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Superpower in Peril - March 21st, Hour 3
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I always love to say, what would Ronald Reagan say?
Listen.
It's morning again in America.
Today, more men and women will go to work than ever before in our country's history.
With interest rates at about half the record highs of 1980, nearly 2,000 families today will buy new homes.
More than at any time in the past four years.
This afternoon, 6,500 young men and women will be married.
And with inflation at less than half of what it was just four years ago, they can look forward with confidence to the future.
It's morning again in America.
And under the leadership of President Reagan, our country is prouder and stronger and better.
Why would we ever want to return to where we were less than four short years ago?
Well, that was morning in America.
There's a different kind of mourning.
We're mourning America's decline.
I mean, watching President Xi and Vladimir Putin and seeing Saudi Arabia now align with Iran and watching this new axis of evil emerge between China and Russia and Iran and North Korea.
And it looks like Saudis have been won over into this coalition as well.
You know, when Donald Trump left office, he pulled off something I never thought I'd see in my lifetime.
And that was a coalition, an alliance between the U.S., Israel, the Jordanians, the Egyptians, the Emirates, the Saudis, all, you know, aligned against Iranian hegemony in the Middle East.
That has now been broken as President Xi, now seeing a weak, frail, cognitive mess as a president, is now taking full advantage.
Anyway, the reason I bring all of this up is Dave McCormick, who himself has an incredible background.
He's the former head of Bridgewater, but economically can talk about it.
But he just wrote a new book, Superpower.
He pulled off something I never thought I'd see in my lifetime.
And that was a coalition, an alliance between the U.S., Israel, the Jordanians, the Egyptians, the Emirates, the Saudis, all aligned against Iranian hegemony in the Middle East.
That has now been broken as President Xi, now seeing a weak, frail, cognitive mess as a president, is now taking full advantage.
Anyway, the reason I bring all of this up is Dave McCormick, who himself has an incredible background.
He's the former head of Bridgewater, but economically can talk about it.
But he just wrote a new book, Superpower in Peril, a battle plan to renew America.
You know, if it was morning in America, it's a nightmare in America today.
60% of American families now living paycheck to paycheck.
You have people tapping into their pensions, you know, just to make ends meet, and they're taking heavy, heavy, you know, financial tolls as a result and massive penalties associated with that.
Other people, they're using credit cards just to make ends meet for better necessities.
It's tough out there on every front.
Anyway, Dave was a candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania.
I think the odds might be high that he's running again.
I'll ask him in a second.
He joins us now.
By the way, you can get his book, Superpower in Peril, a battle plan to renew America on Hannity.com, Amazon.com, bookstores everywhere.
David, how are you, sir?
Hey, Sean, thanks so much for having me.
I really appreciate it.
Well, the first thing I got to ask you is obviously about this pending, so we hear, or we don't know, prosecution, Donald Trump.
I know you work for a big company.
Let's take your company out of it.
How common are non-disclosure agreements?
How common are, does that happen?
In other words, something that's viewed as a nuisance, you know, lawsuit that they want to go away or a threat that, quote, we're going to smear you, slander you, besmirch you if you don't pay us X number of dollars.
And a cost-benefit analysis is made by the accounting company, by the accounting department.
And they say, you know what, just pay it.
You're going to save a lot of money if you pay it.
How often does that happen?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Very common in industry today.
There's no doubt.
And, you know, it's, you know, when you watch this situation, like, I don't know the ins and outs of this particular case with President Trump, but the thing I would say is whenever it looks like our judicial system is being hijacked and highly politicized, people lose trust, whether it's the president of the United States or somebody else.
And so I think for that reason, there's a lot of concern that this is just evidence of a highly politicized process.
Well, and I think, do you agree with Elon Musk that this might have just the opposite effect, that people, after watching, you know, three and a half years of lies about Trump-Russia collusion, all of it debunked, every bit of it.
When people see that Hillary Clinton, top secret classified information on our servers, destroying 33,000 emails with bleach bit, destroying devices with hammers, then, of course, she pays for a dirty Russian misinformation dossier.
The FBI can't verify it, but they use it for four FISA applications in part to have a backdoor to spy on Trump.
They get away with it.
You know, Hunter Biden, they've had his laptop since December 2019.
Nothing's happened with him.
Do you think people now rightly are questioning whether or not we have a dual justice system?
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
And I think in general, what I try to highlight in Superpower and Peril is that increasingly the elites and the decision makers in America have lost touch with what everyday Americans are feeling inside and out, the anger.
And President Trump did a great job of tapping into that in 2016.
And what this book tries to do is lay out an agenda.
America's in decline, but decline's not inevitable.
Neither is renewal.
It depends on what we do.
And this is the what we do book in terms of laying out the policies.
But what I say in here is exactly what you're describing, which is we need to bring back trust to our institutions because they've been hijacked.
And there's kind of a progressive ideology that's taking our institutions and our country in a very dangerous direction.
And this is all just part of that broader landscape where we need to bring back conservative leadership in the White House and also in the Senate and the House.
I've been talking a lot about how Democrats are running campaigns versus how Republicans are running campaigns.
And it happened in your state of Pennsylvania.
John Fetterman, for the most part, hid the entire campaign.
He had a debate after close to a million votes had already been cast in Pennsylvania.
The same thing with Joe Biden in 2020.
Katie Hobbs never even debated one time her opponent, Kerry Lake.
Fetterman debated very late in the game with all the assistance that could be provided.
And by that point, it was too late.
And then you have this other issue, which I think goes to the heart of integrity of elections.
Your state constitution gives very limited examples of how people can vote by mail and what the circumstances need to be.
The legislature of Pennsylvania decided to, you know, rather than follow the arduous process of amending the Constitution, they passed legislation circumventing the Constitution.
What was your take on that?
And the other thing with, you know, I'll ask you a follow-up question on this.
Well, I think you're absolutely right.
I mean, we as conservatives, I think, have to have great ideas and we have to have great leaders who can win primaries and win general elections.
And so I think that's the key.
But in Pennsylvania in particular, but also across the country, the mail-in ballot, you can't win elections if you start on election day with, you know, 500,000 or a million ballots already in favor of the Democratic candidate.
So as Republicans, we've got to deal with that.
And you're right, Act 77 was passed in Pennsylvania, and Republicans have to embrace the fact that to win elections, they're going to have to register more voters and win absentee ballots and get our Republican voters comfortable with the fact that they can vote absentee and still have their vote counted.
They don't have the reluctance and resistance in Florida.
And look at the blowout in the last election for Republicans down in Florida.
But you're right.
Voting early, voting by mail, there is reluctance and resistance.
And then, of course, we have this other issue.
Most states allow legal ballot harvesting.
And Democrats, they run negative ads and they ballot harvest, but they don't kiss babies, take selfies, shake hands, do town halls or press evals.
They just ballot harvest and run negative ads.
And so far, it seems to be working for them.
Yeah, listen, we can't govern.
I mean, the country is in a terrible spot, as you agree.
I think you agree.
And we need to win elections with the right agenda to take the country forward.
You had the morning in America.
And I'm not saying the agenda that Ronald Reagan had in 1980 or 1983 is the right agenda for today.
Our problems are somewhat different.
But that kind of leadership that calls balls and strikes on the opposition, as he did, but then lays a pathway forward and unites our party.
In Pennsylvania, we've got conservatives across the spectrum, but we agree on 80% of where the country needs to go and where Pennsylvania needs to go.
But we spend a lot of time on the 20% we disagree with.
And we're going to need to bring our party together in Pennsylvania in a purple state to win the election in 2024 for the president, but also for other state ballots.
You say decline is not inevitable.
You say we've been here before.
And then you talk about the American way of renewal.
To me, it all is dependent on who gets elected.
Because if Democrats are in power, they will continue the status quo.
I don't think I don't see them changing.
I don't see them adapting.
I agree.
I agree.
Listen, we need to educate our people.
We need to confront China.
We need to secure America.
And that agenda is straightforward.
There's a lot to do, but we know what to do as conservatives.
But we got to be in the driver's seat to do it.
And the issues that I lay out, the agenda I lay out in the book, is not an agenda that will take place with Republicans in the White House, or with Democrats rather, in the White House or in the majority in the Senate and the House.
And so we got to win elections.
And I think part of it, you know, spending a lot of time in Pennsylvania on the campaign trail, people want answers to the problems.
They want to know how you're going to fix inflation or the fentanyl crisis or the fact that China's on the rise and is posing a real threat.
I think if we have good answers to those questions and good strong leaders, we're going to win elections and we're going to take the country back.
All right, quick break more with Dave McCormick, Superpower in Peril, talking about our country, a battle plan to renew America.
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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.
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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 Nayfak 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.
Nationwide, we have millions of listeners.
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Hi, Dave McCormick is with us.
New book out, Superpower in Peril, A Battle Plan to Renew America.
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Let's talk about China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, because there seems to be an emerging alliance there, and that frightens me.
And the comments of President Xi concern me.
Their territorial ambitions have been on full display as they fly over Taiwan airspace on a regular basis.
President Xi's support of Putin couldn't be any more clear.
He's even sending weapons over to Russia.
So does America now have to worry about the world being reconfigured?
I would not have thought that the Saudis would align with Iran because they were brutal enemies for so long.
But China apparently brokered that deal.
Yeah, I mean, politics hates a vacuum.
And what you've seen under President Biden over the last two years is a huge leadership vacuum.
It started with the terrible, disgraceful withdrawal from Afghanistan.
That was honestly the catalyst for me jumping into the Senate race.
It continued with the Nord Stream 2 and the mixed signals to Putin, which encouraged his aggression into Ukraine.
It continues with the ham-handed approach to the Chinese surveillance balloon.
And if you're an ally, watch, if you're a potential adversary, an enemy watching, you're licking your lips because you see weakness.
And that weakness is being followed up on by China, which is a techno-authoritarian country with a huge ambition under Xi to displace America as a superpower.
And that's one of the reasons our superpower in peril is in peril.
The partnership with Russia, I think, is a very bad sign for growing risk of what's happening in Ukraine.
But the partnership with Saudi Arabia and Iran, it's the direct consequence of very mixed signals to the Saudis.
So if you're sitting where the Saudis are and you've had this 30-year, unbelievably close, I mean, I was in Saudi Arabia as a soldier to defend the oil fields from Iraq.
If you now see that partnership being questioned by Joe Biden and not sure that the Americans are going to be there for you, you turn to China.
And then you open up the possibility of Iran because you say to yourself, listen, I can no longer count on American strength, American leadership.
And that's what happens when you have a vacuum.
And that's why we need to have a new leader, a Republican conservative leader in the White House in 24.
And then in the process, Saudi Arabia's biggest oil company had the biggest year ever.
I think it was $60 some odd billion dollars in profit because America took itself out of the energy independence business and now even imports energy from Venezuela.
That makes sense, right?
I mean, are you kidding me?
That one decision.
So just to put in perspective, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania is a country, it'd be the fourth largest natural gas reserve in the world.
It's huge.
We just can't get it out of the ground because of all the pipeline restrictions and everything else.
And so in one fell swoop, President Biden hurt our economy in Pennsylvania and across the country.
He hurt our national security because we were no longer energy exporters, although under President Trump we were.
Under Biden, we went back to the importers.
But here's the crazy thing, Sean.
We hurt the environment because natural gas is much cleaner than other sources of carbon.
And we started to import oil from Venezuela and Iran because we couldn't export and get out of the ground our natural gas in Pennsylvania.
It's one of those things where it's so stupid, you can't believe that it's the policy that was pursued, but it was.
And ultimately, it made America weaker.
It was stupid.
And I'll say that.
Anyway, the book is a great roadmap for a more optimistic and a better future and hopefully getting back to morning in America again.
Superpower in peril, a battle plan to renew America.
Dave McCormick, I don't know why you would ever leave making money to get into this hellhole world called politics, but I guess we need good people to sacrifice.
Asking me the same question, man.
My wife's asking me the same question.
She's asking the right question.
Anyway, thanks.
We appreciate you being with us.
Thank you.
Thank you.
All right.
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All right, let's hit our busy phones.
I know people mostly want to talk about Donald Trump here, but I'll move on with a couple of other issues.
Scott in Ohio, a great American, disagrees with me.
You listen to my buddy Willie out there in Cincinnati?
No, no, we're around the Columbus area.
Okay, welcome aboard.
Glad you're with us.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I would listen often.
I love you and Miss Linda.
Sometimes I wish she would reach across that desk and give you a couple of slap sandwiches, but nonetheless.
Why would you be so mean?
Why are you being mean?
I'm only nothing but nice.
No, I just can't.
I just kid.
But what I want to get to is last, I believe it was last Thursday, you were talking about, well, we have nukes too.
And I was just working away, plugging along when you said this.
And it kind of struck a chord with me because I thought to myself, boy, that's a little rich when you say something like that.
Because here, us folks down here in the middle of the lower class, I couldn't help but to think, Mr. Hannity, we don't have no bunkers to run into.
We don't have the privileges that some of the elites would have.
By the way, I don't have a bunker either.
So you can put me in the same category.
I don't have a bunker.
Well, that would change my perspective then, because I can tell you, it's frightening for all of us.
What do you think?
I have a radiological anti-radiation bunker buried deep beneath my home or something.
What are you thinking about?
Well, you're a pretty successful gentleman.
I would suspect that you would have something, right?
I mean, that's not part of it.
Listen, I'm not lying.
I've said it before.
I'm like a mini prepper.
I've got food for a couple of months.
I've got plenty of water for a long period of time.
I obviously believe in the Second Amendment.
I'll defend myself.
God forbid if I ever have to.
I don't ever want to.
But the bottom line is, I want you to understand what I was saying here.
If somebody like Vladimir Putin, a hostile actor, I think you would agree, hostile regime Russia, we see their territorial ambitions.
We see indiscriminate evil in our time, bombing out of apartment buildings, entire neighborhoods, all the infrastructure in Ukraine.
The country's been half destroyed at this point.
And if he says, well, I'll use a nuke, I mean, we can't just say, oh, he's going to use a nuke.
Let him have Ukraine.
Let him have Poland.
Let him have, I mean, where does it end?
You cannot let the fear of a dictator cause you not to fight back.
Well, we probably should have fought back when we let this guy get into the White House, right?
Let's put the roles in reverse.
Let's say if it was Mexico that was laundering money for Russia, and they were south of our border, and they were bringing on the Eastern ways to us Westerns, and it was something, as Putin said in his address to the people.
They're asking gay marriages from their pastors.
They're pushing child pornography.
I'm not for Putin at all, but could you actually blame the guy for not wanting that kind of thing around his country?
Not wanting what thing?
For not wanting.
You're talking about the drone that he took out of the sky over international waters?
Well, we have international airspace.
We have international waters.
And America is free, just like any other country, to fly in those areas, to be in those areas.
So all of a sudden, Putin comes along, another act of hostility, and even our own defense secretary admitted that he's ratcheting up his hostility towards the U.S. You saw what happened with China and the balloon.
You saw what happened with Russia taking out the drone.
And then they're trying to recover our drone that they took out of the sky.
That is, am I going to go as far as to say it's an act of war?
All right, I'll pull back.
I'll just say it is a hostile act against our country that needs a strong, appropriate response.
I think that we lost that moral high ground when we let this administration go into the White House unchecked.
That's just my opinion.
Well, I mean, we still have a country, and the United States as a country and our military needs to protect our interests.
And it is in our interest not to let China, not to let China or Russia bully us out of international waters or international airspace.
They owe that to this country.
We are a sovereign nation.
They have no right to do what they did in both cases.
And yet there's been no response.
There has been none whatsoever.
And I don't think there's anything coming.
And I think that these were tests, and Joe Biden failed miserably.
Oh, they got him dead center, Sean.
They got him dead center.
They know that he's a weakling.
They know that he is a weird, pervert weakling.
Well, but I do think a lot of people, you know, there was some talk at one point that he said he'd use tactical nuclear weapons or certainly implied it.
Okay, so if that's what he's, if that's what his plan is, we're just going to say we're not going to be intimidated by your words.
There will be a forceful response if you precipitate this.
It's not in the world's best interest for anybody to ever use a nuclear weapon.
I never want that to ever happen.
The loss of human life will be incalculable.
We don't need it.
We don't want it.
However, we're not going to be shut down because of their threat.
That's why, you know, the principle of mutually assured destruction exists.
You fire those weapons, we're firing right back at you.
You shoot down our drones, we're going to shoot down two of yours.
Got to send a message.
The only thing, let me ask you, when I was a kid, we used to fight a lot.
Every time we played sports, every day we'd fight.
Sure.
Do you ever deal with a bully in your life?
Yes, sir, a lot.
Okay.
Did you ever just hit a bully hard?
It got to the point where I didn't take it no more.
Okay.
And then after you hit the bully, what happened?
He stopped.
Yeah.
Right?
He does.
He does.
To me, it's the same principle.
Yeah.
All right.
I don't think we disagree as much as you think.
But I appreciate your call, buddy.
Thank you for being out there.
And no, I don't have an underground bunker giving away my security secrets here.
I don't have one that protects against radiation.
800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Let's say hi to John is in Chicago.
John, how are you?
Glad you called.
I'm doing well, Sean.
Former Homo Commandant Beetlejuice here in Chicago.
We're all happy we're sending her packing.
Bye-bye.
Yes.
I wanted to touch base.
I think a lot of this is just managing the narrative with Trump there.
And if you recall, the first impeachment was about the leaked phone call with Ukraine and Zelensky in there.
So I think a lot of this is going on.
We've been pushing Russia.
You had your generals in 99 say if we put NATO to the western border of Russia, we'd have war.
You had the CIA even send notes to Condoleezza Rice.
And three days before the war with Russia, Russia demanded that last year, that Biden publicly come out and say that we would not push NATO forward.
Biden refused to negotiate, and the war started there.
There's a lot of stuff going on.
You got the color revolution with Obama overthrowing Zelensky in 2014.
Zelensky was tied up with the Pandora Papers, where he had all these offshore tax, illegal tax accounts that came out after the Panama Papers, too.
So I think this all ties in.
And the DOD even released the facts we had 46 pile labs in Ukraine.
So there's a lot of stuff going on here.
I think this is all just part of their.
Listen, I would put a pause on every penny that the U.S. even has committed to Ukraine, unless and until Europe steps up and pays their fair share.
And until Joe Biden takes off the handcuffs and allows Ukraine to accept fighter jets from Poland and elsewhere.
Now, they've accepted four.
That was an improvement last week, but they offered 30.
And unless and until they're willing to show that they're in it to win it, and Europe is willing to take on the greater part of that burden, then it's a futile attempt.
It's a guaranteed quagmire at best, you know, or a guaranteed result of failure.
You know, the people of Ukraine, God bless them, they have shown great courage.
They have shown great valor.
They have lost, you know, untold numbers of innocent men, women, and children.
Do we have a moral obligation?
Yes.
But you know what?
It's Europe's backyard.
Europe's got to deal with it first.
Europe's got to contribute the vast majority of monies.
Europe has got to provide the weaponry.
Europe is not stepping up.
And because, you know, Joe Biden's been throwing billions here, billions there, billions everywhere, there's been no need for them to step up.
And that needs to change.
That's the difference between America first and America last.
Anyway, appreciate the call, my friend.
Thank you.
800-941, Sean, big time, AJ, Houston, Texas.
What's going on, baby?
Big time, Sean Hannity.
Big time.
Hey, happy Easter to everybody.
Dalcon, I better get that in before everything gets away from me.
But big time, Sean, what we got here is a fail to communicate in the White House that don't know how to communicate.
It's all his fault for everything that's going on.
I said it.
Yes, I said it.
It's all his fault because strength.
We need the strength.
And he doesn't have the strength.
We shouldn't be in this.
Afghanistan, we can go on and on.
The border.
We can go on and on.
Look at all that that happened since this idiot stole the White House.
And then the media.
The media won't touch it with a 10-foot pole.
Trump, look at it.
He's found out to be all right all the time.
And they are doing this to hide it away because they won't talk about what biting them all the money that they didn't got from China.
And now you're sitting there letting Putin and the China guy do their thing.
So who do we blame?
It's the guy that's supposed to be protecting America.
He took an oath to protect us.
The man failed at the oath.
And now, look at us.
Look at the quagmire we in, Sean.
This is unbelievable.
And I know you never thought in your lifetime you'll see this happen to America.
And now we got the greatest guy, Donald Trump, that ran the country without no war, without no fuss.
And they feared the man.
I said they feared him.
But now they don't fear this guy.
Like you said, they hit the bully.
Bullies are supposed to fear you.
You ain't supposed to fear them.
And now look at us.
We're looking like a joke.
Oh, my God.
All I can say right quick, Sean, I know we got to go, but America, get ready because this man is getting ready to tear this country up if we don't stop him.
I'm getting very worried, like you are.
I think you speak for a lot of people, AJ.
These are troubling times, difficult times.
They're not getting better anytime soon.
And I'll tell you, you know, on every single major issue of our time, our foreign policy, our economy, our justice system, you know, it's on the verge of collapsing if we're not careful.
And that's why we've got to get this country on the right course again.
You know, this, Dave McCormick's title of his book is Perfect Superpower in Peril.
That's us.
I don't want that to be us.
We're better than that.
We can be better than that.
We will be better than that again.
But right now, these are tough times.
You got to batten down the hatches and prepare for the worst.
And I love my audience.
I don't have this show without you.
Be careful financially.
Be careful.
You know, participate in elections.
It's important.
Even on the local level, these DAs with, you know, no bails, zero, you know, defund the police, dismantle the police.
These people have to go.
We have to get this country back on track.
Big time.
We love you.
Thanks, my friend.
Love you, Sean.
Shake and bait.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for tonight.
We are loaded up tonight.
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The president's attorney in this New York case, Joe Takapina, will get Greg Jarrett and Alan Dershowitz's take on this.
Also, Senator Ted Cruz and the president's other attorney, Alina Haba and Pam Bondi.
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