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Speaking As An Expert - September 27th, Hour 1
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As we come to you from Simi Valley, California, the home of the Reagan library where Fox business tonight will be hosting the, the second Republican primary debate.
I'll be doing the spin room show.
It's actually funny.
Now that we announced the debate state versus state red versus blue, uh, DeSantis and Newsome.
Uh, any, I write Newsome when I arrive in California, I write landed in your great state and I passed a hundred million dollar bridge being built for mountain lines.
I said, now that's funny.
And I said, but I did help the California economy.
I stopped at In N Out Burger immediately to help the economy.
Anyway, so he writes back.
He texted me back, which, you know, good for him.
I'm very proud of him.
Uh Wildlife Crossing will inspire for generations.
And it's for rattlesnakes as well.
By the way, mostly private, most money private.
All right.
Private.
I mean, they're building bridges for mountain lions and rattlesnakes.
I'm like, holy California.
This is not the state that uh it was when I lived there.
What?
So one of the guys that's on our security detail.
Yeah.
He lives right next to this dang bridge.
Yeah, he he was the one that pointed it out to us.
And so he's saying today, we were talking to him, great guy.
Definitely a little scary.
I don't want him to hurt me.
And he says, uh, he goes, This bridge is gonna lead to my backyard.
So I'm gonna have Bobcats and lizards.
He goes, I can't get any funding in my kids' school, but they're gonna build a hundred million dollar bridge for a bobcat into my backyard.
Well, according to the governor, mostly private money.
When I I heard that this could only happen in California.
It's just you know, just typical.
Um, you know, it's so amazing, and that's why I think this this red state versus blue state, one state taxes, what, 13 and a half percent income tax, zero in Florida.
Uh, you know, look at sanctuary states or secure borders, defund dismantle versus you know, law and order and police support.
Um energy policies out here are insane versus you know, in like Florida versus Florida, it's just gonna be a good debate.
And I think it'll be uh very interesting, and and frankly, it's impacting so many millions of Americans that are moving with their feet every day where they want to live, the state that they want to live in.
Uh by the way, just as we're coming on the air, I don't know why this is such the big thing that it is, but uh if anybody was watching the Kansas City game over the weekend, um Travis Kelsey's a great player, he plays for Kansas City,
his brother plays for the Eagles, uh, Linda's team, and the fact that you know there've been all these rumors that he's dating Taylor Swift, and you know, and then I'm seeing like all this really vile hatred that people write online, and I'm like, yeah, okay.
If if I I'm not a Swifty, by the way, is what they call people.
Um however, I mean, this girl is so talented, she's so gifted, she's such a smart business person.
I remember her from you know like tears on my guitar days, because I'm a big country music fan, and and she has grown as an artist.
I mean, by leaps and bounds, she's got like generations.
You know, this is gonna be the biggest grossing tour ever in the history of music, which is saying a lot.
Yeah.
You know, you when you when you think about you know people like Garth Brooks and Michael Jackson, this is the biggest ever.
And I'm not sure anyone's gonna beat it.
I mean, it's gonna top the billion dollar mark.
But anyway, so she's in I guess in the box with with uh Travis Kelsey's mom, and she's celebrating his success and his brother stirring the pot on podcasts.
You know, those I can confirm these rumors are true.
And then Travis is saying, don't listen to my stupid brother.
It's you know, takes on a lot of drama.
Here's the thing.
And I'm like, and I'm reading some of these comments.
I'm like, people need to get a life.
If they are happy together, and I know that Travis Kelsey doesn't care about Dylan Mulvaney, drinks Bud Light on purpose, you know, is telling people to get the shots.
Uh I don't listen to my athletes for my medical advice.
And if you do, you're really stupid.
Just like if you would listen to a talk show host, you're really stupid.
That's why I went out of my way during COVID.
Linda, how many times do you think I said on record, I am not a doctor.
I don't know your medical history.
I don't know your current medical condition.
I am not, I am not qualified to tell you what to do.
I will gently push back and say you are still smarter than Fauci.
Well, way smarter than Fauci.
I would take your advice over Fauci's any day for the case.
Well, I was right about the origins of COVID and and we also exposed him.
Well, by the way, I got an early copy of Ram Paul's book.
Oh, isn't it amazing?
Oh, I love it.
Woo-hoo.
This is gonna be great.
He actually asked me to blurb it.
I said that proudly.
I'd be glad to.
Absolutely.
You get to bouch them together.
I know, but what I don't understand is I guess people are interested in celebrity lives, etc., etc.
Why don't they just leave them alone?
Why why why does everybody have to weigh in?
I I I don't judge the music I listen to, or I'd be highly limited.
You know, like when I listen to LLJ cool, as Joe calls them.
When I listen to LLJ Cool, uh, can you believe this guy's such a mess, man?
He's an idiot.
You know, and then it then he follows that up with, you know, calling him a boy.
I'm like, two of the great artists of our time representing a groundbreaking legacy of hip-hop in America.
L L J cool Jay.
Uh by the way, that boy's got that man's got biceps bigger than my thighs.
I think he's man.
I I gotta tell you, I'm more offended by him talking about his thighs than LL Cool J in the same sentence.
Okay.
So I just and you like got all offended, you know, but because I said uh I think Taylor Swift's enormously gifted and talented.
Yeah.
I think she's brilliant, got a brilliant business acumen.
She's got great people around her, seems like uh the nicest person.
She's great with her fans, you know.
She she really connects with them.
Uh-huh.
And I'm like, I'm happy for her success.
I'm happy for Travis Kelsey's success.
Yeah, after all, my season's over with the Jets.
There's nothing I can do, you know.
That's that's the typical thing.
Is that done?
Is he out?
Oh, Rogers is done for the year.
He thinks he might be able to get back if they get to the playoffs.
They're not getting into the playoffs.
No.
I think don't they play Kansas City next week?
They're dead.
Uh by the way, it'd be interesting to see if if Taylor shows is that it met life or no?
Do we know?
I don't know.
I don't follow her at all, so I really don't know that much about it.
She's absolutely a musical genius, and she's got authenticity and honesty.
Now, when I hear her political views, remember she came out against uh Marsha Blackburn, and I I heard her explain it at some point, and I'm like, she just doesn't know.
It's not her forte.
And just like you know, me telling her what I think of music, you know, it's it's out of my league.
I can't tell you.
I just know what I like.
You have a unique perspective because you're a celebrity, you're in politics, and so your idea is that you know, you don't comment on things of which you are not, you know, uh an expert unless you give sort of like the caveat at the start.
Like, listen, you know, I'm not a doctor, I'm not gonna tell you what drugs to take, yada yada yada.
Monoclonal antibodies.
Monoclonal antibodies.
No, f I say ask your doctor about if you got a COVID test to ask about.
I think the issue there is, and what's different about you is that you know, we at least had the conversation, right?
So you got people like Travis Kelsey And uh Taylor Swift speaking with authority on that which they know very little.
So for people who hear that, I find it kind of offensive.
Like, do me a favor.
And before you, you know, do whatever you're gonna do, whether it's to speak out against political actions or to talk about vaccines or to give your opinion on X, Y, and Z, just say this is my opinion.
This is what I think.
It doesn't mean go do it.
I mean, that's kind of a given if they're speaking out on it.
Not with that kind of following.
Anyway.
Um and she wants to register young people to vote.
I think she put out a Instagram or something.
She had 55,000 people to sign up.
Look, I I that's you know what?
I believe in freedom.
And why don't we wish people well?
I mean, remember when Joe Rogan got Oh, Ethan says it isn't MetLife.
It isn't MetLife.
It's a home game.
That'll be interest.
Well, I think Taylor, I think she had one of our million places I'm sure she owns.
I know she owns a place in Rhode Island that's beautiful.
Um because I know Rhode Island so well, and you know I go just drive up just for the black pearl clam chowder.
It's beautiful in Rhode Island.
Yeah, Rhode Island's a beautiful So anyway.
Um I'm just like, I just can't stand that everybody seems to want everyone else miserable.
And that's what I like for example, when Joe Rogan got COVID and he came out healthy, and he said, Yeah, we threw everything at it.
He told his audience what he did in consultation with his doctors, monoclonals, HCQ, Ivormectin.
Uh he just threw everything at it.
Right.
And my attitude is I'm glad he's I'm glad he got through that.
I'm glad he wasn't one of those statistics.
Right.
Because there were times when COVID deaths were just astronomical.
It was a pretty scary time for everybody.
Um, and especially in the beginning, the alpha strain was, you know, really, really brutal, as was the delta strain.
And the ones they have today, I know I know like ten people that have had it gotten it this week.
They say it's a cold.
Yeah, but I think the larger conversation, which I know you don't want to have.
No, I don't know.
And uh first of all, that's not fair.
It's very fair because we've been down this road, and like here we go.
You're gonna like what I'm gonna say.
You're gonna like it.
You are.
What I'm going to say is I am not an expert in this topic, and this is my opinion.
So there is your you know, disclaimer, if you will.
Here we go.
You ready?
But I believe that had we allowed people to have medical freedom and the right to try, which Donald Trump so bravely put into effect, then people could have used what worked for their body.
Many, many times in our medical history, we have done off-label products for things that they weren't intended to cure, and they worked.
I'm for all of that.
However, our government made it so that in order for them to get the emergency youth authorization passed, that you couldn't use anything else.
And suddenly everything else that could have potentially worked against it went missing, and lots of people died.
People couldn't go to work because of these mandates.
Vaccination mandates.
And and the removal of opportunities for other drugs.
All of a sudden there was no HTQ.
All of a sudden, Ivormectin was only for horses.
All of a sudden, you couldn't have all of these various drugs that have worked for things like rheumatard arthritis and and lupus.
Ivermithmectin is the only one I've never seen a scientific study on.
And I've seen we saw the two studies on mass that say that they don't work.
We saw the multiple studies.
Oh, there's hundreds of those, but they buried them in the journals.
They didn't want to take it out.
But then they the ones on hydroxychloroquine, you know, starting with the Henry uh Ford Hospital study and then many subsequent studies, then we have those studies that said, yeah, take an early, it does mitigate symptoms.
Of course.
Okay.
To me, the gold standard to me, I always said, you know, if you get COVID, you get a positive reading, call your doctor and ask your doctor about monoclonal antibodies.
And I repeated it, repeated it until you were whining about me repeating it.
And I said, the reason I'm repeating it is because not people are not going to remember when they pop positive on COVID, they're not going to remember monoclonal antibodies.
But by the same time, and then people were calling our show, what is Sean say to do again?
They just got COVID.
Yeah, but by the same token, and and you were right, you know, and I already I was right.
I always am right.
All right.
Do you want me to get that on the loop for you and you can play it and put yourself to bed at night, listening to me saying you were right.
Yeah, please.
That's a good idea.
Yeah.
But my point was put me asleep.
We are love it.
You know, the problem is with the monoclonals is that, you know, if people just were allowed to have the opportunity to take different things, I think we would have saved a lot of lives.
And they just didn't allow it.
And that is what I think was the biggest fault of our government.
All right, we've got a lot of news we're going to get into today.
You're going to love this about Biden.
We have new documents, by the way, that uh probe that cast a very, very wide net.
And where for the first time we've heard about the handling of Joe Biden's top secret classified documents.
Finally, we've heard it from it.
We've got huge developments on the bribery, money laundering, scandal allegations uh today.
Uh new news by John Solomon and others.
We'll talk to you about that.
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And now a word from the 46th president of the United States.
We've been doing everything we can do to keep Biden from being the nominee, and guess what?
We tried it in our in Iraq, it's not working, so now we're gonna try.
I mean, in Iran, excuse me.
We tried in Ukraine.
Sean Hannity is on right now.
All right, as we continue, we're in Simi Valley, California.
Tonight it's uh debate uh with the Republican uh presidential candidates.
Uh I I love doing these.
Well, I'm not the moderator during the debate.
I will moderate the Gavin Newsom Ronda Santis debate, state versus state, red state versus blue state, red versus blue.
I think that's gonna be interesting because they have such different different governing philosophies.
Just to close the circle, here's my attitude.
Leave Travis Kelsey alone.
Leave Taylor Swift alone.
Because apparently, like all these conservatives are just they're all pissed off at it because they're both liberals.
And I'm I don't listen, listen to Taylor's music, you know, it's not exact, I'm not exactly in her demo.
I think she's gifted and talented, genius when it comes to business.
And the idea that people feel that, oh, she's a liberal.
Well, okay, then tell me what music you're gonna listen to.
Uh John Rich.
Uh who else do we have?
Lee Greenwood, uh, Charlie Daniels, who we had for for such a long time.
A lot of the country acts are conservative, even some of them are pretty woke now.
So the idea, I don't I don't pick my music based on their political ideology, or else my taste in music would be very quite limited in terms of my options.
I don't care what a politics is, I don't care what his politics is.
He's still a damn good football player, and I'm not gonna listen to him on COVID.
I'm not gonna listen to him on um whether I'm drinking a Bud Light or not.
Um and why can't people just wish other people well?
Well, I mean, why is this?
I I don't think it's at that point well.
I just think it's that they have a lot of influence and they have a lot of power.
Their audience is young and they listen.
Okay, but let me tell you something their crap.
And they they run the risk every time the anyone gets involved in politics, and if you don't believe me, ask Anheuser Bush, what happens?
Doesn't usually end well.
Now, how involved they both decide to get it in politics, that's up to them.
And people can listen or not listen.
I don't care.
Um, just like when Joe Rogan explained, okay, this worked for me.
Why didn't people just say, I'm glad Joe Rogan Is alive.
I'm glad that he didn't, you know, I'm glad this worked for him.
Thanks for sharing what worked with you.
I'll talk to my doctor if I pop positive.
You have no answer for that.
Wow, a moment of rare stuff.
I have so many answers, but I feel like you're not going to like any of them, so I was being quiet.
We'll continue.
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And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started normally a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
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Let me hit the news here.
Now that we've had a lot of gossip for the hour, my favorite is $100 million bridge for mountain lions.
That uh I saw last night uh uh uh as we were, you know, landing and in seam just cracked me up.
All right, so ABC News from Secretary Secretary of State.
Uh the Biden document probe is now cast a very wide net.
Do you realize this is the first update I have seen as it relates to Robert Herr, the special counsel?
And you know, we learned certain things here, but that investigation uh about Joe Biden's top secret classified information.
Investigators interviewing scores of witnesses, including Winkin Tony Blinken, sources familiar with the investigation telling ABC, and they have been interviewing witnesses for nearly nine months.
All right.
Well, they're not leaking like the special counsel did in the Trump case.
Uh targeting an expansive constellation of former aides, high-level advisors, executive assistants, at least White House attorney, at least one.
Several sources estimated as many as a hundred witnesses have already been interviewed.
Oh, just took them a little longer when it comes to the Bidens.
Do I think anything's gonna come of it?
I do not.
Because we have a politicized, weaponized Department of Justice.
Merrick Garland, prove me wrong.
Go indict Joe Biden.
Go raid the places where he had all his top secret classified information.
Probably that that train has left the station.
Um, you know, so they started and implemented yesterday operation keep Joe from falling again.
I mean, that's everything you need to know about Joe Biden's, you know, weak, frail Physical state, never mind the significant cognitive decline that's getting worse.
They have operation keep Joe from falling.
And he's got new uh, you know, like sneakers that he's wearing instead of shoes.
Which by the way was Trump's problem that day he was walking down the ramp without a rail in the in the freezing rain at West Point.
So he's going gingerly.
Why?
Because that's what smart people would do.
You have dress shoes on, and you walk the streets of New York City and it just snowed, you're gonna be falling on your ass every five minutes, and I don't care what kind of shape you're in.
So, but that's not the case with Biden trip once, trip twice, trip three times up the stairs of Air Force One.
Now they got him using the little baby stairs in the back of the plane.
But um, you know, so that let's let's see how long this lasts, because he almost trip and fell yesterday getting off Air Force One on the baby stairs.
And then Biden's dog commander bites a secret service officer.
This is now at least the 11th time.
I've been told by other people it's a lot more than 11 times, but it's the 11th known biting incident.
Maybe it's time to send uh the two-year-old German Shepherd to uh, you know, finishing school for dogs and and maybe stop the biting or put a muzzle on that dog so Secret Service agents are not put at risk the way they're being put at risk.
The left is furious at Axios because they they're the ones that told the story about guy Biden getting new shoes so they can fully implement operation keep Joe from falling.
And anyway, the co-founder of Axios, you know, kicked up this fire storm by printing this out, you know, scoop.
Don't let him trip strategy.
New shoes, balancing exercises, he's getting physical therapy, shorter stairs.
That's the strategy.
And anyway, this isn't a scoop and it isn't news.
Biden wears shoes and is exercising.
No, he's getting physical therapy so he can not fall.
He's wearing special shoes to reduce the odds that he's going to fall again.
Their political strategy is literally to stop Biden from physically falling on his face because he's so weak.
Donald Trump Jr. tweeting out.
He's right.
And the, you know, I what else can you say?
Why would you be mad when people actually tell the truth?
Unbelievable.
Daily Mail, Kamala Harris is incompetent, unqualified, and the worst vice president in 40 years, according to their poll that they put out.
40% of respondents placed her ahead of uh Mike Pence, Dick Cheney is the worst recent holder of that office.
Wow.
Now Kamala Harris is viewed as the worst.
40%, Mike Pence, 17, Dick Cheney 17, Dan Quell seven.
Dan Quayle was not a dumb guy.
You know, I happen to know people that have been in business with him since he left the vice presidency.
Let me tell you something.
This guy is a business genius.
He's done really, really well for himself.
Uh Cerberus and those guys, Feinberg runs it.
These are brilliant people.
These are really good businessmen.
Anyway, um, the House now, Republicans launching the investigation in a Jennifer Grandholmes E. V. Joy ride that ended up being a flop.
And the House Oversight Committee, they're probing this Grandholm electric vehicle road trip where police were called on her and her team.
Why?
Because they put a gas-powered vehicle in line to hopefully save time before the secretary got there with her EV.
And meanwhile, the family behind them that did the right thing, and they actually needed to charge their car, and they had a young kid in their car, you know, called the police because they're they're cutting the line and it it just takes that long to get.
You know, it's a lot easier to just fill up your gas tank.
Well, last time I went, they actually were out of gas.
Man, yeah.
Over the weekend, I was trying to fill up my car.
Where I live.
In New York.
Yeah, in New York.
In New York, yeah.
Um, anyway, so let's see what happens with this Robert Hurst stuff.
This is gonna get pretty interesting.
Um, you know, one one really interesting point.
Sean Davis said it really well.
Sweet baby James handed me his tweet.
He's over at the Federalist.
We like him.
And he said it's kind of crazy that the FBI would get fingerprints off the cash stuffed in Bob Benendez's suit jacket pockets, but couldn't manage to get a single usable fingerprint from the bag of cocaine found in the White House.
I mean, think about it.
How did that investigation end conclusively?
We're never going to find the never never going to find the perpetrator.
I say cold case, bring it back.
Because 10 days is hardly an investigation.
Now we know that Hunter Biden's business partners wired a quarter million dollars to Joe Biden's address.
This is new today.
Just the news.com.
Well, and well, just the news.com is another piece out that James Biden, the brother, confirmed the to the FBI, the family tried to help Chinese, a Chinese firm buy U.S. energy assets.
What part of their top geopolitical foe?
You know, did the Biden family syndicate not get you know, Joe meeting with a Russian oligarch at Cafe Milano?
Anyway, James Biden telling the FBI in an interview last year about the efforts that Hunter and himself made to help the CEFC energy firm buy uh in China by Liquid Natural Gas Facility in Louisiana, and that he personally met once with the company's chairman.
Now remember, CEFC, just like Barisman in Ukraine, those are the country's big oil and gas and energy giants.
CEFC, you know, what we're learning now from this guy Olt, who we got the information of he's the missing witness on the on the lamb, uh suggesting to his letter to the uh to the committees, ways and means judiciary oversight that in fact the timing of the What's At message was perfectly timed with the release of information regarding sealed indictments
in the Southern District of New York, and that it's believed, and he's suggesting that that information was given to the Chinese, and the Chinese acted on it and got a lot of Chinese nationals to get the hell out of the United States, and they did so successfully, and that that was the exact time when Hunter made the threat.
I'm sitting here with my father, we want to know why he didn't keep the commitment, and you're gonna regret it because between all the people he knows and uh uh in his life and my ability to hold a grudge, you you will regret this.
Few days later, 5.1 million.
Another energy company, 5.1 million dollars for a guy that's addicted to drugs and a guy that has no experience in energy.
It's amazing.
I don't know how he pulled that off.
Even when he was on good morning, well, do you have any experience of this?
No, no.
Well, as much experience as everyone else.
Um I once was on a UN uh food board and I was on the board of Amtrak, and I am a lawyer.
Uh okay, but you never have any experience in energy, oil, gas, coal, or Ukraine.
No, no, but uh but but I had as much experience as I think other people might have had.
Well, why do you think they gave you this deal?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Do you think maybe because your father was in charge of Ukrainian policy?
Probably.
I mean, that is the dumbest interview, a dumbass interview that a 50-year-old man could ever give.
I it's breathtaking.
That's when he lied to that he never got any money from the Chinese.
Lies.
Not even talking about the 1.5 billion dollar deal with the Bank of China.
That issue's got to come back up eventually.
Biden's saying, remember, he said that his family didn't get money from China, but Hunter got payments right to the front door.
Anyway, so Hunter in his dealings with uh with uh CEFC and China, that's drawn a lot of attention.
Biden claimed, no, we didn't ever make any money in China.
As a matter of fact, Hunter said the same thing.
And the oversight committee obtained the financial records and via subpoena would show that, yeah, Hunter received two wires from China and the amounts of 250 and 10,000 in 2019.
At least one payment came From a longtime associate, Jonathan Lee.
Bank records don't lie, but Joe Biden does, said James Comer.
In 2020, Joe Biden told Americans that the family never received money from China.
What about the 5.1 that I just mentioned?
What about the 1.5 billion dollar deal with the Bank of China?
How is that?
But you know, it's interesting.
His father wasn't involved, but the money sent from Beijing was sent to an address that was Joe Biden's home.
How convenient.
This is so corrupt.
The whole thing is so corrupt.
It's unbelievable.
I'm telling you now, we're about to hit tough financial times.
And you say, Hannity, that's all we experienced now.
No, it's we're going back to the worst of it now.
Because inflation, two months straight up.
Gas prices now four bucks a gallon nationally.
We now have three separate predictions, starting with JP Morgan, that they expect the price of a barrel of oil to go to 150 bucks.
That happens.
You're good.
Oh, by the way, that was another thing.
We land in California.
$7 a gallon gasoline.
I saw one for like $650, and our driver said, oh no, that's actually one of the cheapest ones around.
A lot of people go here.
I'm like, huh?
But saw $7 a gallon gasoline.
It's unbelievable.
The U.S. is now weaker.
This is on CNBC than we were downgraded in 2011.
Former SP ratings chairman said it.
And they're not wrong.
Now, this photo op yesterday with the UAW.
Biden, you know how long Biden ended up on the picket line for?
A whopping 12 minutes.
12 minutes.
That's it.
And it's his policies that are hurting everybody.
What else do we got here?
It's like a race to the bottom.
And you know, and the UAW president, just a you know, political hack.
I can't stand these unions.
They they take rank and file money, and then they go with people that don't have their best interest at stake in terms of their rank and file members.
That infuriates the hell out of me.
Anyway, 800 941 Sean.
Now it's so interesting, too.
You think about they want to get rid of Menendez.
At the end of the day, the gold bars and the money and the car.
Less than a million bucks.
Okay, I'm not saying it's right.
And giving secrets to, you know, Egypt, not a good thing.
Um, let's assuming he's guilty.
We believe in the presumption of innocence.
Tom Cotton will weigh in on it later.
But what about the tens of millions?
All the 19, because now Dickie Durbin joined in the in the call for for this guy to resign, Menendez.
Um why we got tens of millions with Joe, and you guys won't even ask a question about it.
That seem a little odd to you.
Doesn't seem odd because they're all political hacks.
All right, I have a question.
Who's going to protect our troops that are out abroad protecting us?
Imagine you're serving halfway around the world and oopsie daisy, all these cyber criminals targeting American homeowners and their homes because that legal document, your home title is online with your signature.
And let's say this troop member finds that his signature's been forged, his home has been stolen, it's no longer in his name.
That's why all of us need home title lock.com.
Uh, because this is now a bigger threat, a clear and present danger that we've never had before.
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I think our troops would like that, and they deserve the peace of mind of knowing that their home's not going to be stolen while they're busy protecting us.
For most people who are talking about their home being the most valuable asset.
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Music.
Sean Hannity.
All right, load it up today.
Uh, as we got all things simple, man, we'll check in with Bill O'Reilly.
Uh, you know, I was stunned at how Much I learned.
He has his new book out.
We'll talk about that.
We'll talk about the debate tonight.
We'll talk about well, I want to get his thoughts on what he thinks about the Newsom and DeSantis debate: red versus blue, red state versus blue state.
Um, when I read Killing the Witches, the horror of Salem, and he's actually basically bringing it to modern day, saying we're living in an age of witch hunts.
Pretty interesting, you know, way weaves this together.
Senator Tom Cotton will join us as well as we continue from California.
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