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All right, glad you're with us post uh Super Bowl Sunday hangover for everybody.
I don't mean hangover, hangover, hangover.
Linda, you don't have a hangover, do you?
But did now this was your first is great because Stephen A. Smith is coming on today, my buddy.
And Stephen A, oh man, he was brutal to poor Patrick Mahomes.
And he says, no more talk about Mahomes being the GOAT.
By the way, the term goat, for those of you that aren't sports nuts, do you know what goat means by any chance?
Quiz, Linda.
I certainly do.
But I I have to give credit where credit's due.
I know what it is because of Jim Gray.
Uh no, Jim, but Jim Gray, I didn't hear it, but he had an exclusive interview with uh Biden.
I haven't heard it yet.
Did you get a chance to hear it?
No, I don't listen to anything with him in it.
No, I love Jim Gray though.
Jim Nance is great too.
Jim Nance is he's such a great these guys are such great sports broadcasters.
I Joe Buck, all these guys, and even the you know, Boomer's great.
Um what's the guy's name?
Used to be quarterback for the um I love Tony Dungey.
I love all these guys.
Troy Aikman has done a great job transitioning to broadcasting.
It's not an easy transition.
And and there have been people that I've known over the years that have been in sports and asked me about broadcasting, and I'm like, okay, let's talk about it.
And and I'm just like, okay, that's not gonna work.
Uh you know a few of the names of the people.
And I'm I'm not trying to to shatter dreams.
I like people to fulfill their dreams, whatever they happen to be in life.
And but well, you know, with all that said, all right.
How did you do?
Because last week was like a crash course week in football for you on this program, and you started out the week not knowing fully and completely how to get a touchdown, what a field goal was, what you called those two poll things in the middle as you referred to them, uh, meaning uprights.
You didn't know what crossing the plane was.
How did you do based on the crash course we gave you going into the Super Bowl, knowing your five-year-old son wanted to watch the Super Bowl?
I mean, I think I was like a lot of people, you know, I was excited, you know, to see it, and uh, you know, I was looking for him to see the good sportsman-like behavior that we did see for the most part.
Um I I really don't understand a lot of what's happening still.
Um, but I I what I what I've been told is that the way that the game was is actually very unusual because supposedly during the Super Bowl now they don't have all of these um calls, these constant penalty calls, and that they were excessive, I'm told.
And since, you know, COVID restrictions, you know, the Chiefs got in late.
Andy Reid obviously had family drama, and then you got, you know, the Buccaneers playing on home court in Tampa Bay, so I think there were some disadvantages to the Chiefs.
I thought you said the Colts.
I said home court.
Home court, okay.
Cult cults, you know, anyways, the Chiefs.
Right, okay.
No, but you know, I hope the country, because going into this week, and and we're gonna hit this this week.
Um uh on this whole impeachment sham shift show.
Democrats are more nervous than Republicans here, and I'll get to that in a minute here.
But did you enjoy the game?
Did you enjoy for you?
It was probably a different experience because you're trying to figure out all right, how do I get a first down?
How do we just get that Touchdown.
Um, wow, you can get a passing touchdown, which you didn't seem to know last week.
You run the ball into the into the and into the end zone.
And then I had to explain how you can also throw the ball and somebody catches the ball in the end zone, but you got to be on the same team.
Um, did you enjoy?
Do you feel like you walk away now with a sufficient knowledge that next year you can watch football and and appreciate it more?
Yeah, I would still have to be very honest and say that I know very little of what's going on.
I don't really understand it.
I'm trying my best.
You know, I'm excited when I watch it.
Liam, I think understands it way better than I do.
And um, you know, we just had a blast watching it.
I think the thing I liked the most about it is Brady is just such a team player.
He really is.
I mean, the guy just corrals his team.
He's so gracious.
I mean, even when he was up there giving his Super Bowl, you know, acceptance, he had his kids up there, and he passes the Super Bowl trophy down to his, you know, fellow teammates.
It's just such a nice guy.
It was a nice thing to watch.
Yeah, it's it you know what?
It was great.
I thought that was the storyline the whole time.
It ended up being the storyline.
I I'll get into this with Stephen later when he said, no more talk about Mahomes being the GOAT.
He's getting blown up.
He is great, and I think that's the problem we have right now.
Why can't they both be great?
Well, look, he didn't have his best game, but think about this.
This is a guy that never lost the game by double digits in the pros.
I mean, this is a guy that had helped drive his team to the Super Bowl two years in a row, and he won it last year.
The guy Mahomes is has all of the potential, and I pray to God he can stay healthy, which is a challenge for anybody playing in the NFL.
It's uh it's a warrior sport, it's a gladiator sport, it's you know, physically probably the most demanding on top of the octagon.
I mean, you put your heart, your soul, your life's blood into this, and the average career is three and a half years.
So I'm watching, I I just he has uh he's already a franchise quarterback.
He's already wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
The average football career is three and a half years.
Yeah.
You didn't know that.
No, so how long has Tom Brady been doing it?
Uh this is like his 20th year.
Well, that's the whole story of Brady.
So he's an anomalous.
It's nobody lasts that long.
You know, and somebody wrote me yesterday, but he's never really been hit.
I'm like, yes, he's had he's got a big thing.
He lost a year of his career to a knee injury.
Yeah.
I mean, you know, Joan Namath could God only knows how many records Joe Namoth would have broken had he not had bad knees.
And the body begins to break down for these guys.
And it's and you think of linemen and knows that you know, linebackers and the tackling and the hits.
I mean, I mean, this is all real.
Now, the NFL's also dealt with this whole concussion issue, and I know they're doing everything they're doing everything they can, but you can't ruin the sport in the process.
Um to and they have the concussion protocols now in place.
There's only so many concussions that your your brain can take before I can tell you, let's put it this way.
I can tell you anybody that I've ever watched as a UFC fan that gets knocked out.
They never, they are usually never ever the same, ever, in terms of their ability to go back in the octagon.
It seems to me, my observation, that they get knocked out faster than next time because it's there's a vulnerability that is created from the first time you have the head trauma.
I mean, that's like being in a bad car accident.
Um, I remember for my days playing ice hockey.
That I mean, I had my bell rung all the time.
That's that's what they mean when you say get your bell rung.
Have you ever heard that phrase before?
I heard.
I have uh I haven't heard that.
You remember this song from the 70s.
You probably sang it at weddings.
Yeah, that's the one I know.
It's not the same thing.
Yeah, we've got three o'clock.
We can't talk about this.
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All right, so we're gonna have the impeachment sham this week.
With this happening and this emerging, the best thing I've read about this now is that we're we're now seeing that the defense that will be put on by the president's team.
Well, there are two great things.
This is one of them.
Is going to challenge the definition of the mob, the media, and Democrats on insurrectionist language.
And by that we mean Maxine Waters and the Maxine Waters of the world.
I I got a kick out of Maxine Waters is now trying to walk back her violent rhetoric against Trump.
I'll remind you, I'm gonna take Trump out tonight.
I want you to create a crowd.
I want you to get in their faces.
I want you to, you follow them into the grocery store and they're not wanted anywhere anymore.
What does it mean create a crowd and get in their faces and follow them and tell them they're not wanted anywhere anymore?
Listen.
You have members of your cabinet that have been booed out of restaurants.
We have protesters taking up at the house.
He sang with no sleep.
And if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you call the crowd.
And you push back on them.
And you tell them they're not welcome.
Anyway, anywhere.
Wow.
What a moving evening this is.
I am sitting here, listening, watching, absorbing, thinking about Ali, even though I never met him.
And with this kind of inspiration, I will go and take Trump out tonight.
I want to tell you, Gore Zach, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price.
You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.
Thank you.
Okay, and then I won't play them all, but I could play, of course, after the after the burning down of the police precinct at Minneapolis, the rioting that took place there.
You know, I won't say, well, people died at the Capitol.
Now, that's part two of this.
Because now we have growing evidence that is growing by the day.
Let's play some of the media finally catching up to us and recognizing that the police, investigators, and everybody else.
Oh, a lot of this seems to have been coordinated and pre-planned.
Oh, and oh, if it was uh if it was in the works and it was gonna happen, how did Donald Trump's words of many of you will peacefully and patriotically march to the Capitol so your voices will be heard uh when in fact it was all pre-planned.
Listen to the media coverage.
One of the big questions for investigators has been whether or not whether uh the people who attacked the Capitol, uh whether this was a a just a uh a mob that just got out of control or whether there was planning.
And we're learning from the from people we're talking to, uh familiar with the investigation, that they're getting indications, uh, some evidence that they've seen that indicates uh that there was some level of planning.
They've noticed uh from looking at surveillance cameras, from looking at some of the weaponry that showed up, that there were people who were at the ellipse where there was a Trump rally earlier in the day.
Some people left the scene of that rally early and appeared to have gone to retrieve weapons that then turned up at the scene uh of the riot at the Capitol.
Based on everything the FBI has learned, uh it was not some sort of spontaneous decision by a bunch of quote protesters to go up to Capitol Hill uh and storm Capitol Hill.
This was all planned out.
I want to get to this issue of coordination and premeditation because Aline, this is really the leading edge of this investigation.
And for the first time today, we heard the U.S. attorney say that he believes the pipe bombs are connected to the riders, and that it was a diversionary tactic.
So, right at the height of this, between 1245 and 115, when President Trump is speaking, you have the first group pushing onto the Capitol complex.
The First pipe bomb is reported at the RNC headquarters here in Washington.
Then at 115, the second is reported at the DNC.
And the U.S. attorney said today he thought they were diversionary, which means they were an effort to pull first responders away from the Capitol at the very time frame that they were breaching onto the Capitol so it would further weaken security at that site.
And all of this goes to, I'm sorry it's a long answer.
It all goes to the idea of premeditation and coordination among individuals.
And now to that chilling new report that there was an FBI internal report the day before the siege, warning of a violent war at the Capitol.
Let's bring in CBS's Jeff McGays, who's been reporting all day.
Good evening, Jeff.
Dora, that FBI notice warned of war at the Capitol, but for some reason, security wasn't stepped up there to meet the challenge that that attack would pose.
On how much of it was planned, how much of this was um strategized ahead of time.
People wandering around exercising their First Amendment rights, don't bring ropes and ladders and sledgehammers to a spontaneous event.
This was a planned assault as if going after a castle.
Uh yeah, if it's premeditated and coordinated and a planned assault and a diversionary tactics, bombs set here and there, all part of the effort.
Well, how does that how does that result in a spontaneous incitement to riot?
They couldn't possibly.
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So you have investigators and uh Congresswoman Ocasio Cortez saying, Oh, I am I'm new a week in advance.
And now the media reporting that, yeah, oh, this was a diversionary planting of bombs as part of an overall coordinated attack that was predetermined, pre-planned, and uh diversionary tactics put in place.
And then you have the warnings that law enforcement had whatever other intelligence they they had growing.
Plus, on top of it as a natural course of business.
Why did you not have knowing hundreds of thousands of people were already in town the day before?
Why weren't there why why weren't why wasn't there any?
You know, Sergeant at arms, Capitol Police, why did they deny the chief of the Capitol Police who's who asked on six separate occasions, even before this happened?
You know, what what happened here?
Uh this this is getting weirder and weirder by the minute.
Um, all right, I gotta take a break here, but we got a lot coming up on the other side of this.
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It's gonna be a week, but it appears like the Democrats have their own issues to deal with.
Premeditation, all coordinated, and their own comments and their definition of quote insurrection and incitement.
Uh, yeah, they've got a lot of questions they need to answer.
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We'll come back on the other side.
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So when you when you when you put it all together and you look at, well, what are what are the Democrats want to get done here?
Well, now this is where they're getting nervous.
Because Democrats now have a choice because they're gonna bring in their tapes, they're gonna say Donald Trump said fight, fight, fight, fight, fight.
Well, we've been playing for you all the examples of prominent Democrats saying fight, fight, fight, fight, fight.
The Democrats want to what they will ignore Donald Trump's statement peacefully, patriotically march to the Capitol, so your voices will be heard.
Okay, well, I didn't hear that in Maxime Waters, I'm gonna take Trump out tonight speech, or Kamala Harris's speech after the precinct was burned to the ground in Minneapolis and the riots ensued, and yeah, police officers injured, and then of course, you know, uh advertising, trying to raise money to help the bail fund to pull the writers out of jail, to get them out of jail.
I just don't recall in any way anybody in the media saying, yeah, that was pretty irresponsible.
They're not gonna stop.
You need to take note.
Beware.
They're not gonna stop.
I'm not gonna stop.
They shouldn't stop, we shouldn't stop.
What is she talking about in the context of what just happened in Minneapolis and was emerging in other cities around the country?
Or the threat to Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, you won't know what hit you on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, or Pelosi's support of insurrection when the Wisconsin State House was raided back in the day then.
Uh offering support.
And then you can move beyond those players.
And you can talk about pretty much uh a lot of Democrats.
If we when they're when they're down, we kick them.
They go high, we go no, no, they're down, we kick them.
Eric Holder.
Um it's it's just so obvious what this is.
And so the Democrats now will make a choice if they want this thing to drag on and to distract from Joe Biden's agenda.
Let Joe Biden, Mr. Unity, either step up and tell his party that we already know what the outcome is gonna be, or if I was the Republicans, I would embrace I'd absolutely embrace as long as they want this to go on, and as long as they want to drag the country through this, as long as they want all other of the people's business to stall completely, let them do it.
Because everybody sees this for what it is.
Donald Trump is not in office.
Donald Trump is, well, as Acosta says, he's President Trump in exile.
Fine.
He's not even talking because he's been deplatformed and canceled all over social media.
Will he re-emerge?
I would say the odds are pretty good.
A lot of stories out there that he might start his own social media company to bypass the Twitters and the Facebooks and the Instagrams and the big tech companies, which I was fine with me.
But you know, and then the fearmongery continues.
All right, they want to spend all of this money.
And I guess if if Congress is wrapped up in their latest impeachment shift show, impeaching a guy that they don't even have jurisdiction over.
Okay, you can get 300 constitutionalists, and they'll sign their letter saying that it's it's it's not constitutional.
But impeachment articles are very clear to remove from office.
What is this all about?
Well, that'll get in the way of you have the UN climate envoy, Mark Carney saying climate crisis deaths will be worse than COVID.
They'll be the equivalent of coronavirus and a coronavirus crisis every year.
Well, he was the Bank of England governor up until last year and head of the Bank of Canada before that, now United Nations envoy for climate action and finance.
You have Massachusetts, you have their climate officials, 60% of emissions, they come from people driving their cars and heating their homes.
We will have to break their will.
Let me say it again, 60% of our emissions that need to be reduced come from you.
The person across the street, the senior on fixed income, right?
There is no bad guy left, at least in Massachusetts, to the point to point the finger at, to turn the screws on, and to break their will.
So they stop admitting.
That's you.
We have to break your will.
And right, I can't even say that publicly.
Whoopsie Daisy, it broke.
They said it.
And then you have AOC and Bernie introducing a bill to declare a national climate emergency.
Now, is it really about climate?
No, because we've learned that the real purpose behind all of the Green New Deal initiative is to advance socialism in the name of climate change.
So what is what is the net impact?
We're already feeling it.
All those workers on the Keystone XL pipeline, they've gotten their pink slips already.
And Joe Biden last week saying, yeah, they're going to end all pipelines.
Okay, more pink slips coming.
And Joe Biden last week is stopping the oil exploration and extraction in Anwar.
Okay, there's nothing there but a vast wilderness.
How do I know?
Because we actually at times have sent photographers and planes to take video of the Anwar, the geography of Anwar, and there's nothing there.
A wilderness.
When they built Alaskan pipelines in the past and all the predictions that, well, it's going to destroy wildlife.
What did they discover?
The wildlife actually ha like habitating around the pipeline because it keeps them warm for some reason.
Hmm.
And it increased the number of uh the herds that were there.
That was past information.
But if you have a climate emergency and you declare a climate emergency, well, then that gives you even broader powers with the stroke of a pen to continue what Joe Biden is doing, bypassing an entire branch of government, the legislative branch, just to with a stroke of a pen, enact your agenda that you'd never get passed through any Congress.
I mean, it's pretty, these are insane times that we're living in.
Add to that, well, what are they trying to do to conservatives in the media?
The left is aiming to rein in media diversity, determine what is what is appropriate speech, restricting the reach.
You know, that this has been the ongoing battle against against talk radio for all these years and to a smaller extent, now becoming a bigger extent.
A few of the voices they don't like on Fox News.
It's not every voice on Fox News they don't like, it's just conservative voices on Fox News that they hate.
You've got, you know, media commentators, the progressive left, even have people on fake news CNN.
I mean, the people that literally were at the tip of the spear of spreading the Russia hoax lies and conspiracy theories, wanting to restrict platform access and so on and so forth.
Another way of saying silencing opposition voices.
Ocasio-Cortez suggested just last month that multiple House members, including herself, were considering plans to regulate media in some as yet undefined fashion.
following the end of the Trump administration.
She was asked during an Instagram QA session last month about the potential for media literacy initiatives in Congress and responded, I don't think that the response is fully crystallized yet.
But what I can say, if there's absolutely a commission being discussed, referring to proposals.
You know, investigate investigate investigate investigatory in nature at this point.
I do think that several members of Congress and some of my discussions have brought up media literacy, because that is uh part of what happened here.
We're gonna have to figure out how we reign in our media environment.
So you can't just spew disinformation or misinformation.
You mean like the Russia hoax?
She must be talking about the Russia hoax, right?
No, I I doubt you go that far.
You know, harm reduction CNN is talking about.
A model in which the media reach would be greatly diminished of voices they don't like.
That they who is going to determine what political commentary is appropriate and what commentary is not appropriate.
Again, the irony, the very people that spread lies and conspiracy theories for three years.
It's also happening, not just fake news CNN.
It's about freedom of reach, CNN is saying.
The New York Times, Nicholas Christoph putting forth a similar argument, suggesting an effort to combat, quote, extremism and advertisers need to stop supporting networks that spread lies and hatred.
You mean like the New York Times?
Who says it's not safe to travel to China after the travel ban?
Not exactly their finest moment.
Washington Post, they got their media columnists and editors.
Margaret Sullivan calling for an advertiser boycott of news organizations she doesn't like.
And citizens who care about the truth should demand that they do so.
Well, what does that do?
That's just another roundabout way of silencing voices they don't like and they don't want heard.
You know, study touted as a blow to conservatives, complaints about big tech censorship funded by a major Biden donor.
Researchers at NYU, apparently, according to the Daily Caller, in a study, uh, said the conservatives have pushed disinformation by accusing big tech firms of an anti-conservative bias.
Study finded by one group, some billionaire contributed a hundred grand of Biden, and the study called decisions by Twitter and Facebook to censor the New York Post story on Hunter Biden to be a reasonable decision.
Well, we now know based on the guy that was the laptop repairman, and we know from this guy, Bobalinski, and we've been learning from Peter Schweitzer, who's had many things on that laptop confirmed that they're all true.
Study makes the unsubstantiated claim the story was based on stolen materials.
Uh, not exactly true there either.
Anyway, researchers are urging Biden to create a digital regulatory agency.
This is how insane this is now getting.
Well, Trump apparently is a Breitbart article.
Jason Miller revealing Saturday, the former president is considering Donald Trump launching his own social media platform in the not too distant future.
That may not be a bad idea.
Um, these, and you know, this these are chilling, chilling times.
Labor union chief who backed Biden is now complaining that he killed the Keystone pipeline.
Apparently, AFL CIO chief Richard Trumpke expects his membership to believe that he had absolutely no idea that Joe was going to cancel the pipeline.
He said, I wish he hadn't done that On the first day.
What do you want it done on day 10?
I wish he had he had paired that more carefully with the thing that he did the second by saying, here's where we're creating jobs.
Well, what do they do, Mr. Trump in the meantime?
And how do you take the specific skill set associated with building a pipeline and transfer that to any other industry?
You might want to tell the rank and file the pay your salary how that's gonna happen.
Unbelievable.
Newly elected House Democrat openly defended a jailhouse riot after condemning the Capitol riot.
You got this story is in the New York Post today.
You got a House Democrat, Corey Bush condemned the January 6th insurrection, their favorite word.
But he's defending the rioters in St. Louis who tried to burn down the city jail.
Well said a riot is the language of the unheard, he said.
I want to talk to my constituents in the window.
Their lives and their rights must be protected.
My team and I are working to ensure that the urgent needs of the people who are incarcerated are not ignored.
Doesn't exactly sound like a full and complete condemnation.
Unbelievable.
Um, by the way, illegal, uh, aliens who, uh, assaulted this in the Washington free beacon, uh, Americans will no longer be deported under Biden's new rules.
Welcome to the New World Order of Joe Biden.
Generally, these convictions would not include drug-based crime, simple assault.
Is assault really simple?
DUI, money laundering, property crimes, fraud, tax crimes, solicitation, and charges without convictions.
Well, ICE would not deport, according to Jen Saki, the White House press secretary, illegal immigrants guilty of assault and DUI under the plan.
Well, what happens to you and your family if in fact you do that?
Uh pretty unbelievable.
Peter Ducey pressed uh Gensaki on where are the laid-off pipeline workers gonna get their green jobs.
She says, Well, the president's proposed a climate plan with transformative instruments and infrastructure and laid out a plan that would not only create millions of good union jobs, but also help tackle the climate crisis.
Deucey shot back, but there are people living paycheck to paycheck, people out of jobs once the Keystone Pipeline stopped construction.
It's been 12 days since uh Gina McCarthy and John Kerry were here.
It's 19 days since the executive order.
So what are these people who need money now?
What do they do to get their green jobs?
How many days are you gonna have to work?
Man, it's gonna be a lot of work these coming years.
Got a lot to cover.
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Four hours, four and a half hours, maybe even five hours of omnipotent political free fun, although you weren't allowed if you followed CDC regulations, no shouting.
And no groups, according to Dr. Fauci, but Stephen A. Smith was watching the game.
You know, I know you were watching the game because you cannot control yourself.
It's over, everyone.
At Chiefs Defense couldn't stop anything at Tom Brady threw at them.
And at Buccaneers defense was elite.
No more talk about Patrick Mahomes being the GOAT.
Greatest of all time.
He's now getting blown out in the Super Bowl.
Receivers can't get open, and he can't throw them open.
It's over.
It's not over.
He's a franchise quarterback.
Well, well, well, uh as usual, I have to educate you about contact.
Don't use my lines I use against you.
Go ahead.
I do believe that I put that tweet out in the third quarter of the game.
It's not like I said it now.
I mean, I was talking about the game itself.
It's over.
Of course, Patrick Mahomes will be back in the Super Bowl because he'll win some Super Bowl championships.
He's a phenomenal great quarterback.
But when you talk about him being the greatest quarterback of all time, Tom Brady at the age of 43, uh, just won his seventh Super Bowl.
There is no franchise, a franchise.
There is no franchise in the history of the National Football League that has seven championships, and Tom Brady has uh has seven.
There's nothing to talk about in that regard.
And if you're buttons, Patrick Mahomes is a young player.
Um he's been not many people in their football careers, and you know this better than anybody, gets to one Super Bowl.
He's been the back to back Super Bowls.
He's experienced the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, not to use the cliche of wide world of sports.
Um he is a franchise quarterback.
He's in the top elite in my mind.
Who are the elite quarterbacks?
Okay, he got a big thing.
Well, the elite quarterbacks are him.
They're Aaron Rodgers, there's Drew Brees.
Uh it's the Sean Watson.
Uh uh, obviously Josh Allen, this kid in Buffalo is special.
He's got promise.
Lamar Jackson in Baltimore, he's got a lot of promise.
Russell Wilson in Seattle, obviously, phenomenal quarterback.
He's a phenomenal quarterback.
So there are several, but again, the conversation is about the GOAT, the greatest of all time.
And even though it was Brady with his resume, because he's the most celebrated quarterback in NFL history.
There were a lot of people that were saying, No, it's Patrick Mahomes, and if Patrick Mahomes had beaten him, even though he'd still only have two, and Brady would have had six.
The bottom line is uh with uh Patrick Mahomes being 25 years of age.
If he had knocked off Brady, then you would have assumed that you know what more Super Bowls are coming, plus he'd have a win over Brady on his resume.
Now he's gonna be.
The lead up to to the Super Bowl Sunday was okay, he had to take on the Saints and Drew Brees.
He had to take on the Packers and Aaron Rodgers.
Now he had to take on I I think the probably the hottest quarterback now in the NFL, and that's Patrick Mahomes.
Um that to me was the storyline.
I don't care what anybody says going in.
You had two great two great uh tight ends on both teams, but at the end of the day, I mean, I thought Brady just he's common he he had ice in his veins, and and you know, in fairness to Mahomes, he didn't really have a lot of open players to throw to most of the game.
Well, he he didn't have much help.
Uh Tampa Bay's defense was elite.
Uh, the real NVP with the initials TV is Todd Bowles, the former head coach of the New York Jets, not a defensive Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Uh his defense was sensational and led by Shaq Barrett and Devin White and Antonio Whitfield Jr. and JPP, a former New York Giants.
By the way, how great's the story of JPP.
If though people don't know, uh Pierre Paul is he had he had half his fingers blown off in a in a fireworks accident.
Playing on a fourth of July in a fireworks accident.
Absolutely.
And he's still an elite player.
He's still amazing.
He had a great game yesterday.
Here's the deal.
Tampa Bay basically instituted what the Giants did to beat Brady twice.
They didn't blitz.
They only blitzed like five times during the game.
They were incredibly confident that their front four would be able to get to Brady as a result, leaving seven dudes in your secondary.
So the Tyreek Hills and the Travis Kelsey's of the world and others couldn't get open.
And that's and that proved to be fatal uh for Patrick Mahomes and those boys because you know he was already operating on a bad foot, but he had no help because Tyree Hill and Shaw yesterday.
Travis Kelsey could do only but so much.
McCole Hardman was a no-show.
Uh they didn't even try a running game, and then you got to take into account the distractions of Andy Reid.
He's the head coach of the Tampa Bay, um, the Kansas City Chiefs.
His son uh was in a car driving, had two drinks, acknowledged he had two drinks and some Adderall, and next thing you know, he gets into a car accident, a four-year-old and a five-year-old are injured.
The five year old is in critical condition as we speak, and he's being investigated uh for driving under the influence.
So all of that was coming into Super Bowl week with Tampa Bay already being at home, but Kansas City having to travel to the game, and because of everything that had transpired, Kansas City didn't travel until the day before the Super Bowl, which was Saturday.
Okay, so this has happened twice that in my memory, and you you know more than I do about this topic, so I'll throw it to you.
But when Peyton Manning uh left the Colts and went to the Broncos and he wins the Super Bowl, that was huge.
Now you have Tom Brady leaves New England and he goes to Tampa Bay and he wins a Super Bowl.
And and I understand, I think uh an argument can be made.
Okay, Belichick and Robert Kraft probably made a decision.
Well, it clears out a lot of salary cap, which by the way, I'm not a big fan of salary caps.
You know that.
I'm a capitalist.
Okay, put that aside.
Put it in its own separate category.
But but you can't convince me that Brady, because he's done it in the past, wouldn't have been willing to give back some money for players to have a stronger, better team, because that's the kind of competitor he is to stay on the Patriots, and yet uh, you know, if I'm Belichick and I'm Robert Kraft and I know Robert Kraft, I like him a lot, he's a great guy.
Um I don't know Belichick.
Okay, so I'm thinking if you're Belichick and you're Robert Kraft and you're watching Brady and you're watching Gronkowski who had a great game also, what are you thinking yesterday?
Well, first of all, what is it wasn't a good night for Bill Belichick, and it's not gonna be uh a good year, or at least a good few months with Bill Belichick.
If you're Robert Kraft, you're sick to your stomach, because you never wanted to lose Brady.
It's just that Bill Belichick is your head coach and your GM and and and Robert Kraft.
I mean, I don't know whether he'd admit it or not, or whether various people within the organization would admit it or not, but it clearly was not about the money.
If if Brady had wanted to stay, they would have found a way to work it out.
Robert Kraft would have seen to it.
What happened is Brady went to Robert Kraft and said, Listen, I'm a free agent, and I just came, he walk he drove over to his house, he said, I just came to tell you goodbye.
He wanted out, he didn't want to be there any longer.
He thought it was time for him to move on himself to move on.
Don't you agree with that?
I'm giving it to you.
I'm giving you to hear it.
He went he went to Kraft to say goodbye because one of the biggest reasons is that Bill Belichick really didn't make him feel wanted any longer.
And he got tired of feeling that way.
And so he wanted to go someplace else and prove that he can do what he did that he was incredibly valuable to the success of the New England Patriots, and he could still be that guy where Bill Belichick obviously wanted to move in a different direction, sort of like kissing the ring per se.
Bill Belichick was like, listen, I've got six as a head coach of my own.
I've got two as a defensive coordinator, and I've been to eleven Super Bowls overall, and I've got eight rings.
I don't have to kiss anybody's rings.
I've got enough of my own.
And so as a result, Tom Brady wanted to go someplace else and show what he can do, which is why he will he left and he departed, and Bill Belichick, the coach is not to be questioned, but Bill Belichick, the GM that had teammates like Nikhil Harry as a wide receiver instead of D.K. Metcalf or A.J. Brown, two stud receivers in the NFL, stuff like that.
Uh uh Jacoby Brissett is gone, and he's the backup in Indianapolis, but he could have easily been a better selection than Cam Newton based on how Cam Newton looked this year.
All of those things played a role.
And Tom Brady's saying, you know what?
I just want to move on, and I just want to move on with my career because I still think I've got something left in me in Tampa Bay and the Chargers were the two teams who believed in Tom Brady, he chose Tampa.
The other 30 teams thought they had a better option than Tom Brady.
So Bill Belichick isn't the only one feeling sick right now.
It's the rest of them.
Yeah.
Do you I mean, he just defies all all the odds here, though.
I mean, on paper, you can make the case he's 43 years old.
I mean, that's a long time.
Let me ask you about the intersection.
I used to have, you know, um, and I'm not talking about politics at all.
Um I just think that this year was important because I think ever between the pandemic and between unrest that went on all summer, between what happened at the Capitol, um between a a rough election.
I just think the country needed this day, this this moment of time to bring us back to sports where it doesn't matter what your politics are, and I would I want sports, it's more general question, not a political question.
I want sports to be political free.
You know, uh Dr. Ross said during the coronavirus, whenever medicine and politics intersect, well, politics always wins.
I don't want that to be the same for sports.
I don't tune into sports to hear political opinions.
I do it, I do this for a living.
Well, let's let's let's let's let's let's pull it on, let's put it on blast, let's put it on Front Street.
Sean Henney and I Sean Hannity and I don't just talk when we're on the air together.
We actually talk off the air.
So let's be clear about that.
We've had we've had full disclosure.
I never thought you'd admit that publicly, though.
Okay.
No, no, no.
I'm an old man.
I ain't scared to admit that.
I think you're crazy half the time, but you know what?
I talk to you all the time.
You're still my buddy.
Here's the deal.
The bottom line is this, and I've said this to your buddy, the great one Mark Levin, on a couple of occasions.
We can talk about stuff being political free and stuff like that.
When you get into the minutia of things and start talking policy, you have a point.
But a lot of times, that's not the case.
I say, for example, when I brought up Colin Kaepernick when sh when Mark Levin was complaining to me about Kaepernick and he doesn't want to see it.
I say he said he's messing up the game.
I said, with all due respect, Mark Levin, uh, he knelt before the game.
It didn't it didn't interfere once kickoff arrived.
So the reality is is that you know what, you could have your taste all you want to, but you really can't accuse these folks of interfering with the actual game itself, because once tip-off carrial kickoff arrives, these guys go out there and play, and there have been no actions that have taken place once the tip-off or kickoff started in these respective leagues.
And a lot of times in the United States of America, free speech and all of this other stuff, and everybody's got the right to believe what they want and feel the way that they want to feel.
This notion that, oh my God, it's interfering with the game, that's not necessarily true.
Even the NBA players, with all of their involvement and social protests because of social unrest and things of that nature, they still went out there and performed in that bubble, gave us the problem.
The problem is though, when it hits the water.
When it hits the field and hits the court, then you're risking it viewed, and I think it is as political.
And once once that once that intersects, then you begin the process where you're alienating people's affection for the game.
I love sports for all the reasons you and I have ever talked about so many times.
It re mirrors life itself.
You get winning, losing, harder you work, better you do all the things that drive me as a conservative.
Yeah, but it but it d there's something, but see, things get missed along the way.
Like, for example, I brought up Kaepernick for a reason.
Do you know why I brought up Kaepernick for a reason?
Because long before Kaepernick took a knee, you had a Marshawn Lynch sitting down on a bench eating a banana during the national anthem.
No one said a word.
They didn't say a word.
But you understand how that how people respond to that without getting political.
You understand it.
It's like I do understand it.
But what I'm trying to say is that the case is a good thing.
You know what I want to go to a sport?
Let's say it's basketball.
And I'm watching LeBron James, or I'm watching God bless God rest Kobe Bryan's, you know, sold.
I I love Bird and I love Magic.
I love watching them.
Yep.
Um, I you know, whatever the sport happens to be, I like to watch the top of the field compete.
Okay.
That's it.
And for most Americans, I think they're like me yesterday.
Oh, we need a break.
Okay.
And all that.
I don't want to, I don't want to see the intersection, nor do I want to see, for example, all these athletes spend decades and decades getting getting strong and building their skills.
And then if this is taken to its ultimate conclusion and people don't go, all the money and opportunity is going to go with it.
First of all, if somebody that's cool with you, what did I tell you about asking those long winded questions without giving me an opportunity to answer?
I'm gonna get on you now.
You know, I uh I'm not scared to get on you now.
All right, that's number one.
Number two, here's the deal.
If you can't point to somebody literally interfering with the game, then you have to ultimately go back to the fact that as an American citizen not having your ability to enjoy the game impeded.
What is your problem?
You got a situation where people are going to be turned off of cortex.
They'll they recognize that it's a risk that they're willing to take.
They were clearly supported by the NFL and the National Basketball Association as well.
I gotta run, but I'm gonna tell you the last thing.
People are gonna get turned off, but they still show up and play the game and they don't interfere with the game, and they need to be given credit for that.
Robert Kraft said, anybody on this team, this is going back a couple of years when Kaepernick first happened, anybody on this team is any any charity that's gonna benefit people in our city.
I'll match you dollar for dollar.
Okay.
And and if I would argue if off-field people, if they enlisted the fans to help their causes, it would be far more effective.
That's my my final thought.
And and my final point to you is that not only do these athletes do that, but many of them do.
They're great.
There are no many of them do that, and more importantly, they put their own money with their mouth is.
They encourage people to do so themselves.
I got a roll.
And you have to consider the communities that they come from, and they still fight the good fights and are contributors to our society in very, very positive ways and need to be given more credit for that.
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We're learning uh from people we're talking to, uh familiar with the investigation, that they're getting indications, uh, some evidence that they've seen that indicates uh that there was some level of planning.
They've noticed uh from looking at surveillance cameras, from looking at some of the weaponry that showed up, that there were people who were at the ellipse where there was a Trump rally earlier in the day.
Some people left the scene of that rally early and appeared to have gone to retrieve weapons that then turned up at the scene of the riot at the Capitol.
So this was all planned out.
I want to get to this issue of coordination and premeditation because Aline, this is really the leading edge of this investigation.
And for the first time today, we heard the U.S. attorney say that he believes the pipe bombs are connected to the riders and that it was a diversionary tactic.
So, right at the height of this, between 1245 and 115, when President Trump is speaking, you have the first group pushing onto the Capitol complex.
The first pipe bomb is reported at the RNC headquarters here in Washington.
Then at 115, the second is reported at the DMC.
And the U.S. attorney said today he thought they were diversionary, which means they were an effort to pull first responders away from the Capitol at the very timeframe that they were breaching onto the Capitol, so it would further weaken security at that site.
And all of this goes to, I'm sorry, it's a long answer.
It all goes to the idea of premeditation and coordination among individuals.
One of the big questions for investigators has been whether or not whether uh the people who attacked the Capitol, uh whether this was a just a mob that just got out of control, or whether there was planning.
FBI notice warned of war at the Capitol, but for some reason, security wasn't stepped up there to meet the challenge that that attack would pose.
And how much of it was was planned, how much of this was um strategized ahead of time.
People wandering around exercising their first amendment rights, don't bring ropes and ladders and sledgehammers to a spontaneous event.
This was a planned assault as if going after a castle.
They are driven by hatred.
They hate Bill and Hillary Clinton so much they will stop at nothing to bring him down.
Because we are here as we are here today because the Republicans in the House are paralyzed with hatred of President Clinton, and until the Republicans free themselves of this hatred, our country will suffer.
And one of the reasons we all feel so angry about what they are doing is that they are ripping from us, they are ripping asunder our votes.
They are telling us that our votes don't count.
There must never be a narrowly voted impeachment or an impeachment supported by one of our major political parties and opposed by the other.
Bill Clinton acted deplorably in his personal behavior.
But what the American people are saying loudly and clearly is let's get on with the business.
Our democracy will be threatened if we destroy the due process and high standard that the founding fathers established over two centuries ago.
The process the majority has pursued in this matter has been partisan.
Driven, I believe, by animus and exceedingly unfair.
Like so many other acts of these last two Congresses, it has been unworthy of our duty and of our responsibility.
This is their president we are talking about.
And we in Congress had better be very careful before we upset their decision.
And make darn sure that our decision to impeach him was based upon principle and not politics.
My fear is that when a Republican wins the White House, Democrats will demand payback.
All right, there you have a lot to absorb as now uh every the three big issues have been focused on about where this impeachment shift show is gonna end up going this week.
A lot of things have now unraveled.
The reason you don't have a sh a snap impeachment with no investigation, certainly no investigation completed, because what are we learning?
We're learning about coordination.
We're learning about premeditation, we're learning about diversions that were put in place uh by people that had organized and planned.
What else does it tell us?
Well, if it was organized and it was pre-planned, unless Donald Trump was responsible and a part of the planning for the attack on the on the Capitol, uh, then Donald Trump's words of many of you will peacefully patriotically march to the Capitol today to let your voices be heard.
The fact that law enforcement had numerous warnings that things were going to happen, Ocasio Cortez was one of them.
We know intelligence uh services apparently had a number of others.
We know there were six separate requests by the Capitol chief of police to get National Guard in there before and even during what was going on, and and all of which was denied.
Uh and then, of course, you've got the double standard, and that is the words of the likes of Kamala, Joe, Nancy, Chuck Schumer, Maxime Waters, who's denying her words were ever meant to be uh inflammatory in any way, which is a joke, um, all now converging together as their case now falls apart as people try to walk back their comments or they try to minimize the comments they have made.
Insurrectionist comments based on their definition of insurrection.
Greg Jarrett, host of his new podcast, The Brief, author of two number one bestsellers, John Solomon, editor-in-chief, just the news.com, author of the best seller uh Fallout, here to discuss all of this.
John, I know you have from the news point of view.
Um, and now even the mob, the media, fake news, CNN, Washington Post, and pretty much every other outlet is recognizing court documents confirming even uh that in fact a lot of pre-planning went into this.
So no words of Donald Trump could have possibly insited a spontaneous insurrection.
Yeah, you're exactly right, uh Sean.
If you go through the hundred plus affidavits that the FBI have filed in the charging documents of all the people who've now been charged in the Capitol riots, you learned that the planning began in November, that by late December there was fundraising to get equipment, uh such as telecommunications so they could talk to people in their earpieces uh in riot gear,
uh, and then there were discussions of meetings and training, and uh th there are at least twelve affidavits that when you put the total number of bodies involved, it looks like sixty to eighty people were involved in some sort of pre-planning.
They were gonna meet up.
You've got Virginia talking about meeting North Carolina people, you got other people saying 30, 40 of us are going together, and we have all have our tactical plans, there's talks of commanders.
This was not a spontaneously cited riot.
This goes the same path as Benghazi.
Remember, we were told Benghazi was a riot, spontaneously spurred.
It turned out to be a planned terror attack.
This attack was planned for days and weeks, and the FBI's own evidence make it irrefutable.
And yesterday, the former police chief of the Capitol Police said he saw clear evidence that this was premeditated and pre-planned because the attackers were communicating with earpieces like the Secret Service uses to protect the president.
The storyline that was fed force fed us uh the day after uh this and in the week uh before the president was impeached is now demonstrably not true.
It's pretty amazing, all of which that they have claimed is false, which which it it should be such a highlight.
Now, I am glad to read today that the Republicans did they're going to play at this impe uh at these impeachment hearings, the words of the Democrats.
And let the American people now see what the show Hannity uh has been showing uh every single night and what the Sean Hannity radio show has been playing every day.
Uh Greg Jarrett.
Well, it's rank hypocrisy.
Uh, just look at Nancy Pelosi over the last four years.
She has used incendiary, inflammatory language, accusing Trump publicly of racism, fascism, uh, treason, sedition, bribery causing mass deaths.
Uh you know, Trump's words uh on January 6th pale by comparison.
But your point is well taken, Sean.
You cannot incite a pre-planned event.
Incitement involves inflammatory words that direct specific actions of violence or destruction.
And of course, nowhere in the President's speech did he do such a thing.
In fact, just the opposite.
He counseled the crowd to do it peacefully and patriotically when they marched down to the Capitol.
But now, as John points out, you've got real evidence, hard evidence that this was pre-planned.
And in fact, last Friday, uh federal prosecutors uh filed papers with a federal court uh saying that they have evidence that this was pre-planned well in advance.
Again, you cannot incite a pre-planned event.
So this is what happens when you rush into an impeachment without bothering to engage in even the semblance of an investigation when you rush to judgment without reviewing or even presenting evidence in the House.
They voted to impeach within a week.
They held no hearings, they offered no right to counsel uh a right to cross-examine or present uh defense evidence.
It was a farce, it was a sham.
And now, as a result, you get a Senate trial in which the outcome is predetermined, and these senators are for the most part apathetic.
They just want to get through it as quickly as possible and vote to acquit.
You know, I well, they I think they do, but they haven't quite telegraphed yet exactly whether there's gonna be witnesses or not.
Now, the minute they call witnesses, doesn't the sh uh trial at that point just stop?
And doesn't the defense get time to prepare to uh cross examine, if you will, although this really isn't even by any by any definition uh an anything that resembles a courtroom, otherwise the impeachment wouldn't have happened in the first place in the House with no witnesses called, no time spent, no investigation undertaken, none whatsoever.
They just pushed it through in a week because they wanted a bludgeon Trump one more time.
They may play video tapes in their evidence presentation at the outset, along with arguments of you know people saying how traumatized they were and so forth.
Those aren't real witnesses, they're not live witnesses.
There won't be a vote on whether to actually have live witnesses that would include cross-examination until the conclusion of the arguments and presentation of the evidence, which is mostly videotape.
And at that point, I I do expect the senators to vote uh witnesses down.
They they just don't want to go through it.
And I think it'll become clear to most senators after the presentation of the arguments that this is going nowhere except an acquittal.
Yeah, I think you're right.
Now, John Solomon, you're in touch with kind of both sides.
You got your ear to the ground in Washington.
All right.
Democrats, they want to lay out the most incendiary case they can.
Uh fight, fight, fight.
Well, we played montages of Democrats saying fight, fight, fight, fight, fight over uh, you know, for years.
You know, fight like hell.
Okay.
Let's go fight like hell.
Everything's at stake this election.
Targeted districts.
Remember the lawsuit, I think, is even still pending with Sarah Palin.
Bob Beckle invented targeting districts uh for defeat in an election.
Uh but it's the same standard every time.
It is.
And and you know, the Democrats will try to cherry pick statements that some of the participants in the um uh riot made and say this is proof that the president uh uh incited them.
These people were inspired by the president.
But the decision in the Supreme Court Brandenburg makes clear what incitement is, and and it is overwhelmingly clear that this attack was planned in advance, and you can't, as Greg said, you can't incite something that was already planned.
And I think the folly of it will become clear very quickly.
There'll be some emotional appeals, and then you'll get to the facts, and when you get to the facts, senators are just not going to have the evidence to uh convict, just like they didn't have the evidence to convict in the first impeachment trial.
And then the question becomes why did we go through this a second time?
And there's a danger of a very significant political boomerang coming back across America when people realize we just wasted more time, another trial on something that ended in uh right where we began with the president being declared innocent.
Uh, how does this end, John Solomon?
I think when people realize that the Chief Justice of the United States, which the Constitution says shall, meaning he's required to preside over this, would not participate in this, and they see Pat Lahey in the chair, they're gonna realize what a partisan sham this was.
Yeah, I agree.
Uh, Greg Jarrett, do you think the public eventually understands?
I I think people understand what a snap impeachment is at this point.
Yeah, they absolutely do.
And they realize that the House Speaker is consumed with hatred, or Democratic caucus uh uh resembled lemmings marching to the sea, and they rushed into this.
And, you know, as John said, uh, the folly of it is exposed by the absence of facts.
And once, you know, Americans see this presented in the United States Senate that there really is no incriminating evidence and only exculvatory evidence.
They will conclude is as I long ago concluded that this is just a colossal waste of time, and it's it's driven by partisan politics, and they're doing great damage to the Constitution and uh the impeachment clause of that esteemed document as envisioned in Britain by our founding fathers.
It's a shame.
All right, I want to thank you both.
Very insightful.
There's gonna be a lot of noise, a lot of emotion, a lot of theater with a predetermined outcome.
Can you think of going to a play and you know how it ends, and there's no suspense, but they'll make it seem like it's bigger than ever, and hopefully now that the Republicans are gonna fight fire with fire, that'll be an effective defense.
All right, thank you both.
800-941 Sean, you want to be a part of the program.
All right, a little more on the Super Bowl, double standard, media mob in all things.
Joe Concha joins us, uh, and we'll get to your calls, final hour of the program, news round up news roundup information overload hour is next.
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So many people talking about the big game.
Let it go for the record.
I think everybody on Team Hannity here picked the Bucs.
Did everyone pick the Bucks, Linda?
I think you picked up.
No, definitely.
And you said it was going to be a big margin.
I think you won on the margin aspect of it.
A lot of us thought it would be closer.
I called Tampa Bay for winning by 17, but they won by I think 21 or 22.
But uh Jason was uh big uh they had to be a big thing.
He's a big Brady hater, so he was not for the Buccaneers.
No, it was not for the Buccaneers.
Oh man.
I'll tell you.
Ethan, what did you call?
What did you want?
I didn't really care.
No, I wanted Brady to win.
I've my heart was with getting seven Super Bowl rings.
That's insane.
Katie wanted the Chiefs.
Oh, poor, uh, we feel bad for Katie, but she's I don't feel bad for anybody.
All right, let's play some highlights from Super Bowl 55.
Dude, Jinx spagnola?
Usually it's the guy you're talking.
One of those weird announcer jinxes.
Here's Brady's pass.
It's Gronkowski.
Wouldn't they quite that high?
Of course, the career not as long either.
First and ten, Brady from the pocket.
He's got Evans.
It's going on this year.
Second and 13.
Packed into the hands of Gronkowski.
And it's soaring to win.
Second drive.
Now it stops to stop again.
Brady, play action.
Looking.
Third option.
End zone.
Caughtowski again with the touchdown.
Hold on.
There's a flag with 18 seconds.
Brady goes in the middle of the field to Fournette, who powers down to the nine.
They still have that one timeout.
You fake it here, and then you run on an extra if you don't get it.
There's the fake.
There's the pass.
And there's the catch for the touchdown.
Antonio Brown.
Just unbelievable route by Antonio Brown.
And what a job.
Brady throws this ball down low and way when no one can get it for him.
Fournette.
Touchdown.
Tampa Bay.
It's time.
He's gonna be tough.
Third and 14.
He heaves it.
Smacked away, and on the deflection, it's intercepted.
Fourth and nine.
Again.
Running for his life.
Mahomes.
Got it away.
Incomplete.
Here comes Mahomes.
Trying to find the end zone.
And no.
How about that?
One last indignity.
Antonio Brown looked like his career was over.
Bronkowski comes out of retirement.
Fournette was looking for a home.
And when the Super Bowl ended, the ball would be in the hands of Tom Brady.
I don't know why we ever think it won't.
All right.
By the way, thanks to our friends at uh CBS Ports for uh the great great calls.
Uh our and and so many people.
I thought Jim Nance did a great job calling the game as as he always does.
I thought it was a great halftime show with the commentary there.
Um I wasn't the biggest fan of the halftime music uh segments, but whatever.
I'm a little older.
I you know, I want like the stones and the who.
Uh I guess uh ages me, Joe Conscience, wouldn't you say?
Who's that?
Yeah, exactly.
If you don't know who the Who is, you're you're really full of crap because I know you know.
I know, I know.
Yeah, look.
I was watching that.
It was the weekend that was performing.
And Besides getting a little bit dizzy and probably being a bit too sober to absorb that halftime show, I just came to the conclusion I'm just old and I just don't get it anymore.
So we're in the same boat.
Yeah.
Um all right, so you put out a tweet.
It says this is Brady's greatest victory.
He went to team, uh, went to a team with a losing identity, didn't know the coach, didn't know most of the players.
He beats Brees, Rogers, and Mahomes, um, which was pretty darn phenomenal in the lead up to this big game on Sunday, which I thought the big story line for me was the quarterback story, because Mahomes Mahomes is a franchise quarterback.
This this will not, my view, be as long as he stays healthy, hopefully, uh, his last Super Bowl.
And but I mean, you when you think of beating all three of these franchise quarterbacks on the way to winning your seventh Super Bowl, it speaks volumes, doesn't it?
I mean, we we talked about being old before, and Brady did all that.
He beat Rogers and he beat Brees and he beat Mahomes.
Mahomes was six years old when Brady went to his first Super Bowl.
Think about that for a second.
It's insane.
He he did all this and he did it on a team, like he mentioned, where he doesn't know the coach, right?
And it's a it's a losing organization for the most part.
They've been a one Super Bowl out of the 54 that were played to that point.
And the fact that Tom Brady was able to just not only just win, but dominate, it just tells you that it's a culture thing with him, too, right?
Yeah, he's got the talent, of course, but where he goes, he changes the culture of that team, and it helps to have a defense like that too, which just made Patrick Mahomes look utterly human.
So overall, I mean, look, we got to see a Super Bowl, which, if you told me in September, these guys grunting and spitting on each other, and you know, obviously the close physical contact during a pandemic, the fact that the NFL was able to pull this off is utterly remarkable, and we we got to have a little escape as of yesterday for lunch.
Yeah, I know, right?
A little, and and what was your meal of choice?
Mine was uh Philly cheesesteak, soup.
Nothing really too crazy.
I you know, I wish I had I wish I had something better to tell people that I had to eat.
I ended up not eating that much.
Oh, that's funny.
That it was the first Super Bowl I could remember ever.
Starting in my childhood, when my parents used to bring me the Super Bowl party through college, through my young adulthood, I host a Super Bowl party almost every year, that I actually watched it without another man next to me.
But fortunately, my wife kind of knows her stuff because she had a fancy team this year, so it wasn't all that bad.
I had Chile and Bourbon and couldn't be happier.
Yeah, uh unbelievable time.
And I guess people can pretty much argue from now until the cows come home, you know, you know, who's the greatest of all time, which is fine with me, but with that said, um, you can't deny that Tom Brady, there's something about his fierceness.
Now, if you're a Robert Kraft, who I know and like, I've met him a number of times.
I like him a lot, and you're Bill Belichick and you're watching the game yesterday.
What are you thinking?
I'm thinking, wow, maybe we should have let that guy go.
I got why they did, you know, because he was there for you know 20 years, and you do the math, and you're like, huh, what what 43-year-old quarterback has ever won a Super Bowl?
No one I don't think a quarterback over 40's ever won a Super Bowl before.
And I guess they just felt, okay, he's at his end, and we have to break up at some point.
But yeah, just to watch Tom Brady, and the fact that he had to be asked, by the way, uh, about his support for Donald Trump.
What?
He's part of 74 million people.
That's such a big deal.
I saw USA Todaycom where the columnist actually said that Tom Brady hasn't been held accountable for his support of Trump.
Held accountable.
But what does that mean exactly?
I mean, it's just funny how Trump has to be tied into everything, including this guy, Tom Brady, who is just a role model.
He's an exemplary figure, he's a great dad, he's a friendly guy.
He's a competitor, as you said.
You saw him up in the face of a couple of chief defenders on more than one occasion, and this guy just wins.
I mean, to win seven Super Bowls, the next closest guy is a guy named Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw, and they have four.
It's not even close.
You you you witnessed greatness yesterday on the level of Michael Jordan or pick your great performer, Babe Ruth.
Yeah, unbelievable uh times that we have.
But you know, you said something too.
I mean, think of this week coming up here.
You got this impeachment shift shade, shift show charade is what we call it.
And you know, the divisiveness in Washington is is what it is, and you see the media coverage and you follow it every day.
If if the now that we know that this was a lot of premeditation, a lot of coordination, a lot of planning went into what happened on the sixth.
It takes away an entire narrative that Donald Trump's rhetoric incited the insurrection at the Capitol, unless they can show that Donald Trump was plotting and scheming and planning with those that were plotting and scheming and planning, which they're not going to be able to do.
It shows A, why you don't have a snap impeachment.
B, that it was all planned ahead of time.
Now, did some people that had attended the rally, a small percentage, tiny percentage of them join in stupidly?
Yeah, they did.
They're all probably going to get in trouble for it.
But there were people that were organizing this, and even more importantly, are the intelligence failures, the law enforcement failures.
And I believe too, at some level, probably the congressional level, failures there, because if Casio Cortez knew a week before the insurrection that this was this was being planned, uh, did she tell Speaker Pelosi?
Did she tell the sergeant of arms?
Did she tell the Capitol Police?
You know, who told what to who and when?
And that's the thing.
We're not getting any answers, Sean.
I mean, the Capitol Police, they still have not held a press conference to talk about, take questions about how they were so overwhelmed and undermanned for an event that apparently more than a few people knew was coming.
We knew that January 6th was probably going to get ugly in some capacity.
Not obviously where anybody's gonna storm the Capitol.
There wasn't a person on the planet that that could have predicted that.
But yeah, they're they're not answering any questions.
And the fact that we have to go through, as you call it, it is.
It's a sham impeachment because they don't have the votes to convict.
And even to convict, convict what, to remove the president from office?
I believe he did that on his own a couple of weeks ago.
He's in Mar-a-Lago right now.
So we might as well just impeach, you know, George Washington at this point, because retroactively, when you think about it, he did own slaves, and I can't stand.
So this this president now, it's we're we're gonna have every time a party's in power.
I hope Republicans don't do this, but you're gonna have a president get impeached, just as you said, in a snap way, just to put on political theater that Americans hate at this point.
We're in the middle of pandemic, we've got a thousand problems going on, and now the Senate that can't even pass COVID release with with the House, you know, with all those people hurting, particularly those guys in the Keystone Pipeline are out of work.
Well, we're gonna concentrate on this now for a week and in our media.
Well, hey, they're they t tickle pink about this because they get to bash Trump for another week and stand up on their soapboxes and and do all their rousing and go viral types of speeches on television.
But after this, man, then the plunge comes for the CNNs and MSNBCs of the world because they don't have their JRUing anymore to kick around in Donald Trump, and you're gonna see rating sponges.
We already saw it a week after Biden's inauguration.
CNN nearly lost half its audience, 44% week to week, and that's what's going to happen again after this impeachment.
And we'll get back to normal, except for Fox News.
I know I'm an employee and all, but at least we're going to scrutinize the Biden administration to hold the powerful accountable.
But those other two networks, they're going to learn real quick by cheerleading an administration and not asking the tough questions.
People are going to tune out in a big hurry, and hey, they they they bathe their own grave here, Sean.
I've lived through the cycles.
I kind of love this Joe Concha.
I mean, it happens every time.
Well, uh let's see.
Bill Clinton got elected.
That's it for for guys like Rush Limbaugh and other guys in talk radio and Hannity and and so many others.
I'm like, no, that was the beginning of uh yeah, opposition voices arising in the country, which had been a rarity prior to 1988 when Rush started.
I started in radio in 1987, my first time.
And then you look, oh, okay, what are you gonna do now?
You have a Republican in office.
That's it, your careers are over.
Now there's always a transition.
People kind of get burnt out after from politics after tough elections, but they all come running back when the issues start to matter, and they're gonna matter here faster than usual.
And then Obama's elected.
Oh, what's Hannity gonna talk about now?
He doesn't have a Republican on office.
Oh, what's Hannity gonna talk about a Republican's in office?
Donald Trump, oh, what's Hannity gonna talk about Joe Biden's in office?
And, you know, I just sit there and I've lived through all of these cycles and all of the predictions of my demise.
And I'm like, okay, been here, not my first rodeo.
I could write the stories for them, and then I can write the comeback aspect for them too if they wanted to hear that part of it.
They don't.
You have your job, don't you?
I'm I'm getting I'm getting the feeling that you you like doing four hours of uh radio and television every day.
I mean, do you ever think you'd be at this point in in in your career where you're just I mean, that's that's what twenty.
My honest answer is I feel blessed to do it every day.
Um I'm worried about the country.
I just as so many of so many other Americans are.
Um Worried about the state of media.
It's it's never been this vicious or bad or false in terms of the things they report, the lies they tell, the conspiracy theories they peddle.
Um we've never been under more fire, but I'm kind of used to that part of it because it uh I built up enough immunities to last me 400 lifetimes at this point.
The trick is to say on social media that that's an ugly place, and I think you do, right?
So that that that gives you peace of mind, but yeah, uh overall what we're looking at here as far as the Biden administration, plenty of things to talk about as far as particularly these executive orders, right?
He says in October before the election, uh if you pass executive orders and don't go through the Congress, you're acting like a dictator.
Now he's literally acting like a dictator.
And and the consequences are already uh very dire in terms of around these things.
So it's it's gonna be interesting.
I'm curious to see who now becomes the leader of the Republican Party, right?
Uh, because Donald Trump really doesn't have an avenue in terms of speaking, right?
Unless he has to do a rally or get in front of a microphone.
But who now emerges and becomes the face of the Republican Party?
Is it like a Ron DeSantis or Christy Gnome?
I who who do you got money on?
Like who do you like as like is it a Pompeo?
Is it a does Cruz or Rubio or any of these cut guys jump in?
I mean, who knows?
I mean, it and what is Donald Trump do?
I mean, you can't you can't s the guy that wrote the order, the comeback, I wouldn't I wouldn't write him off so quick.
I I would think if he's healthy, the odds are pretty high he would he'll be in consideration for running.
And I think if he runs again, yeah, then those other candidates are toast.
I mean, how do how do you uh trail a 50, 60 million vote head start if say 60 percent of Republicans want him to run again?
I wouldn't want that mission, Joe Concha, and I take on a lot of battles, so I don't need that one.
All right, my friend, thank you.
When is it that the Biden administration is gonna let the thousands of uh fossil fuel industry workers, whether it's pipeline workers or construction workers who are either out of work or will soon be out of work because of E.O. uh when it is and where it is that they can go for their green job, and that is something the administration has promised.
Uh there is now a gap.
So I'm just curious when that happens, when those people can count on that.
Well, I'd certainly welcome you to present your data of all the thousands and thousands of people who uh won't be getting a green job.
Maybe next time you're here you can present that.
But you said that they would be getting green jobs, so I'm just asking when that happens.
So, how about this?
Uh the laborers International Union of North America said the Keystone Decision will cost 1,000 existing union jobs and 10,000 projected construction jobs.
Well, what Mr. Trump uh also indicated in the same interview was that President Biden has proposed a climate plan with transformative investments and infrastructure and laid out a plan that will not only create millions of good union jobs, but also help tackle the climate crisis.
Uh yeah, let's circle back on that.
Should we circle back?
Let's circle back.
I'm gonna circle back on all of this.
This is now what they're aiming to do.
Everything is going to be climate, climate, climate.
The UN climate envoy, Mark Carney, climate crisis deaths will be worse than COVID.
It will be the equivalent of a coronavirus crisis every year.
The world is gonna end in twelve years.
It's a point of no return.
Massachusetts climate officials, sixty percent of emissions come from people driving their cars and heating their homes.
We will have to break their will.
What are we supposed to bicycle to work now?
Okay.
AOC Bernie introducing a bill to declare national climate emergency.
Well, what's the purpose of that?
This way they can use emergency government powers to implement anything they want, all in the name of a climate emergency.
This is how nuts this is all getting and is has been getting.
This is what the Green New Deal always was about.
All right, let's go to Sheila is in Texas.
Sheila, hi, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Mr. Hannity, I'm good.
How are you doing?
I'm good.
What's going on with you?
Oh, I was just calling to talk to you about this article that came out in Time magazine about the shadow conspiracy to uh to fortify the election of 2020.
Have you seen it?
Pretty I I have seen it.
I have read it.
A lot of my friends have been asking me about it, and it's it's pretty fascinating because what it it kind of confirms is that you know what?
There really was a little cabal of people that no matter what, you know, wanted Donald Trump out.
It it's it's sort of like a a deep state.
What the red state had an interesting headline.
Why did Time magazine spill the beans about anti Trump's shadow campaign and all but confirming it?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's kind of, you know what?
It names names, you know?
It names names of all these groups, left and right, never Trumper types and others, all coordinating, well-funded, working to change election laws, control the flow of information.
All of that was chronicled.
Well, you know what?
We'll put it up on Hannity.com.
worth the read you know in the sake of preserving democracy they basically have done the exact opposite of democracy And for those that are fine with the outcome, that's fine now that their guy won, but you know, that's not always going to be the case.
It's more of a selection than an election.
And it's quite frankly the opposite of what this country is supposed to be about.
It's very disturbing.
And I I think, you know, that this information is is more information than they had when they pulled up the Russia collusion thing with Trump, you know.
This is way more than they had then.
And I just don't understand why nobody's paying attention to it.
And it's a confession, and why nobody's, you know, asserting a special counsel, appointing a special counsel to maybe at least look into it.
Because people aren't stupid, and Americans see what's going on.
And what it describes, let me see if I can get this right.
And you tell me if and this is after reading the whole thing, is kind of admitting that you've got a cabal of left wing radical uh leftists.
Uh all these different groups, elitists, uh institutionalists, individuals, and what was a a comprehensive conspiracy, if you like that word, without without this being a conspiracy theory.
They they are revealing this.
This is not something I'm making up.
This is what they're saying.
And that they really just a well coordinated effort at all levels to stop the election of Donald Trump and to prevent it from happening.
And it is all these groups working and coordinating in ways that I think would shock most Americans.
Absolutely.
I think all Americans should read it, and no matter who you vote for.
I mean, like I said, it's an attack on on our freedoms.
It's attack on the on the way our country does elections.
It's you know, these people are so arrogant that they think that they're doing it for the greater good, but that's exactly not what the voting process is about.
They did not let democracy be done because they wanted to make sure that the outcome was what they wanted, because in their mind Donald Trump is an assault on democracy.
Yeah, look, uh, it's very disturbing.
Look, all of this with cancel culture, all of this to silence talk radio, a few of us on Fox, all of this to cancel conservative voices on social media, all of the suppression of what were real news stories like like the Hunter Biden uh laptop issued prior to the election,
uh, but even more importantly, not only did they ignore the real Russia collusion, Hillary's dirty dossier, the the Russian disinformation that was then used as a predicate and a lie to obtain Pfizer warrants to spy on a presidential candidate and a president, in this case Donald Trump, they never went with that story, but they they they did advance every eight second hour of every day for years the whole Russia collusion hoax.
And it is a hoax.
It always was a hoax.
They never cared about the truth.
They don't care about correcting the record at this point.
So yeah, you have I what I the way I've been saying it my own way, but it and this just confirms a lot of what I've been saying, and that is that we have powerful institutions in this great country, sadly, Sheila, that are failing we the people on a spectacular level.
Democratic Party, there's no lie too big they won't tell, no bit of propaganda they won't advance.
The mob in the media, They are the press office for all things radical democratic socialists now.
There's there's no hiding it anymore.
Big tech, full coordination, efforts to silence conservative voices left and right, even stop competitors from emerging, like in the case of parlor, and hiding pertinent information that voters would use in the lead up to an election.
It's it's uh it's kind of scary.
It's not the type of thing that I thought we'd ever see in this country.
Any of these things I just mentioned, I never thought could happen here.
Now it happens, it happens on a regular basis, and nobody gets held accountable for it.
And so what does this mean for our future?
Well, I could tell you one thing, what it means is it's not gonna be good.
There's nothing good that can come out of the lie becoming the truth and the lie being advanced by some of the most powerful institutions in society that has the greatest reach to we the people.
Um it's it's this gonna this is uh it's gonna be a very, very, very fascinating time and defining moment in our history how this all plays out.
Um, Ryan in Georgia.
Hey Ryan, how are you?
Hey, Sean, good, how are you?
I'm good.
What's going on?
Good.
Um, so listen, I was on listening last week, um, and you guys had a caller up.
Um she was from Cuba.
And uh she was, you know, she was saying how she's a Republican, she was fleeing socialism, she was fleeing communism.
Um it's funny because I was, you know, I talked to one of my good friends often, who's from South Florida, um, and grew up or you know, 30 years old, grew up with, you know, a bunch of Hispanic friends.
Um, but he said he always said the one thing is they're all, you know, very they swing very very far to the left.
Um, but all of their friends' parents, they're all Republicans.
You know, they're the ones that immigrated here, they're the ones that kind of know what is actually behind the curtain.
And I just wanted to ask you what you think the disconnect is between the youth, because I, you know, I see a lot of you know older people that are you know, conservative Republicans and all their, you know, the younger kids, they're all, you know, hard left.
You know, I well, there's two things to think of.
One, Churchill, if you're 20 and not a liberal, you don't have a heart, 40, not a conservative, you don't have a brain.
Factor that part in, okay.
But there's something bigger, deeper that goes on.
Every human being, now, you know, if if you believe as I do, where human beings are mind, body, soul, I believe we're all created by the same God, and you have to factor that into things.
But as as it's every single human being has a natural fear, worry, concern.
It just depends where on the scale you might fall on on that level.
We should all have concern, but when concern becomes worry and fear, you you're probably letting your mind go too far, and and for some people it can even become incapacitating.
But the the natural questions that any human being has, okay, I I've got to provide for where I live, I gotta provide for my transportation, I gotta provide and put food on my table, I've got to provide and get a car and pay the rent or pay the mortgage, whatever you have.
If you have kids, now you gotta okay, you gotta think about sending them to college.
You gotta think about a college fund.
You gotta think about books and clothes and all the other associated expenses.
So there is a certain appeal, and it seems to be more for young people that tend to be idealistic, having not really lived in the real world, indoctrinated by in academia by liberal, you know, former deadhead professors uh that it seemed to have gravitated towards academia, but yeah, you have an appeal to everything's free.
Now, socialism, I wrote a whole chapter in Live Free or Die about it.
It's history of failure.
Whatever name you give it, whatever manifestation it takes on, the idea that the horrible rich people have too much money, and we're gonna take their money and we're gonna redistribute it, we're gonna provide you and guarantee you government job, government uh paid leave, government vacations, government healthy food, government health care, uh, government retirement.
You know, there's a wow, I don't, I don't, I don't have any more fear, anxiety, or worry for the rest of my life.
My government's gonna take care of that for me.
And the gut check on this for everybody, we have to look beyond the words, the false promises, Because the one the one thing I learned studying this for this chapter on socialism, and I've discussed over the years, is that there are always promises that will never ever be fulfilled.
Ever.
It's unsustainable.
Number one.
Number two, in every case, it leads to more poverty, not more prosperity.
And number three, in the process of empowering, quote, politicians, people give up a degree of their freedoms in the name of false security.
At the time the experiment fails, the question remains well, how much of your freedom did you lose in the process of believing the big lie?
If governments were successful at keeping their promises, then every city and every town run by liberal democrat for decades would be safe and secure.
There'd be peace and prosperity.
It's non-existent in most.
In every state run by liberal Democrats for decades, the school system, the next basic fundamental thing government promises our kids.
Well, they have the worst scores, the worst schools, the most violence, and they are the biggest failure.
and they don't offer parents school choice uh i can look to obamacare most recent example of a big government program that flopped failed and every promise made was broken And that is keep your doctor, millions lost their doctor.
Keep your plans, millions lost their plans, pay less.
We're all paying on average over 200% more.
So why would we believe this Bernie Biden AOC Green New Deal manifesto of theirs?
Because anytime it's been tried throughout history, it has failed.
The appeal is the same.
Rich people, it's ill-gotten gains.
I don't know people that don't.
The only way you make money that I see, unless you inherited it, and I don't know those people, is that you work hard and produce goods and services others want, need, and desire.
And that's what makes capitalism the most honest system of governance that brings the best out of people, and that has resulted in America, you know, literally advancing the human condition, not only for the people in this country, but around the world.
It's our innovation or invention that came up with Operation Warp Speed, which came up with a vaccine for coronavirus that we share with the world.
That's that's only one example.
Umsportation, another example.
So does that answer your question?
Absolutely, man.
I appreciate it.
I love the show.
All right, I appreciate it.
Long-winded answer, but it deserves the time, in my opinion.
It really does because it's an important question.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
Please set your DBR Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern on the Fox News Channel.
Preview of the latest impeachment shift charade show on DC.
Lindsey Graham, Alan Dershwitz, Newt Gang Ritual Way In.
Also, Matt Gates joins us.
Lara Logan investigates and Lawrence Jones at the border, and Iowa governor Kim Reynolds on COVID changes in that state.
All coming up tonight, 9 Eastern, Hannity on Fox.
We'll see you then.
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