Mark Simone fills in for the vacationing Sean...but he's not really vacationing! Sean will be live from London later this week. Mark has the latest details on this interesting trip!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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| Is that because I'm here? | |
| You say that to all the guest hosts. | |
| It's Mark Simone here for Sean. | |
| Certainly glad you guys don't waste a lot of money on air conditioning here. | |
| But uh no, it's it's I can feel it now. | |
| It's starting to come now. | |
| The uh the company will be glad to know you're not wasting money on frivolous things like air conditioning. | |
| Uh we got a great program for you, David. | |
| We got a lot of big guests coming up. | |
| We got lots to talk about, big stuff developing, breaking as we speak. | |
| Uh Sean will be here tomorrow. | |
| Can I say where he is? | |
| Yeah, I think you should say. | |
| Oh my god. | |
| A ghost from Hannity Past. | |
| Oh no. | |
| Is that Linda? | |
| Indeed it is. | |
| Just from the other side of the pond, you know? | |
| Now it doesn't sound like we're in the room together. | |
| Linda, me, she is thousands of miles away. | |
| Where are you? | |
| Unfortunately, I'm in London and not there in beautiful New York with all of you. | |
| I'm missing terribly. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I wish I could be there. | |
| Uh well, you're in London. | |
| Sweating in 97 degrees. | |
| It's raining and cold here if it makes you feel any better. | |
| That's summer over there. | |
| No, it's 93 sunny. | |
| I got allergies. | |
| That's why I sound a little raspy. | |
| And uh, that makes two of us. | |
| Uh, you are there with Sean, and you're gonna do a big program from there tomorrow, right? | |
| Uh, the next the rest of this week, we are gonna be here live in London for uh a bunch of stuff going on here for those of you not aware. | |
| It's the Queen's Jubilee. | |
| So we're gonna be here doing all of our shows um right in the uh center of London. | |
| So it should be a very interesting week. | |
| Yeah, you know. | |
| This technology sound like you're right here in the room. | |
| Uh, and everybody's working hard, even when you're not here. | |
| Big hat tip to Blair. | |
| Blair has been busting his hump over here, and Ethan's and Katie are over there working hard, so everybody's working hard. | |
| And of course we have your. | |
| They're not here now. | |
| They went to lunch, but they'll be back. | |
| Both of us later in the other. | |
| You know, they got it ready and they got it all warmed up, and now they can take a break. | |
| You know, that's how it works. | |
| Yeah, so uh and Sean will do uh the TV show from there as well, obviously. | |
| Everything. | |
| Not gonna fly back each night for the show. | |
| That would be so weird, yeah. | |
| No, we're not gonna do that. | |
| And what have you done in your first day in London? | |
| Uh, let's see. | |
| Uh I haven't left the hotel. | |
| All we've done is work since we got here. | |
| Oh. | |
| And uh just setting up and testing and just non-stop working on the show. | |
| That's it. | |
| All right. | |
| So nothing fun to report yet. | |
| All right. | |
| Well, go do something fun and then report back to it. | |
| Come back for hour two? | |
| Yes. | |
| Oh my gosh. | |
| Well, you're gonna have a lot of fun over there. | |
| You can watch uh they got great television there. | |
| They run like Dallas from 1987 on the BBC. | |
| A lot of old stuff on those. | |
| But and you're gonna have fish and chips, right? | |
| Listen, you know, I already I came over on the plane and they were already offering me things I had never heard of. | |
| And like you know, just like certain jams and uh, you know, they offer marmalade, marmalade is a thing here. | |
| Oh, yeah, like goose gooseberry marmalade. | |
| Yeah, just odd things. | |
| I'm like, and then of course we have all the power outlets, you know. | |
| Fortunately, from our last time here, I was able to bring all of the adapters and plug-ins, so that's always a good thing. | |
| And um, yeah, you know, it's it's been fun. | |
| And then, you know, they come to I've they've checked on the room, I don't know, maybe 83 times since I uh checked in. | |
| Do you need anything? | |
| Do you need anything? | |
| Do you need no, no, I need you to not knock on the door anymore. | |
| Yeah, that's what's weird about very weird about London. | |
| Great service, polite, everything. | |
| Very nothing. | |
| That's the problem. | |
| I'm from New York. | |
| I'm like, is someone gonna hit me or mug me soon? | |
| Because I'm feeling very uncomfortable. | |
| It's also 2022, and you still have to bring 55 adapters just to plug anything into I know you're a technology guru. | |
| I don't know if the audience knows this, but Mark Simone is the guru of all things technology. | |
| He always has the latest and greatest of the iPhones and the Macs, and he takes beautiful pictures. | |
| If you ever go on his Instagram, he has the best pictures of food and scenery and everything. | |
| So hat tip to you, Mark Simone. | |
| Well, um, you're very welcome. | |
| But I'm telling you, the adapters here, it's it it's ridiculous. | |
| But they do have, which is nice, the USB, so I can just plug in, so that's cool. | |
| Yeah, but you know, the iPhone is so busy with the 13 and 14 making wireless charging, wireless, wireless. | |
| Now you get to London. | |
| It's crazy. | |
| 42 adapters, nine different cables, just to plug it in. | |
| I had an extra bag just for the adapters, you know, so it was good. | |
| It's my extra carry-on. | |
| It was good. | |
| Well, all right. | |
| Uh, so we'll check in with you later in the show. | |
| Perfect. | |
| I look forward to it. | |
| All right. | |
| Great. | |
| All right, have a good first hour. | |
| Yeah, well, we will. | |
| I got to do a whole hour. | |
| I mean, I hope you do three. | |
| No, I have really, really, really prepared for this show. | |
| I for sure. | |
| You always do. | |
| I mean, listen, there's nobody better than you. | |
| You know, you do your amazing number one show in the morning, you get all warmed up, and then we bring you in for a round two. | |
| Yes. | |
| We can't thank you enough. | |
| All right, anytime. | |
| Anytime. | |
| You're the best. | |
| All right. | |
| Good talking to you. | |
| We'll catch up with you later in the show. | |
| Uh also we'll talk to uh Larry Cudlow, uh, the great Larry Cudlow, uh, one of our, I'd say three best economists in the world. | |
| You got Art Laffer, you got Steve Moore, Larry Cudlow, throw Steve Forbes in there too. | |
| And uh we'll he'll be with us at the bottom of the hour. | |
| We'll so if you got uh stocks going crazy, you're 401k, uh, you're worried of what to do. | |
| He'll uh he'll tell us exactly what to do. | |
| Uh 11 minutes into the program. | |
| Don't you think we should be talking about something by this point? | |
| I guess so. | |
| Yeah, here's the bad upsetting part. | |
| The Michael Sussman trial is crucial to the Durham investigation. | |
| You gotta convict this guy Sussman, so he's facing jail, and as a result, he turns in everybody else. | |
| That's how it works. | |
| You take the lowest guy, the littlest guy in the operation, convict him, facing ten years in jail. | |
| Then you tell him you turn in everybody else and we'll get rid of the jail sentence. | |
| That's how it works. | |
| Well, today the jury acquitted Sussman. | |
| Uh I don't know what else Durham has planned, but this is a big blow to the Durham investigation. | |
| Sussman is acquitted. | |
| He walks away a free man, no cares, no worries, doesn't have to give up anybody. | |
| Uh how did this happen? | |
| It's a Washington, D.C. court. | |
| In Washington, D.C., you're gonna get the most pro Hillary Clinton, pro-democratic jury ever. | |
| Now, here's the other thing. | |
| I don't know, you know, if you're the defense, you can go argue we have to move the trial to a more neutral location. | |
| We can't have it have it here because the jury will be prejudiced, uh, everything will be prejudiced. | |
| So if you're the defense, you move the trial. | |
| I don't know. | |
| Is a prosecutor allowed to do that? | |
| I don't know if you're allowed to do that if you're a prosecutor. | |
| You generally have to do it where the crime took place. | |
| But uh, and I guess if Durham could have, he would have, but they should have moved the trial. | |
| Now, here's another thing. | |
| It's again, it's Washington, D.C. courts. | |
| They are the most slanted biased courts in the world. | |
| So I guess he he must have tried to train change the judge. | |
| It's not just the jury. | |
| The judge in the case. | |
| Uh now let me see if I can get all this straight. | |
| The judge in the case, his name is Christopher Casey. | |
| He was not only an Obama appointee, he was on Obama's transition team. | |
| He's married to the lawyer who represents Lisa Page, one of those sleaze ball corrupt FBI, part of that uh uh James Comey sleazy uh cabal he had put together. | |
| The judge is married to uh the lawyer for her. | |
| Uh he's also uh his wife is also a top aide to Eric Holder in the past, and he married his wife, the uh guess who presided over the some ceremony? | |
| Attorney General Merrick Garland married him. | |
| So how this guy doesn't recuse himself. | |
| Now, I obviously he didn't recuse himself because he wanted to rule on this trial, and he wanted to take care of things in this trial, and he did. | |
| For instance, they had a ton of emails between Sussman and the Clinton campaign, 38 emails between this guy Sussman and the Clinton campaign, and the judge ruled most of them inadmissible. | |
| Inadmissible. | |
| Uh he said uh, you know, they're attorney client privilege, attorney work product privilege. | |
| But in any case in the history of the world, whenever the work you're doing or whatever you're doing in the email is the crime, then there's no more attorney client privilege. | |
| That's usually the end of it. | |
| So it's uh it's a pretty bizarre ruling. | |
| Anyway, we'll get back to the uh Sessman trial and uh how um I hope it's not uh a total defeat for uh Durham. | |
| I hope he's got something else up his sleeve. | |
| Uh hey, by the way, you know, um the Sessman thing is the beginning of the Russian hoax, which was a total hoax, the Russian collusion. | |
| Donald Trump has published a letter now to the Pulitzer Prize board, because they gave a Pulitzer Prize to the Washington Post, to the New York Times, for uncovering the uh Russia collusion scandal. | |
| Well, it turns out it was a total hoax and fake. | |
| Trump's letter to the Pulitzer Prize board demands that they rescind the award, demands they take back the Pulitzer Prize. | |
| The story turns out to be fake. | |
| The story turns out to be completely made up. | |
| If somebody had really investigated, Robert Muller, are you listening? | |
| If anybody had really investigated, they would have uncovered that it was made up from the beginning. | |
| So not only is the story false, but the reporters are obviously incompetent, otherwise they would have uncovered that themselves. | |
| He's demanding they rescind the award, and if they don't, Trump says, see you in court. | |
| He's threatening to sue them, and Trump, when he threatens to sue, always follows up with a lawsuit. | |
| And I don't know. | |
| There's an acting president now of the Pulitzer Prize board. | |
| Uh, and I don't know if they want to go into court because they have a history of giving out totally biased awards. | |
| It's the most biased thing in the world. | |
| Uh Trump could start laying that out in court. | |
| That's not going to be good for them. | |
| And I don't think they want to be deposed under oath for like 10 hours a day for a week. | |
| So uh who knows what they'll do. | |
| Maybe they'll do something. | |
| Anyway, we've got lots to get to. | |
| We'll get to uh you ever watched the view in the last year or two. | |
| They're completely insane. | |
| Completely nuts. | |
| Uh here's one of them now, defending the attack on the Mona Lisa why it was justified. | |
| Uh we'll get to that coming up. | |
| Hey, we'll get to Joe Biden wrote an op-ed. | |
| Joe Biden wrote an opinion column. | |
| He didn't even read it. | |
| Uh, but we'll get to what he said. | |
| It's absolutely ridiculous. | |
| Hey, uh follow me on Instagram. | |
| It's Mark Simone NYC at Instagram. | |
| Uh, normally I wouldn't bother, but follow me now on Twitter because I think they stopped shadow banning me. | |
| It's Mark Simone NY at Twitter. | |
| Should I mention Truth Social? | |
| I just got on there. | |
| I don't know. | |
| Try. | |
| See if you can follow me on Truth Social. | |
| And don't forget, uh, go to Hannity.com for all the latest news. | |
| Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity. | |
| He gets the guess that won't go on any other radio shows, and he does it every single day. | |
| This is the Sean Hannity Show. | |
| Hey, welcome back. | |
| It's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity. | |
| Normally I'm on our big flagship station, W O R here in New York. | |
| you can listen to me on a podcast wherever you are, wherever you get podcasts. | |
| That's what's so easy now when you do a podcast. | |
| You used to have to say, I'm on Netflix, I'm on this, I'm the but a podcast, you just say wherever you get podcasts, because you never know where anybody goes to get them. | |
| But uh iHeart is the best place to get those uh those podcasts. | |
| Um are you guys on Truth Social? | |
| I mentioned you are, right? | |
| Uh I I like it. | |
| I like it. | |
| I like it. | |
| Just a little like I have noticed some uh tweets disappear. | |
| You don't call them tweets on Truth Social. | |
| How many people you think are on Truth Social altogether? | |
| There's one way you can always tell. | |
| No, people don't think there's no way to tell. | |
| Just go to Donald Trump's uh account. | |
| I would assume anybody signing up for Truth Social is gonna sign. | |
| That's the first person they're gonna follow is Donald Trump. | |
| So he has 3.1 million followers. | |
| So that's the number on there. | |
| I know if you hear you, they'll say Twitter has uh 300 million, but Elon Musk, when he was going to buy it and started doing his uh due diligence, uh, started to say, you know what, maybe it's like 30 million people that are really on it. | |
| A lot of these accounts aren't real, and maybe it's just a couple million that really use it every day. | |
| I don't know if that Neil's gonna go through. | |
| Uh Musk now trying to get the price lower, and I don't blame him. | |
| Do you know what Black sit is? | |
| Uh at the White House. | |
| A lot of black staffers are quitting in frustration. | |
| At least 21 African Americans have just quit the White House, and one of them said it's Black, you know, like Brexit, uh Britain uh leaving uh so that it's apparently a problem over there because uh, you know, there's nobody that cares less about African Americans than Joe Biden. | |
| I know he mentions it every two seconds, but uh that's all. | |
| You mention it, you make a speech back to sleep. | |
| That's it. | |
| He's not gonna do anything for anybody. | |
| There's crime all over the streets of our cities. | |
| Uh, people are getting wiped out. | |
| He you never hear him say a word, but he got district attorneys, we've got one here in New York, you got 26 others letting everybody out of jail. | |
| This poor guy was shot in the subway here. | |
| Turns out the guy that shot him released 19 times, 19 previous things. | |
| Have you heard Biden say anything about it? | |
| Nope. | |
| Nope. | |
| It's just uh so but he's always trying to win the African American vote. | |
| It's important to Democrats, uh, and it was a big part of his campaign. | |
| Twenty-two percent of Biden's voters, uh, were African Americans. | |
| That's important. | |
| So he's gotta appeal to them in every way. | |
| So that's why he hired a lot of African American staffers. | |
| But 21 of them have quit privately saying, uh, it's pretty obvious we were just hired for decoration. | |
| Uh nobody comes to us for anything. | |
| We're not being promoted into anything. | |
| We're not being given the opportunities for promotion, and they've quit in frustration. | |
| Twenty-one of them and more to come. | |
| Uh now this is a big problem as uh word of this starts to get out for Biden. | |
| You know, the other problem he's having, younger voters are important, crucial to a democratic uh victory. | |
| And the latest polling shows he's losing younger voters, especially people in 20s and 30s. | |
| That's plunging. | |
| They're losing them like crazy. | |
| That's why he keeps talking about paying off student loans. | |
| They were trying to find an issue that would affect them, and they found out that most of them have student loans, and that's why he's offering to pay them. | |
| It's impossible the cost would be staggering. | |
| So now he's talking about uh we'll pay 10,000 of your student loan. | |
| He'll pay 10,000 of your student loan. | |
| That's like a millions and millions and millions. | |
| Now, what he doesn't mention is he's not paying it. | |
| You're paying it, I'm paying it. | |
| They're gonna take it out of your tax bill. | |
| So if you decided to just go into the workforce, maybe you didn't go to college and you're working very hard, you're going to pay for these student loans. | |
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| Get your dose of independence and liberty every weekday right here with Sean. | |
| Hey, uh, we'll talk to Larry Cudlow in uh just a moment, uh, the great economist. | |
| You know he's got a hot show. | |
| It's the number one show in business television on the Fox Business Network. | |
| Uh also give it a uh, if you want to call during the program, the number is 1-800-941 Sean. | |
| Do I have to give that out? | |
| Who doesn't know that number? | |
| I know the number. | |
| I one-eight, I I'm not even looking. | |
| 1-800-941 Sean. | |
| I've been hearing that number for years. | |
| 1-800-941 Sean. | |
| Don't forget Hannity.com. | |
| You can get all kinds of uh great news there and uh Hannity on the Fox News channel every night at nine o'clock. | |
| Uh normally you hear me on uh W-O-R here in New York, or you can follow me on Instagram or uh um blank in a Twitter, of course. | |
| Uh uh uh Truth Social. | |
| Should I uh Ethan, you decide. | |
| Should I keep mentioning Truth Social? | |
| A lot of people love it. | |
| So I would keep mentioning it. | |
| I know a lot of people switching over from Twitter to that, and uh we'll see what happens. | |
| I mean, I hope it's succeeds. | |
| Yeah, it's uh about truth, if I may, just for a moment. | |
| Oh, there's Linda. | |
| Oh, hello. | |
| Yes. | |
| You know, the the good thing about Truth Social is uh they're bona fide experts in truth. | |
| And when you have these little, you know, moments of brilliance on their platform, they call them truths as opposed to tweets. | |
| So, you know, it's not like a little hummingbird in your ear, it's like a moment of brilliance, you know. | |
| Okay. | |
| You gotta say quick and short and you get it out there. | |
| Explain a couple things. | |
| If I tweet, I'll say, Oh, I just tweeted something. | |
| On Truth Social, what do I say? | |
| I just what? | |
| I just gave you some truth. | |
| Oh, okay. | |
| I just truth. | |
| I just truth you. | |
| All right. | |
| No, it'll be drop in knowledge, you know, things like that. | |
| It'll be big. | |
| It's uh way ahead of where Twitter was at this point in uh its development. | |
| Do you remember Facebook in the beginning? | |
| It was the most primitive awful thing in the world. | |
| It was awful. | |
| Terrible is all terrible. | |
| CNN banned from truth social. | |
| I mean, because all they are is fake news. | |
| So can they even sign up for truth? | |
| Yeah, I don't think there's a lot of people over there in the CNN building desperately trying to sign up on it. | |
| Uh may not be their thing. | |
| They'll start their own uh uh disinformation uh site over there. | |
| Um so uh we're gonna talk to Larry Cudlow. | |
| Uh we are gonna talk to him. | |
| Yeah, maybe he's gonna be here momentarily. | |
| Oh, okay. | |
| There's a little there was a little hiccup, but we're good to go. | |
| He's gonna be here any second. | |
| So I'm just letting you know that's a good one. | |
| Linda did you know Linda is in London with Sean and Hannity. | |
| He'll be broadcasting tomorrow live from London. | |
| Uh will you be attending all the Queen's Jubilee events? | |
| You know, she actually asked for me to be there personally. | |
| She said, you know, I heard about you and your conversations with Sean, and I thought there's somebody I wanted the Jubilee. | |
| Oh you know, you're gonna add a lot of vibrance and color to the event, so come along. | |
| And I was like, you know what? | |
| For you, Queen, anything, of course. | |
| Well, there you are. | |
| I've actually met the Queen. | |
| No, you haven't. | |
| Yeah, I have. | |
| When? | |
| Uh first time about 1999. | |
| Uh I mean it's not the most exciting thing in the world. | |
| I think I dosed off twice. | |
| I mean, it's like they make you watch, they make you watch a video first on what you're supposed to do. | |
| Are you serious? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Uh when you're supposed to say hello, how you address her, when you bow, when you don't, but yeah, you have it's like a 10-minute video. | |
| Well, I will tell you, I um I know very, very little about uh the royal family. | |
| And on the one brief moment where I wanted to learn more was when Will and Kate got married, and I was ceremoniously ridiculed in the studio by everyone who thought it was absurd that I wanted to talk about it, uh, including uh Sean Hannity. | |
| Yeah. | |
| So uh I look forward to making fun of him tomorrow that we're here uh and talking about the Queen. | |
| I'm just teasing, of course. | |
| Maybe not. | |
| Maybe I will make fun of him. | |
| I'm not sure yet. | |
| But I think it's pretty I think it's pretty funny that we are here. | |
| Yeah, no, it's gonna be great. | |
| And I did talk to Prince Philip once. | |
| It was like uh having a conversation with a mummy. | |
| It was the worst thing. | |
| Well, it's just like Joe Biden then. | |
| That's keeping good company. | |
| I mean, I mean a mumbling Joe over there, mumbling stumbling Joe. | |
| Joe Biden's different. | |
| Uh because and I remember him even when we were younger, and uh it was it was more fun to talk to him because you could see he was a really bad guy when you're up close. | |
| You could see this guy will lie to you, con you, uh uh he just has that there's a certain weirdness about him that makes him interesting. | |
| Well, I I don't know if I would say it makes him interesting as it's so much um you know frightening. | |
| Uh I think that would be the word that I would use, you know. | |
| Joe Biden is uh to me, at any given moment, it's just it it is the most bizarre things come out of his mouth, how close he talks to people, the way he touches people and grabs their shoulders and their hair and the way he is around children. | |
| I mean, the whole thing I find incredibly repulsive. | |
| And uh I just I uh I I don't even have words for how disgusting I've got. | |
| Well, but that's what I'm saying. | |
| It's so weird, it's interesting. | |
| You know, he's making a speech and he's talking, and then he whispers like this. | |
| It's just bizarre. | |
| It's like suddenly he's an obscene phone call whispering, and then you watch him, you don't know is he gonna fall over? | |
| Is he does he have any idea what he's saying? | |
| Is he gonna find it? | |
| I think he falls a lot. | |
| I mean, if climbing up the stairs to the plane is any indicator, I mean, God knows what I mean how how long has it been now since he's done an interview? | |
| How long has it been since he's on a one-on-one? | |
| And even then he's reading a teleprompter. | |
| I mean it's well, people have fallen down before. | |
| I remember remember Gerald Ford would fall down the stairs. | |
| Joe Biden's the only guy I ever saw fall up the stairs. | |
| Yeah, he falls up. | |
| Going up he's I mean, that's how I got the presidency, right? | |
| He just keeps falling upwards. | |
| You know, forty-seven years of screwing up and he was elected into the office. | |
| It's it's actually just insane. | |
| Linda does an incredible job uh running the show, producing the show. | |
| She books the greatest guest, she got us Larry Cudlow. | |
| I did. | |
| And and where is you know what? | |
| And you know what? | |
| And uh I'm being told that there was some confusion and he is not gonna make it. | |
| So um so I'm gonna I'm gonna step in here and I'm gonna let you know the economy is terrible. | |
| All right, we're gonna ask everybody reassurance about their 401k. | |
| We were gonna talk you tell us what the 401k is tanking, your IRAs are plummeting, your mortgage rates are skyrocketing, gas prices are out of control, and uh nobody has a clue what's going on because they wouldn't know the difference between a bear and a bull market if it hit him in the face, you know, at the end of the day. | |
| Uh I actually do Cudlow show a lot. | |
| I'll tell you what he would say because I've heard him say it. | |
| And Steve Moore, the great economist and Art Laffer the great will always tell you the same thing. | |
| Well, I just before you get uh, you know, ahead of yourself here, Steve Moore is actually going to call in now. | |
| Oh. | |
| So you're welcome, Mark Simon. | |
| Oh, okay. | |
| That's what I'm here for. | |
| He'll tell you as Larry. | |
| Don't go, don't panic. | |
| Things are plunging, stocks are way down, 401k down. | |
| Don't sell when you're down. | |
| The secret uh is don't sell low. | |
| Uh wait, be patient. | |
| Steve Morrow, let's see when Steve Moore shows up. | |
| You're sure he's showing up. | |
| This is not like a Larry Cudlow thing. | |
| I mean, I'm not sure. | |
| It might be a Larry Cudlow thing. | |
| I mean, I'm full of surprises today. | |
| This is what we do when we're, you know, across the pond. | |
| You know, we mix it up, we make it different, you know, we say guests are going to be there and they're not there. | |
| You know, it's it's uh everything's up for chance. | |
| Well, uh, we'll find uh we'll find Larry another day. | |
| We will. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And uh now what do you exactly do tomorrow from London? | |
| You're gonna people are gonna be listening, you'll be live from London. | |
| Yeah, we're gonna be live from London. | |
| Sean will be here in studio. | |
| We came in today to get all the equipment in the entire studio all set up so we are we are good to go. | |
| And um and I'm we're really looking forward to doing radio and TV and the wonderful and illustrious Steve Moore is on hold and ready to talk to you about all things economy. | |
| All right, we'll check in with Linda later. | |
| Thank you for coming to us from uh overseas, thousands of miles away. | |
| Uh Steve Moore wrote the great book, Govzilla. | |
| It's a brand new book. | |
| Get this book, Govzilla, and uh go to Committee to Unleash Prosperity and get his daily newsletter, which is excellent. | |
| Steve Moore, how are you doing? | |
| Hi, Mark. | |
| Well, it's good to be with you. | |
| Uh well, I re I just finished reading uh the president's um piece, Joe Biden's piece in the Wall Street Journal. | |
| By the way, what do you think the odds are, um, Mark, that uh that Joe Biden actually wrote that piece? | |
| What do you think the odds are that Joe Biden has ever read the piece? | |
| Exactly. | |
| So it reads like a kind of uh uh progressive manifesto of doubling down on all of his policies that have created this inflation crisis in the first place. | |
| And it's more price controls, more government spending, more taxes. | |
| They can't get off this message. | |
| And you know, they they don't quite understand that the trillions and trillions of dollars that Biden uh spent, and incidentally, just as a side point, he talks from this piece about how fiscally responsible he is. | |
| You'd think he was like the most fiscally responsible person in history. | |
| He came in and he spent three trillion dollars we didn't have last year. | |
| So um it's it's disturbing actually that they actually believe that more and more of these policies are gonna solve the crisis when we wouldn't need what we need to do is stop the spending uh and and start producing more American energy and gas so that we can uh you know I paid six bucks a gallon, Mark, this weekend. | |
| Six bucks. | |
| Six bucks. | |
| Uh the the Democrats, do they have any idea how cruel and brutal this tax is on the average family can be three, four hundred a month in extra costs. | |
| It can. | |
| No, because they live in the bubble. | |
| They live in the swamp where everything's different. | |
| And uh so they're inoculated from these price increases. | |
| And you know, I have to say, Mark, because you and I talk a lot on on your other shows. | |
| Uh you know, when I say on your shows, you know, we have eight percent inflation. | |
| I get I get angry letters and and emails from people saying, Steve, why do you keep saying that inflation's only eight percent? | |
| You know, my my gas lien prices are up, you know, fifty-eight percent. | |
| My rental payments are up forty-two percent. | |
| My electric power bill is up, you know, thirty-seven percent. | |
| Uh, you know, the the uh mortgage is up. | |
| Everybody feels like the real inflation is fifteen to twenty percent. | |
| Uh so people are really feeling a financial strain from all these uh policies. | |
| Now, but it really is fifteen percent, because haven't they a couple of times changed the way they measure it so it comes out a little lower? | |
| Well, they do. | |
| I mean, look, they they what they do is they take into account things like computer prices and things. | |
| And those have come down price, you know, there's no question technology costs have come down. | |
| But when you look at the essentials, and this is what I love. | |
| Don't you love this, Mark? | |
| Uh, you've been in this business a long time. | |
| How they caught about core inflation and core inflation is well, we take out energy and uh food costs. | |
| Well, duh, that's what we spend most of our money on. | |
| Energy and food. | |
| So I haven't really understood the logic of that. | |
| So uh but no, I think most families are are paying um a lot more than eight percent inflation right now because of the essentials they have to buy, which is food, medicine, housing, and energy. | |
| Uh and incidentally, I gotta tell you, Mark, I was in Colorado this past weekend speaking at a uh event of the Colorado Auto dealers, and I was talking to these these men and women who run these auto dealerships, and they said, you know, one guy told me he said, Normally have twelve hundred cars on the you know, uh, and he said, uh Steve, do you know how many I have right now? | |
| I said, No. | |
| He said, I have fifty. | |
| So there are they're even if you want to buy a new car, you can't get one. | |
| And if you want to get one right away, instead of you know, normally how you haggle the price down, you have to pay, they say ten or fifteen thousand dollars premium above the sticker price to get a car. | |
| Wow. | |
| Hey, we don't have much time left. | |
| I just want to ask you, uh he says he's going to meet with the Fed today. | |
| What can a president do with the Fed? | |
| He can't tell them what to do. | |
| It's uh there's a separation there, isn't there? | |
| Well, look, I think the Fed and the Biden administration have been kind of uh have a marriage. | |
| And so basically what's happened, so people understand this inflation crisis, because by the way, we didn't have an inflation crisis under Trump. | |
| The inflation rate was less than two percent in in his four or four years in office. | |
| He left office. | |
| We had a one and a half percent inflation rate that in 14 months Biden takes up to eight and a half percent. | |
| Do you think that happened by accident? | |
| But anyway, so Biden comes in with all this massive trillions of dollars of spending, and what the Fed did is because we don't have a trillion, you know, three trillion dollars of the revenues to cover that. | |
| So they just printed money. | |
| So I think they're partners in crime on this, and the parks on both their houses. | |
| We got to get the Fed to uh to suck some of this money out of the economy because it's causing inflation, and we gotta cut government spending. | |
| That's the word for the day. | |
| Cut government spending. | |
| Of course, Biden doesn't want to do that. | |
| He wants more spending. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Hey, for everybody worried about their 401k or their stock portfolios way down, what should they do? | |
| Uh would you just say don't panic now? | |
| You know, I mean, markets down a lot. | |
| This has been a really ferocious bear market. | |
| Uh I don't like the idea of selling low. | |
| I mean, you taught me this, Mark, right? | |
| You know, buy buy uh low and sell high. | |
| And so a lot of people they they tend to make the mistake of buying, you know, in a down market. | |
| And I mean, selling in a Dow market. | |
| And that I just don't like it. | |
| If you're in look, let me put it like this, Mark. | |
| If you've got a 401k plan, so you're investing for five or ten or fifteen or twenty years. | |
| No, don't sell your stock now. | |
| Don't sell it. | |
| All right. | |
| Well, uh great talking to you. | |
| Thanks for uh jumping in at the last second there. | |
| Steve Moore has a great book, which you should get called Govzilla. | |
| Govzilla, get his latest book, and uh also follow him on Twitter. | |
| Uh and Steve Moore, thanks for being with us. | |
| It's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity, 1-800-941 Sean is the number. | |
| We'll take some calls in just a minute. | |
| We'll take some calls in just a minute. | |
| Sean Hannity. | |
| Sean Hannity. | |
| Hey, it's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity. | |
| Sean will be back tomorrow. | |
| In fact, he'll be live from London on this very program. | |
| You're just joining us. | |
| You missed a great interview with uh Larry Cudlow. | |
| Um, sure you'll hear it on one of the best of shows. | |
| But uh let's take some calls. | |
| Uh 800-941 Sean is the number. | |
| Let's go to Mike, who's in New Hampshire. | |
| Mike, how are you doing? | |
| Hi, Mark, how are you? | |
| Good. | |
| Where are you in New Hampshire? | |
| Um, uh great phone. | |
| Where? | |
| On the seacoast. | |
| Oh, like Portsmouth, one of those towns. | |
| Exactly. | |
| Oh, okay. | |
| And uh what'd you want to say, Mike? | |
| I just had a question that's been eating away at me. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Of all of all the trillions of dollars being spent with no oversight, how much of it's being swirled away for a slush fund? | |
| You mean for Obama and people like that? | |
| And uh Obama, Biden, the DNC. | |
| All right, well, let me uh just clear this up. | |
| That's uh thanks for calling Mike. | |
| That's quite an accusation. | |
| What uh it doesn't go into a slush fund for them. | |
| What they do is they hand it out to people who can help them. | |
| You know, Obama has gotten to be close to a billionaire now. | |
| He's very close to a billionaire. | |
| A lot of big uh people have cut him in on a lot of big deals. | |
| Now, what they do with that uh trillion dollar spending package is those guys' companies get uh contracts and get pieces of that in exchange for helping Obama. | |
| Uh we'll get to this later in the show. | |
| For instance, if you go to Biden's brother, uh you know about Hunter, but if you give James Biden uh some work, uh he'll get you on that list of uh that stimulus spending, and uh that's how it really works. | |
| But we'll we'll go into that a little more. | |
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