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Lunatics of Davos - January 23rd, Hour 3
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If you want to be a part of the program, the legacy media just doesn't get it.
They've been doing it at Fake News CNN.
They've been doing it on MSDNC.
Now the latest attack is, there's Elon Musk.
Joe Rogan defended him.
Supporting A. Hitler, a Sieg Heil salute.
No, it wasn't.
And everybody knows that it wasn't.
And we have plenty of pictures and videos of Democrats making the same exact gesture as Elon Musk did.
Elon Musk is only hated for one reason, is he likes Donald Trump.
And he's helping Donald Trump and he helped Donald Trump win.
And that's what it comes down to.
But legacy media, they have just continued to just double down on stupid.
And the results are becoming catastrophic for them.
I mean, if you look at Inauguration Day, you know, Fox more than doubled, nearly tripled its highest competitor in terms of audience size.
And on any given night, we have 80% of the cable news audience on the Fox News channel.
By the way, thanks to all of you.
But there's only one way to survive if you want to be a content provider.
You better tell people the truth.
You know, I kind of like to remind people, maybe too often, you know, that we've been right.
We were right about the Russia hoax, right about FISA abuse, right about the Ukrainian hoax and the call there, right about the Biden family syndicate, right about the laptop, right about the 51 former Intel officials, and then write about other issues like Richard Jewell back when I was a local host in Atlanta or when the Duke LaCrosse case came forward.
I actually took the time and drove and met with the families to find out what was going on.
I knew there'd be exculpatory evidence that they presented.
And then getting calls and working the phones and talking to law enforcement in Ferguson, Missouri.
We ended up getting that case right.
Hands up, don't shoot.
I was told early on, multiple, multiple eyewitnesses will confirm Officer Darren Wilson's story.
Don't buy it.
Hands up, don't shoot.
Never happened.
I was told the same thing about Freddie Graham Baltimore or the UVA case.
You know, this is not an accident that we're getting it right.
If you want to be a content provider, you better start telling some truth.
And, you know, here's Joe Rogan just sick and tired as everyone should be.
You know, this BS game of pretending everybody's Hitler.
That was their whole closing argument.
Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Nazi, fascist, racist.
And they just keep doubling down the legacy media, I guess, on the only thing that they know, which is hating Donald Trump, his supporters, every second, every minute, every hour of every 24-hour day, every seven-day week, every month, every year.
They've been doing this now for nine years.
And guess what?
People have tuned them out.
They don't care what they say anymore.
Listen.
I mean, this is the Donald Trump excuse.
You do anything you can to stop Hitler.
You know, right?
And this is why they want to conflate.
And they always want to pretend that everyone's Hitler.
The problem with that is that just after a while, it's crying wolf.
And people are like, oh, this is a bull game you're playing.
And you're just using it as an excuse.
And Elon's talked about this a lot about, and he's absolutely correct, is that people use woke ideology as an excuse to be an asshole.
And it's really just people that are that are attaching themselves to things that make them feel righteous.
He's right.
And this whole thing, now go back to prior to this election, you know, we would have, we had on this program Mark Halperin and Sean Spicer.
They do the morning meeting.
And like me, they were actually studying numbers every day and looking at indicators of how early voting was going.
And with each day's news, I was getting more confident day by day by day.
And these other networks, they were echoing the Harris campaign and the line that racist, fascist, Nazi, the closing arguments, they never told you the truth about her radicalism, her in her own words like we did, or Tim Wall's radicalism in his own words.
Anyway, Sean Spicer, former White House press secretary, he is also the host of the Sean Spicer podcast and the morning meeting with Mark Halperin.
You know, it's amazing that they just have doubled down on dumb and dumber.
And if that's what fake Jake Tapper and the people at CNN want to do and, you know, conspiracy peddling, you know, extremist Rachel Maddow wants to do and CNN and MSDNC want to keep using the word Nazi, I'm fine with it.
Yeah.
And by the way, I got to just start by saying phenomenal interview, Sean Hannity with President Trump.
I enjoyed it.
I learned a lot.
I've known the guy 10 years and I was like, when you watch an interview with President Trump and you learn a lot, you know the interview has done a good job.
And I was just, I was on the edge of my seat.
I'm looking forward to tonight.
But to your point, Sean, listen, these guys whined and complained.
I pointed to us on my podcast last night.
I'm going to talk about it again tonight.
They whine for 40 years.
We don't have access to the president and the First Amendment and freedom of the press and transparency.
President Trump on day one does a 60-minute presser with them.
60-minute.
Fox News carries it.
News Nation carries it.
C-SPAN carries it.
Jake Tapper, CNN, did not take it.
Nicole Wallace, MSNBC, didn't take it.
What are you afraid of?
Your ratings suck.
You're down.
Why do you not want people to hear from President Trump?
And I think that these guys, it's a joke.
The idea that they are afraid of letting people see their president in action for the first time in 40 years, getting things done, delivering on promises.
I just can't come to any other conclusion except for they're afraid.
Because I mean, even if you wanted to hate on him and had one of your never Trump panel CNN, what do you just go ahead and show President Trump?
But I think that they're afraid that they would actually have to admit that the president is doing what he said he was doing and delivering for the American people.
I'll take it a step further.
That one hour impromptu presser, I don't think Joe Biden would ever be capable.
I know Joe Biden would be capable of doing it.
Now, I would argue tonight's.
I don't think that he's done it.
He didn't do an hour over four years.
President Trump in two days in the Oval Office has probably done more than Joe Biden did in four years combined.
I mean, he's just moving at the speed of light.
I've gone through now.
I went through his initial day in office, his second day in office.
I mean, I have to spend 15 minutes just listing the day's activities and the day's work, and then he'll spend time with the press.
I mean, I thought I had a short interview, and it's always hard when you're with a president.
they say you're done you're done and he wanted to keep going and I was I saw that I saw that I'm like, okay.
And then I'm in an uncomfortable position because I'm like, okay, I think we talked about California enough.
I want to still talk about the economy.
I want to talk about immigration.
I want to talk about China, Russia, and Iran.
I mean, there's so many topics.
And he's like, no, it's okay.
We'll keep going.
He didn't care.
And because it's obviously his passion.
He lives this.
He eats this.
He breathes this.
He sleeps this.
And we really did have a great time together.
We've known each other so long that, you know, it just is, for me, it's very comfortable and easy to, you know, interview him.
When I did try to nudge him along, I criticized for it.
I'm like, well, you know, I thought I had X number of minutes, and it ended up that I had double the amount of minutes.
If I would have known I had doubled, I wouldn't have tried to move on to any topic.
Well, you get to break it up now.
You get two nights of great content.
But, you know, the Marine standing outside of the West Wing door pretty late at night.
And the Marine will stand there when the president is in the Oval Office.
And it's just a reminder that even when he's not doing public events, Donald Trump's going to be in the office working on behalf of the American people.
And it's such a breath of fresh air.
And one other thing that I'll just say, Sean, is that especially on the topic of immigration, for months, years, we were told that nothing could get done.
And Donald Trump has shown in the first three days in office that he can get it done.
I mean, the border crossing is going after the criminals.
Joe Biden chose not to do that.
Chose not to do that.
Now, obviously, I think we need, you know, Trump's showing what we can do from an executive, but we still need a bigger pitch, a bigger fix legislatively.
But Donald Trump is showing that you can actually, with leadership, get results for the American people.
And for four years, we were given a bunch of excuses why things couldn't get done.
Well, I'm telling you, nothing happened for four years.
And if anything, we were lied to at the highest level.
We were told the border is closed and the border is secured.
That was a lie.
Our own eyes showed us otherwise.
We were told that the economy, that inflation is transitory.
Then we were told the economy is getting better.
But we all go shopping.
I do my own grocery shopping every week.
I don't know why people ask me, why are you here?
I'm like, because I like to eat.
But I go and I have seen the inflation.
I have felt the inflation.
I can afford it.
But I remember the point in my life for many years when I was living paycheck to paycheck and eating a lot of meatloaf and not being able to even go to McDonald's for crying out loud because I just didn't have the money to do it and just doing things on my own that way.
And for, you know, the people that do make this country great, they deserve better.
They don't need lectures from the Washington Post on how they should lower their expectations in life and maybe consider a townhouse over a house in a neighborhood with a nice car and a backyard for a dog and a pool.
I don't think people should have to settle.
I think American government needs to perform better, and that's what's going to happen.
Yeah, well, let me read you a headline from the New York Times.
How labeling cartels terrorists could hurt the U.S. economy.
I mean, it's unbelievable.
They're basically saying because President Trump wants to go after the cartels that are sending humans and drugs into our country, it could hurt the economy.
I mean, the media is unreal in what they'll do to cover up for Joe Biden and to demean Donald Trump's actions.
It's crazy, but you're right.
We all see and feel the results between these two administrations right off the bat.
In two days, almost 500 arrests of illegal immigrants, including those with criminal histories, including sexual assault, domestic violence, drugs, weapons crimes.
A lot of these arrested nationals come from places like Afghanistan, Angola, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Senegal, and Venezuela.
Yeah, where the trende Aragua gang is now in 20 states.
I mean, it's all simple, basic common sense.
I still think it's going to be hard to find the known.
We know there are terrorists here.
We don't know where they are.
We know there are murderers and rapists and violent criminals here, but we don't know where they are.
I think finding them is going to be really hard.
Well, he's already shown that if you start to actually do your job and allow the folks, whether it's ICE or CBP, do the job that they signed up to do, it'll benefit us.
But those 500 people were in here five days ago, five months ago.
And when Donald Trump switched that switch and said, go get them, they at least were able to start doing their jobs.
And I think that while it may take a little bit more time to get some of these really bad guys who now know that they're being hunted, we'll get them because the will and the might is there.
Well, the will and the might is there, but the speed at which he's acting, I've never seen anything like it in my life.
I mean, I went through a list earlier in the program.
I don't have the 15 minutes to go through it again.
Everything from woke politics to the Keystone XO pipeline, you know, to basically, I love what he did at Davos earlier today, an attendee admitting that Trump won and globalism lost.
Thank God for that.
You know, and, you know, look at the Saudis pledging $600 billion in U.S. trade and investment and Syria, even the jihadi boss saying he's the guy that's going to bring peace to the Middle East.
They know better.
His plan on tariffs to get free and fair trade and the elimination of intellectual property theft.
I mean, it goes on and on and on and ending DEI and women and men and women's sports.
It's just, it's a laundry list of everything that needed to be fixed and never was touched.
Yeah.
But look, this is why I'm saying on all of these things, leadership matters.
But the other thing I'll say to you that I have been harping on is every time the Democrats come after Donald Trump, the law fair, the attempts to get him off the ballot, he grows stronger.
And four years out of office, they've had the opportunity to think about the people, the process, and the policies that when they got back into office, they would utilize to get the agenda passed.
And we're seeing the fruits of that.
These things that we're seeing historically happen in the first week would never have happened if he had stayed in office.
There is such a silver lining and a blessing that the last four years, Donald Trump's been able to sit around with the right people to talk about what they would do if they got back on day one.
And we're seeing the results of that planning every single day for the last three days.
And my guess is that we're going to keep seeing it for the next three months.
I think we're going to see it for the next four years.
And thank God for that.
We can get this country on track.
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No, they'll be too busy calling Trump and Elon Musk Nazis and fascists and racists and comparing them to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini.
I can't believe we're back to all this insanity.
It is just the most intellectually lazy way of making an argument when you really don't have an argument.
That's what it comes down to.
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We were talking about this with Sean Spicer.
You know, the Get Trump media, they're now announced, it's kind of like reshuffling the deck of the Titanic.
Fake news CNN is moving anchor A over here, anchor B over there, anchor C over there, anchor D over here.
Okay, what makes you think that shuffling the deck, you know, the deck chairs of the Titanic is going to make any difference after it hit the iceberg?
They hit the iceberg, you know, and Sean brought this up.
I did not know that they didn't carry Donald Trump's impromptu presser the other day.
I didn't know that.
But it doesn't surprise me.
I'm not surprised that they've already made Hitler comparisons on both MSDNC and on fake news CNN, whether they're saying it about Trump or Elon Musk.
None of this, you know, George Stephanopoulos, you know, obsessing over January 6th.
Does any of this surprise you?
Do you think that these people learned a thing from what happened in this election?
Do you think there's any self-reflection, any introspection?
You know, as they watch their ratings, you know, disintegrate before their eyes, do you think that maybe they might reflect and look in a mirror and try to learn something?
You know, when you in this audience communicate to me certain things you don't like, I take it to heart.
And when enough people tell me, I try to make adjustments and changes so I can be a better host.
I've looked at research on myself for years and people are brutally honest.
They'll say what they like, they'll say what they don't like.
And I don't take it personally.
I take it as an opportunity to learn.
Anyway, now fake news CNN is going to lay off hundreds of employees, shuffle the decks of the Titanic there.
They're doing the same thing over at MSDNC.
I guess NBC wants no part of that horrible brand and they're peeling them off from NBC News.
Apparently Fake News CNN announced that it is reshaping their weekday lineup.
Apparently fake news Jim Acosta is losing his 10 a.m. show and there's talk that he would program from midnight to 2 a.m.
Another report out today saying that he's thinking of quitting.
Well, if a tree falls in a forest and nobody's there, would anybody even notice?
I don't think so.
That time slot is like the Siberia of television news.
You know, it's also possible that he could leave the network.
Okay, where's he going to go?
Who's going to hire him?
You know, I don't know.
I mean, I guess there's some liberal network that would want him.
But this bloodbath is, you know, is happening.
And it was funny because I was at the inauguration.
I was at the military ball, the service members' ball, and it was such a celebration.
And it was such an honor to be in the room with all the people that protect our freedoms.
And, you know, I looked over next to me and there was fake news CNN.
And then I saw the ratings the next day, and it's like eight to one were beating them.
And I looked over and I saw their monitor.
And on their monitor, they had Jamie Raskin on as a guest.
I'm like, oh, man, you couldn't pick a worse guest.
It's Donald Trump's inauguration.
Why don't you just, you know, respect the will of the people?
You know, they can't.
There was somebody on Republican Tennessee, Tim Burchette, was on with Fake News Acosta on Wednesday, you know, and then said, you know, he fired back at the reporter about it, you know, the never-ending January 6th pardons.
And he just, he was very frank about this.
This is a political world, Jim.
And I don't remember you all on CNN condemning the former president for commuting the sentences of murderers and child molesters, which he did.
I mean, it's, and Rogan's right.
It's a BS game of pretending everybody's Hitler, and it's, it's not going to stop.
It's not going to go away.
You know, it's, yeah, I just think they are where they are.
And I just, I wouldn't expect people to change.
But I'm kind of glad.
That's good for business for us, you know, those that are committed to telling the truth.
Edward, Maine, you're next on the Sean Hannity show.
Hi.
Hey, hello, Mr. Sean Hannity.
How are you today, sir?
I'm good, sir.
How are you?
Glad you checked in.
It's pretty cold usually up in Maine.
What's going on?
It's cold up here.
It's 22 degrees.
Hey, I wanted to talk to you about your town hall with Congress, if I may do that, please.
Yes, sir.
Go right ahead.
I'm just going to keep it down just to one question.
You asked a question to Congress about the size of our country and how basically are we going to get all the bad people out of this country and round them up?
And I like the answer that Congress gave you when they answered your question.
They were clear.
They didn't beat around the bush.
They said, criminals do crimes, and we're going to find them, and we're going to catch them, and we're going to get rid of them.
And I thought it was a good answer to your question.
Well, I appreciate it.
They have to find them.
I really, really fear.
I'm open about it.
I'm not hiding it.
I fear that we do have Iranian assassination squads in this country only because too many people, too many sources have confirmed it for me.
I do fear that we have other domestic would-be lunatics assassins that would think they'd be doing God will if they took out the person that the media identifies as Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini.
I worry about that a lot, too.
I worry about an attack on our homeland because we have known terrorists in the country.
I worry about the cartels, the gang members, the murderers, the rapists.
I want to find every one of them that Joe and Kamala let in.
They already have all this blood on their hands.
Nobody held them accountable.
The media ignored it because all they cared about was them winning.
But we got a lot of work ahead of us.
And, you know, it's a very sober reality.
But I'll tell you what, we picked the right guy for the job because he is dialed in and he is focused on his agenda and he's not stopping.
And Republicans are smart.
They come to the conclusion together, with no exceptions, that they're either going to win together or lose together.
Anyway, Edward, keep warm up in Maynard.
Start a big fire today and maybe, you know, have a beer about 4 o'clock.
You're all out.
Let's say hello to Pat in Arizona.
Hey, Pat, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean, thanks for taking my call.
Yesterday, I was listening to your show, and there was a Navy Corpsman that came on, and he talked about what President Trump's doing to bring back all of those that were wrongfully discharged out of all the military branches, and you've been offering them back pay.
And I think that's very commendable.
But what I want to say is not much has been said about those that stuck it out, those whose careers have been extensively damaged in the fight up until the Supreme Court stepped in and told President Biden that he couldn't do that.
In other words, my son joined the Navy years ago, and he was going to make a career out of it.
He promoted quickly through the ranks.
And I don't know, by year six, he was a first-class petty officer, got all his qualifications, received three Naval Achievement Medals for a lot of his work that he did over and above.
And at the start of COVID, he was testing for the chief position.
He passed the test, made boards.
And at that particular time, COVID was just kind of in its infancy.
But the vaccine was recommended, and it wasn't mandatory.
But due to his own beliefs and reasons, he chose not to get the vaccine.
And then, of course, he didn't get promoted that year.
And since then, it was just a downhill battle from there.
That's sad.
I mean, guys like your son are the people we want.
I mean, people that are passionate about the military.
I mean, I would say Pete Hegset's greatest asset.
This is in his blood.
I mean, he lives, eats, breathes, sleeps military.
And that's why I think he'll be so good at the job.
It's a hard job.
But those are the people we want in the military.
I'll make a prediction.
Assuming Pete Hagseth gets to be Defense Secretary, you watch recruitment levels.
They're going to go through the roof.
How old is your son now?
38.
Yeah, well, he still has time.
He may want to reconsider and go back in.
I don't know if the situation going, Sean, is what had happened is he was assigned a nuclear-powered carrier down in the San Diego area.
And his position was a flight deck lead petty officer.
So he was in charge of a group working on the flight deck of a carrier.
And when the mandate started, he was no longer deployable.
So they pulled him off that.
And he went from being the flight deck LPO on a carrier to cleaning parking lots.
That's so ridiculous.
So I would imagine he probably has moved on with his life.
But please thank him for his service.
And I hope we get people like your son that have a passion for this all-volunteer army that protects our liberties and freedoms.
You raised a great kid.
Thank you, Pat.
Thank you.
Madeline in New York, we have about 90 seconds.
They're all yours.
Go ahead.
Hi.
Hey, how are you?
Oh, good.
You know, I'm a great fan of yours for over 20 years.
I was teaching high school at Catholic High School in Brooklyn, and I created a course for the seniors called Media and Society.
And I used to do a chapter from your first book, Let Freedom Ring.
Had right in front of me.
You look just as handsome, except you had dark hair then.
I had darker hair.
Yeah.
I think they airbrushed the cover of that book.
Unbeknownst to me.
I didn't know.
I don't pay attention to that stuff.
Wow.
Well, obviously, it wasn't a public school.
You said a Catholic school.
So they let you do it.
And when I created the course, it was basically to educate the seniors about the vital role that the media plays.
You know, it was all you represented talk radio, but I started from silent film all the way to film and sitcoms and TV, movies, plays, everything.
But you have been an inspiration for me.
I think you're doing a fantastic job for Trump.
I'm a big Trump fan.
So is my whole family.
And I'm also a big pro-lifer.
And it's just been wonderful listening to you every single night and when I'm in the car during the day.
But I had to call you.
It wasn't easy.
And the course I made, it was your chapter 12.
The name of the course, that chapter rather, was Winning the Media Wars.
And it was a great book.
And you signed it.
I went out and I always went out.
You and Mark Levin's book, my sister and I, we go get it signed, etc.
Anyway, it was fascinating.
Of course, some of the students didn't even know about USN because this was about almost 16 years ago when I created this course.
And it's so many people, but I love the fact that I reproduced your chapter and photocopied it and handed it to students as part of their reading.
And it was so, you've been very inspirational.
And I'm so glad you're still.
And congratulations on your engagement.
You have a case.
I do.
Anyway, it's been a pleasure.
Well, ma'am, you made my day.
Madeline, you made my day.
And I'm very grateful to you.
And, you know, it's sort of like when we put out the Kamala files, it's like we got to share information.
We're all spoke in the wheel.
Nobody's more important.
You know, we now have to rally around what is the agenda to save the country.
That's my only focus really in life right now.
It's not about me.
It's about the mission.
Anyway, God bless you.
I appreciate your call more than you know.
Look, 2025, we're still living in the Harris-Biden economy, which means it's going to be a bumpy ride.
Thank God we got a new president.
But we still have stock market volatility, credit card default soaring, global conflicts, interest rates, the national debt that we're going to have to handle.
You know, we're hoping for the best.
You always plan for the worst.
But, you know, for me, one of my investment strategies when I finally was able to save money, I went many years living paycheck to paycheck was, I don't know, I don't remember who told me, but they just said, just put, you know, a percentage of your savings in gold and silver.
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We'll continue.
All the ways the government wants to butt into your life.
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All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
Part two, my interview with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office yesterday.
I mean, it went on.
We talked, we spoke a long time.
Could you imagine Joe Biden doing that long an interview?
We cover a ton of ground.
You're going to want to see this.
Also, I sat down in Washington with Majority Leader John Thune.
We'll have that interview.
We'll get reaction to all of it and the news of the day.
Nine Eastern Saiya DBR tonight.
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We'll see you then back here tomorrow.
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