Election Day should be one person, one vote but that's not how Democrats want it these days. Sean covers the latest on how Democrats have been able to manipulate laws to harvest votes and control elections in this country.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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| Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, former president Donald J. Trump will be with us in hour two today. | |
| I don't know if you saw Chris Rock special last night on Netflix. | |
| It was a live comedy. | |
| They'd never done this before, a live show. | |
| They usually tape it, edit it, and then put it up there, but they did it live. | |
| It was great. | |
| He finally fought back against Will Smith. | |
| I mean, he tore him up. | |
| I mean, it was funny as hell. | |
| Glad you're with us. | |
| You know, I've been a little reluctant. | |
| I know I'm beginning to realize because I listen to my audience, I listen to all of you, and I've just felt like it's a little early to be getting into 2024, but it's obvious from everybody that I talk to that this is, you know, top of mind on so many levels for people. | |
| And so I don't, I've only been resistance because we kind of just got out of a presidential, I'm sorry, out of an election mode. | |
| And there's been so many other things to speak about, but with CPAC this weekend and the first, I guess, straw poll took place and Donald Trump won that. | |
| You know, who's getting in? | |
| Who's not getting in? | |
| I mean, it's getting interesting. | |
| I don't know. | |
| I don't even know who this other guy is that ran on the Republican side. | |
| Had you ever heard of this guy? | |
| No. | |
| Because Donald Trump had 62%, Ron DeSantis had 20%, but he's not an announced candidate yet. | |
| Then Perry Johnson, 5%. | |
| I'm like, huh? | |
| That didn't make any sense to me at all. | |
| But anyway, so it's going to, it's just pretty just, it's pretty interesting to watch. | |
| I watched the speech of the president at CPAC, and it's very interesting because he's been out there, but he's not really been saying a whole lot. | |
| And I saw a different, I felt I saw a different Donald Trump on Saturday from the one that we've been reading and hearing about. | |
| You know, he was extraordinarily passionate and the message has changed somewhat. | |
| The principles remain the same. | |
| You know, I alone will not retreat, he went on to say. | |
| And he says, I'm the only president in history who has ever taken on the entire corrupt establishment that is in Washington, D.C., and asserted that anyone else will be intimidated, bought off, blackmailed, and ripped to shreds. | |
| There is truth to all that. | |
| Nobody's taken on the deep state like Donald Trump did, period, end of sentence. | |
| Then he pointed out something that I have said often. | |
| Maybe I don't say enough. | |
| And he said, while he will face unrelenting attacks, he doesn't believe he's really the target, that the real target are the people that he's standing up for. | |
| Quote, our enemies are desperate to stop us because they know that we are the only ones that can stop them. | |
| They know that we can defeat them. | |
| They know we will defeat them, but they're coming after me. | |
| They're coming after you, and I'm just standing in their way. | |
| You know, in 2016, remember, he was talking a lot about the forgotten man and forgotten woman. | |
| He said, I'm your voice. | |
| Today I will add, I am your warrior. | |
| I am your justice. | |
| And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I will be your retribution. | |
| This is a very different speech than speeches he's given in the past. | |
| He used very, very profound language. | |
| With you at my side, we will demolish the deep state. | |
| We will expel the warmongers. | |
| We'll drive out the globalists. | |
| We'll cast out communists. | |
| We'll throw off the political class that hates our country. | |
| We'll beat the Democrats. | |
| We'll rout the fake news media. | |
| We'll expose and appropriately deal with the rhinos. | |
| We will evict Joe Biden from the White House and we will liberate America from these villains and scoundrels once and for all. | |
| And then he said, this is the final battle, and they know it. | |
| I know it. | |
| You know it. | |
| Everybody knows it. | |
| Either they win or we win. | |
| And I promise you this, that if you put me back in the White House, their reign will be over and America will be a free nation once again. | |
| Talked about war and peace. | |
| And, you know, he just went in very, very deep on all of this. | |
| Calls to dismantle the deep state, protect Social Security, Medicare. | |
| He talked about basically the battle for the American soul. | |
| It is a battle for hearts and minds and ideology and philosophy. | |
| He spent a lot of time talking about, you know, every day for the Biden administration is April Fool's Day. | |
| There's some truth to that, too. | |
| I mean, Joe Biden was out there. | |
| You just heard coming into the program the line, I'm going to raise your taxes. | |
| And then the rest of it is, not if you make under $400,000 a year. | |
| However, he didn't say that as of January 1st this year, he raised taxes on oil, gas, and coal to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars and pensions and corporations, $225 billion, I believe. | |
| And all of that impacts, you know, if you tax oil, gas, and coal, if you tax pensions, if you tax corporations, again, corporations will pass the cost on to consumers. | |
| So he raised taxes on all of us. | |
| Then he's back telling us he's not going to raise taxes on people that make less than $400,000 a year. | |
| He went into Ukraine funding endless wars. | |
| Look, they're not allowing Ukraine to even have a chance to win. | |
| So then you have to ask the question, why are we there? | |
| Why are we spending money there? | |
| Said every day for the Biden administration is April Fool's Day. | |
| That's funny, too. | |
| The one thing the president I was glad that he talked about is something that we have been talking about at length in great specificity on this program, and that is this Republican reluctance and resistance towards mail-in ballots and voting early. | |
| Republicans have got to get rid of their resistance. | |
| Now, would this be my choice for how elections take place in America? | |
| No, it would not. | |
| If Sean Hannity could write the best system for voting that would have the most integrity, it would be very different than our current laws, and they differ from state to state. | |
| There's only one state that mandates you hand in your own ballot, and that is the state of Alabama. | |
| Florida is pretty close. | |
| It's almost there. | |
| But Republicans in Florida have not been reluctant or resistant in any way to hand in, you know, to mail in their ballots or vote early. | |
| They've not been resistant in Florida, and it's helping them. | |
| In other states, Republicans on Election Day are starting out down anywhere between 250 and a million plus votes. | |
| And Democratic candidates are not running traditional campaigns anymore about ideas. | |
| They've abandoned that now for what, two straight elections at least, if not three. | |
| And we've got to understand the game that they're playing. | |
| And the game is my system of voting would be make Election Day a national holiday. | |
| My system would be paper ballots. | |
| My system would be all across the country, you have partisan observers watching the vote, watching voting going on on Election Day up close to make sure nothing nefarious is happening. | |
| When the polls finally close in every precinct, you have partisan observers watching the vote count, confirming it's being done with integrity. | |
| It's that simple. | |
| You'd also include voter ID and signature verification, chain of custody controls, updated voter rolls. | |
| That would all be a part of it as well. | |
| But that's not the system we have. | |
| And President Trump this weekend talked about it. | |
| Democrats, they're not out kissing babies, shaking hands, taking selfies. | |
| They're not doing press avails. | |
| They're not doing town halls and answering people's questions. | |
| They're not running in the arena of ideas any longer. | |
| They're certainly not even capable of getting a crowd that would be remotely looking like a rally. | |
| You know, they hide in their basements like Fetterman did, like Katie Hobbs did, like Joe Biden did. | |
| They spend hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars on negative ads against their opponents. | |
| And then every state has legal, and it differs from state to state, ballot harvesting laws, and they go out and they, and I'm not even accusing anybody of being nefarious, but they're in the ballot harvesting business based on the laws of their state. | |
| Republicans have got to build a system to at least match that and hopefully even do it better than they do it. | |
| And Republicans, if you're a Republican and you've been resistant and reluctant to vote by mail or to vote early, stop. | |
| You can't start out Election Day down that kind of, by that kind of margin and expect to win. | |
| You simply can't. | |
| And then if Republicans win elections, then you can have the best system with the most integrity in terms of Election Day that you would ever want. | |
| I think it's the one that I outlined just a second ago. | |
| So it was an interesting weekend. | |
| Larry Hogan, who had his name out there, is saying he's not going to seek the Republican nomination. | |
| If I had to guess where we are today, I probably would say you're looking at, we know Nikki Haley is in. | |
| I think Tim Scott of South Carolina, it's looking more and more like he is going to get in the race. | |
| I know Ron DeSantis is looking like he's going to get into the race. | |
| Glenn Yunkin seems to be flirting about getting into the race. | |
| Chris Christie seems to be wanting to get into the race. | |
| And then some guy that was at CPAC that nobody knew is going to get into the race. | |
| So that's on the Republican side. | |
| And, you know, just to update you on the Democratic side, you know, why is it that Joe Biden, Joe's wife, has to go out there and say, how many times does he have to say it? | |
| The thing is, he never has said it, that he's running for reelection. | |
| So she announces basically for him. | |
| And then she was out this weekend complaining about Nikki Haley and Nikki Haley's proposal that politicians over the age of 75 take a mental competency test, something Donald Trump had said that he'd take willingly. | |
| He already took that test, a cognitive test. | |
| He aced it. | |
| He had a perfect score. | |
| Jill Biden's pushing back. | |
| We all know the real reason she's pushing back. | |
| Joe Biden is now, you know, he's going to be 82 if he's inaugurated for a second term, if he was reelected. | |
| And, you know, now they have people, even the New York Times, suggesting, well, maybe we should be looking at another vice president. | |
| That's another thing the Democrats are doing. | |
| Reports out today that there are Democrats looking beyond Biden. | |
| They don't want him to be the nominee. | |
| And they're looking at what they described, not me, past superstars like Hillary Clinton and Al Gore. | |
| Are you kidding me? | |
| Biden enlisting potential rivals as advisors ahead of 2024, Governor Newsom, Governor Murphy, Senator Warren. | |
| You have Illinois Governor Pritzker saying no serious Democrats are expected to run against Biden. | |
| Manchin declines to endorse Biden's 2024 campaign. | |
| He says he wants to know all the players. | |
| So things are not, there's behind the scenes. | |
| There's a lot of fear and trepidation among Democrats. | |
| They know that he is weak and frail and a cognitive mess. | |
| The idea that you would even think about bringing Al Gore back into this or Hillary Clinton back into this is chilling to me. | |
| But that's where the Democratic Party is. | |
| But it's sad that I don't like the fact that political campaigns are in the future now, seemingly, at least for the short term, going to end up not being about ideas, but about hiding and about harvesting ballot operations. | |
| That's not good for the country. | |
| Marion Williamson is running in a challenge to Joe Biden. | |
| There's going to be others. | |
| I just don't know who they are yet. | |
| We'll wait and see. | |
| I still think deep down in his heart, I think I'm pretty convinced that Gavin Newsom has picked out the drapes for the White House. | |
| I think he wants it so bad he can taste it. | |
| You know, his campaign slogan can be, I destroyed California. | |
| I can destroy the rest of America if you only give me a chance. | |
| Anyway, 800-941-Sean, our number, you want to be a part of the program. | |
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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? | |
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| What difference at this point does it make? | |
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| Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hammond. | |
| 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 Napok 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. | |
| I'm Ben Ferguson. | |
| And I'm Ted Cruz. | |
| Three times a week, we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz. | |
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| Apparently, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., like Mary Ann Williamson, is going to challenge Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination. | |
| I actually know Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | |
| Linda, I don't know if your memory goes back this far in terms of my relationship with him. | |
| It was back in the Hannity and Combs days. | |
| That's how far back this is. | |
| So he's on the show and he's, you know, obviously this environmental nutcase even back in the day. | |
| And anyway, so he's sitting there on the studio. | |
| We just have a regular interview. | |
| I don't have any disdain towards him. | |
| I just don't like it. | |
| I don't agree with his politics and that's fine. | |
| And he, so I say to him, I said, he goes, well, I have to race out and I got to go catch a plane. | |
| So that means he's leaving the studio at about 10 o'clock Eastern time at night to get on an airplane. | |
| There's not a lot of planes on the East Coast that are leaving at 10, 11 o'clock at night. | |
| And I said, really? | |
| So what airport are you going to? | |
| And I could tell right there, he was taking a private plane. | |
| I'm sorry he didn't want to tell you. | |
| Yeah, it's just like, you know, all these people show up at Davos to talk about, you know, the horrible impact we're all having on Mother Earth, only to be, you know, flying in private jets to lecture the world that we shouldn't be eating meat or driving anything but an electric vehicle, things that they themselves are not doing. | |
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| All right, so remember when America shut down the economy, March 2020, you know, the Adam Schiff show with COVID begins in earnest, and New York is becoming a mess in mere months, just a disaster. | |
| At that point, the GDP collapsed by over 30% in the second quarter of 2020 for all the obvious reasons. | |
| I mean, it was, you know, beyond anybody's control. | |
| But here we are three years later, and 500 large companies that make up the SP Index, which is at the backbone of America's economy under Joe Biden, just turned in what is their worst earnings performance since the COVID collapse of 2020. | |
| S p companies now are on track to report a 4.6% drop in earnings year over year. | |
| And that would mark the first earnings decline since the third quarter of 2020 when COVID shut down large parts of our economy. | |
| About 81 S ⁇ P 500 companies have issued negative earnings per share guidance for the first quarter of 2023, according to FactSet. | |
| And that is a lot higher than the 23 companies reporting positive guidance. | |
| More than 325 S ⁇ P 500 companies have cited the term inflation during their earnings call for the fourth quarter. | |
| That is well above the 10-year average of 157. | |
| That's, you know, now we're talking more than double. | |
| No shortage of these horrific forecasts from top executives on earnings calls this season. | |
| Walmart beat estimates last quarter, but they lowered their expectations for future earnings. | |
| Over at Home Depot, their CEO Ted Decker said he's concerned with consumers that they're becoming less resilient to the economy. | |
| I mean, all of this is predictable. | |
| Just like I said, what's going to happen in the housing market is now happening. | |
| And that is sales. | |
| Well, first of all, new construction has basically stopped, except for states that are seeing a massive migration into their states like Florida. | |
| By the way, we'll have Governor Ron DeSantis on TV tonight to talk about this. | |
| He has his state of the state tomorrow. | |
| And states like Tennessee and states like the Carolinas and Texas, they're going to do fine. | |
| For the rest of the country, new home construction is ending. | |
| For the rest of the country, sale of pre-existing homes has pretty much come to a screeching halt also. | |
| For the rest of the country, home values now are beginning to plummet on top of everything else, the last thing we need. | |
| And now Biden, by the way, can make another huge, disastrous decision. | |
| But remember, the Keystone pipeline would have been finished by now. | |
| Joe Biden canceled that almost from day one while simultaneously giving the permit to Vladimir Putin for Nord Stream 2, which was insane. | |
| Anyway, we expect a decision this week. | |
| Remember, he killed the Keystone Pipeline. | |
| If we had finished it, it would have been long finished by now. | |
| We would be getting 900,000 barrels of Canadian oil every single day. | |
| But we're not. | |
| He'd rather do business with Venezuela, you know, anything but produce domestic energy. | |
| If America really cared about its debt, its deficits, its finances, you want to make America rich? | |
| It's simple. | |
| You know, Western Europe that allowed itself to become so dependent on a hostile regime, Russia, led by a hostile actor, Vladimir Putin. | |
| You know, we could be providing all these Western European countries with all their energy needs, and America would be an energy-rich nation because we have more natural resources than most of these countries combined. | |
| I mean, it's insanity. | |
| Now, we have Biden will make a decision this week on what's known as the Willow Oil Project. | |
| It's in Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve. | |
| It's an $8 billion investment projected up to 180,000 barrels of oil a day at its peak, you know, and it will create 25 high-paying career jobs, construction jobs, hundreds of more long-term positions. | |
| It's estimated to generate as much as $17 billion in new revenue for the feds, the state of Alaska, the North Slope, native communities. | |
| And I have no confidence this guy has enough brains to do it. | |
| It's unreal. | |
| By the way, the Biden administration acknowledged in a memo, this accidentally came out and was leaked on Friday, that charging fossil fuel companies less to drill would provide greater energy security despite plans to hike royalty fees. | |
| Why wouldn't they want energy security in light of where the economy is? | |
| You know, credit card debt is now soaring. | |
| Another article came out here today. | |
| You know, this record high inflation that we've now been struggling with for so long and now record high interest rates that we haven't had in decades. | |
| You know, it all points to the fact that there's so many people now that are even using credit cards or tapping into their 401ks and retirement plans just to pay for bare necessities. | |
| By the way, you have, for example, this week, DoorDash and Chase unveiled a new MasterCard-branded rewards program for power users of the food delivery platform. | |
| I mean, my kids love Uber Eats and DoorDash and all those things. | |
| I like to cook my own food mostly. | |
| It's not that I haven't used them. | |
| But anyway, they're offering DoorDash subscriptions worth $10 a month, $100 in cash after you spend $500 for consumers who don't pay their balances in full every month. | |
| Well, those costs can really add up. | |
| The DoorDash Chase cards interest rate carries a variable rate between 19.49% to 28.24%. | |
| And we already have a growing number of Americans falling behind on their car payments. | |
| We have people falling behind on their credit card payments. | |
| And by the way, car repossessions are now going back up and headed to probably new highs. | |
| We have Fed Chair Jerome Powell is now going to Capitol Hill to address lawmakers tomorrow that there are more signs that they need to raise interest rates even higher. | |
| I guess the next one's going to be another 75 basis point increase. | |
| There's a terrible story in the Washington Post. | |
| A mile-long line for food quote offers a warning as COVID benefits end. | |
| This is in Hazelgreen, Kentucky, the first spot a mile long for free food in the Appalachian foothills. | |
| And these are people that work for a living. | |
| They're not people that are unemployed. | |
| They're not people that are taking advantage of the system and getting free food. | |
| They're there because they have to be there. | |
| Anyone want to wait online for free food from the local pantry? | |
| I don't think so. | |
| So anyway, all we see is things are getting worse and worse and worse. | |
| We have this video that we're going to show you tonight. | |
| I don't know if you heard about this. | |
| Four U.S. citizens crossed into Mexico on Friday in a white minivan, but soon came under fire by a gang of suspected cartel gunmen, dragging them into a pickup truck and driving them away. | |
| Anyway, they've been kidnapped after the cartel opened fire on their vehicle and like a gang war hotspot in northern Mexico, the FBI said. | |
| Before it entered the area across from Brownsville, Texas on Friday, they were traveling in a white minivan. | |
| They had North Carolina plates on. | |
| And the FBI said the San Antonio Division Office said the vehicle was under a fire shortly after they entered Mexico. | |
| Unbelievable. | |
| It's crazy. | |
| I hope we can get these people out. | |
| We have more details, by the way, on AOC. | |
| You know, now she's being mocked on Twitter for bragging about killing thousands of jobs in Amazon. | |
| But we know more about that gala where she wore the dress tax the rich. | |
| And what we're finding out, courtesy of this ongoing congressional investigation, AOC, now we now know she didn't pay for anything. | |
| When she marched up to the Met Museum steps in her famous dress 18 months ago that said tax the rich, the New York Post columnist said it should have read stiff the proletariat. | |
| AOC really wanted to attend the Met Ball, a charity event for its Costume Institute. | |
| It's also the world's number one social event for the rich and famous. | |
| Tickets were $35,000 for two people. | |
| She wanted her boyfriend to go with her. | |
| It would cost nearly six figures if the exclusive ball even approves you to go. | |
| Anyway, members of Congress can attend nonprofit events, but the Met normally doesn't invite all of Congress, and this isn't AOC's district. | |
| So AOC went to the biggest part of the Met Gala, you know, trading off her elected position. | |
| We now find out that she grabbed two free tickets, apparently by cozying up to Anna Wintour, who runs the show for the Met. | |
| And AOC's written invitation specifically informed her that she and her boyfriend were guests of Vogue. | |
| So basically, but, you know, if a Republican did this, forget it. | |
| Now, she should have to pay back the money. | |
| Let's see if that happens. | |
| But I wouldn't hold my breath. | |
| The Epic Times points out with John Fetterman being hospitalized and Diane Finstein apparently not doing well at all, according to people that I have spoken to, way beyond Shingles issues. | |
| Apparently, she's been struggling really mightily, cognitively, and I don't wish that on anybody. | |
| This is now becoming trouble for the Democrats. | |
| That means we're now down to 50-50. | |
| You know, if they don't get back to work soon. | |
| Well, let's see what will happen. | |
| It's interesting the battle that keeps percolating up between Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsom. | |
| DeSantis was in California, ripping Newsome. | |
| And by the way, saying, yeah, they're hemorrhaging population of Florida. | |
| These are the most interesting numbers. | |
| When we have DeSantis on tonight on TV, I will ask him about this. | |
| This is a preview of his state of the state address. | |
| And you have about 300,000 people migrating to Florida every year now. | |
| California's losing almost the same exact amount. | |
| It's the first time in the history of California that they've lost population year after year after year. | |
| Now, is it related to high taxes and environmental extremism and oppressive bureaucratic red tape? | |
| Yes, it's all contributive. | |
| You look at why are states like Texas, well, I'll ask the question this way. | |
| Why are states like Texas, Florida, Tennessee, and then you can add North and South Carolina, but those three states don't have a state income tax. | |
| And North and South Carolina have very low tax rates, and they have very little in terms of regulation. | |
| They're not trying to regulate every aspect of your life. | |
| And for New York to be losing large parts of its population, and California to be losing large parts of its population, and New Jersey and Illinois, and they're losing it because conservatives are leaving and they're going to states that actually appreciate them. | |
| It's basically simple math. | |
| Not that hard to figure out. | |
| And the good news is, especially in tough economic times, that means that those states, guess what? | |
| Property values are staying up a lot higher than they are in the rest of the country. | |
| New home construction didn't completely stop. | |
| Sale of pre-existing homes are still going on. | |
| Property values, they may be taking a little hit, but they're not taking the massive hit that the rest of the country's taking. | |
| By the way, Jim Jordan this weekend hinting at a plan to defund the FBI if in fact it is shown to be politicized and the DOJ weaponized. | |
| We're going to follow that very closely. | |
| Biden's budget to draw lines with the GOP on taxes and spending. | |
| That's a good thing for Republicans because the Republicans now are looking to flip the script and attack Democrats on even issues involving Social Security and Medicare, which no Republican is proposing. | |
| But they just go out and lie anyway. | |
| 800-941 Sean at the top of the hour, former President Trump will be with us. | |
| We'll check in with him. | |
| He gave, I thought what I thought this was a very different speech that he gave at CPAC over the weekend. | |
| And we're going to play some of that tonight. | |
| And we got a great show tonight. | |
| We're going to have Ron DeSantis, President Trump. | |
| We got a great lineup tonight. | |
| Nine Eastern, Seth DVR, Hannity Fox News. | |
| And no, I'm not getting into what the media wants to talk about. | |
| They want the horse race. | |
| I want to know what's working, where it's working, and what the vision for the future of the country is. | |
| And how do we get out of the mess Joe Biden's creating every day? | |
| You know, Planned Parenthood gets a fortune of tax dollars every year. | |
| The group Preborn that we've been telling you about, their website is preborn.com/slash Sean. | |
| You might want to go there. | |
| They're using the science of ultrasound to save babies' lives. | |
| How are they doing it? | |
| Well, women that are expecting, they can go to Pre-Born, get a free ultrasound. | |
| And what they've discovered is when people get to see 4D images of fingers and toes and facial features and hear a heartbeat, more and more women, significant numbers of women, are choosing life. | |
| Anyway, if it wasn't for your donations, none of these ultrasounds would be available. | |
| Now, by the way, each one costs about 28 bucks. | |
| That's what one ultrasound costs. | |
| $140 would provide five ultrasounds, but they can't do any ultrasounds unless you contribute. | |
| If you believe in the sanctity of life, if you're pro-life, well, you're going to want to help this great group out. | |
| It's preborn.com/slash Sean, or just dial pound250, say the keyword baby, pound250, keyword baby, or their website, which is secure, preborn.com/slash Sean. | |
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| I'll tell you the scariest thing that's happening in the world that nobody's really paying attention to, and that is this new axis of evil. | |
| And that is the alliance that exists with China, Russia, Iran. | |
| Now, remember, last week we told you that it was reported that Iran may only be 12 days away from having a nuclear weapon. | |
| I guess we're down to what, five or six days now. | |
| Now, China giving a major boost to their defense spending, while Biden's military budget actually shrinks when you extrapolate out and include inflation. | |
| That's not good. | |
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