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And by the way, I'm sorry, I'm getting ahead of myself like Joe because I'm thinking about throwing to this.
I'm uh cracking myself up.
All right, so I've gone through all impeachment papers.
Let me tell you, Linda, you've read through them too.
I sent them to you earlier today.
We got the Democrats, they're trying to ratchet up.
The president said to fight, fight for, you know.
And then he also said, many of you will peacefully patriotically march to the Capitol so that you can let your voices be heard.
And I'm reading it and my eyes are glassing over here.
As uh the Democrats, all this is with a foregone conclusion next week, is them just trying to ratchet up, but to bloody up politically, gotta put all these these extra words in your speech these days, because people will take it the wrong way.
Democrats want to bloody up Trump, so we can't run in 2024.
That's what this is about.
They don't care about how much time or money uh or the American people at all when they're doing this.
All right, Lindsey Graham now is being very clear.
We now know 45 United States Senator senators believe it's unconstitutional.
There are three arguments.
One, the constitutionality of this impeachment.
Of course, that would include things like they don't have jurisdiction, A, because he's no longer president, you cannot remove him from office.
Uh, and you know, it also includes other issues involving the Constitution.
Uh, then it's the whole legal aspect.
We have court documents, even the media mob, all now, and FBI investigators all saying that a lot of this was pre-planned.
Now, it doesn't mean that some of the people that went to the rally didn't allow themselves to get caught up in something they should never have been a part of, but that for them would would have been spontaneous.
But again, we're down to like over the summer.
The 99% of protesters weren't hurling bottles and Molotov cocktails and rocks and bricks and injuring and kill injuring over 2,000 cops or 2,500 cops and killing 25 people.
And that was not condemned by liberal Democrats.
So now you've got a problem is the whole, well, incitement led to what happened at the Capitol narrative falling apart.
Uh and then the third aspect of this is well, if this is your standard, okay, well, we'll point out Chuck Schumer's threat to Supreme Court justices, Joe Biden's threat to beat the hell out of Trump, uh, the comments of Kamala Harris uh after the burning down of the Minneapolis police precinct and the rioting that went on in Minneapolis.
Uh you beware, you take note.
It isn't gonna stop, it shouldn't stop, they shouldn't stop, we won't stop.
Okay, well, that's now fair game.
Nancy Pelosi's comments after what happened in Wisconsin and people uh raided the Capitol there.
I didn't hear any Democrats all worked up over any of these things.
And so it's a matter of, okay, well, if that's your standard, then we need to be impeaching all of these people.
Maxine Waters, I'm gonna take Trump out tonight.
Great.
Sounds like a threat to me.
And so Lindsey Graham uh literally said, if the Democrats want to extend out what is a predetermined outcome, just to continue to waste taxpayer time and money and effort and divide the country further, because Mr. Unity, Joe Biden won't speak out about any of this.
That in fact, if they start bringing up witnesses, which is another sidebar to the whole snap impeachment that Democrat Jonathan Turley keeps saying you can't have that because, well, we hadn't even established the facts of the case or what actually happened on January 6th.
And now that the FBI court documents, investigators, uh, and even the media mob are reporting that, yeah, there's different groups.
We've identified this one in uh Ohio, this other group, and this other state, and that they had plotted and planned the whole thing.
Uh that's very separate and apart.
In other words, it would have happened because they planned it.
And they're out there the night before.
You saw the pipe bomb video planting pipe bombs the night before.
So all of that is so Lindsay Graham is saying they if the Democrats want to call one witness that they're going to open up Pandora's box, and what that means is I I think if they open up this can of worms, I think he says he's going to bring the FBI in.
The question is how does this uh trial end?
If the House managers want to use this as a uh political commercial against Donald Trump and Republicans, and they want to call witnesses now, they didn't call uh during the uh impeachment process in the House.
This thing could go for weeks or months, and that would be bad for the country.
So to my Democratic colleagues.
If you vote to call one witness, none were called in the House, get ready for a long trial.
Well, we've only got a couple of seconds, but let me ask you do you anticipate witnesses being called and then being uh cross-examined?
I hope not.
They didn't call any in the house.
I think we know what happened that day.
But if you open up that can of worms, we'll want the FBI to come in and tell us about how people actually pre-planned these attacks and what happened with the security footprint at the Capitol.
You open up Pandora's box if you call one witness.
I hope we don't call any and we vote and get this trial over uh next week when it starts.
Now that goes right to the power of Nancy Pelosi.
You know, she's a head of the sergeant of arms and responsible for security of the Capitol.
And then the question is, with all the knowledge ahead of time, why did they not?
They knew hundreds of thousands of people were going to march to the Capitol, and why was the chief of police of the Capitol Police denied the National Guard that was requested we now know six separate times.
All right, and then I would say bring in Kamala Harris as a witness.
And then how do you have presiding over this shift show a guy that already has declared that Donald Trump ought to be convicted?
That being Pat Leahy.
Why?
Because John Roberts, uh, who constitutionally would be the guy to preside over this, has said no, not gonna happen.
You're not dragging me into this, not exactly a fan of Donald Trump's either.
So now they're they're thinking about other ways to to I don't know, hurt Trump.
They now will Joe Biden revoke Donald Trump's access to intelligence briefings as past presidents usually get.
They're usually considered former president has been considered, you know, uh as being kept in the loop on national security matters.
Maybe, just maybe, uh, that would be a good idea to do.
But they just all this is it's a show.
And if they want to bring in trial witnesses, I actually find if they brought in the right ones that I have a great list I'll put together that they ought to bring in and the questioning and where it ought to go.
I have my own ideas on this.
And I think if this is now the standard incendiary insurrection style language, there's an awful lot of people now that need to be added to the list of an impeachment trial.
So we'll see.
But it's really simply it's gonna come down to all of all of that.
And but I'll tell you another thing, this can happen.
You know, stick to the basics here.
You know, everybody dropped the ball.
Apparently there were indications, warnings, intelligence about this being pre-planned.
Why did not they why did they not prepare for this?
Why weren't why wasn't the guard brought up?
All of these things.
I mean, it's it's pretty unbelievable, and okay, they're gonna edit their tapes.
Donald Trump said to fight.
This this goes back to, oh, targeted districts, and I think Sarah Pale still has this ongoing lawsuit with the New York Times over this.
I thought it was supposed to be settled this summer.
We were watching the case closely.
I just got my eye off the ball, got busy.
But a case of, oh, okay, targeted districts and a bullseye.
Well, that means you're threatening people.
No, that's Bob Beckle's invention.
He's been on the air with us, telling us, oh, we used to do that all the time.
You target these districts for potential districts where you may be able to pick up a seat or two.
Very common in politics.
In other corruption news with Democrats, because they're, you know, their hypocrisy is breathtaking and morally bankrupt.
But Joe Biden's head pick to head the DOJ criminal division.
Get this.
Now we find out has ties to Hunter Biden.
Axios reporting.
Hunter hired a new attorney to assist with what is now officially a federal criminal investigation and defense just a month before his father became president on inauguration day.
One of the lawyers' close colleagues was tapped to temporarily lead the Justice Department's criminal division.
Oh, how convenient for the Bidens.
That move puts the new DOJ official atop of a powerful arm of the justice system, as his former colleague helps the president's son fend off a criminal probe.
Can anyone say appearance of impropriety, conflict of interest?
Anyway, so Hunter Biden, by the way, why am I not?
Why do I suspect this is not an accident?
And imagine if Donald Trump did this, did any of this.
I mean, you know, what would they say?
What would they do if it was Donald Trump?
That standard is never going to end.
Um, anyway, I do have some election news.
I've been saying for all of you out there that keep asking me, well, what can I do?
What can I do?
What can I do?
And I've been saying, well, at the first level, you know, we've got to start with fixing and making sure and ensuring that we don't have that we fix and solve any issues that could raise questions about the integrity or prevent people from having confidence in election results.
You know, I'll even, you know, if you go back to 2000, I think this is a fair statement.
I don't think we'll, and this is sad, and this was what Florida got fixed thanks to Ron DeSantis, because they also screwed up not only in 2000, but 2016 in Florida.
We remember that show down there.
But this time they they had put the proper changes and and checks and balances in place and went along smoothly.
And, you know, but are we ever really going to know the exact accurate vote count in 2000?
I think it's I don't think anybody can tell us with any real confidence that this is the exact vote.
Now we're the United States of America.
Maybe you're never ever going to have a hundred percent purity on this, but I mean, at least to get to the level we have confidence, because I don't think anybody can ever just look at 2000 and say it was 527 votes in Florida with any sense of complete accuracy.
Well, okay, so we now know that every state had these statutory requirements that partisan observers could observe the vote count.
That didn't happen in any state.
And remember, the lot of these last minute changes were made because of COVID-19, ignoring the advice of the great Dr. Anthony Fauci, which was that, oh, people can safely vote in person with social distancing and masking.
All right, so it was possible to do it, but one time nobody wanted to quote their favorite doctor who was, I'm sure a nice guy, but got a lot wrong, and I'm not even blaming him.
Um, so anyway, now we have some developments in this in Georgia.
Remember, the big issue down there was the issue of signature verification and voter ID requirements.
Now the Senate of Georgia, controlled by Republicans, has introduced a bill that will require voters to provide a photo ID when requesting and returning their absentee ballot, or their early voting ballot, or their uh and which should be mandatory, absolutely mandatory, and they should have one signature verification standard, not two.
Um, so that happens down in Georgia.
Then you have in Arizona, they've introduced a bill in that state legislature that would repeal Arizona's permanent early voting list.
Voters on the list automatically receiving mail in ballots for each primary and general election.
Separate bill would remove people from the list who failed to vote in the primary and general elections in two straight cycles.
All right, they also need to add uh some we have to have photo ID, voter ID everywhere.
And then in Pennsylvania, lawmakers there.
They're now pushing forward a bill to repeal their 2019.
No excuse absentee voting law.
That's the one that was in direct violation of the Pennsylvania state constitution, and there's a process of changing the constitution, which is a lot more difficult than a bunch of legislators making laws.
And that's why it was, in my view, unconstitutional, but nobody wanted to hear that case uh at the level it needed to be heard at.
So we'll watch, we'll watch all of these.
And, you know, Tom Wolf would likely veto any election integrity.
And they have an open gubernatorial and Senate contest next year.
It's gonna be a lot of interesting races come next year.
So that's happening.
Now, Iran is saber rattling as they've launched a new rocket showing advances in potential missile technology.
And we've got Joe Biden showing more struggles cognitively.
I mean, it's getting bad, and I know that people in the mob don't like when I say weak, frail, and cognitively struggling, but I'll let you decide as we always do next.
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Now on the other side of this, the Democrats, of course, they want to keep the same COVID-style voting system in place and expand massively mail-in voting.
You know, we have HR 1, which we've gone over in great detail.
Democratic lawmakers now have dubbed a bill, the vote at home act, which seeks to massively expand vote at home ballot access.
Now I thought the New York Toilet Paper Times suggested, well, there's a greater chance of fraud in it with mail-in balloting, et cetera, et cetera.
Now, I'm not saying that there isn't a way for to improve voting systems, but you gotta make sure that every person voting, that it's the person that says they're voting doing the voting, and there's gotta be some type of verification.
For example, you go to a Democratic National Convention, you need a picture ID.
To get into the Capitol, you need a picture ID, which by the way, I think is wholly right and appropriate.
And so if you don't have them, why would you get to vote without it or change the rules?
Well, we're gonna let 16-year-olds vote.
Uh, and we're not gonna have any signature verification.
Uh that that doesn't work.
I couldn't believe it this year.
I go to vote.
Uh, give me the first three letters of your last name.
H A N. Okay, is this you?
Yes.
Okay, here's your sheet.
Go vote.
That was it.
Nothing else.
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Well, no American should love this.
This is not good.
Tehran, the Iranian mullahs.
Now, and this is this is a typical pattern of these evil regimes, like North Korea.
That's they they've played this game all of the time.
Iran and other countries.
So they've launched a new rocket, apparently showing advances in potential missile technology, right?
There's two aspects of this uranium enrichment and delivery systems.
This is the missile delivery system.
The rocket developed under a government-backed program to send civilian satellites, supposedly into orbit 310 miles above the ground, according to the Iranian Defense Minister Space Department.
The technology, though, however, that would be quite easily transferable to Iran's military missile program by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Now, why are they doing it?
Well, they're doing it for the same rate reason that Kim Jong Un's father, Kim Jong il, was able to extort a force fortune from Bill Clinton when Clinton was president.
It's a good deal for the American people.
No, it wasn't a good deal for the American people because they weren't supposed to develop nuclear weapons, and guess what?
They did.
This hundred and fifty billion that Obama and Biden gave the Iranians in cash and other currency and dropping cargo planes full of cash and currency on their tarmac.
Yeah, this is all, you know, them raising the stakes to show their saber rattling for possible negotiations for even more money from Biden.
And God only knows the concessions that are going to come China's way, considering, oh, this seems to me that China has an awful lot of well contact with the Biden family.
And let me tell you something.
This is one thing, and they were actually a separate story apart from this about how the Chinese government and their oppressive surveillance of their own people.
Now, they've been doing this forever.
And that is they've got sophisticated spying mechanisms against all of us and this country.
Well, I think considering it wasn't that long ago, that everything that Zero Experience Hunter and Company were involved in with China, uh, and Joe's time in China was probably all recorded.
And I'm imagining that's probably stuff that Joe and Zero Experience Hunter wouldn't exactly want in the public domain.
And somehow they might become aware of its possible existence.
Who knows?
But that's what that's why you don't.
That's why family members of vice presidents shouldn't be getting wire transfers of three and a half million dollars from Russian oligarchs, the first lady of Moscow, or uh Kazakhstan oligarchs, or Ukrainian corrupt uh oil companies like Barisma.
And that's where the quid and the pro and the quo for zero experience hunter came in there, and they shouldn't be taken out to on shopping sprees with Chinese nationals, just like congressman like Stalwart, whatever his name is, shouldn't be hanging out with a Chinese spy, Fang Fang.
You just can't make this up.
What's that?
What are you saying in my ear?
Swah, whatever his name is.
The guy, yeah, we still don't know the nature of this long-term relationship with the Chinese spy.
But don't worry, he's on the House Intelligence Committee with all of our government secrets.
Wouldn't why is that?
I don't want to know about his private life.
I want to know, though, if there's any uh pillow talk, just to use a phrase between the two.
So anyway, there's one interesting thing in the Atlantic.
I don't know what to make of this, that tens of thousands of people in cities across Russia protesting the jailing of an opposition leader.
I don't know, knowing the hostile actor that Putin is in the hostile regime that is Russia.
I don't know how well that's going to work for people there that are out there protesting.
That's that's kind of what happens when you lose freedom.
But the pictures were pretty interesting.
You don't get to see a lot of the world's unrest.
Uh, there was a January 31st rally that was just massive.
It almost looked like a Trump rally.
Just saying, in terms of its massive size.
Um now, so all the time we're going through this campaign cycle, what I what did I say about Joe?
Wow.
It was startling to me, and startling to many people that I know and people that I'd meet, and they'd ask me about what I thought about the presidential race that was then pending.
And they'd ask, well, what happened to Joe?
I mean, he just doesn't seem like the same guy.
I mean, if you look at Joe Biden 10 years ago versus today, it's it's startling.
If you look at him four years ago versus today, I find it even more startling.
And even Democrats and media mob people that I know are like every the and Democrats like every time he speaks, like, oh, please don't screw it up.
Oh, please, please, Joe, don't screw it up, please.
They're like they're like hanging on eggshells there.
And it's obvious what's happening now.
Occasionally they'll get him out there, answer a few questions.
And mostly, though, they're just pictures him oval office, act like he's busy, and then he goes behind his desk and he signs what looks like a new executive order, something that he defined as being dictatorial, uh, but yet he's signed more than three times the past the three prior presidents before him.
Pretty interesting.
So you got to get the votes, man.
Anyway.
So now we're finding out Daily Beast of all places is reporting.
Good for them, according to three sources with knowledge of the matter.
A new president's communications staff has already probed reporters to see what questions they plan on asking the White House press secretary, Gensaki when called upon during briefings.
Now, the request prompted concerns among the White House press corps, whose members, like many reporters, are sensitive to the perception that they are coordinating with political communication staffers.
One reporter raised the issue during an informal White House Correspondent Association Zoom call on Friday.
And according to the Daily Beast and multiple sources, leaders at the meeting advised print reporters to push back against requests by the White House press team to learn the questions in advance or simply not respond to Biden's Biden team's inquiries.
Well, it's a relief to see the briefings returned.
Now the press can't really do its job in a briefing room if the White House is picking and choosing the questions that they want.
That's not a free press at all at all.
And apparently it even mildly aggravated enough uh reporters, and uh, but apparently that's been what's going on behind the scene.
Now, two issues here.
One, now that they're bringing up the issue of me saying Joe looks weak, frail, and is cognitively struggling.
Well, we've played our best of hits many times.
I won't waste your time today and play it again.
We'll play it enough in the next four years.
But this is more recently, the more recent screw up.
And if you listen very closely to what Joe is saying, you got to listen closely.
He says not once but twice.
And we'll be able to get four hundred million doses and six hundred millions, and we're gonna increase the 50%.
And 300 Americans are going to get the vaccine.
Okay, he misspoke, right?
Then he misspoke again.
Okay, this to me seems like he's struggling cognitively.
We'll let you decide.
And we believe that we'll soon be able to confirm the purchase of an additional hundred billion doses for each of the two FDA authorized vaccine, Pfizer and Moderna.
That's a hundred million more doses of Pfizer and a hundred million more doses of Moderna.
200 million more doses than the federal government had previously secured.
Not in hand yet, but ordered.
We expect these additional 200 million doses to be delivered this summer.
And some of it will come as early, begin to come in early summer, but by the mid of the by the midsummer that this vaccine will be there.
And the order and and and that increases the total vaccine order in the United States by 50% from 400 million order to 600 million.
Okay.
Now, the let's go just the part where he says 300 Americans will get the vaccine.
Listen.
It's enough vaccine to fully vaccinate 300 Americans by By end of the summer, the beginning of the fall.
But we want to make look, that's I want to repeat, it'll be enough to fully vaccinate 300 Americans to beat this pandemic.
300 Americans.
Linda, did I hear that right?
I just want to make sure that I'm not hearing something.
I'm not, I'm not I'm hearing it right, correct?
He said 300.
And he didn't say it once, he said it twice, correct?
That's right.
He doubled down.
Doubled down on wrong.
He really, he really should have circled back.
He should have circled back.
We're gonna get to that in a second.
Good point.
He's gonna circle back.
You know, you can't make this up.
You know what?
Maybe for clarity, because the mob is so angry at me.
Well, I again, we're gonna let the American people decide.
Is Joe seem as strong and uh I don't know, vibrant, energetic, alert, as he was when he left office four years ago as vice president because these are some of the highlights.
Donald Care!
Donald Trump doesn't understand health care.
Donald Trump thinks health care is a privilege.
Barack and I think it's a right for people at bad at health care.
I'll lead an effective strategy to mobilize true international pressure, isolate and punish China.
I'm running as a proud Democrat for the Senate.
I got in trouble when we're running again.
The Senator who is a Mormon.
The governor, okay?
Tomorrow's superstar Tuesday, and I want to thank you all.
I tell you what, I'm rushing ahead, aren't I?
We hold these truths to be self-evident.
All men and women created by the go, you know the you know the thing.
Do you agree with me?
Go to Joe 3030.
We choose truth over facts.
Play the radio.
Make sure the television, the excuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night.
The phone, make sure the kids hear words.
Donald Trump does pose an excellent strength to this.
The it's not hypothetical.
All right.
Now, I'll let you decide.
Am I being uncharitable here?
Unfair, or is my observation that if he ever had, let's say his fastball was the years in the Senate.
And let's say, well, he developed a uh medium fastball and a change up for the time he's VP.
I don't see any of those pitches anymore.
Just my own way of saying it.
Now, we have a favorite phrase that keeps coming out of the White House official propagandist press secretary Gensaki, uh, which is let's circle back.
We now have a whopping total.
I don't think we'll play them all now, but we can play a good number of them.
Uh she said it a whopping 77 times to date.
I didn't include today.
Listen.
I can I'll circle back if there's more I can share with you.
I'll circle back with you if there's more to convey.
Um I'll have to just circle back with you.
We can circle back.
I'm happy to circle back with you.
I can circle back.
I will have to circle back on that one.
That's an excellent question.
Oh, such an important question.
Uh, we will circle back with you, and we'll we'll circle back with you.
It's an interesting question, but uh we'll have we'll circle back.
I'm happy to circle back, but I'll have to circle back with you on it.
It's a good question, but we'll circle back with you on this today.
We will certainly circle back with you more directly.
I hate to disappoint you, but I will have to circle back with you on that as well.
And last thing I just want to do before we get to your questions.
Um, I often note I'm going to circle back.
I hate to disappoint conservative Twitter, but I am going to circle back on a number of things, as we often do directly.
Let's just circle back on everything.
Meaning I don't have any answers.
Great question.
Let me circle back with you and give you the official party line.
Um, and getting snarky because people are laughing at it.
It is pretty darn funny, I'll tell you that.
And now, political outlined uh why you haven't seen Biden do a national interview yet.
There's no word.
Now, usually last year, for example, I had the honor of interviewing President Trump for the interview before the Super Bowl.
It's a tradition that's gone on now for a while, and I'd never gotten that opportunity before, and I I got the opportunity.
I was glad to do it.
It was a lot of fun, actually.
And anyway, there's no word if Biden is going to do a Super Bowl interview.
We'll have to wait and see.
And anyway, and you know, so we're just gonna watch a lot of these things.
What is interesting is to watch how the Democrats now have turned on mansion and turned the heat up on cinema, because they're the two Democratic senators that said, No, we're not breaking Senate norm and going along with your, you know, mandate to end the legislative filibuster.
So then there's Kamala Harris.
We're not gonna stop, we won't stop, we shouldn't stop.
You beware, take note.
This was after, you know, of course, police precinct burned to the ground and the rioting took place.
Um insurrection language if we use the Democrat and the media mob's definition.
Um, so we'll have to wait and see what happens there.
Uh, plans now, people are getting critical about how African Americans and Hispanic Americans are falling way behind in these vaccination efforts.
Um, you have researchers at MYU publishing a bogus, ridiculous study about big tech and conservatives.
Yeah, uh turns out it was funded by a Biden donor.
How convenient.
Pretty interesting.
You have a Democratic congressman wanting to screen military recruits social media posts.
Uh better have put everything in there that is politically correct.
Uh, pretty scary times we're living in, I'll tell you that.
Anyway, so what's happening here, and then you got this whole thing with this guy, John Weaver.
I remember Weaver, wasn't he working?
He was working with Kasich, and he was on the McCain campaign.
I don't I never knew him really well.
Apparently, Carl Rove is saying that he knew all this stuff about him going back a long, long time.
And that apparently it was widely known.
And, you know, of the 87.4 million dollars raised by the Lincoln project by people that say they're Republican, but they're really are supporting Joe Biden with the greatest socialist agenda in history, which is laughable.
50 was used for independent expenditures.
Uh ads that expressly advocated the election to defeat a specific candidates, and most of it was against Trump and Republicans.
Great times when you have Republicans that say they're not Republicans.
Well, they're not conservatives either.
You know, you've got the McCain supporters, the Romney supporters, the never Trumpers.
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All right, hour two, Sean Hannity Show 800, 941 Sean.
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Uh it's getting quite a bit of attention.
The new White House press secretary, Jen Saki has her obvious, obviously her most favorite phrase, which is we'll circle back.
Circle back.
Circle back.
We now have counted a total of 77 times she knows nothing and tells the mob and the media that is praising her and gushing at her every day that she'll circle back because she has no answers.
Let's circle back.
I can I'll circle back if there's more I can share with you.
I'll circle back with you if there's more to convey.
Um I'll have to just circle back with you.
We can circle back.
I'm happy to circle back with you.
I can circle back.
I will have to circle back on that one.
That's an excellent question.
Oh, such an important question.
Uh, we will circle back with you and we'll we'll circle back with you.
It's an interesting question, but uh we'll we'll circle back.
I'm happy to circle back, but I'll have to circle back with you on it.
It's a good question, but we'll circle back with you on this today.
We will certainly circle back with you more directly.
I hate to disappoint you, but I will have to circle back with you on that as well.
And last thing I just want to do before we get to your questions.
Um, I often note I'm going to circle back.
I hate to disappoint conservative Twitter, but I'm going to circle back on a number of things, as we often do directly.
We'll circle back with all of it.
Anyway, here we are in on circling back.
He's circling back as a guest, Mark Simone, morning show host on our affiliate well, midday, I guess is technically the right term, uh, here on our flagship New York Station, AM 710, W-O-R.
Miranda Devine, New York Post columnist.
Uh you know, uh look, everyone has little phrases that you get into patterns, speaking patterns.
Mark Simone, I'm sure you've done it occasionally in your long successful career.
I've done it many, many times.
The audience likes to point it out.
But for crying out loud, I mean the fawning on top of it, and meanwhile, she's got no answers to anything of substance.
I didn't know you were gonna ask me this.
I'll have to circle back to you with an answer.
So I'm apparently they rig these uh briefings.
The reporters have to submit the questions in advance.
Yes.
Uh so this is with the question in advance, she has to circle back.
And who's she gonna go ask?
Joe Biden?
He doesn't even know where he is.
He's upstairs watching Matlock while she's doing these briefings.
Uh I she's got no personality at all.
She's there for one reason.
You look at her resume.
She was Obama's uh press secretary.
Uh very tight with Obama, and he's really the guy running everything.
So she's like this Manchurian uh press secretary.
Uh and that personality, she wouldn't be the life of the party in a coma ward.
Uh, where did they find her?
By the way, that's Mark that's Mark Simone's standard in life.
Um the funniest thing, it's like a joke between me and Mark is I'm a loser, and I rarely tell Mark Mark, you can confirm this.
I'm a total loser.
I never really go out often, but when I show up at any event or even any restaurant, not exactly always on the top of my priority list.
I mean, I just cannot believe Mark is everywhere.
I've never met anybody that is out as often as you.
I do not know how you do it.
You got a TV show, a radio show.
Anytime you go out, you're mobbed by thousands of fans.
This is a so are you.
You got your yo, come on, you're like a legend.
Stop.
Um, circle back, yeah.
Circle back on this yourself.
Uh I mean, it's it's it's bizarre.
Yeah, hi, Sean.
Honestly, you would think after about the sixty-fifth circle back that the journalists in the room might just start getting a bit aggravated because they're they're not getting their questions answered.
And uh, but they're not.
You know, uh it's just the exact opposite of Kaylee McEnani, who she had grown men in that press room standing up and shouting at her.
And if she'd been a Democrat, uh they would have Been accused of being, you know, domestic terrorists and misogynists and mansplainers and all the rest.
But Kaylee McKinney did her job superbly.
And it's such a contrast to Jen Saki.
Kaylee McKinneni was always on top of the material.
She had these voluminous folders that were all divided up with little labels, and she would keep talking very coherently while she leaked through to find her material.
She was so good.
And yet she never got any thanks.
She was always abused.
Jen Sackey, on the other hand, um, you know, seems like a nice person, but this is basic incompetence.
If she can't answer basic questions, um I think this is like a window into the real BT nature of the whole Biden operation.
All right, so you are both friends of the program, and you both know that I say the weak, frail, cognitively struggling Joe.
And we have our our standard montage that keeps getting longer and longer and longer.
We choose truth over facts.
Super Thursday.
And we hold these truths to be self-evident, all men and women are created equal endowed by the oh, the you know, the thing, the thing, you know the thing.
God, the creator of everything.
Uh so we have the latest Biden moment.
Uh we're gonna have and he says it not once, but twice, and his math is a little fuzzy here.
How you you're much smarter than me, Mark Simone, I'll give you first crack of this, but uh he says we're gonna have enough vaccine for 300 Americans.
Listen.
It's enough vaccine to fully vaccinate 300 Americans by end of the summer, the beginning of the of the fall.
But we want to make look, that's I want to repeat, it'll be enough to fully vaccinate 300 Americans to beat this pandemic.
All right.
300.
Now, he just went through fuzzy math explaining how we're gonna increase the number of doses by 50 percent.
He didn't know how to do simple math either.
Okay, now I get beaten up by the by the leftist media mob and you know, outlets like I don't know, Daily Beast, huffing them posts, the usual.
And because I say weak, frail cognitively struggling.
I I um am I wrong, or is this some bizarre Hannity uh observation that only I see?
Well, I don't want to make light of this, but if you talk to uh serious medical experts about cognitive stuff, I'll tell you that's one of the early signs.
Uh getting numbers all mixed up and missing zeros and all that stuff.
So uh maybe I hate to say it, but that's a sign of that 300 uh uh vaccines, so it's great.
I mean, that will take care of Dix Notch New Hampshire, wipe it out there.
Uh there's this other story that they lost 20 million vaccines.
Uh I don't think anybody will bring this up into this briefing.
They've lost 20 million vaccines.
Pollutifact corrected me by the way, and said they are absolutely not lost.
This is an actual quote from Politicox.
They are making an effort to locate them, but that's the situation.
But uh how do you how do you lose vaccines?
Apparently they were sent out.
They don't know if they were received, they lost them somewhere in uh in the in transit.
So uh, but again, he you know he doesn't know what's going on.
He's uh you know, at least she'll circle back.
Him, him, you you won't see him again for the rest of the week.
Yeah, Miranda.
Well, and it's it's funny, I think with Joe Biden that he is obviously has a huge problem with numbers, and yet perversely he seems attracted to talking numbers all the time.
If you notice, practically every time he gives a speech, there are lots of complicated numbers in it, and he he likes to pretend he's masterful and on top of it, and invariably he just mucks it up.
So um I think I've sort of been surprised actually that he's much more in the public frame now since he's entered the White House and become president, and yet there haven't been too many slip-ups.
And I think that's because he now has this team of people around him who are dedicated to protecting him and his cognitive failings from the public.
And so if you notice, the most we see of him is he sits down at a table, fumbles around, finds a pen, and signs things, and then as he's doing it, he sort of mumbles through these these post-it notes that he has attached to them where he tells people, and it looks as if he's looking at it for the first time himself.
Oh, really?
I'm signing away.
So wait, wait, but Miranda, there's Something deeper here.
If if in fact this is a really significant decline cognitively now and everybody in in Biden world is protecting him.
Um really talking about a level of dishonesty to the American people that is deep and it is profound.
And may I add, with Iran launching their new rocket, showing their advancement in potential missile technologies and re-engaging their pursuit of enriching uranium, et cetera.
Um, isn't that a little bit dangerous?
Because it sounds dangerous to me if people really know something that we don't know.
I'm I'm just looking at the the verbal, you know, malaprops, the the his constant inability to remember, getting lost in the middle of every other sentence if he's not with a teleprompter.
If it's worse than that, what does that mean?
You know, they always say, oh, it's Joe being Joe.
Go on YouTube or someplace and go watch Joe Biden 2010.
Watch him ten years ago and meet the press.
It's a totally different guy.
He's a different guy with a different voice, his eyes have a different look at him.
He's just not the same anymore.
I mean, as far as displaying weakness to the rest of the world, I can only hope that uh at least they got Susan Rice or uh Obama or somebody behind the scenes really uh running things.
But that's a pretty scary thought, too.
So uh uh we're really in a in a in a problem here.
I don't know what we're gonna do about it.
Um till 2022 when we get a Republican Congress.
All right, but here this is the thing.
Now uh it was interesting.
During the campaign, nobody ever criticized me for calling him weak, frail, and cognitively struggling.
Now that he's vote president, and I say it, and all of a sudden it was like a a united front against me, Miranda.
Everybody started criticizing me saying it.
And then what I did is I went on radio and TV and I played my longer montage, and I said, okay, I'll let you decide.
Does this does this sound like somebody that really is is cognitively sharp?
Because it doesn't to me.
Now, in fairness, I look at somebody who's older, like Bernie Sanders, I think he's even older than Joe.
And this guy's got his he's his faculties, he's full on, totally energetic.
You know, he seems, you know, he hasn't lost a step in ten years.
And Mark's right, when you compare the tape, it's dramatic.
Yes, but you know, during the campaign, Joe Biden was the Democrat's problem.
Now he's in the White House.
He's all our problem.
You know, like it or not, he is our president.
And uh we just have to hope that our adversaries don't try and take advantage of that.
Um I mean, you can be sure that China and Russia uh and Iran know all about they will know more about Joe Biden's cognitive problems than any American citizen does, apart from the people working right with him.
Um and that's a real vulnerability to this country.
And so um, you know, much as we we all suspect that there are deep cognitive problems, and we've seen the evidence of it over and over.
Um, I I guess we're all stuck in this charade at the moment this weekend at Bernie's charade, because uh unfortunately that is the president, and we just have to uh believe that this this great dishonesty that this deception that's been um put on the American people by the Democratic Party that they know what they're doing.
All right, Miranda Devine, New York Post, Mark Simone, uh my fellow host on our flagship, uh AM 710, WOR in New York, sir.
Thank you.
Miranda, thank you.
800-941 Sean, your calls coming up.
I'm gonna do a quick border hit with Andy Biggs in a minute, and then your calls.
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800 941 Sean.
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One of the phenomenons we watched and learned the summer was we'd be watching, let's see, cities literally rioting and attacks against old federal courthouses and police precincts being overrun and even burnt to the ground, like in the Minneapolis case and Kamala Harris.
She's raising money for the bail of those people that were out there writing and saying we're not going to stop.
We shouldn't stop.
They're never going to stop.
Beware, take note, all these uh all the the well, if we're going to use the Democrat standard, that would be calls for insurrection.
But putting that aside.
You'd have fake news CNN, MSDNC, and they'd be out there and they'd have fires raging in the shots behind them.
It's mostly been a very peaceful protest here as we continue our coverage here at fake news CNN.
Don't pay any mind to the massive huge fire in the city behind us.
You know, the autonomous Chaz Chops, Summer of Love, Spaghetti Potluck Dinner Zone.
Yeah, that wasn't ending peaceful either.
Literally taking over a police precinct there.
And now we've got the reemergence.
It's shocking.
I thought, because only Donald Trump was responsible for this.
But they would just deny reality.
Well, the same thing's happening with the Democrats parroting this new talking point that we've all watched the latest videos of people.
I don't I don't see a lot of social distancing or mask wearing that are making their way, that have been making their way to the southern border.
There is a report out today on Fox News.com that shows you know Biden has now expanded his push for open borders.
One of the orders directs his executive orders, the Department of Homeland Security to review migrant protection protocols, which Biden has promised to end.
They're known as the Remain in Mexico policy, which would keep people south of the border while their immigration hearings are underway.
Rather than admitting them into this country, they get a court date, and then, well, lo and behold, 99.9% don't bother showing up for their hearing because they don't think the hearing will go well, nor are they willing to take the chance because they're already here.
So anyway, so that by ending this key policy, ending catch and release, the Biden administration taking another significant step, reinstating the incentives and the loopholes where people can enter this country and remain illegally in preparation of amnesty of as many people as possible.
The Fox News.com uh piece is pointing out that now we have immigrants uh en masse now uh literally lining the border wall in places like California to well, pretty much California to Texas.
I mean, you're seeing dramatic increases in the numbers of people that are showing up there every day.
But yet the media is saying, Oh, this is just a manufactured crisis.
Your eyes must deceive you.
Almost the same as them denying the riots this summer.
President Trump must stop holding the American people hostage, but to stop manufacturing a crisis.
This president just used the backdrop of the Oval Office to manufacture a crisis.
Folks, the president has manufactured one heck of a political crisis for himself.
Donald Trump is manufacturing a national security crisis.
He will hear them say is that this is a manufactured crisis.
It's not a national security crisis.
The big scam of the whole address was that there's a crisis.
There's not a crisis.
The notion that we have a crisis there, uh security crisis is absolute nonsense.
All right, joining us now, Congressman Andy Biggs.
He is the co-chair of the Border Security Caucus, also the head of the Freedom Caucus, and he led a tour last week of the United U.S. Mexico border in Southern Arizona with eight members of Congress.
Uh Congressman, uh, thanks for coming back and giving us a report.
Is the media lying to us yet again?
Oh, yeah, Sean, they are.
I mean, it's exactly what you say.
There are masses forming on the southern side of our border, uh, which is northern Mexico, of course.
There are caravans being put together, cartels are advertising again, NGOs are advertising again.
Uh Biden himself says, not yet.
Don't come over.
I can't give this to you yet.
They're waiting for his magic uh magic words.
He's talking about giving a parole in one of the uh uh executive orders he's doing today.
This is going to be far greater than the surge that we had just a couple of years ago, if you recall, where it was a humanity uh uh crisis of humanity.
And I I just think that that they are denying this and they're burying this.
And that's a it's a crying shame, and it will be very bad.
Yeah, look, and now I don't see that there's a whole lot we can do at this point.
Is there still talk of maybe taking down the border wall?
I don't think they're gonna take the border wall down now, but they've basically sh shut down the the construction completely.
They're there's big equip heavy equipment that's stopped.
Sean, they they've built roads that they so they could put in the fence in some places, and they were ready to put in fence in some very heavily trafficked places.
In fact, uh in one area, they told me that's the heaviest traffic place.
They just had to completely stop the fence.
It's wide open.
And now, because they took down some fencing to uh, you know, like whether it's four-strand barbed wire or something like that to replace it with this this grape fencing.
Guess what?
Now there's nothing there in some of those places because the the Biden administration's just stopped it cold in its tracks.
Well, if you look at these new policies of Biden, and now it's gonna be a path towards legalization.
Um is there anything the Republican Party in either Congress and your the House of Representatives or the Senate can do?
Well, the we we have to rely on the Senate as a backdrop if we can, and because they're really close, we have got to rely on some people here who come from swing districts to maybe try to to soften some of this.
Well, what about Senator Cinema?
She's in your state of Arizona.
Where does she stand on this?
Uh she's uh I I I'm not sure where she is today, but she's in the past has been uh for some kind of pathway to citizenship.
So those are lures, those are incentives to come out and bring more people in.
And uh we're gonna have to fight that here and see if we can get some of these.
It's a close they they're gonna have to keep all the Democrats.
If we can get four or five Democrats and keep all of our Republicans in the House, we might be able to stop some of the stuff.
Let me ask you, is Governor Deucey going to run against cinema?
My understanding isn't she up in 2022?
She's not up in 22, she's in 24, but uh Mark Kelly is up in 2022.
That's right, Mark Kelly's up.
I stand corrected, yes, sir.
Yeah.
I don't think Ducey's going to run for that seat.
There's a there's a host of people um kicking tires on that, that's for sure.
Are you thinking about it yourself?
Well, I'm I'm well, I'm kicking some tires on it, Sean.
That's for sure.
Um I'm looking at it.
Andy Biggs, Congressman Arizona, co-chair of border security caucus.
Thank you for being with us with the update.
We appreciate it.
Uh Charlene is in Washington State.
Charlene, glad you called.
Sean, thank you for taking my call.
I appreciate it.
I'd like to talk about Como's action on the nursing home decision.
Yes, ma'am.
I work in the medical office.
It looks to me like senior that the Democrats don't value senior citizen lives.
We can't forget these people.
They weren't at the end of their lives.
They still had more memories to make with their families.
And they died alone.
They died without their families.
This is going to be an open wound for their families forever.
Every Christmas, every lost birthday, every wedding that they're not at, because a lot of these people, they weren't going to be in a nursing home forever.
Well, the the sad part of all of this is, you know, Cuomo out there saying, Well, you die in a nursing home, you die here.
Well, what different difference does it make?
You're dead.
And there's more recent comments about restaurant workers, et cetera, you know, qualifying for the vaccine.
Well, we don't have enough anyway.
I mean, it's and then frankly, New York City state, like everything else, they botch distribution of the vaccine, and it's just an another typical mess.
Nine of Cuomo's uh top health officials have left uh amid the vaccine rollout, not only disagreement, but disaster.
And it's it's kind of sad.
And it's unfortunate, but it is what it is.
And that's look, and even worse than that, and Rick Scott mentioned this earlier today, is that now states like Florida that balance their budget, every red state that funds their pensions balances their budgets where politicians are elected that are fiscally responsible.
Now the taxpayers in those states, mark my words, are gonna have to pony up Cuomo demanding $15 billion for New York State.
And my guess is he's probably gonna get it.
Now, one thing that a lot of people won't pay attention to either, we'll see when when Joe finally submits his budget proposals, economic proposals, what they mean, but I'm gonna predict with a certain degree of with with some certainty here is that Joe is going to once again exempt and allow people in blue states that that elect high taxing governors and legislatures to once again deduct their state income tax,
and again, not a benefit that any state with no income tax or a low income tax benefits from.
That that means again, red states will be funding these blue states that are fiscally irresponsible.
Uh now, when the president, President Trump, now in exile, according to Jim Acosta, President Trump in exile.
Now, when he got into office and he got rid of the state income tax tax deduction, well, that didn't benefit Sean Hannity personally, but I said at the time and numerous times after it was the right thing to do because I don't think the people in red states ought to be funding a special tax break only because I'm stupid enough to live in a state that elects irresponsible politicians that spend more than they take in.
And my guess is they're gonna give that money back again.
Look, for the time being, as long as I'm here, it benefits me.
But I don't think that should I don't think it's fair to everyone in the red states that are gonna fund that.
No, we pay enough taxes.
That's all right, good call.
We appreciate you being with us.
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As we continue back to our busy phones, uh as we say hi to Carol is in California, the United Socialist Utopia of California.
How are you, Carol?
Hi, Sean.
Um, good to talk to you.
Thanks for taking my call.
So um yesterday I was watching Martha McCallum and uh Ronna McDaniel was on the RNC uh head.
And she seems to think from the interview that Trump is right back in with the Republican Party, and she's all giddy about 2024 and 2022, and he's the most famous person in our party.
Well the Trump supporters are are not Republicans.
We're Trump supporters.
And I am fed up with the Republican Party with this going back and forth and how they treated us and how they treated President Trump.
And I'm not gonna vote for Republicans anymore.
So I pray that the president understands that he needs to start a third party.
That's the only way out of this mess with these people.
Look, the problem is, you know, and Carol, this is an age-old question, because remember, Reagan was hated by the establishment.
And he gave a very famous speech at CPAC in 1975.
And in that speech, he raised the question rhetorically, is it a third party we need or a revitalized second party with no pale pastels but bold color differences?
The problem is if and and polls have are bearing out exactly what you said is that more people in the Republican Party would go would go with the America first, make America Great Again, agenda of Donald Trump over weak Republicanism, establishment Republicanism.
Now, establishment Republicans are of the mind now that they think they're taking their party back.
Like Liz Cheney thinks she's gonna take the party back.
They're fine to think that, and they can, you know, try and guide the party in whatever direction their heart takes them, but they're not in touch with the rank and file of the Republican Party around the country.
So Reagan also had the 11th commandment.
Thou shall not he did.
And he said, look, if somebody is in 80% agreement with you, he's not your enemy.
There's some truth to that too.
So there's a lot of wisdom of Reagan.
But the Republican Party was way different back when when Reagan uh was espousing all this stuff.
Now it's so fractured.
You can't trust them.
They flip, they flop.
Look at this mess on Monday.
The president is going into an impeachment trial.
We all, you know, I'm not going to go into the mess.
I'm a lawyer.
Um they're they're alleging that he incited this insurrection through uh using the voter fraud, the bad words, don't say the bad words.
He has a right to defend himself, which basically puts the whole election on trial, by the way.
And and uh they should just dismiss it.
And here we have the usual suspects.
Um the Republicans that are are probably not gonna be smart enough.
I'm only telling you this, and I'm only because I'm short on time.
I wish I I could talk about this with you for a long time.
And you know, it's sort of like you know, Lincoln and Jesus, a house divided against itself cannot stand.
The apostles got mad at Jesus because uh there are people that are that we don't know that are curing people in your name.
He's not against us is with us, right?
And and Lincoln, uh a house divided against itself cannot stand.
Look, here's the thing.
Now Republicans have their choice.
What what the what the core and rank and file of this country, they want bold conservatism.
It's simple.
Uh we don't want we want constitutionalists on the bench, we want lower taxes, less bureaucracy, secure borders, we want energy independence, we want free and fair trade deals, and we want the biggest badass military on the face of the earth, and we don't want long protracted wars and a few nuances beyond that.
That's it.
It's simple.
Stick to the agenda.
I gotta run.
No good call, Carol.
You raised great points.
800, 941 Sean.
Coming up next, our final news roundup and information overload hour.
Music Man, it's a Super Bowl weekend coming up.
This is gonna be a great Super Bowl.
I really haven't been paying attention all year to football.
I did watch, I've been watching a couple of the playoff games.
Uh I d I had to see, you know, Brady versus uh, I mean, this is a Green Bay Packers, Aaron Rodgers, and then prev the previous week against Drew Brees and watching that saga.
Now it's Mahomes versus Brady.
And I'm just sorry, I'm just that storyline alone has got me fully completely interested.
And uh, I'll be cooking up my Super Bowl food on Sunday, and none of it's gonna be healthy, starting with my Philly cheesesteaks.
And I don't use Swiss cheese like John Kerry likes it when he's not in his private jet uh emitting carbon emissions.
Anyway, so that's gonna be pretty interesting.
Uh our friend Eric Bowling and Brett Favre have now signed a deal for a podcast.
Uh and this is gonna be pretty cool.
Uh and on this new network podcast one, it's a leading bro podcast platform, which is becoming extremely popular.
Uh Eric has been a friend a long time.
We worked together many, many years together, and Brett Favre, uh, well known as a Green Bay Packer, less known as a New York Jet, probably not as smart as decision, and I've been a Jet fan for a lot of my life.
Uh Welcome both of you to the program.
Hey Hannity, thank you.
It's bowling.
Appreciate the opportunity to uh promote the podcast.
I got Brett sitting with me right here.
We I have I have no clue what the hell Brett Favre is hanging out with you for.
I'm just trying to figure that part out.
He's paying me 90% of his He's paying you guys doing this together, or are you doing it a show both doing together?
Yeah, we're in Atlanta right now.
We got the Brave Stadium right over there, right out the window over there, and we're we're we're delivering the first podcast uh sitting next to each other.
I won't be together every every week, but well, I mean it actually's worked out.
I mean, Boomer of Science has been very successful as a broadcaster in New York on the fan.
He's done a he's done a great job.
And um, but so you guys have teamed up.
Now, is this a podcast audio only or audio video?
Right right now, it's audio.
I think it's gonna be audio video very soon.
No?
Yes, yeah, they're giving me thumbs up and control.
Hannity, this podcast.
So look, you know, I come from the the news politics world, and obviously Brett Hall of Fame Super Bowl quarterback, always in the discussion of the GOAT, the greatest of all time.
We decided we we get along and we talk about everything.
So we talk, we talk football, we talk politics, we talk news, we talk culture.
We we did a segment on Puck's Itani Phil and Bitcoin and Kardashians, and we talk a little of everything.
And we also know if I want to hear you talk about uh Bitcoin and algorithms and math problems.
Yeah, he lost me there, Sean.
Man, I'm right waiting on Brett, help me out with this.
I can't.
I've had more friends telling me to get into Bitcoin when it was nothing.
And I don't know stupid, but I don't understand it.
No matter how much I'm gonna do it.
I'm not even gonna get into something if I don't know what the hell it is.
Right.
This is how they explain it, Brett.
It's well, it's a cryptocurrency.
Okay, I think can I give you the basics right now, Sean?
Here we go.
Millions of people listening to you.
There are 21 million Bitcoin.
Eventually that will be the most that will ever be allowed to be in circulation.
They're not all mined yet.
It's about 16 million right now, get to 21.
Demand is soaring for the 16 million that are out there.
When it hits 21, Sean, they are cutting off all supply of Bitcoin.
That is it.
You've seen the the for the rest of eternity, 21 million will be the number.
If demand keeps going up, if if PayPal and Target all says they'll take Bitcoin, you got massive demand with a limited supply.
What's gonna happen?
What's gonna happen, Hannity?
Okay, so let me explain it, and then Brett can help me.
Because I I understand the cryptocurrency.
I understand that it's a finite amount.
You're gonna get to what, 21 million bitcoins, whatever the hell you said.
All right, I got that part.
And then I said, well, explain it to me.
How come it keeps going up and up in price?
I can understand supply and demand dictating price, but then everyone gets into well, it's an algorithm.
I'm like, okay.
It wasn't my best topic in school.
An algorithm.
All right, I understand an algorithm's a math problem.
And a math problem that never has a final answer.
I have a hard time digesting Brett Favre.
I I'm right there with you.
I need something like when someone says I have a quarter.
Hand it to me.
I see that quarter, I put it in my pocket.
I don't see I I don't I don't get something that is uh that I can't touch.
Yeah, and and you know what sucks?
It's because you and I don't get it, we don't invest in it.
And meanwhile, bowling's gonna walk away with hundreds of millions of dollars in this deal.
I guarantee you I I'm hoping to be a Bitcoin billionaire someday.
See, Brett.
Why do you think I'm doing the show with him?
Exactly.
I'm not sure.
Handy, you'll let you may you you'll vouch for look here's what he said we said on the show.
I said, I like Brady plus three and the under 56 and a half.
I said, Brett, wait, I go, by the way, Brett, I suck at gambling, but I'm really good at investing.
Handy, can you can you back me up on that?
Uh listen, I'm gonna I don't know why, and I know Mahomes is he's he's like the new Brady.
I mean, I mean, it would be a hell of a story if he wins back to back Super Bowls, right?
Yeah.
I mean, that's huge.
It doesn't happen very often.
And then you got Brady, who's supposed to be an old man by this point, who I think is performing at a still an extremely high level.
These games against the Packers and the game against New Orleans was pretty amazing, Brett, right?
Uh absolutely.
Absolutely.
Who are you picking?
Boy, I I'm I'm I I think the favorite should be the favorite, and that's the Chiefs.
Uh you know, everything.
You may can a 43-year-old guy really win the Super Bowl as a starting quarterback with a new team and never got to practice with his team leading up to the season with the pandemic.
Is that possible?
Yes, but apparently.
Yes.
That's right.
That's that's currently.
If I was a Chiefs fan, that's what would scare me.
Everything points to the Chiefs winning.
You see, Nahomes is a is is such a franchise player.
And and Brett, you're in this category too.
There's certain guys when they're when a game is on, there's gonna be games I'm not interested in because the storyline doesn't intrigue me.
Right.
But if it involves somebody like you or Joe Montana, if you want to go, or Peyton Manning or Eli Manning or Tom Brady, you know, or somebody like Gronkowski or I I mean Mahomes is already in that top echelon of NFL quarterbacks in my mind.
So I'm fascinated and want to watch every Chiefs game, but man, I'm watching every Tampa Bay game, so I'm torn.
Yeah, I mean I the I I'm torn too.
Now Andy Reid is a really close friend and former he was my former coach uh way back to the book.
Oh great guy, great guy.
Had this been his first go-around for a Super Bowl win, I would definitely be 100% in his corner.
But I'm I'm gonna say I'm 50-50.
I want to see the Chiefs win.
I want to see the Bucks win because of Tom and that whole scenario, because I I've been there and I was close.
Um it'd be it'd be nice to see him do it with someone else.
Uh what he's done so far up to this point is nothing short of incredible.
The question is if he wins the Super Bowl, does he retire?
Uh he said today no.
He said he said he wants to play at 45.
45, yeah, I heard that.
But your body gets beaten up in football.
That's what is the average t uh length of a career in football?
Three and a half years, right?
Yeah, it's about three years, yeah.
So he's defied that by Hey, yeah.
Hey, by the way, Handy, I'm sitting next to a guy who went 297 consecutive starts in the NFL.
Think about that.
Well, that's my Brett.
Because I mean, you've been there.
What's this week like for these guys, especially guys that hadn't been there?
Well, you won the Super Bowl, you lost the Super Bowl.
Yeah, so this is a real victory.
Yeah, Sean, this week, but but uh you have to you have to throw the asterisk in there of you know, everything's virtual.
So there's not the there's not the long bus ride to practice in you know at the Super Bowl City like normal.
It's a ghost town, and so you're doing interviews virtually, usually the media day is like a circus.
So there's it there's this almost like you have to prep the guys uh usually you know, before the pandemic, you have to prep the guys look, you know, this is gonna be a mad house.
You gotta stick the stick to the the buses and and no go to the places that we have designated for you to go because it's gonna be a madhouse.
Now it's like it's totally the opposite.
All right, guys, you you know you're gonna be the only ones out and about.
And uh you gotta make sure you gotta wear your mask and d do all this stuff.
We got protocol in place, blah, blah, blah.
Uh so it's almost like uh uh a total 180 degree difference than what it normally is.
Uh no one's getting getting booked to come in and as a celebrity and radio row and all that stuff.
What about this?
What the for the first time ever, a Super Bowl is in the city of one of the teams playing.
That no fans can go to.
Well, that's a good point.
But still hung team.
I did no fan.
There are no fans at all.
I thought there were some.
I I don't know, Sean.
I uh well let me ask you this.
Do you know that you're sitting next to a guy, Eric Bowling, that was a damn good baseball player, and if correct me if my memory faults me, Mr. Bowling, sir.
Um, but didn't you get called up and and for the Pittsburgh Pirates?
I did.
I was drafted by the Pirates and blew the rotator cup pretty early.
Um got into the uh the other uh trading world Wall Street for a while and then and then broadcasting.
You played third base, if my memory serves me, correct?
Yes, I did.
Corner.
You think I'm not paying attention.
Everyone thinks Hannity's not paying attention.
Don't you can't get anything by handy.
Never.
I hear you like to toss the football over a little bit in the studio.
I do.
And every time I have a professional football player on set, they say, you know, you're throwing it wrong.
And but at that point, I had, like Eric, I had a bad rotator, but I've been I built it built it back up because of a mixed martial arts.
Well, I'm glad we're going to be able to do that.
Are you gonna do the show with them?
Ask Eric how rich he is.
Because how much do you have in Bitcoin, for example?
Don't lie.
Um I have I have I have 15 bitcoins and I have about a hundred um Ethereums, which is a little satellite of a bitcoin.
It's it's not them.
Look, it's going to 400,000.
I know it's gonna go to 400,000.
What would that portfolio be worth today if he cashed out today?
50 million dollars.
Oh my god.
No wonder he's doing this for free.
Exactly.
He's doing it for free.
Listen, first of all, I'm so I'm uh listen, I'm not a zero.
I would love people's success.
Good for you.
I'm proud of you.
And what was the average price you bought in it?
No, so there I started at 6,000, I bought some nine, I watched it go to 3,000 twice.
Shaw, it's a you know, it's it's a vault or you don't want to put your nesting in it.
You want to put stupid money, stuff that you weren't gonna touch.
You're you know, just have fun with it.
Put it there, it just you might hit a home run.
Just fine.
Oh man.
But listen, do you would you buy in now?
That's the question.
Yes.
Yes, you would.
Yes.
What's it at today?
Like 32ish.
35.
35,000.
But but but there's so much demand.
And when when people like us are talking about on radio and no one knows what Bitcoin is or how to get it, and it's gonna tie it's got 75% of the way of topping out all time supply ever, and no one knows about it.
It it's it's ripe, it's gonna run.
I believe I gotta ask you guys the the key question.
So you started this podcast together.
First of all, congratulations, you're two great guys.
Wish you the best.
Um tell us uh about how people can find you.
Let me give you the we we just taped a second.
You can't steal this handity.
You can't steal this idea from good grief.
It's called date, debate, or terminate.
So we name three three people in in the world, and we have to decide to date, debate, or terminate them.
And I'll just leave you with this.
One of the one of the categories was LeBron James, Shaquille O'Neal, and Michael Jordan.
And you'll hear Brett Wayne on who he date, debate, or terminate.
I I didn't sign up for the case.
You know, there's this there's another spin-off version of this, you know, about getting married.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Exactly.
Yeah, exactly.
Okay.
I'm not going down your road because I'd like to survive longer than my.
Brady Mahomes or Breeze, who would you date, debate, or terminate?
All right, get the hell off my head.
You gotta be mine if you think I'm gonna answer this crap.
Goodbye.
Red Far bowling with Favre.
All right, all right.
Sean, it was great talking with you.
All right, Eric Nonsense.
We'll be watching the game.
We'll we'll reconvene soon.
Thank you.
Yeah, thanks for now that we have the uh Democratic AG of New York saying, Oh, yeah, the nursing home deaths, yeah, up to 50% underreported.
Wow.
This is the victims' families speaking out uh and and on the stabacle.
I miss her every day.
And uh she's the reason why you have courage to fight.
The family of Anna Martinez, who died of COVID-19 in a West I slip nursing home, never got to say goodbye.
The Harrisons grandmother and great aunt, both World War II Rosie, the riveters, died together of coronavirus in a Smithtown nursing home.
We weren't even notified that it was time to say goodbye.
Just come get her.
Come get her remain.
Come get her body.
Governor Cuomo, give us the number.
Give us the number.
He died holding the hand of his beloved wife.
Our family is still waiting to have a funeral.
And I think this is the biggest story of the pandemic.
If Governor Cuomo's administration had spent one one hundredth the amount of time with investigators in the nursing homes, making sure they were protecting the Arsenio, we'd have a lot fewer deaths in New York State.
It's up until this point, he hasn't apologized.
I think in the very beginning, if he had taken some accountability and said, I was trying to save some of the hospital beds for the patients that we needed.
Uh, and that's why I made that mistake of putting COVID-positive patients into nursing homes for 46 days, by the way.
If he had done that at the very beginning, but he never has, and by the way, he's blamed everyone else except the person that signed the executive order, Andrew Como.
It was in effect for 46 days.
He's blamed uh God and Mother Nature and the president and the CDC and the New York Post and Fox News, he's blamed everyone except the person that signed the mandate, the order putting those COVID-positive patients into nursing homes.
That's what gets my blood boiling.
He still refuses to acknowledge that.
The other day in one of the interviews, he actually said we didn't need to put COVID-positive patients into nursing homes.
And I screamed, it just makes our grief even worse.
So when will there be accountability?
Oh well, it doesn't matter if they died here or there or anywhere, they're still dead.
Pretty callous.
All right, 25 to the top of the hour, 800-941 Sean.
You want to be a part of the program.
You know, we've been having the greatest calls lately.
I mean, they're always great, but it's like the cut above.
I mean, I'm so interesting to hear the passion of so many of our fellow Americans, how how engaged everybody is.
And I think there's there are millions and millions of us, tens of millions of us, that understand the gravity of the moment.
Like I I actually had to spend time because it's my job, and I decided not to even go through it with you because I I read the Democrats' shift show and their arguments, and and it's like Russia, Russia all over again.
Breathless hysteria and and and just flagrant, you know, hypocrisy, the stench goes to right straight to high heaven and just awful.
And I watched this pretty simple arguments that, yeah, it's unconstitutional.
Uh nice try.
Uh, we also have a constitution with something like the First Amendment.
Uh, so that'll be a big part of their arguments.
Then they got this other big problem that has emerged, which is court documents, even the mob media having to acknowledge the FBI now is pretty confident that a lot of this was all pre-planned.
Now, did some people that were at the rally, the 1%, not the 99%, uh, you know, join in in what others had planned?
Yes, they did.
Were they planning on it?
No, they weren't.
They were stupid and got caught up in it and they shouldn't have been there.
And many of them will pay a price for it.
But for the but now that we're discovering there was an organized assault on the Capitol, and that we missed all of the signs ahead of time.
Again, I can't scream this loud enough.
They better get a 9-11 style commission and make sure this can never happen again.
But it takes away the argument that this was a spontaneous riot incited by Donald J. Trump and his words of insurrection at the rally beforehand.
Especially when 99% didn't even go anywhere near the Capitol.
Um, but it just is what it is.
And so it'll happen, it'll play out.
We already know what the conclusion is.
And this will be their last chance to squeeze any little more blood, just bloody him up a little bit more.
Donald Trump beat him up.
So it'll be less viable as a candidate, so they think in 2024.
That has yet to be determined.
We'll see.
Uh okay, let's say hi.
Bobby is in Missouri.
So I had long distance cousins, and I had some that said Missouri, and some that said Missouri, like I say.
Do you have a preference?
Misery.
Misery?
Is that what you're calling it?
Misery.
Yeah, no, it's great here.
By the way, Roy Blunt has been great lately.
I don't know what happened to him.
It's like he woke up from the dead and he just appeared as somebody that's like finally speaking out.
Who?
Roy Blount, your uh your senator.
What I didn't hear what he's been saying.
I'm sorry, what has he been saying?
No, he's been he's been pretty outspoken about the unconstitutional impeachment shift show that's coming to DC next week.
Yeah, but you know, I we really don't trust him to hold in line.
But we do like Josh Paul.
What's on your mind today?
Let's go, let's stick to that.
Yes, sir.
Um, you know, I'm I'm just really kind of perplexed how we can open the border, tear the world down when we're not even allowed out of our houses.
Um we and we're gonna take care of these people when we can't take care of our own.
We have people going to bed now at night, hungry, children.
And but we're gonna have thousands.
It just doesn't make sense.
They're coming from places that God knows what diseases they've got.
From you know, no health care.
Wasn't uh the border wall in the Patriot Act alongside of this five the court that we commissioned.
We gave up all of those uh rights of privacy to have protection.
And now we're going to be able to do that.
See, politicians, and you you already know this, Bobby.
Politicians always promise spending cuts, uh, but they come later.
You always get the tax cut, tax increases, you never get the spending cuts.
You always get the amnesty, you never get the wall built.
The only person that broke that trend was was Trump.
Uh when you talk about uh, you know, Joe Biden's mask mandate, uh, from what I'm seeing, I'm not seeing a whole lot of social distancing and mask wearing in the caravan that's been making its way to the U.S. Uh but you but but you bring up a good point, and that is I think I think we have to have secure borders.
You got to vet people that come into this country.
I happen to be a believer in merit-based immigration policies like so many other countries, Australia, New Zealand, et cetera, would would adopt.
Uh, and that would include making sure you don't have radical ties and associations.
Uh in the day and age of COVID, I would say, yeah, you you ought to be tested uh for the coronavirus and have to prove you're negative before you come into the country.
So we don't, you know, we don't have another super spreader event as they call them.
Um these are all logical things.
Now, illegal immigrants, this was on Fox News.com, are now amassing along our southern border because they're waiting for Joe's open borders policies to clear the way for them to just enter the U.S. I don't know if they'll be wearing masks or not.
In the last seven days, 800 arrests up in one one uh agent in Texas in that their sector up from 450 just a month ago, and now there's even talk of tearing the border wall down.
So the answer to your question is well, we have tens of thousands of Americans out of work in the energy sector.
We have high unemployment because of the pandemic and draconian shutdowns.
Now we're gonna legalize 11 million plus uh illegal immigrants that'll be competing for the few jobs that are currently available, and all that's gonna do is hurt American workers and drive down wages, and it's gonna hurt the whole country.
And even the CBO yesterday was acknowledging that yeah, we probably won't see unemployment rates that Trump left us for the longest time.
So it's pretty frustrating, Bobby.
I share your concern.
And I think people have got to let their elected officials know how they feel.
Uh all right, to our busy phones.
Bruce, Wisconsin.
Bruce, how are you?
Glad you called.
Thanks for having me, Sean.
See, I wanted to comment on a uh subject that you had touched on yesterday, and one that's been kind of been floating around for the last few months, and that is regarding this uh forgiving of student loans.
Um, kind of every time I hear that, I kind of cringe a little bit just because I think that it's kind of a uh a segregated class of people that are gonna get that benefit if and happens, but the unintended consequence from my end, unless I'm I'm wrong, is that if they were to have their debt forgiven, my guess is that they would all receive a 1099 that year and they would have a tax obligation due to the IRS.
And and I unless the uh Congress is going to amend that as well.
Um I just don't see how this thing flies.
Uh, I think you're a hundred percent right.
Listen, I don't know.
I I know that I threw out I got two six hundred dollar checks.
I forgot to tell everybody this.
Like last week, out of nowhere, U.S. Treasury, you know, I got the second six hundred dollar check.
I never applied for any six hundred dollar check.
The first one I remember throwing out, the second one, I just sent it to my financial guy and said, I don't think I don't think we're supposed to get this, and I I frankly don't want it because I'd rather people that need it uh and deserve it, I'd rather they get more money.
I don't need their listen, and I'm I'm not saying I'm not over taxed, but this money is earmarked specifically for people.
And I don't need the help right now.
But there are Americans that do.
Or I'm gonna tell if they do cash it, I'll just take the 600 and donate it to my local food bank, which has been needing more support than uh ever right now.
And um, so I have no idea what am I gonna get?
A $1,400 check?
I don't need their money, but people do need it right now through no fault of their own.
And now we're gonna add tens of thousands of of hardworking Americans that are losing their careers over this.
And let me tell you, when you have a career job, you probably have committed to a mortgage.
You're probably committed monies to for your kids to go to college.
You probably have have been saving for retirement.
And I don't care what green new job they're promising.
It's not in existence, nor do I think it'll match the specific skills that people that work in the oil industry and energy sector have accumulated over decades and decades.
So we're in for some serious, serious economic hardship in this country for for people that deserve better.
You know, I keep saying, you know, pretty soon there's gonna be a lot of Americans and you'll see bumper stickers and hats and t shirts.
Uh miss me yet question mark, hashtag Trump2020, put on the back of the t shirt, make America great again.
I could see that.
Why don't we sell those, Linda?
I guess the worst that could happen is we get just another cease and desist, something we're quite familiar with on this program, but for sure.
Anyway, last word, sir.
Bruce.
Um, yeah, well, I mean, I'm I own a small business, and I I was fortunate to get some uh some grant money, some smaller dollar months, but I still received a ten ninety nine grant or excuse me, a ten ninety nine uh form at the end of the year, and I have to pay taxes on the grant money I received.
So if you start forgiving student loans, those people better be prepared to to get a nice big tax bill uh right after that, too.
My understanding though is you'll you'll need to check with your professionals because I don't know crap about taxes.
But my understanding was those were loans that would convert to grants.
The one I think you're describing, you got if it was, I guess PP, what is it, PPP money, whatever it is.
So you might want to look into that.
I think there were loans originally, but the but were considered to be loans that would then convert to be a grant.
Did you know that?
Yeah, I mean, my my specific ones were ones that were designated by the state of state of Wisconsin, but you know, but they're not gonna be able to do that.
That's that's different, separate and apart.
I don't know what their policy is.
I I'm I'm thinking anything that becomes like a loan that is forgiven in any type of an arrangement, you know, whether it's regular business on anything that's on, that is considered instant income to the to the person who's being forgiven.
And I just I see the IRS was it would have their hands full here uh with having to administer this because you know, otherwise you're gonna have other parts of our country are gonna be wondering why they're not on that same program in in a different yeah.
So just a lot of things I think that are gonna confuse a lot more people.
I think I just hope they leave that alone and don't go down that path.
So the paycheck protection program is what this is was uh it was it was billed as a nearly trillion dollar business loan program for coronavirus from the federal government for coronavirus aid relief economic security to help businesses, self-employed workers, sole proprietors, nonprofits, uh tribal businesses to continue to pay their workers.
And it was I understand it was supposed to convert to a grant.
That was my understanding.
But don't, you know, check with your accountant, that stuff.
I I what the hell yeah, I can't give tax advice.
What do I know?
I can't even do my own taxes.
Um, Bruce, thank you.
All I say is pay.
Well, we could probably take this discount and pay it.
That's my answer every time.
Um I don't think uh I I don't think the IRS would be particularly forgiving if I took a deduction that was quote, questionable, Linda.
Do you I don't think deductions actually exist in the Hannity uh world.
They really don't.
They've been written off a long time ago.
I know.
Maybe maybe I'm a fool.
Maybe I should go in and aggressive.
I just don't because I don't need the headache.
It's just one headache, and and I shouldn't have to live my life like that either because of what I do for a living.
But we already know that my privacy gets violated regularly.
That's correct.
100%.
Yeah, well, people don't really understand when your personal text messages are released publicly by a judge what that's like, or to see that Muller's pit bulls are, you know, uh accumulating 50 pages of 302s on me because I'm in the I'm a member of the press and I'm asking questions.
I've not noticed anyone in the press champion championing my rights for privacy, uh, nor the intimidation tactics that are used pretty much I would argue to stop the investigations that we successfully concluded accurately, but that's that's for another day.
Um let us go to Los Angeles.
Frank is standing by.
What's up, Frank?
How are you?
Hey, Sean.
Hey, listen, you know, all this stuff that's being said, I still think we're nibbling around the edges.
If no one checks into Fulton County, Georgia, and what happened there.
I would always say that, you know, people get they vote in the government that they deserve, but maybe they're not even voting, or maybe it's incorrect.
So is anybody gonna really investigate that?
If not, if that's all fraud, everything else goes out the window, in my opinion.
Let me let me give you some good news on that front.
Are you ready?
Georgia's state Senate, controlled by Republicans, has now introduced a bill that would require voters to provide a photo ID when requesting and returning even an absentee ballot.
That's number one.
In Arizona, a new bill has been introduced in the state legislature out there to repeal Arizona's permanent early voting list.
And votes on lists automatically receive mail and ballots.
No, you would have to request one specifically, and I hope they add a like Georgia would add a some type of voter ID requirement.
In Pennsylvania, GOP lawmakers there.
They're pushing a bill that would repeal the unconstitutional 2019 Pennsylvania No Excuse absentee voting bill.
So this I have said this that if they don't do it now and they don't fix it now, it'll be too late by the time 2022 comes around.
This is to ensure integrity and confidence in the system and that the laws are obeyed, constitutions are made.
And the other thing I would strengthen in all these states is if partisan observers are allowed to observe that you make you make accommodations that that law can be fulfilled.
No state did that.
Okay?
So there's some good news.
We're making some progress.
I'm staying on the topic.
That I promise you.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
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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.
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