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Rep. Harriet Hageman - October 10th, Hour 3
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One thing we haven't really been discussing, we anticipate, I know because I'm staying in touch with Republican members of Congress and their their push to get a new speaker.
Um and we should probably hear something this week coming out of there.
Uh the two top contenders are Jim Jordan, who I'm supporting, Congressman Ohio, uh Steve Scalise, good guy.
I like him a lot.
Um I know he's struggling with his physical health right now.
I'm not sure why he even wants to run at this time.
We we wish him the best.
We like him.
Uh, but I happen to think Jim Jordan is a better choice at this time.
Uh but anyway, where does it stand right now?
Uh I know there's been conference meeting after conference meeting, small groups meeting, a lot of phone calls being made, and they have a lot going on.
Uh here's Scalise sparring with Maria Bertorromo over legislation to aid Israel.
Listen to this.
Well, I understand, but the truth is is with all due respect, Congressman, you're not answering any questions.
Do you endorse sending money to Israel in an emergency package?
Do you endorse sending the $24 billion the President Biden is asking to Ukraine?
Are you going to manage these bills?
As you asked me, I just told you I spoke with Ambassador Durmer yesterday about very specific things that Israel needs.
Some, by the way, are in the what's called the SOPS bill, state foreign ops bill that we just passed out of the house, the defense appropriations bill that we just passed out of the house.
That's real money in pieces of legislation we passed out of the house, ready to go.
Iron dome funding, munitions, real things that we've been talking about.
And obviously we need to talk about even more specific things.
You want to get in details, I'll get into details with you.
But Congress can't do any of that while we're not functioning without a speaker.
We need to get a speaker.
I've been having those conversations in detail, but we need a speaker to make that happen.
We have legislation ready to go to make that happen.
We've got to get this done as members of Congress.
We got to do it Wednesday.
By the way, now we're up to 14 Americans killed uh in Israel.
Um anyway, joining us now is Congresswoman Harriet Hagman uh of Wyoming.
You might remember she took on uh Liz Cheney and defeated defeated her soundly and is the new Congresswoman from the great state of Wyoming.
How are you?
I'm wonderful, Sean.
Thank you for having me.
I think my endorsement pushed over the top.
I I think what did you win by 30 some odd points?
38 points, and I'm I'm sure that it was all you, Sean.
It was it's all me.
I get all the credit now.
I get all I get all the blame if something doesn't go right, trust me.
I'm very aware of how this system works.
Um let's talk about the the need to get this done expeditiously.
Um Jim Jordan, who I'm supporting, Steve Scalise is a great guy, but um I I've just prefer Jordan over him.
I think he's better suited for this job at this time and can bring the call the conference together.
Uh what's your take and where's where do we stand right now?
Well, I endorsed Jim Jordan last week.
And so I've been a strong supporter from his of his from the beginning.
With that said, I think that Steve Scalise would also be a good speaker.
I'm good friends with him.
But right Now I believe we need someone like Jim Jordan with as strong as he is on the particular issues that are of importance to me to the state of Wyoming and I think to most people in the United States.
He's a solid conservative.
He's a truly effective leader.
Um he has been a warrior in terms of trying to expose what the Biden crime family as well as some of the other things that have been going on in our federal government, both with the Select Committee on Weaponization of the Federal Government as well as judiciary.
I serve with him on both of those committees.
He has truly been someone who has been willing to take whatever risks are necessary so that the American people have an understanding of what has been going on with their government.
And I think he will continue to do that as speaker.
I think that he will continue to expose the corruption in the Biden uh family, the Biden administration, and I think he will hold people accountable as we need to for their bad acts over the last couple of years, including Mayorchus, Ray, uh Garland, and people like that.
Um I just think that he would be a great speaker, and I'm supporting him.
Pretty disgusting the the news dump of last night, which is you know, here we are on on the verge of Israeli now a cat and their counteroffensive uh all of a sudden at 8 p.m. Eastern time last night, the Biden administration just drops this little bombshell.
Oh, uh yeah, Joe uh Joe Biden voluntarily spoke with Robert Herr, the special uh counsel looking into his document scandal, which by the way, I'm sure is going to be whitewashed because we have a dual justice system, but obviously using the cover of a big news story to to get this story buried, which by the way, it's successfully you know worked and always does.
Um that's beyond frustrating to me.
What was your reaction?
I I had the exact same reaction.
It's what happens with this administration on almost every big story out there.
They conspire and work with the mainstream media such as CNN, MSNBC, other organizations to try to time and to manipulate uh particular stories to limit the amount of information that the American public has.
And again, I think that's why Jim Jordan is so important at this point, because so much of what he's been doing it relates to accountability and transparency.
I think those are two of the most important things that we can do as the Republican-led Congress.
We only have one half of one third of the government, and as a result, we are limited as as to what we can do.
We see that with the appropriations bills.
We have already sent four appropriations bills to the Senate for them to take up so that we can fund the government so that we don't find ourselves in the mess that we found ourselves in ten days ago.
Yet the Senate hasn't taken up any one of those.
If the Senate were to pass those four bills, that would fund 70 percent of the government.
So that as we go forward with the next eight appropriations bills, we are not dealing with the same kind of situation of shutting down the government.
Well will we get the other eight done by the 45-day extended day deadline?
Well, I sure hope so, but there's nothing that prevents the Senate from taking up those four appropriations bills right now.
But what we have is we have a Senate that's controlled by the Democrats.
We have the White House controlled by the Democrats.
So what the Republicans have to do is we have to focus on getting our appropriations bills out, which we have been doing, number one, and number two, we need to be sending over conservative legislation, which again we have been doing, and I believe that under a Speaker Jim Jordan, we will continue to do.
We have to get border security, for example.
HR2 is sitting in the Senate right now.
HR2 is the very best border security bill that has ever passed Congress.
It's sitting in the house in in the Senate right now without being taken up.
HR one, uh that is our energy security bill.
Again, it's sitting over there in the Senate.
They won't take it up.
The House has been working, we will continue to work, we will continue to do our job.
We need to have a speaker in place so we can do that.
I'm optimistic that we're going to get that done this week.
And again, I think with either Steve or John uh or Jim, we would have an excellent leader, but we need to get someone in place so that we can move forward with our agenda and start doing things for the American public.
Right.
Do you have a sense where your conference is leaning in terms of Jim Jordan versus Steve?
The numbers that I see is that you see more people who have publicly come out and endorse Jim Jordan, but there are still a lot of people who have not publicly stated.
So I don't want to say one way or the other.
Um a lot of good allies of mine, a lot of good conservatives have come out in favor of uh of Jim Jordan, but there are also some great people who have come out in support of Steve Scalise.
Right now, I I can't tell you which way they're leaning.
I can just say publicly, more have supported Jim Jordan, but I don't know that that means so much right now.
Do you support more?
Do you support getting rid of one member's right to vacate the chair?
Yeah, I do, because I think it's too disruptive.
I I don't think that you can have the sort of Damocles hanging over your head like this if you've got a situation where um some of the some of the accusations and complaints related to to Kevin McCarthy have nothing to do with Kevin McCarthy as a speaker or as a leader.
They have to do with the system that has been created here over the last several decades.
The bottom line is that Congress needs to retake its authority for legislating.
And for too long, our congressional representatives have set policies where they have abdicated their responsibility and given that authority to unelected bureaucrats in the executive branch in administrative agencies.
We need to fundamentally change the way that Congress works.
That's a long-term plan.
That's a long-term project.
That's not happening next week.
It's not happening in three months.
It's not happening probably in the next year.
But if we can increase our majority in the House, retake the Senate, and retake the White House, I believe that we can fundamentally change the way Washington, D.C. works that will be for the better of betterment of everybody in this country.
That has to be the long-term goal.
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All right, we continue with Wyoming Congresswoman Harriet Hagman is with us.
Let me ask you, what is the feeling in Wyoming now about Liz Cheney?
I see she's written a book.
You know, there's a couple of things about Liz Cheney that just puzzle me.
And I I maybe you have more insight into this than I do.
Because I I knew her, got along great with her.
I got I knew her dad who was, you know, you know, Bush and Cheney lied and people died.
Uh Darth uh Darth Vader, you know, Dick Cheney, and all the all all that they went through and everything with Scooter Libby as chief of staff, which never should have happened.
And what I have a hard time, I understand maybe okay, she doesn't like Donald Trump.
There's plenty of room in the January 6th hearings for her and her Democratic colleagues.
Because there wasn't a single person that didn't vote to impeach Trump and didn't hate Trump on that that January 6th committee.
So, you know, the deck was stacked from day one.
But what I don't understand and where I think the real failure is, you know, they have plenty of room and and latitude to bludgeon Trump, but they should have come up with a strategy to prevent what happened on January sixth from ever happening again.
Uh I have a hard time understanding why she didn't analyze.
I have four people on tape, including Donald Trump himself saying that they were in the Oval Office days before January sixth and Donald Trump wanted to authorize troops to be ready and available, if God forbid, you know, anything happened or went wrong that day.
That that hardly sounds like an insurrectionist uh attitude to me.
Uh then we find out from the Capitol Police Chief that his numerous requests based on actionable intelligence were ignored uh when he wanted to call up the guard in the days leading up to January sixth.
They never talked to him.
They never talked to the sergeant of arms, they never got Nancy Pelosi's cell phone, she's in charge of security at the at the Capitol.
They never asked Muriel Bowser why she uh in writing put out she wouldn't accept guard troops, uh, or Lester Holt's report that you know this was uh uh uh of law enforcement failure of enormous magnitude uh in as much as they had actionable intelligence, everybody had it in the days leading up to January sixth that there were gonna be troublemakers there.
Why didn't they act?
What uh w what are they gonna do to prevent the next one?
How do they fix it?
That wasn't even brought on the table.
So I'm my question is, you know, why didn't Liz Cheney do a thorough job?
Why was that she only wanted the bludgeon Trump part of that job done?
Because her that wasn't her goal.
That wasn't any of their goals.
The goal was not to find out what happened on January sixth to f and and find a way and and ensure that it was prevented it can never be repeated.
The goal of that committee was to make it so that Donald Trump never got near the White House again.
And in order to do that, they had to persecute and prosecute his surrogates, and that's what they've done.
That's what the prosecutor uh the the Department of Justice has done.
That's what the judges here in Washington DC have done.
So you have to understand what the purpose of the committee was.
And it wasn't a fact-finding committee for the purposes of resolution.
It was a fact-finding committee for purposes of persecution.
And it was to make sure that s an outsider, a populist like Donald Trump would never see power again.
So the way that people in Wyoming look at at uh Liz Cheney is they understand that.
They understood that.
They recognize what the purpose of it was.
And I think the problem for someone like Liz Cheney and others on that committee, perhaps, but I think Liz Cheney most specifically, is that she cannot figure out why people would not follow her lead in wanting to make sure that that happened.
She completely misread the electorate in Wyoming.
She completely misread the electorate in w in the in frankly across the entire country.
But that's because Liz Cheney has never been in touch with your average person.
She was raised in a very political family.
She was raised in a very um uh uh a very sheltered environment, if you will, of actually working with an understanding how the real world works.
It's one of the reasons, and I'm not saying this across the board, but I think with some people, politics should not be a family business.
Politics is about power.
And you don't hand down you you hand down a ranch from one from from a father to a son or a father to a daughter.
You hand down a a a dry cleaner from from mom and dad to to the next generation.
Hand down businesses from one generation to the next.
Handing down politics from one generation to the next is handing power from one generation to the next.
And if you don't understand who and what the people uh want and who they are, I think it becomes very difficult to actually carry out and represent them well.
And I think that Liz Cheney is an example of that.
There are others throughout history, but I think she's one of the most recent examples of that.
And so I think Liz Cheney believed I am Liz Cheney, I am Dick Cheney's daughter.
That's the end of the discussion.
What happened with with Donald Trump was reprehensible.
I didn't like his politics, I didn't like the way he spoke.
I didn't like the fact that he was a populist.
I didn't like his dismantling of the military industrial complex.
I'm going to destroy him.
And when January sixth happened, she thought that that was her opening to make sure that it did happen, that he was never able to get near the White House again.
She failed, and in her frustration, she's still out there, I guess you'd say, railing against the sky.
Yeah, well, uh, it certainly is a big turnabout.
I would have thought through the experience of her father.
They wanted to put her father in jail.
Uh they wanted to put, you know, uh Scooter Libby in jail and destroy his life.
And it's it's just a disgrace.
Um anyway, appreciate it.
Uh Harriet Hagman, thank you so much for being with us.
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Um, well, I don't know how to say this, but this guy's just become a great friend of mine.
Just come to love him.
He's like family to me.
Uh his name is Lawrence Jones.
You all know him from Fox.
You know, LJ Across America was a big hit.
He he's spent so many, you know, I don't know how many frequent flyer miles this guy has, but he has more than anybody I know for sure.
Uh recently got a massive promotion as a co-host of Fox and Friends in the Morning.
Uh we couldn't be happier for him.
And now he's out with his first book today, and it's called American Man Speaking the Truth about the war on masculinity.
And it's kind of humorous.
There's a little bit of a backstory because LJ is happens to be, and I really can't give out too many details here, friends with my son.
And LJ and my son get behind my back, and they start uh, you know, comparing notes about you know the lectures that I give both of them because it's the exact same lectures.
True or false, LJ.
It is true.
It is true.
Uh so I'm honored to be on your show as always.
Um but the you know, I I have to confess to you as I interviewed you for my book that I actually take those lessons.
And you know, just well, we we we don't want to admit it because you we get tired of hearing it, but we actually are listening.
You know, you you actually at one point in the book, now you uh let me tell you what I love about it.
And I knew when you said the war, you know, the truth about the war on masculinity, it's just gonna piss liberals off.
Um and I love that aspect of any good book, any good conservative writing a book.
And you know, but it is very, very true.
And men and women, it's just a fact.
I know some people can't stand to hear it, but there are very distinct differences.
I think there are there is a love that a mother offers a child that that men just don't seem to have the capacity to offer.
I don't know if you call it maternal instincts, whatever it is, but I see a difference myself.
There's my own personal view.
And with men, you know, especially with my kids, I always looked at it as part of my role toughen their ass up and and let them know right from wrong and raise them the right way.
And and I always took that role very as you know very seriously.
And I think it's the most important job you do.
So there really is you know pushback on this and it's sort of like you know especially when we talk about the transgenderism, gender identity issues, people seem to get somewhat confused over it and I don't think it needs to be that confusing.
Well Sean, you know, one thing that I express in the book and look I don't begrudge anybody on what faith they choose but you know we're believers and God made us this way.
You know He made man unique He made one woman unique and this is not a a book that bashes um femininity you know uh we we appreciate that but men have to take their place and there's fundamental differences in the way God created us and the way that we act the way our emotions are and that's okay.
Uh and I think we're living in a society right now that even from a biological standpoint where you see the differences.
You know I I talked about in the book uh back back in the day they made this movie about Joanna Man, right?
There's this NBA starking and all that type of stuff and he get kicked out of the the male league.
Well he then gets in the suit, dresses up as a woman and he's just turns into this sensation on the court.
And I'm like man we've never seen a woman dock the ball like this like this well it comes to find out you know one day the bodysuit is off and it's like it was a man there the entire time and all the women felt violated.
Well that was a movie.
And now we're doing it in real life and we're celebrating it.
And I I I talk about in the book if society is going wrong then men are going wrong.
Because men aren't taking their place.
We're not defending our women we're not defending our children we're not standing up for the Judeo Christian values that God entrusts us to defend.
We're not being chivorous.
We're not open up the door we're not taking our place we're forcing women that I I saw one suggestion uh from a college student when I was speaking that there should be selective service for women as well.
No way no way we got Ukrainian men going to the front lines and then we have our kid our kids going to the back of the line.
So there's so much that I address in the book I encourage people to go Amazon anywhere that they get books bars and nobles to purchase it.
But I I it's a love letter to women as well.
You want your daughter to marry an American man.
You want your son to be an American man.
We talk a lot about accountability, too, Sean.
No, I mean, one of the things you do, you actually, it's a compilation in many ways.
It's so well-researched in that you get some of the smartest, the wisest, the best advice from people, you know, all across the political spectrum and different varying professions.
And I love the fact that you intersperse it.
You do it in a very interesting way.
Even my interview is just not on my interview now with Sean Hannity.
No.
or Sean Hannity said here, or Mark Levin said here, or, you know, any number of, of f famous people they interviewed for the book which made it very very interesting to me.
And by the and and you and I are libertarian on this issue as far as what adults choose to do gender identity etc etc I'm friends with Caitlin Jenner.
We've been friends a long time.
I I respect people's right to live in a free country and make those decisions.
I just don't want teachers having a captive audience of students indoctrinating them and contradicting values I'm trying to instill on my children.
That's not their job.
That's where we we might run sideways and you're right it's in many ways you know they thank God you know for strong women I just I just I have nothing but admiration.
I grew up with older sisters, everyone was strong.
They were tough.
And they didn't made my life a living hell if you want to know the truth.
One of the one of the things that I know about you, and and you talk about your parents in this book.
Um, and you know, I've always, you know, from the time that I met you, I always saw that you you had just natural talent and talent that I didn't believe I had, for sure.
Um you just belonged on television and I knew your career was gonna explode, and I told you that from the beginning, you didn't believe me for a long time, but I I ended up being right on pretty much everything I told you would happen.
And and my other advice to you that we'll keep private is really good advice, and I hope you always forever listen to it.
Um just like I I want my son and my daughter to listen to my advice too.
Um and you call me old man for it, and I won't forgive you for that part of it, but you know, you've got all this talent and your ability to connect with people.
When I watch you in diners, when I watch you talking to people on the street, when I see you in various locations where news is breaking, I I mean, your connection with people is just real.
And you you I would say, you know, Lawrence Jones keeping it real every day, and you're always asking the question that I most want to ask, which is a gift.
You know, Sean, you you've been I mean, from day one, and I I think uh in the when I interview you you f during this book, I say, you know, I'm just curious because you never asked for anything in return.
You supported me so in my career, treating me like a a second son, uh family vacations and just always uh uh the first call.
Um because no no young man wants to call their parents uh because they feel like we we feel like we've failed.
But the any emergency phone call is Sean Hannity.
And you know, you you you walk me through this this this this industry that my parents could have never walked me through.
Um and I talked about this in the book because I think it's important, you know.
My mom got pregnant with me at sixteen years old.
My dad uh married her immediately.
Immediately, and they just celebrated 30 years of marriage.
Um but he took his place in.
What a beautiful story, isn't it?
It's it's it's crazy because you don't hear these stories today's time.
But I I'm not Lawrence Jones on Fox News, travel around the country.
If my dad doesn't take his place in the household.
And it is a epic dimic and and and in this country of men that don't that want to do men things, get women pregnant, but don't want to step up to the plate.
And that doesn't mean that things are gonna be all good and gravy, but you have a responsibility.
If you if you help bring a child in this world, it is your duty to help raise that child.
And part of the reason why we have things that are happening all across this country of violence, of drugs, because men aren't taking their roles.
And so uh to a certain effect, I interviewed all these other men and have good perspectives, because I I I wanted to give an example also to the men that are struggling out there to take their place, but you can do it.
And here's a map for you.
If you didn't have a dad, if you didn't have an uncle, if you didn't have a big brother, this is a roadmap for you.
You you can do it if even if you didn't have that leadership uh in your household.
Well, I I will say this, and and uh most of our conversations are private and personal and two friends talking.
But one piece of advice I did give you after I, you know, you you shared with me your life's background and your family.
And you know, you told me your mom, you told me this story about your mom getting pregnant at 16.
You told me the story about your dad, and your mom, it turns out ends up being a preacher, and she's a darn good one, and and I met your family, and your dad uh is a truck driver.
Yeah.
And you know where I'm going with this.
What did I always say?
Don't ever what?
Forget what.
Uh this is rule number one.
Uh do never never forget your mom, the preacher, and your dad, the truck driver.
What would and what would they think of whatever it is you're you're doing or or deciding.
That's exactly right.
Especially when they're not around.
Especially when they're not around.
Now, uh, I'd like to think that might be it might have been a moment that you start thinking about it.
For example, I guarantee you right now, there's somebody on their way listening to this radio program, hearing our voices that may be going to their drug dealer.
My advice is turn around and go home.
You know, there there's somebody maybe going uh to meet somebody to hook up with, and they're married, and they have children.
My advice is turn your car around and get the hell home and get out of it before you create trouble in your life.
Because we all have choices in this life.
And and you know it, and I know it, and it happens every day.
And then, you know, you suffer the consequences of these bad decisions.
And I will tell you, and I've I've said this publicly many times.
I don't think fame is healthy in at all.
Terrible.
It's it's it's got a downside people's egos.
We we live it, we see it, we can name names, we don't, but I should.
You know, I mean, it is some of these egos get so out of control over time.
And I'm like, man, you you just forgot where you came from.
You can't forget where you come from.
My mom was a prison guard.
My dad was a family court probation guy and a and a waiter.
I'm not forgetting that part of their lives.
That's who I am.
I grew up poor.
Yeah.
You you can't, and you know, I I remember early on in my career.
Um, you you gave me all these warnings of you know, things that come with the job.
And I always used to make fun of you because um you know.
Yeah, you're unmerciful doing that, but go ahead.
No, I know.
I love I love it.
Uh Sean doesn't leave his house.
Um, he doesn't go out, he doesn't go to parties, he doesn't he doesn't do any of it.
And you know I do, I go out on weekends, but I don't go out during the week.
Okay, yeah, you go out doing the He doesn't go out that much.
Uh I'm honest with you.
He he'll go around in his community.
He may drop by somewhere for an hour, hour and a half.
But he doesn't he doesn't go out much.
He he is a home by him.
The other day, some of my friends, now that I'm working Monday through Friday, and I got the weekend off now.
Some of my friends were trying to get me to go out, and um they've been trying to.
And I go, No, I'm gonna stay home.
I'm good, I'm good.
Because there's so much temptation out there.
There is so much.
Well, I try and go out with both with family and close friends.
That's who I hang out with.
Always.
Always the same people.
Very, very um, very rarely.
And and there's a reason for that, because there's there's there's so much that's out there, and also I talk that's not the reason I go because I'm afraid of dealing with that sort of thing.
I just Well, you don't have to deal with it.
I I have I I like to uh I I like a more quiet life.
I've I've I've I grow closer to God when I'm quiet, to be honest, and I think I do a better job when I'm working out and and doing the healthy things of my life.
But I want to just uh give you a big plug here.
This book is a must-read.
And if and if there's somebody in your life that needs good fatherly advice, this is it.
American man speaking the truth about the war on masculinity, and it's on Amazon.com, Hannity.com, bookstores now all across the country.
Lawrence Jones, congrats on the book, congratulations on your your um promotion to Fox and Friends.
You're doing a great job, and we're proud of you.
Thank you, big guy.
800-941 Sean, our number if you want to be a part of the program.
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