Tragedy Unfolds - May 25th, Hour 1
Sean addresses the latest mass shooting in the United States and just how important Mental Health care is to Americans.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sean addresses the latest mass shooting in the United States and just how important Mental Health care is to Americans.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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| Sean, if you want to be a part of the program. | |
| So we have this shooting. | |
| I just want to stop before we get into any discussion of all the politics that people race to in moments like this. | |
| It's repulsive. | |
| It's disgusting, but yet so predictable. | |
| Starting with the president himself last night and politicizing without even having the facts. | |
| I don't even think every name was known at the time. | |
| I mean, the president had already spoken, and we didn't know when I went on the air at 9 Eastern last night that it was 19 people, not 18 people, shot and killed and two teachers shot and killed. | |
| We didn't know that. | |
| But yet before we even have a body count, you have the rush, the race to politicize any incident whatsoever at all. | |
| And it's amazing how selective people are and what outrages them. | |
| Look, when you're talking about children, you're talking about the most innocent in society. | |
| And I'm going to sum it up very, very quickly what the answer is before we get into any discussion of it. | |
| And the answer is that the same protections, the same security that our elected officials get, and they deserve it, and I want them to have it. | |
| And I don't care whether they have a D or an R in front of their name. | |
| I don't care. | |
| We've got to protect them. | |
| And the same protections that Hollywood stars have, because they can afford security, and the same protections our best athletes have available to them, we ought to be providing it for our children. | |
| You're going to spend $40 billion and send it to Ukraine, take a few billion of that and send it to our school districts and make sure that every school in America has the safety measures in place to prevent any other tragedy from ever happening again. | |
| I know other people want to bring up the politics of this and they want to go straight to a gun debate again that we've had ad nauseum. | |
| But why don't we in the meantime, while we're debating those issues, protect these kids? | |
| And I want to say something else. | |
| And later on in the program today, I don't know, I'm sure most of you do remember the case of Meadow Polak. | |
| Her father, Andy, has become a friend of this program and he's so active and so involved in the issue of protecting our kids. | |
| In other words, one-way entry, metal detectors in schools. | |
| Let's start with that. | |
| And if you're visiting, you have to go through a metal detector. | |
| I go through metal detectors all the time. | |
| I don't care if I go through a metal detector, be it at the airport or an arena or wherever I happen to be going. | |
| I don't care. | |
| Take the time, makes me know I'm safe. | |
| You go into the White House, you go through that. | |
| You go to the Capitol, you go through a metal detector. | |
| It's something we've all gotten used to, and it's smart, and it makes everybody safe and secure. | |
| To the parents, to the families, I cannot imagine. | |
| I try to put myself in your position. | |
| I have two children. | |
| I love my children. | |
| Everybody can understand this that has children, I think, to a certain extent. | |
| But we really can imagine the pain that all of you are going through and the shock that you're now and the horror that you're living through as you now prepare for a funeral for your loved child. | |
| We'll talk about second, third, fourth graders here. | |
| And I don't want to start any discussion on this without sending out all of our love, all of our prayers. | |
| May God grant you the peace that seems so impossible for any parent to ever have in a moment like this. | |
| Because I don't think there's anything harder than losing a child. | |
| I know people that have lost children. | |
| I've not met one that has ever gone back to being the same person. | |
| It's that much of a trauma, tragedy, whatever you want to call it. | |
| Met so many gold star families. | |
| The parents are never the same. | |
| They're never the same. | |
| That's why, you know what? | |
| I'm sick and tired of starting wars. | |
| You're all gung-ho. | |
| Then, of course, you don't fight the war to win the war because you're timid and tepid in how you fight the war. | |
| And then all of a sudden you politicize the war. | |
| And then everybody says, after how many thousands of our national treasure our kids die, never mind. | |
| I mean, it's insanity to me. | |
| That's why we count down. | |
| We're not going to forget the Americans abandoned in Afghanistan. | |
| Before we get to Biden, which we will, I mean, we're getting details about the school shooter, you know, horrible family life, drug-abusing mother, according to one reports on the Blaze and elsewhere. | |
| Apparently, a kid that was bullied repeatedly, a kid that apparently was into a lot of mischief and shooting random people with BB guns, egging people's cars. | |
| That doesn't sound like, that doesn't make one a killer, but maybe there were signs certainly on social media that were ignored. | |
| I think we got to do a better job monitoring such. | |
| Apparently bullied on a pretty high level and had a very aggressive streak, et cetera, et cetera. | |
| Why people don't have a heart, a conscience, and a soul. | |
| If you have a heart, you can't kill an innocent child. | |
| If you have a soul or conscience, you just can't do it. | |
| It's something that is impossible. | |
| And something is so wrong in these people. | |
| I can't explain it except that I know that there's good and I know that there's evil in this world. | |
| And then beyond Biden and his instant politicizing of this, then there's Beto Bozo O'Rourke. | |
| You have the governor of Texas, you have the Attorney General of Texas. | |
| They're holding a very difficult press conference, giving out details to the public. | |
| This happened like an hour ago, about what had happened. | |
| And they're on stage during a press conference. | |
| And in runs Beto Bozo, interrupts the press conference, confronting the governor about gun laws in the state and acting like a complete, total, raving lunatic. | |
| And anyway, he breaks into the press conference, sneaks in there this afternoon, raving and ranting like an unhinged lunatic at Governor Abbott as he was trying to speak. | |
| The time to stop the next shooting is now, and you're doing nothing, he yelled. | |
| And when O'Rourke began the outbreak, outburst, Senator Ted Cruz told him to sit down while another person involved with the presser, you know, called him a sick SOB, son of a bitch. | |
| In other words, Joe's favorite words for people that work for Fox. | |
| And the Lieutenant Governor, Dan Patrick, said, you're out of line. | |
| This is an embarrassment. | |
| Really, Beto Bozo? | |
| You got to politicize this? | |
| These parents now probably absorb, not even in the process of being capable of planning a funeral, never mind what they're going to have to go through. | |
| Anyway, we have it on tape. | |
| Listen. | |
| Excuse me. | |
| He's not going to stand face. | |
| Sit down. | |
| You're out of line and an embarrassment. | |
| Sit down. | |
| Get out of there. | |
| Shooting is right now. | |
| And you're doing nothing. | |
| No, Robin. | |
| He should get his ass out of here. | |
| This isn't the place to talk to the show. | |
| This is totally predictable. | |
| Sir, you're out of line. | |
| Sir, you're out of line. | |
| I'm sir. | |
| You're out of line. | |
| Please leave this auditorial. | |
| So you mix it. | |
| I can't believe you're a sick son of a bitch that would come to a deal like this to make a political issue. | |
| I mean, it's beyond any comprehension. | |
| By the way, the same guy, remember when he's running for president, hell yeah, I'm coming for your AK-47s. | |
| Now he's running again this year. | |
| I guess, what is he running for? | |
| Governor? | |
| He's running this year. | |
| He's not going to win in Texas, especially after this stunt that he pulled today, which was despicable. | |
| But you got a guy that had an election year conversion. | |
| All of a sudden now, he wants to control the borders, something he had never mentioned before. | |
| And then he had another election year conversion because he had bragged loudly, hell yeah, I'm coming for your guns. | |
| And now all of a sudden, he's pro-Second Amendment. | |
| Listen. | |
| Americans who own AR-15s, AK-47s, will have to sell them to the government. | |
| I fully expect our fellow Americans to turn in their AR-15s and their AK-47s. | |
| Are you, in fact, in favor of gun confiscation? | |
| Yes. | |
| Hell yes. | |
| We're going to take your AR-15, your AK-47. | |
| I'm not interested in taking anything from anyone. | |
| What I want to make sure that we do is defend the Second Amendment. | |
| Oh, the last part was because he's running for governor of Texas. | |
| So he's a total, complete fraud on every level. | |
| We've got to give a shout out. | |
| The Border Patrol agent, apparently they have an elite force. | |
| They happen to be the closest as this situation was unfolding yesterday, is responsible for taking down this gunman, an anonymous law enforcement official telling the AP that the agent rushed into Rob Elementary School without waiting for backup, and the Border Patrol agent found him, shot him, killed the gunman, hiding behind a barricade. | |
| And the as-yet unidentified agent was also wounded, but able to walk out of the school. | |
| And Border Patrol forces, I'm sorry, force sources telling Fox News and our reporter Bill Melusian that the agent believed to have shot and killed the governor was part of an elite tactical unit that entered the school with a team while the Texas law enforcement officials, when they got there, also engaged the shooter. | |
| They kind of surrounded him and went in on both sides. | |
| These are not people that normally work together, but he went in with his technical group of other agents, and they did it on a moment's notice. | |
| And you got to give props to them. | |
| God only knows how many lives were saved as a result of this. | |
| You know, it's when you get into all of this, there is all of the predictable statements that are made. | |
| When in God's name will we stand up to the gun lobby? | |
| When Joe Biden made those remarks, we didn't even have a final death count. | |
| Think about that. | |
| You know, he learned about it, I guess, on Air Force One, returning from his trip from Asia. | |
| You know, where in God's name is our backbone? | |
| Biden tears into the gun lobby and gun makers and vows to stand up to the gun lobby, mourning the children as if they're in a battlefield. | |
| How many scores of little children who we witnessed what happened to see their friends die as if they were in a battlefield? | |
| And he goes, I'm sick and tired of this. | |
| We have to act. | |
| And don't tell me we can't have an impact on this carnage. | |
| Joe Biden, he's really, really animated. | |
| I asked the nation to pray for them and give the parents and siblings the strength in the darkness, he goes on. | |
| We have to have the courage to stand up to gun manufacturers. | |
| And it goes on and on. | |
| Now, since 2009, on my television program, I have been scrolling names of people that you never heard of. | |
| And I've scrolled them on purpose. | |
| This was Barack Obama's president. | |
| He's vice president. | |
| And I've done this now ever since 2009 on television. | |
| Scrolling the names of people, names you've never heard of, people shot, shot, and killed. | |
| And you never hear their names. | |
| And not once, I think maybe two times in their presidency and vice presidency did Biden and Obama mention the every weekend violence in Chicago. | |
| Why didn't they mention that? | |
| Big blue state, big blue city, regular violence. | |
| They never lifted a finger. | |
| They never said a word. | |
| Remember when Lawrence Jones, LJ, goes and we covered the case of a little girl on the 4th of July weekend shot and killed in the front yard of her grandma's home. | |
| I remember that vividly. | |
| And Joe, where was Joe? | |
| You see what the problem here is? | |
| There is an answer. | |
| They don't want the answer. | |
| If they really cared, why didn't they lift a finger for all the years they were in office to help Chicago? | |
| Which makes my point. | |
| If they can't score cheap political points, you're not going to hear a word out of these people. | |
| That shows what this is all political. | |
| Everything's political. | |
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| Just to emphasize what I mean. | |
| So from 2009 throughout the Obama-Biden presidency, vice presidency, they didn't lift a finger to help Chicago. | |
| What, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, depending on the week, people shot. | |
| They barely mentioned it. | |
| Why is that? | |
| You know, if you look on the website, there's one for James Brady. | |
| He was in the shooting. | |
| He was paralyzed in the shooting and the assassination attempt of Ronald Reagan. | |
| They are one of America's most prominent, quote, gun control groups. | |
| They don't agree with me. | |
| I'm a Second Amendment believer. | |
| But anyway, they pointed out that 992 children overall were murdered by guns last year. | |
| 992. | |
| Okay, so the question is, when you go back the previous five years, starting in, say, 2018, we found 39 kids killed in school shooting, 79 injured. | |
| One of the worst years this year will likely break that record. | |
| You look at 2019, you had eight kids killed, 32 injured. | |
| You look at 2020, you had three kids killed, nine injured. | |
| And you have in 2021, 15 children dead and 53 injured. | |
| Now, we believe every life matters on this program. | |
| We can protect these kids in school. | |
| We just need to put the security measures and armed guards, maybe retired police, retired military, trained, armed in the schools, one way in, one way out, metal detectives will solve it. | |
| But the only point is, why is the silence from these people on the left so deafening when you have 995 kids killed in the course of 992 kids killed last year and in the last five years in school shootings 107 why do we why do they select only those that they use for | |
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| All right, 25 now till the top of the hour. | |
| I forgot to mention this. | |
| Let's go back and play. | |
| Uh, Beto Bozo, you know, rushing into this press conference with with governor Abbott, the lieutenant governor, senator Ted Cruz was there and and making a total fool out of himself. | |
| Uh listen, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, sit down, you're out of. | |
| You're out of line and an embarrassment. | |
| sir you're out of line sir you're out of line i'm sure you're out of line please leave this auditorium i can't believe you're a sick son of a bitch that would come to a deal like this to make a political issue | |
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| There are family members who are crying as we speak. | |
| There are family members whose hearts are broken. | |
| They were in the room. | |
| There's no words that anybody shouting can come up here and do anything to heal those broken hearts. | |
| We all, you know, every Texan, every American has a responsibility. | |
| We need to focus not on ourselves, not on a political agenda. | |
| We need to focus on healing and hope that we can provide to those that have suffered unconscionable damage to their lives and the loss of life. | |
| We all need, we need all Texans to, in this moment, put aside personal agendas and think about other people, somebody other than ourselves, think about people who are hurt and help those people that have been hurt. | |
| And then at that point, they handed it to the lieutenant governor. | |
| I mean, this is just what? | |
| This is the state of politics today. | |
| But when you look at the numbers, why didn't Obama lift a finger to help his own hometown of Chicago and the weekly violence there? | |
| Why didn't Joe Biden have anything to say about it? | |
| Why don't they talk about the violence in other big cities that occur? | |
| You know, because what? | |
| It's an election year and Joe, oh, a new poll came out today. | |
| He had an approval rating earlier in the week, 32%, Quinn at PIAC. | |
| Latest Reuters poll has him at 36%. | |
| You got a president with horrific approval ratings. | |
| And so what? | |
| They're going to run on the borders? | |
| No. | |
| The economy, 40-year inflation high? | |
| No. | |
| The coming recession, stagflation, the declining housing market and everything. | |
| No, they're not going to run on that either. | |
| The high price of energy, you know, two weeks in a row, one record high after another for the price of a gallon of gasoline. | |
| And then unrelated case, remember Sunday there was this unprovoked subway murder. | |
| Turns out the guy had 19 prior arrests. | |
| 19. | |
| Why wasn't he in jail? | |
| No bail, defund, dismantle. | |
| How's all of that working out? | |
| It's not working out well. | |
| You know, when Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, identified the shooter, this guy Ramos and how he entered the school grounds. | |
| We can protect every single child in every single school. | |
| I'll say it again. | |
| I've said it before. | |
| It's time now that we offer our children the same exact security that those elected politicians in Washington have. | |
| And by the way, I do not begrudge them of it, and we pay for it. | |
| I don't begrudge Hollywood stars protection. | |
| I don't begrudge athletes' protection. | |
| But let's not begrudge our own children of the protection. | |
| That is easily something very easily that could be done if they care so much about the children as they claim to. | |
| You know, I know that, and you know, there's this fallacy. | |
| I know that it's just a cheap talking point that they race to, you know, and the president did it before we even had the final body count yesterday. | |
| It's pretty unbelievable to me. | |
| You know, he's just racing out there to politicize this. | |
| Well, if he went after Chicago, imagine for a second, if Biden and Obama, since we've been scrolling the names of unknown people, most people have never heard these names, and scrolling their names, people shot, shot and killed, people shot, shot and killed. | |
| We scroll the names of police officers whose names the public never hears about that are killed in the line of duty every year. | |
| You know, the same people that sat silently during 574 riots in the summer of 2020, where dozens of Americans died, thousands of cops were injured, and billions in property damaged. | |
| And they just lied to us and called it mostly peaceful and got lectured by the likes of Kamala Harris. | |
| They're not going to stop. | |
| They shouldn't stop. | |
| We're not going to stop. | |
| And this is going to continue. | |
| And then promoting bail funds for people involved in the rioting. | |
| This is madness. | |
| And then, of course, applauding defunding of the police efforts like Kamala Harris did when the LAPD cut back funding or in New York a billion dollars in defunding. | |
| You know, we have 19 dead children here, two dead teachers here. | |
| Why don't we protect them? | |
| Why don't we at least try it? | |
| Let's try it. | |
| Why don't we protect them? | |
| You know, I know churches now, they're targets. | |
| I know plenty of pastors. | |
| You have no idea the amount of security they have in place because they know that they're targets. | |
| There are places I don't go because I'm a target. | |
| You know, I know it's hard to believe. | |
| You know, the very sight of me triggers, you know, these idiots on the left sometimes. | |
| It's crazy some of the stories I could tell you. | |
| I don't usually bring them up because I don't think you want to hear about them, number one. | |
| And number two, you know, I'm a public figure. | |
| I guess that makes me, you know, a target for some people that they can say and do whatever, say whatever they want to me. | |
| They can't do anything they want to me. | |
| I will defend myself. | |
| You know, and I ask those people that always race to the intellectually lazy argument about guns, guns, guns. | |
| I ask you this. | |
| And sincerely, I'm asking you this. | |
| What's going to happen, God forbid, one day you're at home, it's in the middle of the night, maybe midnight at your house, and some people break into your house to bring you and your family harm. | |
| And you don't believe in the Second Amendment. | |
| You don't have a firearm in your house. | |
| I ask you, what are you going to do? | |
| And if you don't have a good answer to that question, or if your answer is, I'm going to call the police. | |
| Let's say your police department has a phenomenal response time. | |
| Let's say that there's a cop three blocks away and he's going to be there shortly. | |
| I can promise you the likelihood that it's all done and over with is way higher than the cops being able to get there and stop and protect you. | |
| So you've got to be able to protect yourself. | |
| And nobody wants to talk about that. | |
| You know, there's all politics surrounding all of this. | |
| They can't run on any one success. | |
| We've gone over this in great detail. | |
| You know, look at the Gallup pollout today, a staggering 83% of you, the American people, think the U.S. has gone off the rails big time amid record high inflation, now shortages of baby formula, record high, sky-high gas prices, one record after another. | |
| You know, now mass shootings, the disaster in the Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan, now war in Europe, and Joe, well, we're going to give them some weapons. | |
| Most of it a little late. | |
| They should have Europe. | |
| Frankly, Europe should have led the way. | |
| This is their backyard. | |
| And they should have armed Zelensky with the weaponry to take down Russia and Russians' forces quickly. | |
| They did phenomenally well with the limited weaponry that they had. | |
| And yet, you know, I don't have no idea why Kissinger is saying that they got to give some of their territory to Russia. | |
| I'm like, no, they don't. | |
| I wouldn't give them an inch. | |
| Would you give an inch of the United States if somebody said they're going to declare war on you? | |
| I wouldn't. | |
| Anyway, 83% of Americans think this country is off the rails. | |
| Only 16% survey said they're satisfied with the way things are going in the country at this time. | |
| How could you be happy with anything? | |
| And that's why now Joe Biden is hitting one record low approval rating after another. | |
| You know, it's oh, in New Jersey, by the way, where 59% of residents want to leave the state, they're going to use COVID relief funds to pay for the author, to pay the author of the 1619 project. | |
| Why don't we spend that money on security guards, armed guards, retired police and military, and put them in our schools? | |
| Why don't we do that first? | |
| I think that might be a little more important than teaching issues of cultural issues when especially kids can't read, write, do math, science, and simple computer work. | |
| I mean, on the economy front today, you look at every single indicator and it's not good. | |
| You have Fox Business pointing out sales of new family homes has dropped significantly more than expected last month to the lowest level in two years as rising construction costs, home prices, rising interest rates, and supply chain woes continue to batter the industry. | |
| Anyway, the census data points out new home sales fell by 16.6%. | |
| You add that to the rising interest rates. | |
| By the way, I know people, you have no idea. | |
| Everybody tried to lock in at the low rates. | |
| And many people did. | |
| And many people did. | |
| And good for you if you did. | |
| The Democrats now, they want to blame, they want to blame the gas companies, just like they lash out at the meat industry, just like they lash out at Fox News, just like they lash out at talk radio, just like they lash out and blame Vladimir Putin, just like they lash out and blame Donald Trump. | |
| They're so intellectually lazy and take no responsibility for their horrific policies. | |
| Joe Biden's adherence to the climate alarmist religious cult and new Green Deal socialism caused most of these economic and energy problems that we're now experiencing. | |
| But forget that part. | |
| House Democrats, they want to put a cap on gas prices. | |
| Well, guess what? | |
| Once you get to the cap part where the gas companies don't make any money, they're not going to produce any. | |
| They're not going to be able to afford it. | |
| It's ridiculous. | |
| Anyway, so that's what they're talking about. | |
| But the price gouging bill will become law. | |
| Like in New York, most people have no idea. | |
| They have rent control laws. | |
| And there are people living in apartments where the open market, the free market, would rent that apartment for $5,000, people live in it for $800,000. | |
| And that's been going on for years. | |
| Why should that owner of that apartment subsidize some stranger living for next to no money? | |
| It's insanity, and it's codified by law. | |
| Americans are blaming, rightly so, Biden for the high cost of gasoline. | |
| Get this. | |
| Now we have more Americans going back to work. | |
| They're returning to the office. | |
| They're calling it lunchflation because as workers start going back into the office, now they got to pay for lunch. | |
| And the lunch that used to cost them $10 is now costing them $16. | |
| I mean, even McDonald's has had to raise their prices. | |
| The place, these stores in New York, they sell $1 slice of pizza. | |
| Actually, good pizza. | |
| I can't eat it, but it's good pizza. | |
| And for a buck, you can't buy those places anymore. | |
| The dollar store has become like the $1.50 store, the $2 store. | |
| And it's not that they want to raise their prices. | |
| They have no choice or else they have to close their doors. | |
| Sales of new homes are now plunging in April. | |
| Rising rates are battering mortgage lending companies. | |
| Baby formula makers and the FDA are trying to discuss the shortage with lawmakers. | |
| A lot of government intervention caused all of this. | |
| It's, you know, Americans don't know what to do. | |
| one in five Americans want to change jobs next year. | |
| You know, and what's Joe doing? | |
| By the way, there was one interesting exchange. | |
| It was Dana Perino. | |
| I forget who she was interviewing at the time. | |
| Because it's so difficult, everything that's going on. | |
| What do you do if you have kids and you have a baby short formula short? | |
| What are you supposed to do at that moment? | |
| Anyway, the supply chain issues are worsening. | |
| You know, look at this great country of ours. | |
| We can keep our, we're the United States of America. | |
| How did we run out of COVID tests last Christmas? | |
| How is that possible? | |
| How is there a shortage of availability for monoclonal antibodies in the middle of a pandemic? | |
| Especially, you know, or Plaxovid, which is the antiviral medicine, which we're going to talk about with two doctors. | |
| There is a massive wave of the virus going on right now, and it's all over the country. | |
| And I know because my phone is ringing off the hook. | |
| And Linda, what am I telling everybody? | |
| Call your doctor and ask about antivirals and monoclonal antibodies. | |
| That's right. | |
| And the one of choice now for this particular variant is the Eli Lilly version. | |
| Well, it really should just be whatever your doctor thinks is best for your whatever your doctor thinks is best. | |
| It seems to be more contagious, less lethal. | |
| This is Omicron 2.0 or BA2, as they call it. | |
| But, you know, we're living in very difficult, troubled times. | |
| The worst part of all of this, all of it was preventable. | |
| All of this was preventable. | |
| All of it is fixable, except they're too stubborn to ever want to fix it. | |
| The answer would be to go back to the Trump policies that worked, that brought us record job growth. | |
| Operation Warp Speed in the middle of a pandemic nobody saw coming. | |
| And he got the, we never ran out of ventilators. | |
| You know, we got all the, we got three vaccines at the end of the day. | |
| We have monoclonal antibodies at the end of the day. | |
| A lot of good was done. | |
| Why doesn't Joe warp speed the production of baby formula? | |
| It's a lot easier, less complicated than warp speeding the production of a ventilator. | |
| I can tell you that. | |
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