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March 7, 2022 - Sean Hannity Show
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Newt on Russia - March 7th, Hour 2
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America trapped behind enemy lines.
Day number two oh five.
Right, hour two, Sean Hannity show toll-free.
It's eight hundred nine four one Sean.
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Uh, if you think the buck fifty on average per gallon gas price increase has been bad, and it it's been bad, and it's impacted every single American, especially poor Americans, middle class Americans struggling to make you know their rent every month.
Um, it is impacting everything you buy at every store, your ability to fill your tank, heat and cool your home.
Uh, we now have some energy market traders, they're betting on two hundred dollars per barrel for oil.
The average gas price average now, without including state taxes, is over four dollars a gallon for the first time since 08.
It is going to go higher.
It's not if it will go higher.
Uh, and even I think it was two weeks into two weeks ago.
JP Morgan Chase was warning that they predicted oil prices would be a buck fifty a barrel.
Um today it looks very much like it could hit that mark.
Crude oil prices surged uh 20% earlier today to nearly uh $140 a barrel for the first time since 08, and 70% of Americans favor increased U.S. oil and gas production according to Rasmussen reports.
Elon Musk, he makes his living on electric cars.
He's a great innovator, interesting guy, but he even put out a a tweet that said, you know, extraordinary times, you know, require extraordinary measures, and we need to increase oil and gas output immediately.
He understands the problem.
House Democrats, though, they just blocked a bill to reopen the Keystone XL pipeline.
Uh Gensaki keeps saying, well, uh, even though we put all these uh exploration and drilling restrictions in place, there's still 9,000 other places that companies can drill totally not understanding the nature of the oil and energy sector.
Uh we have more energy available to us that could last anywhere estimates show between 100 and 200 years.
And yet Joe's answer is not to drill, not to increase uh natural gas production and coal production.
That's not even on the table.
You know, we're still as of today importing, you know, hundreds of thousands of of barrels of oil from Russia every single day.
We're funding Putin's war.
It's insanity.
And so is in Europe, so our NATO NATO allies.
When we should be, you know, ratcheting up production in this country.
No, they're talking about a nuclear deal with Iran that would include America importing uh oil from the Iranium mullets that chant death to Israel and death to America after they give them tens of billions of dollars, and of course, a pathway towards a nuclear weapon.
Then they're talking about Venezuela.
Then they're talking about begging OPEC and Saudi Arabia even more.
And every time they've asked OPEC to increase production, they've said no.
And why would you ever deal with the dictatorship in in Venezuela is beyond anybody's understanding?
Former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich is uh with us to respond to this and so much more.
I I have never seen such utter incompetence and stupidity in all my years of broadcasting.
This is not a complicated issue.
And the one sanction that would have worked would have been to ban the importing of any energy from Russia.
That's the one thing they won't give up, Mr. Speaker.
Well, look, I I personally don't think they're stupid.
I think they are zealots who are have almost a religion.
Uh and they are committed to their religion at any cost.
And their religion is anti-American oil and anti-American gas.
So they're trying to tell us that it's okay to deal with Venezuela, which has a murderous dictatorship.
It's okay to deal with Saudi Arabia, which has a monarchy.
Uh it's okay to cut a truly destructive deal with Iran, which is the largest sponsor of state terrorism in the world.
But boy, getting oil out of, say, Oklahoma or Texas or Ohio or Pennsylvania.
That would be really terrible.
Uh I just think they're that anti-American.
I think that they have some deep underlying desire to have America be a weaker, smaller, less important country.
And look at how they're dealing with the whole Ukraine problem.
Biden first identified publicly a Russian threat to Ukraine in April of last year.
So for ten months, they did nothing except talk.
And if anything, they undermined morale.
Remember the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Millie says, Oh, uh, the Russians will be in Kyiv in three days.
Well, that was totally wrong.
He was totally wrong about Afghanistan.
He's now totally wrong about Ukraine.
Um the deal they're going to cover with Iran is an absolute destruction of American security, giving money to the largest sponsor of terrorism on the planet.
Um I I think it's I don't think these people are stupid.
I think they have a world view that wants a smaller, weaker, less relevant America, and they're doing everything they can to get there.
Oh, I I would argue they they probably have already achieved that.
Um they're bombing innocent men, women, and children, and the evidence is now overwhelming.
We have the videos, we have the still pictures.
It is heart wrenching to see it.
Uh this is a war criminal, but they can't find the courage within them to identify Putin as a war criminal.
Uh Russia now fired missiles at a second nuclear facility.
Maybe maybe many Americans haven't heard yet, at this physics institute in the city of Kharkiv.
It contains a large nuclear arsenal and a reactor that could lead to a large-scale ecological disaster if it's hit, but they don't seem to care.
The Russians don't seem to care.
Um you have, you know, very brave President Zelensky, while most other leaders of countries would have gotten in their private jet with their gold and and millions of millions of dollars, he's staying to fight for his country and leading his country in this insurgency.
So far it's been impressive, but I I don't know what happened to this 40 mile convoy and what's going to happen when it arrives in Kyiv, because I don't think it's going to work out well.
Well, I mean, even I are slowly different on that one.
I I think the convoy ran out of gasoline or disappointment.
That's what some people have said.
I've read that report, but apparently part of the convoy included fuel.
So I would imagine they'd use it if they ran out of it, wouldn't they?
Well, they might have, except I think that the Ukrainians keep killing stuff.
Uh, you know, I I mean, and and in those kind of convoys, the most important thing to hit is the gas truck, not the tank, not the armored personnel carrier, go after the gasoline truck.
I think that's what's been happening.
I mean, I'm I was with you several days ago.
We we talked about this on your TV show, and I said, Ben, uh, this is this is like a giant target.
And guess what?
It's still sitting there.
Um, and I think what's happened, two things have happened.
One is I think they ran out of fuel.
Uh that the logistics system is apparently just terrible.
And the second is a good friend of mine said to me, you know, if if if you had been lied to, if you'd been told as the the POWs there's a great thing on um the on Twitter of uh of a Russian p POW talking about the fact that he was told they were going on maneuvers.
He was told they were going to go help the people of Ukraine against this Nazi government.
And he said it was all a lie.
Well, if if you decide that your government's lying to you, maybe you don't want to go die for it.
So I think there are a lot of uh Russian soldiers right now who are kind of saying, no, I don't I don't think I'll go around that next bend.
I don't think I'll go over that next hill.
I think I'll just hunker down here and wait to see what happens.
And the result has been uh what has to be a huge uh frustration for Putin, uh he has all of these forces and they're not winning.
And I and I think there's a chance if if the West can just suck it up and keep providing equipment uh and ammunition, I think there's a chance the Ukrainians presently are actually gonna drive the Russians backwards, and then I think Putin will be faced with a huge uh uh challenge.
And uh a good friend of mine uh uh just wrote a book uh on uh called post-Putin, uh his name's Hermann Perchner, and he looked at all the different ways in which Putin could leave office, and I think uh, you know, you start getting major generals shot by snipers, you start getting a lot of body bags going back Home.
Uh you have a military that starts saying, hey, this guy's nuts.
Uh Putin may be uh shakier in power than any time since he got there in the late 1990s.
It is, I think, somewhat revealing the four conditions that Russia laid out today that if Ukraine will it's interesting, they're they're the victims of uh an invasion.
But if Ukraine ceases all military action, changes their constitution to enshrine military neutrality, acknowledges Crimea as Russian territory, and these two republics that initially started this this war um as sovereign independent nations, um that that might be enough to cease to to end this war.
Um at this point, I don't know if I'd give in to any demands of Vladimir Putin.
If I was Ukraine, I don't know if I would.
I mean, look at the first thing they're doing is say, if you will pay to repair everything you just destroyed.
Yeah, exactly.
We'll consider at that point maybe uh talking about having the peace.
But I also try to think it tells you Putin is beginning to be under real pressure.
And I think that uh uh that we should be encouraging the Ukrainians, we should be uh making sure that they covertly get as many weapons as they need.
Um that now that we have uh gotten everyone to agree that the polls can give them the MiG-29s, we need to find a way to get them to them.
And there are a number of these steps that are just brute hard work.
But I'm encouraged that the Russians remain bogged down uh and that they're you know their only effective weapon is a missile, not aircraft, because their pilots don't want to die either.
Uh and and uh two days ago apparently they're gonna be able to do that.
Well, the the Biden administration refuses to go along with the no-fly zone.
Well, yeah, but I I I actually think that's pretty rational because the only way you get a no-fly zone is you start shooting down Russian airplanes.
And I think we got through the entire Cold War without getting into a nuclear war.
I think it's pretty you these guys have six thousand nuclear weapons, and and uh I I want to help the Ukrainians beat them.
I don't want to try to go in there and have Americans, although we clearly could dominate them, uh, given the performance level that they've shown in the last two weeks.
Uh I I think that that does run a risk.
You start to do that.
That's not an option, I don't think for America to send any American troops on the ground, but providing the Ukrainians with the javelins and the stingers seems to be the most effective option available.
That's right.
And and I think a lot of that is happening, and frankly, if they can figure out we've apparently told the polls that we will replace the MiG-29s with F-16s, which is actually a big upgrade in terms of the age of the aircraft.
Now the Poles have to figure out how do they get the airplanes to Ukraine.
People may not understand.
You're talking about Poland.
Go ahead.
I'm sorry, Poland has the right aircraft for the Ukrainian pilots.
And of course, Poland hates Russia, uh, but they also don't want to have the Russians start bombing Polish airfield airfields.
So there's a very interesting balance as they try to work that out.
But but I'm moderately optimistic.
I think that the uh the momentum of the war is beginning to shift more and more towards Ukraine.
You know, they picked up thirty Russian tanks where the guys apparently just walked off and left the tank behind.
Um you keep getting that kind of attrition, and presently you're gonna have a pretty well-armed uh Ukrainian army uh and a pretty demoralized Russian army.
I more with former speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, we'll get to your calls in a minute.
800 nine four one Sean.
So there's really two things we've got to figure out here.
How best to help the Ukrainians win the war and how to wean completely the West off of Russian energy.
Those are the two major questions that we have.
Your answers.
Well, I think we just keep providing weapons to the Ukrainians and financial support.
And I think uh despite the insanity of the Biden administration's you know, fanatic position on on energy, uh you reopen all American production, you create as many liquefied national gas facilities as possible, you offer American natural gas as the alternative to Russian, and you sign 30 and 40 year contracts that are good for us, good for Europe, uh, and that mean that Russia becomes almost irrelevant.
I mean, what are the odds that happens under Biden?
Uh, I think close to zero, because these people are crazy.
I mean, uh you know, uh, by the way, there's there's no other answer.
That that is the truth, so keep going.
Yeah.
Well, look, I mean, you got when you have in the middle of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, you have hey, you've allowed the Russians to chair the negotiations with Iran.
I mean, this is all happening at the same time.
This is insanity.
It's insanity.
This isn't just left-wing political goofiness, this is insanity.
And you have to wonder are they is there anybody in this administration that's in touch with the planet?
No.
Uh I can answer that with uh 100% accuracy.
It doesn't seem to be.
Um, Mr. Speaker, but uh uh at this time it would be nice to have an adult as president.
Last last question.
You know, most Americans, over 60 some odd percent think this never would have happened if Donald Trump were president.
I agree with that, to you.
Absolutely.
I mean, Trump had a has a toughness, and he has he's also realistic.
And he's not sucked into some kind of fanatic belief that Texas oil is bad, but Venezuelan oil is good.
I mean, just think about that.
Venezuela is a has a murderous dictator in charge.
Uh, we have been trying to get rid of him.
Uh, you know, the Iranians are the leading supporters of state terrorism.
Biden wants to buy oil from them.
Uh, why does why does Biden and his team think that if the oil comes from Ohio or Pennsylvania or Oklahoma or Texas, it's really bad.
But if it comes from Venezuela or Iran or some other country or Saudi Arabia, then it's really good.
I mean, you you this this is the sort of stuff where you need a psychiatrist, not a political scientist.
Mr. Speaker, thank you for being with us.
We appreciate you as always.
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So we have been pounding the fact that this Western European NATO ally and U.S. dependence on Russian energy is funding all of these territorial ambitions of Vladimir Putin.
It is the the single dumbest policy.
Well, we're putting the toughest sanctions ever on Vladimir, and no, you're not.
Because the one sanction that would matter is putting a sanction on the importation of any energy.
And it would have to be a united front.
The other part that I don't like about this that nobody else is talking about is uh all the tough banking sanctions that Biden has been bragging about.
Uh they all have loopholes and they all have exemptions in them so that Western European countries and the U.S. can pay for the what 600,000 barrels of oil that they're bringing into the U.S. from Russia every day.
This is insanity.
But if you listen to the chief of staff of Biden, you know, he says sanctioning Russian oil would hurt the unity that made sanctions work, Ron Klain.
What a genius he is.
If Russia continues to escalate, are energy sanctions on the table?
Well, look, John, I think we start from the premise that the goal is to cripple the Russian economy, not triple the American economy.
And I think we need to be very careful about how these sanctions work.
Um why are they so successful?
Look, this is the largest set of sanctions that have ever been applied against a large country.
It's hard to sanction a very large country that's interconnected with the world economy.
They've been successful in doing catastrophic damage to the Russian economy because we built this coalition of countries that have participated and all agreed to imply these sanctions.
And so as we go forward, we need to keep that unity.
The unity is what makes the sanctions work.
And I think uh that's the first principle.
We've got to keep everyone together.
Uh Once you get to these sanctions on uh on oil and natural gas, it gets more complicated on keeping everyone together.
And if you think he's dumb, then you got Wink and Tony Blinken, NATO countries have the green light to send fighters to Ukraine.
Oh, thanks for your permission, Wink and Blinken.
We appreciate it here.
What more can the United States do here if, for instance, the Polish government, a NATO member wants to send fighter jets?
Does that get a green light from the U.S. or are you afraid that that will escalate tension?
No, that that that gets a green light.
In fact, we're talking uh with uh our Polish friends right now about what we might be able to do to backfill uh their needs if in fact they choose to provide these fighter jets to to the Ukrainians uh what can we do?
How can we help to make sure that uh they get something to backfill the planes that they're handing over to to the Ukrainians.
We're in very active discussions with them about that.
And then blinking gets even dumber.
The U.S. and NATO are in discussions about banning Russian oil import what why is this a discussion?
You're funding all of this war because billions you can talk about the fall of the ruble all of you want all that you want but if Vladimir Putin is taking in billions and billions and billions from Western countries, including the U.S. every single day, he's getting rich, and the West is funding this war against Ukraine.
Chuck, I spoke to the president and the cabinet, the leading members of the cabinet, about this just yesterday from Europe.
And we are now in very active discussions with our European partners about banning the import of Russian oil to our countries, while, of course, at the same time maintaining a steady global supply of oil.
The actions we've taken to date have already had a devastating impact on the Russian economy.
We see the ruble in freefall.
We see the economy heading into a deep recession.
We've already had a major impact.
But we are looking, again, as we speak, in coordination with allies and partners, at this prospect of banning oil imports.
It's unbelievable to me.
Anyway, I know a lot of you have wanted to weigh in here.
Let's go to Charlene who's in Washington.
Hey, Charlene, how are you?
Glad you called.
I'm doing great, Sean.
Thank you for taking my call.
it and I really appreciate all your education of educating all of us voters I called today because of the Biden war on USA oil production I called some friends in California this weekend to ask how do you feel about your vote for Biden?
I couldn't believe their answer they said we'd be in worse shape if we had Trump that's not true.
You know what the poll that came out last week said 62 or four or five whatever sixty some odd percent of Americans don't think Putin would have done this under Donald Trump and by the way neither do I agree with you.
I know the story about when when Donald Trump first spoke to the head of the Taliban in Afghanistan he said before we talk about any possibility of or any discussion about any possible deal you need to understand something.
And this wasn't said once this was said numerous times if you don't abide by if we make a deal and you don't abide by every dotted I and cross T and every period and every comma I am going to wipe you and everybody in and around you within a 50 mile radius off the planet earth.
You under do you understand me?
And he would ask again, no, no, no.
I want to know that you really understand me.
And during the first call that Donald Trump made, and I've had this confirmed now by numerous people, during the first call, he also said, and I know where you are.
Now, this guy had no idea that Trump knew exactly where he was at that moment and said, I could take you out right now because you're right here and actually stated the exact address where the guy was.
So the people that I've interviewed and talked to that have been a part of it, I showed a small segment.
of the five minute beatdown gave the the head of NATO on this very issue of how stupid it is that we're paying all this money to protect all these NATO allied countries.
We're paying the bulk of money, and then they're turning around and importing all of this energy from Russia, and when he challenged the the head of NATO, he had no answer because there is no answer.
It was a stupid policy.
I told them if they want their California gas prices to come down, we need a wartime effort like in World War II with all speed for these oil producers in the United States to start producing 100% capacity.
It will end USA inflation.
Biden created the inflation because of of the war on USA oil.
The US production.
All of this, it it did a lot of things all at once.
Number one, it compromised our national security.
It used to be that we didn't have to worry because when Donald Trump was president about the Straits of Hormuz, about thirty to forty percent of the world's oil supply passes through those very narrow straits.
Iran likes to, you know, take tankers whenever the hell they feel like it.
We we'd never have to worry about that again.
We'd never have to worry about OPEC nations, many of which hating our guts.
We wouldn't have to worry about them again.
We wouldn't have to worry about Russian oil ever again.
It would put us in a position of strength.
Simultaneously, if we would have been continued to be and grown out being a net exporter of energy, we'd be able to fill the void ourselves and provide all the energy needs of our allies, and that would be great for our economy.
And by increasing the supply of all energy in the world markets, well, that would have lowered the price of energy around the world, and that would have been like a tax cut for the American people.
It would have created hundreds of thousands of high-paying career jobs for Americans in the energy sector.
There's there's no downside to it.
We wouldn't be paying these high we wouldn't be paying these high transportation costs for our food for our clothing.
Correct.
That's what drove inflation.
Forty 40-year high.
You are you get an A plus and a gold star for your economic knowledge, and you're far more qualified than the corpse that we have in the White House right now, who I don't think knows that today's Monday.
Sean, create a whiteboard and explain to him to the to Americans the Biden actions, war on energy, how he created these high costs, how he ruined our national security.
I think that's a good idea.
And I think I'll I'll try and get that bill down for you and show it on TV.
Now it's even worse, because now he's begging OPEC down for the for the tenth time.
They've denied him all the other nine times to increase production.
What what incentive do they have to increase production and lower their own profit margin?
They have no incentive to do it.
He's going to go meet with Saudi Arabia and beg Saudi Arabia.
Then he's going to meet with Venezuelans and that thug dictator there.
And then we're going to let we're going to negotiate this deal with the Iranians.
I mean, I I I've never met anything more I've never seen anything more dumb and more dangerous in my life.
We need production in the United States.
That's the only thing that's going to drive down our gas price.
It's the only thing that's going to stop inflation.
It's only the only thing that's going to give world security.
You understand this?
Why Joey doesn't?
I don't know.
Uh, thank you for a good call, Charlene.
Quick break.
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Uh Jay is in California.
Jay, how are you?
Glad you called.
Doing well.
Thanks for your show.
Thank you, sir.
Yeah, the uh uh lot of a lot of hot topic here on uh on the uh oil, oil American oil and natural gas.
And it's just uh an obscure fact that uh, you know, but few people know or realize that there's just so much natural gas that it has to be flared off every day.
And uh I have some friends of mine who are uh who are in the oil industry, engineers and so on.
And uh they um they estimate uh you know ten million uh terms of natural gas are just flared off into the atmosphere uh every day.
Uh of no use to anyone.
You know, look, uh you're rightly pointing out plenty of gas, natural gas, it shouldn't be a problem.
Um, but yet there is this uh I call it a cult, the climate change alarmist cult.
It's a religion to them.
And I and for the life of me, and New Gingrich said it, and I said it all last week.
What difference does it make to quote the great Hillary Clinton?
What the what difference at this point does it make?
If you're going to drill for oil, the lifeblood of the world's economy, and you you get that barrel of oil from Russia, if you get it from Iran, if you get it from Saudi Arabia, the Middle East, OPEC nations, or you get it from Venezuela, or you get it from America.
Uh, if your argument is that this impacts Mother Earth, then what difference does it make what country it comes from?
And you get all the national security benefits that our last caller, Charlene, mentioned, and you get the economic benefits, and it would have a dramatic impact on lowering inflation, which would be like a tax cut for the rest of us.
And we'd be able to help our Western European allies out, and we could bankrupt people like Putin, we could bankrupt the Iranian mullahs we could bankrupt all these countries that hate us in the Middle East, and we could bankrupt Venezuela, which is already bankrupt.
Now we're going to make them rich again.
It really is it's mindless insanity to me.
Indeed.
Uh the only thing I would add to that is the definition of the cult uh and it being a actually a death cult.
Well, it it's certainly not an America first uh policies agenda.
It's certainly America last.
It's certainly, you know, honestly, if it means a 40-year inflation high for the American people, if it means that we're less safe and secure, meaning we the American people, if it means the world is less safe and secure, Joe Biden chooses his alliance with Green New Deal radical socialists over looking out for the interests of the country, our security, our economy, and the world's safety and security.
Because that's the choice he's making.
That's it.
He's decided politically he's gotta he's gotta stick with his base and not break with them.
Yeah, totally agree.
Like every other problem we're facing, it's preventable and solvable.
Just like the borders, just like COVID, you didn't have enough tests, didn't have any monoclonal antibodies, uh, just like Afghanistan, uh, just like the border, just like energy, uh economy, go to go straight on down the list.
Every single one of these problems was preventable.
Every one of them we can fix, but you need strength and leadership.
And maybe now the American people have a pretty strong case of buyer's remorse.
Maybe we're seeing that in the in the low 30 poll numbers of Joe Biden.
Uh maybe they're beginning to realize, you know, that Trump guy, yeah, he threw out a few mean tweets and fought with the media and was controversial.
But damn, uh, this wouldn't have happened under his watch.
And he brought us energy independence.
He brought us a good economy and warp speed.
You know what?
We had more people die of COVID in 2021 than 2020, and we knew nothing about COVID in 2020.
He was Joe was handed three vaccines and monoclonal antibodies.
So you tell me, I uh I think I'll take the mean tweets and a real leader over a guy that doesn't know it's Monday and has no clue and is is married to this radical agenda of his.
Anyway, appreciate the call.
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