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	Somebody who's become very close to me.
	He's a friend.
	He's almost become his family at this point.
	Is my friend, my colleague at Fox, Giano Caldwell.
	And he is now, you know, the story about his brother.
	And he lost his brother two years ago.
	Teenage baby brother was murdered.
	And he was murdered in Chicago.
	And I have watched my friend fight like there's no tomorrow to not only, you know, get the people responsible for killing his innocent brother, but to also prevent other lives from being taken.
	And he has taken this on with a passion and a vengeance that is beyond inspiring to me.
	And I've tried to, you know, encourage him every step of the way because I think the work that he's doing is so powerful.
	And he just announced the Caldwell Institute, Giano Caldwell, who I'm talking about, the Caldwell Institute for Public Safety.
	He announced it on the two-year anniversary of his brother's murder, which was 624-24.
	And we bring back our friend Giano Caldwell, my friend, my colleague.
	Sir, how are you?
	Well, you're more than my friend.
	You're my big brother and my mentor.
	And I'm so thankful for your guidance and your connection.
	You say big brother because I'm old.
	I know.
	I know what you're saying.
	No, but you also have a lot of wisdom in your part.
	And, you know, I just can't thank you enough, Sean.
	Well, I just, this is, you know, this is friend to friend talking here, but I just admire what you're doing.
	You have doggedly been fighting a system that doesn't even want to give you answers about an investigation.
	Your brother to so many, unfortunately, he's just another number.
	You know, I have been listing the names of people shot and shot and killed in Chicago since 2009, and nobody knows their names, and nobody seems to care if they can't politicize a particular shooting or a murder.
	You know, why bother mentioning it?
	They don't get any benefit out of it.
	And I thought every life mattered because as a Christian, I believe that every life matters.
	Yes, and I absolutely agree with you.
	And as you mentioned, on June 24th, 2022, my life changed forever when my baby brother, innocent baby brother Christian, was murdered on the south side of Chicago.
	And like you mentioned, Sean, this has been a mission.
	It's been a real mission for me.
	And it started out about him, but now it's about the thousands of others who are murdered every single year in our country.
	In part because of the George Source-funded progressive prosecutors, which has enabled this environment, Sean.
	I'll tell you, what they did is said, look, you can steal up to $750 worth of items.
	There's no consequences for you.
	And we have a generation of youth who believe consequences don't matter.
	They can steal, they can kill, or they can destroy.
	And maybe they get caught.
	Maybe they get caught.
	Maybe they don't.
	But either way, with the no-bail laws that exist in this country, the fact that it's not criminal justice reform is justice for the criminal has endangered the lives of every single human being in this country.
	We cannot allow this to continue.
	And that's why I came up with the Caldwell Institute for Public Safety, CaldwellInstitute.org.
	For those who are interested in information on there, we need your support.
	I came up with that because we have to go directly to where the source is.
	That's George Source Prosecutor.
	So this is what we're doing with the Caldwell Institute for Public Safety.
	We're going after those specific progressive prosecutors and elected officials that can be mayor, city council members.
	We're going to be doing messaging against those individuals.
	And we're going to be promoting law and order candidates because we need safety, security in our country.
	We need law and order.
	In addition to that, I'm working with people like Pam Bondi, Dr. Drew Pinsky on mental health.
	Joelle Fitzgerald, who's that Temple University police officer who his son was murdered a year ago, he's working with me.
	I got former prosecutors that are working with me or Trump White House officials that are working with me on this.
	It is important for every American to feel safe in their own neighborhoods, in their own home.
	And right now, we are a lawless society, Sean.
	I cannot, cannot stand for it because I cannot lose anyone else and I don't want to see anyone lose anyone else.
	Go to CaldwellInstitute.org, everyone, please.
	You know, I had to interview the mother of this little 12-year-old girl that was murdered, Jocelyn, down in Houston, Texas, the other night.
	And I also interviewed this little girl's grandfather.
	This is the one that was brutalized for two hours and then murdered.
	And she's the one that, a 12-year-old girl, can you imagine this fighting back and bit the perpetrators?
	And I mean, it was really unbelievable.
	The mother, Alexis Nungery and Kelvin is the grandfather.
	They're just great people.
	And I had previously interviewed the week before Rachel Morin's mother, and she's the mother of five.
	And then you've got this 13-year-old raped in a park that was videotaped by the perpetrator in Queens, New York, and broad daylight.
	And you have Lake and Riley.
	And then I scroll the names of so many others.
	And nobody seems to give an Adam shift.
	And I will tell you, Giano, and this goes into late-night conversations that we've had as friends after you lost your brother.
	If I had to do these interviews every day, I would quit my job.
	I can't do them.
	I don't want to interview people in pain like that.
	And I know from our friendship, the pain that still remains alive in you today.
	I know it motivates you.
	I know it's pushed you, but it's still there.
	You're never the same person again, are you?
	No, you're never the same.
	But I got to tell you, it's a mission that I never won, but a mission that God has placed on my shoulders.
	And that's to save thousands of people from what we have seen go on in this country, chaos, havoc all across the country.
	And I talked to Dr. Drew about it.
	I said, you know, what can I do to get beyond the pain?
	And he said, there's nothing you can do to get beyond the pain outside of further your brother's legacy by saving lives.
	And he told me this months ago.
	And I said, you know what?
	That's what I have been doing with the Fox News channel.
	Our CEO, thankfully, had given me the ability to go out and interview families who lost ones due to violent crime in our country, helped raise them money, et cetera, for their funeral costs.
	And it did help.
	It did help me.
	But this is the next step.
	And conservatives like me have been talking about George Sawars for many years.
	We've been talking about how bad he was of a nefarious individual he is, how he's putting millions of dollars into our political system to reshape our judicial system and destroy our country from within.
	We've been talking about it, but there's not been a solution to it.
	And for every conservative that is listening, here is your solution.
	Here's your vehicle.
	We're going right at these folks who have decided that they don't want to do their basic job, which is enforce the law.
	They decided that they wanted to give criminals a free pass.
	And I say no.
	I say enough is enough.
	I cannot sit here and look at another news story where a mother has been beaten and stabbed and killed or someone's son.
	Or another example, on the same day my brother was murdered, June 24th, two years ago, two years ago, June 24th, a baby, six months old, named Cecilia, murdered in the city of Chicago.
	This is beyond Chicago.
	This is about the entire country because we're all seemingly under attack and it's not getting better.
	I know they tried to say, oh, well, you know, the FBI says the numbers are better.
	That's a lie.
	The FBI has not even gotten a lot of data from jurisdictions because they've chosen not to share it with the FBI to make it look like it's a rosy picture.
	Meanwhile, our family members are seeing on a daily basis the despair that's going on across our country.
	They're seeing how Alvin Bragg refuses to prosecute crime unless it's political.
	That's the only way he'll get it.
	We got cops getting the crap beat out of them by illegal immigrants in New York City, and they are out because of no bail laws and set free, and they get at best a slap on the wrist.
	You can take over buildings at a university and chant, you know, Antifada and calls for the destruction of Israel and nothing happens to you there either.
	But if your last name's Donald Trump and you signed a legal NDA eight years ago, put together by a lawyer and labeled as a legal expense and not deducted on your taxes, oh, gee, wow, all of a sudden now, you know, this is a serious crime.
	These are felonies, even though it was a misdemeanor whose statute of limitations have run out.
	This is how sick this has gotten.
	It has.
	It has.
	And this is not the country that you and I grew up in.
	At one time, people believed in law and order.
	It wasn't a political thing.
	You can be a Democrat or Republican, and you knew as a prosecutor, you needed to enforce the law.
	It wasn't political, but now it has become political.
	Jules Soros has funded over 75 software crime prosecutors.
	This is what he did.
	He knew what he was doing.
	He invested in this.
	And now we have to stop it.
	And I'm standing up saying enough is enough.
	I put my name on a line.
	I put this organization together, the Caldwell Institute for Public Safety, using tens of thousands of my own dollars just to ensure that there was a vehicle that we can stop the nonsense that is going on in our country.
	And I can't stand for it.
	And I appreciate you continuing to give me your platform to let that message be known.
	And I'm asking.
	Well, I'm going to donate myself.
	I haven't even told you this.
	I just haven't figured out.
	Just send me a link and I'll make sure that I send my donation.
	And I want to donate to the cause because you're a friend of mine and I support what you're doing.
	And I hope other people will as well.
	How do people help you out with this mission?
	Because this is important.
	This is about really saving human lives.
	And you've taken such a passionate, active role.
	And this is the real deal.
	This is an organization of very powerful people that you have put together.
	A lot of work has gone into this behind the scenes.
	I've known about you building this now for a while.
	And how do people help you out?
	Please go to CaldwellInstitute.org, C-A-L-D-W-E-L-L Institute.org.
	All right.
	Well, Gianno Caldwell, my dear friend, colleague, you're the best.
	You can check out his website and you can go to there and help out the Caldwell Institute for Public Safety.
	Thank you, my friend.
	And please, social media as well.
	Follow me on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok at GianoCaldwell, G-I-A-N-N-O, Caldwell, C-A-L-D-W-E-L-L.
	Thank you so much, my friend.
	Thank you, Big Bro.
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	Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
	And I'm Carol Markowitz.
	We've been in political media for a long time.
	Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
	That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
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	We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
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	You can hit a target from 50 feet away and it could save your life and your family's life.
	And here's the best part.
	You know, it's legal in all 50 states.
	You don't need a permit.
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	All right, let's get a couple of calls in here.
	Don Lake RonCon, come on.
	Don, how are you?
	Happy Friday.
	Welcome aboard, sir.
	Hey, Sean.
	You certainly had a ringside seat at one hell of a historic event last night.
	Both the left-leaning mainstream media and President Biden got a serious black eye and bloody nose after that split-screen presidential debate.
	Even after a full week of Biden's isolation and debate preparation, it didn't go well at all.
	It was awful.
	The idea that he spent an entire week plus, you know, with 16 people, and that's the best they got is frightening.
	It is beyond frightening to me.
	Yeah, all his conditions were met.
	And I was surprised, though, that the CNN moderators, they actually exceeded my low expectations.
	Their questions and control of the debate were fair.
	I got to say that.
	But after 12 minutes, Joe Biden, he fell apart.
	And on the major subjects, Trump decimated Biden on the border and economics.
	It was just an incredible show last night.
	It was just a beatdown.
	And I will tell you, I know we talk a lot about Joe Biden's horrible performance.
	We don't spend enough time talking about Donald Trump's very strong performance.
	And I mean, he was measured.
	He was in control.
	He didn't react.
	He was, to use the word presidential.
	And he had a lot of gravitas on that stage.
	You know, people have been asking me in the lead up to this because I had seen him a couple of weeks ago and did an hour and, what, 10 or 15 minute interview with him.
	And I just said he is dialed in.
	I mean, he was up to speed on every single solitary issue.
	I could have asked him any question, and he would give me a strong, articulate, informed, educated answer.
	And he has not skipped a beat in all the time that I've known him.
	And I've known him for, what, 30 years or so.
	Yeah, you do great interviews.
	But Sean, after that debate last night, now that the Democrats are not hiding their panic regarding Biden's pathetic performance, desperate times call for desperate measures.
	And how long do you think the Democrat leadership, how low do you think they're going to sink now in their effort to get Trump?
	Can we see, expect something?
	I mean, I just, I would put nothing past them.
	Yeah.
	I mean, that's the problem.
	I mean, you know, here we are 129 days out of an election.
	Oh, maybe we'll just shift candidates because the polls aren't working our way.
	And our candidate that we have protected for over four years is now being exposed, even though we all knew it the whole time that he was a cognitive mess.
	I mean, that is basically where they are.
	And that to me is corruption at the highest level.
	And after all we've been through with the dirty dossier and no prosecutor would prosecute and deleted subpoenaed emails and bleach bit and hammers and devices and FISA warrants and 51 intel agents, you know, just flat out lying about something they knew nothing about, Hunter Biden's laptop.
	They're not done.
	This is not over.
	And this is more of a reason we've got to clean up Washington once and for all and clear out that swamp.
	Now we know why Robert Hurr does, why the DOJ head, Merritt Garland, does not want, the AG does not want Robert Hurr's tape of Joe Biden out.
	Now we know he's protecting him.
	And that's the problem.
	It's a weaponized justice system.
	Don, love you.
	Have a great week, weekend.
	You name it.
	I hope you have a great time.
	Appreciate you being with us.
	800-941 Sean is on number as we continue.
	I 25 to the top of the hour, 800-941.
	Sean is on number.
	You want to be a part of the program.
	We're going to play.
	I just haven't wanted to take away time from content and analysis of everything that's been happening.
	And then, of course, we had been following the two rallies today.
	Joe screaming like crazy and jacked up and telling everybody Donald Trump sucks.
	Like he did in North Carolina.
	And then, of course, Governor Glenn Younc with Donald Trump in the Commonwealth of Virginia, which we've been watching and following, far more measured and funnier.
	We'll get to, but I want you to hear the liberal media.
	We'll play some of the highlights of last night, too, because the media meltdown is the most disingenuous of all of it.
	They've all known.
	They're acting like they're surprised.
	They're not surprised.
	They're just kind of bummed that they finally got caught and can't hide it anymore the way they've been hiding it.
	By the way, if you're a gun owner, you may be shocked to hear this, but if you don't have the right education, training for safety and otherwise, and self-defense liability insurance, you can end up in jail if, God forbid, you have to use your own gun for protection to save your life or your family's lives.
	Anyway, let me tell you the story about Luke Carter and his father.
	They were walking their leashed Labrador retriever when two pit bulls approached, one of which attacked and seized Carter's dog by the neck.
	Unable to free his dog after kicking and attacking the pit bull, Carter drew his legally carried firearm, shot the pit bull twice in the abdomen, causing it to release the dog.
	Now, because he was a member of the USCCA, he had access to their critical response team for immediate support.
	It saved him from very serious legal and financial consequences for using his firearm in self-defense.
	Now, I share this USCCA member story with you because the truth is owning a gun for protection can get you in trouble in this crazy new America with these radical prosecutors that are out there.
	I've been a proud USCC member now for nine years.
	They have the best training, the best education, access to insurance made specifically for self-defense incidents, all for less than a dollar a day.
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	That's defendfamily.com.
	Check it out today.
	All right, because Linda's been requesting and requesting and requesting, we're going to start with, and I want to play a lot, not only going back to the debate last night, but really going to the media mob's reaction.
	Because everything we're playing for you is just a big lie.
	They're shocked.
	They were horrified.
	They couldn't believe that Joe Biden is struggling cognitively.
	You know, think about where we were, what, less than 10 days ago, cheap fake videos.
	And I kept saying, nobody's altered those videos.
	They're not edited videos.
	And I kept playing them and kept talking about, sorry, nice try.
	They're real videos.
	But that's what they wanted to say.
	They wanted you to not believe what your own eyes were showing you.
	And they've been protecting and covering up for Joe Biden the entire time.
	I want to talk about a conspiracy.
	This is how much Trump derangement syndrome has consumed so many of them.
	Let's start with Donald Trump telling the moderators, well, I don't know what Biden said at the end of that sentence, and I really don't, I don't really think that he knows.
	Listen.
	I've changed it in a way that now you're in a situation where there are 40% fewer people coming across the border illegally, as better than when he left office.
	And I'm going to continue to move until we get the total ban on the total initiative relative to what we're going to do with more Border Patrol and more asylum officers.
	President Trump?
	I really don't know what he said at the end of this, and I don't think he knows what he said either.
	Look, we have the safest border in the history of our country.
	And just a small little reminder of just some of Biden's disastrous debate performance montage.
	But, you know, we could spend the whole night just replaying the whole day replaying the debate from last night, and it would pretty much make the case.
	But just some of the highlights, some of my favorites.
	Listen.
	Thank you, Chair, that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've been able to do with the COVID, excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with.
	Look, if we finally beat Medicare, the third time is between the doctor, I mean, between the woman and the state.
	The idea that the politicians, that the founders want the politicians to be the ones making decisions about women's health is ridiculous.
	The only terrorist who's done anything crossing the border is one who came along and killed three under his administration, killed an al-Qaeda person, come in and his administration.
	Everyone from the United Nations Security Council straight through to the G7 to the Israelis and Netanyahu himself have endorsed the plan they put forward.
	In addition to that, we find that the impact of on the choice that black families have to make relative to child care is incredibly difficult.
	Number three, we found ourselves in a situation where if you take a look at what Trump did in Ukraine, this guy told Trump, do whatever you want and do whatever you want.
	And that's exactly what Trump did to Putin, encourage him, do whatever you want.
	And he went in.
	Listen to what he said when he went in.
	We have a thousand trillionaires in America.
	I mean, billionaires in America.
	And what's happening?
	They're in a situation where they, in fact, pay 8.2% in taxes.
	If they just paid 24% or 25%, either one of those numbers, they've raised $500 million, billion dollars, I should say.
	Now, what was fascinating afterwards is all of these people talking about cheap, fake videos, don't believe, don't believe what your eyes show you.
	And anybody that attacks the brilliance and the genius of Joe Biden is just wrong.
	Well, listen to MSTNC after this disaster last night.
	But I think that first initial impression, Nicole, of President Biden walking out and his voice being very hard to hear.
	It's hard to tell what he was saying because his voice was so weak.
	And his halting delivery in his first couple of answers has got to have put a shock into the campaign, at least at the start, before he started to get stronger.
	I was on the phones for some of it after that became clear.
	And there is a conversation happening inside Biden's circle and certainly a much more frank conversation happening inside the Democratic Coalition.
	And I think there will be stories of a lot of concern about the performance tonight.
	The people who were texting with me were very concerned about President Biden seeming extremely feeble, seeming extremely weak.
	And the people who were texting me were even more panicked.
	They actually expected it to be better than it was.
	And now they're in a, I won't say a full-fledged panic, but it's getting there.
	I don't think we should sugarcoat this.
	This was not the debate performance that the Biden campaign team wanted or needed from this debate.
	Well, I think consistent with your reaction, Rachel, and others on the panel, it's kind of a DEF CON one moment.
	Really pains me to say this.
	They're three years apart.
	They seemed about 30 years apart tonight.
	And I think that's going to be the thing that voters really wrestle with coming out of this.
	Well, we now know what the bad news was from last night.
	Joe Biden had an awful night, a terrible night.
	We saw last night why this race has been close and why I fear Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States unless things change.
	I mean, none of them are wrong, but it's been this way forever.
	We've been pointing this out since before the 2020 election.
	We've been playing the tapes almost on a nightly basis for crying out loud and playing it on this radio show almost on a daily basis.
	You know, Circle Back, Jen Saki, I have a hard time keeping up with him.
	Others in the Biden White House, he does more in an hour than the average person can accomplish in a day.
	They're all been lying.
	Listen to Circle Back.
	Well, I've been listening to what you all have been saying, and I don't think we should sugarcoat this.
	This was not the debate performance that the Biden campaign team wanted or needed from this debate, in part because they wanted to do this debate as early as they did to change this up, right?
	To bring the Joe Biden, who is at the State of the Union, to the debate stage.
	That's not the Joe Biden who showed up at the debate stage.
	And then they get to the heart of the conversation, and that is, what would it take to replace Joe Biden?
	That's a fantasy saying that's, you know, you either need to write the ship or do the thing that's not going to happen, which is to replace him on the ticket.
	I mean, I don't think that's an option.
	The fact that people are talking about it, if it's not an option, only seeks to further weaken the perception, weaken the standing of President Biden.
	The question is whether you're hearing that it is an option, that there is some violence.
	I mean, I spoke to an election lawyer.
	It is legal.
	And the way it happens is Joe Biden releases his delegates ahead of the convention.
	And you can't do it on the first vote, but I think on the second vote, they can go somewhere else.
	So it is legal.
	It is possible.
	And I think when people say it won't happen, it's because they think Joe Biden would never do it for the reasons Joy already articulated.
	He's the only person who beat Trump.
	And he believes, and he has some reason to believe this, that he's the only one who can.
	And to give to amplify that, someone actually sent me the rules.
	And so the rules are circulating.
	And so, and this is, again, this is not us saying that this is going to happen.
	No one is saying it's going to happen.
	It's very unlikely.
	But just to note that the Republican convention has 110 unbound delegates.
	The Democratic Party has 771 unbound delegates.
	Now, that does not mean that those unbound delegates will do anything.
	It takes, there are 3,000 delegates that happen on the first ballot.
	It takes 1,951 delegates to win.
	I'm sorry, 1,976 delegates to win.
	It's all a numbers.
	The whole country has known about this the entire time.
	They just figured if he took a week off, like he took a week off before his virtual convention, just like he took off time before the debates in 2020, just like he took off time before the State of the Union, that they get the right perfect amount of mix of Red Bull or whatever, and that he would be okay.
	And as long as he survived, then everything would be okay, and he'd be our candidate.
	And we continue to cover up for the fact that this guy doesn't know what day of the week it is.
	And I remember, you know, how long ago was 2020, 2021, that I put together the sippy cups and warm milky and Joey getting ready for night night.
	And it's 7 o'clock, and Joey doesn't get up till 9 in the morning.
	And Joey has less than one event on his calendar a day and all of these things.
	Here's Liberal Joe flipping and flopping and flailing on Joe's cognitive abilities.
	By the way, just a couple of weeks apart.
	You know, he's saying, oh, he's great.
	He's terrific.
	If you don't agree with him, you're an idiot.
	And then, of course, last night happened, and we hear a very different liberal Joe.
	But I undersold him when I said he was cogent.
	He's far beyond cogent.
	In fact, I think he's better than he's ever been.
	This is a battle for the future of American democracy.
	And now is a good time.
	In June, thank God, in June, and not October, in June.
	This is the last chance for Democrats to decide whether this man we've known and loved for a very long time is up to the task.
	Then you have an entire CNN fake news meltdown over Biden's performance.
	Listen to this.
	He didn't do well at all.
	He did not do well at all.
	We're still far from our convention, and there is time for this party to figure out a different way forward if he will allow us to do that.
	I think Joe Biden lost in the first three minutes.
	I think a lot of voters probably tuned out, and millions of people are having conversations with their families, with their friends, of if the president is up to the task and if he should step aside.
	Anderson, this was a game-changing debate in the sense that right now, as we speak, there is a deep, a wide, and a very aggressive panic in the Democratic Party.
	It started minutes into the debate, and it continues right now.
	It involves party strategists.
	It involves elected officials.
	It involves fundraisers.
	Started minutes in.
	It started with the first couple of answers, and it has continued throughout the night from a, oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God, to what do we do about this?
	And it involves very senior people in the Democratic Party, including elected officials, saying we have a problem.
	I mean, the panic that I am hearing from Democrats is not like anything that I have heard in this campaign so far.
	There is a real concern here tonight that there's been some real damage done that cannot be undone.
	If anybody in America thinks that that was even close to being an okay debate by Joe Biden, I'm living in a parallel universe.
	That was an unmitigated disaster for President Biden from the second he walked out to the closing statement.
	Bob Casey, I promise you tonight in the state of Pennsylvania, is thrown up in his mouth because he knows that if he's got to stand next to Joe Biden, he's going down in Pennsylvania.
	If he's on the ticket, I don't know how it's going to work.
	It was a really disappointing debate performance from Joe Biden.
	I don't think there's any way, any other way to slice it.
	He was incapable tonight on the biggest of stages that he sought.
	He, in effect, dictated.
	And with all of that preparation, he was incapable of doing better than he was.
	And you can't come back from that.
	The reality is everybody that is in their state of panic has known the whole time.
	The video's been there and available the whole time.
	They're all part of a mob mentality.
	That's why I call them the mob, the media mob, a mob mindset.
	And they have just deluded themselves into thinking this guy is healthy.
	He's never been healthy.
	And once again, we've been proven right.
	And once again, you know, we're at a point where they want to pull off some shenanigans for the 2024 election like they've tried in 2016 and 2020.
	And what else they'll try to pull off, God only knows.
	That's going to wrap things up for today.
	Full, complete coverage of last night's disastrous debate for Joe Biden.
	The Biden administration says, nope, Joe's not getting out, period, end of sentence.
	Democrats are calling for him to do so.
	Well, a full analysis, Peter Ducey, Ari Fleischer, Kellyanne Conway, Joe Concha, Jason Chapitz, Greg Jarrett on the Supreme Court decision on January 6th, and much more.
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	Set your DBR Friday edition Sean Hannity show Monday through Friday, 9 to 10.
	Anyway, we'll see you tonight.
	It is full steam ahead.
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