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So much to talk about.
Not a good day.
Well, not a good weekend for our country or our president.
At some point, is everyone going to feel the same sense of, you know, just cringe embarrassment at the president of the United States?
I mean, this was an unmitigated disaster in Hanoi.
You know, it does a 26-minute international press conference in Vietnam.
Good evening, Vietnam.
Oh, great.
I don't want to contain China.
What do you mean you don't want to contain China?
What?
It's perfectly fine for them to, in international airwaves, to take on hostile maneuvers against our fighter jets, and you don't want to contain that.
You don't want to contain China confronting our Navy in international waters.
You don't want to contain China and their hostile aggression flying into Taiwan airspace with their fighter jets day in and day out.
And you don't want any stoppage of their acting on what is obviously their territorial ambitions.
Are you kidding me?
I spent more time with President Xi than any world.
No, I can't take it.
It is a national embarrassment.
It is so bad.
It's just getting so worse.
I mean, when the Democrats start recognizing this for what it is, and they are more and more, we saw that last week with Van Jones and David Axelrod.
David Axelrod had more comments even this weekend and James Carville.
It's just the beginning.
I'm getting convinced more every day that Democrats see what we see.
And the problem when you have cognitive decline, whatever manifestation form it may take, maybe it's Alzheimer's, maybe it's dementia.
I don't know.
You know, some say he might be exhibiting.
I've talked to doctors that say definitely they would like to test him for issues involving Parkinson.
I don't know.
I'm not a doctor, but I can see what I see.
And I can see that this is getting progressively worse, which is anybody that's ever known anybody that's ever sadly suffered from Alzheimer's or dementia, it's degenerative.
You don't get better.
You only get worse.
And they haven't exactly made a ton of progress in terms of being able to reverse cognitive decline.
I know there are certain treatments, medicines that are offered.
And I would love the list of people, the visitor logs at Camp David and his home and his beach home and everywhere else he goes with his 50% of the time being off and find out, oh, I wonder how many doctors are on the list.
Why is it that they don't keep visitor logs at Camp David?
They did for every other president.
Anyway, and I'm just, I'm watching him and listening to him.
It got so bad this weekend where you had a wife house staffer just abruptly stepping up.
That's it.
Ending his rambling Vietnam press conference mid-sentence that ended with, but I'm going to bed.
I'm so tired.
So tired.
I can barely lift my eyes.
I can barely, I could fall asleep right here.
I'm so tired.
This is the hardest job in the world.
He's not up to this task.
So he abruptly ends the press conference, or his staff does, while he's actually answering a question.
Any other president would have had a fit and then says, I'm going to bed.
I'm like, well, that's a great note to end the press conference on.
And anyway, it's, you know, then, oh, and then we're bringing back the classics.
He says the only existential threat more frightening than nuclear war is global warming.
Here we go again.
He calls climate deniers lying, dogface, pony soldiers.
I'm like, really?
Again?
Now, many of you, we talked about the extra billion dollars that he's sending to Ukraine.
And meanwhile, we're not even taking care of the people of Maui the way they should be taken care of.
He never, since March, in spite of a promise, made it to East Palestine and Ohio.
You know, never mind the Abrams tanks and F-16s that Ukraine desperately needs to fend off the Russians.
No, the Biden administration of the $1 billion, they're pledging $520 million in Ukraine's energy infrastructure as part of a new aid package package.
Here's the problem.
Wink and Tony Blinken said last week during a visit to Kyiv at the Ukraine Recovery Conference held in London a few months ago that he pledged that the U.S. would invest more than $520 million in making Ukraine's energy infrastructure, more than half of which has been destroyed by Russia, cleaner, more resilient, more integrated with Europe.
And he said the U.S. is now upholding that promise.
Washington has approved $135 billion now worth of aid to Ukraine.
We have $37 trillion in debt.
You got to be kidding me.
We cannot afford these policies.
Anyway, you know, I have five questions, he says at one point.
Five questions.
Then he takes forever.
You know, takes a long pause, finishes the question saying, I'm going to bed.
Let me just play the montage and play it all together so you get the full feel of part of what this 26-minute disastrous press conference stopped by his aides was like.
Finnish evening, isn't it?
It's around the world in five days.
It's interesting.
Well, you know, there's that, one of my staff members said, remember the famous song, you know, good morning, Vietnam.
Well, good evening, Vietnam.
And good morning, back in America.
No, no, I will take your questions.
Let me see.
They told me they gave me five people here.
Nendida of warriors.
And the Indian scout, the Indian, looks at John Wayne and points to the union stone and says, he's a lion, dogface, pony soldier.
Well, there's a lot of lion, dogface, pony soldiers out there about global warming.
But not anymore.
All of a sudden, they all realize it.
It's a problem.
And there's nothing like seeing the light.
He may have a game plan.
He just hasn't shared it with me.
But I tell you what, I don't know about you, but I'm going to go to bed.
But not anymore.
All of a sudden, they all realize it.
It's a problem.
And there's nothing like seeing the light.
And I see.
I miss following my orders here.
Staff, is there anybody who hasn't spoken?
No, I ain't calling on you.
I'm calling on Twitter.
Anita from VOA.
It wasn't confrontational at all.
Thank you, everybody.
This is the press conference.
Thanks, everyone.
Thank you.
Thank you.
So mic gets cut off.
All right, you can lower that.
And the music gets turned up, and Joe just, you know, we're ending this disaster right now, and we're going to, I mean, it's unreal.
No other president would ever put up with this.
He just doesn't, he won't remember by the time he gets on the plane and probably, you know, passes out.
Probably wouldn't even need an ambient to sleep on that plane.
It is so humiliating for this country to watch all of this, but this is what the Democrats are putting forward.
Now, it is getting interesting.
I will say that.
I mean, as it relates to the elections, I think it's going to have a big impact on all of this.
You know, we now have had article after article since we discussed Carville and Van Jones and David Axelod come out this weekend, the Hill, for example.
Democrats expressed frustration with Biden's horrific poll numbers and are concerned and frustrated, but they're doubtful any messaging shift by the White House is going to change how people view him before the 2024 election.
How can it change anybody's mind?
I mean, most Americans, 61% live in paycheck to paycheck.
They're not happy with the economy and his energy proposals.
They're not happy with the fact that gas is $4 a gallon and now going up to $100 a barrel again.
They're not happy about it.
His approval rating of 38% is underwater with independence.
And I know that a lot of people are saying, well, Hannity, what about President Trump?
He may have as many as four criminal trials going on.
Why they didn't indict him earlier?
It's a fair question, considering most of these issues go back to January or the end of 2020 or January of 2021.
Why did they have to wait to an election year?
Why would you have a trial and no appeal when the president has such hostile venues in terms of jury selection in these cases?
By the way, to now see the media mob listing alternatives, if Biden exits the 2024 race, Chucky Todd had Gavin Newsom on this weekend.
He obviously is on the list.
And he just all but shut the door completely, which he kind of did with me when I brought it up with him on the issue of whether or not he would run at all in this campaign season.
And he said no, but the most obvious would be Vice President Harris.
And I don't think anybody really likes her.
Her approval rating is lower than his if you just start there.
I mean, more people have a favorable view of Biden than are positively disposed towards her.
Every time she speaks, it's an unmitigated word salad disaster.
But so Newsom closes the door.
What is that?
Create an opening for Pete, Mayor Pete, Buddha Judge?
Gretchen Whitmer?
I mean, you've got to be kidding me.
I mean, tell me who else AOC.
Let's run AOC.
We'll put her on the list.
Okay, that's where the Democratic Party is anyway.
She always has been the real speaker of the House.
She's the biggest power broker in the House for the Democratic Party.
You know, these bad Biden polls now are stoking third-party angst.
Robert F. Kennedy is so disgusted with his treatment by the Democratic media mob and you know, this Democratic protection program, he can't even get on fake news CNN.
He actually said in an interview, Fox has been the only ones that's given me airtime, been fair to me.
And we asked him all the questions about some of his controversial positions.
I just gave him a chance to answer because I didn't think it was my role to be debating him.
I'm not running for the Democratic Party nomination.
And I just have enough faith in you, my listeners on radio, my viewers on TV, that you understand that he's saying something controversial.
If he's talking about COVID or vaccines, that's his opinion.
And just because he expresses it doesn't make him a bad person.
I think some of his views are a little nutty.
Some of them, you know, maybe not so far off.
But now they're talking about third-party angst.
And then you have this, you know, this no labels party and a lot of talk that people like Joe Manchin, Tulsi Gabbard, Joe Lieberman is actively involved in this.
Remember what they did to poor Joe Lieberman?
They challenged him in a primary in Connecticut.
Then he ran third party and he won in Connecticut.
David Axerod pointed out Biden must decide whether he can compete, complete the job first of all, and then prevent a Trump presidency or step aside.
Now, that's on top of his critical remarks last week.
Let me tell you, David Axarod is a direct shot to everything Obama world.
And by the way, Van Jones, same thing.
James Carville, just all things Democratic Party.
Now, 75% of voters, thanks to Biden, want a maximum age limit for elected officials.
Nancy Pelosi, she's now running again.
Andrew Sullivan, who backed Biden, he's a smart guy.
I've never agreed with his politics, but he's not dumb.
He's a smart guy.
He backed Biden in 2020, calls for him to step down, slamming the president's agent.
I'm sorry, agent.
What am I saying?
Botox fillered face while insisting no one rooted in human reality believes he can last till 2028.
That he's ancient.
Ohio's working class felt deserted by Democrats.
When is that going to spill over into Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan?
I'd like to see those poll numbers for Republicans come up drastically.
I mean, two-thirds of the country living paycheck to paycheck.
Not good.
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You know, here it is, the 22nd anniversary.
How many of us don't remember where we were on 9-11, 2001?
We all remember.
How could you forget?
I mean, 2,977 of our fellow Americans were slaughtered that day.
You know, we'll get into a discussion about the state of our border and, you know, all these people on the terror watch list that they caught.
And, you know, all the people that have come into this country, gotaways, estimates to be as high as nearly 2 million gotaways.
What do we know about these people?
What do we know about the people that Joe's letting in, aiding and abetting and letting into the country?
Do we know anything about their backgrounds, radical associations, anything about their health status?
Nope.
Not really.
It's just unreal.
Anyway, later on, we'll play Daryl Worley's Have You Forgotten.
We had put this together, and I remember exactly that.
I can remember that day like in slow motion.
It was just a brutal attack on this country.
We'd never seen an attack like this.
You know, Pearl Harbor second to this in terms of the sheer number of people lost.
And then people even to this day dying of 9-11 related illnesses, those that went down to ground zero and were helping in the rescue recovery efforts.
Anyway, there she stands, Michael W. Smith.
This just into our newsroom.
A plane has crashed into the World Trade Center.
Apparently, that was another claim.
An airplane has crashed into the World Trade Center.
All is lost.
There appears to be a gaping hole yawn away.
Oh, there it goes.
Here it goes.
There it goes.
Here it goes.
But I know.
side has collapsed.
The whole building has collapsed.
Tower 2 has had a major explosion and a complete collapse.
By the night, she stands.
Two airplanes into the World Trade Center.
There she waves.
We're not going to be coward by it that we're not afraid.
Faithful friends.
The freedom-loving nations of the world stand by our side.
Shimmering stars.
Proud to have the red, white, and blue.
West wings.
This country will not relent.
Show away.
Proud to be a part of this country.
Carry me.
I think about the families, the children.
To the place.
Freedom itself was attacked, and freedom will be defended.
She stands.
I can hear you.
The rest of the world hears you.
Just when you think it might be over.
Just when you think the fight is gone.
Someone will risk his life to raise it.
The resolve of our great nation is being tested.
Then she stands.
I pledge allegiance to the wider United States and do believe I would courage it.
My nation and the guardian rule wherever the end of this world.
We will not forget the 2800 people.
Fear boosted.
Police and fire.
Not only were heroes at the beginning, but they're still heroes.
We're going to come out of this emotionally stronger.
Those that die.
And the commitment of our fathers is now the calling of our time.
I don't think anybody should forget the footfalls of their fate.
By the brave.
Those guys did more than anyone ever expected of them.
They messed with the wrong city.
They messed with the wrong state.
She stands.
And I just don't want people to forget.
When evil calls itself martyred.
They all had a sense of duty to protect us all.
When all your homes come crashing down.
We'll be steadfast in our determination.
Someone will come from above.
The rest of the country now understand who the true defenders are.
May the Irish hills caress you.
May her lakes and rivers bless you.
We see the flying sword and ten.
May the luck of the Irish enfold you.
We see the stand.
May the blessings of St. Patrick behold you.
And through when all the fools have fallen.
God bless Ireland and God bless the United States of America.
Now America is embracing a new ethic and a new creed.
Let's roll.
The phrase New York's finest and New York's bravest means something now, doesn't it?
This is a time to reflect and be thankful for where we are today.
And through the fight, we will rebuild New York City.
She stands.
Yet after America was attacked, it was as if our entire country looked into a mirror and saw our better selves.
Unbelievable.
And later we'll play Darrell Worley's hit, you know, have you forgotten?
Because so many, remember Joe Biden and the Al-Qaeda V.
They say, well, maybe they don't need the death penalty, even including Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, the mastermind of 9-11.
And what are we doing now?
We're not betting anybody.
At the end of this year, it's going to be between 7 and 8 million illegal immigrants aided and abetted by Biden open borders policy.
No background checks, no vetting at all whatsoever.
You know, what is 170 people that we know were on the terror watch list that we did stop from getting in?
What about the gotaways, estimates as high as 2 million?
What do we know about them?
Unreal.
We'll get into that later in the program.
By the way, on the issue of 9-11 here, the 22nd year, we have a lot of Republican presidential hopefuls just ripping into Biden for the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal.
Friday night, I had on Gold Star families.
They lost their sons, and in one case, a daughter-in-law.
And these people are in pain, and Joe wouldn't even take a meeting with them.
Donald Trump did.
Biden planned to spend all day in Alaska following his trip to India for the G-20 and his stop in Hanoi.
White House says that he's taking part in a memorial ceremony with members of the military.
I think Nikki Haley is right.
The president should absolutely be here.
Mike Pence took part in Monday's remembrance in Iowa, said he hopes that Biden will honor the sacrifice of all those served in the military in the wars that followed.
Just a disaster.
Unbelievable in every way.
And, you know, what other things are we doing that's great for national security?
Washington Free Beacon has a story out today.
Iran has now been growing their stockpile of highly enriched uranium since Joe Biden took office and restarted diplomacy.
And he's even been importing oil from Iran.
What, we're going to make the mullahs of Iran rich again?
In addition to not enforcing the key sanctions on Iran, which provided that terrorist nation access to nearly $45 billion in oil revenue, the administration recently freed up an additional $16 billion, a portion of which was the result of the hostage deal.
But of course, this was not a ransom.
That's what they told us.
Iran now has the capacity to fuel six nuclear warheads in one month's time and 10 within four months, according to an analysis of the latest data released by a nuclear watchdog group.
That's what they're saying.
According to the Institute for Science and International Security, think tank that reviewed the latest disclosures about Tehran's stockpile from the IAEA, International Atomic Energy Agency, significantly faster than the three to four months it would have taken Iran to build one nuclear weapon in 2020 when economic sanctions were at their strictest before the Biden administration took office.
But don't worry, he's going to take a billion of your tax dollars or half a billion in your tax dollars to help get Ukraine cleaner and more resilient energy.
Wow.
U.S. Marines ordered to remove human waste from Kabul airport as part of Biden's surrender deal with the Taliban.
Miranda Devine writing for the New York Post, before they were allowed to leave Kabul, having just lost 13 comrades to a suicide bomber, U.S. Marines ordered to pick up human feces and other disgusting trash at the airport so as to leave it pristine, what, for the Taliban?
You just can't make this up.
What else do we read?
President Xi, he's done with the established world order because he sees that America, the world without America strength and leadership, is rudderless.
This is what a weak, frail, cognitive mess of a president does.
It impacts the whole world.
It has emboldened our enemies.
Now we see, you know, more activity.
China on high alert.
Canadian ships in transit in the Taiwan Straits.
Things are heating up there.
Pentagon, though, looking to develop a fleet of AI drone systems to combat China.
Oh, that's going to do it.
Meanwhile, they have hypersonic missiles pointed right at us.
I saw this Daily Mail article that HIV protesters were occupying Kevin McCarthy's office.
Seven arrested as activists got on their knees and started chanting.
Unreal.
Did anybody, do you guys watch the U.S. Open?
I watched Coco Grauf win on Saturday and Novak Djokovic win on Sunday.
You were watching golf?
The tennis.
It's Coco Golf.
And yes, I know.
Yeah, Coco Golf.
Sorry.
Yeah, she was amazing.
Oh, yeah.
She was amazing.
I almost felt bad for her opponent because the crowd was so against her.
They wanted Coco to win in the worst way.
I wanted her to win in the worst way.
I was happy she won.
And I wanted Djokovic to actually break the record.
He got now his 24th Grand Slim.
And here's the interesting part.
Anyway, so he wins straight sets against Medvedev.
This was an hour and 50-minute second set.
It was one of the most fascinating tennis sets I've ever seen in my life.
And it's such athleticism on display.
Now, neither Jokovich nor Medvedev were allowed to play in New York last year because of COVID restrictions.
People might recall.
Anyway, so on Sunday, Moderna was one of the sponsors for the tournament.
And they had on ESPM their, quote, shot of the day sponsored by Moderna.
And the Moderna shot of the day was Novak Djokovic, the guy that refused the COVID shot, who won the championship and probably would have been an odds-on favorite to win it last year.
Unbelievable.
Now, the level of athleticism it takes to be that great an athlete, it's incredible.
You can't measure it.
Everything they put in their body, if you watch them in the changeovers, you know, they're either eating a banana, they're sucking down, you know, some type of protein of some kind, some type of energy bar, electrolytes, you know, they're just pounding it into their system so that they can perform at the highest levels.
And the heat and humidity the past week was awful.
Oh, it was awful.
Awful.
Anyway, that's the battle.
By the way, the liberal media mob.
Yeah, one of them actually said this weekend, who is this?
I think it was over at MSDNC.
Anyway, hoping that Donald Trump must die in jail.
Liberal host says, set an example.
Wow.
PBS's roundtable.
They can't believe Biden's pretty extraordinary accomplishments can be ignored.
What are they?
CBS praised Biden for having accomplished many important things.
Start with the list.
Tell me what it is.
They admitted incorrectly editing Kamala Harris's interview clip, omitting GOP attacks on her.
Unreal.
Crazy times.
By the way, you want to know what typical weekend in the United States is like these days?
You know, no bail laws, you know, defund dismantle.
Let's see.
We have the Thomas R. Proctor High School security guard in Utica, New York, shot in the head during a brawl at a high school football game.
You got a Chicago rideshare driver brutally beaten and carjacked by three women.
In Vegas, a rapper charged with murder after allegedly making a music video bragging about crime.
In Pennsylvania, you have an escaped killer stole a van over the weekend, tried to contact acquaintances.
Still looking for that guy.
Nike store in Portland had to shut their doors as crime and safety concerns tear through that, you know, peaceful city.
It's all peaceful.
A teen punched by a stranger in the big apple, you know, tears up recounting, you know, the unprovoked attack.
Oakland leaders addressed the residents' frustration over rising crime, but they're not refunding the police and they're still going with these idiotic bail laws.
Anyway, 800-941-Sean, our number, if you want to be a part of the program, White House physician, former White House physician Ronnie Jackson will join us.
And later, how bad is it at the border on this 9-11 anniversary?
How many people are setting up terror cells in our country thanks to Joe's open borders?
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So Jennifer Granholm, your energy secretary, takes a trip through the Southeast from Charlotte, North Carolina to Memphis, Tennessee, you know, to tell us how great billions of dollars the White House is pouring into green energy and electric vehicles.
Then they tried to put a non-electric vehicle in line to get charged, and a family with a baby was so upset they had to call the police because they were cutting the line.
Anyway, we'll get to that.
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