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Senator Rubio - February 12th, Hour 3
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Republicans have the numbers, the strength, if they would just unite around two big items.
One is insist on securing our borders, and that would mean bringing back the Trump policies that work.
And number two, somebody's got to get a hold of this massive budget deficit that we have every year.
Last year, under Biden, $2 trillion additional dollars in debt that he's taken on.
We can't afford to live this way.
And if Republicans in the House and the Senate would unite around those two principles, I think there's a lot that can be accomplished.
Anyway, it's always a privilege to have back Senator Marco Rubio.
Well, we got a lot to talk about.
Those are the two issues that I would say, with the limited majority that the Republicans have in the House, if they could unite around borders and the budget, those two issues, and then have a series of votes on all of the issues that Democrats don't want to vote on.
I think that would be the best strategy for 24, but nobody listens to me.
Well, look, I think we've got these major issues that play out over time.
The debt is one of them.
It's just unsustainable.
Everybody tells you that.
Everybody knows it.
It's one of those things that we keep kicking the can down the road on, and we're not going to be able to do that much longer.
Interestingly enough, China's kind of facing the same thing now, too.
But I think the most pressing issue before the country as an immediacy, if you went out there today and talked to people, are two things.
Number one is life is just way more expensive.
I don't care what Biden says.
For everyday people, the stuff that we need, like the necessities, housing, food, you name it, way more expensive.
And the other is we're being invaded.
I mean, I don't know any other way to describe what is happening at our southern border.
And what's frustrating about it is that it's not just being tolerated.
It was encouraged.
It was created.
And it was our hope that as part of this debate on spending money on Ukraine, for example, that we would be able to do something real when it came to the border.
The administration doesn't need a law to do that.
And, you know, it doesn't look like that's going to happen, even though we keep fighting.
It looks like we're, at least in the Senate, just sort of walked away from any chance of doing anything.
And people don't understand it.
They just don't understand how we could spend three or four days here on that and not deal with our own invasion.
You know, Senator, here's my biggest fear is on top of just the overall cost.
I mean, you're talking about billions of dollars.
We're now approaching 10 million unvetted Joe Biden illegal immigrants because of the policies he's put in place.
I mean, I listened to Mayorkas again this week and say, well, we're not responsible for any of this.
We had nothing to do with any of this.
I'm like, yeah, you did.
Your policies actually made it worse.
And it's frustrating to me.
He actually said, we don't bear responsibility for a broken system.
Now, that's not what they've been telling us the last three years, Senator.
You know this as well as anybody.
They've been saying the border's closed and the border's secure.
Now that it's a big issue in the country, now I guess this is, what, an election year conversion?
But I don't think it's going to fly with the American people.
And it's something simple to do.
We've proven we can do it.
Yeah, the reason why we have an illegal immigration deluge is an invasion.
It has nothing to do with a broken system.
It's because they're not applying the law.
I mean, it is the first, Joe Biden is the first president in American history who made the decision to release, not detain, release virtually every single adult that comes here illegally across the border.
It never happened before in our history.
Not even Obama did that.
On his first day in office, he put a 100-day moratorium on deportation.
He told everybody throughout the campaign, and as president did within the first month, to reverse all these Trump immigration policies, and that included not detaining people.
Our immigration laws are not, I mean, it's a complex area of law, but when it comes to some aspects of it, they're not difficult to understand.
The law is this.
It details who's allowed to be in our country, and it says if you're here and you're not allowed to be here, you're supposed to be detained until you're removed.
And then it has some very narrow exceptions that throughout our history have been applied in a case-by-case basis.
He basically took the exception and made it the rule.
And so they've released people, and so more people come.
That's why this happened.
And it's not going to get better.
It's going to get worse.
And now we're seeing a crime wave.
And I think something worse is going to happen, you know, and, and, and then people are going to, I want you to freeze frame that because I've been saying it.
When we look at the number of people coming from China, Russia, tens of thousands, and the numbers from China seem to be growing exponentially.
And then we've got people from Iran that are catching at the border, over 600 of them, and their satellite, 500 plus from Syria that we know about.
Then thousands from Egypt, home of the Muslim Brotherhood, thousands from Afghanistan, home of al-Qaeda.
And again, they're not being vetted.
And I'm like, have we not opened ourselves up to the biggest national security threat in our lifetime?
I would tell, without getting into any sort of things that are classified, I'll just ask everybody to use common sense.
Do we not think that ISIS, Al-Qaeda, virtually every terrorist group has Balo Hamas?
Do we not think that these people are not aware that the best, most effective, largest, biggest, most successful smuggling operation in the history of the world is operating right now off the southern border of the United States?
Do we not think that they don't realize this?
And they do realize it.
And so it just common sense tells you that if they wanted to get terrorists inside the United States, and they do, they would use that.
They would use that system.
And they claim they vet them.
Let me tell you, let's suppose they did vet them.
Okay.
And there are at least 12 countries in the Western Hemisphere where if you have enough money, you can buy documents and passports with fake identities, claiming to be someone you're not.
We know this.
So I think we have to assume, unfortunately, and I say this, and I hope I'm wrong.
I really do hope I'm wrong.
It is just a matter of time before something really bad happens.
And when it does, people are going to look at all these people up here in Congress and say, why didn't you do anything about it?
And the answer is going to be, well, you know, we were here through Super Bowl weekend, and it was all about stuff that's happening around the world, which I do think we have to be involved in.
Look, I think most Americans are not on Putin's side, but I think they asked themselves, how can we help another country with their own invasion and not help our own country with our invasion?
We can't be strong for other countries if we're weak.
You did see these retired top FBI officials, counterintelligence officials.
I mean, the best of the best.
This is when the FBI certainly had a lot more respect in people's eyes than it does now.
But they're all saying that this is an invasion of, you know, basically foreign male immigrants that are of a war age, that are, you know, potential threats to the country, and we don't know much about them.
And I know you said over the weekend that you obviously want, you looked at this deal, and the deal was awful.
And I'm trying to think, what was Lankford and McConnell thinking by putting this deal, even bringing this deal to the caucus?
It was worse than what we originally thought it was, and they tried to sell us as if it was the best thing since sliced bread.
It was not.
Well, immigration law can be tricky because one word in a sentence changes the whole meaning of the thing.
And so one of the things they did is they created an asylum corps.
Basically, thousands of new asylum officers, not judges, officers, who at the border would have the power to basically either grant an immediate permanent, immediate work permit and allow into the country those who showed up at the border, or they would actually even have the power to grant them asylum right there and then on the spot.
And then I had an interview last week, yesterday with Jake Tapper on CNN, who's always been fair to me, but he says, well, but there's no pathway to citizenship in this bill.
But that's what asylum is.
Asylum, most people don't realize this.
Asylum is a pathway to citizenship.
If you are granted asylum, you are basically granted a green card, and in five years, and the time under asylum counts towards those five years, you are allowed to become a citizen and a voter, which is what Democrats want.
What they see is a chance for one or two million new voters that are going to give them credit for allowing them into the country.
So that was in that bill.
And the restriction on it was something called the Convention of Torture, which means against torture, meaning you can only give it to people under that international treaty.
Well, the way it's been defined is you can basically not deport anyone to any country where criminal gangs kidnap people, kill people, extort people, harm people.
That's like 105 countries in the world.
That's a huge loophole.
It was right in the law, and we would have had a pathway.
It was a tricky way to achieve what they've always wanted.
And how does that make the system better?
It makes it far worse than what it is today.
By the way, I had this confirmed by your colleagues, Ram Paul and Ted Cruz, and they specifically heard my name being singled out.
Yeah, we don't want this information getting over to people like Sean Hannity.
And I'm thinking, well, it's not me that they really care about here.
It's the fact that we're on 750 radio stations and that we're on Fox News.
And what they really were saying is they didn't want the people to know the contents of this bill.
And I don't know if you heard it as well, but I mean, that frustrates me because that tells me that they knew darn well the conservatives would not buy this if they understood what was in the bill.
Well, first of all, we don't need, I never asked for a bill.
I always, you know, it kind of bothers me when I read Republicans asked for a deal and then they rejected it.
Well, I didn't ask for a bill.
I said, I want Biden to reverse all of the executive orders that he made.
Let me ask you about this.
I mean, you saw the her report, and I mean, it was as damning, I guess, as any report you can ever have acknowledging that the president willfully retained classified top-secret documents, which means he willfully broke the law.
And then you see the double standard in terms of our justice system yet again.
And that was frustrating to me.
But more importantly, I mean, he laid out in great detail just how bad Joe Biden's cognitive state was on two separate occasions.
He had no idea the years that he was vice president, and he couldn't come within years of remembering when his son Bo passed away.
And I'm listening to the media and all the Biden sycophants out there, you know, outraged over the special counsel.
My attitude is if they're that upset about it and they think it's mischaracterized, why don't we let the American people see the interview?
Yeah, well, I think that's important at this point.
And I think, but here's the really interesting thing about it, okay?
What the report basically said is a crime was committed.
All the elements of a crime are here.
And the only reason we're not going to prosecute it is because we don't think that a jury will convict a man who is clearly suffering from age-related dementia.
So in essence, he was not clear.
They basically just said, okay, so this is why we can't take this case to trial.
And so you ask yourself one of two things.
If in fact the president's argument now is, well, he doesn't have age-related dementia.
What they're basically arguing is he should have been charged.
That's pretty much the case.
And if you look at the Hillary case, they found all of those top secret classified documents on her server.
And then she deleted 33,000 emails that were subpoenaed and used something we had never heard before called bleach bit and then had AIDS-destroying devices with hammers and removing SIM cards.
Nothing happens.
No reasonable prosecutor or prosecute.
But then they raid Mar-a-Lago.
And if you look at the boxes at Mar-a-Lago and you look at her's report and the pictures of Joe's top secret classified information, boy, those boxes look an awful lot alike.
And it just shows to me just how bad this dual justice system really is.
There's a lot of hypocrisy embedded in this, right?
Because they used prosecutorial discretion not to pursue the issue of Joe Biden because of the dementia issues that I've mentioned.
But they chose to go after Donald Trump, even though there's no harm alleged in that sense.
No one's alleging that somehow this stuff was provided to a foreign power.
So there's no harm alleged.
The only harm that they've caused is now the country's been deeply divided.
Confidence in our judicial system's been undermined.
You saw the boxes in Joe Biden's garage just thrown around, messy.
Those things are very vulnerable.
For most of those, he was a private citizen at that point.
I'm not excusing this.
I don't think these documents should have been anywhere outside of where they should have been.
But at least in Mar-a-Lago, they had like secret service agents and they had locks on the doors and they had cameras everywhere.
Joe Biden, anybody could have stolen those things.
Just walked into his garage and taken them.
Well, the FBI was in Mar-a-Lago.
They saw the room the documents were in and they didn't do a thing and called back days later and said, can you put another lock on the door?
I mean, if they wanted it, they had free and open access to it previously.
Why didn't they take it then?
Senator Marco Rubio, as always, thank you, sir.
Great to have you and look forward to being a good constituent for the people of Florida.
Sure, you will be.
I'm looking forward.
I'm glad it's happening.
Yeah, me too.
It's been fun.
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All right, before we get to your calls, I know a lot of you have been very patient.
Let's just take a little bit of time here and listen to Joe's forgetful moments in a rather long montage to prove our point.
I mean, it's amazing, Linda, that they're now going back to like 2018.
Hannity said this in 2018.
He mixed up Matt Gates and Jason Chaffetz.
I'm like, yeah, but I don't sound like him.
But anyway, here's Joe.
The best way to get something done, if it holds near and dear to you, that you like to be able to anyway, from Charlotte won another line going from in Florida.
Although I admit, Soley and his wife had an event in Los Angeles back in the spring, late fall, early, I mean, late spring, late winter, early fall, early, anyway, you know what I mean.
Putin's kleptocracy.
Yeah.
There is some movement, and I don't want to, I don't want to exchange my words.
There's some movement.
There's been a response from the there's been a response from the opposition.
But yes, I'm sorry.
From Hamas is becoming much more informed on the motives of some of the political players and some of the Los Angeles and what am I doing here?
For two reasons.
One, to because we haven't been able to communicate it in a way that is not a solid meeting with the actually.
Well, look, I mean, he has made clear that the answer is, but look, let me ask a rhetorical question.
No, anyways.
I keep forgetting I'm president.
I mean, if that doesn't prove it, I don't know what will.
I mean, the fact that Democrats are so indignant and outraged and feigning outrage over this cracks me up to a certain extent.
All right, let's go to Len is in Utah.
Len, hi, how are you?
Glad you called.
Happy Monday.
What's going on?
Thanks, Sean.
It's an honor to talk to you.
I'm just wondering why it is that conservatives always allow the Democratic machine to set traps and spring them near the end of almost every election cycle.
Why is that?
The trap this time is so obvious, but no one's talking about it.
Conservatives.
You're going to, let me guess.
You're going to tell me the trap is that they're going to replace Biden last minute.
Well, that's part of the trap, but the trap's bigger than that.
I mean, the whole ears.
Why in the world is the Democratic Party and the liberal media not acknowledging that the majority, vast majority of Americans think Biden's too old, and even a majority of the Democrats in this last AP poll.
Instead, they keep propping him up as their only true candidate.
And I think the reason is they're setting a trap.
I don't think they intend to have Biden as their candidate, nor have they had that in their plan for a very long time.
Here's the trap.
They entice the conservatives to spend all their election prep time fighting against Biden, tilting at windmills.
To the American public, conservatives will spend the majority of this election cycle beating up on an old man, making fun of him, exposing all his gaps, laughing at him, blaming the state of the economy on him and his policies, when in fact, it's the Democratic Party's policies that are to blame.
Then, starting now, as you just discussed with Congressman Ronnie Jackson, and before their convention, they spring their trap.
They say to the American people, we've heard you.
We don't want to let the Republicans and the conservatives continue to beat up on poor old Mr. Biden any longer.
We will therefore give you a new candidate, as you have suggested.
In essence, the Democratic bosses become the heroes by saving America, and conservatives are the villains who spent their entire time beating up on an old man that they plan to discard anyway.
The trap sprung.
Well, look, we have obviously talked about it.
There's been a lot of speculation about it.
I don't think he's strong enough physically, mentally, cognitively to be president.
Is this a real possibility?
Yeah.
Are we to then just assume that it's definitely going to happen?
I think that would be naive also.
As of now, it's Joe Biden.
Do I think that there are conversations behind closed doors among top Democratic operatives to do exactly as you're suggesting?
Yeah, I do.
Do I think Michelle Obama really wants it?
I don't believe she likes politics.
I don't think she wants to go back there.
However, I mean, the lure of the presidency is pretty powerful, so you can make an argument that she would be more interested than maybe we'd think.
How do you leapfrog over Kamala Harris?
I think that becomes problematic for them.
I think Gavin Newsom has been pretty clear that he doesn't feel it's his place to do so.
Gretchen Whitmer has a book that they're rushing out all of a sudden.
That makes me suspicious about her.
But, you know, you've got to deal with the hand you're dealt on any given day.
And on this given day, they're sticking with Joe, and they're lashing out against anybody that states the obvious that this guy is a mess.
So that's where we are for today.
But should we pay attention to it?
Yeah.
Should we prepare for that?
100%.
Yeah.
Do I think Republicans are?
I think they are more than you think.
But we'll find out as time rolls on.
But it's a big question mark, isn't it?
It is.
Couldn't conservatives spend the rest of this election cycle just getting the truth out that every single failure of this presidency is really the failures of the Democratic Party that it is.
I think that's a great messaging point, too.
You're right.
Maybe we'll give Biden too much credit, and Biden hasn't even been checked in since day one.
Never mind checking out.
He's been checked out the whole time.
They're the real villains, the liberals and the party bosses, because they've propped up this man, old Biden.
They're letting him take a beatdown again and again, and they're letting him take the blame for their failed policies.
The heroes need to be the conservatives who expose this to the American people again and again and again in this election cycle.
That's the truth.
Yeah.
Let's see what happens.
I mean, it's going to make it for one hell of an interesting election year, especially we are only 266 days away from Election Day.
Anyway, Len, appreciate the call.
Thoughtful call.
Something that all of us should be aware of.
I think most people are.
And we should be planning for, I guess, plan A, B, C, D, whatever the Democrats throw at the country at the last moment.
Todd is in Missouri.
Todd, you're next on the Sean Hannity show.
Glad you're checking in.
How are you, sir?
Good.
Yourself, Sean, appreciate what you do for the nation.
And I do concur with that guy, and that falls right into my call of how that I hope you, as Trump's friend, are president and voted for him.
I plan on voting for him again.
I've got a 10-foot tall by 40-foot-long Trump sign in my yard, red, white, and blue.
But the problem with Mr. Trump is his mouth.
I mean, he can't shut up when he should be more presidential and not bicker on the little petty stuff because that is, you know, I'm in the Midwest and people, I'm 63, people from 23 to 98, I got a friend.
He just can't stand that Trump nitpicks little stupid stuff.
Just tell us your policies that we love.
Go against the Democrats' failed policies.
And like that guy said, point out.
Let me ask you a question.
do you not think that there are people that have told them this again and again and again?
I mean, yeah, but you friend, you've got the heartbeat of the nation and And he's like that presidential debate, the first one with Biden three years ago.
He lost his commitments.
His comment about Nikki Haley, oh, her fancy dress.
Well, it's not really that fancy.
He just insulted a bunch of the nation that can't afford a $100,000 dress like his beautiful wife can.
Listen, I'll take it a step further.
The only one, in my view, that can really be Trump this election year, and there might be a Democrat or two, but let's put that aside.
Let's assume for the sake of this discussion that it's going to be Biden.
I think the biggest obstacle to President Trump will be him.
And I think that everybody sees what you see and understands it.
It's kind of hard, though.
You're asking a thoroughbred to rein in and pace themselves and to have more discipline and more control.
I mean, what makes us like him so much.
That's what he needs.
Yeah, listen, I think a little more message discipline.
Now, with that said, I have seen a lot more message discipline.
I thought he broke away from it in New Hampshire when he got pissed off at Nikki Haley's speech.
He just won the state by double digits.
That's a tough state to win by double digits when you have so many independents in the race and have the ability for Democrats to vote in the Republican primary if they made the switch in October.
So he should have just been happy.
If you look at the polls, though, around the country, and we'll learn a lot more after South Carolina, if you look at the polls, they are very clear.
Trump is beating Nikki Haley handily in pretty much every state, including our home state.
If I was him and running his campaign, I'd be focused on the general election much more than the primary.
Because I know Nikki has money.
I know she's spending the money.
I asked her this question last Thursday night when she was on TV.
I'm not trying to be mean.
There's a lot of things about Nikki Haley that I like, and I've always got along with her.
However, at this point, I don't see a path for her to win the nomination.
Why is she staying in?
Because a lot of people that don't like Trump have a lot of money, and they're giving it to her in the hopes that maybe somehow, some way, she might be able to slip in there last minute.
That's what I think is happening.
It's only a guess.
I don't tell people to get in a race or out of a race.
You know, she's going to stay as long as she wants.
And I think Trump just needs to focus on the things that you're describing here.
And I think he'd help himself a lot.
Agreed.
Another thing he did about Nikki Haley, and I'm not supporting her a bit, but he said that anybody that did vote for Nikki Haley, we don't even want.
Unless you're a full MAGA, we don't want your vote.
That's foolish.
He needs independence, and he is shooting himself in the foot if he doesn't grow up and be more presidential.
You are his friend, let alone interviewing.
And you, I think, kind of sugarcoat it.
You say, oh, he's just aggressive.
He's a thoroughbred.
Well, he's going to run himself right out of the race if he doesn't hear from people like you, you know, who has the heartbeat of the nation.
Tell him, you know, there are the people.
Let me put it this way.
I mean, look, I mean, I don't talk about conversations, private conversations I have with anybody that is in the public eye that is, you know, quote, potentially a source for me.
But I will tell you this.
I would give you this assurance that any advice I've given anybody in the political world, and Linda could, I think, affirm this for me.
She's been around me long enough.
I think my advice is always very, very solid.
I never sugarcoat it when asked.
Linda, I mean, does that make that can you affirm that?
Yeah, I would say, you know, one of your strengths has always been, you know, not sugarcoating it.
I've been in the room for some of the conversations with 45, and they're certainly not all friendly and quiet.
You know, you definitely, you guys have known each other for 20 plus years.
That leads to often a very candid conversation.
So, yeah, I would say you've been pretty frank.
Yeah, I mean, but, you know, you got to understand, too, that people are going to do what they're going to do.
You can't control.
You just can't control people that way.
Now, with that said, I think the more discipline, the better.
I'm an advocate, as you are, of message discipline.
And to the extent that I think Donald Trump does that, I think he helps himself.
To the extent that he lashes out, I think he hurts himself.
And, you know, this is now becoming a scenario where democratic policies have hurt the entire country.
And we've got to be very cognizant of that fact as we are now just a mere 266 days away from election day.
It's going to get here sooner than we think.
Anyway, my friend, I've got a roll.
Good call.
Appreciate it.
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