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Governor Kristi Noem - January 2nd, Hour 3
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Gonna play our guitars and sing you a country song.
We'll all be inside higher than a jail I know.
And if you want a little bang in your yin yang, come along.
And so we get it.
We get that photo.
It's going to take a little bit of time for folks to feel what the Bidenomics has been able to do.
I guess when I'm saying, I just feel good that the American people got up.
They've been through a rough time with pandemic, but now we're coming back.
They're back.
Final NBC poll had him at just 40% approval, 57% disapproval.
That's the lowest.
That's the lowest in an NBC poll for an incumbent facing a re-election here.
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If you want to be a part of the program, now broadcasting our new home in the free state of Florida.
That's both the TV and radio show because this is where I'm living for the rest of my life, I assume, unless God has other plans.
One state that's prospering, any governor that embraces freedom, like they're doing down here in Florida, like they're doing in South Dakota, like they're doing in many red states, those states prosper.
The people benefit because of the principles of free market capitalism, less burdensome regulation, less government interference in their day-to-day lives, low taxes.
People benefit.
It's really that simple.
Anyway, Governor Noam joins us now.
Governor, great to have you back.
Happy New Year.
Oh, happy new year and happy new home.
I hear you're all settled in and enjoying the warm weather.
I'm enjoying the warm weather.
Now, South Dakota was on the list.
Cold weather did play a little part in my decision.
I'm not going to lie.
Yeah, it is.
It is one of those factors people always look at.
So it's all right.
You can still come visit.
We still make a wonderful place to come the other 10 months of the year.
That's all true, by the way.
I've been there many, many times.
I love it there.
Let's talk about, you started this effort.
If I'm not mistaken, Florida and South Dakota have like two of the lowest unemployment rates in the entire country.
You may have the lowest.
Is that about right?
That is true.
We actually broke the national historic record with the lowest unemployment rate this year at 1.7%.
So that's wonderful.
Everybody here works.
The problem is, we've got businesses moving here like crazy.
They want to hire people to get to work and expand because they see the advantages of locating in a state like ours, but they need workers.
So that's why this workforce campaign, marketing campaign, started six months ago.
And man, alive, it's incredible what we're seeing happen.
Tell us about it.
How many people now have heard about this campaign and are saying, you know what?
I'm tired of high taxes.
I'm tired of burdensome regulation.
I'm tired of crime out of control.
I'm tired of horrible schools, and I'm getting out.
And they're leaving in droves.
I mean, the numbers, the migration in this country is staggering.
You know, when you see people leaving in droves, you would think politicians might wake up and say, you know, maybe we ought to change our policies.
Yeah, and they're going to feel this.
This is going to be a migration that will be felt in this country for the next 25 years.
I mean, when these folks are moving now, they're pulling up all their roots.
We have a family that moved from Washington State.
It started with one woman that came here with her husband and a couple of kiddos because of a job, and we recruited them.
They came.
They have since had 48 members of their family from Washington State pick up and move to join them here in South Dakota because the entire family wanted to be together.
And so the sister moved with her family.
Then the parents moved, and then the cousins and the aunts and the uncles.
And they can't believe that they could live somewhere that feels like Washington State used to feel 25, 30 years ago.
And I think that's what's so remarkable about South Dakota is while the rest of the country in these liberal states has lost their minds and gone off the deep end as far as socialism and lawlessness, that there still is a place where America feels like America.
And that's what's bringing people to South Dakota.
So we've got thousands of people that have responded to the ads that are in the process of moving here.
We've got over 8,000 people in the final stages.
That's people for actual job positions.
That's not counting their family members that are coming with them.
We put them all matched up with caseworkers and talk to them about what kind of community they want to live in, what job it is, if it's a nurse or an architect or a CPA, you know, to partner them with a business.
We get to talk to them about their schools.
And so these are folks that when they come here, they've found the answer to all their prayers and they truly are thrilled just to be a part of our way of life.
You see, when you move to a lot of states, let's say you're a licensed contractor or you're an RN or a medical doctor, whatever it happens to be, sometimes it gets very difficult and burdensome because they're going to want you to be recertified in that particular state, even if you've been practicing your profession for up to a couple of decades.
That's not the case in South Dakota.
You are accepting outside.
In other words, if somebody has a license from another state and they've been doing this work for a long period of time, they can get right to work on day one and they don't have to spend their time fighting through the bureaucracy studying for something that they've been doing every day for 20 or 30 years.
Yeah, exactly, Sean.
And that's what is remarkable.
I brought a bill to our legislature a couple years ago and just said, listen, we got to recognize these licenses so that when people get to our state, they can get right to work and did almost universal licensing.
Anything you would need a license for, real estate, you know, CPA, nurse, you know, whatever it is that someone may need recognition of so they can set up shop and get to serving people right away.
We recognize those licenses.
That makes the transition so smooth and easy for people that have a true career and want to come and start a new opportunity somewhere else.
We make sure that they don't sit there waiting for the regulation to catch up to them and their earnings and their career potential.
The thing I've asked you about in the past that really kind of blows me away is your apprenticeship program where, you know, people that are just starting out in life, for example, we keep reading article after article after article that there's going to be, you know, an entire generation that's going to remain in the renting class their entire lives, which kind of is the antithesis of the American dream to own your own home.
But you're providing apprenticeship programs where they're going to learn a great trade so they can make a great living for the rest of their lives.
And they're starting out as an apprentice, making $80,000 a year, which almost at that number begins to put them in a category where they're going to be looking for a home in a year or two.
Well, and it's incredible what this does for people.
It's a game changer because you can be 30 or 40 years old and have two or three kids and have responsibilities, but you can still pursue a license and improve your situation in life.
We're paying for these apprenticeship programs to get someone trained on the job.
They continue to earn a wage.
They get health benefits.
They get a retirement account.
But once they become a licensed plumber or electrician or a teacher, then they get the wage increase that that classification and then that licensing has given them.
And that education has given them to pursue this career that long eluded them because they couldn't quit everything and go back to school and then be saddled with the debt of it and still take care of their family.
So we have 100 paraprofessionals, so people that were teachers' aides in classrooms right now that are being trained to be teachers, certified teachers.
They're in their classrooms still fulfilling their teachers' aides positions, teaching our kiddos every day, but getting licensed to become teachers.
And they will soon get to have their own classrooms and be able to fill a big need that we have in our state because we set up these apprenticeship programs.
And that's just a real game changer for us because these are many times families that just get that education and training there.
They could stay and be successful.
And we're allowing them to do it.
I mean, it's actually amazing.
All right.
So this is a presidential election year.
We have Iowa in less than, what, two weeks, 13 days from now, the Iowa caucuses begin.
Then we go to New Hampshire.
It's going to go very quick.
Nevada, South Carolina, Super Tuesday will be here in no time.
And how do you assess the presidential race at this point?
Well, I think it's, you know, obviously President Trump is doing fantastic.
And I'm proud of him for continuing to be a champion for the American people And for fixing what's broken in this country.
So he'll do very well in Iowa.
I head there tomorrow and do a few events for him.
It's pretty close.
We're pretty easy to jump over there and say hi to all the neighbors and remind them about how important it is to send a strong message to all these other states that will be having their early primaries.
You know, what happens in Iowa sends a ripple effect through the rest of the country.
And the one thing I want to remind people not to lose sight of is that we are electing the leader of the free world.
If you look at this world and the chaos and the crisis situation that we're in and the enemies that we face, we need a strong leader that can actually put a sentence together that actually has been in the trenches before and made tough decisions and proven to us that he makes the right decision every time.
So, gosh, let's take it seriously, folks, and get out there and talk to people and show big that America knows exactly what we're doing.
It really is a contrast.
If it holds the old standard question, are you better off than you were three years ago or four years ago?
I can't think of a single measure by which America is better off.
I really can't.
And if you look at, for example, you're talking about foreign policy, I don't see any help for Israel that's significant under Joe Biden, in spite of him saying one thing publicly.
But every source I have in Israel is telling me that what he's saying behind closed doors is very different.
And he keeps trying to moderate Israel and moderate Netanyahu, which, you know, you live like the Jewish people do for one day and try to grasp the real threat that their entire existence has been.
And that's what drives me crazy is what he's saying behind the scenes and to Netanyahu and trying to limit what he's doing to protect his people, I think, is astonishing.
And it has a ripple effect and consequences that we're going to feel for a long period of time.
We should have Netanyahu's back and everything we can to protect our Jewish brothers and sisters.
They're our strongest allies in the Middle East, and they're the last hope that we have there.
What do you think about the possibility?
Your name is always mentioned.
I've asked you before what your answer would be if asked, but you're on the shortlist, certainly, of any Republican nominee.
It appears to be Donald Trump.
Honest, he's kind of unpredictable, but I have committed to him and talked to him last night even about it that we just need him to win.
You know, he said, Christy, how are you doing?
And I said, I'm doing good, Mr. President, but it's more important how you're doing because we've got to all be in to make sure that we get him across the finish line because of the ramifications and consequences of who is.
By the way, does he listen to you?
Because he does not always listen to me.
Well, you know, good.
I'm just checking everybody.
It depends on the day.
But he's working hard and he's going to spend a lot of time in Iowa, which I think is good.
I think it's good for him to be there and the people to see his heart.
Iowa's kind of, though, because it's a caucus, it's a little bit funky what goes on there.
New Hampshire's a little, you know, the first primary state they allow independents to vote either in the Democratic or Republican primary.
I kind of don't like that system either.
But then once you get beyond those two states, things begin to settle out.
And I think, and it goes a lot faster than people think.
It does.
It's coming quick.
And they are all different systems, but important in the fact that the entire world is watching.
So that's what I think is so powerful about Iowa, the middle of the country, having this first opportunity to send a message.
I feel like I'm one of those people that wears a lot of hats in life.
You know, I'm a wife and a mom and a grandma and run businesses.
And I've had the chance to be in Congress.
I've served in our legislature.
I'm now as governor.
I didn't know you were a grandma.
Jeez.
I'm a grandma.
I've got two and one more on the way.
So I'm just ready to be grandma for the third time.
But it's incredible to me that I can speak from any of those perspectives and give you 10 examples of how my life has gotten so much worse under Joe Biden.
And that's what I think anybody who's involved in these early states that are going to be voting for who they have in the White House is who do you want that is be there defending and protecting this country for that next 25 to 30 years for our kids, for our grandkids.
What will we give them?
And so it's important.
That's the last question the media, the mob, the Democrats want Americans asking because if the election's about that, not about Donald Trump, not about Republicans being called every name in the book, they don't have a chance.
So they have to talk about anything and everything but Joe Biden and his failed policies.
But anyway, Governor, we really appreciate it.
If people want to take part in this program that you have, which is working and how freedom works there and these opportunities that you've created for people to literally change their lives and make a lot more money and live in a better place, how do they do it?
Just go to freedomworkshere.com.
Go to our website.
Everything is there.
You'll get connected with folks.
You'll just fill out a couple of answers to questions and we'll give you a call.
And I call a lot of them myself too and encourage them to come and be here.
So it's been fun to talk to people from all over the country that have done that.
That's pretty amazing.
I am Governor Nona.
We'd love for you to move here and you make a lot more money and we'll leave you alone and let you raise your family in peace and you'll save a ton.
Not bad.
Exactly right.
That's exactly right.
And then they end up telling 10 of their friends and then they all call and want to be a part of it too.
So it's pretty fun.
It's pretty fun to see people get excited about living somewhere where they're still a part of a community.
Listen, I just made the move myself.
I went to Florida.
I've been threatening to do it for years.
I had commitments that held me back from making the move.
And it just, the timing couldn't be better for me.
And now here we are broadcasting in my new home state, the state of Florida.
And it's right up there with your state.
And we'll visit you often.
I promise.
We'll go up there and hang out.
Sounds great.
You have a wonderful day.
Happy New Year, Sean.
Happy New Year, Governor.
Appreciate it.
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Biden's blunders towards the end of the year.
They don't stop.
It's like an everyday affair.
That and more as we continue.
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Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
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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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Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
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Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
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You're our kind of people.
Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday.
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What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and, frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
I'm Leon Nayfak from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco, Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yes, that's right.
Lock her up.
Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, 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.
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Hi, 25 to the top of the hour.
Happy New Year to all of you.
It is election year 2024.
We'll get to your calls coming up.
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All right, let me go to Joe Biden.
I mean, he starts out the new year the way he left the last year.
He has a New Year's resolution to go back on vacation, which he spent nearly 40% of his time as president on vacation.
And the rest of the time, at least another 30%, checked out half the time.
But anyway, here's his New Year's resolution to go back on vacation next year and actually making the bold claim and lie, just like our border is safe, our border is closed, our border is secure.
No, it's not.
We just had a record December that America's coming back.
No, it's not.
I don't buy it for a second.
Anyway, here's Biden starting out the year.
That's the biggest one right now.
We brought a lot of jobs back to the United States.
People are in a position to be able to make a living now.
And they've created a lot of jobs, over $14 million.
And I guess I just feel good that the American people got up.
They've been through a rough time with pandemic, but now we're coming back.
They're back.
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
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Anyway, Don is in Lake Ron Conka.
Don, you're on the Sean Hannity show.
Welcome aboard, sir.
I left you behind, but my heart is still with friends like you that I left in New York.
You need to get out of there.
Hey, yeah, I heard that you did finally go to the great state of Florida, and I'm going to miss our in-person get-togethers, Sean, but I'm happy for you, and it's a good move for you.
And if you find anything around the Claremont area, where I have my other half of the family, I'll be down there.
Well, my whole family is pretty much already down in Florida.
I was the last holdout.
Oh, really?
Yeah, including my kids.
They're like, I'm not living in New York, Dad.
I'm like, okay, where are you living?
But anyway, so, yeah, look, it was not a hard decision for me, to be very honest.
Yeah.
It wasn't hard.
It just, you know, it just was a matter of me being able to make everything work.
And that all came together towards the end of last year.
And, you know, it was a simple decision to make.
And now we're broadcasting from my new home, the free state of Florida, and I couldn't be happier.
And I know it's 27 degrees where you are today, and I'm sorry to hear it, but it's about 70 degrees down here.
Well, you followed in the footsteps of our friend, the late, great Rush Limbaugh.
Listen, Sean, before I get to my question, I have to ask you, how long were you away from the microphone before you hitching and returned to the airwaves?
Like three hours.
It takes me about a week to become normal, if that makes sense.
In other words, that I'm not obsessively, compulsively reading news every second, every minute of every day.
It takes about a week to break that habit.
And then I actually got time to relax.
But There's a sort of a process when you go on vacation.
And then, you know, you try and get closer to God and get a little more centered and appreciate the beauty in life and the gifts in life.
Then you read a news site and you realize it's all negative.
There's nothing good there.
And then I start thinking about, okay, what is the main message?
I'm thinking, how does this country get back on track next year?
Because I can tell you, Don, and I said this in the beginning of the show, everyone can tell you what they think is going to happen.
There's nobody that can tell you what's going to happen this year.
I think it's going to be probably the most unpredictable, wild, rock and roll, bumpy ride election season we've ever seen in our life.
That's my take.
Well, I was going to ask you what your expectations and predictions were for the new year, but I know it's impossible.
We never could have expected what happened on October 7th.
You just can't expect or you can't predict any type of tragedy that will throw a curb into traditional planning, traditional thinking.
You really can't.
I mean, and I know it would frustrate some of my conservative friends when I say over and over again, you better get over your reluctance and your resistance to early voting and voting by mail.
And these states need to organize and the RNC needs to get organized and get their act together and follow in the Democratic Party's footsteps and master the art of legal ballot harvesting, emphasis on the word legal because Republicans don't do it.
They're not doing it.
Now, Glenn Young, to his credit, pushed it really hard for the midterms.
It didn't work out the way they wanted, but I thought his election was the anomaly.
It's very hard for even a popular governor like Glenn Young to carry other candidates across the finish line.
It's hard to do.
However, he was smart enough to realize that they've got to get in.
They've got to play the game the way the rules are designed.
I would change voting in this country tomorrow.
I would not have two months of voting.
I'd have Election Day a national holiday with exceptions for the sick, the infirmed, military, et cetera.
Everybody else has to show up on Election Day, hand in their own ballot, show voter ID, have signature verification, have chain of custody controls for the mail-ins that do come in, updated voter rolls, and partisan observers watching voting all day.
And when the polls close, the counting all night, and that's it.
And then declare a winner, and we'll have more integrity in the system.
Yep.
Amen to that, Sean.
Well, I want to wish you and your family a happy new year, Don.
You need to get down here as often as you can, my friend.
I'll be down there, and I'll be down there at the beginning of next month for a two-week visit.
Well, good.
Maybe we'll see you then.
We have some announcements coming.
Nothing I'm going to reveal yet.
Okay.
Well, keep me in mind, my friend.
All right.
Good luck.
Happy New Year to you and your family.
God bless you.
Thank you.
Virginia, Scott, next, Sean Hannity Show.
What's up, Scott?
How are you?
Hey, Sean, happy new year, man.
How are you?
I'm good.
Happy New Year, sir.
Good.
Thank you.
Hey, I just was listening to the show.
You guys are talking a lot about the economy and the open border and you name it.
There's a problem with it with this Biden administration.
One thing that I listened to on a podcast with Dan Bondino, I know, former colleague of yours, Fox News.
And one thing he posed.
He's a good friend of mine.
What's up?
What did he say?
Good guy.
Is it bad enough yet?
And that kind of resonated with me, and I wanted to get your opinion because I don't think it is.
You mean that things aren't bad enough?
Yeah, it's just a blanket statement.
I mean, the economy, the immigration problems, the war in the Middle East, but we just are focusing on kitchen table issues really from the Republican Party, like Glenn Yunken did in Virginia, where we live.
And I just don't think it's bad enough.
And I'm worried that in November, we're going to be facing four more years of this.
I don't know how do people define bad?
Because if you have 60% of our fellow Americans living paycheck to paycheck or worse, and many even going borrowing on their credit cards or cashing in their pensions to make ends meet, that's pretty bad.
When you have war in Europe, war in the Middle East, and likely China about to take over an ally country of ours, Taiwan, and call it reunification, that's pretty bad.
I can't think of how bad defunding, dismantle, reimagine, no-bail laws have been.
I can't think that it's gotten worse.
I don't think our deficit could get any worse with another $2 trillion in Biden debt just last year alone, and we're headed towards more crisis.
I can't think of a border being more disastrous with 100% certainty in my mind that we have terrorist cells entering this country and Joe Biden's not doing a thing.
We just had another record in December.
I mean, how do you define bad here?
How much worse does it have to get?
To have a president out of touch.
Let me ask you this.
Can you name a single policy that he's implemented that's been successful?
Because I can't.
I don't need very long to answer that.
No.
So how bad do things have to get?
Do we have to be, what, do we have to have soup lines?
Do we have to have a stock market crash?
Does it have to become 1929 all over again?
Do we have to have World War III for this to be defined as bad?
Well, and the fact of the matter is, is what is concerning is that if you remember during, you know, from Carter to Reagan, people voted with their wallet.
I mean, let's keep that as simple as it gets.
You just said paycheck to paycheck.
I thought that it was you vote with your wallet based on what the federal government is doing.
Limited government, less regulation, give it back to the American people.
That's what the message needs to be from the GOP moving forward to make unification and defeat these.
Let me tell you, historically, people, if you want to simplify it, they vote peace and prosperity.
Those are the two issues.
Okay.
So on the prosperity side, we just talked about the economy.
In terms of peace, I don't see a foreign policy that is even comprehensible.
I just don't.
I don't think there's any of our enemies that fear Joe Biden.
And they need to fear Joe Biden.
He's abdicated America's role on the world stage.
We should be the leader of the entire free world.
And we're not.
And we're not because he's not taken on the responsibility of that.
Now, I think it's because he's compromised.
That's my opinion.
I think this Biden family business deal is beyond corrupt.
I think the idea that his son was selling access to his father, who lied repeatedly about it, is beyond scandalous.
It's maybe one of the worst examples of influence peddling I've seen in my life.
And you can't convince me otherwise.
Again, I'm giving my opinion.
But the evidence is pretty overwhelming and fairly incontrovertible at this point.
And yet the media protects Joe Biden.
The media protects the Biden family.
And they have a collective side.
And we all know if it was Trump, they'd go nuts.
Absolutely.
Couldn't agree more.
All right, my friend.
Happy New Year.
God bless you.
800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Janet, Arizona, next Sean Hannity show.
What's up, Janet?
Need Arizona this year, you know, very important state.
Yes, you are right.
And, you know, everywhere I go, there's Trump flags everywhere.
So hopefully.
I want to tell you about some of the border things that not everybody seems to hear about, but we see it down here.
So we have two border stations that as you leave Yuma, you have to go through one or the other one to get out of town.
And they're closed because those great, wonderful Border Patrol men who have to be out, you know, doing other things like processing at the center.
Now, so, you know, that just leaves the fentanyl and a human trafficking freeway.
So that does just go everywhere all over America.
And, you know, our border is at risk, but there's something else that people may not be aware of.
And it is most of the vegetables in the wintertime are grown here in Yuma, Arizona.
They're all over the place.
There's thousands of acres.
And when you cross the border, there's fields right there.
And, you know, so people coming across the border, they have to have a place to go.
I mean, literally body function.
And if they see one footprint in that field, they have to destroy the whole entire field just to save all of us people from getting E. coli because think about what could happen.
And a lot of them come through at night.
And if they see footprints, the field's gone.
So, you know, that's got to affect, you know, the greens and the price of greens.
There's a swap meat that was purchased by Border Patrol in October.
And it's 40 acres.
And it is very close to the processing center.
So it's, you know, it makes sense, except where it's been there for 60 years and 40 acres is what it is.
And there's a lot of family businesses that have been going on out there for 60 years.
Now Border Patrol has purchased that.
And so it's going to be adding on to the processing center, which, you know, why do we have to keep getting more and more and more to take care of all these people when we can't even take care of our own veterans and our own homeless?
You raise great points.
Yeah.
Why aren't we doing that first?
Why did Joe Biden create such a security vulnerability?
I don't know.
I can only tell you I support legal immigration.
I don't support illegal immigration.
But the stakes couldn't be higher.
I am pretty certain, you know, now knowing the people from Iran and Syria and Egypt very little doubt that they're all coming here with the idea that they just want a better way of life for themselves and their families.
Do I think they have nefarious intentions?
I actually do, yes.
Do I think it's a clear and present danger to the U.S.?
Yeah, I think it's a clear and present danger to the U.S. Are we capable of doing so much better than this?
Yep, a thousand percent.
Anyway, I want to wish you a happy new year.
Thank you so much, Jenna, for the call.
We appreciate it.
That's going to wrap things up for today.
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