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	Our toll-free number is 800-941 Sean.
	If you want to be a part of the program, uh if you don't follow um at based Mike Lee, uh I'm not sure why that's his handle on X. Uh you really need to, because he's been he's been on a uh a tweet storm, if you will, or an X storm, I don't know what you call it, uh, and rightful on the all the right issues, and pointing out one that the president, that would be Joe Biden, already has the power to secure the border.
	He doesn't need any new laws to do it.
	Uh frankly, he'd save money in the process and how he's trying to extort votes for Ukraine uh aid by exploiting national concerns about national security problems.
	By the way, uh the biggest national security problem we have right now is down at the border.
	He's also been talking a lot about these, you know, the continuing resolutions.
	Uh now we have $34 trillion in debt, another six plus trillion under Biden alone.
	Uh now we're we're looking at another potential continuing resolution.
	Uh Republicans in the House, they're trying to stand strong.
	They don't have a big enough majority, but you know, they're making borders and and the budget, the top two priorities, if they stand on those issues, uh, I think they'll be successful with the American people and be rewarded by being re-elected.
	Anyway, we have all these supplementals, one after another after another.
	Uh, you know, and we have weak leadership in the Senate, unfortunately.
	They've not been willing to join House members and fight.
	Then you have some weak members in the House as well.
	Anyway, joining us now is uh Utah Senator Mike Lee.
	Senator uh happy new year, welcome back, glad you're with us.
	Thanks so much, Sean.
	Good to be with you.
	Why don't you walk us through what we're actually facing with these budgetary uh deadlines and the possibility of more CRs?
	Yeah, two weeks from today, uh government runs out of money for part of the government.
	Uh number of departments uh who are funded through that week.
	And then there are a number of other departments who were funded through two weeks after that, early February.
	Um and so what that means is that Congress is gonna have to pass additional spending bills to keep the government funded.
	But in the meantime, our country is uh undergoing a massive influx, an influx that's so large, so out of control, that it almost appears orchestrated.
	Orchestrated certainly by the international drug cartels who are making billions of dollars off of this after bringing millions of people into the United States unlawfully, but orchestrated also by people in our own government who have chosen chosen willfully not to enforce our laws.
	Look, our laws in this area aren't perfect.
	They can always uh use uh some tightening.
	The problem is not, however, with the law.
	The law didn't cause the influx.
	The influx was caused by people in the Biden administration, starting at the very head of the Biden administration, Mr. President Biden himself, uh deciding not to enforce the border.
	And so that's why there was one tool we By the way, didn't it take an oath to uphold our constitution, a sworn oath.
	And isn't every law correct me if I'm I'm wrong, you're the constitutional scholar, not I. Um doesn't every law isn't it predicated on that document?
	Maybe maybe I'm maybe I'm just misreading uh my my history.
	But I always understood that laws were based on the Constitution.
	Are they not?
	Yeah, they're based on the Constitution, and that it can't be a law unless you go through the process of passing it through the constitutional order.
	And the entire premise of the Constitution, Sean, the relationship between the executive branch and the legislative branch is that the so we have coequal branches of government, we have separation of powers, and if Joe Biden doesn't like a law, he doesn't have the luxury of just ignoring it and going a step further and aiding and abetting people and defying and breaking the law, does he?
	That would be that would be a violation of his oath to the Constitution, right?
	It is a violation of his oath to just decide that he's not going to enforce entire categories of laws, and that he's going to look for every means possible of forwarding, of circumventing those laws, bringing in millions of people, not of our own country coming in without authority from the United States.
	So the one tool that Congress has that it could wield right now to really push back on them is to say, look, you can insert the uh enforcing the border immediately.
	We demand that we do so.
	We ask to do so.
	As soon as you do so, we're we're happy to keep you funded.
	But if you if you're not willing within the next couple of weeks to start enforcing the border and show us real meaningful differences, showing us that you're actually enforcing the border.
	We don't have to fund your government.
	We don't have to fund your administration.
	We can stop funding it altogether, or we can fund only those portions of government that uh that uh we we uh choose to fund.
	But we're not going to keep funding you at these current bloated levels.
	Certainly if you're not even going to enforce the border.
	So uh Mr. Mr. Biden really has a choice to make enforce the border or we're shutting it down.
	We're showing what's going on in the Senate, because I don't see the Senate that supportive of efforts of of House Republicans on the two issues, their two priority issues, which is the border and spending.
	Uh I would think that those are two ninety, ten, eighty twenty issues for Republicans, and yet there seems to be no fight in a lot of your fellow senators and the and Republican senators.
	Why?
	Well, there needs to be, and and I think that uh when we reconvene in the Senate on Monday, I think a lot of members will have heard from constituents, friends, family members, neighbors, concerned voters throughout their states about this influx, this influx in the last few weeks has been absolutely devastating.
	And so, yeah, there's not a lot of fight that you've seen thus far, but I think conditions have changed, and I think you're going to see a lot more fight when we reconvene, and that's why my hope is that we can send this message.
	Uh we're not there yet.
	We don't have the votes yet to do it.
	But if if enough Republicans, uh either enough Republicans in the House or even just enough Republicans in the Senate, said, if you want us to fund your government, Mr. Biden, you gotta fund the border.
	And if if you don't give us border security, we're not giving you funding.
	The message is that simple.
	We could that's what you tweeted out.
	That you will not f you will not vote to fund the government until the border secure.
	That is the position of many House Republicans.
	Is that the position of every Senate Republican?
	No, it's not the position of every Senate Republican, it's not the position of every House Republican, but it should be.
	I believe that it should be.
	Some variation of that should be the position of every Republican in the House and in the Senate.
	For that matter, it should be the position of many Democrats.
	The simple reason that the American people want, deserve, expect, and need for our border to be enforced.
	And if the President just implemented enforced the laws the way they're written, we wouldn't have this problem.
	We wouldn't have millions of people spilling across our border every single year.
	This is wrong.
	It's got to stop.
	It's tragic, it's dangerous.
	Mr. Biden is responsible.
	He can fix it, and he must do so.
	Oh, I'd like to see it when you talk to your fellow senators, what are they saying to you?
	All right, so we've got a number who are sympathetic toward it so far.
	There are others who every time uh funding discussion comes up, are inclined to say things like, Well, gosh, uh it's so important to keep the government funded.
	Uh, we can't possibly talk about something, or we can't possibly talk about something that could result in a in a partial government shutdown.
	I think what they're missing here is that number one, President Biden would have to do this if we drew a line in the sand.
	This doesn't have to result in a shutdown.
	If he chooses to turn it into one, uh, that's his choice, but it's an indefensible choice he would be making.
	Number two, we have to ask ourselves the question.
	Power is there for a reason.
	It's got to be used at some point.
	If not us, who, if not now, when.
	If there isn't a if there is ever a scenario in which Congress is going to utilize its power of the purse to draw a line in the sand and say, Mr. President, no more.
	Do not subject this uh the American people to this anymore.
	I can't imagine a circumstance that is more compelling than this one to draw that line in the sand.
	All we're asking him to do is enforce the law as it's written.
	That is not too much, I don't think it's that much either.
	And it would, you know, I when we talk about issues of impeachment, I think not upholding uh your oath to the Constitution's pretty significant.
	I know that House Republicans are beginning uh an impeachment inquiry into Alejandro Mayorcus, uh, which is fine and good, but doesn't he take his direction from Joe Biden?
	Uh hasn't Joe Biden been as guilty as Mayorchis in terms of not enforcing the laws at our southern border?
	Yeah, many of us get the sense that Mr. Mayorcis uh would be fine with and would perhaps prefer to be enforcing the border more than he has been, but he's gotten direction to the contrary.
	That's uh that's the impression of a lot of members of Congress.
	I'm not privy to their private conversations, so I can't know that for sure.
	That may well be true, but it is certainly true, Sean.
	And he works for President Biden.
	And uh if if he were displeasing President Biden, presumably President Biden would either correct him or dismiss him or something.
	Ultimately, President Biden does play a role in this.
	But let's look, let's look at what's happening, Sean, because some of these border states, like Texas, for example, realizing we're going through an invasion, and they are the uh grand central station for the invasion.
	Not all invasions involve people who are uh, you know, part of a trained organized military force, and not necessarily even armed, just massive numbers of people coming in to a country without that country's, without that government's approval or permission.
	And so Texas decides to start, you know, putting in place laws uh and putting together programs so that they can push back on the illegal immigrant immigration passing through their borders.
	What does Joe Biden do with that this weekend?
	Well, he sues the state of Texas.
	He refuses to enforce our laws governing immigration, and then he sues Texas when Texas tries to protect itself from the ravages.
	It was down there on the border a few weeks ago.
	I spent two years on the U.S. Mexico border in southern Texas in the McCallan area.
	And I know uh how badly people are harmed, especially poor people, especially recent immigrants themselves, whose jobs, livelihoods, children, neighborhoods are are all put in jeopardy by uncontrolled waves of illegal immigration.
	So the state of Texas tries to stand up for its own people and its own right to exist peacefully without this going on.
	And Joe Biden sues them.
	This is shameful, and it's frankly worthy of impeachment, independently of anything else.
	I completely agree.
	All right, quick break more with Senator Mike Leah, Utah on the other side, 800-941 Sean on number when I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
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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 Nafok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
	This is Fiasco Benghazi.
	What difference at this point does it make?
	Yeah, that's right.
	Locker up.
	Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
	Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
	And I'm Carol Markowitz.
	We've been in political media for a long time.
	Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
	That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
	We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
	We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
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	Let me change topics on you a little bit here, and I want to go into the constitutional issue of the 14th Amendment, specifically section three, and the actions in Colorado, uh, which now apparently the the Trump team is brought to the U.S. Supreme Court and the issue in Maine and how wrong people are.
	Uh my understanding is with all the 91 charges that they've put on Donald Trump, uh, that he's never even been charged with the issue of insurrection, let alone been convicted of such.
	Not one person, not just Donald Trump, but not anyone.
	Not one person has been charged with insurrection.
	And then by the way, there are laws against insurrection, are they not?
	In other words, you could charge somebody With insurrection.
	You you could, and no one has been.
	But more than that, Sean.
	Donald Trump isn't even subject to exclusion under section three of the Fourteenth Amendment.
	The President's not mentioned while many other office holders are.
	Is that correct?
	That is correct.
	So presidential electors, electors for president and vice president, senators, representatives, uh other officers under the United States or Methodist.
	Now, was this uh was this a a mere omission that just was happened by accident or was it done purposely by our framers?
	No.
	Uh i it was done purposely.
	It was done purposely by those who who drafted and proposed and ultimately ratified the 14th Amendment.
	It was uh understood that this doesn't apply uh to presidents, and they didn't regard uh the that language.
	Uh the original public meaning, uh the the original understanding of that language well within the realm of what's possible and indeed what is likely, that will be uh I I I will not be surprised if it's a unanimous or at least a nearly unanimous decision.
	Because the text on this is pretty clear.
	The original understanding makes it even clearer.
	This doesn't apply here.
	What they've done is a mess.
	And in the name of protecting democracy, they have resorted to a really cynical approach of just excluding the lead competitor, the lead opposition leader of President Biden.
	This is wrong.
	Well, I think it's wrong, and I would imagine how quickly do you would you assume the Supreme Court has to weigh in on this?
	All right.
	So as a practical matter.
	The court um, I would think would want and need to jump on this pretty quickly.
	Uh a court can be very difficult to predict, as you know.
	Um and the court typically moves at a much slower pace.
	It typically takes many years for a case to get teed up uh for review by But this is one of a timely nature that they can't put off.
	Yes, this is a very unusual case in a very unusual posture, in which I think uh they they can't, and in any event will conclude that they shouldn't uh put off.
	I think they will take it up uh uh uh quite quickly, and I think they will uh resolve it.
	And I think what the um Maine Secretary of State did, what the Colorado Supreme Court did were wrong, and I think the Supreme Court will agree.
	All right.
	Senator Mike Lee, Utah.
	Thank you, Senator.
	Go have a crown burger on me, okay?
	We'll we'll do so.
	We'll do so, and thanks for plugging at base Mike Lee.
	I'm really appreciative.
	Senator, great to talk to you.
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	Now, before we uh get to the calls here, I gotta go back to Linda.
	I've been thinking about this as the show's been unfolding.
	So you had a birthday party for Liam, and you had 50 kids that you invited to your house for this birthday.
	Not a birthday party, a Halloween party.
	Okay.
	50 kids.
	Now, it wasn't just 50 of his guy friends.
	It was like guys guys anyway.
	It was the class, it's friends from camp.
	So it was little girls and little boys.
	Okay.
	And and what percentage were were little girls and what percentage were little boys.
	Very un very uneven.
	I would say probably, you know.
	90% boys.
	And then like a lot of people.
	Now, at that age, is there any there's no interest in like oh you know.
	I mean, they joke around about it and they say this one's my girlfriend or this one's my boyfriend.
	I'm like, well, what does that mean?
	It's like, oh, we share chips at lunch.
	Well, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
	Does Liam have a girlfriend?
	Uh Liam tells me he has several.
	He's very you know, he likes to spread the love around.
	Oh boy.
	Oh boy.
	Let me tell you, just wait till this kid gets older.
	You have no idea what you're in for.
	I do not correct.
	This kid is all boy.
	Yeah, I mean, he is gonna drive you nuts.
	I guarantee it.
	Um and so you actually did something decent.
	You actually got them Chick-fil-A, but and you gave them waffle fries.
	Here's the problem.
	You didn't order the waffle fries from Chick-fil-A.
	Why not?
	Because we had the party on a Sunday and Chick-fil-A's had open on a Sunday.
	So I pre-ordered the nuggies so I could reheat them and the wraps for the grown-ups.
	And then I made French fries.
	I just bought a bunch of friends.
	Well, what do you mean the wraps for the grown-ups?
	You didn't want it on the bread.
	Yeah, well, I mean, it's a lot of bread.
	I mean, yeah.
	Right.
	Right, so then you then you bought a bunch of frozen waffle fries that you air fried.
	String fries and all the things.
	Yeah, I put them in the oven.
	And then I had a bunch in the air fryer.
	These poor kids.
	I know they suffered.
	They suffered.
	They really do.
	If it wasn't for me, Liam Liam never would have had his first happy meal.
	And one of the best moments in this on this radio show in the history of this radio show is when I got your son to admit that he preferred McDonald's french fries over your air fried French fries.
	That is see, you're having a senior moment, and I'm gonna forgive you for this.
	Okay, I'm not having a senior moment.
	We can pull the tape and I can play it for you because he sat in my studio and he said he preferred McDonald's over your air fried baked French fries.
	I like McDonald's fries a lot, but mommy makes good.
	No, I said that was not the question.
	Uh, excuse me, you're having your own Biden moment because I remember it specifically.
	Oh, yeah, no, you're having a Biden moment.
	Because I said, Liam, which French fries do you like better?
	Uh McDonald's or mom's air fried French fries.
	Oh, McDonald's.
	Listen, he thinks fast food is very good because it's disgusting and people love it, and it's fine.
	I just wait.
	He thinks that fast food is really good because people love it, and it's awful.
	Of course.
	They have the gold.
	Well, they wouldn't love it if it was it's it's not that awful.
	It's pretty awful.
	Actually, if if I didn't have to manage my weight all the time, I'd be eating it every day.
	But just from a cleanliness perspective, I mean, I think if you polled the audience.
	I'm very happy with the cleanliness of McDonald's.
	I'm very clean.
	I'm very happy.
	Do you need your eyes checked?
	I mean, it's not good.
	It's not a good thing.
	I like McDonald's.
	I don't like I don't like Burger King French fries.
	I love Wendy's.
	I love White Castle.
	You know I love In N Out Burger.
	You know I love Crown Burger.
	But let me not make a blanket statement.
	When you go into a fast food restaurant, you have to make a choice.
	You look at the way that the people that are working there are keeping themselves, are they washing their hands or their hair is properly tied back?
	They look fine to me.
	They're in their uniforms, they're polite.
	I'll catch the clean the kitchen's clean.
	I went over to a friend's house and they were involved in this big project of you know going through stuff in the garage and getting rid of everything.
	I said, guys, you want me to go get you lunch?
	Sure.
	So I go to a burger place and I buy burgers for everybody, and everybody had their own special Order, so it was annoying as hell.
	And anyway, I got um I'm giving this young woman a the list of what it is and all the special stuff, and she's writing it down.
	She went through great care to get it done properly and and label each one which one was which, and I gave her a twenty dollar tip.
	And it was clear that this woman had never been tipped before.
	I was shocked.
	She was shocked.
	And I was shocked.
	She was so shocked.
	Wait, you went into the restaurant and you tipped you tipped the cashier?
	Yeah.
	She was extru she was extraordinarily pleasant.
	She was very diligent.
	I mean, I had a lot of burgers I was ordering.
	Everyone was different.
	And she got the orders right.
	She really took her time, was pleasant, you know, and was taking a little while.
	She said, Well, you know, uh, it'll probably be another five minutes, but we're going as quickly as we can.
	And I was like, no problem, take your time.
	And I just felt like giving her a tip.
	I mean, listen, what I will tell you is when people do large orders, I always tip them.
	But if I'm just like getting like a couple of things, I'm not tipping.
	Okay.
	Fast food restaurant.
	That's not a thing.
	If you bring it to my table, I'll tip you.
	All right.
	Well, I'm gonna tell people to bring it to your table.
	Uh let's go to our busy phones this Friday.
	Uh all right, let's say hi.
	Uh, to Bill in the free state of Florida, my new home state.
	How are you, sir?
	Glad you called.
	Happy New Year.
	Sean, a heart filled and sincere welcome to you and your family to our great state.
	Uh I thank you.
	What took your own.
	By the way, I'm not I'm like the last one here.
	My kids are made it here before me.
	Okay, awesome.
	Great stuff.
	Um, first of all, first question real quick.
	Is Linda coming down to Florida?
	I would I've I've offered her the opportunity to, but she likes she's you know, like, we'll not be coming to Florida anytime soon.
	I am a see-through pale kind of gal.
	I'm gonna stay in the northeast.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Well, by the way, if you went to Florida, there's something there's a new product on the market, you might not have heard about it.
	It's called sunscreen.
	Yeah, but it's just I don't know.
	Gotta experience it.
	You can get SPF 100 if you want, and you can't get sunburn.
	Anyway, go ahead, Bill.
	Sean, um, first of all, I've been f thank you uh very much.
	I've been following you since Hannity and Combs.
	I respect you, and thank you wholeheartedly for what you do.
	Um my question, I'll get right to it.
	Why does it seem that the media dictates where law enforcement directs their attention?
	And by that I mean when Benghazi was in the news and Hillary Clinton with the computers and everything, it disappeared from the news.
	Nothing seems to be happening.
	Our president spits on the sidewalk or has documents or his family does something, it's in the news, and all of a sudden law enforcement is all over it.
	I don't understand.
	Really, does the media dictate where law enforcement directs its attention?
	Um, to a certain extent.
	I mean, did you ever ask yourself why are some cases, you know, they become big, big public cases that we talk about endlessly, you know, Ferguson, Missouri, Freddie Gray and Baltimore, UVA, Duke LaCrosse, uh Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman, and you know, why every week, you know, that hundreds of people are shot monthly in Chicago, shot and shot and killed, and you never hear about the the names of innocent people that are killed or murdered.
	Why is that?
	I mean, but I'll tell you what the reason that I've concluded is uh unless they can exploit something politically, Democrats don't want to, you know, they don't want to talk about it.
	So the media yes, exactly.
	And so the media does have an effect on exactly what happens in this country as far as law enforcement goes.
	Well, it has an effect in that way, but they're also gonna have an effect on the election and what they cover and what they don't cover.
	You know, yesterday the mob, the media, oh my gosh, Donald Trump got money.
	The same media ignoring everything involving Barisma and Joe Biden and his actions that he took as vice president, leveraging a billion dollars and his son with no experience, addicted to drugs being paid to sit on a board, and he knew nothing about you know any anything related to energy.
	And they're trying to say, well, Donald Trump made money off of countries, twenty countries because uh there were people from these countries that actually got rooms in his hotel and everything.
	I'm like, okay, did you think that Donald Trump is president was getting a list daily of every single solitary uh guest that showed up at one of his uh hotels or apartments?
	No.
	That that's not how it works.
	Nice try, though.
	I mean, Hannity uh, you know, he stepped in it.
	What if this ever happened to Trump or to the Trump family?
	It is not the same thing as the influence pedaling charges that the Biden family's facing.
	And they know it's a lie, and they've ignored all of that, and now they're trying to muddy the waters in the lead up to the campaign because they know it's such a damaging issue for Joe Biden.
	I mean, that's how they work.
	They are corrupt.
	We have an abusively corrupt and biased media.
	Period.
	They don't tell the truth.
	Um anyway, Bill, listen, where where in Florida are you?
	I am in Palm Beach.
	Beautiful Palm Beach.
	Uh hopefully I'll see you in town one day.
	800, 941 Sean, our number if you want to be a part of the program.
	Uh let's say hi to Laura, North Carolina.
	What's up, Laura?
	How are you?
	Happy New Year.
	Um, I'm doing well, thank you.
	Um I this follows up great with um uh Tom Holman and Senator Mike Lee.
	I'm calling about the emigration system.
	Um, our wonderful president, um, and referring to the Middle East, said stop.
	Just amazing.
	Well, I'm gonna say another amazing thing about the border and Ness.
	And uh this there's so many things wrong with this country, but that has got to be number one.
	And Mike Lee Senator Lee said, it's not just Republicans and Democrats, it's everybody's got to get on board.
	My very simple solution, maybe to help the rest of America that doesn't watch Fox News or the other conservative uh outlets is during COVID, uh they uh the left outlets were you know all over themselves with side screens of COVID deaths and COVID infections and all this kind of stuff and unvaccinated and vaccinated.
	Maybe your show, maybe the whole Fox network, don't know how the network works.
	Have a little sidebar that consistently with your drone at the border and Bill Melusion shows 24 hours a day, how many people are coming through, how many people are waiting in line, how much trash, how well dressed these people are, Chinese people carrying suitcase across the desert.
	Right.
	So that's my suggestion, because apparently to most people, this isn't happening.
	It's no big deal.
	And our most wanted or should be wanted criminal in the United States is our Manchurian president, who is the number one sex trafficker, drug trafficker.
	Um he's allowing it all to happen, isn't he?
	He's not enforcing the laws of the land and he's not securing the border, uh, and he's violating his oath to the Constitution.
	Exactly.
	And um I have family members that have served in the military since World War One.
	My uh son is in the 82nd airborne, was second to the Abbey Gate and had to clean it up.
	And I when Bill uh Biden was elected, I'm like, he's gonna ruin this country, he's gonna kill our our our blood and treasure, including my son.
	Um but now he's doing it in a slow and steady way, and he's complicit with so many politicians on both sides of the aisle.
	Well he's complicit and you know what, you're right.
	I mean, I I think you have a pretty good idea there in reminding people.
	Most people now get it.
	It's it's taken a lot of coverage on the part of people like me and and some others uh to get the message out and show the images that the rest of the media won't show.
	Remember when they were overcrowded cages with kids in the middle of a pandemic and Joe Biden didn't want to show them, and he had built those cages.
	You know, we were able to get images only because Senator Ted Cruz went to the border.
	All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
	Uh let not your heart be troubled.
	Hannity tonight, nine Eastern on the Fox News channel.
	Hannity shootout tonight, nine Eastern.
	Uh, set your DVR on Fox.
	Also, Sarah Huckabee Sanders will join us.
	Yep.
	She is uh a governor of a state that is gaining population.
	Gee, big surprise.
	Conservative policies actually attract a lot of people.
	Uh Rand Paul, Judge Janine Pierrot tonight, Tommy Larren, Leo 2.0 Terrell, and Clay Travis.
	Set you DVR.
	We'll check in at 9 o'clock tonight.
	Hope you'll join us on the Fox News Channel.
	Thank you for a great first week and a warm welcome from my new home, the free state of Florida.
	Uh, couldn't be happier being here, and the people couldn't have been nicer.
	I'm so grateful.
	Anyway, thank you for making the show possible.
	Have a great weekend.
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