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	We have a big announcement today.
	It is his 39th birthday, and we wanted to wish you a happy birthday, Mr. Speaker.
	Happy birthday, Julia!
	Happy birthday, Julia!
	Happy Thanksgiving.
	And that, of course, was an old Reagan thing where he would say, I'm now celebrating the 35th anniversary of my 39th birthday.
	But it's great to have a chance to chat with you.
	Aren't these unprecedented times that we're living in here?
	I mean, just, I mean, here we are, 140 days out of an election, 10 days away from the first presidential debate, 91 days until early voting begins in Pennsylvania, and then it rolls out from there.
	And this is now very real.
	And you can see, you know, Joe Biden is struggling mightily.
	You saw that at the G7.
	We saw that this weekend when he was with George Clooney and Barbara Streisand and Julia Roberts and Jimmy Kimmel and Barack Obama.
	And by the way, if you dare to point out Joe wandering away, oh, that's a cheap, fake, conservative video.
	I'm like, no, we're just kind of pointing out the obvious that this guy is a mess cognitively.
	And then you take it a step further and people are speculating that, you know, this is Joe's last test.
	And if he doesn't do well in this debate in 10 days, there's going to be a lot of chatter to get rid of him, get him off the ticket.
	Do you think it's possible?
	Well, it's possible.
	Look, I would simply warn all of my friends that some of this could also be deliberately setting us up.
	You know, he did okay with the State of the Union.
	And that was a long speech.
	And he stood and delivered the whole speech.
	That was with a teleprompter, but we've never seen that Joe before, and we never have seen him after.
	Now, I agree with you.
	I am predicting here and now, 10 days from now on debate night, we're going to see a hypercaffeinated, as I call him, jacked up Joe.
	I believe that that Joe, the state of the union that we've not seen since, we're going to see it that night.
	Oh, I think that's right.
	So assume for a moment that he does add it.
	Remember also, if you go back and you look at his debate with Palin, you look at his debate as a vice presidential candidate with Paul Ryan, he was fine, partially because Joe just lies.
	And there's a certain advantage if you're cheerfully willing to lie every chance you get.
	You create a certain environment in which he just cheerfully sits there and says whatever he thinks he needs to say.
	And I think he will deliberately have trained to try to bait Trump into getting Trump to lose his temper.
	So they can say, see, Trump's not, you know, Trump's.
	I think that's going to be the whole strategy.
	He's going to call him a convicted felon, a convicted felon.
	It's going to be one attack after the other.
	And if I'm advising Donald Trump, I'm telling him I wouldn't react to a single thing that he says.
	Right.
	Or study carefully Reagan's 1980 debate, where he kept saying, there you go again.
	And the American public figured out that meant that Carter was lying.
	And so, you know, there are ways you can handle it, but I do worry a little bit about whether or not Trump will be so confident that he will not take seriously the kind of debate prep, which, frankly, I think you need to have,
	even if you're a good debater in this kind of setting with just two of you and where so much is at stake, you need to go through and practice and practice and practice because you are faced with opponents who are going to try to figure out every way to trip you up.
	And I'm sure they're going to go after him on January 6th, where, frankly, Congressman Barry Laudermick's doing such a great job proving how totally phony the January 6th committee was that I've come out and said I think the Congress should actually repudiate the committee and every single thing the committee's done.
	But I'm sure they're going to try to somehow get Biden is going to try to get Trump wrapped up in that.
	And remember, this is a four-on-one debate.
	All three of the CNN people who are going to be on stage, the moderator and the two questioners, all three of them are going to be pro-Biden.
	And then you have Biden.
	So Trump's hung into a game where it's set up as four-to-one against him.
	And I think the questions are going to be designed to be against Trump.
	But with all that said, I think there's a good answer for everything.
	And it's just a matter of how prepared President Trump is.
	My guess is just observing him lately.
	He seems very dialed in to me.
	He seems, having spent time with him a week and a half or whatever ago, and interviewing him, he was very, very dialed in, very measured, very well thought out, very well informed.
	It was very clear to me that there's a certain sober reality that he knows he's facing here and that everything is on the line, not just for him, but for the country.
	And I've known him a long time, and I've never seen him this dialed in, to be very honest.
	Well, I have the same experience.
	I spent a half of Thursday going to three meetings with him, speech to the House Republicans, a meeting with the Senate Republicans, and a meeting with about 75 business CEOs at the roundtable, and watching him back to back for three different meetings.
	First of all, I was very impressed with how much he knows.
	I mean, it's easy to forget.
	This guy was president for four years.
	He knows an amazing range of people.
	And he talks from a level of experience that very few people ever get to do.
	And so I thought in that sense it was very impressive.
	And I think if he relaxes and focuses on just communicating what he knows, he's going to be fine.
	And the fact is that he is a remarkably knowledgeable person.
	Where he could potentially get tripped up is by he's such an aggressive competitor that he could end up in a situation where Biden gets him off balance and baits him into doing something.
	These debates often turn on the right 30 seconds picked by the media to highlight.
	And so you have to be careful about that part.
	There's no question, you know, if you just say to yourself, there's a Russian submarine, nuclear submarine, and there's a number of Russian warships now in Havana.
	If you ended up in the equivalent of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, do you really think Joe Biden is cognitively capable of handling that in the way that John F. Kennedy did?
	Or do you think we would just be in desperate trouble because Biden wouldn't have a clue?
	I think it's the latter.
	I mean, we saw that Joe Biden, I mean, these are not, as they're calling, cheap fake videos.
	And, you know, I noticed that the Biden administration wants to attack the New York Post, but they attacked the New York Post about Hunter's laptop, and they all lied and said it was false, and it wasn't false.
	And our own eyes are not deceiving us.
	We see, you know, millions of illegal immigrants crossing the border as they tell us over and over again the border's closed and the border's secure.
	We see that Joe Biden cognitively has been deteriorating before our eyes, and we saw what happened at the G7, and we did witness Barack Obama having to go back, grab his hand, and pull him off stage and put his arm around him.
	Now, some would say, well, he was absorbing the crowd applause.
	Okay, but if it didn't happen so often, I might say there's some credence to that.
	But based on his history, I don't really give a lot of credence to it.
	Right.
	Well, I mean, you have the same thing with the meeting in Italy where Prime Minister Maloney had to walk over and seize his arm and bring him back to the group.
	Now, they have the semi-legitimate excuse that he wandered off and was looking at some paratroopers who were folding up their parachutes.
	But in fact, nobody else did it.
	Everybody else understood that they were supposed to stay where they were.
	And everybody else understood that the paratroopers were going to come to them.
	And Joe just kind of forgot.
	Well, there's a point where kind of forgot doesn't cut it if you're the president of the United States.
	Assuming that whatever amount of caffeine, and I'm being charitable here, or whatever else Joe had before the State of the Union, if you recall, Speaker Johnson wasn't even given the opportunity to introduce the President of the United States, as is tradition, which you yourself participated in.
	You know, distinct honor and privilege to introduce the President of the United States.
	That never happened in that State of the Union.
	He went right into and braced through that speech at lightning speed.
	And yeah, he delivered it with a lot of energy.
	But we haven't seen that guy ever since that one night, which tells me that maybe that much caffeine is not that healthy for him or whatever.
	You know, 70% of Americans think that it would be right to give a drug test to both candidates?
	Much like horse racing.
	You'd have to be drug tested before you're allowed out on the stage.
	You know, I think, first of all, it tells you how sick our entire system has gotten that we would even have that conversation.
	I mean, think about it.
	We're now saying that somebody who is running for president of the United States of America might be so disqualified that we should seriously consider giving them a drug test just to get on the debate stage.
	I mean, if you think about it, that's really kind of an astonishing comment.
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	All right, we continue with former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.
	You know, if it really is about, if this election is about his open borders policies, and I think he's created the greatest national security threat, I believe it's a clear and present danger to the country, especially, what, 30,000 Chinese nationals this year alone on top of last year's 26,000, and we still have months to go before the fiscal year ends.
	And if you look at Biden inflation and you look at law and order and safety and security versus defund dismantled Nobel laws, and you look at the state of the world and America abdicating its role as the leader of the free world and worse than that, surrendering in the war on terror as it relates to not allowing Israel to fight their war to win it and pressuring them to stop.
	I just, I don't really see what compelling case he can make that he deserves another four years and add to that what we've been discussing is cognitive decline.
	Well, and I think that's why they're so desperate to attack Trump.
	They understand that if the issue is Biden, they're going to lose, period.
	That there's no way they can win if the issue is in fact Biden.
	And so I think that there's a real feel on the side of the Democrats that they have to focus on making Trump the key issue.
	And the problem they have there is that frankly, and I think you agree having known him as long as you have, Trump is dramatically better.
	He's more disciplined.
	He's more positive.
	He's going to be very formidable for them to try to turn into a demon.
	And every effort they've made has failed.
	I mean, what a contrast this weekend.
	I mean, you got George Clooney and Julia Roberts and Barbara Streisen and Jimmy Kimmel and Barack Obama.
	And where's Donald Trump?
	He's meeting with African Americans and laying out the case why they should vote for him.
	And if you look at the actual numbers, they are staggering in many regards.
	And that is that now the president, President Trump, has been able to consolidate, seemingly, all of this vote out there among African Americans, Hispanic Americans.
	Biden has a 43-point poll plunge among African Americans.
	Among Hispanic Americans, Trump and Biden show up tied in poll after poll.
	I mean, that's a dramatic demographic shift.
	That is the core of the Democratic Party base.
	Well, that's right.
	And so you're really faced with one of the most interesting elections in history, because I think there's a very real possibility that for the very first time since 1932,
	the Roosevelt coalition is about to be replaced by a totally new structure that's really built around the kind of people who Donald Trump has managed to attract and which gives him tremendous capacity to lead.
	the country in a way that nobody on the right has had literally since the 1920s.
	Unbelievable times we're living in.
	Mr. Speaker, just 140 days to go, 91 days until early voting begins in the state of Pennsylvania.
	It rolls out from there and 10 days until this first presidential debate.
	Interesting times we're living in, no doubt about it.
	Newt Gingrich, happy birthday, my friend.
	Thank you.
	Take care.
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	You know, it's amazing in spite of everything the media mob, all they want to do is just, they just want to cover.
	They just want to cover for Biden's mental decline, cognitive decline.
	They just want to cover his lies about the Biden laptop, Hunter Biden's laptop.
	They want to cover the Biden economy and say, oh, no, things are really good.
	No, they're not.
	The border's secure and the border's closed.
	What are these rascally Republicans on Fox News, talk radio, and what are your own eyes telling you?
	Don't believe what your own eyes tell you.
	And they just tell you now is Biden is sharper than he's ever been.
	He's so sharp.
	He's so mentally alert.
	I'm like, uh-huh.
	Just like the border's secure.
	Listen.
	Start your tape right now because I'm about to tell you the truth.
	And F you, if you can't handle the truth.
	This version of Biden is the best Biden ever.
	Ceno so long as he's nine.
	Fact, I think he's better than he's ever been.
	President Biden has a photographic memory.
	His understanding and mastery of a complicated geopolitical situation is remarkable.
	He is sharp, intensely probing, and detail-oriented and focused.
	Jackie, are you here?
	Where's Jackie?
	I didn't think she was going to be here.
	I was sitting, you know, two feet from him across the table, and he was, you know, intense.
	He's had trouble walking sometimes.
	Yeah, so did FDR.
	He wanted GD war, but he's totally focused.
	He's very sharp.
	They say he's sharp in meetings and so on.
	Very lucid, very well informed.
	Biden is stately and he comes with gravitas.
	There hasn't been, as far as I know, a single claim that Biden made a mistake.
	Ageism is an issue.
	Americans have a rich history of holding people's physical characteristics against them.
	Okay, you could ask African Americans.
	He's older.
	That doesn't mean that he is unfit, and there's a lot of ageism there.
	Now, this age attack, this obsession by the right, Joe Biden may not be able to speak for himself the way that he used to.
	They want to think to take on government if we get out of line, which they're talking again about.
	And that's him lying around.
	I think the people who are.
	This is the same group of people that just lied to you about the Hunter Biden laptop in the lead up the weeks before the 2020 election.
	They just flat out lied.
	They didn't know anything about it, but they just flat out lied to you about it.
	And you heard a lot of liberal Joe in there.
	F you, if you don't like it.
	F you, Linda.
	F you, Hennity.
	Like, really?
	You know, my favorite is, well, FDR had trouble walking around.
	FDR had polio.
	I mean, good grief.
	But anyway, remember Joe last week?
	We went back in time.
	This is what he was saying in the lead up to the 2020 election.
	They published a series of lies peddled to them by Rudy Giuliani, who admitted that nobody else would take it but Rupert Murdoch's New York Post because they might look into it and tell the truth.
	Here we are in 2020.
	This is what it's come down to, America.
	Juliani is feeding Russian misinformation to Donald Trump and feeding Russian disinformation to the New York Post.
	They know it's a lie.
	Yeah, well, the news.
	That's where we are in 2020.
	Just to let you know that they're still talking to Russians.
	And by the way, Russian hoax, come on.
	Really, history will expose you all as fools and useful idiots for the Russians.
	For four years now.
	Fools and useful idiots.
	You think the media will ever ask him about that?
	I tend to doubt it.
	But here's Joe that they're telling you is just he's the best Joe.
	He's the best ever Joe.
	The best Joe we've ever seen.
	Well, this is your average Joe.
	She knows so long as he was denied our freedom can never be secured.
	Look, I'll do what he's unable to do.
	I'll lead an effective strategy to mobilize true and international depression, isolate, and punish China.
	Great to have you here, and it's very happy to see Northern Ireland's Executive Assembly reinstated last month.
	But then, when I signed the bipartisan again, which Ron Johnson and his friends didn't vote, they all voted against.
	We had the most productive workers in the world, four times as productive as workers in Asia.
	And that's not hyper.
	That's real.
	We'll teach Donald Trump a valuable lesson.
	don't mess with the men in america unless you want to get the benefit i cut the national debt so far i still got it instead of important foreign products i'm exporting further products four to five years of training to become electrician the best in the world that's why it's a really safe i really mean it that's the guy
	That's the best Joe ever.
	Okay.
	I'm not buying it.
	All right, let's get to our busy phones.
	Drew in Pennsylvania.
	Hey, Drew, how are you?
	Glad you called, sir.
	Hey, I'm good.
	Thanks, Sean.
	How are you doing?
	I'm good, sir.
	We need your state desperately.
	Well, we're going to win it here in Pennsylvania, I think.
	I think lots of support.
	I can see everywhere I look.
	Trump flags and signs everywhere.
	So hoping for the best.
	So check this out.
	I think that maybe Donald Trump, President Trump's on the debate stage, should ask Joe specifically what he is being charged for and see if Joe can articulate the alleged crime.
	I think it's a great idea.
	It's so funny you bring this up because everybody knows Velma, who's a regular call to this show.
	And I was checking in with Velma yesterday, and she had many of her church friends with her.
	And I said, and she brings up the issue of the 34 guilty verdicts in the Trump case.
	I said, okay, I need you to do me one favor, Velma.
	Can you tell me what he's charged with?
	What was the crime that he committed?
	She couldn't answer.
	And she just tries to go off on tangent after tangent.
	I said, no, no, just tell me what he was charged with.
	Tell me what he did wrong.
	What was he convicted of?
	And she couldn't answer.
	And I've yet to find one liberal that can actually answer that question.
	I mean, a part of it is funny, but another part of it is like scary, considering this is what lawfare does.
	But you bring up a great point.
	I think there's a lot of questions.
	Again, he's not going to answer Trump's questions, and the media is going to be corrupt and abusively biased.
	We already know that part.
	But look, I am not minimizing Joe Biden showing up at this debate.
	I'm taking it seriously because I think you're going to see a return of Jacked Up Joe.
	That's what I think.
	I think the hyper-caffeinated guy that we saw at the State of the Union is going to be the guy that we see on that debate stage that night.
	And whatever he drank or ate or took before that state of the union, I think it's going to happen again.
	And I would expect he will perform much better than he does on a daily basis.
	That's my prediction.
	So I would not take him lightly at all.
	And I think you got to be prepared for that.
	Anyway, appreciate the call, my friend, 800-941-Sean, if you want to join us.
	Let's swing right back to our busy phones this Monday.
	Henry is in New Jersey.
	Henry, how are you?
	Hey, Sean, how are you doing?
	I'm good, buddy.
	What's going on?
	I've been listening to you since the day you broke the golden EIB microphone.
	Really?
	You got to bring back a traumatic day in my life like that.
	Thank you.
	I didn't dent.
	You know, Rush Limbaugh comes back.
	I'm doing filling in for Rush for the first time.
	I'm doing an opening monologue.
	I'm sweating profusely, you know, having a half a panic attack, and I'm getting through it.
	And then all of a sudden, boom, the mic literally fell on the desk, and I couldn't, I had to, I had to literally put my head down on the desk and finish the monologue that way.
	And Rush in typical, you know, Rush humorous form, Sean Hannity dented the golden EIB microphone.
	And I did not dent the golden EIB microphone.
	He had heard about it.
	He laughed about it, thought it was funny.
	He had a wicked sense of humor.
	He really, you know what I did one time back in the day?
	I used to do, when I first started at Fox in 96, I was doing late-night radio on the ex-wife station in New York.
	And anyway, and it was from 11 to 2 at night, and I loved it.
	And Rush's phone lines would ring all night long, and they were on the same phone bank as the local radio station, his affiliate at the time.
	And I would take calls and I'd be Rush.
	Welcome to the EIB network.
	You are on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	And people would think that, oh, Mega Ditto's Rush hit Carson, ripped my head off when he heard I was doing that.
	Finally, I told Rush I was sorry, and he goes, I wish I thought of that.
	That's a great idea.
	So that's a different take on it.
	It was a great guy, though.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, what I'd like to ask you is, how do we hold these other media people accountable for the lies that have been proven?
	I mean, we can't go face to face with them, or can we?
	I mean, you know, they lie every day, and nobody calls them out on it because, unfortunately, conservative media is great, but it doesn't cover what the liberal media covers.
	Listen to the garbage we just played you.
	I mean, listen to what the media was saying about the Hunter Biden laptop that we now know four years later was very real.
	Right, but that were a bunch of fools and useful idiots if we dared to believe it.
	You know, if you believe what you saw at the G7, if you believe what you saw with Barack Obama going back and grabbing Joe by the hand and putting his arm around him and getting him off the stage at this star-studded Hollywood elitist event, I mean, you know, oh, you're gaslighting, you're cheap faking the videos.
	That's not, he was absorbing the crowd applause is all he was doing.
	I'm like, no, that's Joe on a daily basis.
	He's a cognitive mess.
	Right.
	But I mean, people still believe that the Russia hoax was real.
	People still believe that Trump deserved to be impeached twice.
	You know, I mean, it's like we could talk about it all we want, but people aren't hearing it in the main public.
	But are they, I mean, don't you think by now, I mean, for example, Donald Trump, maybe he's taken a minor hit in the polls, and we'll get to that with our pollsters at the top of the hour, but I don't really see it.
	I think most Americans have figured out that they'll do and say anything to keep Donald Trump from ever being president again.
	And God only knows what October surprise or deep state surprise, you know, they have waiting for us in November.
	I put nothing past these people.
	Well, like the last guy said, if there was a way that we could see him face to face and then say, okay, explain what he did.
	Explain what he did with Russia.
	Explain what he did to be impeached.
	Explain what he did for all the four times he's been indicted.
	But if we were face to face with him somehow, you got him.
	They can't lie their way out of it face to face.
	I mean, I should put Velma on just to kind of go over the conversation that we had.
	And all she knows is that she hates Donald Trump.
	That's it.
	And can she give you the ins and outs and the specifics of what you're referring to?
	She cannot.
	And nor can anybody else that I've ever questioned.
	We've had liberals call into this show.
	They can't answer that.
	They can't tell you what policies Joe has implemented that have made our lives better either.
	He can't run on are you better off than you were four years ago.
	So, you know, we've got a lot of work to do, but you know, you're in the state of New Jersey.
	You know what would be really effective?
	I'll tell you what would be effective is if you can get your friends in New Jersey to flip that state red.
	That'd be awesome.
	Oh, I know.
	I got a lot of friends that are interested, so I just hope I got enough.
	Yeah, I hope you have enough too.
	I have friends in New Jersey as well, and I hope they're listening.
	Anyway, I appreciate you being with us.
	Thanks so much, and have a great week, Henry.
	Appreciate it, man.
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