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	Mr. O'Reilly, sir, how are you?
	I'm signing 1,000 copies of Killing the Legends, so I'm in pain.
	And I think you broke the recording books.
	Remember, my book tour was in the middle of COVID, so I couldn't do appearances like I normally have done.
	And it was an entirely virtual book tour, and we signed 80, 85,000 sheets that they actually put in the book.
	It's not like it's not, it's not a book plate, in other words.
	So you should empathize for me right now.
	I have to sign 1,000 today.
	But look, the orders still come in.
	But wait a minute.
	1,000 compared to 85,000.
	I have no sympathy for you.
	Zero, zip, none, not a.
	I mean, you beat me.
	I'll concede you beat me.
	But I've signed about, I don't know, 30,000, 40,000 of these since September.
	You know what?
	I'm grateful, and I know you feel the same way that people are interested in what we have to say.
	And give us the microphone that we have, the cameras that we have.
	Let me ask you about this.
	So President Biden says we're not going to discuss, there will be no negotiations on the debt ceiling.
	So he and the Democrats have calculated that the Republicans will splinter and they won't stay united.
	And there won't be all the Republicans saying we want spending cuts here and specifically here, here, here, and here.
	And that's what they're banking on.
	Now, that's the exact opposite of what he was saying when he was leading up talks leading into another debt ceiling increase in 2011.
	Putting that aside, I think the Republicans will stay united.
	I'm making that prediction right here and now.
	And I think Biden will be forced to negotiate.
	And if, in fact, they do default, it will be Biden's fault for not negotiating.
	Well, it meets with McCarthy, as you know, today, to start these exciting talks off.
	But, you know, you're talking to a guy, with all due respect to the office, Biden, who doesn't make any decisions at all.
	So sitting right to his left or right, probably left, is going to be Susan Rice who will be the driver in what happens here.
	But the Republican Party doesn't really have a banner any longer if it doesn't get some spending cuts.
	Now, the way to do this, you can't basically say, well, you've got to cut out the Michelle Obama jogging trail in Georgia for $3 million.
	I mean, that's not the way this goes.
	You say we need an assurance that this year Congress will pass legislation to cut the budget by 8% across the board, which is reasonable, very reasonable.
	When you say 8% across the board, are you including the military?
	Are you including Social Security and Medicare?
	I doubt it.
	No, I'm not.
	Social Security and Medicare are two different things.
	And they have their own separate budgeting and their own separate classifications, as you know.
	Well, I beg to differ a little because remember, they were supposed to have a Social Security lockbox.
	They raided the lockbox.
	They put all of the funds in the general fund, and they broke that promise, and both Social Security and Medicare are headed towards insolvency.
	It's political suicide for either party to mess entitlement at this point.
	So it's not going to happen.
	But an 8% discretionary spending cut, let's use the word discretionary spending, all right, is reasonable, and you can sell that to the American people.
	And if Biden and his party doesn't want to go along with that, then you, the Republican Party, can hammer them like crazy.
	And you level the playing field rather than, oh, here are the Republicans.
	They're the obstructionists.
	They want the government to shut down, which is what we hear every single time.
	You can say, look, we present a very reasonable 8% discretionary spending cut in return for raising the debt ceiling.
	That's reasonable.
	That's the way you run any corporation or any kind of entity.
	That's what you do.
	But the only way this works is whatever the cuts are, and if it's 8% of discretionary spending across the board, that's fine.
	If it excludes defense, that's fine.
	I think it would have to not include defense because you know how Republicans are way more hawkish than Democrats, rightly so, I think.
	You don't have to cut defense in a discretionary cut.
	It's because the Democrats are obviously favoring a strong defense with the saber rattling from China and Putin now.
	So you don't have to go near that.
	But you do have to get a deal, not a specific deal on this is we're going to do this where that comes down the line.
	That's a sane way to do it.
	And I think if McCarthy puts it that way and Biden says no, then the Republicans will have an advantage here.
	So at some point down the road, let's say Joe Biden sticks to his I'm not going to negotiate, probably around May, June, maybe July, maybe even longer.
	It depends.
	There are a lot of things the Treasury has at its disposal whereby they can avert a real debt crisis for the country.
	So my prediction is going to be the Democrats will only negotiate when the Republicans are united.
	And I've spoken to a lot of my sources on Capitol Hill and a lot of Republicans.
	I can name specifically 15 different ideas that are being bantered about.
	And one of those ideas ultimately will win the day.
	I liked what they did in 2011.
	In 2011, they had the Deficit Reduction Act that resulted in sequestration.
	And sequestration, whether people want to admit it or not, forced government into a position to become fiscally responsible, even though they didn't want to do it.
	It made them do it.
	I like that accountability.
	Explain the word sequestation.
	In other words, if in fact they can't agree on where the cuts are going to take place, very much like what you're talking about, they would be automatic cuts across the board.
	Now, that also at the time included defense, which made some Republicans unhappy because this is a dangerous world with a lot of evil ruled by military force.
	But with that said, it was effective in restraining the unending, insatiable appetite to spend our tax dollars by Washington.
	Yeah, but you have to also add another thing on the Republican side if you're trying to win hearts and minds.
	You have to say, look, this is dangerous now.
	We're in dangerous spending territory.
	So you may not see it because it's hard to see numbers that are projected into the future.
	But what this is going to do is to value your savings, everything that you've worked for, your investments, the dollar itself.
	You can't continue to run up trillions and trillions of dollars of debt.
	Americans will understand that.
	So Biden, who's unbelievably inarticulate, incredibly inarticulate, and has no blanket clue what he's even saying.
	And I'm going to divert a little here if you don't mind, Hannity.
	I think you'll find this interesting.
	Well, before you do, I want to point out two numbers to you because we just crossed the $31 trillion mark in terms of debt that this country has accumulated.
	Right.
	And the scarier number is if you look at, and if you talk to any economist, they will confirm this for you.
	The debt-to-GDP ratio, which historically has been a 46%, is now at 96%.
	And once you break that threshold number of 90%, you're basically on par with a lot of third world economies.
	Yeah, you're inflating your own currency, which means the workers' take-home pay goes down.
	You'd have to explain that very vividly, but that's exactly what's going to happen.
	But I want to get this in because it goes to what we're talking about now.
	So McCarthy goes to the White House to see Biden today, right?
	McCarthy brings his guys.
	Biden has his crew, and then they go, and whatever they do, we'll find out about it because McCarthy will come out and say X, and then Biden will say Y. Biden yesterday was asked a question on his way to New York with this tunnel business, which is an astronomical expense, but needed.
	Somebody asked him about the payment for abortion by taxpayers.
	And Biden said the Pope does not oppose it.
	That is, I mean, my jaw dropped.
	And if you look at what Pope Francis has said, comparing abortion, the killing of a fetus to a hitman, I mean, that's on the record.
	How Biden could say something like that, and you just look at the man and you know he's not in control of his words.
	You think?
	I try to point this out on a nightly and daily basis.
	By the way, let me go a side note here because you brought up Pope Francis.
	Do you know that Pope Benedict wrote a final book?
	Yes, I do.
	Do you know that it has not been translated?
	It is not widely disseminated in English yet.
	Do you know why?
	Because of the allegations in this book about from the local parish through the bishops, through the cardinals, all the way to Rome and the Vatican itself.
	The knowledge of the extent of which abuse occurred and what is happening at seminaries is beyond the pale.
	And he laid it all out, Bill.
	Yeah, it's not so much the priest abuse thing, it's the gay thing.
	Well, he talked about, for example, gay and lesbian clubs at a Catholic seminary.
	It has been translated.
	And that's what's blocking it.
	The woke culture in Britain and the United States doesn't want a book like that because obviously Benedict doesn't think this gay culture that he believes is within the Catholic Church is a good thing.
	He doesn't think it's a good thing.
	But he even seems to be at odds with Pope Francis on this.
	Not that I want to digress this deeply, but based on the recent comments of Pope Francis.
	Look, I don't know what Pope Francis, all I know is that Francis is taking the tact that all people have to be respected.
	That's always been his general statement, whereas Benedict's statements are specific.
	Francis has never made specific statements about gays.
	Look at Jesus, and he was criticized for sitting down and having a meal with, quote, the sinners.
	Or Jesus, when they're about to stone a prostitute to death, said he who was without sin cast the first stone.
	You know, killing Jesus, that portion in the gospel, because we didn't take the gospel as history.
	We had to check it out.
	This is fascinating.
	So Jesus basically stopped an execution that the Jewish authorities, the temple authorities, had underway of a woman convicted of adultery.
	This is the, if you are without sin, cast the first stone.
	Okay?
	That happened because the journal of the temple kept records of executions.
	And this woman was in the records, was supposed to be stoned to death and was lucky enough to be in a place where the Nazarene was at the same time.
	And then he injected himself into that execution and said, okay, any of you, the first stone, you're going to have to pretty much answer to me.
	And nobody.
	Well, then Jesus got down on his hands and knees and started writing out the private sins of the very people that were about to throw the stones.
	And they wanted no part of that.
	That's Bill.
	All right, quick break.
	Right back with Simple Man, Bill O'Reilly.
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	Who the hell are you?
	You know.
	Now, say my name.
	Sean Hannity.
	You're damn right.
	And this is the Sean Hannity Show.
	All right, we continue with Bill O'Reilly, allthings O'Reilly at billo'reilly.com.
	All right, let me let's go back to our original topic and the meeting between Biden and McCarthy.
	Here's my prediction: is that until the Republicans show they have a united front of 222 or 221 Republicans that are going to stand by their plan as it relates to raising the debt ceiling, until Democrats see that, they won't negotiate in good faith.
	When they see that, they'll have no other choice.
	Yeah, I mean, I'm not going to disagree with that.
	Speculation, but I think if I'm McCarthy, what I am trying to do here is be as reasonable as possible.
	And put if I'm McCarthy, his job is to go in and fulfill the promise to be fiscally responsible.
	That's true, but he wants to convert independents who are not allied with the Republican Party to his side, which is always the key, as you know, right now.
	By the way, Paul out today, vast majority of Americans want fiscal responsibility.
	You bet.
	Even if it means a government shutdown, they said it on Rasmussen today.
	So McCarthy has got momentum, and we'll see how he plays it, but he's got to be reasonable.
	And 8%, a discretionary cut of 8%, is reasonable.
	I mean, by the way, come on.
	Why does the word reasonable and Bill O'Reilly not that doesn't seem to fit perfectly for me?
	I don't know.
	I am the most linear thinker that I'm the most this.
	I'm the most that.
	I'm the greatest things in sliced bread.
	Blah, blah, blah.
	Will you stop?
	These are all compliments.
	Did you wake up this morning?
	Did you need a little reinforcement that you're a good person, Bill, and God loves you?
	I have a puppet that tells me that.
	You have a puppet?
	Oh, man.
	Just don't start sounding like these young snowflakes that we're raising this next generation.
	Good grief.
	Sensitive about everything.
	All right, Bill O'Reilly.
	Not sensitive on anything.
	Anyway, 800-941-Sean is our number.
	AllthingsO'Reilly at BillO'Reilly.com.
	Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
	And I'm Carol Markowitz.
	We've been in political media for a long time.
	Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
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	What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
	Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
	It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
	Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
	Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
	We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
	You put two and two together.
	Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
	Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
	I'm Leon Nayfak from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
	This is Fiasco, Benghazi.
	What difference at this point does it make?
	Yes, that's right.
	Lock her up.
	Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
	Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
	And I'm Carol Markowitz.
	We've been in political media for a long time.
	Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
	That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
	We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
	We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
	So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass, you're our kind of people.
	Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday.
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	I'm Ben Ferguson, and I'm Ted Cruz.
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	What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
	Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
	It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
	Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
	Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
	We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
	You put two and two together.
	Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
	Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
	I'm Leon Mayfook from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
	This is Fiasco, Benghazi.
	What difference at this point does it make?
	Yes, that's right.
	Lock her up.
	Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
	25 to the top of the hour.
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	We'll get to your calls here in a second.
	800-941.
	Sean, you want to be a part of the program?
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	Amazing.
	Yes, if you haven't been following the news today, another raid, this time of the Rehoboth Beach House of Joe Biden.
	You know, how did the guy come all the way from being the poorest guy in the U.S. Senate and now he's one of the richest?
	I wonder how much money Hunter, did Hunter really give him half his income to Pops?
	I don't know.
	Anyway, the FBI is there.
	They didn't raid, of course.
	They arranged a meeting at a mutually convenient time to go to the Rehoboth Beach House.
	Now the question is where the massive document dump is going to be, and that is going to be at the University of Delaware.
	When are they going to go there?
	That's the next stop.
	And as we've been pointing out, there are an awful lot of documents that they ought to be searching for at the University of Delaware.
	And I'm not sure if they're going to be able to find it.
	33 pallets of documents, two truckloads, 18 cartons of papers, and never mind the 415 gigabytes of electronic records.
	What if we have to print all those out?
	What do you think the odds are that there are probably top secret classified information in the University of Delaware, and they've allowed no access to anybody at any time since they've been put there, and nor do they want any access out of fear that it might politically damage Joe Biden.
	Anyway, here's Jonathan Turley weighing in on this.
	And I think that the Department of Justice is going to be in a tough position now because of how it's handled this.
	The White House is in a free fall.
	I mean, they've adopted a position of not answering questions that is neither legally nor practically sustainable.
	I think the most dangerous spot in Washington today is any point between Ron Clain and the door.
	I mean, I think that he is going to set a new record in terms of track.
	Now, I really respect Jonathan Turley.
	I mean, he's a registered Democrat, but he calls him as he sees him.
	The disagreement I would have with him when he says, you know, I don't know how this is going to be legally sustainable.
	And I can answer that question.
	It's going to be legally sustainable because we have a dual system of justice.
	We don't have equal justice or equal application of our laws.
	And as you can see, as I predicted, you know, Jim Jordan and the Judiciary Committee, the DOJ is now stonewalling already.
	And it's going to be one court fight after another for every single document for Congress to do their job of oversight.
	They don't want oversight.
	They want to delay.
	And they're hoping they can delay two long years.
	That's what their hope is.
	John is in the great state of Rhode Island.
	I spent five years of my life in the town of Warren, Rhode Island.
	How are you, sir?
	I'm doing good.
	How are you doing, Sean?
	I'm good.
	You ever go to the Black Pearl at the wharf in Newport?
	I've been there many, many times.
	I used to live in Newport.
	How great is that chada, as you say?
	What's that?
	It's like the best you've ever had, right?
	Except for mine.
	I doubt it.
	There's no way you can beat the Black Pearl.
	If you can, you're an amazing soup.
	I'm an original New Englander, so mine's good.
	You know, but it's surprising because when I would go out in New England anywhere, if I go out, I've been up there to visit occasionally.
	Nobody comes close to the Black Pearl.
	And I have one bite, and I know immediately if I'm having potato soup or real New England clam chowder.
	All right, so I'll tell you what, next time you are in that area, stop by Middletown, the Newport Middletown line.
	Go to Anthony's Seafood and get the Portuguese fish stew.
	You'll fall in love with that.
	Sounds good.
	I like it.
	By the way, in Rhode Island, it's kind of strange.
	They don't call clams clams.
	They call them cohogs, correct?
	Or quahogs.
	I don't know how you say it.
	Depends.
	I mean, that's all the size of the clam.
	Right.
	Quahog is the big one.
	And then it goes down from there.
	You have cherry stones, little necks.
	But you know, nobody else in the country calls them quahogs.
	Correct.
	Yes, you're correct.
	Okay.
	Anyway, what's on your mind today?
	So I have a question for you.
	So we're always talking about voter ID, mail-in ballots, signature verification, and all that, which I believe in.
	My question is about the politicians.
	Huckum is not a law or come to not passing a law that is mandatory that you have to debate if you're going to run for office.
	And if you can't make it.
	I would support that law 100% and that any debate must, all debates must be taking place before any votes are cast.
	Before any, absolutely.
	So how come nobody ever talks about that?
	Well, we talked about it a lot because, you know, by the time Fetterman and Dr. Oz debated, it was close to a million ballots already sent in in Pennsylvania.
	And we all know that Fetterman, like Biden and like Katie Hobbs and others, you know, they spent most of their campaign dumping, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars and lying ads about their opponents and hiding in their basements and not doing anything historically the politicians do.
	Democrats are in the business of ballot harvesting, running negative ads and hiding.
	That's how they run campaigns.
	Republicans, you know, they think if they have better ideas, they're going to win.
	If they kiss babies and take selfies and shake hands and have press avails and do town halls and have better ideas that they're going to win, that's not how elections are being run right now.
	So why is it that Republicans aren't talking about that, making that mandatory and passing some sort of law?
	I think I'm having success because I'm telling enough people about it.
	I'll give you a preview of what we're planning to do.
	We're planning on going to every swing state governor, trying to get them on the air with us and asking them if they will lead the effort for election integrity in their state, including your idea, which I think is a good one.
	I think it's a great one.
	And if you can't make it, you can't.
	No, it's not a good idea.
	It's a great, great one.
	I agree.
	It is a good idea.
	Yeah.
	And then I had one more very important question.
	It was really important.
	You're always talking about what a great cook you are.
	So I have to travel to New York next week to see my son at school for his birthday.
	He's in college there.
	And I was hoping to come by and sample some of your food, myself and my wife.
	You sound like a great guy, John.
	Okay.
	Let me give you just a little insight.
	Now, sweet baby James, I don't know why, but he bought a house.
	They finally got the CEO on the house.
	How long have you been living with me, Uncle James?
	He and my sister have, I live alone, but he and my sister have been living with me.
	How long have you been here now?
	Eight months?
	About eight months?
	Which, by the way, I don't mind because my sister does all the grocery shopping, although I like grocery shopping.
	And she even cooks chicken soup.
	Now, here's the problem I have.
	You're just all like paying $20 for a whole chicken now, though.
	No, it's frustrating.
	I'm not going to lie.
	The problem is I can't even open my own mail anymore because of, well, let's say events that have occurred in the course of my career.
	And you sound like a great guy, but I don't know anything about you.
	I'd have to do a full, complete background check to see if you really are who you say you are by the time that any security would ever let you near my house.
	Does that make sense?
	Yeah, that's fine with me.
	It's all clean and clear.
	I'm not worried.
	I just want to try the food.
	One day, maybe we'll have a Hannity barbecue and I'll cook for everybody.
	And I think you'd be impressed.
	I'll put it that way.
	You have my number.
	Hey, sweet baby.
	Now, James can testify to the fact: do I or do I not make every meal that I eat for myself myself?
	Yes, you do.
	I do.
	Now, I also have made a lot of meals for you.
	How would you rate my cooking on a scale of one to 10?
	Maybe not as much as Rodney, but I really like your cooking.
	Well, Rodney's a friend of ours in Washington, D.C., and I've made two meals from him for him.
	And between everybody, and it was like every bite.
	Well, give me a grade one to 10.
	What do I get?
	10 being the best.
	You can't cook anything, so I should get a 10 plus.
	Unbelievable.
	Do you hear this, Linda?
	Well, barely because James, after 30 years in radio, still doesn't need a microphone, so that's always fun.
	I know.
	He still doesn't understand your back into it.
	Yeah.
	Well, he said 9.5 if you didn't hear him.
	James is always your biggest cheerleader.
	Come on now.
	No, but you know I'm a good cook.
	Oh, no, no, no.
	You are a good cook.
	I mean, no, no doubt.
	But it's not the food that you would eat, most of it.
	That's not true.
	I mean, you make like steak and eggs and stuff.
	That's fine.
	I make really good steak and eggs.
	Yeah, that's like your thing.
	Yeah, love it.
	All right, quick break right back.
	Warrior calls 800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program as we continue.
	Listen, I want to remind you about Mantis X. By the way, Mantis X, sweet baby James, has been using my Mantis X more than me, and he's always been a good shot.
	He actually beat me, and we had a contest the other day, beat me by, I think he got 100, and I got like a 99 or a 98.
	I was pretty pissed off, Linda.
	It was made me mad.
	Makes me happy.
	Somebody has to beat your butt.
	Oh, come on.
	He was out there practicing for weeks.
	Well, it's not going to be me.
	So I have to live vicariously through James.
	Anyway, all the world's best shooters, they do a majority of their training with dry practice.
	Most people do it at home.
	Ammo is very expensive and short supply.
	And 94% of shooters improve their shooting technique in 20 minutes because of Mantis X. You simply attach it to your own firearm.
	It's like a weapon light, and it gives you real-time, data-driven feedback on your technique.
	It's like having a firearms instructor right by your side and helping you become a marksman as fast as possible.
	Anyway, it's used by the Marine Corps, the Army, the Special Forces.
	In other words, you get military-grade technology all at an affordable price.
	And let me tell you one other thing: it's fun.
	And if you believe in your Second Amendment rights, you've got to be competent and confident in your shooting ability.
	And this will improve your accuracy almost immediately.
	Anyway, you're going to love the technology at an affordable price.
	MantisX.com.
	That's M-A-N-T-I-S-X.com.
	Up next, our final roundup and information overload hour.
	All right, back to our phones: 800-941.
	Sean, if you want to join us, Peter Schweitzer, Greg Jarrett, at the top of the next hour, we'll get into the latest developments with top secret classified documents, and of course, the Biden Family Syndicate as we continue.
	Eric in Florida, the free state of Florida.
	What's up, Eric?
	How are you?
	How are you, Hannity?
	Longtime fan.
	Thank you, my friend.
	Glad you called.
	Yes, I'm calling about border security.
	Isn't there something we can do about suing Mr. Joe Biden personally and his administration from all these illegal immigrants that get in the country and hurt our citizens?
	There's been a ton of lawsuits.
	Many of them are still outstanding.
	I like what Governor Abbott now has done, and he's decided to appoint his own border czar.
	And now the shoe is on the other foot.
	And that is that if the Biden administration wants to sue Greg Abbott in Texas, let them go to court.
	In the meantime, he can secure the border in Texas, which he's been trying his hardest to do with handcuffs on his feet and on his hands.
	And it's unbelievable.
	Now, there is an effort now to get rid of and impeach Alejandro Mayorkas, but it's really Joe Biden's policy that he's enforcing.
	Majorcas is just a mouthpiece.
	And he's following through on what Biden wants, which is open borders.
	And he has facilitated it the whole way and lied to the country repeatedly, telling us that the border is secure when our own eyes show us that it's anything but secure.
	So I like what Abbott is doing, and I think other governors should join with him.
	Absolutely, all the states, borderline states, and maybe we should also sue Majorca.
	That soup is not going to go anywhere because he's a government official.
	However, he does not belong in that position.
	He's not upholding the law.
	As a matter of fact, if I did what he did, if you did what he did, if anyone listening to this program facilitated law breaking at our southern border, we'd get arrested, tried, convicted for human trafficking.
	That's how severe what they're doing on the southern border is.
	Anyway, appreciate it, Eric.
	Thank you.
	Ryan in California.
	Ryan, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	How's your great governor doing out there?
	Oh, God.
	I call him Eddie Munster.
	That's what he looks like.
	Kennedy cannot stand the guy.
	I'm a son of a Marine.
	My grandfather, we came from nothing.
	So believe me, I'm not a fan of Silver Spoons guys like that guy.
	But the reason why I've been listening to you since the 1990s, love you're so.
	Thank God for you and Mark Levin every day.
	When I pray at night, I think for you guys, because if it wasn't for you, we wouldn't get the information that we get and have some kind of hope that there's something we can do about it.
	But I want to thank you two guys for that.
	Well, thank you for letting us have this microphone every day.
	What's on your mind, though?
	So here's what I've been in my head, being a military kid.
	What I don't quite understand is why they haven't looked into us.
	And I think people like Liz Cheney, I think Biden, I think all his cronies, all of them are taking $45 billion from us, giving it to the Ukraine, and buying the weapons from companies that they're connected with and making money on it.
	And that's why they have no problem stealing our money because these guys have never worked a day in their life.
	They're taking the money from the hardworking guys like me that work 70 hours a week trying to raise his family.
	And they're taking our money and buying weapons, giving them money to buy weapons from themselves and making money on it.
	Let's go back now nearly a year when this started.
	An innocent country, a sovereign country is invaded by a hostile actor and a hostile regime, Russia.
	What should have happened and didn't happen and we discussed should happen at the time is I don't mind when you see innocent men, women, and children being targeted the way Putin has targeted them, you kind of don't have a heart and a soul if you just want to just sit back and say, well, that's not in my backyard.
	So there's a certain responsibility we have.
	However, it's the fact that the United States, as usual, ends up bearing the brunt of the cost.
	They don't fight to win wars to win them.
	They don't fight to win.
	And Western Europe does not do their part.
	And otherwise, so it makes the effort futile.
	And now it's a quagmire.
	And now it becomes a long, protracted conflict.
	And we can't afford it.
	But it's a good question.
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