Sean Hannity Show - Gregg Jarrett - November 14th, Hour 3

All Episodes

Previous Next

Nov. 15, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show

41:11

Gregg Jarrett - November 14th, Hour 3

Large

Audio Only |

Scroll

Time	Text
	This is an iHeart Podcast.
	You want smart political talk without the meltdowns?
	We got you.
	And I'm Carol Markovich.
	And I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
	We've been around the block in media, and we're doing things differently.
	Normally is about real conversations.
	Thoughtful, try to be funny, grounded, and no panic.
	We'll keep you informed and entertained without ruining your day.
	Join us every Tuesday and Thursday.
	Normally on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
	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.
	We arm you with the facts to be able to know and advocate for the truth with your friends and family.
	So down a verdict with Ted Cruz now, wherever you get your podcasts.
	When 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.
	From Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco Benghazi.
	What difference at this point does it make?
	Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
	Well, we're coming to your city.
	Gonna play our guitars and sing you a country song.
	We'll all be flying higher than a jail liner.
	We'll be right back.
	And if you want a little bang in your yin yang, come along.
	Well, 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.
	So the the situation at the border, you're saying is not a disaster.
	That is correct.
	Freedom is back in style.
	Welcome to the revolution.
	Yeah, we are coming.
	To your city Gonna play our guitars and sing you a country song Sean Hannity.
	The new Sean Hannity Show.
	More behind the scenes information on breaking news and more bold inspired solutions for America.
	Stay right here for our final news roundup and information overload.
	Alright, newsroundup information uh overload hour.
	Toll-free are numbers 800-941 Sean.
	If you want to be a part of the program, your calls right at the bottom of the hour, straight ahead.
	Um, you know, there's uh there are great writers out there that just have brilliant minds, which is why they usually become number one best-selling authors, and I think that our friend Greg uh Jarrett has just written his next number one bestseller.
	And he's got a new book called The Constitution of the United States and Other Patriotic Documents.
	That's what it's called.
	And what is interesting and what makes us so timely, you know, he points out in this book how the Constitution and all these patriotic documents, you rediscover what made America this beacon of hope for liberty and prosperity all around the world since our founding, our country has been blessed with extraordinary leaders who have have sealed our resolve for independence.
	But yet we can't forget the admonition of Ronald Reagan, can we?
	That freedom is but one generation away from extinction.
	And and these these brilliant founders, these brilliant framers of our constitution, they invented a new form of government by the people, of the people for the people.
	You know, each with a different skill and talents.
	Uh, but in freedom.
	Every American has in this case, every person has the opportunity to find their God-given talents, bring them to fruition, pursue their dreams.
	Anyway, so it's uh it's a kind of a collector's editions, the writings, the speeches, the letters of our founders and the fr our framers and their successors.
	Carefully Selected and Greg explains it in great detail throughout the book.
	He joins us now.
	By the way, you can get it on Amazon.com, Hannity.com, and as of today in bookstores around the country.
	How are you, sir?
	I'm well, and and thank you very much.
	I I I thought that you, as a great American patriot, more than most, would truly understand and appreciate this book, because it is a tribute to the many patriots who who made America great.
	Uh, and you can read their most important documents, speeches, letters, many of which changed the course of history, Sean.
	They're inspiring words, they're galvanizing ideas.
	All of them shaped America, our virtues, aspirations, and our ideals.
	You know, you you go back and and not only just the framers and of the Constitution, the founders of this country.
	I mean, I wonder if America, and especially in our educational system, we've gotten so far away.
	How many kids, if I walked into a classroom today, a high school kids, uh, would know the famous saying of Patrick Henry, give me liberty or give me death, or what that meant at the time.
	Or what would they know about the great pamphleter, Thomas Payne, best known, I think, for common sense, you know, that explains in detail that government in its best state is a necessary even evil in its worst state an intolerable one.
	And then he talks about the formation of government, and he says for the guides and dictates of one's human conscience irresistibly be obeyed, there'd be no need for any government, any lawmaker ever.
	Right.
	That not being the case because of human frailty and and we're fallen beings.
	Uh he talks about that.
	How many would know that Ben Franklin expressed, you know, misgivings at times about the Constitution or the pause to prayer during the Constitutional Convention?
	How many people know these things?
	Well, sadly, not many.
	And in fact, uh, just last night on Fox News, uh, we had a segment in which it was a man on the street uh interview of various individuals, most of them young people, and fundamental questions were asked, you know, uh, about the creation of the Constitution.
	People asked, what was the revolutionary war about?
	Who who won?
	The civil war, same question.
	Um the Cold War.
	Um some young person said, Oh, uh, it was Chile.
	I you know, they all flunked, with one or two exceptions, and that is so symptomatic of our education system today, and which, and I know this personally, having watched it unfold in my daughter's public schools,
	they just don't teach fundamental American government, American history, the civics that you and I learned have been long ago abandoned, and I blame, and there's a column on this today on Fox News.com,
	that the teachers association, Randy Weingart and its leader, are to blame for uh, you know, the the many parents who've decided to homeschool their kids because schools have failed children.
	I mean, how many might know that Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, you know, put out a brilliant series of essays that you refer to as uh uh the Federalist Papers, and and and how that became a uh our a blueprint for our own constitution.
	Yeah, I mean, it was the most brilliant explanation of the meaning of our Constitution, and yet um young people today, uh, you ask them about the Federalist Papers, and you know, they they think you know you wrap your marijuana joints with those papers.
	Um I mean, they have no idea what it is, they've never read them.
	Um and what I tried to do in this book was simplify and explain and put in context the importance of these documents and the clarion warnings of people like John Adams, who said that unscrupulous men in power, if left unchecked, would become ravenous beasts of prey, Destroying our government.
	Well, he's talking about today's FBI and the Department of Justice and the intelligence agencies, isn't he?
	And George Washington, openly worried that the creation of political parties in America would undermine freedom and become engines of unprincipled men.
	He was right.
	He counseled against them.
	Nobody listened.
	But you know, I go beyond all of that.
	Bold, transcendent figures like Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony.
	Well, stop there with Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln for a minute, because you know, I don't think most people remember the story of Frederick Douglass, you know, uh uh former slave escaped, uh, you know, a confidant of Lincoln, um, talked about we the people doesn't mean we the white people.
	Uh I mean, at the time, you know, you think of the great courage.
	You think of the great alliance that they had together.
	Yeah.
	Previous presidents uh never welcomed anyone of color into the White House.
	Uh Abraham Lincoln changed all of that.
	And at one point in time, uh, when Douglas appeared at the White House in a room full of people, uh, Lincoln turned and said to the entire room, the entire audience, here is the man whose judgment I trust more than anyone else.
	And he, of course, was referring to Frederick Douglass.
	Uh it was a wonderful relationship uh that they had together.
	Uh, and you know, I I repeat in the book and explain too of Douglas's most powerful addresses, his lament on the hypocrisy of American slavery, as you point out.
	Um, and he deplored the cruelty and deprivation of bondage.
	Uh four million of our fellow countrymen, he said, are in chains sold on the auction block with horses, sheep, and swine.
	He was a pivotal figure that changed the course of American history.
	It took time, of course, and a lot of bloodshed, but it eventually happened.
	You know what the beauty, and I think this is lost in the educational system, the beauty and the majesty of our framers and founders, they were not perfect men.
	They knew that they did not have the perfect form of government.
	They understood that.
	But in their wisdom, what they did do, because for example, on the issue of slavery, they knew if they dealt with it at the time that they wouldn't have had a country.
	They would the the United States would not have formed.
	Our Constitution would not have been uh adopted and ratified.
	Uh but they knew this.
	The system they design was specifically designed so that you could in the future correct wrongs, right injustices, and history has proved them correct, has it not?
	Yeah, it absolutely has.
	We continue to strive for a more perfect union, but it's unachievable.
	Why?
	Because people are imperfect.
	They're they're possessed of of the same human frailties that afflict us all.
	Uh and so are our founders.
	Uh it was a shameful Faustian bargain, as you point out, um, not to address slavery as it should have been, and and they did it to obtain the bargain of passage of the Constitution by resistant Southern states controlled by Democrats, uh, who were in favor of slavery and virulently against uh all the abolitionists in the Union, the North.
	Uh, and of course, we fought a great uh civil war over it.
	Uh but there so there are heroes and villains both in American history.
	And I try to be fair about it.
	What I you know, this this book um doesn't promote an agenda.
	Uh it contains essential conservative documents as well as liberal ones uh from as you say Booker T. Washington's uh wonderful words to Reagan's Berlin speech tear down this wall.
	And the wall came crumbling down, as did the Soviet Empire.
	So this book is really philosophically patriotic, and anybody who cares about this country and loves our freedoms, uh it seems to me should read it.
	Got to take a quick break more with Greg Jarrett, his brand new book is out, The Constitution of the United States and other patriotic documents collected and explained by Greg himself.
	Anyway, Hannity.com, Amazon.com, bookstores all around the country.
	Quick break more with Greg on the other side, then your calls 800-941 Sean as we continue.
	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 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
	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.
	We arm you with the facts to be able to know and advocate for the truth with your friends and family.
	So down a verdict with Ted Cruz now, wherever you get your podcasts.
	When 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 Mayfock from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
	This is Fiasco Benghazi.
	What difference at this point does it make?
	Yeah, that's right.
	Locker up!
	Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
	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 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
	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.
	We arm you with the facts to be able to know and advocate for the truth with your friends and family.
	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 Mayfock from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
	This is Fiasco Benghazi.
	What difference at this point does it make?
	Yeah, that's right.
	Locker up.
	Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
	And we continue with Greg Jarrett.
	His latest bestseller just released today, The Constitution of the United States and other patriotic documents.
	Collected and explained by Greg himself.
	And Greg continues with us.
	What I really like about the book, and this is where your genius kicks in, and your passion for our Constitution kicks in and these other patriotic documents is not only is it a collection of them, but it's also the explanation of them.
	And that is, you know, your passion uh for history, your passion for the law, your passion for, you know, context and and and how do these issues relate to where we are today.
	For example, November 30th, I've got a debate that I'll be moderating between Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsom, two of the biggest governors in the country.
	You know, it's going to be red versus blue and and state versus state.
	And I I can't think of two different approaches to governance than Governor Newsom and Governor DeSantis.
	Can you?
	No, I can't.
	And what's wonderful about what it is you're doing, and I'd love to have a front row seat to what witnesses.
	By the way, you you and everybody else.
	You know how many people want one?
	I know.
	I know.
	I'll sit in my living room with uh a bag of popcorn and and watch it and and cheer you on, because I I know you will do an exemplary job.
	But this is our uh constitutional republic at its best.
	It in it embodies free speech, the deliverance of different ideas and arguments and principles.
	And you know, there'll be a stark contrast between these two men, DeSantis and uh California's governor, uh, you know, who I I think has a lot of explaining to do, but so does DeSantis.
	And it's gonna be a fascinating confrontation.
	What do you think DeSantis's uh explanations need to be on?
	What are the ones you look for?
	You know, I I would like for him to uh explain uh his you know various positions on the front runner, Donald Trump.
	Um how does he contrast uh with Trump?
	Uh where does he disagree?
	Um, and you know, I'm sure you will ask him that, but you know, Americans care most about the economy, what's in their wallet, what they're paying for, the grocery store and the gas station.
	And I'd like to hear from both men.
	Um how they're going to solve that problem.
	And it's not just the removal of Joe Biden, uh, you know, and Bidenomics that has ruined our economy and left Americans in economic despair.
	But, you know, it's the border, his handling of foreign policy, the debacle and embarrassment and humiliation in Afghanistan.
	He is waffling uh on on Israel and the war against Hamas terrorists.
	Uh so I want to hear what both men have to say uh about Trump and Joe Biden.
	Interesting.
	Uh well, the book is phenomenal, and it's out today in bookstores all around the country.
	It's called The Constitution of the of the United States and other patriotic documents, and collected and explained keyword by Greg Jarrett himself, number one New York Times bestselling author.
	Uh this this might be your best work, and you did great work with the Russia hoax.
	So uh I don't know.
	Uh this is going to be interesting to see.
	Um, but I think people are going to enjoy it, learn from it, hopefully even share it with their friends and their family and their neighbors, and certainly their kids could probably use it as well.
	Uh, Greg, thanks for being with us.
	Uh a great uh Christmas present for for American patriots who love their country.
	And thank you for your kind words about it.
	Amazon.com, Hannity.com, now bookstores all around the country.
	All right, when we come back, your call's coming up, 800-941 Sean, our number if you want to be a part of the program.
	You know, since 9-11, 2001, our friends at the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, they have been committed to supporting America's heroes and their families, you know, those people that put their lives on the line to protect our country, our communities, all of us, heroes like 9-11 first responder, FDMY Lieutenant uh Joseph uh Mayello, and he answered the call that day to help others, and then years later he suffered a fatal heart attack in the line of duty, leaving behind his wife and two kids.
	Now when heroes like uh Lieutenant my uh my LO, you know, when they lose their lives in the line of duty or or or are catastrophically injured, that's where the tunnel towers comes in to help.
	And they paid the mortgage off on the family home, lifting that family's financial burden during their darkest hour.
	Now, America's heroes, their families, they do need your help more than ever for this good work to continue.
	They need everybody to contribute.
	Everybody, if you can, we hope you'll join all of us here at Team Hannity and go to their website and commit to eleven dollars a month so this great work can continue.
	You know, if everybody does it, they'll never be able to stop all this good work.
	It's bigger and bigger and better and better.
	Anyway, their website is the letter T, the number two, the letter T dot org, the letter T, the number two, the letter T dot org for the Tunnel to Towers Foundation.
	All right, 25 to the top of the hour.
	Thank you for being with us.
	800 941 Sean.
	If you want to be a part of the program, you know, remember the old way of shopping for custom window treatments.
	You wait around all day.
	You know, then you get some overpriced quote from some pushy salesperson that wants a commission.
	Well, those days are long gone.
	No store can beat the prices of Blinds.com or the service.
	Now they do everything virtually.
	That means consultations with design professionals.
	They send free samples right to your front door.
	You never have to deal with any salesperson in your home ever again.
	Now, whether you like to do it yourself or you prefer professional installation services, well, you can count on Blinds.com.
	They will deliver top quality window treatments.
	Uh, and by the way, that means they're they're premium woven wood motorized shades, which I love, and of course, so much more.
	You get unlimited window treatments installed.
	Doesn't matter if you get one or you do the whole house, it's one low cost.
	And at Blinds.com, there's never any hidden fees, no showroom markups.
	That's why no store can beat their prices.
	And the price you see on the website is the price you're gonna pay.
	And ordering online is simple and easy and fast, and they have their 100% satisfaction guaranteed.
	Let's say you're not happy with the style.
	Let's say you're not happy with the color or fit.
	Guess what?
	They're gonna make it right and make you happy.
	Shoplines.com, they have Black Friday early access cells happening right now.
	Save 40% off site wide and big door buster deals.
	40% off right now.
	Just go to Blinds.com.
	All right, Bethany, in the great state of Tennessee, where we shall be tomorrow.
	How are you?
	Oh, that's awesome.
	I'm glad you're coming to town.
	I wish I could meet you.
	Um I'm good.
	I'm looking forward to it.
	What's going on?
	Well, um, I talked to you a while ago.
	I don't know if you remember me.
	I'm the girl that caught talked to you 20 years ago about um how you made, you know, how you my god, my being nervous, sorry.
	Um about basically By the way, you don't sound nervous.
	You sound great.
	I don't remember that we talked 20 years ago.
	I wish I could lie and say, oh, yeah, of course I remember that call.
	But um okay.
	I think there's a lot going on between these years, believe it or not.
	Liberals don't believe it, but some do.
	Um, so you call me 20 years ago.
	What do we talk about?
	Uh we just talked about how I was going to a liberal high school, and then I could you wanted me to call you and follow up with you years later and tell me how to tell you how I turned out.
	Well, I caught talked to you last Mother's Day, and you sent me your book, which was amazing by the way.
	And um, I I don't know if I got a chance to tell you just how influential you've been to me in the last, you know, since I was 13 and started listening to you, watching you on Hannity and Combs.
	My Uncle Ira got me into listening to you.
	And I just don't know if I ever thanked you and said I really wish someday I could just shake your hand and look you in the eye and tell you, you know, you taught me so much about life, so much about politics, and just the way that things are.
	And at 36 now, I just want you to know thank you from the bottom of my heart for teaching me what you did.
	You don't even know how much of an influence you had on me.
	And now how I'm teaching my children what I've learned from you and all your other buddies.
	And I just I don't know, I just thought you should hear thank you.
	Wow.
	I'll be honest, I'm very, very touched by Russians.
	He went on the air, and I guess maybe I'm uh maybe that's just a sign I'm just getting older.
	Where in Tennessee are you, by the way?
	I'm in Murfreesboro.
	So just about twenty minutes south of Nashville.
	Um, what we have the Patriot Awards.
	What if I could get you uh I assume you're married.
	What if I got you and your husband tickets for the Patriot Awards?
	Well, that would be incredible.
	And I'd be extremely grateful.
	Thank you.
	All right, I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.
	I can't guarantee it, but I'm gonna work my my tail off to make sure that I can get you in the into the Patriot Awards, okay?
	And uh Linda, you're gonna work with Tiff and we'll uh we'll try and make this happen for you.
	And I hope I may not be able to see you.
	Uh I know I'm doing I know I'm doing my show live on Thursday night.
	I we're we're I think it's at the I'm not even sure where it is.
	Shouldn't I know this by now, Linda?
	By the way, Linda, like I get a I got a message every morning.
	This is your schedule for today.
	This is your schedule for by the way, true enough, true or false, Linda.
	It's very true.
	And then you tell me I never sent it, and then I screenshot the send.
	It's super fun.
	You guys hilarious.
	Yeah, I mean, it's just kind of the way my my life rolls.
	Stay on hold.
	I'm gonna do everything I can.
	If not, I'm gonna send you like a huge bag of s uh box swag and and of Hannity football and stuff like that.
	But I'm really gonna try and get you to the Patriot Awards.
	It's a very touching event.
	Um and and I don't really have a big part to play in it.
	I just like to go and you know, say hi to everybody and and have a good time and do my shows from there.
	Well, uh uh my I don't know if you go downtown in Nashville very often, but my husband is a retired police officer who works at Kid Rocks um in Nashville, and so teasperial By the way, Kid Rock's gonna be there.
	Oh, is he?
	That's funny.
	My husband knows him because he works at his bar uh off duty, but uh if you're in any of those bars, my husband's sure he would die to meet you because he feels the same way as I do about it.
	Um listen, I I love music row.
	I love all, you know, my buddy John Rich is down there, Kid Rock's down there.
	They got a lot of a lot of music stars have have opened up these incredible fun fun honky tonks and music places and they're awesome.
	Um it's so much fun.
	I I don't I I feel way more safe walking through Nashville than I do New York, I can tell you that.
	But I I live such a quiet life, people would be shocked at what a loser I am.
	Linda, would is is that a fair statement?
	I don't know that I would call you a loser.
	Okay.
	So I go out a lot.
	I would say that you go out in the circles that you're comfortable with with the people that you know.
	You're not somebody that goes out.
	Not a whole lot.
	Now, when I do go out, I always enjoy it.
	Now we did go to the Redneck Riviera in Vegas, and Linda freaked me out because she was actually dancing in John Rich's bar alone, which was like I'm like, what are you totally alone?
	Me and three hundred other people on the dance floor, but I was totally alone.
	You were totally alone.
	Everybody else had a dance partner, but you and you're just dancing away, you know, like you're gonna be.
	Listen, people can't keep up with these moves.
	That's not my problem.
	You know, that's all right.
	Bethany, stay on the line.
	We're gonna try and hook you up with the tickets, and I look forward to hopefully maybe meeting you and your husband.
	That would be awesome.
	I appreciate you from the bottom of my heart.
	God bless you and your family.
	Thank you for taking my call and for entertaining my weirdness.
	Um you're a wonderful.
	No, no, no.
	Listen, uh, let me tell you something.
	If you did not keep listening to me, I would not be able to do this every day.
	You're giving me a gift by listening.
	So this is the least I could do.
	You've touched my heart today.
	It means the world to me.
	Uh I do want to serve and do good in my life, and and if I've had any positive impact on anybody's life, I'm I'm grateful.
	Uh I know I'm just a spoke in the wheel, but if we're all spokes and we're pulling them the same direction, hopefully we can get our country back on track.
	All right, Bethany?
	One more thing.
	My husband told me, people it's so important for people to know how much they've you've they how much they've touched you, even though most people don't know.
	They like hearing those things.
	And I always told them I gotta tell Sean that one of these days, I gotta tell him.
	You know, like he has no idea how much hi him and his journey and everything that you've done and everything you've poured into the public has meant to me personally.
	And I know I'm just a random woman in tennis, you know, who who am I?
	I'm just a random mom in Tennessee, but um but it's you know what you are.
	But you know what?
	What makes this country great?
	Think let's think about this.
	The do the politicians in Washington make the country great.
	No.
	You know who makes the country great?
	People like you and your husband and and the truckers and the first responders and the firemen And policemen and the lawyers and the doctors that heal us and and the hospital emergency room workers and the ambulance drivers and workers, you know,
	the ones that get up every day, they work their tails off, they put in their 14, 16 hours a day, they raise their kids, they pay their taxes, they obey the laws, they go to church on Sunday and and just try to, you know, achieve the American dream.
	They're the ones that make this country great.
	It's not the people that are famous.
	It's not the people, you know, whose names you hear every day.
	And that that's one of the things I love about the Patriot Awards is we honor people that normally don't get the recognition that that they deserve.
	And so from my point of view, um, you're you're the true American hero.
	And as is everybody that listens to this program and and lives the same life we're all living, grinding it out every day.
	Uh anyway, stand the line, Bethany, appreciate your kind words.
	Aaron is in Louisiana.
	Hey, Aaron, how are you?
	Glad you called, sir.
	Good.
	How are you doing today, sir?
	I'm good, man.
	What's going on?
	Man, I was just um uh I'll listen to your show every day, and um people saw about inflation and different things, but the kind of root calls, I'm a uh owner of a trucking company, and um kind of what we're battling now, and a lot of people don't talk about is the new laws that were passed back in February of 2020,
	too, uh how now when uh people want to go get their trucker endorsements, they have to pay um uh for a class that's anywhere from 2500 to $8,000, and it's kind of crippling the trucking industry.
	Well, you've been living through the worst trucking recession.
	I happen to know more about trucking than you'd think because I have friends in the trucking business.
	The rates have been awful, the price of diesel has been rising, and and you guys are not making it's been the longest trucking recession on record.
	Did you know that?
	Yeah.
	Look at how many look at how many truckers trucking companies have have gone under in just the last year.
	I've been paying attention to it because I know people in the business, and I bet you know, you're you're probably barely hanging on, if I'm not mistaken.
	That's correct.
	And I mean, well, if you look at two years ago when uh when Trump was in office now in Biden's office, they have the truck prices of trucks have gone anywhere from 140 to 180 to now over 300 to a half a million dollars.
	And it's like when's enough gonna be enough.
	By the way, I know a guy, a buddy of mine, I talked to him yesterday.
	He's actually gonna lease out three of his uh trucks from his fleet.
	You interested.
	And my answer depends.
	Depends on what the lease terms are, right?
	Exactly.
	You want me uh hang on and we'll get your number, I'll put you in touch with them.
	Maybe it works out, maybe it doesn't, but at least I tried, all right.
	Yes, but my biggest thing is is we need more politicians with a backbone to stand up and do something about this new law that went to fit because if you notice that the people that are on the road that are driving now, they're not experienced even coming out of the class.
	There needs to be some type of repeal reform.
	Politicians saying enough's enough because it's affecting us at the stores with uh banks and everything.
	Everybody wants to talk about diesel and stuff, but it's kind of a two two-fold.
	Yes, diesel price is going up, but when you're having to pay for people to come drive these vehicles, it costs even more, and that's one of the ways of helping to flatten the curves.
	Listen, I just hope this recession in trucking ends.
	I thought I don't think people truly appreciate the fact that everything you buy and everything you and every store you go to is only on that shelf because of guys like you.
	All right.
	Let me see if you can work out a deal with my buddy.
	Uh we'll we'll hook you up, Lindo will uh put you in contact, okay?
	Stay the right there.
	Uh let's go to Joel in Iowa.
	Joel, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Good.
	How are you, Sean?
	I'm good.
	What's going on?
	I just hope that uh the House of Republic uh House of Representatives is thinking about the timing of the articles of impeachment against Biden with his business dealings.
	Um I think there's a good chance that the Democrats could possibly join the Republicans and vote with them to impeach him to replace them on the 24 ballot.
	And what's your feelings on that?
	Well, I think I think the odds are higher than they've ever been.
	I mean, Joe is in a significant decline, And I think that uh there's definite movement in the direct I mean, David Axel Rod is a very powerful voice within democratic circles.
	I mean, he was Obama's, you know, lead guy.
	And for him to basically say, get your act together or get out is, you know, pretty harsh terms.
	Uh, but he's not the only one saying it.
	And he even said every Democrat he talks to is saying it to him.
	So, you know, you gotta look at it as a possibility.
	Now, on the impeachment side of it, you know, if Joe Biden is guilty of bribery, high crimes, misdemeanors, and the evidence shows that, I think they should impeach him.
	I don't think he's ever gonna get convicted in a democratic senate.
	However, I think if that the American people need to see this, need to understand deeply.
	And when, you know, with all the stuff that league that Donald Trump's dealing with, I think comparatively, this is uh a far bigger deal than people know.
	And I think time's gonna show that.
	Okay.
	Appreciate the call, Joel.
	God bless you in Iowa.
	Uh, James, South Carolina.
	What's up, James?
	How are you, sir?
	Good.
	Sean, yourself.
	I'm good, man.
	Glad you called.
	Yes, sir.
	I had to call in because the uh you were talking about the legals in New York City being put in tent cities and they were complaining about being cold.
	I'm retired military and spent 20 plus years in the military in the last two tours spent a year each time in the tent.
	And it just makes my blood boil that these illegals are getting everything, and us military vets have to beg and prove everything to get the benefits that were promised to us.
	And it's something's gotta be done.
	Uh, yeah, I think a lot has to be done.
	I think a lot of, you know, I I think we've dropped the ball on a lot of things involving our vets.
	Did you see the story recently?
	Let me let me let me see if I can pull this sucker up fast.
	Um, there's a story about where is it?
	I got it right here.
	Good, I found it.
	There's a story that has come out about how thousands of veterans are facing foreclosure, and it's not their fault and how the VA can actually help them.
	And anyway, uh it it talks about, you know, uh, a particular couple, I won't mention their name, you know, getting a letter of foreclosure.
	Uh the woman the wife says, uh, my heart dropped.
	They live in a small farm in Oklahoma with her husband Ray, their two kids raised a U.S. Army vet, wounded in Iraq, and since the 40s, the federal government has helped veterans like him buy homes through their VA loan program run by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
	Now the VA has put this family on the brink of losing their house.
	They didn't do anything wrong, and like millions of other Americans, you know, they took advantage of what's called a COVID mortgage forbearance, which allows homeowners to skip mortgage payments set up by Congress after the pandemic hit for people that with lost income.
	But an MPR investigation is finding that thousands of vets who took the forbearance are now at risk of losing their homes through no fault of their own.
	We've got to fix this.
	I'm looking at the clock.
	I gotta run.
	I'll be right back.
	Uh we'll call back again and talk.
	I'll talk more about it in the days to come, okay?
	Appreciate it.
	Thanks, sir.
	All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
	Hannity tonight, nine Eastern on the Fox News channel.
	We'll have the latest on the insanity within the Biden administration.
	Uh, all of the pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas people working apparently in the Biden White House and Biden agencies.
	Uh, we'll give you those details from the New York Times and from the Washington Free Beacon and the New York Post.
	Uh, and all the news you'll never get from the mob.
	Nine Eastern set you DVR, Hannity on Fox.
	See you then back here tomorrow.
	Thank you for making this show possible.
	You want smart political talk without the meltdowns?
	We got you.
	Now I'm Carol Markovich.
	And I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
	We've been around the block in media and we're doing things differently.
	Normally is about real conversations.
	Thoughtful, try to be funny, grounded, and no panic.
	We'll keep you informed and entertained without ruining your day.
	Join us every Tuesday and Thursday, normally on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
	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.
	We arm you with the facts to be able to know and advocate for the truth with your friends and family.
	So down a verdict with Ted Cruz now, wherever you get your podcasts.
	When 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.
	From Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco Benghazi.
	What difference at this point does it make?
	Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

▲