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John Mclaughlin - January 2nd, Hour 2
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Hour number two of the Sean Hannity show.
Joe Concha, Fox News contributor in for Mr. Hannity, 800-941 Sean, 800-941.
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Yes, it is Thursday.
And I know it's all off kilter during this Christmas slash New Year's break where the holidays are in the middle of the week, but yep, it's Thursday.
Some of us are working.
Many of you uh hopefully are still off where you get like this 17-day vacation basically starting on Christmas all the way through January 7th.
That's that's not a not a bad deal when these holidays fall in the middle of the week.
Anyway, let's bring in Jimmy Fayer.
He is the host of Fox Across America, a very active comedian on tour as well.
Always seems like he has a gig uh going every weekend.
And Jimmy, why are we working?
What what what led us to this moment?
Some of us weren't as lucky betting the college bowl games as others.
Ah that's true.
No, I'm actually I'm in I'm in good shape right now, and uh I'm with you, Kancha.
I gotta host a Saturday night TV show.
So I had to show up today and start putting together a comedy show in the aftermath of two terror attacks and another another subway pusher.
Who's ready for some comedy?
I mean, seriously.
A comedy is much harder to do than the serious stuff, right?
And that's why it always bothers me that we never have a good comedy ever be up for an actor be up for best, you know, best actor, for example, like from There's Something About Mary.
Would you give that to Ben Stiller?
I would consider it.
Or Cameron Diaz is great in that as well.
That's like the first movie that popped into my mind.
Or Bill Murray and Stripes.
Like, they're never considered when when you're giving out the awards, are they?
Well, Ben Stiller should have won an Oscar for acting in that Kamala video where he endorsed because if you remember it was totally like the most hostage situation ever.
He goes, Well, I'm voting Kamala because of my daughter.
And like he looks away from the camera, like do you remember those old frosted flakes commercials where the adults admit to eating frosted flakes?
Yeah.
Black out their faces.
That was the Kamalet endorsement video.
I'm doing it because of my daughter.
Frosted flakes are great.
Yeah.
And then he's also forced to say, because she will bring change, you know, the vice president over the last three and a half years, so that was that was pretty interesting.
But uh you know it's amazing.
We're we're seeing these terror attacks, and I I read it last hour, but it bears repeating.
There's this weird now correlation going on where we have the suspects in yesterday's attacks in Bourbon Street, New Orleans, Trump Tower, Las Vegas, they both served at Fort Bragg, and that's the same military base that Ryan Ruth, who tried to assassinate Trump back in September when he was golfing down at Trump International, Miami.
Ryan Ruth visited that particular base over a hundred times before attempting to take Trump out.
So, I mean, what's going on here?
Yeah, is there a tie-in, I guess, would be the answer.
Um The Ryan Ruth guy, I didn't, you know, I I was reading about that reporting on X a little earlier.
That dude is, I mean, he looked like he gets paid in tied pods and but cheap homemade meth.
Seriously.
He would, if anything, I at the very least, I I'd think he'd be connected to some type of drug dealer or something, Because that was a real space cadet, Moonbat guy.
And, you know, obviously, thank God they got him.
But I don't, you know, Joe, it's like I don't know what to make of this.
I just know that we're living in this moment where there's such a distrust of a lot of these institutions.
Like the FBI did a good job today, but as I'm sure you noted, uh, didn't do the best job yesterday when the woman got out to the podium hours after finding an ISIS terror flag and possible IEDs and dismissed the possibility of terror.
Like if there's an ISIS flag and explosive devices, allegedly at the time, like was this a gender reveal gone awry?
Like, what did they want us to believe this was?
And that's where people develop that distrust.
Is the messaging was so inept.
No, it turns out it was just a prom puzzle, you know.
Come on, man.
And that's why people get upset.
So I'm glad the FBI did a better job today to start there.
But I honestly, I don't know what to believe because I don't think anyone's bargaining with us in good faith at the moment.
Like John Kennedy of Louisiana said that yesterday too.
He's like, I don't I don't know if they're telling me the truth.
Do you?
I heard that.
No, I I I was saying before that ten years ago, I would buy, yeah, it's the FBI, of course.
What the it's not politicized, this there's no DEI.
I'm I'm I'm they're not gonna lie to us in any way, shape, or form.
But if they just feel half weaponized and happened, half an F. I'm not saying all of them, of course, but in this situation, yeah, to say it's not a terror attack, then to walk it back, that the uh head of the field office down there is wearing a nose ring that she has to take out because you're not supposed to wear that in public or something.
I mean, who the hell knows what's going on?
But uh guys in the control room, if we could play uh the Kennedy clip that Jimmy was just referring to, let's uh refresh people on what he said right in the middle of that press conference, which which was seriously like a disturbing eye opener, the Kennedy cut.
Go.
There's just too much stuff we don't know.
And it's it's uh it's just not moving.
But um I guess my final point is I will promise you this.
I will when when it is appropriate and this investigation is complete, you will find out what happened and who was responsible.
Or I will raise fresh hell.
And I will chase those in uh in the federal government who are responsible for telling us what happened.
Like they stole Christmas.
There's Kennedy.
You ever have him on your show?
Because he gives the best sound bites like ever.
But he's hard to book, I understand.
He's a good he is a good soundbite guy.
And uh, you know, as I I tweeted yesterday, I think you're aware.
Like at this point, I have more trust for those FBI hats that say federal bikini inspector.
I gotta get one of those.
That's gotta be on eBay somewhere.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You may be right about that.
And you made a great point on Twitter uh this morning.
X, I still can't call it X. It's hard to get used to, like two years later.
Uh you said the Biden administration spent the last four years renaming our military bases while terror plots are being hatched literally inside of them.
We've never been led by a bigger group of idiots.
And that's where we're at at this point.
We have no trust in many of institutions that we grow up absolutely trusting.
And that's not just the FBI, but that is the current president who just shuffled out there yesterday.
You know, he he talks for three minutes out of a teleprompter, doesn't take any questions and shuffles back.
Uh what do you think the Biden legacy will be?
This may be too easy of a T ball question for you, but I'm curious to s I want to hear d different perspectives on this.
Everybody agrees that he's a bad president.
But what ultimately, when the first thing you hear the name Joe Biden said, say like two, three years from now, what do you think the first thing will be that comes to mind?
It's the movie Kingpin.
So let me explain it.
Do you know in Kingpin, the Woody Harrelson character is a bowler, and he goes out hustling with Bill Murray.
Munson.
No.
Yeah, Roy Munson and Bigger McCrackett, and they come up with the phrase, Munson'd on me.
Now Roy Munson finds out that he was such a failure that looking back, they coined a phrase like, oh, my car munsoned on me.
Biden did.
Biden Biden will become uh a verb, a word, you know, it Biden donned me.
That will be his legacy.
He will be synonymous with failure.
The only like historic upside to this presidency is, you know, I've mentioned like he got arson down.
Arson was lower under Biden because people couldn't afford to burn down your house at these gas prices.
And uh he will, of course, have the first presidential library that's scratch and sniff.
So that's not nothing.
Well it's not nothing.
You you really gotta get them there.
Are you using the stuff on the road?
Because this just feels like completely organic.
Like if you're just doing this on the fly, I'd be insanely impressed.
But if this isn't your act, uh, I'd say also impressive, because th this is some good stuff you're giving us right here, Jimmy.
Thank you.
Anyway, you know comedian Tim Dylan?
Is he a friend or anything?
Well, not like I don't like hang out with him, no, but I know of him.
Uh he's really good.
Well, what do you got on him?
Well, this whole thing where he played the ghost of the United Healthcare CEO, uh Brian Thompson, who got you know shot in the back five blocks from Fox uh a couple of weeks ago uh because Luigiana uh Luigi Mangioni uh decided, you know, that he had to take him out because he didn't like what he was paying for health care, even though he d doesn't even get you know insured by United Healthcare, but regardless, and then Luigi and Mangioni be ended up being like a guy who you know basically became a sex symbol.
And I I don't know.
I mean, where do you draw the line as a comedian as far as I mean, should we really be joking about this guy?
I mean, i I hate to like sound all you know dad like, but I do have two kids.
I I have a wife.
I mean, i there there is like a it's a horrible tragedy, but is is there a line or am I being too PC on this one?
Well, here's the deal.
I mean, the truth is, like, yeah, the bit was tasteless, but that's kind of what Tim does.
Is like if you're tuning in for him, it's because you know you've got someone who doesn't care who's intentionally gonna go too far.
So, like the, you know, the answer is yeah, obviously we don't have to watch it.
But my bigger takeaway, uh, having watched that whole Netflix roast of 2024, is those guys don't do political or topical comedy night in and night out.
So I'm telling you because I care.
That Netflix roast, it was like loaded with jokes that would be B pluses on a Gutfeld episode, uh, C pluses on my show.
Like I'm not even kidding.
That's what I thought.
I watched all their takes on the news, and there wasn't a single joke where I was like, Man, how'd they do that?
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Uh like the Brady vote roast where I thought was excellent.
I mean, it was it was awkward to watch at that moment for for Tom.
Then again, he's signed up for it, but and he's getting paid $385 million from Fox Sports, so you can't feel too bad for him.
But that that I thought was uh next level.
Yeah, but the Brady roast, it was so funny because everybody was like, but what about his kids?
And I was like, yo, yo, yo.
The Brady kids are gonna be fine.
They have the DNA of the greatest quarterback of all time and the greatest supermodel of all time.
Yeah.
And they're worth a billion dollars.
Okay.
Let's talk about my kids.
If I die, he's gonna be battling in court for custody of a Nintendo.
Okay.
The Brady kids are gonna be okay.
Yeah, no, they'll they'll be just fine.
And if you've ever seen his house down in Tampa, uh, yeah, trust me, it's a whole zip code.
And we're talking to Jimmy Falla, he is the host of Fox Across America.
Uh any shows coming up that we should know about, Jimmy?
Well, okay, obviously, contractually, I have to tell you to watch Fox News Saturday night every Saturday at 10 PM on the Fox News channel.
Of course.
Uh, and we have a live audience beginning this weekend.
So now we start with our live audience version of the show.
Really?
Can I stop you there real quick?
That's so you so you're gonna do where Gutfeld tapes, because that's the only place where we kind of have like a an audience where where we have the ability to house an audience.
I guess you do it in Studio M also where they do Fox and Friends where they have uh some audiences there as well.
It's more makeshift than anything else.
But uh that that is awesome going live.
I think that that's really gonna be it.
There's just a different energy to it.
I uh when you pre-tape, there's something about it, but I think once Gutfeld added a studio audience, I think the show took on it went to a different level because I think you need that with comedy.
You need reaction, right?
And you and and you feed off of that as a comedian.
Uh this is gonna be awesome.
You're gonna fill that place every Saturday night, and uh I I think you're probably gonna have some people are maybe overserved when they show up to the show.
Well, the night yeah, then the yeah, but enough about the panelists, yeah, the panelists and the host.
Well we'll pump we're pumped up for that.
I go I don't go back on the road for stand-up till February, because we're in this new format and we gotta like make all that magic happen.
Yeah.
A special coming out January 9th on Fox Nation.
It's called The Night of Comedy.
It's me, Adam Carolla, Jim Brewer, Anthony Rodilla.
Wow.
And I hosted that shindig.
We did it out at Long Island University.
So what's funny about it is we shot it at Long Island University a week after the Patriot Awards.
So think about this.
Thursday, December 5th.
I'm on stage telling jokes.
President Trump's in the audience surrounded by Secret Service.
To go back a week later, it felt a little bit like he got invited to the orgy after the girls went home.
That's true.
Trump was at the Fox Nation uh awards, right?
And then uh yeah, so you're performing for the president.
You're almost like Marilyn Monroe, right?
Like Happy birthday, Mr. President, which happened at Madison Square Garden, which apparently like that was a Nazis thing also.
Uh But yeah, then afterwards, then you're L I U, and it's not quite the same audience, but that that's that's an all-star lineup.
Okay, so that's that's on Fox Nation, and that is on the 9th.
The ninth, yes, January 9th, it debuts, and I have a new series coming out in my taxi.
You know, we do all these taxi interviews.
It's the older taxi, too.
I've seen it parked outside the uh the the network.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Be here tomorrow for another shoot, but that's called Taxi Cab Comedy because they really killed themselves to come up with a creative name.
Is it like the Seinfeld uh, you know, the episodes uh having coffee in cars with uh I forget what it was called.
It was kind of long, but the same kind of format where you're driving along and just having a conversation.
Yeah, jokes on wheels.
But yeah, that's what it is.
The series of like, you know, short form interviews and taxis with random people, though.
Like what we do on my TV shows, it's Fox Talent that I pick up and drive around and yap with about stuff.
Yeah.
What we do in this series is it's just randos on the street that I pick up and drive places and talk to.
So it's a little exciting.
Um you'll get a contact high just from watching it.
People in New York are a special breed.
Uh like it was and I mean it's well, you know what's funny, Kancha, is like they're totally making me shoot stuff and attack me as like a scared straight, just to remind me to behave, because that was my job, you know, obviously cab driving and doing stand-up before I got started here at Fox.
So that's just their this is their way of reminding me uh to keep playing good ball.
Are they gonna stick me back on the Van Wick Expressway in traffic?
Well, that's the amazing story about Jimmy Fail.
And unfortunately we gotta go, but so I'll I'll just fill in the blank here.
I mean, you you were a cab driver, also doing comedy, and then before you know it, you're doing some appearances on I think it was with Kennedy, right?
And from there, you you did so well with your hits that just everything took off, and here you are now, Fox Nation shows Fox uh news Saturday night, which is uh awesome.
Uh that's on at 10 p.m.
Saturday.
Now it's gonna have a live audience, whole new vibe to it, so that's gonna be great.
And Jimmy, I mean, congratulations on all your success.
2025's only gonna get better for you.
It's our year, man.
Let's get him.
I'll see you.
All right, let's get him.
He is Jimmy Feller.
Thank you so much, Jimmy.
We really appreciate it.
I mean, that's a true success story right there.
From CAB, National Television, multiple formats, books, the whole deal.
Jimmy Phael, one of the good ones over Fox.
Well, they're all good, but one of the when the great ones over Fox.
Anyway, this is Joe Kancha in for Sean Hannity, 800-941 Sean.
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And welcome back, everybody.
Joe Concha in for Sean Hannity, 800-941 Sean.
We got a quick segment here, and when we come back, we got some more great guests for you.
We have John McLaughlin uh coming up.
I met him at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, and his numbers were right all along, which is probably why you saw Trump so confident on the campaign trail, even when uh ridiculous pollsters like Ann Seltzer were showing Kamala Harris up by three points in places like Iowa, and then other morning consult or you gov showing Kamala Harris up four or five points, leading in some swing states.
Uh no, uh Trump was leading all along.
And then after uh the election, it turned out that the Harris campaign admitted that, yeah, our internals showed us that all along we knew we weren't up.
While McLaughlin always had Trump up, and the guy was right in 2016, he's right again, and we're gonna talk to him coming up after the break.
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Let's get to our next guest.
He is John McLaughlin.
He is the founder of John McLaughlin and Associates.
And we met, I believe, in Milwaukee for the first time at the RNC, uh, John, and I remember uh talking to you off the record that you were confident in the president's position at that point.
Obviously, Joe Biden was the uh the the opponent on July eighteenth, nineteenth when that convention went on.
But now we're hearing from the sitting president, yes, he still is the sitting president, saying that well, if he didn't drop out and stayed in that he probably would have beaten Trump.
Did you laugh hard or very hard when you heard that?
Um I I I by the way, the first time we met, we met at the Jersey Shore years ago.
That's right.
Yes.
Yeah.
So it's like uh yeah, but by the way, it's like, you know, uh so we've met before and and uh it was great to see you in Milwaukee again.
But uh uh but at the time we were beating Joe Biden and to prove our polls right, he did on July twenty first.
When you think about it, we put out a poll the day before uh the debate between Biden and Trump at the end of June.
And Trump was up too.
Now Trump had been ahead in the polls since September of twenty one when inflation kicked in and uh Biden just decided to surrender Afghanistan and surrendering a country is not what American presidents are supposed to do.
But Trump was leading him in the popular vote.
From that point on, we had to win the primaries and all that, which Trump did in historic fashion.
But the day before the debate, Trump was up too.
Trump uh uh destroys him in the debate, Biden goes down the media polls.
Trump survives by the grace of God an assassin's bullet, and we have a great convention in Milwaukee.
You saw the party was united, uh it was coming out strong, ready to win the election.
And uh that Sunday on July twenty first, uh Biden withdraws, hand picks Kamala Harris to be his replacement, and we do a poll the first week of August.
Trump's still up too.
I mean, all those historic things happened and nothing changed.
And really uh uh a lot happened but from that point on through the election, but Trump was always leading in our popular vote ever since Biden took office.
In fact, at one point, that's interesting, uh me being an old timer, uh uh you know and much older than your producer, Linda Linda McLaughlin and no relation.
But but still, she's much younger.
So but uh but but I had uh met with President Trump uh during the second impeachment.
Jason Miller, myself, uh a couple others, we've done a poll in the battleground states for Trump.
And uh it was during impeachment, and we went and we met with President Trump in his office in Marilago, and he's watching on he's watching the impeachment hearings, and I said to him, I said, You realize sixty-three percent of the Republicans want you to run again.
And we were going through the poll numbers, and I'm saying, you know, when Biden fails, this is gonna be like Jimmy Carter.
Uh when Jimmy Carter uh, you know, he basically failed, and there was buyer's remorse that the Republicans hadn't nominated Reagan in seventy-six.
Those of us who volunteered and helped Reagan when I was a young man in college, etc.
And in the eighty race.
Uh Carter soundly.
And 44 states, yeah.
Yeah, and President Trump knew him, and President Trump uh we he you know, I said when when Biden fails, which he will do because he's done you know, undoing your he's gonna undo your policies and he's gonna put in bad policies in place, you there'll be buyer's remorse and you'll be able to beat him again.
Little did we know Biden would fail as gloriously as he's failed this country, where we did a survey in December, and two-thirds of the voters, sixty-six percent say the country's on the wrong track.
They say the economy's getting worse, not better.
Fifty-five to thirty-seven, eighty-four percent negatively impacted by inflation, forty-eight percent to the point where they can't afford basic necessities.
And Trump's policies are seen as uh he ran a very policy oriented campaign, seen as a relief to this where you have uh uh, you know, they want uh they they no tax on tips, they support seventy-one twenty one.
Uh no tax on social security, they support eighty eighty-two to eleven, no tax on overtime, sixty-six twenty-five all voters support.
Um and they want the t Trump tax cuts made permanent because they're supposed to lapse this year, which they would have if Harris had won uh seventy to seventeen.
So President Trump has basically a mandate to get these things done and turn the country around.
But uh, you know, people are counting the days until he gets sworn in because you know, uh it's it's things people have some optimism, some reason to hope right now, but uh we've got a lot of problems to turn around.
President Trump has a real challenge behind him.
Well, John, I'm not sure anybody's counting the days.
Oh, who are we kidding?
It's 17 days and twenty-two hours, uh if if you want an exact count.
So there you go.
But yeah, uh, people have been counting the days uh for for some time now, and we're talking to John McLaughlin, founder of McLaughlin and Associates.
So John, I have a book coming out, and that's why I was at the convention uh and uh and I was at a rally for Trump.
Uh I was at Mar-a-Lago uh just uh on New Year's.
Uh I w I want to get as much behind the scenes as as I can uh 'cause it really is a a fascinating campaign and a fascinating person, quite frankly, uh, to chronicle.
Uh but in one chapter in the book, I talk about a rally that I attended and covered uh at Madison Square Garden, and there was a joke made like five hours before Trump took the stage, and we all know what we're where I'm going with this as far as a joke about the garbage problem in Puerto Rico, which actually is a very real thing by a comedian that most people uh hadn't heard of before.
And then we heard from the Harris campaign that their internal polling was showing that there was a large shift among Hispanics, Latinos, Puerto Rican, Puerto Rican Americans, they're all going to Harris now because of this joke.
They said, you know what, ah, yeah, our gas prices are too high, our grocery prices are too high, the border's not secure, we don't like that, crime is out of control, we don't like these wars overseas.
But because a comedian not named Trump told a joke at a rally at Madison Square Garden, that's gonna change everything.
I mean, when you heard this stuff, you must have just been shaking your head being like, God, this is all gaslighting, right?
Right.
And plus I I was at the rally and I was like sat through that and and but we had a great week that week, 'cause you remember that was the week that uh uh President Trump did uh McDonald's.
He he did McDonald's.
Al Smith.
He uh was on the Joe Rogan, the Al Smith was before it I was at that there.
President Trump was great extreme and she skipped it.
But this is my she skipped it.
She wouldn't do Joe Rogan, she wouldn't do she wouldn't do the rallies.
Trump was doing three or four rallies a day in the end.
And and she, you know, he went when they called us, remember, they had no message.
They were calling President Trump a Nazi and a fascist.
And that's why he he and and they said his President Biden said his supporters were garbage.
So he had the garbage truck.
So the end by the way, in the end of the post-election survey, and these surveys I'm quoting are on our website on McLaughlin Online dot com.
But uh President Trump on election day in a post-election survey had an approval of fifty-six approved, 43 disapprove.
Amazing.
It was and he was liked by the majority of Americans.
And Biden and Harris were disliked and disapproved the majority of Americans.
In the December poll, by the way, I've got fifty-seven percent of all voters disapprove of the job Biden's doing to the state.
He's getting worse.
And the so, you know, like you have so much to write about for your book, which is great.
But it but it's like when you think about when you think about how historic this campaign was and the kind of determination, like you were very flattering about uh polls, but I'm fortunate that I worked for Donald Trump for a long time before he even got into this race and advising him and uh he made this happen.
And it's like when you think of all the adversity he went through in this historic campaign where they tried to take away his wealth.
They tried to put him out of business.
They tried to put him in jail.
It's now the new year.
In in June, six out of ten Americans thought that uh all these indictments uh against Trump were political.
The majority thought Joe Biden was uh behind it to try to stop him from taking the White House, which he was.
And uh, you know, it's it's like he overcame all that.
Plus he only came two assassination attempts, and he you know, he he our opponent had one point five billion dollars she raised over the internet somehow.
Um and Trump still won.
He never backed down.
He's he's really a historic figure.
It's unbelievable that he he was able to, as I said to him, he he proved our polls right.
I just happened to be taking the polls for this uh historic figure.
Now now he's got a lot to he's got a lot to work on as president because the country's certainly not in a good place and he's got uh he's got wars, he's got an open border, he's got high crime, he's got uh worries about economic growth.
So uh uh it's quite a challenge for the president uh try to turn the country around.
Yeah, lots to fix, no question about it.
And we're talking to John McLaughlin.
Uh don't forget two impeachments as well, being called a Russian agent uh for the better part of like three years of his first presidency, taken off of state ballots, remember Colorado and Maine tried to do that.
I mean you could just go down the list and when I interviewed him about a week or so ago and he was uh nice enough to give me about forty minutes uh that that was my first question like all these things are thrown at you what why would you want to stay around for this I mean it's just it's a it's not a fair fight right a fair fight you know maybe you do but with all these things being thrown at you what keeps you moving forward and he just said you know these are sick people destroying the country and I I I love my country and I have to do what I can to save it.
It was like one of the more unselfish things that you'll ever hear.
And it wasn't a politician talking that this was a person who genuinely, A, thinks that the country is going in the wrong direction, as do like 70 percent of Americans, of course.
And B, that he has the wherewithal to fix it.
And I think this time around, John, it's different from 2016, 2017, when he took office that first time because he didn't know Washington then.
Right.
And he didn't know some of the players in his own cabinet, didn't know them well anyway.
right and didn't know if they were on the same page as him exactly and obviously you know the House Speaker then and the and the Senate majority leader as well you know perhaps they weren't on the same page as him as well.
I think this time around with with Mike Johnson in his House speaker John thune uh in the Senate that he could probably get a lot more dumb but I think that all depends on Johnson because with such a slim majority you gotta hurt all those cats.
I think that's the biggest challenge right now.
Can the Trump agenda move forward if Republicans don't I don't want to say get in line because it sounds like there's no like original thought or debate or anything like that.
But at the same time if they're going to start straying or if they take Johnson out, which I think it would be very ill advised going into his presidency because we saw what happened with Kevin McCarthy.
It's hard to find for anybody to agree to a replacement.
I think the whole key is the Congress.
Do you agree with that?
I would agree it's a thin margin in the House and you know we saw it in the first term uh when we lost the majority uh they they instantly tried to impeach him and and and it was on fake fake stuff stuff that wasn't even true.
So President Trump what's critical right now is that he tries to get his tax cuts passed quickly as possible because in the first term uh he did health care first and I I asked him I said why did you do health care?
You got to do tax cuts and because tax cuts will help you defy the historic downturn in a midterm if you have economic growth you can keep your majorities.
And he said uh uh at the time Ryan and McConnell had told them they needed the savings quote unquote savings.
Where do savings come from?
It's only in Washington they take your money and they call it savings savings from you know reforming health care or whatever.
And then they would do the tax cuts.
Well, the tax cuts are what you need to grow the economy.
Ronald Reagan got reelected because his tax cuts worked in 83 and 84 into the re-election.
But we lost 26 Republicans in the midterms in 82 because the tax cuts didn't go into effect until 83.
Trump's tax cuts were slowed down because they didn't get passed until December because he was doing health care first, which is like doing Stalingrad before you try to get something done.
But in the meantime, this time around, he's got a majority in smart people like Larry Kudlow, Steve Forbes, Steve Moore.
They're telling him, get the tax cuts done first.
Get economic growth in there.
Let Americans feel good, feel better.
Get peace and prosperity going.
And maybe we can do like we did in 2002, where the Republicans kept their majorities in the House and Senate.
At the time, it was because it was after 9-11.
Hopefully, God forbid, nothing else.
like that ever happens again.
But you gotta be vigilant.
But now it's like if we can grow the economy we can bring peace back, President Trump should be able to maybe expand these majorities to so that and maybe even make them bipartisan.
Bring some Democrats on board that it's a good idea to grow the economy that it's a good idea to reduce inflation and uh seal the border and and do do good things to turn the country around.
So uh we'll see.
Yeah it will be interesting.
I I think some Democrats, you know, not a lot, but but enough may come on board John because again they just watched this election.
You want to just continue to resist uh okay well in two years you very very well can lose and you don't have to listen to everything that Hakeem Jeffries or Nancy Pelosi tells you because uh that they are not the the stars, the moon and the sun.
I mean, think on your own and do what's right for the country.
That's what I say.
Anyway, John, Jersey Shore Guy.
Uh, good to talk to you again.
Yes, we had met people.
It's all coming back to me now.
Sorry about that.
But uh are you going back down this summer?
You're writing a book.
Uh I do.
It's like it's it's really I'm down here now and it's really cold.
Oh God.
Well, trust me, it is up here as well.
So get ready for January in the Northeast.
Anyway, John, thanks so much for joining us.
Happy New Year.
So Jimmy Carter will lie in state in the rotunda at the U.S. Capitol in Washington.
That will be on the 9th.
And somebody sent me the electoral map from the 1976 election when Carter defeated Jarl Ford.
And if you you gotta take a look at this sometime.
Here's the states that went red, okay?
Illinois went red, Vermont went red, uh, Maine went red, New Jersey went red, Virginia went red, California went red, Oregon went red, Washington went red, blue, Texas, Florida, Ohio, West Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi.
I mean, it it is completely backwards.
I mean, so things changed, I guess, but that's just crazy.
California went red and Texas went blue.
Go figure.
Anyway, this is Joe Concha in for Sean Hannity.
We got your calls.
I swear, I swear.
All right, I'm picky swearing it right now, like I like to do with my kids.
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