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	Hour two, Sean Hannity Show.
	One week from today, it is inauguration day.
	It's a new day for the country, and maybe an opportunity you get every hundred years.
	And uh I really believe if republicans stick together if they are strategic, if they stick to the Trump agenda and the Trump promises, uh, very simple, and that is secure the border, uh, deport those people that entered the country illegally, find the terrorists, the cartel members, the murderers, the rapists, uh gang members that are known to be in the country.
	If they become energy super dominant and we become an energy wealthy country, we can begin the process of restoring the economy, uh tax cuts be impermanent, no tax on tips, no tax on social security, no tax on overtime,
	uh shoring up Social Security and and Medicare, which are headed towards insolvency, you know, building the next generation of weaponry, knowing that future wars likely won't be on a battlefield but be fought in air conditioned offices.
	That would be transformational in every way.
	Uh anyway, New Kingrich is with us, former Speaker of the House, author of March to the Majority, and anyway, he has a new uh documentary that he's put out following the lies of uh the the lives of nine successful legal immigrants, journey to America is what it's called.
	Um for example, there's there's a conflict even within MAGA over H1v1 uh visas.
	Um I have no problem if we vet people, and we should first bring in the world's best, brightest engineers, uh medical researchers, doctors, lawyers, you know, the the just the top people,
	and maybe they can help us with the artificial intelligence and and building out the next generation of warfare and the weaponry that we will need, considering we have a gap of vulnerability now, uh where China and Russia have hypersonic missile technology and and other m uh other weapons systems, and we've fallen behind.
	Anyway, Mr. Speaker, great to uh have you back.
	Congratulations on the new documentary.
	Well, we're thrilled it's gonna be on PBS tomorrow night at ten o'clock and uh called Journey to America and Clis and I worked on it because we're very much opposed to illegal immigration, and we strongly support both closing the border and deporting people like the criminals you were describing.
	Uh but at the same time we believe that legal immigration, I mean, President Trump's mother came from Scotland, Callista's grandmother came through Ellis Island from Poland in nineteen oh seven, and almost everybody listening to us knows somebody who's either a first or second generation immigrant or a descendant of relatively recent immigrants, and they brought huge diversity and energy and capability to the country.
	So I I draw a very sharp distinction, and I was so surprised and frankly delighted last week to see that in both the House and the Senate, the Lakin Rally Bill actually go got a good number of democratic votes.
	And I think it may be a sign of how really big the transition's about to become uh that uh Democrats who in Trump's first administration would have been hardline, a lot of them are now trying to look for a way to uh cooperate and do and to vote with us on a bipartisan basis.
	And I thought that was very encouraging in terms of the big bills that'll be coming up later on this year.
	Why am I less optimistic?
	Why do I suspect with the beginning of these hearings for Trump's nominees that you know the real Adam Schiff, the the real Chuck Schumer, the real Dick Dermot, will you know rear their ugly heads and and they'll try to go full on hardcore Robert Boer, Clarence Thomas, Justice Kavanaugh, and smear slander besmirch and attack Trump like they always do.
	Well, that sounds about right.
	But remember, we when when Reagan passed his great tax cuts in 1981, he only he got 46 Democrats, which was enough to win.
	But that but he didn't get you know the other hundred and eighty.
	Uh similarly, uh when when we passed welfare reform, which the country desperately wanted, we got a hundred and one Democrats.
	We had 101 voting no, including some of them who got to the floor and said we were Nazis because we were gonna take target the children.
	Of course, when people went to work, their incomes went up.
	The largest number of children leaving poverty in American history came after welfare reform.
	But the left wing of their party, it it is there, it is real, it is insane, uh, and it's not going to change.
	But if we can split off anywhere from twenty to forty percent, so you you have sort of a an internal struggle within the Democratic Party.
	Uh that's a huge advantage, and I just did some research.
	There are thirteen Democrats in districts that Trump carried, and another twenty-one Democrats in districts where Trump came within five percent.
	That means that there's a potential marketplace of thirty-four house Democrats, uh, that if the president decides this spring to go out and do a barn storming series of uh rallies uh in favor of a tax cut, uh energy production, higher take home pay, more affordability along with the border and and immigration.
	I suspect he's gonna get a surprising number of Democrats who decide to vote with him.
	I tend to think you're you're probably right.
	Um I look at what's going on in California and I look at the excuse making, I look at the finger pointing.
	There's certain truths and realities that you the California can't run away from that they've rejected the science of forestry, and that would be including uh clearing brush and controlled burns uh because of the quote environment.
	Uh we look at a state that also has fire hydrants that weren't working, reservoirs that were empty, you know, and and a very defensive governor, and now we've got three more days of Santa Ana winds, you know, a hundred miles an hour plus, and we're expecting you know these fires to get out of control yet again.
	And and I just sit here in amazement, you know, LA's fire chief warned the mayor, Karen Bass just two months ago that her department only had half the staff that they needed to fight wildfires, and of course, you know, the mayor was missing in action, wouldn't answer any questions from the press initially, didn't even know where to direct people in terms of getting help.
	Um wealthy LA liberals are you know calling in private firefighters to save their homes.
	I really don't blame them if the city's not going to protect them and they can hire their own people.
	I don't I don't I can't fault them for that, can you?
	No, I that tells you a lot about the the decay of government in California, that people think they need private guards, uh they need private firefighters, go down the west.
	Um you know, the the in all fairness, I think that that the mayor of Los Angeles is now in a competition with the mayor of Chicago to be the worst mayor in the country.
	And uh it's a close run thing.
	I think she's ahead right now for being the worst mayor, uh, but we haven't seen the mayor of Chicago try to do anything.
	But the the deeper point is there are two different stories here.
	One, we we have to have three things in mind.
	Stop the fires, whatever it takes.
	We have to move in the American military, if we have to move in lots of other aircraft from around the country to to be able to dump enough fire retardant, uh, whatever it takes, stop the fires.
	That's number one.
	Number two, find a way, what is the least expensive, fastest way to help people rebuild.
	Uh I mean, we saw the the Great Chicago fire uh of 1871, uh the the uh earthquake in San Francisco in 1906, the the great um earthquake in Tokyo in 1923, the degree to which we bombed both Hamburg and Tokyo in nineteen in World War II.
	People can come back, they can come back remarkably fast, but under California's current rules and current bureaucracy, they'll never come back because it's too expensive, it takes too long, the bureaucrats have too much power, and the trial lawyers have too much power.
	So our second big job should be clear out all the things that make it more expensive and takes longer and clean it out.
	And I think President Trump may have the executive authority to declare a national emergency.
	This is gonna be such a big issue that he may be able to use national emergency status uh to just sweepingly clear it on behalf of saving lives and saving people.
	And then third, let's look at imposing new Rules that make sense.
	Now, of course, you have on the other side, and Governor Newsom, a man who lives in a fantasy land, uh, who just who just set aside fifty million dollars to fight the Trump administration.
	Now think about this.
	He's gonna have to turn to Trump for an amazing amount of money for an extraordinary amount of help.
	And what are they doing?
	They're putting aside a fifty million dollar state fund to fight Trump.
	I mean, this is like insanity.
	Well, you really can't make it up.
	Let's talk about the times that we're living in here.
	One week from today's inauguration day, we'll be in DC.
	I I'm pretty sure you'll you will be there.
	Yeah, close plus.
	Okay, so you have I'm I'm looking at this as a chance that maybe you get every hundred, hundred and fifty years.
	If Donald Trump just fulfills his promises to to literally cut two trillion dollars and reduce the size and scope and influence of government and return to the principles, constitutional principles of live limited government, greater freedom, that envisioned by our founders and by our framers, that will be transformational.
	If if in fact he secures the borders and he deports those people in here illegally, that will be transformational.
	If he makes us the most energy dominant country on earth, that is the greatest opportunity I think we have to become a wealthy country.
	If he reestablishes America's military, I am very worried about that gap of vulnerability that I described in the lead into the segment.
	That will be transformational and will protect the country, hopefully for decades to come.
	Um it is a big under undertaking.
	Now I know there's been discussions.
	I know the set more senators want two bills, not one bill.
	You want one big beautiful bill.
	Trump had talked about one big beautiful bill.
	I it's if I had to guess, it's leaning now towards the two bill strategy.
	Um can all of this be accomplished.
	Well, I worry very much about how slow the Senate's capable of being.
	You go with a two-bill strategy and you put the easy stuff, the border, etc., in the first bill, and then you have to come back and pass the much bigger, more complicated bill.
	Uh I will just, and I've written about this at Gingrich 360.
	I lived through this.
	In 1981, Reagan had a great victory.
	We passed a three-year tax cut.
	But none of us fully understood it didn't go into effect until 1983.
	Well, guess what?
	Everybody stopped investing for all of 1982, waiting for the tax advantage of investing in '83.
	We lost twenty-six seats in the House.
	Two thousand seventeen.
	Uh I really wanted them to start with infrastructure and taxes.
	Um Ryan and McConnell insisted that they had to start by repealing Obamacare.
	They failed to appeal Obamacare, and they don't pass the tax bill until December when it doesn't have any effect.
	We lose 40 seats in the House.
	Now, you know, I I would just say, unless they get every senator to sign on the dotted line a public document pledging to get the second bill out by the end of May, I would never go with a two-bill model.
	And I would urge Speaker Johnson to just ignore them.
	I mean, if if if he insists on one bill, it's going to come out of the House as one bill, and the Senate's going to have to eat it.
	Um, but I I would not play games.
	I mean, I frankly believe the Senate rules are so complicated.
	The ability of senators to slow everything down is so great that if if you let them play games with this, you're gonna have a disaster in 2026.
	All right, quick break.
	We'll continue more with New King Rich, by the way, a link to his new documentary on Hannity.com.
	It's called Journey to America.
	Uh, we'll get more of his take on the inauguration one week from today and what Republicans need to do if they want to be transformational and effective.
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	Newt Gingrich is with us.
	Don't forget his new documentary, We have a link to it.
	It's on Hannity.com.
	It's called Lib Uh Journey to America.
	This to me is what I've been warning this audience about.
	You just can't vote for Donald Trump and think that Congress is going to do the right thing.
	We have too slim a majority, especially in the House.
	And they're going to need to they're not they're gonna need to hear from their constituents that they want this done.
	And at the right time, at that moment, we'll give out the phone number.
	People can be respectful and call in.
	Um I want to shift a little bit here and ask you this question.
	You uh addressed the issue of the danger of an electro uh magnetic pulse attack on this country, and when I read what you had written and said, it scared the living daylights out of me.
	Well, it should.
	There's a brilliant novel by a good friend of mine, co-opter, no fortune, called One Second After, which is a technically accurate study of a small town in North Carolina after an electromagnetic pulse attack.
	This is a form of very high intense energy waste, which which burns out, for example, electric generators.
	It burns out your car if anything in your car that's electric.
	And he describes what it means when all of a sudden you don't have electricity, and these giant generators take years to build, and we don't build them here anymore.
	They're built in places like Switzerland.
	Uh and so you look at that, and I would say if there's any short-term gap in American defenses, it's the absolute incompetence of the government to sort to sort out a defense against an electromagnetic pulse attack, which by the way, if you set off an electromagnetic bomb uh at about a hundred thousand feet over Omaha, you cover one half of the country with that one weapon.
	And we're watching North Korea acquire the ability uh to put things in orbit, and they could put an electromagnetic weapon in orbit, and you'd never know it till they used it.
	That's pretty chilling.
	Uh Newt Gingrich, congratulations.
	Uh Newt's new documentary is out.
	It's called Journey to America.
	We have a link on Hannity.com.
	Uh, we appreciate your time as always.
	Thank you, sir.
	Thank you.
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	So we have this disaster out in California.
	Now we have three more days of Santa Anna wins.
	Uh on top of everything else.
	We did learn over the weekend, and it shouldn't be a surprise to anybody.
	Uh apparently one little inconvenient detail on top of the fire hydrants that don't work on top of the reservoir being emptied, on top of the lack of manpower and the warning of LA's fire chief uh to Karen Bass months ago that her department only had half the staff they would need to fight a wildfire.
	Now we're learning that the guy that they caught one wandering around Los Angeles on Friday as the as he allegedly was torching discarded Christmas trees with a flamethrower.
	Yeah, it's a Harris Biden illegal.
	Uh I've yet to see anybody in the the fake news state run media mob ask any of the elected officials in California about that.
	It is a sanctuary state.
	LA is a sanctuary city.
	New York Post had a headline suspect arrested with flamethrower near LA fire is an illegal immigrant, according to sources, uh, as we've been vetting out all of these stories.
	Uh but the devastation is real.
	We have now twenty-four people dead in this.
	People warned now to brace for the next seventy-two hours of hell.
	Uh three years ago, Karen Bass, the mayor promised to cut back on her world travel.
	She was in Ghana when the story when this tragedy uh was beginning to unfold.
	Uh she gave city contractors very rich, you know, promotions and raises before cutting the fire department, as we pointed out many times.
	There's $750,000 a year water chief knew about at the empty reservoir, knew about the hydrants not working months before the fires.
	Gavin Newsom was corrected by reporters after making a hundred and seventeen million gallon mistake while hitting out at Donald Trump.
	And you know, the fact checking is not coming out too well on his particular side.
	And anyway, Democrats are now turning on each other.
	The LA Fire Chief is detailing the devastation because of the cuts that she warned the mayor about.
	Uh there's a lot of anger that a lot of wealthy people in the area have been shelling out two thousand dollars an hour for private firefighters.
	If you're not going to get help from the city, can you really blame people for attempting to to hire people to help save their home, considering what it means to rebuild your entire life like that?
	And it's pretty unbelievable.
	And anyway, so uh we have let me play for you, Kristen Crowley, the LA Fire Chief, saying that city officials failed us.
	We expect water in hydrants.
	This should be 101.
	Listen.
	It's my job to stand up as a chief and exactly say justifiably what the fire department needs to operate to meet the demands of the community.
	Did they fail you?
	That is our job, and I tell you, that's why I'm here.
	So let's get us what we need so our firefighters can do their jobs.
	Did they fail you?
	Yes.
	Chief Kristen Crowley.
	The question is about the Santa Inez reservoir being empty.
	Uh, there's been a lot of questions about that.
	Sure.
	So my stance on this is when a firefighter comes up to a hydrant, we expect there's gonna be water.
	We don't control the water supply.
	Our firefighters are there to protect lives and property and to make sure that we're properly trained and equipped.
	That's my position on this.
	Now she says that firefighters were not made aware that the Santa Inez reservoir was even empty.
	And and Gavin Newsom's answer was, well, that's a local one.
	Here, listen.
	Sandra Endel, one of our anchors, wants to know if the department is advised that the Santa Inez reservoir was going to be emptied.
	Did you were you aware that there was no water there?
	No, we weren't aware of that.
	They don't have to advise you.
	Not that I'm aware of no.
	So you had no idea that there wasn't such needed such needed resource.
	Uh no, we weren't.
	I mean, kudos to the fire chief for being honest.
	Uh, furthermore, in that same press conference, uh, she was very clear that the LA fire department is underfunded and understaffed, and we now know that she had been warning the mayor not to cut the budget and that they needed it, they only had half the staff that they would need for a a wildfire such as the one they've experienced out there and if you look at the pictures I mean now we have over twelve thousand you know structures that have burned to the ground listen I have also requested multiple budgets interim
	to show how understaffed, under-resourced, and underfunded the LEFD is.
	So with that, also we have clear data that shows the LEFD needs more help.
	We need 62 more fire stations.
	These reports also show that we've had a 55% increase in overall call volume since 2010.
	And guess what?
	We're doing it with less firefighters.
	You can't make it up, but now the biggest fear, too, as this now comes to an end is potential looting that's going to be taking place in these areas.
	Joel Pollack and John Kahn of Breitbart are here to talk about their home, California, where they live and what has happened over the past week and what's happened to this once beautiful state, now riddled with fire and ash because of woke policies in part.
	The sad reality is John himself lost his home.
	There was nothing left.
	I saw an ex-post of his.
	There was nothing recognizable pretty much in his house when he went back.
	Welcome both of you to the program.
	And John Kahn, I'm so sorry that you lost your home.
	I don't even know what to say.
	It just is so – this was so preventable and predictable.
	Santa Ana winds are predictable.
	The need for fire hydrants is 101.
	The need for a full reservoir is basic.
	Right.
	You know, Sean, it's really – you know, I might have a different perspective on – on this you know because I'm right in the middle of it but we're all news guys and it's really interesting to look at a story like this we always see it through the lens of the news and it's always over there.
	It's never you never think you're gonna be part of the story.
	And as someone Joel and I are both part of this story and to to drive through our neighborhoods you've never seen anything quite like it and I'm having sort of an odd reaction to it because I know that there are going to be investigations and it should be investigated why this how this could possibly have happened but for me personally I I'm not at the anger stage.
	I'm not sure I'm even going to get there because when you when you see all the devastation and I can just tell you the the level of grief and loss that I feel is is is just beyond anything I can comprehend when you see all the other people and all the destruction and all those houses and you know they have that grief as well.
	And so for me personally I'm I'm sort of focusing on the positive things that could come out of this and all the love and the outpouring of prayers and everything that that Joel and I are receiving specifically and I'm sure everybody else is but it's you know I think this you know clearly needs to be investigated but you know we're you know we're we're strong people and and we're gonna get back up and and and move forward from it.
	I Gavin said that he would streamline the process and and allow people to build back quickly but we had Jillian Michaels on the program her home burned to the ground in 2018 it took well over a year year and a half for her to get the permitting to build back up it was taking Susan Suzanne Summers and her husband seven plus years to rebuild their Malibu home.
	I don't even think they've even got back to rebuilding it.
	All right, quick break.
	Right back more with Joel Pollack, John Kahn on the other side as they talk about the devastation.
	John losing his home in these California wildfires.
	Joel almost losing his home.
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	And we continue now with Joel Pollack and John Kahn of Breitbart.
	John lost his home in these California wildfires.
	wildfires and Joel nearly lost his home every home around where he lives was burned to the ground.
	Joel my understanding is while you didn't lose your home a lot of homes near you did burn to the ground.
	That's right Sean I arrived on Wednesday in the middle of the fire once it became barely safe enough to start to go into the Pacific Palisades and I saw my home was still standing but the fence was on fire and there was no running water at all.
	So I grabbed a bucket and I dipped it into the gutter where water was running downhill from homes that had been destroyed further into the neighborhood and I started pouring water on the fence and on my neighbor's fence.
	What what what what century are we living in here?
	I'm just checking.
	Yeah, I well when Governor Newsom said locals will figure it out.
	This is how we figured it out.
	Couple of guys, hand men from the neighborhood showed up in a truck.
	They jumped out, we found two more buckets, we formed an assembly line, and we put out the fires on my fence and my neighbor's fence, and we helped save the neighborhood.
	But I have to tell you, most of the neighborhood is destroyed.
	And it's still working.
	Yesterday John came into the palisade with me and he actually noticed there was smoke a couple doors down at one of the other houses that was still standing.
	So he he helped save the neighborhood too.
	And when I got to my house on Wednesday, I saw that the garden hose was fully extended across my yard, which means that some neighbor had tried to put out the fire on his own or her own.
	And we're all looking out for each other here.
	It's an incredible spirit of togetherness and strength, but it is absolutely devastating because when I stand on my street corner now, my house is the only one standing and every other house on the corner is gone.
	The seven houses that are the first houses on my street survived, but almost nothing else did.
	And the school next door that my kids go to has been destroyed, except for the murals that the kids painted.
	They are murals of ringbows and doves, which you know has that biblical imagery of Noah after the flood and God's promise not to destroy the world again.
	So we're taking hope in those little symbols.
	But I've had public officials who I'm supposed to interview crying on my shoulder and asking me what they should do.
	And what John's saying is right.
	We do have to find the answers, and we do have to talk about what went wrong, honestly, but we also have to support those who now have responsibilities to rebuild.
	And I have told them, if you do the right thing, you're in the full support of the community.
	Well, I also think, and I know Donald Trump pretty well, that I think that he's going to understand the devastation of the people out there.
	But while that's the case, Gavin Newsom is organizing a state effort to Trump-proof the state of California to the tune of $50 million in lawsuits.
	And I was out there in 2009, and I went to the San Joaquin Valley where there was thousands and thousands of acres of farmland that nobody could farm on because all of the water was being saved for the Delta smelt.
	Now we learn that water is being poured into the Pacific every year from Northern California instead of funneled down into the the reservoirs when and by the way, they were supposed to build five of them.
	You have the fire department budget cut, you have hydrants that don't work, you have w reservoirs that are empty, you have half the manpower that the fire chief said that they would have needed months ago, and nobody wants to take responsibility.
	And in the meantime, you know, now you're at the point, John, that you you have to rebuild your life.
	I I admire your fighting spirit, but I mean your your your life is is completely turned upside down right now.
	No, it i it is, but you know Sean, as we all know, the American spirit is to get up and keep flighting.
	And there's nothing the houses are gone.
	The neighborhood's gone.
	This is a town I grew up in.
	And my brother's house miraculously made it, but everything else is gone.
	And you kinda, you know, for me it's just what is what's next, I don't know.
	There's a lot of fear, there's a lot of grief, but you know, we get up and we keep going.
	And and when I found like like you mentioned earlier, I found an American flag picture, water pitcher in the rubble of my house.
	It was the only thing I could identify, and I thought, okay, well, that's the fighting spirit of Americans.
	And I'm gonna help anybody I can and receive, you know, the prayers and and amazing thoughts that everybody's reached out to people I don't even know.
	And in one day at a time.
	Yeah.
	Well, you have our prayers with you, uh thoughts with you and all the victims in this case and it's so frustrating as an outsider to know that all of this in my view was preventable you know practicing the science of forestry maybe we'll start there uh we do appreciate your time uh John Conn uh Joel Pollack thank you both prayers for both your families your neighbors and everybody in California and the next three days are going to be very telling let's see if they learned anything and whether or

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