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Load it up today, uh, Bloomberg, and now it's beginning to sink in just how radically racist his comments are.
Bernie is now hitting him hard on the charge of racism.
Uh we'll get to that with Geraldo and uh Reverend C. O'Brien later in the program.
Bill O'Reilly today, Peter Schweitzer, fascinating expose on Bloomberg and his company, and anybody that ever wanted to say anything bad about China.
I'm like, literally, they were suppressed.
So what's going on there?
We'll have an investigative report.
I, for the life of me, so we're on the program yesterday, I think it was the second half hour of the program, and I'm I only want to talk to farmers.
I cannot, I cannot get over this.
It's sort of like you you're not getting a billion.
You're not getting unless you fire the prosecutor investigating my zero experienced son who's being paid millions.
All right, there I go.
I can't get over this.
Is oh, I could teach anyone to be a farmer.
I you just dig a hole, you put a seat in, you put dirt on top, you add water, up comes the corn.
But in today's world, you need a lot more gray matter.
It blow it is breathtaking arrogance and ignorance society lasted 3,000 years, and we could teach processes.
I could teach anybody, even people in this room, so no offense intended.
I can teach anyone to be a farmer.
You 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 um you have 300 years of the industrial society.
Uh you put the piece of metal on the lathe, you turn the crank in the direction of the arrow, and you can have a job.
And we created a lot of jobs.
One point ninety-eight percent of the world worked in uh in agriculture today, it's two percent in the United States.
Uh 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 I listened to this guy, and I am just blown away at what is breathtaking, a breathtaking level of ignorance about American farming.
And he's so dumb that he actually gives the answer.
Yeah, well, it used to be a much larger percentage of of people that were engaged in in farming as a profession.
Well, why does he think has he not thought through the possibility that as we move to the information economy and replacing people with technology?
Well, how do you think our farmers got so good?
Because they have a lot of gray matter that they've been using, and they've they have now perfected the science of agriculture, and it is science.
I mean, pH levels alone is a science.
If soil is too acid, acidic or alkaline, there's a problem.
What do you do with soil?
How do you get the proper soil?
How do you maintain the proper soil?
You know, dear, but it's so unbelievable to me.
Okay, well, what if you have 4,000 acres?
You're gonna dig 4,000 uh 4 million holes and put a drop of a kernel of corn in it.
I mean, it's just breathtaking ignorance.
And I, you know, farmer Minnie Mike, I guess, you know, maybe he doesn't seem to have enough gray matter to understand the level of sophistication, knowledge, science that goes into the agriculture industry.
The the hard work that goes into that, the risk that goes into any season when you're farming.
Okay, what if you have an early frost?
Uh could be problematic depending on when your harvest is.
What if uh what if the conditions are such that there's not enough sun and or there's too much rain and too much flooding?
They have to deal with that risk every day.
That's their reality.
That's that's that's hard.
That is a lot to put on the line every year.
You know, and pray to God that everything works out on a given year after you've invested everything in your crop.
You know, farmers earn degrees.
There's all I mean, there's millions of colleges, not millions, it's every so many classes and degrees and advanced degrees available as it were from very prestigious universities all across the country.
I mentioned last night Cal Poly.
They have dozens of uh agriculture degrees available.
You can major in them, you can minor in agribusiness, bioresource, agricultural engineering, environmental earth, uh, and soil sciences.
Yeah, it's a science, geographic information systems for agriculture.
I mean, I I can teach anyone to farm, and that our society today different skill sets needed more gray matter.
The only one that needs gray matter, a transplant perhaps, is is Minnie Minnie Mike the farmer.
Farmer Mike Bloomberg.
Wow.
Breathtaking, you know, you think about this.
You think of all right, somebody maybe have a small farm, maybe 300 acres.
Maybe somebody has 4,000 acres, maybe 10,000 acres.
Or we're not even discussing dairy farmers, they've got okay.
You think you get a day off as a dairy farmer?
You don't.
You're working seven, eight days a week.
There you go, and you're putting your time in.
And then you think of, okay, well, every farmer they have irrigation, they got to irrigate their acres of land.
That's a difficult challenge.
Then the challenge, because you're not actually Mike, you're not gonna go and you're gonna put one little kernel of corn here and then move up a few inches and move another kernel of corn there.
That's not how it works.
You have sophisticated machinery developed by people that have a lot of gray matter, and that machinery will plant it for you and even harvest the crop for many of the crops for you.
That's called innovation.
That's called a lot of gray matter.
Uh look at all, for example, the different hybrids that they develop.
Corn is just one.
Uh you can have sweet corn, you can have corn for cattle and hogs or whatever.
And, you know, or you get, you know, corn that's just yellow corn and yellow and white corn and sweet corn and this corn and that.
I mean, where do you think that happens?
It happens in laboratories because why?
A lot of gray matter is spent developing even a more perfect product, or one that is more that is able to endure more in terms of outside factors that farmers have to take.
In other words, that that are less susceptible if in fact they don't get as much sun.
They're still able to grow better.
That's the level of sophistication.
I mean, and you get, for example, people build that make out different types of tomatoes that we like to eat.
Whatever you're growing.
It is it is an amazing amount of information, the machinery.
You gotta be a mechanic.
You gotta be a veterinarian.
Okay, well, it's three in the morning and you have uh a 10,000 acre farm, and oh, let's see, maybe you're a dairy farmer and and well, one of your your cows about to give birth.
What do we do then?
Well, you're probably somebody that can be a veterinarian when need be.
And if the calf is breach, I'm assuming that most of these farmers are gonna be able to figure that sucker out and get that calf out alive.
Because that's the knowledge that they have.
Can you do that, Mike?
May farmer Mike Bloomberg.
I I can't get over it.
I I mean, there's certain things Linda will tell you.
Quid pro quo Joe is one of them, I know.
Um, zero experience, huh?
It drives me nuts.
They're all upset about quid pro quos, except for Joe.
On tape, you're not getting the billion.
Breathtaking hypocrisy.
Well, in this case, you know, farmer Mike has breathtaking ignorance here.
He doesn't have enough gray matter, I guess, to understand what American farmers and the challenges they got every day.
And not only do they use this sophisticated machinery and technology and advancements, they feed not only our country, but the world for crying out loud.
You think you'd give a little credit?
And what happens when the irrigation breaks down?
Oh, I guess they're gonna probably have to fix it on their own.
Gotta be pretty smart, pretty good with your hands.
Or what if the tractor breaks down?
Or what if any of these sophisticated machines that actually plant the crop for you or harvest the crop for you?
You only have X number of days to harvest this crop, you're probably working 18, 19 hours a day.
That's my guess.
But I guess there's your there's your modern, extreme, radical, arrogant, out of touch, ignorant even Democratic Party.
I can teach anybody to farm.
I'll tell you, I doubt Linda, you have advanced degrees.
I don't think you could be a farmer.
Not in a million years, so I think you could be a farmer.
I don't think it's possible.
Lucky for you, I'm not about to try either.
Well, I know, but I but it's I have massive respect for people who get up at the crack of dawn every day.
Come on.
Can you imagine how hard No, I live directly next to a farm, and these people have run this farm their entire lives, and they have generations of family that run it.
They're incredible people.
And the amount of work that goes into it, how they harvest everything, I've gotten super friendly with them.
And the reason I got friendly with them is because they were there using an iPad and it broke down.
They had this super long line, and I went over and fix it for them.
And they gave me like free pumpkins for the whole season.
Oh anyway, so how many pumpkins?
Yeah, well, I remember the video of Liam racing through the pumpkin patch.
But well, the point is, wow.
I uh but I think it's like crazy, like the work they do is crazy.
All the kids are on the farm, they all know how to do it.
But it's more than that.
It's crazy.
It it runs deeper.
This this goes right to the heart of what these arrogant, ignorant politicians think of we the people.
And they that it's spectacularly stupid.
You know, what did I remember when I first interviewed Eric and Don Jr., and I'd known them for years, and they kept referring to their father.
He's like a blue-collar billionaire that hung out at construction sites with all the guys that build these buildings in New York.
Well, there's a lot of workers involved in that that kind of production.
But to not understand what the good people of this country do every day and how sophisticated they are and what it is that they specialize in, I don't know.
I mean, I I I wow, it's sort of like irredeemable deplorables.
It's like smelly Trump supporters that shop at Walmart.
Why do you shop at Walmart?
Save money.
Why do you shop at Costco's?
Because you get a better deal.
Okay, to me, there's a lot of gray matter that went into that decision making.
You get more more bang for your buck.
Uh, or you know, bitter Americans that cling to God or their constitution, their second amendment rights, their Bibles, their religion.
This is there's there is this elitism.
It exists, it is real.
You know, why can't these geniuses that have been running liberal cities all across this country figure out how to stop the violence in Chicago?
You know, you have decades of liberal rule?
They haven't figured that out.
Liberals and their unholy alliance with Teachers Union, they haven't figured out how to how to educate our kids.
We spend more per capita per child than any other industrialized nation, but we're like 37th.
Or the idea that, you know, uh a city like Baltimore, you got 13 public high schools.
And not one of them.
Do you have kids proficient in reading and math?
That is a spectacular fail.
And that led to Donald Trump running on, and I've never seen this before.
And I think it worked, which is what have you got to lose?
Liberals have been promising you and playing the race card, and they pull out their playbook every two and four years.
Well, the only one in that case, Mike Bloomberg is the person we're describing.
Look at his comments about minorities.
Imagine if Donald Trump or any Republican said that, what the reaction would be.
What's going to be interesting in the course of all of this is whether Democrats and the mob in the media, they're going to give him a pass because his name isn't Trump.
It's going to be fascinating.
And that'll expose further hypocrisy.
Like they cared about quid and pros and quos, but not with Joe.
They cared about obstruction, but not Hillary, the leading subpoenaed emails and bleach bit and hammers.
They cared about Russian interference and they ignored completely the dirty dossier.
Election interference by Ukraine, yet DNC operatives going to the Ukrainian embassy to dig up dirt on Trump and associates.
They didn't care about that either.
I guess they'll let everything that Bloomberg said and done and as arrogant and ignorant as he is, I guess he'll get a pass in the end.
That's how sick this has gotten.
Really nuts.
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All right, people asking me to play Paul Harvey again.
We'll do it after the news at the bottom of the hour.
We'll talk to farmers only in the final half hour of the program today.
I love all the people that have called in.
Linda, you doubted we'd have so many farmers that were listening, and they are.
Anyway, uh looking forward to it.
Um and if you're a farmer in the farming industry, dairy, cattle, whatever it happens to be, give us a call.
800-941 Sean is the program unfolds.
I think what I'd like to caveat that comment with is um not that farmers would not be listening, but that they might be working while they're listening, so they might be looking for the bigger.
Are you trying to do a Michael Bloomberg and high?
No, no, no, no, no, no.
I'm not a CYA or I'm just saying that's what I said.
By the way, Bernie is now got a 10-point lead, real clear politics average, 28.3%.
Biden 17.6, Bloomberg 15-9.
It's interesting to watch, although you see more polls coming out with Bloomberg on top.
If you look at the specific states, again, nationally it's it's Sanders, but California Sanders has a huge lead over Bloomberg, 28-5 to 16-5.
Biden, 14-5 there.
Nevada, Sanders 30.
Biden 16.
Warren 14-5.
South Carolina, Biden is winning there over Sanders, but it's only 26-5 to 20, and Steyer has 16%.
And that's Steyer gets 16% there.
Uh, Texas, Biden has a slight lead over Bernie there, but I don't think it means anything.
Bernie Sanders is the front runner according to Zogby today.
All right, Paul Harvey's comments on farmers when we come back.
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All right, 25 till the top of the hour.
Thank you, Scott Shannon.
I think most Americans actually do greatly appreciate the level of science, sophistication, gray matter that goes into farming.
I think most Americans understand it.
Oh, I played Scrabble.
Did you win?
Of course I won.
Yes, I won.
But Mother, the person is on the payroll.
I mean, it's something off with this guy.
I mean, it is oh, here's an interesting thing.
He's gonna have to answer to one point.
Politico has a bit of a bombshell for farmer Mike.
And uh just days after Trump defeated Hillary, Bloomberg told Trump, I do love you.
Wow.
Photo of Bloomberg chummy with Trump on a golf course, plastered all over social media this week.
Courtesy of Bernie Sanders.
I'm a friend of Donald Trump's he's a New York icon is also service uh surfaced.
Anyway, Bloomberg speaking One month after the 2016 uh election noted that he once told Trump, yes, Donald, I do love you.
That's so nice of him to do that.
But you really do love me, don't you?
Trump continued.
Anyway, before a crowd at uh business school in Oxford, Bloomberg relayed a lighthearted story speaking with Trump after September 11th.
I saw your speech in Philly.
Trump told Bloomberg and uh seeming reference to Bloomberg's takedown of Trump at the DNC uh convention that that summer.
But you really do love me, don't you?
He said, Oh, yeah, I yes, Donald, I do love you.
I just disagree with everything you've ever said.
Okay, there you go.
That's where he stands on things.
Paul Harvey, the great Paul Harvey, amazing broadcaster, nobody better at what he did.
News, rest of the story.
I mean, he had a great piece on farmers.
We played it yesterday, and everyone say, Can you play that again?
Okay, by request.
And on the eighth.
God looked down on his planned paradise and said, I need a caretaker.
So God made a farmer.
God said I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper, then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board.
So God made a farmer.
God said I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt and watch it die, and dry his eyes and say, maybe next year.
I need somebody who can shape an axe handle from a persimmon sprout, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire, who can make harness out of hay wire feed sacks and shoes scraps, who planting time and harvest season will finish his 40-hour week by Tuesday noon and then paint him from tractor back, put in another 72 hours.
So God made a farmer.
God said, I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bales, yet gentle enough to yean lambs and wean pigs and tend to pink combed bullets who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the broken leg of a meadow lark.
So God made a farmer.
It had to be somebody who'd plow deep and straight and not cut corners.
Somebody to see, weed, feed, breed, and rake and disc and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk.
Somebody who'd bail a family together with a soft, strong bonds of sharing, who would laugh and then sigh, and then reply with smiling eyes when his son says that he wants to spend his life doing what dad does.
So God made a farmer.
So God made a farmer.
I can't nobody could say it better than that.
Think of the life, I mean, how is it so difficult for some people to put themselves in the position of what other people do?
I mean, it's called relatability.
Um I guess if you're lacking in empathy or an ab uh uh an understanding how hard that life has got to be.
And I know most people, like I know farmers.
And people that have generation of farmers.
Devin Nunes, his family's been in the dairy farming business forever.
I remember going out to the San Joaquin Valley because they wouldn't give farmers in California water so that they could farm and feed us because they wanted to protect wasn't even an endangered species.
It was like a minnow.
A little minnow fish, a bait fish.
It's called the Delta Smelt.
Went out there in the fields are dry.
They can't even plant.
I mean, that's how idiotic these bureaucrats are.
But if you think of the hard work it would be to get up for the sun rises every day, milk the cows, and then go about your day and everything in between.
And then deal with machinery, sophisticated machinery, and then sophisticated science behind soil and agriculture and agribusiness behind it.
Also not knowing, you know, what you're gonna make on any given year, depending on what market fluctuations exist.
The unpredictable weather conditions that can wipe out your entire crop that particular year.
I mean, imagine how hard it is.
And then you're up, you know, all night giving birth to a calf or whatever.
You know, baby piglets.
Whatever it happens to be.
And you do it because you love it, and you do it.
Let's say cops, every cop I know wants to be a cop, wanted to be a cop their whole life.
They want to serve.
Good teachers, good teachers.
They're worth their weight in gold.
There are plenty of good teachers.
Now you have the teachers' union separate and apart from good teachers, and you know, they protect some of the awful teachers.
New York City has all these teachers that they don't even use because of, I mean, they get paid for years.
How does Bloomberg get away with that?
How's Bloomberg going to answer?
You know, that black and Latino males don't know how to behave in the workplace.
How do you make comments that ignorant?
How do you say that, well, murderers and murder victims fit one MO.
One.
You can just take the description, Xerox it, pass it out to all the cops.
They are male minorities, 16 to 25.
And cops throw them up against the wall.
Really?
That'd be called police brutality.
I don't think that's what cops do.
That's not what's this isn't even about stopping frisk.
But I would argue, and then he goes on to say that, well, oh my gosh, people say to me, you know, you're arresting kids for marijuana that are all minorities.
And he goes, Yeah, that's true.
Why?
Because we put all cops in minority neighborhoods.
Why do we do that?
He says, Because that's where all the crime is.
Wow.
But to be a farmer, I can teach anybody to be a farmer.
You just dig a hole, put a seat in, and you put dirt on top and you add water, and up comes the corn.
My gosh.
I can't get over it.
Now, is the medium mob.
Take all of these ignorant statements.
Are they going to go after Bloomberg the way they would if it was a Republican?
Tend to doubt it.
The fight's getting fight's engaged, though.
Bernie Sanders saying yesterday he's not going to release any more medical records during his presidential bid, saying that he's already released sufficient information to quell concerns about his health.
We've released, he said, I think quite as much as any other candidate has.
We released two rather detailed letters from cardiologists.
We released a letter that came from the head of the U.S. Congress Medical Group.
The position's there.
So I think we've released a detailed report, and I'm comfortable with what we have done.
If you think I'm not in good health, come on out with me on the campaign trail, and I'll I'll let you introduce me to three or four rallies a day that we do when pressed on whether he would disclose any more.
I don't think so, he says.
All right.
Not going to release any more.
Bolshevik Bernie opens up a huge lead in California.
This was in the LA Times, a survey of the Public Policy Institute of California.
Sanders, he's at 32%, followed by Quid Pro Quote Joe at 14.
Elizabeth Warren, 13.
Bloomberg and Buddigudge at 12.
There's a national new ABC poll that has Bernie way ahead.
Pretty significant margin.
Now the question is how is the establishment Democrats?
Are they going to now rally behind because Joe is toast?
But it'll be interesting to see what happens there.
Bernie calls out Bloomberg for being a racist.
Said this in this big rally.
Apparently at 17,000 people in liberal Tacoma, a city south of Seattle.
I guess maybe that's not exactly Trump country in California or Seattle.
Nice place.
I've been there.
Anyway, he said it was racist, the comments of the former New York City mayor.
Here's an interesting comment.
Bernie Sanders' campaign is actually saying that Fox News has been more fair to his campaign than MSDNC.
I'll invite Bernie on this program anytime he wants.
Glenn Greenwald, interesting comments.
MSDNC, a full-scale disinformation machine.
There's a reason the network is mocked as MSDNC.
Adding that the network is not merely anti-Sanders, but it's serving the primary goal of the DNCs, right?
Basically, state run Democratic network.
Well, Hannity, you're an opinion person.
Yeah, okay.
A lot of people on Fox that disagree with me.
A lot.
I don't see any variation of views on either fake news, CNN, or MSDNC, the conspiracy channel.
Not good news for Biden.
An FBI raid took place, according to the Washington Examiner.
They raided a company tied to Joe Biden's brother.
Whoopsie Daisy.
More corruption.
let's see.
MBC News Wall Street Journal poll erases Elizabeth Warren from the survey.
Ouch.
Yikes.
Another ABC Washington Post poll back to that one.
Biden is no longer the most electable Democrat.
That's not good for him.
I think his days are now pretty much over.
Then you got, and you got Mike.
Bloomberg.
Imagine if any Republican has said the stuff he's saying.
Now it even gets worse than that for Bloomberg because, you know, he said other things that have been pretty controversial.
You know, a derogatory term for gays and lesbians.
That was in a Yahoo news article.
He made fun of transgender people.
He's already spent 417 million dollars and nobody knows a thing about him.
The Wizard of Oz campaign of all campaigns.
I've never seen anything like this in my life, except for Obama.
Obama got a pass by everybody.
Bloomberg is pretending MBC News has picked this up.
He's touting his relationship with Barack Obama and a pair of new ads.
16 million spent on those ads so far.
If you didn't know better, the spots might lead you to believe the former president endorsed Mike Bloomberg.
It's not true.
Several Obama alumni are quick to point out, and the vision the ads conjure up is a close relationship.
Yeah, okay.
Well, that's not true.
Shocking.
A lot of questions being thrown my way about his relationship with Al Sharpton.
I got to get into that.
We're going to find out more information.
Apparently, I saw this first in the Daily News.
Now BuzzFeed has picked up on it.
Video showing the elitist candidate describing transgender people as he, she, or it, and some guy in a dress who enters a girl's locker rooms and arguing that transgender rights are toxic for presidential candidates trying to reach Middle America.
If your conversation during a presidential election is about some guy wearing a dress and whether he, she or it can go to and go to the locker room with their daughter.
They care about health care, they care about education, they care about safety and all of those kinds of things.
If you want to know is somebody a good salesman, give them the job of going to the Midwest and picking a town and selling to that town the concept that some man wearing a dress should be in the locker room with their daughter.
If you can sell that, you can sell anything.
I mean, they just look at you and they say, What on earth are you talking about?
Mm-hmm.
Hillary reacting to Bloomberg VP rumors, no, that's not gonna happen.
Apparently, she sat down on uh Ellen DeGeneres' show and said that there, apparently not happy about being mentioned in that particular way.
Pretty amazing times we're living in.
I won't say that.
You got uh Pete Budigudge.
Oh boy, there's a brutal piece on him in the New York Post today about you know, people in South Bend, Indiana.
If he's our next president, quote, I fear for our country.
He couldn't run our city.
How can he run the United States?
They quote the guy, the woman, Michelle Berger, 42, stay-at-home mom.
Look at all the crime.
He didn't do anything about it.
Look at our quality of life.
If he becomes president, well, become one big South Bend, a giant sinkhole, and we'll be in a new depression.
Another resident saying on a rating of one to ten, I'll give him a two.
Buddha judge talking about all the improvements he made.
He hardly made a dent, said another person.
The West Side is the most neglected part of town.
The street I live on is the only street around here that has lights.
That's because we're a gateway to Notre Dame.
On the stump, Buddha Judge comes off as cool and and calm and cerebral, uh, but they're like laughing about it.
Like the worst mayor ever.
It's a 10-minute read, if you pull out the printed version.
Buddha Judge reportedly touted partnerships with uh African American South Carolina owned businesses that they deny having.
And then the other thing is is that he admits that he targeted minorities more uh in enforcing crime.
All right, we've got to take a break here.
We got a lot coming up today.
We got Bill O'Reilly.
We've got Peter Schweitzer has done a deep dive into Bloomberg and his relationship with China.
Very weird findings.
Very strange.
We'll get O'Reilly's take on all this too.
Then on the racial issues involving Bloomberg, are the Democrats and the media mob gonna give him a pass?
We have Reverend C. L. Bryant and Geraldo Rivera will weigh in on that a lot to get to today.
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All right, later in the program, we get to talk to farmers only.
Well, you just gotta take a seed, plant it, put dirt on it, water it.
Come on, I can teach anybody to farm.
We'll get the truth out, the reality of how hard it is.
We've got that Bill O'Reilly today.
Geraldo and Reverend C.L. Bryan on the issue of Bloomberg's racial comments.
And Peter Schweitzer investigates Bloomy and this bizarre relationship with China all coming up.
800 941 Sean as we continue.
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Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
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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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So the United States currently accounts for about 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
China accounts for roughly 30% of greenhouse gas emissions.
How do we, even if we get to net zero, how do you get China, India, and the other countries to be good?
China is doing a lot.
Yes, they're still building a bunch of coal-fired power plants.
And they're still burning coal.
Yes, they are.
But they are now moving plants away from the cities.
They're the communist party wants to stay in power in China, and they listen to the public.
When the public says I can't breathe the air, Xi Xipping is not a dictator.
He has to satisfy his constituents, or he's not going to survive.
He's not a dictator.
No, he has to, he has a constituency to uh to to uh um uh answer to doesn't have a vote.
He doesn't have a democracy.
He doesn't have a voter.
If his advisors they check on him just a revolution, yeah, I can have a revolution.
Nobody no government survives without the will of the majority of its people.
Okay.
All right, those are comments by yes, uh there he is, farmer Mike, many Mike Bloomberg, uh, about China.
Now, this is pretty fascinating because our friend Peter Schweitzer, author of the best uh uh selling book, Profiles in Corruption, Abuse of Power by America's Progressive Elite, he goes in a chapter and verse and detail in a deep investigative study, and by the way, some of which has been picked up now by the by Breitbart.com.
And their headline is Bloomberg accused of helping communist China suppress embarrassing news stories.
Anyway, so uh Peter Schweitzer has done a deep dive yet again, and he found out that in November of 2013 that Bloomberg News suspended a reporter who exposed corruption involving uh relatives of of the Chinese leadership at a conference in Beijing in 2018 in November.
Bloomberg called the Chinese vice president the most influential political figure in China and the world.
And this guy's name is is Wang.
He's widely seen as President Xi's enforcer.
They nicknamed this guy, Angel of Death in an interview with Firing Lines Margaret Hoover.
Bloomberg says the Chinese Communist Party will listen to the public, and that uh President Xi is not a dictator.
Really?
He's president pro life.
Nice try.
Here with more of the details on this, because this is a big deal, a very big deal, is Peter Schweitzer, uh best selling author.
How are you, sir?
Hey, I'm great, Sean.
How are you doing?
I'm good.
It seems like systemic for him.
As then uh as I look at it, I'm thinking he's making money.
There's got he's compromising principles to make money.
Yeah, it's you know, it's an interesting question, Sean.
There's basically two explanations for Michael Bloomberg's actions with regards to China.
One is that he really does think the Chinese communist system is like a democracy like the West, uh, and that President Xi is not a d dictator.
He actually believes that, or he's doing it to kowtow to the Chinese because he has a cluster of commercial relationships in Beijing that require him to be in the good graces of the Chinese government.
I think a lot of people look at it and say, Michael Bloomberg is worth $60 billion.
He doesn't have to couch out anybody.
But if your business is so tied up to being in the good graces of the Chinese government, uh maybe you're prepared to do that to uh to keep the uh the money flowing.
Yeah, all right.
So let's go through these specific incidents.
Now I'll add one other thing.
There's a story in Breitbart about how the Intercept reported that uh a woman describing herself as one of the many women that Mike Bloomberg's company tried to silence through non-disclosure agreements, even though she never worked for Bloomberg's companies, but her husband did.
And according to this woman, uh Miss Fincher, Bloomberg brought uh enormous pressure to bear against the couple to suppress news reports that were embarrassing to the communist Chinese.
And she said she was studying uh sociology uh in Beijing when her husband worked on a series of Bloomberg news reports about the tremendous wealth accumulated by Chinese leaders and their families, including uh the relatives of President Xi and like other visiting Western reporters critical of the communist government, they found themselves, you know, getting death threats, including threats against her and and their and her husband and their two young children.
And she said Bloomberg News told them not to say anything about the death threats pending an internal investigation, but after several months she broke her silence, mentioned it on Twitter.
Within a matter of hours, she's claiming she said her husband was contacted by a Bloomberg manager and told to get your wife to delete her tweets.
Oh, well, that sounds very uh that sounds very heartening to me.
Yeah, the the her husband is a reporter named Michael Forsyth, who I've met with and and spoken with.
Uh he's a very good reporter on China, and that's exactly right.
He was working for Bloomberg at the time.
Uh he did a lot of uh aggressive reporting, uh good solid reporting on how the Chinese political leadership was self-enriching.
Uh in email exchanges, Bloomberg editors, you know, said, Look, you've got the goods.
This is amazing.
Uh and then they basically uh told him to stop reporting it.
And uh Forsyth uh left uh Bloomberg.
He's now with the New York Times.
Um and it's an act of censorship um that is consistent uh with a lot of the things that Michael Bloomberg has said and done over the years in terms of his statements to uh with regards to China.
And part of it, Sean, is you know, people don't realize his company, Bloomberg LP, which you know has these uh uh terminals and sells data to investors around the world.
I mean, it's a very, very lucrative business.
A key component of that business is that he has a licensing agreement with the Chinese government.
Um it was formed in 2010.
Interestingly enough, this licensing agreement is with the State Council Information Office, which is also the propaganda win of the Chinese government.
And the point is is that he takes data, they take data um uh involving bonds and financial markets in China, and they sell it to investors and traders around the world.
And China has been the hottest market over the last ten to fifteen years.
So this data is really, really important uh to his business model.
Um, if he does something to tick off the Chinese or you know, one of his entities is reporting something they don't like, there's real fear that that you he could potentially lose that license.
Ummercial deals as well.
Let's go through some of these other the the incidents I mentioned, one in November 2017, um sorry, twenty thirteen, and number another in November twenty eighteen, and this interview in September 2019 with uh Margaret uh Hoover and Bloomberg saying the Chinese Communist Party will listen to the public and that President Xi is not a dictator.
I don't believe that.
Why would he say that?
Great question.
And it's really stunning.
People can find it online.
I would encourage them to look at the full interview.
And it you can really tell that uh uh Margaret Hoover's interviewing is kind of floored by the statement.
Uh it's it's completely declarative.
It's not that, oh, you know, Xi is trying to do his best for his people.
It's that President Xi flat out is not a dictator.
And you know, I think Sean, you probably agree with me on this.
If President Xi is not a dictator, I don't know what a dictator is.
Nobody's a dictator.
Um and that's what's so stunning.
We know Bloomberg's, you know, a smart guy.
He's been in financial uh uh business and and mayor of New York.
He knows exactly what's going on in China, and he's choosing, he's choosing uh to to, you know, kowtow or soft pedal what's going on in China.
And the explanations are either he actually believes it, um, or he's doing it to kind of curry favor with the Chinese because uh they could severely damage his business.
I'm trying to understand he recently announced plans uh Bloomberg did his business to incorporate Chinese bonds into the Bloomberg Barclays bond index business with the goal of steering a hundred and fifty billion in Western capital to Chinese companies, including a hundred and fifty-nine government owned businesses.
Now, I'll be honest, I don't care if we have good relations with China.
I kind of like the fact that this president got two hundred and twenty billion in a two year deal that helps our farmers or service industry, our energy sector, or manufacturers, our automobile industry.
I mean, that's real money, real jobs, real Americans.
I don't have a problem with that.
We can do business with people whose politics we don't like.
Um as long as uh but you're saying that very specific actions and things are being done and said here just because of money and things that he's saying are just not factually accurate.
Like it's wrong to say this guy's not a dictator.
He's president for life.
How do we know he declared himself president for life?
Exactly.
There are many people within the communist party itself, hierarchy, who are quite upset with him declaring that.
So you've got a lot of people in the Chinese Communist Party that would say President Xi is a dictator.
And look, you're exactly right.
The issue here for me is not that you're doing business with China.
There are lots of people that do business with China.
But if it starts to distort or or or change or alter the statements you are making, especially if you're somebody who, you know, wants to be president of the United States, wants to be a leader of the country, um, you know, that's of serious concern.
And you know, you could look at at Donald Trump.
I mean, Donald Trump has done business with China, his family's done business with China.
It does not seem to have affected his policy prescriptions towards China.
He's been very, very tough.
The question is if Michael Bloomberg is prepared to make these sort of over the top statements that President Xi's not a dictator, that you know, his enforcer, the angel of death, is the most important person in the world.
Um, you've got to wonder and be concerned, either it's something he truly believes, or these commercial ties uh that are very lucrative for him, whether he's just prepared to say these things because he wants to keep the flow of money coming.
Do you think like when you couple everything you're saying here and his comments, well, you're 95, go home, we're not going to treat you, and his comments about uh minorities in particular and all the cops, and we only arrest minority kids from marijuana because that's where all the crime is.
Uh his comments about gays, lesbians, transgenders, uh the allegations of the things that he said about women and everything in between.
I mean, one has to really, and it comments about farmers, I mean, what is the impact overall for his campaign here?
Will the Democratic Party just because his name isn't Trump, give him a pass?
Yeah, the question, Sean, is is how much does the base Democrat um evaluating all these things say Bloomberg is saying and doing things that are inconsistent with what I believe, but my desire to defeat Trump is so much greater that I'm prepared to look the other way.
And I think it's gonna be very hard for Bloomberg to square that circle.
Uh because at the end of the day, uh one of the reasons the Democrats want to get rid of Donald Trump is because they have very strong views on, you know, uh transgender rights or these other issues.
And if Bloomberg uh, you know, is is not following the line on those, or if he's now starting to change his views out of political expediency, it really goes to the heart of credibility.
And and and I think that's really what's going to be interesting to watch with Bloomberg.
I mean, he's he's an enormously wealthy individual.
He was mayor of New York City, but but honestly did not face, you know, serious political opposition in that role.
You know, he is now in an arena where he's climbed in the polls largely because he's dropped hundreds of millions of dollars in political ads.
He's gonna be on a debate stage.
Uh, it's it's gonna be fight club.
Um, he is gonna be getting in scraps with people.
And the question is can a guy who's never really had to face that before publicly, uh, how is he going to deal with it?
How is he going to explain?
Well, he's alienating big big portions of the Democratic Party base.
I mean, that is the Democratic Party base, and that is why they play identity politics all the time.
Uh Peter Schweitzer, by the way, is best selling book, Profiles in Corruption, Abuse of Power by America's Progressive Elite.
Uh, quick question about Bernie when we come back on the other side of this.
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 Mayfock from Prolog Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco Benghazi.
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We've been in political media for a long time.
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And as we continue, Peter Schweitzer, best-selling author, we're just talking about the business connections and odd happenings with China and Mayor Bloomberg.
On top of everything else.
One of the things your book Profiles and Corruption, you go into a pretty deep dive about how wealthy Bolshevik Bernie Sanders is.
He's a pretty wealthy guy.
Now, when he started, I guess in politics, he wasn't that wealthy, was he?
That's right, Sean.
I mean, he was 39 years old when he was elected mayor of Burlington.
He had never held a steady job before that.
Um when he had run for the Senate in the 1970s, he actually collected unemployment insurance uh while he was running for office.
He becomes mayor of Burlington, and that's kind of the beginning of this pattern of steering money uh to his family.
Both he and Jane have done that.
Uh when he was mayor of Burlington, one of the first things he did was he put his then girlfriend, later wife, Jane, on the payroll.
The city council erupted and said, You can't do that.
There's no job here.
We never authorized this.
Bernie blew it off and kept her on the payroll, and that was kind of the beginning.
Um, by the time he ran for Congress, he realized that that putting his wife in charge of his media buying uh could be very lucrative.
Um, never mind that Jane had no background in advertising or in media buying.
So she would take a commission, 10 to 15% commission on all the radio and television uh ads that his campaign would buy.
And we believe that that's somewhere in the magnitude of 150,000 that she made.
Um, and that pattern has has, you know, continued going forward.
When it comes to his own book sales, this is very interesting.
I mean, Bernie says I'm a millionaire because I sell books.
Uh, well, I sell books, but Bernie has the added advantage, Sean, of he's had his own political campaigns by copies of his own books to the tune of half a million dollars.
So it's it's he's actually used campaign money uh to you know sweeten his book sales uh for the benefit of himself uh and his own um publisher.
So I mean yeah, I mean it's just remarkable to me.
I mean, all these guys, they all get rich and then they complain about wealth distribution.
Uh meanwhile, they're supposed to be taking jobs where they're public servants, but they're using their background, their connections, and everything in between uh to make sure that they are enriching themselves.
And like, for example, don't they have a better health plan than the rest of us?
Yes, they do, Sean.
And actually, when the Senate introduced uh a requirement that the U.S. Senate, the senators uh be under the same uh requirements as Obamacare, like the rest of us.
Bernie Sanders actually voted against uh that bill.
Um, and as a U.S. senator, um, you know, he's written all this book, all these books, he's made money.
When you look at his uh investment portfolio, he has an investment portfolio, a guy who attacks uh corporate America, Wall Street, big oil, big pharma.
Uh, where does he actually put his investment dollars?
All right, great reporting as always.
Pete Schwah Peter Schweitzer, author of the best seller, Profiles in Corruption, Abuse of Power by America's Progressive Elite.
We put it on Hannity.com now in book bookstores everywhere.
Amazon.com if you want to get a copy.
Uh thanks for being with us.
Take a quick break when we come back.
The simple man himself, Bill O'Reilly, Bill O'Reilly.com for all things O'Reilly.
We'll get his take on all the happenings within the Democratic uh radical extreme socialist party.
That's next.
How do you feel about the Democratic Party and Mike Bloomberg trying to buy this election?
I think it's I think it's sad, it's a sad reality.
Big money should not influence politics.
I am incense and I'm outraged and I'm incredibly disappointed with the Democratic Party.
How do you feel about Bloomberg's comments?
It seems like every week there's another tape about him saying something about manures.
I think just look at his track record.
Look at Stop and Frisk.
It's despicable and it's something that you expect from an oligarch like him.
I think we all know Bloomberg's policies have not been racially just.
Say Bernie doesn't win.
Could you ever support a guy like Bloomberg?
I would begrudgingly vote for him, yes.
It's gonna be really hard for me to do that.
It would really suck to be pushed into a corner like that.
Um I would have a really hard time doing that.
The Bernie Sanders campaign manager gave a recent interview and said that they felt like Fox News treated uh Bernie Sanders more fair than MSNBC, which is a progressive.
Do you think that's a good idea?
I true, I truly believe so.
You know, Mr. Bloomberg has every right in the world to run for president of the United States.
He's an American citizen.
But I don't think he has the right to buy this election.
You know, we pride ourselves on being the longest standing democracy in the world.
And we're proud of that.
To me, what that means, one person, one vote.
You want to run for president, you run for president.
You got good ideas, maybe you win, maybe you don't win.
But I do think it's a bit obscene that we have somebody who, by the way, chose not to contest in Iowa, in Nevada, uh in South Carolina, in the Hampshire, where all of the candidates, we did town meetings, we're talking to thousands and thousands of people working hard.
He said, I don't have to do that.
I'm worth 60 billion dollars.
I have more wealth than the bottom 125 million Americans.
I'll buy the presidency.
That offends me very much.
All right, there it is.
Farmer Mike getting attacked by rank-and-file fellow Democratic radical socialists.
And Bernie blasting Bloomberg uh and his quote racist policies at a massive rally ad Bernie also saying that uh farmer Mike Bloomberg stands uh for oligarchy, not democracy.
Elizabeth Warren is saying that uh he's an ego maniac, and Bloomberg once called excessive spending on a campaign ad subscene.
This all on top of oh, his latest comments about black and Latino males do not know how to behave in the workplace.
There's this enormous cohort of black and Latino males aged, let's say sixteen to twenty-five, that don't have jobs, don't have any prospects, don't know how to find jobs, don't know uh that they what their skill sets are, don't know how to behave in the workplace where they have to work collaboratively and collectively.
And then the same guy that says, Oh, you throw those young minority kids up against the wall, and he said murderers and murder victims, they fit one MO, not five, not two, not three one, only one.
You can just take the description, Xerox it, pass it out to all the cops.
They are male, they're minority, sixteen to twenty-five.
It's true in New York, and it is true in virtually every city in America.
And then he's asked, Well, you know, why do you why do you only arrest my goodness, you're only arresting kids from marijuana that are minorities?
He says, Yeah, that we only arrest kids from marijuana that are minor minorities.
He says, That's true.
And he says, why?
Because we put all the cops, all of them, not some, all of them, in minority neighborhoods.
And why do we do it?
Because that's where all the crime is, not some of the crime, all of the crime is.
Well, if you hear simple man on this program, that can only mean one thing, and that's Bill O'Reilly.
Uh, who says he's a simple man.
He's anything but simple, but uh Bill O'Reilly.com for all things O'Reilly and uh I don't know.
I'm by the way, uh did you know I could teach you how to be a farmer, Bill?
It's easy.
Um I'm uh I appreciate the offer, Hannity, but I'm not sure that's my vocation.
Well, hang on a second.
I could teach anybody to be a farmer.
All you gotta do, Bill, is dig a hole, put a seat in it, you put dirt on top and you water the the seed and up comes the corn and rows.
That's what it's that simple.
What about the cows and the tractor and the fence?
You see, now you're getting complicated, Bill.
You're supposed to be a simple man.
I am simple.
I I'm picturing myself on a farm, and I know I'm gonna have a big John Deere there.
You had a guy on the other night with a John Deere in the background.
I thought he was driving into the camera.
I'm I'm honored you want.
But can you believe the arrogance of this guy?
You dig a hole, you put a seat in it, you put dirt on top and add water, and up comes corn and rows.
I mean, come on.
Well, in his world, that's what it is.
I don't understand.
Michael Bloomberg is a billionaire, as Bernie would say it.
So why is anybody surprised that his view of life is a simplistic, well, the farmers do this and the cops do that, and the bus drivers do this.
He's not interested in pedestrian occupations.
Hey, Billy.
Well, uh I can I can't imagine the the breathtaking stupidity of his statement about farming.
Farming is so sophisticated.
It it was probably look, here's what you gotta understand about Bloomberg, because it's gonna be fascinating tonight as all um five of his opponents gang up on him.
I don't know if Biden knows that he's gonna be there yet, but when Joe finds out, he'll gang up on him too.
Joe's a little detached from what's happening.
What let me ask you this.
What if Donald Trump had talked about taking young male minorities sixteen to twenty-five and throwing them up against the wall?
And yeah, we only arrest minority kids.
We only put cops in minority neighborhoods because that's where all the crime is.
Not some of it, all of it.
Well, I mean, he would have been branded uh a racist, like he's already been branded.
You know, the far left hates Bloomberg.
We're leading uh the no spin news on Bill O'Reilly.com with that story, and I picked four really vicious attacks.
And I guess these are Bernie Sanders report um supporters, because Sanders' got a problem with the with the Bernie bros now that are kind of like uh bully boys going around beating people up.
You mean like Brother Bolshevik Bernie Bros, you call them?
Is that what you say?
Yeah, Bernie Bros.
I mean, it's like they're gonna have leather jackets with Bernie Bros on the back, you know.
Um, but they all have problems.
But Bloomberg is fascinating because he has always been this way.
He's always been a kind of an arrogant guy, uh not warm and fuzzy, makes these kind of statements that are offensive to a lot of people because he can.
It's like Trump in a way.
They have so much money.
They've never been held accountable for anything they've ever said in their lives.
And they go around saying whatever they want to say.
Some of it's smart.
Some of it's dumb.
And then the dumb stuff comes back to bite them when they want to run for president of the United States now.
The country overlooked that before Donald Trump.
I mean, a guy could not have been attacked more than Mr. Trump was attacked.
Bloomberg's being attacked now, but it doesn't come close to what Trump had to go through.
But it will be fascinating tonight to see how the other five beat the living daylights out of Mayor Mike and how he responds.
I have really want to dig down.
I've gotten a tip about the relationship with him and Sharpton.
Have you heard about this?
Uh no, you tell me what you know.
I mean, I No, I gotta I'm I'm waiting on it.
I just uh you know, we're doing a deep dive.
I want to make sure I have it completely.
It was contentious.
Remember that uh the the Bloomberg governed New York City for twelve years.
And in my opinion, out of all of the Democratic candidates, Bloomberg would be best to govern the United States.
He he's my question better than any of the others running for president.
In my opinion.
That doesn't make sense.
So he wants to be president.
That doesn't make him a humanitarian.
It doesn't make him if you take global warming and guns out of Bloomberg's arsenal, pardon upon, he's a Republican.
He's a Republican.
Those are the two issues that he separates from the Republican Party on.
And he's got no he's got no pathway to the White House other than the Democrats, but he's not a Democrat.
Bloomberg's not a Democrat.
He he believes that.
I disagree with you.
Because I'm going to tell you how Bloomberg listen, did you hear what he said about death panels?
Let's go through what makes up a Democratic coalition.
All right.
African Americans, I don't think they're going to be very happy with his comments telling uh people that if you're 95 and you got cancer, you've lived a good life, go home.
We're not going to treat you.
I don't think that's going to go very well with older people that may be thinking of voting democratic as all this information about women comes out.
I don't think that's going to go over particularly well.
Uh other comments that he's made about uh gays and lesbians, there is also a uh what, a a New York Daily news article uh where he insulted transgenders uh saying that, you know, transgender people he describes as he, she, or it or some guy in a dress or who enters girls' locker rooms.
Uh I'm just imagining if Donald Trump said any of this crap.
I know, you know what.
But let me ask you a question, because I mean so they're gonna give him a pass because he's a Democrat?
No, they're not gonna give him a pass.
They're hammering him now.
Do you think, because this is an NBC extravaganza tonight, do you think that the NBC moderators are gonna go after Bloomberg?
No.
Yeah, I think they're gonna have to a little bit, but I mean I think Bloomberg's been in debate prep now.
He has been prepping for this debate for the last thirty-six hours.
That's all he's been doing.
Okay, but but it w it doesn't matter what he says.
It it's the demeanor of the moderators and his opponents.
So you have Bloomberg can say whatever he wants to say.
You see, they hate Bernie Sanders.
You see, the the MSDNC crowd uh and the establishment hate Bernie, so they might prop him up and the mob in the media might prop him up.
I agree with that.
NBC doesn't want Bernie, and they know he's gonna get get slaughtered.
So it'll be interesting to see Holt and and uh what's his name, uh the meet the press guy, Todd, they'll have to ask him the tough questions, but they won't follow.
That's the game.
So if you're if you're a good moderator, good journalist, you know they're gonna dodge your first question.
You gotta come in and say, hey, you just dodged it, you didn't answer.
Here's the question again.
That's how you interview.
That's how I do it, that's how you do it, and they don't do it that way.
They gotta throw some tough ones at him, but I don't think they're gonna come down real hard.
But Warren in particular is gonna go after Sanders.
Warren is gonna you wait and see what that woman does.
She's gonna be the pit bull tonight.
I gotta take a break more with uh Bill O'Reilly, all things O'Reilly, simple man at Bill O'Reilly.com.
The agrarian society lasted three thousand years, and we could teach processes.
I could teach anybody, even people in this room, so no offense intended.
To to be a farmer.
You it's a process.
You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, you add water, up comes the corn.
Then we had three hundred, you could learn that.
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.
All right, so we continue.
Bill O'Reilly, simple man, BillO'Reilly.com for all things uh O'Reilly, and well, okay, so how does this play out?
Let's uh all right, so Bloomberg's now in, he's in the debate, but he really doesn't get in until Super Tuesday.
But I'm looking at a lot of Super Tuesday states, and you still got Bernie Sanders leading the way.
You know, it's very fascinating.
I can't predict how the Democrats are gonna vote in the primaries.
I can tell you that if Bloomberg gets the nomination, and we discussed this last week, uh, I believe 10 to 15 percent of Democratic voters will stay home.
And that'll be a combination of the Bernie people and the minority crew.
Um if you have ninety-five percent of the Republican Party currently supporting the president, and they're jazzed to turn out as they are, and you lose fifteen percent of your democratic base, then Trump wins.
So Bloomberg is really in a tight spot.
Now if you j if you nominate Bernie outright, I think he loses forty out of fifty states.
Um I I can't uh I can't see him.
I looked at the map the other day.
You're working people in the world.
Well then I g I guess I have to come out and defend Bernie and help Bernie then Well, that's Trump wants to run against Bernie.
He wants he wants to run against Bloomberg.
That's what he says.
Oh, yeah.
He then why is Trump saying the fix is in against Bernie?
Because he likes Bernie?
No.
Bernie, no, Bernie got screwed.
They did rig the primary last time.
They stole it from him.
Well, so what is is the By the way, they do it again this time, and I and those Bernie people are not gonna come out.
They're gonna stay home.
They are.
But President Trump's not trying to engender sympathy to for Bernie Sanders.
He wants to run against Bernie Sanders.
Bloomberg's much smarter than Sanders.
I mean, I don't know how much time we have.
You have next I'm about to say goodbye.
All right.
Next week I'll tell you why Bernie Sanders is not so smart.
All right, simple man Bill O'Reilly, Bill O'Reilly.com.
Thank you for being with us, Bill.
Appreciate it.
We'll get uh we'll get it into that next week.
When we come back, news roundup, information overload.
Uh well, how's it going over?
Bloomberg comments with African Americans will check and farmers will check in with Reverend C. L. Bryan, Geraldo Rivera.
We'll take calls from farmers coming up in our final half hour of the program today and much more straight ahead.
Stay right here for our final news roundup and information overload in the final hour of the Sean Hannity Show.
All right, news roundup information overload, 800 941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
So all right, so you you look at alienating if if both parties, which they are coalition parties, uh certain interest, there's a reason every two and four years that you have this this playbook of the Democrats.
Republicans are racist, they are sexist misogynists, they are anti-gay, they're you know, homophobic, xenophobic, islamophobic.
They want dirty air and water and they want to kill grandma after she spends years eating dog and cat food only.
And then the Republican candidate will throw Granny over the cliff because that's their playbook.
Now, why is that happened?
Because they are playing to the base of their party.
Now the question is with Bloomberg, okay.
Well, how's he gonna be doing with blue-collar Americans by insulting the lack of gray matter of America's great farmers?
And by the way, we're gonna talk to farmers only in the final half hour of the program today.
Uh, if you're a farmer, call in.
We want to hear from you.
800 941 Sean.
You dig a hole, you put a seat in it, you put dirt on it, and then you add water, and up comes the corn.
Really?
It's that simple.
Because all these people that go and get advanced degrees in the in agriculture and agriculture sciences and other related fields, soil itself is is something, you know, the the alkaline level, the chemical composition of soil means everything.
How do you make these these plants that we grow all the time more hardy under more difficult weather conditions?
I mean, it's so ignorant.
But then, okay, now how are women gonna react to all the stories about well, just kill the baby, uh, another woman on maternity leave.
Oh, we can't have that.
Or Bloomberg saying black and Latino males don't know how to behave in the workplace.
We got that that has just come out.
Uh then we have, oh, well, you know, murderers, murder victims, they only fit one MO.
You take the description, you Xerox it, you pass it out to all the cops, they're all male minorities, sixteen to twenty-five.
That's New York and virtually every city in America.
And then he says you're gonna throw these young sixteen to twenty five year old kids up against the wall.
Cops throw 'em up against the wall.
Really?
And then he says, well, he says, well, people ask me, oh my gosh, well, you're only arresting you're arresting kids for marijuana, but they're all minorities.
And he says, Yeah, that's true, they're all minorities.
Why?
Because we put all the cops in minority neighborhoods.
Why do we do it?
Because that's where all, not some of the all the crime is.
Pretty ignorant.
So you got, and then he's telling old people, oh, you're 95.
Uh, sorry, go home.
Listen, you're gonna you've outlived your usefulness.
Let's be honest here.
We're not gonna treat you.
We're not gonna try and save your life.
Go home and die.
All right.
You've had a good life.
Well, I guess if you one second past your life expectancy, I guess that's the health care plan of uh of farmer mini Mike Bloomberg.
Anyway, joining us, what is the impact of all this?
Haraldo Rivera, Fox News legal analyst, author of the Geraldo Show, Reverend C. L. Bryant, author of The Race for Freedom and Senior Fellow at Freedom Works.
Uh, thank you both for being with us.
Haraldo, um, I know you.
Now, this isn't even to me an issue or a discussion about stop and frisk or a higher concentration of uh police resources that are limited in areas where there's more crime.
That makes sense to me to do that, but I would argue it's more socioeconomic, but that's not the way this guy thinks or talks.
And he acts, you know, that's where all the crime is.
We're only arresting minorities, we're only throwing minorities up against the wall.
Uh that's pretty grotesque from my point of view.
And and I bet Haraldo, I know you're you're you you have longevity in your family.
I doubt you're gonna be too happy if somebody in your family's ninety-five and they're told they're not gonna get treated to go home and die.
I I certainly will not.
That's uh absolutely true.
Hey, brother.
I you know I used to like Bloomberg.
I remember when he was a Republican.
And uh, you know, I I understand why.
But he was a Republican for convenience, though.
Let's be honest here.
He we did not want any part of that democratic primary.
But but one thing I know for sure.
I was born on 17th Street.
I spent my whole young adult life in the lower east side.
They put the cops there because the crime was there.
I mean, that there's there's real truth to that.
Let me just let me just before you uh count to dictate me as I know you will, and you're eloquent and do this away.
I I think that there's an opportunity here for Donald Trump.
If Bloomberg is the stereotype that you now suggest he is, and believe me, the people to the left of uh Bloomberg are even uh more radical in their in their own way.
The opportunity is to expand the Republican Party, those minorities that aspire for not only safer neighborhoods, but better lives, broader lives, bigger horizons, uh better jobs, uh uh, you know, management positions, entrepreneurial opportunities.
I think that Trump is got the potential, and you and I have spoken to the president about this.
We know he gets it.
Uh the State of the Union absolutely reflected this.
He will fill the vacuum that the Bloombergs of the world create in the minority community.
There is a historic opportunity right now for the Republican Party to embrace minorities in a way they have nothing.
But I think he's but I think the president is I mean, look at his speech when you talk about opportunity zones and record low unemployment for African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, women in the workplace, youth unemployment, African American youth unemployment.
We're not just talking about one record.
It's almost on a monthly basis, we shatter another record.
And and you put all of this together and you add to that criminal justice reform uh because of disparity in sentencing, and I think you got uh I'll go to Reverend C. O. Bryant.
I think you got a hell of a a campaign to run and a case to be made, which is certainly better than well, what have you got to lose, which is what Trump said to the minority community in in 2016, because you know, he's pointing out the fact Democrats that have run these cities into the ground after decades of rule, uh, he was promising to do better, and I argue he's delivered.
And that's exactly what's happening, Sean.
In fact, when we think about the comments that this New York former New York mayor has made, Bull Connor probably would have said the same types of things uh 40, 50 years ago.
And when we talk about the historical vote that we're expecting to turn out in 2020 for Donald John Trump.
Black voices for Trump is something that this president has created and is in fact using to turn that black vote away from the historical Democrat Party and is scaring the devil out of the Democrats as we speak because they know the only tangible thing that Democrats have done for black people over the years is give them uh a Coca Cola,
a sandwich, and maybe five dollars to get on the bus to go and vote every two to four years.
That's tangible that they have done for the black people in this country.
Donald John Trump has historically now lowered the unemployment rate uh historically for blacks and Latinos while raising the job rate in this country.
That's tangible.
So if you have a choice, if black people use their brains instead of their emotions as far as skin color is concerned, you are going to see a turnabout, a an unshackling of the black vote to the Democrat Party that this country has not seen since Reconstruction.
And I want to add to this.
Let me go back to Geraldo.
I it it angers me every two and four years, Haraldo, because I'm a conservative.
I'm I'm not a registered Republican.
But the the false narrative that is used, the playbook Republicans are racist, sexists, xenophobic, homophobic, misogynist, uh Islam of you know, they want dirty air and water.
I'm tired of it.
Because that's not anybody I know that's conservative, and if they call themselves a conservative, I want nothing to do with those people.
That's not who I am.
The people I know and that are conservative.
Yeah.
I agree.
The stereotype has never been harsher than it is now, and it's because of the whole truth derangement uh that is going on.
There really is a syndrome where people have been they are so filled with hatred when it comes to the president of the United States that they ascribe to every Republican, they say, like Trump, you are a racist.
Like Trump, you are uh an elitist.
Like Trump, you're a predator.
Like Trump, you're uh you know, uh a sexual assaulter.
Uh you know, it's it is the stereotyping is absolutely sickening.
However, I think that Trump's resilience and the way he fought off impeachment and the way people have rallied to him does create, as the uh as the reverence suggests, this opportunity.
And I want the president to campaign as if he was a Democrat.
Let him be the real Democrat in in the in the in the broadest sense, uh the the small D sense of that word.
Let him him be the person to say you can uh uh uh uh you can uh aspire to greatness.
You can aspire to wealth, you can aspire to success.
You know, this is America, the land of opportunity by emphasizing the positive, by emphasizing the success story, by surrounding himself with a diverse uh group of uh supporting cast as he campaigns with surrogate that look like the audience that uh the president is trying to appeal to.
I I think that by emphasizing the positive, let the Democrats tear themselves apart.
Let them have their night fight uh tonight in uh Nevada.
Let them, you know, the they'll be a mutual sewer destruction.
Let them do that.
In the meantime, the president is the president of all the people.
And let me just add that a parenthetically that I applaud wholeheartedly his pardons and communications today.
That was the right thing to do, the compassionate thing to do, the just thing to do, and every one of those people could be.
Look at what he did with criminal justice reform.
And and it wasn't just Blogoevich and and somebody that's a friend of all of ours, Bernie Carriga.
He served his time.
He was a a hero on nine-eleven two thousand and one.
Um honestly, he was.
I mean, there's there's no other way to put it.
And I don't think one bad decision in life should define somebody's entire life.
But uh, we see these polls.
The irony behind that statement is all five of Geraldo's wives still love him.
I mean, it's unbelievable.
That's right.
That's right.
And it's by the way, I'm not making that up.
You're the only person I know that the your exes love you.
I've never seen anything like it.
That's right.
You know what, Sean, uh, I gotta add this because I'm the great grand I'm the grandson and and son of farmers.
One of the things that Bloomberg said the other day, certainly is not gonna win him any voters in uh that farming community, and certainly not the children of farmers.
Uh it took a heck of a lot more than just knowing how to put a put your finger in the ground and put a corn seed in the ground in order to bring forth crops.
Well, no, and and it got worse because then he said they need more gray matter, meaning more brain power.
I'm like, you idiot.
This is now a sophisticated science at a level, you know, irrigation, soil uh uh growing hybrids.
I mean, it is so sophisticated and they're so great at it, and he dismisses it.
Oh, I can teach anybody to farm.
But our society today, you need more gray matter than that.
He's such an arrogant elitist snob.
Absolutely.
Uh all right, so recent polls now show that the president is doing well with African Americans and Hispanic Americans dramatically better.
Now, do those increase in poll numbers transferred to votes in 258 days, C. L. Bryant.
You have black people uh that are going to vote for Donald John Trump that would have never thought of voting for a Republican uh before.
Tonight, as a board member of uh black voices for Trump, we will take over the war room at Trump headquarters.
These are black people, Sean, that will be doing that.
Even in the Democratic Party over the last sixty years, you've never heard of anything like this transpiring.
The one promise that President Trump made to black people on the campaign trail was this.
Even if you don't vote for me, I will be your greatest champion.
That's a promise made.
That's a promise that he has kept.
And that is why I believe that the Democrats are trying so hard to stop this mammoth of a job and uh a juggernaut of a job that this president has word haraldo, you got a minute.
Yeah.
Hold on.
My advice is, as I said, to the president to campaign as a Democrat, what does that mean?
Send buses to the minority communities.
Have uh surrogates, have people catalysts, get the leaders on board, as you have in uh Cleveland with Pastor Scott and with Pastor Bryant.
I think that it it's gonna happen, but you have to be pragmatically idealistic.
You've got to be the pragmatic part of that is you gotta turn out the vote in a mechanical way.
You gotta beat the machine at the machine's own gauge.
All right, I want to thank you both for being with us.
Uh Reverend C. L. Bryan, author of The Race for Freedom, Senior Fellow of Freedom Works, Araldo Rivera, Fox News legal analyst and author of the Geraldo Show.
Thank you both.
When we come back, as promised, we're only taking calls from farmers, final half hour of the program, and they get to react to the ignorant comments of former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, 800-941 Sean.
You want to be a part of the program, but you've got to be a farmer.
That's the only that's the only criteria.
All day long I can catch catfish from dusk till dawn Make our own whiskey and our own smoke too late Too many things in the boy came to Hank Williams Jr.
Yeah, country boy will survive, and uh these comments now really have ticked off a lot of people, as it should.
We've done a deep dive now into farming and farming uh degrees and advanced degrees that are available.
I mean, it's incredible.
It is the the amount of sophisticated science, chemistry, everything in between is unbelievable and how great our farmers are.
And for, you know, this this arrogant elitist snob, Michael Bloomberg.
Well, I could teach anybody to be a farmer.
It's you know, come on, really.
You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, and you add water and and up pops the corn.
I'm like, you gotta be kidding me.
I mean, Can you really be that stupid, that breathtakingly ignorant about America's great farmers?
You know, and and then taking it a step further.
Well, you know, we need people now that have more gray matter, not like the farmers.
I'm like, wow.
You know, we went and we did a a deep dive.
There's so many schools that offer not only bachelor of science degrees in agriculture and and other specialized fields regarding agriculture, but they offer these advanced degrees.
Cal Poly, for example, major in for example, you can major in or minor in agribusiness, bioresource, agricultural engineering, environmental earth, and soil sciences.
It's a science.
What happens if you're what happens if the soil becomes either it it's out of pH balance some way?
How do you fix that, farmer Mike?
Mini Mike.
You know, they have uh geographic information systems for agriculture.
I mean, that I mean, we have so many examples, so many schools.
This is I mean, we can teach any I can teach any of you to farm.
Really?
You put a seed in the ground, you cover it with dirt, you water it, and up comes your corn.
Okay, maybe that works in your garden in the backyard.
But that's not farming.
We not only feed the entire United States, but we feed the world.
And but you need more gray matter.
What a what an arrogant elitist snob.
Unbelievable.
So I asked farmers to call in.
They feed all of us.
They're all great Americans.
And we have a a bunch of them on the line here.
Thanks to the rest of you for cooperating and not calling at this time.
Uh let's say hi to Dennis in Wisconsin.
Dennis, how are you?
Welcome to the program and uh we honor what you farmers do.
Tell us what you do.
Hi, Sean.
Um, thank you very much.
Uh thank you for what you do.
Um I feel like uh Bloomberg's comments for me, I know it's been hammered on all week, but for me it's like a double whammy.
I I grew up on a farm, farming my whole life, but I'm also uh 25 plus year CNC machinist.
By the way, every farmer, I mean, you really have to be a machinist.
You have to be a mechanic because if your equipment breaks, you know, you you've got to be able to get your hands in there, get dirty and and try and at least fix it to keep going that day.
As a farmer, you're an electrician, you're a plumber, you're a mechanic, you're a welder, a carpenter, a banker, a veterinarian.
You're also in charge of HR and PR with the neighbors, and there's a whole lot more than poking a hole and just dropping a seed in the ground.
It's so I find it insulting, but then he takes it to the next level about the uh well, these new jobs we have today in the information age, you need more gray matter.
I'm like, wow, you go I I couldn't believe it.
I've seen it change from from when I was a boy, my grandpa was planting two rows of corn at a time, and and now it's our equipment is forty feet wide.
It's GPS controlled, and it's not a GPS like your car.
You don't push a button on a steering wheel and ask your car to find you your way home or directions to the closest Starbucks.
There's a lot more going on.
You have the size of the field, the shape of the field, obstacles in the field, maybe there's a power pole or a stone pile or a water hole.
That's is it's all got to be guided around our equipment is uh it's able to apply chemicals and fertilizer to minute amounts of 40 foot piece of equipment that can guide you to within less than an inch on an acre, and that's not something that that you just close your eyes and poke that hole and drop the seed in the ground.
The technology is coming out of the city.
And what what do you grow specifically?
Tell me.
We grow um winter wheat, corn, and soybeans.
And how many acres do you farm yourself?
Uh my my dad and I farm roughly three hundred acres.
So we're a fairly small operation in the grand scheme of things.
And by the way, we're not even talking about outside forces, uh, like for example, weather that could great I mean, you you could grow the greatest crops if uh you have a bad spell of weather, it can ruin your entire season or flooding that might occur.
There's all sorts of of risk and uh every planting season, am I correct about that?
Oh, I would love to be able to order sunshine next day here.
Well, uh the only thing I'd say is maybe you're gonna have to take that up with God.
I can't help in that regard.
But I can applaud your great work.
How many hours do you work on average a day and how many days a week?
Um I usually between the farm and my punch clock job, I get about four hours to five hours of sleep a day.
Well, you and I have have that in common.
But hey, listen, Dennis, thanks for sharing our best to you and uh thank you for what you do every day for the to feed us all.
We appreciate it.
So most of us appreciate it.
Can I give a quick message to Mr. Bloomberg?
Yeah.
Um, until a Democrat gets back into the White House, I believe that this is still a free country, and he does have his right to say how he feels about farmers.
But he better damn well not do it with his mouthful.
Wow.
Well said.
Well done.
Take a bow.
Dennis, thank you.
Uh we say hi next to Greg is in South Dakota.
Greg, welcome to the Sean Hannity show.
Tell me what you do.
Uh what kind of farming are you involved in?
Uh my son and I and wife, we farm 4,000 acres, corn and beans and alfalfa.
And Sean, I talked to you back in November.
I told you I was in my tractor, your screener told me to shut it down, and we had a very nice conversation.
I remember this call because I said to Linda, I said, I want to talk to farmers, and she's looking at me like well, how do we know enough farmers listen to you?
And I said, No, I we've had many farmers call this program.
I remember your call well.
How are you doing?
How's the farm doing?
It's good.
I uh you know, a couple things I want to say.
That young man that was just on there, very good what he said about the technology we're using.
Here's a little I'll just put this together while we were talking.
And I asked your screener a quick quiz.
I'd like to ask Michael Bloomberg.
How many rows of corn are on the average ear of corn?
And I'll give you a choice.
Is it 13 rows or 21 rows, Sean?
Wow.
That's a I don't know the answer.
I don't.
Neither one of them are right.
Corn, it may it may be 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, but corn will always put on an even number of rows around.
Mother nature, huh?
God hold on.
Yeah, amazing.
Isn't it too true too that like, for example, they have new the they keep improving the seed.
For example, seed science that exists.
I've been reading all about this.
For example, you can get a particular corn hybrid specifically, like sweet corn or a different type of corn, or uh yellow only corn or yellow and white corn.
I mean, that's all done in laboratories, isn't it?
Yeah, yes.
That's where the seed stock is made, and then they take it out and and grow bigger quantities of it.
You know, there's still corn that's going to be planted in the upper midwest here in the northwestern corn belt that is probably still in seed production, being bagged in South America somewhere, maybe even in Hawaii.
It's got to get shipped here for for the time we plant here in in mid-April to mid-May.
But here's a couple things I just wanted to put together.
We plant 500 acres of corn a day.
At 30,000 seeds per acre, Mr. Bloomberg, that's 15 million holes he would have to dig in a day to keep pace with us in what we do.
That's a million seeds one million seeds an hour or sixteen thousand six hundred and sixty-six seeds a minute we're putting in the ground.
I don't think he can keep up with us.
And you have the sophisticated machinery that helps you do all that.
How many hours?
And I I'm going to try and get as many calls in uh as I can.
How many hours do you put in a week?
And how many days a week do you work?
Well, planting and harvesting are the push times.
So from the 10th of April till the 10th of of May, we're planting corn and beans, and and we're running 18 hour days there.
And then it then you slack off.
You don't you're not pushing like that.
Harvest then is uh is a month to six weeks where you're doing 18, 20 hours a day.
You got to how many times have you experienced maybe uh uh some type of uh calamity where your crop didn't come in well?
Has that happened to you?
Oh, absolutely.
All we can do is put it in the ground from then on, then on the Lord is in control.
Absolutely.
You can't be a farmer unless unless you have great faith.
And without it, you're not gonna make it.
And our biggest mark, our biggest problem is two things, Sean.
One is, and I've always said this, anybody can come out here and buy land.
But you know what?
I as a farmer, I can't open uh I can't open a uh shop up and start doing brain surgery.
Great.
Not on a little playing field.
Now the level playing field.
By the way, good luck to the people that think they're gonna be farmers.
I watch people all the time on these these reality shows.
They crack me up.
They think they can go live in the wilderness in in Alaska and have them collapse in a week.
Um but I will tell you, I want to say thank you for all that you do.
And the hard work, the level of sophistication.
There's a lot of gray matter that goes into all of this, and the breathtaking arrogance of this guy, uh it's unbelievable to me, but um thank you for feeding us.
You help feed the world.
Thank you for that hard work every day, and my best to your family.
Uh all right, let's quickly we got let's see.
Justin is in Virginia.
Justin, how are you?
What kind of farming are you involved in?
Um I'm a dairy farmer.
Uh okay.
And it's probably one of the toughest, toughest jobs, toughest farming there is.
How many had you got?
Uh we're milking about 200 cows.
And how much how much milk do you produce on any given day?
But any any given day, milk is sold here in the U.S. in towns, but if you want to equivalate to gallons, we're about 3,500 gallons a day.
Wow, that's amazing.
You know, but I think what's a gallon of milk.
I think the last time I checked.
I don't I don't drink a lot of milk, but I think it's like five fifty, something like that.
Yeah.
In New York, everything's higher.
Yeah, it is.
Well, unfortunately, uh, farmer, I'm only getting about a dollar thirty-eight right now.
Mr. Hannity, it's such an honor to call and talk with you.
Um, you know, I talk with you, I hear the confidence in your voice, and I don't call up and tell you how to do your job because I personally think that you're professional in this area.
You know, you speak the truth.
You speak uh the journalism, you speak that.
Would you believe if I told you that there are many days?
I'm not kidding either.
I I you know, I would rather be a farmer, go back to contracting.
There's a little stress involved in this crazy world I'm in right now.
The problem isn't Bloomberg, or even you know, Mr. Phoenix the Joker.
The problem is society, and the problem is that they don't understand who the experts are.
Uh they get to use the Chicago Board of Trade to play around with our corn and soybeans and you know, set the price of a block of cheese.
But we don't get to do that.
However, we do get to wake up at four o'clock in the morning, miss out on all of the you don't get a day off, do you?
I mean, as a dairy farmer.
Eight days and you have to do it every yeah, you have to do it every day.
Twice it doesn't stop.
Yeah.
As long as long as my animals are breathing, they are my responsibilities.
Each girl, you know, has a name.
Well, I don't know how you remember that many girls in your life, but good luck to you.
But here's the other thing.
Now I assume that you know, you give birth when that time comes, and I guess you're not calling in veterinarian at three in the morning, you do it yourself, and I'm just guessing that you have the knowledge and the background and experience if uh, you know, if if if a baby calf is coming out breach, you're gonna know how to handle that, right?
Well, you know, I did get a degree from Virginia Tech and Dairy and Animal Science.
Oh, we have a lot of gray matter there.
Uh yeah, I didn't get a stick around on the weekends down there for partying because I had to come home and work.
But we um we've uh I've I've been inside of Cal's uh elbow deep and just had two of them delivered here today.
Wow, it's all part it's all part of it.
There's three reasons why I love love this job.
It's you know, because of the farm, the animals, and then it's cause of the family.
I get to have my children here and hope that they can continue on it, and because of my faith, just like the other ones and stuff.
Can I ask you a personal question?
Exit question.
Absolutely.
And I I and it's for uh uh can you tell around how much money you know at the end of the day, how much are you making a year around?
Just give us a roundabout figure.
Um I could give you a figure, but uh most of the farmers that you ask are gonna say it's not about the money.
All we really want is the respect, and it's just America would like you said earlier, with your mouth full, respect and trust the professionals.
We love our animals, we love our land, and we love our God.
And what more could you ask for?
Let me put it this way.
You're not getting rich off of doing this.
Can I say it that way?
No, I do it because I love it.
You love it.
This is your passion.
Yeah.
I love people that find like for example, there are friends of mine that have to be in law enforcement, friends that had to be teachers, uh, friends of mine because it's their passion.
But listen, I gotta let you go because of the constraints of time, but Justin, to you and all your dairy farmer friends, thank you for all you do, and all the other farmers out there that feed us every day and and nourish us every day.
I can't say enough good and and give enough praise to what you do and thank you for it.
Thank you, sir.
Continue to pray for us, and we'll be talking along as long as I mean it.
All right, God bless you, my friend, and thanks for what you do.
Linda, I want to go to a farm.
I why don't we just we'll just take a look at the floor.
Let's broadcast from a farm.
I love it.
A form.
Have you ever been to a farm?
I have.
You have not.
I have so.
You I oh you once went to a pumpkin patch with Liam.
I remember that picture.
That video actually when he's ran away.
And then he dropped it.
It was hilarious.
Don't make fun of pumpkin farmers.
No, I love pumpkin farmers.
That's the right answer.
Take a break.
Listen, I'm thankful to all our farmers.
God bless you guys.
I'm Glad you all had a chance to call in.
All right, Hannity, uh, tonight at nine, we are loaded up tonight.
We got the very latest, the battle that goes on in Vegas.
Lawrence Jones is there, our 2020 correspondent, uh, Peter Schweitzer, Carl Rove, Kevin McCarthy, Jason Chavitz tonight, Jeffrey Lord Louie Gomer, and Alan Dershowitz.
All coming up 9 Eastern Hannity on the Fox News Channel.
We'll see you then.
And thanks for being with us.
See you tonight back here tomorrow.
Thank you as always for being with us.
and to all our farmers, thank you for the food you provide.
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