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Dec. 9, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show
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Hunter's 9 Indictments - December 8th, Hour 2
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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, all related to this scheme to evade taxes on this massive amount of income.
But there's so many different layers of this, as we spelled out in the last hour.
And two people that probably know more about this than I do, or at least as much.
I'm just kidding.
Investigative reporter, founder, editor-in-chief, justthenews.com, John Solomon, and Greg Jarrett, Fox News legal analyst.
His commentary throughout all of this has been amazing.
You know, I have been saying, John Solomon, that this is the Joe Biden bribery, money laundering scandal allegations.
And that to me is the biggest part of this story.
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.
This is really also about Joe Biden, whether they want to make fun of 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 going to be the president that is going to 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.
Joe Biden said nothing ever went wrong with Brezma.
It was perfectly fine.
It's a conspiracy to think there was any wrong doing with Brisma.
The prosecutors went out of their way to point out that Joe Hunter Biden didn't pay taxes on the money he got from the first year of Burisma 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?
2014, yeah, 2014 where he doesn't pay the taxes.
So he gets one year of that.
Unfortunately, that statute of limitation is allowed to expire, but they went under 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 indictment for China.
Joe Biden comes out of this 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 quick take, Greg Jarrett.
Well, 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 abetted 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, as evidenced by the email advising, oh, never mention Joe's involvement by name.
So that's why they used, you know, code names like the big guy and Celtic.
Hunter was effectively the bagman 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 look at this, and it's been a long time coming.
One of the things that I think was glaring in terms of an omission in this.
Where are the FARA charges, John Solomon?
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 FARA 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 Breismer transaction.
That is a sad testament about how David Weiss's office originally handled this case, allowing statutes of limitations to expire.
But listen, this has some heavy hardware for Hunter Biden.
Most of the 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.
17 years in prison, it would be the maximum for this.
And the indictment is 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 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 address of concern for the transactions.
Those six SARS identified more than $12 million of transactions that were concerning to banks.
And the concerns specifically cited for Joe Biden's home was that financial transactions 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 related to money laundering and 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 sifed 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, and I'll ask John after 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.
Then, of course, the Cafe Milano meeting with oligarchs like Elena Battarina, the Russian oligarch, the former first lady of Moscow, in that particular case, $3.5 million.
And then, according to Devin Archer, more than $100 million invested in a real estate endeavor.
But walk us through the case against.
Business partners, he's taking his son on Air Force 2 over to China, and there they meet sometimes together with Hunter's partners.
Just listen to Devin Archer and Tony Bobolinski.
They have the president involved in these influence peddling schemes, which are corrupt.
They involve bribery.
And the burisma shakedown is exhibit A. My question is: in these latest charges, you'll notice there's no money laundering, no bribery, no foreign lobbying crimes, nothing associated with burisma.
So, you know, the protection racket is still operating.
It's still alive and well.
David 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.
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 up to Congress.
I mean, you're not going to have the U.S. Attorney of the DOJ unveil Joe Biden's complicity.
It's going to be up to Congress to do it.
And frankly, you know, the committee has produced more damning evidence in a few months than, you know, the U.S. Attorney and the DOJ did 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 it's going to be very difficult now for Hunter Biden to defend himself against these charges.
I'm going to explain one thing.
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 is 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 in 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 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, we're going to 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, if we see defections next week, especially in light of the heavy criticism Joe has gotten from the likes of Maureen Dowd and Van Jones and David Axelrod, wouldn't that tell us that the Democratic Party will make their move to get Joe off the ticket in 2024?
Next week's vote, I think, is going to be critical, what the Democrats do.
Yeah, absolutely.
If they vote for an impeachment inquiry, Joe Biden is in a significant amount of trouble because it means Democrats are starting to abandon him.
I don't think that's going to happen yet 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've 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 their own crimes.
Prosecutors, Democratic prosecutors being charged.
You've 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 peddling is selling access and influence of one's public office, as Jonathan Turley has correctly pointed out.
So the question is for Congress, is America's national security compromised?
Has Joe Biden, wittingly or unwittingly, you know, jeopardized the United States through his family's actions selling access and influence?
And if the answer is yes, that's an impeachable offense.
High crimes, misdemeanors, bribery, treason, selling out your country to America's adversaries is exactly what our founders feared when they crafted the impeachment clause.
Now, politically, whether it's wise for Republicans to pursue impeachment in the coming months right in the middle of a presidential election, I frankly advise against it.
I've said this before.
I think that it should be up to Americans to examine the evidence themselves and they decide by their vote come November.
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What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of 10, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
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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.
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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 Nayfok 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.
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 10, last question, 15 seconds each.
How much in terms of to the extent that Joe Biden is involved in all of this, and we already know that he is, how much does that blunt the 91 charges against Donald Trump for next year, John Solomon?
I think they're going to be compartmentalized.
Voters are going to look at him very differently.
But Joe Biden's biggest problem is his honesty now has been completely crushed by the revelations.
He's going to have his own problems separate from Donald Trump.
Greg Jarrett, last word.
Joe Biden's poll numbers are historically low.
They're only going to get worse.
This simply aggravates his prospects for reelection.
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, and, you know, blame everybody else for his own self-inflicted wounds.
All right.
Well said.
And let me just say this.
Both of you need to take a bow.
All three of us work very hard in our own independent ways on exposing the Russia hoax.
We were all vindicated by the Horowitz Report and later the Durham Report.
John, your reporting on this 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.
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're not going to get credit, nor do I expect it, but thank you both.
All right, quick break.
We'll come right back.
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Hi, 25 to the top of the hour.
Glad you're with us this Friday.
Here's our toll-free number.
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If you want to be a part of the program, Dennis is in Vegas on K-Dawn Radio.
What's going on there, Dennis, sir?
How are you?
Glad you called, sir.
By the way, our thoughts and prayers, I know UNLV had a tough week this week, and we love our friends out in Vegas.
And sorry, everybody had to go through all of that.
Our prayers with everybody.
I understand, and it's well, it's appreciated.
And condolences are big time out here right now for Vegas.
Big time.
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 weren't born and raised in Vegas, were you?
I'm just teasing you.
Go ahead.
I did live.
I lived 40 years in California, and I call myself a California escapee.
Here's my point.
Hunter did the tax problems, the federal tax problems 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 feds, 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 tighten the screws or pardon him also.
But whatever he's going to do, I'm pretty sure it's going to be news, okay?
I have issue to talk to you about, okay?
Yeah.
Go ahead.
I'm a strong believer in parental rights.
I believe the Democrats are throwing the golden ring in the Republicans' direction.
The Republicans just have to pick it up and start protecting the kids via parental rights.
There's no party lines when you're a parent.
You're a parent, and there's millions of them.
99% of the voters are parents in a manner 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.
And Biden and the mayor or the governor of California, he went through the discussion with you on parental rights because that was 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.
Look, here's the thing.
What you're saying 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 indoctrinate.
They don't educate.
How about schools just focus on reading, writing, math, science, history, and computers, and let our kids ensure that they behave.
They can't disrupt the class.
If they disrupt the class, they need to be thrown out if they keep doing it.
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 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 this country.
We 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.
All right.
Hang in there, Dennis.
Appreciate the call.
800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
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 buddy Joe Paggs doing?
How's he doing?
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 going to 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.
Linda, do we have any plans to do Santa Claus this year?
I think we take 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 I told them that I knew Santa Claus and I was friends with Santa Claus.
They never believed me.
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 hysterical, 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, 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, he says, I'm going to ask Santa for $1,000.
And I said, really?
And he said, yes.
And I said, you know, honey, I just don't know that Santa has $1,000.
And I just don't know that he would think that it's appropriate.
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 going to make that decision.
I'm like, eh.
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 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?
Do you know what answer he gave big time?
He said mine.
No, he said McDonald's.
Do not beat 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 we got a pure answer.
He said, no, McDonald's.
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.
I'm not taking him off.
Cornered in the studio.
I cornered your seven-year-old son in a studio.
I just went to Happy Meals.
Yeah.
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 want to do your Santa and bring Santa on the show with us?
All right, we're going to work it out, AJ.
We got to do that.
We got to get in the spirit of Christmas.
Next year is going to be brutal.
We need some downtime, some fun time.
How's that?
No, right?
No, because we're enough of this.
And now to the idiots.
Okay.
Now, Sean, all the talking we're doing, all of the dealings we're saying about this idiot, Van Erin.
Sean, you know, and I know, as me and Joe Pag say, you know, and I know, and I know, and you know, but you know, and I know, ain't nothing going to happen.
Look what they're doing.
They're doing all this.
He's going to plead the fifth and then next week when it's time for him to come up to.
No, he's definitely going to 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 liberals haven't figured out yet.
Joe is in bigger trouble.
Trust me.
I know.
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 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 promise you, this will be about Joe Biden by the end of the day sooner rather than later.
All right?
Chiller.
Hey, Zoo, as you say, Sean, is 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?
All right, let's get back to our phones.
All right, quick break right back to our phones, 800-941.
Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, at the top of the hour, Jay Seculo, chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, will get his take on the Hunter indictments, the impact on Joe Biden, and much more as we continue.
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Let us say hi to Melissa in Arizona.
Hey, Melissa, apparently disagrees with me about something.
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.
Oh, boy.
Yeah.
Well, you have a bromance going on, and I called before about this with Newsom.
Okay, first of all, I don't have a bromance going on with Gavin Newsom.
I understand.
I would disagree with you, Sean, because the other day you came at Vivek saying he's full of himself.
Meanwhile, you have this idiot, Newsom, while 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 from you about what he's full of himself, what a liar.
Nothing.
And then, and just to, well, I'm not going to talk about them 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 90% of people that went on and voted, they thought that DeSantis won that debate hands down, 90% on Drudge.
I think it was 70%.
Right.
But I didn't hear anything from you regarding Newsom.
Oh, Newsom, just like you said about...
Let me ask you this.
Did you not see my questions?
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 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 didn't think he answered a lot of the questions, but a lot of people do that.
I went back once or twice or three times sometimes.
He still wouldn't answer.
At that point, you know, you got to 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 Vivek being full of himself.
Let me just tell you, I think my views on Gavin Newsom are, I put this in a separate category.
Personally, if you ever met the guy, you would find him to be charming and nice.
I promise you.
He's very polite.
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.
He thinks I'm nuts.
It's fine.
You know, I don't have to hate the guy just because he's absolutely wrong on policy.
But putting that aside, everybody's not quite understanding.
Those people that say, why are you giving him airtime?
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 strong likelihood 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 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 like Vivek.
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.
The biggest problem I have with Vivek, he does, and Christy actually pointed this out.
I can't believe I'm quoting him because I can't stand him.
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.
He's very clever.
He's a smart guy, but he's too cute by half.
And all the rehearsed lines he comes in with, it's getting a little old.
I want substance from presidential candidates.
A few stinging lines are fine, but not every line.
Not every candidate.
It's just he goes on there to make, to draw attention to himself in the wrong way, in my view.
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 debates.
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 hilarious.
Listen, at this point, Christy needs to go.
If you want to let Vivek hang around, that's fine.
I don't think he has any shot at all.
He's not polling well in any state.
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.
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's just calling out Nick.
Oh, look, people call me obnoxious.
It's not necessarily a bad thing, Linda, right?
I mean, I consider it a badge of honor.
Linda takes great pleasure in being called any name by anybody.
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 going to run for office, you got to be a little egotistical.
You got to be a little bit obnoxious because you're not going to cut through the noise.
And there's a hell of a lot of noise right now.
Yeah, but you know what, Melissa?
I'm glad you have your strong opinions.
I'm glad you're listening to the show.
I'm glad you called in.
And you know what?
Maybe I'll take another look at him and see if he's worth 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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