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Democratic Party Suicide - February 10th, Hour 1

Democrats are up in arms over DOGE and other efforts to control spending in Washington.  Sean covers the latest on these and really begins to question what Democrats are thinking?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Although, Linda is very happy, and I'm happy for Linda.
I really didn't have a dog in this fight, but her precious Eagles won the Super Bowl.
And although I definitely won the contest of who had better food, but we'll get to that later in the program.
So she's very happy.
Others are very happy.
It seemed like the crowd was pretty pro-Eagles.
We had some pretty interesting, you know, moments on the sidelines that I thought were pretty interesting.
Here's some of the highlights from the game.
What's coming?
It's picked up.
Hurts going deep as a man.
He's caught.
Doctor down there.
He's in.
Touchdown, Philadelphia.
See what he got there going a little short.
Open the ball.
Hurts on the sneak.
Kyle drives his way in.
Touchdown.
Here's Mahomes.
Pressure on the road.
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Second and 14.
Four-man Russian holes.
Pressured again.
Sacked again.
Third and 16.
Maholmes roll out.
Finally.
Intercepted.
Picked up by Cooper Dzejine.
Gets a block.
Dejine is.
And looks down.
What's he got left?
Pressure again.
For the second time, the Vince Liberty Trophy is headed to Philadelphia.
Eagles fly in Super Bowl 59.
All right, that was some of the highlights.
We had famous people there.
President Trump loudly cheered when shown on the jumbo tron.
listen in and taylor swift did not have his uh warmer welcome Not sure if it was because it seemed like it was predominantly a lot of Eagle fans there, but let's play that.
Anyway, joining us now, one of the greatest sports broadcasting legends of all time, Fox News sports analyst, host of Westwood One's Monday Night Football.
Very close friends with both Tom Brady and Bill Belichick.
And I'm friends with Robert Kraft.
He's friends with Robert Kraft as well.
Our friend Jim Gray is back.
The game was horrible.
It was disappointing.
I did not expect the blowout that we got.
What were your thoughts?
The game was compelling.
The game was not compelling.
It was not.
It was.
When you, somebody who's trying to three-peat, Sean, and when you have somebody standing out there on the doorstep of history and they're getting beaten to a pulp and they are not competitive, you're sitting there watching in amazement.
Was it the affair that we thought we were going to get with all of those one-score games, those 17 consecutive one-score games that Kansas City had won?
No, nothing like that.
So in that sense, you're correct.
But when you're sitting there in amazement of the athletic ability and the excellence and the whipping that they were putting on the Kansas City Chiefs, who had a chance to do something that no team in Super Bowl history had done, I was watching that with interest thinking, when are they going to come back?
When is Mahomes going to make the adjustment?
I'll be honest, I got to halftime and I thought, okay, they're going to have to have a historic second half to be in this game.
And by the way, I was not a fan of the halftime show.
Did you like the halftime show?
Hated it.
Thought it was awful.
I thought it was so.
I really don't understand.
There's so many gifted, talented artists.
I mean, they've had great people in the past, Jennifer Lopez, Rihanna, the Rolling Stones.
I mean, they've had great people there.
And I've been go back to who was last, some of the last ones in New Orleans alone.
We had Ray Charles when the Bears.
Oh, remember that?
Yeah.
Amazing, right?
Yeah.
So we've had.
Unbelievable.
And we've had, you know, Usher was great last year.
But Usher was so much better than this last year.
And it was so disappointing.
And I just, honestly, at that point, I just went down and made more food.
That's all I really cared about yesterday was the food I was eating.
At one point, I started dozing off during the game in the first half.
I'm like, oh, this is awful.
It views it differently in the stadium.
The halftime fell flat.
It was hard to understand what was being.
My phone blew up.
People were pissed off about it.
They were angry.
They felt like, you know what?
This is supposed to be the best of the best.
And they didn't feel that that was anywhere near the level of what a Super Bowl halftime show should be like.
I will tell you this.
I know you're very close to Tom Brady.
How many years have you been broadcasting with Tom?
Tom and I have been together the past on Let's Go on Sirius XM and prior to that on Westwood One.
This was, I believe, our 15th year.
You see, when he decided to make the jump to be a sports broadcaster, which is a very, very hard, if you don't have background and experience, and then your first year as a professional broadcaster, for him to perform at the level he performed, I thought it was spectacular.
And to him, I watched one of two of the early games he called with the Cowboys, and I was like, man, he needs a little bit more seasoning.
And I just thought he was on his game.
He was well prepared.
He was having fun.
He brought just the right amount of insight into the game and how people were feeling.
I thought he did a terrific job, actually.
Great.
Well, you know, he's been working really hard, and he's gotten better and better.
And nobody's more prepared.
And nobody else has won seven Super Bowls.
So when he says something, and when he's able to give this analysis, you know, it comes from the strength of having the perspective that nobody else has.
And he's doing a great job.
And, you know, Kevin Burkhart has been terrific in setting him up.
And I think that Tom's going to get better and better as he continues in his broadcasting career.
And I think that he's risen to a level.
And look, nobody else in that circumstance would understand what Patrick Mahomes was going through.
And nobody else could relate if there was going to be a comeback.
Tom has lost three Super Bowls.
He's lost in heartbreaking fashion.
He hasn't lost in the way that Mahomes has lost.
Mahomes' two losses have been, you know, 40 points or so in those two losses to Tampa Bay and then this one.
And the game was really over, you know, long before they got those couple of touchdowns down the stretch.
So in terms of Brady, here's the guy who's sitting in the booth, and they're talking about him being chased by Patrick Mahomes.
And Patrick is 29 years old.
He's been to all of these Super Bowls already.
He's won three.
He's lost two.
And he still has a long, long runway.
Tom didn't get to his fourth Super Bowl win until he was 37 years old.
Ended up leaving with seven Super Bowls.
When he was 43, he won his last.
So there's a long way to go for Patrick Mahomes, but there's also a long way before you start calling him the greatest quarterback of all time.
There's a big number between getting from three to seven.
Right now, he's with Aikman behind people of the Ilk of Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw.
So, you know, the greatest of all time.
Yeah, but they're all legends.
I mean, you can't take away what this man's been able to accomplish.
I think he's been one of the greatest of all time.
I mean, you wrote a book called Goats.
In fairness to Mahomes in this game, in this game in particular, I just thought that the front line failed him, or maybe conversely, the Eagles were so fierce.
And I had this conversation with you beforehand.
I felt like this was a game we're going into where the defense, I thought, definitely favored the Eagles and the offense favored Kansas City.
But you can't have an offense if you don't have enough time to sit in the pocket and throw a football.
And he did not have time to throw the football.
I mean, they put pressure on him unlike any I've ever seen.
I mean, they were fierce on their front line.
They were great, and they had those six sacks, and Patrick could never get his feet set under him.
And he was rushed.
He was hurried.
He made some bad throws because of that pressure.
He made some, you know, the pick six and, you know, to the 22-year-old who was having his birthday.
And that was quite fun to see.
But Patrick Mahomes has got a great, great future.
And Patrick Mahomes is going to be in this game again.
And look at what he's done already.
So you're exactly right.
But, you know, it's going to be hard to get over this loss.
This loss, he said after the game yesterday, he felt it was on him.
And it really was a team that collectively, that offensive unit just could not handle the defense.
It's never on one person either way, in my view.
And that's winning or losing.
I think a team wins, a team loses.
You know, I know they had the best record in football, but you pointed out something that a lot of people didn't pay attention to.
They throughout the season had a lot of very, very close games, even though they were 11-2.
And those were all games that could have gone either way.
They went in the Chiefs' favor.
And the Eagles came out.
They were focused.
They were dialed in.
And they did what they had to do.
And they brought the pressure, and the pressure paid off.
And I felt at that point that, you know, you actually said something to me the week before the Super Bowl.
We were speaking privately.
If you have the best quarterback and the best coach, the odds would likely be in your favor.
And I felt that that was for Ken.
I thought that definitely favored Kansas City.
You agreed with me.
Correct.
They do.
And that's, you know, you do have the Jeff Hostettlers and you do have the Trent Dilfers and the Mark Rippens, you know.
So there are a lot of examples where a guy plays well on that day and he beats and his team beats because of the team's performance, as you say, they outshine.
But Eli Manning is not better than Tom Brady, and he won two Super Bowls.
But his team in those moments, Mario Manningham, David Tyree, things of this nature, and the team, Michael Strahan.
So it does happen.
Jalen Hurts is not better than Patrick Mahomes, but he had a better day and he lived up to it.
He had his best game at the best moment.
He learned from what happened a few years ago, and he played well when they lost to Kansas City a few years ago.
He played very well in that game.
So now he's able to call himself a Super Bowl champion.
That lives with you forever.
And you know what John Madden used to say, Sean?
They can't take it away from you.
They can say whatever they want.
They can't take it away from you.
He earned it.
He deserves it.
And they're going to be reckoned with for some time to come because Saquon Barkley and that offense and the fiercest nature of that defense and got to hand it to Nick Siriani.
You know, it wasn't too long ago during this season.
He was screaming at the fans in Philadelphia and they were on him.
And then he went back to just doing his job, just coaching, just getting these guys prepared.
And he did a terrific job.
And Bigfangio, who he hired as the defensive coordinator, you know, they were something that nobody thought that they were going to outcoach Andy Reed and Spaggs and Matt Nagy and all of these folks from Kansas City, that well, fine, highly oiled-tuned machine.
They really did.
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Fox News sports analyst Jim Gray is with us.
You love Super Bowl Week.
I find, I've been to a number of Super Bowls.
I used to give it as a Christmas present to my kids.
I find it I prefer to watch it at home.
Do you understand why?
I find it so distracting not to, when you're in the stadium, you don't get to watch the game as closely.
Well, there's something about being there.
And for me, I just love being in the arena, seeing these guys perform, the roar of that crowd, the ambiance, you know, and you do see everything much better on television.
That's why, you know, that's why most people, 125 people.
That's why most broadcasters have televisions in front of them.
Yeah, because you want to see the replay and you want to see if the officiating is right.
You want to see the block that was missed.
You want to see the great hands and your perspective in the arena.
And the Superdome, you know, they put in $500 million worth of improvements and they could use another billion because the sight lines are very, very difficult.
It was built in a time where stadiums built today are just much better.
But the city of New Orleans is so much fun.
You know, it's Americana.
It's Bourbon Street.
New Orleans is great.
The people are great.
It's a fun, crazy town.
As long as you don't drink a hurricane, you didn't drink a hurricane when you were down there, did you, Jim?
No, no, but it was drunk out there.
People were having a good time.
They were having their good time.
But it was, you know, it was fun.
And the people love it.
And that's why New Orleans should be in the permanent rotation because it's just so much different than any other American city.
So I would like to see them go to, you know, have it in Las Vegas, have it in New Orleans, have it in Miami, and then have a fourth or a fifth, you know, every fourth or fifth year, have a rotation.
Take it to Los Angeles and so by.
It's a beautiful stadium.
Take it back to Dallas.
Take it to one of the domes, maybe Atlanta and some of these other places.
But move it around.
You've got to give credit to the security people, both local and federal, because they kept that city safe.
And that is not an easy thing to do in light of the fact that we have known terrorists and cartel members and gang members and murderers and rapists and people that would wreak havoc on any situation.
Anyway, we appreciate you.
Jim Gray, thank you, sir.
They did a good question.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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You know, there is some hemming and hawing on the left as if there is no precedent for this.
And that is Donald Trump ordering the security clearances to be stripped from Joe Biden and Wink and Tony Blinken and Letitia James and Alvin Bragg.
And I think that these were appropriate decisions on President Trump's part.
And you might say, wow, this is unprecedented.
You would be wrong because the person that had his security clearance taken away first was Donald Trump by Joe Biden.
Anyway, here's what Donald Trump said.
On security clearances, you've been yanking a lot of them.
Why doesn't make the country safer to take away the AG security clearance if it's not a form of retribution?
Is there somebody, you know, if there are people that we don't respect and there are people that we thought that were breaking the law came very close to it in previous years, we do it.
And we've done it with some people.
We've done it with Biden himself, Biden himself.
We think our country is not as safe if you gave him clearance.
We don't think he knows what he's doing.
And what he's done to this country is a disgrace.
And what he's done in terms of allowing criminals, murderers, drug lords into our country, people from mental institutions into our country, he should be ashamed of himself.
Is that a legally valid reason?
That is a valid reason.
Are you really that stupid in the media?
I guess the answer, that's a dumb question.
We know the answer to that question.
Let's go back.
Joe Biden, 2021, and an interview with Nora O'Donnell.
Interesting, a lot of people in the media landscape have left.
Nora O'Donnell is out.
Chucky Todd is out.
Jim Acosta is out.
Andrea Mitchell is out.
Why?
Because they had no audience.
And the reason they lost their audience is because they're not honest.
And they're not journalists, as they claim, and they're not fair, balanced, and objective.
And if they would just admit that they had a particular bias and point of view and that they're talk show host, I think people would be more accepting, except they claim to be something that they're not.
And anyway, all part of the death of legacy media.
Anyway, here's Nora O'Donnell interviewing Joe Biden when he revoked Trump's clearance.
Should former President Trump still receive intelligence briefings?
I think not.
Why not?
Because of his radic behavior, unrelated to the insurrection.
I mean, you've called him an existential threat.
You've called him dangerous.
You've called him reckless.
Yeah, I have, and I believe it.
What's your worst fear if he continues to get these intelligence briefings?
I'd rather not speculate out loud.
I just think that there is no need for him to have that intelligence briefing.
What value is giving him an intelligence briefing?
What impact does he have at all other than the fact he might slip and say something?
Oh, okay.
You mean, what if Joe may slip and say something?
And when does Joe get held accountable for leveraging a billion taxpayer dollars so that a prosecutor in Ukraine can get fire because they're investigating his son who's being paid millions with no experience while addicted to drugs.
Explain when we're going to get to the bottom of that.
Anyway, let's get to our busy phones.
Let's say hi to Ginger in Georgia.
Ginger, how are you?
Glad you called.
I'm good.
Thank you for taking my call.
How are you?
I'm good.
I'm glad you called.
Good.
My comment is about Doge, and I love it.
I don't care if they have 18-year-olds working or 80-year-olds, as long as they are getting to the bottom of the corruption.
And we, as taxpayers, I think we deserve some of our money back because you know what?
We're retired now, but between my husband and I, we paid about $1,500 a week in taxes.
He was a pipe fitter, $1,200, $1,300 a week every week for 40 years, no break.
No, here's your DEI program or your LB whatever video.
You know, we didn't get a break.
Nobody was worried about what was going on in our household.
And if the government doesn't have the money to pay it back, then they should try and get it from the criminals that profited in our government from all those programs that they put forth and pushed the money through for.
I think that these countries that got all of this money, I think, should have to pay it back.
I agree with you totally.
Going to.
They're probably not going to.
And you know what?
I think that should factor into America's foreign policy decisions.
They had no right to steal your money.
You're paying you and your husband.
You're like the perfect American, perfect American family.
You get up every day, you work hard, you grind it out, you play by the rules, you pay your taxes, you obey the laws, you raise your kids, you do all the things the right way.
And they're spending billions and hundreds of billions of dollars on DEI programs, woke programs, transgender programs, you know, for schools and et cetera, et cetera, and new green deal programs worldwide.
That's your money.
The average American only makes $66,000 a year.
It's not a lot of money.
That's barely enough money to survive on for most people, which is why so many Americans have accumulated such high credit card debt because they're putting bare necessities on their credit cards, especially because of the inflation caused by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
I mean, it is morally corrupt and wrong.
And, you know, I'm sorry.
I'm sick and tired of the demonization of the president and Elon Musk.
You know, there's a picture of Elon Musk.
I mentioned this earlier.
He's sleeping on the floor in a government office with like, it's not even an air mattress wrapped in a comforter.
I mean, this is a billionaire.
He doesn't need to be doing any of this.
And he's doing the country a favor.
American people.
He's serving the American people.
I'm like, I'm grateful to the guy.
And I've spoken to him, but I don't know him well.
And if I get a chance to talk to him, I'd say thank you.
And I hope you keep finding it.
Appreciate the call, Ginger.
Glad you're out there.
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Let's say hi to Christian in Nebraska.
Hey, Christian, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean.
This is Christian, and I moved from California to Nebraska.
Got out of there for the same reason everybody else did.
I got to tell you, I agree with Ginger 100,000%.
I want to call today to comment on kind of the same thing: the Doge situation.
I thought it was interesting on January 30th when Elizabeth Warren got up and she said that the American people, she calls us ordinary people, don't like we don't have a right to know what our tax dollars are being spent on.
The Constitution doesn't say that we do.
I guess my argument would be it also doesn't say that we don't have a right.
And I find it kind of interesting.
Well, actually, aren't they supposed to be, but don't we elect public servants?
Aren't they supposed to serve us?
Yep, yep.
Okay.
You know, isn't that interesting how she calls Americans ordinary people and Trump calls us extraordinary Americans?
I mean, what a contrast.
But, you know, I find it interesting that that judge put an injunction on or put the block on Doge going into the treasury.
I don't really understand that because, like you just said, if you're a federal employee and you work for the federal government, don't you kind of give up your privacy on what you're spending your money on and what you're doing with your time?
Aren't the American people your boss?
Yes.
I mean, and everybody has a boss, don't they?
And everybody, regardless of what you do for a living, when you really get to the brass tax of it all, we all are public servants in a way.
You know, if you're a waiter, if you're a doctor, if you're a lawyer, you're performing services for other people.
I'm in the broadcasting business.
I'm performing a service for people, right?
But they are elected to be public servants.
And the idea that they would spend all of these billions and billions and billions of dollars and purposely hide it from the American people is so beyond corrupt.
And they do it for their own aggrandizement.
They do it for their own power building.
I mean, and then when we find out about it, then they're angry that they got discovered.
And then they're lashing out at the people that expose them.
I'm grateful to the people that expose them.
I'm very grateful.
Well, and I'm a full supporter of Doge too.
And you know, one more thing I just want to say is this whole global warming thing and all the money that they're pilfering out of the taxpayers for that.
I want to know when the narrative is going to start about what global warming really is and what really causes it.
Man has nothing to do with it.
It is a natural phenomenon, just like if a meteor were to hit the earth, that's a natural phenomenon.
You're not going to stop that.
You know, global warming and cooling has happened thousands of times in history.
And where does oil come from in the first place?
Where did that come from in the first place?
That came from previous warmings and then coolings.
And then eventually it becomes oil over millions of years of compression and whatever.
So, you know, why can't we get to the true science of global warming?
Look, if you go back and you trace this whole movement, this green movement, which is really rooted in Marxism, statism, socialism, as illustrated by the Green New Deal, because it has nothing to do with green.
It has everything to do with redistribution of wealth and equity, etc.
If you go to the beginning, they were claiming on the cover of Time and Newsweek in the 70s that the next ice age was coming.
And then they got that wrong.
Then it became, well, we're going to burn to death.
And then it's going to, then we started having some of the coolest winners on record.
So then they just came up with this generalized term, climate change, which is neutral.
So if it gets too hot, you blame global warming, you know, or climate change.
If it gets too cold, it's climate change.
Everything's climate change.
But we see what the real agenda is.
And by the, what Doge has exposed is the agenda behind the Green New Deal and environmental extremism.
It's rooted in statism, Marxism, socialism, redistribution of wealth, equity, and that's it.
And they were pushing this worldwide.
They did it and they hid how they spent the money.
They stole it from our kids, our grandkids, and from us.
Anyway, my friend, I appreciate the call.
Good call.
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