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	You know, not many people in the last 10 days have taken note that at our border, there were 19 Iranians that came into contact with our Department of Homeland Security and our Border Patrol officers.
	17 others from Syria.
	Now I've said this and I stand by this, and I pray to God that my prediction is wrong.
	Is you know, when you when Joe Biden aids and abets law breaking the way he has at our border, and that means we we already have over seven and a half million people that have entered this country illegally, according to that congressional report just a couple of weeks ago, 99% of them get to stay.
	Uh I guarantee you, among that group, it'll be eight million in three years that Joe lets into the country.
	And if any of you, by the way, ever went to the border and picked somebody up and said, What city would you like to go to uh and you got caught, you would be arrested for human trafficking.
	But that's a side note.
	As a president, he has sworn oath to uphold our constitution and the laws of this land.
	And he has been actively doing just the opposite.
	You don't get to pick and choose what laws you like and don't like and which ones you're going to enforce and not enforce.
	And they've taken it even a step further by aiding and a betting in the process.
	99% stay.
	So we know for a fact, I am as confident as I've ever been that I can tell you America has enemies.
	We have not vetted these nearly eight million people.
	And among those eight million people, I would bet every penny I have.
	There are people that have terrorist associations and alignments, and that as a result of this, they are probably plotting, planning, scheming some attack on our homeland.
	And when that day comes, assuming I'm right, I pray I'm wrong.
	I'm assuming I'm right.
	It'll be the blood will be on Joe Biden's hands for not doing his job.
	We are a nation governed by the rule of law.
	We are a constitutional republic.
	And you cannot have open borders.
	And when people don't respect your your laws, your sovereignty, your borders, you've got a problem.
	There are many innocent people that are there with their families that want a better way of life.
	I can appreciate that.
	If if I can't if I lived in a country with poverty and I thought I'd have a better way of life for my family, and I had to take this perilous journey to make that happen, I would probably do it.
	But that doesn't mean America needs to allow every single person in.
	We have we should have a legal process for for anybody that wants to come in, even just visiting the country.
	I want to do a background check in the middle of a pandemic.
	I want a health check.
	I also want to make sure that you don't become a financial burden on the American people because we can't afford to take care of you.
	You know, now we're we're responsible for eight million more people.
	That is, you know, food, water, shelter, medical care, education.
	Many kids can't speak English, and and that now the schools are oh school districts are overwhelmed, you know, trying to to get these kids up to speed when they've already been failing American children before this even started.
	Senator Marco Rubio of Florida put out a couple of tweets this weekend.
	I don't want the U.S. to go to war with Iran, but if they attack, we've got to respond.
	And he also now is put forward an effort that he tried to pass a resolution calling the president on the president to enforce our laws and revoke the visas and initiate uh uh uh deportation proceedings for any foreign national here in the U.S. who supports especially the terrorist activities of Hamas.
	Well that would be basic to me.
	That'd be fundamental to me.
	Anyway, Senator Marco Rubio joins us now.
	Senator, how are you?
	I'm good, Sean.
	Thanks for having me on.
	You know, I thought I was unshockable thirty some odd years on radio, twenty-eight years now at Fox.
	I I I I don't get shocked very often, but this is really kind of hit me very hard.
	I had no idea in our country that there would be universities and protests as large as they are, basically in support of a terrorist organization known as Hamas whose own charter calls for the destruction of Israel.
	And yet that's what we're watching, and that's what we're hearing worldwide hearing just you know virulent hatred, anti-semitism.
	I mean, I didn't think I'd see that in our lifetime, Senator.
	Maybe I was naive, maybe I thought m differently.
	Maybe I thought we learned something, but apparently we have not.
	Well, Sean, I think it's an unmasking of what's happened in higher education in particular.
	Also, I think places like TikTok have become cesspools of this kind of misinformation and indoctrination.
	It's actually brainwashing.
	It's reflected in the polling.
	You know, we're Americans under a certain age, under thirty-five, I think, or what have you, are uh amazingly pro uh Palestinian, pro Hamas in their views of what's happening in the region, and these things don't happen in a vacuum.
	It's a constant you know, bombardment of information and anti-colonial messaging and all this other ridiculousness that sort of made his way, and you know, this is what we've paid for.
	And um I think the most shocking part about it is you go out there and you see some of these people that stand for every liberal cause you can imagine, LGBTQ rights and this, that, and the other.
	None of those rights exist in the places that they are defending.
	So that's number one.
	They'll obviously say we're not pro Hamas, we're just pro-Palestinian, but none of these demonstrations were happening.
	Think about it.
	What was the catalyst for these demonstrations was Hamas came across the border and slaughtered a bunch of Jews in Israel and and and innocent people.
	And that's what the and it didn't they didn't start uh protesting once the bombardment started.
	They came out almost immediately as a counterreaction.
	So that's very disturbing.
	Equally and more disturbing is that we know that a lot of the people out there, whether it's putting stuff on social media or the like, are are not Americans.
	They are here on a student visa, they're here uh the prof visiting professor, whatever.
	They are a guest in the United States, they have a visa, and and our laws say very clearly, if you are a supporter or if you are encouraging uh or others to support and terrorist organization, you're not supposed to get a visa.
	Well, I think it's logical that once you're in the country and you do that, you lose the visa.
	And so I think the administration should identify as many of those people as they can, revoke those visas and remove them from the country.
	They shouldn't be here.
	And um I thought that was pretty common sense.
	Unfortunately, a Democrat uh probably on behalf of the majority leader came down and blocked it, and you know, we're gonna keep trying because I think it makes all the sense in the world.
	It makes all the sense in the world, but you know what's missing in Washington is common sense.
	Why wouldn't they want to go on record with this?
	Well, why is this even controversial?
	I mean, uh that's another thing that I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around.
	Well, they'll argue about First Amendment, people have the first amendment.
	It's funny they've now discovered the first amendment, they're now anti-censorship and so forth, but this is not about the first amendment.
	I'm not saying that people don't have a right to have to hold these views as repugnant as they are.
	What you don't have a right to is a visa.
	The uh the visa has nothing to do with the first amendment.
	It is a pass or permit to be in the United States for a defined period of time.
	And that's what I'm saying.
	I'm not saying, you know, these people should go to jail or their speech should be signed.
	I don't think it should be removed from the country because they support a terrorist organization.
	And they don't they're not entitled to there's no constitutional right to a visa.
	There's no constitutional right to visit the United States from abroad.
	And uh so they've got their argument upside down.
	That's what they hide behind.
	I think the the notion the the reality of it is that there is, you know, they they also stood up and objected to an anti-Semitism um uh uh resolution that Josh Hawley had.
	Because I I think there's still an element in the Democratic Party, which is the core of their base.
	I mean, it's it's it's big enough to decide elections, I imagine, in their mind, that that they've already, you know, upset enough, I suppose, in their mind about you know being too strong for Israel.
	And you see some of that blowback internally in the Democratic Party starting.
	So look, I don't know what their motivations are.
	Suffice it to say that um i it really to me makes no sense and and I hope we do it because I think it makes all the sense in the world.
	Let me ask you as it relates to your other tweet that you don't want the U.S. to go to war with Iran.
	I don't want that either.
	Um but we now have our closest ally in the Middle East, and that is Israel.
	And it looks like Israel will be fighting a two-front war, and that is Lebanon Hezbollah from the North, again being supplied with both strategic information from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and and with weaponry and rockets, etc.
	And then on the south, you got Gaza.
	And I'm very concerned because they're now also threatening to get directly involved themselves.
	And what you wrote is I don't want the U.S. to go to war with Iran, I agree with you.
	But if they attack Americans, we must respond.
	And Iran appears to have concluded that they can use the proxy groups they control to target, injure, and kill Americans.
	We lost over thirty in this terror attack on October the seventh, and and a number of Americans, we don't know the total figure, two are released last Friday, but you know, we have at least uh about a dozen that I know of that I've heard of uh hostages being held by Hamas.
	And you said that is why tonight is one of the most um important messages you were talking about when President Biden was speaking, is that we will consider attacks against our troops by these groups to be an attack by the government of Iran.
	What is the response in the Senate to this?
	Yeah, so uh well I think most people would uh again haven't even focused on it yet, to be honest with you, and I think most people would agree with the concept, but but here's the problem we have.
	Okay, Iran, in addition to Hezbollah and Hamas, Iran has a series of groups, the Houthis, and in particular in Iraq and Syria, these uh militia groups they call themselves the Shia militia groups that are total agents of the Iranians.
	I mean, they get their direction from them, they get their weapons, they get their training, they get intelligence, they coordinate operations.
	Those groups do nothing without Iranian support.
	And in fact, for the last about year and a half, they really haven't been targeting American.
	We we have a small contingent of American troops in Syria and and in Iraq, primarily on a counter-ISIS uh counter-terrorism mission in those countries, okay.
	So they attack us.
	Suddenly, from one moment to the next, you see this huge uptick.
	It is pretty clear that these and we're these groups are attacking us uh at Iran's direction.
	Iran has basically decided, they believe that they can hide behind these troops and they can say, Well, we didn't attack you, these groups attacked you.
	But we know these groups are basically agents of Iran.
	They're weaponry's made in Iran, their targeting information comes from and they wouldn't do without Iranian support.
	The only way to keep that from happening, the only way to keep these groups from opening a front, and not just targeting us in Iraq and in Syria, but potentially U.S. troops in Kuwait, U.S. troops stationed in Jordan and other parts of the region, is for there to be deterrence.
	Iran needs to know if we if these guys attack America, America's gonna hit Iran, and so we don't want that to happen.
	They don't believe it.
	They believe there is a threshold of Americans they can injure and potentially even kill and not have it come back on them.
	Uh will the Americans respond against the militia groups, yeah.
	But these groups are small groups, they hit and miss, they move around, but not against Iran.
	And so I think the president, if he hasn't done so, and I don't know what he's tried to do privately through intermediaries, but what he has the message pretty clearly to them is you can't hide behind this facade anymore.
	If these groups attack us, we're going to hit we're gonna blame you for it, and we're gonna respond accordingly.
	It is the only way to deter this from happening.
	Otherwise, they are going to unleash these groups against us, and we're gonna find American troops being besieged across the Middle East, wherever they're stationed, uh, and not just in Iraq and Syria.
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	I've been talking a lot long before anybody else about what I saw unfolding before our eyes, which is a new axis of evil, and that is China, Russia, Iran.
	And those relationships seem to have only gotten stronger, uh, I would argue as a void of American or America abdicating its role on the world stage of being a leader.
	Uh I think Joe Biden is viewed by the majority of the world as being weak and frail and a cognitive mess the way most Americans see him, which is why I thought it was beyond insulting that Jordan and Egypt and and even the Palestinian authority and Mahmood uh uh Bas wouldn't meet with him when he was over in the Middle East.
	I thought it was a slap in the face to him.
	But in light of that, you know, what should Americans expect here?
	Because i if Iran gets further involved in this and Israel's back is against the wall, I don't think there's anything that B.B. Netanyahu will take off the table to protect his state from being destroyed, which is what the Iranians say they want to do, and that is wipe Israel off the face of the earth.
	What they can do is harm their economy, uh, make it life unbearable, kill a lot of Israelis.
	Did the Israelis they if the barrage of missiles come across from Hezbollah with these missiles that they have now from Iran are they have a lot more of them.
	They're precision guided, they can overwhelm the Iron Dome system, and you know, then Israel has to decide do we protect military sites or civilian sites?
	So it gets really hairy pretty quickly, and so that's why everybody hopes that doesn't happen, although it could.
	But I think the bigger point that you've raised about the Iran, China, Russia access, they most these are three countries that most certainly cooperate, primarily united by a desire to uh redo the world uh so that it's less friendly to America and more friendly to their worldview, but I think also incentivized by the belief that um we have an administration that's trying to cut it trying to play nice with China and not, you know, get confront them too too much on trade, so they get uh uh always looking to do some sort of climate deal with them through John Kerry.
	They've been able to infiltrate people into our government and key positions, including uh O'Malley, the guy that was actually the negotiator with the Iranians that we now know was uh at a minimum a sympathizer of the Iranian regime and their point of view of the world.
	I think the same is true with the our withdrawal from Afghanistan.
	You know, that was going to happen, but the way it happened, it was so chaotic, it did not look like the work the work of a power.
	It looked like the work of a collapsing once great power in decline.
	I think in the Chinese case, you know, at the same time as all this is going on, they're ramming a Filipino boat uh yesterday in the in the Pacific uh over their fault claims to own a certain piece of land.
	So we are being tested now in multiple places by nations that not only want to displace us, but that frankly think America's in decline and can get away with it, and with a leader that they think frankly uh that they can predict how he's gonna respond, and they're not too worried about it.
	In the case of Iran, it's most certain that they believe that Joe Biden at all costs wants to avoid a conflict with them, so they think that their runway and their wiggle room is a lot more than It should be.
	And that just invites us being tested.
	So this access is real.
	It's not like uh on a piece of paper like a NATO would be, but these are groups that share intelligence now, they share weaponry, um, and they coordinate tactics at the end of the day in terms of how they're going to approach us.
	And so it would not surprise me to now see greater tests from China and the Asia Pacific region because they think we're distracted or they view it as we're distracted by what's happening in the Middle East.
	I wish people were listening more to you, Senator.
	We need strength out of our president, and we see we see what the world what ha what happens worldwide when America does abdicate that leadership role, and it's not pretty, and it's only getting worse, and I feel and fear that if we're not careful, this is going to be an unmitigated disaster.
	And um, I hope people begin to listen to you sooner than later.
	Uh Senator Marco Rubio, thank you, sir.
	Thanks, son.
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	All right, a lot of news going on.
	Uh let us let us get to our busy telephones.
	Uh let's say hi to Don in the great state of Georgia, my old hometown.
	What's up, Don?
	How are you, sir?
	Hey, Sean, how are you today?
	You know what I could use today?
	I need comfort food today.
	I could use the varsity today.
	That's what I've if I if I was in Georgia with you today in Atlanta, I'd go to the varsity.
	What do you have?
	Well, I'd I uh well, I'm actually uh near Savannah.
	You know, I'm I'm about four hours from Atlanta.
	But anyway, uh my big thing uh is all about this speaker situation with the uh Republicans.
	It just seems like they're a bunch of kids, you know.
	Not yeah, everybody wants to take their own toys and go home and play it by themselves, you know.
	But uh look, it's it's gonna get resolved.
	Um I I you know there are a bunch of egotistical snowflakes in the Republican caucus, and you know what?
	They're just gonna have to figure out what I've been telling them from the beginning.
	And it is that if they want to win, they gotta win as a team.
	They don't have a big enough majority to win individually.
	And that's the problem too.
	They're not all together.
	Well, that that's been and becoming a big problem.
	Do I think they're gonna resolve it?
	Yeah, I do.
	Is it you know, uh I mean, just the fact that I asked a few of these snowflakes a couple of questions, sent them reeling last week.
	And you know what?
	There are good people in the Republican Party, and but at the end of the day, if they keep it simple, stupid.
	All right, just keep it simple.
	It's the economy, stupid, it's energy independence, stupid, it's border security, stupid.
	Um it's safety and security in every town and city, stupid.
	It's just it's common sense.
	And they ought to be able to just say, all right, let's let's focus on this.
	Getting the proper appropriations done on time, you know, don't you know do it the right way.
	And if I I think they'll get there because I think what's gonna what's happening and developing has nothing to do with me, but the American people are like we gave you leadership.
	Now lead.
	So from my perspective, is it's really up to to these guys now to get their and gals to get their act together.
	And let's see how let's let's see if they can pull that off.
	That'd be a good start.
	Don't you agree?
	I think Donald's would do a good job.
	See, my whole thing is I don't want them to let up on these these investigations on the Hunter Biden stuff.
	Let me tell you what I know, and we're to be there.
	At the top of the next hour, there are at least twelve huge developments that have been simmering that we've not revealed yet because of the great investigative work of John Solomon and some others that shed more light into this corruption, this Sam family syndicate that uh are really they're all bombshells.
	And and this president, we call it the Joe Biden, you know, bribery, money laundering, scandal allegations are real, and he's in deep trouble.
	That's my conclusion.
	So stay it's all gonna happen.
	Everybody I and know it's frustrating.
	You have every right to be frustrated.
	Hang in there.
	This too shall pass, and hopefully they'll get back to the issues that we care about that impact this country the most, and and they could turn this around into a big win if they do it right.
	Right.
	Well, son, I sure appreciate you taking my call.
	All right, buddy.
	I'm glad you called.
	Uh love Savannah, beautiful, beautiful town you live in.
	Love it there.
	It's uh absolutely gorgeous.
	Uh all right, Scott, Mississippi.
	Scott, how are you?
	Glad you called, sir.
	Hey, Sean.
	Uh, really an honor.
	Uh, you're a warrior, spot on on the war.
	My family has followed you for thirty years.
	Uh, they never even changed a channel, actually.
	But anyway, I know you Well, no, listen, I don't have a job if they change the channel.
	Please tell them thank you for me.
	My mom and dad, you walk in the house and it's Fox News 24-7.
	It's kind of funny, actually.
	But anyway, reason I call similar uh than your previous caller.
	Um, the speakership.
	You know, here we have uh McCarthy, Selease, Jordan, three of our, you know, strong conservative leaders, they won't have it.
	I got a suggestion.
	Okay.
	Tell me if I'm wrong, or can this be done?
	Let's throw, let's use the numbers, round numbers.
	200 are voting in sync, you know, to elect a speaker.
	Twenty or so are holding this up.
	How about throwing the twenty or so into a room, these clowns who are self-centered and don't care about the country, obviously, only their their cells and their agenda.
	Let's lock them, give them some tuna fish, a low bed, some nabs, some water, and say, give us a don't come.
	Well, I hate to tell you this, but you're stealing my idea, except my idea is a little bit bigger.
	I want to throw all of the conference in a room, have them check their ego and check their phones at the door and stay in that room and don't come out of that room.
	It's sort of like the College of Cardinals when they're selecting a Pope, uh, and don't come out of that room until they can send out a puff of white smoke saying we have decided who the speaker is, and then come out and be finished with it.
	Now, if you if you took away the creature comforts of life and you you put them in a position that they have to work like we the American people work, that's the way I've worked my whole life, then maybe we'd we'd get an answer.
	I love that idea.
	Put 'em in a room and you stay there.
	No more weekends off.
	No more vacations.
	You got work to do.
	You know, I remember I remember my contracting in my restaurant days.
	I didn't go home until I was finished working.
	And if it meant that the bar closed at four or four thirty and it was a mess, and it took me two hours to clean the bar and clean the areas that I was supposed to clean and do my responsibility, I stayed till six in the morning.
	If it was me on a construction project and I had a deadline, uh, I could tell you many a night that I slept on the floor for a couple hours, got right back up and picked up where I left off.
	I mean, that's just that's the way I roll.
	If you think I stop working on weekends, everybody on my staff can get on the the line here and tell you at any time or the day or night.
	Linda, what time did I write you one day this weekend?
	But one morning.
	You're like, really?
	Uh five fifty.
	Okay, five fifty.
	And Linda responded at 552.
	Yeah.
	I mean, and and my there's certain people on my staff.
	I don't get a response.
	I don't care what time of day or night it is.
	I expect a response.
	Now, if she was sleeping at 550, I would have said, okay, she has till seven.
	Oh, you're so full of it.
	You would have texted me at 552.
	What's going on?
	Hello.
	You're taking too long.
	It's Saturday morning.
	Why aren't you up?
	But you know, it's I I don't know.
	I I may maybe I'm just a dinosaur.
	But you know, when you you grow up in a household where your mother w works 16 hour days in a prison, and your father works all week as a full-time job family court probation officer, and then on weekends as a waiter and comes home at five in the morning, and I remember he always took us to twelve or twelve fifteen mass on Sunday,
	and he was embarrassed all of us because he he'd just be if sit down for ten seconds, he'd be like, you know, every single Sunday.
	There wasn't a Sunday I can think of him taking us to church that he didn't fall asleep.
	And why did he fall asleep?
	Because he was exhausted.
	That's why my father fell asleep in church.
	And you know what?
	I should have been more understanding of that at the time.
	Now I understand it.
	And when I fall asleep in church, my kids just dad, it's embarrassing.
	I can't.
	Should I admit that I fell asleep in church?
	I think a lot of people fall asleep in church.
	Yeah, deep deep prayer.
	They're falling over backwards.
	Heavy breathing prayer.
	Yeah.
	Um but you know get get your a I mean uh Scott, how many hours do you work a day?
	Seriously.
	Uh right now I am not working.
	I'm taking care of a grandson.
	I'm kind of retired, but let me I want to go back to what you were talking about, your background.
	I'm similar.
	I'm a veteran.
	Mm-hmm.
	Yeah, by the way, those veterans, those those warriors really get a lot of downtime, don't they?
	Right.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, like never.
	My dad is a retired marine corps officer, 89 years old, so you know how I was raised.
	Sure.
	I wanted to say to you, we thank you so much.
	You're a warrior.
	You're one of the few people out there fighting for us.
	Uh I know, you know, uh Levin and uh Bon Joni and Laura, a few of them, but we need you, man.
	You hang in there.
	We really love you.
	We appreciate what you're doing.
	Hattersburg, Mississippi loves you.
	That's where I'm uh you may be familiar with Hattersburg.
	You got to come through here to go to New Orleans and Florida.
	Uh around it.
	Listen, I gotta get out of here.
	They're stealing too much of my money.
	I'm sick and tired of it.
	And you know what?
	That day is getting very close now because I've I just had it.
	Um, but you know what?
	Thank you for serving your country.
	Thank you, Dad, for serving the country.
	And you know, uh uh yeah, do I get uh do I get some of the horrible threats that some people send to some of these members of Congress?
	By the way, if you're a conservative, don't ever write a nasty vicious letter to your congressman like some of these people have.
	Don't write their wives and their children.
	What the hell's wrong with these people?
	You know, that's just vicious.
	You know, if you have an issue, why don't you intelligently write your representative and say, look, this is how I feel, and I would appreciate a response.
	Be polite.
	And and stop attacking the family members.
	I've lived through this my entire career.
	It's not fun.
	Leave the children alone, leave the spouses alone.
	Leave them alone.
	It's none of their business.
	It's none of you know, why would you do that to people?
	Those people drive me crazy.
	See, this pressure campaign.
	No, you have a few nut cases out there.
	Anybody that's ever been in the public eye, I can tell you from my experience.
	I've had many a moment.
	I've never come on the air to talk about many of them.
	But you know what?
	It goes with the territory.
	I wish it didn't.
	I wish people weren't jackasses, but I don't like our side being jackasses.
	You know, I just assume that's going to be their side.
	Anyway, brother, appreciate the call.
	God bless your family too.
	And I mean that.
	Finally, some good news.
	You know, we talk about this great organization with this great mission, preborn.com slash Sean, and that's because we believe in their mission.
	We just do.
	If you're if you consider yourself pro-life, if you believe in the sanctity of life, if you want to help pregnant expecting moms in crisis, well, that's what they do.
	You know, w and and this is where they're phenomenal.
	Linda.
	I I think that the number of people that have joined this cause has been dramatic.
	And I'm gonna donate again.
	I donated two of those four D ultrasound machines.
	And what they're doing is they're offering free four D ultrasounds to any expecting mom, and then those moms get introduced to the life within them that is growing, and they hear the heartbeat within them of the baby that's growing inside them, and they get to actually see real facial features and in many cases can count fingers and toes, and then they're like, Oh no, this if they had any inclination towards abortion, the odds go up exponentially.
	That's not in their head when they leave.
	And then they get counseling support and even further support if needed after they deliver the baby.
	And I think, you know, one of the things that we miss here a lot is that a lot of these young girls that get pregnant, you know, they don't even realize that it's a life they're carrying inside of them.
	They they they're told so often that it's just, oh, it's just it's not even a baby yet.
	It's uh it's nothing.
	It's only a few weeks.
	And then they go in and they have a sonogram like the one that you mentioned, and they're like, oh, wow, this has a heartbeat.
	This is a living baby inside of me.
	It's a completely different experience.
	It's eye-opening.
	They can't do it without us though, because the government's not gonna help them.
	Yeah, I mean, and this is the difference.
	Planned parenthood gets tens and tens and tens and tens of millions of dollars from the federal government.
	Uh pre-born will never get a penny.
	And that's the only way that their mission continues.
	This using the science of 4D ultrasound to save babies' lives, is because of your generosity.
	Anyway, there's two ways you can donate.
	You can dial pound two fifty, say the keyword baby.
	Takes just a couple of minutes on the phone.
	Pound two fifty, keyword baby, or their website.
	It's pre-born.com slash Sean.
	And that's S-E-A-N.
	Preborn.com slash Sean.
	And you know what?
	Follow through on your convictions and do the work that the government, frankly, should be contributing to.
	If they're going to contribute to one side, they should contribute to the other.
	Frankly, they're never gonna.
	They shouldn't be involved at all.
	Let the let the people decide within dollars.
	Anyway, preborn.com slash Sean.
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	Let's get back to our busy phones.
	Uh Craig in California.
	What's up, Craig?
	How are you?
	Hey, Shawnity.
	Thanks.
	Sean, thanks for taking my call.
	I like Shawnity.
	That kind of works.
	Shawnity, there you go.
	What's going on, man?
	Uh little suggestion for the senator stuff too is link it to their page.
	They don't process, they don't get paid.
	But uh I wanted to say something about what I'm not hearing in the protest, and that is there would be no need for a war if Hamas laid down their guns and gave the hostages up.
	And face the crime of their the sentence for their crimes.
	And I I don't hear the protest in the U.S. doing that.
	And those people that are protesting in America should be arrested and deport them back to Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iran.
	Let them live where they really support.
	Take the squad, remove their senator seats, let people in there that are gonna support the Constitution and things of that nature.
	You know, the left likes to uh imply the conservatives are authoritarian.
	And what I have witnessed since this terror attack on Israel on October 7th, the equivalent of losing population compared comparisons, 38,000 Americans in a day.
	And the level of of virulent anti-Semitism and hatred.
	Uh and the sheer numbers of people that hold these beliefs that are sticking up for the terrorists.
	It makes me sick to my stomach.
	It's repulsive.
	It is evil.
	It is it is r I I never like these analogies people make, but I never thought in our lifetime, after all that we've learned in history, apparently we haven't learned enough that we'd ever be back at this point where people had such deep, you know, virulent hatred, and that they would support the evil perpetrated against other innocent people.
	And nor did I ever think it would come from the woke, the politically incorrect, the ones that, you know, just uh lecturing us constantly.
	I didn't think I I just didn't think I'd see it.
	But we're seeing it in real time.
	Anyway, my friend, um it's very eye-opening, shocking, and I don't get shocked.
	I thought it was unshockable at this point.
	This this has shocked me.
	Made me sick to my stomach.
	Made me sick to my stomach.
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