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War with New World Order - September 8th, Hour 2
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At hour two, Sean Hannity's show this Friday, 800-941-Sean.
Our number, if you want to be a part of the program, I keep talking about the canary coal mine and what it is now meaning for people like Joe Biden.
What is it meaning in his particular case?
And I have rightly, I think, predicted that once you start seeing dominoes fall, and that is, you know, either prominent publications or prominent news networks where they stand and sit solidly left, start going against Joe Biden.
It's probably an indicator that there is a real effort behind the scenes to push him off the ticket in 2024.
If they want to do it, time is kind of running out.
It's time for them to get going.
I would say the first domino to fall was Maureen Dowd with her blistering column about Joe and Jill Biden not recognizing their fourth grandchild.
That was followed up by a weekend a couple of weekends ago, Politico, the Washington Post, the New York Times, actually covering the Joe Biden bribery, money laundering scandal allegations.
That was another shoe to drop, another canary in the coal mine.
Now you got fake news CNN commentators all over the place.
I'll play some of it in a second here.
You know, just attacking that this poll that they came out was devastating towards Joe Biden and his political future.
You know, more than two-thirds of Democrats now saying it's time to dump Biden.
James Carville was interviewed and said, look, you can't look at this and not say that you're concerned.
For me to come on television and say, I don't find this alarming or troubling at all would be stupid.
I wouldn't do that.
And anyway, he goes on to say, to say the least, the polls were not great.
And he goes on to say, and it tells us that, you know, voters are expressing some apprehension here, and it's pretty obvious.
And there's not much else you can say when you look at Biden's poll numbers.
All right, that's James Carville.
Reliable, leftist, liberal.
But then you go to Dana Bash and her analyzing at CNN their poll numbers.
Then you listen to the comments of Van Jones.
Then you listen to the comments of David Axelrod.
You know, all of a sudden, they're now beginning to make at least create a pathway for another candidate to step into this race.
This morning, we have brand new CNN polling.
The numbers are looking rough for President Biden.
We've been talking about it all morning and the fact that it could be a troubling sign for Democrats and the president's hope for reelection in 2024.
There is no way to spin this.
CNN reads the country's mood right now and finds that America is deeply unhappy with Joe Biden.
Most Democratic voters hope for a change at the top of the ticket, and Americans don't take the president at his word when he talks about his son, Hunter.
Joe Biden's like that grandpa that you love, that you believe in, you owe a lot, but you start to wonder, you know, would you give this grandpa a high-stress job for six more years, or would you want something else for him?
55% of Americans, the majority, believe Biden's actions related to the Hunter-Biden probe inappropriate.
Problematic new polling numbers out this morning for President Biden.
The CNN poll finds his approval rating sinking to just 39%.
67% of Democrats and Democratic leading independents want the party to nominate someone other than Joe Biden for 2024.
Does the Democratic Party need to start seriously looking at someone else?
76% of voters are seriously concerned that President Biden's age might negatively impact his ability to serve another full term.
73% of voters are worried about his current mental and physical competence.
Do you not acknowledge that the perception of his frailty, perceived frailty, is hurting his campaign, is hurting his reelection chances.
These polls seem to get at the elephant in the room when it comes to President Biden.
For voters, it's his age that they're concerned about, his mental acuity, his health.
What does that tell us?
Well, I guess to say the least, the polls are not great.
And it tells us that, you know, voters are expressing some apprehension here.
It's pretty clear.
I mean, there's not much else you can say when you look at him.
And there is real concern about his age.
And that has been true for some time.
It continues to be true.
And the reality is if this were a referendum, he would be in deep, deep trouble.
Sometimes you have to win ugly.
And I think that's what lies ahead here for this president in this White House.
Here to weigh in, Joe Concha, best-selling author.
Brian, frankly, the best media commentator on television today.
He should have his own show on Fox.
Joe Concha is here.
Carol Roth is with us, author of You Will Own Nothing, Your War with a New Financial World Order and How to Fight Back.
Welcome back, both of you.
Joe, I don't know.
It might have been your best TV appearance ever last night.
You were on fire.
Wow.
Thanks.
Well, there's a lot to talk about, right, Sean?
And Joe Biden now has a record that he has to run on.
In other words, when he won the presidency, he campaigned by pleading the fifth in his basement and basically pointed at Donald Trump and says, I'm a good guy.
He's a bad guy.
Vote for me.
I'll bring back normalcy to the White House and decency to the White House.
And now we see it's been anything but, and the American people know it based on that devastating poll that you just went through and peeled off the onion on as far as an overwhelming majority of people believing that he was involved in criminal activity with his son.
The fact that he has a record as well to run on from a policy perspective, where you have Bidenomics not working well for many people where three and four Americans say they don't like the way the economy is being handled.
They still think inflation is too high.
They don't feel safe in their communities.
They don't like the fact that this is a Democratic Party that supports abortions in the second and third trimester.
They don't like the fact that we're sending $520 million to Ukraine so they have cleaner energy.
Ooh, that's nice.
And I could go down the litany of policy decisions around the U.S. southern border where 7 million people have crossed into this country, which that eclipsed the population of 38 individual U.S. states.
7 million is more than the population of 38 states.
It bears repeating.
I could go on.
But if this comes down to issues, people will vote against this president because they know, A, he's corrupt, and B, he's too old, and C, he's incompetent.
And that's not a good way to go through life, John.
Now, I've been saying, Carol, as soon as the media starts talking about Joe Biden being weak and frail and a cognitive mess, and by the way, he's declining more every day, and it's getting more obvious every day.
Nobody can deny it now.
For a period of time, going back to the election in 2020, I think I was one of the few people that actually had the guts to repeat it every single day.
And as it relates to the Joe Biden bribery and money laundering scandal allegations, we've been covering this every single day and night, and it now looks like it's beginning to hit the bloodstream of the body politic that is known in this country, and people are beginning to get it.
Yeah, I mean, this is not just the canary in the coal mine singing, the canary is belting out a full opera.
You have the media who has been hiding this information.
By the way, Carol, that's one hell of a talented canary.
I mean, yes, a soprano, nonetheless.
But, you know, you have been sharing this information on a regular basis.
Your listeners have been informed, Sean.
But from the corporate press, from the other part of the mainstream media, they have been hiding this information.
They haven't been sharing it.
They haven't been telling people.
And yet the American people still understand it.
They still know that Joe Biden doesn't have the competence, that he doesn't have that fortitude.
They see what's going on with the economy.
They don't believe in Bidenomics.
Bidenomics is a bad thing.
So the fact of the matter is that the media has been trying to run cover for this for so long, and still the American people are going, we're not listening to you at this point.
We know what's happening.
The media has now had to change its tune.
And that canary is singing that good tune now.
And unfortunately, that does not look good for Joe Biden.
What Democrat goes first?
Because it's going to take prominent elected Democrats to be saying now what even fake news CNN is saying.
Well, you know, it's interesting.
Nancy Pelosi has been a fierce supporter of the congressional nursing home.
You know, she thought that Dianne Feinstein was just absolutely fit to continue to be serving in Congress.
But she just announced her own reelection.
So she may be one to distance herself, not only for her own campaign, but I'm pretty sure, Sean, that she's related to an up-and-coming potential replacement for Biden, and that would be Gavin Newsom.
So wouldn't it be interesting as part of this new campaign if she were the first person to come out and say, well, maybe it's time that he steps aside, even though she's 83 years old, and she's been the one who has been backing folks like Diane Feinstein.
All right, Joe Concha, get your take on this.
What prominent Democrat would be the first to step out and start saying the things that now even CNN is saying?
I'm not sure it would even be a public thing, Sean.
I could see, I've heard this scenario where it goes all the way to the convention, then Joe Biden suddenly announces that, well, you know, maybe I can't do this for another four years or cite some sort of health problem.
And then on the floor, Gavin Newsom is nominated without like one vote deciding it.
I found that to be like an interesting party conversation, far-fetched, but hey, who knows?
But I could see something being orchestrated behind the scenes in the end where there isn't a public coup or mutiny against Joe Biden because Democrats tend to stick together at least publicly.
But either way, it's hard to now envision Biden getting all the way to the finish line here and then serving another four years.
I mean, when 77% of the American people, we've never seen remotely a poll like this before, says that this guy is too old and should not serve a second term, that's a problem.
And the fact is, he's only going to get worse, right?
This isn't wine we're talking about.
It's a human being who's clearly in decline.
And if Donald Trump or whoever the Republican nominee says, look, could you imagine an 86-year-old version of this man running the country?
What do you think?
And even people that don't like Trump personally will hold their nose and say, well, you know what?
I agree with your policies.
I think he is too old.
I don't like the direction of the country.
And that's the way the book's going to go.
But I think in the end, I agree with Carol.
I think it's Gavin Newsome or Bust because Kamala Harris, let's put it this way, Sean, if Kamala Harris ran a funeral powler, no one would die.
All right?
She is talking about incompetence.
We saw what she did at the border.
You can't do a basic speech even with a teleprompter.
So that's obviously not plan B.
I only see Newsom.
I don't really see anybody else stepping up.
Gretchen Whitmer?
I don't think so.
All right, quick break.
Right back.
We'll come back and continue more with Joe Contra and Carol Roth on the other side.
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Joe Concha and Carol Roth are with us on this Friday.
You don't think there'd be pressure from within the party to keep Kamala, thinking that it's naturally hers to take the mantle from?
You don't think that?
And I will say this, you know, as you look at Joe Biden, you know, you're not exactly looking at the, you know, somebody that's the epitome of great health in any way.
And I just think he's one fall away from everybody saying it.
Now, MSDNC, you know, you've got a bunch of left-wing, radical, lying, conspiracy theory peddling kooks over there.
They don't seem to have turned yet.
Will they turn?
They probably won't.
No.
I mean, even there, you don't see even remotely anything resembling another perspective, another thought process, somebody who actually supports Trump.
Any Republican they have on there is like Nicole Wallace, who, let's face it, is like the anchor version on MSNBC of the Lincoln Project.
So that's all out over there.
But I think it's very telling, and you mentioned it before.
Van Jones and David Axelrod are both CNN contributors.
And now they're publicly questioning whether Joe Biden should run again or not.
And where did they work?
Oh, yeah, that's right.
The Obama administration.
So I think in the end, that's where the word's going to come down from, as if it's the godfather.
Like, okay, let's get Joe.
All right.
Exit question.
Would Michelle Obama get in this race?
And if she did, could she win, Carol Roth?
I think that if she did, she could win.
I think she's extremely popular amongst a large group of people.
However, as we see, there's a lot of information that is pouring out now about the Obama as a famph, the Obamas as a family unit.
So I think that given that scenario, that's not probably something that she wants to step into.
I don't know that she loves politics anyway.
I think she'd rather be a producer and kind of live her life.
So I don't think she's going to go in, but if somebody persuades her, pushes her, says we need you, I think she's a very formidable candidate.
Your answer, Joe Concha.
No shot she gets in.
The Obamas love the celebrity aspect of their private lives too much, right?
Carol mentioned it before.
They're winning Emmys.
They got a multi-million dollar mansion on Martha's Vineyard.
They are liking that life.
I can't see them getting back into the grind of all this.
I think they'd rather just kind of control things from behind the scenes.
But Michelle Obama's not sticking her toe into this swap, no way.
All right, Joe Concha, Carol Roth, thank you both.
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Brenda is in Vegas, K-Dawn Radio.
Brenda, how are you?
Glad you called.
I listen to you every single day.
I believe I hear.
I look things up.
I know what's going on out there, but nothing will ever be done to any of the Bidens.
Nothing is done to Hillary.
I feel like this George Soros runs them.
He tells them what to do, how to do it.
I'm 75 years old.
I lost my left eye to a tumor five years ago.
Do you think I need any kind of help?
No.
I owe the IRS $4,000.
If I miss my one payment, do you think they're going to say, oh, that's okay.
We'll let it go?
No.
Never.
Never.
The Bidens have gotten away with everything, everything.
And nothing will never be done.
I'm not so sure this time, and I'll tell you why.
Because now the American people are getting it.
You know, I get criticized sometimes.
Well, Hannity, you repeat yourself.
And we really haven't been repeating ourselves that much as it relates to the Joe Biden bribery and money laundering scandal allegations because we keep getting new information.
Now we remind you of the old information as we tell you the new information.
So everybody's up to speed on the story.
But we're now at a point where, you know, two-thirds of Democrats want to dump Biden and 61% of Americans see that Joe Biden lied and was actively involved in his son's business dealings.
Now, besides me, I don't think there have been a lot of people out there beating that drum as hard as we have.
I've known this is corrupt since the Trump-Ukrainian impeachment days.
And we had that videotape of Joe, oh, you're not getting a billion dollars till you fire a prosecutor.
Why would a vice president demand that?
And then Hunter admitting no experience in oil and gas or Ukraine, but getting paid all that money.
So, you know, I feel confident now that we're getting to a point where the Democrats now are getting very, very nervous because they know I've got over a year to keep reminding people of this story.
And so once they start covering that and covering Joe's, you know, mental cognitive decline, he's in trouble.
He may not be their candidate.
Do you think that Trump is going to get out of all of this?
They're impeaching, or not impeaching.
They've indicted him on forced in four separate venues.
Yes.
Do I think he's going to get out of it?
No, I actually think that he can't get a fair trial in New York.
I don't think he can get a fair trial in D.C., and I don't think he can get a fair one in Fulton County.
No, no.
So I think, and this is how bad this is because they had all these years, if all of this was so bad, why did they wait till an election year to charge him?
They had since the Democrats are petrified.
If Trump and any other Republicans get in there, they are going to go to prison.
Well, I mean, look, I'm not looking to use the law to bludgeon Democrats, but I don't want to live in a country where they're using the law to bludgeon conservatives and weaponize our justice system the way it's been weaponized.
And, you know, literally turning our Constitution and shredding it by not applying equal justice under the law and equal application of our laws.
And that justice in America, we would hope, would be blind.
It's not.
We have two very different, distinct justice systems in America.
One of you're a conservative, one of you're a Republican, one of your last name's Trump, versus one of your last name is Clinton or Biden or a Democrat.
Very different systems.
And anybody that denies that simply is just denying the truth and the reality that is transparent and obvious.
To me, I have some friends that are Democrats or acquaintances, and they'll come up to me and say, blah, blah, blah.
And I'll throw out something that, okay, Biden did, blah, blah, blah.
Well, I don't know anything about that.
Then I'll throw up something.
I don't know anything about that.
I just showed you're a Democrat by word only.
You don't know what actually is going on out here in this world.
There's a lot of that, a lot of ignorance.
Hence, my rationale for staying on this like a laser beam focused because, look, all right, the document issue.
Well, Joe Biden has the same document problems as Trump did.
Hillary Clinton had far worse than anybody in all of this.
And my say is I want to inform as many Americans as to the truth of what we know and the need for real, real investigations going on here.
We don't have that with David Weiss.
We don't have it with Merrick Garland.
We don't have it with the current FBI leadership.
And we need it desperately.
Got to save the country.
All right, Brenda, take care of yourself.
Sorry about your operation, and I wish you the best.
Always, you have a great weekend.
Let's say hi to John in Mississippi.
John, what's going on?
How are you, sir?
I'm doing well, Sean.
This is John G. Dew, and I've got a question for you, and I really, I'm curious what you think about this.
People who are familiar with me will know that I ask this rhetorically most of the time, mostly because I think I know the answer to it.
But I want to know why you think it took so long after Biden admitted at the Council on Foreign Relations that he committed a quid pro quo with the pro with Ukraine about the prosecutor.
After he admitted that, why did it take so long for Republicans to start jumping on this and start investigating?
It's clear to me, and I think anyone who has seen the video, which you can find online pretty easily, that...
I played it a bunch.
I can play the sound now.
I played it a million times.
You want the long answer?
You want the short answer?
The short answer is simple, is that they are corrupt and that this is what a dual standard of justice is.
You know, the whole argument with the Ukrainian impeachment of Donald Trump was, well, it was a quid pro quo, and Donald Trump, you know, wanted to make sure that this issue was investigated.
This is a legitimate inquiry of investigation.
Did Joe Biden leverage taxpayer money that resulted in the firing of an innocent prosecutor for the purpose of enriching his family, which was the net result of that firing?
And we know the answer.
We knew it back then.
We know it now.
And the answer is an obvious yes.
Why in your mind did it take Republicans so long to get on board?
Some still aren't on board with this.
Well, James Culver says that they think they have the votes to launch the impeachment inquiry.
That will give them more subpoena power, and there'll be less opportunity for obfuscation and a lack of cooperation.
So, you know, they're doing their level best.
I think we're going to get there.
Look, it's not even that Joe Biden's going to get indicted.
You can't indict it as sitting president.
I want every American, though, to know what Joe did.
I want to get to the truth of it all.
I want to know why Joe lied repeatedly as a candidate and as a president.
I want to know about every phone call he was on with every one of Hunter's business partners, foreign business partners.
I'd like a justification, a rationale for tens of millions of dollars, a lot of which coming from our top geopolitical foes into the Biden family conference.
I'd like to know what Hunter did for the money.
I'd like to know what the grandchildren did for the money.
I'd like to know exactly how much of this money made its way to Joe Biden.
And yeah, it's going to take time to get to the rest of it, especially because they've been slow walking every investigation.
But we're getting there.
We've made a lot of progress.
Give a lot of credit to Jim Jordan and James Comer and the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee as well.
They've done their job.
We're getting there.
But it's going to take more.
One last thing for you, Sean.
It seems like this has all started during Biden's presidency.
My concern, and the thing that makes me uneasy, is why hadn't it started and been ramped up to this degree before now?
I mean, even increasing awareness of this issue with the American people would have been a start, even if you didn't have the numbers to get anything going in the legal system.
Look, we just got to keep our foot on the gas and not be deterred.
Takes a long time, especially because they have the media mob protection program.
They protect all things, Biden Family Syndicate, Biden Enterprise.
Anyway, hang in there, John.
Appreciate it, man.
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Peggy, South Carolina.
What's going on, Peggy?
How are you?
Hi, Sean.
Thank you so much for taking my call.
Thank you.
Where in South Carolina are you?
A little town called Gallivant Ferry.
I think I know where that is.
Yeah, nice area.
It's beautiful.
It's getting filled up kind of quick, just like I guess everywhere else is.
But yeah, it's I would have a political litmus test before you let anybody from New York, New Jersey, or any other state in.
Because if they're going to bring the policies that destroyed their states with them, tell them to stay home.
Yeah, well, unfortunately, I think we were just Myrtle Beach was named second in vacation spots.
So it just keeps getting more crowded and more and there's more crime.
And it's kind of what happens when well, the only good thing is if you own property, your property values are going to go up dramatically.
Yes, that's true.
And they have.
So it is good.
But, you know, with everybody that's here, it's your schools are getting inundated.
And there's, you know, the infrastructure is not supporting all the new people.
And yeah, it has a trickle-down effect.
And, you know, we lived in Colorado very rurally.
And when we moved here, you know, we kind of said, well, look, after this amount of time period, this is probably going to be a good area.
And we were right.
But it just, it's grown so fast.
And then you have, you know, the illegal immigration presence.
And, you know, that's really grown.
And so, yeah, it's a lot in a short amount of time period.
But we could go on about that.
Yeah.
All right.
So what else is on your mind?
Basically, you know, you have a lot of smart listeners.
And when people call in, you know, for the most part, everybody is kind of saying the same thing.
We all understand.
I mean, I was a kid and I was brought up in Philadelphia.
And my father worked for the Bulletin.
And, you know, we would go every year for Independence Day and you would get a copy of the Declaration of Independence.
And, you know, it was a big deal.
There was a parade.
And in our schools, we learned about constitutional laws and amendments.
And if you are even the slightest bit aware of that as a child growing up, you know how important your First Amendment rights are because you know that it was first for a reason.
You know what I'm saying?
So like if you have any education on that and you see systematically each specific part of that that they have successfully silenced or taken, you can't help but say to yourself, and again, I live in Philly, so I know all about elections and how secure they can be or not be.
Or I remember as a kid, you know, with the unions, how that stuff would be.
And I was just like, okay, so yeah, apparently stuff can be changed and modified.
And if you can figure out how to do that in a small place and then teach others, you really don't have a secure election or there's the shadow of doubt that it is.
So my problem is most of us feel as though it doesn't really matter who gets elected.
Whoever's in power is going to decide who's going to run this country.
If you have the law at every aspect now in a position to fight and not fight fairly, what does that say for the average American?
If you're asking about the election process, am I hearing you right?
I'm worried about like, yes, how is like they're saying that they're not going to require people who are illegal to have voter ID, or if they did, it wasn't even.
Well, here's what has to happen.
And I've been saying this now since 2021.
Republicans need to now reexamine.
Look, ultimately, I'd rather have paper ballots, Election Day a holiday, same-day voting, no early voting anywhere except for the military, the infirmed, elderly, et cetera.
No more ballot harvesting, which is legal in a lot of states.
I'd have voter ID, signature verification, chain of custody controls, updated voter rolls, partisan observers watching the vote count.
But we don't have that.
That's not the system we have.
So in the interim, for Republicans to compete better, they need to get their act together and overcome their resistance and their reluctance to voting early, voting by mail.
And they better get in the legal ballot harvesting business in the states that allow it.
And if they don't do those things, they're going to start out every election day down hundreds of thousands of votes, which is the way Democrats have taken on a huge, massive advantage.
And I'm warning Republicans on another issue.
And I know many of them don't want to hear it.
Hannity, you've changed.
Hannity, you're not pro-life.
I am pro-life.
But I am just telling you politically in swing states, it is not a viable position to win politically.
And I point to Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania.
No exceptions, rape, incest, mother's life.
He got slaughtered.
And the whole Republican Party and all of Pennsylvania paid a price for it.
And so I'm telling Republicans, probably the consensus area where the country is now is about, you know, first trimester to 15 weeks like the Dobbs decision.
Doesn't mean I like it, just means it's the political reality of the time that we're in.
Anyway, appreciate the call.
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