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Yeah, we've got the border crisis.
Yeah, we got more Cuomo news, uh, and so much more that we're going to get to in the course of the program today.
Oh, we got an ad voter integrity updates that we're going to pass on to you as well.
We got Biden news, though.
He's now finally agreed to hold his very first press conference.
No president, last hundred years has waited this long to have a formal press conference.
It's going to be next Thursday at March 25th.
Now, do you remember when in February the Daily Beast broke the story that the White House tried to set the precedent for circle back?
I'll circle back, I'll circle back, circle back with you.
Jen Saki, the White House uh press secretary from Daily Briefings.
She tried to set the president that, you know, reactions that uh maybe they would provide the questions in advance so that she won't have to circle back so much.
Remember, the reaction from reporters was quote mixed.
Which means I guess that some are actually willing to go along with that plan.
But yet they call themselves journalists.
That would be one of the things that you normally wouldn't agree to.
Like I look, I'm I'm always and will forever be convinced that George Stephanopoulos is the same guy that would get on the phone with Bill Clinton and let's see, Rama Manual, Deadfish, and John Podesta and our old friend James Carpel every day.
And the same guy in the in the video, you can buy it online war room that was saying you'll never work in this town again if you're a reporter.
I think it was the Jennifer Flowers thing at the time.
Threatening reporters.
Wonder how that would go over in this day and age of the.
What is names and dressed up?
I can send you a facts with names, addresses, phone numbers of who you had an affair with.
It wouldn't make it true.
It is completely if you went on the radio and said that Bill Clinton is uh the father of illegitimate by child, you would be laughed at.
You would think you're crazy.
I guarantee you that if you do this.
So I might not even be able to do it until right o'clock.
You'll never work in democratic politics again.
Oh.
You never work in politics again.
Never work again.
Well, I'd say that's weren't they complaining that?
Well, what did we learn this week about Cuomo?
The people were calling around saying, Oh, what's your support for Cuomo?
How many vaccines do you need?
And that was part of the question.
Now we learned today too, and we'll get to this a little later.
They were apparently there was a plan being bannered about on how to destroy the credibility of the first woman, this woman, Lindsay Boylan, who made the allegations against Andrew Cuomo.
Immediately adopting the Clinton attack playbook.
That is discredit, intimidate, and destroy the first accuser.
That also has come out this week.
I don't see many.
Where is Kamala Harris on this?
I don't think she's ever been asked by anybody.
Anyway, so that did come up.
So the question, I guess, is will the suck up, you know, Biden media, you know, the ones that put him Allowed him to stay in the basement bunker with the basement bunker mentality during the whole election.
I called it the candidate protection program, the big tech media mob candidate protection program.
Yeah, that one.
They didn't really we didn't get answers about the filibuster, ending the legislative filibuster, did we?
Before the election.
We didn't really get answers to DC and Puerto Rico and statehood, did we?
We didn't really get questions about and answers to the question about packing the courts now all legitimately on the table.
You know, Biden actually lied through his teeth to George Stephanopoulos.
He said, you know, in the debate in September, he told them, he said, tell emigrants if you're fleeing oppression, you should come.
This is what he said.
What I would do as president is several more things, because things have changed.
I would in fact make sure that there is we immediately surge to the border.
All those people are seeking asylum.
They deserve to be heard.
That's who we are.
We're a nation that says if you want to flee and you're fleeing oppression, you should come.
Wow.
This is what he said to George Stephanopoulos.
It seems to be getting worse by the day.
Was it a mistake not to anticipate this surge?
Well, first of all, there was a surge the last two years and 19 and 20, there was a surge as well.
This one might be worse.
No, well, it could be.
But here's the deal.
We're sending back people to for first of all, the idea that Joe Biden said come because uh I I heard the other day that they're they're coming because they know I'm a nice guy and I won't get it.
Yeah.
Well, here's the deal.
They're not.
Do you have to say quite clearly, don't come?
Yes, I can say quite clearly, don't come and we're in the process of getting set up.
Don't leave your town or city or community.
Process we're setting up.
Okay, well, we're gonna give you what engraved invitations later.
Well, how's that gonna help Americans that are out of work because of the pandemic or the all the workers that were working building the construction wall that have now been given pink slips or all the workers in the energy sector?
I don't know, but back to this thing.
So I have no trust in George Stephanopoulos.
So well, well, what are the topics you'd like to cover, George?
You think that conversation took place?
I don't know.
I'm a little suspicious.
But you know, the Daily Beast's not exactly conservative.
Yahoo News even picked up the story.
Uh and I'll read verbatim with less than two weeks till the to President Biden's administration reporters are raising concerns that the White House press office staffers are trying to get them to give advanced notice on which questions they they plan on asking at briefings during a White House Correspondence Association's Zoom call last Friday.
Reporters brought up the issue of uh Saki's team trying to coax their questions out of them ahead of time.
Multiple sources telling the Daily Beast that the leaders of the White House Correspondents Association advised reporters to push back or not to respond to such requests.
Quote, while it's a relief to see briefings returned, what do you what do you mean a relief?
Donald Trump had a briefing almost daily, but anyway.
The press can't really do its job in the briefing room if the White House is picking and choosing the questions that they want.
One unnamed White House correspondent telling the Daily Beast.
That's not really a free press at all.
Eric Schultz, deputy press secretary in the Obama White House, defended the practice of screening questions.
This is textbook communications work.
The briefing becomes meaningless if the press secretary has to repeatedly punt questions instead of coming equipped to discuss what journalists are reporting on.
Oh, is that how we say it's actually just standard operating procedure?
Because I don't think there was any heads up given to anybody.
I'll ask Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and I'll ask Kaylee McEnani and I'll ask Sean Spicer, because I doubt they got any of these questions ahead of time.
In a non-COVID environment, this this would happen in casual conversation throughout the day and lower and upper press.
And one of the few upsides to reporters hovering over your desk all day is that you get a very quick sense of what they are working on.
Later in the day, several current former White House correspondents, so it's a legitimate question based on the Daily Beast story and what they're saying.
Look, I want to get to this issue, though, and this Is everything we told you about, everything we warned you about, is now becoming a scary nightmare scenario reality.
And that was before the election.
Like we talked at length about ending the legislative filibuster.
We didn't get that answer from the Biden campaign.
We got it last night.
We want to make it harder.
And well, that's what Joe Manchin said.
That means that they're going to filibuster, meaning you have to keep talking and talking and talking to tie things up.
And the idea is to make it impossible, because how long can one senator stand up and talk without actually leaving the chamber to even go to the bathroom?
I mean, that's how bizarre that would get, which is one of the reasons I'm sure they probably did it.
Remember, you know, we've been watching all of these executive actions that Joe Biden himself said, I'm not a dictator.
I got to get the votes.
Well, he's now legislating through executive fiat and the stroke of a pen.
Unconstitutional as that is, and you don't really see many Democrats upset that he's completely ignoring a co-equal branch of government, that being the legislative branch.
Then everything that they're trying to pass, they're willing to use the reconciliation process as a means of bypassing the 60 votes needed to move a bill forward.
Apparently planning on using it a lot.
The issue of court packing is being investigated.
DC and Puerto Rico statehood is now being investigated, using everything reconciliation.
We're going to use what?
A simple majority and the legislative filibuster to pass HR one, which would, I believe, usurp the constitutional authority given state legislatures.
That wouldn't be good either.
Now, there was some pushback.
Finally, uh Mitch McConnell has answered, and he has said yesterday that if they scrap the filibuster, that they will cause, quote, a 100-car pile up for bills in Congress.
Mitch McConnell further goes on defending the procedure.
Now, Mitch McConnell, remember, President Trump was pressuring him all throughout his presidency.
If they get power back, they're going to do it.
You might as well do it yourself.
That was President Trump's argument.
Anyway, but this is the procedure that that requires 60 votes to consider a bill.
Now, Dick Durbin, we have on record.
He's actually commented, as has, for example, Chucky Schumer and Amy Klobuchar.
Now it's interesting, Republicans have control of the Senate in 2018, and wow, all of these Democrats are against the eliminating the filibuster.
They're all against lending eliminating the legislative filibuster.
Well, let's play them two years ago versus now, or two and a half years ago versus now.
What about that nuclear option doing away with the filibuster?
Well, I can tell you that would be the end of the Senate as it was originally uh devised and created going back to our founding fathers.
Today's filibuster is often used to prevent the Senate from even starting to debate important ideas.
It's not the guarantor of democracy.
It has become the death grip of democracy.
I said, let's not do the Supreme Court.
We should have 60 votes, which we still do, because we should get bipartisan support.
We hope our Republican colleagues will work with us to produce that change.
We will try to get them to work with us.
But if not, we will put our heads together and figure out how to go, and everything is on the table.
The point is, we still left the 60 votes in place for the Supreme Court.
And Mitch McConnell changed that.
I would prefer to bring it back.
We are where we are.
And now I don't think anyone's gonna want to hamstring themselves.
I favor getting rid of the filibuster.
I think we have too much we have to do for this country.
Oh, because what we're doing is way more important than what Republicans were doing when they had control of the chamber.
Now, McConnell said if they do this, that they would he would then resort to using every arcane Senate rule available.
One of, by the way, one rule even requires, quote, unanimous consent to turn the lights on in the chamber before noon.
We will use every other rule to make tens of millions of American voices be heard.
This chaos would not open up an express lane to liberal change.
It will not open up an express lane for the Biden president to presidency to speed into the history books.
This Senate would be more like a hundred car pile up, nothing moving.
I hope Republicans stick to that.
I would like to see Joe Manchin and Senator Cinema keep their words, but who knows, right?
You never know with Joe Manchin.
And anyway, Dick Durbin called on his colleagues to join him in eliminating the filibuster, or they're calling it reform.
It's making a mockery of American democracy.
Well, that was the whole point.
The Senate chamber was designed by our our framers specifically to be the more deliberative body than its counterpart in the House.
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Yes, happy St. Paddy's Day to everybody.
A wee bit of the Irish.
Anyway, but one of the things, New York was never the best place to be on St. Patrick's Day, New York City.
No.
I don't know why.
Everybody, St. Patrick's Day, there was this obsession every bar, every restaurant selling disgusting looking green beer.
I don't want green beer.
Yeah, I like my beer not being green.
That's my own personal preference.
Oh man.
And people drink a little too much at the parade.
And uh, yeah, you know, you'd see these little areas, little sections and streets in New York of green puke.
It just is so horrible.
Man, city with what, 12 million people, you know, on a working day.
It's just getting into the city on St. Patrick's Day was always an unmitigated disaster.
Just like on the day they light the Christmas tree at Rock Center in uh New York.
Unbelievable.
Um, anyway, so let me get back to what it is that they're they're Democrats are doing here.
Because this is critical.
Of course they want to end the legislative filibuster.
Of course they'll use reconciliation.
Of course they'll use executive action.
Of course they're gonna, you know, they're gonna they're gonna have a study of court packing, which they want to do.
Of course, they want DC statehood, Puerto Rico statehood.
Of course they'll use reconciliation.
This is the biggest power grab in the history of this country.
When you add HR 1 to this, which would say no voter ID at all, no signature verification at all, no meaning you're not gonna have any integrity or confidence in election results moving forward.
You know, institutionalized mail-in voting, okay, with no IDs at all.
Everybody's automatically registered, felons get to vote.
I mean, this is the single biggest attempt to turn America into their socialist utopia and be a one so united socialist states of America through the biggest power grab in the history of this great democratic republic.
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I used to drive my poor grandfather.
He had a bit of an Irish broad, you know, accent, and you still had funny sayings.
I mean, it was amazing people, my grandparents, all four of them came from Ireland.
Um, all four came without any money.
And they both they came from two different counties.
It's interesting, the story.
And, you know, like 10 bucks in their pocket.
That's it.
And they landed in America.
They never got wealthy.
They never, you know, I I know I stand on their shoulders, the courage it took at young ages to make that trip across the city and come into the country legally.
I want to be very clear about something.
I support legal immigration.
I do.
And they face their challenges.
My parents both grew up pretty poor.
And I know I stand on the shoulders of all of them for any any of the blessings I have in my life, because they work so hard.
Um, and never, you know, and sacrifice their lives for future generations.
So many of us, whatever your background is, you have similar stories to tell.
It's the American story.
So many different ways.
And it is this belief that our rights as as Americans come from God, not from government.
Our belief that God created every man, woman, and child.
Our belief that it God instilled in every person talent.
Our belief that limited government, liberty, and freedom allow people to find their gifts, their talents, whatever unique talents God gave them and bring it to fruition.
Difference, well, what about the people that aren't good people?
Well, yeah, that's the story of the human existence.
Man's imperfections.
Uh original sin, if you want to get to religious parlance in some way.
And the idea that out of imperfection, we we want to work in our lives to become more perfect, but human beings, yeah, we have the right to decide.
Good and evil.
And in my Christian faith, it teaches us that you know, you learn to forgive others as you are forgiven and strive to be better.
I never liked the perception.
Well, if you say you're a Christian, oh, look at that hypocrite.
I think I just have a very different take on what Christianity is versus what people say that it is, and and maybe maybe they just believe some stridency of some people that claim to be Christian and maybe don't show it in in all the ways that others would like.
But the idea is that you would admit that you need help, want to be better, and desirous of being your better self, and finding the reason that you we're even here on this earth.
One of the things what separates us from the animal kingdom, it is that we have an awareness, a consciousness that we are in existence.
Do we have the ability to ever understand God universes within universes, within universes, within universes, and the majesty of creation?
No.
Well, that's where this word faith comes in.
I don't want to get off too much on a tangent here.
But anyway, it's St. Patrick's Day, and I'm not going to miss Linda.
How bad have some St. Patrick's Day been in New York?
I mean, am I wrong?
Every year, I think every single one that I've been in New York City on St. Patrick's Day, somebody that drank way too much green beer throws up somewhere, and you either you you pass by and see it.
It is is that not true?
Or am I making that up?
Just to be clear, the the parade itself is fantastic.
So the parade is.
I hate parade, so I'm not in the full agreement on that, but go ahead.
That's just an overarching thing that you have.
But I'm saying, like the parade is really nice.
You know, it's all it sort of, you know, honors first responders, police, firemen, you know, things like that.
It's really, really nice.
What happens on the bar crawl that follows the parade, where people who might not necessarily have anything to do with the parade decide to take the day off from work, and they frequent every pub, every Irish pub, and there's a lot of them in New York City, and they just stay there all day long.
And there's all kinds of specials and drinks and green drinks, and that turns into lots of green sidewalks.
So that's true.
Uh uh yeah, green sidewalks.
That's a very delicate way of putting it for you.
I guess you get you get a major A plus for that.
Listen, it's three o'clock.
I'm very sensitive to the time.
Well, it's no 12 30 on the West Coast.
People are probably now in line to get in and out birds.
They're heading back to the hearing.
You're driving your kids home, or you're getting like either way of trying to get it.
Linda Blair on the Exorcist.
You remember that scene where it's around in circles and she projectile vomits fine, that green pea soup.
It's kind of like that.
It's nothing like that.
Enjoy your burger.
By two o'clock, most people actually like that.
You probably I don't know what to do.
I used to come in from Jersey and like all of New Jersey on the train would be coming into New York.
Oh, if it landed on a weekend, I was always so happy.
Yeah, on Saturday, especially.
Oh my gosh, that'd be the worst day.
Um that's so funny.
Uh well, anyway, happy St. Patrick's Day.
But you know, it it's just interesting to learn and to know about your I know Ancestry.com is such a thriving business and growing business.
And learning about your family, that's why we love legacybox.com, by the way, slash Hannity.
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They'll be able to they'll be able to see grandma, grandma, grandma, grandma, great-great, great, great, great, great-great-grandmas.
And just I I'm fascinated by it.
It interests me.
You know, one part of me doesn't kind of feel worthy of like, you know, I've I've been I've had such a uh on one level, a life that my I know my parents never have had.
They didn't take vacations, buy new cars until they were much, much older.
They just didn't do it.
There's no money for vacations.
There just wasn't.
It didn't exist in their world.
And the money that they did make, they put their their kids through Catholic school educations and struggled to do that, worked a lot of overtime for that.
And it was a big deal for my mom to leave the South Bronx, my father to leave Bedsty Brooklyn after serving four years in the Pacific in World War II.
And um, and then getting a 50 by 100 lot house and raising their kids, and and I know my dad was proud of that, and he should be.
It's um, and what do we all want as parents?
We want the best for our kids.
That's why now the intersection between politics and it's so it's it there's like a razor's edge difference with the human existence.
Because what we've seen what oppression or authoritarianism or communism or statism, you know, can do.
I mean, I I wrote in my book Deliver Us from Evil last century alone, a hundred million human souls were murdered under some ism, communism.
Mao, China, Stalin, Russia, Naziism, fascism.
We deal today radical Islamism.
And there are people that want power, sick, twisted ideologies.
And my my biggest fear of socialism is the it always ends in Failure.
Whatever name, whatever manifestation.
All the promises are amazing.
You don't have to worry about anything.
And then it ends up, you never get what they promised.
Sort of like you don't get to keep your doctor plan and save money.
That's like like Social Security's headed for bankruptcy, and Medicare's headed for bankruptcy.
Sort of like, oh, you can't even keep maintain law and order and safety and security in big cities and towns all across the country, usually run by liberal Democrats for decades.
States run by liberal Democrats for decades.
It's a disaster.
The politics intersection there is that you have the unholy alliance, teachers' unions, and Democrats and the monies that go to elections, and it just it all filters in.
Why are some states so wide open?
And their schools have been open since August for crying out loud.
Um it's unbelievable.
But we can all be our better selves.
One thing, if I give advice to anybody, I don't care who you are, where you come from, because there's too many examples of too many people that come from the worst backgrounds and environments that end up overcoming circumventing circumstances, and are able to somehow take advantage of this the greatness that is America.
The first step in that is to own it yourself, which a lot of people don't you know might be resistant towards.
I don't know why.
Live your own life, find those talents that God gave you.
Education, educator, Latin, bring forth from within.
You got you have them.
Every one of you listening to me has gifts, has talents, whatever it happens to be.
You know, the greatest thing in life is when you meet somebody in the course of this life that has found their passion, their calling, whatever it happens to be, maybe to be a great teacher, maybe to be a minister, call to the ministry, maybe it is to be a fireman, maybe it's to be a policeman, maybe it's to be a first responder, maybe an emergency medical service person that brings people back to life, maybe a medical researcher.
You know, I was looking at some of the the work that they they've been doing in Israel on COVID, and they have a I think it's now stage two trial headed towards it.
They believe they have found what potentially can be a cure.
Now, 30 people have tried this treatment that have that have severe or really severe COVID, and in all 30 cases, the people lived.
It's only 30 people.
But it's that kind of innovation, genius.
You know, the person that developed it has studied this one particular protein for 20 straight years.
One little protein.
And now maybe it's all paying off, and maybe lives will be saved in the course of this pandemic.
I mean, that that's incredible to me.
It just mesmerizes me.
Um, I love stuff like that.
You know, the idea, if you ever take uh if you don't have a telescope, you need to get one.
It's the greatest, coolest thing ever, especially at night.
And you gotta go outside, and you don't even deny, you can buy an inexpensive one because these even the inexpensive ones are really some of them are really good.
You can research it online, you can research anything online.
And and you just, you know, you can see the craters when you look at the moon.
I know it's nuts, right?
Now think of how great the human ingenuity is, God-given talents of great scientists, that they actually have the audacity to think we're not only gonna fly there, we're gonna fly there, we're gonna land, and then we're gonna turn around and we're gonna come home and we're gonna get home alive.
That's kind of gutsy, kind of amazing.
I don't know.
I and all these people that want to do it like individually.
I want to um Elon Musk, I guess, is one of them.
Um I think I'll pass myself on the idea of getting in one of those in one of those planes.
I think I'm one of those rocket ships.
I think I'm gonna pass.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna be cheering from the sideline.
I don't have that desire to do that.
Uh, But I admire the people that do.
Oh, I see Kamala Harris just dodged questions about the border crisis.
Mm-hmm.
Reporter asked if she's concerned about the children detained.
I haven't been briefed on anything today about it, but I but I will when I get on the plane.
Wow.
Hasn't hasn't given a word.
She's not an I believer on Cuomo.
By the way, GOP senators say Biden's decision to block border wall construction was illegal.
You've got uh Shelley Moore uh Capito and 40 senators now asking the government accountability office to investigate.
That's going to be interesting to watch out.
Half of those surveyed Rasmussen don't believe Biden is actually in charge of his presidency.
Wow.
75% of likely voters back voter ID laws.
In other words, they don't support HR one.
Same Rasmussen poll.
One Trump DHS official warning the Biden transition team that Biden's open border policies.
Yeah, it's going to create a crisis.
They're even admitting it.
The DHS Secretary Mayorcus is now admitting it's the worst crisis in 20 years.
Well, let's see what happens with McConnell on this filibuster.
He I hope he holds the line.
Now that we know where Biden is, and it sounds like him and Joe Manchin have talked.
Pretty scary times.
All right, we got a lot to get to today.
We'll get to the border issue.
We also have Bill O'Reilly today, all things simple man.
Uh Carrie Severino will join us.
Um you got to hear about one of these nominees.
Uh actually the person to be the associate attorney general of the U.S. has expressed a desire that states decriminalize simple possession of all drugs.
And there are questions about investments her and her family involved in.
We're going to examine it.
I don't know the truth of it.
Um, but we'll find out about it all.
Hey there.
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And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
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All right, Leonard Skinner's simple man.
That can only mean one thing.
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We play Simple Man because he thinks he's a simple man, but he's not a simple man.
He's a complicated man.
And anyway, Mr. O'Reilly, sir, how are you?
I'm uh searching for leprechauns.
Uh I see one in the backyard.
Uh you know, they're tough.
Tough little guys, you know, tough to track down.
You know what's strange?
Uh, you know, everyone's getting these ancestry uh tests, and um uh I've you know, when you get the DNA test of you know what your background is or whatever, um mine came back a hundred percent British Isle, meaning a hundred percent Ireland.
Now, my all four of my grandparents came, two came from one county, County Cork, and and the other two came from County Down.
All four came to America at the turn of the last century with like no like ten dollars in their pocket and uh a pretty amazing lives.
I know that uh you probably feel the same way.
I feel like I stand on their shoulders.
Um I would assume there's a lot of Irish in that blood of Mr. O'Reilly.
Yeah, above 90% according to uh the PBS program finding your roots.
So they did uh big.
I don't heard about this show.
Yeah, yeah, you can access that.
And uh my mother's side, they came over right after the pilgrims, okay?
And they came over, they went from Ireland to England, and they whipped on a boat and landed in Massachusetts, and one of my ancestors founded the town of Charlestown, north of Boston, which is where Bunker Hill is.
His name is on the charter of the town to this day.
That was in sixteen thirty-three.
What you know every detail.
You see, you're a big star.
That's why the PBS chose you, because PBS has never even reached out to me to ever do anything.
No, you're out of my league, so that's why I got there.
You see, Bill O'Reilly, simple man.
Go ahead.
Here's a here's an interesting point that ties into today.
On my father's side, they had two acres of land in County Cavan, which is west of Dublin, about two hour drive.
They famine hit in the eighteen forties and all the crops died, and the O'Reilly's could not pay the tax to the British crown.
So London seized the farm, two acres, threw the O'Reillys off the farm.
I have an article that I'm showing everybody tonight on the No Spin News on BillO'Reilly.com, an actual article, and says the O'Reilly family is evicted from their land.
The father died of a heart attack.
The mother was left with two sixteen-year-old boys, and they were starving.
All right.
They had nothing to eat and they had nowhere to live.
The mother takes the two sixteen-year-old boys to Galway, where they get on a boat and they work their passage to Brooklyn.
And you know what they did on the boat?
Yeah, what?
They threw bodies into the Atlantic Ocean.
Those were the death ships.
The famine ships that came.
Two sixteen-year-old boys land in Brooklyn in the late eighteen forties.
Get off the boat, the Irish were there, they take them in, and they that's the uh start of the O'Reilly New York connection.
I was looking this up because I was so interested in what you're saying about um about PBS.
It's actually it's hosted by Henry Lewis Gates Jr., which this audience may recall was involved in the quote, Cambridge police acted stupidly common of Obama because he was commenting about Henry Lewis Gates Jr., who's uh I guess a professor at at Havid.
Um but uh you know what I d I do think it's a fascinating, interesting topic.
I do have a sign in one of my offices that says Irish Catholics need not apply, and and I remember talking to uh my grandfather.
They did never wanted to talk about anything serious in his life.
Um and um but those listen, you look at your parents, you look at your gr our grandparents, you look at people that start out in this country, and you know, I I think of how poor they were.
And both my parents actually grew up very poor, my dad in Bedsty, my in Brooklyn, New York, and my mom in the South Bronx of New York.
And and I look at how blessed I've been in my life, and uh the the appreciative side of me is that I live in the greatest country on earth, and that God has blessed me to live here, blessed all of us to live here, and I also know I I stand on the shoulders of people that had very, very tough, hard lives.
Challenging lives.
And and I um and and I know that they would want this for me and their great great great-grandkids too, you know.
You know, I I like Dr. Gates in Haw up at Harvard, I know him.
Uh he we've always had a respectful relationship.
Uh I understand why he did what he did uh when the Cambridge the Harvard police actually rousted him and he was very angry and you know, he vented his anger.
I had no problem with that.
Uh where Dr. Gates and I disagree is what do you do now?
All right, do you condemn your country as so many progressives are?
Do you start do you tear down a system that has allowed millions of Americans to prosper?
Do you tear that apart um for socialism?
Do you demonize Washington and Lincoln and Jefferson?
Now, Gates is not on board with all that.
I don't want to give the misimpression.
But he doesn't fight it.
He doesn't say to African Americans, look, we got hosed, and that's true.
No honest historian can say that African Americans didn't get blasted worse than anybody in this country.
They did with slavery.
But now you have an opportunity, and you need to get educated just like I did, just like uh Henry Lewis Gates did.
So I could go to Harvard and be a teacher and beyond.
You know?
If I could change two things about the conservative movement, about the Republican Party, even and you know I'm a registered conservative, but I'm not a Republican by choice.
I would say this.
I believe that Donald Trump has shown that working class Americans can do so much better under American first policies, controlling our border, energy independence, all that.
That's why records were set for every demographic group groups with low unemployment uh in the three first three years of his presidency prior to the the virus, right?
And I would say that Republicans need to, because Democrats in these big blue states and mayors and governors, they're never going to do it.
They have an unholy alliance with the teachers' unions, and Republicans need to champion that every single child in this country be guaranteed a great education, which is reading, writing, math.
I don't even care if you do history at you could do that at home.
But what and computers.
Those would be my four things.
And I put every kid in a uniform and I make sure school choice was the top agenda item.
And if we did that, and if if we can if we can have law order, safety, security, and every city and every town in this country, I think Republicans would make inroads once again, and they show it and they mean it and they fight for it and they deliver to every single American.
Um I believe that that party sh the party affiliation shifts would be dramatic in this country.
What say you, Mr. O'Reilly?
Well, look, uh, you know, it's a pipe dream if you think that uh the Republican Party can control the state of California, New York, New York City, Chicago.
You they can't.
And it's bypass it.
You're asking for the plan.
You're asking, well, let me just say you're absolutely correct.
The progressive movement has damaged education in this country to the extent that the poorest kids are getting hosed.
In New York City, I think you know this.
The average spent by the Democratic machine in New York on students is thirty thousand dollars per head.
Catholic schools spend ten thousand dollars per head.
It's a little more I think I think you're showing your age, Mr. O'Reilly.
No, no, no.
It's a little bit more than ten grand.
I know I know kids that go to some of the Catholic schools, they get it a little more expensive than that.
I'm saying this is the average.
All right.
So guess who gets higher standardized test scores?
The Catholic schools, even though they spend two-thirds less educating uh money on the kids because they teach discipline and they teach goals and they incentivize, whereas the public schools, it's victimization.
At least it is in New York City.
They're spending way too much time on things that have nothing to do with educating our kids.
Listen, the the way I would bypass it if you're if you're interested, is that very simple.
I would create a curriculum, uh one-time curriculum from pre-K all the way through high school.
That if your school system is horrible, parents would have access to it for free.
Make it one-time thing.
That a parent, that a grandparent, that a neighbor, a loving, concerned anybody in any kid's life, that if you walk that child through this program and they met those yearly goals, that they would achieve, you know, almost perfect scores on their SATs.
It has to be rigorous, it has to be discipline, it has to be reading, writing, math, it's got to be the fundamentals and the basics.
This is not the place for social engineering.
It just isn't.
And I think we're the unions are never going to do that.
No, well, but that's why I that's how you bypass them.
You're right.
Then you're talking about charter schools or private schools because they're the only ones that would do it.
And De Blasio in New York City is trying to kill the charter school.
No, I'm actually taking it a layer even beyond that.
I'm saying that it that anybody that can get a computer, and I'd figure out a way to get a computer into the hands of any kid that needed it.
Because you can get inexpensive ones.
And you can literally they would have access to a quality education online with real classes, real curriculum, real teachers, all they'd have to all they need is the desire and willingness to do it.
So they wouldn't go to school, they'd uh learn in their house.
Well, they no, they might still go to school, but they're gonna put aside whatever time uh needed per day to to go through the program.
Yeah, but the the principals wouldn't allow it.
But you can't stop it because you're just gonna access it from your house.
I understand.
But you you're running into politics.
And if everybody would come together and say, Yes, that Hannity's plan is the best for the children, and they'll learn more, that would be great.
But it never happens in the safety no Hannity's plan is a safety net for kids trapped in failing school systems.
Who are not doing well, but they're never going to do it because they're basically saying they being the democratic control towns.
All right, the mayor and the governor.
They're saying, No, um, we we need more money.
That's all about money.
It's not about efficiency.
It's not about discipline, it's about money.
Give us more money, and we'll solve the problem.
And it never happens.
Listen, there's a reason why so many parents, and and by the way, this is nowhere where I thought this this discussion would go today's, but anyway, um, I think it's worthwhile having.
All right, quick break.
We'll come back more on this St. Patrick's Day with Bill O'Reilly.
Oh, we've been at the Irish and Mr. O'Reilly.
As we continue.
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All right, as we continue, Bill O'Reilly on this St. Patrick's Day.
Let's say you are trapped in a horrible school.
And there's not even kids going to school where there's gangs or violence or drugs and disruption, and there's very little education going on.
And let's say you have to go there or else they're going to come and put your parents in jail.
Okay.
As soon as you get out of school that day, you can't you would have the ability to go home with a parent, with a loved one, with a grandparent, with somebody, some adult that cares enough and go through your daily curriculum, and that that child would still be able to access it.
Now, are they going to give up playtime and free time and and whatever and other activity time?
They'd have to, yeah.
But they could still get it.
It would still be there.
It'd still be for free, and every kid would have access to it.
Well, I liked your plan, and I think it would help some kids, but I also know being a former high school teacher myself.
By the way, I can't this is this is a whole this is a whole show.
A whole three hours, you being a teacher.
Oh my you had to be the biggest hard ass teacher in the world, weren't you?
I was Mr. Carter.
I'm at that show.
Welcome back.
Welcome back.
Oh, man.
But this is why we have a divided country now.
And it's why we have income inequality.
And it's why we have so much resentment.
Because the kids who are educating, they are taking advantage of what America offers.
And they can prosper.
But the kids who aren't, the kids who have bad parents who are trapped in bad schools, they don't have a chance.
All right.
Let me let me give you one last thought because what we're having now is the root of everything, which is why I'm glad we're having it on St. Patrick's Day.
When I went to high school at St. Pius, I had to take Latin.
Didn't I didn't learn much and didn't stay in the class long, but I learned one word at Duca today.
It's from the Latin.
Means to bring forth from within.
Now, that means, if you believe as I do, that God created every man, woman, and child.
I believe that.
And we just have a propensity for good and evil.
But that means God put talent in everybody.
That's right.
That good educational system would bring out those God-given gifts.
And we're we're unfortunately we're hurting our children.
It is a disgrace.
All right, Bill O'Reilly, great discussion.
I want to hear about some of your teaching days one day.
This that ought to be an interesting discussion.
I bet I would have gotten kicked out of your class every day.
All right.
I'd never do it.
Don't worry.
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I guess they did they have the they had the parade today, right?
Didn't they have a parade in New York?
I don't I didn't even watch it.
Did you watch it anybody?
Linda, did you watch it?
I did not.
I'm pretty sure it was canceled.
I think the only place that had an Irish uh parade was Chicago.
Now, Carrie Severino is the chief counsel, policy director of the Judicial Crisis Network and co-author of Justice on Trial, the Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court.
And we all witnessed and we all watched and we all observed what they did to Justice Kavanaugh with his his wife and kids, you know, watching this man be torn to shreds, and we watch stories.
Oh, I didn't particularly believe the Julie Sweatneck story fall apart before our very eyes.
Um there now is a controversial uh nominee of Joe Biden that we've talked about.
Vanita Gupta is her name.
And anyway, they are now pushing hard for Senator Joe Manchin to vote no on this nomination, uh, as she has a massive stake, apparently, in a company that manufactures, yes, indeed, uh, a key ingredient in the production of high grade China White Heroine.
You can't make this up.
Listen.
We see drug overdoses.
Death.
Profit.
Skupta has tens of millions invested in a company that made the hidden ingredient in heroin.
The China White heroine that kills.
It's so despicable.
Reports say even Mexico is investigating the company Gupta has a stake in.
We lead the nation in drug overdoses.
And it's made Benita Gupta rich.
Tell Joe Manchin, Vanita Gupta for West Virginia.
Now, when you think of the opioid crisis, I mean, if you look at this particular ingredient, this is heroin's hidden ingredient.
It's a chemical made by U.S. companies.
Cost $324 for a jug of this.
It's called acetic and a hydride, and it's made also of Mexico, publicly traded American company, is enough to produce 90,000 hits of high grade, quote, they call it China White, according to Bloomberg.com.
And the cartels are getting as much as they want and also using it to cook methamphetamine.
So the answer for states like West Virginia, Ohio, so many states in this country, frankly, every state is now impacted by the opioid crisis.
We're losing 300 Americans a week.
And of course the fentanyl crisis on top of it, open borders don't help either.
And the push now is to get Joe Manchin to vote no in this particular nomination.
And that was Carrie Severino's uh group that made that ad.
Carrie, thanks for being with us.
Thanks, son.
Tell us about number one the drug and tell us about the investment.
Yeah, well, he said it was a substantial stake.
I don't know if you'd call it that.
It's only 11 to 55 million dollars in stock she owns.
So I which one of us doesn't have you know a small investment like that in some shady companies, right?
I mean, this it this is a huge amount of money we're talking about.
And it's not just that she happens to own stock in this company and it's her father is actually the chairman of the board of this company.
Um and as the ed said, this is this is uh you know you've got to be really worried when the Mexican government is investigating your company for criminal charges, because it's not just they're making the the chemical, I'm sure there's reasonable uses of the chemical as well, but there's a real concern that the way that they're producing it.
They happen to produce it in these boxes that are perfect size, they fit in the trunk of a car, really easy to transport, sell in large quantities.
Some of the the uh distributors they they contract with are aren't even checking IDs.
They're candid the stuff out like candy in Mexico, and uh most of these drugs that are coming into the country, like the heroin and meth are actually being produced in in Mexico.
So this is a real problem and feeding the uh the American drug crisis that has now taken an estimated 142,000 West Virginia lines, not to mention obviously in states across the country.
That is a real concern.
While all this is going on, Vanita Gupta, major stockholder in this company, is arguing for decriminalization of drug possession.
You know, coincidence, I think not.
I think we do have to examine, considering the amount of money we're talking about here.
I I I know there they have to be other legitimate reasons to produce this chemical.
Uh and and then we can get into the issue of why is it being sold to China, etc.
and and and the cartels are obviously getting getting some of it to make the heroin that's killing our kids.
Uh but and it's a hidden ingredient.
But I want to ask you, I think it's important to note why would they be making it otherwise?
Well, yeah, the chemical itself is not, it's kind of like we have, you know, some of these regular cost medications that now have to be behind the counter instead of instead of over the counter easily accessible because they are these key ingredients and producing drugs like meth that are becoming such a uh problem in this country.
Um this is the same thing.
It yes, it does have legal uses, uh, but it's the other problem is it's also a absolutely sinequa known essential part in producing and getting the op the raw opium into the form of heroin.
And so it's a huge um i it's a huge point, you know, that could be if you could stop that leaking out, not that it can't be produced at all, but not being able not producing it and then making it easily available.
So it's companies like that that are that are that are uh not being careful.
Well, you're making a really interesting point here, because uh once a year I'll need a product that I use that my doctor recommends called Allegra D. Uh, and it dries you up if you have any type of congestion or a cold or runny nose, you know, and you got that runny nose thing, and you know, you're constantly blowing your nose to the point where you know your nose is sore from all of the tissues that you've used.
But to get it, you have to literally I have to show my license, and they'll only give you so many of them at any one given time.
And I remember asking uh my right-aid pharmacist, I said, uh obviously this there's a good reason for this, right?
And and the answer was yes, because the ingredients that are in Allegra D, if you have enough quantity of them, then they Then you can make methamphetamine because they extract the ingredients that would be used in that process, which apparently could be used in in the process, this chemical can be used in the process for meth and what they call what the Bloomberg called China white heroin.
I don't what is the difference between China white heroin versus other heroin, I guess, which is brown?
Yeah, you know, I am not a heroin expert, thank God.
No, thank God for that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So but this is a a key one that's causing a lot of the problems.
Um and again, yeah, you can use acetican hydride to make it used in making aspirin.
You know, there's other totally legitimate things.
But when you aren't doing, you know, anywhere near the uh caution that we have, again, to buy allegross in this country, you if if you're working with people who effectively are are using it and getting it right into the hands of the Mexican drug cartels, that's where the that's what's triggering this investigation.
It's not, you know, you're not just innocently being taken advantage of.
The Mexican government at least is trained investigating.
Are they, you know, mi intentionally making this easy uh for them?
That those are real serious questions.
Um, and it's it it's a company that again, we we have to be very careful to make sure that there's not um some some real problems with someone who's on the one hand arguing for drug legalization.
Well owning stock in a company that that's well, I think this is important.
I mean, she wrote a piece it in the in the Hovey and Post arguing that state should decriminalize simple possession of all drugs, that would be heroin and meth and crack and fentanyl.
I mean, that's just madness to me.
Um there are estimates, and I guess this is one of the reasons you're targeting Joe Manchin to pay attention to this, and that is there are 142,000 West Virginians from 2010 to 2018 that died from overdoses just in that eight year period of time, and making West Virginia s the the state that has the highest overdose rate of any other state in the country.
And so the the question is, y are you convinced beyond her radical views, which would be enough for me not to vote for her, and the between eleven and fifty-five million dollars in stock, you it's your belief that this company,
do you really believe that they are targeting specifically the illegal drug trade in heroin or methamphetamine and that they know or have knowledge of or are turning a blind eye to uh what China is importing this this product for or Mexico is importing this product for?
Is that your belief?
Well, I think that's that is the real concern.
Obviously, that's why there's an investigation going on with Mexico.
We don't know currently the status of whether they're being investigated by the U.S. government.
They they won't release that information at this point.
But the the fact of the matter is there are enough questions raised, I think, that that it calls seriously into question the confluence of that with her her arguments on drug policy, which as you said, that that alone is enough for me.
That some of the arguments she has made about drug policy more generally, I think call into real question her suitability to be associate attorney general in the first place, the fact that she's trying to decriminalize all these things, the fact that she has even said the entire drug regime in this country is just inherently racist.
You seem to be arguing that we need to get rid of it all.
And this is someone who's gonna be now number three in the Department of Justice, charged with enforcing those same drug laws.
How are we how are we to know that she's actually going to be uh vigilantly enforcing the laws that she's other books they're saying are inherently racist?
So let me let me just be a non-starter, and then you add this in.
I would just, for my own perspective, say, okay, so there is legitimate use for what they are producing.
There's legitimate use, as I said, for Allegra D that I'll get once a year, usually.
Um, but yet when I go to the the drug store to get Allegra D, it it's there's strong controls on it for the very reasons we're talking about.
It would seem to me that this company or that the government would want to put strong controls on any company.
There's no evidence for sure that they're targeting the for the use of these the production of these drugs, so I've got to be fair to the company.
I don't know anything about them.
And so we don't have that evidence, but there is the Mexico investigation ongoing.
But I guess the next question I have is with that said is if they're going to control my purchasing of Allegra D, they certainly should be monitoring and limiting even and making sure that anybody that's Buying this chemical that can be used for the illicit drug trade.
I would think the government job would be to step in and make sure that that could not happen.
Is there any government law that would prohibit them from doing so?
I think the challenge is that what's happening right now is it's being the production in that distribution point is happening in Mexico.
That's why we I think that is part of the reason we've got the Mexican government trying to look into it, because you know, when these things are located offshores, it's a lot harder for the U.S. government to do it.
That said, uh, you know, if the company is is uh cooperating at the level where there's some kind of you know conspiracy with Mexican uh drug cartels, I think that obviously would would uh it would violate some federal U.S. federal laws as well.
Again, we don't we can't find out the information yet.
They're not they're not disclosing if there is an investigation uh with the U.S. government.
But um, but I think the challenge is when when these things are happening uh in other countries, it makes it very hard to to monitor.
You it as you point out in the limit here, you know, on drug distribution that might not be carried out as effectively in Mexico, right?
Yeah, listen, and the Bloomberg investigation, yeah, they point out that this company produces and sells a key ingredient uh that can be used for illicit drug manufacturing.
Got it.
We haven't been able to prove that.
They haven't proved that yet.
That would be up to the Department of Justice, but she's in the Department of Justice, but it's also her own opinions on again legalization of all drugs or decriminalization of simple possession of all drugs.
Listen, here's the bottom line.
If you have fentanyl, if you have heroin, if you have methamphetamine, you're it's a death sentence.
You're going to die unless somebody intervenes or somehow you figure out a way to get off these these horrifically addictive drugs and the death spiral that is pretty much guaranteed for anybody that gets addicted to them.
And I would think that if we're going to monitor on a on a micro level, Allegra D, we ought to be monitoring the mass production of any any ingredients that could be used for the manufacturing of of these drugs that kill that ultimately create addiction and kill people.
Yeah, and it it this is this is a real and you look at just down the line, all of the things that she is advocating for, it's hard to imagine someone who's going to be enforcing the laws who then constantly undercutting in them and undermining them.
It's the drug laws, you know, it's it's our um our death penalty laws, which she has said she's she's opposed to and argued for removing it even for um white nationalists and domestic terrorists.
You know, it's trying to get rid of the entire bail system.
There's there's so much that she is is attacking within our justice system, and this is this is you know, it was hard enough under Trump to try to clear out some of the uh the the deep state activity going on within the Department of Justice.
Imagine with someone like Vanita Gupta helping to lead the place, someone who is undermining uh the policies uh that our that our national laws uh have written into the case.
Radical views outside of the mainstream.
It's you really can sum it up that way.
But I um I I don't mean to cut you off, but I'm just running out of time.
Uh Carrie Severino, thank you as always.
We appreciate it.
We're gonna watch this vote very closely.
And I'd urge the people in West Virginia to pay attention to Joe Manchin on this vote.
We gotta end this problem of addiction, drugs, smuggling, cartels, death, opioids.
Terrible.
It's awful.
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You know, it's interesting.
You got Joe Biden with uh the ever so liberal progressive socialist Clinton sycophant, the one that used to threaten reporters himself, Georgi Stephanopoulos over at uh ABC ABC News, uh, and the puffy ball interview that he gave Joe Biden last night.
And uh Biden, what he said last night was interesting.
Because Biden last night said migrants aren't coming because I'm a nice guy.
Tell migrants to stay home.
Well, let's first go back to the campaign.
This is actually in September.
And this is Joe Biden actually saying the illegal immigrants should immediately surge to the border when I'm president.
Listen.
What I would do as president is several more things, because things have changed.
I would in fact make sure that there is we immediately surge to the border.
All those people are seeking asylum.
They deserve to be heard.
That's who we are.
We're a nation says if you want to flee and you're fleeing oppression, you should come.
You should come.
Well, that's what everyone's going to claim.
That's why the state of Mexico policy of Donald Trump was so effective.
Because people that had real claims, they'd they'd be willing to stay there while their claims were being looked at.
But instead, he's opened up the borders.
They've been coming in record numbers.
We're now headed towards the highest uh rate of illegal immigrants in twenty years as a result, and that's his own DHS uh head, Mayorcus making that prediction.
Now that's very different than what Biden told Georgi Stephanopoulos last night.
It seems to be getting worse by the day.
Was it a mistake not to anticipate this surge?
Well, first of all, there was a surge the last two years and and nineteen and twenty, there was a surge as well.
This one might be worse.
No, well, it could be.
But here's the deal.
We're sending back people to for first of all, the idea that Joe Biden said come because uh I I heard the other day that they're they're coming because they know I'm a nice guy and I won't get this.
Yeah.
Well, here's the deal.
They're not.
Do you have to say quite clearly, don't come?
Yes.
I can say quite clearly, don't come.
And we're in the process of getting set up.
Don't leave your town or city or community.
Here's the deal.
Come on, man.
Senator Hagerty of Tennessee is here to talk about what is a real crisis at the border.
They're looking now at the highest number of illegal immigrants surging the border in over 20 years, and there are a lot of large surges in the interim, those last 20 years.
So this is gonna th this is a crisis.
It is one of Joe Biden's own making, and yet he's denying is the very words that he said just this past September.
Your reaction, Senator.
Well, Sean, thank you for having me today.
And and my reaction is just the same as yours.
This is a crisis of Biden's own doing.
He invited them just as just as you've underscored and playing back his own words from the campaign.
He's even created incentives now.
If you look at what's inside this quote, COVID relief package, uh illegal immigrants are going to get a check.
So all the wrong incentives are in place.
Uh he's stopped all border enforcement, and it's amazing.
They they want to see school shut, but they want to keep our borders open.
I find it just incredible.
And they're even putting people to test positive in hotels, but there's no checks to see if they stay in that hotel or if they go out and with the possibility of infecting innocent people.
And then, of course, Americans are gonna have to pay the bill for as many people as ultimately come across.
That means education.
That'll mean health care.
Uh that'll mean probably ultimately impacting the criminal justice system, uh assuming some people break laws, right?
Oh, absolutely.
And my fellow Tennesseans see this all the way in Tennessee.
It's not just at the border shown.
I was talking with a couple of sheriffs yesterday in Tennessee.
They've already seen a surge in crime, particularly illegal drug usage.
And these drugs are coming right across that open border in Mexico.
This is something that's got to be dealt with.
You mentioned uh Biden's removal of the migrant protection protocol, the stay in Mexico plan.
That was working.
President Trump's plan was working, keeping people there in Mexico and dealing with the problem in that regard.
Letting them come across the border as they're doing right now and failing to adjudicate this.
They're they're just letting them cross the border, you know, at every point.
They've stopped building the wall, as you mentioned, uh today, along with 39 of my colleagues.
We send a letter to the government accounting organization about this because we believe that this is an infringement of Congress's power of the purse.
If the monies were appropriated, uh the Biden administration doesn't have the authority to freeze border wall construction, stop stop funding it.
Uh we appropriated the funds, they've got to come back to Congress before they can stop it.
We're going to push back on this as hard as we can.
All right.
This this to me is all madness and insanity.
Now, a couple of other things, because in 2018, if you recall, President Trump was accused of putting kids in cages.
Remember the Oh, yeah.
Then we found out something that was very interesting.
We learned that the video that most of the media I call them the mob because they have a mob mindset and mentality.
All the media mob were playing.
Well, that actually was video from 2014.
Those cages were built by Joe and Barack.
They weren't built by Donald Trump.
Now we have kids in cargo shipping containers.
I'm not sure if you've had an opportunity to see the outside of them.
I'd love to show you the inside of them, but we can't get any Of our reporters inside because they won't let us inside.
Imagine the reaction of if Donald Trump was the president and he was putting kids unaccompanied minors in cargo shipping containers with a tiny window with bars on it and we're told butterflies on the walls.
I don't think that would go over that well, do you?
Not at all, Sean.
I I agree with you completely.
As you say, if President Trump had had allowed this to happen, uh it would have been the biggest humanitarian crisis ever.
Now the Biden administration refuses to even use the word crisis, as you acknowledged before.
Mayorkas, again, refused to use that term today.
This is a crisis, just as you describe it.
It's going to be the greatest humanitarian crisis that many of us have seen in our lifetimes.
You know, we've got other issues now that are out there.
We got finally Joe to answer a question, and this is the problem if you run a presidential campaign hidden in a basement bunker, rarely, if ever, taking any questions and just showing up for the bare minimum two debates uh and uh and a virtual speech at the Democratic National Convention.
We never got to the issue of court packing.
We never got to the issue of D.C. Puerto Rico statehood.
We never got to the issue of ending the legislative filibuster.
I'm sure you heard by now the the Biden's answer on ending the filibuster.
I'm sure you know Mitch McConnell's reaction to it.
Um we Joe Manchin says it should be harder.
That seems in keeping with what Joe was telegraphing last night, all things that were not told to us before the campaign, things that I warned a lot about, now becoming a reality.
Can they can they literally get any of that done in your opinion?
Well, I I I I'd say this, Sean.
You know, we're in the middle of a pandemic, a global pandemic.
We're in the middle of a recession we're trying to recover from.
And as you so clearly articulated, we've got a border crisis going on.
Yet their number one priority is to shove through this HR one, and they're willing to destroy the Senate filibuster to do it.
And that would turn the Senate into a body just like the House of Representatives, it would take away the long standing history of open debate here.
And I am, you know, i extremely concerned that that's the direction they're gonna go because it's all about power to the Democrats.
That's what we're doing.
Would the strategy is outlined by Mitch McConnell?
Would it be effective enough to push back on ending the legislative filibuster?
In other words, apparently they could tie things up in such knots that literally Mitch McConnell was saying, okay, well, if that's what you want, it's gonna be a quote, mess weapon of mass obstruction.
And he said if that happened, they would use every arcane Senate rule that is now available, one of which would even be which would require unanimous consent to even turn the lights on before noon.
And he says they're gonna use every other rule to make tens of millions of Americans' voices heard.
Uh would that work?
Would that be enough to stop this radicalism?
Well, that's what is going to happen, as as uh leader McConnell described it.
No one knows the rules better than he does, and no one is better equipped at unleashing this.
If if it happens, if the Democrats move in this direction, they're gonna find massive resistance from the Republicans, and I think we're gonna be locked arms standing up to this.
Uh we'll do everything we can because we cannot allow the Democrats to achieve what they want, which is one party rule here in America.
They want to use this HR HR one to basically put them in power till the end of time.
So we would believe as I do that it's unconstitutional, that it usurps the constitutional authority of state legislatures.
Certainly.
Uh Article 2, Section 1 clearly says that the domain of setting election rules falls strictly with state legislatures.
No mention of Congress, no mention of federalizing the elections, but that's exactly what they're going to try to do.
I do believe there's a huge constitutional problem, just as you said.
Well, I would argue even on the issue of court packing, which they're having, I guess, some stacked council or investigative unit look into the possibility of implementing that.
How do you think the issue of D.C. statehood is going to play out?
How do you think the issue of Puerto Rico statehood is going to work out?
I think they're going to, if they can get H.R. 1 through, they're going to continue to move in that direction.
With statehood for D.C., with statehood for Puerto Rico, these are going to be the things that you've warned about.
You warned about this during the election.
And what's going to happen is they're going to come to fruition if we don't stand our ground and do everything we can to stop them from destroying the filibuster.
And as you mentioned, this is just the beginning.
If it went all the way to packing the court, we would literally destroy the Supreme Court and our Constitution.
You know, we often talk about this mass migration or people leaving high tax, high r highly regulated, democratic blue, deep blue states like New York and New Jersey and Michigan and California, and they're they're headed towards Texas and Florida, but many are also headed towards Tennessee and the Carolinas.
And I love Tennessee.
I have a heart for Tennessee.
I lived 90 miles uh south of Nashville when I was broadcasting uh on a radio station in Huntsville, Alabama, early in my career, and I used to go up to Nashville all the time, and I love music row, and I love I love the city.
I think it's amazing, and I love the state also.
What I worry about for all of these red states where you see this, you know, a lot of people from these deep blue states moving, is that some people are gonna bring their liberal democratic socialist policies with them.
Does that concern you?
Because it would concern me.
Well, uh thank you for acknowledging that what I believe is the best state on earth is Tennessee.
Uh and and I encourage everybody to visit early and often, uh, because we're open for business in Tennessee.
I I I think most of your listeners know that, but we're open for business and we're open for tourism there.
Uh with respect to the demographic trends, though.
This has been going on for some time.
Tennessee is one of the best managed states in the nation.
We've had a conservative legislature that has kept our tax rates among the lowest in America.
We've got a great business environment, and we've seen this movement underway.
It's accelerating though, Sean.
And I think the concern that you raise is something that I hear very often from Tennesseans.
But if we continue to stick to our principles, uh, I think these people that are moving from California from New York from Michigan from Illinois will begin to see the power of our ideas and the power of our ideology.
I'm not so convinced.
I mean, it's pretty radicalized in New York and California.
I think you live there every day, Sean.
I don't know how you do it.
Listen, I'm I'm I'm tortured.
I mean, I am literally a prisoner here, and and I'm stuck.
But uh but I don't you know one of the things that's sad to me is you elect conservatives that are fiscally responsible, that are don't don't believe in high taxes and a lot of regulation, and you balance your budgets, you fund your pensions,
and now you got the big uh emergency COVID relief monies, tens and tens and tens of billions of dollars now that are gonna be redirected to states that have always over taxed and mismanaged and misappropriated uh so many billions of dollars.
In other words, red states will be bailing out blue states.
Uh right now I'm the beneficiary of it.
I don't want to be.
It's not fair to to Tennesseans.
Oh, it's not at all.
And I can tell you Tennesseans are furious about this.
Uh you know, I talk talk to folks from my home state every day.
I don't want their money.
I don't uh they deserve they deserve to keep it.
They they do not want to be bailing out mismanaged blue states and blue cities, and that's exactly what happened with this so-called COVID relief bill, you know, less than 10% of which is actually aimed at COVID.
This was primarily about what you just described, Sean, and that's mending the the past.
The the failed policies of these blue states and blue cities have been repaired on the backs of Tennesseans and other states that have been conservatively managed like ours.
I supported President Trump's tax plan because even though I did I no longer had the ability to deduct my state income taxes, which are significant in New York, 10%.
And because that is not a benefit for uh you you don't get the same benefit in Tennessee, the Carolinas, Florida, Texas, any red state, you don't get the same benefits at all.
So basically what they're doing is they're rewarding blue state governors, big spending governors, tax and spend states for their irresponsible fiscal policies by taking money or offering tax cuts and and uh abatements in a sense to deduct your state income tax.
Um I bet you Biden brings that back too.
You watch.
Uh it's it's it's so it's such such underscores their hypocrisy, Sean, when they do something like this.
But what what that did was it had states like Tennessee, just as you say, subsidizing the tax rates for folks in New York and other other high tax jurisdictions.
But that tax act that you talk about back in 2017, that was the beginning of President Trump's blue-collar boom.
That and deregulation put our nation on the fast track in terms of economic growth.
You remember uh Barack Obama saying, no, how are you ever gonna get these jobs back.
You know, you must have to have a magic wand.
Well, Abracadabra, President Trump.
There you go.
Brought it back.
Well, you need to do more radio and TV.
Um, because that message needs to be get getting out more often.
Uh, Senator Haggerty, thanks for being with us.
Appreciate it.
Thank you, Sean.
Great to be with you.
Thanks.
My best to my friends in Tennessee, living better lives than us.
Ah, happy St. Patty's Day.
25 now to the top of the hour, 800, 941.
Sean, you want to be a part of the program?
We'll get to your calls here in a second.
You know, I'm looking at what is now going to be the biggest influx of illegal immigrants into this country in 20 years.
Now that's that they're saying that.
The DHS Secretary Mayorcus is saying that.
And what does that mean for us?
It means more competition for American jobs during a pandemic and at the height of ending and eliminating high-paying career jobs in the energy sector.
Where we where are these people going to work?
Then, of course, the cost associated with error, you know, bringing a million new illegal immigrants, two million more.
Okay, well, you have to house people, you have to feed people.
You don't have to stay in Mexico policy.
You've now brought back catch and release.
Uh, then you've then you've got health care issues, then education system gets overloaded.
All of that happens with the illegal immigration.
And then on top of it, then you got the opioid crisis gets worse, and the cartels take advantage.
And then you've got, of course, human trafficking.
You know, I I Andrew Spark uh talks about that the Texas child sex trafficking team director talks about how these kids, you know, the ones in cargo shipping containers that we're not allowed to view, the ones in the cages that Biden and Obama built.
As young as six, coming over alone, this this treacherous journey and likely to be exploited by so many bad actors and gangs and cartels, and Governor Abbott, then I'll play that too.
You know, him talking about how unprepared this country is for what Joe Biden is allowing to occur.
We are very concerned at the child sex trafficking team about the youth and the children who are coming across the border.
Um, they are in a perfect storm of vulnerability.
We've heard stories that kids as young as six are crossing the border alone, um, and they are scared, they are confused, and they are very likely to end up in the hands of an exploiter from what we know about human trafficking and how it works.
The Biden administration opened the floodgates to any child who wants to come across the border is going to be able to come across the border.
And I know from what's going on on the ground, they are completely ill-prepared for this.
One easy example, and that is when the amount of children coming across the border turned out to be far more than what they expected.
They had no clue where to send those children.
On this past Saturday night, there was an email sent from Federal Health and Human Services to my staff at 9 30 p.m. that I did not get until about 10 p.m. on Saturday night, where uh federal health and human services, they were scrambling to try to find some location where to send those children.
And they eventually wind up deciding over the night.
Those children would be going to Midland, Texas without knowing whether or not there's running water or workable sewage or what the conditions may be.
There's they were scrambling talking to other locations around the state of Texas, trying to find a location for the children who are coming to Dallas, Texas.
The Biden administration is completely not prepared for the number of children coming across this border.
And the worst thing about it, however, and this is maybe the most important thing I could tell America right now.
What the Biden administration is doing by allowing any child who wants to come across the border to come here.
It means that he is going to subject thousands upon thousands upon thousands of children to the horrific trauma, maybe assault and human trafficking that these children have to go through as they make that trek through the border.
I urge President Biden, do not traumatize these children by enticing them to make this trek.
President, you have the ability to put an end to this and ensure the safety of these children by not enticing them into that very dangerous trek.
You know, and in Nancy Pelosi running defense.
I love this.
Running defense for Joe Biden.
You know, his message to migrants is stay home for now.
What kind of message is that?
Listen.
do you agree with some of the migrants who say we are coming because Biden's policies or at least proposed policies will make it easier for us to come to America and stay.
In other words, we looked at what President Trump and his administration did at the border and said it's not worth the long trip up, but now it is because Joe Biden will let us in.
Well, it's not a question of agree with.
What I said was if they have a well-stander of persecution, it's a silence seekers.
Yes, it is agreeable.
Apart from that, as they're just coming, the message from Joe Biden is uh stay home for now.
And I watched Joe Biden.
I mean, it's pretty amazing to just listen stay home for now.
Come later.
Just forget the least, forget the laws of the land, speaker of the House, head of the legislative branch of government.
Biden lied last night when he told Georgie Stephanopoulos that in fact that uh migrants aren't coming because I'm a nice guy.
I'm telling, I'll tell them to stay home.
It's not what he told us in September.
Let's play what he let's play what he said in September and then compare it to last night.
What I would do as president is several more things because things have changed.
I would in fact make sure that there is we immediately surge to the border.
All those people are seeking asylum.
They deserve to be heard.
That's who we are.
We're a nation that says if you want to flee and you're saying oppression, you should come.
It seems to be getting worse by the day.
Was it a mistake not to anticipate this surge?
Well, first of all, there was a surge the last two years and 19 and 20, there was a surge as well.
This one might be worse.
No, well, it could be, but here's the deal.
We're sending back people to for first of all, the idea that Joe Biden said come because uh I I heard the other day that they're they're coming because they know I'm a nice guy and I won't do it.
Yeah.
Well, here's the deal.
They're not.
Do you have to say quite clearly, don't come?
Yes, I can say quite clearly don't come, and what we're in the process of getting set up, don't leave your town or city or community.
Pretty unbelievable hypocrisy, isn't it?
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
Alex, Tennessee, a Tennessean.
You ever hear the Kenny Chesney song Um Back Where I Come From?
Yes, I have, Sean.
Great song.
You're taking the call today.
Thank you, sir.
What's on the I ironically, I teach high school at the same school that Kenny Chesney graduated from.
Is that right?
He was a he is a great, he was a great football player there, and uh and his uh mother still lives close to the school.
He comes by to visit every once in a while.
Um I'm a criminal justice and forensic science teacher.
And um and I've met him, he's a cool guy, very very good guy.
He's very down to earth and he he loves his community.
He loves the Knoxville area.
Um go ahead, what?
I was gonna say, yeah, I think you need to pack up the crew, and you guys need to move here to Knoxville.
I think you would love it.
You everybody on the crew would love it.
But I uh I'd love it.
I you know and I bet he performs a lot there.
He does these huge stadium tours.
You can actually find them on YouTube.
Um I mean, they're he's done one concert at uh at Nealin Stadium where the Tennessee volunteers play football.
Um it was a huge success.
It was a huge success.
But he sells out these stadiums is so hard to sell that out.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
No, they are, they are, but he does.
He and he does it every summer.
Um, the reason why I wanted to call and talk to you today is over the last few days you've talked about uh teachers and our education system.
Um, you know, just so you know, uh I've been in the classroom teaching.
We went back to school in August.
Um, we actually delayed our start 10 days from what we were supposed to, um, so we could get all of our students um the technology they needed if we had to go online teaching, so there was never any break in our in our teaching and our curriculum and so on.
But I'll tell you, I also coached high school football, and we played a full football season.
Um we didn't have any issues during football season.
We haven't had any any major issues in our Schools.
Um, you know, all here, and all we heard was doom and gloom of you know, teachers in the classroom, everybody's gonna die, everybody can have this and that and so on.
Well, guess what?
It hasn't happened, Sean.
And and Tennessee, and here I'm in in Knoxville, Tennessee, and we are proof that you could go back into the classroom last fall and teach a full school year and not have any issues whatsoever.
And you know, I I'm fortunate we have a governor and a county mayor.
You may know who our county mayor is.
It's the former WWE wrestler Kane, Glenn Jacobs, right?
He runs our county government.
Um, they put a big emphasis on student in the classroom, but also having that opportunity to, if we if you gotta be at home uh to learn online, but they've also focused on our students graduating from high school with skilled trades.
So our vocational programs have been have been a major emphasis in our schools the last three or four years, where these kids are graduating today and they can be a productive member of society, and uh and they come out with some kind of a skilled trade uh and and ready to go into the workforce if they don't go to college.
And you know, I just I heard you talking with Senator Hagerty about uh and then talking about the immigration.
What's gonna happen when we get these 20 million new people?
Like you said, what kind of jobs are they gonna have when you when the Biden administration keeps um shutting down all these different industries?
Um, you know, uh hopefully my students are gonna have the skills and the resources to get out there and and work.
Um, you know, I I'm obviously I'm teaching a curriculum that is very a hot button topic every day, being in the criminal justice system, you know, we talk about all the major cases like you have with uh uh Floyd and Brown and all these different things, and the kids are so engaged in it because they want to learn.
And I think those are the environments we have to create in the in the classroom.
Wow, that that's that's an unbelievable story.
And and like Florida, and and like all I don't even want to isolate Texas, Florida, Tennessee, Mississippi, all these red states have done so well.
You've done so yeah, yeah, you know, and you would think that the teachers want to get back in the classrooms, but no, they're they're trying to get some of this money through this COVID emergency relief bill, and then recommending the teachers that they take vacations in Hawaii.
And meanwhile, I'm a and meanwhile, you're a teacher and you're thinking, why don't I get to go to Hawaii?
At least you should be.
Um, it's madness.
And it can be done and has been done effectively.
Now, Tennessee, like every other state, has had its moments where you've had your flare-ups of rebounds.
These were all things we knew in the very beginning would likely occur.
And but the states that again protected the elderly population, the states that that put those resources in the right place, didn't send COVID patients into nursing homes or group homes, did so much better than these states with these draconian shutdowns.
And yeah, you're back at school since August.
And they're still arguing in New York and and California whether or not teachers can go back to school, and the teachers' unions have all the sway and control and power over the politicians because of that unholy alliance that they have.
It's just an amazing con contrast.
Um in terms of you know, people's lives have not been destroyed.
You think of the the lack of normalcy for kids when and kids in particular, not they're not most at risk at all when it comes to the coronavirus.
It's older people with underlying conditions, comorbidities, and compromised immune systems that are the most vulnerable to this.
Um anyway, Alex, I appreciate the update.
Yeah, I'll give you the last word.
Um, you know, we don't we're not we don't work under teachers union here in in Tennessee where I'm at.
Um so we as a teachers as a group, we say, hey, we worked with our district, and they put together, we put together some programs and and a plan to reopen, and it has worked.
You know, we're on spring break this week.
Um, unfortunately, um I'm actually out working two other jobs this week um just to you know to to supplement my income a little bit.
I I I drive do some driving with Uber and I have a private security company where I do some bodyguard and VIP executive protection work.
And but you know what?
I love being here, and I think everybody needs to come visit.
And Sean, I you are a great American, and I appreciate you what you do for the uh for the people of this country, and I appreciate the support you have for our kids.
And we need to be back in the classroom.
All right, thank you.
We really appreciate all you guys do.
A good teacher's worth there at Wait and Gold.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
The crisis at the border.
Even the DHS secretary admitting yeah, the largest influx of illegal immigrants in 20 years.
But it's not a crisis.
We have our own Griff Jenkins investigating from Mexico tonight.
Greg Abbott, Eric Trump, Senator Lindsey Graham, and so much more.
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