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Newt Gingrich - September 10th, Hour 2
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Hour two, Sean Hannity Show, 800-941 Sean Our number.
If you want to be a part of the program, we're in Philadelphia for tonight's debate between President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, probably their only face-off in this campaign.
We are only 56 days away until election day.
It's debate night in America.
We are seven days away from early voting beginning in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Other states are sending out ballots even as we speak.
And we do have new information to pass on to you today, and we've been through the list and we've played it over and over again.
We frankly can't play it enough.
If I had time, I would play all of Kamala in her own words again, but I can't do it every day and every night.
But we now know that Kamala on a form and in and also verbally stated that she wants you, the taxpayers of our country to fund sex change surgery for illegal immigrants.
Well, what if all 11 million that they have allowed in unvetted want them?
It's gonna cost a lot.
And of course, she had already taken the position of taxpayer-funded sex change surgery for convicted for convicts.
And on top of that, she wants a federal drug uh per uh possession for personal use law, meaning you would decriminalize all drugs in America.
That would mean crack, heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl.
And now that she's finally put up some information on her website, she has reiterated her call for not only free housing, health care, education, and taxpayer-funded sex change surgeries for illegals, but now a path to citizenship, or what some of us might rightly call amnesty.
We have the debate coming up in literally five hours from right now, a little less than five hours, and joining us is former speaker of the house, New Kingrich.
Uh welcome to the city of Brotherly Uh Love and the home of Gino Steakhouse.
And uh anyway, glad you're with us.
How are you, sir?
I'm glad to be with you.
And as you know, I was born in Harrisburg, so I have many fond memories of Philadelphia.
Now, they had really good cheesesteaks in Harrisburg when we were there for the town hall last week, but I gotta admit Gino's is the best.
And I had Gino's earlier today.
Probably not good for my my healthy diet, although it is meat related, and I do put a heavy dose of onions and I don't eat the bread, so I'm I'm doing the best I can.
I was gonna say you it's pretty hard to go to Philadelphia and not give it a try.
And if you John Kerry, can I have Swiss cheese on uh cheese thing or whatever he asked for?
All right, let's go through this.
Let's first talk about and I I knew that she supported, meaning Kamala Harris, taxpayer-funded sex change surgery for convicts.
Uh we knew she was for you know marijuana legalization after she put nineteen hundred people behind bars, but now federal drug possession for personal use.
We find out that she signed off on that in twenty nineteen.
That would decriminalize even the hardest of drugs and put in writing now her plan for an earned pathway to citizenship, as she calls it, but that is amnesty.
Uh, to me, every one of these policies is radical, extreme, and dangerous.
Well, that's that's because they are.
I mean, we need to understand that Kamala and her sidekick waltz, who's even more radical, represent the replacement of America with a country which is more like Venezuela than it is like the United States.
And uh it's it's almost beyond imagining that they think they can get elected doing this.
And I'm frankly looking forward to the debate because I actually think Trump has a relatively easy job if he'll relax and do it, and that is just allow Kamala to be Kamala.
Um, people see how truly radical she is, and I thought Bernie Sanders did all he could to help our side this weekend when he said, Well, you know, the reason that she's claiming that she's changed is uh it's a pragmatic effort to get elected.
Nothing but he doesn't believe anything she said.
And now if you think about it.
That's about as tough a condemnation, and I'm not sure he meant it to be that tough.
I think he was just being honest.
Yeah, he said the quiet part out loud that everybody has known for a long time.
And yeah, let's be she's just being pragmatic.
She's just saying whatever she needs to win the election.
You know, I did this to you last night, and you're probably gonna hate me, but because our friendship goes back to nineteen ninety when I first interviewed you in a holiday in in Decatur, Alabama, I think you'll probably indulge me.
But no restrictions on abortion, mandatory gun buyback, no border wall, decriminalize the illegal immigration, free housing, health care, education, legal driver's licenses in Minnesota and and free college, uh a path to citizenship amnesty, now taxpayer funded sex chain surgery, reparation she supports, co-sponsored the Green New Deal, 93 trillion dollars, end of capitalism as we know it.
Uh also sponsored government health care for all, the elimination of private health insurance, uh, and she called the high cost of energy, the cost of uh democracy.
We can't say radical Islamic terrorist or or illegal alien.
She talks about on day one she'll flight it fight inflation and immigration.
Day one was January twentieth, twenty twenty-one.
And she's gonna raise every tax imaginable, brags about being the last person in the room on the Afghanistan decision, is comfortable with the decision, but thirteen Americans died on the border, how many Americans have been murdered and raped and victims of violent crime.
Forget the money.
You know, her tweeting out the Minnesota bail fund four days after the police precinct was burned to the ground, and six hundred riots that summer, quote, the rioters won't stop, they shouldn't stop.
We're not gonna stop.
Eighteen to twenty-four year olds are stupid, abolishing the filibuster to pass the Green New Deal, and and I can keep going.
That's the problem.
Now I I don't but America's never been faced with a situation like this, as far as I can tell, and the media is protecting uh her campaign by not informing their viewers, their listeners, in in any way, shape, manner, or form.
Help me here.
Well, I mean, of course they are, because the propaganda media is them.
I mean, it's not it's not like they're covering it.
They are an integral part of the campaign.
But here's what I think is going to come down to if you want your town to become like Springfield, Ohio, which is now twenty-five percent Haitian, and you would like to see your town overrun, and you would like to see Venezuelan criminal gangs like the one we have on uh video tape in uh Aurora, Colorado, then you know, Kamala is your candidate.
I mean, she represents an America which will be overrun with illegal immigrants, drowning in crime, uh, will raise your taxes, destroy the economy, uh, and at the same time, uh, will cripple our energy industry, make us more dependent on places like Venezuela and Iran.
Uh, and if you think that's a good future, you ought to be for her.
I have to tell you, I saw uh the movie uh Reagan uh the other night, and I was on Sunday night, I was blown away.
Uh it was a remarkable reminder of how he took apart Jimmy Carter, and it's exactly the same pattern.
You know, he just said, you know, if you like where you are and you like what's happening, you ought to vote for Carter.
But if you don't like it, you ought to vote for me.
Well, Trump's in a position to go down every single item.
You like beef going up twenty-six percent under Biden and Harris, you ought to vote for them.
You like having illegal immigrants and make your city streets dangerous, you ought to vote for them.
You think it's great to have a huge budget deficit, massive inflation, and and and the signs of a growing recession, vote for them.
But if you don't like those things, the only candidate of real change is Donald J. Trump.
And you have to vote for him.
The rules to me, and I don't know if you spoke to President Trump or not, would be pretty simple.
And that is don't react to a single thing she says.
I wouldn't play defense at any point during the debate.
And uh I would also be uh I would I would address her politely and not be phased by any of it, and I'd prosecute the case of her radical positions and lay out his vision to save the country.
I don't really think it's more complicated than that.
Have you spoken to the president?
How do you feel that he will do tonight?
Well, I think he'll do well, and I you know, look, she's the best debater I've ever seen.
Uh better than Reagan.
Uh and and uh certainly much better than I was in two thousand twelve.
Um he has an instinct for how to just have a great line to Chris Wallace.
That's a Mickey Mouse question.
I know.
And that was a good moment, and I liked it.
But uh no, I it was a really good line, actually.
Go ahead.
I mean people thought I was a really good debater.
Uh I could never stay on the same stage with Trump.
Uh he's the most because he he intuits when you're done with everything else, he listens to all of us, he listens to everybody.
He listens to the gardener, he listens to the guy you know uh d driving the Amazon truck, he listens to the highly paid consultants, and then he thinks about it, and then he takes a he does exactly what I did.
You may remember that before that debate, which was the very first debate of the campaign.
Uh Clista and I actually went to our room and watched uh bridesmaids and drank Diet Coke.
That was my debate prep.
So I'm I am totally with Trump.
His entire life has been debate prep.
Uh he is used to going out here and talking for an hour and a half.
Uh he loves it.
And uh I'm I'm looking forward, you know, again, you never can tell.
I'm assuming she's gonna come in very aggressive and very arrogant.
I I think he has to be very respectful.
Uh my view is as long as she is vice president Harris, it serves two goals.
It reminds everybody she is the vice president of the Biden administration, so she can't claim it's a new start.
And I think women will appreciate dealing with her with dignity.
I think as long as he starts with vice president, he can then take her on head on, and people will accept that that's okay.
But he has to at least start with I I I think Americans want to see a gladiator patriot that passionately wants to save our country.
But as long as you're right, as long as it's not personal and he addresses her politely, I think all everything else is off the table and calling out her radicalism is part of what a debate's supposed to be about.
Right.
And he can also take on the two ABC reporters.
Which I I did constantly in 12.
In other words, he should not allow them one inch of getting out of line.
Then he can hammer.
Chris Wallace was a big baby because after the debate in 2012, I asked you, you were on with me, and I said, uh, what was going on with you and Chris?
And you answered.
And the next day he was making very, very um well, let's say, pointed comments about me to my producer at the time, and I said, Chris, stay right there.
I'll be there in five minutes.
So when I got there, he wasn't there.
It was a very strange moment.
All right, quick break, right back.
We continue.
We're in Philadelphia.
It's debate night in America.
Less than five hours away.
We'll continue a former speaker of the House, uh, Newt Gingrich is with us.
Your call's coming up, 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program as we continue.
All right, we continue.
We are in the city of Brotherly Love, and we continue with former Speaker of the House, New Ingrid.
I think she's gonna be rehearsed.
I think she's gonna be over-rehearsed.
I think she's gonna have her stingers or predictable one-liners, and you're a convict and try to bait him.
I don't I don't think he's gonna fall for it.
That's my guess.
Well, and here and here's the danger of being overrehears.
You get too tense and you are trying to remember what it is you're supposed to do.
And it slows you down.
You you can watch truly natural debaters have a fluidity and a movement because they just go, they just go.
People who are overly rehearsed have a half-second delay where they're trying to remember what they're supposed to do.
And audiences pick up on that.
I think that's well said.
I would I that I want to manage people's expectations.
She will be rehearsed.
She will have prepared lines.
She will go in for k the debate kill shot.
But if Trump doesn't react to it and then prosecutes the case against her calmly and passionately, and lays out his vision, I think people are not as aware as we are about how radical she is.
Remember also, this is a three-to-one debate.
The two ABC people are both totally for Paris.
Their credibility's on the line here.
By the way, if I I don't think Donald Trump can bring up taxpayer-funded sex change surgeries uh for illegals and convicts enough in legalizing crack or decriminalizing crack heroin cocaine and fentanyl enough.
You know.
You're having a hard time addressing it.
I mean, I I've stumped a great debater in his own right.
Yeah, I I mean, first of all, if he just says, uh, do you really believe this?
You really would take tax money from the American people for this.
Just say now, supposedly they're not supposed to ask each other questions.
But you can do it rhetorically.
I I totally agree.
Um, you're a historian.
I would I'm gonna make a prediction.
I think this is the gonna be the most watched debate in the history of our country.
Probably, but you know, as of this morning, only forty-four percent of the country knew there was a debate.
Some of them may be voting.
The ones that didn't uh the ones that don't know.
I just think people are so fed up with politics.
Yeah, I don't disagree.
Yeah.
Let's get the let's get the game on.
It's game night in America.
I think it's gonna be highly viewed.
Uh as always, you give great advice, and uh we will be we'll be we'll be talking a lot between now and election day, the next fifty-six days you're not gonna be able to duck or dodge or avoid me like Kamala avoids the media.
Well, we'll we'll talk again after the debate, okay?
All right, Speaker Gingrich, thank you.
One thing we could ask people just for kicks and giggles, because everyone's everybody if I get any more, how's he gonna do?
How's he gonna do?
How do you need to say this?
If you talk to the president, make sure you tell him this before Harrisburg last week.
If you see the president, when you see the president, you gotta tell him I I have the one magic line that's gonna win the whole debate.
And everybody is well meaning.
Let me be very clear.
Everybody is well meaning.
And I understand everyone's passion.
There is a lot, I think, writing on this election.
Not just tonight's debate, but the election.
And a lot of people are upset, but maybe one fun question we can ask as we move forward is uh what are you gonna be eating during the debate?
I know I'll be working, unfortunately.
Uh I won't have time and I'll be taking notes and uh and and watching, you know, very, very closely.
But you know, is it cheeses steak if you're in Philly?
If you're in Utah, is it a crown burger?
If it's out wet on the West Coast, is it in an out burger?
Right?
I mean, what are you gonna be eating?
What are you gonna be eating?
I'm gonna be drinking because I have to uh I have to listen to Kamala Harris for a little while, which I think I should get combat pay for, but moving on.
I think my president uh will give me moments of relief, and uh Madam Vice President will give me moments of agita that will be soothed by Tito's and tonic.
Tito's and tonic.
All right, I like the Tito's part.
You can live without the tonic.
Why?
I don't like tonic.
I don't like the I I just don't like it.
It's good for you.
Yeah, makes me feel about a a a quadruple dirty m martini straight up with olives.
Delicious.
Never.
All right, Paul, North Carolina, Paul, how are you?
And anything special on the menu for debate night in America for you and your family.
Uh well, uh, not necessarily about the debate.
I think you've done a great job about um covering that.
So first of all, I want to say you're a great American.
It's an honor to speak with you.
Uh, but I wanted to start by saying, you know, when Rush was alive, he talked about low information voters.
And in my opinion, we have more low information voters in America now than we ever have because of the biased media, because of big tech, whether it's social media or even a search engine where you can't get accurate information.
Um, but the point I wanted to make was I was listening yesterday afternoon, and you had a caller from Pennsylvania, and he talked about um how he just wasn't seeing the ads and the messaging about uh Kamala's policies in Pennsylvania.
Well, the same thing is happening here in North Carolina.
I'm not a native here.
I moved here from a red state years ago, but I've been here most of my life.
And uh we're not getting the messaging.
In fact, the the FM affiliate that plays your show here has Kamala ads, but no Trump ads.
So it's kind of maddening to see that this messaging is not getting out to people effectively, in my opinion, especially since North Carolina is very important.
Um North Carolina is extraordinarily important and I think that uh I hope the people in North Carolina are acutely aware of just how radical and extreme Kamala Harris is I don't think they would support her if they knew.
If they knew what she would do to the economy and our our it national security here at home with open borders and of course free taxpayer funded sex change surgeries on top of free housing, health care and education um and if people know about her positions on reparations and gun buybacks that are mandatory and and the ninety three trillion dollar Green New Deal which would be the end of capitalism that she co sponsored and the elimination of all private health
insurance um and I I think people would not be inclined to vote for her.
The media has protected her but yeah I think they need to run more ads effective ads and a lot of it is you gotta remember you have these democratic billionaires that are that are funding these outside Democratic packs.
They just have simply they have more money to spend and they are they are they are running a propaganda campaign.
They're not running a real campaign.
So it is certainly something to be concerned about.
I'm paying attention to it as well.
Paul we love our friends in North Carolina our friends that are visiting there today as we speak that I spoke to earlier as a matter of fact.
Uh anyway 800 nine four one Sean if you want to be a part of the program Joe in Texas.
God bless Texas Joe, how are you?
I'm doing fine Sean how you doing today, sir.
I'm good man what's going on?
Well you know man uh getting ready for this debate, you know myself, I'm gonna be drinking some drinks for the debate tonight, me and my wife uh can't wait for this.
What what's your drink of choice?
Uh well mine is Jack All right Dra Jack on the rocks or straight up Jack on the rock just one ice cube about oh maybe Oh you've got that big ice cube thing going on don't you yes sir yes sir I do.
I mean you know down here in Texas we do it right.
No listen all my friends that like scotch and and whiskey like you and they have the one big ice cube they they swear by it they like taste it I'm like I can't get it down.
No no it takes a long time.
You gotta develop a taste for it.
I'm like why would I want to develop a taste for it that's whiskey man.
Come on then I hung out with John Rich once and oh man Crown Royal at the time before he came out with Redneck Riviera whiskey but anyway what's on your mind?
Well man, you know you touched something on nerve on me the other day not you personally but you know trying to watch his late night T V show man I you know I I try to give it a chance and and and a fair shake at it and my God they say Trump's name a thousand times to Kamala's two and it's just bad.
You can't it's not family entertainment anymore.
It's just negative negative negative I mean you would think you know these guys the Timmons and them guys want you to vote for Kamala but you know instead of you know to me they reversed it.
You know instead of talking good points about her and her policy it's just bad jokes on his family and his and you know just bad jokes on Trump and and it just bothers me because you know why if if if they if they want you to vote for Kamala so bad why don't they focus on her and and you know what I'm saying it's just bot it's just that just bothers me.
I I can't even watch ten minutes of it uh you know it's uh uh I try but you know just back in the day I'm an older guy and I like you know I remember watching Johnny Clark with my mom every evening, every night.
None of this crazy stuff.
It was just entertainment, you know uh you know you want to know what's amazing and this is kind of a a how dramatically things have shifted.
Like for example when I did the town hall and I don't talk a lot about ratings in my um radio and TV and we we've done very very well thanks to all of you.
But like when I did the town hall in Harrisburg last week it was the number one show in all of television.
Right.
And that's in that's in total audience and in in what we call the demo 2554 which is to me I I want as many people watching as I can.
I don't care what how young or old you are.
Right.
And anyway so um but I just don't talk about it a lot.
I mean ratings go down too occasionally.
You have slow news periods, but for the most part, you know, we've done so well over the years, thanks to all of you and this very loyal audience of ours.
And so I can just tell you that late night TV has destroyed itself.
Kimmel's even admitting it it's its end is demise is near.
But that's why Greg Guttfeld beats all of them.
Because he's funny.
You're right.
I watch him as well.
And you know, the the the thing to me is is when I when I watch your show uh and and I like I watch Water Show, you know, it's uh you know, y'all talk about the points, not so much for family and how bad or you know what I mean?
I don't know nothing about her family, but you know, w with with the other group, you know, they they just talk about I mean this man here, I would love to sit down with uh President Trump and just learn how he raised his smartest kids.
Every one of them is very well they're they're just well mannered and and uh you know, and and you know, versus the other guy's kid, you know, with drug problem, and look, people have problems, I understand that.
And you know, and they get help, but you know, I just don't see how they can just talk bad about this man who's just got a great family, and and they all support him.
I mean, you know, I try to raise my kid the same way.
And uh, you know, and and I watch your show, you know.
I mean, you you bring up the points, not the the negative of of of her of of the family.
You know what I'm saying you know what I mean?
Does that make sense to you?
Yeah, no, I totally do.
Uh look, I appreciate your call.
Enjoy your your whiskey tonight with your one ice cube, and we appreciate you being with us.
Thank you, Joe in Texas.
Uh let's say hi to Kim in South Carolina.
Hey, Kim, how are you?
Glad you called.
Good.
How are you, Sean?
I'm good.
You're a New Yorker that moved down to South Carolina, aren't you?
Yes.
And I bet everybody in South Carolina says, How you doing?
And you say, How you doing?
Good to talk to you.
And they say, Man, you have an accent.
You must be from New York.
Exactly.
Exactly.
They pick it up one, two, three.
It's something that's never gonna go away.
Well, I've I have lessened my New York accent.
It comes out a lot more when I'm tired.
But anyway, I try to I try to not sound like Linda when I whenever possible.
Well, you're a Linda talk, Sean.
We're in uh we're in Milwaukee.
You know.
We happen to be in in Philadelphia today.
She actually grew up in Philly.
And she's a pen she lives in Pennsylvania.
Really?
With her four hundred kids.
I do.
I live here with my large my large family and all of my pets with my giant Trump signs and all my whatever happened to the cat that was had to go to the the heavy cat farm.
I can't tell you they're in the witness uh relocation protection programs.
So that cat didn't make it, did it?
Oh, no, no, no.
She's just staying safe and inside.
She's a lot.
That cat is alive.
Oh yeah, she's alive.
We're gonna keep her that way.
In your mind she's alive.
No, she's alive.
Anyway, make your came back to you, make your point.
Um, I'm just wondering what form of voting would you recommend that would be the um I don't know how I guess we'll get the most honest counting done on it.
Would you say early voting through the machines?
Because I don't think I'm afraid of the mail and voting.
And I just want people out there to know what, you know, if they should be going early to have it tabulated correctly, or if they should wait until the day of and and be you know, and go to the machines that are there.
I I think Republicans and conservatives have got to embrace early voting voting by mail.
It's not the system we want.
I've gone over this a hundred times.
You cannot wait until election day.
Something may come up that day.
And bank your vote.
And it works in Florida, my home state.
Linda what I just want to give one piece one little piece of advice, just one.
Take it easy.
All right.
I have been telling all my friends in Pennsylvania because we're one of these early voting states.
One week from today.
That's right.
So call your local Republican chair.
That's what we've been doing.
And find out what works best for your county, because they're a little bit different every county.
And I think that's probably Sam in the Carolinas.
That's all I wanted to say.
And we do have on Hannity.com how to register or as a public service and when early voting starts.
Um that's my best advice, Kim?
Does that help you?
Yeah, yeah, it does.
I just hope that I hope that we uh come out ahead here.
I really do.
This is this is getting scary.
It's it's it's game time.
It's you know what?
The adrenaline's flowing.
It's flowing to me.
All right, quick break, right back.
We'll get to more of your calls.
We continue from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Early voting starts one week from today.
It is debate night in America.
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We're in Philadelphia.
Now coming up to what, just four hours till debate time, and we've got full coverage both before and after on the Fox News channel.
Uh let's say hi to Pam, North Carolina.
How are you, Pam?
Your state is so important.
We need North Carolina desperately.
People get out to vote in North Carolina.
Although your ballots have been delayed about a week based on your state Supreme Court decision.
Yes, I'm so I'm so glad they they made that change to the ballot, even though it may be a delay to get RFK off the ballot.
Um, I was calling today with it.
One more thing to add to the Kamala concern list.
And I'm not a finance person, but uh read up on this unrealized capital gains tax that they're gonna uh Kamala is proposing if she gets in to you know hit it to the people who make a hundred plus million dollars a year.
I'm I'm not in that category.
But um, of course, you know, other people are and you know what the problem is with that because your concern is right.
You know what the problem is?
Those people that have that kind of money, let me tell you about those people.
They invest it and they create jobs, high-paying career jobs for for people like when I was poor in my life that needed a job.
I've never worked for a poor person.
And they're gonna stop investing, and the jobs are gonna dry up and the salaries are gonna go way down, and our quality of life will disintegrate.
It is the single dumbest economic proposal I've ever heard.
Everything that's been spoken of about her today on your show, and it just bothers me because my mom has had a restaurant for 40 something years.
My dad is a small business owner, my husband is a small business owner.
It will trickle down, regardless of what they say.
It will trickle down to the small business and the everyday person here in America.
Well, I tend to agree with everything that you said, and it will impact all of us.
Good call.
Thank you, Pam.
God bless North Carolina.
We need you so bad, North Carolina.
Please get out and vote.
Vote early when those when those ballots go out in the next week or so.
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