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| Linda, what was the last thing I said Friday as I was signing off this radio program? | |
| Do you remember? | |
| I do. | |
| I do remember. | |
| What did I say? | |
| Have a nice weekend. | |
| All right. | |
| You're being a wise. | |
| One Monday we will have a speaker of the House. | |
| And it will be my. | |
| I said the deal's been struck. | |
| I already knew. | |
| You know, it's amazing that even still some people didn't understand, you know, all the back and forth. | |
| Are there people in this audience? | |
| Am I misreading the fact that they they don't think that I'm actually I actually have sources and people that I'm talking to, and I know exactly what was going on. | |
| I knew the entire week what was going on, and I knew exactly in the last break before I said goodbye on Friday, uh, you know, announcing I would be on TV that night, and Matt Gates and Lauren Boebert would be on on Friday night, and they were that uh that a deal had been struck. | |
| Now, the reason, and I can bring people a little behind the scenes if you're interested. | |
| I had been in touch with a lot of people. | |
| I knew that this was coming from, you know, some point in early December, that this was there were differences emerging, and that I thought it was important. | |
| If I had my way, obviously nobody listens to me. | |
| You know, my advice was get in a room, close the door, check your ego, check your phone. | |
| Everybody go in there with the with the thought of how do we serve our constituents in the best possible way? | |
| What is the best agenda that we all agree on and come out of there with everything agreed to and and not do this all publicly? | |
| So that didn't happen. | |
| There was no sense of urgency at that moment. | |
| I'm not sure why. | |
| Um I I would talk to a lot of people during this period. | |
| I said, why don't we do it now so it doesn't become an Adam Schiff show on January 3rd? | |
| Uh yeah, there's no harm, there's no foul, they had a deal. | |
| Um most of this, the irony in this is most of this deal had already been in principle agreed to. | |
| Then people might ask, okay, well, we watched a show on Friday Night Hannity, and you go, you you get off the air. | |
| Uh, they gavel in, and in the first vote, Kevin McCarthy, I think it was the 14th vote. | |
| What did he win on the 15th? | |
| Anyway, in the first vote, the very people on my program Friday night, uh, Matt Gates and Lauren Boebert, by the way, Lauren Bobert will join us later in the program today. | |
| Uh, you know, prevented Kevin McCarthy from getting over the finish line. | |
| You saw Tempest flaring a little bit, uh, Marjorie Taylor Green and Lauren Boebert exchanging words. | |
| Who was it that uh went after Matt Gates a little bit, had to be yelled back? | |
| Like, what is Mike Rogers? | |
| And they've made up since, by the way, is a side note, in case anybody's interested. | |
| Um, their bad feelings among some people. | |
| That's fine, but it's not about your feelings anymore. | |
| It's about your public servant, you're there to serve the people that sent you there. | |
| You're not there to serve yourself. | |
| And and that was a message that I I tried to remind people my sources of often. | |
| I said, well, what is what is your purpose here? | |
| Because if your purpose is to serve your constituents, then any ask that you may have, and again, it would have been better before the last week, and it could have been handled behind closed doors. | |
| I think that would have been smarter strategically for them. | |
| Some people disagree. | |
| They think this whole process being played out in public is a good thing. | |
| I would argue maybe it's a good thing that the base sees it play out publicly. | |
| Certainly Republicans have every right to be suspicious. | |
| I mean, look what the you the Republicans and the Senate did over the Christmas holiday with this idiotic, you know, omnibus bill, which was so unnecessary and it was so wrong and so fundamentally wrong. | |
| McCarthy was was begging you know the Senate leadership, don't do this. | |
| We will have power of the purse come, you know, January. | |
| Why are you doing this now when you could do a simple CR, continuing resolution, and we can fund the government, and when we get in power, we'll put spending restraints in place that are common sense and be more in line with fiscal conservatism. | |
| It just made sense. | |
| So anyway, so some of you were surprised Friday night. | |
| I was not based on some of the conversations that I was privy to. | |
| Now, Matt Gates, Lauren Bober come on the show on Friday night. | |
| They were two of the Republican holdouts. | |
| And I knew at that moment, based on their answers, subsequent conversations with different people as I worked my sources, uh, that in fact the what there was one thing that everybody was waiting on in writing. | |
| They wanted it in writing. | |
| It had all been agreed to. | |
| And this was another frustrating part. | |
| A lot of the items that the Republicans had wanted had already been agreed to long before the third. | |
| I mean, that was that part was frustrating. | |
| Days before January 3rd, the issue of filing a motion to vacate the chair. | |
| At that point, it was a five-vote threshold, which is nothing, and it got reduced to a one-vote threshold. | |
| In other words, at any given time, one House member can file a motion to vacate the chair, and at that point in time that would be a no confidence vote, and that is a protection for the rank and file in case Kevin McCarthy goes John Boehner on us and goes off the reservation, tries to weasel out of the agenda the promises that they made. | |
| Uh, but a lot of this had already been agreed to. | |
| You know, they've got a couple of other concessions in the course of last week, things that nobody really disagreed on, a vote on a balanced budget uh amendment, a vote on legislation surrounding border security, a vote on term limits for members of Congress, a vote on each of the individual appropriations bills, of which there are 12 of them, and excluding earmarks from such bills. | |
| You can go back our conservative solution caucus. | |
| We put it back up on Hannity.com. | |
| That was 2014. | |
| A lot of the same issues exist. | |
| Conservatism really doesn't change. | |
| It's just when it's applied and you have the power to apply it, it actually works. | |
| And I I certainly understand rank and file members wanting assurances that in fact that that these things will have happen. | |
| You know, one of the more important concessions that Freedom Caucus members were having had to do with the rules committee, and that they got extra seats on the rules committee to make sure that there's a certain criteria behind voting for bills, and they had voting, you know, the 72-hour notice, for example, from release of legislation before voting on it, so you could actually read the bill uh before you vote on the bill, know what's in the bill before you vote on the bill. | |
| Um at the end of the day, uh there was there was there were moments I was wondering if if this would go on beyond a week to me. | |
| I felt that the patience of the American people would run very, very thin. | |
| Um for all of you out there that loved it. | |
| There are a lot of you that love this playing out in public. | |
| And I completely understand that part. | |
| And you love the 20 people, and I completely understand that part. | |
| My argument back to you is I agreed with every single one of the items that they were asking for. | |
| That was never an issue for me. | |
| Those are things that I was telling them to work out privately in December, and discussing with within individual members what's going on. | |
| That's my job. | |
| I'm my job is to work my sources, find out information. | |
| Uh, And I said, well, you know, at the end of the day, there was always two things I would say. | |
| I said, just remember, you will all succeed together or you will fail together. | |
| There's not going to be a, well, I'm successful, but you're not. | |
| That moment was never going to happen. | |
| At the end of the day, it's not always about just placating your base. | |
| You've got to remember that elections often are won in the middle of the country with people that are independent and they don't like watching, you know, an Adam Schiff show unfold for an entire week. | |
| Many of you loved it, but they're admitted, but probably most of you are, you know, movement conservatives like I am. | |
| I just know from from all my experience that ultimately it's probably would have been better. | |
| One of those things that you work out behind closed doors, but you know, in the end, this is going to be long forgotten. | |
| Uh the new GOP, their first move, their first bill on the list is one the GOP promised during the midterm election to rescind the $87 billion and new funding for the IRS provided by the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, a tax increase, by the way, and and green energy bill passed by Liberal Democrats and new Green Deal Socialists and signed in a law by President Biden. | |
| Now, this is where you have to manage everybody's expectations. | |
| You've got to understand there are certain things that they're going to be able to do and accomplish and certain things they'll be able to do and not be able to accomplish. | |
| Like the investigations, they will go forward. | |
| Make no mistake, this is a big deal, a huge deal, that Jim Jordan on the as the head of the Judiciary Committee will have a full-on investigation into whether or not the FBI, you know, looking at parents at school board meetings at the mess as domestic terrorists, whether it has been meaning the FBI politicized and the Department of Justice weaponized. | |
| I mean, that's a big, big investigation. | |
| We already know now a lot of things about the FBI's involvement in both the 2016 election and the 2020 election. | |
| I bet most of you were a little surprised when we learned just before the new year that the FBI paid Twitter, thanks to Elon Musk releasing the Twitter files, that Twitter got three and a half million dollars from the FBI. | |
| I bet many of you were surprised that that FBI that the FBI that led by a guy that wrote a thesis uh in 2016 about how Donald Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election. | |
| He was heading up this task force that had weekly meetings with all of these big tech companies. | |
| I want to find out. | |
| I want to know what what other big tech companies were being paid here. | |
| These are all real investigations. | |
| You know, then we have Jim Comer's investigation and whether or not influence pedaling took place because we know Joe Biden lied about having never spoken to Hunter one time about his foreign business dealings. | |
| We have pictures now, photographic evidence that Joe met with Hunter and his foreign business partners. | |
| We know there were meetings with Joe, then vice president and Hunter and his foreign business partners. | |
| Now we know damn well why Joe withheld a billion taxpayer dollars uh to get a prosecutor in Ukraine fired who is investigating his son with no experience being paid millions. | |
| All of these are real investigations. | |
| The disaster of a pull out in Afghanistan. | |
| That's gonna be investigated. | |
| The origins of COVID-19 will be investigated. | |
| What did Anthony Fauci know? | |
| When did he know it? | |
| That'll be investigated. | |
| But then where you have to manage your expectations is all right, I I like the commitments to America. | |
| I thought it was a brilliant idea. | |
| Kevin McCarthy put it together. | |
| Uh I think Republicans in general have got to, they have to re-examine deeply how they how they approach elections in the future. | |
| Democrats, they're all about ballots. | |
| Republicans, they're doing it the old-fashioned way. | |
| Let's do rallies, let's do press avails, uh, let's uh kiss babies and go to fairs and you know, eat uh well, whatever. | |
| Foiled Twinkies, what do they do with the Twinkies? | |
| They fry them, fried twinkies. | |
| They fry everything. | |
| They fry everything. | |
| They fry Oreos, they fry Twinkies, they fry pickles, they fry everything. | |
| By the way, they're all delicious, too. | |
| Um and taking selfies. | |
| The Democrats are not campaigning that way. | |
| They're running negative ads, avoiding the press. | |
| They don't do town halls. | |
| They then spend the majority of their time and money harvesting ballots legally in most states. | |
| Most people don't know that part. | |
| So the investigation is going to be real. | |
| The agenda items are going to be passed. | |
| Now, why it's important to pass it. | |
| Number one, you promised you would. | |
| And number two, the American people then can compare and contrast the differing visions for the future of the country. | |
| And that's going to make a big difference. | |
| Those items will be addressed, and Democrats will be put on record, and they will be part of the 2024 campaign. | |
| Period. | |
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| I wish we did have the ability to say goodbye to many of the Republican senators that went along with the omnibus bill. | |
| Political reporting today, House Republican investigators, that's Jim Jordan, that's Jim Colmer, and many others, uh, will now have the power to review many of the dubious criminal investigations launched by the Biden DOJ. | |
| You know, maybe they'll get into the Mar-a-Lago documents. | |
| Maybe they'll get into the whole issue of parents being investigated as domestic terrorists. | |
| Uh maybe they'll get into the influence of the FBI and and whether or not they put their thumbs on the scales of the presidential elections in 2020 and 2016. | |
| By the way, New York, well, I'm sorry, Washington Post comes out. | |
| Analysis. | |
| Russian trolls on Twitter had little influence on 2016 voters. | |
| Oh, they're getting ahead of the Twitter files. | |
| They don't want to be exposed as having been the liars that they were. | |
| There's so many things here that in the end are good, and and many things, frankly, that need to be adopted in the U.S. Senate. | |
| Um, for example, vote separately on appropriations bill, uh, 72 hour notice to read legislation before you vote on it. | |
| A balanced budget amendment, voting on closing the borders. | |
| If nothing else, it's just hard when you don't have the power of the gavel, and that's that's where Republicans are headed. | |
| They need that. | |
| They need the Senate back. | |
| However, the power, don't underestimate the power of the subpoena and investigative powers that the new Republican majority has. | |
| The new GOP House moves to roll back Biden's IRS expansion. | |
| Hopefully they can make that happen, and then they'll vote on all of the items and the commitments to America as time goes on, and that's that's going all of this is going to happen. | |
| And that's what I knew was going to happen, regardless of how last week played out because a lot of it had already been agreed to. | |
| And all of this, you know, this public show, a lot of it was unnecessary in my view, but it's neither here nor there. | |
| Um so these are these are going to be interesting times. | |
| You'll see the media mob, how abusively corrupt and biased they are, because they're not going to pay attention to what the Democrats have been doing, their abuse of power, Biden's abuse of power, pay-to-play, influence pedaling. | |
| No, they won't pay attention to any of it. | |
| No, they won't pay attention to any of it. | |
| You can't always get what you want, but you can get Sean Hannity online at Hannity.com. | |
| 25 to the top of the hour. | |
| Now, the only reason the Washington Post would have written this column that I'm about to mention to you is because that means that they know or think or believe that they're going to be exposed as the liars and frauds that they are. | |
| The headline, what's that, Little? | |
| What are you saying in my ear? | |
| Yeah, I'll get to that. | |
| Uh Russian trolls on Twitter had little influence on 2016 voters. | |
| Listen to this. | |
| This is what they found. | |
| Only one percent of Twitter users accounted for 70% of the exposure to accounts that Twitter identified as Russian troll accounts. | |
| Highly partisan Republicans, they were exposed to nine times more posts than non-Republicans. | |
| Content from the news media and U.S. politicians dwarfed the amount of Russian influence content the electorate was exposed to during the 2016 race. | |
| There was no measurable impact on political attitudes, polarization, and vote preferences and behavior from the Russian accounts and posts. | |
| No, what did have an impact on 2016 was Hillary Clinton's bought and paid for dirty Russian disinformation dossier. | |
| But they're not going to tell you that part. | |
| It's real. | |
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| Uh let me move on to the other news of the day. | |
| Um Republicans now will get their agenda moving, uh, which is what most people want. | |
| That's what I've wanted from the beginning. | |
| Anyway, Biden has spent nearly 40% of his presidency on vacation. | |
| Forty percent, according to, you know, the Washington Examiner. | |
| I mean, that's away from the White House, mostly on the beach in Delaware. | |
| Of course, he goes to uh Nantucket or wherever else he goes to as well. | |
| We do have new emails directly implicating the Biden White House and their illegal censorship push. | |
| Uh The emails demonstrate the Biden administration unlawfully coerced social media companies in an effort to ensure that Americans would be exposed only to state approved information about COVID. | |
| Now we also know about the issue of this FBI guy leading up this effort once a week, meetings with big tech companies. | |
| The guy wrote a what is his thesis, college thesis on uh how Donald Trump and Russia colluded in 2016. | |
| Maybe he should be reading uh the Washington Post today, because even they have run away from that false narrative. | |
| Anyway, Wall Street Journal email exchanges between Rob Flarity, White House director of digital media, social media execs, proves that the companies put COVID censorship policies in place in response to relentless and coercive pressure from the White House, not voluntarily. | |
| What is this about? | |
| Anyway, the emails emerged in the discovery phase of Missouri v. | |
| Biden, a free speech case brought by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana. | |
| Uh, we've been following this case very closely. | |
| This is where we learn that the site integrity manager, guy by the name of Mr. Roth recalled specifically that the FBI was telling him that you've got to be on the lookout every week that have these meetings. | |
| You got to be on the lookout for Russian disinformation or China disinformation in the 2020 presidential campaign. | |
| Then the Hunter Biden laptop story came out, and sure enough, none of the big tech companies ended up publishing the story, and they suppressed it to help the Biden minute to help Joe Biden get elected. | |
| Then we find out that the FBI paid Twitter three and a half million dollars. | |
| Did they pay these other big tech companies? | |
| Anyway, Mr. Flarity emailed the Facebook exec, we are now gravely concerned that your service is one of the top drivers of vaccine hesitancy, period. | |
| And this is in March of 2021. | |
| We want to know that you're trying. | |
| We want to know how we can help. | |
| We want to know that you're not playing a shell game. | |
| This would be a lot easier if you'd just be straight with us. | |
| So putting all this pressure on big tech companies in the lead up to the election, and now on the issue of COVID and vaccines, which, by the way, should be handled between an individual, their doctor, or doctors based on their unique medical condition and their medical history. | |
| It's pretty widely reported today that Biden is making a pivot as he prepares to announce his 2024 run. | |
| By the way, I think Biden running is the best thing for Republicans. | |
| He's the he's weak and he's frail and he's not getting better. | |
| I mean, it just that's just the way it is. | |
| So he's about to launch that campaign. | |
| All Democrats want to talk about January 6th, even still, based on what happened in what was it, Brazil. | |
| And it's getting insane. | |
| Um but they ignored the 2020 riots, 574 of them in the summer of 2020. | |
| On the economic front, let me tell you what's about to happen out in California. | |
| If you live out there, you have a gas company now warning their customers that their January heating bills will be twice as high as it was last year. | |
| They're explicitly blaming Joe Biden's war on domestic energy production. | |
| Same thing we know is happening in New England. | |
| The fear in New England this winter is that they might run out of even enough natural gas that powers, you know, all they're on the same on uh they're all on the same grid. | |
| All of New England is on one grid. | |
| In other words, the whole thing can shut down because they don't have enough natural gas and the cost is going through the roof. | |
| Anyway, uh Southern Cal or SoCal Gas, which supplies natural gas throughout the Southland and Southern California, warning consumers this weekend their next bills will be unusually high. | |
| Quote, an unprecedented cold snap across the nation is part of the uh in part has caused national uh national gas prices in the West to more than double between December and January, much higher than expected. | |
| As a result, uh Southern California gas residents customers can expect the typical January bill likely to be more than double the typical bill last January, assuming the same amount of natural gas is used. | |
| Natural gas prices have also been exacerbated by other factors. | |
| Russia's war in Ukraine has strained global supplies. | |
| By the way, it should have no impact on us. | |
| We have hundreds of years worth of supplies. | |
| More than any other country on earth. | |
| We don't need to be impacted by the war in Ukraine. | |
| That's how stupid this all is. | |
| And then they go on to say the Biden administration has also taken a negative approach to oil and gas development, shutting down construction of the Keystone XL pipeline and making it more difficult to explore and develop oil resources on federal lands. | |
| Now there is a new Biden Energy Department study. | |
| This is their study, finding that the Keystone XL pipeline shutdown cost $9.6 billion and 60,000 jobs. | |
| The Biden administration published their congressionally mandated report from the Department of Energy, highlighting the economic benefits that the nation could have reaped as a result of the Keystone XL pipeline. | |
| Unbelievable. | |
| 9.6 billion in economic benefits, 60,000 jobs lost. | |
| These are high paying career jobs lost. | |
| Global food prices in 2022 hit a record high around the world. | |
| And everybody in America is feeling it with record high inflation, a 40-year high, which continues to this day. | |
| The hero of the day has to be the governor of the great state of Texas, and that's Greg Abbott. | |
| He meets with Biden. | |
| Now let me set the stage for you here. | |
| Biden didn't actually visit the border. | |
| It was his first trip to the southern border since he's been out of been in office. | |
| Biden met with Democratic officials in El Paso, didn't actually visit the border where record apprehensions were actually taking place and didn't visit the downtown area that's been overrun by homeless illegal immigrants, nor did Biden meet with local residents, make formal remarks, or speak with reporters at all. | |
| The president visited a customs and border protection processing center at the Bridge of America's, etc. | |
| etc. | |
| Now, here's the real story behind all of this. | |
| Hundreds of El Paso illegal immigrants were deported prior to Biden showing up for his photo op. | |
| In other words, they cleaned everything up. | |
| They didn't want it to look bad when Joey showed up. | |
| So they tried to clean the whole mess up as best they could. | |
| And Biden departs after a brief visit. | |
| He didn't see the most impacted areas. | |
| And this is where Governor Abbott was a rock star, and he starts his letter to Biden, hand delivers it. | |
| Dear President Biden, your visit to our southern border with Mexico today is $20 billion too late and two years too late. | |
| Moreover, your visit avoids the sites where mass illegal immigration occurs and sidesteps the thousands of angry Texas property owners whose lives have been destroyed by your border policies. | |
| Even the city that you visit has been sanitized of the migrant camps which had overrun downtown El Paso because your administration wants to shield you from the chaos that Texas experiences on a daily basis. | |
| This chaos is a direct result of your failure to enforce immigration laws that Congress enacted. | |
| Go Greg Abbott. | |
| Under President Trump, he continues, the federal government achieved historically low levels of illegal immigration. | |
| Under your watch, by contrast, America is suffering the worst illegal immigration in the history of the country, and your open border policies have emboldened cartels who grow wealthy by trafficking deadly fentanyl that and even human beings mean meaning human trafficking. | |
| He said Texas uh Texans are paying an especially high price for your failures, sometimes with their very lives, as local leaders from your own party will tell you if given a chance. | |
| All of this is happening because you have violated your constitutional obligation to defend the states against invasion through faithful uh executive execution, rather, it's hard to read in this paper. | |
| Uh, execution of federal laws. | |
| Now, halfway through your presidency, though, I can finally welcome you to the border. | |
| When you finish your photo ops in a carefully stage managed version of El Paso, uh, you have a job to do. | |
| You must comply with the many statutes mandating that various categories of aliens, quote, shall be detained and end the practice of unlawfully patrolling aliens en masse. | |
| You must stop sandbagging the implementation of the Remain in Mexico policy and Title 42 expulsions and fully enforce those measures as the federal courts have ordered you to do. | |
| You must aggressively prosecute illegal entry between ports of entry and allow ICE to remove illegal immigrants in accordance with federal laws that are existing. | |
| You must aggressively also it says. | |
| Uh swe what does it say? | |
| You must also immediately resume construction of the border wall in the state of Texas using the billions of dollars Congress has appropriated for that purpose. | |
| You must designate a Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. | |
| On behalf of all Americans, I implore you, secure our borders by enforcing Congress's immigration laws. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Somebody else has picked up on the fact that he's been breaking the law the entire time. | |
| You know, he didn't meet uh, you know, he met with briefly with Abbott. | |
| Abbott rightly handed him that letter, and I'm sure they're pissed off about it, and then released it to the public as he should have. | |
| Good for him. | |
| I'm glad that he did that. | |
| It was a great job. | |
| Uh I see Kristen Cinema. | |
| Now, this is interesting. | |
| She's leading a bipartisan coalition of senators on a border tour. | |
| Senate group will take a day or two, and they will go all across the border from Texas to Arizona. | |
| Stops include El Paso, the central processing center, uh, the Del Norte uh port of entry, followed by a night tour of the border, accompanied by law enforcement. | |
| Wonder how many Democrats will care to go to that one. | |
| My guess, probably not many. | |
| Uh the January 6th committee published the confidential Social Security numbers of Republican governors like Christy No. | |
| I mean, who's going to be held accountable for that? | |
| Anybody? | |
| Unbelievable. | |
| It really is. | |
| This this country is in drastic need of real leadership. | |
| This economy this year is going to be a mess. | |
| The borders are going to remain the same. | |
| They're not going to change. | |
| Democrats won't change. | |
| The only way we're going to change is to change the Senate and get a Republican conservative president, period. | |
| An American first president. | |
| An American first Senate. | |
| A lot of these senators should be primaried after that vote on the omnibus bill. | |
| It's just a national disgrace. | |
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