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Well, Bloomberg and his campaign is, I guess we could say Bloomberg has always been, at least in his own mind, plan B for when, well, quid pro quo Joe collapses, which he's in the middle of a full collapse, he will be the more moderate to Bernie Sanders.
They desperately hate Bernie Sanders all over the liberal media, even they hate him because he's too honest.
This radical extreme crop of Democrats, they're all Bernie Sanders, but they just hide it.
So you got Michael Bloomberg.
Nobody seems to understand what he's trying to do here.
Now, let me explain it to you.
Well, number one, it's never been done before.
He's waiting till Super Tuesday, hoping that he can create enough of an image or perception of him being an alternative to quid pro quo Joe that he's he's just he's running a slick marketing and ed campaign.
He's already spent, according to the Washington Examiner, $417.7 million.
All it is is one big infomercial on Mike, but nobody's been examining his record.
It's like even the Huffington Post kind of nailed it when they said it's like a Wizard of Oz campaign that his record is hiding behind the curtain.
There is now so much tape beginning to come out on him, it's bad.
The Washington Post has a long investigative report about Bloomberg.
I mean, a who's who of things that you don't say in life.
Alienating, again, if we're going to look at the Republican Party as a coalition party, the Democratic Party is a coalition party.
The base of the Democratic Party, they would like to tell you as African Americans, the gay and lesbian community, Hispanic Americans, and, for example, women.
That would be a part of their coalition.
And, well, if that's true, it all started last week when this tape started emerging of Bloomberg started.
Well, okay, he says murderers and murder victims fit one M.O. modus operandi.
You just take the description.
There's only one, not two.
You take the description, you Xerox the description, you pass it out to all the cops.
They are male minorities 16 to 25.
That's true in New York and virtually every city.
And he's talked about, yeah, we take these young kids, the police, throw them up against the wall.
I'm like, really?
Okay.
At one point he said, well, so, you know, people say to me, well, oh my gosh, you're arresting kids from marijuana and they're all minorities.
His answer, yes, that's true.
All minority, not some, all minorities.
Why?
Because we put all, not some, all the cops in minority communities.
He said, yeah, that's true.
Because that's where all the crime is.
Well, that's not true.
And I know for a fact, but that's what he said.
Now, we got to, I don't even know what to make of this.
So, all right, African Americans, if all of these comments turn out to be true about him, I mean, it's so despicable.
He's attacking members of the gay and lesbian community using words that, well, he's never apologized for.
Apparently, at his 48th birthday, they had this book put together, 32 pages of the wit and wisdom of Michael Bloomberg.
Now, Washington Post ran with this all weekend, and so have other media outlets.
Then we have apparently some of the details emerging from many of the lawsuits.
Apparently, there's a ton of lawsuits about Michael Bloomberg.
And at one point, in one case, it's called the Garrison complaint, that, you know, apparently he was, he had a group of salespeople at a New York University, business school students.
Anyway, Bloomberg noticed that this individual was standing nearby.
Why didn't they ask you to be in the picture?
I guess they saw your face.
Wow.
And apparently asked the plaintiff in this case, how's married life?
You're married.
And the person responds saying, yeah, no, it's going really great, and it's even going to get better in the next few months, you know, saying that she's expecting her child.
And he responds and confirmed by others, kill it.
I'm reading verbatim now from the Washington Post.
Kill it.
Plaintiff asked Bloomberg to repeat himself, and again he said, kill it, and then muttered, great, number 16, suggesting to the plaintiff his unhappiness that 16 women in his company had maternity-related status.
I don't think that's going to go over particularly well with that part of the coalition.
So this is going to be very interesting to watch how this happens.
He got torn apart by Zerlina Maxwell, who we know, I've had her on this program, I've had her on TV, and she used to work for Hillary Clinton.
And the idea that they were floating this trial balloon that he's considering Hillary as his vice presidential running mate, likening Bloomberg to a defective product.
I mean, they were furious about this.
Right now he's blanketing the airways with closy advertisements.
And if millions of dollars behind the advertisements don't work to sell products, even defective ones, they wouldn't spend so much on advertising.
Then she went on and said, I don't think by accepting a deeply flawed candidate, particularly one that hasn't debated any of the other candidates, I think we're jumping ahead before black and brown people have an opportunity to weigh in at the ballot box.
I think she was referring to the comments that came out last week.
And if you're going to do this at the same time, you're throwing, quote, black children up against the wall and then defending it until weeks before you're announcing your run, then people, I think, have a right to be skeptical about whether or not you really care about these communities.
So, and it just goes on from there.
But, I mean, we have new video.
Now we have another part of the coalition.
Democrats have always played the fear card as it relates to, oh, Republicans want dirty air and water.
And Republicans, now think of what they're doing here.
I always tell you every two years, every four years, it's the same playbook, that Republicans are racist.
They are sexist.
They're misogynistic.
Why do they do this every two or four years?
Because they're playing to the base of their party.
And they're trying to portray, remember, Al Gore, Republicans don't even want to count you in the census before a predominantly African-American group.
And why?
Because they're racist.
We're not.
Now, I can argue these are pretty fascinating times when you look at any of these big cities, and we've been doing a pretty deep dive on TV.
Our 2020 correspondent, Lawrence Jones, out in San Francisco, one mile from Nancy Pelosi's house in one district, one mile from her office in the other district.
What do you see?
People, needles everywhere, all over the streets, drug addicts everywhere.
They don't have any facilities, so they're defecating in the streets.
They're urinating in the streets.
Why didn't Nancy fix the problem one mile from her house, one mile from her office?
Raises great questions, doesn't it?
Same in L.A. Same in Chicago.
Our fellow Americans, you know, I think I'm the only one on TV that ever scrolled the names of all of these people shot and murdered in Chicago.
And still the violence continues.
What's the one commonality here?
And that is Democratic Party rule for decades.
Look at Baltimore.
President got attacked because of what he said about Baltimore.
Well, in Baltimore, there are 13 public high schools where there's not one kid, not one, proficient in reading or math.
Well, that would mean Democratic Party rule is failing the kids in these cities.
That's our American family.
And no responsibility.
Now we got Bloomberg in one piece of tape.
He actually is, now another part of the coalition.
He's in favor of cutting off medical treatment to the elderly.
One of my arguments has always been, if you want to know how great socialized medicine is and a single-payer system in Canada, look at all the politicians and wealthy Canadians.
When they need real medical care, they fly to the U.S. to get treated.
The National Health Services in Great Britain, you know, they literally will say to you, well, you need a new hip, you need a new knee, whatever it happens to be, but you've already exceeded your life expectancy.
You're not getting it.
And it's denied more often than you would think.
Yeah, but Tape now with Bloomberg saying he's in favor of cutting off medical treatment to the elderly.
Let's see.
Look at the things they can't fix right away.
If you're bleeding, they'll stop the bleeding.
If you need an x-ray, you're going to have to wait.
And all of these costs keep going up.
Nobody wants to pay any more money.
And at the rate we're going, health care is going to bankrupt us.
So not only do we have a problem, it's going to bankrupt us.
And we've got to sit here and say which things we're going to do and which things we're not.
Nobody wants to do that.
You know, if you show up with prostate cancer and you're 95 years old, you should say, go and enjoy.
Have a nice day.
Leave a long life.
There's no cure.
And you can't do that.
If you're a young person, we should do something on that.
Oh, if you're 95, you have prostate cancer.
Yeah, go, enjoy yourself.
You've had a long life.
No cure for you.
We can't do anything for you.
Now, do you think Bloomberg's going to do that in his own life?
No, he's going to hire every doctor imaginable and pay whatever it costs to extend his life as long as he possibly can.
But to the rest of us, no, that's not going to happen.
And then, you know, quintessentially Democratic, right?
The revealing remarks of Peter Strzzok, smelly Trump supporters, Walmart shoppers, and Hillary called us irredeemable deplorables, and Obama said we're bitter Americans that cling to God, our Constitution, our Bibles, and religion.
Well, now we got Michael Bloomberg.
He thinks that the farmers, now you got to think about this.
There are people that go to college study farming and the chemical process and soil and how to maximize the success and hybrids in this.
I mean, it's amazing how great these.
But we have the greatest farmers in the world.
We feed the world.
It's incredible.
But not according to my, you just dig a hole in the ground, you drop in a seed.
Listen to this.
The agrarian society lasted 3,000 years.
More can teach processes.
I could teach anybody, even people in this room, so no offense intended, to be a farmer.
It's a process.
You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn.
Then we had 300, you could learn that.
Then you have 300 years of the Industrial Society.
You put the piece of metal on the lathe, you turn the crank and the direction of the arrow, and you can have a job.
And we created a lot of jobs.
One point, 98% of the world worked in agriculture.
Today it's 2% in the United States.
Now comes the information economy.
And the information economy is fundamentally different because it's built around replacing people with technology.
And the skill sets that you have to learn are how to think and analyze.
And that is a whole degree level different.
You have to have a different skill set.
You have to have a lot more gray matter.
It's not clear the teachers can teach or the students can learn.
And so the challenge for society to find jobs for these people who we can take care of giving them a roof over their head and a meal in their stomach and a cell phone and a car and that sort of thing.
But the thing that's the most important that will stop them from setting up the guillotine someday is the dignity of a job.
That's it.
That's how we're going to do, we're just going to dismiss farmers as needing more gray matter.
That's easy.
I could teach any of you to be a farmer.
Come on.
Seriously.
You know, you dig a hole, you put a seed in it, you throw dirt on top, you add water, and up pops the corn.
What an idiot.
How arrogant can you be?
Do you have any clue?
I mean, it's like he's saying, oh, well, mother, mama, I mean, and whoever the, I guess, nanny and the Scrabble and the nanny let you win.
I'm like, who thinks like this?
And that's just the tip of the iceberg with this guy.
You talk about condescension.
You know, really?
He has prostate cancer at 95.
He's not going to spend his money to get well.
That's a crock, too.
Now he's insulting minorities, gays and lesbians, women, and saying, oh, yeah, I support killing you.
If you don't have enough money like I do, too bad.
I just wish my mother had lived long enough to see a crowd like this.
What she would say to me is, don't let it go to your head.
And she, every day I'd say, what'd you do?
And she'd say, well, I played Scrabble today.
And I said, who'd you play with?
The housekeeper.
Did you win?
Yes, of course.
And I said, Mother, the housekeeper works for us.
She's throwing the game to you.
She said, that's an outrage.
And then she finished by saying, and if you learn to play Scrabble, you'd learn how to spell.
Unbelievable.
It's all coming out.
This is going to be interesting to watch the mob try and protect him here.
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All right, as we roll along, Sean Hannity shows now he's going to just dismiss farmers.
We have the greatest farmers in the world.
He knows nothing.
I just, I can't even believe.
I just dig a hole, you put a seed in it, you throw dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn.
What a dope.
It's so condescending.
I mean, it's unbelievable.
Now, there is some pushback here.
Elizabeth Warren, Bloomberg should be able to run, but not use his own money.
I disagree.
It's his money.
We live in a free country.
Amy Klobuchar saying that Bloomberg shouldn't be able to hide behind the airwaves with huge buys.
The guy spent $417 million, and all this now coming out.
Are they going to give him the same scrutiny as they would give any Republican?
The answer is no, because the mob is so corrupt.
Latest example of that is, you know, oh, look what happened to their beloved Avenatti, which we'll talk about.
You know, he's facing now 42 years in prison.
What did he do?
I guess a shakedown on Nike of some kind.
Valerie Jarrett saying Bloomberg has a lot more to do than just apologize.
Even Reverend Al saying he's got to repair the damage.
But it's not just that.
He's attacking gays and lesbians.
He's so rude and condescending to women.
I can't even say 99% of the stuff that he's saying.
And it's like, it's not like funny stuff.
It's like, okay, you're really weird.
You're kind of creepy.
Sort of like the creeps that work at fake news, CNN.
A lot of creepy people over there, too.
We'll get to all of this today.
I just think their plan B is blowing up in their face.
And now Bloomberg has got a lot of explaining to do.
Oh, and by the way, you're a golfer, right?
Well, who's going to cut our greens and who's going to care for our greens?
That's a science.
And cut our fairways.
We have to have illegal immigrants do that.
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Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
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You, we, the American people, we are the ultimate jury.
You get to ultimately decide.
Now you've got Bloomberg Plan B blowing up, I mean, in a spectacular fashion.
And it's going to, you know, I just can't imagine all this coming out, especially the comments about women and gays and lesbians and old people and African Americans, is going to go over well with the party base.
And then you've got, like, it's the man behind the curtain.
Nobody knows this guy.
We know him in New York.
We know that, oh, and he's even insulting teachers' unions.
I'm like, great.
Why don't you go after everybody that you're going to be asking to vote for you?
Now, he's tried to change his opinions.
I mean, that's the spectacular fail of Bloomberg coming out and saying, you know, well, he supported Stop and Frisk for 12 years.
And yet five years of Comrade de Blasio as mayor.
And he said nothing about hating Stop and Frisk for 17 years, but he decides he's going to run for president.
I mean, it's so transparently phony.
It's everything we hate about politicians.
It's not real.
There was a story about him.
Apparently, when he was mayor, he left all of these exclusive golf clubs, I guess he was a member of.
Then he's done being mayor and didn't think he was going to run for office again, so he joined them all up again.
It was something Lloyd Benson did.
So did he really leave because he wanted diversity at the golf clubs?
No, he didn't leave at all.
Another golf comment he made to a mutual friend, a guy that I know, a great broadcaster, John Gambling, and said, you like golf, John, I like golf.
If we don't have illegal immigrants, who's going to care for our greens and cut our fairways?
And he spoke to Spanish language network last week.
Oh, I'm going to make every illegal immigrant legal.
And we're not going to control the borders and immigration.
I'm like, oh, great.
Keep running.
This is sort of like the Bernie plan.
We're going to lose jobs, and I'm going to raise your taxes through the roof.
It's a good plan.
That's very appealing.
Watching how the mob, and now we're telling grandma and grandpa, oh, you're sick at 95.
You had a good life.
Go home.
You're going to die anyway.
Well, we're all in the process, I guess, of dying.
We're all going to die at some point.
I'm pretty certain if Bloomberg has prostate cancer at 95, he's probably going to hire the best doctors to try and stay alive as long as possible.
I'm not in any rush to get leave this world either.
But if you don't have the money, too bad.
We've got to tell old people, too bad.
Life expectancy, you're done.
You're out.
You don't have enough money like I do, too bad.
That's what he's saying.
It's really odd on a level that I can't even believe it.
So I kind of got bored, I guess, or maybe a little sick of it.
I don't know, either way.
We've watched now this love affair with Michael Avenatti for years.
And it's gone on to the point where they turned him into a deity.
Now, why did the media take to fake news, CNN, and conspiracy TV, state-run television for the Radical Democratic Party, MSDNC?
Why was there this love of Avenati?
You know, 100 times on this network, 100 times on this network.
He was on every second of every day.
Why?
Because he hated Trump.
And then he took it a step further.
It started thinking about running for president.
And many were saying, yeah, you could be the savior of the Democratic Party.
You're so good because you hate Trump the most.
He was representing Stormy Daniels at the time.
And at one point, I ran into him.
Linda, remember this like two years ago, three years ago at that media.
Was it?
No, I think it was like on a list of something.
It's one of like, I go to like one event a year.
That's it.
And I'm literally pushed and screaming and dragged there by, well, Fox News, to be honest, not in a bad way.
They want me to go, and I try and be a good host.
I try and be a good colleague and co-worker.
But I saw him there, and he's like, oh, I want to come on your show.
I said, you're on internet, you got to earn the number one show.
And he's going on Twitter and he's trying to get me to bite.
And I finally tweeted him back.
I said, you're on every other show.
You haven't earned the right to be on the number one rated show because you just repeat yourself.
You hate Donald Trump.
There you go.
Said, if you have any expertise in any other topic, let me know.
Never heard back from him.
But I never put him on the air for that reason.
He's everywhere else.
So anyway, then he comes out with this woman, Julie Sweatnick, and she was the one that had made one of the allegations against Justice Kavanaugh.
And if you recall, when allegations, not only in this matter with Nike that he was found guilty of, what does he face?
42 years in prison, I read.
Not good for him.
But first, there were allegations of some type of domestic altercation.
He was involved in.
I said, I'm going to give Avenatti that which he never gave Justice Kavanaugh, which is the presumption of innocence, a belief in due process, benefit of the doubt, and something he should have given Justice Kavanaugh and didn't.
No, now we don't have to say it because now he was convicted in this case against Nike, shakedown the Nike.
What was it, four counts, three or four counts?
But he's loved by the media.
And anyway, so I guess I'm looking at Mediaite over the weekend, and there I see Humpty Dumpty.
This guy cracks me up because they actually don't even, I think there is such a bifurcation of their brains that they actually believe or have convinced themselves of a couple of things, that Donald Trump is the embodiment of evil, and they have convinced themselves that they are fair and balanced and that they're real journalists.
They're not.
I mean, fake news, CNN is hate Trump and all things Trump and all things Fox News every second, every minute, and every hour of every day.
They hate, and it's 95% hate Trump.
A little bit of, we'll splash in a little hate Hannity in there or hate, you know, well, whoever.
So it's a joke that they take themselves that seriously.
And I'm watching, they're trying to act serious.
And Humpty Dumpty, just so you know, I guess he's in charge of, he's really just Jeff Zucker's stenographer because Jeff Zucker hates, he can't stand Donald Trump.
I don't know, but it's personal for him.
And anyway, so I see that there's this montage put together.
I don't know who put it out originally.
Maybe it was the Washington Free Beacon.
It was the Beacon, and I saw it on Mediaite.
And anyway, let's play the media love fest with Avenati.
And I'm making a point here.
He's Donald Trump's worst nightmare, Michael Avenatti.
Joining us once again is Michael Avenatti.
Let's bring in Michael Avenatti.
Michael Avenatti.
Michael Avenatti.
Michael Avenatti, thank you very much.
He's out there saving the country.
God Meacham says he may be the savior of the Republic.
You are something of a folk hero now.
I owe Michael Avenatti an apology.
I've been saying enough already, Michael.
I've seen you everywhere.
What do you have left to say?
I was wrong, brother.
You have a lot to say.
I am just dying to hear what you think.
These people all like you.
I'm the only person right here Donald Trump fears more than Robert Miller.
We think you guys are the tip of the spear that's going to take down Donald Trump.
Michael Avenatti's a beast.
Okay, that's true.
He's a beast.
He's a beast.
I hand it to her.
And I hand it to Michael Avenatti.
But he has a bigger calling here.
That being a lawyer is minimal compared to what he's doing.
No one has talked tougher directly to Donald Trump on TV than Michael Avenatti.
And Donald Trump is afraid to mention his name.
That's fascinating.
Donald Trump is terrified of Michael Avenatti.
Give Trump a run for his money more than anybody else, Michael Avenatti.
He's an existential threat to the Trump presidency.
The Democrats could learn something for you.
You are messing with Trump a lot more than they are.
He has no doubt created sheer panic in Donald Trump's very fragile mind.
Michael Avenatti is laying down the law as guest co-host.
And is he really thinking about running for president?
One reason why I'm taking you seriously as a contender is because of your presence on cable news.
You look at the field of Democrats right now and Avenatti's the one who stands out.
If they decide they value a fighter most, people would be foolish to underestimate Michael Avenatti.
I have always said that they need a fighter.
Look, I mean, we're going to continue to use the media.
I think we've used it with great success.
All of my sexual fantasies involve handcuffs.
Aw.
Aw.
Handcuffs.
Oh, that's great.
So I see this story, all of these appearances, all of them.
And he was only on these networks constantly for one reason, is that he hated, hated Donald Trump.
You know, was it stupid on my part to think he was a presidential contender?
Was that stupid that we I'm like, okay, I can't take it anymore.
And so you've got these media guys.
And here's the thing.
They got like this media show.
And the only reason I know it exists, because I do read mediaite, and I see these things that are said constantly, these constant lies and attacks by fake news, CNN.
And it's like they're stalkers.
Nobody watches their show.
I mean, I even won't even say his name because I'll just say Humpty Dumpty.
But they've convinced themselves, they're so sick that they are holier than thou.
They're so sanctimonious, self-righteous that they think they're journalists.
They think they're news people.
They are not journalists.
They're not news people.
They're agenda-driven, propaganda, state-run TV for everything radical, extreme, socialist, Democrat.
It's such a disconnect that they can't even see their own hypocrisy.
And I was thinking about it.
So anyway, so I tweeted out there.
And so I guess he has this assistant guy who now on two separate occasions, and apparently he's been emailing a lot.
Anybody that works for me, his name is Oliver, emailing a real lot, wanting to get drinks with everybody.
It's kind of creepy.
And nobody knows who he is.
Ollie comes up to me twice.
I'm like, do I know you?
I don't know who you are.
It's Oliver.
Oliver who?
And me, Oliver.
You know, I'm like, oh, my gosh, who is this?
It's like a stalker.
So that's why I don't go out to these things.
I can't stand these people anyway for the most part.
A couple of people I like, very few.
And I go on this thing because they think that they are so great and so superior.
Now, they're either attacking the president or they're fixated with Fox News.
Now, we don't hide who we are.
What do I do for a living?
I'm a radio talk show host.
I'm a TV talk show host.
What does that mean?
What does your job entail?
Well, I could produce thousands of hours of radio and thousands of hours of TV of me just doing straight-up reporting, news, news of the day, what's happening.
Okay, let's go to Joe Bastardi.
We have a weather situation in this location, that location.
Or, okay, let's go to our war correspondents, God forbid.
Or let's go to, you know, a natural disaster, something that's happened.
Plane's gone down, God forbid.
And thousands of hours.
As a talk show host, it's my job to just do news.
We also do investigative reporting.
The media wouldn't vet Barack Obama.
It was all hope and change.
And yes, we can, and led by the media.
The only question that Obama ever got about Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dorn, his good friends, where he started his political career in their home, members of the Weather Underground, of all days, 9-11, 2001, Bill Ayers quoted in the New York Times wishing he had done more.
Meanwhile, the Weather Underground bombed the Pentagon and the Capitol and New York City police headquarters.
We wished we did more.
Of all days, they never learned about Frank Marshall Davis, the Choom gang, what a community organizer was, Acorn, black liberation theology, Reverend Wright, Ayers and Dorn and the radicalism of Obama.
So we did the job for them.
Because they, for example, they supported the most radical candidate, and they were enthusiastic about it.
But they think they're fair and balanced.
The investigations we've done into the deep state, I'm extremely proud of the fact.
There's no doubt Hillary Clinton violated the Espionage Act, 18 U.S.C. 793.
There's no doubt to me, it's a slam-dunk case about Hillary Clinton, the leasions and bleach-bitting hammers.
We were right when everybody else was doing Russia-Russia about the dirty dossier with funneled money through a law firm to an op research firm to a foreign national.
We were right that the bulk of information in the FISA applications was from the unverifiable, now debunked, dirty dossier that Hillary Clinton paid for.
We were right that it was premeditated fraud on the court because they were warned numerous occasions.
Yeah, we broke all those stories too.
And even now, the Attorney General has admitted, yep, those FISA applications were obtained wrongly.
The mob see it fake news CNN.
So we do investigative reporting.
We do straight news.
We do opinion, obviously, and I'm straight up.
I'm a conservative.
We also do sports and we do culture.
They think they do news.
They do none of it.
They have an agenda.
And their agenda is everything anti-Trump, anti-Fox news.
And that's their full obsession.
Now, I finished my, they always say when you tweet like three or four times, it's a tweet storm, an angry tweet storm.
Nothing angry.
I didn't embrace Avenatti.
They did.
How many times have we been right?
I tell the story about what I learned when I was in Atlanta.
I was the only person that said just because he lives with his mother and father doesn't make Richard Jewell a terrorist.
Changed my life.
But we were right on, let's see, Cambridge police when the media was wrong.
We were right on Ferguson, Missouri.
Why?
Because my sources told me they had eyewitnesses.
I knew early on.
Same thing with Freddie Gray, Baltimore.
Those cops are all going down.
No, they weren't.
My sources then were right, dead on accurate.
You know, the idea that Trump could win, none of the media people thought he could win.
I was right about the deep state.
I'm going to be proven even further right down the road.
They've gotten everything wrong.
It just is, it's amazing to me.
They embraced this guy, wanted this guy to run for president.
Where'd their love for Avenati come from?
Came from the fact that he was an outspoken Trump hater, and they wanted to do as much damage as they could do to Trump.
Same with Fox.
But they're not news people.
There's a reason why their ratings are so low, which is why I concluded this.
Don't change a thing.
Keep doing what you're doing.
Because hating Fox and hating Trump is not going to get any type of audience ever.
It's not going to work.
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Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
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The agrarian society lasted 3,000 years, and we could teach processes.
I could teach anybody, even people in this room, so no offense intended, to be a farmer.
It's a process.
You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn.
Then we had 300, you could learn that.
Then you have 300 years of the Industrial Society.
You put the piece of metal on the lathe, you turn the crank, and the direction of the arrow, and you can have a job.
And we created a lot of jobs.
1.98% of the world worked in agriculture.
Today it's 2% in the United States.
Now comes the information economy.
And the information economy is fundamentally different because it's built around replacing people with technology.
And the skill sets that you have to learn are how to think and analyze.
And that is a whole degree level different.
You have to have a different skill set.
You have to have a lot more gray matter.
It's not clear the teachers can teach or the students can learn.
And so the challenge for society to find jobs for these people who we can take care of giving them a roof over their head and a meal in their stomach and a cell phone and a car and that sort of thing.
But the thing that's the most important that will stop them from setting up the guillotine someday is the dignity of a job.
I was stunned that you didn't do as well in Manchester and Dubuque.
You're a middle-class joe.
You're the guy of these working classes.
You didn't do well in Dubuque and Manchester.
Well, I did better in Dubuque, but I got outspent overwhelmingly in both places.
I think Bernie spent $25 million.
And this is what has your supporters anxious.
You're the former vice president.
How are you getting outspent?
How are you getting outspent by Bernie and by Bootages?
You shouldn't be.
No, I shouldn't be because, but I haven't spent the time, it's starting to happen now.
I haven't spent the time going out doing the fundraisers and moving the way I have.
Well, now online we're raising about $400,000 a day and we have a lot of fundraisers that are online and we got a lot of union support now.
But I think you're right that my being outspent has had an impact.
We're going to be able to compete from here on in, including these two.
All right, hour two Sean Hannity show.
There's Bloomberg.
Well, come on.
I can teach you to be a farmer.
I mean, it's easy to be a farmer.
All you got to do is you dig a hole, you put a seed in it, and you put dirt on top of it and water, and boom, up pops the corn.
What a condescending jackass.
Even worse, his comments, if you get cancer at 95, huh?
Well, we're just going to tell you, you lived a long life.
We can't do anything.
You're on your own.
Is he going to do that in his own life?
I tend to doubt it.
The billionaire, the man behind the curtain now, has spent $417 million, slick marketing ad campaign only.
That's all this has been.
Now we're beginning to pay attention.
And, you know, this is a guy, murders, murderers, murder victims fit one MO.
Take the description.
One, you Xerox it, you pass it out to all cops.
They're all male minorities 16 to 25.
That's true in New York and virtually every city in America.
That's where the real crime is.
And by the way, you got to, you know, you put cops, you throw young kids up against the wall.
Really?
Okay.
That's your thought process behind stop and frisk.
That's worse.
I mean, this isn't even profiling.
This is complete 1,000% only go after minorities is what he's saying.
People say to me, oh, my God, you're asking, you're arresting kids for marijuana, and they're all minorities.
All.
That's true.
Why?
Because we put all the cops in minority neighborhoods.
Why do we do it?
Because that's where all the crime is.
You can't make this up.
And again, you get 95, you get cancer.
We can't get out of here.
We're not spending any money on you.
Wow.
And by the way, if we get rid of illegal immigrants, and he said last week he wants every illegal immigrant to become legal, well, who's going to take care of our greens and our fairways?
I hate to tell you, but like farming, putting together a golf course and maintaining it and doing it, it's a science.
You know how much these real top-notch Greens keepers get?
Fortunes.
Because it's so easy to do.
Just like farming, you just drop a seed in the ground.
Anyway, what is the impact on all of this?
Plan B seems to be collapsing rather quickly.
We bring in our pollsters, John McLaughlin and Matt Towery back with us.
All right.
Well, I don't know if we know the full impact of the Bloomberg disaster, but the marketing campaign isn't going to work now because even the Democrats are sick and tired of his crap.
Your take, John McLaughlin.
Well, as we've talked about before, Biden's in the process of collapsing.
So the Democrat frontrunner is the unintended.
He's done.
Let's be honest.
I think he's done.
All right.
So Bloomberg was going to be plan B. Bloomberg now, it's getting worse by the hour.
Yeah, but Plan B, he's not playing in Nevada, whose caucus is next, because Bernie's ahead and he's afraid of losing to Bernie.
And in South Carolina, Biden's starting to lose his lead to Bernie, so he's afraid of losing to Bernie in South Carolina because then he loses African-American vote.
And it's mixed in the states that he's playing in, like Texas, he's in third place still behind Sanders and Biden.
So the first real look we're going to get at Bloomberg is going to be on the March 3rd Super Tuesday state that he's trying to buy.
He'll have spent over $400.
Let's assume for a second.
$20 million advertising.
Matt Towery, the Republican Party Coalition Party around issues, et cetera, and demographics, so we are told.
Same with the Democrats.
So now that we have these comments, this big piece by the Washington Post about horrific comments about women, I mean, so over the top, I can't even explain them on air.
And there's a lot of them.
So now women is a big part of the coalition.
Attacks on gays and lesbians, African Americans, and telling old people, we're not going to help you.
You lived past your prime.
You're going to die.
Good luck.
Get out of my office.
How's this?
That's a big part of the Democratic Party, isn't it?
Or at least their base.
It is.
And the real question, Sean, is will there be enough money out there from the candidates who are running against Bloomberg to really tattoo him with these issues?
That's the critical part because we know a good percentage of the voters don't pay attention to what they see on the news every day.
It's a different sort of world.
They watch regular TV shows and enjoy themselves and have real lives.
And so they don't worry about politics.
You have to bring it in front of them in terms of.
But the base of the Democratic Party is going to turn out to vote.
I mean, the people that would know are the people that will vote in a primary, correct?
So, yes, and I would suspect that if Bloomberg starts to fade because of these attacks, it's going to inure to the benefit of someone like Mayor Pete.
There's got to be a middle, it's in their middle, not it's way left to center, but their middle, quote unquote.
There's got to be some alternative to Bernie.
That's going to continue to happen.
And I think that if, in fact, we don't see Bloomberg perform well on Super Tuesday, then all the money in the world will not save him.
And he will not be that alternative.
All right.
So then it's Bernie's to lose.
Basically.
What are your thoughts, John McLaughlin?
I think Bernie's definitely got the most committed.
I mean, he's going to rack up the delegates.
And he's got the most committed people within the Democrat Party in their wing.
And that social, the winner of the socialist primary, as Elizabeth Warren collapses and he rises, it's likely to be the nominee.
Now, I just get, you missed the biggest negative on Mayor Bloomberg that came up over the weekend.
He said he would take Hillary Clinton as his vice president.
Well, Hillary Clinton, some people that work for Hillary Clinton are really ticked off and saying that you can't fix a defective product and then blasted him.
I mean, he's getting blasted by a lot of people now.
By the way, I looked at it like, please, please, Picker, please.
I'm kind of with you.
I'm like pretty pleased with sugar on top.
It's sort of like fake news CNN.
I'm like, don't change what you're doing.
Just keep up.
Just keep up the great work, attacking Trump and Hannity and Fox.
I love it.
The other thing, Sean, is that once you start talking about Hillary Clinton as a running mate, you really get on the radar screen of the Bernie supporters who are not wild about Hillary Clinton in the first place.
So the idea that it looks like this inside job, another one of these inside jobs is beginning to develop, that's going to spell trouble for when they get down the road.
And even if Sanders doesn't have the nomination locked up, those people are going to really be upset at Mike Bloomberg.
All right, here's where we are with the real clear politics average, the generic 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
You got Sanders won 23.6.
Biden is still in second, 19.2.
Bloomberg, again, nobody's really seen or heard from him.
It's just $417 million in a slick marketing campaign.
South Carolina has Biden still in the lead at 26.5.
Bernie, 20.
That's his firewall.
But, you know, we've seen that firewall die for a lot of candidates over the years.
It's a lot more volatile than you think.
And Steyer in both Nevada and in South Carolina has double digits too because he spent over 200 million.
I guess most of it there.
But the other part is, go back to the Hillary Clinton thing.
You know, as the Washington Post, you know, started revealing all these stories that you won't see in Bloomberg news, but about him making the comments about women and what he's done in his company, to be so tone deaf to say, I want Hillary Clinton as the vice president.
So she could, the unwritten message was maybe she can enable him the way she enabled Bill all those years.
And then, you know, I mean, this is this is just starting on Bloomberg right now.
And those states you mentioned.
Well, what about this case where he says to this woman who happens to be expecting her child, she's happy as can be, we'll kill it.
Right.
I'm like, whoa.
Exactly.
Right.
I'm not.
And that's scary.
Because, I mean, here's a guy who could go from telling you what soda to drink and what to do as mayor in New York City to all of a sudden it's like, I'm going to tell you in your personal life whether to have that baby or not.
I mean, do we want that as president?
We know he wants to take away guns retroactively from law-abiding citizens.
But in the meantime, in New York City, he's not even mentioning anything about cashless bail.
Cashless bail, you have a crisis in New York State where people are being let go, people who are felons and violent criminals who are being let go under cashless bail, put back on the streets to commit more crimes.
By the way, let me just tell people what you're talking about because you got a guy in New York City thanking Democrats.
He's been arrested 139 times and he doesn't stop.
He says, you can't stop me because he just gets let out on bail every time.
And another problem is out in California, Sanctuary State.
I mean, they have all of these violent illegal immigrants.
And this was on Breitpart.
I couldn't believe it.
One after another, they won't give out information about violent felonies that are committed.
First-degree robbery, armed robbery, a battery of a spouse, imprisonment, drug dealing, one particular case, assault, child cruelty, batterying the spouse.
They still won't, you know, let these people get arrested by ICE.
It's like unbelievable.
Right.
So let's let's so in effect, here's the Republican, former Republican mayor of New York when it's convenient for him to be the successor to Rudor Giuliani, saying, let's throw these guys up against the wall to go from a place there that he's agreeing with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and these and these sanctuary cities, but we're not even going to arrest him anymore.
We're going to let violent criminals loosen our name.
All right, I want to take a break on this.
We'll come back.
Our pollsters, Matt Towery, John McLaughlin, and whether or not what the fallout for, I guess, Plan B Bloomberg is going to be.
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 Nayfak from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
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Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hammond 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.
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All right, as we roll along, Sean Hannity show our pollsters, Matt Towery, John McLaughlin.
All right.
Now that all of this, we're being deluged with these insane things that are said by Michael Bloomberg.
What is the fallout for their Plan B, Matt Towery?
I don't know the fallout for it except for one thing, Sean.
Because he has so many problems now, if he ends up becoming Plan B, the Bernie people will never accept it and there will be a complete divide in the Democratic Party.
Well, I mean, a big part of the Democratic Party, and it was amazing, Trump ran the last time, said, what have you got to lose to minority communities?
And now he's got a track record of record low unemployment for every demographic.
And I've got to imagine that's going to factor into things.
What do you think happens, John McLaughlin?
I think that's onto something here where it's as Bernie builds momentum and delegates through Nevada, through South Carolina, through Super Tuesday, as that happens, it makes it very hard for the Democrats to steal the nomination the way they did four years ago from trying to change the rules back on super delegates voting on the first ballot.
Right.
And the other part is, by the way, Bloomberg has not even been in a primary or caucus, and he hasn't stood up in a debate with Bernie and Bloomberg debating is going to be like a Seinfeld episode.
It's going to be great.
But then you got his positions.
He's anti-gun.
Then you got his positions.
He's now open borders.
Then you got all the comments about women and African Americans and minorities attacking the gay and lesbian community.
I don't think any of this goes over well with the Democratic base.
No, and a lot of those positions he took as a Republican mayor.
Well, he was never a Republican.
That's a myth, too.
The only reason he said, I'll be a Republican is because there were 400 people running in the Democratic primary, and he quickly, he never was a Republican.
That's it.
I mean, it just was his sneaky way like he's trying to do here.
Well, his problem this time, Sean, is that the money was, trust me, I believe the money works to some extent.
I think he's pushing his way up.
For example, here in Florida, where I am, he's coming up in the polls a little bit.
But the issue is you've still got Biden out there.
Biden's not through yet.
And you know where all these attacks are coming from.
A lot of them are coming from the traditional Democratic center because they're the people who support Biden and they think that this is their chance that they can knock Mike Bloomberg off.
I got to leave it there, but thank you both.
When we come back, I actually agree with Bill Barr and President Trump.
When I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and, frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
I'm Leon Navok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is fiasco, Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yes, that's right.
Lock her up.
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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.
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We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
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You're our kind of people.
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Here with James Comey.
His new book, A Higher Loyalty, is out today.
This is his first live interview since the book's been released.
And thank you for coming back.
Folks, of all the people to be fired by Donald Trump, my guest tonight is definitely one of them.
His new book is A Higher Loyalty, Truth, Lies, and Leadership.
Please welcome former FBI Director James Comey.
My first guest tonight is the former deputy director of the FBI who was fired after launching investigations into President Trump's ties to Russia.
His new book is The Threat.
Please welcome former Deputy Director of the FBI, Andrew McCabe.
Let's bring in James Baker, former general counsel for the FBI.
Let me bring in now on-set John Brennan.
He served as CIA Director under President Obama and acting director of the National Counterterrorism Center under President George W. Bush.
He is now an MSNBC senior national security and intelligence analyst.
Let's bring in former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, now CNN contributor.
Good to see you.
Good to be here.
Joining us now is James Clapper.
He served as the director of national intelligence for seven years under President Obama and is now a CNN National Security Analyst, Director Clapper.
It is so good to have you here.
FBI agents descended on Paul Manafort's Alexandria, Virginia apartment in an unannounced pre-dawn raid.
The president's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, just sentenced to 47 months.
That is one month shy of four years for running a global scheme.
Judge has sentenced former Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos to 14 days in prison.
Papadopoulos was convicted of lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russians.
Prosecutors wanted to sentence him six months.
Paul Manafort, guilty, convicted on eight counts.
Exclusive footage you're looking at right now from CNN as the FBI arrives at Roger Stone's residence in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, taking him into custody.
Tonight, Roger Stone is a convicted felon.
A jury found him guilty on all seven counts, including witness tampering and making false statements to Congress.
He's Donald Trump's worst nightmare, Michael Avenatti.
Joining us once again is Michael Avenatti.
Let's bring in Michael Avenatti.
Michael Avenatti, Michael Avenatti.
Michael Avenatti, thank you very much.
He's out there saving the country.
Don Meacham says he may be the savior of the Republic.
You are something of a folk hero now.
I owe Michael Avenatti an apology.
I've been saying enough already, Michael.
I've seen you everywhere.
What do you have left to say?
I was wrong, brother.
You have a lot to say.
I am just dying to hear what you think.
These people all like you.
I'm the only person right here Donald Trump fears more than Robert Miller.
We think you guys are the tip of the spear that's going to take down Donald Trump.
Michael Avenatti is a beast.
Okay, that's true.
And he.
He's a beast.
He's a beast.
I hand it to her.
And I hand it to Michael Avenatti.
But he has a bigger calling here that being a lawyer is minimal compared to what he's doing.
No one has talked tougher directly to Donald Trump on TV than Michael Avenati.
And Donald Trump is afraid to mention his name.
That's fascinating.
Donald Trump is terrified of Michael Avenati.
Existential threat to the Trump presidency.
The Democrats could learn something for you.
You are messing with Trump a lot more than they are.
He has no doubt created sheer panic in Donald Trump's very fragile mind.
Michael Avenatti is laying down the law as guest co-host.
Is he really thinking about running for president?
One reason why I'm taking news seriously as a contender is because of your presence on cable news.
You look at the field of Democrats right now, and Avenati is the one who stands out.
If they decide they value a fighter most, people would be foolish to underestimate Michael Avenatti.
I have always said that they need a fighter.
Look, I mean, we're going to continue to use the media.
I think we've used it with great success.
All of my sexual fantasies involve handcuffs.
Oh, isn't that sweet and lovely and kind?
24 till the top of the hour on this president's day.
Glad you're with us.
260 days till the ultimate jury, you, we, the American people, decide you get to shock the world again.
You notice the one thing that is the commonality here.
If you hate Trump, if you hate Donald Trump, even if you're a deep state operative that has been pointed out as somebody lacking candor all of these times, if you're somebody that we now know signed off on a warrant using as the fundamental core of the application, unverifiable, since debunked Russian dossier put together by Hillary Clinton, and you sign off on it three times, no problem.
Just go on fake news CNN.
Just write about a higher honor.
And whether you be a former CIA director or James Clapper, can't wait to find out what went on in Italy and Great Britain and Australia, outsourcing, spying on Americans for the sake of what?
Circumventing American law.
And then, of course, we do know the spying that occurred on a campaign, the Trump campaign, then transition team, and then deep into the presidency.
Those words are the words of the Attorney General.
But if you're Michael Avenatti and you bring in Julie Swetnik and she makes these incredible allegations how almost every weekend, not some, almost every other weekend, the kids would, these high school boys would get the girls drunk and they'd put stuff in their drinks and the girls would pass out and they'd line up in the halls and they would rape them every weekend, other weekend.
Anyone ever care?
No, he just kept getting more airtime and more airtime.
Where was the apology from Avenatti or Julie Swetnick?
When do we ever go after people that make false claims?
Anyway, a lot to sort through here.
One thing, Andrew Weissman, he was the pit bull of Robert Mueller in the Russia-Russia-Russia hysteria period of time.
He's weighed in on the issue, and I think he sees the declination announcement of McCabe and not being charged with having, well, lacked candor four separate times, three of those four lying under oath, as, you know, that's not a get out of jail free card.
Because even he is saying now what I've been saying.
That's the low-hanging fruit.
And that would have been in the Washington, D.C. Circuit Court, which is difficult because it tends to be very left-leaning.
And now I think the bigger shoe eventually is going to drop here.
And I believe it's going to be a massive shoe.
And he said that as it relates to what happened, okay, McCabe didn't get charged Friday for lying and lack of candor, but he says all they did was swapped out a loser case for starting an investigation that is going to be of Comey, McCabe, and Strzok.
And I think it's deeper than that.
I think it's Brennan and Clapper and everybody in between.
Anyway, here for his take, Jordan Seculo, ACLJ, executive director.
He was on the president's defense team during the impeachment trial.
How are you, sir?
I'm good, Sean.
Thanks for having me.
I actually think Weissman is correct.
I think that was the low-hanging fruit.
And I think that the investigation, if you look at all the crumbs, Barr has actually said the president was spied on deep into his presidency.
The Department of Justice has said those warrants were obtained illegally, the FISA warrants.
We know Barr has said, yes, the candidate and president was spied on, and he used that word.
Then you see the position that he took, well, you only get 4.2 years on average, median time spent in jail for rape.
Stone asking for nine years for process crimes of lying under oath are ridiculous.
Nine years for that.
And then I think what he's doing with General Flynn is also another crumb that he's really getting to the bottom of everything.
Yeah, and I think that when it comes to Attorney General Barr, he's made no mistake about it.
No one's telling him what to do.
And he even made it clear.
He said, even with the tweets from the president, he said, the president's never called me to do anything about a criminal investigation.
And Sean, I think that that was, again, something that liberal media wanted to pass by clearly.
He said he'll testify before these committees about that.
But by the way, I know nobody wants to hear the nuance of this, but in reality, the chief law enforcement officer in the country is the president.
And the president, it is his constitutional within his powers to tell the Department of Justice what to do, to investigate or not investigate.
Is that correct?
They don't like that.
They don't like that theory.
But even with that power, the president, who I think does realize the kind of assault he's under.
I mean, it's just nonstop from these actors, has not tried to call Bill Barr.
Bill Barr would never have said that to the media if it wasn't true, that the president has not called him to try and intervene in criminal investigations.
I think it was weird timing, the tweet that came out about the stone and that already at DOJ they were reviewing this and looking at how absurd this sentencing guidelines and how it violated their guidelines.
And then I go back to even what you played at the beginning with how the liberal media spun McCabe being fired for investigating the president's ties to Russia.
That's not why he got fired from the FBI.
He got fired from the FBI because the Office of Personnel there decided that he lacked candor in those interviews and they recommended his firing, even though it would occur right before his pensions would have vested.
That was the FBI bureaucrats that said he should be fired.
Now, that was the initial investigation they were looking at, Sean, about the lying.
And it actually involved lying about Hillary Clinton, the investigation, and being the leak to that source that was reporting in the New York Times about the new information on Anthony Weiner's computer that turned out not to be new.
And there was that strange back and forth.
I think that's part of why this case wasn't the strongest, was that there was a confusion between McCabe and Kobe on whether Kobe did give the green light to McCabe to share this information as a source to the New York Times.
That's what McCabe's position was.
Kobe said he basically couldn't remember or didn't think he said that.
So again, as you said, that's why you don't necessarily focus on that.
But I actually see both sides of this because we've been three years.
Hillary Clinton subpoenaed emails and bleach bitten hammers.
Nothing's happened.
The dirty dossier, nothing's happened.
Funnel money to a law firm, to an op research firm, to a foreign national.
Then the premeditated fraud on a court.
Everybody warned Comey and company, you can't use the dossier.
Dossier does end up being as Devin Nunes had told us and many others.
And we've told the public the bulk of information in the FISA application.
It says at the top of a FISA warrant that something is verified.
None of it was verifiable, and they used it anyway.
And they used it because he's a deep state actor that hated Donald Trump, and he thought he knew better than the rest of the country.
So all of that's true.
So the president's frustrations are real because if you're going to go after Michael Flynn, even though he didn't lie, and you're going to go after Roger Stone with 29 men and tactical gear and frogmen, and you're going to have a pre-dawn raids from Manafort, and you're going to put Cohn in jail for lying, how come all these other people don't get put in jail?
Yeah, and I think where we're at a point now is that you've got John Durham investigating the Russia probe.
That's not what this was about with McCabe.
McCabe, this was about leaking information about the Hillary.
In the Wall Street Journal.
Right.
Right.
And so, okay, so that was the McCabe issue number one.
And as Weissman is pointing out, I'm sure he's not happy about.
Now they've got this new investigation looking at the whole Flynn case, and that involves Comey, McCabe, and Strzzok with a different U.S. attorney.
That is Jeffrey Jensen.
He's out of the Eastern District of Missouri.
So now you've got Durham looking at the origins of Russia still with the FISA info and L and the steel dossier.
He's doing his investigation work.
And remember, that's criminal investigations.
And now you've got a new U.S. attorney we now know about, Jeffrey Jensen, out of the Eastern District of Missouri, who's been appointed by Attorney General Barr to investigate the circumstances involving the Flynn case, including the interview with the FBI investigators like Strzzok.
And that investigation, again, you don't use U.S. attorneys, Sean, unless it's criminal.
So it's a criminal investigation, and it involves Jim Comey, Andrew McCabe, and Peter Strzok.
I'll tell you, so I understand Barr's desire.
I'm not sure if I can get these guys.
It's not over for these guys.
And that's a good question.
I understand all that.
And I think that I understand the Attorney General wanting, and he's got to remain independent, free of any political influence.
And as you pointed out, he said that.
But when the president does weigh in on it, I understand why he thinks his job gets more complicated.
But on the other hand, I understand, I feel the frustration of the president.
Stay right there, Jordan Seculo.
All right, as we continue with Jordan Seculo looking at this battle.
Now, I can understand.
I want to go to this issue.
The Attorney General wants to remain independent.
He expressed his frustration that the president is weighing in on matters that involve investigation.
President, on the other hand, I think rightly sees everybody else being charged with things that we know these people are guilty of.
Now the question is, why is it taking so long on one side when everything happened so quickly on the other?
Well, no, it's honestly, I understand the president's frustration.
The way the people that have been associated with him, it's like you're a criminal until you're proven innocent, and that hasn't worked out for a lot of the people that have been associated with him.
And let me just say, for the Attorney General, it's the same way.
I mean, you've got 1,000-plus ex-DOJ folks signing a letter saying he needs to resign, even though he's made clear.
By the way, 97%, if we're going to be honest here, 1,100 ex-DOJ employees, 97% of DOJ employees are Democrats, according to NGR.
Yes, I mean, like most of the bureaucracy, but even worse at some of these kind of agencies like the Department of Justice.
And the Attorney General made clear, though it would make his life easier without the tweets.
Okay, great, whatever.
The fact is, he was already in the process.
I think that's what was frustrating to him.
He was already in the process of doing this.
He knew what the right thing to do was here.
That's why he's a great Attorney General.
That's why I hope he remains his Attorney General and doesn't fall down to this kind of pressure and pull like the Jeff Sessions thing of I've got to step away.
And he's been through this before when he served as Attorney General for George H.W. Bush.
This is a tough AG.
He speaks truth to power and he speaks truth to the media.
He's not afraid of members of Congress, and he's not afraid of bureaucrats in the Department of Justice.
He wants to get to the truth.
And what do we now know, Sean?
We got two U.S. attorneys with criminal investigations in Tucomi, McCabe, and Strzzok.
All right, Jordan Seculo will keep updating us.
We'll have more tonight at 9 on Hannity on the Fox News channel.
We'll take a quick break.
We'll come back 800-941.
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And if you're a fan of professional cars, limousines, and the like, there is a great exhibit of presidential limousines of the past at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
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We'll all be inside.
I guess it's like a tale of two Americas again because then you have Mayor Bloomberg dismissing farmers because he's such an elitist.
I mean, this is an amazing piece of tape.
Listen to this.
The Agrarian Society lasted 3,000 years, and we could teach processes.
I could teach anybody, even people in this room, so no offense intended, to be a farmer.
It's a process.
You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn.
Then we had 300, you could learn that.
Then you have 300 years of the Industrial Society.
You put the piece of metal on the lathe, you turn the crank, and the direction of the arrow, and you can have a job.
And we created a lot of jobs.
One point, 98% of the world worked in agriculture.
Today it's 2% in the United States.
Now comes the information economy.
And the information economy is fundamentally different because it's built around replacing people with technology.
And the skill sets that you have to learn are how to think and analyze.
And that is a whole degree level different.
You have to have a different skill set.
You have to have a lot more gray matter.
It's not clear the teachers can teach or the students can learn.
And so the challenge for society to find jobs for these people who we can take care of giving them a roof over their head and a meal in their stomach and a cell phone and a car and that sort of thing.
But the thing that's the most important that will stop them from setting up the guillotine someday is the dignity of a job.
Unbelievable disconnect.
You know, there's so many examples now of either the deep state, the Democratic Party, the media mob, elitists like Bloomberg.
I mean, you just dig a hole, you put a seed in it, that sucker pops up.
But you need more gray matter in your brain than to be able to do all the real stuff that real people do.
I'd like to see Bloomberg try and outwit and outmatch the brilliance and genius that is American farmers today.
And it's so dismissive and insulting.
Sort of like, well, they're a bunch of, I can smell them from here.
They're Trump supporters that shop at Walmart.
Okay.
I like Walmart.
I shop at Walmart.
You know what I shop at Walmart?
Because you get everything at Walmart.
You get everything at Walmart at a good price.
And then you go to a super Walmart.
You can even do your grocery shopping.
I like Costco's too.
I like Target.
I like when my Kmart near me closed down.
And I guess, you know, listen to CNN Don Lemon.
Well, them there, a lot day drinking.
What are them lines, Ukraine?
And they think they're funny.
And then, oh, irredeemable, deplorable Trump supporters.
Or those bitter Americans, as Obama said, that cling to their God.
Okay, I'm guilty.
I need God in my life.
I admit it.
I'm guilty.
And their Constitution.
Guilty.
I believe in all our constitutional rights.
They're Bibles and religion.
Does that make us bad people?
I think that makes us people that want to be better people.
Anyway, my buddy John Rich is now in the Foxnation.com family.
And John Rich kicks off his brand new show at Fox Nation on Demand anytime you want.
FoxNation.com today, a longtime friend of the program, obviously from Big and Rich, and a good friend of mine personally.
How are you, my brother?
Hey, I'm doing good, Sean.
Thanks for having me on.
And speaking of God, guns, Bible, religion, your dad was a preacher, and he was like a fire and brimstone guy, right?
Yeah, he still is a preacher, actually.
And we all grew up on farms out in West Texas, Samarilla, Texas, the grain belt.
You know, I heard that comment about how basically any numbskull can be a farmer.
You know, farmers are also chemists.
They're also soil experts.
They have to be weather guys.
I mean, and the gambling that goes along with being a farmer with drought or too much rain.
I mean, you know what?
The biggest problem is, I had to go out once to the San Joaquin Valley in California.
I was doing a story.
The story was that farmers didn't have enough water because the government cut off water to save not even an endangered species, something called the Delta Smelt.
You know, it looks like a little minnow fish.
That's all it is.
And then I walk, all the farmers couldn't do their, they couldn't farm anymore.
They had no water, and they wouldn't release the water to the farmers.
So the farmers then go bankrupt.
There's government for you.
Well, I'm pretty sure that farmers can survive without Bloomberg, but I don't think Bloomberg can survive without farmers.
How about that?
Well, I agree with that too.
Tell me about their pursuit.
I did see an ad for it on the channel.
I haven't watched it yet.
I do have my account at FoxNation.com.
I'm going to watch it.
So tell me about John Rich now becoming television star on top of everything else.
Well, you are on The Apprentice.
And you won the whole thing.
Yes, sir.
Yeah, the show is called The Pursuit with John Rich, and it stems from something that I've said for a long time, and that is our country doesn't guarantee us the right to be happy.
It guarantees us the right to pursue happiness.
There's a big difference between those two things.
So this show focuses on great Americans who've accomplished incredible things through their pursuit of happiness.
And of course, we both know nothing big happens easily.
There's obstructions and there's lots of trials that you go through to get what we call the American dream, but it can be done.
And so the show is meant to be entertaining and also inspiring and really puts a spotlight on some people that you know, Linona Judd, Gretchen Wilson, but then other people you might not have heard of that have stories that are absolutely mind-boggling.
That's what my show is all about.
You know, I'd bring on maybe we should do it like a town hall with farmers and find out how easy it is.
You know, there was a period in my life in my early 20s, and I lived in Rhode Island.
And anyway, there was like the gas company or the electric company, I forget.
They've given out these big parcels of land if you wanted to, you know, not do not be a farmer, but you could grow vegetables and corn and cucumbers and, you know, bell peppers and tomatoes.
I did all of it.
You know how much work it is?
It's so much work doing a little.
This was not the biggest plot in the world.
But I really wanted to see, I wanted to do it just to try it and see if I could be any good at it.
And then what I realized is after a couple of years, I did it.
And then it's like you go down the block and you can buy a dozen corn at the time for like two bucks.
And I'm like, man, a lot of work goes into that dozen ears of corn.
Well, did you, you know, people go to universities to specialize in agricultural science.
They're great at it.
People that go out and run the really big farms and cattle operations and all that.
So it's just another example of, like you said, elitists that don't understand who it is they're talking to.
They belittle those people.
And guess what?
If it wasn't for those people, their life would be, they would be screwed, Sean.
They wouldn't know what to do.
They're not self-sustaining.
They can't defend themselves.
They can't feed themselves.
They would be totally at a loss if it weren't for the working men and women of this country.
Sort of like Hank Williams' song, A Country Boy Can Survive, Will Survive.
No, think about it.
You know, I mean, it's really, you know, I know how to fish.
I know how to grow food.
I know how to make my own wine.
I know how to do everything on my own.
And it's just a different mentality, big city, small town.
But there's a lot of small towns in America.
And what's really sick is how politicians, it's a great song, by the way, politicians and then the media mob and others look down on, you know, let's play a little bit of the chorus here.
I can fly a field all day long.
I can catch catfish from dusk till dawn.
Make our own whiskey and our own smoke too.
Too many things these old boys can't do Tomatoes and homemade wine and...
And country boy can survive.
Country folks can survive.
I mean, he makes a comparison in the song about his friend in New York City.
And I mean, it's kind of true that I think a lot of people in cities, they don't have any clue where their food comes from.
Oh, it comes from the grocery store.
Okay.
Somebody grew that.
I remember at one point I was driving and I was so annoyed with tractors.
It was a heavy rain and every time you pass a tractor, you can't see for like until you pass the tractor.
And I'm like complaining.
I'm like, you know, without truckers, man, we don't have anything in any store, any place, anywhere.
It's amazing how important they are.
No, you're right.
And I think President Trump going to the Daytona 500, you know, NASCAR is not just something in the South.
NASCAR is Dover, Delaware, Dover Downs, one of the coolest tracks out there.
I've been to that one, too.
I think for him to go out where the people are at, where they work hard, play hard.
That's the number one spectator sport in the world, John Richard.
Yeah, of course it is.
And he went out there and walked right in the middle of them and patted them on the back and recognized our American heroes.
And, you know, that's what's different.
You know, he is a man of the people in a lot of ways.
He cares about what they think, what they do.
He wants to make sure they get jobs, that they have lower taxes.
And that comes through when you see him standing on a NASCAR track.
And I think that drives people like Bloomberg crazy because he will never stand on a NASCAR track.
Because guess why?
They all know he's not legit if he stands down there because he says that people that grow crops have less gray matter than somebody that can program a computer.
It's disgusting.
Isn't that insulting or smelly Walmart choppers or irredeemable deplorables or bitter Americans that cling to God, their Bibles and religion, really?
Wow.
I thought that was what made America great.
Well, they're going to smart Alec their way right into another lust is what I think is going to happen.
And America's not going to put up with it.
By the way, I got to meet your preacher dad because, man, you must have given this poor guy a hell of a time.
I mean, you were a hellraiser your whole life.
You still are a hellraiser.
That was a little prodigal sound, no doubt.
All right, John Rich, love you.
I know you got to run.
It's called The Pursuit Starts Anytime You Want.
Just go to Foxnation.com.
When we come back, we hit the phones for the final segment here.
And after the half-hour break and the other news of the day, Hannity, I know it's President's Day.
I know many of you have off.
Not me.
I have to work.
All right, let's hit our phones.
Let's say hi to Billy is in Dallas.
Billy, hi, how are you?
Glad you called, sir, on the answer.
What's going on?
So thank you for having me on today.
Thank you, sir.
I was wanting to call you and let you guys know that you're doing a tremendous job.
I want to tell you personally, thank you.
I'm a pastor here in the Dallas, Texas area, African-American pastor, and I understand the challenges that you have been facing to get this message out.
But keep on doing what you're doing.
You're not in it by yourself.
You have a tremendous backing from the people that I know.
We just need more.
That's the key.
You know, Pastor, I know like polls break everything down demographically.
First of all, thanks for what you do because you're in a much more important business, and that's saving souls.
You're a fisher of men, if you will, to quote the Bible.
But one thing that has happened, I don't like every two and four years that race card has played.
And what I see are results.
I mean, it's kind of a strange time when a guy running for president says, what have you got to lose?
Because Democratic, big cities, democratic rule has not helped minority communities as they claim.
It's hurt them.
And here, Donald Trump is setting record after record.
He's the one that passed criminal justice reform.
His numbers with minorities are going through the roof.
Does that translate into votes in your view?
Exactly.
It does.
It does.
My thing is, Sean, my personal perspective, and with historical account, of course, President Trump is the best pastor.
I mean, I call him pastor all the time.
He's the best president that African Americans have had since Abraham Lincoln.
And I'm telling you, this message is not resonating as it should because, of course, we know the fake news and all of that.
But that's my quest to get this message out to as many as we can.
Have you ever met the president?
Do you know Pastor Darrell Scott?
Only by seeing it on TV, no personal connection.
I'll tell you what I'm going to do because I'm up on a break here.
I'm going to put you on hold.
I'm going to make sure that we get your information.
And Pastor Scott is the head of the President's Diversity Coalition.
And you sound like somebody that can do a lot of good helping the country and your ministry.
And we appreciate your kind words and your prayers, Pastor.
And Godspeed to you and your congregation.
Well, thank you, Sean.
One more thing before you go.
I've written the president four times, and he has responded to me all four times.
He's far from a racist.
See, I'm from the era where Jim Crow was on life support but yet alive.
I know what that's about.
I know what racism is about.
You know what I want?
They use that race card because it's a life.
It controls them.
It controls them.
You know, it's amazing.
The president, he ends his rallies.
What does he say?
We're one glorious nation under God, and we are one family.
We are one people.
Pastor, stay on the line.
Quick break, right back.
Your calls on the other side.
And what things they can't fix right away.
If you're bleeding, they'll start to bleed.
If you need an extra, you're going to have to wait.
That's just all of these costs keep going up.
Nobody wants to pay any more money.
And at the rate we're going, healthcare is going to bankrupt us.
So not only do we have a problem, it's going to bankrupt us.
And we've got to sit here and say which things we're going to do and which things we're not.
Nobody wants to do that.
You know, you show up with prostate cancer and you're 95 years old.
We should say, go and enjoy.
Have a nice day.
Leave a long life.
No cure.
And you can't do anything.
If you're a young person, we should do something.
Society's not willing to do that yet.
So we're going to bankrupt us, and we're not looking at those costs.
We have a crime in between the minority neighborhoods.
So it's a funny uneffect.
Unintended consequences is people say, oh my God, you are arresting kids from marijuana.
They're all minority.
Yes, that's true.
Why?
Because we put all the cops in a minority neighborhood.
Yes, that's true.
Why do we do it?
Because that's where all the crime is.
And the way you get the guns on their kids' hands is to throw them up against the wall at Christmas.
And then they start to say, oh, I don't want that.
I don't want to get caught.
So they don't blame the gun.
They still have a gun, but they refer to home.
Although they broke the law by illegally crossing our borders or overstaying their visas, and our businesses broke the law by employing them.
Our city's economy would be a shell of itself had they not, and it would collapse if they were deported.
And the same holds true for our nation.
I'll tell you where I'm going.
First, Iowa, then New Hampshire.
Maybe I can get the whole country to behave.
Down here, we've got snapping turtles.
Up there, we got big fed bugs.
Down here, the whirl's making trouble.
Up there, everyone's taking drugs.
New Yorkers, the bravest people.
The cops on the big dead care.
It's true, firefighters teachers.
We got heroes everywhere.
All right, the problems of Bloomberg getting worse by the minute.
Now, it's going to be interesting to watch the mob.
The mob doesn't think Bernie can win.
That's why, you know, even Area 51, Roswell Rachel Maddows conspiracy theory channel, they're being tough on Bernie because they don't think Bernie can win.
But I'm telling you, there's not really a lot of difference at all between any of these Democratic candidates.
They're all radical.
They're all extreme.
They're all socialists.
Now the thing is, so we go from, you know, what were his comments last week on race?
Murderers, murder victims fit one, not two, M.O., modus operandi.
You just take the description, you xerox it, you pass it out to all the cops.
They're all male minorities, 16 to 25.
That's true in New York and virtually every city.
Oh, really?
I did not know that.
Then he goes on to say, so, oh, people say to me, oh, my God, you're arresting kids for marijuana.
It's all minorities.
And he writes, yeah, that's true.
Why?
Because we put all, not some, all the cops in minority neighborhoods.
And why do we do it?
Because that's where all the crime is, not some, all of it.
And just, you know, talking about young kids and they just, you know, cops have to throw them up against the wall.
Throw them up against the wall.
That was bad.
Now, you know, what's happened with Bloomberg is he's gotten a pass.
Bloomberg now, there's a report he spent over $400 million already in terms of ad spending alone, according to the Washington Examiner.
$400 million, $417.7 million as of Sunday morning.
That's an awful lot of money.
And there was a piece even the Huffington Post called him like the wizard of Oz.
He doesn't sit down with anybody.
He doesn't get interviewed by anybody.
He doesn't want to get interviewed by anybody.
And he wants to try and buy his way into the presidency.
So Plan B, Bloomberg, is now blowing up in their faces.
But the media feigned so much outrage over the things that Trump says, everything single thing he says.
Oh, they're shocked.
They're finding it appalling.
Now, even the, well, we're going to have Hillary maybe as our running mate.
What was that?
That was a wizarder of Oz.
Let's stay in the news.
Let's be relevant.
Let's throw out a name.
Let's see how people react.
But the Clinton people are furious about it.
And now they're having a downplay.
No, no, we're focused on the primary and the debate, not VP speculation, he goes on to say.
The things that he has said, it's pretty unbelievable about, you know, in a lawsuit that he was involved in where he told a female employee she alleges to kill it, it being a baby because she's pregnant and insinuating she should get an abortion and then complaining, oh, great, 17.
In other words, there were 16 other employees that worked for him that happened to be pregnant at the time.
Now the Washington Post and many other places are printing or putting out there all of these things that they allege that he says.
And part of it they claim comes from this booklet that was put together for him at, I guess, at his 48th birthday, which means a long time ago.
And the wit and wisdom of Michael Bloomberg and all these pretty horrific things are said here on top of the lawsuits, which I guess now that's pretty much standard knowledge of people.
It's all over the place.
And the list of stuff that he said goes on and on and calling an opponent, fellow business person, a cokehead womanizing.
And then, well, let's just say a word that wouldn't be used, derogatory terms against gay people.
And pretty hardcore.
He got presented with a booklet of all of his profane and sexist quotes attributed to him.
You know, good salesperson is like a guy who tries to pick up a woman at the bar.
Do you want to beep?
He gets turned down a lot, but he gets beep a lot, too.
That's him.
And then a booklet that's quoting him is saying that his company's financial information, computer people, financial information people will do everything, including give you beep vernacular for oral sex.
I guess that puts a lot of you girls out of business.
He goes on to say, now all of a sudden the Democrats are paying attention to the guy that's been hiding the entire time as he's making his run for the presidency and trying to buy the presidency.
I mean, his track record is atrocious.
I can't believe if Donald Trump on the race stuff alone had ever said any of this, it's game over.
Now, if all of these stories come out to be true, now you're looking at, okay, break down the demographics because you have coalitions of both parties.
That's why you always split out in polling African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, women in the vote.
Okay, now he's alienated the African-American community, a big part of the Democratic Party base.
Now, all these things, if true, seems like they might be about women.
Okay, that's another big part of the Democratic Party base.
And then if you take it a step further, I think he's pretty much ticked off everybody, the gay and lesbian communities, part of the Democratic Party base.
When all this hits the fan, are the same people that get outraged at anything that Donald Trump says, are they going to be outraged in the media mob?
I tend to doubt it.
As long as he's not Trump, he'll probably get a pass from the mob.
But I don't think he's going to get a pass from the people.
I don't think so.
All right, let's get to our phones as we say hi to William, North Carolina, 260 days.
William, we're going to be watching North Carolina early in the evening, as always.
Hey, Sean, how you doing?
I'm good, sir.
What's going on?
Been trying to reach it for about a week.
Sean, I'm a healthcare professional working in rehabilitation nuclear medicine for about 20 some-odd years.
Last week, when the president said he's going to cut the budget, which would include cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, some of my patients between the ages of 50 and 100 have been going absolutely crazy, saying they may not be able to support the president.
Sean, it's a quick fix.
All you've got to do is tell President Trump, change the message.
Please tell the president to say we are going to strengthen Medicare and Medicaid by cutting waste, fraud, and abuse for all.
Bingo.
This is the same thing.
Look, this is what you get every time you have a reduction in the rate of increase.
That's what they say.
They want Granny and Grandpa that are on Medicare to eat dog food, cat food until a Donald Trump look alike, Paul Ryan look alike, Kevin McCarthy look alike, Mitch McConnell look alike, throws Granny over the cliff and says you're done.
It's not true.
The same with pre-existing conditions.
The president's been clear on that.
And the president's been clear that there are so many other innovative alternatives and the same with drug prices.
He wants to negotiate down the drug prices, as he said in a State of the Union address, because a lot of the manufacturers charge us, we the American people, more than they're charging other countries.
Why should we have to pay more?
Doesn't make sense, does it?
You know, we love our friend Dr. Josh Umber, Atlas MD, Wichita, Kansas, and his healthcare cooperative, 50 bucks a month, unlimited care.
He negotiates directly with pharmaceutical companies, and you walk out of his office with your blood pressure medicine, your cholesterol medicine, at a 90, 95% discount.
Well, we can institutionalize that around the country.
Now, it is a very long, expensive, difficult, arduous process to get a drug from the research phase into, you know, your pharmacy, local, or whatever.
It takes forever.
That's why I like when the president, you know, you get to decide the right to choose, meaning if you want to try experimental drugs and you're not going to make it unless you do, you should have the right to try anything you want.
I agree with that completely.
My friend Michelle Malkin, I mean, she convinced me about the medicinal benefits of marijuana.
You know, she told me about people very close to her.
She'd been very outspoken about it.
And she said to me, and I'd known her for all these years, she convinced me.
But I don't like people becoming drug addicts either.
And I do believe, you know, when you legalize pot, what happens?
It leads to the use of other medications.
And frankly, anybody I've ever known that smokes pot regularly is kind of worthless every day.
They're like, hey, what's up, man?
And I don't think it's a particularly good drug.
And I do think you can get addicted, at least psychologically, to anything.
But if we can get some good health benefits out of hemp, I'm all for it.
That's why we have CB Distillery CEO on this program, because there are other alternative medicines and cures out there.
And I think we ought to have the ability to try them.
I don't think it should be that difficult for people to get medicines that show hope and promise, but it's going to take another 10 years for the Food and Drug Administration to ever sign off on it.
I think people ought to be given all the facts, whatever they are, all the data, and they ought to be able to make up their own minds.
That's freedom.
It's your life.
I mean, if I was going to die and somebody told me, well, we have promising results from this, I think I'd probably want to try it.
I'm not ready to go yet.
Anyway, William, well thought out, well said.
Let's say hi to John in Pennsylvania.
Boy, do we need Pennsylvania in 260 days?
What's up, John?
How are you?
I'm doing good, Mr. Hannity.
Just to let you know, I'm on my way back.
I surprised my sister-in-law and my nephew.
They both got baptized this weekend, and I want to do a big shout-out to them first.
Oh, good for you.
Big shout-out to all of them and tell them thanks for listening.
Will do, sir.
All right, so I got two points I want to get to.
Trump, he has enormous political capital right now.
What would be the best way for him to utilize it?
I think the answer is just keep doing what he's doing.
Keep the economy on the current track we're on.
I think that one improvement I'd like to see in the second term is get a bigger control of the budget.
He's starting now to try that process.
But if you reduce the rate of growth, you're not cutting anything.
Just the rate of growth.
Slow it down.
I mean, Democrats go nuts.
I mean, I did ask him when he was running about the penny plan.
He talked about a nickel plan.
You know, at some point, we got to get this budget back in balance because it means something.
But with that said, he had a military that was depleted.
He had to dramatically increase the amount of money for our military, and it's now paying dividends, as we saw with the Caliphate and Baghdadi and Soleimani, and this guy, Al-Qaeda leader in Yemen, he got them all.
Every one of them he got.
As an active duty member of the Navy, I do appreciate it.
Yeah.
Anyway, and the second point.
All right.
Second point.
Congressman Crenshaw, he has an answer to this crazy Green New Deal.
It's called the New Energy Frontier.
It actually looks promising.
It deals with carbon recapture and LNG.
I hate to say it.
I mean, we're leading the world in reducing carbon emissions.
You know that.
I mean, this Paris Accord madness, and it's funny, get watching Bernie, you know, he's using his private jet every day.
Elizabeth Warren is using hers.
Bloomberg has his.
And they're going to lecture us on carbon emissions.
I really don't want to hear it from any of them.
They're all phony.
But I will say this: you know, the lifeblood of our economy is oil and gas.
And unless and until you have a cheaper, better source of energy that could replace oil and gas, you know what?
We don't have any other option.
Or else we're not going to be able to live and compete and thrive and survive even.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
Hannity, yes, I'm working.
I know it's President's Day.
Too much news out there.
We'll load it up.
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