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Biden's Biggest Regret - January 17th, Hour 1

Sean reacts to President Biden saying a key regret of his administration is not taking enough credit for his team's accomplishments... what accomplishments?!  The American people were (and are) the judges of that!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This will be the last show, radio show on 750 great radio stations that we do with Joe Biden as president and Kamala Harris as vice president.
When we reconvene on Monday, although we'll be in the DC swamp, that part freezing cold.
I'm not looking forward to Donald J. Trump will be the 47th president of the United States.
My gratitude, by the way, to all of you and all that you did, and everybody was all hands on deck, and everybody was a spoken the wheel, and everybody took it seriously, and you were able to ignore the noise that is the lying and the conspiracy theory peddling by the likes of Rachel Maddow and fake Jake and ABC, MBC, CBS, and the Washington Post and the New York Times and the LA Times.
And you went out there in spite of nine years of nonstop, frankly, persecution.
You know the whole list.
We've discussed it too often for you not to.
And look what look how exciting this is for the country.
And I keep arguing that this can be the most transformational presidency.
But you know, Democrats revert to form.
We expected that.
They didn't really they have not laid a glove on any nominee that has gone before them, although I did read uh a report today that Senate Democrats are trying to delay a confirmation vote on defense uh secretary nominee Pete Heggseth in a desperate bid to you know find some negative information on Hegseth that could torpedo his support.
Anyway, the Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Robert uh Roger Whitker told Politico that though Hegseth has the votes to be confirmed.
Um lot of people here.
Uh Sensei, by the way, Sensei, get over here.
Uh Sensei's been in the free state of Florida all week, and we call this winning, don't we?
But because how's the temperature been down here?
What's the temperature up in uh New York where you live?
So you gotta speak into a microphone.
Sean, are you getting tired of winning?
No, I'm not getting tired.
I'm not sick of winning.
I'm absolutely not sick of winning.
By the way, is that Ross behind you?
That's right, right Ryan and his beautiful wife, Cindy.
Oh, this is Ross's girlfriend.
Hi, girlfriend.
How are you?
Nice to meet you.
And uh and Sunshine is here.
How great is that?
I mean, everybody came in all together.
Uh anyway, Linda, you want to say hello to everybody?
They can't hear you, but you can say hello.
Hi, everybody.
Hi, everybody.
Linda is excited because she wants Donald Trump.
He I think I wanted him to win the most.
He would argue on that point.
And and and argue that she probably did.
Uh anyway, great to see you're all welcome to stay here.
Uh let me just I have a show to do.
I have people listening.
We have 750 stations.
Why don't why digress like this?
Well, what's the big deal?
Uh, what I love about Sensei's kids is they're they're both killers.
Ryan and Ross, both of them.
And and I'm a pretty good martial artist.
I'm a situational street fighter.
We've talked at length about it.
I know some of you roll your eyes.
He's talking about his martial arts again.
There he goes again.
Uh, but I love it.
It's a passion.
I am black and blue, every part of my body because he's been so aggressive this all right.
Stop.
Stop.
I'm doing a show.
You can't do it right now.
Not a good time.
Uh, but we've been training in person, and uh it's been a uh it's been a great week, actually.
We've added a lot of new things.
Anyway, back to this whole.
So they want to delay the the the Hegseth vote.
And to the extent in which they're they are free to do under the rules.
This is not something that needs to get dragged out.
He's got the votes.
They know he's got the votes.
Jack Reed, who opposes the confirmation, said Democrats wanted to more information.
We've made it clear.
We feel there's more information that should be provided.
They don't need more information.
They didn't lay a glove on Christy Gnome today.
She's gonna be great at the Department of Homeland Security.
One thing I've learned about Christy Gnome, they've been a friend of this program.
She's been on TV.
She is one tough cookie, and she's not going to take any more crap.
He's not going to have open borders with radical Islamic terrorists unvetted in the country.
No more cartel members, no more gang members, murderers, rapists.
The big challenge for her, you know, I believe we will secure the border quickly, and Donald Trump will do that on day one and begin the process of doing it on day one.
And then beyond that, I think the biggest challenge is going to be to find these people and get rid of them.
You know, if you want to know who the biggest losers and idiots, Richard Blumenthal, Elizabeth Warren, I mean, you know, of course, uh Pocahontas as uh as Donald Trump affectionately calls her.
The congenital liar, Adam Schiff got schooled by Pam Bondi this week.
It was great.
Uh Senator Horano also, terrible moments this week speaking to Bondi.
You know, and I mean, and some of the questions that they have put, look what they said to Doug Bergham.
We played that yesterday.
Have you ever made an unwanted defense against this was Harano that did this?
I mean, what kind of opening question is that to somebody?
Have you ever faced discipline or entered into a settlement related to this kind of conduct?
You know, have you uh, you know, as a legal adult, have you ever made an unwanted request for sexual favors or committed any verbal or physical harassment or assault of a sexual nature?
I I mean, how do you even answer the stupid question like that?
By the way, James Comer is urging the soon-to-be attorney general Pam Bondi to prosecute Jim Biden for lying to Congress.
That issue, that referral had already taken place.
The statute of limitations have not run out.
We're going to watch that very, very closely.
We are officially on uh preemptive pardon watch.
We'll see what Joe does in the next number of days.
But Biden is now saying and claiming his biggest regret is that he didn't spend enough time taking credit for all those accomplishments.
Okay.
The American people will judge his accomplishments.
Okay, are you better off economically?
Most Americans have been hammered by inflation, hammered by high energy prices.
They have been hammered by record interest rates.
It is killing the American people.
Joe Biden, by the way, on his way out the door, announced he is commuting 2,500 criminal sentences for nonviolent drug offenses that he deems, quote, disproportionately long.
I don't really have a big problem with the pardon of the power.
Uh the power of the pardon, sorry.
Sound like sound like Joe Biden.
Maybe I'm getting old.
James Clyburn, delusional, literally thinks that Joe Biden will go down in history as one of the greatest presidents we ever had.
No, he's gonna go down in history as one of the worst presidents America has ever had.
A Fox News poll, over half of Americans say the Biden administration made the economy worse.
Not only did they make the economy worse, ask yourself, are you more safe and secure because of Biden and Harris?
Well, just look at the murderers, rapists, cartel members, gang members, and known terrorists in the country, and you know the answer to that.
Look at Europe, war there, look at war in the Middle East, you know, and and Joe Biden won't give Donald Trump any credit that there might be a peace deal now in the Middle East and the hostages would be released.
Not the best deal in the world.
We'll talk to Senator Tom Cotton about that in a little bit.
Uh you can blame Biden for homelessness.
You can blame Biden for record deficits and debt.
MBC News is reporting this that as the by as Biden approaches the end of his failed presidency, quote, the White House feels like a morgue.
Wow.
Finally, they're beginning to realize that he is in significant real cognitive decline.
Unbelievable.
Anyway, Joe Biden ascended to the highest office in America with a pledge to unite the country, failed on that front.
What did he do to make anybody's life better?
He entered office as a media darling.
He had the the they gave him full Quarter.
They protected him the entire time under the guise of COVID.
He hid in his basement.
We pointed out that he was a cognitive mess.
Nobody wanted to pay attention to us, and then we had got excoriated for telling the truth.
Biden defended inflation policies, and then he blamed red states.
They really screwed up their economies.
What the hell is he talking about?
You know, now he's warning about oligarchs.
Well, the Biden family knows a lot about oligarchs.
They were dealing with oligarchs out of Russia.
Alina Batarina, remember that name?
You heard it often.
Former First Lady of Moscow, three and a half million dollars to zero experience Hunter, or the oligarch that sent the just enough money so Hunter can get a brand new Porsche.
He's warning about concentration of wealth in America.
He says he changed the basic formula for the economy.
Yeah, we pay more for everything.
That's the biggest change that he made.
And Americans have suffered needlessly.
You know, he's he's even taking full credit for the idea there's a possibility of a ceasefire and hostages will finally be released.
I look, I don't like the deal, but I'm not going to be critical.
I'm not going to be critical of families that want their family members back that were taken hostage October 7th in 2023.
I'm not, I'm not going to get in the way of that deal with criticism.
I refuse.
Do I think that it should be, in my view, do I think it should be an unconditional surrender?
I do.
I think we'll talk to Tom Cotton about this.
It should be an unconditional surrender.
And do I think that regardless, once those hostage hostages are free, then Israel and the United States has every right and frankly duty and obligation, in my view, to make Gaza demilitarized, and the same goes for Lebanon.
The Hootie rebels need to be neutralized, and it goes on from there.
And then you got to deal with the head of the snake, and that's Iran.
And Iran, we keep reading reports.
I have sources telling me that they're within what, four, five, six months of being having nuclear capability.
That can happen because those radical imams would bring about a modern day Holocaust.
You don't have to be Elon Musk or be a genius or graduate from Havid or MIT to figure any of this out.
It's not that complicated.
A new study suggesting that President Trump's election.
This is very interesting to me, has kicked off a global voter revolt against left wing leaders.
And I believe that could be true.
Now we saw a realignment with Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Pope John Paul II at the time, and I think we're even seeing a bigger realignment worldwide in the U.S. Western Europe, progressives are more unpopular with their left-leaning parties securing only 42% of respective votes.
Conservative candidates, meanwhile, won 57% of the average votes, representing the widest gap since 1990, according to this analysis.
In the wake of Kamala Harris's defeat, leftist parties in Canada, Australia, Germany already predicted to suffer similar losses in upcoming ballots.
And I'll tell you what this really is.
It is the failure that is socialism, Marxism, Statism, redistribution.
You know, they like to do it under the guise of environmentalism.
But it's really just a socialist.
What was the new Green Deal?
Everything's going to be free, cradle to grave, womb to the tomb.
Here's the problem with socialism.
I did a whole chapter in Live Free or Die About Socialism.
The failure, the history, the failure of socialism.
And that includes whatever manifestation it takes on, whatever name it takes on.
Is you have promises that are made.
They are never fulfilled.
You end up being more poor in the end, and then you calculate how much freedom you lost in the process.
I think he made the right decision.
That is my obligation to protect the people of our country before we begin.
We have the inauguration itself, the weather forecast for Washington, D.C. with the wind chill factor.
It's probably going to be well below zero.
Could take temperatures to severe record lows with this Arctic blast sweeping the country.
He Says I don't want to see people hurt.
I don't want to see people injured in any way.
It is dangerous conditions for the tens of thousands of law enforcement, first responders, police, canines, horses, hundreds of thousands of supporters that will be outside for many, many hours in any event if you decide to come dress warmly.
Therefore, I have ordered the inaugural inauguration address in addition to prayers and their speeches to be delivered in the United States Capitol Rotunda, as was used by Ronald Reagan in 1985 because of the very cold weather.
The various dignitaries, guests will be brought into the Capitol.
This will be a very beautiful experience.
And we will open the Capitol One Arena on Monday for live viewing of this historic event and to host a presidential parade, and I will join the crowd of Capital One after my swearing in.
And then all of the other events as scheduled, the inaugural balls will be at one of them.
We'll tell you more about that as we continue.
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All right, as we roll along, but think about this in Canada poll showing Firebrand Conservative now leading uh uh little Justin's party after the lefty leaders' abrupt resignation uh earlier this month.
Australia's conservative party is also inching ahead of its ruling progressive government.
I mean, the world is changing, and Donald Trump hasn't even been sworn in.
Now Trump is expected to head the to tap the head of his security detail.
Um it's somebody that I happen to know after the disaster at Butler with Kimberly Cheadle, and after the disaster at Trump International, Sean Kern is is the guy and a close acquaintance of Trump, loved by the Trump family, and I have every belief he can get the Secret Service back under control.
Apparently Donald Trump and President She had a pre-inaugural call.
I'll give you the details of that when we come up.
Also, his latest poll numbers show that he's now rating far higher than he was in January of 2017.
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Toll free.
It is Linda.
What did you say to me?
I did not hear you.
I'm sorry, I was just telling you to do your read.
Do your read, boss.
Oh, I know.
I'm I'm doing I'm doing my read.
How are you doing?
How's things in in Pennsylvania?
I thought it was Pennsylvania.
Are you in New York or Pennsylvania?
I split this week I did New York and Pennsylvania so that I was properly prepared for all elements of DC.
Okay.
You know what DC's gonna be?
It's gonna be freezing, freezing, freezing, freezing cold.
I like it.
The cold keeps all the weirdness inside.
Only the brave will brave the cold.
Oh, okay.
So that means you go to a restaurant or you want to have a drink one night.
Good luck.
That's not exactly what I mean.
That's not exactly what I mean.
Okay.
Well, all the lunatics will be there.
Nah, the lunatics will stay home.
They won't even walk to the restaurant.
They won't walk to the rest of what are the other w walk with the water.
Because you can't walk.
You gotta walk everywhere because Secret Service is closing down the streets.
We don't even know the street closures yet, so we're all training it and playing it in.
I gotta get a box of toe warmers and hand warmers, a pair of gloves and all this crap.
I mean I'm leaving 70 degree temperature for this.
Hey man, the price of freedom.
It's the price of freedom.
If that's the price I have to pay, it's it is well worth it.
Exactly.
But I don't have to uh but I don't have to live there forever.
Uh we do have a lot of announcements of things that are coming up, but I'm going to hold it back for now.
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Now, we have a lot of good things on the program today.
Our buddy Stephen A. Smith, he was on Hannity last night, and he feels like he was misled about Kamala Harris, and he felt he felt sad watching Joe Biden give his farewell address.
And I'm not sure why.
And Stephen and I have a great relationship, and he's a dear friend of mine.
And it's interesting.
Whenever I talk sports on this program, he'll text me.
Or if I talk sports on TV, he'll text me, Hannity, stay in your lane.
And whenever he talks politics, I write him and I'm like, Will you please stay in your lane, which is sports?
But I think he's I I think there's an awakening happening.
Glenda, do you sense this too?
You've been for you've actually been friends with Stephen A longer than I've been friends with Stephen A. I think that Stephen A is representative of a lot of people and how they feel.
You know, even Charlemagne, who I'm have a lot of feelings about, but you know, these are just people that feel like, dang, you know, like we were wrong.
And they really tried to lie to the entire party, and we're not asleep with the switch anymore.
We're paying attention.
To Stephen A's credit, though, Stephen A has always been informed.
You know, he's been a writer.
Um, you know, and he's kind of he's always he's he's an equal opportunity hater.
He's an independent.
I just think now he's really kind of seeing the light.
And after the speech the other night, he's like, oh, come on, man.
Like it was it was embarrassing.
It was it was embarrassing, but it it really did embody everything that I had been saying since early 2020, and that this man is not cognitively up to the job.
And I wish I was wrong.
I wish he was cognitively up to the job, but he's not.
Um President elect Trump had a what's described by the Epic Times as a productive call with President Chi of China.
The call was very uh good for both China and the U.S. He said on social media on Truth Social.
He said the conversation covered balancing trade, fentanyl, a Chinese media platform, TikTok, and many other subjects.
It's my expectations that we will solve many problems together and starting immediately.
The call follows confirmation that Chi has sent his deputy to Trump's swearing-in ceremony on his behalf.
Donald Trump extended the invitation to Chi to come.
It wouldn't usually be normal for the for the president of China to come.
Um anyway, so Trump will enter office with a far higher approval rating than he had in 2017.
Um interesting thing.
Uh I have off the record knowledge of some of what happened here, but let me let me see what how I can extend some of this knowledge to you without revealing too much.
Uh Eric Adams was at Mar-a-Lago today.
Eric Adams is getting along with Donald Trump.
I really believe that Eric Adams thought when Harris and Biden opened the borders that it would be the compassionate thing to do to welcome people into the country.
And then it became an unmitigated disaster.
And then it became cost prohibitive, and you had people sleeping on the streets, and you had more violent crime than ever before, and he made a reversal.
And then interestingly, the timing of this, then all of a sudden they started going after him and everybody else.
I think this relationship is real.
That's that's that that that's about as far as I can go.
Melania Trump uh said that when she first went to the White House in 2017, she said it was very challenging.
Uh we didn't have much information.
The information was withheld from us, and she's talking about Michelle Obama and Barack Obama.
And she said, but this time I have everything.
It's a very different transition this time, the second time around.
And this time I've had everything, and she's ready to spend a lot of her time, she said, in Washington, D.C., which I think is great news.
Donald Trump named Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson, and John Voigt as ambassadors to troubled Hollywood.
I can't think of three better people.
Uh I don't see anybody so far.
They haven't really laid a glove on anybody.
I think they're they're saving their biggest fire, probably for cash for tell.
I'm not sure why they want a weaponized and politicized FBI like they've had under Comey and Director Ray turned a blind eye to all of the illegal immigration uh that was going on in the country.
And as the leader of the what was once the world's premier law enforcement agency, he should have been enforcing the law.
President Biden today put out, today I am affirming what I have long believed and what three-fourths of the states have ratified.
The 28th Amendment is the law of the land guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law, regardless of sex.
In other words, the equal rights amendment is now law of the land.
Um there's a problem because there's actually a timeline and a history and a process to amending the Constitution.
And Biden said that he believes the equal rights amendment met the requirements of ratification.
But his remarks are frankly symbolic.
Every legal scholar that's worth listening to says is saying the same.
Uh but he even declined to order the government to finalize the process by officially publishing it.
That's a move that would invite legal challenges.
So under the Constitution, Biden does not have a direct role in approving amendments.
And if you listen to the National Archivist, they said last month they could not certify the amendment due to established legal, judicial, and procedural decisions.
The amendment would guarantee equality for women, improving pay equality, strengthening domestic violence and sexual harassment protections, et cetera, et cetera.
This is all part of him trying to sabotage Donald Trump on the way in.
Now, the amendment had been ratified by 38 states, but it didn't happen within the deadline that was set by Congress, and they note that several of the 38 states have since moved to withdraw their ratifications.
the Equal Rights Amendment was first introduced in Congress in 1923.
And in 1971, the amendment was introduced in every session of Congress for decades.
And in 72, following the House's lead, the Senator approved the amendment 84 to 8, and in 2017, and by the way, lawmakers said the law needed to be ratified by 38 states within seven years, and a deadline that was later extended to 1982 by President Jimmy Carter.
The topic became the subject of intense legislative fighting and political campaigns.
You might recall Phyllis Schlafley, you know, who created the stop ERA movement against ratification, and arguing that it would counter traditional gender roles by forcing women to serve in combat, among other consequences, and it her work slowed its progress.
But anyway, decades after the expiration of the initial seven-year deadline for ratification, Nevada became the 36th state to approve the amendment, generating a new momentum towards the 38th state.
A year later, Illinois passed it, leaving it one state shy.
Virginia became the 38th state.
And under Donald Trump, the Office of Legal Counsel said that year that because the law was not ratified by the congressional deadline, it had expired and is no longer pending before the states.
And that's pretty much where it is.
So that if they really want this, they have to start all over again.
And so Joe Biden, he's even recognizing such.
By the way, does anyone have any theory why the FBI would have shuttered the DEI office ahead of Trump's inauguration, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion?
Why would they do this?
Now, Donald Trump is out there thinking something nefarious, as I believe, is going on too, because they quietly closed their diversity equity inclusion office a month after Donald Trump's victory.
And they said in a in a statement that the federal law enforcement agency did not say what the motivation to shut of the office was.
And Donald Trump put out a truth post, corruption, and anyway, wants an investigation and is demanding the FBI preserve and retain all records on why they would close this.
Should prosecutors be prosecuted for their lawfare campaign against Trump.
I won't go into the specificity of it, but it does raise a lot of questions.
And Comer is now officially requesting that Donald Trump's DOJ prosecute James Biden for making false statements.
On the immigration front, Stephen Miller is urging House Republicans to begin to defund sanctuary cities and states, which by the way makes sense.
By definition, if you're a sanctuary state or city, you are aiding and abetting federal law breaking.
Remember, the authority to deport rests with the federal government supremacy clause is it it transcends any state law, any city law.
And that means that they would have the right to go to New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, the state of California, and remove anybody that entered this country illegally.
And that will happen under Tom Holman, I can promise you.
And can you explain the 145 House Democrats that voted against the bill to deport illegal immigrants who commit sexual assaults?
Why would you ever vote against that?
Chicago Democrats devolving into a civil war over sanctuary laws that shield these illegal immigrants.
A California town famous for its illegal immigrant population takes a stunning step back, you know, to back, you know, to support the mass deportation.
I mean, that's a pretty big change.
That's in the San Diego sector because they're sick and tired of what they've been living through.
They've been living under under this, you know, now going on forever.
The border patrol operation to arrest over 70 illegal immigrants with criminal records has begun.
The trend de Iragua gang is now in nearly 20 cities across the country and getting more violent by the day.
So all of this is going to be dealt with on Monday.
This will be our last show with Joe Biden as president and Kamala Harris as vice president.
You know, if if you really want to know why I tell you all the time, don't trust government.
Well, how is law and order and safety and security in your town after defund dismantle and no bail laws?
How's government working for you there?
Uh how's government working with Social Security and Medicare?
Because they're headed towards insolvency.
How are those promises on Obamacare?
Keep your doctor, keep your plan.
Average family saves $2,500 a year.
Millions of Americans lose their doctors, their plans, and we're all on average paying close to 300% more.
Forty plus percent of the country only has one Obamacare exchange option.
How's that working out for you?
You know, what is the government doing right that you would trust them from the cradle to grave womb to the tomb with the Green New Deal.
I mean, there's a story in the front page of the New York Post today.
It says it doesn't add up.
Unions now have driven spending per student in New York City to $36,293 more than any other city or town in the country.
The highest amount per capita per student.
Now, New York fourth graders ranked 32nd nationally in reading and 46th nationally in math.
How is that working out for you?
With all their environmental activism, how did you know how do we get to a point where we had empty reservoirs?
We cut the fire department budget.
We had hydrants that didn't work.
They didn't practice the science of forestry on top of everything else.
They're spending $650 million to make the LA port uh green.
They're paying $800,000 for green street sweepers in Los Angeles while simultaneously cutting the firefighters' budget.
And on top of that, Gavin wants to spend billions on wind turbines and billions on green vehicles.
Now tell me, if we don't if America bails out California, and I'm not against helping them, there has to be conditions attached to it.
So this can never happen again.
We're not going to bail you out again and again and again and again and again.
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