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Jan. 13, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show
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Economy First - January 12th, Hour 3
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If you want to be a part of the program, I got to tell you something.
This is insanity.
You got the mob, the media, fake news, CNN.
You got AOC.
You got Pete Buddha Judge.
You got everybody out there.
They want to now, Kathy Hochl, the governor of New York, and they want to ban gas stoves.
They think that this is now the new fad of the climate alarmist cult.
And you couldn't imagine a more ridiculous, anti-science, dishonest, elitist signal as it relates to the economy.
By the way, who's going to buy everybody a new appliance?
Who's going to pay for all of this?
And as we've been pointing out, then the FAA disaster, where for the first time since 9-11, 2001, they had to shut down the entire country in terms of air flight.
The FAA, they don't know why.
Was it a hacking?
Was it a computer glitch?
How did it happen?
You know, it doesn't impact Pete Buddhajudge because he's out there flying around in a government jet that you paid for.
And meanwhile, they lecture every American about, you know, carbon emissions, carbon emissions.
Well, your government, you have paid for a fleet of close to a thousand jets and helicopters that they all use on a regular basis.
If you look through all the varying times, now they want to ban gas stoves.
Are you kidding me?
And fluorescent light bulbs?
I mean, this is insanity to me.
Anyway, there was some tape earlier, Pete Buddhajudge making excuses for the FAA outrage.
Then we're going to talk about the economy as well.
Listen to this.
First of all, any hint of what the root cause was of this outage?
Well, now that the system is up and running, our primary focus is to determine that root cause.
And I've directed FAA to figure out exactly how this happened.
This is an incredibly complex system.
So glitches or complications happen all the time, but we can't allow them to ever lead to this level of disruption.
And we won't ever allow them to lead to a safety problem.
Yeah, he doesn't have the problem because he's flying on a private jet you paid for with all the carbon emissions that they say they're so angry about.
By the way, Congresswoman Nancy May, South Carolina, filed a bill that would require Buddha Judge to fly commercial, especially after the FAA and Southwest Airlines debacle, and those things haven't been resolved.
Then over at Fake News CNN, they're comparing gas stoves to an idling car.
Listen.
The science is showing us that having a gas stove in a small apartment, especially with bad ventilation, it's like having a car idling there.
And if you have young kids, it can affect cognitive abilities and as well as asthma.
Oh, great science over there at Fake News CNN.
In the meantime, you're paying record amounts of money to fly with the worst service that we've ever had.
Have you looked at the price of eggs recently?
If you can find them, you know, $1,150 a dozen in some stores.
I paid $10.
I eat eggs every day, three or four eggs every day, or egg whites, depending on what the day is.
It's unbelievable.
Traveling has never been worse than it is right now.
Now, if you listen to the left and liberals in general, and they talk about the economy, you would think that nothing has gone wrong at all, but they couldn't be more wrong.
Anyway, here to sort it out.
We have David Bonson.
He's the founder, managing partner of the Bonson Group, Steve Moore, economics extraordinaire expert, Trump Benomics, the Inside of the American First Plan to Save Our Economy.
You know, if you listen to these so-called experts, you would think that the economy is completely rebounded and we have nothing to worry about.
Meanwhile, the price of every consumer good continues to rise.
The only thing that went down somewhat significantly was the price of a gallon of gasoline, Steve Moore.
So I agree with you, Sean, that we are hardly out of the woods, and this idea of taking a victory lap on inflation is a little ridiculous.
I just calculated the numbers from when Trump came into office to today, Sean.
Do you know what the average increase in prices for average consumer goods is over that two-year period?
I'm listening.
13%.
13%.
By the way, let me give you examples.
The price of eggs is up 59.9%.
Fuel and oil, again, if you liken it to what Joe Biden inherited, is up 41.5%.
Butter, margarine, 35%.
Airfare, 30%.
Lettuce, utility, public transportation, even my favorite, you know, Sabrette hot dogs with the full natural casing.
Bread, coffee, dairy, all of it's going up.
Electricity prices are going to double in California and New England this winter.
Yeah, I'll give you another one that, you know, health insurance costs were up 8% this past year.
Gee, Sean, I thought we, didn't we pass the Affordable Care Act?
Wasn't that going to bring inflation down for these health plans?
Steve, the average family was going to save $2,500 on average per year.
Yeah, that never happened.
So, now that's the bad news.
The good news is that we did get a good number for this month, this past month of December.
David Bonson can talk more about that then.
He knows more of the particulars.
So it looks like inflation is coming down, but I'm worried about just the structural economy.
When you have a $32 trillion debt, when you're borrowing a trillion and a half dollars a year, that is a prescription for national disaster on the economy.
I see it that way, and it's obvious.
If you listen to the financial experts I'm hearing, almost all of them are unanimously predicting a recession this year.
David Bonson.
Yeah, so I feel very strongly that I have a right-wing, conservative-based objection to what the Biden administration is doing with the economy.
But I do think my opinions are a little different than you guys on what the nature of that is here.
The Biden administration has made so many mistakes, I wouldn't even know where to count, Sean.
But on the price of eggs and food and these different things, the COVID lockdowns were a disaster.
And we reopened our economy where normal human beings created by God to live normal lives went about living normal lives.
But guess what?
The supply side of our economy wasn't ready.
We didn't have enough goods and services because of those absurd blue state lockdowns.
And that was the primary cause of inflation that is no question coming down significantly.
And the prices are still higher than they were two years ago.
But from a political standpoint, I want the right to focus on the worst thing the Biden administration's doing because the inflation numbers are going to continue getting lower.
And that's not because they're doing good stuff.
It's because we're going to lose growth in the economy and prices are going to be coming down.
Core goods are only up now year over year, 2.1%.
They had peaked at over 9%.
That's not because the Biden administration did anything.
It's because this inflation was highly supply-side driven.
Ultimately, I really believe that the low, slow, and no growth that excessive government indebtedness creates is our biggest problem.
And it's all I want the right talking about because America is a high-growth economy and these people are turning us into Japan.
Explain that so the average person can understand completely what you're saying because there's too much economic speak in there for me.
Okay, that's fair.
I'm sorry.
I think that America is used to growing at a certain rate ever since World War II.
We produce a lot of goods and services.
There's consumption.
There's activity.
There's humans doing a lot of things with innovation and productive economic living.
And that since the financial crisis coming with the Obama years, President Trump inherited an economy that had been growing at half of its 70-year average.
After they passed the tax bill that Steve Moore and others were a big part of, economic growth got up to 3%.
It doubled what it had been in the Obama years.
It's the first time we saw 3% real GDP growth since the financial crisis.
Then COVID came, Sean.
And now I think we're going to be stuck at 1% growth for a long time.
And we're doing it now with instead of $24 trillion on the $31 trillion.
$31 trillion.
You're right.
I stand corrected.
They're kind of ending it.
They want to keep going and making it worse and worse.
So my non-economic argument, I try to be simple about it, is every dollar they spend is a dollar not being spent in the private sector.
And that's the problem.
Quick break more with our economic experts, David Bonson and Steve Moore on the other side.
And your calls coming up.
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All right, we'll continue with our economic experts, David Bonson and Steve Moore.
And we'll get to your calls at the bottom of the half hour, 800-941-Sean, if you want to join us.
Politically speaking, this is where the House Republicans, not only do they have the power of subpoena, which is so pivotal, as we spent the entire, almost the entire show on before you guys joined us, discussing especially these investigations into the Biden family, whether or not the DOJs weaponized, the FBI politicized, but on the issue involving the economy and where it's headed, I think this is the one, you know, bread and butter issues are the ones that impact Americans the most.
Nobody's talking about, Steve Moore, that Joe Biden, as of January 1st, raised billions, hundreds of billions of dollars in new taxes that are impacting the poor, the middle class, people on fixed income the most, something he promised you wouldn't do if you make less than $400,000 a year.
But he raised significantly billions of dollars in new taxes on coal, gas, and oil, and on your pension plan and corporate tax increases, which we know get passed on to consumers.
Yeah, and don't forget the most important tax of all, Sean, which you didn't even, well, we kind of indirectly mentioned, which is inflation is a tax.
It's a tax on Americans' earnings.
And so, you know, at a time when we've had that 13% inflation over the last two years, wages and salaries have gone up, you know, just a little bit more than half of that amount.
So it's a tax on every, it's almost like a sales tax, Sean, that inflation rate that's so high.
Now, David Bonson is right that the inflation is coming down rapidly, and he's exactly right.
But that growth point is what really sticks in my claw because I honestly believe, Sean, and I know you believe this too, if Trump were still president, we wouldn't be talking about a recession.
You kidding me?
We'd be booming.
We'd be producing three or four million more barrels a day of oil.
We would have control of our border.
We wouldn't have the tax of the money.
We'd become an energy-rich country.
Exactly.
Because we would take energy independence, put it on steroids, and we would be providing Western Europe with all their energy needs and getting rich.
And don't forget also, you know, there's no way that Putin could have gone into Ukraine if we continued, because his whole economy is based on the price of oil.
And, you know, so my point is that we, if we're going to grow, David Bonson is right that the economy is only going to grow by 1% or less under Biden.
Well, I thought that was an optimistic figure by David.
Do you agree with David?
That's a disaster.
Well, let me ask you.
I thought, David, no offense.
I'm not arguing with you.
I thought your 1% prediction on GDP was pretty optimistic.
Steve Moore, do you think that's where we're headed?
Well, what I'm saying is that's the consensus forecast.
Even the Biden administration is saying the economy is only going to grow by 1% or 1.5%.
We've got to be growing at 3% to 3.5% to 4%.
Under Reagan, we had 3.5% to 4% growth.
Under Trump, we had 3% growth, and we were headed to 4% growth.
So growth is the solution to these problems, but where's it going to come from?
You've got a president who doesn't want to produce our energy, wants to raise taxes on our businesses, and on and on and on.
All things that are just weights on the back of the American economy.
I think that's the perfect analogy.
He's weighing down the economy.
All these taxes on energy, gas, oil, coal is only going to, it's going to act like a sinking weight on the economy at all times.
And I don't see those policies changing anyway, anyhow, with this president, David.
Well, no, and the energy independence is the greatest example.
And all three of us were during the Obama years very critical, appropriately so, of President Obama.
But what he did was say all the wrong things about green energy, but then he actually didn't really shut down fracking.
He didn't really shut down permits.
He didn't do all the stuff President Trump did.
He didn't do it the way I would do it.
But Biden came in with the bark of a radical environmentalist and the bite, where at least Obama was a little bit more hypocritical because he knew he needed the growth of the fracking revolution.
We need that energy independence back.
It would, in and of itself, over a 10-year period, add 2% per year to GDP just by itself.
You add in the other factors, that's how you get back to the Steve Moore three-handle or four-handle that we need.
Sean, I don't predict 1% GDP growth this year.
I would love for it to be the case.
I wouldn't bet a political race that it's going to be recessionary, but I expect it will be.
But 1% is my prediction for years going forward.
And the problem in saying 1% is you're talking about Japan-level numbers, and it's totally unacceptable.
And the reason we need the growth Steve Moore is talking about is not only because we need it to fund our deficits, we need it to fund economic growth and a higher standard of living.
It's the best thing for humanity to have the opportunity to have an aspirational society.
They're taking away people's hope.
Yeah, I think that's well said, Steve.
That's one other quick thing that you didn't mention.
Did you see the story this week that the Biden administration doesn't want to build new roads?
Now, we just passed a, what, a trillion-dollar infrastructure bill, and they don't want to use it for roads.
They want to use it for transit and green energy projects, things like that.
They don't want people driving cars.
I mean, this is insanity.
Did you see?
Yeah, not only that, did you see that had we, by eliminating the Keystone XL pipeline, it costs 60,000 jobs and billions of dollars potentially for this country?
Never mind, we would be importing 900,000 barrels of Canadian oil daily by now.
Yep.
I mean, we're not building the infrastructure.
We do need infrastructure in this country, but it's not the infrastructure.
We need pipelines.
We need roads.
We need to repair our bridges and things.
And they're spending it on windmills.
Yeah, just what we need, a beautiful windmill to kill the birds.
I love birds.
I don't want to kill the birds.
Anyway, we really appreciate you both being with us.
Thank you, Steve Moore.
David Bonson, thank you.
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All right, let's get to our busy phones.
So many of you patient.
Yeah, I forgot.
Let me play.
You know who's having, by the way, Linda, you know who's having the worst day today?
The worst week this week?
Not me.
It's usually me, but it's not me this week.
I'm usually the one getting hammered, but not this week.
Anyway, poor Corrine Jean-Pierre, White House press secretary.
Let's first go to her being grilled by Peter Doocy.
Peter Doocy, wow, he was great with Biden.
We hit on that earlier in the program today.
But this is his exchange with Corine Jean-Pierre using Joe Biden's language from 60 Minutes against him and trying to get her to answer.
On these documents, how could anyone be that irresponsible?
Isn't that what this president says about mishandling classified documents?
The president spoke to this personally.
He spoke to this personally.
Again, he believes that classified documents and information should be taken seriously.
He takes them seriously.
And he was surprised to learn by any records.
I disagree.
I disagree.
Here's what happened.
Here's what happened once the history.
Well, let me explain to you the process.
Here's what happened when his lawyers found out that the documents were there.
They immediately turned them over to their archives.
But they were turned them over to the archives.
I'm not going to go into specifics, but what I am reiterating to you is what you heard from the president yourself, Peter, which is how he saw the process and how he respects and truly respects and takes this very seriously.
Really?
Because Joe Biden was on 60 Minutes and asked about Trump and the Mar-a-Lago raid.
He had a very different opinion when it wasn't him.
Listen.
When you saw the photograph of the top secret documents laid out on the floor at Mar-a-Lago, what did you think to yourself looking at that image?
How that could possibly happen.
How anyone could be that irresponsible?
And I thought, what data was in there that may compromise sources and methods?
By that, I mean names of people who helped or et cetera.
And it's just totally irresponsible.
Totally irresponsible.
Compromise sources and methods.
How?
How could that happen?
Well, how did it happen that it was next to his Corvette in his garage at his beach house in Delaware?
That's the second patch, by the way.
Then it's not just Fox News.
Even fake news CBS, their reporter Ed O'Keefe, they really should put Catherine Herridge on this case, if you want my opinion.
She's really good at her job.
Anyway, CBS reporter Ed O'Keefe on the documents, sparring with Corrine Jean-Pierre.
On like day two of this administration, when he swore all of you in, the president said, quote, I'm going to make mistakes when I make them.
I'll acknowledge them and I'll tell you.
And I'll need your help to help me correct them.
So you're the one here talking to us about this.
That's why we're asking you.
So let's just remember that.
Ed, we don't need to have this.
We work very well together.
We don't need to have this kind of confrontation.
Ask your question, and I will answer them the best that I can.
Part of the reason we're laying that out is because you're laying out your part of the job.
We're not our part of the job.
I know, but I'm just saying that we don't need to be contentious.
You don't need to be contentious with me here, Ed.
The president was asked yesterday, but did not answer this part of the question.
Why didn't he or someone in the White House inform the American people when these documents were discovered on November 2nd?
Did it have anything to do, because people are asking this part of it, did it have anything to do with the fact that the election was just a few days away?
Again, Ed, this is under review by the Department of Justice.
It is literally under review right now.
As I am talking to you, it is under review.
So I'm not going to get beyond the process.
I'm not going to get beyond what the president said.
Oh, boy.
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
Jane, Pennsylvania, on the Sean Hannity Show.
Hey, Jane, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hi, Sean.
How are you?
I'm good.
Thank you.
What's going on?
With the mishandling of these classified documents, do you think, I mean, I'm glad that Attorney General did appoint a special investigator to it.
I'm not sure how much it'll do good the way they treat everything with the Biden administration.
But do you think that President Obama should be questioned and investigated only because he was commander-in-chief, and he's the one that's supposed to make sure that those classified documents were secure?
Well, I mean, it's, again, I'll use his own words against them.
Don't you think they're applicable in this particular case?
If that was his real feeling about how could this happen and how could they be so irresponsible?
But I think the bigger issue that is evolving here is the deep dive we did in our second hour of the program today, which we'll do again on TV tonight with more illustration.
You know, we now know that the batch of Biden's secret documents were found in multiple locations in the Biden Beach House.
Most of the documents were found in his Wilmington home garage next to his, apparently he owns some old Corvette of his, and one additional document in an adjacent room.
And, okay, you know, now we're talking about three separate locations, and this all is happening at a time where House Republicans under James Comer and Jim Jordan, I believe they dovetail perfectly together.
But the reality is, you know, this is now the timing couldn't be worse for the Biden family syndicate with Jim Comer.
And, you know, Biden now changes his story after he was caught hiding more documents.
You know, his answer today was my Corvette's locked in a garage.
So it's not like it's sitting out there in the street, a little bit different than the tone he took with Donald Trump.
But then you look at this money that came from China to this University of Pennsylvania, Penn Biden Center, and the majority of that $60, what, $4 million or $67 million, some 47.7 of it was during the time that they were paying Joe Biden.
And it's breathtaking to me.
But the Biden family syndicate, it's Russia, it's Ukraine, it's China, it's Mexico, you know, it's all of these countries, you know, and we've only begun to touch the surface in all of this.
And the question is going to be is, you know, how deeply entwined are the Biden family finances?
Because that's the bigger question here.
You know, and Hunter Biden implicates his own father in his own laptop.
I have to give Pops half my income.
Well, why would he have to give Pops half his income?
Because Pops is involved in the business deal, hence the Tony Bobolinski testimony.
Then, of course, you've got photographic evidence.
Joe lied when he said he never talked to Hunter or any family member.
So I know I'm throwing out all these random things.
I hope that's making sense to you.
Is it making sense, Jane?
It does make sense.
I watched your show.
I watched Fox News.
And I'm with you guys.
You can see the corruption.
I just hope a lot of American people wake up and see it as we do.
And I think a lot more are waking up.
There's just a lot of deep state.
I feel there's a lot of lies.
There's a lot hidden.
They hid that.
They hid those classified documents right before midterms.
And I just don't think that's right.
The same way they did with the Hunter Biden laptop before the 2020 presidential election.
I just think that I hope a lot comes out and more truth comes out.
And I think we're on the right path now, like with the Republican Party being in the House.
I'm confident.
Did you see my special when I went to Washington on Tuesday to interview all these people?
I did see that.
I saw part of it, and then I got busy taking down my Christmas stuff.
But yeah, I watch you every night, and I tape it.
I record it.
Wait a minute.
You prioritize taking down Christmas decorations over watching my show.
You can take a break for one hour.
It's not that much.
I had you once.
I'm a bike in the middle and going back and forth.
I'm teasing.
I understand.
My whole family watches the show.
I really appreciate it.
God bless you and your family.
We appreciate it.
All right, next, Judy is in Chicago.
Judy apparently is a trucker.
You drive 18-wheelers, Judy?
I drive 18-wheelers.
Unfortunately, I'm not driving one right now because I would love to honk the horn for you.
That would be awesome.
By the way, I love our truckers.
We wouldn't have anything in any store but for you.
I think we've learned the importance of trucking.
Are you an owner-operator?
You work for a company.
Are you happy?
I'm a company driver.
Yes, I am happy.
And I love my job, and I'm good at what I do.
And one of my favorite things about driving a truck is chasing that AM radio, looking for my favorite radio hosts, which you are number one.
And I look for you.
Sometimes it's hard to find you in certain states, but I grew up a Rush Limbaugh baby.
Well, we're on 700 stations now.
And by the way, we all miss Rush.
I mean, how could you not miss Rush?
I grew up listening to AM talk radio, WLS AM in Chicago.
Oh, yeah, the great WLS, although, you know, it's not as great as it used to be.
You know what's amazing?
You know, I read an article.
Linda, you and I talked about this.
You know, Henry, Levan, they're not as good as Rush.
By the way, we're the ones that said that when Rush passed away, nobody can replace, you know, Babe Ruth, but we all have to step up our game and do the best we can do.
And we're all trying, I promise you.
The best part about it is you all offer similar opinions with your own spin on it.
So there is a bar that you guys have all reached.
Rush started it.
You guys extended that bar.
You guys are jumping.
Well, we're all, you know what?
We're all pulling in the same direction.
We love our country.
We love our Constitution.
We don't like what's happening to the country.
I want every American to have hope and opportunity and live in peace and safety and security.
I want to border secure.
I want to be energy dominant.
I mean, there's so many things I want to see this country do that would be, you know, that would make us the richest, best country, freest place on earth.
And then they want to ban our stoves.
What's next?
Our microwaves?
There's a new station in Chicago, AM560, the answer.
It is more conservative than any other radio station out there.
They're not doing the old 1980s balance of commentary where you had to have one talk about the conservative side, one talk about the liberal side.
They're running a 100% conservative radio station 24-7, and they pulled you guys in there.
There are several other radio hosts that are.
Well, you know what?
Maybe we should do for truckers only?
We should maybe just give a route of what location you're at, anywhere in the U.S. where you can pick up the show instead of having to work so hard.
Linda, we should do that for truckers, right?
I mean, listen, I'll do anything we can for our truckers.
They're awesome.
What else is on your mind?
I don't want to waste all our time because you called for an important reason.
What's on your mind today?
Unfortunately, I was in Minnesota this morning, and I believe I was misinformed about the special prosecutor being from Northern Illinois.
I'm not sure if that's true or not, but I did hear he's working.
He did work for a time with the FBI.
So that's kind of interesting regarding the Trump Mar-a-Lago raid and why, you know, I hope he questions why the FBI did not raid Biden's residence when I could have driven right by and used my garage door opener to get those documents.
Also, the question is, I wanted your opinion.
vice president.
Did he legitimately have any right to have those documents in his garage in the office where he worked every day that was not the White House?
None.
No, zero.
Here's the big difference.
Greg Jarrett highlighted this earlier and we've been highlighting it and that is a president has the right to declassify anything and there's no set process to do such.
Donald Trump said that he had declassified it.
The odd thing about the Trump raid is the FBI had been to Mar-a-Lago.
They'd been in that closet.
They asked Trump to put a padlock on that door.
He did everything they asked them to do.
They didn't need to raid it.
They just needed to say, can we come back and sort through it?
And the answer would have been yes, obviously, because they had already said yes.
I mean, that's what was ridiculous.
They also opened a private safe of Donald Trump's.
Are they going to open any private safes of Joe Biden?
Or have they not told us yet?
Where is the raid?
Seriously, where is that raid?
It's not happening.
And, you know, and this is why for Joe Biden and the Democrats, the timing couldn't be any worse for them because it is now, and I've warned people, I said, you're not, people are not grasping the magnitude of winning the House.
I said, the power of subpoena, and soon we'll discover at some point with the debt ceiling, the power of the purse.
We now have power that was so desperately needed to put a check on this reckless group of radicals that have been running the country the last two years.
So, you know, to me, that's a big deal.
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The Democrats are in complete panic mode.
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