Sean Hannity Show - Meet Kathy Barnette

April 8, 2021 - Sean Hannity Show

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Meet Kathy Barnette

Kathy Barnette, is a candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania, and she is taking her message to a woke nation filled with hypocrites. The Sean Hannity Show is on weekdays from 3 pm to 6 pm ET on iHeartRadio and Hannity.com. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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	We got more border madness that we will be uh talking about today.
	The latest on the MLB boycott based on nothing but lies.
	Uh Joe Biden's radical agenda now moves forward in in more ways than I can even explain to you.
	Uh, you know, it's amazing, and and this is uh there was an announcement today, America First, the new organization Mark Meadows and uh Stephen Miller are partnering with with some others, and that is to challenge legally these actions, especially executive actions and illegal unconstitutional actions of the Biden White House.
	And I'm sure and certain that Biden now bypassing a co-equal branch of government for another time on this issue of guns and gun control and your second amendment.
	By the way, he was fumbling all over the place.
	Did we get we're able to pull that tape yet, guys?
	Did you find that?
	Uh what's that?
	I can't hear anybody.
	We have all right, let's this is Joe announcing earlier today.
	I mean, fumbling all over the place, barely.
	I I mean, this you decide for yourself.
	Put it out.
	Nothing I'm about to recommend in any way impinges on the second amendment.
	They're phony arguments suggesting that these are second amendment rights at stake for what we're talking about.
	But no amendment, no amendment to the Constitution is absolute, absolutely determined, as Murphy and others are, to get this done.
	A stabilizing brace shook and a pencil essentially makes that pistol a hell of a section action we're gonna do.
	The second action we're gonna take.
	Finally, the Bureau of Alcohol, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, the key agency enforcing gun laws, hasn't had a permanent director since 2015.
	Today, I'm proud to nominate David Chipman to serve as a director of the AFT.
	David knows the AFT well.
	An anti-gun radical.
	Now, first of all, it's unconstant.
	All these actions bypass the legislative branch of government, a co-equal branch of government.
	Now it's about time that that third branch of government, the judicial branch of government, step in and stop these illegal, unconstitutional actions of Biden.
	Hopefully that'll now begin to happen.
	You know, the stop the proliferation of ghost guns, criminals buying kits containing nearly all of the components.
	Okay, stop if if you cannot, I'm telling you right now, people think that the fundamental flaw in the mind of the left as it relates to the second amendment and firearms is that criminals, it's predicated on this idea that criminals follow laws.
	They do not.
	They make up their own laws, they pay attention to no laws.
	And there is a pretty simple, easy ability to go out and and develop weapons that can hurt other people fairly fairly easily.
	As we pointed out, you know, Amazon canceling, you know, left and right, conservatives, et cetera, et cetera.
	But you know, you could still go there and buy Mein Kampf and the Anarchist Cookbook with detailed instructions on how to build bombs.
	Something I've talked about for you know 20 years ago, and it's still available.
	But the idea, the liberal, the left, they think firearms somehow are wrong.
	You know, we will just ignore the the thousands of occasions every year that occur, and we've highlighted many of them over the years on this show, too.
	We're law-abiding Americans because of their right to keep into bear arms that should not be infringed.
	That would be an absolute right, Joe.
	You're not a constitutional attorney.
	Anyway, so the idea that these ghost guns exist, you can't just go around selling guns that don't have serial numbers.
	Dana Lash made a good point about that last night on Hannity.
	You know, they're going to propose a rule to make clear when a device marketed as a stabilizing brace effectively turns a pistol into a short barrel rifle.
	What they're not understanding is that many of these parts, if people want them, they're easily buildable.
	Remember, drug dealers have no problem building meth labs, and I doubt they have chemistry degrees from MIT or Harvard, but they're still able to do it, and it's poison, regardless of how it all turns out.
	You know, the red flag legislation for states, the administration is investing in evidence-based community violent interventions.
	What does that even mean?
	An annual report on firearms trafficking.
	Well, I mean, if they cared so much, maybe they'd secure our southern border where a lot of opioid trafficking goes on, and a lot of gang members come in from our southern border.
	Matter of fact, we just had another instance that took place, and everybody should pay very close attention to this.
	Uh down at the border, we've had terrorists now on the FBI's terror watch list.
	If they've they have been captured at the southern border.
	Now we have you know, gang members being caught at the southern border, and I don't see Joe Biden or Kamala Harris or anybody else, MS-13 gang member caught entering the U.S. illegally.
	Twenty-eight-year-old man from El Salvador will be a deported.
	One of the few people that will be actually deported.
	Finally.
	Texas and Louisiana are suing Joe Biden for sanctuary country and offering the freeing of illegal immigrants into the U.S., you know, they're now transporting all of these illegal immigrants to every state in the country in the Union.
	What are the states supposed to do at this point, considering they were aided and abetted by the president of the United States and his administration?
	You know, you have migrant smugglers now using groups of children to divert border patrol from adults crossing into the U.S., and then for the cartels and the drug dealers and the drug traffickers and human traffickers, while all of that distraction is going on and all those resources are being used.
	Well, the next thing they're doing is they're they're just sneaking in at a different point in the border, undetected.
	That's not good.
	You know, last night a pretty powerful press conference by the Texas governor, he'll join us on Hannity tonight, Governor Abbott blaming Biden as allegations emerge of sexual assault at one of these child migrant facilities.
	Now, before we get to that specific charge, we've already reported in great detail the perilous journey and how these cartels and coyotes and and gang members that they've been abusing the migrants and shaking them down financially.
	There's been great violence and rape and everything else that you could imagine happening, but considering what you're dealing with here.
	The journey itself, this has been happening.
	If any American ever ran a daycare center, and we had the same images as Joe's cages down at the border with kids in it in the middle of a pandemic, on top of each other, the way they're on top of each other.
	If those images ever emerged in any town, any city in this Country in a daycare center.
	Well, I could tell you immediately child protective services would shut it down, and that the owners and operators would be arrested and charged with child abuse.
	And that's pretty much what Governor Abbott was saying yesterday.
	That now, remember, they've been keeping his child protective services out of these child unaccompanied minor facilities.
	Just like they put a gag order on border patrol agents, just like they have prevented the media from showing images because they've been wanting to hide the cages that they're putting these kids in.
	Anyway, Abbott said these allegations of sexual assault, insufficient number of staffers, that children are not eating, they have an inability to socially distance or separate COVID-positive children from virus-free children, and they don't even test them, and then they send them out to your state.
	I mean, it's a pretty unbelievable thing.
	By the way, Kamala Harris, now two weeks in as the borders are, let's see, she's been in her Brimwood home, she's been out in Oakland, she's been in Chicago, going to bakeries, she's been in our nation's capital, she's been to New Haven, Connecticut, everywhere but where she needs to be.
	McCarthy now has called on Harris to attend an FBI CIA terror briefing on the border now that we have people on the known terror watch list coming across.
	I mean, this border neglect.
	I mean, imagine if if Donald Trump were president and you hear about sexual assault, if you saw images of cages that he built with kids, you know, all on top of each other in the middle of a pandemic, what the reaction of the mob, the media, big tech, America's corporations, the Democratic Party would be, it would be unbelievable.
	We have Border Patrol agents in California.
	They've caught an MS-13 gang member as early as yesterday morning.
	He had illegally crossed the border into the U.S. This is not the first one.
	Biden's DHS chief now backs up this Trump-style crackdown on illegal immigration.
	This is getting interesting from the New York Post.
	Despite Biden publicly trashing the hard line taken by his predecessor, his DHS secretary, Mayorcus, is now echoing former President Trump's key policies during a recent behind closed door meeting vowing to stand up for ICE and advocate for and be an advocate for more deportation.
	I'm a hundred percent opposed to the abolition of ICE.
	Yeah, a little late.
	Because right now he's been the great enabler up to this point.
	You have a heartbreaking video.
	I saw this on the blaze, an off-duty patrol agent stumbling upon a 10-year-old child last week in Texas by the border and in the desert.
	You know, the child was seen sobbing, asking for help, tells the off-duty agent, this guy was on his way home, they can rob me, they can kidnap me, and I'm scared.
	In the pockets of all of these kids and all of these illegal immigrants are usually bank routing numbers, and they're told that they either put money in those accounts as quickly as possible, or they will be making visits to their family members that remain back home.
	You know, as Greg Abbott said, but you know, he pointed out today directed the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas Rangers to now step in and not only control the border, which he's already started, but also to investigate these allegations of serious child abuse and neglect inside these federal facilities.
	Whistleblower complaints in some cases.
	You know, we now see overcrowding to the point of 1700% in some of these instances.
	You know, Jen Saki, circle back press secretary that she is, when asked why the vice president had time to visit a Chicago bakery and not the border.
	Well, she needed to get a snack.
	First, I would say the vice president was visiting Chicago actually to talk about COVID and the importance of communities getting the vaccine when it's available and accessible to them.
	And so while she was there, like many Americans, she got a snack.
	I think she's allowed to do that.
	But she was there to talk about COVID and uh play a role, as she's playing a significant role on our efforts to address vaccine hesitancy, communicate with the public about how we can do this, and uh it's it's imperative to get the vaccine once available.
	Is it not imperative when when children are living in an abusive environment caused by their policies?
	That's not an urgent matter for the White House.
	When we have terrorists from Yemen that now we have caught on the FBI terror watch list, that's that's that's not a call to urgency.
	I see that one of the squad members, Congresswoman Omar, it's shameful that they're actually talking about, yeah.
	Maybe we should finish Trump's wall.
	You have 130 undocumented migrants surrendering surrendering in Arizona to border patrol because they know they're not going to be sent home.
	Because everybody that makes it across the border has been able to stay.
	That's the biggest problem.
	Look, we don't support on this program boycotts, but many are calling for them.
	Wall Street Journal's Daniel Hanager saying, yes, boycott baseball.
	Liberals, the past year have become addicted to political wokeness.
	It's time for an intervention.
	Small business group condemning the Major League Baseball's action.
	Um, what's Charlie Gasparino over Fox Business says the uh major league baseball commissioner's decision to move the all-star game came after pressure from Stacey Abrams?
	Yes, Stacey Abrams informed the commissioner what was in the bill because what was ever whatever was this whatever description was given was not accurate.
	That we can assure you.
	And uh by the way, other groups, Al Sharpton urging the commissioner to support a host of issues, voter drives HR one, major league baseball commissioner, you know, decided to move the game on his own after having extensive ex uh discussions with voting rights groups associated with LeBron James, Stacey Abrams, Al Sharpton.
	Abrams now goes into full crisis mode after nuking her own state.
	That was an article put out there.
	These are the the these are the real world consequences of Stacy Abrams and Joe Biden's disinformation campaign.
	It's not a disinformation campaign, it's an outright lying campaign.
	You know, far left uh companies, you know, it's all these companies that bought into this.
	Former major league uh baseball commissioner Faye Vincent criticized the current commissioner, which almost never happens.
	Op-ed Wall Street Journal, Major League Baseball can't become a weapon in the culture wars or a hostage for one political party or ideology.
	It can't be only for the rich or poor, nor for one race.
	And and he's right in everything that he's saying, but they're not listening.
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	When I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
	Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
	Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
	It's almost a dirty word.
	One that connotes conspiracy theory.
	Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
	Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
	We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
	You put two and two together.
	Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
	Benghazi is a rosetta stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
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	Now we watched the Biden and Obama disastrous Iranian deal and all this money dumped on the tarmac for mullahs and Iran.
	And pretty much they started chanting death to America, death to Israel, burning American flags and Israeli flags thereafter.
	I don't know the mindset, the thinking behind the rationale at all behind left-wing Democrats thinking that if they're only a little bit nicer to countries that hate our guts and only want our destruction, that they feel compelled to just, if we're just a little bit nicer, we'll show them we could be really, really nice.
	Bill Clinton tried it with Kim Jong-il.
	Kim Jong-un's father.
	This is a good deal for American people.
	Yeah, well, that didn't work out well, and we end up paying, and they end up shaking us down for more money.
	Okay.
	You know, that's the same with the mullahs in Iran during the Obama administration.
	They get nothing for it.
	Iran is never by they don't know, they don't abide by agreements.
	They think we're stupid because we are, because we fall for it every time a liberal democrat's in office.
	Anyways, now going to lift apparently preparing to remove all sanctions on Iran.
	What has Iran, the leading state sponsor of terrorism done to deserve this reward?
	And that they're going to what continue to resume compliance with that idiotic Iranian nuclear deal where we had no any place anywhere inspections where American expect uh inspectors weren't even allowed in and we're dumping a fortune on the tarmac and we're paying for their terror activities.
	How stupid are they?
	We're prepared to take the steps to return to compliance, including by lifting sanctions that are consistent with consistent with the agreement, State Department spokesman said.
	You know what that means?
	You're now capitulating to mullahs in Iran that hate you.
	It's pretty spectacularly stupid.
	Um we have been concerned whether or not Joe Manchin was going wobbly on the issue of the legislative filibuster.
	We do have an update on that story.
	Epic Times reporting today that Joe Manchin has again reiterated that he will not vote to abolish or even weaken the filibuster, quote, under any circumstances, unquote.
	The filibuster, he says, is a critical tool protecting that input and our democratic form of government.
	Said it in a Washington Post opinion article.
	That is why I've said it before, and I'll say it again to remove any shred of doubt.
	There is no circumstance in which I will vote to eliminate or weaken the filibuster.
	Okay, sounds pretty Sherman-esque to me, but Manchin also said he does not favor budget reconciliation.
	Well, that's not good because that's the Senate parliamentarian this week said it would be okay with this ridiculous non-infrastructure infrastructure bill to go ahead with it.
	Anyway, it comes as his own party is attempting to pass that infrastructure bill, raise the corporate tax rate.
	Now, Manchin said he'd go as high as 25%, not the 28% that Joe Biden wants.
	Manchin further argued the Senate voted to weaken the filibuster and it's backfired.
	He said the political games coming out of the halls of Congress only fuel the hateful rhetoric and violence we see across the country, adding the political dysfunction and gridlock have only grown more severe.
	Kristen Cinema apparently said something as well.
	Now, Biden's pay-to-play scheme dwarfs, by the way, anything that Ron DeSantis was accused of.
	All right, so Ron DeSantis didn't make the decision on publics.
	How do we know Multiple prominent Florida Democrats say, no, we made the decision.
	We actually had the Palm Beach County mayor on this program who said no.
	We made the decision on publics because we thought that would be the best place for the people in our community to get the vaccine.
	And our program's been successful.
	I think they got about 275,000 residents in Palm Beach County that have been vaccinated, and publics didn't charge the state of Florida anything.
	Public's known to give money to both Republicans and Democratic causes.
	They don't really take sides, but they've been generous to the community for sure.
	Anyway, well, are they now going to focus on build Joe Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure plan?
	A ton of that money, by the way, will be going to the unions that helped elect him.
	By the way, that's an old scheme.
	It runs both ways.
	Unions donate overwhelmingly to Democrats, quote, to help get out the vote, get them elected, and then in come the favors as a result.
	Open secrets records, 245 million labor contributions 2020.
	90% going to Democrats.
	Up from 217 million in 2016.
	The two biggest teachers unions, 43 million dollars alone to Democrats.
	And that's just direct funding.
	Then you got the Service Employees International Union, the SEIU.
	They vowed to spend $150 million to get out the vote for Democrats.
	And Biden's path to the White House ran through America's labor movement.
	You know, said that was even said by AFL CIO President Trumka.
	And in return, Democrats give big labor.
	Now the laws and regulations and subsidies and overturned right to work laws in states, which Biden is trying to do now.
	And Biden's infrastructure plan, just like his emergency COVID relief plan, have nothing to do with infrastructure or little to do with it.
	Anyway, it's uh the bill's hidden labor law agenda is all over this bill.
	You know, for it basically it's a jobs plan, buried treasures for labored unions.
	And uh that's that's been the whole thing.
	To get right to work laws, it's all to it's all the payback unions.
	The Capitol Police top cop says Nancy Pelosi dithered on the National Guard deployment while the rioters ran wild.
	Well, why isn't that big news?
	Now we know that the chief of police of the Capitol Police had asked and requested six times that the National Guard be deployed.
	Before a lot of these requests were before anything had gone down.
	Donald Trump in the days before January 6th said, yeah, there's a lot of people coming to town.
	You probably want to deploy the National Guard.
	That was denied.
	When's Nancy Pelosi going to take responsibility for this?
	So a you know, Kirsten Gillibrand puts out there, paid leave is infrastructure.
	Child care is infrastructure.
	Caregiving is infrastructure.
	Unicorns are infrastructure.
	I mean, she'd be mocked all over Twitter.
	I mean, Twitter can be very funny.
	You know, child care, caregiving is infrastructure.
	No, it's not infrastructure.
	It's basically your way of doing your Green New Deal, calling it something else, and trying to convince the American people that everything's infrastructure infrastructure.
	Just like everything's emergency COVID relief when you bail out every blue state as a payback to them for their mismanagement, fraud, and abuse, high taxes, and misappropriation of funds, and not funding pensions as other states do, and being fiscally responsible.
	You know, we got one Democratic senator saying paid leave child care, caregiving is infrastructure.
	Love it.
	You can't make this stuff up.
	A friend, Senator Kennedy, who I really get a kick out of, he's very smart.
	Great guy, Senator Louisiana.
	He says this infrastructure bill is the Green New Deal plus welfare, which pretty much describes it.
	Listen to what the uh Randy Weingarten, um, the American teachers, uh American Federation of Teachers Union president who leads the nation's most powerful teachers union.
	Again, they've been fighting hard to prevent teachers from going back to the classrooms.
	Vows, she literally says the headline on Bright Bar tells Jews not to criticize teachers' unions.
	American Jews are now part of the ownership class.
	What does that mean?
	Daily Wires headline, same topic.
	Teachers union president attacks Jewish parents pushing to reopen schools as part of the ownership class.
	Well, what does that mean?
	Can somebody explain exactly what it is that she's referring to here?
	It's pretty unbelievable.
	Anyway, listen to this.
	There's a story I see on on I don't know where I got this from.
	I think it was Fox News.com.
	A female GOP representative, a girl from Guatemala was having trouble communicating.
	She lost her voice while being gang raped.
	Good grief.
	God help us.
	Representative Kat Comic of Florida joined, I guess was on Todd Todd Star's show, our friend Todd's show.
	Firsthand young girls who had been gang raped by human smugglers at the border.
	Why isn't the media covering this?
	They're too busy, what, 60 minutes?
	Can't do an expose on this?
	They're too busy.
	What are they covering that's so urgent that they can't cover something like this?
	You think they would, or you know, I guess that's too much to ask, right?
	Biden's commerce secretary is now praising Donald Trump's China tariffs.
	The secretary telling reporters at the White House that the Trump administration's tariffs on steel and aluminum saved American jobs.
	Wow.
	Sure, they'll be yelled at by day's end.
	Jobless claims take an unexpected jump despite passage of Biden's COVID stimulus package.
	Does that surprise anybody?
	You know, by the way, Sean Davis pointed out on his Twitter account, there was a daily caller piece.
	You gotta go, you you go to a gun show, you buy whatever you want, no background check.
	No, that's completely a lie.
	The only way you can illegally buy guns as prohibited as a prohibited person and get away with it is if your name is Hunter Biden, which I think is pretty accurate.
	Nikki Haley warns, God help us if Kamala Harris becomes president.
	By the way, more and more um I'm finding liberals, and this is getting to be an interesting phenomenon to me.
	You know, if I go to do my grocery shopping, if I'm out and about out and about doing my chores, and I see people and people talk to me.
	Of course, I have my mask on and socially distance.
	Anyway, when they talk to me, they say, How long till Harris becomes president?
	How long do you think it's gonna be?
	You know how many people ask me that question?
	Linda, do you get the same thing?
	People you asking you that know you do this job.
	Everyone's asking, when do you think Harris becomes president?
	Well, I don't I I have a little bit of a different question from most people.
	What what I have people usually say to me, you do know that Kammel is president, or you do know that Susan Rice is one of the people.
	I get that one too.
	I get I get them all.
	I don't think anybody thinks that Joe Biden is running anything, least of all the country.
	It's funny because they tried for a very short period of time, the mob and the media.
	They tried to hit they tried to hit back on me on it.
	And then all I did was say, okay, let's play this tape, let's play this tape, let's play all the tapes, let's play the hits together.
	And then I think they realized that every time they attack me, I just play more tape and let Joe make the case for himself.
	And every time you play the tapes and you play them consecutively, and you begin to realize, oh my gosh, this is a disaster.
	It's not just a disaster, but I mean, for me, I gotta be honest with you, Sean.
	I mean, I've been doing this a long time, not as long as you, but a long time, and the border thing with the kids, I just terrible.
	I don't know, man.
	It's it's just now I'm being a mom.
	I I just don't understand how these Democrats, I mean, for Pelosi to say that you know he's got it under control.
	This is the pathway.
	I'm like, we never had this under Trump.
	We just didn't have it.
	There was no open door policy.
	We we've been following this issue of child trafficking into prostitution, specifically with border patrol agents that have exclusively only investigated these crimes for a long time.
	Now it's happening right before our eyes.
	Now it's happening, now we know why they want a child Protective services, nowhere near those kids in Governor Abbott's home state.
	And he had to force his way into the facilities, just like Ted Cruz and the 19 senators had to force their way in.
	And when they get in there and they bring out the pictures, then you can see the absolute disgusting abusive conditions these kids are living in in the middle of a pandemic.
	But even beyond that, right?
	Even beyond the pandemic and the COVID, I mean, the physical abuse, the sexual and physical abuse that's happening to these kids, and all these Hollywood stars that came out in their Me Too movements for these grown-ups that you know they were assaulted, and you know, they were all stood behind them.
	And, you know, I it I mean, you know, thinking of Schumer saying, We're coming after you, Kavanaugh, not one thing proven, and then you have a young 10-year-old saying, I I was so severely gang raped that I can't communicate to you what happened to me because I lost my voice from violently screaming for my life.
	I'm a heart wrenching.
	But you know, think of the 300 families every week that hear the news that a loved one's dead from an opioid overdose.
	Exactly.
	And addiction.
	Where's 90% of the heroin coming from?
	Across that border.
	That's right.
	Where's 90% of the he fentanyl coming from?
	Across that border.
	That's right.
	That happens too.
	And these these human traffickers, while resources are thin and now focused on taking care of all of Joe Biden's kids that are now coming in and being put in cages and are overcrowded.
	They're just so overwhelmed, and all their resources are in one area that now they end up, you know, it's wide open for the gangs, the cartels, the human traffickers, the drug traffickers, to, you know, to bring even more drugs and and sell more kids into prostitution.
	And let's not forget just the families, too.
	I mean, all American families are in peril right now, but you look at those families that are being deeply affected by this, that live around the border, their kids, their farms, their livestock.
	You know, they have people coming up to their doors, dying on their fields.
	Yeah, they have to make a decision.
	Is this somebody that's starving and needs water, or somebody that's here to kill me?
	And they're trying to feed their own kids in the middle of a pandemic under an administration that wants to give more money to illegal immigrants than to American citizens.
	It's all of their own making.
	Hey there.
	I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
	And I'm Carol Markowitz.
	We've been in political media for a long time.
	Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
	That's why we started normally a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
	We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
	We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
	So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass.
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	I know it's early, but choosing candidates to run in very important states for the United States Senate, uh, it's gonna be critical for if if you're going, if you want, if you desire, if you want to stop this socialist madness and it's madness, there's really only one way to do it.
	And that is you better start preparing for 2022.
	Now, it's interesting and fascinating.
	Yes, well, why why is the Democrats?
	Why are they working so hard?
	Why don't they want voter identification and signature verification and you need it for everything else in life, even including buying a six-pack of beer or or applying for Medicare, Social Security, unemployment, food stamps.
	Uh, you needed to apply for a job, get a rental car.
	You get the picture.
	Why don't they want it?
	Because they want the conditions that they saw were favorable to them in 2020, and they want to lock them in in perpetuity.
	It's all a big power grab.
	But I can see, for example, I know there's been a lot of talk that maybe Herschel Walker will run in the state of Georgia.
	A lot of talk, Doug Collins may challenge uh Governor Kemp in the state of Georgia.
	Uh Ron Johnson, that that's an important race, must-win race for Republicans if they want control of the Senate in Wisconsin.
	Uh Sununu appears to be preparing for a run in New Hampshire.
	That would be a win very winnable seat if if that's the case.
	You've got North Carolina, one poll yesterday, had Laura Trump beating the the closest competitor by like 15 points.
	Uh, then of course, you got Ohio, you got Arizona.
	I mean, these are these are all all fascinating but important Senate races, and another one of them is in the great state of Pennsylvania.
	I guess Pat Toomey is leaving.
	And I saw and it's now gone viral, an ad put out by a woman named Kathy Burnett, African American woman, and it is a powerful, powerful ad that has gone viral.
	The white man that sits at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue believes he has the power to take away my blackness because I'm a conservative.
	But I will keep on Joe Biden, after the November election in 2022, you can call me something else.
	Senator.
	Because this determined black conservative woman is going to become the next United States Senator from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
	And she joins us now, Kathy Barnett.
	Kathy, how are you?
	Thanks for being with us.
	I am doing so well.
	Thank you so much, Sean, for having me on.
	You know, I don't normally get involved in primaries or involved in a Senate election a year out like this, but Pennsylvania is so important.
	Uh, if Republicans could win your seat, hold Wisconsin, Herschel Walker were were to win down in Georgia.
	They ho win in North Carolina, they win out in Arizona, New Hampshire.
	I mean, and and keep Ohio, it would be it would be transformative for the country.
	It's that important a race coming up in 2022.
	I agree wholeheartedly.
	And you know, Sean, you hit the nail on the head in your opening statement.
	Democrats are already campaigning for 2022.
	Even 2024, they're already campaigning for it right now.
	The reason why they are running like someone with their hair caught on fire, running through glass pane windows, trying to just get everything, uh, that their little heart desire now is because they are preparing for 2022.
	You're absolutely right.
	Everything that they were allowed to get away with in the 2020 election, they're trying to solidify that.
	And that is the reason why it is so important for people like yourself, with your type of platform to get engaged early versus later.
	And one of the things I'm noticing is that on our side, right?
	You have Democrats who are rushing out here to to already campaigning for 2022.
	On our side, we're like, oh, I want to keep my power dry.
	I want to see who, you know, I want to see who shakes out.
	It is now when you see good people, our side is desperate for leadership with backbone, leadership with a moral sense of understanding, who actually have a moral compass, understanding that there is such a thing as right and wrong.
	And Instead of sticking their finger in the air trying to figure out which way the wind is gonna blow, you need leadership who who come to the table with a sense of right and wrong and will take a stand for this country.
	Our country is on the precipice.
	These people are not playing with us, and they are coming with both barrels, and our side has yet to even throw an effective punch.
	And it's not a battle of fists and bullets in case I get in trouble by Democrats who don't understand hyperboles, but it's not uh uh uh a battle of fists and bullets, it's a battle of ideas, and we gotta get our head out of the sand, and we gotta start standing up and speaking for this country.
	These people, this is not a fad.
	These people are trying to solidify what they already have gained and territory.
	All these years, Kathy, that I have I've covered election, I always point out to this audience and my TV audience that it's it's the Democratic playbook that Republicans are racist, Republicans are sexist, misogynist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic.
	Now they've added transphobic.
	They want dirty air, dirty water, uh, and some Republican leader will take your grandma after feeding them dog food and cat food, put them in a wheelchair and throw them over a cliff.
	That is that is the same thing.
	Now, Joe Biden, who has his own history that is a abhorrent to me on the issues of race, uh, is now going around saying the Georgia election law that was recently passed is Jim Crow 2.0, but yet that very law is far more inclusive uh than his own state of Delaware.
	It's not even close.
	The same with it's far it's far more inclusive than the state of New York or Colorado, where the all-star game is now going to be played after being taken out of uh Georgia and the people of Georgia unfairly smeared the way they've been smeared.
	Your thoughts.
	Listen, Joe Biden is the last living segregationist who has billed himself as the white hope to the black man.
	I mean, this man has been in office longer than I've been alive, and all of a sudden, he is the black he he is the black man's white hope.
	And the media has come alongside this and has perpetuated this lie and this ignorance.
	Last night I was on your show and I was in the waiting room and I was listening to your opening monologue, and I now understand why your guests come out on your show just going to the wall, uh uh gas pedal pressed all the way down because I'm listening.
	I had never heard that he had said about uh of course the people in the South are gonna love him because he's from Delaware, he it was a slave state.
	I mean, that level of ignorance, that level of racism and the way that it has just been whitewashed over to make this the last living segregationist, as I call him, being billed out to be the black people's hope and savior.
	It is quite astounding.
	But we understand that that this division is profitable.
	It works because we allow it to work.
	We need to stop apologizing.
	If you are a racist, go fix that.
	But if you are not a racist, stop allowing people to bully you and to silence.
	It is an effective tool.
	And let me tell you, I have heard white people, white progressives primarily use the word racist and racism more than I have ever heard a black person.
	I I and and I mean, and I've been black all my life, and I have yet to hear black people use the word racist and racism, a very powerful word that our people have inherited because when you see it, it is ugly, and it is a very powerful word that should stop people in their tracks, but it has been so diluted and so malign and misappropriated that it is losing its meaning.
	Even when I hear the word, I roll my eyes at times.
	And it should never be that way because it is a powerful word that was inherited by the black community in this country, and yet we see these progressive use it as an end mark, as a punctuation mark, as a way to I mean, if they can't explain something, they call it racist, if they can't defeat you in an argument, they call it racist.
	Even what we're looking at with Stacey Abram down there in Georgia, one of the powerful things I learned for your audience who may not know me, I grew up on a pig farm in southern Alabama.
	I grew up wickedly impoverished.
	Um, but I was loved.
	By the way, I know part of that story.
	You you didn't even have running water in a bathroom, is that correct?
	Yes, I grew up, you know.
	My my great great great grandma rota, she was born in 1846, she was a slave.
	I grew up in the same house that I describe on that um on that campaign video.
	Uh a home with no insulation, no running water, an outhouse in the back, and a well on the side.
	And although I grew up wickedly impoverished, I don't recall one person ever looking at me and saying, Kathy, you are a victim.
	Kathy, all the odds are against you.
	Kathy, you might as well not try.
	And I'm so grateful I was loved.
	I didn't have much as a child, I didn't know that because you're a child and you're insulated.
	But as an adult looking back, I recognize just how little we had.
	And I am so grateful for the people who were in my life that didn't have much, but they poured into me what they had, and they never looked at me and made me feel as though I was a victim and I might as well not try.
	And I grew up in the very deep south of Alabama that has everything that comes along with that, and yet I became the first in my family to go and finish college.
	I spent 10 years in a U.S. Army Reserve where I was accepted into officer candidacy school, worked in um the financial industry, corporate America, an adjunct professor of corporate finance, authored my first book, and now I'm running for Senate because this is my country.
	I understand my history.
	I don't walk around with a hat in my hand as Stacy Abram would describe me, begging to be admitted into the American dream.
	I am the American dream, and I refuse to allow someone to destroy my country.
	I am so glad that I got off that pig farm before white progressives thought it was beneficial to help black people.
	I am so glad because if it was up to the pack of them, I would still be on that pig farm today.
	I I am I am just listening to every word you're saying, Kathy, and I'm blown away.
	I want to go back to this issue that and you brought it up when you talked about um race in this now viral video and quote people who look like me in America could now not only vote without fear or violence but run for office.
	And it it was very powerful, I thought.
	And I'm thinking about this, and the and here it is the the most restrictive laws in voting are in Delaware and New York.
	It's more restrictive to vote in Colorado than Georgia.
	And the the outright lie of of this being Jim Crow 2.0.
	But this is also a Joe Biden that, you know, talked about um, you know, uh lectures about what is good for the the other N-word, as we say.
	Uh or when he went on to talk uh at length about his his great relationships with segregationists or standing with the former clansmen to stop the integration of our schools because he didn't want our schools to become racial jungles, um, or his you ain't black comment, or you know, let me play some of it for you.
	It's a long way until November, we got more questions.
	You got more questions, but I tell you that if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump and you ain't black, the two-party system is good for the South and good for the good for the black in the South.
	Um, your reaction, Kathy.
	I'm just thinking, and this is the white hope for the black man.
	How tone deaf.
	You know, I would use the word racist, but it is quickly losing its meaning.
	How tone deaf.
	And it's not just tone deaf and disrespectful and ignorant.
	Um, it is uh it w w when it relates to just issues of race.
	But look at what's happening at our southern border is tone deaf, it's arrogance.
	These people do not care about us.
	I mean, look at the number of um uh uh uh senior citizens in nursing homes that have been murdered.
	I mean, it it doesn't take a brain surgeon to recognize it doesn't take someone like Ben Carthen to come and explain to you that if you put COVID-19 positive patients into a nursing home facility where you're housing some of the most vulnerable people in our nation that you're going to get uh it's it's like putting it's the equivalent of putting a fox in a hen house.
	It's gonna turn into a California brush fire.
	I mean, it doesn't take uh Ben Carlson to understand the implications of doing something like that.
	These people are tone deaf.
	And that's putting it mildly.
	Our nation, it is a b we're on a battlefield.
	I was very deliberate when we selected Gettysburg.
	And in that particular location, pick it charge.
	It is the last battle that was fought on Gettysburg.
	And we almost lost it.
	Just by the providence of God and the arrogance of the um of the Democrat Party sponsored uh group, uh Lee, and and the rest of them, it was just their arrogance that that caused them to lose that battle.
	But we picked it for a choice, uh, for a reason.
	And I'm also wearing the last pair of army boots I was issued in the military before I got out because we are in a battle for the very definition of this country.
	These people are not playing with us, and so many on our side of the aisle, they are behaving like this is just politics as usual, as though this is just a big thing.
	I wanna I want to just say this, uh, only because I'm um I'm like I'm sure our audiences just captivated by all you're saying.
	We're gonna follow your race very closely.
	And I think you'd make a phenomenal senator from the great state of Pennsylvania.
	And uh, we want to wish you well.
	We hope you'll come back often on this program.
	Anything we could do to help you, please let us know.
	We'd like to help you in uh any way possible.
	How do people get in touch with you?
	Uh thank you for asking.
	Thank you for having me on.
	Please go to Barnett for Senate.com.
	I need people.
	If you want good leadership, I need you to support me now.
	I cannot do this by myself.
	But I need you to help me create a groundswell that makes this campaign undeniable.
	Please go to Barnett for Senate.com or Kathy Barnett.com and all redirect to the same place and support me.
	I want to hear your voices.
	We will have you on again very often, and we'll have you on uh soon.
	Thank you, Kathy.
	Appreciate it.
	We're following this closely in Pennsylvania.
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	When I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why.
	Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
	It's almost a dirty word.
	One that connotes conspiracy theory.
	Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
	Bad faith political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
	We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
	You put two and two together.
	Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
	Benghazi is a rosetta stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
	I'm Leon Nafok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
	This is Fiasco Benghazi.
	What difference at this point does it make?
	Yes, that's right.
	Locker up.
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	Sean, you want to be a part of this program, this extravaganza.
	Yeah, Biden uh now moving executive action to take away your second amendment rights.
	Is there anything that we predicted that we've been wrong on?
	Not a single thing.
	That's how chilling this is.
	They mean what they said.
	This as I said, no, no party, no major political party in this country has ever run on a more radical agenda than this party.
	And Biden, a shell of his former self, you know, just reading the utterances of others and doing the will of whoever is ultimately in charge here, which is pretty scary.
	Uh Diane is in uh Midway, Georgia.
	Diane, hi, how are you?
	Sorry for the people of Georgia.
	Uh you've been smeared, you've been slandered, and you lost a hundred million dollars in revenue, uh, all based on Joe Biden's lie about the new Georgia law being Jim Crow 2.0.
	You know, I I just don't get it why any kind of sports, especially MLB would um has anything to do with politics.
	It's not their business.
	What we do in Georgia is not their business.
	But the thing is is what what was the law in Georgia is more open than any of the states that we're talking about.
	Joe Biden for 50 years, uh his state of Delaware is far more restrictive in terms of voting.
	This the same goes for New York, Chuck Schumer state.
	The same goes for Colorado.
	It's not quite as restrictive as Delaware, but it's it's less uh inclusive than the new Georgia law.
	And my point is is that it's all been based on a lie, and then you've got the woke cancel culture mob and the media and big tech and now corporations joining in that they they all want to be seen as as PC.
	They didn't even read the bill.
	Major League Baseball does, you know, they're headquartered in in New York.
	New York has far more restrictive voting laws.
	Uh they do business with China.
	Joe Biden, he hasn't called for a pulling out of the 2020 Beijing winter Olympics, but he did this to Georgia.
	Better wise it up.
	I'm like, no, the state that needs to wise up is is Delaware.
	Your state, Joe.
	Your state has some of the most restrictive voting conditions of any state in the country.
	And he never lifted a finger, and they smeared the people of Georgia, and they hurt hardworking businesses in Georgia for no reason at all, all based on a lie.
	What's actually in the law matters.
	What the way it's been falsely characterized, that you know, when a president of the United States lies like that, it makes it it has a huge impact.
	Because Delta and Coca-Cola and 198 other big companies bought into this lie.
	And it and I don't even know what the long-term impact on the Georgia economy is going to be as a result of Joe Biden's lie.
	He owes the people of Georgia an apology.
	So does Stacey Abrams.
	We now know, apparently, Stacy Abrams, according to one report today, at least that I've read, she's not coming on this program.
	I'd love to give her the opportunity to explain it, but Stacy Abrams apparently spoke to the commissioner of Major League Baseball before he made his decision.
	Anyway, thanks for a good call.
	Appreciate it.
	Chris is in College Station in Texas.
	Chris, hi, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Hi, Sean.
	Thanks for having me on.
	It seems like I'm on a bit of a different topic here, but I'm going to jump away from what you're talking about for a minute to get back to the George Floyd trial, if I could.
	Yes, ma'am.
	I just want to say I have tremendous respect for you.
	Have listened to you for years, when I can in the car.
	I have disagreed with you the entire time you have been discussing this event and the way it unfolded, uh, how it was handled by the mob media and the conservative media troubles me tremendously.
	In this country, we're innocent until proven guilty.
	By the way, I've said that I said that many, many times, but I but my eyes by also there's two factors here, just so you understand my thinking.
	Is my uh we have nine minutes and twenty six seconds of tape.
	We have seven minutes and however many seconds of continuous tape of what we see.
	And and I'm speaking at this with my what my own eyes show me, what I know about police training and my eight years of training four or five days a week, 90 minutes a day in martial arts, mixed martial arts.
	And I and what I know about the vulnerability of one's neck.
	And by the way, this is something that except Except didn't the defense attorney introduced new footage from Officer King yesterday, to my knowledge.
	That does not definitively show his knee was on his neck.
	You could interpret it anyway.
	Listen, I'm not going to try and convince you what I see.
	I'm just telling you what I see.
	Now, is it true that fentanyl, methamphetamines, whatever all these drugs were in his system?
	Yes.
	Is it true he had underlying serious significant health issues?
	That is true too.
	Um did that contribute to his death, I wouldn't doubt it at all.
	Uh is that going to be a factor?
	But the question is this.
	If Officer Chauvin, who did not follow police procedures, remember he was in handcuffs the whole time at this point, and at that point was not resisting.
	The minute somebody's not resisting, you you know, and somebody's handcuffed, all use of force ends at that point.
	And my argument is number one, that police need more training, side issue.
	But number two, I can just tell you as again, I'm a student of the arts.
	I I don't want to overplay my knowledge here because I'm I'm I'll be learning the rest of my life.
	Um if I took two fingers of George Floyd and manipulated him while they were in handcuffs, I promise you he would have full compliance.
	That that was that was unnecessary and excessive use of force that also goes against training from all that I see.
	And I am only telling you that um you can even look online.
	There's a martial art artist that takes on uh, you know, this go ahead.
	I also have a son who was a police officer for a short time who also trained in Israeli Krav Maga at a very high level.
	And from the very beginning, I've been training training in Krav Maga for eight years.
	Love it.
	Correct.
	But the but here's the thing.
	There's a couple of types of individuals that in my opinion have a have the credibility to look with their eyes and then make a judgment in this body cam footage shows what it shows, but it doesn't show the 19 some odd years of any police officer who gets up every day and weighs the risk.
	We none of us know what was going through his mind.
	It reminds me of the Marcus Luttrell interview with Jake Papper and CNN when he got back and it was lone survivor was released, and the guy said something like, uh, would you go back and I don't remember what he said.
	It's just but it irritated Marcus Latrell, and he's basically said, I've trained my whole life for this.
	If you think you can do the my job, then you put your feet in my shoes and go do it.
	And that's the way I feel about the stuff.
	Chris, you're you're you're you're talking to a guy who has a 33-year track record of being one of the staunchest, most outspoken supporters of the police and law enforcement in the country.
	So you you do you don't need to sell me on how hard a job is.
	Now, with all of that said, no, nobody will ever know what what's going through somebody's mind at the time or or why they did what they did.
	It is I am just telling you what I know about the human anatomy from Krav Maga, my study of Japanese jujitsu, my my study in Kempo, um, my training situation I do situational training every single day.
	We work with blades, sticks, firearms, we do it all.
	We do boxing.
	I hit the heavy bag every day.
	I do all of that.
	And I am just telling you, if if a targeted strike towards the bottom of your jaw that would hit your carotid artery, just one strike for a fraction of a second, if I if I strike you, the intended strike hits its location, you will immediately drop to the ground.
	Because what because that fraction of a second with a carotid artery cutting off blood to the brain will put you on your put you down on the ground.
	And I bet that when you try and stand up, that I guarantee you that you'd probably fall down again.
	Just like if I put you in what's called, and if you follow mixed martial arts or watch, you know, if you ever watch the octagon, you know, what's called uh uh a rear naked choke chokehold.
	And if I if I lock it in and I have both of your carotid arteries and I'm locked, you can't get out, um, you'll pass out in under 15 seconds, and and that's usually a lot quicker.
	And you know how I know?
	Because it's been done to me.
	I've re I to know I've had people do it to me where I passed out.
	Right.
	Doctor's gonna kill me for admitting it, but go ahead.
	Well, I understand.
	I I think for me, the biggest problem in all this, the whole thing is very tragic.
	But the biggest problem for me is the way all media jumped on this, made a determined judgment.
	None of us were his judge and jury, and I I don't think it's civilian media, any of us.
	I am very much I'm often with you, but the the length of time of the tape, you know, speaks volumes to me.
	Look, here's what I'm gonna here's what I'm gonna predict to you.
	I said during Ferguson, it's not gonna come out the way people are saying, and I ended up being right because I had sources on the ground, police horse.
	I was right, the media was wrong.
	I was right in Baltimore, the media was wrong.
	I was right about Cambridge police, the media was wrong.
	When everybody was saying that that down in Florida, Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, the the verdict was going to come out a certain way.
	I said, nah, not so fast, because I knew testimony was coming that would place Trayvon on top of George Zimmerman banging his head and grounding and pounding it into the ground, and that that would have a dramatic impact on the on the result of the the trial down there.
	I am telling you, I am going to be right in terms of where this is headed.
	The I've been following it closely.
	And I am just no doubt he's he will go to prison because if he was acquitted, if if there was something that came out that acquitted him, this country would go into chaos and mayhem.
	This country would never accept it.
	You know, you know, but but Chris, Chris, that didn't happen.
	The reason that we had the trouble in Ferguson in Baltimore is because there were expectations that never were going to be fulfilled.
	You know, I would argue that it's going to be a different result here.
	Look, you talk to your son, you talk to police, because I have many, many friends in law enforcement, many, and we've all discussed this case.
	And there's not one of them that thinks that Officer Chauvin uh handled this properly.
	Not one.
	These these are my friends in law enforcement.
	Not one of them.
	Well, I don't know.
	I mean, I've only talked to my son, and he has a differing opinion, and all the things.
	Does your son think that Officer Chauvin acted appropriately?
	He thinks that there is here's what he thinks.
	The media, two things.
	Forget the media.
	Does he think that the officer handled this appropriately?
	He was trained in fentanyl.
	He he knows about the superhuman strength.
	There's a multiple thing I can get into.
	Okay, I understand all that.
	He was handcuffed at this at this moment is when it matters, though.
	This 10 minute period of time matters.
	You no, no, you're you're answering a whole different question.
	Does he think that that when the when the guy is on the ground pleading, please, sir?
	I can't breathe, and he's in handcuffs, and he's no longer resisting.
	I would have to say that yes, because he doesn't know all of the circumstances, neither do you, and neither do I, irregardless of our martial arts information, irregardless of how many friends we have in the police force.
	No, that is a horrible area as well.
	So I mean, I just gotta I just gotta gently, you know, I I hear where you're coming from.
	I'm gonna say this.
	Okay, the one's neck is the most vulnerable part of the human anatomy.
	Police know this, they're trained in this.
	At that moment, once once once a suspect in handcuffs stops resisting, all use of force ends.
	That is basic training one on one.
	There's two things.
	I'm not convinced the knee was on the neck, and there are others who are also not convinced based on the new footage.
	That was also I'm not I've never been convinced of that.
	Neither has my son been convinced of it.
	The footage does not clearly show that.
	The knee looks to me to be more near the shoulder blade, center of the back of the neck area, not near what everybody has.
	The lying media has said.
	So I don't know.
	It'll come out in the wash.
	I hope.
	I hate the whole thing.
	I just couldn't disagree with you any more firmly.
	I see the knee right on the neck.
	Right on it.
	The whole time.
	Officer King's footage that was released yesterday.
	I've looked at the foot.
	I've looked at every bit of footage that's out.
	Okay, well, one more point, and I'm gonna let you go.
	The whole point really of all this to me is this is a dangerous precedent setting case that has now changed policing forever.
	So it that's what I'm saying.
	But listen, God bless your son.
	You know, sometimes we're just gonna have to agree to disagree.
	I I I you're seeing something.
	I just see the opposite.
	And apparently, I think most people agree with me.
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	When I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
	Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why.
	Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
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	So Joe Biden, Mr. Unity, he calls for unity, but he demonizes the election reforms and refers to the reforms that are far more liberal and inclusive in the state of Georgia than his restrictive state of Delaware.
	He had 50 years to change the voting laws in Delaware.
	He's never even talked about it.
	Never lifted a finger to do anything about it.
	And then, of course, Stacey Abrams urging people uh now at this late hour.
	Oh no, don't boycott Georgia now.
	Uh uh uh I didn't really mean it because she wants to hang on to any possibility She can win.
	Jen Sakya was asked.
	Let's play the uh plethora of comments of those involved in this issue.
	To restore the soul and secure the future of America requires so much more than words.
	It requires the most elusive of all things in a democracy.
	Unity.
	For profit operations and businesses are speaking up about how these new Jim Crow laws are just anathetical to who we are.
	I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide but unify.
	What I'm worried about is how unamerican this whole initiative is.
	It's sick.
	It's sick.
	We've overcome incredible challenges in nation.
	We've done it before, and we will do it again.
	We'll do it by coming together by uniting after years of pain and loss.
	It is the most pernicious thing.
	This makes Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle.
	I mean, this is gigantic.
	I understand the passion of those calling for boycotts of Georgia following the passage of SB 202.
	Boycotts have been an important tool throughout our history to achieve social change.
	But here's the thing black, Latino, API, and Native American voters whose votes are the most suppressed under SB 202, are also the most likely to be hurt by potential boycotts of Georgia.
	To our friends across the country, please do not boycott us.
	I think it's important to remember the context here.
	The Georgia legislation is built on a lie.
	There was no widespread fraud in the 2020 election.
	Georgia's top Republican election officials have acknowledged that repeatedly in interviews.
	And what there was, however, was record-setting turnout, especially by voters of color.
	So instead, what we're seeing here is for politicians who didn't like the outcome, they're not changing their policies.
	Uh to win more votes, they're changing the rules to exclude more voters.
	And we certainly see the circumstances as different.
	But ultimately, sorry, let me add one more thing.
	It's up to Major League Baseball to determine where they're holding their all-star game.
	All right, there you have it from uh Jay Circle Bach Jen Saki and Stacey Abrams and uh Joe's claim, Jim Crow 2.0, here to weigh in on it and the damaging legacy to Joe Biden on this, an outright lie.
	It was a lie.
	What Joe says about Georgia's law is a lie.
	What Stacey Abrams has said about it is a lie.
	We've gone over and we've compared and we contrast, uh, have contrasted all the differing laws in Delaware, New York, even Colorado, where MLBs now moved the All-Star game.
	And the state of Georgia now has been smeared unfairly based on lies.
	Leo Tyrell, civil rights attorney for decades.
	David Schoen also has a civil rights attorney.
	Thank you both for being with us.
	Thank you.
	Thank you for having us, Sean.
	Leo 2.0 Terrell, uh really, Jim Crow 2.0.
	Uh no.
	Uh if Joe cared so much about uh free and fair and open voting systems, why is his state of Delaware so restrictive then?
	I'll tell you right now, he can't even reconcile that issue.
	Let's be very clear.
	Because I want to make sure those people who suffered in the 40s and the 50s and 60s under Jim Crow, up until the voting rights act of 65 and the Civil Rights Act of 64 and the Fair Housing Act of 68.
	There is no Jim Crow.
	That that is a lie.
	You know, if there was Jim Crow laws, why don't Joe Biden's Department of Justice go there and file lawsuits?
	You know why they don't do it?
	Because it does not exist.
	He owes the state of Georgia an apology.
	And Stacy Abram, and that clip you played, is walking back her statements.
	Why?
	Because she hurt blacks, browns, yellows, and whites in Georgia by by basically expanding on this lie, and Major League Baseball and a hundred million dollars of revenue just left Georgia and went to Denver, Colorado, where they they are a smaller number of blacks.
	So I this is blowing back against the Democrats because the lie has been exposed.
	Facing Abram's political career in Georgia is now over because this will haunt her for the next two years.
	It's going to be fascinating to watch.
	Uh, I think the people of Georgia feel uh rightly so that they've been smeared and slandered.
	Um I think David Schoen, first let me get your original thoughts on it.
	Then I got a few questions uh to follow up on.
	My original thought is that this Jim Crow analogy is the worst part of what we've seen.
	Uh Frankly, it's not just an analogy.
	President Biden has said this is much worse than the Jim Crow laws.
	Understand the slap in the face that that is to Americans, particularly to black Americans.
	People died because of Jim Crow laws.
	People were excluded from restaurants, from water fountains.
	People were not allowed to vote.
	They were given literacy tests and poll taxes.
	That's what Jim Crow laws did.
	To suggest for a second this is anything like that, and then to say it's much worse, that is a lie, as you said earlier, but it's a very damaging lie.
	And you see that they're backtracking on it now with this Ms. Psaki saying, well, the problem really is it was built on a lie, uh, was brought about because of voter fraud.
	That's also a lie.
	The act itself, 2022, tells exactly the reasons why this was necessary.
	And it's not because they found it was voter fraud, it's because of the potential that some of these loosenings that happened during the last election because of the COVID scare uh brought about.
	This is a matter of election integrity.
	I spend every day in my practice with ballot access cases on my docket around the country, fighting for the right of voters and candidates to free and open ballots.
	I've got two of the cases going right now, but they have to be all measured with election integrity.
	I want every person who's entitled to vote to be able to vote every single election, but only those are entitled to vote by law.
	That's how our system works.
	You know, if you look at the state of Delaware, they don't have anything near.
	Now, the this really comes down to two big issues in my mind, Leo, and that is they don't want voter ID, Democrats don't, and they don't want signature verification.
	That's what it comes down to.
	And at the end of the day, if you don't have now, well, think of the long list of things that I've been pointing out to anybody that'll listen.
	You know, if you want to go visit Joe Biden at the White House, you need a photo ID, or or go to the Capitol, you need a photo ID, or the DNC, you need a photo ID, or to get on an airplane or buy a house, apply for a mortgage, rent a house, buy a six-pack, buy cigarettes,
	buy jewel pods, buy apply for food stamps, a job, welfare, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, unemployment, drive by, rent a car, purchase a gun, adopt a pet, rent a hotel room, pick up a prescription, donate blood, purchasing Allegra D at the pharmacy, and on and on and on.
	I mean, you need a picture ID for every one of those things.
	Now, why wouldn't you need it for voting, Leo?
	Well, I'll tell you right now, Sean, it's very clear.
	And here's a disconnect between the Democratic leadership that is basically socialist and the majority of Americans.
	69 to 70 percent of black Americans want voter be photo ID.
	75% of Americans you know want photo ID.
	So this is not something that Democrats are in favor of.
	It's the Democratic leadership that believes in keeping this type of election fraud by not having photo ID, because they don't want they don't want verification.
	So that's a disconnect.
	And I also want to go back to the point, J Sean, about the the whole Jim Crow thing.
	The whole purpose of this Jim Crow is a distraction.
	It's a distraction so that the House can pass and the Congress can pass HR one.
	It's a distraction by because of disastrous border policy, and it's a distraction because they want to tax the hell out of this country.
	So I honestly believe this Jim Crow argument is a big lie.
	Everyone knows it, but it's a distraction, and it's the wrong distraction because it's hurting America right now because it's hurting America because it's being divided by rape.
	Let me ask you.
	I just want to jump on the point you make.
	It's very important point.
	You said let's isolate what the complaints are about.
	So it's about voter ID.
	Let's take a look at the Georgia law exactly.
	It requires just about any form of ID.
	It could be a driver's license, it could be a utility bill, it could be a house payment statement.
	Um, and by the way, it could be your last four digits of your social security number.
	And by the way, if you don't have the ID, the state will provide any eligible voter with a free state ID.
	Well, you know, it's it's if you want to vote, I don't think you can do better than the state of Georgia.
	I really don't.
	When you actually look at the law as it's passed, there are it is far less restrictive than most states.
	And they've done a lot, all they've done is to insist on uh the same exact standards if you're voting in person or voting by mail.
	I mean, that's really what it what it all comes down to.
	Georgia, you know, they expand access to the poll, uh polls down there.
	Seventeen days of early voting.
	Voters have more flexibility to vote, Far less restrictive than these other states that we're talking about.
	Uh Joe never lifted a finger.
	And yet they they they want to characterize it this way.
	And meanwhile, we're getting lectured from a guy that worked with the former Klansman Robert Byrd to stop the integration of public schools because he didn't want public schools to become racial jungles.
	It's it's kind of a little difficult to take Joe Biden serious on any issue involving race is you know you ain't black and we're gonna put you all back in chains and uh you know his comments about well, you can't work in a 7 Eleven or Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent or his comments about Obama being bright and clean and articulate for the first time ever.
	This is a storybook, man.
	And every other dumb thing that he said.
	Let me go but they don't what they don't what they don't tell you is what Georgia rejected.
	Georgia, many people reasonably feel that you should have a reason for voting uh mail in but for not showing up at the polls to vote like we used to do.
	But Georgia rejected that idea.
	Not this not true for Delaware and New York.
	Many states still require valid reasons for voting mail in.
	If you're over 65 in Georgia, any reason you uh just mail it in.
	I listen, I don't even know.
	I think we should have a voting day with absentee ballots that with that includes photo ID and and if or if you can't get out of your house, we should certainly accommodate people in that's sh uh can under those circumstances.
	More with Leo 2.0 Terrell and David Schoen as we continue.
	Let me ask you both about this trial of of Officer Chauvin that has been going on.
	We now have this nine minute and twenty-nine second tape that has been introduced by the prosecution.
	To me, this is very straightforward.
	All my cop friends that I've talked to said uh no, that is not the that is not the training of a police officer if somebody's handcuffed and at that moment but once they become compliant, as he was saying, please, sir, please sir, I can't breathe, um, showing that he was going to comply.
	Uh, he should have been turned over.
	To me, it's pretty cut and dry that the tape speaks volumes.
	There are other people that are pointing, well, he had fentanyl in his system and other drugs in his system, and he had a pre existing health condition, all of which is true, and the autopsy bore that out, Leo.
	But uh, I don't think the question is, would he have died that at that moment if the if the knee of Officer Chauvin were not on his neck?
	To me, it's it's pretty clear.
	Hey, Sean, let me tell you right now, I think I agree with you on this.
	I think the officer did wrong.
	But let me just throw one little case out for you because the video tape didn't convince a jury.
	Rotney King trial number one.
	And I'll tell you right now, the defense has a tremendous advantage.
	All they gotta do is look for one juror and raise the argument that that this officer did not wake up with the intention that day to kill George Floyd, and that he's going to argue that he was following police a policy.
	And I would be surprised if this guy does not testify.
	But the defense only needs one jury to say, nope, I can't buy this.
	I think the prosecution overcharge.
	I think this is definitely.
	Well, but they do have options in this case.
	In certain cases, they overcharge and you only have one option.
	That's not the the issue here.
	I I I I agree.
	They do have options, but what I'm saying is it goes back to the the defense, all they need is one.
	Just one.
	And they got a mistrial.
	Again, Rodney Key trial number one.
	David.
	Yeah, I mean, if they find that one juror in this case that doesn't convict of something, I mean, they need to get the guy examined.
	Um i look, he's gonna be convicted of something, it seems to me.
	Um, and of course, Mr. Terrell is right, uh, defense lawyer only needs one juror, but this case is quite cut and dry.
	The issue for the defense, however, is cause of death because they decided to charge him with murder.
	There'd be no question in the civil case here of liability.
	Um be huge damages.
	Well, they've already paid out a huge settlement in the case.
	Um, but uh he will be convicted of something.
	It's no there's no question that he violated police practices.
	You've heard from some of the experts.
	Experts are usually testify on the other side of the case.
	Um it was a terrible thing that he did.
	There's no question about it.
	Uh what he's convicted of is not so clear.
	Cause of death, you know, the corner helps out the defense a bit in this case.
	But uh this is a terrible case to have to breathe before the American public.
	Terrible commentary.
	But the varying charges, you believe that there will be a conviction on at least one of them, David Show.
	Absolutely.
	Absolutely, I believe that.
	And Leo?
	I hope there is, but I would not be surprised if there's not.
	That's a pretty bold statement, Leo.
	Well, I'm listening I I think I think the guy I think the officer is guilty.
	I just don't know if they'll find him guilty.
	Is he guilty of what though?
	There are different standards.
	If you're if he if you if you bring in the the biggest charge against him and you have to prove intent, I don't think you can prove intent for anybody.
	I agree.
	You have to find a reckless dissolute regard for George Floyd's life.
	And that third degree charge might be the one which finds him guilty.
	I'm just saying, Sean, that what we see in the court of public opinion is different inside that courtroom when that jury is confined to the jury instructions and the rules given by the judge.
	And I'm not gonna sit here and speculate what's in the buttons.
	Listen, I think that's a good reminder for everybody.
	I really do, because you never know how a jury is reacting inside the courtroom, and and you're right.
	I do think that it's a very powerful nine minutes and 29 seconds that they see, and whether or not the defense is able to mitigate that in some way, I don't know.
	I will say at the end of the day that my argument that police do need more training because the the easy manipulation of two of George Floyd's finger fingers while handcuffed would have brought full compliance in seconds without breaking his fingers.
	Anyway, thank you both.
	Appreciate it.
	Quick break right back.
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	What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
	Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why.
	Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
	It's almost a dirty word.
	One that connotes conspiracy theory.
	Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
	Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
	We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
	You put two and two together.
	Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
	Benghazi is a rosetta stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
	I'm Leon Mayfock from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
	This is Fiasco Benghazi.
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	All right, 25 to the top of the hour.
	Our friend Joe Paggs put together the all new version of New York, New York.
	We don't want to be a part of it.
	Start spreading the news.
	I'm leaving today.
	Don't want to be a part of it.
	New York, New York, Cuomo's abuse.
	COVID's here to stay.
	Right through the very heart of it.
	New York, New York.
	Don't want to wake up in a city run by bad creep.
	I'll soon go over the hill.
	Leave this trash heap.
	D Blasio blows.
	Up words that crime goes.
	Bad guys run every part of it.
	Like old New York.
	I'll get right out of there.
	Take my family.
	Anywhere in my rear view.
	New York.
	New York.
	New York, New York.
	Don't want to wake up in a city that's six feet deep.
	And find I might be car checked.
	Central Park attacked.
	Taxes I'm pleased.
	they don't like police Bring the Apple back.
	I gotta hit that busy threw away.
	Out of New York.
	Yeah.
	If I can get out of there.
	Away from the mean streets where you are all done.
	New York, New York, New York.
	It's simple.
	No one hunts with an assault rifle.
	No one needs ten bullets to kill a deer.
	Man, oh man, oh man.
	What a great treat from our friend Joe Peggs.
	I brought this idea up yesterday.
	This is how good my team is.
	Linda, you put it together.
	He did it all.
	Uh what did you get that?
	He actually 12 hours.
	So here's the thing.
	So Joe has an awesome audience.
	We share some listeners.
	They reached out.
	Joe reached out to me.
	He he does parodies all the time.
	We started talking about I said, Joe, listen, if you feel moved by the subject, by all means, do it.
	I would love it.
	And he turns it around in no time.
	Unbelievable.
	He's so ti I can't.
	He's on our newsmaker line now.
	Joe Pags, my brother.
	How are you?
	Sean, how's it going?
	It happened just like that.
	I got a bunch of emails from people.
	They said Linda was trying to get Sean to sing a parody.
	And Sean said, I'm not sure.
	Yeah, by the way, Joe, hell will freeze over.
	That's never happening.
	So yeah, I connected with Linda and I said, I'll throw it together.
	See what you think.
	She said, make it happen.
	And then there it is.
	Man, oh man, I had we've been friends for how many years have we known each other?
	Forever.
	It's gotta be uh 21, 22 years.
	Right.
	And I'm like, and and I I've always known you're a great host.
	I know you're talented, and um, and and you've always been successful, but I had no idea that you did this.
	When did you know you could sing?
	I'm more of a saxophone player to be honest with you.
	I was a music major in college, Sean.
	So uh I just started putting these together and people laughed at them.
	They thought they were kind of cool, so I've been doing them for a while.
	You know, Linda can sing.
	Linda actually was part of a serious band.
	I mean, she made real real coin singing at weddings and all of that.
	But let's let's be honest here.
	I think that Pegs was the right choice for Sinatra.
	I'm just saying, you know, I can be woman enough to meet it.
	Let's hear you sing a little of the the song, Linda.
	You got the you got the lyrics in front of you.
	Not for nothing, Joe.
	This was fantastic.
	And your lyrics I'm gonna put them up on the website.
	They're they're amazing they're so funny.
	I can't wait for if I could just see if you can sing.
	Thank you, Joe.
	If I could see Andrew Cuomo and Comrade the Blasio's face listening to that, it would make me laugh.
	I would love that.
	I would love it.
	Well, but you're, you know, you know New York well.
	And look what they've done to this place.
	It's a it's a show.
	I'm from New York originally, Sean.
	You know this.
	I'm from I'm from Copeg.
	I was born in Amityville.
	So I'm right from I'm right from Metro New York, and our friend Curtis Lewa has told me, Joe, do not come home.
	Don't come here.
	Nobody wants to be here.
	This is horrible right now.
	Yeah, by the way, our friend Curtis is running for mayor.
	I mean, I hope that uh he does well.
	Um he's been with the Guardian Angels.
	He's run that organization now for decades and decades.
	And uh I I you know the the sad thing is for you know, Rudy won in New York, and is Rudy's very liberal on social issues.
	People may not know that about him.
	But putting that aside, he that was not what he was running on.
	He was running on cleaning up New York and bringing New York back, and he did it, and he did it uh with immense fierce opposition from you know the New York Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU and and the New York Times, they all hated him getting sued, but he started, you know, dealing with crime and he star instituted st stop and frisk and became America's mayor on 9-11.
	And um, you know, it was we proved that we can do it.
	The problem is the people that did vote for Rudy.
	There were many Democrats, but any Republicans are now long gone.
	They've left.
	They're leaving not only the city, but the state.
	Maybe Rudy told me this, but for every year that you let the city go to pot, it takes seven years to get it back.
	And that's a problem.
	It's a big problem.
	That's a huge problem.
	You know, Andrew Cuomo, by the way, he I mean, this this is uh out of touch you used.
	This is him, quote, joking with a reporter that he's tall and good looking.
	Just listen.
	Hey, Covenant.
	Hey, Peter, remember me?
	Tall, good looking, blonde hair, blue eyes, button nose.
	Long time.
	Yeah.
	What the heck?
	Yeah.
	I'm like, do you not know you've got ten women accusing you of of things?
	Maybe it's time to start shutting up a little bit and maybe being a little more sensitive to what's going on on the very day a woman, you know, described in deep detail as groping activities.
	Uh Joe, you're it's horrible.
	Yeah.
	I love you for doing that for us.
	You're amazing.
	Yeah, we appreciate it as always.
	Joe Pags, thank you, buddy.
	800-941 Sean.
	You want to be a part of the program.
	I'm blown away.
	Um anyway, Mindy is in Michigan.
	Mindy, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Well, hi, Sean.
	How are you doing?
	I'm good, Mindy.
	What's going on?
	Well, I wanted to call in regard to Delta's hypocritical position on the IDs.
	And how I am approaching that is I'm a crisis intervention specialist, and I fly and I I teach that nationally.
	I work with uh first responders, I respond to critical events nationally.
	So I'm in the air a lot, all right.
	Um to fortify that, I have over a million sky miles.
	Okay.
	Wow.
	So that just gives you, yeah, that just gives you the dynamic.
	Now, along with that, um, I have a service dog, okay?
	A legitimate service dog.
	And one of the dynamics of flying, as you know, I there's no way that I can get through TSA or get on a plane without having an ID, correct?
	Correct.
	So now they this has been part of the agenda with a service dog is, you know, Delta wants to know that you have a legitimate because there are a lot of people who try and cheat and take their little foo foo dogs on planes.
	But now things have escalated to the point that the United States Department of Transportation service animal air transportation requires a governmental form of ID for me to prove that my service dog is a legitimate service dog.
	Proof of of course vaccination.
	She used Joe Biden's definition, that's just bringing back Jim Crow, isn't it?
	There you go.
	And that's the whole thing is that they're requiring all of these documents, you know, and proof that my service dog is a service dog, but yet we are not willing to uh our our country's greatest privilege in voting to simply prove that we are who we are to keep our voting um
	a legitimate and listen.
	I I've gone through the list.
	It's almost everything.
	Now you ask yourself why are Democrats willing to even divide the country and play the race card over photo ID and signature verification.
	Because it's about power.
	They are desperately trying to manipulate and divide the country because at the end of the day, if they get what they want, this is about power to them.
	And that's why we are where we are.
	It's that simple.
	The issue of service dogs should be a no-brainer.
	You know, you have a note from your doctor, that should suffice.
	Uh, but no, they have restrictive photo ID requirements as you're describing.
	But anyway, thanks for telling us, Mindy, that sheds a lot of light on it.
	Jake and San Francisco.
	What's up, Jake?
	I'm so honored and surprised that the communist premier of Pelosi and CCP President Newsom allowed me to actually get through outside of the state of California.
	But I'm really having a hard time, just like the man in New York, with the way that things are, and uh the fact that being a conservative or really just not being a Democrat and bowing down is absolutely something that we're being punished for every single day.
	Well, you don't have to be punished for being a conservative.
	Uh you're talking about, I'm sure, cancel culture and wokeness, and and they want a silence and shut down.
	Listen, the fact that that Twitter, Facebook, Google, YouTube, everybody in between, there's going to be the rise of alternative media tech outlets over time.
	It's just going to take time to build them out.
	There is now there's been a process of grow a growth process, and it's taken longer than anybody I think wanted.
	Parlor started, for example, and Rumble started as an antidote to YouTube.
	Uh, there are other organizations, groups out there that are gonna continue building out their systems, and eventually, you know, if we're not wanted on, you know, these platforms, that's fine.
	We'll leave and we'll take our money and we'll take our advertisement and and we'll go elsewhere.
	Um, I can accept that people want to, you know, it's but it's it runs is far more insidious than that in terms of they they really do want to de-platform conservative voices.
	And it's it's not just Twitter, and it's not just Facebook, and it's not just these known entities.
	It's they go after any any platform, any place, any voice that is conservative.
	It it these are nothing but intimidation tactics, all of it.
	I'm gonna I'm gonna go ahead and speak in my southern voice real quick and say that I'm talking about a bigger issue here.
	I'm talking about the fact that we cannot even fight human rights for the Uyghurs and not to mention all of the other people in China and elsewhere as well as the city.
	And by the way, could I just say something?
	What Linda, what did I say when the first thing when this guy got on the line?
	What did I say in the talk back that our audience can't hear?
	He said, is this a real accent?
	I said this guy's got a phony accent.
	What's with the phony accent, Jake?
	Why are you calling with phony accents?
	Because I wanted to try to get Republicans to realize there's never been a more time to speak impeccably and factually.
	And so that that quite there is my goal.
	Jake, be real on this show.
	We try to be real.
	You don't need to fake it.
	Okay?
	You can be yourself.
	All right.
	That's gonna wrap things up for today.
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