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Assault Bans Are Coming - July 19th, Hour 2
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So if Republicans take back the House in November, Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio will be the head of the Judiciary Committee.
That would put him in a position where the agenda would dramatically shift and a number of investigations will start taking place in Congress.
He's here to talk about that and also about the hearing on Wednesday on this quote assault weapons ban and pending hearing, should the GOP take back the House in November.
I think we have a much better shot at the House than the Senate.
I'm not Pollyanish.
I'm not buying everybody's overly optimistic scenario that we win everything and it's going to be a landslide.
I'm just I'm until the votes are counted, I'm not going there.
The opportunity certainly exists.
It's gonna take you, the American people, fed up with record high gas prices and a 41 year high of inflation.
And that's why I've been deputizing all of you.
Because if you want change, this is your opportunity.
Congressman Jim Jordan, how are you, my friend?
I'm good, Sean, and that is that is well said.
You know, your background athletics uh you know that you you you never want to be overcompent.
You want to be confident, you want to campaign confidently, you want to go about your whatever your your your tasks are, you want to do that in a competent manner, but never overcompensent.
So yeah, we gotta we gotta work hard, make sure we win this uh so we can stop the the left's attack on liberty, the left's assault on everything, the intentional actions they're taking that are giving us the uh you know the crime that the the border that's no longer the border, the energy craziness that's five dollar gas, and and of course the 41-year high inflation.
So uh I think uh I think the people get it and they're motivated.
Uh the great people of this country understand it, and I do think it's gonna go well for us, but you're right.
Let's do it in a competent way, not an overconfident way.
So one of the things McCarthy and Newt Gingrich have been pointing out is Republicans need to run on a very specific agenda.
Yeah something similar to the contract, not necessarily the contract, but promises to the American people.
Uh they've been, you know, talking about law and order and safety and security and education and the control borders act and energy independence and lower taxes.
And if Republicans get control of the House, they can pass these things.
If we manage to also get control of the Senate, uh not only will we pass it, that they'll be sent to Joe Biden's desk, or I would expect a quick veto, wouldn't you?
Yeah, so but we still need to do it.
That's a great point.
We still need to pass legislation that would secure the border, legislation that will make us energy independent, legislation that would bring down the the record cost Americans are paying, which is the worst tax in history, this inflation thing.
We still need to pass those things that make sense that would help American families.
And if Joe Biden vetoes it, he vetoes it, but you help frame up the 2024 election.
And then also what we need to do are the investigations.
Our constitutional duty says we're supposed to do proper oversight so the American people have the truth, have the facts.
Why is it that we have a border that's no longer a border?
Why is the Department of Justice investigating and targeting moms and dads to show up at school board meetings?
You know, why why is it that that there's a double standard and that that if any of the Trump kids did anything close to what Hunter Biden did, it would be if it did, it would be there would be action by the Justice Department.
Oh no, nothing's happened there.
So there's so many things where we need the facts and the truth to get those to the country so that at least they know.
They know the truth.
And so that'll be a big effort, I think, as well, if in fact um the people of this great country give us the majority.
Like for example, you were kicked off the January 6th committee, you and Congressman Jim Banks, and at that point they replaced you with Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, you know, two people that that voted to impeach Trump, number one, and number two, hate Donald Trump.
So basically you you know there there are so many things that they wouldn't look into.
For example, I don't I don't know anything about this this woman that gives us blockbuster testimony, but there are uh reports that the Secret Service is contradicting her story about Donald Trump on January sixth.
All you'd have to do is get a sworn affidavit from the e from the Secret Service, did that happen or did it not?
I know that one of the president's attorneys, Hirschman th says that wasn't her handwriting that she claimed under oath to be, is my handwriting.
If you wanted the truth, you can get a handwriting expert, they'd be able to ascertain that pretty quickly.
And then the biggest question that I had is did John Donald Trump in fact authorize up to twenty thousand troops to be available two days prior.
I have four people of the five in the room that that confirmed that that happened, and a fifth person in the room, and that would be the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, uh, through his spokesperson has said to me that he recalls having conversations with Donald Trump prior to January sixth about protecting the Capitol.
So I mean that's five out of five, at le at least on some level, agreeing that a lot of effort was talked about ahead of time.
Why didn't they bring in Nancy Pelosi?
Why didn't they bring in the sergeant of arms or the Capitol Police Chief that himself had called on numerous occasions for the guard to be called up?
Uh why didn't they bring in Muriel Bowser, who in writing rejected any guard troops?
You know, it seems like if we really want to prevent something like this from happening again, we could do it, but you have to have the right intention in a hearing besides you know, bludgeoning one person and and pushing forth a narrative.
Uh if the president in fact called up and authorized those troops, wouldn't that blow their narrative out of the water?
Sure would.
And that's why chairman of the committee, Vinny Thompson said that Pelosi was off limits, they weren't gonna do that, they weren't gonna investigate the very thing you just talked about, which we all know was was uh it was the truth that President Trump had offered to have National the Guard there.
And you're you're you're so accurate on Sean, we have caught them now in eight specific things that they told the American people that we're not acting.
We've caught mean they they they lied about Bernie Carrick's travels, they they they they lied about uh Barry Laubermouth conducting a reconnaissance tour, they lied about Jenna Ellis' document, they lied about Eric Hirschman's note, they lied about the Secret Service, and they lied about me twice, uh they lied about a text message I had forwarded to to uh uh Mark Meadows.
They they they presented a video where where I said in the in the video is on on the Fox Network, I said January sixth is the ultimate date of significance in a presidential contest, and they they they left out the key phrase at the start of that, where I said the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said January sixth is the ultimate date in the in a presidential contest, because that's when the the electors are are confirmed.
So they've taken and then of course the eighth one was uh it's been reported in the press that Pat Cipellone said if he was asked during his deposition uh uh about whether he made the statement if we go to the Capitol, we're gonna get charged with all kinds of crime.
He said he would have he would have testified under oath that he did not say that.
So th that's eight that we know of, and remember, we don't get to see the transcripts.
We don't get to see the thousands of documents they have.
We don't get any access to that, and we've already caught 'em in eight lies.
So imagine how many.
I know two specific people that testified before the committee that they were in the room when Trump authorized the troops.
Now either they did or either they were there or they're they committed perjury.
They don't want to inquire about that.
You're right.
And here's the other thing.
You know, we had five hundred and seventy-four riots in the summer of twenty twenty.
We had dozens of Americans die.
We had billions in property damage and thousands of police officers injured.
Can you explain to me why nobody gets prosecuted from those riots, why it was okay for Kamala Harris to say they're not gonna stop, they shouldn't stop, we're not gonna stop.
You better take note, you better beware that this is gonna continue, and then tweeting out support for a bail fund for the rioters after they burn down a police precinct.
Why is that not equally important?
Or the nine people who were working for the Colbert show who the Justice Department said even though they were taken told not to come back, you had to have it and and kicked out of the Capitol Complex and then came back in the office uh building that that that they're not or how about the fifty?
Now think about this, Sean.
Fifty pro-life crisis pregnancy centers and churches have been attacked in the last eleven weeks.
Fifty.
I mean, h how how about some action and and condemnation from the left of that kind of violence that's taking a place against pro-life communities, uh pro-life centers and and and places of worship around our country.
You and I have been consistent.
Conservatives have been consistent.
We've condemned violence every single time it has happened.
It'd be nice if the left would do the same thing and be consistent and and to be clear.
I did it in real time on this radio program on January sixth.
I did it that night.
I said, let me stop right here.
If you're a conservative and you support Donald Trump, you cannot support this.
This is not who we are as a country.
But I also said the same thing about the summer riots of 2020.
Of course.
What would be the top top things that Republicans in charge would be investigating?
Well, the the the treatment of bombs and dads.
We've had over a dozen FBI agents come forward to our committee, uh, to the Republicans on our committee as whistleblowers about actions by the Justice Department and specifically their concerns about what what uh Mayor Garland and the White House cooked up to go after moms and dads.
Over two dozen parents have been targeted by by our justice investigated by the FBI for simply speaking up for their for their kids.
The border, when you no longer have a border, when month after month after month after month we set records and illegal immigrants coming into our country, that has to be investigated.
Of course, the origins of this virus that so disrupted our our our our country for for a year and a half, that has to be investigated.
And I would also add to that list the simple fact that thousands of American tax returns were made public in direct violation of the law.
What happened at the IRS where where the that that took place?
That is not supposed to happen in our great country.
So all those things need to be investigated.
Uh, but this general attack on liberty that we're seeing, attack on First Amendment rights, second amendment rights, fourth amendment due process rights, that is that is the most frightening to me, and what the Judiciary Committee is supposed to protect, we'll be looking into all that.
You know, it's so important, I think, that we we get to the bottom of all of this.
At the end of the day, we're what I'm most afraid of for the country too, is and we went through all of the three years.
We we exposed every lie, the total conspiracy, hoax, m lies, propaganda, misinformation, abuse of power, corruption involving the Trump Russia collusion narrative.
Now we know that it was a dirty Russian disinformation dossier that Hillary Clinton paid for.
Her allies in the media mob disseminated that false information before the election.
It says at the top of a Pfizer warrant verified.
We now know all the information in the dossier was uh unverifiable because it was all false.
It's been debunked, but it was used as the foundation for four FISA applications.
Nobody's been held accountable, and looks like the statute of limitations are kicking in and nobody's gonna be held accountable.
No, it's it's it's you know, it's what's so frustrating for the American people, frustrating for you and I, because I remember some back in 2017, late 2017, 2018, there were only a handful of us.
There were some great journalists like you and and and Laura and others, people who were you you were on the front edge of this, and a handful of us in Congress, and we were all called crazy, but it turned out that everything we said turned out to be accurate.
And the only thing I think we we really miss was it was worse than we thought.
Um so I appreciate your effort there, but yeah, it's so frustrating because it never seems like you know that the the the unequal treatment.
You know, there's one standard for the so-called elite liberals in this town and a different standard for us for us regular folks and the and the good folks who listen to your program.
So um I find it frustrating.
We're gonna try to change that and focus on again, as I said before.
If if we're given control uh of the Congress, we're gonna focus on getting the truth to the uh to the American people.
All right, quick break.
We'll come back more with Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio and uh your calls on the other side, eight hundred nine four one Sean, our number if you want to be a part of the program as we continue.
The show more with Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan looking ahead to Republicans take back the house, what will that mean for investigations that will be taking place?
Are you better off than you were two years ago?
That to me ought to be the question.
Uh is our are are the borders better off?
Uh are we more safe and secure?
Is there more law and order?
Uh how how are the doubling of a gallon of gasoline?
How's that working out for the people of Ohio?
Because it's not going over pretty well with me.
Everything we pay in every store we go to costs dramatically more because of the Biden economic and energy policies.
How's that working out?
How's it working out abroad?
Uh America's standing in the world.
I mean, we've become a laughing stock because we have a president that doesn't know that today's Tuesday.
Yeah.
Less money in your wallet, less gas in your car, less freedom for you and your family.
Um, and as you point out, we're we're less respected around the world.
No, it's it's that's Joe Biden's America.
And the the thing that's most troubling is it's so much of it is intentional.
They're intentionally doing this to our border.
When you they're intentionally doing this inflation, this 41 year inflation.
When you spend like crazy, pay people not to work and drive up the cost of energy, you know you're going to get inflation.
It is intentional.
So that is the most uh I guess troubling aspect of all this.
Joe Biden said he's gonna eliminate fossil fuels.
This is what it looks like.
Yes, it's it's it's scary.
You know, the funny thing is their definition though of elimination is we'll eliminate domestic production, but we'll beg uh dictators around the globe like Putin, the mullahs in Iran, the Venezuelan dictator, uh will beg the Saudis, the pariah nation will beg OPEC and they'll reject us, but we'll keep begging for it.
Yeah, no, it's like we went from I mean, and that that's like maybe the one that is most I think just front and center for for the American people.
We literally went from energy independent under President Trump to now two years later, the President of the United States begging all those individuals, uh all those entities you just talked about.
I hate to tell you it's not two years, it's eighteen months.
Yeah, yes.
It's like that's how that's how that's how bad it is.
Yeah.
I had a lady at a at a town hall a while back, uh she was an older lady, probably in her eighties, little lady sitting on the front row, talk with some constituents.
And she literally got got period when she looked at me and she said, I never thought it could get this bad this fast.
And that's that's where the American people are.
So again, let's go campaign confidently and talk about what we're gonna do to help families to help the you know average Americans across this great country, um, and let's win this election.
Well, I think that's key, and then you'll be in charge of the committee and some serious investigative work can get done.
And uh one of the things I want looked at the most is Joe Biden says he had no knowledge, no discussion ever with zero experience hunter.
Uh we now know that's a complete lie, and that we know that they sold access.
And if it the last name were Trump, you and I both know that that Donald Trump would be impeached over it.
Let's see what happens to Joe Biden.
Um Jim Jordan, always a pleasure.
Thank you, my friend.
God bless you.
God bless America.
We need a new government as soon as possible.
Elections matter.
Music.
At nine PM, do you know where your president is?
I don't know.
Yep, he's sound asleep in his bed with not a care in the world.
Must be nice, Joe.
The rest of us will keep working.
You're on the Sean Hennedy show.
All right, 25 to the top of the hour, 800-941 Sean, our number, if you want to be a part of the program.
Interesting little developments.
You now see the mob, the media turning on Biden, because even they can't avoid the obvious anymore.
That this guy's a wreck and a cognitive mess and embarrassing president for the country, not up to the job, weak, frail, or cognitive.
You know, in every way he's just embarrassing the country.
Now you've got even media mob and and democrats now starting to criticize even like his Saudi trip.
But the pr the problem with with all of this is they all support this Green New Deal insanity.
But here's some of the media mob and Democrats turning on Biden's trip, especially as it related to uh Saudi Arabia.
They fist bumped Mohammed bin Salman, the man responsible, according to Biden's own director of national intelligence for ordering a brutal murder of a Washington Post journalist, killing him and then dismembering him with a bone saw.
I mean, that fist bump photograph, I think a lot of Americans saw that and were revolted by it.
Should Biden have gone?
No, I I don't think so.
You have the a leader of the country who was involved in the murder of a Washington Post journalist.
I don't think that that type of government should be rewarded with a visit by the president.
I don't think that Biden gets a pass just because he's a Democrat, just because uh that he's the Democratic president.
You know, I think that this it's bad no matter um how you look at it.
Oh, okay.
It's bad no matter how you look at it.
This this up till now this wasn't happening.
But the the problem is Democrats now and the media mob now sees what is the possibility of a massive loss in November.
So this is all about them and maintaining power, and if it means throwing Joey overboard and replacing him with somebody that'll do the exact same stupid stuff he's doing, that's fine with them.
Uh, John is in Oklahoma.
John, you're on the Sean Hannity show.
Glad you called.
Hey, hey there, Sean.
It's a true honor to speak with you.
And uh, you know, first off, real quick, I want to just say thank you for your faithfulness to God and what you do.
Uh, because after we lost uh Rush Limbaugh, thank God that you and Mark Levin were there in place and could be used by him to keep up the work.
Well, we can't nobody can replace, you know, the GOAT, the greatest of all time, but you know, we're all trying our best.
And I know one thing about Rush.
Rush loved this country and loved individualism, loved opportunity, love freedom, love success, love capitalism, loved our constitution, and I know there's nothing else that he would want more than for all of us, you know, to to pick up pick ourselves up by our bootstraps and fight on every day.
Because that's what he did his whole career.
Oh, without question.
Without question.
Um Sean, my my thing is during during the uh Trump administration, it kind of aggravated me that, you know, uh, and it does now with this January 6th clown show, that you know, you don't see Trump being defended by himself.
I mean, you know, him coming out and say, okay, let's address every accusation from the January 6th Commission, and here's how they're wrong.
And is he ever going to get that chance to do that?
Or are they actually afraid to have him come to the committee because they know what he's gonna say?
Well, they've they've been holding out that they may subpoena him and may subpoena vice president Pence and they may subpoena basically the whole world.
The problem with the committee is manyfold, not the least of which is they've had people, because we've interviewed them that have testified before the committee that said they were in the room when Trump authorized the National Guard troops.
Now, that would blow the narrative that was predetermined, which is Donald Trump wanted this to happen.
They show a lot of edited parts of interviews.
They show uh a lot of edited parts of his speech from that day.
Interestingly, they keep out the part that said many of you will peacefully and patriotically march to the Capitol, so your voices will be heard.
They forget that part.
Um I don't know who Cassidy Hutchinson is.
I have no idea, but they're supposedly she was their star witness.
They got more star witnesses coming on, I guess Thursday's their final hearing, whatever.
And but you know, there are certain questions as it relates to the veracity of what she testified to.
For example, the reports that said Secret Service agents dispute her report about what happened with Donald Trump trying to commandeer the beast, the car that he was being driven in.
Uh, there are reports, uh, I know that Eric Hirschman was, I guess, an attorney for Trump at the time, uh, says that's my handwriting.
She claims it's hers, no, that's mine.
Well, you could bring in handwriting experts if you wanted to get to the bottom of it.
But I think the most important thing would be to get to the bottom of did the president, you know, take the the fact that we we were coming off a summer of of 574 riots seriously.
You always have bad actors in in large crowds.
Um, and did the president really authorize these troops or not?
Because if he authorized them, it blows the entire predetermined narrative out of the water that he wanted this to happen and didn't do anything to stop it.
You know, what what and and in many ways you you have to then bring in Nancy Pelosi, the sergeant of arms, you have to bring in Chuck Schumer, you have to bring in Muriel Bowser, you have to bring in the Capitol Police Chief.
You know, but again, uh what what's the goal here?
Is the goal to prevent this from ever happening again?
Because that would be my goal.
And I can tell you right now, from my perspective, we can't have elected officials or institutions attacked.
I would I would set up a perimeter around the Capitol, you know, those those the exact same cement blocks that prevent cars from driving into the 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue should be set up.
Um I also think you need a large fence set up around the perimeter of the Capitol.
You can make it look nice like the one around the White House, and I think you've got to protect all our elected officials.
I don't hear anybody talk about how to prevent it from happening again.
And if they really cared about violence, then you have to ask the question why are they ignoring the five hundred and seventy-four riots in the summer of 2020?
They're not doing that either.
You know, from my perspective is they've they've had an agenda, have an agenda, and and that's they could have written this report on day one, but they want to put on a big show, and you know, their hope is is that by exculpatory information that the politicized Justice Department of Joe Biden uh might act and and go after maybe even Donald Trump himself.
That's that's the way I interpret it.
Well, you know, and the thing about it is what I you know ask myself is how anybody can take this January 6th uh commission seriously when Adam Schiff and that the ones that tried to perpetrate the uh impeachment, the false lying impeachment against Trump, not once, but twice.
And all this looks like is like a third attempt at an impeachment on Trump.
And it's like you have multiple people on the committee that that you know challenged the the elections of either either George W. Bush or Donald Trump in 2016.
So it's a little it's it's not a it's it doesn't get lost on me, but the pub general public likely doesn't know, or Benny Thompson saying the speaker's off limits.
The safety and security of the capitals is in the hands of the speaker of the house.
That's Nancy Pelosi.
She should be front and center in all of this.
But she's been protected the entire way, and you know, I uh look, I just see this for what it is.
This is why we call it a sewer and a swamp.
This is political theater, they're not looking for solutions.
If they were, it would be obvious.
Um, you know, the only people that seem to care about it are uh the lunatics that believed in the Trump Russia collusion hoax and believed that Hunter's laptop was phony.
The ones that always get it wrong on MSDNC, the the conspiracy theory channel.
Oh, yeah.
Well, the corruption is so thick over there.
I mean, even it just goes to show with with Nancy Plosi's husband how that you know DUI thing has pretty much gotten swept under the rug, and if it was me or you, it'd be you know, or well, you it would be front page news for like six months.
Front page news, whether it's true or not for me.
I've kind of given up on any sense of fairness, but you know, John, here's the here's the best part.
November's coming quickly.
This is th I look at November right now, not as a slam dunk.
Uh I am I'm very cautiously optimistic, and it's an opportunity for us to change course.
It's an opportunity to stop the boat of America.
If you look at America as a boat where be we're sinking, we're taking on so much water in so many different areas.
It's it's the first step to get the the ship righted.
It's not so much even that I want the investigations we were talking to Jordan about.
It's that I want this country, I don't want Americans suffering the way they are needlessly.
I want the rule of law to mean something in this country.
Joe Biden's aiding and a betting law breaking at the border.
All of this was preventable with the economy.
All of it was preventable with Afghanistan.
Frankly, all of it was preventable at the border and with in the in the case of Vladimir Putin.
Had Joe Biden cared enough and was engaged enough and strong enough and and aware enough of what day it is that we could have prevented it all.
Anyway, John, thank you.
Lisa Missouri, next Sean Hannity show.
How are you, Lisa?
I'm fine, Sean.
How are you?
I'm good, thank you.
Good.
Um I I don't understand my my I'll just go right to it.
I don't understand.
I was on a rampage yesterday.
What the goal, what the goal is of destroying the United States from the inside out.
What is it a a one-world government?
Is that what they're trying to do?
Because I don't understand the end game.
They I I I think the end game is obvious.
They They're saying what it is.
They they want an America that is a socialist utopia.
They want the Bernie Biden manifesto.
They want new Green Deal socialism.
Guaranteed government jobs.
Guaranteed pay.
Guaranteed health care, guaranteed, healthy food, guaranteed, free college, guaranteed, guaranteed, guaranteed.
In other words, that they want that socialist utopia.
The problem is, and I wrote a whole chapter in Live Free or Die about it.
Socialism and their its history of failure.
It's it's come under many names, many manifestations under over the years, and each time the results are predictable.
That the promises are never fulfilled, utopia is never reached.
You end up with more poverty and less freedom.
And you don't find out about the less freedom part until after they've implemented all this.
That that that is their stated goal.
That's what they've been trying to do.
You know, explain the logic behind it's okay for us to import the lifeblood of our economy from nations that hate us, but we won't drill domestically.
We won't frack domestically.
Makes no sense.
It does.
And and and I agree with you a hundred percent.
And in my opinion, the only way to change that is to get those people that have been in the swamp for fifty years doing it the way they've always done it and getting new people in.
I don't want a new America.
I want to put it back the way it was intended to be, the way it was founded on.
I that's what I want.
I want it back the way it was, not a new America.
I don't want that.
I want it back the way it's supposed to be, the way it's supposed to be ran.
And until you get new congressmen in there to get rid of all the old swamp, how's it gonna change?
How is it gonna it i it won't?
I mean, that's why I say this is an inflection point tipping point election.
and I'll use every cliche that exists, but it is all of that.
Back to our busy phones.
Uh Kevin is in New York.
Kevin on the Sean Hannity show.
Hi.
Hey, Sean, thank you very much.
And you spoke very well of uh Slumba Lumba.
You hit on the money.
He was a gentleman.
Uh definitely.
So I yeah, my question to you is um uh uh Donald Trump, President Trump did a wonderful job in my my opinion, and is uh political philosophy was is perfect dead on.
He did wonderful things for the country.
And I think most uh Republicans and moderate Democrats are uh were respected Trump as far as his presidency.
You know, a lot of some people now are like, uh, we're done with Trump, you know, maybe we'll move on to the next one, maybe DeSantis.
But I think Trump is um, you know, I'm I'm gonna vote for Trump if he does run.
Uh and because of his political philosophy, but as you know, a lot of people voted based on emotions.
And you know, they didn't like Trump's personality and such.
What does Trump President Trump have to do to win back those people?
That's one question.
And the other question is, um, is there gonna be friction between the the Republican Party?
Because you know the Republican Party doesn't want Trump in there.
Let me answer because I'm running out of time.
Number one, the media mob would love it.
Democrats would love uh intramural infighting.
Do I think there'll be some primary by some people I do.
Do I think it's Donald Trump's to lose?
Uh yeah, I do.
I think he'd be the odds on favorite as of now.
Is he definitely gonna run?
We don't know yet.
We're reading that he is.
You know, let's get through this election and and 2024 will we'll kick in immediately like the next day.
You know, I I just think that we've got too much to focus on in the moment to think start thinking too far out ahead.
And I think that the make America first, uh make America great again agenda, America first agenda is the agenda for the future.
Um and look, I mean, there there are sometimes contentious primaries, and that's part of the process if some people want to do it.
Um I don't think there's any doubt Ron DeSantis is a prime candidate to be president one day.
I don't I've as of today, I have no doubt that he could be a great president.
Um if he ran in 2024, he literally would just win his race for re-election, and then the process starts in January, believe it or not, of of twenty twenty three, Picking a nominee.
So he'd have to get back out on the road and he'd be away from Florida that whole time.
I'm not sure if that would be the best move for him if I would advise him, but do I think he's an heir apparent to one of the, you know, uh he's part of a deep bench of Republicans have?
Absolutely.
Um, and you know, it's just too early to start talking about.
Let's let's first win 2022.
Then we'll have plenty of time to talk about 24.
All right.
I appreciate the call.
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