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	So we have the largest bank collapse since 2008 in this country, 16th largest bank in the country.
	Then of course, we have this, you know, uh of this Biden bank run panic going on around the country.
	Regulators on Sunday saying that the New York based signature bank is being shut down to protect consumers and financial systems following the collapse of uh SVB, the California Silicon Valley Bank.
	Uh and you know, go back to Janet Yellen.
	What did she say?
	Oh, that's right.
	She said that we're not going to have a bailout of the Silicon Valley Bank.
	And Joe Biden, uh, in fact has gone on record promising that there'll be a full payout to everybody, regardless of whether you have more than 250,000, which is the FDIC insurance limit.
	Anyway, uh, here's what Joe Biden said earlier today.
	And finally, we must reduce the risk of this happening again.
	During the Obama Biden administration, we put in place tough requirements on banks like Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, including the Dodd Frank Law to make sure the crisis we saw in 2008 would not happen again.
	Unfortunately, the last administration rolled back some of these requirements.
	Uh, you know, I I noticed that he very, very cleverly decided to leave out the fact that the Dodd Frank uh Act author in 2017, one of them was Barney Frank.
	And the same Barney Frank wrote an op-ed to CNBC that he had issues with the reform bill, but he supported raising the $50 billion asset level, which uh a bank uh becomes subject to the extra supervision of Financial Stability Oversight Council, and lo and behold, what have we learned?
	That Barney Frank sits on the board of this bank.
	I'm sure it's just a mere coincidence that maybe he himself would benefit from such a thing, but but that's what's happened.
	But if you look at every single issue that has come up by the Biden administration, would be it the border, uh be it the the Chinese spy balloon, be it the Russian aggression, immigration, inflation, East Palestine, uh the refugee program, budget deficits, bank failures.
	It's always it's always Donald Trump's fault.
	Never, no, never Joe Biden's fault.
	Listen.
	We must repair the damage that was done by the last administration, the mismanagement that was done by the Matt Last Min administration.
	There's a bit of a different tactic, a bit of a different approach, and that's probably why President Biden and not his predecessor was able to rally the world and the global community in taking steps against uh against Russia's aggression.
	We were able To determine that China has a high altitude balloon program for intelligence collection that's connected to the People's Liberation Army.
	It was operating during the previous administration, but they did not detect it.
	We detected it.
	We tracked it.
	The president inherited a mess because of what the last administration did.
	They inherited a wehered a mess.
	And uh, you know, Republicans in Congress made it worse by blocking comprehensive immigration reform.
	Taking blame for inflation, no.
	Why not?
	Because it was already there when I got here, man.
	Tragically, former president Trump slashed our international assistance to Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, slash the resources that we were contributing to address the root causes of a right of irregular migration.
	It sounds like you're talking about Trump.
	And then he said, I need your help.
	How can he help?
	Well, one thing he could do is uh uh express support for reversing the deregulation uh that uh happened on his watch.
	To resettle thousands of Afghans who ultimately qualify for refugee status.
	United States will do our part.
	We are already working closely with refugee organizations to re-regulate.
	By the way, you know, Barney Frank supported this this legislative change, which Joe Biden had over two years to change back if he wanted to.
	Never mind the fact that Barney Frank himself, Dodd Frank himself, uh, because he was serving on the board of directors of signature bank, which would no longer be subject to the regulations that he himself created if the asset threshold was lowered.
	Oh, but it's not it's it has nothing to do with the again, the dog bites the beast things you're feeling sad, just blame Trump.
	Uh some other notes here.
	Uh Silicon Valley bank CEO happened to sell three point five million in shares only two weeks before the bank's collapse.
	Uh apparently the night before the collapse, uh they had a big party, uh, the Silicon Valley Bank.
	Uh and uh anyway, they were eating and partying and have a great time at Perry Steakhouse and Grill in downtown Austin, a short walk from the convention center that hosts uh South by Southwest.
	And anyway, one of the uh a partner of of the defense investment firm Barkey Ventures said he ordered the house specialty pork chop.
	I was expecting that SVB, you know, folks would address the elephant in the room, and nobody said a thing about it.
	And by the way, I can add to that Silicon Valley bank employees received their annual bonuses Friday, only hours before regulators seized the bank.
	How convenient all these things happen at once.
	Anyway, here to help sort it out.
	Steve Moore, economist, author of the bestseller, Trump Trumponomics, EJ Antoni is with us, research fellow, regional economic center for data analysis.
	All right, Steve, why don't you give us a broad overview of what we're witnessing, uh the impact of of these two banks, but more importantly, you know, this is now re uh reverberating worldwide in terms of economies and what impact that the Biden economic and energy policies played in this.
	Well, let me start by saying that I'm just absolutely fuming by those quotes that you just played by Biden administration officials and the president himself, always blaming Trump for every catastrophe that's happened in the two years this man has been president.
	We didn't have an out-of-control border when Trump was president.
	We didn't have an inflation problem when Trump was president, we didn't have b rising interest rates with president, and Sean, we didn't have any bank failures.
	You remember any bank failures under Donald Trump?
	Not one.
	Not one.
	So here he goes again.
	Look, this is uh a result.
	Let's talk about why it's happening.
	And I think the major factor is something we've talked about week after week after week on your show.
	That we have a president who is the most financially reckless president in American history with six to seven trillion dollars added to our debt, which has necessitated the f the Fed to raise interest rates by eight times with a couple more rate hikes to come, and this has caused chaos in the in the banking system.
	So when he's blaming Trump for things that happened four years ago, this is a direct result of the higher interest rates, the higher inflation that Biden took on, and one other quick point before you turn to EJ, which is that um you look at the budget that uh Biden came out with last week, it is an atrocity.
	If you think we got financial problems now, if you increase those capital gains taxes, corporate taxes, small business taxes, it will cause uh an incredible uh sell-off in stocks like we've never seen before in history.
	I agree completely, EJ.
	let's get your overall view of this.
	Well, Sean, I think it's one thing for people in the administration to say that this is all Trump's fault and that the president inherited a mess, but let's see what the numbers actually say.
	According to the numbers, Biden inherited an economy that was growing at an annualized rate of one and a half trillion dollars a year.
	He said inflation was already here when I got there, man.
	It was one point four percent.
	Somehow he managed to drive it up to nine point one percent in a year and a half.
	Prices were rising one point three percent in a single month.
	That's almost as fast as they did the entire year before he became president.
	I mean, the idea that somehow he inherited all these messes just doesn't stand up to the facts.
	And furthermore, the regulations which Trump rolled back, which Barney Frank uh apparently signed off on those changes, you know, those changes actually probably would not have impacted Silicon Valley Bank because they didn't deal with the the risk of the individual bank collapsing so much as they dealt with the systemic risk that the bank collapsing posed on the rest of the financial system.
	In other words, how many other dominoes would fall if this bank collapsed?
	And the answer to that is probably zero.
	So those regulations probably wouldn't have done anything anyway.
	And one other thing we learned is the Silicon Valley Bank committed five billion dollars in sustainable finance and carbon neutral operations to support a healthier pa uh planet.
	Um I'm kind of guessing, Steve, that maybe they wish at this point that they didn't uh invest that money.
	Uh um by the way, I I would assume Jim Kramer who urged viewers to buy Silicon Valley bank stock last month, uh well, is he gonna be held responsible for his horrific advice?
	Not that I would ever pay attention to a thing he says.
	Um now we're talking about to what to what extent, Steve, has the the Biden handling of the inflation that they caused and the rising interest rates.
	Now they they had they had put a a fortune in ten year treasury notes.
	Yes.
	And that pay very low yields.
	Yes, not expecting that interest rates would rise as rapidly as they have.
	Now, some are even predicting that in spite of what Jerome Powell said last week, we should expect a a major increase in interest rates yet again, that this could cause him to maybe even drop rates as a result because the damage is so great.
	Yeah, the this puts the Fed in a really tough position right now because the purpose of the Fed is really to hold inflation down and have a stable dollar, and yet now they've got this uh you know potential financial crisis.
	And by the way, I I don't think that there's going to be a major bank run on major banks right now.
	So I I want people to relax about that.
	But I do think w I don't know if I don't remember whether you played the clip of Biden saying, don't worry taxpayers, this bailout isn't gonna cost you a penny.
	Sean, do you believe that for one minute?
	Not for one second.
	Because because then you'd have to ask the next question if we're not gonna pay for it, who is?
	Who is?
	Exactly.
	So I guarantee you it's gonna be middle class folks.
	I'm against bailouts.
	Look, people who uh put have these uninsured uh, you know, deposits, they shouldn't run to the taxpayers for a bailout here.
	Um and you're exactly right.
	This circles back to the massive increase in interest rates, again, which was associated with this.
	I I said so many times on your show, you this story is not gonna have a happy ending.
	Biden uh borrowing trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars, his new budget, and I love the way you explained this one.
	You did it so well in terms of the cost on investing if under the Biden tax plan, the only thing that you let uh left out was that you're you're right.
	If you have a capital gain and you haven't taken it, they're gonna tax you, but if you have a capital loss, they're not gonna let you deduct that from your taxes.
	How crazy is that?
	Well, let me ask you, because we had a caller, a really smart caller in the last hour, I think from Iowa, who raised the question, okay, well, what does that mean if you have a capital gains uh capital gain in your your your property?
	Now I would argue when you get the final legislation, we've not seen anything in writing yet that that probably people's primary residents have to be exempt.
	I've got to imagine that farmers and ranchers have to be exempt.
	But what about people that own a second home?
	Let's say they own a second home in Florida that's doubled in value.
	Uh they're gonna have to kick in fifty, a hundred thousand dollars and unrealized capital gains?
	Yeah, where are they gonna get the money?
	Remember, they don't have the cash to pay the tax, Sean.
	Uh think of think of the ripple effect on the on the now on the housing market again, which is already being hit hard, except for states that have a massive migration into them.
	Well, yeah, well put, and I mean, it it just feels like we have a president.
	I have a piece on FoxNews.com that has declared war on American business.
	Everything he is doing is making American businesses less competitive.
	And who is the beneficiary of this, Sean?
	China, Mexico, India, Japan, all of our rivals.
	What is the answer?
	How should this be handled, DJ?
	Oh, it it's very simple.
	The people who took these risks knew the risks they were taking, and they should bear the consequences of their actions, right?
	If if these banks fail, then they are on the hook for that.
	There's no reason why the taxpayer needs to step in and backstop this.
	And and you guys are absolutely right.
	The idea that the taxpayer is not going to be on the hook for this, that's completely laughable.
	If the FDIC actually had the money to pay all of these depositors, which is what the president claims, but if that were true, then the Federal Reserve would not have needed to set up a $25 billion fund overnight in order to backstop it.
	They know they don't have the money to pay all these people.
	That's why they had to do that.
	All right, quick break more with our economists, Steve Moore and EJ uh Antoni straight ahead as we continue.
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	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.
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	Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
	Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
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	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.
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	Without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
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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.
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	All right, we continue with uh economist Steve Moore and economist E.J. Antoni, both by the way, with the Heritage Foundation.
	These are uncharted waters, and we don't know what the end financial fallout is going to end up being, uh, Steve Moore.
	Uh however, don't most people that have 250,000 or way more than that, don't they put 225,000 in one bank and another 225,000 in a different bank on purpose?
	Yeah, well, if they smart if they are smart, they'll do that.
	And people, look, if people take these risks, then they should pay the cost of this.
	I'm sick and tired of taxpayers.
	Aren't you, Sean?
	Always the taxpayers are the ones who get screwed by these government policies that have gone awry.
	And here we go again.
	You know, we've we've borrowed out and and by the way, the the banking industry is the most uh regulated industry in America.
	The idea that this is due to deregulation is just crazy.
	It's a result of a government in Washington that is completely out of control.
	Nobody knows anything about business in this administration, and they hate business, frankly.
	It's really these are scary times.
	I don't know, I don't know how this is gonna end.
	I really don't.
	And uh the fact that it could end far worse than we're thinking today scares me.
	Am I wrong to be scared?
	Yes or no, Steve?
	We're not wrong to be afraid.
	We should be afraid.
	EJ, yes, am I wrong or right?
	No, no, I I think you're absolutely right.
	This is Sylindra on steroids.
	That's that's that that that says it all.
	Uh anyway, guys, thank you both.
	Appreciate it.
	Um, I'm urging all of you out there, talk to people you trust, financial advisors you trust, and I would do it often.
	Uh 800 941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, there's certain patterns that always emerge during moments of crisis.
	And one of the patterns is the language that is used by either the media mob uh or an administration, or usually they they kind of use the same words because they're in sync with each other anyway.
	Um, so for example, Joe Biden said, our banking system is safe.
	Janet Yellen said our banking system is really safe and resilient.
	And the head of the OMB Office of Management Budget, uh, Shalanda Young says our banking system is resilient and secure.
	They all say the same thing.
	Listen.
	I'm gonna ask Congress and the banking regulators to strengthen the rules for banks to make it less likely this kind of bank failure would happen again.
	And to protect American jobs and small businesses.
	Look, the bottom line is this Americans can rest assured that our banking system is safe.
	Your deposits are safe.
	So you can tell the American people this morning, because I think this has caused a lot of concern that the U.S. banking system is safe and secure.
	I think the the voice here uh is our Treasury Secretary who is our lead and working with regulators.
	That's the appropriate uh person uh we should listen to here and who's tracking this the most closely.
	Um, but again, what I will say is after the financial crisis, the reforms put in place um have given regulators more tools, um, and our system uh is more resilient uh in the foundation stronger because of it.
	That the American banking system is really um safe and well capitalized.
	It's resilient.
	And by the way, after the announcement of the bailout by Biden earlier today totally contradicts Janet Yellen saying the American banking system uh there is not going to see a bailout of Silicon Valley Bank.
	Well, that was yesterday.
	Well, why why be consistent from day to day?
	United Kingdom has said that the government there has ruled out a bailout of the UK arm of Silicon Valley Bank.
	Have you also ruled out that kind of government intervention?
	Well, let me be clear that um during the financial crisis um there were um investors um and owners of systemic large banks that were bailed out, and we're certainly not looking,
	and uh the reforms that have been in put in place means that we're not going to do that again, but we are concerned about depositors and are focused on uh trying to meet their needs.
	Uh all right, let's get to uh our busy, busy telephones.
	Oh, our friend Joe and Ella J is there.
	Joe, how are you, my friend?
	Sean, you're great.
	Your television and radio show, and uh everywhere I go, people say they listen to you.
	You're the best taxpayer and small business champion in history, and you're gonna leave the Republicans to a huge win.
	And in my opinion, and I don't think we ought to bail any banks out with taxpayer money, but I think when the polls start showing that the Republicans are gonna win, which I think they'll win big, I think that will drive up the stock market.
	So I'm extremely optimistic and thank God for John Hannity.
	Well, I appreciate your vote of competence, but you can see what's happening.
	Uh well of Joe Tacopina, the president's attorney on tonight.
	Uh clearly they want to go back seven years and find some what would normally be at best misdemeanor and and bring charges against Donald Trump.
	I think they want to do it in Fulton County where you live in Georgia, uh, and God only knows, you know, what other things people have in mind.
	I have no idea.
	So that's not what the mob wants.
	That's not what politicians and the swamp creatures want.
	And you're gonna bring us through, Sean.
	Got total confidence in you.
	I appreciate your kind words, Big Joe.
	Thank you, my friend.
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	Uh let's say hi to Terrell, how are you from Louisiana?
	What's up, Terrell?
	Yes, sir.
	It's is it is Terrell.
	Uh Mr. Hannity, uh greetings to you.
	I want to commend you and others and Fox News and the and the other people that you'll bring together to bring actual news to the public so we can actually see the information that we need to know about going on here.
	Uh I uh had made it clear some people that I've spoken with before that all these people who are making genuine attempts to overthrow the American system with government, uh that's they're all in sync together, like you mentioned.
	They're all working towards that.
	What they don't understand is and some people call it karma, some people call it either heaven or hell.
	They're surprised to be paid for all these things that they are doing that are actually criminal in nature and selfish in nature.
	Uh they don't they don't care about other people.
	They care about making sure I've got my own, I'm I'm taking care of myself, I'm deal I'm working with other people that are helping me to do the same thing, and if they give some of theirs also, as long as we're on the same path and doing the same thing, which is to subjugate other people uh and to make sure that we're taken care of, they don't have a problem with that.
	But they they will pay for it.
	Uh obviously we want to see them pay for it now while they're here on this earth.
	Uh we don't want them to continue getting away with what they're doing that causes harm to you know, you know, small income people like myself and other people in other states around the country.
	Uh but again, I commend you, I commend the rest of the people at Fox, uh uh the people behind the scenes, people in other news organizations that actually bring news, real information to us so that we can actually research it, see it, make sure it's correct, and see what actually is happening.
	Um here's my worry and here's my fear.
	And I I think it's rooted in reality is look, Democrats now have have dominated with their wokeness, if you will, and in the indoctrination of our kids, and it's been going on for decades.
	So more and more kids, unfortunately, come out of school.
	Uh they never got the quality education that they should have gotten, and they end up, you know, believing in the the phony promises uh in the false security of socialism.
	And there's there's a big part of the country that actually buys into all of this.
	And that i it's it's bigger than winning in the arena of ideas.
	Elections now have changed dramatically how we how we govern elections in the country.
	I think France had it right.
	You know, they they experimented with other systems of uh voting and then went back to paper ballots.
	I think that's something we all ought to consider doing as well.
	But in the meantime, you gotta deal with the system you have.
	That's why I'm urging Republicans to get over that reluctance and resistance about early voting and voting by mail.
	And secondly, I'm I'm urging everybody to understand that every state that has a legal ballot harvesting law, uh that Republicans better match and hopefully surpass the efforts of Democrats because that's what they're focused on.
	They're not out there saying we've got better ideas than Republicans.
	They're they're in the ballot harvesting business, and they're in the negative ad business.
	They're not kissing babies, shaking hands, doing town halls, doing press of elves.
	No, they're they're hiding most of the time, and that strategy sadly is working.
	So Republicans they they've got to catch up and understand this is the current system as it is, and then hopefully when we win enough elections, then we'd be able to change the system to one that has, in my view, more integrity and would result in way more confidence in the results,
	and that is make voting uh make election day a national holiday in every precinct in the country of people, observers from every party watching the the voting take place, and then when the the when the polls close, watch the vote counting take place and watch a winner declared uh right there and then.
	It's really that simple.
	It's not that complicated.
	But they make it complicated, they want it complicated.
	That's why they don't want voter ID laws.
	That's why they don't want signature verification.
	That's why they don't even ever talk about uh chain of custody controls or updated voter rolls.
	Uh there's a reason for it because they think it's to their advantage not to have any of that.
	Uh but I think it's the most fair by by far.
	Uh anyway, I appreciate the call.
	Joe is in Florida.
	Joe, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Hey, Sean.
	Um hey, I'm honored to uh talk to you today.
	It's been uh I've been listening to you for 15 years, probably.
	Uh uh I'm from Northport, a little town called Northport, right up there by you, but never live down here in Florida.
	Um by the way, you're a smart to move, good decision.
	How long ago did you move down there?
	I moved down here 30 years ago, so a lot a lot has changed.
	Let me ask let me ask you a question.
	What part of Florida are you in?
	I'm in South Florida.
	South Florida, okay.
	Now did you buy a home when you moved down there?
	Uh surely after, yeah.
	All right.
	Quick question.
	You just give me a percentage.
	How much percentage-wise has your home value increased since you moved there 30 years ago.
	I bought my house at 90,000 and it's worth 500,000, probably.
	Ah, that's a terrible investment.
	I'm kidding.
	That's a great investment for you.
	I'm happy for you.
	Yeah.
	No, it's it's good.
	I mean, I feel bad for my Long Island friends that pay so much in tax for everybody up there, but that's the way it goes, you know.
	Well, we stupidly choose to stay, you know.
	I have obligations that keep me here, but uh hopefully that'll come to an end soon.
	I I look at it this way.
	For everybody that moves out, somebody's moving in, right?
	So somebody's coming in some somewhere.
	So, you know, I mean it's just a change of hands.
	Uh, Florida's been great.
	I've loved it here for 30 years.
	We have a great governor right now who possibly might run for president.
	Um I hope I don't know if he will.
	I don't know if he won't, but if he does, I give them all all of my support.
	Um but my my call was basically about uh frustration with everything Biden has done since day one.
	I I tragically I lost my wife during the COVID uh beginnings of it.
	Oh no, I'm so sorry.
	Thank you.
	And she actually passed away the day after election day, and so I disconnected myself from everything.
	Prior to that I Was a very big Trump supporter, um, and I still am, but now with the election of Biden, which again I I think was totally stolen.
	I can't have proof of that, but I feel that that was stolen the way things went.
	Uh they elected Federman, all these elections I cannot trust any longer.
	I'm totally frustrated with inflation since I lost my wife's salary now.
	I do have trouble paying my mortgage and bills.
	Um, and it's been a little over two years, and I've been just eating away my bank account due to Joe Biden's inflation and everything the Democrats have done to suppress anybody that talks against them.
	Our media is totally well, not you guys, of course, but our media is totally against us.
	They're all in for the Democrats and everything they're selling.
	I just cannot put up with this any longer, and that's the reason I Well, that's why elections matter.
	Let me just let me just back up one second here.
	Yes, they didn't they used took advantage of COVID, states that had very specific laws, the partisan observers watched the vote count.
	That didn't happen.
	Uh specific examples of how people can vote by mail, uh, rather than do a constitutional amendment as the law would require, they they pass legislation.
	And not a different, not that big a different story in Wisconsin.
	Um, all things that I talked about.
	Uh as far as you struggle in a little bit with with your mortgage and your rent and knowing a little bit now about the equity in your home, you might, when interest rates are right, consider, and I'm not a financial advisor.
	Talk to your financial guy or somebody you trust in finances about maybe taking out a little bit of a home equity uh loan, taking a little equity out of that to take that stress off you in terms of your monthly mortgage.
	Just an idea, just a thought, okay?
	Yes, sir.
	We we looked into things like that, sir.
	But that you know, that's not really my main concern.
	I'm I'm I'm just truly concerned for our country because of the I I was my first vote ever was for Ronald Reagan, and then I became a conservative from then on.
	And now I'm not even affiliated with the party at all.
	I don't really love the Republicans, but I cannot stomach the Democrats and everything that they sell to us.
	It's just not right, and you can see it every day, and the things Biden fails to do in his cabinet, and everyone that he's put in charge of anything, they fail.
	They're all failures.
	When when Trump was elected, we had positive, all positive, and he made us feel positive about our country.
	We down here in Florida, you could not go anywhere without seeing Trump flags every place.
	And this is why I'm frustrated about the election.
	There's no way that they could have legitimately won this election the way from my eyes, from what I saw down here.
	Okay, we took a trip to Mar-a-Lago once, and it was just like lines and lines and lines of people.
	Um I I I hear everything you're saying, and just the constraints of time.
	I'm I'm running up against the clock here, uh and I could talk to you all day, Joe.
	Hang in there.
	We're gonna fix this.
	Americans always do.
	All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
	We uh we've got a great Hannity tonight, nine Eastern on the Fox News channel.
	We are going to break down exactly what is going on and why it happened and what the fix really should be with our economic experts tonight.
	It's all coming up nine eastern on Hannity on the Fox News channel, including Larry Cudlow, including Charles Payne, including Stephen Moore.
	Uh, then we're gonna look into all of these reports that it looks like New York wants to indict Donald Trump.
	Well, Donald Trump's attorney, Joe Tacopino will join us.
	Uh the great one, Mark Levin, uh, he'll join us tonight.
	He'll weigh in on all of this, and Congressman Comer has an update on the investigation into the Bidens, which of course we know the FBI had Hunter Biden's laptop since what, December 2019, and they have done since then next to nothing with it.
	Right?
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