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Salena Zito - September 13th, Hour 3
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Um there was an article by our friend Selena Zito, who will join us in a minute about uh Biden's LNG export embargo is hurting farmers too.
Now uh what that what they're specifically talking about is natural gas development over the past fifteen years has had a real big significant impact on agricultural stake uh holders in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Remember, early voting starts next week at the beginning of next week, and the partnership between these leading economic sectors in the state, natural gas farming, has led to farmers receiving royalty payments from Nash natural gas companies in return for leasing out the natural gas, the minerals, the natural resources on their lands.
They're making a lot of money on it.
When Biden announced at the end of January he was pausing all na exports of natural gas, well, his decision and literally killed the producers and employees in the industry, and these are high-paying career jobs for people, but also distressed American farmers in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
It's particularly true if of for people in Pennsylvania and neighboring Ohio, where hundreds of millions of dollars last year alone went to farmers and landhold holders that have these leases.
And anyway, the source of income for farmers in the last few years in Pennsylvania has been a game changer.
So I I've you know, we now we played over and over again.
We'll play it again, common on fracking, because either you bel you know, and she keeps telling this lie that in 2000, oh no, in uh 2000, I I said that I was not going to ban fracking.
Well, when she first said that in that 16 minute, 29 seconds worth of talking interview on fake news CNN, it was it was fact-checked to be a lie that she never did disavow her ban on fracking or call for a ban on fracking.
But here she is on fracking.
Let's talk about fracking because we're here in Pennsylvania.
I made that very clear in 2020.
I will not ban fracking.
I have not banned fracking as vice president of the United States, and in fact, I was the tie-breaking vote on the inflation reduction act, which opened new leases for fracking.
Will you commit to implementing a federal ban on fracking your first day in office?
Adding the United States, the list of countries who have banned this devastating practice.
There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking.
So yeah.
Okay, there's there's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking.
There were two lies told in the debate regarding fracking.
One that she changed her position in 2000, she did not.
And the the second one is that she supported new leases, which she did not support.
And now I just gave you the story of Selena Zeto and the impact on the economy who joins us now.
And Selena Zeto is the national political reporter for the Washington Examiner.
Great to have you back, Selena.
How are you?
Thank you so much.
I am so happy that you're bringing this up because it is such a major issue in my state.
And to yesterday, was it yesterday?
Yesterday, uh Japan, China, and a lot of other Asian countries.
I can't remember the entire list.
Oh, India and India have all said they do not trust to get their um LNGs, which is liquid natural gas, from the United States anymore, and they're going to turn to Russia because of the Biden Harris moratorium on exporting liquid natural gas.
Now, not only I mean that that is such a national security threat.
That's why Donald Trump, when he was president, handed a white flag to Angela Merkel after they did a multi, multi, multi-billion dollar deal for natural gas with Russia, and it made no sense that the Keystone XL pipeline was was uh was mothballed under Harris and Biden while simultaneously helping to make Putin and Russia rich with the approval that Donald Trump would not give Russia uh for
the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
We all know how much Russia needs cash right now, right?
It's been in an almost what two-year battle with Ukraine.
It is it is it is suffering in terms of uh it's its budget and it needs more money, and we are literally handing it to them with um with seeding our liquid natural gas to Russia because now our trading partners don't trust us because we we our politics plays with their need for deliverables on this very important energy component.
Okay this is this is crucial because not only the people that work in the you know LNG you're right I should have told people what it means liquid natural gas industry but the natural gas industry and people that work in the energy sector completely alone these are high paying career jobs.
Financially I would argue that when Pennsylvania opened up fracking they they became a wealthy state as a result of it.
I didn't know the impact until I read your article that it had on farmers and landowners and how many hundreds of millions of dollars they benefited from this and nor did I know that the Harris Biden administration uh pretty much killed this off and now that money's not coming into them as a result of their policies.
Yeah absolutely one hundred and ninety three million dollars in royalties to Pennsylvania farms one of the top along with energy top economic drivers in our state we're not just talking about welders and construction workers and blue collar workers that are in this industry by the way there's geologists, engineers, people who work in artificial intelligence, C suite level managers, right?
And we're and and as well as the farmers and also the communities that have benefited from it.
Not only is their tax base increased but their schools um districts are also getting more money.
They put money into the trade school so young people can go work right out of high school there's a there's a trade school in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania that the kids walk out of high school and start making ninety thousand dollars a year in in one of the poorest counties in the state.
This has been an economic game changer.
The fact that we do not talk about this enough in just sort of blows my mind in particular with what happened two days ago which probably nobody knows about when when all the Asian countries got together and said yeah we don't trust the United States because of their politics.
We don't trust them because they cut off our access to exports.
So we're going to Russia to get our our natural gas.
That that is that is I mean that's what Western Europe did.
And this is like one of the biggest issues that never gets talked about.
First of all the Keystone XL pipeline cancelled but the approval the waiver for the Nord Stream two pipeline and we have all of these resources hundreds of years worth of natural gas uh that would make us the most energy dominant country coupled with of course oil on the face of the earth look look at your neighboring state of New York and how stupid they are the governor there just announced again that she will ban fracking in New York.
This is insanity it it is really mind blowing.
So hydraulic fracturing or the flying term is fracking it has made because of of the the process that is used it has reduced our carbon imprint significantly significantly in this it's a clean burning energy that's what you're saying.
Yeah it is a clean burning energy.
Look the P I will I you know this this point needs to be made as well.
Most of the people that work in the industry in particular the blue the white the blue collar workers are the same people who live where the hydraulic fracturing is done.
They are the same people whose families fish in the creeks in the streams or as we say around here cricks.
They're the same people that hike that have you know that go camping they live and experience their lives right next to these facilities.
They are going to make sure they are the safest ones.
And it is always fascinating to me that the people that are screaming and yelling about fracking probably have never even been to Western Pennsylvania and, you know, live in New York, Los Angeles, or Washington DC.
And so they they they have they don't have a conception, an idea of what it is like.
Tim Walls was in Faya County a week ago, ten days ago, which is in the southernmost chip of the state of Pennsylvania.
He visited a farm and he was a little bit lectured by the farmer about the importance of natural gas in agriculture.
To which he said, you know, the Biden Harris has been the most um favorable to fracking in in um and and any other administration and you know I almost I didn't I was almost gonna my mind was blown.
But this is an industry that just because I've seen what it's done to my community to what to my to my state to my part of the um the the region and and how much it has better to people's lives and brought back a lot of small towns that were on their knees uh it's it's just again mind blowing it's not talked about enough.
All right quick break more with Selena Zito who is with us.
She is the national political reporter for the Washington Examiner as we talk about the important swing state of Pennsylvania early voting starts at the beginning of next week and we'll continue.
We'll get to more of your calls this Friday as well 800 941 Sean is our number.
Only days away from early voting beginning next week in Pennsylvania the Commonwealth and Selena Zito knows Pennsylvania as well as anybody national political reporter for the Washington Examiner.
Let me ask you this next question, because I think this is very important.
Where's Governor Shapiro on fracking?
My understanding, and I think this was probably the most indicative, maybe the biggest revelation about who Kamala Harris really is.
I think giving in to the radical wing in her party, he found the Bernie Sanders of governors in Tim Walls and a political soulmate in so many ways, and passed away.
passed over you know uh a pretty well liked democratic governor in in your commonwealth in your state and uh it's kind of mind numbing that she did it and I've got to imagine Shapiro probably won't say it publicly is rolling his eyes saying this is this is really dumb.
Well I mean by uh I interviewed Shapiro not on that but I did interview Shapiro on Biden's uh and Harris's pause on fracking and he was totally against it.
And he told the president so in so many words.
Um so it's uh you know Shapiro is and always has been his own man.
He navigates by what he understands is the best to govern.
He's not gonna and and so oftentimes he doesn't make the left happy and he doesn't make the right happy but he both does a pretty decent job understanding the importance of governing such a diverse state as Pennsylvania and he has been very supportive of fracking.
Let me ask you this, because Kamala has been so and the Harris Biden administration has been so hostile, in my view, towards Israel.
And you've got this pro Hamas, you know, wing in the Democratic Party from the squad through, you know, college campuses.
And it's obvious that that the Harris ticket doesn't want to alienate that group.
There were about three or four hundred thousand Jewish voters, I believe, in Pennsylvania.
you can correct me if I'm wrong mean we always break things down demographically um is this going to have an impact in that state do you think?
I saw one poll that came out this week that showed a dramatic increase in support in the Jewish American community in Pennsylvania in particular moving in Donald Trump's direction.
Well you know as we both know politics tends to move uh and and coalitions tend to move at a snailed pace until they don't and then all of a sudden bang you're there.
I think there has been part of the reason that the Jewish population has been more aligned with the Democratic Party has a lot to do with college education and sort of what the way you are um taught and doctrine, whatever words you want to use, um, at university.
However, once you start to settle in your community and you start to and there there is a culture around your community, your vote slowly changes based on what is best for your community and your family.
And I think that's what we're seeing right now.
I think coming out of college and maybe, you know, before you get married and have kids, you know, things are um you know, you see things the way your peers saw it, mostly at universities.
But as you settle in a community and you see that in particular among Jews, the hostility directed at you within you that owns the party that you have been sort of so affiliated and and um associate with, those those um relationships start to break apart.
And I think that that's what you're seeing in the Jewish community um today in Pennsylvania.
All right, Selena Zito, we really appreciate you uh being with us.
Of course, Selena, you can read her column.
She is the national political reporter for the Washington Examiner.
Uh, Selena, thank you.
We'll check in often.
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Uh you know, I don't I'm not going to join this chorus of people.
Uh David Portnoy had an interesting comment.
I didn't know David Portnoy was a big Swifty.
You know, I know he's got his what's the name of the dog he has.
Oh my God.
Peaches.
Peaches come here, Peaches.
You know, here you got this this hyper alpha male, and he's got these videos with his dog that he rescued and flew in on a private jet.
Uh and and he's raised, I think millions of dollars, you know, to help rescue animals.
I love animals too.
I love dogs in particular.
I wish I was at a point in my life where I could actually could be a good dog owner.
I'd love to have a dog again, but I am not.
Um, and anyway, I just I just love animals.
I love dogs.
And I make fun of Linda's fat your cat that you know had to go to the heavy cat farm.
You're not allowed to say the F word that what that F word, right anymore, Linda.
That's the illegal.
I mean, I don't know.
I don't I don't subscribe to those things, but you know.
All right, you so overfed this animal it was four times its normal size.
Let's be honest.
Listen, uh, you know.
I know you did it out of love, but you nearly killed the thing.
I didn't almost kill her.
She just walked a little slower.
But you know, she did go to an away camp, and she's nice and away now.
Yeah.
Is she really skinny?
I haven't seen a skinny picture.
She's skinny and she's living on the farm and she's living her best life, and uh I have two.
It's not true.
It's because I got another cat, and that cat was mean to her, and I, you know, I had somebody that needed a cat at the time who was very lonely, and so I gave that person this cat.
Anyway, so you have you have Portnoy going, Miss Peaches all and then he pushes around uh the dog and a stroller.
It's hilarious.
It's some of the funniest things I've ever seen.
Uh, But anyway, putting that aside, he's done a lot of good work.
And but he's apparently a swifty.
I didn't know that part.
And and that's fine, but he's not voting the way Taylor Swift is.
I don't know if celebrity endorsements matter too much.
The only thing I would say is, you know, one thing, Taylor Swift started out with, you know, tears in my guitar.
I kind of watched a whole career.
She's enormously talented, writes all her own songs, is extraordinarily kind to her fans.
I mean, see, I see a lot of things that I like about her.
Uh I think that the press and the mob and the media and her critics need to leave her and Travis Kelsey alone and let them live their lives, and she's allowed to vote for whoever she wants to vote for.
But when she made a public endorsement, it made me think.
I really wonder if she supports this idea of no restrictions on late-term abortion, which both Kamala Harris and Tim Walls support.
That means in the month seven, eighth, and ninth.
Or supports, I mean, uh, not that I know of, I don't think she has any children, but you know, if she had a son, is is she okay with the idea of putting feminine products in boys' bathrooms and schools?
Or like in the case of uh Minnesota and now moving into California to have uh gender assignment care.
I'm talking about care, which could be life altering, uh, given to students without parental notification.
She said for people to do their own research, which I think was a responsible thing to do.
I don't know.
Um now Brittany Mahomes, who seems to be her friend, was made some favorable comments about Donald Trump and you know, there was oh, a big outcry.
Patrick Mahomes, they tried to drag him into this in a press conference, and honestly, I think he probably wisely decided I'm I'm not bringing politics into my sport.
This is what he said.
I just wonder what your reaction is to seeing that.
Yeah, I think I've I've always said um I don't want I don't want my place and my platform to be used to endorse a candidate or do whatever um each either way.
I think my place is to inform people to get registered to vote, instead of informed people to do their own research and then make their best decision for them and their family.
When you were at the U.S. Open this past weekend and you guys were there with Taylor and Travis.
I mean, is that an important image to show that you know people who may have different philosophies?
Whatever, I'm hanging out with with whoever.
I'm not thinking about their political views or anything like that.
I'm thinking about the people and how they how they treat other people.
Um and I was with a lot of great people this weekend.
I mean, probably a smart answer on his part.
Uh let us go to our busy telephones.
Uh Jeff is in Missouri.
Jeff, hey, how are you?
Glad you checked in.
How are happy Friday to you?
Happy Friday to you, Sean.
for having me on there about the second debate And I know Kamala's asked for it.
And Trump decided he wasn't gonna do it, which I think is uh probably a bad idea.
I think he should go on along with it and let in the same forum that they did last time.
Two moderates.
But the problem is when I did my town hall, I don't know if you saw the town hall I did with President Trump in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Did you see that town hall?
I did.
Okay.
That was supposed to be a Fox debate.
Every debate so far, every rule, every every location, every moderator, all the all of it was dictated by the Democrats.
That's the only debate they're gonna agree to.
It's their terms and their terms only.
And we saw, you know, I I felt it was a three-on-one debate uh Tuesday, and I just think the president realizes okay, she's not gonna speak to the press.
And I, you know, I've I've got to move on with my campaign and stop, you know.
It was Kamala that said the debate over debates is over.
You know, I if are we gonna not learn about her positions in fifty-six days, fifty-four days?
She hasn't done a formal press conference.
Donald Trump just finished one before we started the show today.
Uh, there was an interesting comment that uh was made.
It was on Fox News.com.
Author Susan Page told uh Fox News, Barbara Walters would would be pushing hard and demanding a debate.
Trump and Vance did a combined 48 interviews since last month, you know, compared to you know the one on fake news CNN combined.
James Clyburn saying that Harris, you know, probably shouldn't do because uh do another interview because she'll probably make a mistake.
I mean, it's a disservice to the American people.
I think I don't think this is wearing well, and I think that as I've been pointing out, her radicalism is is becoming more and more well known.
And I'm I'm actually giving many of you in this audience a lot of credit.
I I put the Kamala Files, the Walls files on Hannity.com as a public service, them in their own words, their radicalism, the list that I mentioned or play on a daily basis.
And more and more people discover how extreme she is, which ABC had an obligation to bring out, ABC Disney, and they didn't.
You know, look, I I don't call for boycotts, I just don't, or cancellations uh or any such.
I just I don't live that way.
But you know, if a company is that hostile and woke and political, and their views are just the antithesis of mine.
I I really have no interest in ABC Disney.
And I think their credibility as a quote news organization has been shot and is forever tarnished as a result of that.
We just learned from the New York Post today that apparently uh Kamala and oh what's what's the Lindsay Davis?
Is that her name?
Um I was not that I was not that familiar with her before this.
You know, we're sorority sisters, went to the were part of the same sorority.
I'm like, oh, that would have been nice if it was disclosed ahead of time.
But you know, I I'm not sure you really get a lot out of this.
It's it's if we had gotten to the substance of Kamala sponsoring the Green New Deal, mandatory gun buybacks instead of a lying about it, or her own words and fracking, or sponsoring government health care for all, no private health insurance, and defund and dismantle no bail laws and you know, sex change operations for prisoners and for illegal immigrants paid for by you.
Had we gotten to all of that, it would be worthwhile, but none of that happened.
And I don't think it's gonna happen the next time.
And she's not gonna agree to Fox.
I could tell you that.
Uh so Donald Trump is then put in a position yet again to be in a hostile environment.
And I'm just uh at some point, I mean, he's just gotta realize that this is there's no upside here for him.
Uh anyway, we'll see though.
I could go either way to be honest on it.
I don't really care that much about it because it's a lot of theater.
Thanks, Jeff.
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