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Debunking Fake News - February 3rd, Hour 3
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So we watch with amazement, shock and awe, speed of light.
You know, Donald Trump now beginning his, what, third week as president of our country.
And it is amazing what just was unfolding over the past weekend.
We had hostages released.
We have a commitment from Venezuela to take back all of their illegal immigrants, including members of the Trende Aragua gang.
We had terrorists in Somalia killed.
We have the FBI deep state.
We've got to clean it out.
We've got to return the FBI to be in the world's premier law enforcement agency.
The same thing at the DOJ.
You have Denmark now wants a deal on Greenland.
You have Panama caving to Secretary of State Rubio on the issue of the Panama Canal and agreeing to kick out China.
Tariffs imposed on Mexico and Canada.
And within an hour or two, a deal is struck with Mexico that they're going to bring 10,000 troops to the border and they're going to do their part.
The bigger beneficiary of our relationship is the people in Canada.
And they're mad at the people in the U.S.
But, you know, America has been paying the freight for Canada and we've been treated horribly by them over the years as I went through great specificity and detail.
This is what I, this U.S. aid is being cut and it is shock and awe.
And it's amazing after all the years Donald Trump has been on the world scene.
I'm watching this weekend how dumb the media is and how predictable that they are.
And they're there, you know, just spewing the same things that they've been spewing since the moment he came down that escalator over at MSDNC.
I'm like, okay, if this is where you want to go, you know, Jasmine Crockett, I don't even know who this person is.
We may not have a United States of America soon because Donald Trump is acting like a thug.
Listen.
The DOJ and the people that he's going after were simply doing their jobs.
The problem is that Americans thought that it was okay to take a full-fledged criminal and make him the president of the United States.
And then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things.
Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the United States.
And if we don't wake up, we may not have a United States because right now he has only been successful in being a divider in chief.
How is that any different than Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Nazi, fascist, racist?
It just is the same criminal convict.
I mean, it gets old.
And meanwhile, the country is going to be better off because of all of these policies, whether they like it or not.
Now, to watch the Democratic Party double down on stupid and literally, you know, this parody that took place over the weekend of, you know, they elect, you know, a new DNC chair, you know, DNC members acknowledging during the vote for a new leader that the U.S. was built on indigenous lands and, you know, doubling down on woke.
I mean, and singing songs and sounding stupid.
It's like, okay, if you want to be to the left of Kamala and you think that's the future of the Democratic Party, I'm fine with it.
Even our friend James Carville, I mean, and I interviewed Carville when I was at the DNC in this last election cycle, and Carval was confident that Kamala Harris was going to win.
And in hindsight, he's kicking himself and now referring to her as them putting in the seven-string quarterback.
Listen.
You're going to 53 and a half.
Understand, we were running in a 70% wrong-track country that doesn't like Trump.
And we resolutely refuse to give them change.
They actually asked Harris, what would you do different?
And he said, I can't think of anything.
Now, if you were to put the staggering talent that exists in today's Democratic Party, let me, you heard what I said, the staggering talent that exists in today's Democratic Party.
And people would have seen that.
They'd have gone, I didn't know to head people like that can actually complete a sentence, okay, that actually can know how to frame a message, that actually have a sense of accomplishment of doing something.
We would have excited people and we would have had people from the middle of the country.
We would have had people from the coast.
We'd have been diverse.
And then when you do that, that's how people get involved in politics.
We have not had an inspirational presidential candidate since 2012.
That's a problem.
What he's not understanding is that candidate he's describing, and I have no idea what staggering talent he's talking about.
They would never win a primary, as evidenced by the selection of a hardcore, radical leftist squad member like leftist as the head of the DNC.
You know, watching the media unfold in this time is fascinating.
Nora O'Donnell out at CBS, Jim Acosta, fake news Acosta, out at fake news CNN, Chucky Todd out at NBC.
You see, Defense Secretary Hegseth now has booted the New York Times, NBC, NPR Political.
They've been giving them marching orders to evacuate their office spaces inside the Pentagon by Valentine's Day, according to a memo there.
We now have Trump's FCC launching an investigation into NPR PBS for potentially violating federal law by airing commercials.
Jonathan Turley said, yeah, if Doge is real, NPR's taxpayer-funded Gravy Train.
He's right about that, too.
And now CBS is looking to hand over, it will hand over the 60 Minutes Harris interview transcripts in full to the FCC.
Paramount, the parent company, is now seeking to settle Trump's $10 billion 60 Minutes lawsuit.
You saw what happened with ABC.
You know, Margaret Brennan is floored after a congressman states that he wants a purging of the State Department.
You mean the one that was weaponized?
Yeah, that has to end.
And, you know, MSDNC's primetime lineup has the worst January ever in ratings in the key demo.
And Joe Scarborough, even this morning, Liberal Joe, big winners of the FBI USAID cuts are enemies that want to kill Americans.
Well, where's Joe Scarborough been in calling out Harris and Biden and all the Americans murdered and raped and victims of violent crime and all the victims of all the drugs pouring across our border?
Top of that, Facebook agreed to pay Trump $25 million.
Anyway, here to weigh in on all of this.
He's the best media analyst out there by far.
It's not even close.
Joe Concha, he's now got a new book coming out soon.
It's going to be called The Greatest Comeback Ever inside Trump's big, beautiful campaign, unburdened by what has been.
Mr. Concha, sir, how are you?
Having a great day, Sean.
And boy, are you dizzy yet?
Because I can't keep up with Trump in this news cycle.
I mean, every other minute, there's something happening, and he's making good on all these campaign promises.
And now liberals are actually shocked that he's doing what he said he would do.
Well, I don't think they should be shocked by it.
Are you shocked at how the media landscape in some ways has changed?
In other ways, I think is not changing.
And as a result, I think that, you know, what both of us have observed, the legacy media is dead, is just going to, if anything, they're just burying themselves further and doubling down on dumber and dumber and dumber and more stupid.
Oh, yeah, Sean.
And the thing is, when they did the resistance in 2017 after Donald Trump won back in that election over Hillary Clinton, the resistance was good for ratings.
It was good for revenue.
Now they're trying the same playbook and nobody's listening to your point.
300,000 people on average watching CNN.
Toledo, Ohio has a larger population than 300,000.
That's really hard to get down to that number.
And MSNBC, as you said, worst January ever.
They're only averaging about 600,000 in prime time.
So two major cable news networks combined can't even get to a million viewers.
Meanwhile, Fox is blowing everybody else out of the water, getting sometimes, in some cases, 12, 13, 14 times the audience of CNN.
So we're definitely doing something right.
But yeah, I mean, overall, they're doing this resistance thing.
And then the DNC, unfortunately, is taking their cues from MSNBC.
And we saw the two people they just selected as their chair and vice chair, Ken Matthews, Minnesota acolyte of basically Tim Walz, and then David Hogg, who's 24 years old.
And this kid's only, you know, embraced abolishing the NRA, abolishing ICE, okay, and has called for defunding the police.
So instead of them pivoting to the center like they should, they're going more to the left than Kamala Harris was.
And that's not a winning strategy.
I'm kind of worried about my friend James Carvo.
I've known Carvo for years.
On a personal level, he's a nice guy.
And at least I got to give him some credit, too.
I mean, after this election, post-this election, he's been far more introspective and analytical about his own party and more realistic about what caused, you know, this electoral landslide for Donald Trump.
But it doesn't seem like anybody in his party is going to be willing to listen to him at all.
And they should, right?
The three voices of reason on the left right now on the Democratic side is John Fetterman, which we kind of didn't see coming, right?
But boy, he's been very refreshing.
I did not see that coming.
I didn't.
And I will admit I was wrong not to see it coming.
Or maybe he changed too.
Maybe it's a combination.
I think, yeah, the party has kind of left him for wherever he was.
And he's not afraid to go meet with Donald Trump down in Mar-a-Lago and talk about how compromise is important.
He understands that he's in the minority now and that you're going to have to concede some things, but you don't hear anybody else on the Democratic side saying that.
Bill Maher has also become a voice of reason on HBO as well as far as, yeah, he's left, but boy, he calls out all the woke stuff within the Democratic Party and does so very effectively.
And James Carville, obviously, listen to the guy.
You know, he only won two elections.
He knows what he's talking about.
He got what resonated in 1992.
It's the economy stupid.
And now instead, it's just all this woke stuff that I can't believe the DNC held a vote where they had to put in one non-binary person to their leadership, like checking off the boxes still.
It's like, you know, you guys understand that the fastest way to, what, insanity is to repeat the same thing over and over again and expect a different result.
That's what's happening right now.
Oh, I mean, it actually is amazing to watch.
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All right, we continue now with Fox News contributor and best-selling author Joe Concha is with us.
What do you make of, you know, for example, the Defense Department and even the press briefing room?
They're changing things up fairly dramatically.
Legacy media is just being thrown out of the Pentagon.
They're out by Valentine's Day.
Caroline Levitt has invited in more podcasters, more new media people than ever before.
I assume she's going to be calling on them more often.
And I would imagine that the media landscape that we once knew where it was ABC, NBC, CBS, even Sam Donaldson in an interview acknowledged that they're hanging by a thread.
They are.
The numbers show that, obviously, and they had no influence, right?
I mean, remember during the election, after Kamala Harris became the nominee, ABC News, as an example, did 100 stories on the Harris campaign.
And the Media Research Center found, Sean, that all 100 were deemed positive.
I mean, even Baghdad Bob would watch that and say, wait a minute, you guys are laying out a little thick here, don't you think?
I mean, 100 out of 100?
That's insane.
And what happened?
She still lost despite all these, you know, obviously the slings and arrows thrown at Donald Trump, but obviously fluffing her up to be this candidate that she wasn't.
So, yeah, he's exactly right, Donaldson.
And he used to ask good, strong questions of Ronald Reagan.
And we don't really see that much anymore.
And you know what?
Even you mentioned Caroline Levitt.
It's amazing that she has been on this earth as long as you've been on Fox.
That's an incredible stat, right?
She's 27.
Actually, I hate to tell you, I've been on Fox longer.
Let's see.
Yeah, you're right.
Oh, okay.
Well, there you go.
She's 27.
I'm in my 29th year.
Oh, man.
Thanks a lot, Joe.
I really appreciate the compliment.
Yeah, that probably wasn't the analogy I was looking for.
But the point is that at 27, she is years beyond what you would expect out of somebody in her position.
And her first couple of press briefings have been awesome.
And you're right.
She's calling on all these different kinds of media, whether it's TikTok influencers, whether it's podcasters.
It's not the same old people that we got to hear from over and over again.
And I just found it funny that CNN, for example, Caitlin Collins, who couldn't ask Joe Biden a tough question when she was a White House correspondent, well, they sent her back now because Donald Trump's in power.
So I guess they're only speaking truth to power only when a Republican's in charge.
Go figure.
Well, I mean, I thought even Bill Maher called out the stupid question that she asked over at some point.
I think it was in the Oval Office one day last week.
And the president even today, you know, is giving a lot of access, answering a lot of questions inside the Oval.
And I agree with you about Caroline Levitt.
I think a star has been born with her.
And I think she's not taking any of their crap.
I think Donald Trump likes that in a press secretary.
And I think, you know, look at all the actions.
You know, you said something that's pretty profound, and I'm finding this as a challenge.
And that is I find just informing my audience of all that is happening and all that he's done in a day or over a weekend almost impossible to keep up with.
Yeah.
And we saw, for instance, I already put that 25% tariff on Mexico.
So then the media just starts to run all these reports like, wow, this is what's going to cost the average family if these are actually enacted.
You know, $1,000 a family.
This is a horrible.
How do they not know he's negotiating?
I mean, this is not a hard one to figure out.
No, you notice he has the leverage here.
And what happened?
Mexico backed down in about five minutes, right?
And Canada's probably going to follow.
And we saw the Dow Jones today, like it, it started off horribly and now it's already recovered itself, basically.
So that's what we're looking at here at this point, where they react to every single thing that Trump does.
And the reflex is to say that it's wrong.
And then you look at his approval ratings and you see what happened in this last election.
It's like, no, you guys are on the wrong side of every issue.
And it's just amazing they can't pivot out of that.
Joe Concha, the best media analyst in the country, because you're the only one that actually is fair.
I look forward to your new book about Donald Trump's comeback, and we look forward to having you on talking about what you put together.
We appreciate your time.
Thank you, Sean.
Common sense is coming again.
Well, it's not common enough.
We still need more.
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All right, 25 now till the top of the hour, 800-941.
Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, we've got so much going on.
It's hard to keep up.
I don't know how else do you put it?
Somebody put it up on Twitter.
I wish I could give credit.
I just get these handed to me by my staff.
Mexico Cave, Panama Cave, Columbia Cave, Venezuela Caved, Canada's panicking.
I would add to this list, by the way, that it looks like the Dutch are about to cave when it comes to Greenland.
Mass deportations, hostages home.
We also have dead terrorists, DEI programs ended, bureaucracy slashed, FBI DOJ purges underway, U.S. aid funding canceled.
You're going to add to that the WHO, Paris Climate Accords, gender ideology eliminated, Doge already saving $51 billion, and 51 intel agents won't have any more access to things.
I would say that's quite a lot of progress compiling to scroll on TV because I can't keep up with it anymore.
A list of all of Donald Trump's accomplishments, kind of working our way back.
In other words, the most recent accomplishments and then working our way down to day one.
I don't know if I'd get through it in a full hour.
I mean, that's how much this is the shock and awe that we've been living through.
And the media, of course, predictably, you know, just goes back to he's a bully.
He's a terrible person.
He's horrible.
You know, he's a thug.
He's a Nazi.
He's a fascist.
MSTNC.
This is what they're going to do now for four years.
You know, we ought to have, I wish we can get on polymarket a bet, you know, who is going to be the first prominent news media, you know, left-wing radical that calls for his impeachment?
And who is going to be the first elected official in Washington that calls for Donald Trump's impeachment?
Because you know that's coming.
He's going to, see, it's an impeachable offense.
Let's try to impeach him, which is why I'm warning everybody now early to prepare for the midterms and prepare to get out and vote in numbers like it's a presidential election because that'll prevent them from ever doing that.
You know, with all the talk and people not understanding that if Donald Trump says tariff, that means it's time to negotiate.
Nobody seemed to care when Obama boasted of imposing tariffs on China and their tires.
Listen.
We had a tire case in which they were flooding us with cheap domestic tires or cheap Chinese tires.
And we put a stop to it.
And as a consequence, saved jobs throughout America.
I have to say that Governor Romney criticized me for being too tough in that tire case.
Said this wouldn't be good for American workers and that it would be protectionist.
But I tell you, those workers don't feel that way.
They feel as if they had finally an administration who was going to take this issue seriously.
Now, what's going to get interesting, and I went through this earlier as it relates to all of these various entities around the country that are aiding and abetting in the law breaking.
For example, you have Chicago leaders encouraging residents to exercise their rights and resisting Trump's deportation policies.
You have online groups of people starting in Chicago.
And, you know, as they're now, they basically have created an online network, text messaging, videos coming out warning people, oh, ICE has been spotted in the neighborhood.
And they've come up with a plan to hide people.
And then you have one sanctuary, you have Sanctuary Cities now under fire, but one sanctuary city is under a house investigation because they ignored a detainer on any illegal immigrant.
And, you know, this has to do with a 34-year-old El Salvadorian national living unlawfully in the U.S. in Boston in January.
This guy charged with rape in a local district court, released back into the community, charged with victimizing one of our Massachusetts neighbors.
What are you going to do with these politicians that are aiding and abetting in the law breaking?
Anyway, let me go to one other cut, and then we'll get back to our phones here.
You know, Phil Murphy's one of them.
He admitted to housing an illegal immigrant and dared ICE to try to get her.
Listen.
Tammy and I were talking about, I don't want to get into too much detail, but there's someone in our broader universe whose immigration status is not yet at the point that they are trying to get it to.
And we said, you know what?
Let's have her live at our house above our garage.
And good luck to the feds coming in to try to get her.
Well, the feds have every right based on his admission of law breaking to go to his garage.
And, you know, he now just gave away the location of this person he says he wants to protect.
All right, we'll get to your calls here in a second.
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All right, let's get to our busy phones.
Let us say hi to Rick in South Carolina.
Hey, Rick, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Hey, Sean.
How are you doing today, sir?
I appreciate you taking the call.
I appreciate you calling.
What's going on?
Yeah, so my call is because good folks like you, other conservatives, media outlets told the American people, get out, vote early, bring as many people as you can, and we need to make it too big to rig.
You guys promote the American people delivered, and we did everybody work cohesively.
But now, what's America's new assignment?
I don't see much of a sense of urgency put in another assignment for us.
There's got to be something we can do besides just voting to help this president and this administration, you know, move the needle even further.
Well, it's a great question.
And I've outlined the answer last week and since Donald Trump got elected.
You can't just vote Donald Trump in and just walk away and think he's going to be able to succeed all on his own.
And I've been looking for whip counts on, for example, most recently, RFK Jr.
and Cash Fatelle and Tulsi Gabbard.
And the moment probably is coming this week.
It's not today, where you might have to get in contact with your senators.
The number one thing everybody can do is don't think you voted for Trump and that it's all going to happen and that you get to stay on the sidelines and go live your life and not pay attention anymore.
That would be the worst thing people can do.
You got to stay in the game.
And the way you stay in the game is there's going to be a push for either one or two reconciliation bills so that we can get control of our budget and we can implement the rest of the Trump agenda.
He can't do it all by executive action and executive order.
And that there are Republicans.
They have very small majorities in the House and Senate.
And there are weak Republicans with weak spines.
And the only thing that's going to stiffen their spine is if their constituents, meaning you, their voters, get on the phone and communicate with them exactly how you feel and what you want them to do and how they best serve you.
When those moments occur, I will give out that phone number and I will ask you to respectfully, politely call your representatives and let them know how you feel.
And I think that power, if enough people start calling, then they'll realize that going against Donald Trump and his agenda that we all work so hard to help get him elected is what the American people want.
Does that answer your question?
Yes, sir.
I want to let you know North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina loves you guys, and thank you all for what you guys do.
We appreciate you being out there letting us do it.
John in Pennsylvania, the Commonwealth, what's up, John?
How are you?
And I'm so sorry what happened Friday night in Philly.
And that, I mean, that Lear Jack came flying down like a missile.
I couldn't believe my eyes.
I really couldn't.
Yeah, that was tragic.
I live in Pittsburgh, but that was definitely tragic.
Sean, I want to thank Donald Trump for giving us our sovereignty back.
And I think what your caller just said, I wanted to say a few things about RFK Jr., but real quick, what your caller just said there makes me think we need to start a movement to say thank you to Donald Trump by working harder, producing more, giving back.
Let's do, give it a name.
Let's call it up a notch for Donald or something.
And we all do more, especially give more, give back more.
Because he's working so freaking hard.
We don't want to just sit here and take all the gifts, right?
We're not liberals.
We want to help.
Well, we're going to have to help.
I mean, because when we start getting down to the bear tax here and these senators have and congressmen have to make tough decisions, I mean, you have all these disparate groups in the U.S. Congress, for example.
You got the study group, the Monday group, the Sunday group, the Tuesday group, the Freedom Caucus group.
And this is why I did the town hall with Mike Johnson and other members of Congress.
It's because I said, do you all understand?
None of you are going to get everything that you want.
Do you all understand that you will succeed together or fail together?
And they said yes, but not every member was there.
Do you all understand that there's going to have to be some compromise?
And they all seem to understand it.
And, you know, Democrats are playing games with the least Dephonic seat, and they want to try and delay that election until I think June for crying out loud, which is, you know, ridiculous.
That's not what New York state law allows for.
And anyway, so yeah, I wanted to just say, real quick, I heard you mention ivermectin last week.
There is a metadata report out from Tess Laurie.
It's got the analysis of 53 studies with taking the ivermectin on day one, not like the New England Journal of Medicine where you start taking it at day seven.
Ivermectin stops the replication of the virus, so you have to get it early.
But I want to just never saw like I saw a lot of HCQ studies.
I never, I don't know why I never saw a lot written about ivermectin, and I've never seen anything negative otherwise about it either that it harmed anybody.
You know, remember when Joe Rogan got COVID and they made such a big deal about it?
Instead of being happy that the guy, you know, he said, I threw everything at it.
He, you know, and he mentioned ivermectin HCQ, and they called it a horse pill.
It's not a horse pill.
It was designed for humans.
They just flat out lied about it.
And, you know, instead of just being happy, whatever he did worked and his life was saved, they wanted to brutalize this guy over it.
But that's the left for you.
It's on the essential drug list for the WHO, ivermectin.
It won the Nobel Prize.
It's the least toxic drug.
It's less toxic than aspirin.
And you've got to see this metadata.
I have the link if you want to, you know, I can get it to you.
Yeah, I'll take a look at it.
But look, I would still today, if this was unfolding before us, I would still today be where I was back then.
Is I am not as a talk show host in a position to give out medical advice to people.
And understand my position.
I have millions of people listening to this program.
And am I supposed to tell people that I know nothing about their medical condition?
I know nothing about preexisting conditions they may have or comorbidities.
And the amount of pressure that was placed on me to tell people what to do was enormous.
And I just refused to do it.
And I got criticized for it.
And telling people to take it seriously was the right advice, in my view.
Telling people to check with their doctor, you know, and then, you know, make an informed decision, read as much as possible, learn as much as possible.
I had my doubts from the beginning.
I just did.
And it turns out everything that they said to us, you know, ended up being a lie.
That if you get the jab, you're not going to get COVID and you're not going to infect others.
None of which turned out to be true.
That is a spectacular fail.
And then these are the people that want to lecture RFK Jr.
for questioning some of the data and some of the phony science that comes out that we're hit with all the time that is often paid for by people with special interests.
And the fact that he's going to give everybody a choice to eat what they want, take vaccines that they want or don't want, and just give information that is the best scientific information available and let Americans make decisions about their health, wellness, their fitness, their nutrition.
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