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Coming up next, our final news roundup and information overload hour.
News Roundup Information Overload Hour, Sean Hannity Show 800 941.
Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, I'd not focused on, I think the most interesting result from Tuesday night.
And you have the most powerful Senate leader for Democrats in the state of New Joyse and a truck driver who defeated, he actually won the state Senate seat, and he spent, I think, a whopping 153.
His name is Eddie uh Edward Durr, and he knocked off the Senate majority leader in New Jersey with a hundred and fifty-three bucks.
Listen to him.
I have no idea what's going on.
I am really trying to grasp all this.
It is I knew it would be a major upset.
And it the funny thing is, is whenever I went around the door to door, everybody, the first words out of their mouth was good luck.
Like they knew the political power that was being wielded down here.
I would get uh people who sent me $50, sent me $25.
They said, listen, I I don't like the guy.
I want to see you do well.
And so I I I did what I could.
You're a hardly riding Eagles fan who is a truck driver.
I mean, we don't have some real people in in these state asses.
I've said this before.
I'm no I'm as blue collar as you're ever gonna find.
I'll take uh a citizen Senate, a citizen house of representatives any day.
Uh New King Rich is with us, former Speaker of the House.
He uh just released his brand new book.
This is a must read for everybody, and it's called Beyond Biden.
I spent a lot of time on this program yesterday saying, okay, this is phase one.
One year from now, I'm not sure what day election day is next year, we're going to be on the air the morning after the night before the midterms.
And we'll probably know by that morning, by that afternoon when we get on the air, whether or not Republicans have taken back the House of Representatives.
If they do, the Biden agenda is over.
New Green Deal socialism ends.
It will be it it will be a really strong message that the American people want to take their country back.
Now, we have Senate races.
One year from now, we'll find out what happens in the state of Florida, Herschel Walker, State of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Ohio, Nevada, and Arizona.
Those are all bellwether Senate races.
And I said that if the Republicans are smart, they will go back to the contract with America idea.
I've outlined so many times, many of you can repeat it.
I won't do it now.
What it means to be a conservative.
But every single candidate next year needs to sign a document.
I don't care what they call it, a contract with America, promises to America, agenda items that they are promising they will fight for.
I want their signatures this time.
So this way we can hold them accountable.
Newt Gingrich did this in 1994.
I was the MC the night he became Speaker of the House at his event.
And I don't know why we have not gone back to this idea, but I think the time is now.
And with your book now on Amazon.com and in bookstores all across the country, beyond Biden.
I think if we really want to get beyond Biden, we've got to win 2022 and 2024.
Well, I think you're right, but I have to say before we get on on beyond Biden.
I think your interviews now with Ed Door is just perfect.
And it makes me proud to be an American.
The idea that Me too.
Everyday folks could could have uh you know gone out there and decided on their own.
They were sick of this guy.
I think the teachers' union spent five million dollars trying to beat him last time.
Somebody said they'd spent a total of like 17 million.
And as long as it was one professional politician against another, it didn't work.
But when it got to be a normal, everyday American, people rallied to him.
I think it's one of the great examples of why America is such an amazing country.
And I'm I'm I was thrilled by your interview with him.
I'm delighted for him, and you know, I think he's a great symbol for the whole country.
He's comparable to Lesco Brandon, uh, in terms of being a signal that the world's changing, and uh people need to understand that.
I knew we had a good shot in Virginia.
I I can't believe we got that close in New Jersey.
But now Robert Cahaley of Trafalgar, he did tell me on air, he his final poll was a four-point race within the margin of error.
He said nobody's paying attention.
There is massive, is a massive break in New Jersey.
And I paid attention to it, but not enough attention.
I didn't think we'd get that close.
We could have had it.
We could have, and it's the truth is uh it's the highest tax state in the country, it's the most expensive state in the country to live in, and people are sick of it.
They know they know all those high taxes are going to pay for bureaucracies that don't work.
So now the Democrats are back in Washington and and right away, almost immediately they want their no voter ID, uh no standards for election bill passed, and they want to end the filibuster, and now they're talking about their you know, their three point five trillion dollar spending project, apparently, I guess tone-deaf to what happened on Tuesday.
Well, you know, somebody pointed out to me that when they got uh really beaten badly in 2009 in response to what was going on, and they lost uh Virginia and they lost New Jersey, four days later, Nancy Pelosi rammed through Obamacare.
Well, guess what?
Right after they get beaten badly in uh Virginia, and frankly at the assembly level, uh got beaten badly in New Jersey and almost lost the governorship.
Nancy Pelosi once again wants to ram something through.
Uh I don't think she'll be able to.
I think there are a bunch of scared Democrats today who are looking at this stuff and saying, you know, uh this this big government socialism ain't gonna work, and I'm gonna get beat, uh, and I'll be very curious to see, particularly because they're never gonna get it through the Senate.
I mean, the fact is this this just strengthened mansion and cinema.
Uh, and I think it also will lead to scaring, you know.
At least I think the senators in Arizona, Nevada, and New Hampshire, the Democrats, all had their races downgraded uh to basically uh be being an equal tie after Tuesday night.
And the the so-called experts looked at it and said, you know, given what's happening in the country, these guys are all in trouble.
As I as I've been following go, I'm sorry, go ahead.
I was gonna say, so it'll be interesting to see whether or not those three senators decide they're gonna join uh, you know this the survival group with Mansion and Cinema, or whether they're just gonna blindly stick with the big government socialist and and lose next year.
You know, I I look at Virginia and we had on TV last night win some Sears, and we were talking about this a little bit in the last half hour.
If you listen to the the media, the mob in the media, um, they're blaming race for the Virginia election results.
And I'm like, do you not see who won the races in Virginia?
Are you not paying attention?
And I asked this through this this prism here.
Stephanie Cutter, veteran of of Hillary Clinton's, you know, camp, actually said, we can't let Republicans become the party of parents.
If Republicans become the party of parents, if Republicans can fix the broken down, dilapidated, disaster institutions of education all across the country, especially in blue states, blue cities.
If they resolve the issue of of law and order for every American so they can pursue their happiness, I believe we reconfigure the Republican Party for generations to come.
How do we do that though?
Well, I think that's right.
I mean, first of all, for the for the first time, and you know, I've been told about this for years.
Uh for the first time, I am totally with you.
I think they need the equivalent of a contract next year that's positive.
If you look at uh the campaign that Young can ran, Young has spent a lot of time on positive advertising, on positive messages, and messages that were in people's lives.
That's that was one of the biggest differences.
You know, McCullough was talking about January 6th.
He was talking about Donald Trump.
But at the same time, what you had was Yuncan was talking about the the schools, the the jobs, uh crime, things that are in people's lives that are real.
So I think if the Republicans on the one front can be very, very positive and have solutions people believe in and are committed to them, I think that will be huge.
The other front is the big government socialism just doesn't work.
And Margaret Thatcher did an amazing job.
She so clearly defined uh socialism in Britain that no one in 40 years, no think about that, four decades, no one who's an overt socialist has been able to win the prime ministership huge change from the brick of the previous half century.
I think we have a chance you know and when Schumer endorses the socialist candidate for mayor of Buffalo who lost by the way on a write in you really begin to understand these people are just totally out to lunch.
And when we win, when a woman is elected to the district attorney or city attorney, it's called there, in Seattle as a Republican, you know that there is something big happening in the country.
When we pick up a Latino seat, 73% Latino in San Antonio with a Republican in a special election for state legislature, you know something big is happening.
And I think the way to have that big thing happen in 22, and I think it could be at least plus four in the Senate and somewhere between plus 40 and plus 70 in the House.
The way to do it is, one, define in a very positive way, much as you've been doing.
This is what we stand for as values.
And these are the programs we'll institute so your life and your family's life will be better.
And two, define clearly that these people are basically big government socialists who then have to lie, which is what, of course, McCullough did.
He couldn't tell the truth.
the last three weeks of the campaign and so the and of course the elite media picked up his lies and pretended they were real but they weren't and and that's where you know having an African American from Jamaica who migrated to the U.S. served in the U.S. Marine Corps is articulately attractive and intelligent as the first black woman elected statewide in Virginia oh by the way she's a Republican have having the son of Cuban refugees become the attorney general of Virginia the first Latino elected
statewide oh by the way he's a Republican it's gonna be pretty hard to call the you know use the race card against a party that begins to be that inclusive by the way in spite of these victories the media and and I just played it the last half hour I won't play it again and bore the audience but the they are blaming race for the Virginia election results.
Quick break we'll come back more with former Speaker of the House Duke Kingrich uh and your calls coming up 800 nine four one Sean as we continue hey there I'm Mary Catherine Hammond.
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even of some Republicans look Pelosi's not going to change Schumer's not going to change the squad's not going to change Joe Biden doesn't know what day it is so I don't expect them to change.
Joe Manchin has very loudly said I told you so and I think now this is now strengthened his position.
And I've got to imagine that there are other senators that on the Democratic side and Democratic House members that probably see and realize that this radicalism is pulling them over together off a cliff and they don't want a part of it.
Now, what does that mean for the new Green Deal socialist agenda?
Well, I think it's it's very close to being dead in the water.
And I think uh, you know, I personally believe Manchin ought to just go ahead and relax and switch parties.
Uh he'll be so much happier going to Tuesday lunch and with the Republicans than going in with a bunch of people who despise him, who despise his state, uh, who don't share any of his values.
But I I think I've always thought that they would get to a point where it was an overload.
I think this isn't two thousand ten, two thousand nine.
You don't have a politician as good as Barack Obama in the White House.
And you know, Nancy uh is now a decade older, and I think uh frankly, while she's been running a dictatorship, I think the dictatorship is beginning to fall apart.
And that's that's part of the message.
I mean, you know, when we should.
Mr. Speaker, I really can't name all right.
We we have cinema, we have mansion.
Can you name ten Democrats in the House that are are even moderately conservative?
Well, I don't study them, so I can't I suspect that they're a I got a life beyond politics.
I get it.
No, no.
I think they're probably five or ten.
I'll I'll let Kevin McCarthy chat with you about that.
But they can prove that they're moderate, that they can prove that they're not bigger than the socialists just join the Republican Party.
Um there is no future in the Democratic Party for anyone who is not dedicated to a totally alien system whose primary characteristic is it doesn't work.
And I think it doesn't, it just doesn't work.
Maybe the best Republican battle cry for 2022.
Uh you know, it doesn't work when you fill up your car with gasoline, it doesn't work when you go to buy food.
It doesn't work when you look at the border.
I mean, you just go down the list of item after item after it doesn't work when five Baltimore City schools, not a single one of them can graduate a student who can who can actually pass the state exam.
I mean, I think I'll tell you what Tuesday did for me, and uh I I never took a minute to to gloat.
I only had a sense of relief that people now understand how bad this is.
And but the job is hardly over.
And almost immediately I went from okay, thank God people are getting it, to okay, the next step.
And the next step is one year from now.
One year from now, you will be on this program, and God willing, and we will be having a conversation.
Mr. Speaker, we got a pivotal, critical, important year ahead of us.
Looking forward to it.
Look forward to chatting with you about it.
Take care.
All right, 25 now till the top of the hour, 800 nine four one Sean.
You want to be a part of the program.
Uh Ronda Santis called the uh Biden administration the Brandon administration.
Then the crowd started chanting, and then DeSantis says, uh something that's a fairly well-known quote.
A recession is when your neighbor loses their job, a depression is when you lose your job, a recovery is when Fauci loses his job.
listen if you look at what's going on with with some of the big corporations with their woke agenda When you look at the Biden, the Brandon administration in terms of what they're doing.
But a recession is when your neighbor loses his job, a depression is when you lose yours.
A recovery is when Dr. Fauci loses his.
Ouch.
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
Uh Linda, you love those cuts.
Which one?
Do you like the Brandon one better?
The Brandon administration.
Let's go for it.
I'm like he's just such a baller.
I mean, it's just the most amazing thing, because it's what we're all thinking.
I mean, he's he's such an embarrassment to God and country.
And when you see him falling asleep at a global summit, when you see him trying to put a sentence together, when you see him telling people they have to get vaccinated, that he it's not gonna cost us a thing.
I mean, he must just think we're the stupidest People in America, it's embarrassing.
But remember, for a long time, this show, and there might have been others.
I don't speak for everybody.
I don't have a lot of time to watch or listen to other shows.
As a matter of fact, next to zero.
And so I but we were out there on a limb, and and people were getting re could not believe that I dared to state the obvious.
He's weak, he's frail, and he's a cognitive mess.
Now he I I how embarrassing was this week.
He falls asleep, needs an aid to wake him up, apologizes for America, doesn't even have a clue that his own administration and Department of Justice propose payments of 450,000 to illegal immigrants.
I mean, that was pretty embarrassing.
And then the disaster that was the election this week, and and him totally completely clueless about that.
Oh, and one other thing to cap off the week.
Begging OPEC again.
How many times does OPAC have to reject him before he gets the message?
And Russia too.
I mean, Iran is basically laughing at us.
And the fact that we're begging these nations that hate us for anything, as opposed to employing American people, engineers, you know, people that have studied for an eternity hydrofracking and you know, in the Bach and in North Dakota.
I mean, these people are out there, they're ready to freeze and work all winter so that we can supply the American people with the oil for the Saudi Arabia of Natural Gas, as you said for the last 25 years, and instead we're gonna beg Russia and Venezuela and Iran and the Middle East.
What are we doing?
I mean, for people to think that it makes a difference whether we get the oil from that part of the world or this part of the world.
I'm like, you have to understand that the nations that are admitting most of the impact and the carbon the carbon um offsets that we need to fight back against what China is doing.
Why isn't anyone I I brought this point up and it's interesting?
It got uh got noticed by a lot of people, and that is if you're begging OPEC to increase production, or you're begging Russia to increase production, does it matter to the planet if the oil is taken out of the Mideast, if the oil comes from Russia, or if the oil comes from the U.S.?
Tell me how begging OPEC and begging Russia in any way does a thing to help the environment, which is what they say they care about.
It doesn't do anything, nothing doesn't do a damn thing.
And the problem is is that people are asleep at the switch.
There's like one whole group of Americans that are awake and they're ready and they're and they're ready to fight for their freedom.
They are, and then there's another side of Americans that are like, I'll just get the vaccine because I want to be able to go to the game, or I want to be able to go to the restaurant, or I want to what are you talking about?
I'm like, you need to fight back for the things that matter to you most.
And one of those things is individual freedoms.
Now you're saying that you're going to allow an experimental drug to be used on a five to an 11-year-old, and that's okay.
I mean, how far does it have to go when our kids are at risk?
How far does it have to go?
If there was a real danger to kids, we would know it by now.
We're nearly two years into this thing.
And in that two-year period of time, and I checked the CDC website earlier this week, it was 162 kids that died from COVID-19.
Now, and by the way, many others had contracted it, but they're not dying from it.
Most are asymptomatic.
They're not having any problems, pretty much whatsoever, unless, of course, they have other health complications that sometimes sometimes kids have.
It's almost the same identical number of deaths associated with the flu on an annual basis.
It's almost a direct correlation.
So then the question is why?
And if Fauci's answer today is, well, because there's not enough adults getting vaccinated.
What?
Now we're going to put the burden on children because some people make a choice that Dr. Fauci doesn't like.
First of all, as far as I'm concerned, anybody who rips out the vocal cords of puppies so that they can't scream in from the anguish of the experimental test.
Everybody buckle up.
She's about to go off.
Go ahead.
Listen, I'm just saying, if that's your first of all moment is right here.
If this guy can kill puppies, you think he's not going to hurt kids?
You think he cares about your life?
No, he does not.
He absolutely does not.
And I think we've seen that time and time again.
He said in 2012, Linda, even if it causes a worldwide pandemic, That he still supports gain of function research.
100%.
He's still defending it today.
And lying about what he knew and when he knew it.
He was exposed by Rand Paul today.
No, Dr. Paul made a great a great point today talking about the fact that they just attributed another five million dollars to the Echo Health Alliance, which is not enough and is based right here in New York City.
And that guy was taken off of the COVID-19 board of directors because he was one of the people overseeing what was being approved.
And then people started to notice isn't that odd that the guy who's approving things and what gets passed and what's going to the FDA is the same guy getting the funding from Echo Health Alliance where he sits as the CEO and works with the Wuhan lab in China.
Like, these things are not an accident.
It's mind-numbing to me that one taxpayer dollar went to this.
It's mind numbing to me.
I'm going to be more blunt.
Every American, we paid for this virus.
We help fund this virus.
We help, we we help make it possible.
That is insane.
All right, let's get some phones.
Well, wait, one one point, one point on one something you said.
One said something you said to me earlier today, and I know you said it, you said it in the top of the hour as well.
But you know, if you're gonna mandate and and force people because you say it's for their health and they have to have the vaccine, that's when you know it's a bold face lie that it's about your health.
Because if it was, they'd let you have whatever medicine worked for you.
So now you're gonna do this against truckers.
So we we're already blocking the ports.
We're already not letting all of the product come in.
We're already limiting the amount of people that can come to work.
How do you want to do it to truckers?
You're going to follow the science.
But think about this.
You say follow the science.
Okay, they're not following the science out of Israel.
I am.
We are.
Um, but if we're going to follow the science, how do you justify one size fits all medicine anyway?
You don't just gonna totally discount the fact that there are rare conditions where medical professionals, not not people that play doctor on radio and TV and in Washington, uh, tell their patients they they really are not a candidate for the vaccine for whatever reason there are those rare conditions.
Or the issue of natural immunity, which nobody wants to scientifically talk about.
And at the end of the day, people are willing to lose their jobs over it, and there is an easy accommodation.
I know it's inconvenient, and I know uh and some people have gotten mad at me for even suggesting it.
I'm suggesting it because I'm I'm talking to people that have 15 years in uh serving this country in the military that are gonna be walking away from a pension that they earned in five years.
There are nurses that are gonna be losing their pensions.
There are cops that are gonna be losing their pensions.
The reason that I say at least give them the option to be tested on a regular basis is because they've worked hard for that money.
That money is going to mean so much to them in their retirement.
I don't want them to lose it.
So I'm trying to thread a needle so that they don't have they get to stand on their values, but they're all also work in a safe work environment and still get to keep their income, their benefits, and their pension.
But one more point.
If they've gotten to the stage of their career where they're getting pensions, then they are the most experienced, the most elite of our military.
So now we're getting rid of thousands and thousands of people that actually know how to fight the fight, how to run our military to put in inexperienced people because they're willing to capitulate to the mandate.
Think about that.
Melanie, North Carolina, welcome to the program.
I'm so honored to speak with you.
I love what uh your discussion with Linda is about the Democratics constantly trying to push this government as the savior of society and the unbelievable trust that we we put in them is is is mind-blowing to me sometimes.
But I'd really like to know your opinion.
And I'm just so overwhelmed to speak with you because you are the subject matter expert, and I have so much respect for you.
But on the possibility that in regards to all of these vaccine mandates, um is it not just government overreach or corruption, but could it be a part of the left strategy to create massive gaps in our law enforcement, emergency services, all of these state, local, local, and privately run industries.
Um and now we have these huge gaps, and potentially could it be the administration's way of providing an opportunity for the federal government to do that?
I'm not that conspiratorial.
I I don't know what's in people's minds.
Um Well, in the sense that I can't, I can't read people's thoughts.
One of the reasons I've been against hate crime legislation, you know, if you kill somebody or you beat up somebody, you should be charged with the crime of doing it.
Whatever thoughts caused you to do it.
I mean, trying to factor or unless it's obvious, or figure out people's evil motives, and there are evil people.
Um at that point, the punishment should be good enough just for the act that was committed, not for the thought that's in the head.
Although, you know, that there are some heinous acts that you you've got to take some people off the street if you know they they believe in extremist ideas, et cetera.
But I don't want to digress here.
You're asking a pretty interesting question, and that is what their motivation is.
I don't know.
I do know this.
That is the concerning thing.
Like what's what's really behind this?
Because there's something I think some liberals, for example, have the best of intentions.
That they really want to believe, well, if we put everything in a big pot and we'll give everybody their equal share, then we'll all live happily ever after.
The problem is the world has tried this in in one manifestation, one form, over and over again, and it all always fails.
Then you have the people that downright know what the hell they're doing, and they just want power.
They want unbridled power, and the power of dependency is real power for people in in the political world.
And I think there are people that know damn well what they're doing.
But you know, can I identify who exactly they are?
No, because I can't get in their head.
I know.
It's scary.
It's a scary times, and I hate to sound so conspiratorial because I I I'm not typically that way, but when you see all of these actions, what Falci's getting away with, the overreaching in education, it's very scary.
I have, I'm telling you, Alan Combs is a great case on point, my former partner.
Alan Combs was a true believer.
He believed everything he said.
He was wrong on everything, but he believed it.
I respect Alan, I've respected Alan because of that.
Then you have other people that know that to p dependency creates a voting base for them for their power accumulation, and dependency can do that.
What I try to get across to everybody in the and in any way that I I can, to the extent possible in your life, and it's hard because life is hard, but to the extent possible that you can count on yourself, depend on yourself, save money for a rainy day, save money for retirement, save money, you know.
Maybe you don't need the the car, the new car, maybe you get a used car.
Maybe you don't need a bigger house, maybe you save that money every month for a rainy day or another investment or whatever it happens to be.
I just to the extent that you become the master of your own destiny, the freer you are in life.
And so to the extent that even today when I can afford things, I'm yeah, I still have that mindset that I had when I struggled to pay my rent.
It never quite went away.
And and in many ways, I think it's a good thing.
But it it brings us back to self-reliance, which nobody seems to want to talk about today at all.
Anyway, Melanie, I I know we got a little off course there.
I hope that was a helpful conversation for you.
I love your point.
I raised three children to love their country and constitution, and people like you and your message that you just gave had a lot to do to help me to develop that love and their value system.
So thank you for your perseverance and determination in taking my call.
Thank you for giving me this microphone every day and that camera.
I know it's it's you gotta suffer watching it every night.
But makeup helps a lot.
Um anyway, Melanie, thank you.
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