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If you want to be a part of the program, only 102 days until Election Day, only 53 days until early voting begins in the Commonwealth, the great state of Pennsylvania, and then other states roll out thereafter.
It's coming fast, and this campaign is heating up.
You can see the only rhetoric they have is to attack Trump and just go after Trump and smear slander, besmirch, lie about Trump.
Trump did an interview on Fox and Friends today.
All they did was, you know, interpreting it.
They lied about everything he said.
I saw the whole interview.
But that's going to be the next 102 days.
This is an inflection point for the country.
If you don't have the sense of urgency now that you need, I don't know what else will get you there.
I don't know what other words I can speak.
Now, one of the things that concerns me the most after you think about immigration, unvetted Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, the illegal immigrants in the country, we now have known terrorists that we've captured trying to get into the country.
We have no idea how many terrorists have actually made it successfully.
We have people from countries that have terror ties.
Over 180 countries, people have come from into our country.
You have our top geopolitical foes, including Iran and Syria, Egypt, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Venezuela, tens and tens of thousands from China and Russia.
And speaking of China and Russia, ahead of Biden's first address in the Oval Office since announcing he was dropping out of the presidential race, we now know the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, as we call it public affairs, says that they had to send out fighter jets to intercept two Russian, what's called TU-95 bear bombers and two Chinese H-6 bombers off the coast of Alaska.
And in a press release, the agency confirmed that it detected, it tracked, and intercepted two Russian jets and two military aircraft from China that they had detected.
And literally, they had to mobilize immediately our fighter jets from both the U.S. and from Canada to conduct the interception.
I mean, obviously, they're not afraid of Joe Biden, nor are they afraid of Kamala Harris.
And this is now the situation we now find ourselves.
And that is that there's no fear when it comes to Biden or Kamala Harris because of their position.
They don't think America should be the most dominant force on the face of the earth.
They refer to that as imperialism.
And meanwhile, we see what's happening to the world with America having, you know, given up its role as the leader of the free world, abdicated our responsibility.
We see what's happening with Russia.
We see what's happening with China.
We have war in Europe.
We have war in the Middle East.
And I think there'll be less respect even for Kamala Harris than for Joe Biden.
And I think she's more radical than Joe Biden.
And I think America just doesn't fully yet grasp how radical she is.
And that's why we're doing the vetting that the mob and the media will never do.
Anyway, here to wait in, well, before we get to that, we did finally get a statement from the Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin.
Remember, Joe Biden, I think it was about a week ago, couldn't remember his name and referred to him as the black man.
I think we have that tape too.
But here's what Lloyd Austin said.
Regarding the Russian and Chinese aircraft that flew together in the north here recently, this was not a surprise to us.
We closely monitored these aircraft, tracked the aircraft, intercepted the aircraft, which demonstrates that our forces are at the ready all the time, and we have very good surveillance capabilities.
And of course, I won't discuss any intelligence issues here at the podium.
But again, this is the first time that we've seen these two countries fly together like that.
They didn't enter our airspace.
I think the closest point of approach was about 200 miles off of our coast.
But this is a thing that we track very closely.
We're able to intercept.
And if it happens again, if there's any kind of challenge from any direction, I have every confidence that NORTHCOM and NORAD will be at the ready and we'll be able to intercept.
But here's how Joe Biden referred to the Defense Secretary because he couldn't remember his name.
It's all about treating people with dignity.
It's about making sure that we're coming.
For example, look at the heat I'm getting because I named the Secretary of Defense, the black man.
I named Katanji Brown.
I mean, because of the people I've named.
Well, of course, he's so cognitively impaired and has been for years, and it's been covered up by Kamala and everybody else that he couldn't remember his own defense secretary's name.
Hasn't had a cabinet meeting, according to reports, in about 10 months.
Now, here's the problem we have with our military.
Under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the military has gone woke.
Recruitment is way down.
On the technological side, we have fallen way behind.
We have Russia and China that have hypersonic missiles.
We don't have them.
And they stole a lot of the intellectual property that built them from us.
And yet there's no urgency for the U.S. to catch up.
There's been no consequences for Russia and their hostility towards the U.S. There's been very little.
China, of course, flies spy balloons over our military installations.
No consequences.
They've had hostile maneuvers against our fighter jets and international airways.
No consequences.
They've had hostile maneuvers against our Navy and international waterways.
No consequences.
They constantly fly over the airspace of our ally Taiwan.
No consequences at all.
Not even a word said by Joe Biden or Kamala Harris that they better knock it off.
Never mind any action that would deter it from happening.
Same with the Iranians.
You know, the Iran can fire missiles at Israel, our closest ally.
And Joe Biden and Kamala Harris say you're on your own in terms of defending your own country.
We'll only help you with defense measures.
And you should be glad that they didn't hit you with any of the rockets.
That's not winning a war against radical Islamic terrorists that tried to kill you and did kill many of their citizens and kidnap many more and rape others and behead others.
Not sure what the left is missing in terms of a lack of moral clarity.
We did hear moral clarity in Congress yesterday from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Anyway, Congressman Mike Waltz for Green Beret, part of the House Oversight Committee, he's here to talk about what actually went on over Alaskan airspace.
This is just, there's been a series of incidents that keep happening, and there are no consequences for China, Russia, or any of our top geopolitical foes.
So to me, they're only being emboldened by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Yeah, Sean, not only are there no consequences for it, they're actually rewarded for doing it.
I mean, do you remember in the wake of floating a surveillance balloon over not just our nuclear command and control sites, but also one of our strategic stealth bomber bases for days on end that Donald Trump would have never let happen.
What do you have after that?
You have a whole string of his cabinet officials, Janet Yellen, Gina Ramundo, his labor secretary, going over and literally bowing before she in Beijing on the world stage.
They're actually rewarded for this bad behavior.
But I'm also, Sean, I'm glad you brought this up because we're seeing at the tactical level, all the way to the strategic level, exactly what she said to Putin in their last meeting, that they have the opportunity of a generation.
They have a generational opportunity to make gains and rolling America and rolling our leadership back right now in cahoots.
They have an agreement to put a man station on the moon, Russia and China.
They are on track to do it.
We're seeing their bombers start to fly together.
That's everything from testing out their communications, their formations, their training, their attack vectors.
They're gaining intelligence on how we respond.
We're seeing it, obviously, in their Navy as well with the Russians are great at submarines.
The Chinese are printing ships at a rate of five to one over us.
We're seeing the greatest military buildup since the 1930s with Germany and Italy and Japan, except now it's Russia, China, and Iran.
And just last point real quick, Sean, because this is the one that with Phoebe Netanyahu here that just pisses me off the most.
You've got China getting cheap oil, cheap Iranian oil.
They don't care about climate, despite what John Kerry says.
Iran is flush with cash, sending drones to Russia that then we're having to shoot down with multi-million dollar Patriots that we're giving the Ukrainians, and then also flushing anti-ship missiles down to the Houthis using our Navy as target practice.
They took two more shots just yesterday, and you don't hear anything from the media on it.
And instead of going to the root cause, dry up the cash with Iran, put back maximum pressure, tell the Chinese you better not buy a drop of it or you won't do business with us, which is exactly what Trump did, and actually enforce the sanctions on Russia and flood the world with cheap, clean American oil and gas.
You drive down those prices, you solve our inflation problem, and you dry up their war machine.
I mean, the solutions are so simple and straightforward and common sense.
And, oh, by the way, the Trump administration actually did them.
We know they worked.
But instead, you've got this fecklessness.
And I am really, you and I have talked about it.
We are in a period of maximum danger over the next five to six months with Biden completely checked out, Kamala running around, giggling on the campaign trail, and you've got the academics, you know, blinking and Sullivan in charge.
And then final thing, every time I see Lloyd Austin, the defense secretary, I think about the fact he literally disappeared for two weeks, didn't think it was important to tell his boss, the commander-in-chief, didn't tell his deputy who was vacationing in Puerto Rico.
I mean, we really have a total absence of leadership across the board in this country right now.
Our enemies know it.
They smell it, and they're on the march.
All right, quick break.
We'll come back.
We'll talk more about the vulnerability of our national security with Congressman Mike Waltz.
All right, we continue now about America's defense vulnerabilities with Congressman Mike Waltz of Florida.
Congresswoman Talib wanted Netanyahu arrested.
He gave what I believe was a Churchillian speech, maybe one of the best speeches I heard before a joint session of Congress.
Kamala Harris couldn't even bother to show up.
And then we have now recruitment issues in our military.
We're falling behind technologically.
Look at hypersonic missile technology as one example.
You know, these protesters yesterday, you know, saying Allahu Akbar.
And, you know, it turned violent.
But again, the media says it's mostly peaceful.
You have, you know, a woke military on top of everything else, which is not a fighting force that we need at this time, especially with geopolitical foes like Iran, Russia, China, and others.
Yeah, Sean, it's not five o'clock yet, but this is why I have a healthy stash of urban at the house.
We're in bad shape.
And I don't understand why the D.C. police, well, I do, but I still don't.
As soon as they started vandalizing public monuments, that entire camp, all of those protesters, should have been coughed and thrown in the back of the paddy wagon.
I mean, it just, who gets to just go deface public monuments with zero consequences, but par for the course with this administration and certainly with the mayor of D.C., but back to the military.
And I really hesitate with publicly talking about, I'm the chairman of military readiness and publicly talking about how bad our state of military readiness is.
The American people need to hear it and understand it.
But I know our enemies are listening and watching as well.
But look, our most advanced fighter right now, the Joint Strike Fighter, has a 29% readiness rate, 29%.
The Pentagon is obsessed with making hand-built custom Ferraris.
When Sean, oftentimes, we just need a fleet of pickup trucks that can get from point A to point B and that a 19-year-old mechanic can work on.
Our submarines are our last major advantage because they can get beneath, obviously beneath the sea, underneath Chinese missiles.
40% of them can't get out of the repair yards.
We need a major revitalization of our industry, our shipyards, our steel, our aluminum, our manufacturing.
We need a new president that will put up an iron dome all around this country too, which Donald Trump is pledging.
We could go on forever.
I'm just running out of time.
Congressman Mike Waltz.
These are scary times.
There's no other way to put it.
I mean, we basically have let our defenses down and we're now vulnerable and our enemies know it.
This is chilling to me.
But I do appreciate you being with us.
Thank you, my friend.
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I watched with great interest.
I've been friends with Prime Minister Netanyahu, I don't know, close to 30 years now.
My first book, when did my first book come out?
Linda, was it 2001?
It was a long time ago.
I think it actually might be earlier.
Hang on one second.
The book was called Let Freedom Ring.
It was a bestseller, and I'm very grateful for that.
I don't like writing books.
It's too much work.
It's very hard.
It's arduous.
It's painful.
I just prefer to speak, and I don't have to sand it and polish it and sand it again and repolish it and edit and spell check it and do punctuation checks.
I mean, it just drives me crazy.
But I'm glad I wrote the books that I've written.
And I did it because I felt compelled at the time to do it.
Live, Free or Die was the first book I wrote in 10 years because I knew the 2020 election was so critical.
Little did I know how right I would be.
But anyway, at that time, Benjamin Netanyahu endorsed me and endorsed the book.
And he blurbed the book.
It was very nice of him to do it.
It was winning the war of liberty over liberalism.
That's what the title was, Let Freedom Ring.
So I've known him a long time.
He gave yesterday, I think, the speech of his life before this joint session of Congress.
And he was trechillian in every way, civilization versus barbarism.
He went into great specificity about the death, the murder, the rape, the torture, the beheadings, the kidnappings that took place on October 7th.
And extrapolating out their population versus ours, it would be the equivalent of losing 40,000 Americans in a single day.
The fact that we have a president and now a presidential candidate and vice president that surrendered in the war against radical Islamic terrorism, the fact that Kamala Harris didn't bother to show up and support our number one ally because she needs the support of the radicals in her party is beyond embarrassing.
But there were times, actually, Bibi was pretty funny.
But in a sad way, it's, you know, he talked about a group, you know, gays for Gaza.
And we had talked about this before.
All these people that say nice things about these terror groups and Iran funding them and Iran is offering scholarships to these college kids.
We now know that they were fomenting a lot of the protests on college campuses, financially supporting it, as has been widely reported.
Yeah, go ahead.
I'd like to see these kids in Colombia and all these Ivy League institutions.
Why don't they go take a free scholarship in Iran?
And if you're a woman, see how you're going to be treated.
And if you're gay or lesbian or LGBTQ, well, they'll probably put you on a roof and throw you off the roof because that's how they treat people that are in the LGBTQ community.
But it's not widely known.
But he addressed it.
Here's what he said.
I have a message for these protesters.
When the tyrants of Tehran, who hang gays from cranes and murder women for not covering their hair, are praising, promoting, and funding you, you have officially become Iran's useful idiots.
Some of these protesters hold up signs proclaiming gays for Gaza.
They might as well hold up signs saying chickens for KFC.
These monsters.
They rape women.
They beheaded men.
They burnt babies alive.
They killed parents in front of their children and children in front of their parents.
They dragged 255 people, both living and dead, into the dark dungeons of Gaza.
I mean, it is chilling.
It is evil in our time.
And never again for Bibi means never again.
For so many years, he sat alone as the lone voice of moral clarity.
And I think it was perhaps the best speech I'd ever seen him give.
And he's given great speeches in the past.
He's a great orator.
And anyway, he's going to be meeting with Biden.
Well, he met earlier with Biden today.
And he'll be meeting with Donald Trump, I believe, tomorrow at Mar-a-Lago.
And Prime Minister Netanyahu said it, you know, there is, Linda, who is this guy?
I don't know who Zach Sage is.
You do.
Who's Zach Sage Fox?
Who's that?
So this guy has been doing stuff all over social media and going out into the street and asking people at all of these protests, whether it's in Washington or Seattle or Philadelphia or New York, especially the college campuses, because unfortunately, the one thing I agree with Kamala on is they are pretty dumb.
And so he asked them questions and he says, hey, you know, why are you here?
What are you supporting?
What does River to the Sea mean?
You know, how do you feel about Palestine?
You know, and so on and so forth.
And he gets these very real answers.
But people were saying, oh, well, you can't ask Americans.
You know, that's not how people, people don't support Hamas, you know, in the West Bank.
So he flew to the West Bank and asked them face to face and went and talked to them about the protests that are happening.
I can't believe he got in there and didn't get arrested.
Not one reporter has been there since October 7th.
He's the first.
All right.
And you're sure this guy's real?
You trust this guy?
Yeah.
He's been all over the network today.
He's done a bunch of interviews.
He's pretty interesting.
Well, let's put he started interviewing Palestinians in the West Bank, and these answers shocked you.
Remember, Hamas came to power.
Now, it's been a long time, but the Palestinian people voted in Hamas, and there hasn't been an election since.
But the question is, do the people that live in Gaza, do they support Hamas?
Well, I think we got a pretty solid answer yesterday when this tape went pretty viral.
Listen, are you supportive of Hamas?
Yes.
Yes, of course.
Yes.
Are most Palestinians?
Yes.
I'm with the resistance.
Did you see the videos they posted of what they did on October 7th?
Everything.
You're okay with all of that?
With everything they did.
They killed innocent Israelis.
They killed.
Yes, they did.
Give me a picture for rape.
Do you think Hamas should release the Israeli hostages?
No.
No, no.
Nothing's new, Israel.
There's nothing named Israel.
The Quran mentions Israel over a hundred times.
Is Palestine mentioned in the Quran?
No.
No.
The murders Hamas did on October 7th.
Is that okay?
Yes.
They have the right to do it.
The problem is not Hamas.
We should look at the bigger picture.
They are living under occupation.
But Israel left Gaza in 2005.
Sure.
What does anti-bottom?
Neither one of us were born anywhere near 1940.
We have to deal with the reality today.
No.
No, don't deal with the reality of that.
Britain wrote on the criminal Jews since 1948.
They can go back.
Holanda, let off.
Most of those places they were kicked out of.
Jews have not been killed or exposed to any struggle or any violence in almost every country in the Middle East.
No.
That's true.
Educate yourself.
If they are kicked, it's because of their own actions.
What did they do, besides being Jewish?
They steal, they do all awful deeds.
Is anyone here in Yamas in the U.S.?
It's a big movement right now.
Queers for Palestine.
Are you supportive of that?
No.
We don't have it.
You don't update people here.
No.
It's like an alien.
It would not be accepted.
No, to be honest with you, no.
Do you want to live with the Israelis in peace?
No, no, I want one state solution.
No Israel.
So no more Israel.
Yes.
Israel wiped off the map.
We should delete Israel.
So you would not be okay with a two-state solution.
Of course not.
Israeli prisoners they released from Gaza.
They were smiling.
Do you think that these people are genuinely smiling after being held hostage?
They're scared not their life.
Who put this in your bridge?
I think you're in denial about Hamas.
So Hamas implements strict Sharia law.
It looks like in Ramall, at least, you're free to show your hair.
Would you want Hamas to be in charge?
They would allow for extravagant elections in Gaza in 20 years.
That's a fact.
Maybe people did want them.
Maybe people didn't want them.
I mean, unfortunately, the support for Hamas, and remember, part of their charter is they want the destruction of Israel.
And the people clearly support them.
Well, that's not my problem.
My problem is the U.S. and people like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
They have surrendered in the war against radical Islamic terrorism by not supporting Israel's right to defend itself, protect their country, and win their war against radical Islamic terrorism.
And that is maybe one of the worst things they ever did.
And Kamala Harris not showing up yesterday is just, it just exemplifies how radical she is.
Anyway, Kim is in Florida, the free state of Florida.
Kim, how are you?
Glad you called.
Yes.
Hi, Sean.
Thank you for taking my call.
I just have a couple points to make.
I'm embarrassed about the way the Americans have treated Prime Minister Bibi.
I mean, these are our closest allies, and they didn't even show up at the airport.
They didn't provide anything.
I mean, some delegates should have been there to welcome this man.
Well, really, your beef is with Biden and Kamala Harris because they're the ones that should have taken care of that.
It's not the American people.
I mean, by and large, the American people support Israel's right to defend itself and win their war on terror.
No, I'm not upset about the American people.
I'm embarrassed about the way the American people have treated this poor man.
I mean, I listened to his speak, and he has more class and love and respect for our country than any of those people do in Washington.
Well, maybe people forget, but I don't, because Prime Minister Netanyahu had our back after 9-11-01.
We lost 2,977 Americans based on their population size versus ours.
As I've been pointing out, we would have lost 40,000 people in one day on October 7th, just if you compare population size and why this administration, well, we know the reason why, because the whole party has been radicalized.
The whole party is run by the squad.
You've got an anti-Semitic, pro-Hamas wing in the Democratic Party.
And people like Joe and Kamala, they don't want to alienate that wing and divide their coalition.
And that's why Kamala Harris thought it was more important to show up at a sorority in Indiana and speak to the young people, I guess, 18 to 24, that she says are stupid, which a lot of people didn't know she had said.
We broke that last night.
Anyway, Kim, you make a lot of good points.
Appreciate you being with us.
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Let's say hi to Kirsten is in Colorado.
Hey, Kirsten, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hi, Sean.
Thanks for taking my call.
Thank you.
Yeah, I just wanted to talk a little bit about Kennedy and his role in the upcoming election.
There's been a lot of controversy about him being included in debates and him even getting on ballots within states.
And I'm just curious as to what you think about what, you know, how he's going to impact the upcoming election.
But then also in a broader sense, as I think about our two-party system and how the divide has, I'm a woman of a certain age.
I've kind of watched this divide grow over the decades.
And just kind of where we are with the two-party system and the ability to really kind of open up and expand our views on that.
Well, I mean, I've met Robert F. Kennedy.
I did a town hall early on with him.
I don't agree with a lot of his positions.
He is, you know, hardcore, solidly left-wing in his views, and he dared to challenge the Democratic establishment.
He's been treated like crap.
I mean, Joe Biden, it took the assassination attempt against Donald Trump for him to finally, you know, give him the Secret Service protection that I had been fighting for and arguing that he deserved for a long time, even though I wouldn't be voting for him.
I think when conservatives and Republicans know his record, there's nobody that's going to vote for him because they just don't agree with those positions.
He is way more in sync with the Democratic Party.
He has voted Democrat his whole adult life.
But I think he has a right to stand up to his own party, and a right to run and a right to be protected.
And I don't dislike him personally, just the opposite.
I mean, he was actually after the assassination attempt on President Trump.
He came on with me that night, and I did two hours that night.
And, you know, I said, I've been saying for the longest time, you deserve it.
And he was appreciative.
He goes, I appreciate it.
He lost his father.
He lost his uncle to an assassin's bullet.
And I mean, the Kennedy name, you know, how much more does this family have to go through?
This is basic, simple common sense.
If you're going to send hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine, how about you beef up security with the Secret Service and make sure that we protect our elected officials and those running for high office?
That's not complicated.
And I don't care if you're a Republican, a Democrat, liberal, conservative.
It's just common sense.
I've got to run, though.
I do appreciate your call.
I think in the end, when conservatives know his views, they're not going to vote for him.
That's my take.
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