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March 16, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show
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Um anyway, the Biden banking, well, I call it the Biden billionaire uh bank bailout program, because that's exactly what this is.
Uh we now see that it is spreading to Europe.
A lot of interest in what's going to happen to banking giant credit suisse, uh, you know, because uh that's rocking Wall Street.
Uh there's Dow tumbling today over new fears about the banking sector.
Uh you have the failed Silicon Valley Bank, literally, this is on Fox Business today, uh, donating $73 million to Black Lives Matter.
And then you got these idiots over at MSDNC saying, Oh, ha ha ha, people say that they're woke.
Take a look at the New York Post today.
We went through all of it.
And yeah, but nobody on the board knew anything about banking except one person.
It's insane.
But anyway, yep, a database from the conservative Claremont Institute shows the bank donated around 73 million, four hundred and fifty grand to the BLM movement and other social justice related causes.
Congressman Comer argued the Silicon Valley Bank was one of the most woke banks uh in its quest for the ESG type uh policy and investing, which is such a bad idea.
You have Hillary and Obama veterans working, as I told you at the the uh Silicon Valley Bank, uh, and they donated heavily to Democrats and top Democrats.
You know, now they're rushing to dump all the campaign contributions they got from the bank to act like, oh, he had no idea at all, whatsoever.
Uh, but it is what it is.
You know, here's the question here.
Um, and it was interesting last night uh on Hannity, we had the TV show Shark Tanks Kevin O'Leary was on.
And he had a lot of money, sounded like hundreds of millions of dollars in this bank, and he said, you know, the the line that he used was actually pretty funny because he's talking about a bank that he's doing business with, and he says they're a bunch of idiots.
And I said to him, Well, why are you putting your money in a bank full of idiots?
He didn't really answer now.
It wasn't a trick question.
I wasn't trying to pin them down.
And he said, Look, I I I'm a big guy, I can I can handle this.
I'm a businessman.
I I know you don't always win, sometimes you lose.
But there are so many people that are not understanding how bad this is.
Moody's, by the way, is now put first Republic and five other U.S. banks on a downgrade watch.
Carl Icon saying our economy's breaking because of inflation, poor corporate leadership.
You know, to what extent?
I'm gonna ask Charles Payne here in a second.
Is this related to Biden's bad economic and horrific energy policies?
Uh, because they are related big time.
You know, why did this bank invest in, you know, treasure 10-year treasuries is uh, you know, I I there's no answer for that.
Or market securities.
Why did they invest in these things?
Uh Gavin Newsom is so happy about it.
Apparently he used the bank, and he owns three uh vineyards out in California.
Three.
Wonder how much money he had in there.
Uh signature bank executive started a a cringy Broadway style musical sketch video.
How nice.
Anyway, joining us, uh friend of the program, friend of mine is my friend Charles Payne.
He's the host of Making Money uh with Charles Payne.
It's on the Fox Business Network, our sister station, uh, to the Fox News channel.
Charles, how are you, my friend?
I'm doing pretty good.
It's a little hectic.
Just a little bit hectic.
Uh all right.
Let me get your take on it.
The first thing I don't like being lied to, and the thing that we're being lied to first about is no losses will be borne by taxpayers over the bank closures.
This is what Biden said.
All customers who had deposits in these banks can rest assured.
I'm gonna rest assured they'll be protected and they'll have access to their money as of today.
That includes small businesses across the country, the bank there, and need to make payroll, pay their bills, and stay open for business.
No losses will be, and I'm on this is an important point.
No losses will be borne by the taxpayers.
Let me repeat that.
No losses will be borne by the taxpayers.
Instead, the money will come from the fees that banks pay into the deposit insurance fund.
All right.
Uh is that true?
Because uh my understanding is bank fees will go up and that'll be paid for by the taxpayers or anybody that uses a bank, which is pretty much everybody.
Right.
Let me hit this on uh a couple of things because it's it was it was very despicable.
I don't think uh I was so pissed off when I listened to this.
Sean, I went nuts over the weekend on Twitter uh because we actually got a bailout pushed.
If you were on Sunday morning, Sunday morning, Janet Yellen goes on these Sunday morning TV shows and says she says absolutely no bailout.
But Saturday and Sunday, Bill Ackman, one of the biggest hedge fund guys out there, he's power.
He's he's hitting them.
You gotta bail everyone out.
It's gonna be a calamity.
Everyone's gonna race to their bank.
It's gonna be a calamity.
Now here's the thing.
When President Biden says that everyone's protected, you're already protected.
This is the despicable part about that statement.
Everyone with up to 250,000 is protected.
Isn't that why for for example, wealthy people, they might put 230, 240,000 in one bank, another 230,000, 40,000 in another bank, because every bank is protected, correct?
Everyone, you know what?
You know the basketball player, Giannis, he's the great Milwaukee Bucks and won the championship.
He had 50 bank accounts.
50 bank accounts.
He didn't want to go over to 250 limit.
By the way, that's called being smart, isn't it?
It's called taking responsibility.
Right.
Don't be smart.
And you know, listen, the team owner found out he's a hedge fund guy and said, I got some other things for you.
But here's a guy who came over here from another country, played basketball, and that was his solution.
So when President Biden intimates that somehow people were going to lose their money, regular people, regular people.
The median bank account is 41,000 in this country.
Lesson high school grants, their average bank account is 9,000.
High school grants about 18,000.
College grants bring it up to about their average bank account of 79,000.
Everybody was covered.
So when he insinuates that somehow he saved the day, no, here's the problem with that bank, Silicon Valley Bank.
93% of their accounts were over 250.
93%.
You know how that happened, Sean?
All that money that was pumped into the economy for a stimulus, right, between the federal government and the federal and the Federal Reserve.
11 trillion dollars.
Silicon Valley took advantage of that.
All right, let me let me go back and get those earlier numbers.
So you're saying the average person has how much in the bank?
About 41,000.
That's what they call the mean, right there, 41,000.
So the average person has 41,000 uh dollars in a bank, so well below the two fifty that is insured by the FDIC.
And what'd you say about young people?
No, no, I was just saying uh it's broke the way it's it's broken down, right?
You know, even college grads are about 79,000.
But when I was what I what I was um trying to say is that everyone was protected, but except this particular bank.
What is it about this particular bank?
Why did Biden save this particular bank?
And I was saying all the what happened was all the money that cascaded into this economy uh through stimulus when it when the when COVID, you know, they stopped the COVID came.
11 trillion dollars came into this economy.
11 trillion.
You know what Silicon Valley decided to do?
They just decided to rip America off as much as they could.
They put out 450 IPOs, all of them are overvalued in 2020, 1,035 IPOs in 2021.
They made more money than ever.
Silicon Valley, the Silicon Valley Bank, their assets, their deposits went up 300%, and they didn't lend the money out.
So when I think from $50 billion in assets to like nearly $200 billion in assets, am I right?
Exactly.
Exactly.
So sitting on all of this cash, they don't lend money out.
They don't do that.
Well, why did they put it in 10-year treasuries?
Now they were now look, you can blame the Biden economy, Biden's energy policy, Biden's dramatic increase in inflation.
He inherited 1.4%.
Then we go to the one 40-year high after another up to 9.1%.
Uh and then they have these treasuries, tenure uh treasury bonds.
Why would they ever go into a long-term treasury knowing that anybody at any time could want the money back from the bank because then they had to cash them in and lose a fortune?
Well, you know, they were going for what they call yield.
Um they didn't want they didn't they weren't lending money, so they had to find a way to make money, and it looked like low-hanging fruit to them.
But here's the problem, and this is when you get into your earlier part of this, the conversation when you were doing your your monologue uh and talking about the social part part of the social justice part of it, Black Lives Matter.
This whole ESG movement is always really mostly been about the E part, environmental, it's just a green movement, you know, to steal money to stop the profit motivation.
It's a lot of money, but again, for a bank with 200 billion, this is where they really blew it on the governance side, and you hit on this.
And and you say, well, Kevin O'Leary, he couldn't really explain to you why he had the money there.
It was like a mafia.
Venture capitalist, you wanted to do business in Silicon Valley, you had to leave your money in that bank.
Mm-hmm.
I'm listening.
So you had to you had to leave your money in that bank.
Companies that went public, roadblocks, you know, ask your kids about Roblox, right?
All the little kids know about it.
They went public at 38 billion.
They had 26% of their money in that bank.
You if you wanted to do business with the with Silicon Valley, they said leave your money in this bank.
By the way, Kevin O'Leary is mixed up in this uh uh Sam Bankman Free thing, too.
By the way, you know what he said on my show last night.
It he doesn't exp he doesn't think that there should be a bailout, even though for him uh it's a a fortune, uh, but he knew the risk when he did it, he said.
He said it's my responsibility.
Yeah, well, I I applaud him for that.
I applaud him for that.
So to your point, the Genesis Genesis Genesis of it all goes back to the free money.
That $2 trillion that President Biden put into this economy, tipped us over the edge, sparked inflation to a 40-year high, and and it really threatened to destabilize our entire economy.
It's that money that's a big part of it, but isn't it also a big part of it?
The energy part of that equation and and how that contributed to high inflation.
Energy played a big role, you know.
I mean, listen, the day President Biden was elected, the next day, the very next day, and you know, a lot of a lot of people try to go to the inauguration.
No, markets move on on what they know.
The very next day the price of oil went up and it never looked back.
So, yeah, energy played a big role in it.
Going, say you're going after corporate profits played a big role in it, but it was the free money, this notion of you can just cascade and put free money out there that trip triggered paying people not to work, paying people not to work.
So you qu you spark what they call the wage price spiral.
This morning, the small business federation, right?
The National Federation of Independent Businesses, the largest organization for small businesses that they've never ever had this much trouble finding qualified workers in their history.
People don't have to work, they didn't have to work, and they won't work.
So all of that, all of that created this inflation issue.
So what happens?
The Federal Reserve's got to put this fire out.
And here comes Jay Powell.
He's hitting this thing harder than it's ever been hit before.
I think he went too hard, but listen, he said that the big blaze.
We never had this much money.
And it's true, we never had trillions of dollars is given to people.
People not to work, stay at home.
So all of this really falls at the foot of President Biden, first and foremost.
What do you think about this issue of credit suisse and uh the Saudis pull their funding and uh National Bank offering liquidity and what's happening in Europe.
Uh even uh artificial intelligence is now predicting a crash, which scares me a little bit.
A little bit, you're right.
I mean, here's what really pisses me off with credit suites.
This is uh the the notion that they that we are so still tied in to them systemically is crazy.
This stock peaked at 47 dollars in 2007.
It has been one of the most poorly run businesses of any time anywhere in the world for 16 years.
There's no way in the world we should be uh the stock started this year off at eight bucks, and last year it was 14 bucks.
In 2007, it was it was 76 dollars, right?
So when you see that happening, that tells you this is a poorly company.
Last question.
So this you know, billionaire uh this Biden billionaire bank bailout.
Uh, this will be born by the taxpayers.
True or false.
It will be born by anybody with a bank account to the earlier point, because it's and here's what's despicable about it community banks, small banks, they gotta pay these fees.
Well, you know, they don't work on big profit margins.
Of course they're gonna pass the cost on to the customers.
So everybody in America with a bank account, just pay for a billionaire bailout.
Really is sad.
Charles Pain, this is why you have such a great successful show.
Uh, we really appreciate you being with us.
Uh and we know how busy you are.
It's hosting uh he's the host of Making Money with Charles Payne, Fox Business.
Uh, we appreciate you being with us.
Thank you, my friend.
Always appreciate you too, man.
Thanks.
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When 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?
Yes, that's right.
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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.
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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.
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By the way, do you have to eat that disgusting lunch in front of us every day?
It's either that's a good thing.
Well, I've been on a green juice cleanse, so now I moved into green kale.
I was just giving myself like a little something.
I'm sorry that my own.
Okay, it's either projectile vomit shakes or that are green.
Not for nothing, those shit.
Orange projectile vomiting.
Or orange projectile vomit squash, whatever you call those things.
Right.
Little pumpkin.
Little something, something.
What you're eating is so disgusting.
Right.
You know what?
I'm gonna live forever.
I'm gonna be here listening to whispering Joe.
I'm gonna be eating a steak tonight.
Gross.
Love steak.
Can't listen to it.
I like steak too, but not the way you like it.
You like it like mooing.
I'm worried about this country.
I'm worried about Russia.
I'm worried about China.
I'm worried about our borders.
I'm worried about banking.
I'm worried about our economy.
I'm worried about, you know, the people that make this country great, suffering financially.
Energy prices.
A poor balloon club.
I'll pay a hundred bucks and buy them in the balloon.
Offer that to them.
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Jack California.
Jack, hi, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Hey, good to see you here, Shawnee Laddie.
Good early morning of the.
Ah, you know, big Irishman, I see.
Ah, I'll maybe be Jesus.
I can't believe it.
My friend Bernie.
My mom would be proud of me, you know.
Um have I part Irish here.
Uh listen, I'm a hundred percent British Isle according to ancestry.
I did the test.
A hundred percent.
They they even said at the time, they don't find a lot of people that are 100% anything.
But all four of my grandparents came from Ireland, and uh, you know, um I haven't been there.
And I have relatives there that apparently are mad that I haven't been there.
Uh my sisters have gone there.
I just don't exactly have all that time to travel.
I think we should hit the breaking news sounder and make an announcement to the audience about you.
It's very it has to do with your heritage.
Breaking news now.
Here's Sean Hannity.
Yeah.
I think America should know.
Yeah.
Sean Hannity.
We know 100% is Irish through and through because he eats corn beef.
Disgusting.
Disgusting.
I love corn beef.
Fatty, nasty strips of corn beef every day in the studio.
And occasionally couples that with some nasty cold cabbage and eats it with such delight.
But I don't eat the potatoes, do I?
No, because they have carbs and you freak out because you're paleo.
What are you tosis?
All right, Jack, now you got the breaking news.
How are you, my friend?
I'm doing great out here.
I'm uh surviving on the left coast, but uh we're making it through.
But one of the things, Sean, that you know, the Democrats are doing Biden administration.
You have the worst press secretary in the world.
Um I careened my press conference off of Cliff John Pierre, and um they're just blaming Trump for everything.
So my thing, my question to them would be, and the reporters and the press corps should be asking this in the White House press corps.
What exactly what regulation exactly did Trump roll back that would have cost the you know cause the train derailment in Palestine, Ohio, that pothole Pete's talking about all the time, trying to blame it on Trump.
And also with the recent Silicon Valley bank collapse, they're blaming Trump again.
That was uh Barney Frank, Dodd Frank, Barney Frank lobbying to get that very provision that benefited him, and one of his the board he sits on at Signature Bank is one of the banks that failed.
Yeah, great job, uh Barney Frank.
So I mean it's unre listen, they even blame the border on Trump.
Seriously, you you've got to be kidding me.
Um I'm sure by at some point in the next couple of days, somebody will blame Donald Trump for the balloon incident.
They'll blame Donald Trump.
Uh well, they actually tried to do it with the balloon incident.
Oh, we discovered long after the fact that this might have happened only in a small incursion uh when Donald Trump was president, and guess what?
It didn't happen.
They just lied.
Their instinct is to blame Trump.
Look at the biggest case in point.
They blame Trump for for Biden's disaster at the border.
I mean, it's like you know, if it's like people telling you there's a there's a chocolate donut at flying in the sky, and you say, Yeah, I'm a liberal.
I believe it.
I can see the chocolate donut.
They'll believe anything.
The dog bites the beast things, you're feeling sad.
Just blame Trump.
It's all right.
Oh, it's it's incredible.
And you know the the best thing for me out here, Sean.
I'm a teacher, and I'm a conservative, and I'm teaching these kids right.
Don't believe it.
There's a lot more conservatives out here on the left coast than um meeting.
There's not enough of you out there.
My advice pick a state like Texas or Florida or or Tennessee or the Carolinas and get the hell out of there.
Oh, yeah.
I'm getting ready to pull the ripcord at some point.
Me too.
I'm getting ready.
I'm been ready and it I'm contractually obligated to be here for a while.
Uh anyway, my friend Jack, thank you.
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George in Florida, the free state of Florida.
What's up, George?
How are you, sir?
Hey, Sean, I'm pretty good.
How are you?
I'm good.
Um Hey, I'm uh I brought I I've been reading the uh Ron DeSantis' new book, The Courage to Be Free.
And uh I'm listening to first of all, I'm intrigued by that uh title, The Courage to Be Free, because it's not just Ron.
I mean, there are a lot of people in this the conservative and even with the Taibi uh the the Twitter files, they're being uh they're have the courage to stand up to the far left, even though they might not be conservative.
But uh but I was wondering uh what I didn't know is uh DeSantis is humble in his beginnings.
I mean he's uh he was born in Jacksonville, he played baseball, but he's a third third generation, middle class, went to Yale, and he had all these side jobs, hustle jobs that get things by, and it reminded me of you when you used to when you said you used to be a paper boy, you did you did uh I washed dishes, I was a cook, busboy, uh waiter bartender, uh then a house painter, worked in a shipyard even for a while.
Uh then I learned to hang wallpaper, and then I built it out into you know, I I was specialized in remodeling.
Uh, and I that's 20 years of my life.
It's not just a short period of time.
Yeah, and I think I I think you know, I don't know, DeSantis might have you beat.
So next time you talk to him, I'll be we'll compare jobs.
Yeah, compare jobs before you all made you know before you 487 before you be guys.
He's done a great job for the people of Florida.
There's no doubt about it.
And I I read the book as well.
Uh I was equally impressed.
That did stand out in my mind as well.
And uh I don't know.
Look, have you ever heard me say that fame is not healthy?
Yes.
It's not healthy, but there's uh to the extent that I'm grounded, and I'm imperfect, and we've all sinned and fallen short of God's glory.
Okay.
So put that in my and in big bright neon lights.
Um but to the extent that I'm grounded, I I attribute it to two things.
One, my my strong belief in God, my faith in Christianity.
And the second thing is a work ethic that I got from parents that worked their asses off for next to nothing.
And that has stuck with me my whole life.
And I it keep it kept me out of trouble when I'm young and keeps me out of trouble when I'm old.
And um, you know, I'm I'm very grateful that uh that you know my life didn't go off course.
I try to stay on the straight and narrow as best I can every day and pray that I stay there.
And DeSantis was in my district when he was a congressman, and I talked to him when he was, let's say, small potatoes.
He was a congressman.
And he hasn't changed.
And he went to Congress and he didn't he has not drank the Kool-Aid, and when he was at Yale and at Harvard, he he gave to his country.
So I you know, so far I'm impressed with with the book.
I haven't finished it all yet.
But the cur but the title, though, that's the it's that gets me the courage to be free.
And when those uh when they were having those hearings last week with Taibi and you know, I've talked to you before about Elon Musk of how he what how he has done, he's turned the the the social media off on uh on his ear.
Um having that courage that especially the journalist that uh Taibi, he's been around the world, and he knows these countries that if you do not have a First Amendment and freedom of speech, that we're gonna be going very slippery slope fast.
I think he did a great job.
I thought the Democrats were horrible to him.
Uh and this is a guy that wrote a book with my picture on it, uh, and accused me of being a hater, so it's it's not like he's a Hannity fan, but it doesn't matter.
He did a good job here, and I give him all the credit.
Tip my hat to him.
All right, quick break, right back to our phones 800-941 Sean, our number if you want to be a part of the uh program.
Up next, our final roundup and information overload hour.
And as we continue, let's get right back to our busy phones.
We'll stay in the free state of Florida.
Tony, what's going on, sir?
How are you?
Glad you called.
Hello there.
Um, it's uh my great honor to be talking to the great uh Sean Hannity, the like which we have not seen since uh the great Walter Cronkite.
Wow, I don't I don't know if I can accept that compliment, but thank you for your kind words.
I appreciate it.
I I think that you and Tucker Carlson are great and you keep it up, keep up the great work.
Thank you.
I try every day because the rest of the media won't do the work we're doing.
I'm telling you.
Well, I haven't been ex as excited to talk with a celebrity since I met Adam West in 06.
I know who Adam West is, Batman.
Uh but you're very kind.
You know what?
I'm not a celebrity.
You know what I am?
I'm Sean.
You're Tony, I'm Sean, and and you know what?
I I just I I provide a service.
What do you do for a living?
I'm um well, professional drummer.
Oh, that's awesome.
I'm jealous.
I've I would love to be a great you know, singer in a band.
That would be fun.
Uh but what you do is you provide a service for people.
I love music, so I love drummers.
I love you know, people that can play the guitar great.
Linda happens to be a great singer.
Um, but we all provide services to people.
We do news information and hopefully in an entertaining way.
But anyway, thank you for your kind words.
Well, thank you.
I I also deliver pizzas to try to make ends meet, but uh what kind of pizza do you deliver?
Uh what uh you uh am I allowed to touch.
Yeah, sure.
Plug away.
Go ahead.
Uh Papa John's.
Papa Johns.
Now, some of my best friends love Papa Johns.
I love the sauce of Papa John's.
They have what's that ranch sauce or whatever.
Um, but I have my friends I have swear by it.
The problem is I grew up in New York.
New York pizza is very different, so I'm kind of used to what I'm used to.
Uh but everybody else I uh loves Papa John's.
I have nothing against it, it's just not my favorite.
Right.
Um no, I'm I'm there with you.
It's uh it's everybody's choice is different, of course.
But I would hungry, I'd buy anything.
I like Waffle House.
Scattered and extra smothered.
Right.
Well, it's like we're the buds talking here, and I appreciate your making me at ease and everything.
I I um wanted to tell you something though.
I live in the great state of Florida, and uh we have two politicians here that are legendary in my eyes.
Trump and DeSantis, I'm guessing.
You got it.
And uh let me take another guess.
You don't like that they're fighting.
I don't like that.
And and I can be a little long-winded, so uh stop me if I uh go the only reason I'm I'm hearing it from a lot of people, and I I would rather that they all focus on the Democrats right now.
That's gonna come to a fight at some point, but I would rather, you know, not be it not be this early on.
Here's the thing.
I I say that uh Trump needs to get DeSantis on his team eventually and become his uh running mate.
And uh the the big thing that that uh the biggest mouthpiece on Trump's side is Trump's son, or family in general.
But at this point I've seen his shows.
Oh, you mean the best uh spokesperson are you suggesting or yes, the best mouthpiece, spokesperson, whatnot.
Are you talking about Don Jr. or Eric?
Because I think they both do a good job.
But they both do.
Uh, but I've seen most of the uh videos that I've seen lately have been on Don Jr.
And uh my messages to Don Jr. to talk with his dad.
Uh I think he's getting bad intel from some sites or wherever it is, uh not Don Jr. but Don uh Sr.
That is uh he's getting bad intel to tell him what to say to uh Don Ron DeSantis.
And what's going on right now is it's just it's just a bad thing.
The energy needs to be redirected to the Democratic Party.
You look you're many, many people have expressed that sentiment to me.
And and I I kind of agree with you.
Here's the problem with primaries, and eventually, no matter how much they might even like each other, eventually it's going to get ugly.
It always does.
I'll give you one example.
Uh after Iowa and New Hampshire in 2000, well, whatever year John McCain was running, I guess it was 2000.
Uh in the primary, George W. Bush needed to win South Carolina.
And it got ugly.
Very, very ugly.
It's the nature of campaigns at that point.
Um, and I I kind of liked your idea of them teaming up.
I don't know if that can happen, but I think anything can happen.
Um, and I think, you know, I think Ron has done a great job as governor, and I thought Trump did a great job.
His policies were phenomenal for this country.
And he's tough as nails.
And right now we see, you know, the difference.
We have a weak president.
Look at China, look at Russia, look at Iran, look at North Korea.
It scares me.
Look at the economy.
That scares me.
Look at the border.
That scares me.
You know, importing oil from Venezuela.
Uh, that scares me.
How stupid is that?
So I'm concerned about all of these issues, and we need the American people enlightened as to what the stakes are here.
And I'm gonna do everything I can do to try and remind people of this very important point that you're making.
Okay.
But people don't listen to me.
Linda, do people listen to me?
No, people don't listen to me either.
No.
Like when I say break.
Uh okay.
So weird.
It's nothing to do with that, but uh occasionally I'm a little long-winded.
Just occasionally.
Hey, Sean Hannity here, and that's right.
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Doesn't that make you happy?
Anyway, the deadline to file your taxes right around the corner.
But uh, what do you do if you already owe the IRS?
I was shocked when I saw the number last week.
What, 42,000 government employees?
Don't even file.
They haven't even filed it.
I would never not file my taxes.
I pay all my taxes.
Uh, and anyway, that they can start with their agents looking into federal government employees.
Anyway, maybe you haven't filed your return in a few years, you made a mistake.
Look, every minute you put off dealing with the IRS, they will bury you with penalties and interest.
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