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| You want to be a part of the program today. | |
| Oh, great. | |
| A friend of mine just sends me this uh article that comes out from Zero Hedge. | |
| Uh, U.S. Army Secretary says the U.S. is preparing to win a war with China. | |
| Uh why would we not be prepared? | |
| What part of TikTok? | |
| What part of the balloon incident? | |
| Uh, what part of their territorial ambitions uh with Taiwan? | |
| Uh, what part of their relationship with North Korea, Iran, and now Vladimir Putin have you been missing? | |
| You know, what part of, you know, allowing the United States of America, uh, China to allowing Chinese nationals to buy up our farmland, thousands and thousands of acres, and ranch land and land near military installations. | |
| Well, you know, uh would you think the communist Chinese would ever let us do that in China? | |
| No. | |
| I can give you the answer right off the top of my head. | |
| German's defense uh minister admits that his military couldn't defend his country from an attack. | |
| I'm telling you, you want to know why we are now seeing the most hostile regimes so aggressive? | |
| Because they see nothing but weakness. | |
| I mean, it's that that's what they're seeing, you know, all the way across the board. | |
| But the U.S. is announcing new military aid package to Ukraine today. | |
| Oh, okay. | |
| You know, we're we're paying 120, 130 billion dollars, Europe pays 30, and Joe Biden vetoes the use of fighter jets to compete with uh Putin and the Russian army, and how do you win a war if you don't even have an air game? | |
| It's impossible. | |
| You know, there's a story today that Chinese and and Mexican nationals operate almost all illegal marijuana growing operations in the U.S. Wow. | |
| How are we letting this happen? | |
| Why are we letting our guard down? | |
| You know, when are we gonna get a president that has strength? | |
| And you know, and how much of this is related to the Biden family syndicate. | |
| I want to know how much money in business deals that Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, the Biden family did with China. | |
| You know, besides the 1.5 billion dollar deal bank of China, you know, CEF uh C, whatever the the oil giant, you know. | |
| The uh I just what is the number? | |
| Tell us how much money you made. | |
| Tell us how big the deals were. | |
| Five million dollar uh a loan that's interest free and forgivable. | |
| Well, interest free and forgivable means one thing. | |
| It's free money. | |
| You know, if I give you an interest-free forgivable loan, uh, that means, oh, I get to keep it. | |
| That's what it means. | |
| You know, nobody gives a an interest free forgivable loan. | |
| Nobody. | |
| One leading Russian oligarch is warning that the Ukraine war is bankrupting Russia, Oleg Deras uh Poska, remember him, said Russia could find its coffers empty by next year. | |
| Here's the problem. | |
| The U.S. got out of domestic energy production. | |
| We're even now importing three million barrels of oil from Venezuela a day. | |
| Can you believe this? | |
| You know, it's insanity. | |
| Joe Biden's selling our strategic petroleum reserves in part to China. | |
| Are you kidding me? | |
| How stupid is this? | |
| Trying to get an Iranian deal done, even though they're now going to be nuclear capable in about 10 days. | |
| And what? | |
| So we can import oil from Iran too? | |
| I mean, this is where Europe got into big trouble. | |
| Because they allowed themselves to become dependent on Vladimir Putin, hostile actor, uh Russia hostile regime for the lifeblood of their economies. | |
| And look at how that worked out for them. | |
| Not very well. | |
| And by the way, they are not doing their, you know, they're not doing, they're not faring very well. | |
| And I'll tell you, and if Europe doesn't step up, the United States should not, absolutely should not, in any way, shape, matter, or form, be the lead on this conflict with Ukraine. | |
| If Europe is not going to defend itself, and Joe Biden's going to veto the very weaponry that could help uh Zelensky win the war, then why are we bothering? | |
| Stop. | |
| Save the money because you're wasting it. | |
| It can go on for three more years, he said. | |
| Uh no, it can't. | |
| We can't afford it. | |
| If you're going to fight a war, fight the war the way Trump beat the caliphate. | |
| You bomb the living hell out of your enemy and you win the war. | |
| Didn't we learn anything from Iraq? | |
| Didn't we learn anything from Afghanistan? | |
| How many times have I said we can't send our national treasure to go door to door like we did in Iraq, banging on doors, uh not even having up armored Humvees, riding over IEDs, having their legs blown off, their arms blown off, total disfiguration, you know, life-altering injuries. | |
| And why are we doing this? | |
| This should not be the United States. | |
| We should not be the ones that are running point on this. | |
| Period. | |
| End of sentence. | |
| By the way, uh, so the economic numbers don't look good at all. | |
| I mean, I I feel bad every day given out bad economic numbers because I know you already know it because you're living it. | |
| Two-thirds of the American people living paycheck to paycheck. | |
| Now people are tapping into their credit card debt uh to buy bare necessities, and then other people now rating their retirement accounts. | |
| Why? | |
| Because they can't make ends meet because of Biden's inflation tax, which is about $10,000 per U.S. household. | |
| It's just unbelievable. | |
| By the way, one of Hunter Biden's lawyers resigned from his defense team, Joshua Levy has quit the Biden defense team. | |
| You know, it's interesting because he did hire Abby Lowell, and apparently Joe took out, I guess, a second mortgage on the house or whatever. | |
| Abby Lowe's a real lawyer. | |
| Abby Lowell is good at what he does. | |
| He's the guy that got off John Edwards. | |
| He's the guy that got off Robert Menendez. | |
| This guy knows say what you will. | |
| I know he's a Democrat, but he's a serious lawyer. | |
| Well, it's like all my lawyers are serious. | |
| I don't mess around when it comes to lawyers. | |
| When it comes to doctors, lawyers, pastors, you know what? | |
| You better pick the right people and you always tell them the truth. | |
| You know, if you go into your doctor's office and say, uh, oh, I don't have chest pain, and you have chest pain, you're an idiot. | |
| Because he can't help you if you're not telling them the truth. | |
| If you go into your lawyer's office and you lie to your lawyer, the lawyer can't help you. | |
| You know, if you lie to your pastor, I mean, you're just being stupid. | |
| You should, if you're there to seek forgiveness and want to change your heart, the word from the Latin repentance means to change one's heart. | |
| You better you gotta tell the guy the truth, even if it kind of is painful and embarrassing. | |
| You know, certain people you don't lie to. | |
| The White House is stonewalling on all questions about Biden's mystery bank loan two weeks after it was first reported. | |
| And I just mentioned this that Joe Biden opened up a personal line of credit with the MNT bank putting up his Rehoboth beach house for collateral. | |
| I'm sure this it has to do with lawyers. | |
| I'm telling you, that's the only reason I can think that Joe Biden would need to do this, but that's my fault. | |
| Anyway, ever since it leaked out, the White House has been stonewalling on every question about why the Biden suddenly need the money. | |
| Biden secured a $250,000 line of credit against his Delaware beach house. | |
| Now, maybe he did it because he could make more money investing it on some deal, but that deals probably with the communist Chinese or Vladimir Putin's Russia. | |
| Who knows who they're dealing business with at this point? | |
| Biden is now making moves to make America even more dependent on China. | |
| You can't make this up. | |
| This was reported by the Daily Caller. | |
| The Biden administration is now considering easing restrictions on American investments in China via an executive order by requiring notifications to the federal government as opposed to blocking the investments. | |
| Why would we do this? | |
| Why would he give after he depleted our strategic petroleum reserves? | |
| Why would Joe Biden give and sell the communist Chinese oil when they are now our number one geopolitical threat and foe? | |
| And they're threatening us left and right and sideways. | |
| And by the way, as for the thousands and thousands of acres of ranch land and farmland and land near military installations, it's time we take it back. | |
| And I mean take it back. | |
| If you're Chinese national, you buy ranch land, farmland, land near military installations. | |
| Well, after all the damage you did to this country and all the death and destruction because of your Wuhan virology lab, uh, we're going to take the land back as partial payment for the damage and the death and the destruction that you cause not only this country but the rest of the world. | |
| Anyway, you know, why is Biden allowing any of these things to happen? | |
| Tom Cotton of Arkansas blasted them for their failure to hold China accountable. | |
| You know, where they held account what is this a reward for the balloon incident? | |
| Allowing a balloon to fly over Alaska airspace, down the West Coast to Canada into Idaho, then over our missile silos, our ICBM missile silos in Montana, then down to Kansas and Missouri. | |
| Quick trip up to Kentucky, uh, and then out to the Carolinas, and then we shoot it down after they got all their intel. | |
| I guess this is a reward for the balloon. | |
| This is a reward that they're buying up our ranch and farmland. | |
| This this is like a suicide mission we're on. | |
| They are our enemy. | |
| They are showing nothing but hostility, and Joe kissing their ass only makes them more hostile. | |
| It's unbelievable. | |
| Uh New Hampshire Democrats now plan to remove Joe Biden's name from the 2024 primary ballot, which I don't blame them, considering he changed the entire primary schedule, starting it in South Carolina, which without the help of Congressman Kleiburney, he would not have likely won the nomination last time. | |
| Uh Joe Biden, New York Post today, discussed swapping favors with Russian billionaires. | |
| Now we're on to our number two geopolitical foe. | |
| Two Russian billionaires who managed to dodge U.S. sanctions over Moscow's year-old invasion of Ukraine, went property shopping with Hunter Biden, dined, and then vice president uh Joe Biden and discussed favors they might swap, according to the New York Post. | |
| New details of Joe and Hunter's association with Yelena Baterina and some other guy's name I can't pronounce, you know, flesh out pretty tantalizing clues from the first son's abandoned laptop. | |
| Remember the former First Lady of Moscow, remember the three and a half million? | |
| Well, now there are reports that uh she invested this Russian oligarch, former First Lady of Moscow between a hundred and two hundred million dollars. | |
| Peter Schweitzer said it last time he was on the show in a real estate venture with Hunter. | |
| I mean, is Joe Biden compromised? | |
| That's a simple question. | |
| It seems like nobody but me wants to ask that question. | |
| Unbelievable. | |
| Russian billionaires shopping for U.S. property with Hunter Biden and dining with Joe Biden. | |
| But I never once discussed my son's farm business dealings. | |
| Yeah, that lie has been uh exposed again and again and again. | |
| And I'd like to know why they took out the line of credit, but they don't say anything. | |
| I'd like to know who visits Joe, considering 40% of his presidency is spent in Delaware. | |
| Who's visiting the president? | |
| Uh, maybe are there doctors going? | |
| I would imagine a lot of doctors. | |
| I bet he has a lot of doctors as friends. | |
| I'm just guessing. | |
| Because he's such a cognitive mess. | |
| I love this phony, you know, checkup that he has. | |
| Oh, he is full of vigor. | |
| Nobody can keep up with him. | |
| I'm like, he you can't look me in the eye and tell me you believe that Adam Schiff. | |
| It's total the political coverage. | |
| Uh-huh. | |
| Looks some of the political players. | |
| And some of the let me ask rhetorical questions. | |
| Joe Biden now trying to do a deal in Geneva. | |
| The U.S. would be obligated to hand over to the corrupt mouthpiece for the communist Chinese on COVID, the WHO. | |
| 20% of our medical supplies, diagnostic tests, antiviral medications, and vaccines for global distribution if we have another pandemic. | |
| Are you out of your mind? | |
| No, we take care of America first, then we'll share what we have with the rest of the world. | |
| But not until every American's taken care of. | |
| Biden's energy department study calls on Americans to scale back on both gas and electric cars. | |
| I love how they told Californians, buy electric cars, but you can't charge them during these hours. | |
| It's unbelievable. | |
| Unbelievable. | |
| By the way, Ticketmaster is now making a fortress fortune selling tickets to Lewis Farrakhan rallies. | |
| I think I need to show up at one of those. | |
| Hannity cameras, we'll go there. | |
| Maybe Screwy Louie will sit down with me. | |
| We'll have a little interview. | |
| Have a little chat about, you know, all maybe we'll talk about the mother wheel, a mother ship that hovers above the earth. | |
| He said he was once transported to the mother wheel. | |
| And there in the mother wheel, he met the dead Elijah Muhammad in the mother ship. | |
| The mother wheel. | |
| He actually said that. | |
| 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 Mayfock from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries. | |
| This is Fiasco Benghazi. | |
| What difference at this point does it make? | |
| Yeah, that's right. | |
| Locker up. | |
| Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. | |
| I'm Ben Ferguson. | |
| And I'm Ted Cruz. | |
| Three times a week we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz. | |
| Nationwide, we have millions of listeners. | |
| Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes, inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court. | |
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| So down a verdict with Ted Cruz now, 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 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen. | |
| 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 Mayfock from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries. | |
| This is Fiasco Benghazi. | |
| What difference at this point does it make? | |
| Yeah, that's right. | |
| Locker up. | |
| Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. | |
| I'm Ben Ferguson. | |
| And I'm Ted Cruz. | |
| Three times a week, we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz. | |
| Nationwide, we have millions of listeners. | |
| Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court. | |
| And we cover the stories that you're not getting anywhere else. | |
| We arm you with the facts to be able to know and advocate for the truth with your friends and family. | |
| So down a verdict with Ted Cruz now, wherever you get your podcasts. | |
| So when Republicans do things right, I will tell you when they screw up, I'll tell you also. | |
| House GOP now is pushing a bill to require Biden to declassify all information on the Wuhan Virology Lab for the COVID origins. | |
| Good. | |
| Keep fighting for that. | |
| Also, Republicans are putting parents and families first with the parents' bill of rights. | |
| Parents should have the right to know that what their children are being taught. | |
| Parents have the right to be heard. | |
| Parents have the right to see that their school budget and spending. | |
| Parents have the right to protect their child's privacy. | |
| Parents have the right to keep their children safe. | |
| Why would any liberal be against it? | |
| because they think they know better than parents, and they think they're superior, so they want to indoctrinate your kids and circumvent your values. | |
| This is what's right with America. | |
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| All right, so we all all remember 9-11, 2001. | |
| What a day. | |
| Well, it seems like yesterday. | |
| 2,97 of our fellow Americans lost their lives that day, but it's still we're still losing people today. | |
| By the way, people in East Palestine pay attention because they said, oh, the air is fine at ground zero. | |
| It was not. | |
| And people are suffering to this day and dying from 9-11 related illnesses. | |
| An entire generation even doesn't even know about 9-11. | |
| My own daughter was only born 13 days before 9-11 2001. | |
| Only two states in our country mandate K through 12 learning about 9-11. | |
| The Tunnel to Towers 9-11 Institute was created for this reason to give educators access to nonfiction resources for K through 12. | |
| They have full curriculum units built around first-person accounts with scripted social studies lessons, activities, backgrounds for teachers. | |
| They have their nonfiction discovering heroes series of books with their accompanying curriculum units. | |
| They have their mobile exhibit that's their 83-foot tractor trailer that turns into an 1,100 square foot interactive museum with 9-11 artifacts. | |
| They have their Russell F. Siller Memorial Scholarships, and that's given to the children of program recipients who are exemplary high school students preparing for college. | |
| And to never forget, we've got to educate future generations. | |
| Anyway, help fund the Tunnel to Towers Foundation. | |
| All of us on Team Hannity are committed to it. | |
| I'm committed to it. | |
| They're asking all of us to give 11 bucks a month. | |
| Go to their website, the letter T, the number two, the letter T.org, the letter T, the number two, the letter T.org from the Tunnel to Towers Foundation. | |
| So let me pick up where I left off. | |
| Now, when Republicans screw up, and at some points they probably will. | |
| Never underestimate their ability to screw things up. | |
| Now, the how but when they do the right thing, they deserve credit. | |
| You know, we have these hearings now underway. | |
| We have hearings in the House Judiciary Committee. | |
| Jim Jordan's, by the way, is going to be in studio tonight if you're coming to the audience show tonight. | |
| Um and as the head of the Judiciary Committee, he's looking into whether the FBI has been politicized and whether the FBI and the DOJ have been weaponized. | |
| We're going to talk to two FBI agents, by the way, coming up later in the show today. | |
| These are important questions. | |
| Then we have Jim Comer and his investigation into the Biden family syndicate. | |
| Then there's going to be investigations into the origins of COVID, which we need to do. | |
| House Republicans are now demanding that Biden declassify all the information they have on the Wuhan Virology Lab. | |
| Well, America deserves to see that. | |
| And we need to know how much of your tax dollars went to the Wuhan Virology Lab through Fauci's NIH, funneled through the Eco Health Alliance. | |
| They've gave the money. | |
| Why is any tax dollars? | |
| Why a penny of U.S. tax dollars going to anything in China? | |
| What part of them hating us are you not understanding? | |
| What part of them wanting to dominate the world are you not comprehending? | |
| Because that's where we are. | |
| You know, their territorial ambitions with Taiwan, their alliance now with Putin and Russia and Iran and North Korea. | |
| It's not good. | |
| It's not good. | |
| Republicans following through on their promise with their proposed parents' bill of rights. | |
| It's simple. | |
| Parents have the right to know what their children are being taught. | |
| Yes, they should. | |
| Parents have a right to be heard. | |
| And I'll add, not be investigated as a potential domestic terrorist because you speak out at a school board meeting. | |
| Parents have the right to see the school budget and spending. | |
| Parents have the right to protect their child's privacy. | |
| Parents have the right to keep their children safe. | |
| So why would a Democrat disagree with any of that? | |
| 19 of 20 states now, you know, for getting kids to go back go back to in-person learning after the pandemic shut down. | |
| By the way, in Florida, they were back in school in August of 2020, and everything went fine down there. | |
| But we're still seeing devastating consequences of the Democratic sponsored lockdowns around the country. | |
| You have more than one million K through 12 students that never showed up to school in the year 20 and 2021. | |
| Can you imagine that? | |
| More than a million K through 12. | |
| 72% of public schools report an increase in missing students during the 2021-22 school year compared to before the pandemic. | |
| 210,000 students just they've gone missing from New York and California schools among the states with the most severe and longest lockdowns. | |
| I mean, it's insane. | |
| If you don't have an education, that is your ladder to success in this country. | |
| Period. | |
| End of sentence. | |
| By the way, the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees are now demanding 29 CIA officials who discredited Hunter's laptop now to appear before their committees. | |
| They're doing their job. | |
| And when they do their job, we'll give them credit. | |
| If they don't do their job, we'll criticize them. | |
| There was an article on Breitbart that Hunter Biden plotted in 2019 to betray the family's top financial lieutenant. | |
| This guy, Eric Schwerin is his name. | |
| Amid their crumbling relationship built upon an off-the-books business arrangement, text messages obtained by Breitbart News from Hunter's laptop from hell. | |
| And apparently this damaged relationship is notable because this quote former partner is now soon expected to provide revealing documents about the Biden family business to House Republicans in the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee. | |
| That's James Comer's committee. | |
| And he is a powerful figure in the Biden family business. | |
| He shared bank accounts with Hunter Biden and President Joe Biden and was the president of Rosemont Seneca Partners, a fund created by Hunter and several associates that created all these business deals in Russia, Ukraine, and China, Romania. | |
| You know, I mean, we don't even know how many countries. | |
| It's unbelievable. | |
| You know, corruption exists everywhere. | |
| Just sad. | |
| You know, we got to get our country out of this mess. | |
| We have to fix this. | |
| You know, people ask me all the time, well, what's the solution? | |
| You're always pointing out the problem, Sanity. | |
| Well, the solutions is on election day. | |
| And that's where I'm going to repeat myself often. | |
| And you're going to say, Hannity, you repeat yourself too much. | |
| Okay, guilty is charged. | |
| I'm going to repeat this often until Republicans understand how profound and necessary it is to get in the game that the Democrats are using to win elections. | |
| Democrats, they're not doing Pres of Els. | |
| They're not doing town halls. | |
| They're not going to uh state fairs. | |
| They're not shaking hands, kissing babies, taking selfies, uh, you know, or doing rallies. | |
| They're not doing any of that. | |
| And most of them are avoiding debates, or if they finally agree to one debate, it's after, you know, five million votes were cast. | |
| You know, so I think there should not be a single vote cast anywhere unless and until they have their debates ahead of time. | |
| That's my that that that would be something I'd fight for if I was a Republican. | |
| But here's the problem. | |
| What are they doing? | |
| They're hiding in their basement like Joe Biden did in 2020, and then the media mob doing their job, and the FBI, of course, priming big tech for Hunter Biden's laptop, so it would be censored. | |
| Uh they are spending hundreds of millions of dollars. | |
| I'd like to know where the money's coming from. | |
| Hundreds of millions of dollars on negative ads. | |
| And the third part of their strategy is uh they are using the laws of their state. | |
| This is legal. | |
| There's legal ballot harvesting in many, many states. | |
| Democrats have been doing this on steroids, and Republicans have not. | |
| You not only have to do it as well as the Democrats are doing it, I would do it better than how they do it. | |
| Now, that's gonna require an adjustment in some Republicans' Thinking. | |
| Now, Republicans and conservatives in Florida, they they've already adapted to voting by mail. | |
| They've adapted to voting early. | |
| But in all these other states, you have this reluctance, this resistance about voting early or voting by mail. | |
| Get rid of it. | |
| Get rid of it. | |
| You can't start every election day down 700,000 votes, 250,000 votes, and then hope to make it up on the on election day. | |
| You got to stop. | |
| Every Republic, you better embrace it. | |
| Well, Hannity, it's the system that we don't like. | |
| Okay, but the only way you're going to be able to change the system. | |
| It's not the system I would choose. | |
| The system I would choose is you make election day a national holiday. | |
| The system that I would choose would have paper ballots only. | |
| The system I would choose would have pardoned partisan observers watching all the voting in every precinct in the country. | |
| The system I would choose would have would be when the polls close and the paper ballots come out, have partisan observers up close, watching the vote counting, and then they can declare at the end of the night who the winner is and who the loser is. | |
| That would be my system. | |
| But nobody's you only are going to be able to change it if you win the election. | |
| You can wish for all you want that the system was different than it is, but it's not going to change it. | |
| If you want to change it, you got to change your attitude. | |
| Republicans better get in the ballot harvesting game. | |
| I'm saying the legal ballot harvesting game. | |
| And they better get in the game of voting early and voting by mail and overcoming that reluctance and resistance. | |
| You can't start down 500,000 votes on Election Day and think you're going to win. | |
| It's dumb. | |
| I hate to say it. | |
| Democrats have outsmarted Republicans on this. | |
| By the way, House Democrats are saying that so many Democratic colleagues doubt that Joe Biden can win in 2024. | |
| You know, I would say anybody can guess all they want right now. | |
| It will be determined by what the issues are by election day. | |
| It also will be determined how well the FBI put their you know cinder blocks on uh the scales and tip the balance to their their preferred Democratic candidate. | |
| I don't know. | |
| They did it in 2016 and 2020. | |
| Um see uh Peter Ducey and Jean Corinne Jean-Pierre clashing over whether Biden's afraid of China. | |
| Can you tell me how to Peter? | |
| You can't tell me how to answer that question. | |
| Remember Biden uh was laughing at Marjorie Taylor Green, blaming him for overdoses of two brothers. | |
| What's funny about that at all? | |
| Well, it happened under Trump. | |
| Well, you're the one with the open borders. | |
| We have had more fentanyl confiscated that could kill every American ten times over since you've been president and over five million people, a new record in two years entering the country illegally with your seal of approval, your aiding and embetting, and your support, Joe Biden. | |
| I don't want lectures from you. | |
| Anyway, 800-941 Sean, our number if you want to be a part of the program. | |
| I'm excited. | |
| Jim Jordan's gonna be in studio with our live studio audience tonight. | |
| You know, he's scaling up the Judiciary Committee for the weaponization of the federal government investigations. | |
| That's going on. | |
| Um I'd like to give you good news on the economy. | |
| I can't. | |
| By the way, Ford Motor Company now is attempting to patent what's called car repossession technology that would allow the automaker to remotely lock down vehicles and shut off you know key features like air conditioning if the owner is missing payments. | |
| Ouch. | |
| By the way, repossessions, um, what do you call them? | |
| The repo man is back. | |
| Apparently at the new record highs. | |
| I don't know if you remember we've had on Dr. Nuriel uh Rubini on the program, a known economist. | |
| Uh people call him Dr. Doom because you know he often has been right and seeing that the economy's headed in a bad direction, he says a perfect storm of recession debt and out of control inflation is coming for markets this year. | |
| If you want to, I don't give business advice, medical advice. | |
| I'm not a financial expert. | |
| I'm not a medical expert. | |
| I'm not a doctor. | |
| But I'm reading this, and I'm thinking, I already wrote my financial guy. | |
| Reduce my exposure to the market. | |
| And he goes, You write me that every other week. | |
| And I'm like, you're right, because I don't, I just don't trust the stock market. | |
| Mortgage rates now, 30-year fixed rate mortgage, over 7%. | |
| The result, home buying applications at a 28-year low. | |
| Who predicted all that? | |
| Yours truly. | |
| I wish I was wrong. | |
| New home construction stopped. | |
| Sale of pre-existing homes have stopped. | |
| And now people's equity in their homes that they were counting on for retirement. | |
| They are beginning to tank. | |
| Doesn't mean they won't come back. | |
| And by the way, the problem is far less severe in places like Florida and Tennessee and the Carolinas and Texas. | |
| They're not struggling as much. | |
| Um, unbelievable. | |
| Well, these are the times we live in. | |
| By the way, I did any of you notice that the House Ethics Committee concluded that AOC accepted impermissible gifts. | |
| When remember she went to that Met Gala and what was she wearing? | |
| She was wearing some dress. | |
| Tax the rich. | |
| That's a yeah, a dress with that said tax the rich. | |
| Apparently, those tickets are a fortune. | |
| But anyway, they determined that it may have violated house rules, standards of conduct, and federal law. | |
| Now, I'm gonna I'm gonna be gracious. | |
| I think she should just pay the money for the tickets she got for free, and let's end it. | |
| You know, I'm not gonna be like them and act like that's the biggest deal in the world. | |
| You know, politicians get you know free tickets all the time. | |
| I have never accepted free tickets ever. | |
| I won't do it. | |
| I buy my tickets on StubHub. | |
| You see me at a game, I bought them on StubHub 99% of the time. | |
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