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	And we continue with our top story today, and that is federal prosecutors now filing three new felony charges and six misdemeanor counts against Hunter Biden, uh, all related to this scheme to evade taxes on this massive amount of income.
	Uh, but there's so many different layers of this as we spelled out in the last uh hour.
	And two people that probably know more about this than I do, or at least as much.
	I'm just kidding.
	Uh, investigative reporter, founder, editor-in-chief, just the news.com, John Solomon, and Greg Jarrett, Fox News legal analyst.
	Uh, his commentary throughout all of this has been amazing.
	Um, you know, I have been saying, John Solomon, that this is the Joe Biden bribery, money laundering, uh, scandal allegations.
	And and that to me is the biggest part of this story.
	And and all the evidence and all the implications, even Hunter implicating his own father on numerous occasions, all the lies that have been told, all the things that we have been discussing here.
	Um, this is really also about Joe Biden, whether they want to make Hunter the sacrificial lamb or not.
	Am I correct?
	It is.
	I agree with you 100%.
	This indictment is as devastating to Hunter Biden as it is to Joe Biden.
	Why?
	Joe Biden said he's gonna be the president that's gonna crack down on tax cheats.
	His son has now been charged by Joe Biden's Justice Department of being one of the most egregious tax cheats, constantly spending money on a lavish lifestyle rather than playing Uncle Sam what he owed them.
	Uh Joe Biden said nothing ever went wrong with Breesman.
	It was perfectly fine as a conspiracy to think there was any wrongdoing with Breesma.
	The uh prosecutors went out of the way to point out that Joe Hunter Biden didn't pay taxes on the money he got from the first year of Breesman in Ukraine.
	Joe Biden said was it was it just the first year?
	Was it in 2014 and 15, or was it 15 and 16?
	Yeah, 2014 where he doesn't pay the taxes.
	So uh he gets one year of that.
	Uh unfortunately, that statute of the limitations allowed to expire, but they went out of the way to point it out in the indictment.
	That's not an accident.
	They were sending the message to the American public that Joe Biden didn't tell the truth on that.
	The third thing, Joe Biden said, my family never got any money from China.
	There are millions identified in this um indictment for China.
	Joe Biden comes out of this uh clearly identified as someone who repeatedly and egregiously lied to the American people to try to get elected as president in 2020.
	Let's get your uh your quick take, Greg Jarrett.
	Well, uh, predictably and laughably, the media is dismissing these new charges by insisting that, oh, it's all unconnected to Joe Biden.
	He's not involved.
	That's untrue.
	The tax crimes arose from Hunter's corrupt influence peddling schemes, and the evidence is compelling that his father actively aided and embedded those schemes.
	There are Documents, testimony, White House logs, photos, emails, text messages, all show that Joe often spoke by phone with Hunter's clients, met personally with his son's overseas partners, attended meetings.
	Joe was the brand, which meant selling access to him and promises of influence.
	And Devin Archer, you know, Hunter's former partner confirmed that Joe Biden sent signals, operated as leverage for money, and it was all done secretly, uh, as evidenced by the email advising, oh, never mention Joe's involvement by name.
	So that's why they used uh, you know, codenames like uh the big guy and Celtic.
	Hunter was effectively the bag man selling his dad to the world and the family got rich from it.
	And, you know, Joe Biden has backed himself into a corner, as John Solomon points out by denying everything, and the evidence contradicts all of that.
	You know, I I look at this, and it's been a long time coming.
	One of the things that I think was uh it was glaring in terms of an omission in this.
	Where are the fur the farah charges, John Solomon?
	Uh and do you expect that to come down the road?
	Yes, listen, there could be some activity in Washington, D.C. still.
	I think some of the fair stuff evolves around the time that Hunter Biden lived in D.C. Some of the statute of limitations may have expired on that, just like they did on the Breesma transaction.
	That is a sad testament about how David Weiss's office originally handled this case, allowing statutes of limitations to expire.
	Uh, but listen, this this has some heavy hardware for Hunter Biden.
	Uh, most of the uh career prosecutors that I talked to today read the indictment, said this is a very strong indictment.
	It's going to be very hard for Hunter Biden's lawyers to navigate this, and it carries some hard times.
	Seventeen years in prison.
	Uh, it would be the maximum for this.
	And the indictment's written to remind the judge and the jury, this wasn't an accidental evasion of taxes.
	This was a scheme, a conspiracy that went on for several years in complete uh uh defiance of everyone else's obligation to pay their taxes from a privileged political family member.
	I want to address the Joe Biden thing.
	One of the most important things to remind people of today is that a lot of this tax evasion occurred when Hunter Biden was living in the home of Joe Biden.
	Joe Biden's home in Wilmington, Delaware is a crime scene for some of this.
	And yesterday, Ron Johnson came on our TV show and he revealed something I think very compelling.
	Six of the suspicious activity reports that banks filed against Hunter Biden listed Joe Biden's address as the uh address of concern for the transactions.
	Those six SARS identified more than twelve million dollars of transactions that were concerning to banks, and the concerns specifically cited for Joe Biden's home was that financial traction actions were occurring through the home that either involved money laundering or human trafficking.
	Think about that.
	Joe Biden's home was being flagged by banks to the United States Treasury Department as a possible location where financial transactions uh related to money laundering and uh human trafficking.
	That was the home they thought it was going through, and tax evasion obviously occurred there too, because 2018 and 19 are years that Hunter Biden stiffed the government for some of his taxes.
	Joe Biden is in the middle of this, his home is in the middle of this, he can't run from it.
	All right, Greg Jarrett, uh to you.
	Tie this to Joe Biden because it starts with the not once that I ever speak to he knows of that Hunter was with his foreign business partners and Joe got on the line and spoke to them.
	Now, Congressman Dan Goldman would have you think that they only were talking about the weather.
	We know differently.
	Uh then, of course, the Cafe Milano meeting with oligarchs like Elena Baterina, uh, the Russian oligarch, the former First Lady of Moscow in that particular case, three and a half million dollars, and then according to Devin Archer, more than a hundred million invested in a real estate endeavor.
	But walk us through the case against business partners.
	He's taking his son on Air Force II over to China, and there they meet uh sometimes together with you know Hunter's partners.
	Uh, you know, just listen to Devin Archer and and Tony Bobolinsky.
	You know, they have uh the president involved in these influence peddling schemes, which are corrupt.
	They involve bribery.
	Uh and you know, the Barisma shakedown is exhibit A. Uh my question is, uh, in these latest charges, you'll notice there's no money laundering, no bribery, no foreign lobbying crimes.
	Uh nothing associated with Barisma.
	So, you know, the protection racket is still operating.
	It's still alive and well.
	Uh, David uh Weiss was only forced to bring the gun charges because of the federal judge, only forced to bring these new tax charges in California because of the damning evidence produced by the IRS whistleblowers.
	Uh, you know, this is a U.S. attorney who helped tip off Hunter Biden's lawyers, scuttled search warrants, forbid questions about Joe Biden.
	So, you know, it's only it's up to Congress.
	I mean, you're not going to have the U.S. attorney or the DOJ uh unveil Joe Biden's complicity.
	It's going to be up to Congress to do it.
	And frankly, um, you know, the the committee has produced more damning evidence in a few months than you know the U.S. attorney and the DOJ did on in five long years.
	Your take John Solomon.
	Yeah, Greg has it right, as he always does.
	I mean, this is some pretty serious stuff, and and um it's gonna be very difficult now for Hunter Biden to defend himself against these charges.
	I'm gonna explain one thing, and people may have forgotten this.
	When he thought he was getting the sweetheart plea deal, Hunter Biden's lawyers put out a statement saying he wants to take responsibility, he didn't pay his taxes.
	That is going to be introduced now as evidence.
	They made that statement in public.
	That's going to become evidence against Hunter Biden.
	It's going to be very difficult for Hunter Biden now to avoid a conviction with his own statements of self-incrimination that were made when he thought he was getting the plea deal.
	This is going to be a tough moment for the Biden family, because Hunter Biden's going to be dealing with that.
	Joe Biden's going to be dealing with impeachment.
	And I think the next phase of this investigation is going to look at the intersection between these two operations, which is did Joe Biden become the beneficiary of some of the monies.
	We now have 200,000 from James Biden that can be traced to a transaction of the family, 40,000 that can be traced directly from China.
	How much more was Joe Biden getting benefits from this machinery that was shaking down foreigners for access to the president than the vice president?
	Those are tough questions that America's gonna face is going to face in the beginning of 2024, right when Joe Biden's trying to ask people, vote me in for another four years.
	Well, John, I'll ask you the first political question, and that is next week, uh we're gonna have a vote.
	We expect a vote on whether to have an official impeachment inquiry by the whole House.
	Here's the interesting part to me.
	Democrats, they always circle the wagons.
	Republicans, they create circular firing squats.
	So if Democrats normally circle the wagons, uh if we see defections next week, especially in light of you know the heavy criticism Joe has gotten from the likes of Maureen Dowd and Van Jones and David Axelrod.
	Um that wouldn't that tell us that the Democratic Party will make their move to get Joe off the ticket in 2024?
	Next next week's vote, I think is gonna be critical.
	What the Democrats do?
	Yeah, absolutely.
	If they vote for impeachment inquiry, uh Joe Biden is in a significant amount of trouble because it means Democrats are starting to abandon him.
	I don't think that's gonna happen yet.
	Uh, because I think the bigger problem for the Democratic Party is opening this door could lead to the larger discussion about the Democratic Party, which is it has a very serious culture of corruption.
	You got Senator Mendendez, you've got state lawmakers and others involved around the country, Democrats have been indicted in a lot of cities in the last year for uh uh uh their own crimes.
	Prosecutors, democratic prosecutors being charged, uh you got the mayor of New York currently under investigation.
	If they open up the impeachment inquiry, the big danger is that this becomes a culture of corruption, democratic narrative for 2024.
	I don't think they want to go there yet.
	I think they'll rally behind the president on these first votes.
	The question is when the next bond of the next round of evidence comes out, and if it gets more serious, as James Comer is hinting at, can Democrats afford to stay with Joe Biden?
	That'll be the question.
	Same question, Greg Jarrett.
	Influence pedaling is selling access and influence uh of one's public office, as as Jonathan Turley has correctly pointed out.
	Um so the question is for Congress, is America's national security compromised?
	Has Joe Biden, wittingly or unwittingly, uh, you know, jeopardize the United States through his family's actions selling access and influence.
	And if the answer uh is yes, that's an impeachable offense.
	High crimes, misdemeanors, bribery, treason.
	In a selling out your country to America's adversaries is exactly what our founders feared when they crafted the impeachment cause.
	Now, politically, whether it's wise for Republicans to pursue impeachment uh in the coming months, right in the middle of a presidential election, I'd frankly advise against it.
	I've said this before.
	I think that uh it should be up to Americans to examine the evidence themselves, and they decide by their vote uh come November.
	All right, quick break more with editor-in-chief, investigative reporter uh John Solomon more with Fox News legal analyst, bestselling author, Greg Jarrett on the other side.
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	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.
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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.
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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 Mayfock from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
	This is Fiasco Benghazi.
	What difference at this point does it make?
	Yes, that's right.
	Locker up.
	Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
	All right, we continue now with the editor-in-chief and investigative reporter at JustTheNews.com, John Solomon, and of course Fox News legal analyst, best-selling author Greg Jarrett is with us.
	On a scale of one to ten, last question, 15 seconds each.
	How much in terms of uh to the extent that Joe Biden is involved in all of this, and we already know it that he is.
	How much does that blunt are the ninety-one charges against Donald Trump for next year?
	John Solomon.
	I think they're gonna be compartmentalized.
	Uh voters are gonna look at him very differently.
	But Joe Biden's biggest problem is his honesty now has been completely crushed by the revelations.
	He's gonna have his own problems separate of Donald Trump.
	Greg Jarrett, last word.
	Joe Biden's uh poll numbers are historically low.
	They're only gonna get worse.
	This simply aggravates his prospects uh for re-election.
	And you know, I wouldn't be surprised if sometime down the line he decides over the next few months to pardon his son, drop out of the race, um, and you know, blame everybody else for his own self-inflicted wounds.
	All right, well said, and let me let me just say this.
	Both of you need to take a bow.
	All three of us worked very hard in our own independent ways on exposing the Russia hoax.
	We were all vindicated by the Horroritz report and later the Durham Report.
	Uh John, your reporting on this uh story has been second to none by far.
	Greg, your analysis has been spot on the entire time, and we have covered this while the rest of the media mob ignores it and obsesses about Donald Trump.
	Uh I say to both of you, take a bow.
	You've been proven right yet again, and I want to say thank you.
	We appreciate it.
	Well, and you too, Sean, let's not forget your principal role in all of this.
	Yeah, you might copy with us all the way to the game.
	Nor do I expect it, but thank you both.
	Uh all right, quick break, we'll come right back.
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	All right, 25 to the top of the hour.
	Glad you're with us this Friday.
	Here's our toll-free number.
	It's 800-941 Sean.
	If you want to be a part of the program, Dennis is in Vegas uh on Ka Don Radio.
	What's going on there, Dennis, sir?
	How are you?
	Glad you called, sir.
	By the way, our our thoughts and prayers.
	I know UNLV had a tough week this week, and we love our friends out in Vegas, and uh sorry everybody had to go through all of that, our prayers with everybody.
	I understand, and if it's well it's appreciated.
	Um, and condolences are big time out here right now for Vegas.
	Yeah, you're wrong.
	Um here's the thing.
	I'm listening to you.
	I've been listening to you for the several nights with the governors, with the president, with the debates, and everything else, and I listen to your show just about every day.
	Now, he did By the way, you're a transplant from New York.
	I can hear it in your voice, so you you didn't you weren't born and raised in in uh Vegas, were you?
	I'm just teasing you.
	Go ahead.
	I did live I live 40 years in California, and I call myself a California escapee.
	Um here's here's my point.
	Hunter did the tax problems, the federal tax problems in Califor when he lived in California.
	Biden may be able to pardon him on federal charges.
	I do not believe he can do anything on the state charges.
	That's correct.
	And Biden, and to my knowledge, if he did the felonies and everything on the Fed, he did them in the state Also.
	And that means the state should get them.
	And you have a friend that was on TV with you the other day.
	He may be able to, you know, tighten the screws or pardon him also, but whatever he's gonna do, I'm pretty sure it's gonna be news.
	Okay.
	I have more issue to talk to you about.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	I'm a strong b I'm a strong believer in parental rights.
	I believe the Democrats are throwing the golden ring at the in the Republicans' direction.
	The Republicans just have to pick it up and start protecting the kids via parental rights.
	There's no point lines when you're a parent.
	You're a parent, and there's millions of them.
	Ninety percent, ninety-nine percent of the voters are parents in a in a matter of speaking, from grandparents to parents.
	And I don't think any one of them really want to give it up to the state like they have in several states.
	I think and and the mayor or the governor of the of uh California, he tried to he went through the discussion with you on parental rights, because that was that was a a brief discussion.
	And parents, you know, from my point of view, it's an opportunity that the Republicans were given a gift by the Democrats, and they have to push it.
	It's look, I uh here here here's the thing.
	What you're saying is is that you want to be the parent, you have your value system, and you don't want a captive audience of kids in many cases age inappropriate material being taught to them, and that the value should come from parents, it should come from religious institutions.
	It doesn't have to come from the federal government.
	They have a captive audience of students, they have an agenda, they they indoctrinate, they don't educate.
	Uh how about schools just focus on reading, writing, math, science, history, and computers, and let let our kids ensure that they behave.
	They gotta they can't disrupt the class.
	If they disrupt the class, they need to be thrown out if they keep doing it.
	And and let's get on with the business of educating them and stop indoctrinating them.
	Because you know what?
	Even though people don't like your comments, you're allowed to have them.
	People have different views.
	And the idea that they think their views are superior to yours or a parent is is beyond obnoxious to me and offensive, and it's grotesque what they're doing to so many kids in so many of these schools.
	I agree.
	The last thing I'll say, Sean, is that it's great to live in his country.
	Can't think of a better place.
	But I do have a problem with the feds trying to get in at my money, and now they're getting in at my kids.
	Keep the hands off of my money and kids, and I can enjoy this place a lot more in any all right.
	Hang in there, Dennis.
	Appreciate the call.
	800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
	Uh, you know what?
	It's Friday.
	We got to put on big time AJ Houston, Texas.
	What's going on, baby?
	How are you?
	Big time Sean Hannity.
	Hey, before I Hey, how's my how's my buddy Joe Pags doing?
	How's he doing?
	Oh, I we did Motown Monday this weekend.
	He's hanging in there.
	We just trying to figure all this stuff out.
	But Sean, right quick, I want to ask you, are we gonna do Santa Claus this year?
	Is Joe Biden going to stop us from doing Santa Claus or what?
	Man, oh man, that's such a good question.
	Uh Linda, do we have any plans to do Santa Claus this year?
	I think we tape it and run it on New Year's Eve.
	I think at the end of the day, Santa is very busy this time of year, but if he is available to make time for the Hannity audience children, I mean who could say no to that, really?
	You know, my kids never believe me when um I told them that I knew Santa Claus and I was friends with Santa Claus.
	They never believed me.
	Then I put then I would put them on the phone with Santa Claus.
	Can I tell you a very funny story, AJ?
	You will love this.
	This is a historical, and this just happened to me a couple days ago.
	So, like many parents, I do the elf on the shelf.
	And so my son is writing uh he's eight, and he believes in Santa and all the things because why wouldn't you?
	He's amazing and he can hear the bell ring and yada yada.
	So he says, he says to me, uh, he says, I'm gonna ask Santa for a thousand dollars.
	And I said, Really?
	And he said yes.
	And I said, you know, honey, I I I just don't know that Santa has a thousand dollars, and I just don't know that he would think that it's appropriate.
	I just I just don't know.
	And he goes, Well, it's a good thing it's not up to you, right, mommy.
	It's up to Santa.
	And Santa's gonna make that decision.
	And I'm like, eh.
	And this I I am loving this kid more and more every day.
	Big time, my favorite story is Linda won't give her son a happy meal, you know, for McDonald's.
	Kids like happy meals, they make them happy.
	So I he finally gets a happy meal instead of her air fried stupid french fries.
	And I asked him on this show.
	I said, Now which French fries do you like better?
	Do you like your mommy's air fried French fries, or do you like McDonald's happy meal French fries?
	Uh do you know what answer he gave big time?
	He said mine.
	No, he said McDonald's.
	You don't do not be Bill Clinton on us.
	No.
	Ew.
	Gross.
	I would never be Bill Clinton.
	First of all, he said he liked them, but he thought mine were just as good.
	No, he didn't say that until you came in when when we got a pure answer.
	He said no of McDonald's.
	And he said, Oh, you mean when you had him cornered in the studio?
	And he was like, I better tell this guy the truth.
	Mom calls him boss.
	Why not take him off?
	Cornered in the studio.
	I cornered your seven-year-old son in a studio.
	Yeah.
	No, I did not corner him.
	He was sitting in a chair smiling, having a great time, and he said he absolutely loved the Happy Meal McDonald's French fries better than your air fried French fries.
	So funny.
	So funny.
	What do you think, AJ?
	You wanna you want to do your Santa?
	And bring Santa on the show with us.
	Alright, we're gonna work it out, AJ.
	We gotta do that.
	We gotta get in the spirit of Christmas.
	Next year's gonna be brutal.
	We need some downtime, some fun time.
	How's that?
	No, right?
	Uh no, because we're enough of this.
	And now to the idiots.
	Okay.
	Now Sean.
	Yeah, all the talking we doing.
	All of do the dealings we saying about this idiot honor and uh Sean, you know and I know, as me and Joe Pegg say you know and I know and I know and you know, but you know and I know ain't nothing gonna happen.
	Look what they're doing.
	They doing all this he's gonna plead the fifth.
	And then next week when it's time for him to come up to No, he's definitely gonna plead the fifth.
	He may not even he may not show up next week, or if he does, he will plead the fifth.
	But let me tell you something.
	He's in real trouble legally.
	And let me tell you something else that uh liberals haven't figured out yet.
	Joe is in bigger trouble.
	Trust me.
	Uh no.
	My reporting has not been wrong on this issue so far, has it?
	As a matter of fact, we've been vindicated yet again.
	So uh I'm just telling you, stay tuned.
	There's a lot of connections to Joe, and Joe is the biggest liar on the face of this earth, and I'm I promise you this will be about Joe Biden by the end of the day sooner rather than later.
	All right.
	Hey, Zoe, as you say, Sean, it's coming to a theater near you.
	Stay tuned.
	Stay tuned.
	Coming to a theater near you.
	Big time, we love you.
	We'll talk to you soon.
	Ho ho ho.
	You know what I mean.
	Uh all right, let's get back to our phones.
	All right, quick break, right back to our phones.
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	Uh let us say hi to Melissa in Arizona.
	Hey Melissa, apparently disagrees with me about something.
	Uh what did I do wrong, Melissa?
	I'm guilty, I'm sure.
	Hi, Sean, and Merry Christmas.
	Merry Christmas to you too.
	God bless you.
	Happy Hanukkah to our friends celebrating Hanukkah right now.
	What's going on?
	Yes, you are guilty.
	Well boy.
	Yeah.
	Well, you have a bromance going on, and I called before about this with new son.
	You had Okay, first of all, I don't have a romance going on with Gavinusome.
	I understand I would disagree with you, Sean, because the other day you came out vive saying he's full of himself.
	Meanwhile, you have this idiot Newsom while you you you were doing you did very well with the debates too, and he's going on and on and on.
	The next day I didn't hear anything about of from you about what he's full of himself, what a liar.
	Nothing.
	And then and just uh Well, I'm not gonna talk about him every day.
	I thought the debates, you know, I let people make up their own mind, and it was pretty clear on Hannity.com, almost ninety percent of people uh that went on and voted, uh, they thought that DeSantis won that debate hands down, 90% on Drudge, I think it was seventy percent.
	Right, but I didn't hear anything from you regarding Newsom.
	Oh, Newsom's full just like you said to the about let me ask you this.
	Did you not see my questions and and I went through every major issue.
	I did a fact based questioning, moderating position debate, and all I did was give out the facts.
	Now, do the facts uh favor Florida or do they favor California?
	Of course, Florida.
	Okay.
	So I did my job, and then it's up to him to defend it or obfuscate.
	I I didn't think he answered a lot of the questions, but a lot of people do that.
	I I went back once or twice or three times sometimes.
	He still wouldn't answer.
	At that point, you know, you gotta move on.
	Right.
	And there you go.
	You just made my point.
	The next day on your radio, I didn't hear you say anything about him saying, Oh, what a snake he is.
	He's full of himself, just like you said about the Vake being full of himself.
	Let me just tell you, I I think my views on Gavin Newsom are uh I I put this in a separate category.
	Personally, if you ever met the guy, you would f find him to be charming and nice.
	I promise you.
	He's very polite.
	Uh he's he's he's very ingratiating.
	His policies are insane.
	I tell that to his face.
	I tell it to him all the time.
	I told him the day of the debate, your policies are nuts.
	Um he thinks I'm nuts.
	It's fine.
	You know, I don't have to hate the guy just because he's he's absolutely wrong on policy, but putting that aside, you know, everybody's not quite understanding.
	Those people that say, Why are you giving him air time?
	I'm giving him airtime because watch Joe's cognitive state.
	Watch what's happening with the Hunter Biden case, and I am telling you you better know what is a a strong likelihood that's that's waiting behind door number two or three.
	And if we don't, if we're not aware of what the Democrats may be up to, that we do so to our own peril.
	Ignorance is not bliss in this case, and I am making everybody fully aware of what what potentially could happen in this next presidential election.
	In that sense, I think I'm doing everybody a favor.
	Maybe some people don't see it that way, but I'm telling you, I'm doing everybody a favor.
	You need to know what the Democrats may be up to.
	And I I like Vivek.
	I am I am pro Trump.
	I love President Trump.
	But Vivek is the only one that is calling out Nikki Haley.
	Nikki Haley has become corrupt.
	She's become part of the problem, and he's the only one calling her out.
	She needs to stay away from the White House.
	I the biggest problem I have with Vivake, he does, and Christie actually pointed this out.
	I can't believe I'm quoting him because I can't stand him.
	Um but the point is he says things, then you ask him about exactly what he said, and he says he didn't say it.
	He does that all the time.
	Um he's cla he's very clever, he's a smart guy, um, but he's too cute by half.
	And all the rehearsed lines he comes in with, it's getting a little old.
	Um, I want substance from presidential candidates.
	Uh a few stinging lines are fine, but not every line, not every candidate.
	Not it's it's just he goes on there to make uh uh to draw attention to himself in the wrong way, in my view.
	Uh, I do agree with some of his positions.
	I disagree with others, but there's nobody I fully agree with on everything, right?
	So whatever.
	Yeah, well, I think he's hilarious.
	He's funny.
	That's the only reason I watch the debate.
	Otherwise I wouldn't watch it.
	He's taking the place of President Trump up there.
	He makes me laugh.
	I just think it's it's hilarious.
	Listen, I at this point, Christie needs to go.
	If you want to let Vivake hang around, that's fine.
	I don't think he has any shot at all.
	He's not polling well in any state.
	Um, I think this is a vanity play right now for him.
	I think he's thinking long term that he might want to do this down the line.
	Um, he's been glib, he's been clever, he's funny, he can be smart, all of those things are true, but he also comes off as obnoxious to me.
	Well, I mean, he he's just calling out Nick.
	Oh, look, people call me obnoxious.
	It's not necessarily a bad thing, Linda, right?
	I mean, I I I consider it a badge of honor.
	You you say Linda takes great pleasure in being called any name by anybody.
	Uh as long as you're paying attention, you can call me anything you want.
	And at the end of the day, people that have the tenacity to get up there and say they're gonna run for office, you gotta be a little egotistical, you gotta be a little bit obnoxious because you're not gonna make you're not gonna cut through the noise, and there's a hell of a lot of noise right now.
	Yeah, but you know what, Melissa?
	I'm I'm glad you have your strong opinions.
	I'm glad you're listening to the show.
	I'm glad you called in.
	And and you know what?
	Maybe I'll take another look at him and see if he's worth uh maybe another interview, okay?
	Thank you, Sean, and Merry Christmas, Linda, and Merry Christmas, Sean.
	You too.
	Well, Merry Christmas to you, and God bless you and your family.
	May God's face shine upon you this holiday season.
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