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Sept. 27, 2024 - Sean Hannity Show
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Hurricane Helene - September 26th, Hour 1
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Thank you, Scott Shannon.
Thanks to all of you for being with us right now.
It's 800-941 Sean.
If you'd like to join us, thoughts, prayers are with our friends in my free state of Florida.
They get they're getting hammered by this storm.
Uh where I am, it's not as bad as where it is, it is where the people are getting hit the hardest.
It is the worst feeling, not knowing, you know, if you're going to be in an area that's about to have a 20-foot uh you know water surge uh and and tide um and you know, 100 mile an hour winds and your house being you know at risk, everything you've worked so hard your whole life for, forget about insurance fixing it or not fixing it.
It just is it's just heart-wrenching for people.
Many people have actually had to leave their homes.
Our friends in Georgia are gonna get hit particularly hard as well.
Our thoughts and prayers are with them today.
Uh Governor DeSantis will check in on what what the latest is in Florida.
We'll check in, hopefully with uh Governor Kemp and his people, uh, either today or tomorrow as well, and see uh what's going on in Georgia.
And, you know, as always, I know that if people are in need of the American people, the most generous people on earth.
Um we we have so much news about Kamala Hash.
So she does this interview last night with Stephanie Rule.
I don't really know Stephanie Rule.
And I just know she's on MSDNC, and I know she's a huge combo supporter.
Now, I don't expect a huge Kamalos supporter interview to be interesting in terms of getting to all right.
Well, explain, you know, we we just found out, for example, that Kamala Harris once sponsored a measure to take away all residents' handguns.
This is a woman, you know, bragging over Winfrey that she's gonna blow somebody away if they with a gun if they break into her house, you know, with somebody that's bragging I you know, I pack.
I'm packing.
I did not know that.
And somebody breaks in my house, they're getting shot.
I'm sorry.
Yes, yes.
I I I I hear that.
I hear that.
Probably should not have said that.
But my staff will deal with that later.
Yeah.
I I honestly the giggling is is just beyond the pale to me.
I I don't even know what to make of it.
It is nervous giggling laughter.
I'd never seen before.
Um I think it's a means of covering up a lack of any substance, because that's what we got last night.
And, you know, there were a couple of admissions last night.
We we never are going to, it seems in the next 40 days, we're not going to get answers to why she supports no restrictions at all on abortion, even 178 and 9.
And we're not going to get answers about, you know, one sponsoring a measure to take away private citizens' right to handguns in San Francisco's and a mandatory gun buyback, or why she states she wants no border wall and said it was what did she say?
It was a vanity project of Donald Trump's, why she wants to decriminalize the illegal immigration and offer free housing, food, health care, education, legal driver's licenses, college in in Minnesota Minnesota, uh, and then of course, free sex change operation,
not only for illegals, but for criminals, and ignore the people, the dozens of Americans that have been murdered by Harris Biden, unvetted illegal immigrants, the dozens that have been raped, the hundreds that have been victims of violent crime, the gangs that have come into the country, the drugs that have come into the country, and why she wants to give a path to citizenship to the to people is beyond any understanding I have, but she's not likely not going to be faced with that question.
The next opportunity will be for JD Vance when he debates Tim Walls.
I think that's next week.
And believe it or not, I have to go up to New York for a day.
Linda, how awful is that.
You'll have to see me for a whole day.
I'm here every day and I see lots of things.
Seeing you is not going to be the worst thing that day.
I promise you that.
I know.
Then I have to smell the skunk smell of weed all over the streets of New York again.
Like it's so disgusting.
Anyway, um, and I'll have my uh uh my security wherever I go.
It's pathetic.
Yes, she's not gonna have to explain her support for reparations.
Her co-sponsorship with Bernie and the Green New Deal, twice supporting eliminating the the filibuster, but the ninety-three trillion dollar Green New Deal, that is socialism.
You know, everything she's doing on the economy between raising taxes on corporations, small businesses, the wealth tax, the capital gains tax on realized capital gains tax, doubling the capital gains tax.
It's it's all the end of capitalism as we know it.
Government run health care for all.
It's all new Green Deal ism that is done incrementally.
No private health care.
Again, you know, government takeover of pretty much everything.
She won't have to answer why you can't say radical Islamic terrorists or illegal alien.
She won't answer why she picked a guy for VP that wants legal driver's licenses for illegals, free college for illegals, feminine hygiene products for boys in bathrooms, gender affirming care for kids with no parental consent, didn't call in the National Guard during rioting, but opened the windows in their home to smell burning rubber.
She won't have to answer for her tweet out for the Minnesota Bell Fund after a Minneapolis precinct had been burned to the ground four days earlier.
She won't have to answer for her supporting the insurrectionist rioters and nearly 600 riots in the summer of 2020.
You know, where, you know, dozens of dead Americans, thousands of injured cops, billions in property damage.
They're not gonna the rioters won't stop.
We're not gonna stop.
You know, they shouldn't stop.
You know, she won't have to answer any of this.
And you know, I just expect that from MSDNC.
I expect it.
You know, or her support of federal drug possession for personal use or decriminalizing now he wants to decriminalize prostitution, which I didn't know.
Um it's it's not gonna happen.
I get it.
But then she, you know, she's struggling in so many different regards.
And you know, I know these polls are close.
I mean, in all of these swing states, I mean, your vote in Georgia is gonna matter.
Your vote in North Carolina is gonna matter.
Your vote in Pennsylvania is gonna matter.
Your vote in Wisconsin, Michigan is gonna matter.
Your vote in Arizona is going to matter.
Your vote in Nevada is going to matter.
And then as far as I'm concerned, your vote in every state.
I mean, there is a possibility of a surprise or two.
I mean, it's a two-point race in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
If I'm in Virginia, I'm voting.
If I'm in New Jersey, I'm voting.
If I'm in New York, I'm voting.
I mean, I I'm telling you that there might be a surprise here that nobody's thinking about.
But everybody has to understand that we're at an inflection point, and a lot of this was on full display last night.
Now, Kamala Harris, you know, maybe somebody can explain what the hell this means that we need to look holistically at the connection between housing and government incentives.
Now, I say this.
We have a housing shortage in the country.
Now, I say this if you want to eliminate the housing shortage, maybe one way to do it is not allow 11 million unvetted illegal immigrants in.
But I'm just saying, but if you know what the hell holistically means, maybe you can call in and tell us.
Some of the work is going to be through what we do in terms of giving benefits and assistance to state and local governments around transit dollars.
And looking holistically at the connection between that and housing, and looking holistically at the incentives we in the federal government can create for local and state governments to actually engage in planning in holistic manner that includes prioritizing affordable housing for working people.
What the hell is she talking about holistically?
How about we would have 11 million more homes and we wouldn't need to put people in expensive uh hotels in New York if they would just control the border, which they said for three and a half years is secure.
Now she has this interview with Stephanie Rule, who, by the way, attacks Trump and defends Kamala before the interview even takes place.
Listen.
I don't think it's a lot to ask her to sit down for a real interview as opposed to a puff piece in which she describes like her the growing up and opened with no songs.
Then I would just say to that, when you move to Nirvana, give me your real estate broker's number, and I'll be your next money.
We don't live there.
I'm not sure I'm not gonna vote for Trump.
She's running against Trump.
We have two choices.
And so there are some things you might not know her answer to.
And in 2024, unlike 2016, for a lot of the American people, we know exactly what Trump will do, who he is, and the kind of threat he is to democracy.
Here we go.
Threat to democracy.
No, Donald Trump will secure our border, bring us into energy dominance, cut taxes and continue the Trump tax cuts, uh, and put fear and instill it in the hearts of, oh, let's see, Iranians that are threatening threatening to assassinate a presidential top presidential candidate.
That that would be a very different.
You know, it was interesting, you know, this is Kamala Harris.
Remember, she said we call it idonomics, and we're very proud of it.
She only said it a year ago.
Now she's acknowledging what we have known for a long time that the economy is an absolute mess, and that gone is the day, everyone, you know, thinking they could actually live the American dream.
Actually said this in the interview.
Listen, before and after.
We have aspirations, we have dreams.
We can see what's possible.
We have an incredible work ethic.
But not everyone has the access to the opportunities that allow them to achieve those things.
But we don't lack for those things.
But not everyone, you know, gets handed stuff on a silver platter.
All that, ladies and gentlemen, and everyone else, that is called idonomics.
That is called bitonomics, and we are very proud of itonomics.
You know, it's it's I I don't know anybody that was born rich.
I really don't.
They've had no people that might have gotten some help from their parents, or the parents paid for college or whatever, they did what they could.
I you know, I'm kind of proud of the fact I did pretty much everything financially on my own in my life.
You know, with my parents didn't have the money.
They just didn't have it.
And then you listen to her past remarks as it relates to the border and immigration.
The borders closed, the borders secure, the borders secure, the borders closed.
Uh, we have an immigration, a broken immigration system, she said last night.
We do have a broken immigration system.
And it needs to be fixed.
The border is secure.
You're confident this border is secure.
We have a secure border, and that that is a priority for any nation, including ours and our administration.
Mm-hmm.
That's Kamala Harris.
You know, and then she goes on with a word salad about being inspired during a speech on the economy.
Now we know her economic policies.
It's it's Marxism.
The ninety-three trillion dollar Green New Deal, cradle to grave, womb to the tomb, everything provided by government, no private health care, and she'd eliminate the filibuster to pass it.
That's her real economic policy.
So when she can't tell the truth and she's hiding it, this is what it sounds like.
I grew up in a middle class family.
And while we were more fortunate than many, I still remember my mother sitting at that yellow formica table late at night, cup of tea in hand, with a pile of bills in front of her, just trying to make sure that she paid them off by the end of the month.
and more because frankly having a job i believe in our ambition and aspiration should be baseline And we should aspire and have the ambition and plan to do more.
Let it always inspire us.
Let it always be the source of our optimism, which is that spirit that is so uniquely American.
And let that then inspire us by helping us to be inspired to solve the problems.
Pablo, gobbledygook, meaningless bumper stickers and platitudes because she can't describe what she wants.
But she does Want to increase every tax imaginable.
She said in this interview, she insists corporate tact taxes have to be raised so they pay their fair share.
I won't play it, but the fact that she keeps saying it, she clearly has no understanding of economics.
Corporations don't pay taxes.
They pass it on to you, the consumer.
They're not going to make less.
And okay, then she's going to go after price gougers.
Well, what do you think those those companies are going to do that have a 1.6% margin profit margin in grocery stores?
That's not a high margin.
They're going to hire expensive law firms, and the cost of everything they sell is going to go up, and you're going to pay for that too.
Great job regulating everything.
All right, as we roll along, Sean Hannity Show 800, 941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
She won't answer how she will keep corporations from leaving the country.
Listen.
Bill Gates just said it this week.
If he was in charge of taxes, he would have paid more.
But how do you find that line to make sure corporations are paying their fair share, but they're not leaving our country?
Well, listen, I work with a lot of CEOs.
I have spent a lot of time with CEOs, and I'm going to tell you that the business leaders who are actually part of the engine of America's economy agree that people should pay their fair share.
They also agree that when we look at a plan such as mine that is about investing in the middle class, investing in new industries, investing in bringing down costs.
Invest in entrepreneurs like small businesses.
But the overall economy is stronger and everyone benefits.
Investing.
Whenever you hear a politician say investing, that means they're spending your taxpayer dollars, and investing means taxes, and corporations don't pay taxes.
They pass it on to you.
That's economics 101.
If she ever knew anything about the economy.
Quick break, right back.
We expect Donald Trump at 4 30 Eastern today, 1 30 Pacific.
All right, 25 now to the top of the hour.
800, 941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
We're going to get an update on the hurricane that is now bearing down on more of the eastern and and middle part of uh of uh Florida into Georgia with Governor Ron DeSantis.
Uh we're watching out for our friends in Florida, especially in the panhandle, Tallahassee, that area expecting, you know, surges of up to you know 20 feet, uh, which could cause a lot of flooding.
They're expecting a lot of rain as well.
I've been checking in with our buddy at Weatherbell.com, uh, our friend Joe Bastardi has been keeping me up to speed.
And and then we'll be following the storm all the way through Georgia as well, and our prayers are with people that are in harm's way in both states.
Uh the only thing I can say to most people, I know no one wants to get lectured by the government or by anybody or told what to do.
And I'm I'm instinctively the same way.
I just I just want you and your families to be safe.
And the best thing you can do if they tell you to evacuate, I know it's a hassle, I know it's a pain, I know it's difficult, I know it's it's unnerving, but just for the safety, security of your life, nothing is worth your life.
And they're not telling you for no reason at all.
And especially they have this mastered, especially down in Florida, because it gets hit with so many hurricanes.
And uh anyway, joining us now actually is Governor Ron DeSantis, uh, my home state of Florida.
Governor, here we go again.
And I always feel bad for people that have to go through this because it's so unnerving for them, and you know, they they're worried about their home for most people their biggest investment.
Uh, it's a frightening time.
Oh, sure, without question.
Now, this hurricane, they just upgraded it to a category three, which which qualifies as a major hurricane.
It's going about 120 mile an hour, uh, sustained winds.
It's moving through the Gulf of Mexico, and it's just a big storm, and so it's off the coast.
So if you're in places like Sarasota or Tampa, the eyewall is not gonna cross uh over your home or over your community.
But what it does is it turns up a lot of water, uh, so that can produce surge really up all of through the the west coast of Florida through the Big Bend, and there's projections on the upper end of 16 to 20 feet when you start getting in to Northern Florida uh Gulf Coast.
So that's the type of thing if you're in one of those low-lying areas on a coast, that type of water, if that were to hit, uh, there's not much you're gonna be able to do.
Uh, and you may not be able to be even being your whole first floor could be completely flooded, and it may not be survivable, just depending on how much it goes.
And so we say that you hide from the wind, but you run from the water.
And so those folks on those coastal areas or in the low-lying areas that have had evacuation orders issued to them by their counties, uh, they don't you don't gotta evacuate hundreds of miles.
You can go just inland a little bit, you can get into a uh a shelter, hotel, uh stay with friends, whatever.
The the homes in Florida by and large are gonna be able to withstand a category three hurricane.
Uh it's just that surge that that's really difficult.
Then the other thing we're looking at up here in Tallahassee, and Sean, you've been here in the past, I know with different events that have happened.
This is a an area that it has a lot of trees and it's nice.
Uh there's a lot of uh tree canopy that it's it's it's good for the community and people's neighborhoods, and they like it.
Uh but if you have significant winds, I mean that is gonna create a lot of debris.
Uh that'll create challenges for the cleanup, but also if you're in a home that is surrounded by some of these trees, uh, you know, you gotta look to see where in your home if you're hunkering down is going to be the safest, because we do unfortunately in these storms have situations where trees will fall uh and and end up creating uh fatalities.
And so just be very smart uh about how you're doing that.
Uh there's probably gonna be a part of your house where you know you would be safe even if you were to have uh a tree in your yard uh fall over.
And sometimes you may be in a wooded area enough where you just want to get out of Dodge.
Look, you're gonna be able to go back tomorrow morning uh and survey your property uh and and it'll work out, uh, but just make the best decisions that you can right now.
One of my dear friends is hanging out and apparently his wife was playing the slots last night at that the hard rock cafe.
I'm like, what the hell are you doing?
He goes, Well, they have great food here and they stay open and they got generators, and I know we're gonna be safe here, and I'm like, whatever you have to do to be safe, I don't care.
But there was an evacuation order.
There are certain areas that are being evacuated.
Um can you update us on that?
What do you expect the biggest storm surge possibility to be?
And I know that you're prepared for power outages, because I mean Florida, frankly, has and under your leadership and and before you, uh Governor Scott's leadership, you you guys have kind of mastered dealing with these hurricanes.
Well, uh there are every storm presents different challenges.
I mean, I'd say on this one, one, if you did have friends at the Seminole Hard Rock in Tampa, that's actually not a bad place to be.
That's interior, that's not near the coast.
The chance of that being affected by storm surge is very small.
Clearly, the structure is going to be hurricane proof, and there's nothing wrong with riding it out like that.
Uh most of the uh of the folks that evacuate do not need to evacuate very far because we do have a lot of places uh that are outside those low-lying areas.
Uh now in power, what we started doing when I was governor is pre-staging a lot of these uh utility crews.
Uh so we have tens of thousands of utility linemen that are staged, ready to go.
Soon as the storm passes, uh they will go in and begin restoration efforts.
Now we do have had, I think we've got about probably 40, 50,000 without power now.
There's already been 20 some thousand that have been restored because we we had some tornadoes spin-off last night from this.
So that'll get done.
Uh I would say one thing that could be a little bit more unique to the storm to the extent it's more of a direct hit on Tallahassee.
It's gonna create a lot of debris, and these linemen can can put the power back on.
They can fix the power lines, but they gotta be able to get there.
So we have folks that are gonna be helping with debris removal, and we've told all the local governments, you all have debris contracts, make sure those are executed, make sure you get on that right away as soon as the storm passes.
We want to clear the roads and you want to clear a pathway to be able to hook up all the power lines.
And so we've got a lot of manpower ready.
We'll put it in there.
But but I do think you could see, depending on how the storm ultimately enters Florida, to the extent it's more of a direct hit on Tallahassee at a category three or maybe even higher, uh, you're gonna see a lot more debris uh than you have when it's hit some other parts of the state, just given how how many trees we have in this area.
I gotta say one other thing.
I mean, the amazing thing is when these storm happens or any time there's a tornado or you know, any state in the country is hit with with some type of catastrophe like this.
Uh it's amazing how other states get involved.
There's they'll send their power company trucks uh to Florida.
You you know, if if your situation is good and Georgia's in trouble, you'll send yours to Georgia.
Um it really is amazing how well the states work with each other.
You know, or if of Oklahoma has a tornado for example, or in the interior Kansas has a tornado.
I mean everybody it's all hands on deck kind of thing and I I do like that.
Um the country also will step in yet and then you have groups like Samaritans first with Franklin Graham.
They're always there to help whenever needed and uh the American people are always generous.
You you get to see the best out of people.
Oh yeah for sure and we sent people to other states routinely since I've been governor including even the California when they've had problems we sent people to Maui.
Well does G does Gavin know that?
Does he know that you helped them out probably I mean because it's just something that that you do and you're right there's a lot of great private groups, charitable groups uh that come in and provide some great services.
I mean for example, one of the things we're telling people is particularly if you're elderly you know you may have some issues with your home.
maybe a tree falls on and you want to get it off.
Well, we have people that will go and help.
We've got groups that that is their sole focus, to go and help people fix some of the things that happen when you have these hurricanes with people's private homes.
And so we're going to be offering assistance through the private sector.
One of the things we did since I became governor is we launched a program to be able to help people repair homes.
So what we can do, we go and buy the tools at like bulk rate from Home Depot.
And then these charitable groups will use the supplies and use use the tools to help fix folks homes.
And in a state like Florida where we have a lot of elderly, you know if you're if you're seventy eight years old, eighty years old, you you don't need to be jumping on a ladder and going on your roof um to try to get removed a tree if that's going to present a safety risk for you, just have one of these groups come in um and do it.
So so there's a lot of goodwill out there and you never want to go through these things, but what I found on the back end of it, you know you see a lot of good in people come out because they do want to help everyone get on their feet.
Yeah I will tell you this that uh I I don't like telling people what to do.
I never you know there's a lot of pressure on me to tell people what to do during COVID.
Well and they and everyone wanted to know what's your status Hannity what did you do?
And once they started demanding it I'm like I'm not telling you.
None of your business I and I said I'm not qualified to tell people whether or not they should get a shot or not I said I'm not a doctor number one.
Number two, I said I have no idea about your personal health, no idea about any pre-existing conditions or comorbidities you might have.
I'm not qualified to make that decision for you.
I just would urge you to get very well informed, talk to your doctor, read as much on your own as you possibly can and make the best decision based on your unique circumstances.
However I will tell people this that if authorities are telling you that you might be facing a 20 foot storm surge and that you're gonna be flooded out and there's not going to be any way that they can come help you, you might want to get the hell out of there.
And at that point, you know it might be wise to listen the worst thing that happens is you end up taking a drive and spending a night in a hotel for nothing.
And you know what you can live with that at the end of the day.
But anyway we're we're gonna do uh we are gonna have uh I've got all the assets for search and rescue and so you hope people take the preemptive action so they're not ever in jeopardy and but people are going to make their own decisions and if it does come where you have a major impact in an area and and people have stayed behind and hunkered down and they and they are in jeopardy we have riverine assets,
air assets, ground assets, uh and we are going to be working with folks um you know to help bring people to safety.
That's just what we do.
Yeah.
Well we appreciate it Governor if there's anything we can do or any word you need us to get out please feel free to use these airwaves and we'll make the same offer to Governor Kemp in uh Georgia.
We do appreciate your hard work and our prayers are with my fellow Floridians and my old home state of Georgia.
And thanks so much for being with us.
Okay, thanks, Sean.
800 941 Sean.
Linda, I know you don't live in New York, but you go to New York quite a bit.
What do you think of all these arrests?
What the hell is going on there?
Now we have FBI agents entered Gracie Mansion, where the mayor of New York lives, Eric Adams, seized his phone early yesterday early today in the hours before an indictment detailing all these criminal charges, you know, have been made, indicted by a grand jury.
Um it's it is beyond bizarre in in this case.
Looks like a foreign influence, you know, money scheme that's going on there.
Adams, I don't know if we do have it on our our cut sheet.
You know, he says he's not gonna resign under any circumstances, and he claims that the federal government is targeting him with entirely full false charges because of his political views on immigration.
He's a Democrat.
Listen.
Is there any circumstance by which you would resign?
No, the no, listen, I'm here.
I was elected by the people of this city over 700,000 strong.
Absolutely and this is a city.
This is a city that is extremely uh resilient.
This is a city uh that have we have gone through some difficult and hard times.
Are we going to continue uh to move forward as a city?
That's what they're shown.
I think the narrative here that's missing to miss it m to months ago when my phones would remove, we have not gone backwards.
We have not stood still.
We showed how we operate during difficult times.
And when you say who's the point person that's gonna deal with business communities, who's gonna deal with this business of running to the city?
The point person is Eric Adams.
I'm the mayor of the city of New York.
And I have a competent team of beautiful team of deputy mayors, a company, competent team of people are gonna continue to lead forward, and we're excited about that.
My fellow New Yorkers, it is now my belief that the federal government intends to charge me with crimes.
If so, these charges will be entirely false based on lies.
But they would not be surprising.
I always knew that if I stood my ground for all of you, that I would be a target and a target I became.
Wow.
By the way, as we speak, Kamala Harris, not Joe Biden, Side by side with President Zelinski.
Every time he comes here, he gets billions of your tax dollars.
Billions.
And then Joe and Kamala told them how to fight the war, which uh you can't have these uh you can't have fighter jets, you can't use these bombs.
Uh, but they they are withholding even intel, those are report yesterday from Israel as they are now under heavy attack by Hezbollah, meaning Iran, because they're financed and it's a proxy war.
I'll just dip in a Kamala with Zelensky, but no Joe Biden.
Is she the president now?
Is she taking over?
History has shown us.
If we allow aggressors like Putin to take land with impunity, they keep going.
And Putin could set his sights on Poland, the Baltic states, and other NATO allies.
We also ally aggressors around the world are watching to see what happens in Ukraine.
If Putin is allowed to win, they will become emboldened.
And history reminds us, and history's so clear in reminding us.
The United States cannot and should not isolate ourselves from the rest of the world.
Yeah, then why has the Harris-Biden administration been so hostile towards Israel, and why does she not want to say radical Islamic terrorism?
And why is she allowed people from 180 countries, including our top geopolitical foes and countries with terror ties into this country?
Why isn't she taking a stand with Joe Biden uh against the Iranians instead of helping them get filthy rich to fight their proxy wars uh and taking a stand and saying you better get your assassination squads away from our presidential candidates, or we'll hit you so hard you'll never recover, like Donald Trump said yesterday.
I mean, if it if you don't see how pathetic no wonder why Putin and the Mullers the Mullers want Trump debt.
Putin is endorsing her.
I mean, do you think they want Donald Trump or Kamala?
Who do you think they think is gonna be tougher to deal with?
Trump or Kamala and and Joe?
I think the answer is pretty obvious.
They're not that tough.
All right, well, we come back.
We have a lot of ground to cover.
Uh more of the news of the day.
We're only 40 days from election day.
We'll go into this issue of uh what's going on with Eric Adams in New York City and much more.
800-941-Shawn.
If you comes to town, walks away with billions like always, and uh and no it's just endless.
All right, in the next hour we expect President Trump to give a press conference.
We'll cover that.
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