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Flagstock 2024 - March 3rd, Hour 1

Guest host Brian Mudd fills in for Sean and kicks off the show with a celebration for the fraternity brothers who made headlines protecting the American flag from anti-Israeli protestors.  Country star John Rich stops by to share news about his celebratory concert, "Flagstock", which celebrates these students with a free concert!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And happy Friday.
We got that going for us.
We got Joe Biden who's still president of the United States.
So that's kind of working against us.
And let's see, check, high inflation that's re-accelerating.
So yes, the Fed is going to continue to keep interest rates really high.
That happened this week.
Yeah, check, we continue to see that the prosecution in the New York state trial against Trump just desperate.
Hope Hicks now?
Hope Hicks?
I mean, seriously, you talked about grasping at straws.
Former Trump aid communications director.
I mean, she's going to be, you know, a silver bullet here.
I mean, that thing just continues to unravel for the prosecution.
Oh, yeah.
A little bit about anti-Semitism on college campuses and how the inmates and the anti-Semites continue to run these asylums as you have numerous colleges that are caving at this point.
We had jobs report this morning, not good.
Unemployment rate higher.
I mean, yeah, just freaking fantastic.
But it is Friday.
It is Friday.
But if we were to deduce Joe Biden to one word, one that's arable anyway, feckless is a really good choice.
The man is forever feckless, and that has been on full display this week.
So yeah, yesterday, after 16 days of illegal anti-Semitic protests on over 70 college campuses across 34 states, resulting in the arrest of over 1,700 people, President Biden finally decided he had something to say.
We'll talk about that.
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So yeah, 16 days of illegal anti-Semitic protests over 70 college campuses where this nonsense plays out over 34 states.
And we have over 1,700 people arrested, which we found out, you know, somewhere in the neighborhood of half of them, not actually students, but outside agitators, pros, people that have been paid off by all kinds of interest groups, including George Soros.
That's fun.
Shows you how easy it is to manipulate so many of these kids on college campuses.
But anyway, you had Joe.
He stepped up to the microphone yesterday in the Roosevelt room in the White House and he said, and then we've all seen images.
And they put to the test two fundamental American principles.
Excuse me.
That was in his speech.
He got through the first line and then he said, excuse me, he coughed.
He said, the first is the right to free speech and for people to peacefully assemble and make their voices heard.
The second, the rule of law.
Both must be upheld.
We're not an authoritarian nation where we silence people and squash dissent.
You know, unless, of course, you're Donald Trump, in which case, we will weaponize the justice system against you.
That will happen.
And we will have a judge all but like literally gag you.
But other than that, you know, we are, we're not authoritarian.
We don't silence people.
We don't squash dissent.
Just, you know, if you're Trump.
He said the American people are heard.
In fact, peaceful protest is in the best tradition of how Americans respond to consequential issues.
But, but neither.
Are we a lawless country?
What appeared to be going on at that point is the teleprompter was an issue.
You know, he's like, what?
I think it's like 45 seconds into his speech.
So naturally it started to go sideways for him.
So I think that accounts for the but, but, neither sequence.
But anyway, he came out of that with another cough, and then he worked back into it.
He said, we are a civil society and order must prevail.
Okay, we are a civil society and order must prevail.
You know, unless it's at our southern border, in which case, you know, really the only order we're actually concerned with is the order that you board the planes and the buses that we put you on, along with all kinds of taxpayer-funded goodies once you get to where you're going.
Which, of course, will pay for you to go wherever you want to go.
I mean, got you covered.
All good.
So, yeah, we are a civil society.
Order must prevail.
We've often faced moments like this because we are a big, diverse, free-thinking, and freedom-loving nation.
You know, unless there's a virus going around, in which case, shoot, you just lose all of your constitutional rights.
You're going to love not having freedom except what we at the government give you, you know?
So we're a big, free-thinking, freedom-loving nation, unless, you know, virus situation.
He continued by saying that in moments like this, there are always those who rush in to score political points.
Because apparently, unless you actually wait 16 days with all these illegal protests happening, unless you let it spread to over 70 college campuses in 34 states, unless you have allowed for that to happen, apparently you're rushing.
But this isn't a moment for politics.
This is a moment for clarity.
So let me be clear, which, by the way, it's impossible to hear Biden say, so let me be clear without thinking.
So let me be clear.
You immediately think of the big O.
But anyway, peaceful protest in America, violent protest is not protected in America.
Peaceful protest is.
The irony was his, so let me be clear thing wasn't entirely clear, but you kind of work into it and you go, okay, I see where you're going with this.
See what the idea was.
It's against the law when violence occurs.
Destroying property is not peaceful protest.
It's against the law.
Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduations.
None of this is a peaceful protest.
Threatening people, intimidating people, instilling fear in people is not peaceful protest.
It's against the law.
Dissent is essential to democracy.
You know, again, unless you are Donald Trump or a supporter of his, in which case, I mean, you're actually a threat to democracy.
So dissent is essential to democracy, unless you're Trump or, you know, one of those people.
But dissent must never lead to disorder or to denying the rights of others so students can finish the semester and their college education.
Look, it's basically a matter of fairness.
It's a matter of what's right.
There's the right to protest, but not the right to cause chaos.
People have the right to get an education, the right to get a degree, the right to walk across the campus safely without the fear of being attacked.
So let's be clear about this as well.
There should be no place in any campus, no place in America for anti-Semitism or threats of violence against Jewish students.
That point's kind of like, amen.
Yes, you've done something good here.
And then it goes off the rails.
There's no place for hate speech or any violence of any kind, whether it's anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, or discrimination against Arab Americans or Palestinian Americans.
What?
What just happened there?
And as an aside, apparently President Biden nor his speech writer are aware that, I don't know, Palestinians are Arabs, but anyway.
He said it's simply wrong.
There's no place for racism in America.
It's all wrong.
It's un-American.
I understand people have strong feelings and deep convictions.
In America, we respect the right and protect the right for them to express that.
But it doesn't mean anything goes.
It needs to be done without violence, without destruction, without hate, and within the law.
Now, make no mistake, as president, I will always defend free speech, you know, except for Trump's and the mega MAGAs, you know.
Otherwise, got your free speech covered.
And I will always be just as strong in standing up for the rule of law.
Boy, that explains a lot, doesn't it?
When he says he's always going to be just as strong in standing up for the rule of law as he's been to this point with all this anti-Semitism, boy, it really explains the lawless border situation, doesn't it?
And a lot of things come to focus at that point.
That's my responsibility to you, the American people, my obligation to the Constitution.
Thank you very much.
Well, that was a fun little deal.
So, yeah, that happened.
And that brief three-minute speech, including how and when he delivered it, because it was midday yesterday, buried right before a trip to North Carolina.
It was obvious somebody said, you got to go out there and say, you've got to go out there and say something.
So, all right, I'm going to go do this real quick and I'm gone.
The man is feckless, just absolutely feckless.
After two and a half weeks, he couldn't even bring himself to directly call out the perps.
Couldn't bring himself just to defend the Jewish students just to call out anti-Semitism without also walking down a path of Islamophobia and Arab discrimination.
Just absurd.
And every day that Joe Biden is president of the United States, not just students, not just faculty at college campuses that are less safe.
The entire country, the entire world, everybody is less safe.
And what do you think this projects on the world stage yet again?
I just can't even control our college campuses.
So, yeah, we have 263 more days before this country and the world will be a safer place.
Just, boy, hold your butts.
Hang on until we get there.
That's the timeline to January 20th of next year, by the way.
So, yeah, and meanwhile, boy, it wasn't hush money.
You take a look at the Trump trial.
There are some serious absurdities that have been going on in that deal.
So, in the Banana Republic, that is New York, with the resumption of the Trump trial yesterday into today.
The big news really was that it wasn't hush money.
There's some interesting things that happened yesterday in particular.
You know, during the testimony of Stormy Daniels attorney Keith Davidson, he testified that the $130,000 payment that was made by former Trump attorney turned convicted liar Michael Cohen to Stormy, he said it wasn't a payoff.
And while testifying that he received 10 grand of that 130 grand, he said he would never use the term hush money to characterize the financial transaction.
He called it a consideration, a consideration.
Now, on the surface, it might seem like semantics, but it's not entirely semantics.
And we'll take a closer look at that in just a moment.
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Hey, it is Brian Mudd in for Sean Hannity.
Take some of your calls here in just a bit.
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And what are the revelations in the Trump trial this week?
You have had the attorney for Stormy Daniels say, you know what?
Wasn't a payoff.
Wasn't hush money.
Didn't like that.
He called it a consideration.
Now, one of the things that's interesting about that is that's a legal term.
It is specifically what a contract is comprised of.
And what became all that much more interesting is ultimately, he said Stormy really wasn't alleging like some kind of an intimate thing, just that they had gone together a few times.
Now, I mean, that's interesting for any number of different reasons.
But you start thinking about things that came about here in that particular trial.
And yeah, David Pecker, he already testified that the doorman at Trump Tower was paid 30 grand for something that was utter BS that was proven to be BS.
I mean, that was extortion.
And then could you imagine that maybe a porn actress, I mean, high morality and everything else.
Could you imagine that maybe she likewise might not be the most truthful in the situation?
Now, if Trump paid 30 grand just to make a liar, Dorman, go away, $130,000 to make a porn actress go away, maybe there was less to the story than actually seems like there was.
Part of the reason that matters, well, they're trying to prove fraud, right?
If there really was less to the story than we were ever led to believe, well, think about it.
Is that a legal expense, which is how Trump classified it?
Or is that fraud, which is what the state alleges.
So even to the extent that this is an absolutely absurd trial, the details of it are actually helping make Trump's case.
We've got John Rich.
He's coming up on the other side.
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So you might have been wondering, hey, you know what?
Where's John Rich been?
But the answer is on your TV.
Once again, starting this Sunday, he's back.
All new episodes of The Pursuit is a Fox Business TV show.
John Rich joining us now.
How's it going?
Tell us about it.
Man, it's going great.
Thanks for having me on.
Pretty excited about this.
It starts tomorrow night, 8 Eastern 7 Central on Fox Business.
It's a show I created and host called The Pursuit.
And I sit people down from all walks of life.
I've got Dana White.
I've got Adam Carolla, Jim Brewer, Ricky Skaggs.
I mean, it covers the gambit.
And we basically dig into their stories of pursuing happiness in America.
The whole premise of the show is we're not guaranteed happiness in America.
We're guaranteed the right to pursue happiness in America.
And all these people abide by that rule.
They are some of the most get-it-done kind of people out there.
And I think with all the crazy news we have to watch all day long and all night long, this will be a nice way to unplug for that for a couple of hours and see something positive about your country.
Yeah, no doubt, no doubt.
And by the way, just joining us, Brian Mudd in for Sean Hannity.
Take some of your calls here in just a bit, too.
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That's 800-941-Sean.
And we're joined by John Rich, his TV show back on Fox Business this Sunday.
You got something else that's going on, too.
And I think this is super cool.
I mean, we've been talking about it.
It has been just awful to watch over the past two and a half, three weeks.
Now, what's been going on on college campuses?
But you really started to see some pretty great stories this week, too.
We've had some rallies where you've had some students show up for supportive of Israel, for support of Jewish students.
You've had a lot of stories about people that are singing the national anthem, and then you had the big one.
This is what happened with some frat boys at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill campus where, you know, they're going to hold the line, and they were going to defend that flag.
And understand, you're throwing a big party called Flagstock in honor of this.
Tell us about it.
Yeah, I was so impressed with these young men that they were willing to stand there and never let that flag touch the ground.
Even though they had rocks and bottles and sticks being thrown at them, they just held their ground and kept that flag off the dirt as they should have.
And so I reached out to them on Twitter.
I didn't know how else to find them.
I guess X, we call it now.
I reached out to him and said, if anybody knows how to find these boys, tell them I'll give them a free concert when they decide to celebrate this victory that they've had here defending the flag.
And, man, next thing you know, my phone is blowing up.
I've got people from Chapel Hill hitting me up going, yes, we would love to do that.
And then artists have been calling me left and right.
Lee Greenwood hit me up and he said, hey, man, tell the boys in North Carolina, I'd like to come sing God Bless the USA if they'd like to hear that.
I said, well, Lee, I can pretty much promise you they won't.
So it's pretty exciting.
Flagstock is the perfect name for it.
And I really hope this ignites college campuses around the country to re-engage their patriotism, find their voice again, exercise their First Amendment, and get out there and be heard.
I firmly believe that there are way more patriotic young people in this country than what are protesting right now.
Hey, you bring such a good point.
I mean, you put, for example, President Trump in a stadium, pretty much anywhere, and the response is overwhelmingly positive at these colleges.
And you go, hold on.
You know, there's more to the story than what we see or are led to believe.
How much of what's going on in college campuses do you think is just conservatives that feel repressed, that feel like they can't speak out, that they can't beat themselves?
And do you think maybe we're starting to reach a turning point here?
I think you're hitting it on the head.
I think that young people especially have watched cancel culture be such a huge thing.
They go to these universities where anti-American rhetoric is preached from every single pulpit inside those schools, and they're scared to death to say anything because they're just trying to get their degree and get out of there.
They don't want to be canceled or kicked out of school.
But at this point, I think they're starting to understand, no, this is real.
This is a real threat to your future as a young person.
I think about what they must think about their own futures, looking at the condition that America is currently in and the condition that the world is in.
And they're trying to study hard and go out and chase their American dream.
And it is not a guarantee right now the way things are going.
So of all people in America, the young people have the most to fight for, in my opinion.
So to see them standing up now and taking a stand is a glorious thing to watch.
Yeah, no doubt.
And, you know, as you do this, obviously you're getting a lot of personal satisfaction out of seeing this and faith restoring moments.
Do you have any advice for people that are feeling down in the dumps, you know, that feel like the next generation's lost and the country's going to heck?
What do you think people can do that can kind of restore their own faith in things?
Well, I think we've been deceived with a narrative out there that this is the majority of young people.
But the ones you see on TV that are burning buildings and breaking windows and tearing down American flags, they're on TV because they're doing those insane things.
The young men and women who are studying and working and trying to plan their lives out and build a family and go to work, they don't really get in trouble.
They're working too hard to go out there and get in trouble and camp out for four nights.
They got bills to pay, so you don't ever hear about them.
So I would say to everybody listening right now, I play concerts all over the United States to tens of thousands of people a night.
We sing God Bless America, and the whole place is singing at the top of their lungs.
In Louisiana, we had 45,000 people singing that song all at the same time.
So I think what we got to remember is we are Americans.
We stand on the shoulders of our founding fathers.
And then again, on the greatest generation in World War II, now it's our turn.
Now it's our turn to stand up, be heard, and even take a step forward.
You can advance against them.
You don't have to just take it anymore.
And when they start tearing the flag down and they start telling Jewish students they can't go to school, that's it.
I think that's a line that has now been crossed.
That even if you're on the left, you can't tolerate that any longer.
And unity in America may actually happen because the shared pain becomes intolerable for all of us.
Yeah, Brian Mudd here with John Rich.
And John, you talking about a concert that comes to mind.
I wanted to ask you, I mean, it's an unfair question, but do you have like one performance that just sticks out to you that is like, you know what, that was the old timer right there?
Well, I've done around 4,000 concerts.
I've done a lot.
But I will tell you the moment in the show that sticks out, especially in the past couple of years, is when we sing God Bless America because it's a cappella.
I start the song.
I say, sing along if you know it.
And I mean, it is as loud as you've ever heard a crowd of people sing.
And I think it's because that is their way to voice their support for the country and to voice their opposition to anybody that wants to tear it down.
They're looking for a way to project their patriotism right now.
And that's what those guys did at UNC.
And I hope, like I said, I hope this catches fire.
Anybody in college listening right now, you go back and you find all the people that love this country, which is most of them, and say, hey, let's have our own thing.
This is not a protest.
This is a support rally for America.
And I think you'll be really astonished as to how many people show up.
You know, you bring up such a good point.
You know, back in the day, we did some rallies for America.
Glenn Beck was a big help and organized a lot of that stuff way back when.
And I participated in a couple of those.
Happened to be in Savannah at the time that the Iraq war broke out.
And Third ID, they're the ones who led the charge into Baghdad, toppled the Saddam statues and all that.
And you want to talk about finding some patriotism, some just incredible people.
You really can find it in those moments.
And, you know, Johnny, you get me thinking.
We often during adversity, we see what we're made of, and we see the worst.
And that tends to be the most visible.
And it often can be the loudest.
But, you know, is this perhaps the moment that we get back to that place that we used to be in and that we do take this country back?
Yeah, I think everybody brushes this stuff off when it doesn't land in their backyard.
But at the point we're at now, it's in all of our backyards.
It's on our front steps.
It's where our kids go to school.
It's where we work.
It's everywhere.
And so this is our time to turn it on and step it up.
I mean, I firmly believe the next 50, 60 years of Americans are going to be looking at us, you and me and the rest of us right now that are on this call and listening.
What were they doing back in 2024 when they tried to take America down?
What were they doing?
And I want to be on the side of, man, he was swinging for the fences, everything he had.
And that's what we should be striving for right now.
People with your last name who you will never meet are depending on you to do the right thing right now.
Amen.
May God bless you.
His show, The Pursuit, back Sunday, Fox Business, Flagstock going on.
John, really appreciate the time, the update.
Thanks, sir.
Have a great afternoon.
Yeah, you as well.
All right, just some good stuff there.
And I think sometimes it is really important with all of the nonsense that we got going on that we take a step back and see some of the good things that are out there and see those moments like those kids at UNC and see some of these.
It doesn't make the news to the same extent.
The kids that are out there now at some of these campuses that are singing the national anthem that are rallying for Jewish students for Israel, but it's happening.
And people, you stand up, stand up, and you make your voice heard on college campuses pretty much everywhere.
And we can take this country back.
We'll do it this November.
Do you want to talk a little bit, though, about who college Democrats are?
Because they really exposed themselves.
And by college Democrats, let's talk about the average kid who identifies as a Democrat in college.
I'm talking about the official arm of the Democratic Party in college.
They really exposed themselves this week.
Hit on that here in just a moment.
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Acknowledging that, you know, there are only two sexes and thus two genders, or do we reject it?
You know, start thinking that basically as many as we can just think up.
You know, like you wake up today and you're thinking, hey, I'm feeling kind of froggy.
And, you know, maybe I'm an amphibian today.
You know, if a little amphibious thing going on, by the way, that is not the A in the homosexual alphabet.
If you are feeling amphibious, that would be like the plus, I believe.
But anyway, you know, as people are just kind of making things up as they go, and as we have this huge sliding scale of morality that is out there, do we believe that Israel should have a right to exist?
Or do we believe it, Israel and the Jewish people along with it?
Do we think they should be brought to an end?
Because that is a very real thing.
It has been for a very long time.
I mean, biblically even.
But we have folks that are working on that eventuality right now.
So for a lot of us, the answers to these types of questions, obvious.
However, and this is a big, however kind of situation.
What we have seen play out this week, the Democratic Party, the College Democrats of America, that is the affiliation, they have played their card.
They've made their position known.
In a statement, which they allowed to be led by the Muslim caucus of the College Democrats, challenging their party's leadership, they said, each day the Democrats fail to stand united for a permanent ceasefire, two-state solution, and recognition of a Palestinian state, more and more youth find themselves disillusioned with the party.
To the students out there protesting, we stand with you.
Oh, well, that's fun.
By the way, never mind that Hamas has been rejecting Israel's offers for a ceasefire right along here this week and recently.
So now, yeah, not the rank and file kid that's like, yeah, you know, being a Democrat seems like the thing to be in to do, but the official arm in the college is big problem.
Talk about that.
And more, including illegal immigration coming up on the other side.
Brian Mudd in for Sean Hannity, 800-941-7326.
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