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Feb. 10, 2020 - Sean Hannity Show
01:45:08
Can Anyone Beat Trump?

Vice President Mike Pence, is here to talk about New Hampshire, his bus tour through the state promoting the campaign’s agenda, and last week’s debacle in Iowa. Who do the Democrats have running that can beat President Trump? Absolutely no one.The Sean Hannity Show is on weekdays from 3 pm to 6 pm ET on iHeartRadio and Hannity.com? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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All right, happy Monday.
It is the day before the New Hampshire primary.
We are in the live free or die state.
We'll be broadcasting here today and tomorrow.
And well, we've got a couple of fun things that we're gonna we've been working on that hopefully will come to fruition and we'll know by nine o'clock Eastern tonight if uh in fact we're able to pull off what I want to pull off.
Might be very interesting.
It is uh, let's say, is it fair to say Linda quintessentially Hannity, right?
Something only Hannity would do.
I've only seen it once before.
That's correct, but we're not gonna say any more about it.
Uh 267 days, the ultimate jury, you we, the American people, and I can report to you from New Hampshire today that it is an entire shift show, all within the Democratic Party.
They're now they are now on the verge of beginning killing each other.
Although I tried to watch the debate.
What was it on?
Saturday night on ABC.
It was so dull, dry, boring, idiotic, oh, it's pathetic.
I I could not put up I can't watch it.
It was I tried, I sat there.
I mean, I'm I'm actually going back and forth, and I'm thinking, how do you want to be elected president with the things that you're advocating for?
I mean, because what they're advocating for are really dangerous things for the country.
Um, and I'll give you one example.
You know, uh uh Warren, we should work with our allies, get this in managing terrorism, managing terror.
How do you manage terrorism?
It's like, remember that spokesperson, I forget in the Obama State Department or something that said, oh no, no, we we have a jobs for jihadis program.
I have a job for jihadis.
You stay right where you are at Baghdad Airport, and we'll track you, and then we'll destroy you if you're a terrorist.
What is jobs for jihad?
What do you mean managing terrorism?
What did the 9-11 commission report say?
They are at war with us, we weren't at war with them.
And then you can't even make this up because then you got Bernie Sanders literally saying that not only will I raise your taxes, but my insane program for the new Green Deal.
Well, I I admit that it's going to lose jobs.
It's going to lose jobs.
We're going to lose Oh, there's a well, I'm gonna I'm gonna confiscate 95 cents out of every dollar you make, and then I'm gonna redistribute it, and then I'm gonna put a a new Green Deal in place, and then we're gonna have a wealth tax, and then we're gonna kill jobs.
That's a crazy raise taxes and kill jobs.
I I can't think of a better platform to run on if you want to be president of the United States.
I will tell you that a part of this is so entertaining because they're so dumb.
A part of this is so entertaining.
I want to laugh.
But then I Begin to realize, oh my gosh, what if these people win?
We're done.
We're doomed.
We're in the live free or die state.
No, live free, nothing.
You're gonna live as we tell you where we tell you.
We're gonna take over.
They're talking about taking over the energy industry completely.
I mean, no private enterprise.
Well, what is the definition of socialism?
And I I have to buy my democratic friends an abacus.
Remember what an abacus is when you first learned about math.
You don't remember what an abacus is about, you know, and you like move count one, two, and you move the little the beads on the string or whatever that thing is.
Well, we actually have calculators now.
If you own an iPhone, you have a calculator, and you can use a calculator.
That's why I never understood.
What is the need to learn any more math if I have a calculator?
Calculator can calculate it for me as long as they don't know how to teach me how to use the calculator, and I don't need to learn any math from these, you sit through these boring, you know, oh, some of those math classes.
Oh, forget it.
Algebra.
Calculus.
I'm like, oh yeah, I'm using that every single day of my life.
Calculus.
I'm calculating everything.
I'm calculating how much uh the bonuses are for everybody on my team.
I have to calculate how high it is every year, depending on what what people why are you why are you pacing back and forth like that?
What is wrong with you?
Do you do this during every monologue?
What are you doing over there?
And what is that bagger crap, salami?
First of all, it's it's a healthy snack.
It's stinking up the entire studio that we have here.
Yeah, it's healthy salami if there is such a thing as healthy salami.
It's 150 calories.
Oh, for a piece?
For 15 pieces.
For 15 pieces.
So it's worth it to me.
It's worth it to me.
It fulfills me.
Okay, even if it's stink, it's a stench in here.
Salami stench.
You know what?
I'm in a room with five men, so I think it's debatable on what stinks in here.
All right.
Now, when you think things now remember, the 94 trillion dollars.
It's so hard because I guess we get used to millions and billions, and then there's trillions.
Now, you need a big, big, big, big abacus if you're ever going to start counting trillions, right?
Okay.
Or a calculator.
Start writing in your calculator.
94 trillion.
Then I want you to say plus 52 trillion.
That would be Medicare for all.
Then we bring in around four, four and a half uh billion, I'm sorry, trillion a year.
All right.
Now, they're planning on spending 94 trillion and 52 trillion in 10 years.
That does not add up to even if we brought in 5 trillion a year for 10 years.
That's 50 trillion.
That still wouldn't pay for Medicare for all.
And that means no defense.
That means no food stamps.
That means no roads.
That means no infrastructure.
That means nothing else.
Let me put it this way: it is a mathematic impossibility.
Just like Obamacare was never gonna be keep your doctor plan and save on average per family $2,500 a year.
It was never mathematically possible.
And there were a few of us like me, warning that that was the impossible dream.
And as bad as that has turned out to be, what they're now proposing is even worse.
And then I'm watching these idiots running for office.
And I can't believe this is now the third time quid pro quo Joe is being rude and mean to people that are supposedly he's courting to vote for him.
He I'm not making this up.
You think Hannity, you've got to be making this crap up.
No, I'm not making this up.
I don't make stuff up.
I'm not CNN fake news.
I'm not, I'm not the conspiracy theory TV.
Oh, one other thing.
Guess what Democrats are talking about now?
Well, we're gonna, I think we're gonna go back to this Ukrainian issue.
I think we want to, I want to blow my brains out.
I really live free or die.
I think I'd rather die at this point if I have to watch this another uh Mueller, yes, impeach and peach, impeach Russia, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine.
I don't think I can take it anymore.
Anyway, I'm kidding, by the way.
But um Biden literally calls a woman, a female New Hampshire voter.
Get this a lying dog face.
You can't make it up.
You think I'm making it up?
Let's roll the audio tape.
So you're arguably the candidate with the greatest advantage in this race.
You've been the vice president, you weren't burdened down by the impeachment trials.
So in the participation.
So how do you explain the performance in Iowa?
And why should the voters believe that you can win the national election?
It's a good question.
Number one is a Democratic caucus.
Stop it there.
You're a line dog.
What do you like Joe 3-0 330?
It meant nothing what he just said.
What he said is gobbledygoop.
What he said is incoherent.
What he said is spectacularly scary if he's ever the president.
Go back, go back and play from the beginning.
So you're arguably the candidate with the greatest advantage in this race.
You've been the vice president.
You weren't burdened down by the impeachment trials.
So how in the participation.
So how do you explain the performance in Iowa?
And why should the voters believe that you can win the national election?
It's a good question.
Number one.
I was a Democratic caucus.
No, you haven't.
You're a lying dogface pony soldier.
You said you were, but you're now you gotta be honest.
I'm gonna be honest with you.
I was an Iowa caucus.
He just said, am I wrong?
I was an Iowa caucus.
I, I, Joe, quid, pro and quo.
You're not getting the billion unless you fire the prosecutor that is investigating my zero experienced son.
But of course, how how outrageous we uh a lot a lying dog face.
Pony soldier.
What is a lying dogface pony soldier mean?
What does that mean?
I mean, this this is supposed to be their lead guy.
Now, then we got Mayor Pete.
Mayor Pete, the big winner out of the Iowa out of I Was an Iowa Caucus.
So I guess Mayor Pete, the big winner of the Joe Biden, considering he was the Iowa caucus.
Anyway, guess what this idiot says?
Mayor Pete.
And oh, and talk to the people of South Bend, Indiana.
This guy is not particularly well liked in South Bend, Indiana.
Uh, and he hasn't exactly done a good job.
I did see the exchange.
Um, why is it that your administration tend to arrest uh by a dramatic margin more African Americans uh for smoking weed and drugs and all of that?
Yes, I know that's true.
I'm like, oh, why'd you do it then?
Well, anyway, now he's want to take is now surging in the polls, trying to beat Crazy Bernie and Quid Pro Quo Joe.
But the Democrats, well, do they may not want a 77 or 78-year-old Biden or Bloomberg or by I think between the three of them, the 5,000 years old.
I mean they're just it's like the new face of the Democratic Party is Mayor Pete.
Anyway, so he goes on uh Sunday, and I guess he's on with Chris Wallace.
And he goes, Mayor, not only do you want to decriminalize marijuana, you want to decriminalize all drug possession, you say the the better answer is treatment, not incarceration.
Isn't the fact that it's illegal to have to possess meth heroin?
Uh doesn't that at least in some way the fact that it's illegal and illegal act uh as some deterrent in trying it in the first place?
This guy wants to legalize heroin.
I'm like, let me let me explain, Mayor Pete, what you may be too dumb to know.
You get addicted to this crap and you die.
The odds of you getting off this crap are like 10 to 15 percent.
And that's if like you have really rich friends that keep sending you to rehab again and again and again and again and again.
This is not a good plan.
And nor do I really, because we can see it one mile away from Nancy Pelosi's million dollar gated community, where all these people that are shooting up heroin are literally defecating in the streets and urinating in the streets, and needles are all over the place in the streets, one mile in one direction her million-dollar home, millions of dollars, and then the other direction her office.
You would think she'd go to all of her gated community millionaire friends and say, hey, why don't we build a shelter?
Now, Bernie Sanders is refusing to disavow his past support for a maximum wage cap.
Oh, well, that's gonna really be productive.
So let me see.
He now says instead of 1974, he wanted a hundred percent cap on income above a million a year.
Okay, so if somebody reaches their cap, let's say by February, they're gonna stop working.
Why would they work if you're gonna steal it from them?
Why?
So you can go out there, Bernie, and uh what are you gonna spend the money on?
Losing jobs.
How do we know?
You said you're going to lose jobs.
Raise taxes, wealth taxes, confiscate taxes.
You know, all of this is at some point they're legalizing stealing.
Because what the government is saying is we don't live free.
This is the live-free dice.
You're not gonna live free.
You're gonna live to work for your government.
And then they're gonna come in and legalize stealing everything you got.
And then after you, after you've paid all your taxes, they want another bite at the Apple.
That's the wealth tax.
And then if you're lucky enough to have anything left when you die, then they're gonna come back and take another 40% nationally.
If you're in New York and New York City, another 13%.
That's the third bite of the apple.
How much at what point do people say enough is enough?
And they don't want to live in that country because it's no longer free.
Because you're paying literally, they'll take the gold out of your teeth when you get into your grave to pay your estate taxes.
It's unbelievable.
Oh, and Bernie is now reneged on a promise to release his medical records.
Whoopsie Daisy.
Must be bad in there.
Um there's such discord and disarray here.
It is unbelievable.
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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?
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Locker up.
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So you're arguably the candidate with the greatest advantage in this race.
You've been the vice president.
You weren't burdened down by the impeachment trials.
So how in the participation.
So how do you explain the performance in Iowa?
And why should the voters believe that you can win the national election?
It's a good question.
Number one.
I was a Democratic caucus.
No, you haven't.
You're a lime dog face pony soldier.
You said you were, but you're now you gotta be honest.
I'm gonna be honest with you.
Okay, be honest with me.
What they're trying to say now is, oh no, he was saying this from uh Uh John Wayne movie.
Apparently, I guess he originally suggested Biden had used the line before, and it's a reference to Hondo, which was a John Wayne movie.
You know, it was a big John Wayne fan.
Well, I like John Wayne.
I thought John Wayne was amazing.
Uh Mark Levin gets a lot of John Wayne.
He loves those um, you know, memorabilia stuff.
He's into that.
Anyway, now others are suggesting it was from another movie called Pony Soldier.
And I just don't know what it is.
Um anyway, we're in New Hampshire.
It is basically Donald Trump's dream scenario, and that is a total shift show, if you will, with the Democratic primary.
It's that bad.
Democrats are even now talking about a brokered convention.
There's a lot of maneuverings going on a cheat Bernie.
We'll have all the details.
And Vice President Mike Pence coming up from the live free or die state of New Hampshire.
It's the Sean Hannity show.
I'm Ben Ferguson.
And I'm Ted Cruz.
Three times a week, we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
Nationwide, we have millions of listeners.
Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court.
And we cover the stories that you're not getting anywhere else.
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So down a verdict with Ted Cruz now, wherever you get your podcasts.
Hey there.
I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
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.
So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass.
You're our kind of people.
Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
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.
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 Navok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco.
Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yeah, that's right.
Locker up.
Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
At 25 to the top of the hour, we are in the live free or die state.
We'll be here today.
We'll be here tomorrow, and everybody's asking, okay, what's the secret plan?
Well, I can't tell you.
I mean, I might know by whether we can pull it off by TV time tonight.
We'll be doing the TV show here from uh the great state of New Hampshire.
It is beautiful up here.
Love the state.
So I took uh uh my buddy Sensei uh over to lunch today.
I bought him a lunch.
And so I just said to the person that's working there, I said, um, oh, so a lot of going on, obviously, with the primary going on.
Yeah.
This was not a happy camper.
And I said, Well, uh, do you know who you're voting for yet?
Not that guy in there now.
And she starts railing.
I'm like, so I started saying, Oh, but he's created eight million new jobs, and I I'm really happy that our fellow Americans are working.
You're not happy about that.
But was this before or after you got your food?
It was before.
Oh, that was really you were in food service.
What's wrong with you?
Well, it was the worst, by the way, service in the history.
It took an hour to get a stupid sale.
Yeah, well, there was a lot of spit to get in there.
Come on, what's the matter with you?
No, you shouldn't say that because you know what happened that time I went to dinner with Neil Biden.
Oh, I do know what happened.
Down in that was not a good day of my life.
Listen, I I worked in a kitchen, my friend.
I've seen a lot of things.
Okay.
So um, and she goes, Yeah, well, he lost 770 million others.
Literally said that.
I said, He did?
He really lost 770 million other jobs?
Yes, that's the truth.
I said, okay.
You know, it's just like that should have been your cue to go to the Minnie Martin buy a packaged food.
Oh, guess what?
So let's go back and play Biden, because now the woman, she's a 21-year-old student, has now responded about how she feels about quid pro quo Joe calling her a liar and a dog face.
Well, listen.
So you're arguably the candidate with the greatest advantage in this race.
You've been the vice president.
You weren't burdened down by the impeachment trials.
So in the participation.
So how do you explain the performance in Iowa?
And why should the voters believe that you can win the national election?
It's a good question.
Number one.
I was a Democratic caucus.
I was a Democratic.
No, you haven't.
You're a lime dog face pony soldier.
You said you were, but you're now you gotta be honest.
I'm gonna be honest with you.
I was a Democratic caucus.
What the hell does that mean?
I was a Democratic caucus.
Anyway, you're a liar, dog face uh uh pony soldier.
Now the Biden campaign is like spinning, how do we get him out of there?
Well, it might have been a line in a John Wayne movie in 1952.
Well, that's what that's something really relatable for the young demos that are gonna try and get out there and vote.
Well, it's a 21-year-old woman he did this to, and the Daily Mail got in touch with her.
She's an economic student.
But and the question was fair.
You got your ass kicked in Iowa.
I am a Democratic caucus.
Well, why how do you find yourself electable after coming in fourth when you were supposed to be the front runner?
That's a fair question.
Twenty-one-year-old economic student at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, and says that after Quid Pro quote Joe called her a lying dog face pony soldier, she felt, quote, humiliated by the experience.
She complained it's insulting to see people trying to minimize the former vice president's remark as a joke.
I agree with her.
And I think she's right.
Uh it was kind of humiliating to be called a liar on national TV by a former vice president instead of answering the question straightforward.
His immediate response was uh an attempt to invalidate me by exposing my inexperience.
And she goes, I'm a 201 year old college student.
Like uh, what the hell do I know?
Meaning that's how she's treating him.
I don't blame her.
Good for her.
So I guess if I asked Joe a question, I wonder if he's gonna say that to me.
Quid pro quo Joe.
Now Mayor Pete wants to legalize heroin.
Well, Bernie Sanders refuses to disavow his past support for a maximum wage.
Oh, you know, uh nobody likes when I say this, but it's true.
I have never in my life gotten a job from a poor person.
Never.
Now, all the jobs I've had, the people that own the newspapers when I was eight years old delivering newspapers.
They had to have money.
They weren't poor people.
When I washed dishes in a restaurant, when I was a cook in a restaurant, a busboy in a restaurant, when I was a waiter and bartender in a restaurant, when I was a house painting contractor, when I hung wallpaper, former construction work and hack like me, as Alec Baldwin, the failed talk show host says.
When I when I did all of these stuff, when I laid tile, when I did renovation, when I did roofing, when I did framing, I did all of that.
That's two decades of my life.
This is not like, oh, I was a bartender one day.
Did it for a lot of time, a lot of ever since I was growing up, I worked.
And I never got a job.
I never got hired to paint somebody's house who was poor.
Because if you're poor, by definition, you can't pay for somebody to paint your house.
That's just a fact.
And the same with any type of construction.
And usually, if you work in a restaurant, the owner of the restaurant had to pay a lot of money to build the bar and to, you know, build the decor of the restaurant and to build the kitchen and buy the kitchen equipment and turn the lights on and then hire the chef and hire the assistant chefs and hire the dishwashers, then hire the waiters and the bartenders and hire the custodian at night that's going to clean the place up, and then you charge $19 for a meal or $16 or $1499.
restaurant business is brutal.
I never got a job from a poor person.
So if somebody's getting richer and richer, that means they're going to create more and more jobs.
Why do we have to somehow, or why they they creating this divide within the amongst the American people as if that's a bad thing?
And why does Bernie feel like after they already take 60, 65 cents out of every dollar I make, then they want to come back if I happen to save any of what I what was remaining?
Now they want to retroactively really go back and tax it again.
That's what a wealth tax is.
Well, you save too much money.
Now you owe it to us.
Well, that's stealing.
I don't care what you can see.
You can put all the nice little verbiage you want around it, wrap it in a nice pack and put a bow on it, but you're legalized stealing money that is we've already paid taxes on.
And then when you die, they want to steal more.
They call it a death tax.
What does that mean?
You pay to die.
They want now, if you saved any money, they want, well, you have no right to give it to your children.
Why not?
I want to give it to my what if I want to give it to the Cancer Society?
What if I want to give it to uh create a scholarship fund for somebody?
It's not your money anymore.
I paid my taxes.
Every other American's paid their taxes.
And if somebody gets to save on top of it, guess what?
That means they're not going to be dependent on government for anything when they get older.
Because they've been smart enough and wise enough to put enough money away for their retirement.
That means I won't be dependent on the state.
Um Politico had an interesting piece out today that the president's dream scenario is unfolding and all this disarray.
I mean, it is a shift show.
It really is.
And, you know, they don't know who to put their support behind.
I think between Bloomberg, Biden, and Sanders, I think we're looking at like 500 years worth of experience.
Maybe more.
I don't know.
Um, and now they're also going after each other.
There was a piece in the hill today.
Carl Rove was the first to say it.
New Kingrich was second on the both on this program, uh, Carl and his column in the Wall Street Journal, that there could be a real brokered convention.
That would be entertainment like you've never seen before.
Why do you think all of a sudden they're trying to change the rules so that Bloomberg is buying his way into everything that Bloomberg would himself now be able to get in, even though he doesn't have any donors except for Bloomberg.
Bloomberg's the Bloomberg is running like a propaganda campaign.
Mike can get it done.
Mike who?
Bloomberg.
Oh, the guy that, you know, for 12 years supported Stop and Frisk.
And then well, how many years has he been out of office now?
Five, six.
All right, so that's uh 18 years.
He supported Stop and Frisk.
He runs for president.
He has some advisor come in and say, Yeah, that's not gonna go over well with certain identity politic groups in the Democratic Party.
Act like you're really sad and you didn't mean it for 18 years and start tearing up when you say I made a mistake.
Because that's what he's doing.
And that is exactly why people like Donald Trump, because he's not full of it.
He's being brutally honest about who he is, what he believes, and these people are just a bunch of phonies.
Now, the president is actually coming up to New Hampshire where we're broadcasting today, and I don't know, it apparently, according to this piece in the Manchester Union leader, most of Joe Biden's rallies, you know, you could fit the people in a phone booth.
I mean, that's they don't break a hundred.
He's not getting a hundred people.
And then every time he has a rally, he's getting he's he's get he's arguing with people that he's trying to get to vote for him.
That's brilliant.
Why don't you answer the 21-year-old girl's question?
Why do you have to be insulting to her?
Really?
That you're gonna call a 21-year-old girl a lying dog face pony soldier.
Okay.
Well, something.
Listen, if I said what I really think, I am telling you, these people, they're losing it.
You know, Adam Schiff saying, what if Donald Trump decides to give Alaska to Russia so Russia will help him in the 2020 election?
What if he decides to move to Mar a Lago and he wants to live in Mar-a-Lago and let Jared Kushner choose which wars to put the country in?
These people are losing.
Then watching, it was to Think back to the state of the union.
Nancy Pelosi preparing a little papers for her predetermined rip at the end of the president's speech and then mumbling seemingly to herself.
It looked like to me, I didn't think she didn't look like she was communicating when I saw the mumbling going on.
I didn't, I don't maybe she was having problems.
I don't know if she wears dentures or not, but it seems something weird was going on there.
Did you see the mumbling?
She's mumbling.
She was doing it.
And then and then looking everywhere else except, you know, just like Did you see her when she gave the she was like pointing like to like a petulant child, like, no, you sit down, you sit down, and she's mumbling.
It's great.
Here's an interesting point, though, from the Manchester Union.
Uh now the vice president will join us at the top of the next hour, and uh Mike Pence.
But anyway, they're gonna be here, and they're gonna be at the Southern New Hampshire University Arena.
And Trump's last campaign visit to the Granite State was August 15th, when he set the arena attendance record of 11,500, surpassing the crowd of 11,400 that Elton John had set before.
Elton John sells out, I would imagine almost every show, right?
All of his shows sell out.
And he's still performing at a magnificent level.
I know because I I saw him play not that long ago.
Unbelievable artist.
I mean, an incredible show that he puts on.
It's just fun.
Um so we have this is the backdrop of what's happening here.
Now everyone's saying there might be a brokered convention.
If you want poll numbers, Sanders is leading in New Hampshire the day before the primary, uh, at least according to one poll.
You got a let's see, uh oh, Amy Klobuchar showed a slight rise in third place.
That means Biden's headed for another fourth place finish at least.
And so you got Bernie Buddha Judge, Amy Klobichar, and then Quid Pro Quo Joe.
That's not looking good for Joe.
Iowa Democratic Party is now awarded Buddha Judge, 14 delegates, Sanders 12.
And now Democrats are talking about getting rid of the caucus.
I would I believe in tradition.
I don't think they should uh why are you gonna treat Iowa that way?
I was always had first in the nation caucus, first in the nation primary New Hampshire.
Uh you could say maybe look, I like history.
I like doing things the way it's always been done.
I don't know.
Maybe it's just me.
Um, then we have there appears to be more problems than the Hillary Clinton associated app.
Buddha Judge holds the largest democratic rally in New Hampshire because 1,800 people showed up.
1,800.
That's like wow.
Warren is ramped up Buddha Judge hits.
So she's fighting Buddha Judge in this battle now.
She's thinking, I guess, I don't know.
Biden launched a brutal ad campaign mocking Mayor Pete uh and his experience, and Pete's campaign is not happy about it.
And uh anyway, the ad comes at a time when Biden's status as the so-called front runner, he's declining and rather precipitously, and so he's comparing Buddha Judge, his ad swipes at Buddha Judge's record or lack of experience at a South Bend, Indiana with a population of just over a hundred thousand, and then a bunch of backhanded compliments, and the narrator praises Biden's record and then offers praise for Buddha Judge.
But anyway, the ad comes and it says when Obama called on him, Joe Biden helped lead the passage of the Affordable Care Act.
Oh, the one that we were supposed to keep our plans in doctors, and 40% of America now has one option on the Obamacare Exchange, one.
And everybody we're supposed to save $2,500 per family per year.
Yeah, we're now paying 200% on average more.
That's what you're gonna brag about.
Good luck with that.
Buddha Judge was confronted on the spike in minority drug arrest during the time as mayor during that ABC so-called debate over the weekend.
It was a snooze fest.
Uh, it looks like the Oscars last night has now hit another record low.
I I was watching it and I was texting with some friends.
I I said it's gonna be the lowest rated ever.
No one can watch this.
First, I was watching the pregame Oscars.
Now, maybe I'm getting old, but I didn't know anybody.
I'm like, I'm watching all these people go through the red carpet.
I'm like, I don't know you, I don't know you.
I've never heard of you.
And the ones that I do, oh Brad Pitt, you know, turned out to be a dumb jackass with his comments, you know, knows nothing about the Constitution.
Uh and he thinks he's a genius, and he's not.
Uh, but anyway, he was there was a big confrontation on the spike of minority minority drug arrest when he was mayor in South Bend.
Klobuchar is now going after Buddha Judge.
We have a newcomer in the White House, and look where it got us.
Meaning I've got experience.
Biden uh advisor saying Buddha judge won't be ready on day one.
Uh you got Biden in New Hampshire calling the student the lying dog faced pony soldier.
I don't think you can beat that.
Oh, and Bernie Sanders said he's not a communist.
And Warren did say, oh, we don't want billionaires donating to campaigns, except I'll take Bloomberg's money if he gives it to me.
More hypocrisy.
Oh, and she got caught.
Did you see her slinking away from getting uh out of the private jet?
And the number one jet user is Bernie.
Yeah, so they're battling who's using the private jet the most.
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We're in the live free or die state.
Glad you're with us in the lead up to tomorrow's uh big uh primary here in New Hampshire.
I just looked at the pictures and the videos uh online.
A friend of mine sent me some from Twitter.
The lines for the president are, you know, uh down around the block, wrapped around like 14 times.
So it's gonna be, in other words, an average Trump rally, which is hilarious.
Biden can barely get a hundred people at any of uh his rallies.
It is not going over well what he said to this young 21-year-old wit woman, I can tell you that.
Um the woman has now said she felt humiliated after uh quid pro quo Joe attacked her as a lying dog face pony soldier.
I mean, where did that uh what is that?
She said it was insulting.
It was humiliating to be called a liar on national TV by a former vice president instead of answering the question.
Uh his immediate response was to attempt to invalidate me by exposing my inexperience, and she added, I am a 21-year-old college student.
Like, what the hell do I know?
And who cares who I am or what my experience is.
The vice president, Mike Pence will be coming up to New Hampshire with the president today, and uh, I guess they'll be leaving fairly shortly.
I think it's 7, 7:30 the rally tonight, and he joins us now, Mr. Vice President.
How are you, sir?
Hey, Sean Hannity, great to be with you.
In fact, I already am in New Hampshire.
Uh we just know you came out.
I didn't know that.
I apologize.
No.
Yeah, no worries.
We're on the bus.
We're gonna meet up with the president of Manchester tonight.
And I gotta tell you that the enthusiasm on the ground uh for President Donald Trump uh for an agenda that's made America great again.
And we think it we think it's gonna carry us to a victory in New Hampshire in November and a victory all across this country for four more years.
You know, we watched the Iowa caucus debacle for the Democrats last week, but the untold story, especially by the media mob as I call them.
Uh I'll let you use whatever term of endearment you prefer, Mr. Vice President.
I know the president likes the term fake news, and it mostly is fake news, but the untold story in Iowa was how many people it was an uncontested primary for the president and they sh the Republicans were showing up in record numbers in Iowa.
Uh Sean, it was a record turnout.
Uh and essentially the president was uncontested.
He got more than 97% of the vote in our caucus.
And contrast that for all the attention they're receiving to the Democrat caucus, which of course took them a week to figure out these are the people that want to run your health care that uh can't even run a caucus.
But you know, the the contrast was they were expecting a record turnout, and they were way off of their projections as well.
And I'm traveling today with Governor Chris Sonuna here in New Hampshire, and uh we're projecting over a hundred thousand people are going to turn out to vote in the primary uh for President Donald Trump tomorrow in the first in the first in the nation state.
And uh uh I I just have to tell you, I mean, the the choice in this election, I think has never been clearer.
The stakes have never been higher.
And and the more people hear from these Democrat candidates, I have to tell you, to me, it's really coming down uh to a choice between freedom and socialism.
Uh and and here in the here in the the uh the live free or die state as New Hampshire is known.
Uh this election by November may just be, you know, a choice between live free or don't.
And we're gonna we're gonna carry that message everywhere we can.
And uh I I just think it's shaping up to be a great great day for the uh president tomorrow, the great rally tonight, and it's setting the stage for a great victory in November.
What a week it was last week.
I I've watched a lot of States of the Union uh over the years.
Uh we've known each other, you know, a couple of decades now, and I know the president over a couple of decades.
I thought it was the best uh State of the Union that I had watched in my life.
Not only did the president read off record after record after record after record.
Uh then he talked about the killing of Baghdadian associates, defeating the caliphate in Syria, uh taking out uh Iran's number one state sponsor of terror, the guy that was leading all the terror proxy wars around the world, Solomon.
Uh there were very emotional moments during the State of the Union address, and um I and I I I looked at that, then this acquittal for this latest witch hunt.
What was your reaction to last week?
Even Bill Mars said it was the best week the president's had.
Well, it was just an incredible week.
That that strong affirmation in Iowa, the historic uh State of the Union address that you know, the president really made it about the progress this country has made under his leadership in the last three years, Sean.
But he also made it about the American people.
I mean, those stories, and I saw you talking about it on television.
The stories, the the guests in the gallery was just so inspiring.
Contrast that at the end of his speech, Nancy Pelosi tried to make it about her uh by literally ripping up uh a copy of the president's speech next to me.
Uh, it was uh by the by the way, did you notice during the speech?
Because we actually went back.
I did not myself notice it at the time, although I've got to be honest, watching on TV, you know, I mean, she was kind of like mumbling to herself, distracted looking everywhere.
But later when we went back, she was putting like Little baby rips in the papers, I guess, preparing for the show at the end of the president's speech, which tells me that this was all an act and this was all for the cameras.
Did you see that happening during the speech yourself?
No, I certainly saw the mutterings.
He was leaning over talking to me throughout the speech.
I was totally focused on the president on his message, on their incredible response.
And the gallery was just completely enthralled with the president's uh the president's State of the Union address.
But uh no, I I actually uh uh I I my feeling was is that it had to be pre-planned because it happened so quickly.
I literally didn't see her tear the speech up.
Uh you know, I was standing with my gaze was I'm offering a reward.
I want to buy that torn-up speech.
Do you you happen to know who has it?
I want that, I'll pay for it.
I want to buy it, and I want to give and one day the president can sign it and put it in his library somewhere.
Well, well, think about the contrast there.
That incredible State of the Union address, and then the next day, uh the United States Senate clears the president on all charges.
And uh, as I said to the cops for Trump rally here in New Hampshire today, uh President Donald Trump has been acquitted forever.
Uh and it's over.
It's behind us, and now we're we're able just to put the hammer down, take the message all across the country, and and I but I gotta tell you, I honestly believe this not just the impeachment, but literally three years of endless investigations culminating in their partisan impeachment.
I think it's backfired on the Democrats because they uh the American people are grateful for the leadership this president's provided.
You've celebrated it like no one else in the media, Sean.
So I I don't have to tell you all that he's done for our military, for our economy, for our courts, for our standing in the world.
But people know that he's accomplished all of that in the midst of unjust and unprecedented opposition, and it's generated a level of enthusiasm.
Frankly, it's very it feels very similar out here on the road uh to how it felt in the in the you know the the fall just before the 2016 election.
There's an incredible enthusiasm across the country, and I think it's only gonna build to November in 2020 when we get four more years for President Donald Trump in the White House.
I've listed many times both on radio and television, the president's promises made, the promises kept.
Uh I'm extremely happy that we have nearly eight million of our fellow Americans no longer in need of food stamps and millions out of poverty and almost eight million new jobs.
Uh endless burdensome regulation is gone.
He made all the trade deal that deals that he was going to promise, uh ending burdensome regulation, cutting taxes.
Um let me ask you this, because after three years of never-ending, frankly, psychosis, rage, derangement, whatever uh whatever adjectives you prefer to use, I can't really think of anything that the Democrats have done for the people that have elected them that they're supposed to serve.
They're supposed to be public servants, and I can't, in my mind, I I believe that that is going to be result in a good result.
Not gonna bear them results, because I I I think that at this point people see they just hate this guy.
Why do you think that is?
Uh it I don't know, Sean, to be honest with you.
I served you and I met when I was serving in Congress, and I don't recognize this Democratic Party.
I mean, the Democratic Party today has literally been taken over by radical leftists.
Um we see we see that the those voices, those prominent voices in their party, you know, the free health care for illegal immigrants, uh open borders, late-term abortion.
Um I mean, literally to see on stage none of the front runners in the Democratic Party said they had any objection to having a socialist candidate lead their ticket in the last debate.
It just it's it just really is remarkable.
But I think it's the reason why you see more and more people um coming our way.
More and more people see that this president against uh as I just a level of opposition I ever witnessed in my lifetime, and yet you know him well.
Uh he turned his face like Flint against the wind in the last three years and just delivered day in and day out to the American people.
I was with cops for Trump.
We picked up the endorsement of the New England police benevolent association today.
They endorsed the president four years ago and just endorsed the ticket again today.
And it's because they have in this president, someone who has stood by law enforcement.
And when you see what happened in New York City and City with the two police officers and what happened in Arkansas today, and the American people just know they've got a president who stood with our military, stood with law enforcement, stood for law and order, has a growing economy, has stood up for our Constitution with conservative appointments to our course.
And contrast that with the literally to your point, Sean, an empty record on the other side.
All their record is is a record of opposition, mindless resistance.
And it's one of the reasons why I really believe we're not only going to get four more years of President Donald Trump in the White House, but I truly do believe that we're gonna we're gonna elect Republican majorities, uh not only re-elected to the Senate, but I think we're gonna have a new Republican majority in the United States House of Representatives, and Nancy Pelosi's gonna be the last Democrat speaker of the House to sit behind this president or any president for a long time.
Well, th that that is the one way if you want the endless conspiracy theories, the hoaxes, the the never-ending investigations, the one way to end it would be to elect Republicans in the House and Senate.
Uh, and probably I don't think Joe Biden has a particularly good shot calling twenty-one-year-old women lying dog face pony soldiers.
Let me ask you about um, and I've known both of you for over a couple of decades.
You have very distinct and different personalities on the one hand.
On the other hand, because I've I've been around you both, you guys are are together all the time.
You were in this together.
Um, if you if you had to describe your personal relationship with the president, how would you do it?
Well, we've we've gotten to be very close over the last four years.
You know, unlike you, I I really didn't know the president uh much before he asked me to join the ticket.
But to your point, we campaigned together in 2016, and then literally, we literally have served day in and day out uh together.
And and uh uh look our style.
I don't think most people realize you you are with him almost all the time.
I mean, you guys work together.
I mean, you're in the White House every day, as I understand it, and every time I've been there for hours.
Yeah, I think you know, the president and I, depending on it, we're both at the White House, which is much of the time uh we usually spend four or five hours a day together.
Uh, you know, uh whether it's a meeting in the situation room, in the Oval Office, whether it's various events, meeting with America's governors today, White House rolled out the new budget uh today.
Um the president uh went when he asked me to join the ticket, he told me he wanted he wanted to have an active vice president.
And uh I can tell you that's a promise made, promise kept.
He's put me to work, whether it be on Capitol Hill, traveling around the country as we are now, uh helping to push his trade agenda, the US MCA.
And I gotta tell you it's a greatest privilege in my life because uh I I just believe in this president.
I believe in his vision for this country, and to have been some small part of what we've been able to do in the last three years, making America great again.
It's the greatest greatest uh privilege I've ever had, Sean.
Well, we're we're safer, we're more secure, thank God.
Promises have been made and kept, and our fellow Americans are experienced a a renaissance and economic growth and job growth, and I want it to continue for our you know entire American family as the president closes out his rallies.
We are one glorious nation under God, and we're one American family, and we all want to prosper together.
Mr. Vice President, uh uh look forward to seeing you again soon.
As always, thank you for your time.
Sean, uh always great to be on with you, and especially today from New Hampshire.
It's gonna be a great night.
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So basically what happened was like the first day we were in quarantine.
They were on our way back to the Yokohama fort, and I said, when we're going to be in the sea, we're gonna be right docked outside, and they're gonna have uh pretender boats have doctors come on and I guess test us.
They only tested our temperature, we and we were fine.
But the problem with that was they did it through a thermometer in your ear, and like I don't know, I'm from the United States, and when we go get checkups and they check your thermometer with a thermometer, it's with a disposable tip.
Right.
They did not have that.
And it was 4:30, 5 o'clock in the morning.
I was half asleep.
They put it in my ear, wiped it off of a cotton uh cloth, and then stuck it in my wife's ear, and it went on to the next room.
And there was only those people who did the whole ship, which to me isn't very sanitary.
I do get asked by many, many people now about this coronavirus and what's going on as it is unfolding in China because look, you take a look.
There was apparently a hack of some kind or some type of computer breach that apparently shows that this is much bigger than anybody ever thought.
Uh reports that people in China are being arrested, that there's a mass arrest of suspected virus patients.
Um, you got more quarantine centers that are set up at some of the uh military bases uh throughout the country.
Hundreds of businesses are seeking money in loans.
You got President Xi making a rare visit to meet with the patients and medics, and then you've got, you know, you got a lot of fear.
Um, is it warranted?
You have quote super spreaders, you have uh a lockdown uh in certain areas.
People have been confined to their homes, according to reports.
Uh we know that there are another a number of cases outside of China, which may be the tip of the iceberg, according to an article that was uh put out by Reuters, and that is people across China have trickled back to work Monday.
Um, anyways, the government is easing restrictions imposed to counter the coronavirus.
Clearly, I don't think they responded quickly or expeditiously.
I think there was an effort to probably hide it from the world.
Uh, we know that apparently this is an airborne virus, it can be spread airborne.
We know that you can also spread it during the incubation period where you don't even know you don't have any symptoms yourself, you don't even know that you have it.
Uh, it seems that that it's impossible at this point to have any contact tracing, which would be a normal course of procedure.
Um, but anyway, when I was interviewing the president During the Super Bowl, I spoke to him both on and off air whether or not the United States has offered China help, and he said, Absolutely we have, and we we have our top people that are consulting.
Uh one such top person in all of this is Dr. Anthony Fauci.
He is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
He's advised now six presidents over the years on HIV and AIDS and and everything else.
Uh Dr. Fauci, how are you?
We're very well, Sean.
Thank you for being on the show.
Look, I know you've done this.
I've watched you over the years.
You tend to be very, very chill.
You too tend to be you you tend to take a very broad look at at instances like this.
I know there's a maybe in instinctive way that people begin to panic.
The numbers seem very large now mortality rate is what, four percent now or so, five percent?
Two percent.
Two percent.
Okay, lower than I thought.
Um how do you see what's going on here?
And do you feel that China now has stepped up to the level they need to get at to contain this?
Uh well, you first of all it's a very serious situation in China.
Um, as you know, there are over forty thousand cases, almost all of which, with the exception of a couple of hundred, are in China.
And as I mentioned, the death rate, uh, case fatality rate is two percent.
So right now they are doing some draconian things to try and prevent further spread both within China and to countries outside of China.
If you look at how pandemics evolve, it evolves when you have spread of infection with sustained transmission throughout the world.
What we have in the non-China countries are mostly travel related cases, and the situation where those individuals are spreading it to others, but rarely in a sustained manner.
Whereas in China, there's multiple generations of sustained transmission.
So, you know, the short version, Sean, is that a very bad situation in China.
The situation in the United States right now, although it could change, there's twelve cases, ten of which are travel related, and two of which are the spouses of two of those travel related cases for a total of twelve.
It's been that way for a while.
Hopefully, we don't see any more imported cases.
But if this turns into a broader outbreak involving multiple multiple countries, it's going to be very difficult to keep travel-related cases out.
And that's where you have the danger.
So that's the reason we're talking about the.
Well, let me just say the the Reuters has said, Dr. Fauci, that the virus is now spread to at least twenty-seven countries.
You mentioned twelve cases in the U.S. Um, and uh based on official reports infecting more than three hundred and thirty people outside of China.
Uh the two deaths outside of mainland China were in Hong Kong and the Philippines, and the death toll from the outbreak has now surpassed that of another coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome, SARS, which brought a global epidemic in 2002 and three, which I know you were involved in at the time.
That is correct.
And and what you're saying is exactly what I'm saying, Sean, is that these twenty-seven other countries, they got seated by people who traveled from Wuhan or other parts of China.
The way this will be controlled if we are successful in controlling it, is that in those cases that are travel related, to do the kinds of things that we've done here, which is identify, isolate, and contact trace.
So when you trace the contacts, if they're exposed, you can observe them.
If they're sick, you can isolate them.
That's what's going on.
Whether that would be able to hold back the emergence of a real pandemic is unclear right now.
We're just gonna have to try our best and wait to see.
Let me ask you during the incubation period, people will not know they have even been infected with the virus.
They apparently they can pass it on.
That's contagious even at that point.
That's problematic too, because there's a lag period between you even knowing that you might have been infected, And you then have the possibility of infecting others, right?
Right, right.
Our Chinese colleagues who are scientific colleagues, not policy people, who we communicate are telling us that that is occurring.
Asymptomatic transmission is usually not the major driver of the outbreak, but apparently it is occurring in China.
And as you said correctly, if that is the case, if it occurs to a significant extent, that really complicates things.
But in general, with respiratory born viruses, although asymptomatic transmission can and does occur, it rarely is the primary driver of the outbreak.
Last question.
So for the average American that is watching this that is concerned that this has gotten out of control and that this could spread much further, and it could be a pandemic, uh, of larger proportions.
What do you say to the average American?
And do you believe as a country we are doing enough with experts like yourself to help China in in containing this?
Well, a couple of things.
First of all, right now I would tell people that we are taking this very seriously, and we're doing whatever we can to mitigate, namely to contain it and to prepare to actually mitigate it if it comes.
Currently, the situation is under control in the United States, and people we say should not fear in the sense because the risk currently is relatively low.
But to be realistic, Sean, you have to say that that risk might change.
So they need to pay attention to that.
Regarding what we're doing for China, um philanthropic organizations in the United States have donated hundreds of millions of dollars.
The U.S. government has donated officially a hundred million dollars, and we want to get our people in there so we can help and can observe it firsthand.
Thus far, we've not been able to do that.
Yeah.
Well, I know the president said that he would make available to China.
He just signed an agreement with President Chi.
Apparently the relationship has been moving in a positive direction.
Um, and uh I know that uh I think it's in the world's best interest to offer our experts and and make them available, but a lot of times countries that are closed off like China, they're not so open to hearing from other countries and getting assistance.
That's sometimes a problem.
Right.
The WHO will be sending a team there.
We are just hoping that we will be included as part of that WHO team.
Well, I trust you and I trust our guys more than anyone else in the world.
I think we have the best scientists, and I think the greater capability of getting a handle on this, and I would assume vaccines are being worked on even as we speak.
Is that correct?
That is correct.
We're working on a vaccine.
We predict and project that we will be doing a phase one trial for safety within about six about eight weeks.
Yeah.
All right, Dr. Fauci, we wish you luck and uh please keep us updated if there are any new developments.
We appreciate all the work you do every day.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you very much, Sean.
800-941 Sean, toll-free telephone number you want to be a part of the program.
Oh, I forgot to play this earlier.
Joe Biden ripping.
No, this and this cracks me up.
Joe Biden is actually out there saying, oh, the past wasn't so bad under Biden Obama.
Yes, it was.
Listen, remember, 13 million more Americans' food stamps, eight million more poverty, lowest labor participation rate since the 70s.
Hey, uh quid pro quo Joe, wake up, read a newspaper.
Uh you are a disastrous vice president, and your partner was a disastrous president.
Politics of the past, I think were not all that bad.
I wrote the Violence Against Women Act.
I managed the 900 billion dollar recovery act, which in fact put millions and millions of dollars into his city before he came and helped save his city.
I was able to do it.
I was able to pass the chemical weapons ban, arms control.
And I was the first major leader holding public office to call for same-sex marriage.
So I don't know what about the past of Barack Obama and Joe Biden was so bad.
What happened?
What is it that he wants to do away with?
We were just beginning.
It was just the beginning of what will be the future of moving this country beyond where it is now in significant ways.
And there's ways to do that, and one of the ways to do that is to make sure you have someone who knows how to get things done and can lead the free world at the same time.
And then you got this guy Fareed Zakaria.
I think he's on around when Humpty Dumpty is on his low-rated show over there at uh fake news CNN.
And you know, he he's on with Bill Maher.
And even Bill Maher had to admit, this is Trump's best week ever.
It had to kill him to say that.
So uh what do you think of this week for Donald Trump?
I thought it was his best week ever, and the most depressing week for me.
As someone who's not a fan of Donald Trump and what he's doing to this country, uh was chilling.
State of the Union.
I was surprised.
I thought I was watching BET.
The whole thing seemed geared toward winning the black voter, right?
I mean, he had the little girl who is gonna go to a charter school.
He he called out the one black Republican senator, Tim Scott, he had the Tuskegee airman.
He cited a lot of stats about black unemployment being better.
All this stuff.
Wow.
The Democrats would Democrats like their weak point is the South.
They just write it off.
They don't even try.
Trump is like, what's my weak point?
Wax, I'm gonna get him.
Because it was a great week.
Uh, but back to this, though.
I'm telling you, what's the issue?
These are no longer outlier polls.
In the case of Van Jones, uh, yeah, you Democratic uh uh candidates out there.
Look at all these cities run by Democrats for decades.
Uh, yeah, the worst poverty, the most violence, drugs, affliction, that problems never solved.
You don't believe me?
Look at Chicago.
We have 13 high schools in Baltimore.
Not a single kid is proficient in reading or math.
Or if you want, look at look at what's happening a mile away from Nancy Pelosi's milk multi-million dollar home.
And look what's happening in Los Angeles.
Here's what Van Jones said.
I would accuse my party at this point of having engaged in three years of fantasy football politics.
Where we said, okay, don't worry, Trump is never going to be seated because the electoral college will not seat him.
Remember that?
Oh, I do.
Oh, don't worry.
Bob Mueller is going to take him out of the White House in handcuffs.
Remember that?
I do.
Oh, don't worry, he's gonna be impeached and removed.
Okay, now after three years of all that fantasy football, guess what we have?
Trump is still in the White House and we still don't have a candidate.
And the way we've developed our issues may or may not even serve us.
Had we spent the past three years accepting reality that, you know, a bunch of people who voted for Obama twice, voted for Trump.
Hard to call them Nazis, and listened to them, in addition to our own constituencies, and figured out what they needed.
We might be in a position to have Trump on the run.
The reality is uh all the blood, sweat and tears over impeachment, Bob Mueller, all that kind of stuff has not done anything to dent Trump.
Trump is actually higher in the polls than he's ever been, and we still don't have a candidate.
I gotta take a quick break.
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We want to quote Bolton uh No.
Do you think it's but you think it's likely that the subpoena will be a shit down?
I think it's likely.
When you have a uh a lawless president, you have to bring that to to uh uh to the fore.
You have to spotlight that.
You have to protect the constitution, whatever the political consequences.
But second of all, no.
I mean, as more and more uh lawlessness comes out, uh I presume the public will will understand that.
Jerry Naller was asked whether or not they're gonna investigate again.
And he gave an indication that they're they're willing to pursue other avenues of investigation.
Do you think this comes back?
Um, perhaps in the next year, do you think it's do you think they're crazy?
Well, I'm hoping that the president has learned that Mr. President, we are equal powers.
We were designed differently than any other, any other government.
I understand where you're going with that answer, but I'm asking you would you support your democratic colleagues pursuing this again?
No, absolutely not, unless the president continues and using rogue proxies such as Rudy Giuliani running around playing with foreign policy to the for the from the election process.
All right, it never seems to end, does it?
800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Uh, as we continue, we are in New Hampshire.
By the way, spotted by some MBC people and lots of scowls on the streets of New Hampshire today.
Um, we have a surprise thing that we're doing.
We don't know how it's gonna play out, but we're gonna try.
Um it's just us doing what we do, our job, and um I just suspect that there's gonna be some people that might not like me doing my job.
That is that a fair description, Linda, of what we have planned very fair.
But we'll know by TV time at 9 Eastern tonight.
All right.
Fair and balanced.
Uh anyway, so as you can hear, you got House Judiciary Committee Chair, lawless president, lawless president.
It's like they're a broken record.
We are 267 days away from the ultimate jury.
We the people, you the American people, and this is where we are.
Let's start another investigation.
Oh, what John Bolton may actually come out and say that the president said that he wasn't going to give Ukraine a penny unless Ukraine did this or announced they were going to do that.
Well, the problem is the four facts never change.
Do that.
Let's assume for a minute John Bolton is gonna say that.
I'm sure the president did at some point vent everything.
What I'm discovering about Ukraine is it seems every single solitary thing about that country's corrupt uh on at a very high level.
But let's say all of that's true.
Did the president do it or or are we now gonna punish the president and his words that he says to his top advisors privately when he doesn't do anything?
And all the while taking on the most breathtaking hypocrisy and a double standard, which is quid and pro and quo and joe, and you're not getting a billion taxpayer dollars until you fire the prosecutor.
That is investigating my zero, and I mean zero experienced son who's being paid millions.
Let's forget that part.
Just like we have Russia, Russia, Russia, okay, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia.
What about uh the dirty Russian dossier that Hillary Clinton bought and paid for?
Likely Russian disinformation from the get-go.
No, we don't care about that.
Obstruction matters.
No, uh, but not Hillary's deleted emails and bleach bitted and hammers.
This is this is a surreal world we're living in.
Now, the best part is we are 267 days before election day, and there is nothing but utter and complete madness and chaos within the Democratic ranks.
And uh, you know, quid pro quo Joe is doesn't have a mind.
He's very upset with voters.
And what he said to this poor person earlier today, we'll play it.
Uh this was yesterday.
Um kind of encapsulates this is now the third run in he's had with uh people on the campaign trail.
Uh when you're out there asking people for their vote, it's not good when you say, Go vote for some other guy or getting in some guy's face.
Or when you say something like this of to a again, this is a a female New Hampshire uh voter in this particular case, and Joe Biden is out there suggesting, uh, well, ma'am, your lying dog face.
Here's what he said.
So you're arguably the candidate with the greatest in it in this race.
You've been the vice president, you weren't burdened down by the impeachment trials.
So how in the participation.
So how do you explain the performance in Iowa and why should the voters believe that you can win the national election?
It's a good question.
Number one.
I was a Democratic caucus.
No, you haven't.
You're a lying dog face pony soldier.
You said you were, but you're now you gotta be honest.
I'm going to be honest with you.
A lying dog face pony soldier.
Whatever the hell that is.
Anyway, Jordan Seculo uh is with us.
He was part of the president's defense team, executive director of American Center for Law and Justice.
Uh he along with his dad, uh really putting on, I think the single best defense I'd seen.
It was a slam dunk case, but Jordan, they don't seem to ever want to stop, do they?
No, they don't.
I mean, I want to remind everybody listening, Sean, that we've got three Supreme Court cases next month, two coming out of the House of Representatives.
So two are federal from the House, uh trying to get the president's uh tax records, two different uh Democrat controlled committees.
That case was combined into one, but it is considered separate.
Then we've got another case that'll be argued on the same day, the last day of March at the U.S. Supreme Court, uh coming from the New York uh local district attorney.
There are five thousand district attorneys, over five thousand in the country.
And if we allow a precedent that they can start criminal investigations in the presence or investigations into presidents, think about what that would do to the presidency while the while while the president is running the country.
If all 5,000 plus of those DAs could open investigations whenever they wanted to, it's it's absurd.
So yes, I mean the presidential harassment, they're not just talking about is it going to continue?
I'm telling your listeners right now, Sean, they are continuing it by by fighting it out in the Supreme Court to try and get records at the conversation.
So it's I want you to go into more de I want you to go into more details, though, as to why this matters.
Because as you said, now what and within eight weeks now we're gonna have these cases come before the the courts and the Supreme Court now.
And if if that means that you've got some small time mayor of some city or a prosecutor or whatever, or DA here, there, anywhere, and it happens to be anything, that this could be a never-ending non-stop forever being on defense, uh attention grabbing and distracting the president from ever doing his job.
And let me tell you something, Sean.
Think about this way.
President Trump has the resources to fight this, but most presidents, honestly, even ones that are fairly wealthy, would not.
I mean, they they would not be able to fight the constant legal barrage of of becoming presidency.
So Democrats love to talk about the fair process, so we don't want just we don't want just billionaires and millionaires to be able to be the president.
But if you allow these kind of standards, that's the only kind of people that could ever become president, certainly, because you would have to face this constant what we've called in presidents called presidential harassment from all levels.
So whether it's these uh phony kind of impeachment trials, and you've got to have attorneys for that, or whether it's Supreme Court cases and federal court, uh that uh again, you've got to have your your personal uh attorneys representing you in in your private capacity, so that's separate than the government.
The government has come on our side, but we're we're we're doing the majority of the work.
So the president is having to, again, have these legal teams do that.
So again, we'll we'll fight aggressively for the president all the way, and we're proud and honored to do that, but none of this should be a very good thing.
Okay, explain the second case so everybody understands.
That would be one is oh, we want your tax returns.
What do they want as tax returns?
Because they want to go on a fishing expedition.
Right and hopefully, and I think that's a good thing.
By the way, I would imagine any billionaire's tax returns are as complicated as all get out.
Um you know the most fascinating thing, every year around April fifteenth, they will give certain information to certain accounting firms and they'll say, Okay, figure out the tax liability.
And almost every year they come up with a different number, all the different groups because the c the laws are that complicated.
So what it is is a fishing expedition.
So your the argument there is hey wait, hang on a second.
Presidents will never be able to do their job nor afford to be able to do their job if they have to hire lawyers and defend themselves in what could be never ending nonstop legal action to paralyze a an administration, correct?
Right.
I mean, there's no law on the books that requires a president uh releases tax returns.
In fact, I think that the fact Sean, that the the fact that the impeachment is over and the president's been acquitted actually hurts their case even more because they could make a stronger case that they needed records from the president during an impeachment trial.
Once that's over, as it is now and the president's been acquitted, it becomes that much higher bar.
So they have a higher bar to meet there.
And then of course, what is even more absurd is this district attorney issue.
So any district attorney in the country that the president may touch, and you think about President Trump and the businesses he has and has started around the country.
I mean, you with the way that the interstate commerce laws works, that's about everybody, right?
So if you've got angry district attorneys, they could just try and tie this president up in court.
Now, what does that mean?
Now for President Trump, it means he's got good lawyers, he's got great legal teams, they handle it, he's continuing to run the country like he did during the impeachment trial.
He got USMCA signed phase one of China, finished out of Davos, the economy's going up, he gave the State of the Union address, and the Democrats were in disarray.
But I but what we fear too is and I I think the President understands this as well because you're setting precedent for the future as well.
So if you can treat this president this way, other presidents will be treated this way.
Same kind of c our argument we made in the impeachment trial.
And you got this is very dangerous ground we're on if you allow local district attorneys to open up these cases of presidential harassment when, for instance, President Trump has been doing business in New York uh since he started in the business world, since he came out of uh business school.
And this is now the time they want to open up these investigations when he's president of the United States.
I mean, it's just very obvious.
So these two combined, I think are are again, it's just a I I wanted to remind your audience that while they talk about will they continue to harass the president.
Let me just tell everybody they are continuing to harass the president in court and using any legal available.
So those are the two cases now that he's gonna face, correct?
And and what do you see as the odds of of this now being bought back in the court?
Uh it sounds like the arguments are strong constitutional and solid.
But again, I mean you have people on courts that are activist justices, and if they just don't like Donald Trump, they'll probably make one decision.
If it was somebody that was a Democrat and shared their political views, they'd pick a very different decision.
So the cases sound similar.
I think you do have to differentiate the federal one, so the two House committees and the district attorney.
I think the district attorney one that the Supreme Court's gonna realize that is a dangerous road to go down.
You you start letting state and local officials do these investigations of a president while they're in office.
Doesn't prevent them from doing it when they're out of office, but while they're in office, that is not what the founders intended to occur with the power of the presidency while you're in office.
So that's that issue.
The House issue becomes stronger and stronger if they have a legitimate uh interest.
What are they investigating?
And they've had a issue here because they moved forward with their impeachment.
And when they gave the even when they gave the articles over ultimately to the Senate, that kind of was over.
So what what now?
I mean, they're gonna have to make a a good case to the Supreme Court about what is this tied to.
You can't just get the info.
You've got to explain to us why you need these specific tax returns for what legitimate legislative purpose.
And while the courts have been kind of all over the place.
Remember, a lot of candidates have just released this, so it hasn't really become an issue.
It's tough to predict exactly on the federal side, but I do think of all presidents because he hasn't released them.
And because they they have not really made a good showing of why they need them for, other than the fact that they just don't like this president.
I feel I feel good about both cases.
And I think ultimately, uh again, it's more about harassing the president.
Neither one of these are going to decide if someone votes for the president or not.
Uh it's about trying to harass the president, so he's not focused on his campaign.
He's not focused on running the government.
Stay right there, Jordan Seculo.
Do that to him.
Stay right there.
You got to take a break.
More with uh Jordan Secular.
We're in New Hampshire today.
Uh in light of the New Hampshire primary tomorrow, he is the executive director of the American Center for Law and Justice.
Uh, we'll talk about the Bolton question that seemingly is on the minds of every psychotic hate Trump rage Trump Trump derangement syndrome Democrat led by the compromise congenital liar himself, who's the one guy that actually should have to testify and answer some real questions in this case, along with Joe and Hunter and the uh hearsay whistleblower.
Continue, Jordan Secular with us, executive director, Americans uh Center for Law and Justice.
All right, let's assume for a minute that John Bolton is going to say that he heard Donald Trump say, I'm not giving Ukraine a penny unless they investigate quid pro quo Joe and zero experience.
Hunter, and unless they get to the bottom of election interference as chronicled by politico January 11th, 2017, and a Ukrainian court.
Let's say he said that.
Number one, he didn't do it.
Uh the four facts never change.
Number two, isn't there a prima facie case with Joe Biden bragging you're not getting the billion unless you fire the prosecutor investigating my zero experience on being paid millions?
Uh doesn't he have a an oath and he's faithfully executing the laws of the land.
We've got 40 seconds.
Absolutely.
I think that this Bolton thing, first of all, if you actually read the New York Times, they were careful, and it you notice these leaks have stopped since the impeachment trial uh of the of the supposed book transcript.
But Sean, they said the president preferred.
Preferred was a word that they used in that article.
That's that's really even John Bolton, I think, protecting what he was gonna say.
He was unwilling to submit an affidavit to the uh House Democrat managers during the impeachment trial.
I think you know, whatever they try to do, if they try to subpoena him in the house or whatever we haven't even gone through executive privilege there, immunity there, long legal battle, and uh if they want to take that on, you know, again, more presidential harassment, fine, but at the same time, we'll be ready to go to defend the president, so will the White House counsel.
All right, Jordan Seculo, thank you for being with us.
800-941 Sean, you want to be a part of this extravaganza when we come back, final hour free for all.
We'll get to your calls straight ahead as we continue from New Hampshire.
Everyone's like trying to guess now what it is I'm I'm hoping to do while I'm here.
From New Hampshire, in light of the New Hampshire primary, it's the Sean Hannity show.
Hannity tonight, nine Eastern from New Hampshire.
This is incredible, really incredible.
Thank you, the Academy for this honor of honors.
They told me I only have 45 seconds up here, which is 45 seconds more than the Senate gave John Bolton this week.
I'm thinking maybe Quentin does a movie about it in the end.
The adults do the right thing.
All right, 25 now to the uh top of the hour.
800 dying for one Sean, our number.
We are in the great live free or die state of New Hampshire.
The primary tomorrow, the president has a uh rally going on tonight.
We have a special secret Hannity operation underway even now as we speak.
We'll let you know by uh TV time tonight how well it goes.
Um you know it's amazing.
You know, how I listen to Brad Pitt, and I don't even think he's that good an actor.
Five club was okay.
I mean, and it's like you're so stupid that he knows nothing about the Constitution because they didn't even subpoena Bolton in the in the House of representatives, and nor were they willing to allow remedy uh Mr. Brad Pitt, you know, I guess what do they call him a man of the year, best looking guy of the year.
You know, I'm like, you're so dumb.
Because it's not read your constitution.
All you people in Hollywood, I I don't know what the ratings were, but I'm sure it was a disaster.
I could not stand watching the pregame show or the show.
So I stopped watching all of it.
You are you're so pompous and and so narcissistic, you people out there in Hollywood.
Nobody cares what you think.
The The golden age of Hollywood is done, dead, buried.
And with now the advancement of what?
We got Hulu, we got Amazon Prime, we got Netflix.
You know what that means?
We don't need any of you people in Hollywood anymore.
You have more independent movie producers than ever before.
And most people actually prefer to watch and order movies from the convenience of their own homes.
And they can do it rather easily.
Or you can just watch the YouTube channel and put it up on your TV set.
So the idea.
Now, if you knew something about the Constitution, you would know it's the sole power of the House of Representatives to impeach a president.
Your liberal lunatic friends in the house led by, you know, Nancy Pelosi, Petty Pelosi, speaker and name only, and the compromised corrupt congenital liar, Adam Schiff.
They're the ones that push this whole thing.
You would know that they never subpoenaed Bolton.
Really quickly.
It is not the job constitutionally of the Senate to do the House's sole response, constitutional responsibility.
What?
I found the ratings.
What is it?
It's the lowest of all time.
Lowest of all time.
23.6 million.
I can't even believe they got 23 million people.
That's probably people just being curious.
They probably just had it on in the background while they were vacuuming.
They turned it on for the shift show.
Maybe they were too tired to get up and change the channel and they couldn't find the remote.
Donald Trump, oh, he trumps all of Hollywood.
Yes, with a State of the Union address.
It's ridiculous.
Anyways.
So I I just listen.
You're so dumb.
You just it's unbelievable.
And you're not a good actor.
With all due respect.
I don't think he's a good actor.
I mean, he doesn't do it for me.
Doesn't do it for me either.
He looks like he could fit into my jeans.
That's not my kind of thing.
So now is he back with Jennifer Anniston?
Is that the deal?
Oh, God help her.
I hope not.
You already did it once, honey.
Don't go back for more.
Don't go back for more.
Don't go back.
Then there was Brad Regelina, whatever they call the duo.
Yeah, well, you know.
They made a bad movie together, so they fell in love.
Isn't that what happens?
Yeah.
You know what?
Uh Ronald Reagan, when he was an actor called the first Lady Idis.
You do a movie with a woman and you get emotionally.
Well, you get emotionally attached because, you know, especially if you do that, what is that called?
Method acting?
When you actually become the character.
I no.
Listen.
What?
I don't care what anybody says.
Tell me.
So they have all these scenes, you're making out what's, you know, oh no, there's no feeling towards it at all.
Give me a brain.
Give me a brain.
That's such a lie.
Yeah.
I want to be in that room.
I want, yeah.
Oh, no, I'm not NDAs at this point.
Honestly.
If you knew how technical it was, and somebody directing you to move your foot over here and your hand over here.
And I'm like, you're full of crap.
Stop lying to us.
It's not that different from the real thing.
But at the end of the day, I mean, I think when you're telling somebody, when somebody outside is watching two of you, then I I could see that getting weird.
I I don't know.
Maybe.
You know, like I watched, for example, and we talked about this last week, the Super Bowl halftime show, and I thought the athleticism of both Shakira.
Every man in America was talking about the athleticism.
No, no, no.
Absolutely.
Okay.
You have to be in phenomenal shape.
Look at that athletic capability.
Now, we watch football players.
We admire, you know, how great they are.
Great quarterbacks, great receivers, great playmaking.
That's every time I say Tom Brady.
Oh, Tom, you are so talented and in great shape.
Okay, up until last week, you didn't even know how many points you got in a touchdown.
I don't know them this week either.
All right, if you get a touchdown, how many points you get?
I truly don't know.
Nor do I care.
You don't know and you don't care.
So why am I asking you anything about football except to entertain this audience that is sitting there saying, how is it possible that a woman with two master's degrees has no clue how many points you get in a touchdown?
Because they were in business and music.
Unbelievable.
All right, let's get to the phones before I have a heart attack here in New Hampshire.
I can't believe you're not talking about SNL.
That was funny.
What part of it?
I mean, all of it.
I mean, not for nothing.
I mean, when Jason Sadeka says, I'm like Biden.
I know I had a rough time in Iowa, but I'll creep up from behind you and give you a kiss in the neck in New Hampshire.
I almost fell over.
I was like, That was pretty funny.
When they start breaking on Biden on themselves, you know, it's just uh, it's just priceless.
The best part was when they had the oh, take a look at the soon-to-be MSDNC.
Oh, the MSB MSC contributors.
Oh, it's classic.
That's probably all true.
No, it is true.
They'll all be working over there.
Well, half of them will be a fake news CNN.
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I'm George Stephanopoulos.
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Thank you.
Wow, what a week it has been for American politics.
Iowa was a disaster.
President Trump has gone super sane since his acquittal.
And now it's up to New Hampshire to start turning things around for the Democrats.
So let's meet our future MSNBC contributors.
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In believe it or not, it's coming and it's coming very quickly in all just a few short days, 267.
We will be looking at the all-important state of Ohio.
Lou, no Republican has ever made it to the White House without winning the Buckeye State.
And we will be watching closely in 267 days.
That's why we rock out here.
Prayers for you and prayers for Rush.
We're getting back.
Thank you.
And I just want there's a rally tonight.
I would like you and your listeners to take a look at the demographic in those audiences.
I went to the uh rally in Toledo, walked out with a 30-year-old, and he goes, Boy, did I feel old here tonight because of all the young kids that are going to these rallies and they're connecting with this president, they're hooting and hungering with him.
And for one thing, I think these kids, there's more kids going to career tech school, community colleges, coming out with with $50,000, $60,000 jobs in this state.
And they're and their counterparts that they graduated from high school with, aren't out of college, and they're gonna have a big debt, and these kids are already buying houses, and they want to hang on to their money.
It's amazing what's happening too.
Um now, uh, our friend Miranda Devine, she writes for the New York Post, very, very good writer, points out that the president's approval rating with non-white voters, again, everything's broken down demographically, is now soaring above 28%.
The president now is well around the 25% approval rating with African Americans and about 38% with Hispanic Americans.
And the reason is he's delivering results.
That is to me, uh that is a game changer.
Now you have one record after another record after another record, the president's approval rating uh with with job creation for minority groups in this country.
The president went to North Carolina last Friday, and he's talking about opportunity zones uh to lift underserved communities across the nation and create the tax cuts in the business environment whereby opportunities there could be a revitalization in a lot of areas, and that's what he talked about as well.
Uh, in the communities that need the most help, which is smart.
Now we also added another 225,000 jobs in January, far beyond expectations yet again.
Economic confidence is at the highest point now in literally 20 plus years.
The the record that the president laid out in a State of the Union the other night was unbelievable.
For the first time in our country's history, at least in the history of Gallup polling polling, the mood of the nation.
59% of people believe we are now better off, higher than when Reagan made his uh economy a campaign rallying cry.
Trump now has the highest economic approval rating of any president in 20 plus years.
67% of Americans, CBS news polls say the economy is, you know, either very or somewhat good.
That means, you know, that's these are really high numbers.
Now, what did we get in the Obama Biden years?
Well, we know the record.
It was atrocious.
And that was 13 million more Americans on food stamps, eight million more in poverty.
So the people of Ohio are doing great, thank God.
The people in Pennsylvania are doing great.
This 220 billion dollar deal with China alone in two years is gonna Help American farmers, the American service sector, uh, the American uh manufacturing sector.
Uh it's gonna help the energy sector, and it's gonna help our our uh automotive uh sector as well, car manufacturers.
You know what?
That means our fellow Americans are working.
Thank God.
Opportunity.
That means, oh, I get to buy my new F-150.
Oh, I get to buy a nicer house and a safer neighborhood with better schools.
Great.
Oh, I get to go on vacation.
Oh, my kids have been wanting to go to Disney for the last five years.
Now I can take them.
You're gonna be miserable, but they'll like it.
Um anyway, Lou, thank you.
Good points.
Uh all right, another swing state.
This one, Florida.
Jerry standing by.
Jerry, hi, how are you?
Welcome to the live free or die state of New Hampshire.
What's going on?
Hi there, Sean.
I uh been uh hoping to talk to you about this.
Um, I'm really concerned most about the the ruling class atmosphere in uh uh the United States right now.
And people like uh Schiff and uh Nabless, uh, and uh no, I didn't mispronounce his name.
I think Natlus is a better interpretation of how how his name should be.
But um We just call him Nutty Nadler because he's a nut.
Yeah, well uh Petty Pelosi, nutty Nadler, the congenital corrupt compromise, uh liar shif, yeah, we got them all.
Right.
I think they need to I I think if there's equal justice under the law, then they should be held up for sedition and a conspiracy to overthrow this government.
Because I believe what they were doing was trying to usurp the power of the executive branch, and they even tried to usurp the power of the Senate itself.
And I I think that they they're the ones that claim that they're upholding the Constitution and their everything they do, they claim is for their checks and powers and whatnot.
But they're the ones that are abusing power.
And uh, you know, and tie it on in with the ruling class thing or the sanctuary cities, you know, go into that as well, where they don't think that they have to live up to the laws of our nation.
But if we don't if we as the people don't go along with everything they say, you know, the uh heaven help us, you know, they're going to uh come after us with you know people with badges and guns.
But it's all because I believe the Democrats they want more power over our lives, and Trump is proving that he wants more people to have power over their own lives.
And but we need to stop this by he needs to have his people go after these uh corrupt congressional Democrats and hold them accountable and pull them up for charges because they need to be, because I believe it is truly sedition at sedition's worst.
I'm just gonna tell you something.
Not doing anything for the American people is not a good political campaign strategy.
Uh, you know, it's funny.
The the words of Van Jones echoed in my mind when he said about Democrats that they've been overlooking and by and this is an understatement.
This is a guy that on election night twenty sixteen said this is a white lash, what happened in America.
Now he's saying about Democrats that they have been overlooking black voters, engaging in three years of fantasy football politics with Mueller and impeachment.
And not only Bill Morris saying the same thing.
The president's delivering, I always said the forgotten men and women, because in the Obama Biden years, the people that were uh disproportionately impacted the worse were minorities in America in America.
And then you know what?
They're the ones doing the best under Donald Trump's economic policies.
All right, from New Hampshire, that's gonna wrap things up for us today.
We'll see if our little experiment works out.
Uh, we'll be reporting tonight from New Hampshire, back here tomorrow from New Hampshire.
Uh Lawrence at the Trump rally, the crowd is massive.
Ari Fleischer, Ryan's Previs.
Uh also Jason Chafetz, Dan Bonjino, Bernard Kerrick is gonna be on tonight.
Bill Hemmer at the big board Tulsi Gabbard tonight.
Uh we'll check in with her and all the news the mob and the media won't give you.
We'll see you tonight at nine from New Hampshire, back here tomorrow.
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