Sean Hannity Show - Fending Off the RINOs

Dec. 10, 2020 - Sean Hannity Show

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Fending Off the RINOs

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	All right, thanks, Scott Channing.
	Glad you're uh with us.
	800-941 Sean, you want to be a part of this extravaganza, and uh a lot to get to today.
	Now, this is a big, big big deal to me.
	What is going on?
	Now, I I want to urge look, I'm not Polly Anish.
	I don't want to put out false hope.
	Uh, but I but what we see unfolding is getting very, very interesting to me.
	Um, it's amazing.
	I don't think any of you are wrong.
	As a matter of fact, I agree with you.
	What has happened, there's no way we are ever going to get what is an accurate, fair understanding of legal votes that were counted in the 2020 election.
	There's just no way.
	It's impossible now to be able to ascertain the true, correct, accurate number that we have faith in, trust in, confidence in, and that we could say that this was done with complete integrity, because it wasn't.
	We now know it wasn't.
	We've heard from enough whistleblowers.
	We've gone over enough laws that were broken and ignored.
	Uh we've we've seen enough evidence, although the mob, the media, there's no evidence.
	Uh, literally, you know, under their definition of, I guess, evidence, you know, anything short of somebody on video tape saying, I'm going to shoot you in cold blood with audio, and then shooting the person between the the eyes, you know, would be the only evidence that they would accept.
	Meanwhile, the same people were the biggest advocates of the anonymous hearsay whistleblower that was courageous and patriotic.
	There's such phony, phony people.
	I've never met such hypocrites like we have in the mob, the media, big tech.
	I mean, they're all over the place.
	You know, and this is like one of the more frustrating things, and Linda and I were discussing this yesterday.
	I mean, you know, you go back to us unpeeling the layers of the Russian onion, and we spent so much time on radio and TV.
	We built this great ensemble cast.
	You know who would join the show regularly.
	I can't mention everybody's name, and everybody dug and dug and dug, and we're unpeeling one layer of the other, the next layer, and we get full vindication, Horowitz report.
	You know, what Durham is doing, I can't even answer, and it just the the name makes me angry now.
	I flinch when I hear it because it's such a disservice at the lack of of quick justice in this case with all the low-hanging legal fruit that we knew was available, separate and apart.
	So I'm not Polly Anish, but I am hopeful.
	And uh there is one reality that you just have to discuss, whether you want to discuss it or not.
	You know, the way I see John Roberts or Chief Justice of the Supreme Court now is I see him as a political figure.
	And I think as a guy that, you know, like you hear about the Rehnquist court, well, history will probably view this as the Roberts Court, and more concerned about, I guess, how you look through the prism of of history than actually just doing the job.
	The job of a Supreme Court justice is pretty simple.
	It's obviously complicated, a lot of education, a lot of knowledge of law, experience, etc.
	Needs to be to go into getting into such a prestigious position, obviously.
	So I'm not saying it's easy.
	I am saying this case is easy if you base it simply on law and the Constitution.
	It's not more complicated than that.
	Anyone that's telling you it's more complicated doesn't know what they're talking about.
	As far as never Trumpers and their analysis, there's there's nothing there are so many weak Republicans.
	I can never be a Republican again in my life.
	I can't.
	And I said this long before Trump was elected.
	They are weak, they are spineless, they are feckless, they are visionless, and they don't fight.
	And even after Donald Trump is proven that fighting, people appreciate if you stand up for what you believe in.
	People appreciate if you fight to keep promises that you made.
	People appreciate hard work and effort.
	Now there are other people that would say, yeah, but does he have to fight so much?
	I never quite understood the expectation that the guy that's going to fight to keep the promise of ending the bureaucracy and lowering taxes and fight for the judges he said he'd fight for and fight for the border wall money, even when Congress, you know, blocked him every step of the way, and fight for energy independence and trade deals and unleash the military to defeat the caliphate and take out El Baghdadi and Solomon and all these other guys.
	You know, that somehow, you know, that person, oh, it is 8:30 p.m.
	Do you know where your your turnoff switch to fight goes off?
	You press it.
	That's that's not you know, human beings are a little bit more complicated than that.
	And if it's part of your DNA and your nature, and we need I'd like to see more politicians fight like Trump every day.
	And I think that's the reason why people were so overwhelmingly enthusiastic for him.
	Never seen anything like this.
	You know, he shows up 20, 25, 30,000 people.
	I I mean, there's no guitar, there's no piano, there's no band, and there's no singing, and there's no show.
	It's just him.
	I mean, a phenomenon we probably won't see again in our lifetime.
	Unbelievable phenomenon.
	So we now have chronicled all of this.
	Polls indicate, yeah, like 80% of us looking at this as conservatives or Republicans, depending on the poll question is asked.
	And they said, no, we don't have faith and confidence in these results.
	Why should we?
	And to get lectured by the mob, the media, and everybody else, you know.
	Now I love this.
	You got uh YouTube and Google that you can't even talk about a whistleblower.
	You can't whistleblower couldn't go on YouTube now and post a video because they said, Well, now that the safe harbor data is passed, we're not going to post anything.
	I'm like, what?
	You know, I've been talking to Dan Bangino who uh invested in Parlor, and I said, I I said, I I I just want to contribute.
	I want to be, he goes, Well, I could probably get you like a 1%.
	I said, I'll take it.
	So I don't know if I'm gonna do that, but I mean, I'm like, uh, but could you know I'll tell you why.
	Because I wanted to succeed.
	I want an alternative to emerge.
	And there's smart people that have put these new platforms together.
	Literally, did you know Bangino said to me, Yeah, we want you to join us?
	I said, I think I will if you really do.
	But now you've been talking to the people at Rumble.
	They're a YouTube alternative, right, Linda?
	That's right.
	What have they been saying to you?
	Well, I mean, the bottom line is that you have organizations and big tech censorship, and now it's taken over YouTube, which you know, if you're a YouTube person and you subscribe to it and you give them your money, you can no longer see any type of videos that have anything to do with the rampant election fraud than any normal average American is able to see.
	I don't pay for YouTube, though.
	I have a smart TV if I want to watch a YouTube video.
	No, no, no.
	That's not what I'm talking about.
	What do you think?
	So there are people that can subscribe to YouTube, which enables them to cut out advertising because then they don't have to watch advertising, they make their revenue from your view.
	But you are unable as a subscriber or as a regular basic viewer to see anything that has anything to do with election fraud because they deem it's not worth your time.
	They don't want you to be able to decide for yourself what you can watch.
	They will now take that down.
	Well, you know what that's exactly like go back to Yeah, China.
	I know exactly what it's like.
	It's called combo.
	I'm going back to that, but I was specifically going back to Zero Experience Hunter.
	I mean, and I went back and I actually found and and pulled up all of the stuff that was being said about China at the time.
	Remember that that was becoming a big story.
	China, China, I mean, uh zero experience hunter, and they wouldn't run the New York Post story.
	And then they were accusing Grassley and Ron Johnson of spreading Russian disinformation.
	And now all of a sudden, based on Hunter admitting that he's he's now under investigation.
	Oh, it's really true.
	I'm like, you people are so st it's not even that they're stupid.
	They are nothing but partisan hacks.
	It's a mob.
	It is I'm right about this.
	So yeah, I want to see all these these new groups succeed.
	And you know, why don't why do we even stay on Twitter?
	I know when when you tweet out for me or that our team tweets out for me stuff, because I don't have access.
	I know that I don't even have an email account.
	I know that when you do that, you also post it on Parlor, right?
	Yeah, because we're using Twitter to direct traffic to parlor.
	So we're using right now.
	And then we're hoping that Parlor one day.
	We know that Parla will one day get to a place where they have more users that allow more freedom of speech than a platform like Facebook or Instagram or Twitter will ever allow, because they are all owned, bought, and paid for by big dollars, corporate lobbyists, and China.
	They have no interest in allowing freedom of thought and ideas to run freely.
	And by the way, I and from what Dan told me, and is a dear friend of ours, is he told me look, you go on Twitter and people beat the crap out of me, right?
	And by the way, how many times do I say it really makes me laugh?
	Some of like the memes they put up and all that stuff.
	Yeah, but some of it's really gross.
	It's not it's not even you.
	But you know what?
	I don't care.
	I care.
	I don't want censorship.
	Well, what about if they post something that is offensive?
	I'm like, then don't read it.
	I mean, but you can't decide with content that you're gonna, you know, edit away, you know, uh a whistleblower and that's exposing election fraud.
	But anyway, let me get back to the lawsuit here, because not only did this Texas case get filed, now we've got 17 other states.
	And many of these states, six of them now, want to actually join Texas in the suit.
	You got literally 17 state attorney generals, Missouri, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, they're all filing a brief with the court in support of what Texas is doing.
	Why?
	Because the four states, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, are outcome determinative.
	In other words, do they have standing?
	Well, the answer is yes, they'd have standing.
	Because if those four states didn't follow the constitutional process, which they did not, and it's laid out in perfectly in this lawsuit, then that would mean that the that everybody in every other state that did do it constitutionally has been disenfranchised by them not following the constitution.
	That's why this is important.
	And let me be clear about something here.
	There's no way in hell you're getting 17 state attorneys generals to put their name and reputation on on the line about a lawsuit if it lacked merit on the law and was out a sh without a strong constitutional basis of fact.
	They wouldn't do it.
	They would not they wouldn't do it because they like one presidential candidate over another.
	That's that would never ever happen.
	You know, we've gone over what this suit is.
	Article two, Constitution requires state legislatures to decide election policy.
	That was violated in a in multiple ways.
	Pennsylvania, mail-in ballots, the deadline pushback.
	That would be constitutionally the legislature's job.
	Well, that's not who made the decision in that state.
	Then Georgia, their horrendous consent decree.
	Well, the Secretary of State had to, if we're going to follow the Constitution, go back to the state legislature in Georgia before he agrees to a two separate signature verifications, one low standard for mail in ballots versus people that vote in person.
	That too is enacted without legislation legislature's approval.
	Their second argument is about unequal application of the law.
	Pole workers, poll of partisan observers written into the law, encounter different rules, different counties.
	Well, you go back to the landmark case, Bush v.
	Gore, the Equal Protection Clause.
	Well, that was violated there.
	Chris Kobach will join us later and explain it more detail.
	But state legislatures in Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania could exclude ballots, for example, that were counted in violation of state law, or they could divide their electoral college votes.
	In other words, they even offer remedy in this lawsuit.
	It is a this is a serious legal challenge.
	Now the onus is on the U.S. Supreme Court.
	And is the Roberts Court gonna once again play politics?
	Maybe they'll surprise us and do the right thing.
	You know, do I have confidence?
	I can't tell you how it.
	I'm not even gonna venture a guess.
	Should they?
	Yes, they should.
	Absolutely they should.
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	Look, there's a lot of constitutional remedies here as it relates to this case.
	It's a big deal now that these attorneys generals are getting on.
	Serious legal challenge.
	Onus now on the U.S. Supreme Court.
	I'm not going to venture a guess which way they're going to go if they'll take the case.
	I hope they do.
	They really need to.
	And that's, I think one of the reasons why I did not expect 17 attorneys general to jump on on board with this.
	Now, I'll tell you what is also happened here as well, and that is that the American people see through all of this.
	You know, there's a poll out, Quintopiach poll out today.
	And I think it's very, very revealing.
	And it shows uh stuff that, you know, we've been seeing in other polls, but it's worth it bears repeating.
	Worth it 60% view Biden's quote presidential victory is legitimate.
	Okay, Quinna Piock.
	77% of Republicans believe, and I agree with them, that there's widespread voter fraud.
	And that's what the whistleblowers were telling us for two weeks.
	That's what all those affidavits were all about.
	And so, yeah, that's that is all extraordinarily real.
	Um, and and those are the things that matter.
	Those are the things that we need to be paying attention to.
	Now, one other thing.
	It's like the mob and the media acting like all of a sudden, well, Hunter Biden, really, there's some problems here.
	Um, well, now we're discovering that the Justice Department's interest in Hunter Biden this is way more about taxes.
	And my sources have been telling me there's been an investigation ongoing since 2018.
	That would be uh, yeah, exactly the year that Peter Schweitzer released his best selling book, Secret Empires.
	Well, more on the other side, straight ahead.
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	He got on as a sophomore, and now he says that Nancy Pelosi and Adam Shift knew of it.
	This is a national security threat.
	The Intel committee does not meet in normal chambers.
	They meet in what is called a skiff to protect from people listening in on what they're talking about.
	They're getting secrets that other members of Congress never are able to see.
	And now we have Eric Swalwell, who has been swindled by the di the Chinese.
	But what's even more interesting here is why did he attack the American director of intelligence, John Radcliffe's report talking about the expansion of China spying throughout.
	He attacked last week.
	Just last week, he attacked the director, John Radcliffe, defending China.
	This man should not be in the Intel committee.
	He's jeopardizing national security.
	All right.
	Now that was Kevin McCarthy.
	So let me just shift gears here briefly.
	You got calls rightly now.
	I mean, if you look at Swalwell, I mean, he is a hack, a hacks hack.
	I mean, he's right up there with the compromise corrupt congenital liar Schiff and Natler and that whole Russia, Russia, Russia lie stuff.
	Anyway, so he's on the House Intelligence Committee as Kevin McCarthy's pointing out.
	And now we get this report revealing as he was literally connected to with really significant ties to a Chinese spy named Christine Fang.
	Now she had helped fundraise for his campaigns, help uh place at least one intern in his office.
	I wonder if that was a spy too.
	The Axios report, Fang's relationship with two Midwestern governors.
	You know, she was hooking up with these governors.
	And when asked about the nature of his relationship, the Congressman, well, we we declined to comment.
	They refused to hold him accountable, but yet we were we we got the Russia lies fed by him and every Democrat and the mob and big tech for three years.
	So it's, I mean, you want to talk about corruption, that's corruption.
	Now, one interesting thing, this is on Fox News.com for three days.
	Congressman Swalwell won't provide any details regarding the relationship with a person we've now identified as a Chinese spy.
	Axios reporting that the woman, Christine Fang, had made inroads with several political figures.
	Rick Renell was on last night and says, Yeah, there's a ton of these politicians that are tied up in this.
	I'm like, what?
	Now we know Putin's a hostile actor, Russia hostile regime.
	We know that the Chinese are worse.
	Anyway, so they people are asking for details.
	You know, now Swalwell was asked directly about the the nature of the relationship with Fang, whether it was romantic, sexual, whatever.
	They say they have no comment.
	Is that the answer?
	Oh, okay.
	Now we're just going to take his word for it and allow him to remain on the on the House Intelligence Committee.
	I don't think so.
	Now here's another odd fact that we found out.
	New York Post had a good article about this today.
	You know, now the FBI, you know, outed Swalwell's companion as this Chinese spy.
	Well, now we discover that Swalwell's family had been in close contact with her up until yeah, recently on social media.
	And the Congressman's father, his brother, all remain friends on Facebook with the Chinese spy Christine Fang.
	Also known as Fang Fang, as late as Wednesday.
	Even after the lawmaker said he cut off all ties after being briefed by the FBI.
	You see, if you're Donald Trump, you don't get briefed, you get set up.
	If you're General Flynn, you get set up.
	If you're Popadopoulos, you get set up.
	If you're a Democrat, you get, oh, uh, you might want to stop hanging out with the spy friend of yours.
	Posing as a college student.
	Sits on the House Intel committee.
	Won't address the Pelosi, she's out there running interference.
	She dismissed a question about whether Swalwell's multi-year relationship with the Chinese spy posed a national security risk.
	I don't have any concerns about Mr. Swalwell.
	Are we to a point now after what uh happened with Mr. Swalwell, maybe where there should be background checks for all uh staff and interns before we turn it?
	Obviously, it's members staff who serve on the intelligence committee is an armed services committee have that, but could that be universal?
	And what are your concerns?
	So, what should be universal chat on this?
	Background checks were aides or end turns across the board for all members all staff and interns on California concerns about Mr. Swalwell.
	Well, I don't have any concern about Mr. Swalwell.
	In terms of Mr. Swalwell, he uh there in the spring of 2015, the leadership of the Congress of the House and the committee were informed that overtures from a Chinese person was were being made to members of Congress when that was made known to the members of Congress, it was over.
	You know, that was the end of any communication.
	Oh, so that's okay.
	How about we know the nature of the relationship?
	How we get some details.
	Now, this is the same Swalwell that accused Donald Trump Jr. of meeting a Russian spy.
	Remember, we found out the meeting with Fusion GPS heads before and after that quote meeting that was supposed to do with the what is it, the McGinski Act and adoption?
	That's what they were told, the premise of that whole thing, and a waste of everybody's time.
	The only one on 15 minutes, no sexual relationship.
	Anyway, uh, yeah, so the hypocrisy stands, you know, tall as you.
	I mean, it's just such a such a double standard.
	This is how corrupt things have gotten in the deep state.
	Why didn't the FBI give team Trump the same option instead of spying on him?
	Instead of setting up General Flynn instead of doing what they did to everybody.
	Fang Fang, or Christine Fang, uh close to several politicians.
	According to Rick Rennell, it's way deeper than anything has ever been published as of now.
	Well, was she the spy who uh loved uh Swalwell?
	I think we have a right to know.
	Plenty of pictures of them.
	Why the continued contact with his family?
	What's the nature of the relationship?
	Back to the election issue.
	Ted Cruz, by the way, has agreed to argue the Texas lawsuit should the Supreme Court rightfully take it up and take on the case, which they should.
	Uh 77% of Republicans think there's fraud in this election.
	They're right.
	That's the, by the way, and three-quarters of Republicans think that Trump likely will run in 2024.
	That's going to be an interesting question.
	Trump uh tells White House uh party that if Supreme Court justices have the courage and the wisdom.
	This is not a complicated case.
	We've gone over it.
	We'll go over it later in more detail.
	He'll win the election.
	Legislatures across the country now are planning sweeping election reform.
	You think it's past due?
	I do.
	You know, then we can listen to the never Trumpers like John Kasich.
	That G O P A G suing to overturn our morally and ethically bankrupt.
	No, you supporting a cognitively struggling, weak and frail Biden and abandoning everything you've ever said about government your entire career, John.
	That that description would fit you.
	Just as a side note.
	We were once friends.
	Anyway, uh, I think it's a big deal.
	House Republicans call for special counsel to investigate the election.
	The president uh also joining the case.
	All these other states' attorneys generals, they're deciding if they're going to join the case.
	Uh 17 already.
	That surprised me.
	I did not expect that many.
	I didn't.
	And Texas does have the right to be heard.
	There's a great New York Sun editorial about that today.
	We'll get into some of that a little bit later in the program today.
	But I will tell you there's a lot going on that, you know, this is going to be one of these things that we're going to be really digging deeper and deeper into as the days, weeks, months that, you know, go by.
	Then you got, you know, go back to the whole Hunter Biden thing.
	And now for the first time, now I can report to you that this is way deeper than just about his taxes, in case you're interested.
	Way deeper.
	And this has been going on since 2018.
	He said, well, I learned yesterday for the first time U.S. Attorney's Office in Delaware, which alarms me.
	Advised my legal counsel they're investigating my tax affairs.
	And one of the reasons it might be taxes is because that gives them more latitude in terms of where they can take the investigation.
	But coming out of Delaware, I'm worried.
	Now Biden Harris, they issue a statement.
	We're deeply proud of his son, Joe is fought through difficult challenges, including the vicious personal attacks.
	Remember the media was saying, no, there's nothing to this.
	This is no, this is Russia, Russia, Russia.
	Big tech deciding not to even let the American people read this in the lead up to the election.
	How corrupt is that.
	Anyway, uh all this material on that abandoned laptop is now evidence in this probe, which has been underway since 2018, and uh triggered a number of suspicious activity reports.
	And uh, by the way, according to a document obtained by Fox, Hunter's laptop was filed under case code 272D.
	That would be the classification for money laundering.
	Well, Ron Johnson will join us later.
	This went much deeper than just Barisma, where the millions were paid with zero experience in oil energy, gas uh, or Ukraine.
	And quid pro quo Joe on tape, bragging he leveraged a billion taxpayer dollars.
	Nobody said there's anything wrong with that.
	Yeah, we did, actually.
	Then the 1.5 billion dollar deal with the Bank of China, then the China Chinese National taking Hunter on a family shopping spree, then the three and a half million from the Russian oligarch, First Lady of Moscow, wired transfer there, then the Kazakh uh oligarch, and the monies transferred for expensive cars there.
	And then the whole Ukrainian deal.
	You know, remember, he goes on GMA last year, was asked about China, said I never made a penny.
	That's not true either.
	Ron Johnson pointed it out on TV.
	We'll get into that later.
	And then also he had his lawyer had to go back out there the next day and walk back those remarks because he also has equity in the deal.
	Peter Schweitzer believes upward beyond 20 million dollars worth.
	I mean, all of this money, all of this corruption.
	Imagine the last name is Trump.
	The Justice Department interest in Hunter Biden is covered a lot more than his taxes, according to uh Justice Department sources.
	Uh, in addition to Delaware, securities fraud unit in the Southern District of New York, that's a serious prosecuting office, scrutinize Hunter Biden's finances, according to the person with knowledge of the investigation.
	Well, I don't understand why people don't pay their taxes.
	Why am I like the only idiot that's afraid to not pay my taxes?
	Because I, you know, I figure as a conservative, you get arrested for spitting on the sidewalk or jaywalking.
	But apparently a lot of people, you know, don't want to pay.
	I don't know.
	I don't like it like everybody else, but I tell them I pay it, pay it.
	Well, I'm not sure we can take this deduction on pay it.
	It's every phone, Linda.
	How many phone calls have you been on that you heard me say, just pay it?
	Far too many.
	Way too many.
	And all of you get mad at me.
	I'm like, I don't want to deal with this crap.
	Anyway, then they're looking at uh the Western District of Pennsylvania conducting a criminal investigation of a hospital business.
	Joe Biden's brother James was involved in.
	Federal officials there asking about James' role in the business.
	I mean, everybody in this fam.
	Well, the big guy had 10 million set aside if you remember The Bob Olinski interview uh with Tucker.
	And the media is finally covering the Hunter story after avoiding it before the election.
	Well, that's because Joe was in the media mob campaign protection program and the big tick big big tech uh mob protection program there.
	And of course, they ran full interference.
	Joe never had to answer questions, never even had to show up 90% of the time, and the mob would beat up Trump for him for free.
	His foreign transactions repeatedly flagged as potential criminal activity.
	That was in the Senate reporter Grassley and Ron Johnson who's going to join us later in the program today.
	Senator Kennedy of Louisiana had a great line.
	Hunter Biden revelations, you know, raised the issue of why media and tech clamped down on the New York Post reporting.
	You do understand this is an in-kind donation.
	This is them donating to help elect Biden by keeping all of this away from you.
	Remember Ritt Romney was out there, not legitimate role for the government looking at this Biden probe.
	Mitt, you stand by that today.
	President elect pledged not to interfere in the DOJ investigations in 2019.
	I'm not sure that's going to stand either.
	Marsha Blackburn, Senate should investigate the cozy relationship between Biden incorporated and China, you think.
	You know, I'd like to know with all this money and all these deals and all these countries and Russia and Ukraine and Kazakhstan and China.
	I wonder what the Chinese have on Biden.
	I wonder.
	And Hunter and others.
	This could get very interesting.
	Devin Nunes signaling support for a special counsel.
	We'll see what happens with that.
	Um, but the Justice Department's interest goes way deeper than taxes.
	I mean, this this is just outright scary because now we're talking about uh yeah, American security here.
	You know what's amazing.
	You go back, you look at MPR when the story broke in the New York Post.
	Why haven't you seen any stories from MPR about the New York Post Hunter Biden story?
	Read more in this week's newsletter, MPR yesterday.
	President elect Joe Biden's son Hunter says he was recently informed he's under federal investigation.
	Politico before the election, more than 50 former senior intelligence officials believe the recent disclosure of emails allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden has all the classic earmarks of a Russia information operation.
	Politico today.
	The federal investigation into President-elect Joe Biden's son Hunter has been more extensive than a statement from Hunter indicates.
	A little late for that, isn't it?
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	Senator Ron Johnson, who's been all over Hunter Biden, exposing the Biden, uh, family corrupt corruption scandal ignored by the mob.
	Look, it is now December the 10th.
	In 25 days, 26 days, whatever the full number is, there's going to be the runoff races in Georgia.
	I can't think of two more critical Senate seats ever in my lifetime.
	There has been so much going on In Georgia that has really ticked off a pretty significant portion of the president's base.
	When the president was down in Valdasta over the weekend, the loudest chanting, and it was loud, fight for Trump.
	Wasn't fight for Loffler.
	It wasn't fight for Purdue.
	Now the president has a lot at stake in this race.
	In other words, uh, depending on the final outcome of this, if it's Biden and they have the House and they have 50-50 in the Senate, and Kamala Harris ever ended up president of the Senate as vice president, tie-breaking vote.
	We've got a problem.
	That's packing the courts, that's ending the legislative filibuster that's DC Puerto Rico statehood, and maybe the process begins to eliminate the Electoral College.
	That's how real it is.
	Now, do is it ask, you know, to watch the people of Georgia get frustrated by Republican politicians like their governor Kemp and their Secretary of State, who frankly, constitutionally, I I think it's clear cut, had absolutely no right to go into this consent agreement after being sued early in the year by the Georgia Democratic Party and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee,
	Democratic Congressional Campaign Committees that allowed the two-tiered signature verification to begin.
	Now you got the Secretary of State, you got the Dopey Governor, Dopey Secretary of State, now the Dopey Lieutenant Governor.
	Oh, the election was fair and legal.
	Well, the problem is uh in-person voting at one stringent standard of voter ID and signature verification in the state database, and then mail-in ballots.
	Well, you didn't have any signature verification with the state database, and as long as an application matched the ballot, then oh, everything was going to be fine.
	Anyway, here's what the lieutenant governor said.
	Do you believe the election was rigged?
	I don't.
	Uh, you know, I'm I'm proud to have worked hard with the attorney general, Chris Carr, uh, with our Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger and his entire team to put on what is a fair and legal election here in Georgia.
	Uh we continue to chase down all the the little one-off leads that we've got.
	I know the Secretary of State, the GBI are working on one-off issues like we would probably see in any other election.
	Uh, but uh, I believe the election was fair and legal.
	Uh it certainly was close.
	The person I voted for didn't win, but that doesn't change my job description, and then we're gonna keep working hard.
	Now remember, if they if they actually called the legislature back in the session, which the governor does have the ability to do to fix the problems, well, that would be an admission that they screwed it up, something that is obviously not something they want to admit.
	But you know, David Schaefer is the chairman of the Republican Party in Georgia, and they have now been able to break out numbers, and they think they've identified over two thousand felons voting in Georgia on November third, around sixty-six thousand, sixty-six thousand underage voters, they would be illegally cast.
	Twenty, five hundred people who were not on the state's voter rolls, a whopping 40,000 who had moved counties but never re-registered as the law demands, and widespread irregularities uh, including the signature verification issue here to weigh in on this important, these two important runoff Senate races, January 5th.
	Now, by the way, next week in four days now, in-person early voting starts in Georgia.
	Matt Towery, syndicated columnist, uh, insider advantage is his polling company, the pollster John McLaughlin, McLaughlin and Associates.
	Thank you both for being with us.
	Um, here we are now.
	So we got to get Republicans to the polls.
	This is a cr these are critical runoff races.
	And on the one hand, the president's legacy is at stake, his family invest being investigated endlessly is at stake.
	And yet Georgia Republican politicians, local politicians, governor, secretary of state, lieutenant governor are pissing everybody off, man.
	Yeah, they are, and and it's become a problem, obviously in Georgia.
	It's not it it is causing people to say, Well, why should I go out to vote if my vote isn't going to count?
	Because they feel like they're gonna have the same problems the next time.
	I will tell you, Sean, I've detected the slightest bit of a turn in the direction of the Republican candidates in the last day or two.
	Now I I I'll know next week as I as I reveal some polling.
	But there is a glimmer of hope for these Republican candidates.
	Part of that may be coming from the fact that both Purdue and Leftler came out and said that they supported The president and and they supported Texas and their challenge to Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, the other states, uh, with regard to the Supreme Court.
	That case seems to have some real merit, although it's of course being uh discounted by the by the mainstream media because they don't want anyone to think any of these cases have any merit.
	Um, but I think that that movement on the part of these Senate candidates may be the beginning of a turnaround and getting these Trump people back involved.
	Now I'm not saying that everyone in Georgia knows that right now.
	They're not all following this court case, but I do feel like they're getting a little bit more of a solid footing, but they got a long way to go in a short time to get there because early voting starts next week.
	And your take uh do you see the same shift at all, John McLaughlin?
	Uh because you know, one of the things I know about my friends, I lived in Georgia like Matt had, but he's lived there a lot longer than me, served in the legislature, was a lieutenant governor candidate himself, is that the people of of Georgia they do like Donald Trump and they I think they realize this impacts him greatly.
	Absolutely.
	And and what they're seeing is in Georgia right now, they are being embarrassed nationally, and they don't like it.
	Because we already on your show, we already talked about how even though it's a dead even uh uh Senate runoff, and and Matt's Matt's polls are highly accurate in the general and they're highly accurate now.
	Everybody knows we're in a dead even Senate race.
	Um right now 58 percent to 38 percent, they wanted a special session to fix the signature verification.
	And today, as we're on on your show, there was a story by the Georgia Star News that says with the uh runoff election less than a month away, the state nor the counties can produce a chain of custody record for the 500,000 absentee ballots placed in drop boxes for the November 3rd election.
	They are using the same drop boxes for the runoff.
	So Governor Kemp and Lieutenant Governor Duncan and Lieutenant Governor Duncan had his own issues with loans during his his campaign, but they better call that special session to fix this because right now you have the same kind of tools that and by the way, these drop boxes they're not government, they were they were never never passed by the legislature.
	Uh they're not basically run by the government, they're funded by Mark Zuckerberg, and they were devised by uh uh Plauff, David Plauff, who was Barack Obama's uh campaign manager, who's the strategist for Zuckerberg and his uh uh committee for uh uh technology and civic life, they were paid for uh and in in uh I believe in Fulton County it was five million dollars, and Cobb County six uh uh uh six million dollars.
	They they funded the grants for these things.
	And so it's uh and and so it's not even a government uh run thing.
	You've got these private uh initiative from Zuckerberg.
	So you've got 300 drop boxes that skewed towards the Democrats, and our post post-election poll in Georgia that was done before Thanksgiving, found 12% of all the votes came from the drop boxes and provide and they voted for Biden 7327.
	Those are the live people we could talk to.
	But aren't they supposed to have a live feed of those boxes and now they're apparently pulling down the video every day in the campaigns now have uh at least access to it and the ability to observe who's who's dropping off and where and when?
	Well, you have a live video feed, so you can watch Democrats go up there, drop in multiple ballots for who knows who that you you don't verify the signature the way they did before, and you don't know where they got them.
	It's a tool for ballot harvesting.
	It's everything that was supposed to stop to stop fraud.
	But are are they doing anything differently than the November 3rd election is my question?
	Not that well, I let me jump let me let me jump in there.
	The the Georgia Republican Party says they've mobilized 4,000 people to to monitor these these uh polling locations and precincts, and I have no doubt that David Schaefer, you mentioned him earlier, he is an excellent chairman, and I have no doubt that he's doing everything he can to try to uh up their anti in terms of uh ballot security this time.
	But let me get back to the Facebook story that John was talking about just a moment ago.
	Anecdotal, of course, but I live in Florida, as you know, Sean now, have lived here for years, have been voting here for a good number of years.
	I go on Facebook um last two nights ago, I just happened to go to my page, I rarely go to it.
	Up pops at the at the top an official statement, it comes from Facebook.
	It says, Matt, if you live in Georgia, it's time for you that you need to register for the U.S. Senate race.
	And I'm paraphrasing here, the U.S. Senate race in Georgia.
	And then it has two things I can click either check my registration or register now.
	Now, my question is this.
	We know that these companies know where we are, what we do.
	They monitor everything that we do.
	They have all types of sophisticated algorithms.
	It's pretty clear I live in Florida.
	So why in the world are they reaching out to me on their own in the state of Florida and asking me, hey, why don't you think about running and uh voting in Georgia?
	Maybe you're registered there.
	Why is it Facebook's responsibility to give millions of dollars to Bulton County, which Lord knows is not known as the greatest area of responsibility of government in this country, in fact the least responsible, to give money to them and then on their own suice fonte go out and start asking people in other states if they want to vote in Georgia.
	I find it to be amazing.
	Well, by the way, the the opportunity, the deadline for registering for the runoff was December 7th.
	So that ship is now sailed.
	Uh my understanding anyway.
	Uh so the question is there there is this one outlier poll, and and we all like and we have a good relationship with Robert Cahaley at Trafalgar, and two things stood out in in his poll.
	Uh John will start with you.
	One is he factored in a 3.7% likely cheating rate.
	I'm like, oh, is that how we poll now?
	We're just gonna assume cheating occurs.
	And he had Loffler up by five and and Purdue down by one.
	Now that that did that was a bit of an outlier from others.
	I talked to him about it, and he just made the case that he felt that Warnock was was too radical and that that had been identified by Georgia voters, he's pretty radical.
	I don't know.
	I mean, is he gonna turn out to you know be ahead of the curve?
	Is Kelly now surpassing David Purdue in terms of odds of winning?
	Well, that poll was last week.
	And and and they've debated since then.
	Plus, you've got all this money coming in there.
	But the bottom line is it's you know, plus one, minus one, minus five, even that's too close to call in a close election like this in the turnout.
	So you've really got a dead heat.
	Whomever's poll is out there right now, it's a dead heat.
	Maybe among honest people that you talk to that you poll, there might be a little more Trump voters coming out right now because the president has been there and held a rally, and the vice president's been going in multiple times, and the president may come back again, so they're they're coming in.
	But Stacey Abrams says she has almost a million ballots again with these mail-ins and a lot of million ballots requested, or I think now it's over a million.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And it was 1.3 in November.
	So if they're coming again and they're dropping them off at drop boxes, I don't know who's filling them out.
	I don't know.
	What is your take on that, Paul?
	Well, my take is that um this is all going to be determined as the the degree of intensity these Trump voters have.
	Uh I have an example though of what could motivate them.
	The president coming is one thing, but there are issues that will get these people out to the uh to vote as well.
	For example, Susan Rice has now been nominated to to be in charge of domestic matters in the U.S. under under Biden.
	Now, the U.S. Senate has to confirm that.
	Now, I think most people remember Susan Rice from Benghazi, and that's a motivating motivating factor on its own to tell people that if they don't want to see this kind of administration go into effect, they've got to elect both of these two U.S. senators to stop this sort of action.
	And there are plenty of other examples that could be used that could draw voters out based on their individual interests.
	Now, whether that's occurring in Georgia right now, I don't know.
	You know, I've been critical of the campaigns before because they were using a broad brush of calling people socialists and radicals, and I didn't think that was enough.
	But we're beginning to see some news stories about Warnock come up.
	Uh, there's some issues right now having to do with his pass that they're beginning to bubble up in in Georgia.
	I don't know if those have legs or not, but I'm getting the feeling that people are beginning to focus a little bit more on the possibility of losing the U.S. Senate and what the implications might be.
	And I think it for Georgia Republicans if that becomes the final decision making uh if that is the reason they decide to vote, then they win.
	Here we are, January 5th runoff, Georgia, two Senate races.
	Matt Towery, how is this gonna end?
	Oh, it's gonna end in a photo finish, um, regardless of uh of what changes are made, if any in the in the election process, these candidates are gonna have a really tough uh ride on the part of the Republican side.
	I think they can pull it off, though.
	I'm beginning to see a glimmer of hope, but it's going to require a lot of elbow grease and and also getting these ballots secured a little bit more.
	We still need that governor to call a special session.
	Yeah, I would agree with that.
	Final 30 seconds, John.
	I saw the president on Tuesday, and he said, you know, they stole this election.
	I said, I said exactly that on Hannity Radio.
	And he said, Keep saying it.
	And Matt is exactly right.
	Call the Governor Kemp's office, tell him to call the special session, fix the drop box.
	I'm not saying not to call, but calling Kemp is a waste of time.
	He's useful.
	I have no respect for this governor.
	None.
	Well, well, Georgia voters, if they get mad enough, they need to make sure that these votes get cast, and they get cast honestly, so somebody doesn't steal their vote that cancel out an honest person's vote with fraud.
	So we need to get that fixed because Matt says it's a photo finish.
	I believe it.
	And in a photo finish, they can steal it again, and we can't let them.
	All right.
	Thank you both.
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	So Peter Schweitzer wrote the book Secret Empires and...
	And uh we had the first interview with him when it when it came out, I believe in early of 2018.
	I think it was January 2018.
	I mean, it's now we've been we have been unpeeling the layers of this onion for quite a long period of time.
	And uh then in the Senate, a lot of credit goes out to Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, as they have done what what has been necessary for a long time is how is it a guy that has no experience in Ukraine,
	no experience in energy, oil, gas, gets put on a board of a what ended up being a corrupt gas company, Barisma, and gets paid millions of dollars with no experience except that his father is the vice president of the United States.
	And that same person gets on Air Force Two.
	Biden is vice president, flies to China, and ten days later has a billion dollar deal with the Bank of China private equity deal, and that later became 1.5 billion.
	And then we learn from the Johnson Grassley report.
	Well, other money wire transfers have taken place.
	We learned that there's a three and a half million dollar wire transfer with a woman known a Russian oligarch, the first lady of Moscow, former wife of the mayor of Moscow.
	And then you got a a hundred and forty-three thousand dollar wire transfer from a Kazakhstan oligarch, earmarked for apparently a very expensive new car.
	Uh then, of course, she got the issue of Joe on tape.
	You uh you got six hours, you're not getting a billion taxpayer dollars unless you fire the prosecutor that was yep, investigating his zero experienced son being paid millions.
	Uh then you have a Chinese national, and that Chinese national takes Hunter Biden and family on a hundred thousand dollar shopping spree.
	And, you know, if you look at the summary of all this, it's as clear as day.
	You know, one of the saddest things to evolve in all of this is at the time, remember the New York Post was breaking the story.
	Everybody was saying, Oh, we can't run this, we're not gonna put it on big tech social media.
	Why let people actually think for themselves and decide for themselves?
	Then of course, you have the disastrous Hunter interview on Good Morning America in that interview.
	You have any experience in oil?
	No.
	Gas, no, energy, no.
	Ukraine, no.
	Why do you think they hired you?
	I don't know.
	Because your dad is in charge of Ukraine?
	Probably.
	And he also said, I never got one cent from from any business dealing with China.
	This is what he said, and his lawyer had to clean it up the next day and say, well, he doesn't own a lot of equity when they sell this thing.
	Listen.
	The president has repeatedly said that you received 1.5 billion dollars from China despite no experience and for no apparent reason.
	Obviously, fact checkers have said that that is not true.
	Look, this is literally has no basis in fact in any way.
	Have you received any money from non-business dealing?
	No.
	At all.
	Not one cent.
	Not one cent.
	Definitely not 1.5 billion.
	It's crazy.
	They feel like they have the license to go out and say whatever they want.
	It feels to me like living in um some kind of Alice in Wonderland, where you're up on the real world and then you fall down the rabbit hole, and you know, the president's a Cheshire Cat asking you questions about crazy things that don't have bear any resemblance to the reality of of uh anything that has to do with me.
	And so here's here's the answer.
	No one ever paid me 1.5 billion dollars.
	Uh and if they had, um I would not be doing this interview right now.
	Senator Ron Johnson, Wisconsin, pretty much standing alone uh among the Republicans and uh getting to the bottom of this.
	Now the revelation yesterday that Hunter Biden acknowledges that there is a criminal investigation and it was taxes going on.
	Senator, is there anything that he said there that's accurate or true in your your estimation?
	Well, it's probably true that nobody paid him one point five billion dollars.
	I think that was the at least the goal of what they wanted to raise in terms of the private equity fund that uh he would be you know, siphoning off fees from.
	But we we do know that he got paid more than a cent.
	He got paid five million dollars, a cash transfer from CESC into his bank accounts for his businesses.
	We also know in an addendum to our report, about six million dollars flowed into the business or accounts of Rob Walker, a very close business associate affiliated with the Bidens.
	Uh in some of those emails, uh Rob Walker says, you know, I really want to be viewed as a surrogate for the Biden family.
	So I mean there's 11 million dollars, which is certainly more than a cent, but um I'll admit it's probably a little less than 1.5 billion, but again, the 1.5 billion.
	Well, the what that but that was the deal.
	It wasn't how much he was going to get paid, but also his lawyer acknowledges that there's equity that he has yet to cash in, correct?
	Yeah, again, we we don't know all the financial entanglements that that he has with foreign governments.
	What we do know is troubling enough.
	Again, what what I'm trying to get alert people to is think of the company that he was doing that was making those cash transfers, CEFC.
	It had reportedly about 33 billion dollars in some form of income in 2013.
	That business just disappeared overnight, along with the its chairman who was his business partner, the you know apparently had breakfast or lunch with in his luxury apartment.
	He also just disappeared.
	But that individual had ties to the Communist Party China and the People's Liberation Army.
	These are the people that Hunter Biden and the Bidens, and according to Tony Bobolinsky, Joe Biden was aware of that.
	That was the whole point of setting up the meeting.
	So that Tony Boblinski could meet, you know, the big guy.
	Okay.
	So no, the vice president has lied repeatedly about this.
	And you know, Sean was galling to me personally, is you know, all the accusations that this was Russian disinformation that Chuck Rassley and I were, you know, accepting and disseminating, and that there's nothing to these things.
	And so here after the election, you finally have the Department of Justice admit that there's something to this, even though they've had this computer since at least December 2019, and I think they've had knowledge of financial transactions being dating way back to 2018.
	Remember, Hunter Biden, it was in those emails from uh Devin Archer's business associate that's in jail now, said, you know, they wanted to put a little honey in Hunter's pocket.
	That was with in that Indian or that tribal bond fraud.
	So that's getting back 2018.
	So I don't know what the FBI has been doing sitting on this information.
	Did they did they just decide to prosecute the people that weren't politically connected to the Biden and just try and ignore what kind of connection Hunter had on this?
	I've got some real serious concerns.
	And again, I I've said that you know I don't like I don't like special counsels, but I am concerned that this is now the uh U.S. attorney in Delaware.
	Well, see, where are the Biden's from?
	Oh, they're in Delaware.
	And I've also seen what the FBI has done, for example, in Meteor Exam, the the investigation to Hillary Clinton's email scandal, that was not an investigation designed to uncover the truth leading to prosecution conviction.
	That was an investigation by the FBI by the corrupt James Comey, McCabe struck FBI that was designed to cover up the truth of Hillary Clinton's email email scandal and exonerate her.
	I hope that's not the case of them opening up this case, this investigation conveniently after the election.
	And now actually CNN, I think had a headline about this.
	Well, when you really go to big tech, and I call it the candidate protection program that they allowed Joe Biden to hide the whole campaign.
	And between the media, I call it the mob and big tech, they've got their own little mob set up.
	I mean, it is the single biggest in-kind donations you could ever have, and their dismissal, you're right, of what you had uncovered with Senator Grassley and what Peter Schweitzer had uncovered in 2018 in Secret Empires.
	Uh all that was was an in-kind donation to all things Joe Joe Biden.
	And yeah, nobody's talking about the uh the Russia connection and how this must be a Russian plot against the Bidens because of the reality of what this is.
	Now the question is, okay, we we've now had this information for such a long period of time.
	What is the threat that potentially exists for Joe Biden?
	For example, if his son did make all this money, has all this equity, all these wire transfers, all of these countries, to me that then becomes a national security threat, because I've got to ask a question that pops up in my head, and that is the Chinese, the Russians, the Ukrainians, the the uh uh Cossack oligarchs, do they have any information that could compromise uh uh uh a Joe Biden if he takes office?
	Well, if there are other financial transactions, other financial entanglements, the Chinese will know about them.
	But they probably set them up, like they set up Congressman Saw Swalwell, okay?
	Uh the Russians would know about that.
	So that's what we were trying to point out, Chuck Rasley and I. The extortion and the counterintelligence threat that these foreign financial entangled entanglements represent to a Biden administration, well, we just might have a Biden administration.
	That is a serious, serious concern from a standpoint of our of our national security.
	But from a standpoint of a threat to Joe Biden and his legal uh liability here, you know, once if if it's a if it's an honest and true and detailed and aggressive investigation, you know, you start looking at all these financial transactions, and let's face it, the big guy was supposed to get 10%.
	Were there 10% dealings to other uh and other business dealings?
	You know, uh John Salomon wrote wrote a good article looking at talking to a tax advisor, and and Joe Biden listed in his financial disclosure form about 3.2 million dollars worth of assets, and yet since he left the vice presidency, he listed $16 million worth of income.
	Where did that money go?
	A financial expert said he ought to be listing at least $9 million of assets.
	So where did that money go?
	So these financial transactions, if Hunter was a conduit, if they were splitting off some percentage to the vice president, that will be uncovered in an investigation.
	But again, my concern is if they run this thing like they ran mid-year exam, the investigation in Hillary Clinton.
	I mean, is this really an investigation to just exonerate the Bidens?
	Is that what this is about?
	Or is this going to be a real Senator?
	I gotta tell you something.
	The level the level of disappointment I hear from people over the over Durham not getting the job done when the Horowitz report was a roadmap to corruption and indictment is mind-numbing to me.
	Um, and as far as I'm concerned, I don't care if if Durham has the ability to be a special prosecutor into perpetuity, there was so many examples of what I believe were clear crimes committed, uh, not the least of which is uh, you know, lying under oath by a number of top-ranking officials that we've all discussed, and the same standard that was applied to the likes of Manafort, Roger Stone, Papadopoulos, General Flynn, etc.
	was not applied to these people.
	No, and the greatest failing of Christopher Ray coming into the FBI, I mean, his number one task was to restore the credibility and integrity of the agency.
	The only way he was going to do that by be would be by being totally transparent.
	But he wasn't.
	I had to subpoena him, and he didn't even honor the subpoena.
	It was like pulling teeth to get information.
	I have I've got that one document that we got out of an email from the GSA.
	Completely unredacted.
	If you read the whole thing except the senders' mobile uh phone number, the same document, the same email of the FBI, it was completely redacted.
	That's the level of resistance we got from Christopher Ray's FBI.
	Let's remember, under Christopher Ray, the FBI briefed, lied to the Senate Intelligence Committee in March of 2018 that the Steel Bassi was credible.
	It was reliable.
	This is a year, more than a year after they knew full well it was Russian disinformation.
	So, you know, Christopher Rail has Ray has utterly failed at restoring credibility.
	And I I feel sorry for the line agents, who I'm sure are people of integrity, credibility.
	They want to do their job, but you know, it's gotta start from the top.
	And I I'm just incredibly disappointed in Christopher Ray not restoring the credibility and integrity of the agency.
	I've been disappointed as well.
	And you know, unfortunately, I know many members rank and file guys that I call them the 99% that do their job and risk their lives every day and follow the law, obviously, and don't abuse power.
	And and they're as stunned as I am that a lot of the things that we uncovered have have gone unpunished.
	And to me, that's only gonna uh greatly embolden those that abuse power the first time to just keep doing what they've done.
	Well, you know, we we had a uh uh an experience, some about 20 years worth of experience in the FBI uh agent testified before our committee, and and he's saying the exact same thing.
	There wasn't there was no predicate for the Russian collusion investigation.
	There was there was no predicate whatsoever.
	There was plenty of predicate to open up an investigation on the Hillary Clinton campaign in terms of Russian interference because she paid for that steel dossier.
	They had intelligence that she was trying to set up a uh uh uh you know a sting operation or trying to stir up a scandal, stir up a scandal against Trump about colluding with Russia.
	That came from the Hillary Clinton campaign.
	There was the collusion, and of course, that's exactly what the Democrats do.
	They accuse, like they've accused Chuck Grassley and I of accepting and sending Russian disinformation.
	Nothing could be further from the truth.
	They do it themselves.
	They accuse others what they of things that they do.
	Listen, I know that you're up for re-election in two years, and you know, you've really emerged as one of the most one of the strongest and more powerful vo voices to to get to the truth and and end, you know, a lot of the corruption in the swamp there, and I'd hate to see you go.
	Are you uh leaning towards going one more time?
	I'll make that decision when the this election is is complete and we know what the setup is.
	Would you like to call me first before you make your decision?
	I'd be glad to weigh in on it.
	Okay, well, talk talk to Mrs. Johnson, too.
	All right, uh, but seriously, thank you for your courageous work.
	We appreciate it, Senator.
	And our best to the people of Wisconsin always.
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	Uh 17 attorneys generals now signing on to the Texas lawsuit.
	Uh now many states uh expressing their desire to join the suit.
	In other words, be a part of it.
	In other words, sue Wisconsin and Michigan and Pennsylvania and Georgia, which is pretty amazing.
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	Look, I went in a great, great detail last night and and earlier in the program today.
	17 states now have signed on to the Texas lawsuit.
	This this is going to be the outcome determinative suit, probably with with the clock being now what it is, uh, and it's really significant, very significant.
	Seventeen other state attorney general, Arkansas, uh, Missouri, Alabama, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, many others filing briefs, but also now these attorneys general are also uh expressing a desire to be a part of that suit.
	Join Texas as a plaintiff.
	Now, no state attorney general is gonna put their name, their reputation on the line over any case that would lack legal merit or that is not rooted in a strong constitutional basis.
	It wouldn't happen.
	Not 17.
	And you know, when you look at this analysis, it's it's actually pretty amazing.
	And Texas now leading the way.
	This is the case that we told you it could go it goes right to the Supreme Court.
	Um they have asked the states to weigh in on the report.
	They could have just dismissed it outright like they did the Pennsylvania case, although there's there's more nuance to that than I'm I'm gonna go into now.
	Uh one of the attorney generals uh that got involved is named Leslie Rutledge.
	She's out of Arkansas, explaining why they are joining the Texas lawsuit to contest the 2020 election.
	Democrats have absolutely derided the suit, saying it has no chance.
	But does it?
	Absolutely it does, and that's why 17 states are supporting the state of Texas, because we need to ask the Supreme Court, and Supreme Court needs to be the one to decide whether or not uh this case should be taken up.
	Uh those states, the defendant states are have to respond today.
	Uh yesterday we announced that we were joining with state of Missouri in a amicus brief supporting state of Texas, because what we can't have are for states, uh illegal votes have been cast in states and essentially diluting the votes of our own states.
	The votes of Arkansans uh should not be diluted because of illegal votes cast in other states.
	Yeah, I think that this case has more support than anybody could have imagined, seventeen states joining Texas.
	Uh but the Supreme Court just um decided not to take up the case in Pennsylvania, and it was also about mail-in votes.
	So uh does that present a challenge with this Texas case?
	Well, because the state of Texas is suing other states, that is what we call original jurisdiction, and the Supreme Court uh has original jurisdiction when a state is pitted against another state.
	And here, state of Texas has sued those states, and the 17 states are supporting that because all of us, whether it's Louisiana, Missouri, Alabama, all of us believe that the votes in our own states have been diluted.
	Article two of the Constitution states that the legislature should be the one to set the elections.
	Unfortunately, in these states, that did not happen, and that's why the state of Texas has asked the Supreme Court to take this case up.
	All right, so that is uh well thought out in every way.
	Uh we bring back to the program former Kansas Secretary of State.
	I've been quoting him all week, and and uh I do give attribution on this program, Chris uh Kobach and Greg Jarrett, uh, of course, a host of his own new podcast, uh, the brief, author of two New New York Times number one bestsellers.
	Uh Chris uh I don't view this at all as insignificant, and the fact that other states and attorney generals want to join uh Texas in the suit speaks volumes also to me.
	Yeah, it does.
	Um and and Sean, uh you deserve uh credit for a lot of that because you were the only one calling on other states to come to the assistance of Texas on the air on on Monday, and and really kudos to you because that that nudge may have.
	I'll be honest, I was hoping for like three or four.
	I didn't think we get seventeen.
	Well, and and and let me tell you so the the amicus brief uh filed by the seventeen states, that says we all agree with Texas.
	But as you noted, uh a subset of those 17 states, six of them Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Utah, are seeking to intervene as co-plaintiffs.
	And that's very important because they are saying we have we we believe our voters are injured to the same extent that Texas voters are injured.
	And that that joining as intervening party, just like the president also said now seeking to intervene, uh, gives the case a broader platform.
	So if, for example, the Supreme Court for some reason said, well, this party doesn't have standing to raise this particular claim.
	Well, one of the other six parties might have standing to raise that claim.
	But how do you say that they don't have standing when it's outcome determinative in terms of the four states that we're talking about in terms of the election, wouldn't that wouldn't that uh and again they're the attorney general of their state, wouldn't that render the votes of people in Texas or any of these other seventeen states as disenfranchised?
	Yeah, it it's uh there's no question they have standing to raise the electoral college claim, and I don't think any serious uh constitutional attorney would disagree with that.
	Some might quibble over whether they have standing to raise the equal protection claim.
	Um reasonable minds have disagreed on that one in the past, but the bottom line is that if with the president intervening as well, all of these claims are on the table.
	And and the other thing people need to know, Sean, is that the first decision the Supreme Court has to make is are they going to take this case in their original jurisdiction?
	And the standard for doing that, the Supreme Court laid out in 1972 uh in in a case uh uh uh the Milwaukee cases Milwaukee versus Illinois and they said the standard is looking at the seriousness and dignity of the claim and the availability of another forum to settle this claim and and it seems to me that this easily qualifies.
	You've got seriousness and dignity magnified by the fact that now 17 states, additional states, are saying, we agree.
	It's also seriousness because the outcome of the presidential election hangs on it.
	The dignity of the claim is the value and the merit, the seriousness, the actual arguments.
	They're very well argued.
	And the availability of another forum.
	There's no other forum here that can do this in time.
	It's a multi-state claim.
	the founders of the United States and the Constitution gave the Supreme Court jurisdiction because when you have a state arguing against another state that's not something that can go to just one little district court in a in a single state.
	It takes the Supreme Court of the United States usually to resolve that claim.
	I think uh Chris is right on every front here now I've got through the entire suit cover you know start to finish which probably means Greg Jarrett read it five times um and when you have 17 state attorney generals joining in and those wanting to also become part of the lawsuit and be plaintiffs along with Texas um I believe that that seventy two standard that Chris referred to uh is met at a pretty high level in terms of standing I don't really see a question on that.
	Your thoughts uh Greg.
	Well I agree with you I have read it over and over and over again and it's a very persuasive and compelling argument on two fronts violating the electors clause of the Constitution Article II and the Equal Protection Clause as well in the 14th Amendment uh as supported by Bush versus Gore which I covered uh 20 years ago down in in Florida and at the Supreme Court.
	Look you cannot allow four states Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin uh to go rogue and to set up their own rules outside of the state legislatures uh for determining who won and and those four states that I named did it to the benefit of Joe Biden and did it to the detriment of Donald Trump.
	And so you know we we vote in all 50 states it it's not just four states who then decide to change the rules for in Pennsylvania for example to count ballots that were received late the legislature had said no it has to be received by 8 p.m on the day of the election and judges without authority by fiat change the rules and you know I would encourage people to read uh Chris's uh column on Breitbart which I thought
	was quite well written and explained for anybody to understand that's the thing this is a this is not a complicated legal or constitutional issue we're discussing here.
	No it's it's quite simple and I I think the Supreme Court should take it but I frankly as I mentioned yesterday I'm highly skeptical that they will they're allergic to taking cases that are uh politically charged um and you know they're still stinging from Bush v.
	Gore and okay but that's not supposed to be a consideration I know but it's real life it's we don't live in an ideal world.
	In an ideal world Supreme Court should take this case they must take this case um but I'm skeptical that they will.
	And then that brings us to the remedy which the state of Texas as now joined by these other attorney generals is very clear cut.
	They are telling the court exactly what the remedy should be uh Chris Kobach.
	Yeah and the the remedy could you the the court can decide what what they want to do the court could tomorrow just all of a sudden announce that the you know a summary decision this uh Texas wins or Texas loses or they can if Texas were to win or in even gain interim relief like a preliminary injunction uh one thing would be to say that first and foremost is these four states cannot have their electors vote in accordance with those unconstitutional elections.
	So that could mean preventing them from seating those electors in the Electoral College on the 14th.
	If that happened, then it would be incumbent upon Congress to reschedule the Electoral College.
	Sometimes people think that the 14th is set in stone by the Constitution.
	It is not.
	In fact, in an 1887 act, Congress set the Electoral College date for the second Monday in January.
	So if the court were to grant interim relief and say, well, whatever happens, we can't have these four states casting the Electoral College.
	college votes next Monday on the 14th then Congress might need to jump in if they want to and say okay we're gonna push the electoral college back.
	But uh hopefully, uh if Texas wins, the four states would have the opportunity in their state legislatures where the constitution sets the sole authority for appointing electors.
	The state legislatures in those states could decide what they want to do.
	And they could assess the results of the election, see which votes were cast unconstitutionally, try to determine what the remaining votes yield as the winner.
	They could split their votes between the two candidates.
	They could say, "We give up.
	We can't decide.
	We aren't going to appoint electors." They could do any number of things.
	But this case really is extraordinary because in many ways it takes us into areas that we've never been with the Supreme Court before.
	I mean, having cases of original jurisdiction, for sure, and having the Supreme Court in the middle of a presidential election, but this particular way the case is coming is new.
	Okay, so if we were to analyze the the the makeup of the Supreme Court, uh you got Clarence Thomas, Sam Alito, and I would argue Amy Coney Barrett.
	I think they will do the legal constitutional thing right off the top of my head.
	John Roberts, I think he'll align with the liberal wing of the of the Supreme Court.
	That leaves Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.
	Am I wrong in that analysis, Greg?
	No, you're absolutely right.
	But don't underestimate the power of John Roberts as as the chief.
	I mean, Roberts is the kind of guy who uh cares he doesn't really care about the Constitution, care about the law.
	He cares about his legacy and thus the legacy of the United States Supreme Court.
	And uh for the Supreme Court to actually have the courage to intervene here, uh would be criticized by uh judicial historians and law professors for the next hundred years, and he didn't want that.
	Do you agree with me that Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas and Amy Coney Barrett are likely to just follow the law and the Constitution?
	And and then where would you guess Kavanaugh and Gorsuch go?
	Well, I think they would side with uh Amy Coney Barrett and and Sam Alito, Alito uh was seriously considering the Pennsylvania case.
	Uh in the end, it didn't happen.
	Uh but maybe this is the vehicle.
	I mean, the Pennsylvania case i is the most egregious of all in violation of the electors uh clause.
	Yeah.
	Now and then that was the literally they bypassed the state legislature, which is a constitutional slam dunk and the specific language in the state constitution.
	Yes, Trump would have won Pennsylvania but for counting all of the late ballots that came in and and ballots that appear to have been backdated purposefully.
	All right.
	Well, we're watching.
	We're waiting, and uh 3 p.m. uh today was the deadline.
	So uh we appreciate you both being with us.
	We'll continue to follow it.
	We'll have updates on Hannity tonight, uh nine Eastern.
	When we come back, we'll go to the phones.
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	Uh Linda is in Long Island.
	Linda, how are you doing?
	We're getting our first vaccines, our COVID vaccines in Long Island.
	I heard.
	Sean, I sean, I love you.
	My whole family loves you.
	And I'm calling because I'm calling because I heard that uh someone yesterday call you, and they were talking about the judges.
	The judges who are constantly going against the rule of law.
	I believe they're all Obama appointees.
	I think every one of them are corrupt.
	And I worried because now we got an investigation on Biden.
	Big deal.
	If that's anything, if the past is anything, I don't trust any of the FBI, the CIA, the Department of Justice, the State Department.
	As I'm concerned, they're all served by Obama and the like to be uh just against Republicans completely.
	They want to take over this country.
	They're God is money and power.
	And I am we're all terrified, but I think it's time more and more people are starting to stand up and fight.
	But these judges are so dirty, just like that guy Sullivan, who written allow uh General Flynn to go free when they told him to, the prosecutors.
	I think there's judges.
	Yeah.
	Linda, I am worried for our country.
	I never felt worried about America.
	The corruption is so deep, so wide.
	And they they managed to s to squirm their way out of everything.
	But they'll, you know, we'll we'll get we'll get tickets and arrested for spitting on the sidewalk or jaywalking.
	Exactly.
	I'll give you the last 10 seconds.
	You got the last 10.
	Okay.
	I I just I don't know what we could do about, but we've got a clear out of the case.
	I'm gonna tell you what you gotta do.
	Yeah.
	Listen to me.
	Stay in the fight.
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	We need patriots.
	That's why we're begging the people of Georgia right now.
	Please ignore your dopey governor and secretary of stap.
	Help the president.
	The president's legacy is on the line here.
	Uh, thank you, Linda.
	God bless you.
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	Now we have Google and YouTube erasing, you cannot even mention on any of these sites about evidence Of election fraud.
	Now we have one whistleblower after another.
	We can't quote the whistleblowers.
	You know, I I mean, I watched this whole thing with zero experience hunter.
	And if you remember, you know, what did they do?
	The big tech companies literally censored the story.
	The mob and the media, this is a Russian plot.
	It wasn't a Russian plot.
	Now all of a sudden you got like people like fake Jake News tapper over a fake news CNN.
	Oh, there really are problems.
	A little late, Jake.
	You know, the same people that never once stopped and apologized for the Russia hoax lies they peddled for three years.
	Or the fact they ignored quid pro quo Joe, zero experience hunter.
	All these countries, all this money, all of this corruption.
	I just want to deal in fact, because there is so much speculation out there, and there is zero evidence that Hunter Biden or Joe Biden did anything wrong here.
	We should note, again, and you you and I've said this in the air many times.
	There is no evidence that Joe Biden was involved in any wrongdoing.
	Of course, want to note that there is no evidence that Joe Biden or Hunter Biden has done anything wrong.
	I just want to reiterate And let's be clear for the viewers.
	There is no evidence Biden did anything wrong.
	I'll note again, because it's important.
	There is no, I repeat, no.
	There is no evidence that either Biden did anything illegal.
	There's been no evidence.
	There was no evidence.
	There's no evidence.
	There is no evidence.
	There's not an iota of evidence.
	No evidence.
	There's really no evidence.
	That Joe Biden did anything wrong.
	Nobody's ever accused evidence whatsoever that Joe Biden did anything.
	Got that?
	Joe Biden did nothing wrong.
	Hunter Biden did nothing wrong.
	Yeah.
	Evidence all over the place.
	What if the last name were Trump?
	What if the name was Don Jr., Eric Trump, Avanka Trump, Jared Kushner?
	What if the name was Baron Trump?
	You think they'd say, oh no, but no, but no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	Oh, there's evidence.
	Oh, it's being investigated.
	Come on, man.
	Come on, man.
	You junkie.
	You junky man.
	Come on.
	But please clarify specifically.
	Have you taken a cognitive- No, I haven't taken a test.
	Why the hell would I take a test?
	Yeah.
	Come on, man.
	That's like saying you before you got in this program, you take a test where you're taking cocaine or not.
	What do you think?
	Huh?
	What do you think?
	Are you a junkie?
	Are you a junkie?
	Huh?
	Yeah?
	Come on, man.
	Jeez.
	I'm laughing, but God help us.
	Oh, man.
	All right, 800-941 Sean is our number.
	Tom in Georgia.
	Tom, I'm not beneath begging at this point.
	The Patriots in Georgia, the conservatives in Georgia.
	I know you're frustrated with your governor, your secretary of state.
	I got it.
	I sh I share your frustration.
	I'm not I'm very worried.
	And you know what?
	I think they made it.
	Bush, I'm sorry.
	This is also about the president's work four years straight and undoing it with Chucky Schumer and company.
	This is about never-ending investigation into every conservative, the Trump family.
	It'll never stop.
	And this is so much at stake here in Georgia.
	Do you think your fellow Georgians get it?
	I hope they do, but to me, these are leaders of me that deal with the devil the way it looks like.
	And I'm just basically hoping we can do something about that.
	We gotta try.
	We gotta try.
	You know, and David Schaefer, I'll give that guy credit.
	The chair of the Republican Party in Georgia has been great.
	Well, that's the reason why I'm calling, because uh I wanted to do a challenge.
	Uh um you know, only one person can only do so much.
	Trump has been, you know, you, Trump, Hannity, um, uh Limbo.
	You got you're one person.
	We got 74 million people who voted uh for this president.
	That's a powerful force right there.
	We just get on our cell phones and get on our our computers and start texting and emailing our governors and our senators and the congressmen.
	That's uh a voice that they can't wreck they have to reckon with.
	Look, uh there's a there is in this country, there are so many amazing Americans.
	You know what my fear is?
	I I am really Beginning to see it it's almost like in this country we have such a split.
	I'd use the term irreconcilable dis differences at this point.
	I mean, you literally have a group of people that really believe in all of this crap of you know that they want full and complete redistribution.
	I mean, they're talking about $50,000 loan forgiveness.
	They're talking about, you know, the taxing people, you know, Casio Cortez, tax the rich sweatshirt she's selling.
	I'm sure she's making a nice profit on it.
	You know, new green deal madness, guaranteed government job, guaranteed, you know, government education, pre-K through college, uh guaranteed loan forgiveness, guaranteed government wage, guaranteed government vacation, guaranteed government healthy food, guaranteed government health care, guaranteed government retirement.
	Now, we've gone over and over.
	Yeah, I mean, Tom, do you have any faith in the government that screwed up Obamacare, Medicare, can't keep their city safe and secure and can't educate our kids that they can do any of this?
	I don't.
	I don't.
	I'm retired from the military, and that's one of the reasons why I got out because of uh the president we were hit before this uh I was scared of you know to be in for him.
	So that's kind of scared me now.
	But uh I have a son now within the military, and that scares me because if if this next president if if Biden gets in, uh I fear for him what's gonna happen to my son.
	It's gonna be Haydn, Biden, you know, the guy's half out of it.
	And I I I mean it's scary, actually.
	And I'm telling you right now, Kim Jong-un, Mullah's in Iran, uh President Xi, Putin, all these hostile actors that hate us, they're looking at this guy and they're not seeing strength.
	You know they're not stupid.
	A lot of these regimes, frankly, are even evil, but they're not dumb.
	Evil, but not dumb.
	And they're looking at a weakened America, and by the way, they're five hundred steps ahead of us in terms of how they plan to exploit it.
	I'm just I'm telling you, none of it is good.
	Um I'll give you the last word, Tom.
	Anything else?
	Well, actually, I'll just let you know I'm a big fan.
	I've been a following you since your WGST days, uh, you and the Kimmer.
	Uh the news monster for a long time.
	Listen, I've been listening to you for a long, long time, so I appreciate it.
	Thank you.
	Getting the word out there out there for us.
	Here's a question I'll ask you then.
	Have I changed much in the last since I've been a Fox 25 years since I came up here?
	Have I changed in your estimation?
	No.
	Uh-uh.
	I've been and I was explaining this to somebody the other day.
	I said, I've always been a conservative.
	And we always go our own way on this program.
	And same on Hannity.
	I'm not letting people I said the other day, but we don't have this program vetted.
	Oh, you don't fit your facts.
	No, I was saying nobody tells me what to say on TV, and nobody tells me what I can and cannot say on radio.
	I've we we f we follow our independent path, and it's not a Republican path.
	I've had it with the Republican Party, and you know my criticism of Republicans.
	So we now we're New York accent.
	Yeah, I came back a little bit when I came back here.
	I it was a lot less when I left.
	It was I was but I missed the varsity.
	What do you have?
	What do you have?
	I'd love the varsity.
	All right, Tom.
	Thank you, ma'am.
	Appreciate it.
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	Uh Brian in New Joycey.
	Speaking of accents, what's up, Brian?
	How are you?
	Sean, how are you?
	I'm good, my friend.
	I I am a big fan.
	I've been wanting to talk to you for a long time.
	I am a former Democrat.
	I switched over.
	My wife helped convert me in the middle of Obama's term when I finally saw the truth.
	I was a local 30 union rooper.
	So I was programmed to vote Democrat, and so I, you know, I converted, and I've been on Trump's side ever since, you know, uh day one.
	I've been blocked on social media silence, but the main reason for my call is is hope.
	I was calling it to just express the hope that I have.
	And and since we've since I've called that in, uh, you know, we learned that there were 17 to 18 other states jumping on board suing.
	So I just feel like uh a sense of hope with with all these attorney generals, I don't think any of them would take on this case if they didn't feel they could prove it.
	So I just have an enormous amount of hope, and I'm a big fan of yours.
	I I want to thank you for all that you do.
	Um, you know, you're you're you're one of the only guys, you know, out there that that are telling the truth.
	Uh you know, that actually makes me sad, Brian.
	Uh and and I know it's true, unfortunately, that that we got Rush and the great one and and me and Laura and others on Fox, not but not everybody on Fox, obviously.
	And I'll tell you, it's so there's this there's not a lot of us.
	And uh listen, it's a great honor to do this every day, but I just wish there were more of us.
	And let me tell you, you put yourself in this arena.
	Now I chose this life.
	Don't don't get me wrong.
	Every dream I didn't I never thought any of this this success of you even want to call it that, whatever it is would happen.
	But um, I feel blessed, but I like look at the landscape.
	I'm like, man, people don't speak out.
	You know, that whole Russia deep state three year deep dive we did.
	There weren't many of us.
	We had our ensemble cast on radio and TV, and a f and a couple of others on radio and a couple of others on TV, and that was it.
	And maybe like ten congressmen we could count on.
	And we and we won.
	And we were proven right.
	Still haven't gotten the justice we wanted, but we were right.
	It's, you know, I'm there's so much at stake.
	So much.
	Um we we've just become this this insane cliched bumper sticker believing woke, you know, politically correct you know, sewer all over the place.
	Thank you, Brian.
	Your your words are encouraging.
	I appreciate it.
	Zach in Florida, what's up, Zach?
	I should be down there with you.
	What's going on?
	Hey, Sean.
	Um I was just calling to talk about uh uh vaccine, 'cause I don't think the government's gonna mandate it.
	But what I'm concerned about are private businesses and airlines requiring you to have some kind of vaccine certificate in order to use their services.
	And so I just wanted to get your thoughts on that because it kind of be a de facto mandator mandatory uh that kind of be a backdoor push to make you get the vaccine, right?
	Listen, I'm right.
	I'm gonna be very honest, Zach.
	After everything I've read and all the doctors I've talked to, I I would I would take the vaccine, and by the way, I I want it late, I don't want it early, all right.
	There's so many more deserving people.
	Healthcare, frontline healthcare workers, older people, compromised immunes, underlying conditions.
	Uh you know, there are certain communities hit harder than others.
	They're all way ahead of where I would be.
	When they get to my name at the bottom of the list, I'm fine with that.
	I would my gut is to take it.
	Now, half my friends think I'm nuts, Zach, by saying that.
	Half my friends think I'm nuts that I get a flu shot every year.
	I've gone over this with Linda.
	She thinks I'm nuts.
	Now, but that's me and my decision.
	I'm not going to tell you whether you need to get a vaccine or a flu shot.
	That's not up to me.
	You know, you're you're an adult.
	You live in a free country.
	Make your own choice.
	I'll r I will respect your choice.
	Yeah, definitely.
	That makes sense.
	I think it's just one of those things where, hey, I want to go to a football game like everybody else, and but I don't take a vaccine, so they say, oh, you can't you can't go in.
	Look, I can accept for the short period of time, as I said in the beginning, I can accept when I go shopping in the grocery store, I gotta wear my mask.
	Okay, I accept that.
	And I'll be honest, it really doesn't bother me.
	I don't know why people get so worked up on it about it, but it doesn't bother me.
	And the reason, you know, I try to think outside of myself in life.
	If I didn't unknowingly had this stupid thing, and I I talked to an older person.
	I would never want to be responsible for passing it on.
	Uh and obviously not consciously, you know, for to somebody else.
	So if it means I can help protect other people that would have a bigger problem than I would, I'm actually in pretty good shape.
	I'm not that worried about myself.
	Um you know, we're at the end.
	Trump got us here.
	Operation warp speed got us here.
	But you know, it's gonna be up to people.
	And I I have a problem if the airlines they could mandate a mask, but I don't think they can mandate that you get a vaccine.
	There are Americans that just for whatever personal reasons it's frankly, none of our our darn business why they decide whether they want it or not.
	It's not our business.
	And now that everybody knows about social distancing and masks, and they want to go to the local bar in Staten Island, and they know the risk as long you know, we encourage them, don't bring it home to grandma or grandpa or mom and dad.
	But you know, at some point you've got to you gotta do your own risk assessment in life.
	Flying is, you know, there's a risk assessment.
	Writing a car is a risk assessment, right?
	I right.
	Yeah, definitely.
	It's uh it you gotta you gotta go outside, right?
	We can't just all hide forever.
	So um thank God it was never as bad as the uh epidemiologists said at the beginning, when they said millions of people would die, and I think that's definitely due to Trump's actions uh to keep us safe.
	So thank you for taking my time.
	Yeah, look, I got college kids and they got their friends, and they're you know, they see their friends, and a lot of them, their friends already had this thing.
	And I'm like, I look if you're gonna be around dad, throw your mask on.
	I may not make Linda.
	Do I not do that?
	Yeah, you do it.
	I do it.
	I'm such a bad dad.
	I know.
	All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
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