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Um I'm really, really proud of Wall Street.
I I've known a lot of people.
I'm very cynical.
I've I've known a lot of people that have worked in Wall Street for a long time.
Yeah, I'm not the biggest fan of Wall Street for a lot of different reasons.
There's a lot of people that I've met over the years that are wonderful people that work there.
So I don't like broad sweeping generalizations.
Then I've met some real sleaze balls that have worked on Wall Street.
What am I wrong?
You worked there for a while, and you're one of the good ones.
I am.
I'm a rare exception.
Rare ex No, there were some good people there.
Good, you know, that really it's like they don't produce anything.
And they make money off everyone else's money.
And they make money movement money around here, there and everywhere.
Doesn't mean there's not a need for it.
There's a ton of need for it.
There's a need for people to invest, private equity companies, and and that helps our economy thrive.
So I don't want to minimize the great work that they do.
And many companies wouldn't get off the ground with without the type of financing that Wall Street uh can often offer people.
Um, and the due diligence, and frankly, the the business support system that they offer.
So they're really good people there.
New York Post has on their cover today, schooled on hate, justice for Palestine.
Now here's what's interesting.
He also has a subheading.
Wall Street wants the names of Harvard's Israeli bashers so they don't hire them.
Now this is pretty amazing.
Calls to defund anti-Semitic colleges.
Well, and they talked about the story of one hedge fund manager, guy by the name of Bill Ackman.
I've heard his name before, I don't know anything about him, and other Wall Street executives.
They want the names of the students at the 31 Harvard groups that blamed Israel and only Israel for the attacks by Hamas, the unprovoked attacks by Hamas.
Another top Wall Street executive quoted in this article saying that he's gonna stop giving to the University of Pennsylvania, believe the Wharton School of Business until they denounce the terrorists.
I was like the the original statement said, We the understand uh undersigned student organizations.
It said, Hold the Israel Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.
The apartheid regime is the only one to blame.
Israeli violence has structured every aspect of Palestinian existence for years.
Then the letter included the names of about three dozen student groups, 31 to be exact, and that letter has since been updated for student safety to remove the list of groups who signed it.
That by the way, uh people already have it, and fears that that some of the nation's brightest young minds had doomed their futures, led former Harvard President Lawrence Summers to caution against singling out students who are naive and foolish about what they were signing.
No uh, Lawrence, uh they're in freaking Harvard.
Excuse me.
There's no excuse.
They knew damn well what they were doing.
They were aiding, abetting, offering moral support to terrorists.
And would you say the same thing if students at Harvard said the same thing?
If they blamed America for 9-11, extrapolated out.
I've been given the numbers.
You know, population of America versus population population of Israel, that would be the equivalent of over 37,000 dead Americans in a single day.
You talk about 9-11, 2,977 of our fellow Americans died in a single day.
Many others we lost after from 9-11 related illnesses.
That was really that was real.
You know, but if, you know, this hedge fund billionaire and these other, you know, dozens of business executives, they they they're pledging they will not hire any members of these student groups at Harvard that signed on to the letter blaming Israel, the victim here.
And by the way, late Tuesday, 17 other Harvard groups, you know, around 500 faculty and staff of 3,000 others, signed a counterstatement attacking the other group's letter as completely wrong, deeply offensive.
Finally reported at the Havid Crimson.
Now last night on TV, I had my friend Cornell West.
He always says, Brother Sean, Brother Cornell, how are you?
Good to see you.
I said, I'm I'm I'm really teed off.
He said, Well, they weren't wrong.
They just were missing nuance.
Huh?
Missing nuance?
No.
That is supporting terrorism.
That's it.
Pure and simple.
And blaming the victim.
Linda, last time I checked in the politically correct world, it's wrong to blame victims, is it not?
In a woke world, you don't blame victims.
You're sympathetic towards the victims.
And so, you know, and then I'll tell you one of the University of Pennsylvania's biggest benefactors.
Anyway, Apollo Management CEO, this guy's name is Mark Ro uh Rowan.
Uh and anyway, he apparently graduated from Wharton School of Business, donated over 50 million dollars since what, 2018 to the School of Business.
And by the way, one of the biggest benefactors, and you know, he literally is, you know, close to he's literally telling other donors, close your checkbook because of the college's failure to condemn the terrorist group Hamas and for their ruthless attack, beheading children.
And the Prime Minister of Israel tweeted out a picture today on X. So I guess didn't tweet, he X'd out pictures of the dead babies beheaded and burned.
And we've been bringing you these stories, telling you the reality of what has happened here.
And anyway, so he's telling people close your checkbooks.
Completely support him.
I don't support boycotts.
Uh you're free to make your own decisions.
But, you know, at the end of this debate last night, we'll get into more detail.
We're going to play a portion of this debate.
At the end, I said, here's the sad part, guys.
You're both professors at Havid, both very smart men, Professor Dershwitz, Professor Cornell West.
I said, we couldn't have this debate on a Harvard campus.
They wouldn't allow it.
That's how these these institutions of learning have become so woke and so politically uh correct that I guess, you know, you you can only attack conservative African Americans or conservative minorities, or in this case, people that are Jewish.
Is it is is rampant anti-Semitism, virulent anti-Semitism this prominent?
I never thought I'd I'd see this so widespread on college campuses, and and I don't have a high bar of expectations for freedom on any college campus.
But this is sick.
This is beyond the pale.
You know, I know somebody that is a that hires a lot of people.
He once said to me, I'm not interested in Ivy League students.
I said, why not?
He goes, I want the kids whose parents were middle class that struggled.
The the the parents of civil servants.
Well, I kind of described in my background.
That's my mom, the prison guard, my dad, the family corpor court probation officer and waiter.
And I said, Why?
They're hungrier.
They They live in a they they live in the real world.
They haven't been coddled on these college campuses.
I mean, it was pretty powerful.
Very powerful.
By the way, BB is now exposing left and right.
Just check out his ex account.
Look at the pictures yourself.
As a matter of fact, Linda, put a link to it on our website so people can see the tragedy.
They had pictures, I mean, I it's so heartbreaking.
Accounts of merging of scores of children taken captive by the terrorist group Hamas.
And when they unleashed this assault over the weekend, innocent kids thought to be in terrorist hands as young as nine months old.
The images of dead 40 dead babies are real.
That's not made up.
It's not fake.
The decapitating of children and others has taken place.
The burning of children and others has taken place.
You know, they've got um they they got in the New York Post today pictures.
You know, this is happening.
And they've got the pictures of the kids, brief video making the round social media shows kindergarten teacher.
I won't give her name, clutching her sons, Ariel 3 and a nine-month-old son, and if and the family is they're abducted by Hamas from their neighborhood or kibbutz as they call it in in southern Israel.
That's near Gaza.
And the family, including her husband and father, hunkering down in safe rooms when the terrorists descended.
I couldn't believe the picture.
You know, somebody said on the BBC of this harrowing footage.
You know, they've taken them without any food, without any diapers, without nothing.
I don't think I don't know if we'll ever see this family again.
The odds are not in their favor.
You know, I I always tell people that ask me about my self-defense training.
What do I do?
And I'll I'll give them a few things to do.
I'm not going to disclose it on on radio because I have a whole set of things that I'm going to do if somebody tries to come at me.
And I will defend myself.
And anyway, but I do give people advice.
And one of the things I'll say, if somebody's ever trying, for example, I give advice to my own daughter, for example.
They're ever trying to get you in a car.
I said, sweetheart, you believe in Jesus, you believe in an afterlife.
So if you're going to die, die right there.
Fight to the death right there.
Not to get in that car.
Why do I say that?
Because if you get in the car, your odds of ever being seen again are extremely low.
Remember when we actually were able to rescue this girl that had been kidnapped and we found her?
I was like, oh, that's that's a miracle from heaven, because that's not usually the outcome.
They have this beautiful young woman.
Did you see this picture today?
This this I don't know how old this young lady is, but beautiful young girl.
You know, uh for whatever reason, Hamas killed this young girl.
They show the picture of the mother to give it an interview.
This guy just look at this kid, and I'm like, it could be an all-American girl, all of all Israeli girl, young, happy.
You know, she's got like handprints on her on her thigh, and you know, just why?
260 kids that age were slaughtered that went to that concert.
And we now know Hamas is using hostages as human shields.
We we predicted that was gonna happen.
You know, at this point, Israel has been saying, if you stay, you will die.
They've been telling and warning the people of Gaza, get out.
Egypt wants nothing to do with them, they close their border.
Jordan wants nothing.
None of these countries want anything to do with them.
They've really got nowhere else to go.
But for every dead person, you can blame Hamas and Iran.
Those are the people responsible.
And I think by the end of this, Gaza will no longer exist.
Hamas will not have Gaza to fire their rockets into Israel anymore.
By the way, I forgot to tell you, these Harvard students now in a full-blown, you know, cover your ass mode after their pro Hamas letters have backfired.
Anyway, a flurry of these students now are desperately trying to backtrack their imbecilic and idiotic support, blaming Israel for this slaughter.
Good luck to you.
And I hope these Wall Street firms are able to piece together who the students are.
So this way they don't hire them.
Hamas is now called for their supporters to make tomorrow.
Friday the 13th, a global day of jihad.
Now, I care about everyone in my audience.
I'm gonna urge all of you, take this seriously.
If you're in a big city like New York City, I'm telling my staff I'm being bringing in a bare bones staff tomorrow for radio and TV.
Just enough to get on the air.
Linda, you've been instructed.
Tell everybody to stay home.
I don't want anybody here.
You know, we'll we'll we'll figure out how to get a show up on the air.
We've had to do it before.
Take it seriously.
Top of Moss terrorists citing Biden's Iran deal is the reason they took hostages.
Wow.
Why would they not be emboldened?
Why not?
It pays when you pay six billion dollars for hostages.
I told you this would happen.
Bernie Sanders, he denounced uh Israel for committing war crimes.
Of course, Bernie Sanders.
You know, the genius, you know, radical socialist that he is.
Again, praised by the left.
Take this seriously.
This national day of jihad.
You know, it's um or holy war, and they want it worldwide.
Just to be very clear here.
I would take it seriously.
Because you know what?
There are enough lunatics, there's enough evil in this world that they mean it.
And some will act on it.
If you've been hearing me warn you about Joe Biden's aiding and abetting open borders.
And I will tell you, this open borders, I guarantee you by the end of this year, we'll have eight million Joe Biden illegal immigrants that he facilitated into this country, defied his oath to the Constitution and uphold the laws of this land.
And I t I promise you I am not wrong.
That among them are people that are terrorists or affiliated with terrorists.
And one day we will pay a price for Joe's idiocy.
And, you know, just remember I said it.
Because I'm I pray to God that I'm wrong.
I really do.
I pray to God that you can call me, see Hannity.
It's 10 years later, you idiot.
Nothing would make me happier.
I'm not wrong.
I'm not.
And when it happens, Joe will have blood on his hands for not enforcing the laws of this country.
800, 941 Sean.
I've been saying this.
By the way, Linda, have you noticed I've not been criticized for this by the mob?
You know why?
Because they know damn well what I'm saying is true.
Well, how many people on the terror watch list did we catch?
Well, how many got through that we didn't?
No background checks.
99% of people, according to this congressional report, were allowed to stay.
By the way, is uh is Newt Gingrich actually here yet?
Do we know for sure?
He is here.
Okay, he's in the green room.
Well, why don't we bring him in early then?
I mean, we love our friend.
Yeah, well, I don't mean early now, this segment.
He is on, he's on at 3:30.
Perfect.
That's what I'm saying.
You know, if you read that guess sheet that your producer wrote, you know.
Amazing.
It's a bit.
Can you just follow along?
Oh can you just man, oh man, I love when I get attacked by my own staff.
You go all watch it in there because your Christmas bonuses are coming up soon.
I'm just warning you all.
And I make those decisions unilaterally, just warning you.
Want to take it back?
Your ornery.
You know, that you just corner you'll get.
I love when people double down.
Good for you.
I'm proud of you.
All right, quick break, Newt Gingrich in studio when we come back.
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Um, my history with my in-studio guest.
I have no idea what the hell you're doing up in New York the day before Hamas's global day of jihad tomorrow, but um, I don't get to see you enough.
You're like family to me.
You you're uh you're a big brother to me.
Uh our lives and careers have been so intertwined, it's amazing.
Uh you know, I was I first interviewed you in a holiday inn in Decatur, Alabama.
I bring this up often.
Somewhere there's a picture.
I don't know where it is.
I haven't looked.
I gotta look and find it.
Of us in that in that holiday inn room with a Marty system.
You didn't have sophisticated satellite beaming possibilities back then, or Comrex or anything like that.
And then I got hired, ironically, in Atlanta, after my two years in Huntsville, Alabama, 1990 to 92, and then and by the way, the local paper did a great editorial when I left goodbye to the talk show host from hell.
Then I went to your city of Atlanta, and the years was 92 to 96 before I got hired by Fox when they went on the year, and I got to MC, your event, the Cobb Galleria, the night you became speaker.
One of the greatest nights of my life.
And you let me be a part of it.
Uh do you even remember that?
I didn't let you be part of it.
We were thrilled.
You were my two daughters loved you.
Uh that was a plus, thank God.
I beg 'em a lot.
Yeah.
You uh you had a huge uh audience in Atlanta, and people were thrilled that you were doing it.
And it was also one of those amazing historic moments that is kind of hard to, you know, unless you've been there and you've lived through it, it's hard to imagine how big a deal it was.
Because we have new listeners all the time.
I want to share one story about that night.
And and I'm I went hoarse that night because it was so much excitement.
George Pataki just won in New York, he's the new governor of New York, you know.
Uh we can now officially announce that Newt Gingrich will be for the first time in 40 years, the Republican speaker of the House.
You guys had been in the wilderness for 40 years, and and through GoPack and renewing American civilization, you laid the you laid the intellectual foundation for Republicans to win a majority, and you're the last person to balance, I believe, five budgets in a row.
Four budgets in a row.
Uh never happened decades before, hasn't happened ever since.
And the amazing part of our journey together is that night you're in this room.
You didn't have CNN Fox and MSDNC the way you do now.
And there's the big three networks in this room adjacent to where I was seeing the event.
I go I walk in this room, this dumb 30-year-old kid, and I'm like, hi, Mr. Speaker.
Hi, hi, it's me.
You know, had a higher pitched voice at the time, higher to the now.
And I said, Would you mind coming on my radio show tomorrow?
And like everyone was looking at me, all these top anchors, I don't remember who was in the room, and like, who the hell is this dopey kid?
And why is the speaker to be elect giving this guy attention?
And you go, yeah, sure.
What time would you like me to call in?
It was a great time.
And uh we can learn a lot still from those days.
We can, and you know, we were chatting just before we went on the air that when I think back to Rush and to you uh to Neil Bort, I mean, conservative talk radio offset the Washington Post, the New York Times, ABC, NBC, CBS, and really became the balance that enabled common sense conservative Americans to say, Oh, I'm not isolated, I'm not alone, I'm not stupid.
You know, and I think all of you together changed history.
And I was just very fortunate.
I was one of the guys I I always tell people back when I worked on the Reagan campaign.
A friend of mine said to me one time, you know, until you explained it, I actually thought Reagan had something to do with it.
And I and I realized then I was like the ant that got on the piece of wood near Minneapolis.
I mean, and floated down the Mississippi thinking, look what I'm doing.
Right.
Understood completely.
Um, you know, here's the lesson I wish everybody would learn from you.
And you're you're a professor, uh a historian at heart.
At some point during your trip to New York, let me guess, and I'm looking at somebody who's here with you.
Joe DeSantis.
Oh, hey Joe.
Famous public opinion analyst.
Uh I know him.
Well, okay.
So, Joe, uh, what time is the Museum of Natural History private tour today?
Is that happening today?
Or what time is the Bronx Zoo happening too?
I could do dinosaurs or Hannity.
It was a close run thing, but we decided you deserved it.
Close, close second.
But here's what I would take out of what we all can learn from Newt Gingrich.
You had a series of tapes.
I went back years ago, and I I found them online, a VHS tape.
I didn't even remember VHS recorder left at that point.
It was obsolete.
Some I bought them.
Then I got a VHS recorder from somebody.
Actually went back and watched them.
And this was became the intellectual foundation that led to the contract, which led to the first time in 40 years a Republican majority in Congress.
It was your keen intellect.
You built this for years in preparation for that moment.
What can we learn from that?
Well, I mean, that's part of why Joe Gaylor and I wrote Marshall the Majority as a book.
It a couple things.
Cheerful persistence.
And it's easy to get depressed.
The world's hard.
Uh I mean, look at the whole mess in the House Republicans right now.
Uh second is uh a model I learned from the U.S. Army, which is listen, learn, help, and lead.
I mean, people that this particularly business people don't get this.
The House is 435 independently elected people.
Each one of them won an election.
I I tell people it's like having four hundred and thirty-five high school class presidents.
Yeah.
They all arrive with ideas, they all arrive with energy, they all arrive wanting to make a difference.
And so you need you can't order them.
Presidents can order cabinets because they can fire them.
These guys can fire you, as McCarthy learned recently to my deep sadness, because he's a great human being, uh and I think was on the way to becoming a great speaker.
So you gotta listen every day.
It's also true of the country.
You know, Lincoln used to have what he called his public opinion baths.
Even during the Civil War, they'd have an afternoon where anybody who wanted to could come to the White House, and for about two hours, Lincoln would walk around just listen to people, try to get what are they talking about?
How do they feel what they have to?
Um Alfred Sloan, who created Modern General Motors and one of the great management achievements of the twentieth century, Sloan every quarter took one week to go out and be a car salesman.
And he said the questions people ask him, and he helped and he helped found Gallup.
He really believed in public opinion.
But he said the questions people ask him told him about the future of the car market and what people were looking for.
So I think you really have to listen to each other.
And I would say some of the biggest mistakes I've made were when I got talking too fast and listening too little.
You wrote a book after you were speaker, and it was you you were kind of sent packing unceremoniously at the time, and I remember we had a couple of discussions, and I thought it was unfair at the time.
I didn't like how it went down.
Uh and then you wrote a book, very reflective book, introspective book, Lessons Learned the Hard Way.
Right.
And I remember telling you at the time I thought you were being too hard on yourself.
Was I wrong?
I don't know.
I think uh I think Callista would agree with you that I was probably being too hard.
But I was also trying to say to people, I mean, look, we had an amazing run.
And I had a reasonably big ego even without becoming speaker.
So when you when you get to be the first Republican speaker in 40 years, first re-elected Republican speaker since 1928, you know, you make some mistakes.
And I've always thought of myself as a teacher.
So if I see a mistake that I made and I can share it with you, so you can go, and this is also part of why I wrote uh March the majority.
So you can go, oh well, I don't want to do that.
Well, I just saved you a whole lot of time and effort.
It's like teaching people don't touch hot stoves.
Uh doesn't always work, sometimes they have to touch it anyway, just to see what it's like.
But um I suspect it did I I think it did not actually help me.
From the standpoint that our base doesn't want somebody who's introspective and goes around thinking, oh, look at the mistakes I made.
Or base wanted me to go out and write a book beating up the left, um, which would probably have done better, to be honest.
Well, March to the majority is and the reason I set up this this interview the way I did is because it is again going back to the model of the paradigm that you created, it is it is the future.
And if the Republican Party is to be successful, they've got a lead.
The American people will give them time on the speaker issue, but their time is running out.
And as far as I'm I've been telling all of them with such a slim majority, they will either be successful together or they will fail together.
There won't be one group of people that are successful and the rest of them are failures.
No, they will all fail together or succeed together.
Do you agree with that?
Yeah, and I think I th again, there are a handful of them who don't care.
Because they have figured out that they can go on television, they can use uh social media to raise money, and they actually are better off fighting than they are getting something done.
Because there's a large part of our base so frightened and so angry that they want people out there punching folks in the mouth.
You know, it's a it's a little bit like cage fighting or something.
And those folks have figured that out.
Now the the problem is, while that may be good for them as individuals, it is a disaster for the country and a disaster for the House Republican Party.
Because when you have a narrow majority right now, because there are a couple of vacancies.
A majority's two seventeen.
And I've written two or three pieces now saying, look, you either have two seventeen or you have nothing.
And and this is the the great problem uh that uh Steve Scalise faces.
Good majority leader.
Um by the way, it was only a seven vote margin with him in Jordan.
And by the way, he doesn't have the votes today.
He doesn't.
And and I think he's gonna have a very hard time getting them.
Because people forget uh with all of the the challenge to McCarthy, McCarthy had 180 votes to 31 for Biggs.
So m so McCarthy was already close to the number you need.
And during the fight over naming McCarthy as speaker, he consistently had 200 votes.
Steve Scalise is a very good, very competent uh professional, he's a very solid conservative.
And personal personally, I like them, you like them.
Yeah.
Um and frankly, Jordan's gonna have the same problem.
If the if the if the vote had been reversed, and Jordan have been at what 113 and Lisa have been at 99, uh, Jordan would have a hard time getting to 217.
Yeah.
And I think two things have to happen.
Republicans have to talk to themselves endlessly.
This this listen learn help lead thing is really important.
You have to get in a room over and over and just keep listening to each other.
And the folks on the right are gonna have to recognize that if you're in a Biden district, you have a different set of problems.
And the folks in a Biden district have to recognize if you're in a hard right district and everybody wants to uh primary you unless you do things that seem too conservative, you got a problem.
And they've got to find some way to come together.
We we created uh the America's New Majority Project, which people can see at that uh website, America's New Majority Project.com, specifically looking for 70 and 80 and 90 percent issues.
So you could bring everybody together.
A good example where they started with with with uh McCarthy's leadership was parental rights.
Parental rights is an eighty-four percent issue.
Now, I learned from Reagan if you can get an eighty-four percent issue, stand next to it and smile.
Your opponent either stands in your shadow or they join the sixteen.
It's actually eleven by the time you take uh the undecided, and get crushed.
Well, they've gotta figure out a way to say to each other if if they want to get the investigations of Biden done, if they want to keep control of the committees, if they want to and I think Jody Arrington deserves great credit as chairman of the budget committee.
He has produced a plan, uh road map, if you will, to get to a balanced budget in a decade.
I worked with him and his team uh based on what we did in the nineties.
You know, these are all real things.
Well, if you're gonna get around to being real, you'd better find two hundred and seventeen.
And maybe they need a two seventeen club.
And you get to wear a little button if you're in the two seventeen club, and if you're not, everybody else gets to say you don't get to ride the elevator and don't come near us.
And they've got to understand that that there's there's no margins to play with here.
Uh uh, I just made that upsetting talking to you, but I actually didn't think having a button that says two seventeen and saying you'll you only get to wear this button if you're committed to making sure that every time we're on the floor we're a majority.
You're like E.F. Hutton when when Newt Kingridge speaks, you need to shut up and listen.
Did they go broke?
I'd like to be able to do that.
Of course, the historian professor knows that.
Well, I think they may have been absorbed by somebody.
Well, you might not know so-and-so, the the president of this car company worked as a salesman every month.
I didn't know that either.
You know, I'm always learning something.
And occasionally I've gotten calls from Newt when he doesn't really like something that I'm doing, and I have learned to just shut up and listen, and usually 99.9% of the time he's right.
Uh New Gingrich is with us.
He's gonna stay with us through the uh next half hour.
Um, and our number's 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, his book, March to the Majority, is now on Amazon.com, Hannity.com, bookstores now all across the country.
Uh you need to read this book.
Every Republican needs to read it right now in DC.
All right, when we come back, we'll continue in studio.
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