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Rep. Andy Harris - November 13th, Hour 2
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Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, we discussed earlier Moody's on Friday lowering their outlook on the U.S. credit rating to negative from stable, citing large fiscal deficits, decline in debt affordability, a move that drew immediate criticism from President Joe Biden's administration.
I mean, with $34 trillion in debt, what part of this are they not getting?
But anyway, they go on to point out that federal spending, political polarization have been a rising concern for investors contributing to a sell-off that took the U.S. government bond prices now to their lowest levels in 16 years.
And of course, we have a Friday deadline as it relates to, you know, another, quote, threatened shutdown.
Not something, by the way, that I get all worked up about, to be very blunt.
And, you know, if you look at Republicans, and I mean, you're dealing with a very tiny majority, number one.
It just is what it is.
I wish it wasn't the case, but it is what it is.
And then you have different factions within the Republican Party.
And it is going to be a real uphill battle climb, if you will, for the Republicans in the House to come together with a plan.
Now, the Speaker of the House, Speaker Johnson, is already facing some internal opposition as it relates to what he's proposed, which is a two-step plan to avert the shutdown this weekend.
And this bill would tee up two different funding deadlines from different agencies and programs, the first on January 19th, the other on February 2nd.
And Johnson said he wants to and is going to stop the absurd holiday season omnibus tradition, the one last year, which was insane.
I was on vacation, of course, when they did it.
But anyway, you already have a number of people like Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and Davidson and others that are absolute no's.
So I'm not sure exactly where this go.
Here's Speaker Johnson saying we may not get all the appropriation bills done by November 17th.
Here's what he said.
The reason I look a little haggard this morning, Shannon, is because I was up late last night.
We worked through the weekend on a stopgap measure.
We recognize that we may not get all the appropriations bills done by this deadline of November 17th, but we are going to continue in good faith.
And the difference between what we call on Capitol Hill a continuing resolution now and what we've dealt with in years past is that this would allow us time, and everybody understands, allow us time to continue this appropriations process.
We're committed to bringing 12 bills to the floor as the law, statutory law requires Congress to do.
That hasn't been done in many years.
But again, we're changing the way Washington works because we believe it needs to be more accountable and more transparent for the people.
And so we're going to fight that fight every single day, and we'll get that job done.
All right.
So you've got really five separate factions within the Republican Party.
Actually, it was a fairly, it was informational in some ways.
I'm not a big fan of the Washington Post.
But anyway, so Speaker Johnson has been meeting with these ideological factions.
If you look at what the plan is, the first bill would fund the government until January 19th, including appropriations for agriculture, military construction, veterans affairs, energy, water.
The second bill would include the other appropriations bills.
The bills will stop the omnibus altogether.
Israeli-Israel funding is not currently expected to be attached to the must-pass stopgaps.
Anyway, here to maybe help break it down for us.
I'm not sure if it's going to be totally clear.
I'm going to give him his best shot at it.
Representative Andy Harris of Maryland.
He's one of the 12 on the appropriations committees.
You have 12 appropriations that should be passed at least by the end and hopefully passed before the end of the fiscal year, previous year, again, ending September 30th.
But otherwise, you end up with a CR continuing resolution.
Democrats almost always want what they call a clean CR.
What does a clean CR?
It means you keep spending at current levels.
Well, if you keep spending at current levels, that means the $2 trillion that Joe Biden put on a national debt in the last fiscal year alone would continue.
And that's obviously unsustainable.
And Moody's is confirming that.
Anyway, Congressman Andy Harris, how are you, sir?
Good.
Good to be with you, Sean.
Am I outlining this the right way?
Well, I think it's a little more complicated than that because what we have to do is we have to avoid that omnibus spending bill.
You know, last year it was $1.7 trillion.
And Sean, it was more than $100 billion above what the appropriations committees had decided on because they threw what's called supplemental funding in there, which they never pay for.
And it's hundreds of billions of dollars a year.
The Speaker rightly, a couple weeks ago, passed the Israel funding, but he paid for it with IRS agent funding.
So he broke tradition, and that's what we have to do.
Now he's breaking tradition again.
The Democrats want a clean CR that ends before Christmas.
Why?
Because they want to jam another big, massive omnibus bill that's going to spend $100 billion more than the committees have agreed on.
That's not the way to do business.
And the fiscal markets got it right last week.
We're in a precarious situation.
We can't continue doing business the way we've been doing it, Sean.
And that's what the Speaker wants to do.
He wants to break with the way we've been doing business.
And his first action on Israel actually paying for that aid was one step.
This is the second step.
Let's break up this continuing resolution.
There are four bills that we can easily conference on before January.
We should get them out of the way so we don't have an omnibus at some point.
Where are you with these varying factions, though?
I mean, there are competing political interests within your own conference.
There certainly are, Sean.
Look, there's some of my fellow colleagues on the Freedom Caucus that I think are going to oppose the Speaker's plan, but I think it's the right plan for now.
Look, we're not going to win the victory this week, but we're going to take a small step toward it.
And every time, you know, as you said, this is an uphill climb, and uphill climbs are characterized by small steps.
He took a step with the Israel funding.
He's going to take another step now by breaking up these continuing resolutions into smaller pieces so that we don't get an omnibus bill.
And then finally, the third step is to do next year's appropriations process the way it's supposed to be done, one bill at a time.
How do we deal with the rest of this fiscal year, which started at October 1?
Well, what we're going to have to do is we're going to have to go to conference with the Senate.
We're going to have to, I believe, hold to the deal that was made on the Fiscal Responsibility Act, which set caps.
I think we're going to have to hold to that.
And I'm afraid that if we go to an omnibus bill, we won't.
So we've got to go into negotiation with the Senate.
The Speaker's plan, I think, makes that much more likely.
And that's what this country needs right now.
We need to restore fiscal sanity by actually stopping doing the usual way we do things in Washington.
And that's what this Speaker is doing.
So let me ask you, how do you get the more moderate members of Congress to go along with us?
Because I imagine some of them would probably want the omnibus.
Some of them want a clean CR.
Well, I think on our side of the aisle, we probably don't have any of those.
And I think that there are going to be some Democrats who look at this plan and say, and Sean, the way I know that it's a good plan is because the Democrats criticized it a week ago.
They said it was ridiculous.
They said it was bizarre.
They said there was no way they were going to consider it.
The Speaker puts it out over the weekend, and now they're going to set, now they said, well, yeah, we're going to have to consider it.
That's right, because politically, it avoids a shutdown, but it breaks up the way business is usually done in Washington.
So I think it's the right plan at the right time right now because we don't have runway to do a whole lot more this week.
Well, honestly, I mean, you did have a few Democrats say they don't like the two-step approach, but they would likely support it for the reasons I think you just stated here.
What does this mean for the average American?
Because, you know, it's pretty hard to decipher all these different rules and procedures you all go through there in Washington and people's eyes glaze over when they're hearing this.
Well, it means that it's much more likely that their tax dollars are going to be protected because when you go through the normal process of considering each bill individually, not an omnibus bill, you're much more likely to cut out the wasteful spending because it doesn't get lost in the cracks.
It doesn't get lost in a 4,000-page bill.
You know, I think that's the way you start fiscal responsibility, and this is the right step.
I think the Democrats, there are a significant number of Democrats who are going to join the Republicans in backing this.
We're going to get it over to the Senate tomorrow.
And I think the Senate is just going to have to say, yeah, we don't have time to do anything else.
This is reasonable.
And I think the president, even though he said he wouldn't sign it last week, I think he signs it.
It's going to be interesting to see.
We'll find out, I guess, by Friday or Saturday, right?
Oh, we definitely will find out by Saturday.
We'll know for sure.
Anyway, if you get any more details, please keep us in the loop.
Congressman Andy Harris of Maryland, one of the 12 big appropriations leaders.
Appreciate you being with us, sir.
Thanks, Sean.
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Dan in Illinois.
Dan, you're on the Sean Hannity Show.
Hi.
How you doing this morning, this afternoon?
I'm good, sir.
What's going on?
Well, I'm just curious.
I was watching Trump's fraud trial, and I was just curious, why wouldn't he call Letitia James up to the witness stand to find out why she's picking on him and what her logic was to bring all these phony fraud charges against him?
Well, number one, that would never be allowed to happen.
Not with this, listen.
You have a judge that's looking at a property, you know, anywhere from $800 million to over a billion, and he's still sticking with an $18 million figure in terms of what he thinks its valuation is.
Now, the ironic part of it is, and by the way, a judge that also said, I'm not here to hear Donald Trump speak.
I'm like, you're not?
Then why the hell are you there?
Why are we even having, it's not even a trial at this point.
I mean, he ruled in summary judgment against Trump before this ever even got started.
Anyway, you did have, by the way, Elise Stefanik filing a complaint against the judge overseeing all of this.
And he filed her complaint against the guy's name is Judge Arthur Ngoron and the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct arguing and alleging that he's not honoring Donald Trump's right to due process.
That's at a fair trial.
By the way, that is an understatement.
But all of this is personal here.
I mean, what they want to do, understand this, they want to cancel, and by the way, a campaign promise made by multiple people in New York, from the AG to DAs and others, to go after one man, Trump, one family, the Trump family, one organization, the Trump organization.
And now the New York Attorney General is seeking to exclude Trump's expert witnesses.
I'm like, huh?
We can't hear from them either.
You know, the judge, even though the judge has been told over and over again that his valuation, which is the very, it's at the heart of what they're accusing Trump of.
And meanwhile, every contract Donald Trump has in every loan application he made, every insurance application that he made, he says, don't use our numbers.
And every company has a fiduciary responsibility.
They've got to come up with their numbers.
You think you're going to, if you're a lender, you're going to use the numbers provided, the valuations provided by the borrower ever?
No, that's not how loans are made.
Everybody was paid back.
You don't have anybody complaining, either a lender or an insurance company.
So, I mean, the whole thing has been a fraud.
Then not only that, he'll never be able to do business again.
His properties will be put in some type of receivership or conservatorship, like Britney Spears for crying out loud.
And then, of course, they can fine him up to $250 million, maybe more with this judge.
Who knows what's going to happen?
I just think it'd be fun to get here upon the witness stand and see this.
And if they deny her, it'd even be more fun.
Well, it's just not going to happen.
This is not, to me, this is why I keep saying I don't think Donald Trump can get a fair trial in New York or DC or Fulton County, Georgia.
And I think you're going to see a lot of it here and a lot of it next year.
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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.
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Yes, that's right.
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Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass.
You're our kind of people.
Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday.
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I'm Ben Ferguson.
And I'm Ted Cruz.
Three times a week, we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
Nationwide, we have millions of listeners.
Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court.
And we cover the stories that you're not getting anywhere else.
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So down a Verdict with Ted Cruz Now, wherever you get your podcasts.
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 Mayfook 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.
Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Let's get to our busy telephones here.
Jay is in New Jersey.
What's happening, Jay, in Joisey?
What's going on, man?
Yeah.
Hey, Sean.
Thanks for taking the call.
I just wanted to ask you your opinion on, you know, Tim Scott dropping out last night.
You know, I never liked Tim Scott.
I found him quite unimpressive.
But what I was impressed by was the fact that he just realized, you know, time's up.
And if he actually cared about the presidential race, uniting behind somebody, he realized that he better get out.
Now, the same is not to be said for Christie or Vivek.
I think that if those guys would get out with Nikki Haley, then DeSantis would have a good chance at, you know, getting Trump to debate him, which would actually be the last way to know if anybody else is viable.
Wouldn't that be?
Did you say viable or valuable?
I heard it both ways.
I'm sure you've been viable.
Well, let me say this.
First, I disagree with your comment about Tim Scott.
And I know him personally, so maybe I'm biased in my views.
I'm going to tell you something.
He is one of the nicest guys I've ever met in my life.
He really is.
He's got the nicest family.
I've met his mom.
Yes, his girlfriend.
I've actually, you know, I don't know if I should divulge this.
I actually did a Bible study with him and his pastors recently.
They're the nicest, most sincere people you ever want to meet in your life.
And I learned a lot from all of them.
And I'm just telling you, he's an awesome guy.
And what you see is what you get.
This is a man that literally, what does he say from one generation, you know, from picking cotton to, you know, the U.S. Senate, some phrase like that.
Linda, can you check that?
Cotton to Congress is what he says.
I mean, his life story is phenomenal.
His mom, a sweetheart.
His family, just all sweethearts.
I mean, they're just wonderful people.
And the fact that people like him are in government gives me some hope and confidence that we can fix things and change things around.
He's also a fighter.
And, you know, I could tell you the people of South Carolina absolutely love him.
And anytime I've ever been around him, they love him.
He's a very special guy.
I'll tell you that.
I would love him too.
As a presidential candidate, I did not feel he was strong enough on the issues.
I could be he calls it an optimist.
I just call it not aggressive enough, you know.
All right.
So you didn't like his presidential campaign.
Maybe it wasn't his time, as he said, and maybe it's not other people's time, which, you know, time will tell.
I think it's going to be an uphill climb for anybody to be President Trump right now, but we'll see.
And, you know, that's what this process does.
It, you know, kind of you vet people, you weed them out, and that's kind of the way it goes.
So over time, we're going to see.
I think you're probably right in your observation.
I think the polls have confirmed that beyond President Trump, the next two popular candidates are Governor DeSantis and Nikki Haley.
Yeah, you know, Christie is just staying in there at 1% just to bash Trump on debate stages.
I won't waste my time even talking to him.
He's a waste of time.
He's being used by the liberal media.
He's all over fake news, CNN.
He's all over MSDNC, and they're using him just to just, you know, bash Trump.
Well, that's pretty much their entire lineup.
You know, that's pretty much every contributor they have.
He's just not a serious candidate to me.
And by the way, he's been whining and complaining to people that I won't put him on a show.
I'm like, you're wasting my time.
I'm not going to waste my time with you.
I'd rather talk to you, to be very honest, Jay.
You're right, Sean.
Guy left office with a 14% approval rating.
That's a real vote of confidence in how great a governor he was.
Anyway, man, appreciate the call.
Let us say hi to Kathy who's in the Ocean State, Rhode Island, beautiful Rhode Island.
I got a question for you, Kathy.
Where in Rhode Island are you?
I'm in Cranston right now.
Okay.
Have you been to Newport?
And have you been to the Black Pearl?
Yes, and yes.
Okay.
How great is that clown chowder?
I'm not a seafood fan.
Oh, Kathy, you're killing me.
All right.
Have you been to the Inn at Castle Hill?
I'm sure you've been there.
Yes, yes.
That's a different story.
That's an amazing place.
Spectacular.
Yes, yes.
All right, what's on your mind today?
Well, speaking of Rhode Island, I just want to say that last week you threw out a question about the next election, and that is, what are the Democrats going to run on besides abortion?
Well, here, I think that we should have been part of the red wave.
We had a Republican former mayor of Cranston who was very popular, really ahead in the polls comfortably, up until three weeks before the election when the Democrat candidate started to run an ad about the Republicans are going to take away your Social Security and your Medicare.
And at that point, the wind went out of the rope.
The candidate who was the Republican, who should have won, he was way, way ahead.
This commercial over and over kept telling the audience, you're going to lose your Social Security and then Medicare if the Republicans win.
And the Democrat won that race.
That should have been a Republican seat for Congress easily until that started happening.
And Ronna McDaniel said that she's not, the Republican RNC shouldn't be sending the message.
Well, the Democrats did because I saw a commercial from New Hampshire, which was the exact same commercial, only with Maggie Hassan instead of our candidate.
And it was the same commercial targeting people for Medicare and Social Security.
And in my opinion, as much as abortion is a hot-button issue, Medicare and Social Security is a hot-button issue for a lot of people.
And the Republicans have to start messaging that, A, what the problems are with Social Security and Medicare and keeping it in good shape and what they are going to do about it.
And they've got to hammer that message home.
The Democrats are doing it.
The Republicans need to do it because it's a large segment of the voting population.
And I'm telling you, it changed the course of at least one congressional seat here.
Well, I got to tell you something.
I know a lot about Rhode Island.
I lived there for five years.
I don't know if you know that in my past.
It was in the mid-80s.
So I know things have changed a little bit, but it's a pretty liberal state.
And it's very difficult.
The fact that you even had a Republican mayor of Cranston, which is a nice place.
I think every part of Rhode Island is a nice place.
But I lived in Warren, Rhode Island at the time, and I went to the old Stone Bank.
Does the old Stone Bank still exist?
I don't even know.
No, no, they were part of the collapse of the FDIC.
Oh, that's right.
Remember Fernand St. Germain was in charge of all those?
I think he got in a lot of trouble.
And by the way, I became friends with Buddy Siancy.
I know he got in trouble once, but the guy was a pistol.
I know he passed away, but that guy cracked me up.
He used to come on our show.
He had the best stories about his time in prison that I've ever heard in my life.
But it is a pretty liberal state, honestly.
I just, I don't see a lot of hope in, there are conservatives in the state, but I don't see a lot of hope for any races there.
But you know what?
Gina Ramundo, now Commerce Secretary, when she was governor here, which was just before she was appointed, she had her legislature codify abortion.
So abortion was not an issue here.
There was no threat to abortion here.
That was kind of off the table.
The issue became Social Security and Medicare.
And I think women across the country, it'll dawn on them, abortion is not illegal.
It's not convenient, maybe as it was before, but it's not that you can't do it if you feel you, you know, however you lean.
The emotional pointing to the people who are vulnerable with their Social Security and Medicare is the same thing as people who feel they're vulnerable by having no access to abortion, I think.
Yeah.
And I really think that it made a huge difference here.
I just want people to be realistic.
You know, like I cannot tell you with any certainty what's going to happen a year from now in this presidential race.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know what the state of the world is going to be like.
The economy, I mean, every indication is it's getting worse and worse and worse.
There's nothing that I can point to that I could say that Joe Biden's been successful on.
But yet, you know, Donald Trump has got four criminal trials possibly scheduled for next year, three in venues that I'm not confident at all he can even get a fair trial.
So anyway, I think that's why he has so much sympathy.
Quite honestly, everyone realizes it's not fair.
You have to try to try the black pearl.
Try that clam chowder.
It doesn't taste like fishy.
I'm telling you, it's great.
Okay?
Federal Hills.
Okay.
All right.
All right.
God bless you.
Thank you.
All right.
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Frank in Texas, what's up, Frank, the free state of Texas?
What's going on, man?
I just called in Sean to honor Veterans Day and all of our veterans and pay attention to.
Thank you for that.
People of our military today.
These people are special people.
You know, my father would never talk to me.
I never understood it.
Sean, and what's that?
Grandfathers had fought in the Civil War.
And believe this or not, one was a southerner, and he sided with Abraham Lincoln, and he got captured during the war and went to Andersonville prison.
Can you believe that one?
Sherman wouldn't have taken it at the time.
He probably wouldn't have even made it out of there alive.
I mean, the risk, when you think of it, think about this.
Imagine you're, you know, a 19-year-old kid slamming the beaches in Normandy.
And at the very end of it, he went to the Battle of the Balls and all the big battle subs, Sean.
And at the end, he was in Germany.
He was one of the first ones to open the gate up at Bougainvald Prison.
And you imagine what he saw.
I could just imagine.
Thank you, by the way, for the call.
I can just imagine being a 19-year-old kid and you arrive on the beaches of Normandy.
And, you know, you're not in the ocean anymore.
It's just red water, red saltwater from all the blood, from all the people slaughtered as they slam those beaches.
And, you know, I just can't imagine what one would think or live with.
Maybe that's why my father never wanted to talk about his experience in World War II.
He fought four years in the Pacific, lost a number of his friends during that war, and just unbelievable.
At one point, my dad did tell me one story that he had to go do something.
I don't remember what.
And that when he came back, one of the guys that he had left in the same area that he was at was dead.
I remember him telling me that story.
But he didn't want to talk about it ever.
These people are amazing.
You know, we take it for granted.
We live in freedom and liberty.
That's why I'm so worried about this new axis of evil.
We have Prime Minister Netanyahu on tonight, Bob Hannity, and we're going to talk to him at length about the varying enemies that surround and want to destroy Israel.
They want to destroy the country.
Anyway, 800-941-Sean, our number, Greg in California.
What's up, Greg?
I hope you're looking forward to your governor debating Governor DeSantis.
That's November 30th.
I, your host, will be the moderator.
That's going to be awesome.
I can't wait to watch that.
It's going to be pretty.
That's going to be must-see TV, I hope, for people.
The reason I was calling is everybody talks about numbers of migrants coming through Texas, probably because it's a red state.
I'm curious out in California, nobody talks about migrants coming through our California southern border.
And just with the policies that we have, I'm curious if you have any numbers as to, you know, if it's just open door, if it's, you know, quite.
I gave out numbers at the beginning of the show today.
I'll give it to you again if you want.
You know, if you look at the first batch of illegal immigrants, let me put it to you this way.
If you look at FAIR, which is the Federation of American Immigration Reform, they estimate that for 2023 alone, the illegal immigrant crisis will cost you, the American taxpayers, over $150 billion.
Okay, does that not put 451 billion if you look at it over time?
That's what their estimates are.
I mean, you've got all of these, you know, we're now up to about 8 million illegal immigrants if you count the gotaways.
That's a lot of people.
And then we have to provide food and shelter and health care and, you know, education.
It's, it's, we can't afford it.
Yeah.
We just can't afford it.
And it's, it's killing the American people.
And by the way, in New York, now they're thinking about having an illegal immigration, illegal immigrant tax.
You just can't make this stuff up.
Anyway, appreciate the call, my friend, 800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
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