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March 6, 2020 - Sean Hannity Show
01:45:40
Schumer vs. The Supreme Court

Freedom Caucus Chairman, Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona, talks about his effort to enforce action against Senator Chuck Schumer of NY following his attacks on Supreme Court Justices.The Sean Hannity Show is on weekdays from 3 pm to 6 pm ET on iHeartRadio and Hannity.com. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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You will decide if you shock the world.
Again, love the numbers that came out of Super Tuesday, the big untold story as we have been telling you.
Uh we've got a lot to get to today, including I gotta deal with the issue of corona because I know some of you are getting panicked.
I see it.
I I can hear it.
Even friends of mine, conservatives are getting all panic worked up.
And not that you should not always be judicious and cautious and smart and always always, you know, if you have to make it, you always go to the side of caution.
Always be careful.
But there's some perspective that is really out of whack here.
And I I think that um, first of all, we're so lucky to have the greatest world's research uh medical researchers and scientists and doctors.
I mean, these people are phenomenal.
We're so blessed.
They have done so much, made so much progress to prolong life to save people from dying from diseases they would have died of it was the death sentence years ago.
And the advancement with treatment and heart uh procedures and transplans and everything else.
These uh they're amazing people.
Uh we'll get to that perspective today.
Also, whoa, Hillary Clinton will be deposed under oath.
We have a judge ordering uh that she must do that with Judicial Watch and the Freedom of Information Act request.
We'll check in with Tom Fitton on the latest with that and Greg Jarrett.
Uh Senator Ron Johnson, I know they don't want it.
A lot of things liberals would like you to ignore as it relates to Joe Biden.
Joe Biden, his gaffs, Joe Biden with no energy.
Joe Biden doesn't seem to have the strength, the stamina, the acumen, even the alertness to be president.
The toughest job in the world.
They like you never to talk about that.
I uh I think the American people are talking about it, whether they like it or not.
It's not to be you know, look, this Bernie Sanders is a year older than Joe Biden.
I'm just trying to be fair here.
Bernie Sanders doesn't have any problem with stamina or strength or alertness or you know, this these gaffes.
I mean, it's one after another.
And it just you can see I I just I look at Biden when he left office where he is today.
There's a dramatic difference.
Just an observation.
Um, and look, we all age differently.
It's not it's not against anybody.
I don't wish any ill on anybody, but we're talking about the most important job, the hardest job in the world, and we've got to look at everything.
They don't want to talk about Barisma holdings and the real investigation that Ukraine Is now conducting.
We'll get an update on what the Senate is doing.
Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin joins us today.
He'll update us on that.
And uh we'll have the latest on Chuck Schumer.
I know, you know, I know that maybe some people are hoping for more dramatic drops in the stock market.
I know that makes look, stock market is always jittery.
How many times prior, you know, to this recent correction, and they're all predictable, these corrections, that I say, well, that's not my barometer in terms of the health of the economy, fundamentals of any economy.
Um, I find it too speculative for me.
I think the stock market is fine.
Any good financial advisor, they will show you over any period of time that if you don't need the money, usually the rule is for 10 years, it's safe to put it in the market.
Don't think about it.
Don't get excited when it's high, don't get too low if it if it makes an adjustment.
What are the fundamentals of the economy?
Well, those fundamentals are particularly strong.
And we just got the latest data uh updated from December and January also, and it is phenomenal.
There's the morning, this morning's unemployment rate, and I know like Bill Maher says it, probably others think it.
Just my guess.
They hate Donald Trump so much, they want things to go horribly wrong, so that that would result in him losing in 242 days.
That's a sad, sorry state of affairs.
How many times have I said, you name one thing.
If you want to call in, we'll open a line.
800, 94, 10.
What have the Democrats done to keep us more safe and more secure?
What have they really done?
Not a whole lot.
All right, I'll give them credit.
They funded the monies that the that are going to be necessary for corona.
Fine.
All right, I'll take that.
Thank you.
And whatever, and but the president was clear in the beginning, and when the president was putting in place a travel ban and instituting a quarantine, which hadn't been done for decades.
What were they doing?
They were doing their latest witch hunt.
That was the middle of the impeachment.
First the impeachment urgently needs to be done.
So we can go on vacation for weeks and then come back and devote the entire month and then some in the U.S. Senate with a witch hunt trial, which had a predetermined outcome.
Well, all while ignoring quid pro quo Joe.
Which is the again, they want to ignore Joe Biden on Barisma.
Real investigations going on on uh the gaffs that are getting scary.
We all these choose to be self-evident.
All men and women created by the go, you know the you know the thing.
By go, you know the thing.
The thing.
You know the thing.
By go, you know.
The thing.
Thing being God Almighty, there I believe with every ounce of my being, that there is a God that created the heavens and the earth, and that you uh a magnitude of majesty we cannot even begin to comprehend.
And science shows us universes now that are living within universes within universes, seemingly with no end.
I mean, oh, it just it is a bang one day, and okay, it just came together perfectly.
Universe within universes and the sun and the stars and the skies and the planets, and it all just happened.
No, it didn't just happen.
Well, my my question is to people that say there's no God or an atheist.
Um, where did the energy come from?
Because to be an atheist, you have to actually believe that something can come from nothing.
But I digress.
So they want things that have to go bad for them to win.
That did so they they want Bill Mars.
I want a recession.
Oh, wow, that's pretty sick.
All right, Josh, isn't the Fed cutting rates now just going to make the next economic downturn worse?
What's your prediction?
I've been hoping for a recession.
People hate me for it, but it would get rid of Trump, so you shouldn't hate me for it.
I mean, recessions are really bad.
People lose their jobs and we shouldn't win.
I know, but I don't care.
I hate I hate Trump more.
And it's just like, all right, the stock market makes a normal correction, same thing.
Or, you know, the stock markets are generally jittery.
I personally, yeah, I could take a leave the stock market.
Been that way of have argued with financial advisors for years over this.
Uh, but it's usually true.
Ten years, if you have it, you can touch it, Leave it and your money will usually it's proven it grows.
Um, but if you're looking at it every day and you're playing it every day, forget it, you're gonna drive yourself nuts.
That's that's what I believe.
Anyway, but now the fundamentals of the economy, the things that I look at are very different.
I look at, for example, this morning, we now have the labor department reporting U.S. economy added 273,000 new jobs for the month uh of February.
The unemployment rate went down 3.5%, it's lowest level in more than 50 years.
Oh boy.
We had corona in January and all through February.
Well, what happened?
You know, there's a certain mindset that'll actually tell you is that uh look, even if we get to the point, I would kind of bet that this is a lot like H1N1.
It's gonna be a pandemic, and you know, there might be periods of time, schools close, teleworketing and all that stuff.
Technology has taken us so far, that's not gonna hurt the economy.
People traveling less might hurt the airline sector a little, but it's certainly gonna mean people will spend more money at home.
They're not gonna stop spending money.
They planned on traveling to say Italy and they canceled that vacation.
They're probably gonna go to Florida or California or New York or wherever they're traveling to.
I'd advise against New York.
Just a thought.
Uh, but anyway, 273,000 new jobs, lowest unemployment in 50 years, the best month since May of 2018, January and February gains for the unemployment rate, the best since May of 2018.
Economists surveyed by Dow Jones.
They had been looking for payroll growth at 175,000 and a 3.5% job level.
Well, they exceeded that by 98,000.
Average hourly earnings up 3% over the past year, in line with really healthy economic metrics.
Average work week, considered a key measure of productivity.
That's up, you know, to 34.4 hours.
I don't know these people that work 34.4 hours.
If that's you, God bless you.
I can't imagine such a life.
It would be fun.
Uh more good news.
The previous two months, their estimates were revised upwards by a total of 85,000.
December job creation went from an original estimate of 147,000 to 184,000.
January 225,000 to 273,000, which makes January and February the best two months since May of 2018.
And those revisions brought the three-month average to a robust 243,000 uh jobs, an average monthly gain.
That's already for 2020.
In we had a great year in 2019, and it was only 178,000.
That is significantly higher.
And it takes on particularly more importance as everybody was worried all through February.
What is the economic impact of coronavirus?
And things slowed down because of impeachment.
And most, and usually there's a job fall-off after the hiring season in December.
Because you have those temporary jobs that retailers and others, you know, they hire people to attempts and then they're done by the end of the year.
So these indicators thus far have shown little damage.
Jobless claims as well.
They remain within their trend at 216,000 latest reading.
Job placement firm Challenger Gray and Christmas, they reported Thursday.
The plan layoffs actually fell 16% from January, and uh key readings on both manufacturing and services show companies still plan to hire.
By the way, the new trade deal with China for 225 billion has not gone into effect until January.
We have yet to feel the impact of that.
We're still at the beginning infancy stages of all the jobs, career paying, high-paying jobs in the energy sector.
Keystone XL, Dakota Pipeline, ANWAR, natural gas production.
It's all growing.
We're in the infancy stages here.
I mean, that's why 242 days means everything.
Because that's where that's where wealth for the American people is that that will be the hub of it.
The vast resources of energy That we have available to us in this country for the first time in 75 years, we are energy independent and a net exporter of energy.
We have only begun to tap tiny quantities of what is available now to us, especially with new technologies where we can like microwave shale oil and literally pull that up.
That was not available years ago.
Natural gas fracking and done safely.
They have mastered that.
It's just all good news.
Very strong.
Wages rising, a blowout, uh job number report today, record low.
And the fundamentals of the economy are very, very strong.
Now, yeah, there's going to be disruptions, and I'll deal with this today on the issue of coronavirus in the sense that, yeah, unfortunately, pandemics happen.
I wish they didn't.
I know many of you wish they didn't.
Wish we didn't have H1N1.
That virus impacted kids.
Worldwide, we lost estimates over a half a million people.
In the United States, I think it's sixty in a year we lost 12,400 or something.
Within by the end of it, I think we lost nearly 17,000 Americans, according to the CDCs.
On their website, go look at it.
Um these things happen, but they never instituted a travel ban.
They never had Americans quarantine.
No president ever said, well, pay whatever it takes.
He said it from the beginning.
Democrats were busy at the time impeaching the president when he was instituting the travel ban.
What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why.
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word.
One that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
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What difference at this point does it make?
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And I'm Ted Cruz.
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Hey there.
I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started normally a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
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All right, as we roll along, 800 nine-four one Sean, you want to be a part of the program.
All good news with the economic numbers, unemployment numbers out today.
I know there's a skittishness on the Dow.
I I know it makes people nervous.
I get it.
We didn't see this.
This is what I want to say to you on Corona.
So the timeline here matters.
And I'm saying this so that you're informed.
And we've I've spent hours now reading what's available in terms of the CDC.
So timeline matters.
We first discovered the World Health Organization, a virus in the Wuhan province uh area of China.
December 30th.
It had pneumonia-like symptoms in some.
Okay, that's number one.
January 7th, they identified corona.
January 7th of this year.
Uh corona, it's a different variation of a previous corona.
January 31st, yeah.
Oh, but impeachment was going on, of course.
Uh, the president declared a travel ban, and he instituted the quarantine, which had not been done in decades.
President's been saying, you know, we have a much lower uh risk than other countries, but still many of you are panicked.
It looks like the fatality rate.
There was one story that came out of 3.4.
It looks much lower than that.
This virus, say, versus the H1N1 swine flu virus, uh impacts older people with medical conditions.
They are the most at risk.
Healthier people, even older, healthier people, you know, it's you're gonna get the flu.
It's not it's not fun, it's not comfortable.
These pandemics happen.
The H1N1, interestingly, attacked or or seemed to impact out a greater influence on the ch on children versus older people.
That's the way these things go.
There are viruses.
Remember, too.
In any flu season, even if you get the shot, which I get, and some people say I'm nuts to get it, you still have that's only about 40% of effective, and we lose some years, you know, tens and tens of thousands of Americans with the average flu.
I'll pick it up on the other side.
We're gonna make some comparisons.
I want you to just understand it instead of those that would weaponize and politicize this.
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 Nafok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yeah, that's right.
Locker up.
Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
I'm Ben Ferguson.
And I'm Ted Cruz.
Three times a week, we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
Nationwide, we have millions of listeners.
Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court.
And we cover the stories that you're not getting anywhere else.
We arm you with the facts to be able to know and advocate for the truth with your friends and family.
So down a verdict with Ted Cruz now, wherever you get your podcasts.
Hey there.
I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started normally a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional SAS.
You're our kind of people.
Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
All right, 25 to the top of the hour.
I want to just give perspective.
I want to start as it relates to coronavirus, because I I can I can feel it.
I talk to too many people.
I can see it that there is in some circles, people very worried, very concerned, almost at panic levels.
Um I just want everybody to breathe a little easier in this sense.
Of course we have to be careful with anything.
It's unfortunate these viruses, these pandemics break out from time to time.
it happens uh i'll make a comparison with h1n1 and swine flu in a second but i think it's important to know truth and facts and have perspective so that you don't have to live in a state of panic unnecessarily.
Concern always should be concerned.
I'm listening I'm concerned in the back of my mind that at any moment, you know, you have a heart attack, you get cancer.
We all have to take better care of ourselves.
I think as a country, speaking, I'll speak just for myself.
Uh, you know, having work, I work out every day, hour, hour and a half a day.
It's a hard workout, it's mixed martial arts.
It includes a lot of hitting of a heavy bag and a lot of core work and push-ups and sit-ups and full contact fighting.
That's what I do.
And it's and I've been doing it for seven years, and I that that just interests me and it keeps my focus.
I I can't get on a bike and ride all day.
I'm bored stiff, I'm bored on an elliptical, I'm bored on this.
But we all should take better care of ourselves.
I think speaking for me, NJ diet has been a life set.
I tried, Linda, how many ways that I try to lose weight over the years that you've known me, the extra 25 pounds that I could never get rid of?
Every way possible.
Every way possible.
I tried everything.
And NJ diet for me was the only thing that worked.
Pretty amazing if you're interested.
I think it's nj diet.com.
But they take your own DNA, they manufacture drops, you drink a lot of water.
Bottom line is when you're on the diet 40 days, no drinking, 3.5 ounces of protein twice a day, two 12 ounce portions of vegetables approved twice a day, and two, you know, like an orange or an apple twice a you know, one each a day.
You get two of those.
And I did it, and I lost the weight, and I've been able to maintain it because I followed their plan afterwards, and I feel healthier.
Um, and I'm back to a weight that I hadn't been at and have maintained it forever.
So I think just speaking for myself, we all eat too much.
We need to all take better care of ourselves, just smart things to do.
Purella's a good thing.
We know colds get transferred by shaking hands.
I've never had any issues with shaking hands.
The president was hysterical on this last night at the town hall.
You can't be listening, I'd rather not.
An elbow here and elbow there, and there's some truth to that.
Here's the perspective I want everybody to know.
Do I want you to take good care of yourself?
Absolutely.
Eat right, get in shape.
And by the way, you don't have to, you don't have to do what I do.
You don't have to go down and fight and punch a heavy bag, you know, bare knuckles every day.
It's kind of nuts.
But even if you just go for a walk of day one, maybe it's five minutes, 10 minutes, 20 minutes.
And then you build up a walk, you go for a walk every day, and you see the majesty of God's creation, it's all good for you.
Nobody likes to do it, but once you get into a routine, I'm the type of person, I'm very regimented in how I live my life every day.
I do my workout, I eat, I do this, I do prep, prep, prep, prep, show, prep, prep, prep, show, sleep.
Well, try to sleep.
Um, but here's the perspective.
Every year we have a flu.
Every year I get for myself, I'm not telling you what to do, but I get the flu shot.
Every year I go to my local, I think I go to right aid, whatever it is, and get the flu shot.
And I know when I get it, usually around Thanksgiving, maybe a little before, a little after.
I know that it's likely some years it's more effective than others.
Some years it's not effective.
Some years it's 35 or 40% effective, but I do it because I don't want to be off the air that long.
And I don't like to be sick either and knock on wood and thank God, by the way.
I haven't gotten the flu in many, many years.
Uh my son had it this year.
Wow.
Knocked him out a week.
And he is an he's an athlete, he's 21 years old.
It was rough.
So we lose 10, we uh in years, we lose tens of thousands of people from the flu.
Why am I telling you that?
Because that's per called perspective.
Why do I mention that these pandemics they do happen?
Because that will give you some perspective.
Do we want a pandemic?
No, nobody wants a pandemic.
The World Health, back to the timeline.
World Health Organization recognizes Wuhan Province area of China, a virus that's showing signs and some of pneumonia-like symptoms, bronchial.
We now know it's affecting older people.
We're saying H1N1 impacted younger people more.
January 7th, we identify it as corona.
This is a new virus, coronavirus.
We've had coronaviruses before.
We've had SARS.
We have, you know, uh a number of other outmares and SARS and all these other outbreaks.
Now, on January 7th, we identified it for what it was.
January 31st, the president put in a travel ban, and the president also took an unprecedented step, quarantining Americans coming back from regions that were greatly impacted by this.
And I think you can never quantify it, but that one decision alone probably saved lives and prevented thousands of others from contracting the disease.
President has been saying the much lower risk incidents, potential incidents in this country than other countries.
And it's just a fact.
Italy and uh Iran and other countries where there's higher incidence.
We see that, and I know this from my sources.
We've been on the ground almost from day one.
We were we were offering medical help, assistance, research, because we do have the best scientists in the world for this, these types of things.
That's why I can't say enough good things about medical researchers and doctors and people that their whole life is their virus experts.
This is what they do to keep us as healthy as we can be.
The people that find cures for cancer, certain types of cancer that make advancements that prolong human life, uh, that you know, advancements in all sorts of medical science, including, you know, how did we treat our young servicemen and women, Walter Reed, the work they do, the research and cancer, Hodgkin's disease, leukemias.
We've made such progress.
Uh now they're making progress with breast cancer, prostate cancer, lung cancer, immunotherapy is another big advancement that we've had.
Uh stenting, which happened what, 20 years ago, and then the medical stenting, and they perfect that that it's like you're in and out in a day.
Uh I had a doctor tell me maybe six months, a year ago, well, you're gonna need a new hip in the next 10 years.
I said, You're never replacing my hip, ever.
He laughs at me.
He goes, I don't care if I replace your hip or not, right?
It doesn't matter to me.
It's just a matter how much pain you want to take.
Anyway, he shows me an x-ray.
Um, one x-ray is the good hip, and the other x-ray, see, see this.
This is all a cyst.
I said, Well, great, drain it.
He goes, You're such an idiot.
No, it's meaning there's nothing there.
There's it's pretty much bone on bone.
It really doesn't impact me much at all.
I mean, I'm punching and kicking and fighting every day, and only once in a while does it flare up.
Not often, so I'm not doing anything.
But then he says, just stay here.
You know, he's like rolling his eyes how dumb I am.
Goes out, comes back, and he says, see this.
All right, this goes, I place this in your femur.
We go in anterior right in the front.
They don't do the side hip replacement unless it's really necessary anymore.
He goes, I'm gonna put this in your femur.
You see this?
This is a suction cup.
This is a ball at the end of the stick that he's gonna put in the femur after he takes out that in my hip.
He goes, Yeah, it'll take me about 45 minutes, and you walk out the same day.
And if you played golf, I'd tell you to put a seven iron in the back of your car, and uh within two weeks you'll be hitting golf balls.
And I went, a walk out of the hospital the same day?
Yeah.
Same with knee replacements.
This stuff is amazing what they do.
All right.
Now you start.
Uncle James has a new hip.
You went, they went in the old way with you.
I wasted five or six hours of my life, by the way.
Because I went, I'm hanging out with sweet baby James in the hospital.
And I knew he was a little out of his mind, whatever drugs they had him on.
I knew he was a little out of it.
You're all heart, boy.
I'll tell you.
What's that?
I'm all hard.
I went, I went, I was there like six hours with him, sitting there, thinking I'm having a real conversation with him at times.
If you were a member, Linda, I was also dealing with a little crisis at that moment.
Oh, I remember.
Didn't even tell him.
Tried to keep him relaxed.
You know, turns out, you know, when he gets out the next day or the day after, you know, he didn't even remember me being there.
I'm like, you try to be nice, And he's like, You I don't remember you coming.
What are you talking about?
I'm like, oh my gosh.
Turned out this poor guy in the next bed screaming in pain almost the whole time.
I felt so bad for this guy.
We even walked out and said to the doctor, ma'am, uh the nurse or the doctor, I said, this man is in such pain.
Can you help him?
Right?
Guy next door.
And he turns out, he sees me, it's me.
And all of a sudden, John Hannity, can you please?
And I'm like, then I sat with that guy.
Because I he wasn't screaming when he was talking to me, and I was hoping that it was taking his mind off it.
Uh, and they did help him to their credit.
What am I saying?
These pandemics sadly happened.
People die from the flu.
We have the best research in the world.
Now there might be some inconvenience if this spreads a little more, schools may be closed, teleworking may happen.
We still are at a much lower threat than any other country.
We're doing our best.
The top people are all over it.
The monies have been allocated.
The president signed the monies today.
He's in Tennessee helping those that oh, what a terrible tragedy with the tornadoes in Tennessee and our friends in Nashville.
And then he's headed to the CDC.
He wasn't gonna go because there was a report that, oh, somebody at CDC was infected.
He's the president.
You got to take an abundance of caution, but he's going.
Um and you look at, like, for example, H1N1.
And this is the only part of this that frustrates me is viruses don't really care if they infect Republicans or Democrats.
They're kind of nonpartisan.
They are.
They don't care if they impact or if you're a conservative or a liberal.
They don't discriminate.
They want to attack anything.
So viruses are.
But we have these pandemics that show up.
In 09 and 10 in April of 2017, back to a timeline, we identified H1N1 swine flu.
There was a cabinet official that said it's an emergency.
They got some funding.
Uh Obama, even bragging that he never did what Trump did in three weeks.
He didn't do in six months.
He never did it.
Never had a travel ban, never had a quarantine.
The quarantine is something that hasn't happened in decades.
Trump's advisor said, no, it's too early, don't do it.
He said, I'm doing it.
And Joe Biden said he was xenophobic.
And fake news CNN said we're going to stigmatize people from other countries.
Well, I think the president made the right call.
A again, he weighed in on the side of caution.
President said too, all right, 2.5 billion.
Let's get started on this.
Plenty of money to get started with.
They got to get an update on some kits.
They're working on that.
I actually talked to the vice president today, said all of this is expedited.
Everything is it is stat DEF COM 5, everybody's all over everything.
They're preparing hospitals in case they need it.
They're preparing for closures and helping and assistance everywhere across the thing.
Great news is that we're not as impacted as other countries.
Also, the incidence, it seems, we need to have new information.
There was a report that, oh my gosh, it's 3.5% mortality death rate.
Well, the best estimates now are somewhere between 0.1 and 1%.
And that's and this is unlike H1N1 impacted kids.
This one impacts older people that have other underlying medical conditions to deal with.
In other words, that their systems are compromised already.
But for the average person, you get it, like any other flu, you get over it.
And that is the 99% according to estimates.
Let me play for you.
Who's this?
The um assistant secretary of state, Brett Garroy shooting down this estimate that is not two or three percent.
Listen.
To set up some foundation, the typical mortality rate for seasonal flu is about 0.1% or 0.15%.
The best estimates now of the overall mortality rate for COVID 19 is somewhere between 0.1% and 1%.
Okay.
That's lower than you heard, probably in many reports.
Why is this?
Number one is because many people don't get sick and don't get tested.
So probably for, and this is uh reflects the overseas experience.
So probably for every case, there are at least two or three cases that are not in the denominator.
So I just want to sort of scale that that it's certainly could be higher than normal fluid probably is, but it's not uh likely in the range of two to three percent.
So our best modeling, again, you have a denominator problem, and I I want you to understand that that only the people who are really sick or have symptoms come in and get tested.
So based on is is based on the models we have right now, we estimate the mortality as point one to one percent.
It is likely not in the range of two to three percent.
Okay.
That's called perspective.
H1N1, by the time Obama was proud of the never put in a travel ban, never had a quarantine.
By the time he declared a national emergency six months after we identified the virus in August of 2009, a thousand, one thousand Americans had already died.
Swine flu impacted kids more than this virus seems to go after older people.
We had 20,000 others that contracted the disease.
Do you remember at all?
The media, the Democrats or Republicans at the time acting this way?
Because I don't.
And that's the problem when I think there has been a uh hyping.
Listen, take care of yourself and your family.
And if you get inconvenienced, school gets closed, work you're working from home.
It's not a bad thing.
Thank God we have the technology, you can work from home.
And the fact that we have all of our best people on it gives me all the confidence in the world.
It does.
These numbers are real.
What I just told you.
What the mob is and others are trying to suggest.
I don't know where they're coming from.
This ought to be a moment where it's about our American family, keeping everybody healthy.
And it's all hands on deck.
And in spite of what people will do with this politically, it's sad.
These people are pathetic.
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.
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If you want to be a part of the program, 242 days until we, you, the American people, you are the ultimate jury.
Will you shock the world?
Again, I can't do it on my own.
You have to do it.
Uh early numbers in primary states, people showing up in an Uncontested primary, as I've been pointing out, are massive for President Donald Trump.
Now, I've been laying out a number of issues.
One is, well, the media, mob would want you to ignore everything that's happening with Joe Biden is obvious lack of focus, the gaff a second.
Uh, you know, it's kind of getting bad and quite alarming considering does he have the stamina, the strength, the focus, the acumen to continue this pursuit of what is the hardest job in the world, especially compare that to Donald Trump last night in that town hall.
He did phenomenally well.
Uh that is a question.
Also, his horrific record, that is a question, his extreme liberal bur Bolshevik Bernie like policies that he supports.
That's a problem for him.
And in spite of the mob and the media also wanting to ignore quid pro quo Joe and zero experience hunter.
Well, that's not happening.
A full-fledged full-on investigation going on as we speak in the country of Ukraine.
And number two, we've got Senator Ron Johnson, who is the chairman of the Committee of Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Uh, he is doing his job, and he's now seeking to subpoena witnesses that are tied to the investigation of Barisma and of course the money paid to somebody with no experience whose father was in charge of all the money for Ukraine.
So, anyway, so he was recently on uh Fox talking about how his oversight is broader than just Hunter and Joe and the DNC, and how this was never adequately answered, adequately answered by anybody as it relates to Joe and Hunter, and how we may get thousands of pages of information from the National Archives on the meetings between the White House and Ukraine officials.
I thought that was important to the mob.
I thought that was important to Democrats.
Well, apparently they're just trying to act like it doesn't exist.
And Senator Johnson saying the government will not tell him why Victor Shokan was fired.
The U.S. government won't tell him, nor is Ukraine really saying enough about it.
Now, Shokan is on record with the Washington Post, with John Solomon, uh, and with ABC News saying I got fired because of Joe Biden.
Anyway, here's here's Senator uh Johnson himself and what he said.
My investigation into possible corruption of the Obama administration dates back to Hillary Clinton's email scandal.
It was our oversight that uh ended up releasing most of the Peterstruck Lisa Page text.
I joined Chuck Grassley's investigation into possible DNC involvement uh with Ukraine to affect the 2016 election uh back in 2017.
And so it's not our fault that Joe Biden and Hunter Biden got wrapped up in the whole Ukrainian story.
But we we we're not closing our eyes to this, and I have no idea why anybody would object to us obtaining records from a U.S. consulting firm run by former Clinton administration officials uh that is basically using Hunter Biden's name to uh strong arm the State Department to curry benefits for a corrupt Ukrainian oil company.
So that's what we're trying to do here.
But but our investigation and our oversight is much broader than just this Ukrainian story with Hunter Biden and even the DNC.
And you know, I mean, the fact is that if as former Vice President Joe Biden says there was no issue with any of this, um, then they shouldn't fear anyone looking into it.
And as you point out, these emails that were sent uh to the State Department are sort of, you know, wouldn't you please talk to uh the folks from this firm?
By the way, Hunter Biden is on their board, right?
I mean, that that's definitely a suggestion that that name really should open this door, right?
Yeah, precisely, and of course you have the news media saying there there's just no evidence of well, that's because they have they've never looked.
And so Joe Biden has never adequately answered these questions.
I've said repeatedly, if there's wrongdoing, the American people need to understand that.
If there is no wrongdoing, or if it's not significant, the American people need to understand that.
But Martha, again, the other things we're looking at, for example, we we sent a letter working with Senator Grassley to Attorney General Barr asking him to declassify four footnotes that because they are redacted in the IG report, really make uh parts of that IG report uh misleading.
We've also asked the National Archives to look for records of five meetings that occurred between January and June of 2016 between Ukrainian prosecutors, Ukrainian embassy officials, White House staff, DNC officials.
We've gotten a response back from the National Archives that there could be a response in excess of ten thousand pages.
We're just waiting for President Obama's counsel to release those to sign a waiver so we can get that information.
So again, our investigation is far broader.
The American people deserve to understand what happened.
They need to know the truth.
One of the things we're going to we are preparing right now is a timeline.
And it is incredibly interesting, and it raises all kinds of questions.
It connects all kinds of dots.
And that really, you know, what I'm hoping to be able to do within the next couple of months is gather enough the information, verify it through things like this subpoena, and then issue at least an interim report so the American people can see what this possible corruption is.
And again, it's it's bullying from a well-connected, swampy consulting firm.
And you just have to ask ask the question what what was you know, why was why was uh uh prosecutor general shoken fired?
I I can't get that from the U.S. government.
I I know it's uh a big explanation that everybody wanted him fired, but there's a document, you know, we have to verify, but there's documents supposedly contemporaneous, said that the contact by Blue Star to the Prosecutor General Office is all about apologizing for the mid apologizing for the misinformation campaign conducted against Shokan.
Kind of raises some eyebrows, some questions that need to be answered.
Right, joining us now is the Senator himself that is leading the charge on this, thankfully so.
It's unbelievable that we had a whole impeachment and trial of President Trump, and that was about a phone call where the only fact witness in the case said there was no quid or pro or quo like Joe, and you got Joe Biden on tape.
You're not getting a billion dollars unless you fire the prosecutor who told ABC, the Washington Post, John Solomon, he was fired because of Joe Biden, unless you fire that prosecutor, investigating my son with zero experience who's being paid millions, and you've got six hours to do it.
Amazing hypocrisy, breathtaking hypocrisy.
Senator Ron Johnson, the great state of Wisconsin joins us.
Senator, how are you?
I'm doing great, Sean.
How about yourself?
Uh I'm good and I applaud your efforts.
Uh I have a very hard time understanding.
How is it possible the phone call with Donald Trump became that big a deal?
And everyone that made it a big deal ignores this situation.
Well, you know the answer.
Uh the mainstream media is basically part and parcel of the Democrat Party and the radical left.
And of course, the the bias in the media is revealed far more in what they're not interested in, what they don't report on, versus the very overt bias in what they do report on.
So that's what conservatives have always been battling, Sean.
And it's it's not going to stop.
It's just a given.
And so that's why we need to be pretty tenacious ourselves in sticking up for you know what we value liberty, freedom, uh, free market systems.
Well, to me, uh can it be any more clear?
You're not getting the billion unless you fire the prosecutor.
Prosecutor now, three times, three separate interviews, said I was fired because of Joe.
We know the prosecutor said he was investigating Hunter Biden and Boris Maholdings.
And I don't know any company in the world, Senator, that would pay somebody millions of dollars that has zero experience with the country, zero experience with oil, gas, or energy.
Uh why would that ever happen?
It doesn't happen.
Well, and and of course, I think the the whole issue here is the Vice President Biden, and by the way, I like Joe.
Uh I have a great deal of sympathy for the tragedies he's experienced in his life, but he hasn't ever been pressed to answer these questions.
And they're legitimate questions.
And the American people have a right to know.
And I've said this repeatedly.
Our oversight is not targeting Joe or Hunter Biden, but they meant made themselves central to the story.
And the American people need to know if wrongdoing occurred.
They have a right to know that, but they also have a right to know if no wrongdoing occurred or if minimal wrongdoing occurred.
And if nothing happened, Vice President Biden should answer those questions and lay it all to rest.
But these questions are there, they are legitimate, and they will continue to fester until answers are given.
Well, it's not a matter of festering.
Based on the what we know and what you've heard with Joe Biden, based on Hunter Biden's interview on Good Morning America, um, do you think that there is a prima facie case that what happened here is a pay-to-play type of scandal.
Well, no, the press always says there's no evidence of illegality, uh, or there's no evidence of anything.
Well, it's because they've never looked at it.
It certainly isn't right.
It certainly doesn't look good.
I mean, there's no doubt about that.
It doesn't look good.
And you know, one of the things we're assembling in our oversight uh efforts is a very detailed timeline.
And if you if you start plucking out some of these some of the events in this timeline, and you apply it to a particular situation, it really doesn't look good.
I mean, you see all the activity.
For example, in the February to April time frame when Shokan was fired, you see immediately after that prosecutor generals he fired Blue Star Strategies.
That's that's the outfit that we're trying to subpoena records from Andre Talishenko with was his employment there, they contact the prosecutor general's office within hours.
Within a couple of days, they have a meeting, and here's the interesting part of that, Sean, is that the memo that was created contemporaneously by the acting inspector general says the purpose of the meeting with Barisima's U.S. representatives, Blue Star strategies was quote, an apology for dissemination of false information by U.S. representatives and public figures on the activities of the Prosecutor General's office as relates to the activities of Barisma.
So, what you're saying, there's a lot of words, but basically what is being alleged here is that U.S. representatives had a false information campaign against Shokan, and that's the individual that Vice President Biden bragged about firing.
Again, questions raised.
I don't know, I don't know the truth here, but it sure raises some pretty interesting questions that need to be answered.
Look, I I I could say sit here all day.
I don't think you really need any more evidence than what we have, and that is, you know, the look at Hunter Biden.
When he goes on, you know, the by the way, we're not dealing with a young child here.
This he's 49 years old.
He had weeks to prepare for this interview.
The fact that he said, Well, do you have any experience?
No, no, no.
Well, I served on the Amtrak board one time, and I'm I had about as much experience as everybody else.
Um, but then if we follow, well, did they get anything for their money?
It appears that they went directly to the State Department on issues involving uh Barisma's investigations going on and they wanted help from our State Department, and they mentioned, oh, Biden Hunter sits on our board.
That sounds like they might have been paying for a name that they could throw around.
Well, again, uh it's obvious that uh Barisima was hiring people like Devin Archer, Hunter Biden, and others to improve their image in the U.S. Yeah, to to get these prosecutions ended.
Uh that's pretty obvious.
The only reason I'm I'm hedging a little bit here, Sean, is I'm I'm very cautious.
We try and do very diligent uh oversight work.
What one thing you do realize very quickly in Ukraine is you have to take everything you hear from almost everybody with a huge grain of salt.
So this is being overly cautious.
That's why we're trying to get the documents, we're trying to verify their authenticity.
And then what I'm hoping to do, hopefully within the next couple months, again, this subpoena will be helpful to to move us down that path, is write at least an initial report on our findings, but fully fully documented and pretty much bulletproof.
And and then hopefully the press might ask a few questions, and we might get some more answers out of uh Vice President Biden because he really does deserve, he did really does owe the American public uh some real answers to these questions.
You know, Senator, I gotta applaud you for what you're doing.
Last, last question, president gonna do well in Wisconsin in 242 days.
I tell you, I go to the rallies here in Wisconsin and compared to 2016, the support is I don't know, ten times greater.
Uh he does a great job.
I mean, people go to those rallies, are in great moods, they leave inspired in even better moods, they have a great time.
You know, it's the left, it's the radical left that are angry, right?
We we got a sense of humor.
We have a great time.
The president's doing a great job.
Um I tell you, I loved his I loved his town hall last night.
That that's how those of us who spend some time with him having you know lunch them or in in the you know the the the situation room or whatever, that's the well that's the person I've known for twenty-five years.
Uh that's the person I've known for twenty-five years.
And by the way, will you please um as you go around your great state?
Um I know that Mike uh Bloomberg, mini Mike the farmer, uh, thinks that oh, I can teach anyone how to farm.
You know, you dig a hole, you put a seed in it, you cover it with dirt, you water it, and up comes your corn.
You don't need a lot of gray matter.
Um, I happen to know the hard, difficult science, brilliance, technology developed by America's great farmers, many of them in your state.
But Wisconsin.
Uh, there are degrees in agriculture and and soil uh uh and chemistry involved and and technology involved.
I found that such an ignorant statement.
Will you please tell these farmers you're running to the Sean Hannity and his audience say thank you for feeding us and the entire world?
I will certainly do that, and let's face the dairy farmers, they never get a day off.
Ever.
You gotta milk the cows, even if you even if you want to share in the Packers.
Uh all right, thank you, Senator Ron Johnson, the great state of Wisconsin.
Uh, we appreciate you being with us.
All right, 800 941 Sean, our number quick break, right back.
We'll continue straight ahead.
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 Nafock from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco Benghazi.
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Locker up.
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I want to tell you, Gore Zutz, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price.
You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.
The women of America are angry.
And yes, we will continue to fight for a woman's right to choose.
I will continue to fight for the women of America.
Now, I should not have used the words I used yesterday.
They didn't come out the way I intended to.
My point was that there would be political consequences, Political consequences.
For President Trump and Senate Republicans, if the Supreme Court, with the newly confirmed justices, stripped away a woman's right to choose.
Of course, I didn't intend to suggest anything, other than political and public opinion consequences for the Supreme Court.
And it is a gross distortion to imply otherwise.
I'm from Brooklyn.
We speak in strong language.
I never, never would do such a thing.
And Leader McConnell knows that.
And Republicans who are busy manufacturing outrage over these comments know that too.
Now what will remain long after the clamor over my comments dies down is the issue at hand.
A woman's constitutional right to choose and Republican attempts to invalidate it.
All right, there it is, Chucky Schumer.
Uh yeah, trying to minimize his threat against Korsich and Kavanaugh, uh pretty revolting, pretty unprecedented, uh, but not something I'm surprised about.
Now we do have people trying to hold him accountable.
We now have Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Biggs talking about his effort as the House uh Freedom uh caucus committee chairman to uh have a resolution condemning Schumer over his remarks about who will pay the price if you don't rule the way I'm telling you to rule.
Uh I thought, Congressman uh Andy Biggs that we had co equal branches of government, and I thought it might actually be a violation of U.S. Code 115 about intimidating people like judges in the course of their daily affairs as they do their business.
Yeah, that's right, Sean.
I mean, look, uh the there may even be criminal say uh problems here, like you say, but let's take a look at his defense.
His defense says he was talking about political consequences.
No, that isn't what he was talking about.
He was talking about threats, and he says he was talking about to to President Trump and Republicans.
No, he identified who he was threatening.
He identified Justice Kavanaugh, he identified Justice Gorsuch, and then he made the threats.
You know, that's the type of case that would if you take it to court, his defense clearly cannot stand because he has identified who he wants to threaten, he makes the threat, and guess what?
Uh that's being done, not because he wants to uh uh uh warn them of political consequences, but he wants to affect the decision that they're gonna make in cases that are being argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, that sounds and looks like a crime.
Unbelievable that we're we're dealing with this.
Now, you know, I I heard Lindsey Graham's comments, like, all right, we're gonna move with censure, and then they're gonna want to censure the president, and then it's ne it's gonna be never ending.
There's a part of me that's like I want to just see governance in our country.
I'm sick of all of this because we have had nothing but three years of all of this.
Unfortunately, when you're dealing with people that are irrational and and are just when they wake up and it's every second minute hour of every 24 hour day just hating Donald Trump when when that is their mindset, it's almost like you have to fight back.
Something that the president answered at a town hall last night that was on Fox.
It's like if I don't fight back, uh I'm not gonna be sitting here.
Somebody's got to fight back.
And and there's such a level of of insanity and madness behind all of this that uh I I don't think there's any other choice but to fight back.
Well, you're exactly right.
Look, uh think of it this way.
Uh when I went to introduce a censure resolution against Maxine Waters for her saying something similar, uh I was told the same thing that that you're hearing out of the Senate today, oh well, we can't do that because that'll make a martyr of Maxine and and it'll uh exacerbate things.
But until we start holding people accountable, then you will never see a ratcheting down of this this uh violent type of uh incitement that we're seeing.
You're never gonna see uh uh basically thoughtful collegial discourse anymore.
It is going to actually accelerate because we know that nobody's gonna be held accountable for saying irrational, uh crazy things.
And that's that's the word use you said irrational.
You're exactly right.
We're trying to deal uh rationally with people who are irrational, and that means you hold them accountable to help them uh bring rationality back in their lives.
I'm gonna tell you, and I appreciate an update on this, Freedom Caucus chairman Andy Biggs uh of Arizona, because if it's not for people like you, M. Meadows and Jordan and GoMert, uh and Ratcliffe, and Nunes, and Gates, uh honestly, you guys are the backbone of the conservative movement in the House of Representatives.
And and frankly, you have even gotten Kevin McCarthy now to understand the importance of acting.
And uh, I think it's a great accomplishment.
I I tip my hat to him for doing a lot of this stuff now.
All right, thank you.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Thank you.
I mean I mean, when he put Jordan on the committee, I'm like, all right, well, all right, wow, it's not Boehner and Ryan anymore.
Now we have somebody that wants to fight.
Finally.
All right.
Thanks so much.
We appreciate it.
Uh we'll stay on it.
That's our promise.
All right.
Let's get to uh our phones.
It's Friday.
I know a lot of you have a lot of questions, much anxiety out there, coronavirus, panic setting in the minds and hearts of some in 242 days.
Uh you have to assume on the election.
You just have to assume that it's tight.
I polls don't mean a thing.
There's only one poll that's ultimately going to matter.
Now I'll report a lot on polls in the lead up to election day, November 3rd.
I will report a lot of it.
But understand it it doesn't mean a thing if you're not a spoken the wheel.
Now, for your convenience and to edify and for an informed electorate, we have put on Hannity.com a map, and you can find all the dates and how to register in your state if you haven't registered yet and you want to vote in this next election, uh, who your congressional candidate is gonna be, uh, when does absentee voting start, how do you do it, when does early voting start and end, et cetera, et cetera.
We're just trying to make it informational.
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Uh all right, let's go to uh April is in New York.
April, hi, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean, how are you?
I'm good.
How are you?
I'm good.
Um, I just have a question for you.
The coronavirus.
You've been talking a lot about them making a vaccine for it.
My question is when they make that vaccine, do you think it should be mandatory?
You know, no.
The answer is no.
Look, I uh how do I say this?
I understand everybody's concern.
You should be concerned.
You know, there's uh I've learned a lot by reading a lot about viruses.
That's what we do on this program, and we do it and we try to pass on as much information that'll be helpful to our wonderful audience.
All right, what do we learn?
We learned that Donald Trump took unprecedented steps.
We first identified that there was a problem, World Health Organization, on December 30th of last year.
Timelines mean something here.
And they noticed a virus that was causing, quote, pneumonia-like symptoms.
They didn't identify it as corona until January 7th.
Now, Corona, this is actually a variation of a previous coronavirus.
There are similar viruses out there.
On January 31st, the president, in spite of everybody around him saying, uh, it's probably too soon.
You don't need to do this yet.
He put a travel ban in effect.
Uh then he also quarantined Americans coming back from the region, and he took, for example, the people off the ship that we knew, the cruise ship that were impacted and had contracted this virus, and he moved as expeditiously as possible.
He has now expanded his travel bans to other countries like oh, Italy, Iran, etc.
And then you have to kind of compare and contrast.
Well, every year, we usually lose tens of thousands of Americans that die from the flu.
Just giving you facts here, just information.
If you compare this virus, corona to H1N1 and swine flu, well, that was Biden and Obama's first year in office.
They identified that in April of 2009.
Uh, 11 days later, they did have one cabinet agency say it's a state of emergency to release some funding to begin the process of getting treatment and looking into the virus, et cetera.
But it wasn't until October of 2009 that Obama declared a national emergency.
And at other times he bragged that uh, yeah, people wanted a travel ban, and I'm not doing that.
I didn't do that.
By the time October came around, that was six months into the H1N1 virus, which is different than this virus.
This virus seems not to impact kids much.
This virus impacts older people, especially those with health problems.
They're more susceptible to having real problems with it.
For others, it's fine.
It's just an average flu, not much different.
Uh, the vast majority.
But the two percent fatality rate we're seeing with this, or around there.
We don't know the actual number yet.
Um it is it is in line with what other viruses have done.
But by the time that Obama declared this was a national emergency, a thousand Americans had already died in a six-month period of time from H1N1, swine flu.
Twenty thousand others had contracted the disease.
At no point ever did he put a travel ban in effect.
Did he ever quarantine Americans?
The quarantine hasn't happened for decades in this country.
Now I say all of that as a case history for this reason.
I want everybody healthy.
Always.
I want cures for cancer.
I I the advancement in the treatment and cure of cancer is unbelievable.
Hotgins disease, you know, we cured 90 some odd percent of those cases now.
I had a relative decades ago.
Young man died, it was a cop in New York died in of Hodgkins.
That likely wouldn't happen today.
We're making great strides with prostate cancer, colon cancer, breast cancer.
I want I I hope one day we look back and say, wow, we found the cure.
Um, and our great scientists, medical researchers do it every day.
Doctors are amazing.
Look at the procedures for hearts.
Same thing.
You know, we people stenting and and bypass and other means to save people's hearts, even transplants.
So the only I'd say to you is you know, take every caution, but know that these things happen.
And the government has moved faster with money and efforts that are pretty unprecedented.
And that's why it's so irritating to watch people politicize and try and turn it into a political weapon or weaponization of a virus.
It's ridiculous.
Um does that answer your question?
Um, well, it does, but like you said, and then you said um you had a doctor on your show yesterday that said 82% of people who get the coronavirus have mild symptoms.
Correct.
I don't understand why there's such a big push for a vaccine.
It doesn't even seem like it's a very important thing.
Well, we honestly that's that's standard operating procedure.
There are 20 specific examples we have of their working on a vaccine immediately.
That's what we do.
I mean, I look, I get the flu shot every year.
Some people think I'm nuts.
I like it.
I I don't get the flu, haven't gotten the flu.
I'm pretty healthy.
But I it's uh you know what?
For older people in particular, it might be very helpful.
This virus attacks older people, it tends to attack older people more.
H1N1 attacked it, young people more.
You know, I'm just glad we have scientists, medical researchers that you know crush it for us every time we need them.
And that and that's where our focus needs to be.
And yeah, put Pure L on.
Okay, don't shake hands as much.
Whatever you want to do.
If if your school closes for a week, your business closes down, and maybe you're just teleworking for a while.
It's all part of the process.
And I I just wish people would understand the truth about this more because they're being fed uh some lies by people with a political agenda.
Quick break.
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Joe Jersey, what's up, Joe?
How are you, sir?
Good afternoon, Sean.
Joe Concha touched on what I'd like to talk about yesterday.
This whiny super reptile Schumer has now threatened two of our branches of government.
In a Maxine Water style in civility.
And we can't be saying it sounded like this to us.
It was this.
And God forbid if something happens to one of our justices, like they're out at a gasoline station or they're out eating dinner with their family.
This guy's got to be held accountable.
And I don't care if he's from Brooklyn or he's from Omaha, Nebraska.
All right, somewhere in your town is your biggest wimp and your toughest guy.
I got to believe he's your biggest wimp in Brooklyn growing up.
He was pants when he was a kid.
And I don't care what kind of spin he tries to put on this.
This was a threat.
And something has to be done and held accountable as long as it lasts.
Well, I agree he needs to be held accountable.
We never hold anybody on the left that seems accountable.
I'm hoping Bur Durham and Barr hold people accountable.
I hope Bron Johnson uh who was with us earlier will hold them accountable.
Tom Fitton is holding Hillary accountable.
Why am I going to bring up the Clinton emails?
Because she's being deposed under oath.
I want justice served because you and I would never get away with this stuff.
We don't you don't have the rule of law or constitution unless it's equally applied.
Period.
When we come back, Tom Fitton, Greg Jerry.
Yes, Hillary now ordered to go under oath.
That deposition coming up.
She's got 75 days to respond.
we'll update you next coming up next our final news roundup and information overload hour arguments the fbi believes that you tried to wipe the entire server Did you try to wipe the entire so that there'll be no email, no personal, no official, wipe the whole thing.
Well, my personal emails are my personal business.
Right.
Right?
So I so we went through a painstaking process and turned over 55,000 pages of anything we thought could be work-related under the law.
That decision is made by the official.
I was the official.
I made those decisions.
And as I just said, over twelve hundred of the emails have already been deemed not work-related.
Now, all I can tell you is in retrospect, if I'd used a government account, and I had said, you know, let's release everything.
Let's let everybody in America see what I did for four years.
So that that's all I could say.
That's why we turned it over.
We were in charge of it.
You were the official charge.
Did you wipe the server?
What, like with a cloth or something?
I don't know.
I don't know how it works digitally.
Did you try to write the whole server?
I don't know how it works digitally at all.
I do not have any and I know you want to make a point, and I can just repeat what I have said.
It's a simple in order to, in order to be as cooperative as possible, we have turned over the server.
They can do whatever they want to with the server to figure out what's there, what's not there.
That's for the you know people investigating it to try to figure out.
But we turned over everything that was work-related.
Every single thing.
Personal stuff, we did not.
I had no obligation to do so and did not.
The laws and regulations, in effect, when I was secretary of state, allowed me to use my email for work.
That is undisputed.
It clearly wasn't the best choice.
And I take responsibility for that decision.
I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two.
iPhone or Android.
iPhone.
Okay, in full disclosure, Blackberry and a Blackberry.
I have a uh, you know, a an iPad, a mini iPad, an iPhone, and a Blackberry.
I believe I have met all of my responsibilities, and the server um will remain uh private in order to be as cooperative as possible.
We have turned over the server.
They can do whatever they want to with the server.
I am confident that I never sent nor received any information that was classified at the time it was sent and received.
So that leaves the 100 out of 30,000 emails that Director Comey testified uh contain classified information.
I did not receive anything that was marked as classified.
Director Comey said that only three out of thirty thousand had anything resembling classified markers.
You were the official charged.
Did you wipe the service?
What, like with a cloth or something?
No.
Well no.
We turned over everything that was work-related.
Every single thing.
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All right, so there you have I never sent, I never received, I never ever clap classified top secret information.
It's only three, and uh, while I only have an iPhone, I only I wanted it all on one device, but I have an iPhone, uh I have a mini, I have an iPad, I have a Blackberry, I've got it all over the place.
Lying.
Did you wipe it clean?
You mean like with a cloth, Ed?
Do you mean like with a cloth?
Now, why is this relevant?
Well, it's relevant because of a judge's decision.
And that is a federal court order now that Hillary Clinton will have to testify about her emails and the Benghazi attack documents, thanks to Judicial Watch and its president Tom Fitton.
And quote, co the court is fed up.
Mrs. Clinton has given us written and answers under oath.
The court doesn't deem that sufficient because they haven't been terribly helpful, and he thinks that she should come in and testify under oath.
And now that is in the process of moving forward, Tom Fitton is the judicial watch president.
He is with us, Greg Jarrett is with us.
Now, why are you talking about Hillary Hannity?
She's not running this time.
I can't tell you how many people actually think she could end up on the ticket with Joe Biden.
A lot of people think that.
And you know, because there's a lot of worry and concern that nobody wants to talk about.
And that is Joe Biden, does he have a fastball or slow pitch and what's going on?
He doesn't really seem to have the strength, the stamina, the well, alertness, uh, and ability to focus to be taking on the toughest job in the world.
And while they're trying to ignore it in the mob in the media, which they would never do if it was Donald Trump, and while they're ignoring it in the Democratic Party, many high-profile Democrats have even told me, of all people, Sean Hannity, that yeah, this really is bad.
We're all worried.
Anyway, Tom Fitton with us, Greg Jarrett with us, uh, author of the best-selling book, Witch Hunt, uh, to just discuss this and some of the issues that are now moving forward as it relates to the origins of the Russia witch hunt.
Uh, Tom, great job.
Do you have a date?
What are you scheduling this well, this interview, if you will, or testimony of Hillary?
Well, we'll have to communicate with her lawyers and figure out a date, assuming she doesn't appeal it.
I doubt she will.
Uh, and it has to be done within 75 days over the next few months.
And uh, you know, obviously uh Mrs. Clinton had an opportunity to try to answer some of our questions under oath in writing.
And as you noted, the court wasn't satisfied.
Found them uh really not helpful.
And despite the objections of Mrs. Clinton's lawyers and disappointingly, the Justice Department and the State Department, uh, we get finally to depose her under oath.
Because it was this case, it was a Benghazi FOIA case, Freedom Information Act case, uh, that led to the uncovering of this email system.
And so uh now several years later, and despite all of the obstruction we face from her and the jet and the agencies were going to be able to question her directly.
She set it up.
Witnesses were telling us we had to talk to her if we wanted to know why and how it was run.
And uh we have new testimony that she was warned six times, she and her top staff about the use of uh separate email accounts.
Uh they knew about it in the State Department, didn't tell anyone.
The Obama White House was involved in covering up the existence of her secret emails.
Uh so there's a lot that's been uncovered that the court's concerned about, and so people may want to focus on judicial watch, and obviously our lawyers did a great job of getting the information and you know making the argument to the court, but the court wants these answers, not just judicial watch, the court has to do.
Well, it's it's annoying as hell.
I mean, that it takes this long on everything, and I know and I give you a lot of credit because you stay on it.
You don't stop.
You're un you know, you're unrelenting in your pursuit of truth and justice.
And this is one of the things that that becomes problematic, and I don't care if it's Hillary Clinton, the email server, the lie she told, the top secret information, uh, the violation of the espionage act.
That's a slam-dunk case, Greg Jarrett, as is uh deleting she didn't mention subpoenaed emails, and then forensically making it impossible by using bleach pit to ever recover those emails, and then the blackberries and the hammers and the other devices and the SIM cards, uh, it gets, you know, you have to be unrelenting, which is why I'm not gonna stop talking about it till justice is served here.
Clinton left thousands of classified government documents vulnerable to theft through hacking by our nation's enemies.
And we learned after the fact that the Chinese uh accessed and obtained her emails.
And that means the Russians did the same to thing.
Uh she also broke other laws beyond the espionage act, obstruction of justice, destroying some 33,000 documents that were subject to an authorized subpoena by Congress, orders for preservation of documents.
If anybody else had done that, he or she would be prosecuted for crimes committed.
You mean like Roger Stone?
Isn't Roger Stone you know exhibit A. I didn't see 29 ta guys pre-dawn raid, tactical gear, CNN cameras tipped off, frogmen in the back of her house in Chappaqua.
Never saw him.
Yeah.
And and not only did did she get charged with nothing, uh, but five people close to her were given immunity agreements in exchange for nothing of value.
That never happens.
You only give immunity when you get something in exchange.
They were all given a free pass, including Cheryl Mills, and she, according to uh thanks to the Judicial Watch lawsuit, Judge Lamberth has said you were to be deposed as well, Ms. Mills, because he determined that she had committed perjury and lied under oath, and he put that in a published opinion.
So it's not just Hillary Clinton, but Cheryl Mills both will be on the hot seat.
And there's one other fact here, and that is that remember when they finally got around to deposing Hillary, supposedly, or well, let's just say when she was being interviewed by the FBI, including Peter Strzok.
Uh, if you recall, something unprecedented happened there.
Cheryl Mills, another aide were in the room.
Now, usually when the FBI is conducting a real investigation, uh, they would not have somebody uh or allow somebody to bring their aides in for comfort and support.
But they did.
And then three days later, Jim Comey, 13 and a half minutes, she's guilty, she's guilty, she's guilty, but we're not gonna do anything about it.
Yeah, that was not only irregular, it was improper, it was unethical.
And as I wrote in my book, it was probably illegal.
Two of the fact witnesses given immunization are allowed to accompany Hillary Clinton during her stunningly brief FBI interview, in which she said, I don't recall 39 times and was never put under oath.
Unbelievable.
And we uh and Sean, we now know that interview, uh, the report of that interview is not reliable in the sense that Peter Strzok just received an email.
Peter Strzok wrote that at the end of the interview, Hillary Clinton said, apologize to the FBI for its having you expend resources to investigate this issue.
Said she did it for convenience, but it turned out not to be the case.
So that did not end up in the FBI 302 report.
So that admission, confession, apology never ended up in the FBI 302 report, and you have to wonder what else they kept out to help her.
Unbelievable.
All right, moving on to some other issues that we do have here.
Um Greg uh Jarrett, if you look at the case of Judge James uh Bosberg, uh it's far more serious about stopping FISA abuse uh than his predecessor.
Um all of the FBI DOJ people involved in lies and uh deceptions as it relates to the illegal warrants that were obtained, the Pfizer warrants against Carter Page to spy on a candidate transition team and then President Trump deep into his presidency.
Uh they want a full accounting of it, but they don't want them to talk to people that might be under investigation.
That was an interesting side note to this ruling.
You know, I'll give Bosberg some credit because he goes meticulously through all of the lives of the FBI and DOJ, that they concealed that Carter Page was actually working for the FBI and had been honest.
Uh that the FBI altered a key document, that the FBI hid that Christopher Steele was biased, he was not credible.
They hid that uh the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC paid for the phony information.
The judges were deceived about news reports, and that the FBI concealed exculpatory evidence on multiple occasions.
But most of all, Bosberg focused on the fact that the FBI learned in January of 2017 that it was all made up phony exaggerated information.
The FBI should have dropped the case then.
No special counsel ever appointed.
They should have gone to the uh Pfizer court and said, sorry, we're withdrawing the warrant to spy on the campaign.
Stay right there and yeah, either dump it or make major changes, but don't ask the people that uh were involved in abusing the Pfizer process and premeditated fraud on the court.
All right, guys, so are we gonna get anywhere with Barisma with Ron Johnson on the program earlier?
Are we gonna get anywhere with Durham and Barr, 30 seconds each, Tom Fitting first?
Well, if we have something to do with anything to do with it, we will.
We've got uh multiple lawsuits on Biden Barisma.
They're gonna have to start turning documents over soon.
They were stall stalling to help the impeachment effort that deep state was, and that's gonna end.
Um I don't think Durham's gonna do as much as I want, but we're going to get more information as a result of his work, which is, I guess, slightly better than nothing.
What do you think?
Greg Jarrett.
Well, the latest word is Mitt Romney will not object to subpoenas uh for Barisima, Hunter Biden and so forth.
I think uh Senator Ron Johnson's determined to get to the bottom of the son of the vice president sitting on the most corrupt board in all of Ukraine at the same time.
His father is supposed to be cleaning up the corruption and uh seems to have obstructed it by demanding the firing of the prosecutor investigating his own son.
All right, thank you both for being with us.
Greg Jarrett, Tom Fitton, great work.
We'll see.
Time will tell.
I have some maybe a little more confidence than them, but we'll see.
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All right, 25 till the top of the hour.
As I predicted yesterday, what did I say?
I said the mob and the media, they're ignoring a lot of issues involving Quid Pro Quo Joe.
Now, we had Ron Johnson on, and Ron Johnson now is getting subpoenas for witnesses as it relates to you not getting the billion unless you fire my son, a billion of your money, by the way, taxpayer money, uh, until you fire uh the prosecutor investigating my son being paid millions and millions of dollars with no experience.
You got six hours to do it.
And then, Of course, the prosecutor says to ABC and John Solomon and the Washington Post, yeah, I got fired because of Biden, not for any other reason.
On record, saying it numerous times.
And so I know that the media went through this whole impeachment phone call.
Donald Trump was he withholding funding to Ukraine so that they would investigate the Bidens.
Had a whole impeachment over that.
By the way, in the middle of when the president was putting in place a travel ban for people that had corona from countries like China, Wuhan province in particular.
You can't travel to the U.S. And even our fellow Americans, we haven't done this in decades.
In three short weeks from the day we identified that it was Corona, took three weeks.
The president put a travel ban and a quarantine in effect from people, four Americans traveling back from the region.
Wow.
They never did that in 2009 and 2010, and we lost what, nearly 17,000 Americans as it relates to H1N1 and Zwine Flu.
But in the middle of that, they're doing this big investigation and quid pro quo Joe.
The mob and the media doesn't want you to focus on Ukraine and quid pro quote Joe.
They're ignoring it.
Then we have the big purple elephant in the room.
That elephant is what is going on with Joe Biden.
Does he have the strength, the ability to focus the acumen, the stamina that is needed for what is by far.
We all think we have tough jobs.
You think that job is tough, whatever you're doing.
And many of you do have tough jobs and a lot of pressure in your jobs.
We don't have any pressure here, trust me.
Uh, right, Linda?
None whatsoever.
Zero pressure, Hannity is what we call it every day.
Um, but we all have pressure.
And what's it mean?
They don't want to talk about that either.
Pretty amazing.
And I predicted yesterday when here we've got Joe Biden on tape giving a speech in Cleveland uh about how politicians, and he says it very arrogantly.
We're gonna play it for you, or sound of the week, that politicians like him do more good than doctors, lawyers, and Indian chiefs.
And then he said that he wasn't a particularly moral individual, that he has no problem taking money from special interests.
Wow.
Then he says, Oh, I was told you're not invited to women.
Uh, and then he said, Oh, I'm sorry, I'm gonna give a football analogy, basically saying, what do you know about football?
And then insults another woman, hey kiddo, wow, you look great, lovely appearance.
And then using language, uh lecturing a predominantly African American audience on the other N-word.
I'm like, wow.
Imagine if this was tape of Donald Trump, what people would think and say and how they would react.
So I think it's worthwhile considering they will never report it, just like they never vetted Obama.
Obama was only asked one time because I pushed it with Stephanopoulos about his association with domestic terrorists, uh, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorn and the weather underground.
Not for nothing.
That's really good audio, too.
That we don't play enough.
Which one?
When you had that interview with Stephanopoulos, I mean you like that audio.
You know what's so strange about that interaction with him?
You know, I booked that interview and he came on, he was very nice.
And he, you know, like standard, like, hey, what are we gonna talk about?
I give him general topics, and you ask him, has he has he ever heard of this?
Is he and he's genuine, he's authentic.
He says, No, I don't know anything about this.
And he actually goes and then has the conversation with Obama.
Now, he brought it up.
It was just some guy living in the neighborhood, George.
Yeah, but I mean, there's other people that would have just said, you know, I'm not even going to talk.
I'm not going to bring it up at all.
But he did, he did to his credit.
No, he did, and by and I gave him credit at the time.
I remember where did we run into him?
We were headed like some Singapore.
It was probably saying, I know he was on the plane, I think, with us when we were flying.
What air we I think we flew Singapore air.
Yeah, and I think he was on that flight.
Oh, 50 years.
Every newsmaker in the world was on that flight.
Uh I don't remember that.
I remember him being there.
It was one either there or Vietnam, one or the other.
There's a lot of people in that plane.
So we got in the airport, and there's George Stephanie.
I don't think he likes me very much, but I don't think he wants to battle with me either.
So he's He's usually pretty nice.
Um anyway, brought him on the program, and I I said, hey, you know, he the fact that he didn't know confirms something else that I say that the media mob, they all talk to each other.
They live in this little bubble and they try to outdo each other.
I hate Donald Trump.
No, I despise and hate him.
No, I despise and triple hate him.
And it's like, but they're really only talking to each other.
And if you look on Twitter closely, if you're bored and you want to just check it out, look at all the media people and all the left-wing bloggers and all the left-wing political pundits and politicians, etc.
They they all talk to each other and they all retweet each other, and they all try to outdo each other and being hating Trump more than the next person to be the greatest Trump hater.
Um and he lives in that world is evidenced by him not knowing.
The fact that we're now at the point of a presidential debate.
We've been vetting Obama day and night.
He has no clue.
No one else in the media had a clue.
They didn't, it's like they put blinders on because they are an extension of all things radical extreme socialist.
All right, I will cede to your request.
Let's play Stephanopoulos.
Is that like a Friday fun day for me thing?
This is like a Friday fun day for you.
I'm being so nice.
I will I will grant your request.
We will take a trip down memory lane.
This is before he's hosting a debate with Obama.
Didn't know anything about Arizona Dorn, and he then followed up and asked the question, and we'll play the only one time that Obama got asked in the mainstream media.
Wouldn't come on my show.
Listen.
There are two questions that I don't think anybody has asked Barack Obama, and I don't know if this is going to be on your list tomorrow.
One is his the only time he's ever been asked about his association with Bill Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist uh from The Weather Underground, who on 9-11 of all days in the New York Times was saying, I don't regret setting bombs.
I I I don't think we did enough.
Uh when asked about it by the political, David Axarod said they have a friendly relationship and that they had done a number of speeches together and that they sat on a board together.
Is that a question you might ask?
Well, I'm taking notes right now.
September 11, 2001, of all days, uh, there was an article in the New York Times, and there are a number of quotes about Bill Ayers and the political had in there the comments about uh from David Axelrod.
I think that's an interesting question that nobody in the media has really brought up.
We've we've highlighted a little bit more here on this program, but let me see if I can help you.
You want any more questions?
Yeah, keep going.
On this issue, general theme of patriotism in your relationships.
A gentleman named William Ayers.
Uh he was part of the Weather Underground in the 1970s.
They bombed the Pentagon, the Capitol, and other buildings.
He's never apologized for that.
And in fact, on 9-11, he was quoted in the New York Times saying, I don't regret setting bombs.
I feel we didn't do enough.
An early organizing meeting for your state Senate campaign was held at his house, and your campaign has said you're friendly.
Can you explain that relationship for the voters and explain to Democrats why it won't be a problem?
This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a uh professor of English in Chicago.
Uh, who I know and who I have not uh received some official endorsement from.
He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.
Uh and the notion that somehow uh as a consequence of me knowing somebody uh who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago when I was eight years old, uh somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense, George.
He's only a guy in the neighborhood, George.
A guy in the neighborhood that the New York Times covered his statement 9-11 2001.
I wish we'd done more of all days, all days.
That morning's paper before it all happened that day.
This is a group that took credit for bombing the Capitol and New York police headquarters.
Where else did they bomb?
I forgot.
You know, we didn't do enough.
I wish we did more.
That's where Obama started his political career.
Imagine if it was Trump.
It is so sick and twisted.
And all these examples about Ukrainian corruption and quid pro quo.
And if it was uh all uh if it was Donald Trump the gaff machine and not even having a slow pitch, you don't think the media would be all over that?
They would.
They're acting like it's not there.
Then of course is atrocious Track record, they won't vet the eight years of Biden Obama.
They're not gonna do that.
We'll do that.
Just like I predicted, they are not gonna tell you about what I was leading up to until I was so well politely interrupted by Linda, which is Biden and this tape of his from the what is it, the Cleveland City Club?
Of the City of the City.
That's right, Boss.
It's the City Club of Cleveland, that's correct.
They released everything in May of 2019, and they did an article on it on their own website.
Cleveland.com did too, and so did Breitbart, but nobody in the media played.
Washington Examiner, lots of places put it out there.
Yeah, but we're the only ones that I know who played it nationally.
Maybe others did, and if they did, kudos to them.
I'm not trying to uh I I share credit.
But listen.
But I don't think anything has assaulted the system and the fundamental makeup of this country as much as this Watergate thing has.
And the only analogy I can really think of is a football analogy.
And I apologize to you, women in the audience for not being able to think of a more appropriate analogy, but they told me here they didn't want you here anyway.
I didn't expect any women to be here.
We spend a lot of time talking about the United States being a melting pot.
Well, that's true, but quite frankly, I think it's overrated.
We've been able to move forward because of politics.
And in my opinion, politics need not necessarily be a dirty word.
Politics should be the most honorable of professions.
Those of you who are doctors and lawyers and Indian chiefs in the audience, how can any of you possibly do as much good if you're very good at what you do as I can do if I'm very good at what I can do?
You can't.
So the point is this is where the action is.
Politicians happen to affect everything that affects you, as you are very well aware.
And if we bring down a great political party that should not be blamed for what happened, we begin to bring down a system.
And if we bring down the system, unless you've got something better to replace it with, we're in trouble.
and i for one don't have anything better to replace it with we all came here with the exception of a few of my brothers who were forced to come we all came here because we didn't like it where it was Because power had corrupted.
And because we were going to build a system that built into that system, the inability of power and too much of it to reside in any one place.
I fortunately had over 3,000 individual contributors.
Nobody makes up any more than one percentage point of my total budget.
Nobody for one percentage points gets a hold of that ear.
Nobody gets any more than a return phone call for that one percent.
But it's not because I'm particularly moral.
It's because nobody took me seriously.
Had in the beginning when I started big corporations or big labor or big wealthy individuals or big anybody come along and said, Here, Biden, we want to contribute $20,000 to you.
I probably would have taken it.
Not probably, I would have taken it.
I have had a number of conversations with the Southern Senators, and we get about 40 to 50 requests a week to speak nationally, and just as if I were elected with one eye, I'd be an anomaly, and they'd want me to speak.
I'm 30.
That's not because of any merit.
Just because I'm 30, they want to see if I can talk.
And the places that we go that I've told my staff, the places I want to go, by and large, are the South, because I'm most unfamiliar with the South.
So I've had occasion to speak in the South fairly frequently party.
And I think the two-party system, although my democratic colleagues don't like me saying this, I think the two-party system is good for the South and good for the N good for the black in the South.
Um and uh uh other than the fact that they still call me boy, I don't think they've I think they've changed their mind.
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