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	All right, Hour 2, Sean Hannity Show, toll free on numbers 800-941-SEAN.
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	So I got a text message from Newt Gingrich the other day, and in it um was a a plan, an outline of basically how to save this great republic.
	And it's not the first time that Speaker Gingrich has been involved in this this sort of effort.
	Um I know many of you don't know the history, and many of you might forget the history, but when he became Speaker in 1994, when the Republicans ran on the contract for America, Republican Republicans had not had control of the House of Representatives for 40 consecutive years.
	I mean, that's four straight decades in the wilderness out of power, and Democrats ruled Washington, D.C. And it all started first with ideas and a program that Newt Gingrich used to help train and educate candidates called Renewing American Civilization.
	And then it culminated in what was called the contract with America.
	Anyway, he now is the author of the upcoming book, and you can get a first edition copy.
	It's coming out very soon.
	We have a link on Hannity.com.
	There's a link on Amazon.com.
	It's called Defeating Big Government Socialism and Saving America's Future, and it reminds us about his contract with America, why it's relevant today, how Republicans should probably duplicate this model this election season.
	I call this the tipping point of all tipping point elections, somewhat cliche, an inflection moment for the country for sure.
	But if you are determined to be an American in the majority and you're committed to listening to and learning from the American people, the contract with America, I mean, this this is the only way to go, and I'll tell you because distrust of Washington and elected politicians has never been higher.
	And they have earned their low approval ratings by not following up on the promises that they make.
	Anyway, Speaker Gingrich joins us now.
	How are you, sir?
	I'm doing well and I appreciate all those nice words.
	Um I think we have an opportunity to to really have an amazing election.
	Uh one of the people that that I most like to read because I think she just says so many practical, useful insights, is uh Selena Zita, uh, who's a reporter and and uh the no more examiner.
	Yeah, and she's from Pittsburgh.
	And she just did something which took us back to the election of 1894, which was one of the greatest Republican sweeps in history, and I I would say 1920 is the other one.
	I I think uh that these are tsunami elections, they're not just waves, uh, where you have just an enormous uh shift.
	And I think that's building.
	I just talked to a woman who had driven uh to a different to another state trying to find baby formula.
	Uh I talked this morning to somebody who was describing uh the shooting of six people on Mother's Day in Atlanta, three of them dead, three of them in critical condition may not survive.
	Um every time you turn around, there are things that are not working that relate back directly to the failure of liberal policies.
	And I think the opportunity occurs, and this is why I wrote the the piece which is now available and which will be a podcast this week, uh, and then it came out initially as four consecutive newsletters that are available at Gingrich 360.
	And the reason I talked about an American majority is this is one of those rare moments which Reagan had and we had in in 94 with a contract, standing on Reagan's shoulders, frankly.
	And that is to actually reach out and broaden your base, not just mobilize it, or or as Kevin McCarthy keeps saying, you know, to to expand your brand so that suddenly you you have a whole bunch of new people.
	In Reagan's case, uh we called them Reagan Democrats, and over the course of about eight to twelve years, about eighty or ninety percent of them became Republicans, but they had to go through a process of realizing they no longer belong to that other team.
	And what I'm watching now is such a stunning level of incompetence.
	And and I remind people it's it's both we have a lot of people who aren't very good in the Biden administration.
	They're just not competent.
	But in addition, what they believe doesn't work.
	Um Reagan used to say he he wasn't worried about what they didn't know.
	He was worried about what they knew that wasn't true.
	And I always tell people, you know, you can put eggs in a freezer and they will get hard, but that doesn't mean they're boiled eggs.
	And these are people who don't understand that.
	I mean the stuff they're doing is a disaster.
	But here's the here's the challenge for you and me and everybody who is dedicated to getting America to a better place.
	What you can't do is have the Republicans win this fall, not understand the potential American majority, try to govern from a narrow base and try to do it in a hostile negative way, turn off the country and throw everything back up in the air.
	Uh what we have to do is is is educate the Republican Party that it has a job.
	And you see this by the way with many of the governors who are doing a great job.
	And the fact is Stephen Moore keeps pointing out in in his daily paper on on prosperity um Republican governors are creating jobs, Republican governors are expanding freedom, Republican governors are lowering taxes.
	Boeing said one of the reasons they're coming to Virginia is that the new Republican governor Yuncan understood business, understood uh lowering taxes, understood uh spighting crime, and they're so sick of Chicago both the violence in the city and the t the high taxes and the bureaucracy that you know this is a huge blow to Chicago to lose a company the size of Boeing.
	And they just said the the quality of life for their people in Chicago is no longer sustainable.
	So we do see at this at the state level a huge difference between a pro-solution productive conservatism by Republicans and what the Democrats are doing is just gets worse and worse in places like New York, New Jersey, Illinois, California.
	By the way, did you see did you see about ten days ago 59% of people in New Jersey want to leave?
	59%.
	Yeah and you can't blame them and I think I think we'll probably own next time.
	You know and and my my point is if if we approach this as Americans and we reach out and we basically learn how to talk with each other, we're gonna have a hardcore 20% of the Democratic Party that will never be part of that because their vision is of a totally alien different world.
	But we'll get at least a third to half the Democrats.
	When you know Reagan carried his tax cuts because a third of the Democrats voted with him when we passed the contract with America our average vote was sixty three Democrats voting yes on each of the ten items.
	So you can and we and witness not because we compromised it's because we aroused the American people and they put so much pressure on them that they felt they couldn't go home and survive without voting with us.
	Let me let me go into let me go into a question into this because it's called forming an American majority.
	And let me tell you why I think you're you're on to perhaps the best work you've ever done in your life which is which speaks volumes because you you've had such a successful and inspiring life.
	But for me we now can see young people are abandoning Democrats and droves.
	We see African Americans abandoning Democrats and droves.
	We see Hispanic Americans abandoning Democrats and droves.
	And this all started under Trump until the waters got muddied with COVID.
	And as I was listening to this forming an American majority, I realized, and I wrote you a little bit of a note when I had started listening and now having finished listening, that this is really a culmination of a life's mission of yours, which is to renew American civilization, or as you call, form an American majority.
	And you're basically talking about reconfiguring the electorate in the country and that the Republican Party needs to do it, and it's got to be based on ideas that make the lives of American citizens better.
	Instead of, in other words, lecturing Americans about getting used to the high price of energy until they find alternative sources of energy other than gas and oil and coal and lecturing them to go buy electric cars, they're going to go with the party that's practical, that understands the lifeblood of the world's economy is oil and gas.
	That's right.
	And the party of law and oil.
	order and the party of uh choice and education and secure borders uh and and one of economic freedom and these ideas I think are extremely popular especially at this moment because the Democrats have screwed everything up so much.
	Yeah and and and think about how real they are I mean when you have the threat to personal safety I mean there's there's an article which we just tweeted out about a gang of children in Balda in Boston led by an eleven year old who are going around stealing and aggressively attacking people, pulling knives on people.
	It's almost every city now in a country in the country.
	That's right.
	I mean if you if you have a Democratic mayor or a democratic district attorney you have a problem and it's solvable there's also a very aggressive woman district attorney in Jacksonville who has made the city dramatically safer by going back to the basic things that worked for Giuliani and the basic things that worked for Chief Bratton and uh you know making sure the criminals understand they're gonna be treated as criminals.
	You look compare that to New York where people are released you you do a carjacking you get picked up you get released you do a carjacking that they have people who've been picked up 24 25 times and they're still back out on the street doing the same stuff.
	By the way they had a bank robber thanking the the Democratic leadership in New York he robbed one bank got caught was let out with no Bell law robbed another got caught again he robbed five straight banks they kept letting him out to rob another bank and then he was saying he was so grateful to the government for letting him out to keep trying not a very good bank robber.
	Well this may be the same guy who at one point turned to a policeman and said how do I get to stay in an institutionalist as they say in Shaw Shank Redemption right?
	just amazing.
	But I do think, and I really appreciated your note over the weekend, I mean, I think that if we can get Republicans to think like American majority, not just a Republican majority, if we can get them, you know, in the little paper I
	wrote, which is also available on audio, and which will be a podcast later on this week, you know, I cite Reagan, I cite Margaret Thatcher, I mean, these were examples, and of course, what we did with the contract, these were people who had a real strategy they knew what they were doing.
	Thatcher so destroyed socialism and this is why I wrote my book on defeating big government socialism.
	She so destroyed socialism in Great Britain that no openly left wing leader has won the prime ministership in forty years.
	Now that would be unthinkable before her quick break more with New Gingrich on the other side 800 nine four one Sean if you want to be a part of the program Hey there I'm Mary Catherine Hammond.
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	He's got his new book coming out in July Defeating Big Government Socialism, Saving America's Future It's on Hannity.com, Amazon.com soon to be in bookstores everywhere if you want a first edition copy you can get it now.
	How do you explain the rise of this new Democratic Party and, you know, the climate alarmist religious cult, New Green Deal-ism?
	How do you explain?
	Because Democrats always hid who they really were, and now they're being very open about it.
	And now we see the absolute abject failure of these policies.
	There's a great article in 1991 by Heilbronner, who was a Marxist economic historian, brilliant historian, but a Marxist.
	Heilbronner wrote in this article with the Soviet Union having collapsed we have no good explanation for why we need government control and we need a new cause and that cause should be the environment.
	And he just lays it all out and and I I have I have two really deep beliefs about what's going on the one is that it's about power that this is a fight between the academic class and the productive class and the academic class has been winning it and they want the power to spend your money.
	They don't want to go out and make it themselves they just want to take yours.
	And they love being in charge and I I carried all the way back to John Kenneth Gilbreak as a very young man being put in charge of wage and price controls and having the power to say to very successful business people I, the bureaucrat will tell you what to do.
	And he loved it.
	He thought it was great.
	He thought he was smart.
	They were dumb.
	He read books.
	They golfed.
	And that sort of fit his worldview.
	The second thing is, when God disappears, something has to fill the vacuum.
	Humans cannot exist on pure rationality.
	And what came to fill the vacuum was a combination of wokeness and a climate religion.
	And you've heard me say this before, but Theodore White first describes this way back in 1972 and is making the president in 1972 when he says George McGovern was...
	could not negotiate with the left because liberal ideology had become a liberal theology.
	That's such a good way of putting that's why I call it the climate alarmist religious cult only because of the constraints of time how do people get a hold of this and really get to understand it.
	Just go to Gangris360 or go to American Majority Project dot com.
	And it'll be in your book coming out in a couple of weeks uh Amazon.com.com uh defeating big government socialism saving America's future uh Mr Speaker it is this this is an opportunity of historic proportions for Republicans we can reconfigure the electorate for the next hundred years but they have to deliver and the idea it's got to be ideas based and principles based and uh I think it's probably the best work you've ever done.
	Great job, sir take a bow.
	Thanks.
	Take care.
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	gentlemen we'd like to take a second to hear the immortal bob grant's thoughts about the world today hey uh ladies and gentlemen it's sick and it's getting sicker now back to the sean hannity show hi 25 to the top of the hour 800-941 sean our number you want to be a part of the program with all the talk of insurrection and all the ignoring of the 574 riots in the summer of
	2020 dozens of americans dead even inside the chop chas summer of love spaghetti potluck dinner Dinner Zone.
	Remember Hor Horace Lorenzo Anderson Jr. killed there you know you have the police please we're just trying to offer uh uh some type of medical assistance let us in and meanwhile people dying inside the the summer of love zone no words at all no condemnation at all now you've got this these groups going after churches and supreme court justices and giving out their home addresses and doxing them it's unbelievable here are the pro-abortion
	protesters outside the Supreme Court justices' homes.
	Uh tonight we expect they'll be in front of Sam Alito's home.
	They're in front of Kavanaugh's home uh over the weekend, John Roberts' home over the weekend.
	keep abortion safe and legal Not a high road.
	Women's right!
	Women's right!
	Women's Ride!
	Come back!
	Women's won!
	Grass back!
	Women has won!
	Grass back!
	Who done's won?
	Grass back!
	I mean i i it it it what's really amazing to me about this, and Democrats are thinking this is gonna be the issue.
	It won't matter about a 40-year high of inflation, the supply chain crisis, a border disaster, 40-year high of inflation, record high gas prices.
	No, none of this is gonna matter, because it's all going to be about abortion.
	Pretty soon what people are gonna realize is that abortion is going to be legal probably in all fifty states.
	Some states will have restrictions, and they'll be very liberal states like New Jersey allows abortion up until the moment of birth recording out loud.
	There are a number of those states.
	So at some point people are going to realize, oh, you mean it's still legal?
	Oh, okay.
	Uh never mind.
	Uh anyway, 800-941 Sean.
	Michael is in Iowa.
	Michael, how are you?
	Glad you called, sir.
	Hey, Sean, how are you today?
	I'm good, sir.
	How are you today?
	What's going on?
	Well, I wanted to call about this uh Supreme Court issue and the Roe v.
	Wade.
	You know, if the Democrats really cared about abortion when Ruth Vader Ginsburg told them that the Roe decision was on shaky legal ground, why didn't the Democrats, or demon rats as I like to call them, codify it when they had Obama in the White House and a uh filibuster proof and veto proof majority.
	I'm it's a good question.
	All they care about is fundraising off abortion and beating Republicans over the head with the issue with their rabid base.
	The the their unwillingness to condemn, just like in the summer of 2020, Kamala Harris's tweet to support the bail fund for people uh involved in the rioting, the the mysterious reluctance and resistance uh to condemn the riots in the summer of 2020 because Democrats didn't want to take on their radical base.
	It's the same thing with this issue here.
	Uh so it's uh it's okay to dox Supreme Court just justices in their homes and and let these protesters send out addresses of these justices.
	You know how dangerous that situation is?
	We now I'm uh it's we condemn the riots in 2020, the summer of 2020.
	We condemn what happened on January 6th.
	That can't happen.
	We've got to protect our institutions, and we've got to protect our elected officials, and we gotta uh protect all justices.
	This transcends all politics, and it it just shows the selective moral outrage of the left.
	We've been consistent on these things, and I would never in my life give out the home address of anybody that was on the Supreme Court or frankly it uh any elected official or any member of government.
	I'll frankly I don't think I'd give out anybody's home address.
	I think it's unethical and extraordinarily dangerous, and I'd stay away from doing so.
	But you know, Jen Saki asked about it, and her answer was, well, people have the right to protest.
	Oh, okay.
	So we'll send well what if somebody sent people over to her house?
	I would never do that, nor should anybody do that.
	Or anybody else.
	But it it is what it is.
	Hypocrisy reigns all things in the media mob and and of course the Democratic Party.
	Anyway, you make a good point, my friend.
	God bless you.
	Uh 800-941 Sean.
	Uh Steve is in California.
	Steve, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Hey, Sean, how are you doing?
	I'm good, sir.
	What's happening?
	Yeah, it's good to hear from you.
	Uh uh anyway, my my point is just the blatant hypocrisy of these democratic zealots who you know want uh abortion on demand, no matter how far along the woman is, but almost to a a person, if you ask them if do they support the pen the death penalty they don't at all.
	They're just a bunch of bloodthirsty ghouls and uh where's the you know the moral outrage here.
	I mean uh w w w how do you how do we get this far as a as a country where you can walk into an abortion clinic nine months pregnant and have your your pregnancy terminated it doesn't make any sense.
	A anybody I know in my life that says to me that they're pro-choice, I ask well what what are the restrictions you would put on it almost you it's almost unanimous.
	Nobody likes it.
	It's sort of like the Bill Clinton line the legal but rare but also early.
	In other words first trimester where issues involving the viability are at least in the minds of the people that are not pro-life it's it's certainly a scientific issue.
	We haven't gotten to the point where I think twelve weeks that you can that that we can make the definitive case that the child is viable or and again those are Joe Biden's word he called it a child.
	But you know for me I'm um and I have some conservatives that disagree with my ex exceptions here.
	I'm pro-life but I make exceptions for rape and incest and the life of the mother.
	Um some people disagree with that I understand the the the logic behind their thinking it's it's just where I stand and I've explained it many times in the past.
	Yeah well at some point you got to draw a line somebody that's eight months pregnant uh you you sh you should not have an uh a right to an abortion at that point in my opinion.
	At that point it's it's a viable child.
	It can live outside the womb on its own very easily and and it at what point do we put a value on that individual human life?
	Again that's for sure as conservatives we believe in natural law that rights come from God, not from government, right?
	That we're all endowed by our Creator, you know, with life liberty pursuit of happiness and if you believe that the any law structured on that foundation would protect the most innocent among us in my view.
	Uh anyway Steve appreciate the call buddy 800 nine four one Sean Dino in New Joycey what's up Dino how are you?
	I'm good, sir.
	Glad you call happy Monday.
	Is there such a thing as a happy Monday?
	I don't know happy Monday.
	Um nowadays with the wrong direction the country's going, I don't know if there's happy days I'll tell you this these are rough times for a lot of people and it's gonna get rougher.
	I'm very concerned about the direction we're headed how deep this this recession's gonna get how how I I'm I'm just worried on every level people are dying right now.
	I mean the poor the middle class people fixed incomes they're getting clobbered and I hate to see it.
	And and they clobbered by the policies of these climate alarmist uh religious cult members and and the damage they're doing is I it's almost irreparable harm at this point.
	Totally agree with that.
	Listen my basic question to you today is uh I know you have a lot of lawyers and constitutional scholars on your show on a regular basis.
	I was just curious because once people get elected into office whether it's um you know presidency or lawyer uh senators, congressmen, whatever they might be they basically take an oath which is legally to my understanding is like almost like a contractual agreement to uphold the law, uphold the Constitution and to look out for the benefit of their constituents whether they voted for them or they didn't vote for it.
	So they take an oath to to a hundred you're a hundred percent correct so what what I'm saying is for example you take the Biden administration at this point in they're not upholding laws of you know like the borders right now.
	So technically that's a breach of their oaths correct correct okay so that basically isn't mean a breach of contract towards the constituents no it's even worse than that.
	Not only they not enforcing the law which is which is under falls under the oath that they've they've sworn to right that they sworn to uphold the laws of the land the Constitution But it goes a step further, they're actually aiding and embedding the law breaking and facilitating the law breaking.
	I I can tell you this, the way I like to dis to describe this is if you, Dino, go down to the border and you help somebody and assist them in crossing into this country illegally, and let's say you put them in your car and you start transporting to them transporting them to the state of their choice, uh, you will be v in violation of the law, aiding and abetting law breaking, and you'd be arrested and probably convicted on human trafficking.
	So my basic question follow-up to that is since it's a contractual agreement, the people of the United States, whether it's a class law action lawsuit or a civil lawsuit, sue the government for not doing their old you know, agreement that they basically said they were gonna do for the people.
	Well, there's remedy.
	The remedy of an election, remedy of impeachment, and right now impeachment's not an option.
	I don't think it's the best option anyway.
	I think the best option is to win at the ballot box, and that happens in November.
	And that's why I I keep arguing we're at an inflection point, tipping point, whatever you want, whatever, whatever cliche you want to use as it relates to an important moment in American history, and things really hang in the balance, I think it's right now.
	What I'm trying to say is, is there a legal ramification that could be done by the people towards the end?
	Yeah, there are listen, there are there are lawsuits left and right that are filed, but these things take years usually.
	And you and that's why pe governors like Abbott and DeSantis and in Arizona, while people are so frustrated, Governor Ducey, you know.
	Anyway, appreciate the call.
	800-941, they're frustrated.
	They're trying to get into courts to uphold the law.
	Which again, they should easily do.
	Shouldn't be this difficult.
	All right, quick break.
	Right back to our phones.
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	Let's say hi to Becky's in Florida.
	Becky, hi, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Hey, Sean, I'm a longtime listener, first-time caller.
	I'm gonna kind of switch gears a little bit.
	I wanna I really just want to give a woman's perspective on this abortion issue.
	I really feel like men's voices are not heard enough when it comes to this issue.
	You know, it's my body, my choice, and the women have to say that, but if there were no men, there would be no babies.
	And so I really feel like a child is equally a man's and equally a woman's, and he should have a say whether or not his child lives or dies.
	And I don't understand if the situation with the woman is she wants to abort her baby, but the father of the child wants the baby, then why not give birth to the baby and give it to the give it to the father?
	Because the arg I'm playing devil's advocate here.
	They all will make the argument, well, you're not carrying that baby in your body till term, but you're uh obviously you've taken simple biology and you're correct.
	You need a male and a female to create a child.
	Yes, that's that's basic and fundamental.
	And you it and need and you can't say that one is more important than the other.
	He there is no baby without the male and the female, period.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	And as as that being a part of the male, d should the male and it's interesting that this has never really been pressed in the courts, and there are father fathers' rights groups out there fighting for these things.
	They've never really made it too far that I r can recall.
	And um but it's it's certainly a part of it.
	You look, it's it's a it's the worst possible option.
	Let me put it that way.
	Um look, i if if you're gonna engage in sexual behavior, let's let's take all judgment out of this for a second.
	You're gonna make choices as an adult, and even maybe as a young person that probably's not ready physically, emotionally, spiritually for for that type of relationship.
	But you're gonna make that decision.
	If you make the decision, There's enough knowledge, enough information out there that we know how to prevent pregnancy.
	And if you're going to do engage in adult activities like this, and you don't want the consequences of a child or pregnancy to ensue, then take the steps necessary to prevent it.
	Now, I'm not I'm not speaking from a religious perspective or moral perspective.
	I am saying from a practical standpoint, the least acceptable option has to be when there's a pregnancy and and now you have something that is alive and growing inside of a woman.
	And there are better options to prevent that from happening.
	But that's a whole different discussion for a whole different day.
	Uh but you it's it's a provocative point you bring up that I'm sure drives liberals crazy.
	Anyway, 800-941-SHAWN if you want to be a part of the program.
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