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	Yes, we are awaiting the uh the I'm sure it's gonna be so so riveting uh State of the Union address tonight.
	You know what's funny about this?
	The uh the press has been out there saying that Joe has been practicing because he has a stuttering problem.
	Um I never knew that that was confirmed by anybody.
	I think he has a brain functioning problem, a cognitive problem.
	I didn't know he had a quote a stuttering problem, uh, but anyway, that's what they were saying in some of the outlets today.
	And that he's been reading aloud his speech in preparation of tonight's big speech.
	Let me tell you one thing about the State of the Union address.
	It is the simplest speech any president will ever give.
	It's like a rally speech, and they build in all these applause lines, and and you count how many times the Democrats will stand, how little the Republicans will stand, and pretty much everything Joe is gonna say is not gonna be uh fact checked accurately.
	So, and we will fact check him tonight when we're on later after the speech in real time.
	Um, one thing, you know, listen to Joe Biden.
	You want to talk about Bob Gates once saying on every foreign policy issue in his lifetime, Joe Biden has been wrong.
	Uh listen to Joe Biden saying China is not competition for the U.S. Uh wrong, Joe.
	They are our they are number one political foe.
	Uh you have allowed America to become far too reliant on China for goods that we should be producing here.
	China is going to eat our lunch.
	Come on, man.
	They can't even figure out how to deal with the the the fact that they have this great division between the China Sea and the mountains in the east.
	I mean, in the West.
	They can't figure out how they're gonna deal with the corruption that exists within the system.
	I mean, the I you know, they're not bad folks, folks, but guess what?
	They're not a c'est not competition for us.
	They're not good folks, Joe, uh, as you allow them to go from Alaska to Idaho and let's see, to Montana, Missouri, and and every state in between, all the way to the East Coast before you finally decide to shoot down their spy balloon.
	Um, and it it raises questions, things that we have put on the line and discussed many, many times.
	We see China and their territorial ambitions with Taiwan unfolding every day as they are flying fighter jets into their airspace.
	Um, you know, by the way, with the balloon, God only knows what could have been in that balloon.
	Uh we see China, Joe Biden is allowing them to purchase thousands and thousands of acres of farmland, thousands of acres of ranch land around our country.
	Uh China is in is purchasing thousands and thousands of acres around our military installations.
	Uh Joe is fighting to sell off the remaining strategic petroleum reserves that he depleted to China.
	He never calls them out on their unfair trade practices or the intellectual property theft.
	Uh, never calls them out for what is slave labor, the equivalent thereof, or the persecution of the Uyghur minority community.
	Um he never looks at this this balloon as a possibility that some type of bio warfare or EM uh P, you know, run could be this could be a test run somewhere down the line.
	I would like to think there are people in our defense department that think out of the box that way.
	And the one thing that we really need is a full accounting of every deal that Joe Biden has ever done with China and anybody in the Biden family's ever done with China and how much money is exchanged, been exchanged.
	Anyway, here's Biden praising China.
	You said, quote, it is in our self-interest that China continue to prosper.
	A lot of people think that allowing China into the World Trade Organization, which he supported, extending most favored nation status to China, which he supported, that those steps allowed China to take advantage of the United States by using our own open trade deals against us.
	Do you think in retrospect that you were naive about China?
	No.
	Here's the thing.
	In the context of that, we want China to grow.
	We don't want to have a war with China.
	Well, I've spent a lot of time with President Xi.
	Even he acknowledges that uh the uh growth and progress in China has been a direct relationship of uh the stability that has been uh encouraged by uh U.S. presidents.
	We're not trying to contain China.
	We're not trying to slow down Chinese growth.
	Growth of China is overwhelmingly in our interest.
	We've recognized that the United States China relations generate global economic benefit, not just to both our countries, but global benefit.
	Last year, our trade with China supported over 500,000 jobs here in the United States.
	There was a debate here in the United States, and quite frankly, throughout most of the West is whether a rising China was in the interest of the United States and the wider world.
	As a young member of the foreign relations committee, I wrote and I said, and I believe then what I believe now that a rising China is a positive, positive development, not only for China, but for America and the world writ large.
	I guess I want to ask you do you think that this is is going to in fact be a major issue?
	And are you vulnerable on this issue at all because of your son's business dealings in in China?
	No, I don't believe so at all.
	My son's business dealings were not anything where everybody that he's talking about, not even remotely my son has not made money in terms of this thing about uh what are you talking about?
	China.
	I have not had the only guy made money from China is this guy.
	He's the only one.
	Nobody else has made money from China.
	Yeah, uh then let's prove that, Joe.
	Let's get to the bottom of it.
	Did he do did you and your family led by Hunter at the time, a crack addict ten days after you took him to China, uh get a one billion dollar deal with the Bank of China, later evolving into a 1.5 billion dollar deal.
	A simple yes or no will suffice.
	Uh anyway, chairwoman uh Elise Stefanic is uh with us.
	Uh we appreciate her being on the program to give us a preview of tonight and get her take on balloon gate.
	Uh how are you, Congressman?
	Glad you could join us.
	I'm doing well, Sean.
	Great to be with you.
	I think what we're going to hear tonight is a weak president and a weak commander-in-chief.
	Joe Biden is going to double down on his failed far left policies that have caused so many crises in this country, whether it's the latest national security crisis with the communist Chinese spy balloon flying across U.S. airspace over military installations.
	Again, this is uh absolutely unacceptable.
	And what did Joe Biden project?
	Weakness, not strength.
	The border crisis, which his policies cause continues to rage, his anti-law enforcement agenda, and his appeasement to the radical far left, with which has led us to 31 trillion dollars in national debt.
	So he's going to double down.
	And the American people are smart.
	They know that the State of the Union is not strong right now.
	It's weaker because of Joe Biden.
	He's going into tonight with a very low approval rating.
	Uh, just Democrats were asked, uh, do you want Joe Biden to seek a second term uh in October of last year was fifty-two percent.
	Now it's 37%.
	What's happened?
	Well, they are seeing just his weakness, and you know, At every crisis which his policies created, by the way, uh he's just failing.
	And you know, whether it was the catastrophic withdrawal of Afghanistan, asserting weakness around the globe, uh, our adversaries are watching, and he has been tested and he has failed.
	This latest test of the Chinese buy balloon flying across the United States, Joe Biden failed, and as a result, America is viewed as weaker around the world.
	I sit on the House Armed Services Committee and the House Intelligence Committee, Sean, and I will tell you we are demanding briefings as to the national security implications of the fact that Joe Biden failed to act, let it fly over the United States and didn't deal with it in the Pacific, which is what they should have done, waited for it to fly over and dealt with it in the Atlantic.
	Number one, crime is out of control.
	The Democratic Party is given in to their radical extremists, and that means no bail laws, defund, dismantling of police departments.
	Uh the crisis at the border.
	I mean, I can't believe it's nearly a million people this year alone that have entered this country illegally, just a little shy of eight hundred thousand on top of the five million in the first five million plus in the first two years of Biden's administration.
	Uh gas prices, even though they went down for a short period of time, uh, with a band-aid solution of tapping half of our strategic petroleum reserves.
	You know, now gas is back up uh over a dollar a gallon from what he inherited when he became president.
	He's he's he's now pretty much shut down most domestic product production of oil, gas, and coal.
	I don't think that's working out well for people either.
	No, it's not.
	And I'll tell you in my district, it's not just the gas prices, it's the home heating bills, it's utility bills.
	People can't afford to live in America under Joe Biden, and uh they are doing nothing, and House Republicans are leading.
	We have already passed legislation to unleash American energy independence.
	We have passed legislation to be tough on China and support the Select China Committee, which is Republican led.
	This is an initiative that we tried to pursue, House Democrats initially refused, and we actually did get some House Democrats to vote for it, even though their leadership uh refused to address this.
	And I will also tell you, Sean, our oversight work in terms of the work that Jim Jordan is doing, the work that Jamie Comer's doing, the work that I'm doing, whether it's on the Oversight Committee or the Select Committee on Political Weaponization, that's going to be some of the most important work of this majority because it's going to bring transparency to crimes that were committed, to the weaponization of these federal agencies against the American people, and to the illicit dealings of Hunter Biden and the big guy, which is Joe Biden.
	There is corruption, and we are going to stand up to bring transparency and accountability.
	Can you explain all these stories describing thousands and thousands of acres of American farmland, ranch land, land near military installations being bought up by the communist Chinese through, I guess, Chinese nationals.
	Why are we allowing that to happen?
	We should never allow it to happen, and I actually have a bill uh to stop that from happening.
	China should not be able to make investments in our agricultural land or our ag businesses.
	It's a national it's a national security risk.
	And what also is very concerning is much of that agricultural land is around military installation.
	So there's major intel problems with that as well, major national security risks.
	We need to have food security.
	That is an important part of national security.
	That means having a strong domestic agricultural production supply chain.
	I represent a you know, a very large number of farmers in my district in upstate New York, a large number of ag businesses, and we want to make sure those are American-made, American produced, and China's not able to get into our food supply system.
	My bill would do that.
	House Republicans are going to focus on this as part of the ag committee and the farm bill, but also this select China Committee.
	All right, quick break, right back more with Congresswoman Alice Stefanica, New York on the other side.
	Then we'll get to your calls 800-941 Sean, our number if you want to be a part of the program.
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	We continue a preview of tonight's State of the Union address with Congresswoman Elise Stefanik of New York.
	One programming reminder, Hannity will be on right after the State of the Union.
	I think when you just look at the numbers, pure and simple, I mean, he is not having a popular presidency.
	Now the big issue on the economy is going to be the debt ceiling issue.
	Joe Biden came out immediately and said there'll be no negotiation.
	Since then, Kevin McCarthy was called to the White House to meet with Biden.
	I interviewed him the night uh of that meeting, and he said it went pretty well, but they didn't uh they agreed to talk in the future, but they didn't make any agreements.
	Um to me, I think the Democrats have made a strategic decision that they do not believe they're betting against the Republicans uniting all 22 on a plan that would bring some fiscal sanity and responsibility to the budgetary process, and I think they've bet against it, and I'm betting that the Republicans will unite behind a single plan.
	And at that point, they'll have no choice.
	If they want the debt ceiling increase, they'll have no choice but to deal with you.
	We are going to rally, and we are unified.
	And I know, Sean, that we had a conversation uh and an interview after the speaker's vote.
	It was important to go through that process.
	We are a strong team, and look at what we've accomplished on the floor already.
	We've defunded Joe Biden's army of IRS agents.
	As I said, we've passed legislation to increase our energy independence.
	We set up these new select committees to go after China, our top adversary in the 21st century, but to go after the political weaponization of these federal agencies, and we are going to unify, and we are committed to bringing our budget back towards balance, standing up for fiscal responsibility, and you don't need to look any further than Joe Biden's previous statements before he was president.
	He actually voted no on a debt ceiling increase and said we need to bring back fiscal responsibility when he was in the Senate.
	He led the negotiations in 2011, uh saying that we need to come to solutions to find savings.
	So this is these are By the way, he's the one that said in 2011 you can't be it's my way or the highway type of person.
	Absolutely.
	I mean, the point is he's changed he's obviously changed his tune.
	He has he has changed his tune, and I will tell you uh having Kevin McCarthy in that meeting.
	Well, that was a win because the White House said they were going to refuse to negotiate with us.
	It was Kevin that demanded that meeting.
	Joe Biden didn't want to go along with it.
	So House Republicans have a seat at the table on behalf of the American people.
	Well, let me ask you, because there's at least 15 plans that I've been made aware of in the last couple of weeks.
	Does there seem to be one plan that is emerging that everybody uh seemingly will go along with?
	Yes, we are making sure all of our members can bring their ideas to the table, uh, including looking at the hundreds of billions of unspent COVID funds, looking at the Green New Deal provisions, looking at the woke policies in DOD.
	Every committee is going to look for savings of waste fraud and abuse.
	And our members are bringing their ideas to the table.
	This is a process, this is a negotiation, and we will unify, but we're going to be stronger for every member being a part of this discussion on behalf of their constituents.
	All right, we really appreciate your time appreciate your time.
	Uh, Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, chairwoman, uh in uh Washington, of course, one of the top lieutenants of Kevin McCarthy.
	Thank you for being with us.
	Quick break right back.
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	We have well, hang on, one thing I wanted to play.
	Um Colleen Jean Pierre, your White House press secretary, she's not been doing well in terms of all the disastrous policies of Joe Biden.
	She actually is claiming now that the administration knew exactly where the Chinese balloon was going.
	They do not know where the Chinese balloon was going.
	What you're about to hear, I call out Adam Schiff.
	Ca total complete Adam Bull Schiff.
	At the same time, we protected uh we protected against Chinese intelligence collection because we knew exactly where the balloon uh was going.
	The mil the military recommended taking the balloon down over water, f following the determination uh by military commanders that there was undue risk of debris causing harm to civilians while the balloon was over land in Alaska, Canada, or the continental United States.
	What is what did they know about the technology that was inside of the balloon?
	And did they know for certainty what was in there?
	Because I doubt that they did.
	And is there ever the remote possibility that the communist Chinese would anticipate that the U.S. might try to stop uh some type of intelligence gathering and and involve itself in some jamming system?
	And maybe they developed a counter intelligence gathering system that maybe the U.S. is not equipped to disable.
	Just a thought.
	I mean, you know, all of a sudden you you have a sword, you think you're always gonna win every fight.
	Somebody builds a shield, uh, and then somebody uh comes up with a bigger sword and then a bigger shield, and then somebody develops uh a gun and it's a game changer.
	How do we know they don't have a game changer on that balloon?
	We have no idea.
	Because they didn't see the balloon.
	They don't know what the contents of the balloon were.
	Anyway, Marsha Florida, the Free State of Florida, how are you?
	Hey, Sean, thank you for taking my call.
	I love your show and uh thank you.
	For bringing truth and light to the dire condition our country's in.
	It is dire, that's for sure.
	Yes.
	And this is uh this is absolutely not only disgusting, uh, but w it's time to put a stop to all these treasonous acts of of this administration.
	Ex i uh I'm just I'm I'm at loss for words almost.
	It's just so blatant that what what what's it gonna take for us to uh convict him of treason or get these people out of there?
	It's probably gonna take 2024 in November and an election and a Republican president and a Republican Senate and keep the House Republican as well, for us to have any real meaningful change for the country and to get the country back on track.
	Prior to that, I mean you you might get band-aid fixes, Republicans can use the power of the purse, they can s stop some of the reckless spending, they can't stop all the reckless spending.
	Uh we can clean up government by by using the power of subpoena, which is now going on.
	Uh, but until we win the Senate and the White House, uh, guess what?
	They've got a lot more power than we do.
	Uh exactly.
	But we've also got to protect our election integrity.
	I'm in the free state of Florida, thank God.
	Uh however, it's not in the rest of this country.
	Uh we have I want everybody to hear what you just said.
	You're in the free state of Florida, and by the way, Republicans, conservatives in Florida, they have not rejected mail-in balloting, they have not rejected early voting.
	They do it with integrity.
	There is voter ID, signature verification, updated voter roles, partisan observers observing, chain of custody controls, and that is exactly what every state should be following up with.
	I'll add one thing.
	Every state now, every Republican state needs to also adopt the ballot harvesting tactics of the Democrats in their state.
	Every state has different laws in regards to ballot harvesting, and whatever the Democrats are doing legally, you need to match it and you need to exceed it.
	That's my advice.
	And I'm telling you now, because it's February of twenty twenty-three.
	You've got plenty of time this year to fix your voting system and add integrity to the system so we have confidence in the results.
	That needs to happen now.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	It was a very, very poignant reminder.
	I appreciate it.
	Uh anyway, Marsha, thank you.
	God bless you.
	Uh Pamela in Oklahoma.
	Pamela, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Well, thank you very much, Sean, and I respect your show and I love America.
	And I'm here from Oklahoma, and I have a question for you in regards to the Chinese uh balloon.
	Um, my question to you is when it first came out, it was said that it had been noted over uh Canada and Alaska.
	And my question is about NORAD.
	We're all familiar with the NORAD, the North American Aero and Space.
	Yeah, they're the ones that follow Santa Claus every year on his trip around the world.
	Right, for our air.
	And that we have three regions, and one is in Alaska and one our ally is in Canada.
	And it was said in news reports of that as far as paper, and then they've kind of went back and redacted it and tried to say no, we didn't say a that Canada notice, and we have a continental one with Canada then being an ally, and of course then they are our ally with the United States of America.
	My question is if we saw it then it was by the Aleutian Islands and now they're trying to come back and say no, but then yes, today they did interact with the chief of staff of President Biden.
	Why didn't they do something over the Pacific Ocean instead of letting it go as Senator Mark May Mullen said yesterday over the Southern 48?
	You know, Steve Daines, the Senator from Montana said, uh uh we only have I forget what the exact number is.
	I think it was seven people in terms of population per square mile.
	Uh you could have easily taken it down in the state of Montana.
	I take it a step further.
	It never should have made it to the continental U.S. Once they got in American airspace over Alaska there would have been an an opportune moment before going to Canada to bring this thing down and they chose not to do it.
	And there's no there is no logical reason why.
	Now I just played Corin Jean Pierre and she was out there saying that the administration knew exactly where the Chinese balloon was going.
	Really did they have prior knowledge did the Chinese tip them off but certainly there was control over that balloon because they went from Alaska down the uh Western seaboard of Canada into Idaho then across the uh you know the the the plain states and Montana uh then Missouri and Kansas and then they made their way to the Carolinas and then they shot it out of the water.
	I mean shot it out of the sky into the water and I know they're recovering parts of it now.
	I I hope they find out what exactly was in there.
	I assume if there's spy equipment in there you and I will never hear about that part.
	They won't keep that a secret that's a national security secret we've got to prevent the American people from ever knowing about I guarantee you this was a spy balloon.
	This had nothing to do with meteorology.
	Were they looking for land to buy?
	I mean we know there's so many questions and but my but truly exactly as you said and she said we knew exactly where it was and the Aleutian Islands it's volcanic and out by the Pacific.
	It isn't there it would have not harmed anyone and when it didn't even have to make it to Canada they knew it was there and that is not a populated and it was over an ocean and they could have taken care of it and if they knew exactly where it was then why didn't they protect and defend our president of the United States chief commander of all military forces defend America our airspace and taking it down.
	Pamela I you're you're asking the same question that every common sense America is asking is why why did they allow this to happen?
	Why didn't they shoot this balloon down?
	Why don't they recognize the the threat that China is you know how many times do I have to go through the list I can't explain a lot of things to you I can't explain I I can't give you an accurate number in terms of how much money the Biden family syndicate uh went into business with as it relates to China.
	I don't have that answer uh I can't understand why we are allowing China to purchase up thousands and thousands of acres of farm and ranch land in this country and thousands and thousands of acres around our military installations I can't explain why there's no price to pay for intellectual property theft unfair trade practices they're not being held accountable for COVID um I I I can't explain it.
	I don't know why Joe Biden is fighting so hard to take our depleted strategic petroleum uh reserves which are for our national emergencies and sell it to the communist Chinese I can it's inexplicable to me.
	It defies all logic and all common sense I don't know the answer.
	I wish I did I'm as frustrated as you are trust me.
	I mean because I want America to be safe and our defense system is set up to defend America and we have allies and when we are alerted we should do something and stand for we have people across you know different of countries in adversarial land fighting for other causes and then we have this and we don't even do something about it.
	So it is very concerning it's not presidential as commander in chief I ask you my president of the United States who I may not have voted for but you were in office why are you allowing China to be an antagonist to Americans and our soil and our children grandchildren and all and I stand for America and I asked the president.
	And I want to know how much business that the Biden family did with the communist Chinese with the Russians with Ukraine with Kazakhstan and every other foreign entity that they did business with how much money was involved how much money did they profit in these countries and I think we need a full accounting of that hopefully Jimer will get to the bottom of it that's part of his investigation.
	Yes and I hope so and I I I feel the same way as you, and I thank you so much for your show and respect it.
	And I love America, and I just am We appreciate your call.
	We appreciate you being out there.
	We really do.
	All right, quick break, right back.
	We'll continue.
	800 941 Sean, our number if you want to be a part of the program.
	Uh at the top of the next hour, Chris Miller will join us, former Secretary of Defense under Donald Trump.
	Uh, we'll talk about the balloon and what should have happened and how we should be dealing with adversarial countries like China and Russia and Iran and North Korea, and the list goes on and on and on as we continue.
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	Greg is in the great state of Texas, another free state.
	What's up, Greg?
	How are you?
	Glad you called, sir.
	I'm doing great, son.
	I uh I just want to let you uh watch your show every night.
	I'd definitely give you an A plus.
	Uh if I could have a problem at that time, or I'd I'd tell you the end.
	Listen, the main thing I'm uh as far as the balloon.
	Uh I I know I know Biden is compromised by China.
	He's just got to be.
	But that's not what I want to talk about.
	He brags every day about how for instance how he has created more jobs than any other president in history.
	Well, what do you expect from what happened during COVID?
	So many people lost their jobs.
	He brags about it every freaking day.
	Uh but he also brags about uh uh the inflation, the gas prices and and drugs and so on and so forth.
	Uh you know, all that's is is gone out the you know uh over the roof.
	Um I'm sorry, I'm a little I'm a little nervous.
	Uh you're making total sense.
	Let not your heart be troubled.
	I I think I get the point.
	So look, this is this is why elections have consequences.
	And don't expect him.
	I went over earlier a lot of the lies that you're gonna hear tonight that he reduced the deficit, that it's all Donald Trump's fault.
	He inherited an economy and free fall, he inherited inflation.
	None of that is is true.
	He's gonna claim and lie that prices have gone down with gasoline.
	Nope, they're up again about a dollar more a gallon than when he came into office.
	Um he's saying he's doing all he can to secure the border, that our border is secure, that will be a lie.
	He's increasing gas and oil production in the country.
	That will be a lie.
	They just nothing he says tonight is gonna be truthful, or very little.
	And you know, I just ask you to very simply do have one little test.
	We have two-thirds of Americans now living paycheck to paycheck.
	We have 40% of Americans now in poverty.
	And you ask yourself that are doing worse off economically than they've done since since he became president.
	Are you better off than you were two years ago?
	That's it.
	Ask that simple question.
	And do you believe, in spite of the rhetoric that Biden has helped the economy?
	Has he has he made this country more safe and more secure?
	If you ask those simple questions, the answer will be obvious.
	And it won't matter what he says.
	Um, but it is what it is.
	We'll have great coverage, by the way, calling out his lies, fact-checking him uh Hannity right after the speech tonight.
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