ministries and the faith-based treatment centers to go to finally do something and help because you know what?
Before, when they would take money, guess what?
Now take God out of your equation.
That's what they make them do.
But the thing is, I know people have been in rehab and they've been there again and again and again.
For example, the statistics on opioid addiction, and it starts, these kids in particular, scares me because, you know, the frontal lobe of male kids is not fully formed until they're 25.
Right.
And for some longer.
But that's worrisome because your rational thinking, your common sense is not fully developed.
But if you get addicted, if you start with a Vicodin, a Percocet, an OxyContin from Grandma's Medicine Cabinet, then that's gone.
And you're looking on the street paying 80 bucks a pill.
There's only so many kids that are in high school that have 80 bucks for a pill every day or more.
Then somebody says, well, the bag of heroin is only $10 and it's a much bigger high.
Once they get addicted, the odds are 15% can get out.
That's it.
That's because you're getting those statistics from secular treatment centers.
I'm telling you, you got to get the right help.
And I agree with you.
If you get the right help, and now that help's going to become available.
When my network gets out there, you're going to see it's going to be the most amazing thing because addicts need to be the ones that, you know, the hope, the hope for the addicts is other addicts.
So people buy your book and you're going to donate every penny to this new foundation from crack addict to CEO.
Now, somebody's addicted.
They come to one of these centers of yours, right?
No, they're going to come to my website.
Here's where it's going to be.
They're going to come to the Lindo Recovery Network website.
I'm going to be the tour guide.
I'm going to tell my crack story, what I was.
I'm going to say, put in your age and your addiction.
They'll put in their age and their addiction.
And let's say a 22-year-old opiate addict might not relate to a 50-year-old meth addict, right?
Sure.
So they put that in there, and now I'm going to have all these videos.
These got people that have made it through, but it's not a bottom, the commonality of the drug.
So they've all been set free.
These are the successful ones.
So for every drug, you'll have a story.
You'll have stories.
Every drug will show people that made it through, but you won't know how they made it through.
And now, in order to get this access code, you're going to access.
I'm going to come out and say, hey, you guys want the best help ever?
It's inside this website, inside this app.
You need an access code.
Where are you going to get that access code?
You've got to go to a church.
I've vetted so far over 6,000 churches in this.
Amazing.
You've got to go to a church and sit through one sermon, and then they're going to have access codes for you.
You can pay it back.
I'm a salesman.
I'll go.
You guys just go there and go, no, no, no, no, I'm not going to listen.
And then you get it home and you open up the website, and there's going to be the most amazing help you ever see, which I can't even say all that now.
But part of it will be the faith-based treatment centers that I vetted.
Took two years to vet 3,700 treatment centers in this country that work.
Start with the Salvation Army and NTN Challenge.
Unbelievable idea, but that means you really have to want to be sober.
Well, I mean, you have to have the control.
The key is to see the hope.
Let me tell you, when I, you know, I believe addiction is an opportunity of a lifetime for our country.
They're the ones looking for hope.
Everyone's affected.
I don't care, like I said, how many forks you eat with it.
It doesn't matter.
Whether you're addicted to porn, gambling, crack, alcohol, it doesn't matter.
And your center will help those addicts.
This website is going to help every single one.
And what it is, it's kind of a hub of a wheel.
I have all this help on there that there's three different forms, and it's just going to, it's not going to help like 10,000 people overnight.
It's going to help millions.
I want to say that.
Will these 6,000 churches that you've been vetting for the last couple of years, are they going to go out into the neighborhoods where we know a lot of this activity takes place?
The addict's going to see the hope, and they're going to go bring them to you.
It's like when you see my pillow, they come to me at the box stores.
The addict wants to see hope.
When is the addict going to get a hold of the internet?
In other words, I'm asking a serious question because I want you to reach everybody.
Every one of them's got a phone.
And it's like I say, it's not just the addict.
It's not just the addiction.
They got the phone so they can get the drugs.
But it's not just the addict down the street.
I was a very functioning addict for 20 years.
You wouldn't know if I was on drugs for 20 years.
Come on.
Nobody, people you did business with over that whole period, they didn't know something was up.
Well, no, they did.
Oh, you mean the people I did business with?
Well, I was in the bar business, so obviously they knew a lot of people.
Well, they were doing it with you.
But I mean, the best thing I did was get out of the bars.
Right.
I mean, there's very functioning addicts out there, but I say addiction affects all of us.
And I think it's an opportunity because, like I said, in the Great Depression, they were looking for, you know, praying to get physical, you know, physical food and stuff.
Here, people are praying every day.
What about the addicts' families?
You need to bring them back.
They can go get that access code in the churches too.
They go back and get it, and they're going to be, we need, they need God in this country that's been taken out of our schools.
We have a generation that doesn't have family.
Do you know, Sean?
We just, I just launched my book in a prison two days ago.
I think I told you that.
That's where I've been.
You know, I launched my books.
I always go to prison first.
Right.
But they did a poll in a prison a year ago.
By the way, how do you launch a book in a prison?
You got to give them the book.
I did give them the book, absolutely.
You know, but I wanted to, you know, I wanted to make a difference there.
And I want to tell you, they did a poll in a prison two years ago.
Now, what do you think?
You know, that's felons.
You know, and now they did this poll.
How many inmates were they they polled them?
Both their parents got married, had the planned the kid, had the kid, and they were still in prison to that day.
Zero.
You're 100% right.
I held up a zero.
It was zero because that's the family and God been taken out of our country.
Divorces are common.
Fatherless in the inner city or anywhere.
There's fatherless everywhere.
My addiction, I really believe, goes back to divorce.
You know, I didn't have, I got moved in new school, didn't have, you know, I was different because it was divorced.
When you were seven years old, I want you to help everybody you can.
I really do.
I admire what you're doing.
And I want everybody to know that this is a worthwhile project.
And you know what?
The story.
Is anyone doing your movie?
Anyone buying it?
Yeah, I'm going to play myself too.
Are you really?
Yes, you are.
It's not like you have, you know.
Why would I expect that?
You know, you like Rocky.
You like Sylvester Salon?
I just want to help people.
I've never seen a cover like this.
It's a hologram of Mike Lundell when he was at his low point.
And then the hologram of when you're at your high point.
Then when you're seven, which is when you believe your trouble starts, and then you now recovered happy and you're helping other people.
The book is called, What are the odds?
From crack addict to CEO.
We'll put it up on Hannity.com.
You're helping a lot of people.
Look, I'm not, I'm a Christian that knows I need to be the better Christian.
I'm the one that needs the saving kind of Christian.
And I'll tell you, there's no doubt you were put here, and you went through all that crap in my mind for that purpose.
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I've never seen a cover like this, a hologram.
And I'm so happy.
I'm so proud of you.
I mean, getting to know you and your life story is amazing.
And it's an honor to also call you a friend.
Mike Lindel.
Thank you, my friend.
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Quick break, right back.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
292 days until Election Day, and you get to shock the world again.
Anyway, the impeachment, the guy under indictment, man, we got new evidence.
It's like their new Avenatti, and we'll prove our point.
We have the great one, Mark Levin, Ram Paul.
He wants all these guys called.
I love it.
Senator Marsha Blackburn, great guest madness.
We'll have it all covered.
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