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Congressman Mike Waltz - February 15th, Hour 3
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When this news, when it broke last night and I saw it, my heart kind of sank.
You know, we're behind Russia and China when it comes to hypersonic missiles.
I'm not sure if most Americans are aware of that.
And the irony of all of that is I've been told by really, really great sources, both in Congress and in our military, that the technology that both China and Russia use for hypersonic missiles, actually the foundational intellectual property behind it came from us, which infuriates me even more.
But that would certainly give them an added advantage militarily that we can never allow them to have.
I mean, we've got to have the biggest, baddest, toughest, meanest kick-ass military on the face of this earth.
Otherwise, we're risking all of our freedoms.
And you get the wrong leader in the wrong place at the wrong time with weapons of mass destruction, and it could end in a disaster.
And that made me feel, you know, really even worse when I saw that the U.S., that our government has gathered highly sensitive intelligence about Putin and Russia and their anti-satellite weapons that now has been shared with the upper echelons of our government, according to people that have been briefed on the intelligence.
The people who were not authorized to comment publicly, but apparently this broke.
Congressman Mike Turner, for example, gave no details about the nature of the threat.
The Biden administration declined to talk about it.
Several leading lawmakers, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, cautioned against being overly alarmed.
Whenever the government says don't be overly alarmed, and I like Mike Johnson, but I'm sorry, I get alarmed.
Congressman Mike Waltz knows a thing or two about all of this.
We'll get to him in just a second, but here's Jake Sullivan, who won't give a straight answer on this national security threat.
In the simplest of terms, can you tell Americans that there's nothing they have to worry about right now in terms of what he describes as a national security threat?
Look, I think in a way that question is impossible to answer with a straight yes, right?
So that answer is impossible in light of the news that came out yesterday.
Wow.
Congressman Mike Waltz of Florida serves on the House Intel Committee.
He's here to talk about what is, I believe, a very serious national security threat facing our country.
I would argue the 10 million unvetted Joe Biden illegal immigrants are a serious national security threat.
We had top retired FBI officials calling this an invasion of military-age men.
That's one of them.
And this would be right there at the top of the list as well.
Anyway, Congressman Waltz, good to have you back.
And thank you for the warm welcome that you and other Floridians have given me since I've moved here officially on January 1.
How are you, sir?
Hey, great, Sean.
And absolutely.
Welcome to the free state of Florida.
You and so many others are voting with their feet on getting governed by good conservatives.
I just have been reassuring the people of Florida.
I've been telling people if they are considering moving to Florida from liberal states and blue states, it's fine.
Just don't bring your insane leftist, radical, climate alarmist, religious cult agenda with you.
I will not be one of those people.
I am staying with my conservative values.
I am not part of the left wing that could ruin the state potentially if they move down here.
But anyway, thank you for your warm welcome.
Yeah, I think that's a safe bet.
But, you know, there are parts of South Florida that have turned blue.
It's amazing.
I call them the locusts.
You know, they flee Massachusetts, New York, Illinois.
Then they come to South Florida, ruin it, or try to turn it blue.
Now we're seeing them migrate to North Florida.
So it's anyway.
Yeah, but it was interesting.
Governor DeSantis, in his first election, he won it by, I think, a little over 30,000 votes.
His last election, he won by 1.5 million votes.
And if I'm not mistaken, I think every single county voted for him, including in South Florida.
That's my instant recall.
Am I wrong on that?
No, that's right.
He flipped states or he flipped counties that have been blue for decades.
Two quick things on it.
One, the Republicans moving to Florida, the Florida Republican Party re-registered them to actually vote in Florida.
The Democrats shut down because of COVID, so they're still voting absentee back in Massachusetts or Illinois or wherever they came from.
But two, the bigger thing I think that got overlooked, we've had schools reopen five days a week in person since August of 2020.
Amazing.
And man, I don't care what your political persuasion is, having kids in school so you can go to work is a non-political issue.
And I think that spoke to those two things spoke to a lot of that historic re-elect.
I was like a political orphan in New York.
There wasn't one politician that liked me up there.
We had two governors back to back saying that if you're one of those conservatives and you're pro-life and you believe in the Second Amendment, you're not a New Yorker.
I mean, literally said that.
And there's no place for you here.
And then you had Kathy Hochul, the current governor.
I want to play this for you because I cannot believe that any governor would be telling people to get on a bus and get the hell out of town.
But this is what she said to the people of New York.
And I'm sitting there saying, all right, I'm heeding your admonition.
You don't want me.
And I'm leaving.
And I mean, leaving.
I've already written the state board of elections, you know, saying that take me off the voter rolls there.
I'm now registered in the state of Florida.
Here's Kathy Hochle.
And we're here to say that the era of Trump and Zeldon and Molinaro, just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong.
Okay?
Get out of town.
Get out of town.
Because you don't represent our values.
You are not New Yorkers.
Their problem is not me and the Democrats.
Their problem is themselves.
Who are they?
Are they these extreme conservatives who are right to life, a pro-assault weapon, anti-gay?
Is that who they are?
Because if that's who they are, and if they are the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York.
Because that's not who New Yorkers are.
I mean, can you imagine any governor of any state saying that?
Earlier in the program, we had on Christy Noam, and she's bringing in tens of thousands of people to her state by incentivizing them to come with open arms.
She's welcoming them.
If you're a licensed professional in one state, your license is transferable immediately in South Dakota.
If let's say you're looking for opportunity, apprenticeships and the trades are starting at 80 grand a year in South Dakota.
Is that not amazing?
Yeah, we've got, and we have similar programs along the space coast, literally building rockets, building engines, and the economy, the future.
But you know how many people are listening to Hochul and Cuomo's advice?
400 people a day are leaving New York, are fleeing New York.
And you know what else is leaving with them is their tax base and coming to Florida.
But New York has double the size of the state budget of Florida.
Yet their tax base is leaving.
And so at some point, the chickens are going to come home to roost.
But Sean, let me, since I'm in Washington, let me tell you what happens.
About every 10 years or so, when unfortunately the Democrats get both houses in the White House, they pass massive federal government spending and bail these blue states out, just like they did with the COVID spending, just like they did with the IRA.
And so you, I mean, not to be depressing, you think you're escaping those taxes, but really all the Democrats do is transfer it onto the federal books and off of the blue state books and then transfer it onto our debt that our kids are going to have to pay.
That's how they get away with it because people keep asking, how are they getting away with this massive state overspending up in the Northeast and in the North?
And that's what they do.
Eventually, their allies in Washington slide it on to our federal debt.
One of the best things Donald Trump did, and by the way, it negatively impacted me.
It financially, it caused me to take a, that had high income taxes, high local taxes, and you could deduct it on your federal tax form.
And I felt that that's unfair because states that elect fiscally responsible politicians and officials, they were being punished for electing the right people that didn't overspend.
And states like Florida, you don't benefit from that law.
You end up financing states that pick big tax and spend people.
But let me move on to the issue of the hand here because I'm a little nervous about this.
Have you heard what my sources told me that a lot of the hypersonic technology that we now know that China and Russia have, that the original, the origins, the intellectual property, a lot of it actually was stolen from the U.S. Had you heard that?
Yes, absolutely.
And really what happened was this was under development and with sequestration and the defense cuts under Obama, something had to give.
So certain things were put on the shelf and then certain things were stolen.
And it's truly a shame.
And here's, I just want your listeners to understand why this is so dangerous.
When an adversary launches an ICBM, we can predict the arc of it.
And that's how our missiles shoot it down.
With a hypersonic, it's basically a maneuverable ICBM that can fly around our radars, under our radars, and then falls to Earth so fast that our missile defenses really struggle to be able to hit it.
So it's a classic first-strike weapon.
Take out the command and control, take out the leadership, and then you can't respond, and therefore mutually assured destruction breaks down.
It's very serious, and we have got to catch up.
And it's just one of many things historians are going to look back on and say, they stole it from you to get ahead of you, and then your own money paid for it in terms of China, especially.
All right, quick break.
We'll come right back.
More with Florida Congressman Mike Waltz on the other side.
Our toll-free numbers, 800-941-Sean, as we roll along today.
We continue with Florida Congressman Mike Waltz.
And, you know, why is America, why are we allowing this administration and left-wing politicians to allow our top geopolitical foes to have military technology, a lot of which is intellectual property stolen from us?
They have hypersonic missiles.
Now they're talking about nukes in space.
Where is America in terms of keeping up and thinking about a long-term national security interest?
We continue with Congressman Mike Waltz of Florida.
Let me ask you this, because this was a pretty scary story and revelation yesterday.
Right.
And that is Russia's efforts to create these anti-satellite weapons.
And literally, I'm not sure if it's accurate to say they're putting nukes in space.
How would you describe it?
And how, on a scale of one to 10, how concerned should Americans be about this technology that apparently we don't have?
Well, look, I want to be clear.
No one should be diving into their, you know, diving into their bunker tomorrow.
So it's not necessarily a tomorrow thing.
However, it is incredibly serious.
And I'm not going to get into details, but Kirby just came out and according to what he's saying, confirmed part of this, that it's anti-satellite.
And here's what I want everybody to understand.
Our entire economy is now dependent on what's in space.
And we have much greater dependencies because our economy is vibrant than the Russians do.
So you take out our satellite, you take out GPS, you take out our nuclear early warning assets, and we have a huge, huge problem.
So this is a geostrategic game changer.
Just again, pointing to what the White House is now talking about.
And then I just want to make a second point.
Chairman Turner, this part's not getting out, was so frustrated he had sent multiple classified letters to this White House and got nothing in response.
So eventually he said, look, I can't sit on this.
There's only a few of us on the Intel Committee.
All members need to be aware, number one.
And number two, we're going to push the administration to declassify it because it doesn't just affect us.
It affects the entire world.
If our economies go dark with what's up in space, then that is, I mean, that's literally knocking us back to the dark ages economically.
So it was out of frustration with this administration.
But look, Sean, I mean, this is a White House that doesn't know where its defense secretary is.
Commander-in-Chief can't complete sentences.
It shouldn't surprise anybody that a very serious threat was out there and we couldn't get response from Congress, whether it's the border or whether it's this.
I mean, we couldn't get responses.
The lack of responsiveness on everything is scary.
I hope people are listening to you.
Congressman Mike Waltz, great Florida, the free state of Florida, sir.
America better catch up.
We need a new president that prioritizes peace through strength and a rebuilding of our military and advancing our technology to keep up at least, but we really should be surpassing all of our geopolitical foes.
But a scary scenario, Congressman.
Thank you for your time.
We always appreciate it.
All right.
Thanks, Sean.
Let me go back to this case.
We've been playing Fannie Willis.
My favorite cut is her when she was running for Fulton County DA saying that the people of Georgia and Fulton County, they need a DA that is not going to be involved in affairs with their subordinates and needs to stay on the straight and narrow.
I want to play that again.
Let's play that.
Because they deserve a DA that won't have sex with his employees.
Because they deserve a DA that won't put money in their own pocket when it should go to benefit children.
Because we deserve better.
And then Nathan Wade, her, well, frankly, overpaid, more inexperienced attorney that she paid, what, $654,000 to.
Apparently, they might have been living together, according to today's testimony and things that I've read, and also took these extravagant vacations.
He took 20 seconds to answer if he's ever been to a cabin with Fannie Willis ever.
And then he admits that he used a business credit card for trips with Fannie Willis, and she reimbursed him with cash, and then testified that Fannie Willis reimbursed him in case for safety reasons.
Wow, they have a great relationship.
Anyway, the very opposite of what she said she would do.
Let's play this.
You remember booking a cabin?
I booked lots of cabins.
Did you go to a cabin with Miss Willis ever?
Ever.
ever.
No.
You've never gone to a cabin with business.
No.
So all of the vacations that she took, she paid you cash for.
Yes, ma'am.
And you purchased all of these vacations on your business credit card, correct?
Yes, ma'am.
And you included those in deductions on your taxes, correct?
No, ma'am.
No, you did not.
Traveling with her is a task.
You can probably imagine the tension that happens.
So for safety reasons, she would limit her transactions.
I mean, imagine trying to walk through an airport or sit at a restaurant or do anything.
So there's no attempt to conceal the credit card.
Everything is here.
But don't worry.
We'll get a liberal judge that'll probably say, oh, it's okay.
She didn't have to disclose that.
Okay.
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We haven't really said enough about what happened yesterday in Kansas City.
I don't know what to say.
When I heard how many children were injured and shot, here about one person dead, 22 people injured, shooting near the Kansas City Chiefs.
They were having their Super Bowl victory rally in Kansas City.
One person dead, 22 others injured in this case.
Children's Mercy Hospital, God bless the people that worked there.
They've confirmed they treated 12 patients from the rally.
Out of those patients, 11 are children.
Nine of those children had gunshot wounds.
And the latest report we heard was good news that they're going to be okay, which is probably a miracle in and of itself.
It's just so sad that this evil exists everywhere.
And then, of course, you always have, oh, we need to ban guns.
Well, bad people, by their very nature, hate to tell you they're not the ones that are following the gun laws in the first place.
They're criminals.
Remember, the law doesn't matter to them.
It's law-abiding people that should have the right to protect themselves, kind of the way that our politicians are protected with bodyguards, etc.
You know, look at the amount of money that the squad members have been spending on their own personal security.
By the way, I'm not against it.
I think any elected official has a right to be safe and to be protected, regardless of where they stand politically.
And that goes for any elected official.
We've got to protect them.
Got to protect our institutions.
We've got to protect every American citizen, though, too.
And, you know, these have become war zones in some of our nation's biggest cities.
You ever think you'd see as many smash and grab robberies as we've been seeing?
You ever think you'd see the shootings in broad daylight?
You ever think you'd see five illegal immigrants beating the living hell out of two New York City police officers only to walk out of jail an hour later with no bell and given flipping the bird with both hands and then heading on out to the sanctuary state of California?
Wow.
What kind of times are we living in here?
Anyway, our prayers are with the people of Kansas City.
Linda, did you see that George Soros now is buying a controlling interest in America's second largest radio company?
The company, by the way, is called Odyssey.
And Soros apparently is poised to take a massive stake.
They own more than 220 stations nationwide, according to court filings.
And apparently the Soros fund management has bought up $400 million in debt in Odyssey.
Again, the number two U.S. radio broadcaster behind the company that I am in a partnership with, proudly in a partnership with, iHeartMedia.
They have some of the biggest stations.
If you look at New York, the sports station, WFAN or 1010 Winds or LA-based KROQ, according to bankruptcy filings, we did look into how many Odyssey stations this radio program is on.
We're now approaching 750 radio stations and affiliates around the country, and about seven of our affiliates will be impacted by this.
Now, is George Soros doing this for political purposes?
My instinct would say yes.
Does that mean that conservative talk show hosts that work for these stations need to maybe get their resume updated?
I would argue probably yes.
Does that bother me?
Yeah, it does.
You know, one of the beauty, the beauty of talk radio, which, you know, obviously Rush single-handedly saved the AM band.
He just did.
I mean, he took AM radio that was kind of withering on the vine and single-handedly revitalized the band by initiating talk radio to a national audience.
And he started with, I think, around 200 radio stations, you know, 20 some odd million listeners.
But it also created an entire format for conservative talk show hosts that, you know, certainly benefited people like me, the great one, Mark Levi.
I mean, I can't mention every talk show host I know it would like and love, but everybody that you know, or most of the people that you know.
And it has been an outlet for conservatives in this country to get news and information that they're never going to get from the mob, the media.
And that would be the three main networks, ABC, NBC, CBS, or that would include, you know, papers like the New York Slimes and Toilet Paper Times and the Washington Compost.
And that would include, you know, two cable networks, MSDNC and Fake News CNN.
So people have sought out and they now have found alternative sources of information and shows like this.
And thank you, by the way, for your support.
We can't do it without you listening.
And now we see a lot of stations, FM stations have gravitated towards the talk format.
That has brought in a lot more young people into the talk format because they, you know, a lot of young people never listen to AM radio.
Now, my kids did growing up because they'd be in the car and they'd hear AM radio when I was with them or if they were hearing my show.
However, otherwise, when I had asked their friends, they didn't even know what the AM band was.
But now they're finding talk on FM and also they've gravitated back to AM radio.
And what impact this has, I don't think anybody has any knowledge how this is all going to play out.
I certainly don't.
But the stake is equal to about 40% of the company's senior debt.
That is a massive chunk, which, although not a majority, could yield eventually effective control of the media giant when it emerges from bankruptcy.
This could be mark this day.
Could be a bad day for conservative talk radio down the road.
We shall see.
All right, to our busy phones we go as we now say hi to BJ is in North Carolina.
BJ, hi, how are you?
Glad you called.
Doing good, Sean.
Thank you for taking my call.
Thank you for checking in, man.
Glad you called.
Yes, sir.
I just had a question with the special report that came out and the classified documents.
What role, if any, is Obama playing in all this?
How would he not be at fault or be held responsible when he was president at the time?
Well, he could be.
I mean, that's a great point.
That's a point that Donald Trump has been made, and I'm making it.
I think it's very effective, right?
Yes, it is.
But if you're asking what role he might have had in the document case, I don't know.
I mean, honestly, if you look at, for example, the issue of the Biden family syndicate, there's never been any evidence that I have seen that Obama ever knew what Joe was doing.
I've not seen it.
And if I did, I would have obviously told you.
Anyway, appreciate the call.
Quickly, we go to Christy in Florida.
Christy, how are you?
Glad you called.
Doing great.
Thanks, Sean, for taking the call.
Thank you.
After her report come out, I've been watching Biden every day.
I am speaking from personal experience with dementia and Parkinson's.
My husband's family, they have dementia in the family.
An aunt passed away from it.
My mother-in-law suffers from it.
By the way, I'm very sorry.
I think everybody listening probably knows somebody.
I know I have known many people, and it's devastating.
It is.
This is a woman that was an educator.
She was my teacher in junior high.
I've known her 33 years.
To see what it has done, it is devastating.
My mother has Parkinson's.
We are caring for her as well.
I watch Biden day after day.
They call Lid every afternoon, very early.
This is what I believe and what we're witnessing.
It's what's called sundowning.
It's what dementia patients have.
And in the evening, usually around 4.36, something like that, they start getting very agitated.
They get intensely distressed.
They get agitated.
They start having hallucinations, such as talking to dead people.
They start having delusions, confusion.
It also makes it hard for them to sleep.
The majority of dementia patients that suffer from sundowning syndrome are usually given something for sleeping, like a sleeping medication.
This makes it very concerning for me as an American, as a citizen, that my president may be impaired during the overnight hours when there could be a national event that we need him in charge.
I wish I had more time.
Everything you are saying is absolutely true.
It is a clear and present danger to the country.
There's no other way to put it.
We need somebody.
It's the hardest job in the world.
We need somebody that is mentally and physically capable of being able to do that job to the best of their ability.
This is not the Joe Biden of 40 years ago or even four years ago.
Great point.
I'm sorry about your family and you having to deal with this too.
It's not fun.
All right, quick break, right back.
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