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Storming The Ivory Tower - November 20th, Hour 3
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It is amazing the reaction that Vivek Ramaswamy, Elon Musk are getting in terms of expediting and getting rid of government bureaucracy and waste fraud and abuse and returning to our original purpose as a country to be a constitutional republic, not a cradle-to-grave, womb-to-the-tomb, equal results society.
And I have pointed out many, many times in this program, whatever manifestation name you give it, socialism, Marxism, statism, it doesn't really matter because it all ends the same way.
Unfulfilled promises.
It ends with more poverty and it ends with a loss of freedom.
And what Elon and Vivek are being tasked with is to bring back the concept of limited government, which results in greater freedom and less government intrusion into your life.
Do you really want the government telling you what kind of car you can and cannot drive, even if you have to pay a lot more money for the one they want you to drive?
Do you really want the government picking out your washer, your dryer, your refrigerator, your air conditioner?
Do we really need the nanny state telling us that you can't buy a big gulp?
I don't recommend it.
But do you really want the nanny state to tell you that?
I don't.
And if I want to have a quarter pound of a cheese and a large fry and a Coke, which I occasionally do have, and I usually only eat one half of the bread, I'll occasionally have one.
I have a craving.
I have to fulfill the craving.
Anyway, so one of the big reforms that they are discussing, and Linda McMahon will be the Secretary of Education, is to send education back to the states.
Now, just instead of these snowflakes shaving their heads and vowing not to have sex and hoarding and stockpiling abortion pills that are not going to be taken away from them and birth control that apparently they're not going to use and committing themselves to divorcing their husbands or breaking up with their boyfriends, which is all insanity.
With all that in the background, there's going to be a flip out over the idea of sending education back to the states.
Now, what does that mean?
That means that the federal government will allocate monies directly to the states.
Or frankly, I would even hope that maybe they bypass that and give monies to families for every child that they have in school, which would then allow the parents to make educational decisions for their own children and take more control over their children's education.
Now, what schools do you think they would be most likely to choose if given that money directly?
Well, I would argue it'd probably be the schools that put kids in uniforms, the schools that focus on reading, writing, arithmetic, history, science, and not woke.
I would imagine they would like schools that put kids in uniforms and kids and schools that had discipline and schools that didn't have feminine hygiene products and boys' bathrooms and schools that wouldn't offer gender-affirming care without consulting parents.
Parents are not potted plants.
I'm just guessing here.
Anyway, there is a terrific new book out, and I want to tell you about that in a second, but this is how bad things have gotten on college campuses.
And on top of that, you have Biden and Harris defying a Supreme Court order and having student loan forgiveness, even after the Supreme Court ruled that they did not have the right to do that.
Anyway, let's, for example, listen to the University of Washington.
You might remember these protests, you know, chanting one solution for Israel, which is wiping Israel off the map.
so.
There is only one solution.
Before the revolution, what does River to the Sea means?
It means wiping Israel off the map.
That's death to Israel.
What does anthifa mean?
It means holy war and revolution.
And that means attacking Israel.
Anyway, here to weigh in on this and much more.
He's the former Speaker of the Florida House.
He's now the president of New College of Florida.
Richard Cochran is with us.
He has a brand new book out, by the way, Storming the Ivory Tower.
Welcome to the program.
It's on Hannity.com, Amazon.com.
Also in bookstores around the country.
Mr. Speaker, great to have you.
How are you?
No, great to be on the show, Sean.
I appreciate it.
It's great to, by the way, finally live in the free state of Florida.
I will tell you, it's a big difference in my life.
The best decision I ever made.
Welcome aboard.
Well, we appreciate your warm welcome.
Tell me about this book and tell me what you think Donald Trump and Elon Musk and Linda McMahon and Vivek Ramaswamy have planned for the Department of Education.
Well, the book is in a short synopsis, you know, this is a 70-year problem.
William F. Buckley wrote Godman and Yale in the early 50s.
Alan Bloom wrote Closing the American Mind.
So what we tried to do is I said, hey, enough, we all get it.
Indoctrination went back to the 50s.
It's gotten horrific.
It's gotten to the point where it's dangerous and it's a threat to our country.
Here's nine things that you can do.
I always tell people, just read chapter nine.
Here's the thing that we did at New College that changed it in 18 months.
And we didn't have any of those crazy uprisings and eliminated the indoctrination and eliminated the DEI and the critical gender theory.
As far as President Trump, he's choosing, look, these are disruptive people.
I know so many of them.
They know what they believe.
They know their ideology and they're kind of damn the consequences.
We're going forward to accomplish great things for students.
And I think he should blow it up.
I think he should gut the Department of Education.
I think send in a FEAL Team Six and do what we did in Florida.
You have the power of the purse.
I would not abolish it, but you have the power of the purse.
You can bring every single one of those states to their knees.
And it's the one area where the teachers union, the most insidious organization, is least dominant when President Trump is there.
They dominate at the local level.
They dominate at the state level.
You want to bring Hochul and Newsome and Whitmire to their knees, say, you're not getting these billions of dollars unless all those things you said.
Here's your school choice you have to have.
Here's the end of indoctrination, the end of DEI, the end of critical gender theory.
Here's the end of these basically organizations that are accrediting us.
Here's all of the things that you're going to do.
And if you don't, you're not going to have billions of dollars.
And we did it in Florida.
We have liberals, like they have liberal states.
We had liberal counties.
We had our New York and Illinois and Californias, and we bought them all to ease.
You're not masking kids.
You're opening up schools, and it works.
It's a hammer.
And I think in the hands of a Donald Trump and a great organization and leadership there, you're going to have radical transformation faster than any other way.
Give us some details, specifically the things that you did, among which, for example, in August of 2020, earlier than I think any other state, maybe Georgia, Governor Kemp did the same thing, but you kept schools open.
And young kids were not the victims of COVID.
It was older adults, people with pre-existing conditions, people with underlying conditions.
But you took a lot of heat for that at the time, and you also restored sanity to higher education in the state.
Tell us exactly what you did.
Yeah, I mean, basically, and we looked at the data, you know, they gaslight us all the time, the progressive left, whatever we're doing.
It's Marxist, you know, accuse them of what we're doing, and that'll create confusion, and we can get away with it longer and do better.
And, you know, so they basically say to us, we're killing kids.
We weren't.
Closing schools is what was killing kids and increasing suicides and increasing drug usage when they weren't at risk.
The scientific data was there back in March and April that kids were not big spreaders.
And even if they did spread, it was less effective on their bodies than the common cold.
We lost more kids, I mean, to the common flu.
We lost more kids to the flu than we did to COVID.
And so we just looked at the data and said, this is what we're doing.
And yes, we get sued.
We had coffins put out in front of our department, you know, everything under the sun.
And it's the same thing, but it starts with leadership, John.
You have to have great leadership.
You have to have a rule of law.
Where's the rule of law on that Washington campus that we just listened to?
That stuff should be shut down.
That's not functional.
And what the left really likes, just as you mentioned, even with the Biden administration, they don't have a rule of law.
They don't even listen to the law.
I want to do something in violation of the Supreme Court.
I'm doing it.
We adhere to the rule of law, and you have to have that enforcement mechanism.
You have to get rid of the shared governance where the faculty control who comes to school, what they're taught, and who gets hired to teach them.
I mean, there's a litany of things that I put in the chapter of all of the things we did.
And immediately, in 18 months, we took what was arguably the most liberal, progressive, hard-left public school in the country.
And in 18 months, it's a night and day.
It is a completely different institution.
That's what I love about the state of Florida.
Let's talk about what's going on on college campuses around the country, this pro-Hamas wing, this radicalized wing that had been allowed to take over entire college campuses and intimidate Jewish students there to the point where the schools were telling Jewish students that they had to stay home.
That's ridiculous.
Yeah, and that's where you come in and you say, hey, here's the deal.
Any of this stuff goes on, you know, either revamp the whole student loan process or basically say you're not eligible.
None of your institutions in your state are eligible for student loans unless this stuff is eradicated.
It's going to shut them down.
Donald Trump, I think, has an opportunity to bring these governors to their knees like nobody's business.
And it's the hammer of that money that works the quickest, the fastest, and the most efficient way to get a return on investment to guarantee that you're not going to have that stuff.
And the nice thing about, and again, this is a horrific thing to say.
It was just a catastrophic event.
But sometimes there's silver linings that come out of just terrible events like October 7th.
And when you got Bill Mars and you got Bill Ackmans, who are now saying DEI, and Harvard, it was DEIB.
They added belonging.
I mean, the irony of the words they choose when they do the exact opposite is shocking.
But all of these folks, everybody, and you saw it in the election, a landslide election, because people are like, what the heck are we teaching our kids?
And it all can come to a rapid close.
And we proved it in Florida.
The Florida model was we went to our liberal quote-unquote states or counties.
For us, it was counties.
Your Browards, your Miami Days, your Palm Beach, and said, cease and desist.
They all ceased and desist.
Every single one of them.
Yeah, they fight.
But ultimately, we were right, and they absolutely caged.
All right, quick break.
We'll come right back.
We'll continue with former Speaker of the Florida House, President of New College of Florida, Richard Corcoran.
His new book, Storming the Ivory Tower, Hannity.com, Amazon.com, Bookstores Around the Country, straight ahead.
Continue now.
He is the president of New College of Florida, Richard Corcoran, and he's shaking things up in about a year.
It's pretty unbelievable.
He has a new book out, Storming the Ivory Tower, and you can get it on amazon.com, Hannity.com, and bookstores around the country.
Let's talk about when you took over the new college of Florida, which is in Sarasota, and you moved into the president's office.
And at that time, you had to deal with radicalism on campus, a woke mob.
It created a huge media firestorm, just like when you were working for Governor DeSantis.
And in a year, you were able to achieve something that at the time I think seemed impossible, and that is turn around the new College of Florida.
And right now, on that college campus, free speech is protected.
Violence is not acceptable.
Anti-Semitism abolished.
The DEI bureaucracy totally eliminated.
And enrollment records are being broken.
So obviously, people are searching out exactly what you're offering.
And I can tell you that in the Northeast, people that I know that maybe in the past would have been looking at Havid and Yale and Princeton, they're now looking at Southern schools.
They're looking at UVA.
They're looking at Vanderbilt.
They're looking at Florida colleges.
They're looking at University of Georgia.
They're looking everywhere but the Ivy League Ivory Tower.
Yeah, and I think you're seeing that exodus.
I'll start with what you heard you say on the preamble, Sean.
Call it what you want.
Call it statism, Marxism, socialism.
It doesn't matter.
You know what it ends in?
It ends in, as you say, it ends in death.
It ends in anarchy.
It ends in poverty.
And that's what New College was.
That's why the governor said, wait a second, this is a taxpayer-funded university.
We cannot have this.
And what was there was exactly that.
We had the smallest amount of students, and the students that came would last only a semester or a week, and they would leave, and they identified as hardcore liberal Democrats.
And they got canceled and bullied and accosted.
And they had to leave because they weren't progressive enough.
It was a toxic culture by consultants.
It was a hateful culture.
All the things you would expect when you have anarchy and you have that kind of a form of government.
And so you had to eradicate that so quickly.
You know, we had the great leadership.
We bought in Christopher Rufos and Matthew Spaldings, all these great academic leaders to run the institution.
We put people on the ground.
People and personnel are you bring in all good people.
It changes every organization beneath them.
You have the rules.
Unbelievable.
What a great story.
What a courageous story on your part.
And what a great success story.
And it shows how quickly things can turn around.
And I believe on the economy, borders, law and order, energy, I think the economy.
I think all things that Donald Trump will do in pretty short order as well.
Let's see where we are two years from now.
Anyway, we appreciate you.
The president of New College of Florida, Richard Corcoran, is with us storming the Ivory Tower, his new book, Amazon.com, Hannity.com, bookstores around the country.
Thank you, sir.
Continued success.
We wish you the best.
Thank you very much, Sean.
Honored to be on the show.
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
Apparently, we have an 11-year-old girl calling in.
Her name is Colby.
It says on my screen from North Carolina.
Hey, Colby, how are you?
I'm so glad you called.
I'm doing well.
How are you?
I'm good.
Well, thank you for calling.
How's everything?
And you're from North Carolina?
Where do you live in North Carolina?
I live in Kernersville, North Carolina.
Yeah, and do you like living in North Carolina?
I love North Carolina.
I do.
I love the weather.
It's not too hot and it's not too cold.
Yeah, you know, I actually have vacationed in the mountains of North Carolina, and they're so amazing.
And I stayed in a friend's house, and literally the clouds were below where the house was.
And it was one of the most scenic and beautiful sights I've ever seen.
It was absolutely stunning.
I don't know if you live in the mountains at all, but if you don't, then I would definitely visit.
Yeah, it's pretty cool, right?
All right.
So, what's on your mind today?
So, I'm raising money to buy a veteran family that lost their home in Hurricane Helene a camper so that they can have a warm place to live this winter.
Okay, so you're raising money.
You started a GoFundMe?
Yes, sir, I did.
Okay, and the GoFundMe is to help who?
The victims of Hurricane Helene?
Yes, sir.
A veteran family that has lost their home due to Hurricane Helene.
Oh, so it's a specific family that you know.
How did you get to know this family?
So, we're working with Patrick Davis from Hero Center in High Point, North Carolina, and he's identified many families that could use a camper to live in this winter.
What is your raise?
What is your goal?
Our original goal is $20,000, but hopefully, with your help, we can raise more than $20,000.
Well, maybe instead of a camper, maybe we can give them enough money for a down payment for a new house.
What do you think?
I mean, does the family still work?
We don't know the family personally, so they may or may not, but we just know that there are families.
Well, we're going to put all of this on my website, Hannity.com, and people will absolutely be able to help.
I'm going to help as well.
And I'll tell you what I'm going to do because you're such an amazing girl.
How much have you raised of the 20,000 original goal?
I have raised almost half of the goal.
Half of the goal.
I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
I'll give you the other half.
Okay.
God, I've been living an undeserved life, and money's not a problem.
Early in my life, it was a big problem.
I didn't have any.
But I'll give you the other half.
And what I want you to do on the GoFundMe page is I want you to raise the goal to $50,000.
And the reason being is I'm hoping maybe with $50,000, the family can, if they're working and hopefully qualify, they might be able to get enough money for a down payment for a new home so they can start their life over again.
Do you like that idea?
Yes, sir.
That's pretty cool.
Is that good?
Yes.
All right.
Well, it's an amazing thing.
You're 11 years old and you're inspired to do this.
And I can't believe you listen to talk radio.
Have you heard my show a lot?
I do.
I listen.
You listen.
Do you ever see me on TV?
I watch you every night.
Almost every night.
I look better on radio, don't you think?
Well, yeah, I have a face for radio.
I agree.
You know, you can say it.
Don't worry.
You won't hurt my feelings.
Did you ever hear Linda?
Linda beats me up all the time.
She tells me all the time.
I do.
And by the way, don't you think Linda talks funny when she says talk?
Listen, I already talked to Colby's mom.
I talked to Colby's dad.
I talked to Colby's grandpa.
I think I have a little bit more currency with this family than you do.
Just so you know, right, Colby, you would side with me.
Yeah.
Yep.
But Colby, you can.
She's like, I know you just gave me $10,000 and everything, but that's fine.
But you have to admit when she says talk and coffee and New York that she kind of talks funny, right?
You can say it.
Don't be afraid of that.
Look at this.
Look how sweet this child is, and you're trying to coerce her.
You see that?
She's got good taste.
She thinks I sound just fine.
The good book says you shall know the truth, and the truth.
And you know what the truth is?
Is that I sound fantastic.
Thank you, Colby, you sweet girl.
Colby, don't be intimidated by her.
She's trying to bully you.
She's not.
She's my girl.
She knows.
We're tight.
All right.
Your girl knows that you have a pretty thick New York accent at times, right, Colby?
I'm going to stop because I think we're putting too much pressure on you.
Poor kid.
Yeah, we don't want to do that.
But listen, you're a very sweet girl and you've got such a pure heart.
And I just urge you to always remain true to who you are and stay true to your values.
Find what you love to do in life and then find a way to make money at it when you get older.
Stay away from boys as much as you can, as long as you can.
And I just wish you the very best and Godspeed.
And we'll be praying for you and your family and this veteran's family and all the other families that need help in North Carolina.
I had been donating to Samaritan's purse, but because of what you're doing, I so support an 11-year-old girl on a mission like this that we're going to raise the bar to 50 grand, okay?
Maybe we can get him a down payment for the house.
Okay, thank you.
All right.
God bless you.
Wow.
What did you do to that poor kid?
Listen, I tell you what, if I could get more kids like Colby to call into the show and do awesome things like that and annoy you, I would do it every day.
In fact, I might just go around and start calling grade schools and asking people to call in.
I think it'll be cool.
I think maybe if you just complimented me for supporting her cause instead of beating me up, it would be compliment you for that, actually.
I do compliment you.
I do.
And now I'm going to compliment the audience who I know will be so giving and go on, Hannity, and continue to donate to Operation Hilo, Samaritan's purse, and now Colby's GoFundMe fundraiser.
I want to support somebody that is stepping up and helping people in need.
I love it.
And just like we support a lot of charities.
But you know what's cool about what she's doing?
So what a lot of people don't realize, and I was talking to Eric Robinson from Operation Hilo about this, is that because of the amount of rainfall that they had there in Western North Carolina, the footprint of that entire area is completely changed.
So the acreage is gone.
People no longer have the land they owned, and they don't even have the foundation to build homes.
So they're living in campers to get through the winter until they can figure this mess out.
And obviously, FEMA isn't doing a dang thing.
So they've got to do it on their own with the help of nonprofits and kids like Colby.
Yeah.
Maybe after the election now, people should put up Kamala signs and then they'll start getting help because if you had a Trump sign up, apparently FEMA had an institutionalized plan, according to reports, to pass over those Trump homes.
Don't go to those homes.
It's insane.
But what I was going to say is there's nothing worse than having your life upended like this.
And we have seen this with natural disasters before.
And it drives me nuts that Joe Biden, after $200 billion given to Ukraine, is now on his way out the door, giving Ukraine ballistic missiles, another $250 million.
He's not seeking the approval of Congress and escalating a conflict that Donald Trump, he knows, wants to de-escalate and end.
It is so frustrating to me on so many different levels because that money could be better spent making sure that everybody that lost their home can rebuild their home or buy another home.
I mean, that's what Americans do.
We help out our fellow Americans, and that's what America first is.
Yeah, but the problem is, Biden first is $275 million more to Ukraine and not a penny to the people in Western North Carolina, Tennessee, or Florida.
It's disgusting.
Bill is in California.
Bill, how are you?
Glad you called.
Thanks, Sean.
It's a pleasure to hear from you live.
I've been listening to you for years.
Thank you.
I'm an octogenarian who's considered to be the world's most traveled man.
Incidentally, so I'm driving down the road the other day, and I hear you and Linda talking about the cruise from hell.
So I added it up.
There would be 4,380 meals that these poor people on that cruise are going to sit down and suffer with all these liberals.
And it made me think of what I did a few years ago.
I'm quite proud of.
My daughter was in business school, and she calls me and she says, Dad, you have your little travel business.
Would you come speak to my class?
So I did, and I went up.
I did one class.
It was very successful.
I did another.
And I'm in my third class, and it got to the QA.
And they said, sir, how do you choose the people that go on your tours?
And I said, well, I don't take liberals.
And in the back, the professor dropped these papers he was reading.
My daughter's face turned white.
And I said, no, no, no.
Seriously.
If you've got a 10-day trip, let's just say that's 30 meals.
And you're sitting down at breakfast.
No, I'm not going to let my people suffer.
So I wanted to relate that story to you.
Well, can I ask you a question?
First of all, traveling is great.
How many countries have you been to?
Oh, all of them many times.
My son asked me a couple of years ago, he says, is there a country you've only been to once, and it's only about four or five.
I've been to North Korea 14 times.
I've been to Russia 60 times, North Pole, South Pole, you know, Tristan Dakuna a couple times, Socotra, etc.
This is probably a dumb question, but I'm a firm believer that there are no dumb questions.
Is there any one place you like the most?
No, I love them all.
Not the governments, but I love the people.
Lately, you know, I hate to even mention this because when I do slideshows and stuff, when I'm over in this particular country, I say, I'm not going to say anything nice about your country when I get home.
And they go, why not?
I say, because we'll come and we'll ruin it right now.
American tourists will be flocking there, especially if you say it.
That's fun.
But is there any one area of the world you like the most?
Real quick, I have about 10 seconds.
Okay, the Balkans.
So Slovenia.
The Balkans, really?
Yes.
Can I say something really quick?
You got five seconds.
Go.
Okay.
Tracy Gallagher, that's his real name, was my student, and I was his history teacher and his football coach.
And he kicked a 60-yard field goal in the eighth grade in Big Pine, California.
Not Trace Gallagher of Fox.
Was it him?
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
Really?
Really?
I'm going to tell him I know all about that.
He's a really good guy.
Like him a lot.
He's a real, real talented broadcaster.
Anyway, Mr. World Traveler, God bless you.
There are days when I'm having bad days.
I wish I was out on a boat in the sea somewhere not knowing where I am.
Anyway, 800-941 Sean is a number if you want to be a part of the program.
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All right, before we go, I know it won't relieve ever the pain of Lake and Riley's family, but the sentencing took place today.
Life behind bars, he will never get out again.
Jose Ibarra, here's how it went down earlier today.
With that, Mr. Ibarra, if you will please stand.
Count one, malice murder.
I sentence you to life without the possibility of parole.
Count two will be vacated as a matter of operation of law.
Count three, vacated by operation of law.
Count four, vacated by operation of law.
Count five, life in prison, consecutive to count one.
Count six, 20 years to serve, consecutive to count five.
Count seven will merge with count one.
Count eight, 12 months, consecutive to count six.
Strike that.
12 months, but I don't want it to six.
This just shouldn't be consecutive.
Count nine, twelve months, consecutive.
Count 10, five years, consecutive to count six.
So that would mean the misdemeanors would come after the felonies.
That would be the sentence.
That was the sentencing of Lake and Riley's murderer, a Harris Biden unvetted illegal.
And of course, they have blood on their hands.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern on the Fox News channel.
We'll check in with Senator Ted Cruz.
Janine Pirro will be with us.
We'll talk about the Lake and Riley case.
Charles Payne tonight.
Mike Huckabee, Katie Pablich, Clay Travis, Charlie Hurt.
Set you DVR, 9 Eastern.
Hannity on Fox.
We'll see you tonight.
Back here tomorrow.
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