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| Hour two on this Friday, 800-941 Sean, uh, our number if you want to be a part of the program. | |
| Uh Chip Roy is supposed to call in. | |
| This these conference meetings have gone on for hours and hours longer than they originally planned for them to go on, so he may not be able to make it with us. | |
| Uh uh, but if he can, we'd love to have them. | |
| Uh, you know, I know a lot of you are getting a little concerned where, you know, as Prime Minister Netanyahu said, we are at war. | |
| We didn't start this war. | |
| We didn't want this war, but we're gonna win this war. | |
| That's exactly what the truth is. | |
| But you wouldn't know it if you're on a college campus. | |
| Uh however, so it is in my view, it's it's getting imperative that Republicans now uh get the house back open and have a speaker. | |
| And there's been a lot of varying motions going back and forth. | |
| You know what? | |
| It's all swamp stuff. | |
| I don't think most of you want to hear about what's going on in the swamp right now. | |
| I would think by the time, considering now we already have Israeli troops have entered Gaza and they're now conducting localized raids. | |
| Now, this on the heels of last night's bombardment. | |
| I mean, this this this bombardment was fierce. | |
| Over 750 Hamas military targets overnight. | |
| Much of it happening in the 9 to 11 p.m. Eastern time hours. | |
| That would be four to six a.m. in Gaza time, uh, while we were on the air. | |
| I mean, Linda, I'm not sure if you saw it last night, but I mean, did you hear how loud this was getting? | |
| Did you see those flashes? | |
| Woo. | |
| I mean, I mean brutal assault that Israel's gotta win the war. | |
| He gotta win. | |
| Fight to win. | |
| What do I say? | |
| Fight to win. | |
| I yeah, you know, I think the problem that I'm I'm really struggling with with all of this is that there is so much misinformation, and the very tools that were out there to help us get information and communicate with each other are now being used for the exact opposite. | |
| I mean, it's like this entire, you know, group of people who are out there denying that babies are being murdered, denying that young girls are being raped, denying that they came in on paragliders. | |
| Like, guys, at some point you have to just own what's happening. | |
| I'm not saying that you can't be proud of being Palestinian. | |
| That's your business. | |
| You do you. | |
| But your group of people attack this group of people, and now you're blaming the victim. | |
| And the weird thing is, you know, there's all these signs out there, you know, um gays for the PLO, gays for Hamas, uh feminists for Iran. | |
| I'm like, um, are you guys aware of the culture of the climate, about how quickly your rights would be stripped? | |
| You know, in Iran, they do horrible things in the center of Tehran where they hang gays and women who do. | |
| They throw them off the tops of buildings. | |
| Well, they also hang them and crack their necks from the top of cranes. | |
| I mean crazy. | |
| This these are real things. | |
| And I I just you have the freedom of expression here in America, which is a wonderful thing. | |
| But if you look at some of the things that I'm sending you, you know, even today, you look at what's happening in Paris, you look at what's happening in London. | |
| This is not freedom of expression. | |
| When you scream down the street that you want to kill the men and rape their daughters because they're Jewish, that is not freedom of expression. | |
| That is a mortal threat. | |
| You should be arrested. | |
| It's a very simple thing. | |
| None of this is complicated, just like all the problems Joe Biden has created. | |
| Now, by the way, Joe Biden apparently tripped. | |
| Did he trip and fall, or did you just trip? | |
| No, no, there was like a small, it was I mean, listen, it was big for Joe. | |
| It's five steps. | |
| You know, it's a lot. | |
| You know, he's in front of about ten people who gathered. | |
| I I need to stick up for Joe here. | |
| Five steps, you know, for a president is way too many. | |
| I mean, my God. | |
| I mean, if there's more than one step, it's just not fair. | |
| I think presidential. | |
| Is it it's not. | |
| You know what? | |
| And and we should treat our president with way more respect than that than expect him to climb five five whole stairs. | |
| Come on. | |
| That is I'd struggle getting up five stairs. | |
| I really would. | |
| He he tripped on every one. | |
| He didn't just trip like once. | |
| He was like trippity trip trip, and then he stood and he faced and he asked the crowd the clap for him. | |
| I'm like, okay. | |
| And they did. | |
| Of course they did. | |
| Uh let me move on to some of the other things. | |
| Look, um, I'm going to say this again. | |
| It is, you know, we're monitoring now the fact that we have Israeli forces now in Gaza on the ground. | |
| So the the ground portion of this has begun. | |
| The time, the 24-hour period is coming to an end. | |
| Uh last night, the the heavy bombardment by Israel of Hamas targets has began begun. | |
| And in this country, we have a Hamas had called for and around the world has called for uh a day of jihad. | |
| Somehow the media in America has turned it into a day of rage. | |
| I'm not sh I I never saw Hamas say day of rage. | |
| I'd like to know how the wording got changed by almost everybody. | |
| Unilateral, everyone's calling it the day of rage, just like nobody says the word illegal immigrant anymore. | |
| They always say uh migrants. | |
| Do you notice that, Linda? | |
| I say what Sean. | |
| Mostly peaceful protesters. | |
| Do not look at the flames, please. | |
| All right. | |
| Behind the one of my favorite pictures of all time of fake news CNN. | |
| You know, it's mostly peaceful, and you look right over the shoulder of the reporter saying that, and the city is ablaze. | |
| Mostly peaceful. | |
| And the same thing over at MSDNC. | |
| You know, we got video. | |
| There they're you know, but mostly peaceful. | |
| I can report here tonight. | |
| Mostly peaceful. | |
| You look behind them, and it looks like the entire city is ablaze. | |
| It's insane. | |
| But anyway, we have law enforcement, security officials, local officials, and federal officials on alert. | |
| You know, I I know that we talk about those men and women. | |
| On days like today, whatever city you're in, whatever your town you're in, are you glad that the cops are out there? | |
| Like I'm looking at Times City in New York, the crowd is massive. | |
| Every single New York police department officer has been called up, told to put on their uniform and show up for work. | |
| Nobody's off today. | |
| And they're gonna be working all day and all night, and maybe into the morning. | |
| Now, as of now, I've not seen any violence. | |
| However, it is pretty frightening to see a crowd this large that that wants to blame Israel that was of the victim country of terrorism. | |
| They've been a victim here, and that they want to blame the victim. | |
| I have a really hard time understanding a mindset that blames the victim. | |
| Liberals are the first to tell us you don't blame victims, and I agree with that. | |
| You don't blame victims. | |
| You know, it's and and people in the past that have made stupid comments, you know, uh, about victims. | |
| I mean, really dumb com I don't want to even repeat them. | |
| You know what, you know the comments that you've heard before. | |
| They're ignorant. | |
| And our college campuses that'll throw anybody off campus, God, if you ever said anything, speak out against LGBTQ plus whatever. | |
| What happens on a college campus? | |
| If you utter something that is deemed racist, deemed, you know, hateful. | |
| What happens? | |
| You know, chances are you may be kicked out of school, but not in the case of professors, not in the case of schools that allowing groups to put out statements blaming the victim again. | |
| I mean, is is this the quality? | |
| These are Ivy League top schools in the nation we're talking about. | |
| One Israeli billionaire has quit the Harvard board, blasting the university president because of Hamas's student letter. | |
| Well, is that the reason? | |
| Why? | |
| Yes, Linda. | |
| What would you say? | |
| We actually have the I I apologize, but Jim Jordan has won the nomination for uh House Speaker, sir. | |
| That is huge news. | |
| Yes, it is indeed. | |
| Could be why it could be why Chip Roy's a little tied up right now. | |
| Could be why Chip Roy. | |
| We're gonna give him a pass. | |
| Uh we don't know if well, you know how I am with people that don't show up on time for the show. | |
| What could you want more than that? | |
| Nothing. | |
| Uh technology when things don't work. | |
| That's true. | |
| Okay. | |
| I stand corrected. | |
| Who has the hardest time on the staff uh downloading an app? | |
| You. | |
| What do I like to do when I want to download an app? | |
| Uh you want to get it done, and if it can't get done, you want the person's head who's messing it up. | |
| No, I hand it to Sweet Baby James. | |
| Okay. | |
| And he's he's sitting, he's sitting next to me, he's laughing his ass off. | |
| What's the and why and why do we call him Sweet Baby James? | |
| Because he's the nicest guy in the world. | |
| You wanted to say something earlier, and uh well, you what got a story you want to tell. | |
| Go ahead, tell it. | |
| This is a microphone, you actually have to speak into it. | |
| I'm not sure if it's in here so great, Sean. | |
| But when we were in Israel, we visited the kibbutzes, and I just wanted to recount, you know, digging shrapnel out of the doorway of a dorm college frame. | |
| And I'm looking down at that shrapnel in my hand, and the thought that went through my head, this is hatred made manifest. | |
| This is the this is what hatred looks like. | |
| I'll never forget it. | |
| And here's your read. | |
| That's very profound. | |
| You know, it's it's this is one of the problems, and we learned this when we were in Israel, not just the close proximity of Gaza and all the you know, rockets that have been fired into neighboring towns, uh border towns that it is. | |
| You know, Gaza can't produce their own clean water. | |
| You want to know why? | |
| Because Hamas repurposed the city's plumbing to produce more rockets. | |
| You know, these terrorists of Hamas are responsible for all of the human suffering of the of the Palestinian people. | |
| People on both sides of the Gaza border. | |
| You can blame the terrorists. | |
| Gaza you may not know this either. | |
| They can't produce their own electricity. | |
| Did you know that? | |
| Because Hamas uh quote, accidentally knocked out the critical infrastructure during one of their rocket attacks, and they failed to rebuild the power plant after diverting aid and supplies to build rockets and dig tunnels. | |
| I told you about the tunnel I was in. | |
| I mean, it is it is sophisticated. | |
| It is buried deep. | |
| Well, how how how steep, Linda, would you say that was? | |
| I don't know, fifty feet down, a hundred feet down. | |
| I would say even more. | |
| I mean, we were there on the strip and you know, IDF, and it's very, very narrow. | |
| And it's uh it's pretty far down. | |
| Okay, so it's far down. | |
| It's far enough down and steep enough in some places. | |
| Then you get down there and it's all Israeli money's cement by the U.S., given by Israel, so that they could build hospitals and schools, but they build tunnels so that they can kill Israelis. | |
| Hundreds of them. | |
| And don't forget, you know, one of the things that we learned there is that in one of the passages of power where the the where Israel was forced, you know, to come to the table and meet, and they gave back like this one marketplace, and the marketplace had, you know, livestock and and food and clothing and just you know, just a little bit of everything, you know, and and they gave it to back to the people of Palestine and said, here you go, you can have this. | |
| And they burned it because the Jews had touched it in front of them. | |
| So they killed the livestock, they tore up all of the the food, the clothing, everything was gone because the Jews had touched it, the Jews were dirty, and I uh I mean, I'm standing there with you on the Gaza Strip listening to Palestinian children scream, you know, dirty Jews across. | |
| I'm like, what is happening? | |
| Like it's such a manipulation of the mind, and these people are brainwashed from such a young age that this is all they know. | |
| I mean, they're taught, you know, geography books that are. | |
| Well, I showed that last on it. | |
| Listen, Jordan, by the way, I'm getting more details. | |
| He got 124 votes. | |
| Uh second was Representative Scott got 81 votes. | |
| Um, so you know, I don't know if they're gonna bring this to the floor. | |
| Um, they're scrambling for a speaker uh while we're on the verge of war here. | |
| I would hope that Republicans can come together, rally around Jim Jordan. | |
| I think he'll be a phenomenal speaker. | |
| One of the reasons why is he's a phenomenal human being. | |
| He just is a good person. | |
| And and he will listen to anybody. | |
| And he's a great communicator of conservatism, and he's also a fighter. | |
| This guy is a phenomenal wrestler in his life. | |
| Uh One other thing here, if you look at, you know, they can't produce clean water because their plumbing was used, you know, they produced rockets instead. | |
| Gaza can't, they don't have their own electricity. | |
| You know, they use all our aid money. | |
| The terrorists of Moss are evil. | |
| Hamas is ISIS. | |
| That's what we see here. | |
| So the result of this is very simple. | |
| This can no longer be a staging area in close proximity to Israel for them to commit acts of terror. | |
| It's that simple. | |
| It is not any more complicated than that. | |
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| All right, a lot of news is breaking out all over the place. | |
| Jim Jordan now has won the conference. | |
| There's a second vote going on. | |
| And this, by the way, was voted down earlier, and they're asking every member because he won 124. | |
| A lot of people don't even know the guy that he's that he's running against, which is, I think, pretty bizarre. | |
| But House Republicans now are doing a second ballot on whether Jim Jordan will you support Jim Jordan on the floor. | |
| Now, out of nowhere, a surprise candidate shows up. | |
| I I don't even know the guy. | |
| His name is Austin Scott Austin Scott. | |
| You never heard of him, by the way. | |
| He's media pointed out in their article. | |
| You're not alone, but here's what you need to know about him. | |
| He's a seven-term member of Congress. | |
| He's been there for seven terms, and I don't know him. | |
| That's a problem. | |
| Maybe I've been maybe I've interviewed him. | |
| I can't remember everyone I've interviewed. | |
| And I want to see this video desperately. | |
| Can you please text me video of Joe falling today so I can tell people how great it is, how wonderful our president, how Operation Keep Joe Standing is working. | |
| Apparently, you tripped a lot. | |
| So we're following what's going on in the swamp, the sewer in DC. | |
| Um, also, if you're just joining us, Israeli troops now have officially entered Gaza. | |
| That is our top story. | |
| And as we speak, there are uh air strikes in Gaza. | |
| Israel now clearly this this 24 hour period must be over because it looks like you know the ground war is beginning. | |
| We now can confirm Israeli troops have entered Gaza. | |
| Now, we'll also get your calls in. | |
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| But anyway, our following our top story, Israeli troops entering Gaza. | |
| Looks like the ground war has begun. | |
| I hope they can get this over quickly. | |
| It's not an easy military operation. | |
| Think Iraq in a lot of ways, and we'll watch what's going on in the race for speaker, Jim Jordan now, the top contender. | |
| We'll continue. | |
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| If you want to be a part of the program, we are following two stories uh all day today. | |
| Uh a top story, well, there's actually three. | |
| Is in fact we can now confirm that we have troops on the ground. | |
| Israel has now gone into Gaza for select targeted areas, and we have military airstrikes uh ongoing as we uh come on the air here today. | |
| Uh this is probably going to be a very interesting night, but Israeli troops have entered Gaza conducting localized raids. | |
| We are also monitoring around the country. | |
| Uh uh Hamas, the terror group has called for this to be a day of jihad. | |
| There others are calling it now the day of raid. | |
| I'm not sure why they're not using Hamas's actual words. | |
| I don't know if they have a political agenda, but we're watching that. | |
| One of the big protests taking place in Times Square in New York City. | |
| I got a lot of calls from a lot of people. | |
| Uh, what about my son or daughter that's in the city? | |
| What should what do you recommend? | |
| Stay home. | |
| Or go get out of the city for the day and work from you know a remote location if possible. | |
| Because many people that's not possible. | |
| Uh I did have one of my top staff people on television just walk through the crowd and take some videos. | |
| Um, and I just watched uh on Fox uh the the Islam call to prayer taking place right in the middle of Times Square. | |
| Uh so that's happening. | |
| Um now again Hamas wanted a day of jihad. | |
| And others are just saying it's a day of rage. | |
| But it's it's I would expect you're gonna probably see protests all around the country in big cities. | |
| Uh cities probably that you could name off the top of your head or predictably name. | |
| Uh we're also following the story of the speaker of the house race in the house. | |
| And right now, Jim Jordan uh has won the conference vote, 124 to I believe eighty against a guy, what Austin Scott out of Georgia. | |
| I don't know a lot about. | |
| Uh don't know how his name got in there. | |
| So now the question before the Republican conference is will you vote for Jim Jordan on the House floor? | |
| If the answer is no, don't waste everybody's time. | |
| They got to spend time and build consensus. | |
| And I just asked these Republicans, we're on the verge of war in the Middle East. | |
| Uh and the House of Representatives is closed until you pick a speaker. | |
| Maybe maybe today's a good day to get this resolved and move forward and open up the people's house again. | |
| Just a mild suggestion on my part. | |
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| Now, I want to go back to this Seattle University. | |
| There was a pro Hamas rally at the University of Washington out in Seattle. | |
| And then a young girl comes by. | |
| They they wanted they want they want us all to die. | |
| They want to kill us. | |
| And this pretty much captures, you know, the bewilderment of uh of a good person. | |
| Why are you why are you sympathizing with terrorists? | |
| Why are you sympathizing with the very people that slaughtered innocent men, women, and children? | |
| How do you know how is this even happening? | |
| You can hear it in her voice. | |
| Just the utter shock at the depravity of some of these protesters. | |
| Listen. | |
| They want our people dead. | |
| they want us They want him dead. | |
| Please end it for me. | |
| They want our people dead. | |
| They want to kill us. | |
| I I can't I can't believe. | |
| Because it's of a support for Hamas. | |
| And the terror attacks that they perpetrated on innocent men, women, and children in Israel. | |
| And I'm sure there'll be the typical predictable propaganda outlets and democratic, you know, radicals out there. | |
| See, innocent people died. | |
| Well, maybe blame Hamas that declared war and invaded Israel and started killing the innocent men, women, and children. | |
| Why don't you hold those people accountable? | |
| My friend Lawrence Jones confronting a young anti-Israeli protester at Hunter College. | |
| Just the utter denial of this young girl should shock the conscience. | |
| Because we have all the evidence. | |
| We've been showing you all the evidence. | |
| We've presented all the evidence. | |
| It's all there, available. | |
| Public information. | |
| But not according to this girl. | |
| Listen. | |
| Why are you here today? | |
| Uh free Palestine. | |
| I stand with the Palestinian people unequivocally. | |
| I support decolonization and liberation of Palestinian people and the end of a mass genocide in the Gaza Strip. | |
| Talking about the genocide of the kids being beheaded. | |
| That's false. | |
| That is actually false. | |
| When you see the kids that have been beheaded, and the women that are raped, how do you feel about this? | |
| Ugh. | |
| I don't know where to start from that. | |
| Israel is notorious for creating propaganda that sides their one-sided massacre against Palestinians. | |
| That was already proven that didn't really happen. | |
| Women didn't get raped. | |
| No. | |
| I have I've not seen any proof of that. | |
| If it did happen, it I haven't seen it. | |
| Like they get attacked for no reason. | |
| The children got attacked for no reason. | |
| The kids that were beheaded? | |
| Beheaded. | |
| Yeah, apparently. | |
| Like that's for there were Jewish kids. | |
| Wait, Jewish kids. | |
| The US military money that goes there, four billion dollars a year, should stop going to Israel to support their war crimes. | |
| You just can't reason with people that are just completely ignorant and blind. | |
| Let's go to the other side of Israel where the Israelis have had a flare up with Hezbollah, again funded by Iran and taking orders from Iran. | |
| But you have a Hamas, I'm sorry, Hezbollah affiliated Imam over at MSDNC, you know, saying, Oh, Lebanon has thousands of martyrs prepared to join prepared to join Hamas and sacrifice themselves against Israel. | |
| That's why this incursion, and we now know Israeli troops have already entered Gaza. | |
| They're there. | |
| While ongoing air Attacks are happening. | |
| Obviously, not in the same place. | |
| You have to protect your own soldiers. | |
| But listen to this Imam say talking about the martyrs. | |
| Listen. | |
| I also spoke with an imam who was affiliated, very distantly affiliated with Hezbollah. | |
| We couldn't actually speak with any Hezbollah figures. | |
| Uh, but he said he swore that even though Hezbollah has not entered the fight so far, that they were prepared to do so. | |
| Here's what he told me. | |
| He said not at all. | |
| Nasrella doesn't wait for a signal from any. | |
| But when I asked if the Lebanese people feared a war, he said no. | |
| Ah, I love his shuhada al Mudahin. | |
| Telling me Lebanon has hundreds, even thousands of martyrs prepared to sacrifice themselves against Israel. | |
| It's unbelievable. | |
| All right, let's get to our phones. | |
| 800 941 Sean, our number, you want to be a part of the program. | |
| Let's say hi to Justin in Ohio. | |
| Justin, watch him very closely. | |
| Your congressman in Ohio, Jim Jordan, I think would make a great speaker. | |
| This process has been very hard, difficult, arduous. | |
| Let's see what happens. | |
| What's going on? | |
| Brother Sean, can I call you Brother Sean? | |
| You're talking like you're trying to be Cornell West. | |
| Every time I see Cornell West, he says, Brother Sean. | |
| And actually he's a very personable guy. | |
| He actually also is, you know, a supporter of, you know, he's a religious and and philosophy professor. | |
| He's well read, and I just couldn't believe his support. | |
| He said the only thing they got wrong is they they weren't nuanced, the 31 groups at Harvard. | |
| And I had him debate Alan Dershowitz. | |
| Yes. | |
| What about uh my friend Brother Cordell? | |
| Yeah, I thought Derschwitz uh did a good job debating him. | |
| I'll get to the point real quick. | |
| Uh Jim Jordan, I think he'd be an excellent speaker. | |
| But I was calling today. | |
| Uh I was watching a program last night, and you had the Vake Ramaswamy on. | |
| I thought you did an absolute awesome job uh with that little debate with him. | |
| He comes across to me as just this little arrogant pest. | |
| I think he should be running for class president instead of the president. | |
| To me, he just he just rubs me the wrong way, and I thought you did a fabulous job of just taking it to him hard with facts and he's done this a lot. | |
| I mean, I don't even have any I have no personal animals against Vivek Ramaswamy, none at all. | |
| Um I don't have a problem if he takes controversial positions. | |
| What he did in this case is he said he insinuated implied and and outright said it in the interview that Nikki Haley, and this was not about personality to me, you know, that oh there's other people have these financial interests, | |
| and that's why you know they they are supporting Israel, and and I guess she spent time on the board of Boeing or whatever, which I have no problem with, because if it weren't for these great companies that build our defenses, well, that preserves our freedom. | |
| Uh, and that should not disqualify somebody from running for president, but you need full disclosure if there's any conflict of interest. | |
| Obviously, that would be a different scenario. | |
| But what bothers me is you know, the idea that somehow this has to be rooted in something nefarious is obscene to me. | |
| To question somebody's motives, could it not be that Nikki Haley, like everybody else that have seen the images, the beheadings, the beheadings of children. | |
| I've seen these images. | |
| I want to show them on TV. | |
| My bosses don't want me to show it because they know what I do also do know. | |
| I understand why. | |
| Because once you see it, you cannot unsee it. | |
| Once you've watched the beheading, and I have, you can't unsee that. | |
| And and you know what? | |
| It might be too much for some of for so many people. | |
| And I I totally frankly completely understand it. | |
| But the idea that somehow you question the motives of somebody, I just felt across the line. | |
| That was all. | |
| Wasn't it? | |
| And then he tried to back off his statement. | |
| I said, Well, then, you know, we got a problem here, Vivek, because he kind of has done that a number of times in a number of interviews. | |
| And, you know, he said, Well, I'm not from Washington. | |
| I said, Well, yeah, I know you you never voted Republican until 2020. | |
| And if I had one other thing I would add to that, I would say, but you certainly sound like a politician. | |
| Because if if you're gonna take a shot at somebody, take your shot, then defend it. | |
| But don't say you didn't say it when it's on tape. | |
| That's all I was saying. | |
| Well, thanks for holding his feet to the fire. | |
| Again, I think you think if Fox hosts another debate, you'd make a great moderator. | |
| I'd love to see you up there Asking tough questions. | |
| I would ask tough questions, by the way. | |
| Anyway, I appreciate the call, my friend. | |
| Thank you for being out there. | |
| Back to our phones. | |
| Albany, New York. | |
| Mike. | |
| Mike, how are you? | |
| Glad you called, sir. | |
| What's going on? | |
| Sean Hannity, thank you very much for mission to come aboard, sir. | |
| Permission granted, sir. | |
| Glad you are with us. | |
| Yes, even though for a nice liberal state is New York, we're only a mile from between that and me and Kathy Oakle. | |
| Anyway, quick question about Jim Jordan and the wonderful work he's doing. | |
| If he becomes Speaker of the House, does that remove him from all these investigative committees that he is on? | |
| And then would that reset all the work that the Republicans are trying to do to get to the bottom of all this stuff that people are accusing the Biden sold and all the wrongdoing that we can see and we know, but of course we have to get through all the mucking stuff first. | |
| So I was curious what will that do if he becomes speaker. | |
| I think I look, I think all those investigations continue. | |
| They've got great members of the committee. | |
| And by the way, he can be speaker and he might keep himself as head of the Judiciary Committee. | |
| Just to finish that job and that investigation, which I think he's great at. | |
| Uh you're just joining us on this, the House GOP conference held the second election. | |
| Jim Jordan won it. | |
| Out of nowhere came uh Georgia Congressman Austin Scott. | |
| Uh Jordan came out on top 124 to 81. | |
| He needs a simple majority there, which is currently 217 on the House floor to become speaker. | |
| Now they're rightly having a vote saying, okay, how many of you, if we go out on the floor, are gonna vote for Jim Jordan? | |
| Because if they can't come to a consensus, then there's no reason to bring this to a floor vote. | |
| None at all. | |
| And you know, other then they gotta go back in conference and then they gotta start all over again. | |
| And at that point, I don't think we need to do that. | |
| We have less than a minute, Kimberly, Virginia. | |
| We'll get to you. | |
| are you? | |
| Doing well, Sean. | |
| Thank you for having me on. | |
| I wanted to touch on what Linda had said earlier, the reason for my call. | |
| All the college protests that are around the country and happening around cities around the world, do you These people not realize that if they had a Hamas terrorist standing in front of them for the moment that they're cheering and hurrying. | |
| Yay, they're with them. | |
| But as soon as they stop, and that Hamas terrorist realizes that they are Christian, that they're gay, or that they don't believe in the Islamic faith, they will kill them in a heartbeat. | |
| Do they not realize that? | |
| I d I don't understand. | |
| I I I don't understand either. | |
| You know, the people that have been standing up for LGBTQ rights are the ones that stand against countries like Iran that murder them. | |
| I mean, I would I would think there would be a natural alliance of people maybe that don't align on some issues, but we certainly alone agree that people, if you're on personal issues. | |
| It's really none of our business when what adults do. | |
| It's not until they start indoctrinating our kids. | |
| Then out comes Tiger Mom Linda. | |
| And I don't blame Tiger moms for being angry that their kids go to school. | |
| They don't learn to read, write, do math, science, learn history, and learn computers. | |
| No, they learn about gender identity and CRT. | |
| Anyway, 800-941 Sean, our number, you want to be a part of the program. | |
| Hang on for Sean's conservative solutions. | |
| By the way, Kevin McCarthy just spoke saying that uh Jim Jordan came out with over a hundred and fifty votes now. | |
| And uh looks like it looks like he has a very good shot of being the next speaker. | |
| Probably won't happen today. | |
| I think they are uh they'll give Jim Jordan an opportunity to speak to those people that have not come over to his side yet. | |
| Hopefully it's him. | |
| Hopefully they do it soon. | |
| 800-941 Sean is a number if you want to be a part of the program. | |
| We'll continue our coverage. | |
| We'll check in uh with our friend in Seattle, uh, Jason Rance, the talk show host. | |
| We'll also get your calls in 800 941 Sean straight ahead as we continue. | |
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