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The Damage to Jewish-Americans - November 10th, Hour 2
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One thing we haven't agreed to is a ceasefire.
A ceasefire with Hamas means surrender to Hamas, surrender to terror.
There won't be a ceasefire without the release of the Israeli hostages.
And then do we go back to bombing?
No.
Four hours.
We don't want four hours.
We don't want 16 hours.
We don't want 22.
We want a ceasefire now.
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Let's go to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview with my friend, my colleague Brett Baer at Fox, rightly saying no to the Biden administration and their pressure for a pause-pause pause, although they do have a four-hour a day pause for, quote, humanitarian reasons.
But yet Hamas won't let anybody out because they want all the human shields that they can get.
Listen to the prime minister.
Hamas does not serve the Palestinian people.
Hamas serve Iran.
Those are the masters of Hamas.
So their lie about nationalism, that they are a national movement and they care for the Palestinian people.
Look at them.
They are using Palestinian people as a human shield.
We need to free Gaza from Hamas.
This is what Israel is doing.
It's doing the Palestinian people the greatest favor by bringing Hamas down.
How firm has the push been by President Biden and his administration for these humanitarian pauses?
And what have you agreed to?
Well, one thing we haven't agreed to is a ceasefire.
A ceasefire with Hamas means surrender to Hamas, surrender to terror, and the victory of Iran's access of terror.
So there won't be a ceasefire without the release of Israeli hostages.
Well, first of all, we don't want to seek to govern Gaza.
We don't seek to occupy it, but we seek to give it and us a better future in the entire Middle East.
And that requires defeating Hamas.
I've set goals.
I didn't set a timetable because, you know, it can take more time.
I wish it'll take little time.
But we're proceeding step by step, reducing our casualties in the process, trying to reduce and minimize civilian casualties and maximize the casualties of the Hamas terrorists.
And so far, I think it's proceeding well.
Now, so, and the prime minister was also clear, as you just heard, that we don't seek to govern or occupy Gaza and clear about Congresswoman Tlaib calling for genocide of the Jewish state.
He salutes Congress for censoring that.
But what he's saying about a ceasefire meaning surrender is the most important.
And you've got to understand Hamas.
Most people don't seem to understand Hamas.
We had the son of Hamas on this radio show.
We had him on TV last night.
You know, Hamas' commander, Messenger, put out, I don't even know this group.
Apparently they're big in Israel.
Was that the group?
Saying that they're now holding 1,000 hostages at this Gaza hospital.
And what else have the Israelis discovered?
They're even building their terror tunnel network underneath hospitals.
Well, that in and of itself is pure evil.
That's why they've been firing their rockets from schools and hospitals.
Why?
Because they know Israel is a compassionate nation that cares about human life.
And they've made great strides in trying to protect innocent people here.
If anybody dies, any innocent person dies, that's on Hamas that started the war.
Or that's on Hamas using people as human shields.
One former top Defense Department official warning that Biden's weak response to the Iranian attacks are going to lead to America's Americans coming home in body bags.
We've been attacked over 47 times now.
And all Biden has done is hit two warehouses that were empty in Syria.
And then claiming, oddly enough, he attacked the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
He did no such thing at all.
One suspected terrorist has been captured near ground zero after being released by the Biden administration.
Who's been warning you about what's going to happen with 8 million unvetted illegal immigrants in this country?
And many coming from Syria, Iran, Russia, and China?
Not hard.
You know, there was a shock poll out in Investors Business Daily and the Issues and Insights tip poll that 20% of Democrats say they support Hamas.
How is this happening in our country?
Pro-Palestinian protesters stalking a Jewish man before killing him.
This was in the Jewish Journal.
I mentioned it earlier.
I mean, this is the state of the world right now.
And when I say, oh, my heart's troubled, now you know why my heart's troubled.
We're supposed to just go on with our lives and not act like it's the 1930s and 40s all over again.
It certainly has the potential to be.
Daniela Greenbaum Davis is with us, widely published Jewish American columnist.
Her work can be found in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and other major publications.
She's also an Emmy award-winning producer.
By the way, formerly with the view, this is an interesting side of this story.
She recently tweeted, my great-great-grandparents were murdered in Auschwitz.
My great-grandmother lived under the Nuremberg laws.
My grandmother survived Bergen-Belsen.
And Jews, despite the anguish, never forget we will survive this too.
Also with us is Noah Pollack, who was a contributor to the Washington Free Beacon, recently on Fox and Friends, did a fantastic job.
Daniela, thank you for being with us.
Wow, what a background you have.
I want to get your reaction to all of this.
Thank you for having me.
Yeah, it's kind of unfathomable.
I mean, growing up, I always thought that my grandparents were telling me all these stories over and over again out of a desire for me to appreciate my history and respect what they've been through.
And now I sort of feel like they were warning me and anticipating that we were going to have to deal with our own version of these events.
I'll be honest, Daniela, I'm not shocked easily.
And I've been doing talk radio for over 30 years, 34 years, and I've been on Fox News for 28.
The level of anti-Semitism in our country, in our halls of Congress, in our universities, on the streets of our cities, in Europe, in Australia, around the world, it has shocked me.
The sheer hatred and how widespread.
In the U.S., not so much Jews necessarily being physically targeted, but not allowed in country clubs or quotas not allowing them in universities.
And this has been a real moment where we've all just had to confront the unfortunate reality that there's anti-Semitism of all forms here, including real physical violence and harassment.
I mean, I'm sure you saw the story of the man in L.A. peacefully protesting, killed by an anti-Israel activist.
And this is happening everywhere.
There was two attacks in Montreal yesterday, Jewish schools being shot at.
So this is everywhere.
And unfortunately, it's not kind of getting the kind of media attention we see when this kind of stuff happens to other minorities.
Yeah, shocking.
Noah, let's get your take.
I didn't think I'd see this in my lifetime.
And the question is here, I only see one answer.
And the answer has to be that Israel has to win the war against Hamas in Gaza.
They have to dismantle Hamas.
They have to win the war in the north in Lebanon and Hezbollah.
They've got to fight back the Houdi rebels and destroy them too.
They've got to make sure Syria stops firing missiles into their country.
And I'll be honest here, if we're going to get to the root cause of the problem, somebody's going to have to deal with Iran before they get nuclear weapons.
And from my perspective, that has to be done soon.
Based on everything that I've read, every single person on any Intel committee or foreign affairs committee, they have been warning that they're getting closer and closer to nuclear weapons.
And now that they're aligned with China and Russia, I think the odds of them getting it are much higher than we ever thought.
Yeah, I think that's totally right.
Iran is the head of the snake.
They have to be dealt with.
And it's important, I think.
But define dealt with.
How do you define dealt with?
I think, first of all, they have to be, all the sanctions have to be reimposed so that the gushers of money that they're collecting gets cut off.
And that's the low-hanging fruit.
How do you deal with Iran long term?
I think you have to attack their nuclear program, which for a capable Western military is take out their refineries, take out their ability to sell oil on the open market.
But now you hit the bullseye.
Somehow the world is going to have to take out these nuclear sites.
Because if we ever live in a world where these radical extremist mullahs, converter-die mullahs, ever have nuclear weapons, do you have any doubt they'd use them?
Because I have none.
After October 7th, I certainly don't have any doubt.
That was one of the most frightening wake-up calls is that these people really do mean what they say.
And I think, though, that when it comes to the actual military job of taking out their nuclear sites, that is something that Israel can do.
It is something that the United States can certainly do.
They have no Air Force.
They have a paltry little navy of some small boats.
United States Israel can very, very easily handle that.
Daniela, let me go back to you.
How do we define victory?
Let's go back to Winston Churchill in World War II.
And what did he say?
Blood, tile, tears, and sweat.
What is our aim?
Victory.
Victory at all costs against this monstrous tyranny.
What is the goal?
What should the goal be here for Israel?
First of all, excellent accent.
Second of all, I think this is a very complicated question that nobody has easy answers to because you're dealing with a population of 2 million people.
Nobody, including not a single Israeli I know, wants to see that population experience any more violence.
And at the same time, it was very clear on October 7th that Israelis are living next to a population that wants them dead, or at the very least, elected a governing body that wants Israelis dead.
And so I think what we can all agree to is that the status quo is definitely not sustainable any longer.
I think I believe the Israeli government, when they say that their goal here is to eradicate Hamas, I don't know what that means.
I don't know what that's going to look like over the next few months, but I believe that that's their goal.
I don't think that they can successfully call this a win unless they do that.
I think it's been abundantly clear that the Israelis cannot live next to Hamas as their neighbors.
But can't we define that?
I mean, because we do know that they have full control over the Palestinian people.
They're even officially elected as of 2006.
So doesn't that mean that Gaza cannot exist?
Because wouldn't they mix themselves amongst the population?
Look, there is no question that Hamas uses Gazan and Palestinian civilians as human shields, that they fire rockets from schools, that they bury their own organizational infrastructure under hospitals.
So yes, war is ugly, and war has been ugly and will be ugly.
And it's not an episode of Band of Brothers.
Civilians are going to die and have died.
And I think that's something we all need to be pretty clear about.
I also think we can't lose sight of why that's happening and remember how this started and also recognize that in every war, civilians die.
And that's why we all work really hard to avoid having wars.
But when they happen, that is something that happens.
To your point about selecting Hamas, look, the polling is pretty clear.
Most people in Gaza still support Hamas.
That said, there has not been an election since that first one.
So I try to be a little bit careful about defining everybody there as a Hamas supporter.
I also think it's been really clear in the last few weeks that Hamas does not have the best interests of the average Palestinian in mind.
And that's become clear to many of the people living in Gaza.
So I do think, and call me an optimist, but I do think there's a chance that this entire conflict right now actually brings about a change where Palestinians there on the ground realize these people do not have our backs.
Oh, I think that's true.
All right, quick break.
We'll come back.
We'll continue our discussion on the status of what Israel is actively involved in, and that is surviving as a country.
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What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
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Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith political warfare and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
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That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
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What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
I'm Leon Nayfak from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco, Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yes, that's right.
Lock her up.
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All right, we continue with Daniela Greenbaum Davis and Noah Pollock talking about Israel.
To me, victory is defined this way, is Gaza can no longer be a launching pad and using a band-aid called the Iron Dome to shoot these missiles out of the sky because eventually that's not going to work and it's not enough and too many of the missiles get through.
Same with Lebanon and in the north and Hezbollah.
It can no longer be a launching area for Hezbollah.
And then we've got to deal with the head of the snake, Noah, and we'll pick up where we left off with you.
Yeah, but here's the key point about Gaza and what victory means here.
One of the reasons why there keeps being wars against Israel is that Israel is constantly prevented from finishing the job.
One of the unfortunate facts of life is that peace only comes when the people who want to have war have been defeated, when a psychological and a cultural revolution has taken place where they experience defeat, they know they have lost.
The belligerents have either been killed or are exhausted.
And then you have the opportunity for peace.
There is such a kind of small-minded strategy here of constantly restraining Israel, constantly preventing them from finishing the job.
They fight these skirmishes, and three years later, they have to fight them again.
Now, part of that has been the Israelis themselves not wanting to have to actually go in and do the full job.
But a huge part of that has been the enormous diplomatic pressure they face from the United States and from Europe and from international media that tries to tie their hands.
What will actually end up with peace in Gaza is if Israel can finish the job, which means to go through every house, dig up every tunnel, blow up every tunnel shaft, find every rocket, and kill every Palestinian in Gaza who wants to raise a rifle at the IDF.
Then you will have victory and then there will be peace.
The reason we have peace with Germany and Japan today is because we defeated them overwhelmingly and decisively in a war.
Once that happens, there will be peace.
And that's why the constant bellyaching and complaining and pot shots from the Biden administration about the need for ceasefires and the concern.
This is all going to actually make war more likely in the future.
What they should be saying is Israel go in and finish the job.
And once the job is done, then we can have peace.
Last word.
We have 30 seconds.
Daniela.
I would just agree with Noah and say that Egypt, who Israel has a very functional peace treaty with and does a lot of collaboration with on the ground, that's exactly what happened.
There was a war.
Israel was allowed to finish it.
And now afterwards, there can actually be peace.
I think it's a hard conversation to have, and we need to have it carefully and be honest about what that means as things go on.
And also recognize that war is ugly and things are going to happen on the ground that we don't all love.
But I think we also need to recognize what happened on October 7th.
Make sure we take action to ensure that no future Holocaust survivors, no future women get raped, no future nine-month-olds have to spend five weeks being held hostage by enemy territory.
All right, I appreciate both of you, and our prayers are with the people of Israel and the IDF and their mission.
And Israel stood with America, and they stood firmly with America after 9-11.
And we need to stand firmly with Israel now.
Thank you both.
All right, let's get to our busy phones as we say hi.
It says Professor Cheryl Katz.
I don't know.
Are you a professor out of California, professor?
Yes, I am.
I'm a professor, a law professor.
I happen to be a Jewish conservative, Trump supporter.
My mom is an almost 96-year-old Holocaust survivor.
She was in Auschwitz and Geislingen, liberated by the Americans in Dacha.
And dad, may you rest in peace, fought in the Battle of the Bulge and was on the beaches of Normandy.
In terms of what you were saying about Israel, I think we need a general patent.
I think if I were Netanyahu, I think we need a patent, and I think we need a Winston Churchill.
I think we need all in one.
Absolutely.
And unfortunately, and that's why I wouldn't be taking any advice from Biden and his administration after the Afghanistan debacle.
Netanyahu's brother rescued everybody and lost his life in Entebe.
So I think Netanyahu needs to do what he needs to do and get rid of Hamas.
But in terms of here in the United States, I never thought that my mother certainly never thought that at 96 that she would be living to see what's going on in this country.
And she wakes up crying and has nightmares.
And I wanted to say to Jim Jordan yesterday, you had him on that the Republicans need to stand strong.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion.
The two women who were sitting on the left were rightly placed because they are on the left in terms of their ideologies.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion does nothing but teach children about being who are the oppressors.
You know, it's the white toxic males and the Jews and all these people.
Their entire ideology is anti-Israel, anti-Semitic, anti-capitalist, anti-Judeo-Christian values, and anti-American.
And if that's where your curriculum starts, where do you go from there?
It doesn't take an entire class.
They're history teachers, political science teachers.
If they don't know how to teach, that's the biggest problem.
We need conservative people.
We need people like Victor Davis Hanson and Ben Shapiro and Prager teaching on our universities.
But sadly, the left has been.
Well, Professor, if I may, I would normally ask you where you teach, but I'm not going to ask you because you know what?
It may come back to hurt you in the current environment in which we live.
So I don't want that to happen to you.
I would not want to contribute to that.
And it's sad that I even have to say that or think that or believe that.
And I will tell you the fact that they have at the we're talking about prestigious universities, Columbia, Cornell, Havid, you know, some of the top universities in the entire country.
It is not just an isolated incident.
Harvard is the perfect example.
31 separate groups in Harvard blaming Israel and Israel alone for being the victim of these terror attacks.
I cannot explain that.
And we used to have a woman, her name was Hannah from Brooklyn, New York.
She was a regular caller to my show.
She's since sadly passed away.
But she would tell us the horrors of the Holocaust.
I wrote a whole book, and I do a deep dive into the Holocaust when I wrote Deliver Us from Evil back in 2004.
And it's inhumanity at a level that you can't comprehend.
But if we look at the last century, Professor, you know probably better than I do that if you compare, if you look at Mao in China and Stalin and Russia and Hitler in Germany and Mussolini and fascism and Tojo in Japan and the killing fields in Cambodia, you're talking about probably a low estimate, over 100 million human souls slaughtered and government at the bottom of it.
And that's so true, Sean.
But the problem is everything that you just named, if you ask one student right now on any of those campuses, do you know what happened during World War II?
Tomorrow's Veterans Day.
Ask one student, why do we celebrate Veterans Day?
I would encourage for all the parents who, you know, want to, instead of being your children's friends, be your parents, be the parent on Thanksgiving, on Veterans Day, sit your children down.
And for all you grandpas that are out there and fathers who fought, whether it was in World War II or Korea or Desert Storm or Vietnam or Afghanistan, tell your children the truth.
Let them learn what's going on and what happened.
Because the problem is they're not learning history, Sean, because it's one company, publishing company that makes all the books today.
They all give to the Democrat Party.
So you're getting one agenda.
You're getting one ideology pushed on every campus.
The teachers have been indoctrinated.
These are young kids.
They're not the teachers that you and I grew up with.
And I say that as a professor myself.
I am the one conservative on my campus.
And believe me, yes, my job's been threatened and whatever, but I speak out.
I always speak out.
And I always am the first to say, you want me to leave?
I'll leave.
But my students, I say, please don't leave us.
So that's what we need.
We need people standing up.
We need parents writing in.
If you're the big donors, take your money away.
If you're people out there and you're hiring students and you've got students like this, right now, I don't know why these universities, every university has a code of conduct and there's time, place, and manner restrictions.
The Brandenburg case is very clear.
If any of your speech, all I heard yesterday or the other day on the Judiciary Committee is freedom of speech, freedom of speech.
Conservatives have no freedom of speech on campus.
We had absolutely, you say something that, you know, about whether it's, you know, you question things or you don't follow their woke ideology, you're slammed down.
These students, by law, are supposed to, if they're K through 12, to be in class.
That's already, you know, they're truant.
And the university students, if you're supposed to be in class and you're not in class, get out.
There's a million kids that want to come to college and it should be in college.
How about suspending kids?
How about warning kids?
How about expelling kids?
How about taking away grants?
How about having these kids required?
You can have a teacher just say, in this class, we go by the golden rule.
You treat people the way you want to be treated.
If not, you're in the dean's office, you're in the principal's office, you're out of this school.
It is a privilege to get in education.
And the problem is these kids aren't getting educated.
They're getting indoctrinated.
And that is the biggest problem throughout this country.
And it's about time that the Republicans called it out.
And by the way, the two women were talking about, you know, what are anti-Semitic trophies?
And they always come back to President Trump.
I'm so sick and tired of the Charlottesville lie because President Trump denied, always has.
I've played that tape over and over again, and people only hear what they want to hear because of the abusively biased news media.
Can I read you something?
I think you might appreciate it, Professor, more than I think my whole audience will appreciate it.
So Hannah, from Brooklyn, New York, was a regular caller to my show.
She was a Holocaust survivor.
Her daughter's name is Pearl.
And when her mom passed away, she put this out.
I won't give her last name.
Hannah, Holocaust survivor, 98 years old, passed away this week.
Hannah was the number one fan of the Sean Hannity radio and TV show.
I escorted her as she was an honored guest at Sean's first gathering at New York City's Rainbow Room.
We had a big, big night that night.
That was a lot of fun.
My mother and I attended all the concerts for the U.S. Soldiers, a great adventure.
This was our Freedom Concert Tour.
Hannah was given the microphone and spoke at every event.
Sean, in your book, Deliver Us from Evil, in a chapter on the Holocaust, you included the story of Hannah from Brooklyn.
My mother survived the Nazi regime and suffered horrific atrocities at the hands of Hitler.
She came to the United States, her beloved country, and as you called her, a great American.
My mother was deeply involved in politics and, like you, Sean, is a strong supporter of the state of Israel.
My mother loved, admired, and respected you.
You made her a star and a popular celebrity throughout this great nation.
I will never forget that you gave my mother a voice filled with her experience, knowledge, and intelligence to be heard across this country from the East Coast to the West Coast.
Her children, Pearl, Irving, Faye, five granddaughters, eight great-grandchildren will miss her, miss her love and her kindness, her warm heart, her sense of humor.
And I will leave you with a quote from your fan, Hannah from Brooklyn.
Hitler did not win.
I mean, I get chills reading that.
If I wasn't on radio, probably tears would be in my eyes, but I made a promise to myself a long time ago that I won't let that happen.
But she never thought she'd see this day.
And God rest her soul.
I could only imagine the heartbreak if she was alive today.
Absolutely.
And God bless you for being one of the lone voices that are out there that are constantly and forever on your radio show, on your television show, on your podcast, always bringing this to the forefront.
You know what, Professor?
You shouldn't have to thank me for standing against what is clear evil and terrorism.
Why do I get thanked for standing up for simply what is morally correct?
There's no ambiguity here.
Anyone that has a heart, conscience, soul, and any sense of right and wrong and moral clarity can see that Israel is the victim in all of this.
I went to get my mother medicine.
My mom, as I said, is a 96-year-old Holocaust survivor.
I was at a CVS, and three of these young, you know, mass little hoodlums surrounded me.
What's your mom's name?
Piri, Piri Katz.
You can look her up on the internet, on Google, P-I-R-I-Kat.
She gave her oral history testimony.
And by the way, Steven Spielberg, you can do movies on Schindler's List and Barbara Streisand, you can do Yentel, but where are your voices now?
So I was at CVS and three kids surrounded me.
I was wearing my Jewish star and they said, are you a Jew?
And I took a step towards the guy and I said, I am a Jew.
So I said, why are you asking?
And they said, again, are you a Jew?
Are you a Zionist?
And these two wonderful ladies flanked me on either side and she said, we're all Jews.
And then the CVS guy said, if you're not buying anything, you have to leave.
So they scampered away.
And I turned to the two women and I said, are you Jewish?
And they both said, no, we're evangelical Christians, but today we're all Jews.
And that's my message to everybody is that if you are people of goodwill, it doesn't matter what religion or whatever, this is a fight, as you've said so often, for good and for evil.
Don't let the Democrat Party and their evil ideologies take over.
Don't let them make this a referendum on abortion and things like that because we just had children beheaded.
And as Reagan said, it's the people who talk about abortion are people who are already living.
We value life.
And right now we have hostages that aren't just Israelis and Jews that are all Americans too being held.
And we have a feckless commander-in-chief.
We need people like you, like President Trump.
We need to have people with moral clarity.
And for all you parents out there, take control and start speaking out to these universities on behalf of your kids, on behalf of your students.
And the same thing for you teachers.
And don't listen to the teachers union and don't fund these DEI garbage.
Learn about history.
We have these great inventions called the library.
Read books and you'll learn.
And knowledge is power.
And I want to talk about.
And we also have the internet that Al Gore created.
You could use that too.
Well, unfortunately, there's a lot of garbage there.
And with the way that they curtail free speech, you may not get the conservative viewpoint.
But tune into Fox, tune into all the great books that you write and so many others on your show.
And again, like I said, on behalf of my mom, who survived Auschwitz and was liberated by the Americans in Dachau.
And when she came to this country, she had to say, I am not a communist.
I'm not a socialist.
The United States government will not support me.
I will not take a job from any American.
She learned English at night school in Detroit, and she took the Constitution test.
And she is a proud American.
And she said that everybody should kiss the ground they walk on in the United States of America.
And if you're trying to fundamentally change it, like Obama and all those people, you know, and by the way, you know, when Biden called this Shylock, when Obama with his despicable saying about, you know, that Israel's an occupier, or when Omar said about all the Benjamins, those are actual anti-Semitic tropes.
And don't you dare say a word about President Trump, who did more for the state of Israel and the Jewish people before he became president, let alone after he became president.
We need more people with, like him.
And if everybody's so worried about moral clarity and freedom of speech, then how come you're not speaking out now when President Trump can't even speak out because they're constantly hitting him with jag orders?
I got to tell you, Professor, it's rare that I've ever given an entire radio segment to a caller and said very few words, but very powerful remarks.
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