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Speaker Newt Gingrich - November 21st, Hour 2
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He's not president yet.
I mean, are you envisioning another Hitler?
Is that what you're saying?
That's exactly what I'm saying.
As a country, it's very difficult for people to believe that racism and misogyny, they're just alive and well.
What a shocker that the people who see everything through the lens of race and sex see their election loss as a result of racism and sexism.
Freedom is back in style.
Welcome to the revolution.
Come and play our guitars and sing you a contra song.
Sean Hennity to the new Sean Hannity show.
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Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, you know, it's amazing to me that so many people, especially legacy media, don't even realize that this has been a referendum election on them.
They have spent nine years demonizing, attacking, slandering, smearing, besmirching, doing everything possible to Donald J. Trump.
The deep state, the Department of Justice weaponized.
We had James Comey, 51 former Intel agents.
We had Pfizer abuse.
All of this has gone on.
And the American people, they heard it every second, every minute, every hour of every 24-hour day, every week, every year for nine years.
And the American people don't trust the major newspapers in this country anymore.
That would be the Washington Post, the New York Times, the LA Times, USA Today.
They don't care what they say.
They don't care what is said on CBS, NBC, ABC.
They don't care what these late-night comics think.
They don't care what the ladies of the view think.
They don't care about celebrity endorsements anymore.
And the American people, and this was this, there's a new poll that came out by John McLaughlin, and it talked about, you know, the post-election issues and what propelled Donald Trump for victory.
Most people voted for Donald Trump.
And a lot of people that voted for Kamal voted just against Donald Trump.
But it was his stand on the economy and inflation.
That was 21% of the reason why he won immigration, border security, 13%.
You know, his promise to save the country and to fix the mess that he's going to inherit and his good job record all contributed to this massive win of the popular vote, the Electoral College vote.
Again, we have not had a Republican win the popular vote since 2004.
Anyway, he's not been back on since then.
He wrote a terrific column about this.
Newt Gingrich is with us.
And it's the Trump American culture versus the elite culture, which I think really captures why celebrity endorsements are dead and meaningless.
Legacy media is dead and meaningless and has no impact.
And even former politicians Barack Obama, former first ladies Michelle Obama, you know, Beyonce, Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, Taylor Swift.
It doesn't matter in the minds of people.
But Donald Trump shows up at Madison Square Garden with Dana White and Kid Rock.
Well, seemed to matter there because the place was rocking.
Anyway, Mr. Speaker, great to have you back.
You called this from the beginning.
Glad you're with us.
Well, I was fascinated by the reception at the Ultimate Fighting Championship and by the picture that was taken in the airplane of five of them eating McDonald's.
And it hit me all of a sudden.
By the way, did you see RFK Jr.'s face?
Like, McDonald's.
Well, I don't like McDonald's.
And I thought Don Jr.
had a great tweet when he said, okay, being healthy starts tomorrow.
That is a great joy to argue.
By the way, it's not going to happen for Donald Trump because if you know him, he loves McDonald's.
By the way, so do I.
I just don't eat it.
Well, and he's looking, and he's also got some amazing genetic pattern that allows him to have endless energy and to eat McDonald's on a regular basis.
But what hit me all of a sudden that came together for me was that America loves sports.
And we love sports in an extraordinary range.
The NFL routinely is the highest rated TV show.
You know, the final four in basketball.
I mean, just go down the list.
And that the left doesn't understand.
In fact, my newsletter at Genghis 360 Tomorrow is going to build on that theme and point out that sports has a value set that is the exact opposite of the left.
That, you know, sports, for example, believes in winning and losing.
They believe in hard work.
They believe if you do lose, get up off the floor and go back and keep, you know, keep trying.
It's essentially a meritocracy, and it is the exact opposite of the left.
And I think that that's what you've had, when people talk about this cultural divide, they usually mean sort of at a Harvard fancy music and fancy book level.
But what you actually have is a cultural divide between probably 70 to 80 percent of the American people who basically believe in the core values of competitive sports and about 15 to 20 percent who don't.
Those are the folks at Harvard, for example, who gave students a day off to mourn when Trump won the election.
Or the, I think it was Georgetown, that provided a comfort room with warm milk and cookies.
You know, that's totally antithetical to people who believe that you go out, you try your heart out, you do the best you can.
If you don't win this year, you come back next year and you keep trying.
And I think what Trump came to personify was a return to an America that is muscular, that is committed to winning, that is prepared to take on big challenges, and that wants the American people to have a chance to do great things, not just the government.
And I think it's truly a watershed election made that way, as you point out, because it's the culmination of a nine-year struggle in which the entire national establishment tried to destroy him, and they failed.
And the American people propped him up, rallied to him, because it's not just about Trump himself.
It's also about these millions and millions of people who saw him as the future.
It's amazing.
You did have great confidence going into this election.
And I was asking you privately, and I was asking you on the air why you were so confident.
I thought I agreed with you.
What gave me confidence that I, and I didn't lie to this audience because I never will lie to the audience or else I'll be like legacy media and they'll never trust me.
But I didn't want to highlight what was a phenomenon that was going on during early voting.
And that was, and I had harped on this for four years, and that is you've got to bank your vote.
It may not be the system we like, but if you want to change the system, you've got to actually win elections.
So I was all day long, I was checking in with people on the ground in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and in areas where she would have needed record turnout, the numbers weren't there.
They weren't even close to there.
And I knew it was over.
And anyway, I mean, I'm grateful to this audience for many people doing something they didn't want to do.
And look, I think it was very important because as the Roosevelt coalition is being replaced by the Trump coalition, we now have the people least likely to vote, which is what the Democrats used to have.
And so being able to target and focus on those folks, get them to understand that you've got to go out there and vote if you want the kind of future you believe in, and if you want to stop the people who, frankly, scare you about the future they would create.
And I think it did work.
And I could tell a very good friend who is in the Black Mountain, North Carolina, right in the heart of the mountain region that had been hammered by the hurricane.
And he said, trust me, if these people have to walk over glass, they're going to go vote.
That they're so angry about how bad FEMA is, they're so angry at Biden and Harris that nothing is going to stop them from voting.
Even if they have to walk to the polls because the bridge is out and they can't take their car.
And he was right.
I mean, the size of the margins were just staggering.
And that was happening all over the country.
And you lost this, and this happened with Reagan.
About two weeks out, people who kept telling the pollsters they were undecided said, okay, I got to make a decision.
And all they had to say themselves was, you know, am I better off than I was four years ago?
I've experienced Trump, and now I've experienced Biden-Harris.
Which one do I want for the next four years?
And at that point, by very big margins, they were breaking for Trump and against Harris.
And I think the elite media, look, they can't come to grips with this because it is them.
I mean, they would literally have to have a personality change and probably a brain replacement because what's being repudiated here is the New York Times.
You saw the numbers on MSNBC, which, by the way, apparently may be sold and have its name changed.
You've seen the collapse of numbers of CNN.
The only cable news that has grown since the election is Fox.
And I think that's because people have just broken away from the left and have decided that that's not a world they want to hear from anymore.
They also trust us.
We tell them the truth.
We pointed out the truth about the economy, about immigration.
All right, quick break more with former Speaker of the House, Newt Kingrich.
Then 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 now.
Our post-election analysis.
Former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, is with us.
In my lifetime, there have been three big waves of the conservative movement.
Reagan was one.
You gave me a front-row seat to the Newt Kingrich revolution.
And I've had a front-row seat with Donald Trump.
Donald Trump is really going into Washington this time with the idea that he is going to change Washington at its core.
And he's going to get rid of all the waste, fraud, and abuse, and restore constitutional order and the principles of limited government and greater freedom.
You were the last person to balance the budget.
You did it four times.
And my question for you is, you know, if Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy can they really cut $1.9 trillion or $2 trillion in spending?
I believe they can, but I think that the left is going to freak out.
When Donald Trump starts deporting people, they're going to freak out.
You know, I just wrote a piece for the New York Sun pointing out that Eisenhower deported over a million people in 1954.
I mean, we have had this long-running challenge.
We know how to do it.
It is going to happen.
I think, you know, the trick is you focus, first of all, you get the border under total control.
Second, you focus on criminals.
Everybody's going to applaud.
And then you focus on unaccompanied males.
35% of the illegal immigrants are males between 18 and 40 who have no attachments.
They have no family.
There's no reason we have to tolerate them being here.
So by the time you get done with all of that, you've deported probably seven or eight million people.
You haven't touched children.
You haven't touched families.
And then you can work your way through all this.
At the same time, I would urge we have to be very pro-legal immigration.
The American people actually have, they actually support legal immigration by the same margin that they oppose illegal immigration.
And so you can't become the anti-immigrant party.
You have to be the anti-illegal immigrant party and the pro-legal immigrant party.
What did you make of Matt Gates' announcement today that he was withdrawing from consideration from AG?
He decided to do it.
What was your reaction?
And by the way, this kind of happens in every administration, doesn't it?
Sure.
Yeah, look, Trump is going to make 20 or 30 big appointments, and two or three of them aren't going to work out.
And this is the first one not to work out.
I think what happened was Gates thought he was being very clever by resigning early, and it didn't occur to him that if you then become nominated for a major job like this, everything's going to come out.
It is impossible to go through the Senate without everything coming out.
And I suspect last night he realized that he would never survive if all this information came out.
And so, you know, he did the right thing.
I thought it would take them another week.
And in that sense, I think they reacted faster and smarter than I thought they might.
But again, you know, I don't fully understand what President Trump was trying to achieve.
Sometimes you need to vet people, even if you like them.
You need to have opposition research to come in and say, well, here's what we're going to go through before you name them.
And this has been true in every administration, and you just have to live it out.
Yeah, and I hope that a lot of the other people get through.
I really do, because I think he's made some great choices.
And anyway, the names I'm hearing are names that will be far less controversial, but very, very strong, effective candidates.
And we'll wait, watch, and see what happens there.
Well, I'm sure you feel happy.
I think for the country, this is probably our one opportunity to really restore constitutional order, to shake up the system in its core, return to limited government, and get rid of waste, fraud, and abuse.
I hope we do it.
Do you think we will?
Yeah, I think we will.
And I think, look, if they message it correctly, and Trump is a genius at messaging, do the Democrats really want to be the pro-waste, pro-corruption, pro-bureaucracy party?
Are they really going to stand firmly in line and say no to everything that Vivek and Elon Musk come up with?
I don't think so.
I think in the end, they're going to realize that they've got to go along with this.
I will tell you, and we'll talk about this in future weeks, the great concern I have is how we keep the House in 2026.
That will be the crisis of the Trump Revolution.
If we keep it, then I think we're in for a long, long period of governing.
If we lose it and we're faced with a Democratic majority in the House, we have a real challenge, and it's going to be tough.
I have an idea that I will run by you off air in the days to come.
Great.
Lucky you.
That means you get another phone call from me.
How annoying is that?
No, I love it.
We've had a long partnership, and we actually occasionally have done good.
Occasionally, that's true.
Mr. Speaker, thank you, and thanks for all your work to make what happened this election day happen.
You've been a voice of common sense and reason the entire way as usual.
Thank you.
Well, thank you.
You're a national treasure.
I-25 to the top of the hour.
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Sad story down here in the great state, the free state of Florida.
Actually, so heartbreaking on so many different levels.
And I got a text this morning from a friend of mine.
He runs a moving company.
It's called Blue Line Moving.
You know, Blue Line, meaning they support the police.
And they have confirmed, and he sent me a copy of this.
It just broke my heart, that law enforcement, at least three Palm Beach County deputies were involved in a major crash, and then later informed me that all three deputies passed.
Can you imagine what it's like for these families?
I mean, they are devastated at this moment.
Absolutely, positively devastated.
That brings up the Tunnel to Towers Foundation.
And your generosity helps these families after this terrible loss.
You can't bring back loved ones.
Hazen Point, Police Sergeant Christopher David Fitzgerald of Temple University Police Department, sustained fatal gunshot wounds while attempting to arrest a robbery suspect.
Now, prior to his premature passing, Christopher was nominated for Temple University Police Department Officer of the Year.
Now, sadly, it is an award that he were to receive post-death.
And Christopher was a great father, husband, brother, son, very missed.
And thanks to your generosity, your caring, the Tunnel to Towers Foundation do what they do best.
They were able to provide a mortgage-free home to his wife, Marissa, their five children, all in honor of their forever hero.
He will be remembered by many for his passion, determination, like so many in law enforcement, so many that serve this country and protect our country.
And anyway, it's unbelievable dedication.
And he's going to be remembered for doing all of that, improving conditions for residents in the surrounding community.
And it's heroes like Christopher that protect and serve our communities, our country, that you will be helping if you'll join us here at Team Hannity and just commit, if you can, to $11 a month.
If you do, if everyone listening to my voice does, they can continue this great work because it's really great work.
The letter T, the number two, the letter T.org, the letter T, the number two, the letter T.org for the Tunnel to Towers Foundation.
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
Joanne is in the free state of Florida with me.
How are you, Joanne?
Glad you called.
I'm great, Sean.
It's a pleasure to talk to you, and thank you for taking my call.
Thank you for calling.
Hope you're doing okay.
Don't you feel bad for our friends that are now experiencing the cold weather in places like New York, New Jersey, Illinois?
I feel terrible for them.
I don't.
They choose to be there, and I choose to be here.
Exactly.
By the way, I do rib my friends a lot.
And they're like, ha ha ha, very funny.
When I hear it's a really cold day or a big snowstorm, I'm like, how's that snow shoveling coming?
By the way, it's sunny, 82 degrees today.
Yeah, it helps build bustles.
Exactly.
What's on your mind?
I wanted to just mention this because I haven't heard his name in a long time.
But I think of Rush Limbaugh.
And I just think that if he were here now with us to have enjoyed this wonderful victory that we're experiencing, he would be jumping for joy and doing a little dance.
I think he's looking down on all of us.
And he is smiling with talent on loan from God.
And he is, you know, now where he rightfully belongs, where we all end up eventually.
And, you know, I said at the time of his passing, I was right then, I'm right now.
Nobody can ever replace the Babe Ruth of talk radio.
He just can't.
Absolutely.
And, you know, what he would want us to do, and this I was certain, he would want us to double our efforts and do the work that he dedicated and devoted his whole life to.
And that was his passion, his love of country, his belief in liberty, freedom, God, individualism, meritocracy over statism, socialism.
And he would be extraordinarily happy for the country.
You know, I've gone through different stages since the election.
First, my first reaction was just utter relief and gratitude to every American and God that this disaster didn't occur because it would have been a disaster.
The next phase where I am now is like, I'm having to roll up our sleeves and let's fix everything stage.
I want to do all that.
I will tell you this.
Rush's brother David has represented me my entire career.
Rush's niece is my personal assistant, and she is just an amazing human being.
And I love the fact that she was so young, she never knew a lot of her uncle's career.
And I will show her things at times, and she's like blown away.
And just funny moments, you know, in Rush's career.
There was a moment where he guest hosted the Pat Sajak show.
And it ends up that these people, ACT Up, was a big group at the time.
They show up, they interrupt the show.
He had to close the show.
The audience had to leave.
And I'm sure it wasn't fun for him at the time, but looking back on it, that was who he was.
And people would bubble and fizz and react to him in ways that just cracked me up.
And there was nobody like him.
And there never will be again.
I mean, he really was a very special, he was a great patriot and a special talented broadcaster that we can all aspire to.
Well, I agree with you.
And, you know, he was humorous in a lot of ways.
You just had to get it.
But I just wanted to take this up.
By the way, people would get mad when he'd say, talent on loan from God.
I mean, so he'd say that, and they'd say it was blasphemous.
I'm like, it's not blasphemous.
Are you really that stupid?
He's saying that any talent he has came from God.
Right.
It was so funny.
I mean, if you weren't in on the joke, I mean, like the left, they're so humorless.
It was really useful.
It was just a special show.
Well, I don't want to start bashing the left, but I agree completely with many, many of the things that you have promoted.
And really, I've only started paying attention to politics since Donald Trump became involved, you know, in 2015.
Most of my adult life, I was like, busy doing my own thing, so I wasn't paying attention.
I know all the players now and I know everything.
But I just wanted to bring his name up.
I just wanted to have people remember him and just think about how happy he would be and how exuberant and just.
So he'd be spiking the football like Linda every second of every day.
He'd be spiking it, you know.
But I also believe he would see this as I do.
And he would express it, obviously, in his own unique way.
And that is as the biggest, greatest opportunity we now have in our lifetimes to literally embrace the principles of limited government and greater freedom and constitutional order.
I mean, this is it.
This is probably the only chance we'll get.
And the one thing we have in Donald Trump is a president that is not afraid to rock things and shake up things.
And that's what he's doing.
And that's what he's going to do.
And he'll be successful.
I really believe that.
And by the way, he's going to need our help.
And when that moment comes, I will deputize everybody again and tell everybody, call your senator, call your congressman, make sure that they vote the right way here.
Those moments are coming, I promise.
Anyway, God bless you, Joanne.
I appreciate your call.
Thank you.
800-941 Sean.
Our number, Jack at North Carolina.
Jack, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
How you doing, Sean?
Big fan.
How you doing, buddy?
I'm good, man.
How are you?
What's going on?
Yeah, I just wanted to call to let you know that I'm one of them dirty, smelly Walmart truck drivers that's been out here driving.
And I predicted weeks before the election, like I sent him, I don't even know if you called a tweet or sent an ex to David Webb and Megan Kelly way before the election that Donald Trump would get over 300 electoral votes.
I think that truck drivers should be pollsters.
We know more about going on in the country than these guys that do the polls.
I mean, you drive around, you can tell when you're in a liberal city, when you're in a conservative town or whatever by just looking at the yard signs.
And to me, it was a no-brainer.
I knew he was going to win in a landslide.
Well, you know, it's interesting you say that.
First of all, no, you happen to be a great American, and we wouldn't have a single thing to buy in any store if it wasn't for America's truckers.
And we have to thank our truckers.
We have to thank our ranchers.
We have to thank our farmers.
You know, the people, the unsung heroes, which, by the way, is what the Patriot Awards are all about.
And I get to host it this year.
If you go to FoxNation.com, I hope people in the New York area will get tickets.
I'm even going back to New York for a day to do it, which for me is like a big, heavy lift.
That's the only part I'm honored to do it.
I really am.
And I do anything because we honor unsung heroes like you, and you're one of them.
The people that work hard, play by the rules, pay their taxes, obey the laws, raise their kids, go to church on Sunday, you know, and deserve a better life and not to have to settle for a townhouse as the Washington Post was suggesting.
Trucking has been in a terrible recession.
I have friends in your industry.
I know the industry well.
And guess what?
Help is on the way.
Diesel prices will be down.
I predict to you right now, a year from now, the price of diesel will be a lot lower than what it is today.
And that'll help out all truckers.
And hopefully, a lot of that money will be in your pocket.
A lot of money will help save consumers.
If you lower the cost of transportation, that means they can lower prices at the store, and we'll all benefit.
So I wish you the best.
And next time, next election cycle, call in and give us your predictions, okay?
No problem, Sean.
Another thing that's to us, as far as truckers go, the Secretary of Transportation is an important role.
And I just wish whoever takes that position understands trucking the way with the hours of service and everything else like that.
I mean, I have never really heard anybody talk about the fact that not only do trucks use diesel fuel, but now we also have what they call diesel exhaust fluid that has to be filled up into the trucks also, thanks to Obama back when he was president, which is an additional cost that gets filled in to your fuel expense.
It's unbelievable.
And Pothole Pete spending, what, a billion taxpayer dollars on making roads less racist?
I'm like, huh?
What are you talking about?
And I don't know.
Thank God we won this election.
Anyway, Jack, you're one of the people that makes this country great.
Thank you for all you do every day.
Appreciate it.
Let's go out to California.
Say hi to Stephen next on the Sean Hannity show.
Hey, Stephen, how are you?
I'm well, Sean.
Thank you so much for taking my call, sir.
I really appreciate everything you do.
Just listening to you day in and day out and all these beautiful people that come together to your show just reinforces how great America is and how great our country is and what good people we have and how much we care about our country.
We really are a good people.
Look, we're not perfect people.
We never have been, but we strive to be a better people.
That's what Christianity teaches us.
The first thing you're admitting is you're a sinner, a failure, and you're seeking to be better.
You're seeking redemption.
You're seeking repentance, which comes from the Latin to have a change of heart so you are a better person.
All that's true.
Yes, sir.
Which brings you to the point.
Sir, do you think you put up the names of those officers?
Ever since Trump, that bullet just missed them, I found my way back to God.
I'm trying to pray more often.
I'd like to pray for those officers if I do their names.
You know what?
We will put that up.
Linda, would you put that up on our website?
I know from my friend that runs the moving company that something is going to happen soon.
And when that does, I'll make sure I make it front and center on my website.
That's a great idea.
Okay.
And then I wanted to get to my point.
It's kind of funny, Quizz, and I appreciate you taking this call.
I know you know Mark Levin, and I know Trump and Trump knows him.
I know you guys all have a good relationship.
Thank me.
God bless us.
Hello, America.
Mark Levin here.
Mr. Producer.
Number five.
Get off my phone, you big dope.
I love him.
I'll say it.
Nobody else will say it.
There, I said it.
He was great.
My suggestion is this.
By the way, could you imagine Life, Liberty, and Levin and Levin's radio show of Kamala One?
Could you imagine?
He would lose his mind.
He let steam come off his head.
Oh, my gosh.
I want to hear my points too, sir.
Maybe Biden was right.
Maybe you're a bunch of garbage.
He needs to be our attorney general.
I mean, he has experience.
Who would take him on and outsmart him?
I mean, this man needs to be.
There's nobody smarter.
Mark was actually the chief of staff for Ed Meese.
A lot of people don't remember that back in the era, the Reagan era.
Look, Mark's one of my dearest friends in the world.
I think the world of him.
And he's one of the smartest guys I know.
And I just know him.
And he's very dedicated, committed to his shows.
And, you know, I just don't think it would be practical for him at this point in his life.
He just had a pretty severe operation, and he's in full recovery mode.
Thank God he's going to be okay.
But, I mean, he's going to be there.
The work that Mark does on the air, to me, is more vital than any role he'd be able to fill in the administration.
That's just my own humble opinion.
He's that impactful.
He's that smart.
He's that good.
I'm sure the president is going to get a good attorney general.
I think he Matt Gates told me personally, he said, my odds are like 20%, 25%.
He knew going in.
He didn't want to be a distraction for the president.
And, you know, obviously this report was going to be difficult for him and his family.
And I think that I understand why he did it.
I totally get it.
And by the way, it's kind of par for the course.
This is all part of what happens when a new administration comes in.
Anyway, 800-941-Sean is our number if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, quick break.
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