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800-941 Sean, you want to be a part of this extravaganza.
Um, this is our last day.
We're gonna take a long weekend, like many of you I'm sure are.
And I look, I only think I ask this what's special about I guess this memorial day is that things are getting back to normal for most people.
Now, if you're in certain states, oh, you know, you elected the wrong politicians, whatever.
And uh what a I just it's like you saw the things in life that you don't always stop, ponder, wonder about, or appreciate or take for granted.
You know, you don't wake up every morning and say, Oh, I live in freedom, the greatest country God gave man.
Let me shovel coffee down my throat quick, and let me make the kids lunch, and let me go put in my 15-hour work day, and then come home and cook dinner and do the homework or order pizza if I'm lucky.
Um, but when you think about it, we do live in the greatest country, God gave man.
And this memorial day, you think of just just even if it's five minutes, ponder all the people who knowingly, willingly put themselves in harm's way, the ultimate sacrifice, and I would add also too,
don't forget those that have been taking on severe injuries for the rest of their lives, and the impact of families losing loved ones and and living with loved ones that that have terrible challenges that you can't even imagine as a result of conflict and war and and the battle and the struggle against evil to preserve our way of life.
And you just think about it, and it's amazing.
These people that that have done so much so that we could live so free and not have to wake up every day and worry about those things, and we get to go about our pursuit of happiness and raise our families and drink beer and suck down some Titos and eat steak and fish and barbecue and whatever you like, and you know, but a lot of people sacrifice to make that happen.
There's a Bible verse from the book of John.
Greater love has no one than this.
To lay down one's life for one's friends.
It's pretty profound.
The people that have laid down their lives for us.
We honor them.
Always.
800-941 Sean is our number.
You know, Carvel.
I know James Carvel.
I've known James Carville for years.
I'm even going to admit I like James Carvel.
James Carville is a fun guy to be around.
He and you're saying, Hannity, what's happened to you?
It's an invasion of the body snatchers.
I even told jokes on stage, James Carvel.
I was debating him once, and I found I'm losing the debate.
Why am I losing the debate?
Because my mind is distracted.
Because I'm staring at James Carville.
And I'm thinking two things.
One, what the hell was Mary Matlin thinking?
And two, man, there must really be life on other planets.
Kidding.
That's the joke I use.
But yeah, you hang out with the guy.
He's a great guy, but he's not dumb.
Let me be very clear about this.
Now, Clinton, forget about his politics.
He was very, very shrewd political operation.
And they had their morning calls with like Podesta and Carvel and Ram Rambo Deadfish and Georgie Stephanopoulos.
And every day was, well, what's the message of the day?
How do we stay on message?
What ought we be talking about today?
And it was very disciplined.
And Carville was a big part of the Clinton success.
Anyway, he sent something that really struck me, calling out the Democrats for exhibiting what he called metropolitan arrogance and urban smugness that he said was detrimental to democratic efforts.
He's not wrong.
David Axelrod said Democrats have won seven out of eight national elections, popular vote, but that's not how we elect presidents.
Every state has two senators, and we become more and more of a metropolitan party, and we write off large segments of the country.
Donald Trump won 80% of the counties in this country.
I mean, this is this is the great divide.
I mean, the Democratic Party has become the party of coastal elites.
Donald Trump, if you take the pandemic out of the equation, which you obviously can't, but you look at the first three years, there was, we were in the middle, I believe, of a dramatic demographic transformational shift in this country.
Because Donald Trump, by lowering taxes, controlling our borders and illegal immigrant stopping illegal immigration, and Donald Trump incentivizing investment and manufacturing by getting rid of more than any other president, bureaucratic red tape, and then further by cutting taxes, stimulating the economy, the results were phenomenal.
Something that no other administration had been able to accomplish.
And he set record after record after record after record low unemployment for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, women in the workplace, youth unemployment, African American youth unemployment.
Now, he also became the, you know, so the Republican Party, because we've been told for years, well, the only way you're going to get the Hispanic community to vote more Republican is amnesty and open borders and that that never never was the case.
And I think even a time or two, I might have believed it.
That uh, maybe I don't, I don't know.
What is the out the outreach is freedom?
There's there is a natural inclination, I would argue, and I think our framers and our founders understood this of human beings to be free, and that instinctively it's it's in our DNA to want to be free.
And instinctively we know that big government is a failure.
That's why I don't understand why so many people are attracted to everything's being free.
And oh, we're gonna have free this and free that, and child care and and guaranteed job and college and and guaranteed government wage and job and and health care and retirement and healthy food and and on and on and on.
That's not what created wealth in America, this a standard of living second to none in America.
You know, I've been to some of the poorest communities in the country.
Now, does it you want to live there?
No, you do not.
But but even but compared to the poverty in other countries, it's not the same.
You know, you will often have you know, uh a refrigerator, a freezer, a microwave, a television.
Uh and again, I'm talking about basics.
Does it mean it's the way you want to live?
No, it's not.
But it's the idea that if you develop the discipline, the skills that are necessary, and you put the time in and the dedication and the time and the commitment into building a life for yourself, you're going to succeed in this country, and nothing can stop you.
And I believe that's true today.
And so I think Carvel has tapped into something I've been saying, but a little differently.
And that is Democrats are now the party of coastal elites.
And if the Republican Party wants a future, it's got to be the agenda I've been articulating every day.
And I'm repeating it on purpose.
So don't say, Hannity, you repeat yourself.
I am repeating it on purpose.
Because this is the antidote to the power grab and the new Green Deal socialist insanity that is going to destroy the country.
socialism always results in the same exact failure.
I did a whole chapter, Live Free or Die, about socialism and its history of failure.
Whatever name, whatever form, whatever manifestation that it's been tried, it is always failed.
They make grand promises, government security.
And I get the appeal, there is Rush would say, Santa Claus, and I get the appeal, oh, all the stress of life is taken away, and government's gonna provide everything for me.
I'll have daycare for my children, college for my children, a guaranteed job, a guaranteed wage, a guaranteed minimum standard of living, health care, all the everything that they promise.
But then you get just one little slight inch deeper.
And what do you find?
Everything that they promised, Social Security is going bankrupt, Medicare's going bankrupt.
I thought they were gonna put that in a lockbox.
Yeah, they squandered it.
How did Obamacare work out?
Keep your doctor plan and save money.
On average, we're paying 250% more, millions lost their doctors, millions lost their plans.
You know, there's fully, I think I think the number is almost 50% now of the country, about 40% of the country now has one Obama care exchange option.
That's it.
That's not what you were promised.
You know, government makes a promise for law and order.
Well, how's that working out in deep blue states?
They make a promise also of, well, we're gonna give your kids a public schools, they suck.
Why do you think why do you think this why do I say an unholy alliance?
Because teachers' unions, they give all the money from their rank and file to Democrats, and then as a result, they get to write COVID policy.
And the CDC takes dictation under Joe Biden.
Anyway, uh Carvel adds, Biden understands a lot of Democrats that a lot of Democrats don't.
He understands that people who work is on Breitbart with their hands, people that work with their back, people who farm are entitled to the same dignity as people who sit in the front of a computer screen all day, but that's not the attitude of the Democratic Party.
It's not.
Carville said, I think speak plain English, and just what David said, if the nature of being a Democrat is respect everybody, particularly respect people's labor.
That's not the Democratic Party.
With unfulfilled promises, lofty promises.
You you think it's a great thing.
I don't have to worry about these things anymore.
Oh, thank goodness.
All right, I don't have to worry about getting a college fund for my kids.
I don't have to worry about my health care.
I even have government guaranteed retirement.
I'm gonna have a I'm gonna have daycare if I have kids, blah, blah, blah.
Sounds great.
They'll never pull it off because they can't afford it.
Socialism is great till you run out of other people's money.
And then after the promises are unfulfilled, then the next problem occurs, and that is it results in dependency and more poverty.
And the last thing that you got to calculate, depending on what manifestation this fully takes on in the end, how much freedom Did you give up in the name of false security created by people that when you look deep inside didn't really want to promise anything?
They wanted to make you dependent on them so they can stay in power.
It's that simple.
That's what it's that's the game that they play.
Sounds appealing.
I'll have no more fear, no more stress, no more conflict, no more worry of my life whatsoever.
Government's gonna take care of me.
Do you believe the government can take care of you?
Here's my unsolicited advice to all of you, my wonderful radio family.
Can't do this show without you.
Don't rely on the government for anything.
Rely on yourself.
Go out, work hard.
Work two jobs.
Like my parents did.
Save as much as you can so you can make choices down the road.
And assume that every promise they make, they'll break.
And you'll be much better off.
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We've been in political media for a long time.
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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 Nayfok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yeah, that's right.
Locker up.
Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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The squad is now Daily Caller's a Piece.
The Hamas Caucus.
Republicans launch this term for the squad.
Congressman Mike Waltz, Florida, Lisa McLean, Michigan, Nancy May, South Carolina, Chris Jacobs, New York, all hung up, stand with Israel posters next to their office doors.
And anyway, Waltz then told Fox News that he's given the squad a new name, the Hamas caucus is a green beret.
I fought alongside our allies against terrorism.
Never did I ever think I would serve in Congress with the Hamas caucus who's defending terrorist attacks on our greatest ally in the Middle East, Israel.
Now, that has become a pretty popular term, according to this Daily Caller piece.
But when you, you know, why, what I never quite understood is, why is Biden and Pelosi and Schumer quiet on this?
You know, Bernie Sanders tried to block efforts, arms sales to Israel.
You know, it's pretty unbelievable.
You have Green New Deal Democrats now.
now upping their battle and their war on energy independence.
This was in the Washington Times.
Democratic lawmakers attempting to ram legislation through the Senate Finance Committee that would strip federal tax credits from oil natural gas industries as part of the broader effort to remake the U.S. economy.
Why?
So then we're gonna what?
Give Vladimir Putin more waivers, so Vladimir, you know, the hostile regime of Russia, the hostile actor that he is.
Let's let's help make him rich again, make Russia great again, America last, dead last.
How do you justify taking away American high paying career jobs in the energy sector, stripping us of the energy independence we achieved for the first time in 75 years, and then letting Putin do the very thing you won't let Americans do, and helping our allies.
We'll continue.
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.
You're our kind of people.
Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
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 Nafok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yeah, that's right.
Locker up.
Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
I'm Ben Ferguson.
And I'm Ted Cruz.
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By the way, um finally, it actually is faster than I thought it would take for people to fully completely understand.
Um people now get that Joe Biden is adopted radicalism.
Now remember, he went through a whole campaign.
They hit him.
You know, if he was gonna make a big event, the DNC speech, or if he was gonna debate the two debates they had, remember, he he'd be missing in action for six days.
And I contended at the time they're they're probably resetting his clock, so his peak cognitive hour would be, you know, if the debate's at 9 p.m. at 9 p.m. or 8 p.m., whatever time it happened to be.
Anyway, Fox News poll survey came out on Joe Biden, and is he too liberal?
He's up a whopping 10% to 46%.
Democrats are getting increasingly nervous about woke culture.
New York Times opinion writer wondering in a new op-ed if the progressive cancel culture push is gonna backfire on Democrats at the polls.
By the way, not the only person analyst that is uh asking these questions.
And anyway, the number of surveys now finding most people are against the more radical campaigns, such as defunding the police, upending uh traditional gendered norms.
Again, these are the polls, and yet he said Republicans can still point to the extreme minority that is pushing these ideas to argue the Democratic Party's increasingly beholden to the radicals.
Um that's so it's it's getting interesting how it's getting out there.
Um we have we'll get into this later in the program today, but we've got new information.
Joe Biden said he never had any knowledge of Hunter Biden's business dealings.
He didn't say it once, he said it a number of times.
Well, now we know according to Hunter's laptop, and I've been telling you there's a lot more to come on that laptop, just stay tuned.
Anyway, this is just even a small nugget that we hadn't heard before that Joe Biden met with his son.
Uh Hunter's Ukrainian Russian Kazakhstan business associates at a dinner in Washington, D.C. while he was vice president on April 16th of 2015.
He was in a private garden room at Cafe Milano, Georgetown Institution.
Their catchphrase is where the world's most powerful people go.
Next day, Hunter gets an email from an executive at Barisma.
Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spend some time together.
Now, uh it's an honor and it's a pleasure.
At the time, Barisma was paying zero experience hunter, the guy that went on GMA and said any experience in oil?
No.
No, no, no oil experience.
Gas?
No.
Energy?
No.
Any Ukrainian experience?
No.
Why do you think they chose to pay you millions of dollars?
I don't know.
Do you think maybe because your father was in charge of Ukraine policy?
Probably.
Yeah, that's probably the answer.
That's a quid pro quo, isn't it?
You're not getting a billion unless you fire the prosecutor that's investigating this corrupt crap.
Because there's not a single other American that get would get paid millions of dollars with no experience.
I mean, we should all wish we should get such a deal, but if you ever did, you'd probably be in jail.
So, but that though those those laws only apply to conservatives.
Now we all know that there's a dual justice system.
If you jaywalk and you're a conservative, you will go to jail.
It's unbelievable.
Anyway, and the same thing with Kazakhstan, same thing with China, the Russian oligarch, Kazakhstan oligarch, Chinese National, shopping spree, Bank of China, billion five deal, no experience there either.
But this proves that Joe lied.
Where's the mob?
Where's the media?
We'll have a full report also on Hannity tonight.
Also, the Daily Mail has a piece on this about these emails that he it did, in fact, meet with Hunter's foreign business partners while he was a vibe while he was vice president.
Pretty corrupt.
You wonder why I call it the Biden family syndicate.
Well, that's probably the main reason.
Imagine if the last name was Trump.
Keep that between us.
Hunter sets up the meeting between the MVP Biden and his shady business partners.
Unbelievable.
How many times have you ever spoken to your son about his overseas business dealings?
I've never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.
I have never discussed with my son or my brother or anyone else.
Anything having to do with their businesses, period.
And what I will do is the same thing we did in our administration.
It'll be an absolute wall between personal and private and the government.
Do you stand by your statement that you did not discuss any of your son's overseas business dealings?
I just stand by that statement.
Do you think it was wrong for him to take that position?
No.
Knowing that it was really because that company wanted access to you.
Well, that's not true.
You're saying things you do not know what you're talking about.
No one said that.
Who said that?
No credible person has ever made these claims.
Well, I guess this is gonna be just like the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
It's a conspiracy theory.
It's the debunk conspiracy theory.
It's a totally debunked conspiracy theory.
And it's not.
Anyway, back to the Fox News poll, too liberal, nearly 50%.
Joe Biden.
His government spending 47% too much.
Who are the 17% that said not enough?
Well, I mean, what do they want?
Everything for free?
I guess.
Pushing liberal socialist policy, 47%.
Stability of the country.
Yeah.
Socialism.
Yeah, that's a major issue.
And Carville's right.
Democrats' metropolitan arrogance, urban smugness is hurting that party.
Now you've got Republicans, Daily Caller, the Hamas caucus.
Bernie Sanders trying to stop the arm sales for Israel to defend itself.
These are unbelievable times.
More and more people see what we've been seeing, and that is that Fauci, I mean, he got he just got grilled.
We're going to play some of this on TV tonight.
We have Senator Kennedy Louisiana.
I mean, it was a beatdown.
It was ugly.
So we're going to get that.
Oh, and Facebook did reverse course.
Now Facebook will allow you to discuss.
Up to now, they weren't allowing users to claim that COVID-19 was man-made as a lab leak theory, now gains ground.
Conspiracy theory is gone mainstream.
Unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
And, you know, life is returning to normal.
As it relates to the origins of COVID-19, Biden has just done a remarkable flip-flop because he got called out on it.
And he's now saying, I'm going to have our intelligence community redouble their efforts.
Well, he just told us through Circle Back Gensaki this week that no, we're going to, there's a process to this.
Come on, there's a process.
This is the WHO's job.
This is not our job, the WHO job.
Yeah.
Why is it that is it is it because of Hunter?
Is it fair to ask the question that zero experience hunter?
You know, why didn't why didn't China spend the billion five, the Bank of China with Goldman Sachs?
Or Chase Bank or Deutsche Bank or any of these big Wall Street firms that are actually good at this stuff and actually have that's their profession.
Why did Hunter get it?
Well, I haven't taken a penny from China.
No, but you have all your holdings in it that one day you're gonna cash in.
Unbelievable.
Why isn't China being punished on the issue of what they have unleashed to the world and all the evidence now pointing to the fact that they knew Donald Trump had no problem putting tariffs on Chinese products?
Why doesn't why does it because Joe's compromised?
Why is he giving a waiver to Putin to build a pipeline when he took away the pipeline in his own country from American energy producers?
Why is that?
It's unbelievable.
And by and nobody seems to remember that Joe Biden ordered this the origin of the coronavirus investigation.
He canceled Mike Pompeo's effort.
He had already started it because he didn't give it any credibility.
Wrong again.
Wrong on every front.
Now Biden's ATF nominee is a guy by the name of David Chipman.
And he backs an assault weapons ban and doesn't believe that we should have armed guards at school.
And then he's repeatedly asked to define what an assault weapon is, and he can't do it.
It was humiliating.
I'll show you the tape tonight.
He admits he wants to ban AR-15s.
Okay.
The AR-15 is one of, if not the most popular rifle in America.
It's not a machine gun.
It's a rifle.
Your public position is that you want to ban AR-15s.
Is that correct?
With respect to the AR-15, I support uh a ban as um as has been presented um in uh a Senate bill uh and supported by the president.
Um the R-15 is a gun I was issued on ATF's SWAT team, and it's a particularly lethal weapon.
Um, and regulating it as other particularly lethal weapons.
Um I have advocated for um as ATF director, if I'm confirmed, I would simply enforce the laws and the books, and right now there is no such uh ban on those guns.
So you want to ban the most popular rifle in America.
That's what he said.
Then Senator Kennedy said, What's an assault weapon?
And then he answers the the bill to ban assault weapons.
Then Kennedy said, No.
What's your definition of an assault weapon?
Senator Kennedy on TV tonight.
He said, Well, I could define uh uh an assault weapon in 20 seconds.
You're gonna run an agency and you don't have a definition of an assault weapon.
Well, I'll give you one definition uh that the ATF currently uses.
Uh give me your definition, Senator Kennedy says.
One definition that the ATF currently uses, uh, Senator, give me your definition.
Kennedy keeps interrupting him.
He says, I can give you one definition.
And Kennedy says, if you can't answer my question, how can I vote for you?
Then Senator Cottonways, and can you tell me what is an assault weapon?
How do you define it?
He says the ATF is it in in that program defines uh an assault weapon as any semi-automatic rifle capable of accepting a detachable magazine above the caliber of a 22, which would include a 223.
Largely an AR-15.
Cotton says, I'm amazed that that might be the definition of an assault weapon that would basically cover every single modern sporting rifle in America, you idiot.
I added, you idiot.
This is how radical this left is.
They want to control power, they want open borders, they want DC statehood, they want to have no integrity in elections, HR1, SR1.
They want new Green Deal radical socialism.
Six trillion dollars.
We take in less than four usually as a country.
Oh, okay, that's gonna be great for our kids and grandkids.
This is bad for the country, all of it.
I mean, he was it was brutal.
He got brutalized.
He got owned at this Senate hearing.
You gotta see it.
It's more of a TV thing.
You know, by the way, Americans are noticing the rising rates of crime.
Yeah, trust, confidence, law enforcement.
Most Americans have great trust, 72%.
Compared to a year ago, is there more or less crime?
73% say more.
How could you not say more?
The only people that would deny that truth, that simple undeniable truth, would be the people that denied that there were riots last year.
And they got an attorney general of Joe Biden, Merrick Garland.
He's vowing to fight the homicide epidemic, record numbers with community relations programs.
This is this whole reimagining police departments where we're gonna send psychiatrists, you know.
Oh, there is a domestic uh violence situation emerging.
What we're gonna send in a psychiatrist.
Pretty unbelievable.
Then defund the police.
I keep asking, nobody can give me an answer.
Who are you going to call?
Who are you gonna call?
Because uh, you know, and and I always say to people, you better count on yourself in life.
I'm not depending on the government for anything.
I'm pretty sure by the time I my social security age comes that they're just gonna say means test it and steal the money I've been paying my entire life into social security.
They'll legalize stealing it.
That's what I expect.
Not good.
Now there was an armed teacher.
This is in Utah.
Was a hero.
He pulled out his concealed firearm anyway, and there was a man that was trying to kidnap an 11-year-old student.
Anyway, so police officers arrived and they found the the teacher that witnessed the situation.
The teacher was inside the classroom, saw what was happening.
This kid's being taken, ran outside, confronted the suspect.
The girl was able to break free.
The teacher was able to get all the students outside, inside, off the playground, into the school.
Then the guy that was trying to snatch the kid approached the school and was trying to force his way inside.
The teacher happened to be a licensed concealed gun carrier, pulled his firearm and then held the suspect till the police arrived.
More guns, less crime.
It's a great book.
It's updated regularly by John Lott.
You may want to read it.
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Hour two, Sean Hannity show, 800-941-SEAN.
If you want to be a part of the program, mentioning earlier Biden's ATF nominee, Yeah, pretty much admitting that he wants to ban AR-15s.
He doesn't even know what an assault weapon is.
He has no idea whatsoever.
But that's that's neither here nor there.
The issues involving defunding, dismantling are real.
We have a new poll out.
Three-quarters of Americans now say crime is much higher under Joe Biden, 73%, uh, according to a Fox poll that was just released.
We've gone over the percentages, you know, just an 800 uh percent increase in homicides in Portland on top of the record high last year, and 132% increase in Oakland and 113% increase in Minneapolis.
These are all record years.
127% increase in Los Angeles, and it just keeps getting worse.
And now we see all the videos of how cops are being treated, and none of it is any good.
Uh, and the question then remains well, what are you going to do if you need to protect yourself or your family?
You know what?
Attorney General Merrick Garland vowing now to fight the Biden homicide epidemic with community relations programs will will re uh you know, will reimagine the police and will put what psychiatrists and social workers uh out on the streets instead of cops.
I mean, I this is what they're proposing.
I mean, do they do they not see what's happening here?
In Atlanta, you had this defund the police backer.
Yeah, his car was stolen by kids in broad daylight.
Antonio Brown, who voted earlier this year to withhold 73 million from the Atlanta police budget.
Uh, And it's it's just outright frightening out there.
Cops taking, you know, guns, drugs, uh, all over the place when they can, but they're afraid to do their job because they know they're not going to get the support that is needed.
You know, look at Chicago.
Listen to this ABC 7 Chicago report.
Remember, this is after Mayor Lightweight, and we've been chronicling this since the Biden Obama administration, where we list the names that you've never heard of of people shot and shot and killed, thousands of them.
Uh and and you don't ever hear these names.
Anyway, lightweight saying no more foot patrol for police officers.
Well, this is the report from last weekend.
Gun violence continues in Chicago this weekend.
At least 48 people were shot in the city since Friday evening.
At least 11 of those shooting victims have died.
This includes four people shot on Chicago's West Side yesterday afternoon.
Police now say four men were in the street near Ohio and Sfaulding when someone drove up and started shooting.
Since we've last heard one of the victims was in critical condition.
Yeah.
Um it's up to 50 from last weekend, 12 died.
Uh you have a BLM protester.
Listen to what this wonderful human being has to say about what they're going to do to Chicago police.
We're not getting shot because we're going to got pulled up with some air.
I got a bunch of f air friends.
I'll fight for one of them before it's going.
Because baby, we're out from just about the police.
Chicago don't get them one of war.
Guess what?
We don't.
We kill one of theirs in Chicago, baby.
We're going to knock on your goals.
We're going to blow your head off.
We're going to blow your effing head off talking about police officers.
Great job, Mayor.
Unbelievable.
Anyway, Sergeant uh Trey Penny is with us.
21-year vet, Dallas Police Force President Dallas National Uh Dallas, Texas National Fallen Officer Association.
Eric Feinberg, communications director for the National Fallen Officer Foundation.
Okay, uh, we see what's happening, uh, Trey.
We see what's happening in every city, and they're getting away with it, and it's getting they're getting more bold with the police.
Police now are more inclined to stay away than ever before, and the squad is pushing really, really hard, and this this bill may die because they're insisting that indemnification be removed for police officers if they're involved in an incident.
Yeah, cities are learning a really hard lesson right now, Sean.
Uh, in fact, if you if you look at all these cities that call for defunding the police before we hit the summertime, now you got you got about half of them calling the reinstate, uh putting money back into the budget for police.
On average, they these cities have seen 33% uh increase in the murder rate.
There's no way to deal with that.
But cities are going to learn about allowing the mob to control the way that they make decisions.
And unfortunately, there everybody's being influenced by this nonsense that's going through social media.
All the anti-def defonded police, all the you know, kill police, all that nonsense.
That's what negatively impacted us.
And he's also not gonna, they can't do their job or something like that.
You saw talking about taking away immunity protection for doing their job.
You're definitely not gonna have off the police in the in in communities that are already struggling uh to maintain uh uh a level of decency anyway.
You're gonna you have a more difficult time getting those officers to patrol because nobody's gonna want to face that type of liability, knowing that they're gonna be prosecuted or possibly face uh losing their own uh livelihood because of uh uh uh an interaction that they had in the community doing their job.
No, that that narrative is not gonna work.
I'm sorry, Sean.
It's just simply not gonna work.
Your take, Eric.
I mean, I don't I don't even know what to tell my friends that are cops what to do at this point.
I mean, go ahead.
Yep.
Sorry, Sean.
My take is what Trey said, social media.
If you look at even what happened in the Chauvin trial, I think the jurors were afraid of what would have happened uh in the tweet storms.
And I think we we've got to understand law enforcement needs to do a better job.
And everybody needs to understand, as Trey said, how what you see in the real world is being radicalized and started on social media.
We did last year, Trey and I, we watched over the four days which is coming up this weekend, and we watched how hashtags F 12 ACAB, 1312, which is ACAB, basically metastasized throughout the social media world, which led to the protests and riots and looting across the country.
Unbelievable.
Well, I it at this point, you know, uh if they squat is successful and they've been successful in getting their new Green Deal agenda across, uh, they've been successful uh in in terms of being able to say anything they want about Israel, and I mean it's it's pretty shocking some of the comments that we've heard.
Uh Republicans now are referring to the squad as the Hamas uh caucus.
And I mean well, uh and and I don't disagree, but here's the point, Trey, it's that when when you look at the squad, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, they're afraid of the squad.
Nancy Pelosi doesn't want to lose her job as speaker, Chuck Schumer doesn't want to be primaried, and Joe Biden doesn't know what day of the week it is.
So we don't really have anybody stopping the squad, and they're adopting the entire radical agenda of the squad.
Well, and look with that whole system that that's being at running the Democrat Party is failing.
It's filling from it's coming apart at the thienes.
Unfortunately, we have the we have politicians in Congress that are actually advocating for for supporting the the interests of terrorists in other countries.
We simply can't have that.
We have an increase of anti-Semitic uh rhetoric.
We have attacks going on uh uh uh individuals attacking Jews in our communities, uh, and it's all because you have politicians that have validated that nonsense.
We got to push back against those type of those type of narratives.
We gotta push back again against this BLM agenda that that um, you know, that trying to uh you know partner themselves with with Hamas.
I mean, what in what world is it okay for any group, any group in America to call themselves partnering with Hamas?
In what world is that okay?
That that's that's that's a that's a fallacy.
I think that we need to we as conservatives need to be smart in how we handle business.
We need to quit our own.
Yeah, I I agree completely.
I love this story in Atlanta.
I mean, you got a a mayoral hopeful out there, Councilman Antonio Brown, uh attending a ribbon cutting ceremony at an event in Northeast Atlanta around noon, four kids, apparently around twelve years old.
I'm sorry, six kids around twelve years old, yeah, they just jumped into his car and stole it in broad daylight.
Uh and that then raises the the question that nobody seems to be able to answer, except uh I know what you guys would do because of your training, and I know what I would do based on my training.
But what will people that want to defund the police that are anti-second amendment that don't know how to defend themselves or use their hands?
Eric, what are they gonna do?
Um I I think it's it we're dealing with ignorance here, and they don't know because they've never been in this situation.
And I think some of it, what you're talking about, Sean, and we are, I think it's generational.
You know, people like us who are a little bit older.
I think it comes down to generational and a little bit of ignorance because they've never been in this situation or experienced things.
So, you know, they're literally being led to a place that they're not aware of.
And I think it's generational in some regards.
I think a lot of this, and I still come back to social media and misinformation, they seem to be the people who are wanting to defund the police and all this uh, you know, pro Hamas and all this seem to be younger, and they read through these, you know, misinformation chains on social media.
And I think without social media, the squad would not have uh a place, you know, a voice.
We wouldn't know about them.
Social media's giving them a platform to spread this stuff.
You look at this story in the Washington Times uh today, Trey, um, you know, we're watching, for example, the the Biden nominee to head the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms that doesn't even can't even define what an assault weapon is, but he wants to ban them.
And they've not given up on their dream of firearms confiscation and eliminating the second amendment.
Anyway, uh how ironic and sad, but on the other hand, heroic, you have a Utah teacher who ended up being a hero when he pulled out his concealed firearm.
And by the way, this this ATM ATF guy that they're recommending, he doesn't believe that we should have uh armed police and schools to protect our kids.
Anyway, so you have a teacher in Utah, he has a concealed firearm permit, pulled it on a guy that tried to kidnap an eleven year old student.
And they said the officer on you know on Tuesday that the teacher witnessed a situation from inside the school, ran out, confronted the suspect, and the girl was able to break free.
And the teacher was able to get all 20 students off the playground into the school safely.
And at that point, uh apparently, you know, is he was reportedly approached the school building and was trying to force his way inside, and then the teacher, a licensed concealed gun carrier Trey, um pulled his firearm and held it, held the suspect until the police arrived.
Sounds like a hero to me.
So definitely the hero.
Look, I'm I'm one of these these pro-Second Amendment advocates, and I'm gonna tell you, when when it comes to our kids, I think I don't think there's anything, I wouldn't expect anything less than having uh having armed teachers, having armed guards on all of our campuses.
In this day and age, right now, there's no way to predict human behavior, especially as it relates to to all these different attacks that are happening on our schools.
So we need to have individuals like that.
I applaud this this this gentleman for uh for protecting the interests of those kids.
But look, when we're talking about campus safety, I don't discourage anybody from using necessary force to prevent anybody from getting an attacker from getting inside the school.
That's what we need to do.
We need to start, we need to start funding our schools specifically to make sure that every last one of them has an armed protection on on those campuses.
I mean, I what I've suggested is how about retired military trained, retired police trained that if they dedicated X number of weeks in their local school district, uh, that federally and on the state level that they won't have to pay income taxes.
How's that?
Won't cost anybody a dime.
And how much safer would parents feel about their kids knowing that if God forbid a lunatic gets into the school or school shooting breaks out, that at least we've got some first line responder right there.
Because even the greatest response time is is not going to be sufficient because whatever is going to happen will have happened.
Yeah, yeah, we we talk about that.
You know, uh in all these school shootings, those incidents happen in less than five seconds uh from from when the first shot is fired.
And it takes on average between seven and ten minutes for law enforcement to arrive.
So, yeah, having a first responder on scene to be able to interact or respond to those situations when they occur, we need to have that.
But most importantly, we got we gotta make sure we include this in this in the discussion.
We need to have armed police officers, armed trained individuals on campus to protect.
We gotta have a first-line, first line of defense.
Just having our military personnel there is simply not enough.
They have to be they have to have some level of protection to stop the armed attacker from getting inside that school.
And that's that's why I say we we gotta start talking about this.
Well, I'd feel better knowing my kids had trained armed military or police.
And by the way, I'm talking about planes clothesmen.
Um, they don't have to be dressed in uniform or or camouflage.
I mean, they they can be there dressed in a suit, but we know that if something, God forbid, happens, we have people right there on site protecting our kids.
I mean, Eric's.
We all have precedent air marshals.
What you're talking about is just like with the air marshal program.
And it works it works if I look if I'm flying on a plane, and I know that there's somebody on this plane that's an air marshal that's armed, that's trained.
Uh I'm gonna feel a lot better about our odds of of stopping somebody that has you know evil intention.
Yeah, and you know what, it's a it's the it's also a deterrent as well, Sean.
I mean, just by simply letting people know that we have these these mechanisms in place, you you're less likely to have attacks that alone occur when people know that you've already set the standard.
You set the standard to have armed guards on planes.
You set the standard to have armed guards on at school.
That the attacker knows this.
The attacker will know.
And I think it's gonna act somewhat as an as a deterrent.
But when those situations do occur, we're gonna effectively respond.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, we really appreciate both of you what you do.
Uh, do you do you find that most guys are leaving the force real quickly?
Uh Trey.
Yes, absolutely.
There's there's a drastic increase of all officers leaving uh the the profession right now.
And and a big part of it was centered around the uh defund movement because these officers are afraid of losing their job, especially as we start talking about you know removing qualified immunity.
So that is a real thing, it's not just rhetoric, that is real.
All right, thank you both for being with us.
Thanks for what you do every day.
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We'll get to your calls next half hour.
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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.
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So earlier this week, we played for you, circle back, Jed Saki and said, No, Joe is going to follow the process.
This is an international investigation, and we are relying on the WHO to do the investigating as it relates to the Wuhan virus, blah, blah, blah, origins of COVID-19.
Well, now Joe's trying to do a reversal.
Um, and now saying that he'll release a report on the COVID origins unless there's something that he's unaware of.
Okay.
Here's the problem.
Because Joe's lying.
And Circle Back is lying too.
Now they just there was so much brushback to all of all of the lies that have been told by the by the media mob by big tech and by the Democratic Party on the origins of this this COVID-19 virus.
That they listen, we knew people were being silenced.
We knew people were dying.
We have cell phone records.
We got hospital records.
We had people that were trying to warn the world that were being uh uh, let's just say uh not only silenced, but in some cases, seemingly they just disappeared.
Maybe they got sick.
Um now, as Joe is switched gears in the course of this week alone, uh, only out of pressure that was brought to bear by conservative voices and and Mike Pompeo and the Trump administration, former Trump administration officials.
Now, Joe's ordering a U.S. investigation.
They told us earlier in the week they're gonna count on the WHO.
Okay, we're gonna redouble our efforts.
Our intelligence agencies will redouble their efforts.
And I have now asked the intelligence community to do this.
Now, the only problem is is that Joe Biden actually was the person that canceled the investigation of the origins of coronavirus.
Uh, the effort that was being spearheaded by former Secretary of Stake Mike Pompeo.
Now, basically, they got caught, you know, circle back Saki indicating the investigation Led by the United States is not necessary, she was telling us what on Tuesday of this week.
Administration was hopeful that the WHO would have success in in doing this investigation, and we've got to trust the process.
Really?
Then of course you got the whole media mob.
And when Donald Trump mentioned this a year ago, he was mocked.
He was ridiculed, he was attacked.
Everybody was saying this is a big conspiracy theory.
Listen.
The best evidence suggests that the kind of bat from which this virus jumped to humans wasn't even present there.
But you know the worst of it, whether it came from the lab or came from the bats, or came it all came from China.
Because we don't know where the novel coronavirus came from yet, the conspiracy theories fill the void.
I'm telling you the Chicoms are trying to weaponize this thing.
Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh with zero proof suggesting a Chinese bioweapon lab is to blame.
We know that it's been debunked.
Those same agencies now have been tapped with investigating one of Trump World's most favorite conspiracy theories this week.
Donald Trump is still pushing the debunked bunkham, despite his own intelligence community's findings that that is simply not true.
And there is simply no reason to believe that that is the case.
There is no empirical evidence to verify that.
And there's no debate here.
Among serious people, there is no debate.
This was most likely what we call a zoonotic disease.
It went from animal to human, likely in a market at in Wuhan.
It's not uncommon.
He can't just sit back and let the doctors and the scientists do their jobs.
He's got to chime in.
He may pick up the conspiracy theory that this was some weapon.
People don't keep bots in caps.
It's a complete baloney.
We don't need to invoke conspiracy theories.
This is just another example of uh the president trying to change the narrative from his own failings.
The problem for President Trump is that he's running for re-election is looking for ways to deflect blame for uh the performance of the administration.
Pretty predictable and unbelievable.
800 nine four one Sean is our number.
You want to be a part of the program.
Uh let's say hi.
Jimmy is in New York.
Jimmy, what the heck are you doing here?
Why don't you go down to Florida?
It says you're a retired police officer.
What are you doing up here?
Well, right now I'm actually listening to you, but um Well, you can listen to me down in Florida or somewhere else, Texas or Tennessee.
I'm looking right now, as a matter of fact.
Like everybody else.
Welcome to the club.
Anyway, what's going on?
How many years did you uh serve on the NYPD?
Okay, so well, I was actually uh a city cop for about eight years.
Then I was a New York City Flyman for eight years, and I became a cop again out on Lone Island and retired there after about 15 years.
Oh wow, what a what a great career you've had.
Good for you.
Yeah, it was great.
Yeah, I left right after 9-11 to go to a small small town police department in uh Nassau County.
But the reason why I'm calling Sean is uh something's been really bugging me for a long time after uh the New York Yankees took took a knee uh, you know, during and before and and after uh the national anthem.
Uh die hard Yankee fan for as long as I can remember.
And um the problem's been uh with me is like how how do I justify buying a ticket to go to a Yankee game when these idiots I'm sorry I shouldn't have used that that term, but when these uh professional baseball players are taking a knee and disrespecting my country.
I I mean like to me, let me let me backtrack and let me try and answer your question.
Um remember when Drew Brees, I think it was Drew Brees, made the comment that the reason I don't take a knee is because I think he said my grandfather, you know, um he fought under that flag, and that anthem means everything to me in in a as a way to honor him.
And do I believe in freedom of expression?
I'm I I make my living with it.
I'm that's why I never support boycotts, never tell people I'm against and have always been against cancel culture, and I believe in freedom.
But the problem with professional sports, now I don't care if it's Major League Baseball moving the All-Star game from Atlanta to Colorado, not knowing a single fact at all about how much more inclusive Georgia's law Is than Joe Biden's law in Delaware where he served for thousands of years and and never lifted a finger to make voting more accessible in his state.
It was done out of complete ignorance.
Absolutely there anyway, yeah.
Right.
And and the same as good, you see that you know, you have record low ratings on television for the MBA.
You know, double digit declines in the NFL.
And the MBA and and and Major League Baseball now.
Now, here's my argument why politics should be out of professional sports completely.
Now, if if any professional athlete who has got this pedestal put on a pedestal by so many people, if they've got a cause, say, you know, bettering our schools, stopping violence in the street, whatever it is, if they would ask their fans to support them, I bet their fans would.
And I bet they'd support them in droves.
The problem, you know, you you go to a you go to a football game, you go to a hockey game, you go to a baseball game, go to a basketball game.
You know, what it you don't know this people of all races, all socioeconomic backgrounds.
You know, you're sitting next to somebody, you don't even know.
You have one shared passion, and y you don't care if they're liberal or democrat, you love your home team.
It's just shared passion.
And you know, you find yourself high-fiving people.
I'm sorry.
I'm saying uh you just want to sit back, relax, and forget about the world, everything that's going on, and just enjoy watching a game.
That's all you want to do.
But think about this.
Uh insignia on it.
You know, listen, i it that's their that's their deal.
But I don't need to see it.
I don't i it has no place.
Well, because there are those of us that understand that the the actual group BLM, not people that were after George Floyd chanting B you know Black Lives Matter, because they all lives matter.
Of course they do.
But those that are a part of the group that chanted, What do we want dead cops?
When do we want them now?
Yeah.
So the so the problem is is that you're taking something that unifies everybody.
How many times you ever find yourself at a game high fiving with somebody you don't even know a stranger?
You know, somebody hits a home run.
Yeah, I went to a Boston Yankee game, you know, good clean fun, ribbing each other, having a ball.
We didn't care.
I I didn't care if the guy was black or white, or if he supported a Democrat or a Republican.
It's unifying.
You have a shared passion.
You have a shared passion with everybody, all the fans that are there.
And unfortunately, all this does is alienate people.
And I, you know, and I guess now it's even making its way into college sports, and what's happening is the result is people like, okay, you you've taken all the fun out of this.
I'm trying to get away from politics.
And and you're forcing you you're putting this big wedge in the one place that could be the most unifying.
Make sense.
You know, like for example, if LeBron James asked the Lakers to put up on, you know, the what do you call that big thing up in the in an arena?
Um, the jumbotron, whatever you call the thing.
You know, hey, please join please text LeBron at blah blah blah.
If you want to help uh, you know, uh uh kids that need an education, if you want to help stop the violence, whatever it is.
I bet you a ton of people would do that and be glad to.
It's just a different way to look at it.
I mean, because we really share a lot of things that we would agree on.
But, you know, unfortunately, uh there is this fear.
I mean, it is palpable.
Major League Baseball acted, corporations acted without any knowledge whatsoever.
They took Joe Biden's word, the guy that actually fought against integration of schools with a Klansman.
And they took his word about George's law being Jim Crow 2.0, and they were scared.
And they just, okay, we're we're out.
I'm like, do you know anything about the law?
Because you obviously don't.
So it's um it's an environment that I think we're missing the biggest opportunity we have to unite people with sports.
It's it's a common interest, it's a passion.
It could be the it could be the place to go.
You know, right after they took an after the Yankees took a knee, and then during their uh batting practice, they had their the BLM sh uh shirts on under their uniforms.
Right after that, I got so upset I threw some jerseys out and hats and everything, and I said, I'm never going to a game again.
So I said I said, you know what?
I'll watch it on TV.
That'll be, you know, I could still watch TV.
I sit down to watch the game, and what am I looking at on a mound?
A BLM uh insignia.
I'm like, I can't win.
This is terrible.
You know, I mean, there's a time and place for everything.
And that's what I'm saying.
I don't I don't think teams know or understand the group Black Lives Matter is that controversial.
The group, and I'm I make a distinction.
I delineate greatly because it's important.
The group that chanted, what do we want?
Dead cops, when do we want them now?
And pigs in a blanket and fry them like bacon.
Now that's the group.
Then you look at their their radical views and ideology, and it's it's it's it's radical.
But you know, people that were chanting that as they were protesting the death peacefully, those that were peaceful, and that there was many of them, the majority even.
Um not uh it's it's just sad.
It's like we just keep putting wedges everywhere, and there's no bridges being built anywhere.
The the easiest bridge to build, in my opinion, is in a, you know, at an NFL game, an NBA game, MLB game, hockey NHL game.
At the, you know, if uh whenever I if you go watch any um boxing matches, I've been to boxing matches, and you watch UFC.
I mean, it's just great stuff.
Everybody in that those arenas, they love that sport.
And they're there because they have a passion, they're paying good money to watch the best at the bet of the best.
I love sports because I love watching the most gifted, the most talented people that have honed their incredible skills to a level that is inspiring.
And it's sad when you, you know, we don't need more politics.
We got enough politics right now.
We need a break from politics at times.
Although we can't take a break from saving the country.
Go ahead.
Let me ask you a question.
So you have an opportunity now.
Oh, let's if you were in my shoes and you had an opportunity to go to go sit in the Yankee game, would you go?
Uh you know, I'm not gonna answer that because now you're asking me if I'm gonna boycott sporting events.
Now I'm mostly I will tell you, I'm I watched very little football last year.
Very little.
I watched college football.
I actually was fascinated with college football.
I got wrapped up in it more than I ever had.
I had always been more of a pro guy.
And anyway, but you know, then when you had Tom Brady facing off against Drew Brees and Aaron Rogers, and and the whole narrative of him in the another Super Bowl, I uh I'll admit that you know, it just piqued my interest so much.
I watched those games because they were great games.
And um, but you know, I I can't make that decision for you, but you know, going to a baseball game ain't cheap.
You gotta get the, you know, you can get you know, you absolutely need to take out a mortgage half the time to get a go to a baseball game and get it, you know, two beers, four hot dogs, and uh cracker jacks and popcorn, you know.
And you you go with your hands up because you're getting robbed, no doubt about it.
Um just I mean, this you know if this if people like you stay away, you know what the net result of that is athletes are gonna end up being paid less.
Opportunity will decline.
There, you know, nobody's thought through this.
There's another way.
Ingratiate people to your passion and your cause and and your help for a community.
That that would be my recommendation, but nobody ever listens to me.
What's the difference?
Anyway, thanks.
I appreciate it.
Thanks for serving as a police officer all those years and a fireman, sir.
Thank you very much.
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Um actually Ronald McDaniel, head of the RNC, found a tape of Circle Back, Jensaki.
I guess she was a CNN fake news contributor at the time.
And even she acknowledges that Joe's got a little sippy cup problem.
In other words, yeah, we uh we've noticed these moments, these lapses, this uh insanity that happens.
How funny that it is that she wouldn't acknowledge it now, but so she put out a tweet that I thought was very funny.
Let me play it for you, but it's Jen Saki prior to being circle back, White House press secretary Saki.
There have been a number of moments where even those of us who have affection for Vice President Biden think, what on earth is happening right now?
From from uh uh the excuse me from Charlotte, one another line going from in Florida down to Tampa.
That is a major factor.
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Okay.
So circle back Saki admitting that Joe's cognitively messed up.
Oh.
I don't know why we didn't find that sooner.
I'm actually jealous.
Why did I not find that?
I hate when people find stuff I should have found.
Anyway, here to uh weigh in on this and much more is Mark Simone.
He's the host of uh our midday morning show on our flagship in New York, uh WOR, uh the great Joe Concha, who I wish would have his own media show on the Fox News channel.
I am I am pushing hard for it because he's the only media commentator in America today that actually gets it right and you know stands like he's he's an island unto himself in terms of media analysis and honesty.
Uh, welcome back, both of you.
Wow, Sean, you got my PayPal.
Thanks.
I was wondering if that money went through, but no, I mean I actually say things that I mean.
Like, for example, I'll tell you another thing.
I can say this about Mark Simone.
He's probably the funniest damn tweeter I've ever seen in my life.
Oh, where's my show then?
Oh, I got one.
Oh god.
Oh, you've already got no, but I don't go on Twitter.
You know, You know that our all our friend Linda here has banned me from any access to any of my own social media accounts.
You all know that, right?
Uh you were great on Twitter.
You should go back.
Mark has a memory like an elephant.
So you kind of remember the Alec Baldwin battles and the Jimmy Kimmel battles.
Yeah, no, that was the greatest thing of all.
Two big stars have free time at night to fight with each other.
It was great.
You know, with the Twitter.
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
I think I think we need a little clarity here.
First of all, go ahead.
The best of all time, the best back and forth on Twitter with Sean was Jim Acosta.
Little Jimmy.
Oh, little Jimmy.
Those were the best fights I've ever had.
I think we were remembered that one.
Was that when he like accused me of seeing him on a bus someplace and I didn't have the nerve?
Oh my gosh.
That was when we were in Finland.
He was like, and I'm like, I didn't even know you were there.
Um and if he wanted to see me or talk to me, why didn't he say hi to me?
Well he was scared.
That's the problem.
Nobody recognizes him exactly.
And the fun the other funny part about that whole thing was he was begging.
He was like on his crawling on his hands and knees, TV and radio was shameless to get on the show.
And I'm like, go sell your stupid book that nobody bought anyway.
It's like Humpty Dumpty's stupid book.
You know, uh, you know, I think it sold like in in a year, 40,000 copies.
I'm like, which is an utter unmitigated failure and disaster.
But all right, but is there something here?
I want to get into this a little more deeply.
Is Jan Saki admitting Mark Simone that Joe really is Sippy Cup Joe?
Well, if she's saying that he's drunk, that's great news.
I thought he had some mental decline that does mine was shot.
This is just drinking.
We that then we'll have a few hours where he's sober.
That's great.
That would be a good point, but I don't think that's what she's referring to, do you?
Uh well.
I don't think it's uh listen, it's I'm not gonna lie.
The guy I look, I've now shown more tapes, Joe Kancha of Sippy Cup in 2012, 2016 even, and versus today.
He is a i it's like it's there's no comparison.
He's not the same guy.
And by the way, the worst part of his our enemies see it.
Go ahead.
Just for five minutes this weekend, because it's gonna rain like over most of the country.
So you might have to find some time filling the hours.
Just put in YouTube, Joe Biden, Paul Ryan, vice presidential debate 2012.
Just watch it for five minutes, and you will see somebody you won't even recognize this person.
I'm not talking about Ryan.
I'm talking about Biden.
He was crisp.
He had his facts straight.
Uh, you know, I'm not saying he's the the perfect speaker, the perfect debater, but when you compare it to what we're seeing now, it's incredible.
And and here's the thing it's not like 2012 Biden, he was vice president then, but now he's working at the food king or he's you know retired and playing golf every day type of thing.
He's the leader of the free world.
He's the president of this country.
And look at this.
Uh this is his schedule just yesterday.
9 50 a.m.
All right, that's the first thing on the schedule.
The president receives the president's daily brief.
Then 12 p.m. in town pool call time.
Or it has nothing really to do with him.
12 30 press briefing by the press secretary.
That's it.
That was his entire schedule.
So this is what happens.
This is what you get.
And this is why the country is going the direction that it is on so many key issues.
Uh, because you have a president who simply doesn't want to work because maybe he can't work.
I don't think he can.
I don't think he's up to it.
And and uh part of me, it scares the living hell out of me.
And and now we see look, every the media can play their game.
I I am waiting.
I shouldn't even telegraph what I have planned.
Uh Linda, should I tell all right, I'm just gonna be honest with my audience.
I am waiting for the media mob to come after me, and I've been waiting for pointing out the obvious that Joe is clearly a c a cognitive mess and weak and frail.
And when they do Mark Simone, let's just say I will put out the defining tape of Joe that would be it is evidence that is overwhelming, incontrovertible about my case.
And then I'll say, let's have a vote.
Let the American people decide.
Yeah, let's have a test.
Have him take one of those cognitive tests.
And uh you ever see what he's playing with the dogs?
Even the dogs look at him funny, like they know there's something wrong with him.
So you don't go near him when he when they're running around on the lawn.
Well hang on a sec.
What what you're reading the dog's reaction to Sippy Cup.
Look at the pictures.
There's nobody smarter than a German Shepherd.
They're looking at him like, what's wrong with this guy?
Come on.
I d well, you know, it there is one interesting story that came out recently, Mark, and it was uh and I'm sure you probably covered it even, but the dogs that are able to sniff out people ninety seven percent effective if they got COVID.
Yeah, I'm sure they can s sniff out the little cognitive problem too, and they smell something wrong with that.
You know, I I I'm not I am not responsible for what Mark Simone says on my program.
I'm just not.
I'm not taking the heat for this crap.
Uh hey, look, uh Joe Biden still hasn't released any of his medical records either.
Why is that?
All right.
I mean, particularly when you're dealing with somebody who has had health issues in the past, when you have the oldest president in this country's history that will be in his eighties before his first term is over.
I would think that the most honest, most transparent administration of all time, at least we were promised that it was like we're getting the second coming of George Washington, would at least result release his medical records.
But nope, they're keeping those under wraps, and it's a fair question to ask.
Why the hell is that?
Well, I mean, it's it's pretty unbelievable to me.
All right, let me move on, because we've got we've got Biden family syndicate corruption news to to get to.
So now we discovered, thanks to Hunter's laptop, that Joe Biden met with his son Zero Experience Hunter and his other partner, and they had a dinner in Washington, DC.
Um, and I'll go to you, Joe Concha.
It was on April of twenty fifteen.
He was the vice president at the time.
And uh the next day, Hunter gets an email, you know, the executive of Barisma to thank him for introducing him to his father.
Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving me the opportunity to meet your father and spending time together.
He writes, it's really was an honor and a pleasure.
Well, that's at the exact same time Barisma was paying Hunter 83, bucks a month to sit on a board when he admits on GMA he has zero experience in any of this.
Isn't that remarkable?
And that's a story now, isn't it?
That's a huge story.
Particularly on a day like today where there's not a lot of breaking news, particularly.
Uh and this is what we're seeing on the home pages of CNN.com and NBC News.com and the Washington Post dot com and the New York Times.com.
You don't see anything about this story whatsoever.
It's the usual suppression.
Nothing to see here.
Trust me.
If this uh president's name was Trump instead of Biden and he was accused of the same thing that Biden is, and now the receipts are starting to come in, you would have to add another hour to 24-7 cable news because there wouldn't be enough room to cover it the way people will be on their soapboxes screaming about how this is a threat to democracy and XYZ.
But not only is this not being covered, it's not being touched, and that's remarkable because if I'm running a news organization, this is a big story.
So you're not going to be able to do uh the biggest story here is that he lied.
Joe Biden lied.
He said in multiple interviews, I never met these, I never discussed the business with my son.
He was in a meeting, a dinner meeting with these guys.
Cafe Milano, where they were.
That's the big power spot, hot spot of Washington.
That's another part of the favor.
These guys can be seen with the vice president there by everybody.
You know, the left tries to dismiss this like, ah, it's like a Billy Carter.
It's like a Roger Clinton getting a few bucks to promote a beer or something.
This is millions and millions of dollars from the shadiest people in the world.
Usually we give foreign aid to every country, but the Biden's figure out a way where they give it back to them and they collect it.
Uh for Joe Biden who've been there and have lied about it.
The fact that he lied about it tells you everything you need to know.
Where do both of you see this grand jury convening in New York going after the Trump organization, Joe Concha?
I have zero ID.
I gotta be honest with you.
Zero idea on this one.
I mean, it's it's Tiss James, the A. G. Democrat.
Uh she wants to be governor of New York, uh, is uh what you hear the uh the scuttle butt around, obviously getting a big scalp like a Donald Trump or at least uh someone big within that organization uh would help her, particularly in a blue state like New York, but uh as of now it's just so uh murky in terms of what they actually have, and does it actually go all the way up to the president because obviously, you know, he hasn't been around the Trump organization for for many years, so uh I I honestly don't know, Sean.
I don't want to speculate on things that I simply cannot predict.
It just seems like it's never ending, Mark Simone.
Um, it's that it they they want to make sure now, because they didn't win with Muller, impeachment one or impeachment two, and they just don't even want a possibility that Donald Trump can run in twenty twenty-four.
Yeah.
What they're trying to charge him with is inflating the price of his real estate to get better bank loans.
You know, you can get any appraiser give you any price you want.
And whatever price you put on the building, the bank never uses that.
They get their own appraisers.
They don't look at your numbers, so nobody's ever been charged with this in history.
If they try to do this, it'll look ridiculous.
The media will cover up for him.
They'll get a left wing.
It's such a good point, especially when you're talking about either tens of millions or hundreds of millions or maybe even more of of dollars.
They're not gonna go with your estimate.
You could argue with them, we think it's worth this, you think it's worth that.
They're gonna go with their own, you know, calculations.
Yeah, anybody's gotten a home loan.
They give they'll tell you what the home is worth if you can't tell them.
But uh you get a left-wing judge in Manhattan, enough left wing uh Trump haters on the jury.
Who knows what could happen?
Yeah, that's that's a pretty scary thought.
I think it can too.
Will there ever be anybody held accountable with the Durham report, Joe Concha, or is this just dead?
You know, we haven't heard much about that, have we?
Right?
So it appears like it's dead at this point because Durham under Trump obviously probably had a lot more leeway, but now under a different democratic administration, you gotta believe that most likely we're not gonna hear anything about this.
That's amazing.
No one brings this up, right?
It's almost you just brought it up.
I'm like, oh yeah, I forgot about that.
So we're we're we're talking years now, but but Durham is is a solid guy and and and the the right person you want here, so hopefully he can't be manipulated in any way.
But as of now, we're not hearing uh even a peep about it.
It makes you wonder if there's any there.
You know, I it just is sad.
I mean, I it makes me conclude that we don't have equal application of our laws.
We don't have equal justice under the law.
You know, it seems like Mark Simone, if you're a conservative and you spit on the sidewalk or Jaywalk, you're gonna go to prison for years.
I mean, Horowitz were made referrals uh about top people in the FBI lying to Congress.
Nothing ever happened to them.
That same process crime, that was that was what led twenty nine people and frogmen and uh tactical gear and weapons drawn and CNN cameras to Roger Stone's house, and they wanted to put him away for a decade for the same exact thing Horowitz is accusing FBI people of.
Yeah.
Friend of mine is having himself frozen and they're gonna wake him up in a hundred years.
I said, Why would you do that?
He said, I want to be able to see the Durham report.
So I don't ever get to see this.
Uh anyway, guys, listen, have a great holiday weekend.
Take care.
Twenty-five to the top of the hour.
All right, heading into a holiday weekend.
Uh what's my team got planned?
What are you all doing?
I I hope everybody will stop and reflect and remember this is Memorial Day.
It I and uh look, we're all so ti everybody I know anyway.
Everybody's so tired.
Everybody I know works so hard.
And you know, you got we uh all have busy, busy lives.
It's been a hell of a tough year.
The great news is this Memorial Day weekend that we actually get to live s normally again, unless you're you know, a crazy liberal fanatic and that is addicted to their mask.
Um, you know, but we can't just just even if it's just a moment, you know, to close your eyes and think and appreciate all the love and sacrifice and pain and suffering that has gone into us being able to have a long weekend to barbecue with friends and family and and drink beer and whatever else we like to drink and have a great time and maybe do nothing else.
You know, there's a Bible, it's a great Bible verse.
And it's in the book of John, greater love hath no one than this, and that is to lay down one's life for one's friends.
So many people have laid down their lives for all of us.
Linda, what are you doing this Memorial Day?
We're actually gonna go and pay homage to those who have given the ultimate sacrifice, and we're gonna go to the Memorial Day Parade and wave our American flags and pretend that Joe Biden doesn't sit in the White House.
Uh yeah.
Okay.
I like that too.
So is this now?
Will you do me one favor this holiday weekend?
One, just one.
Little favor.
Don't say it.
Don't say it.
Just don't say it.
You don't even know what I'm gonna say.
I know what you're gonna say.
No, you don't know what I'm gonna say.
Can I take it?
Can I take a bet?
I guess.
Yeah, I think you know what I'm gonna say.
I do.
Can you please it's the happy meal, right?
Yes, please give little Liam just take him to McDonald's.
What a happy meal.
You have you by the way, you have choices.
You can get the cheeseburger happy meal or the uh chicken nuggets happy meal.
Anything.
If anything else, I will cook him something on our own grill.
I didn't ask you to cook stupid air frying grill crap.
I didn't say it was an air, but they don't even make an air fryer grill.
Now you're just making stuff up.
Air fryer French fries.
I mean, why put them in oil?
The oil tastes delicious too.
I love it.
Yeah, the oil also is disgusting and bad for your arteries.
Okay.
Have you never deep fried a turkey in a master built butterball turkey fryer?
Did you actually put that video out?
You did, didn't you?
I did.
It was me in the video.
That's right.
I forgot about that.
No, yeah, you forgot about that.
Yes.
No, it was like Thanksgiving Day, remember getting that tweet from you and saying, or that text from me and like you saying, can you put this up on Twitter?
It takes one hour.
You fry a turkey in peanut oil.
It is the juiciest thing you've ever had.
Turkey's dry.
And don't tell me you based a turkey better than anybody because it doesn't matter.
Well, first I don't base a turkey.
I cook it in a bag and I season it and it tastes wonderful.
Whoa, whoa slow down.
You cook it in a bag?
Yeah, cook it in a bag.
This poor kid.
Have you never had turkey in a bag?
No, I don't cook turkey in a bag.
I cook turkey in a bag.
I'm gonna cook some turkey in a bag for you.
Master built turkey fryer.
Now, I even make home.
I, for example, occasionally when I'm not being manorexic as you call me.
Umrexic all the time.
It's really irritating, actually.
Why that's not true.
I mean, I it's so true.
You're so full of crap.
It's totally true.
But the problem is is if I eat what I want to eat, I'm gonna blow up like a balloon.
So I you know, no, you need to eat in moderation.
That's why when we travel, you lose your mind.
You watched me diet for years until I finally found NJ diet, and then now I do modified NJ and intermessed intermittent fasting.
You know I do intermittent fasting now, right?
Listen, the intermittent fasting is a good idea.
I think that that's awesome.
But I also think that the priving yourself of things that you love until like, you know, you eat them in like grand consumption.
I just think it's silly.
Just have a little bit.
No, I just refuse to have these items in my house.
Yeah, I know.
Yeah, that's a all right.
And then you yell at people if they send you anything.
Because your matter.
I really do.
You know, so Gomez flies down to Nashville with us, right?
And oh, he did.
That's awesome.
Oh, yeah.
And you know, and my other buddy Rich Lochner from high school.
They're both, you know, they came down.
We had a great time.
That's it.
Anyway, so John, as you know, is married to Cindy.
You know, Cindy won the golf championship down in a great player.
So she makes this is like to me, crack cocaine.
She makes the greatest carrot cake I've ever had in my life.
And no matter how many times, how many ways I tell Cynthia, stop.
I I can't eat this.
She sends either the carrot cake or the best homemade chocolate chip cookies you've ever had.
And I had a whole box of chocolate chip cookies last night.
But see, this is your problem.
You deprive yourself, so then when you get it, you gorge yourself.
Just have a couple every day and you'll be fine.
I absolutely I only had two and I left them.
I gave them two.
You just said you ate the whole box.
So is it two or the whole box?
Which one is it?
I brought a huge box of them, and I only had two.
No way you had two.
I don't believe.
I swear to God, ask Gomez.
I will ask him.
I'll text him right now.
Text.
I will.
All right.
I'm going to.
Stephanie, Louisiana, glad you called.
Hey, Sean.
Thanks for taking my call.
Thank you for calling.
I'll try to be quick.
I have had this question for a while.
And then the other day I read an article in uh a certain magazine that pretty much says that anyone who supported President Trump or voted for him needs to be taking out of the conversation completely.
Yeah, I see this stuff all the time.
But don't pay attention to it.
It's nonsense.
Well, here's my question to you though is can you explain to me this absolute hatred and viciousness for this man that is now being put upon his supporters?
Because I don't understand that I have been following politics.
My first vote I ever voted.
my first vote I ever cast was for Ronald Reagan back in the day, and I've watched it.
It's gotten ugly, but I've never seen it at this point.
Listen, you you and I we've been on the same track.
I mean, my first vote was for Reagan.
And I will tell you that I it's it's something that you cannot explain.
It is an irrational psychosis that has taken over the media mob, the Democrats, the the never Trumpers.
Like I saw a quote of Liz Cheney.
I used to get along with Liz Cheney, and you know, while the left, you know, that now love Liz Cheney, you know, that's the same group of people that were calling her father daily a war criminal, and and Bush and Cheney lied and people died,
and they were the ones wanting to put her father in jail for uh his work at Halliburton and allegations of impropriety never ending, and and also she was friends, I'm sure, with Scooter Libby, his dad's her dad's chief of staff, uh, that was in fact convicted, but pardoned by Donald Trump.
The sentence was only commuted by then President Bush.
She's actually out there claiming my re-election will become a referendum on the Republican Party.
I'm like, well, Liz, with all due respect, and I mean, I I don't dislike her.
I just it's not personal.
Liz, this your election will be a referendum on you and your relationship with the people of Wyoming.
And that's it.
It's not a referendum on the Republican Party.
You're not the Republican Party.
Yeah.
Well, that's the second part of my question.
But but back to my first question is is that I don't get it.
There has to be a reason.
It can't be power.
They have all the power.
I could tell you part of it.
Every aspect of life for the most part.
The only thing they don't have the power to do is to change the will of 74 million people.
They cannot do that.
But they have the power in every other aspect of life in America.
And the viciousness is just what do you think that but this is this has been since the day this man's come down the escalator, culminating in two impeachments.
And you know, also every law that they didn't follow in 2020, and uh they took full advantage of COVID for their own benefit.
That's why state legislatures need to do everything in their power to make sure it doesn't happen again, in my view.
I've laid out the five items that I think need to be done immediately.
But but to answer your question is I've never met somebody he Donald Trump is an America voted for a disruptor.
They voted for the antithesis of the typical establishment swamp creature.
And he exposed the muck and the mud and the slime and the sleaze that is DC, and he fights like hell.
And they didn't like it, they don't like it.
And I've never met a man that has an uncanny ability to live in people's heads.
They still talk about him every day, whether he says anything or doesn't say anything.
That's why I believe they're going after him so hard in New York.
They want him out forever.
That has to be against the law.
They're in a f on a fishing expedition, and I did not think legally you could do that.
Yeah.
But my second part of my question to you is when you this when you mentioned Liz Cheney.
I I I've been listening to you, and you say we have to continue to fight.
You can't be down in the Doms, you can't give up.
But the Republican Party, with the exception of one or two that we could probably name together, has been silent.
Who are we supposed to be fighting for?
Because if I had my way, we'd wipe out all of them and start over.
But you know, I know that's impossible because the Democrats would win in a landslide.
But who do you root for?
It it the lines are so blurred now, you don't even know anymore.
Uh listen, I I I think I fear your your passion, but it's what you're sensing is is that you've got these major institutions, and I appreciate the call.
I really do.
But you what I what Stephanie is expressing here is something that I tried to warn about before the election.
You have powerful institutions, big tech, the media mob, the Democratic Party.
They're all united in this psychotic passion of theirs to destroy any and all things conservative and Donald Trump.
You know, Reagan had it to a far lesser extent, but he was he was he had he's stylistically was so different than Donald Trump.
And, you know, but they did refer to him.
This didn't come from Democrats, an amiable dunce.
That came from Republicans because Reagan was too conservative for the establishment then, the Gerald Ford wing, the Rockefeller wing of the Republican Party.
So this has been an ongoing battle.
Trump brings it to a head because he's so direct about it.
Now I I personally like that that in your face style.
Maybe a little less would probably be better, a little bit wiser, more strategic, but I like it.
Um I grew up in New York, and I I'm not going to feign outrage when I hear a cuss word.
I'm not going to feign outrage when people attack me.
I because I don't feel it.
And I think there's a lot of acting going on that they stand back sanctimoniously to the point where they justify their own irrational behaviors and lying and spreading of conspiracy theories and hoaxes, and when they take on spectacular double standards like ignoring quid pro quote Joe and Zero Experience Hunter because they like Joe.
Okay.
Anyway, uh David Long Island, New York.
What's up, David?
How are you?
Hi, Sean.
Uh, good to see this another person from New York.
Um I have a question.
I was calling in about um uh voter ID laws and uh protection for our election.
Um my question is what makes voter ID laws more efficacious as opposed to the things we already have?
Is it because it's before um the ballots are cast?
Because we kind of saw, you know, that with the hearings that they had with our party.
Well, it's simple, it's simple.
The idea is one person, one vote, right?
Sure.
Okay, so you don't you you don't want this concept, this idea of what they call ballot harvesting.
You you you need uh uh you need an ID to get into the Democratic National Convention or the White House or the Capitol, or uh do you drink beer, David?
Do you like do you do you like to buy beer or wine or or I don't know, Tito's or something?
No, no, I'm Catholic.
Okay, there you go.
All right.
Don't you need an ID to get when you go to buy that, don't you need an ID?
Uh well, absolutely.
So but my question is.
So you need an ID for everything.
So before why I would turn the question on you.
Why would you resist why would people be against that if it if it if it increases the confidence in election results and results in more integrity in the election process?
Well, I I'm not against that.
So my my question is mainly are we do we have to focus more on um protecting the the security of our elections before the ballots are harvest uh are uh are cast as opposed to after I think these changes need to be institutionalized so that uh the American people will have confidence in election results and that the process is one that has transparency and integrity.
Very quickly, the five things uh voter ID, signature verification, chain of custody control when ballots come in.
Uh I think you need to always clean up the the voter rolls every election season.
And most states have statutory language that allow partisan observers to watch the entire vote counting process.
That didn't happen in 2020.
That's all.
I think I don't think that's unreasonable.
I think that protects everybody, both sides, all sides, all political points of view, and it adds to integrity.
But anyway, I hope that answers your question.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
I mean, Senator John Kennedy, I mean, he just laid out, I mean, absolutely laid out this guy with the ATF.
Uh we'll have that coverage tonight.
Also, uh Dan Bongino tonight, Kevin McCarthy, Greg Abbott, Dana Lash, Laura Trump tonight, Leo 2.0 Terrell, Tammy Bruce.
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