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	Hour two, Sean Hannity Show, 800-941-Sean.
	Our number, if you want to be a part of the program, even 20% of Democrats now saying Trump is doing a great job.
	We went over his poll numbers with CBS yesterday, and Americans are finally getting it and getting the speed of Trump and adapting very quickly.
	Democrats, they just seem as I've never seen a party in such disarray as I have now.
	And what they now stand for, and I think this was evidenced by who they chose to, you know, be the top two people to lead the DNC into the future.
	They're to the left of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.
	And the party's become radicalized and Chuck Schumer's big plan to, you know, and the Democrats' plan to just scream and yell and rant and rave about, you know, waste, fraud, abuse internationally, hunt what will be hundreds of billions of dollars.
	We've already found tens of billions of dollars in monies spent abroad for their radical Green New Deal for woke programs, wokeism, DEI, transgenderism, LGBTQ plus.
	And the American people, you know, are thinking, why isn't that money being spent on law and order and safety and security and better schools and better transportation and infrastructure in our country?
	And why aren't we benefiting from this money?
	And if they want to die on that hill, that's fine.
	If they want to die on the hill of protecting, you know, Harris Biden illegals that include murderers, rapists, cartel members, gang members, known terrorists in our country, okay, die on that hill.
	If they want to die on the hill of fighting for men to be able to play in women's sports, let them die on that hill.
	But they're just becoming completely unhinged.
	Here's Chris Murphy, you know, lashing out about Doge, comparing it to the death of democracy.
	Okay, really?
	Not a little bit of hyperbole here at all.
	Yeah, listen, I mean, this isn't hyperbole to say that we are staring the death of democracy in the eyes right now.
	The centerpiece of our democracy is that we observe court rulings, criminal court rulings, civil court rulings, and constitutional court rulings.
	No one is above the law.
	And whether we like it or not, the courts interpret the law.
	So, yes, throughout the history of the United States, the courts have made rulings on when the executive branch is exercising legal power and when they are going beyond the power that they have.
	If the president of the United States says, you know what, I don't care what the courts say, I'm going to do whatever the hell I want.
	That's essentially the end of the rule of law.
	Because if the president isn't bound by our laws and the Constitution, then why would anybody else be bound by our laws and the Constitution?
	This is a really dire moment.
	But for years, Democrats didn't utter a word with the weaponization of the DOJ or the fact that Harris and Biden were aiding in abetting illegal lawbreaking.
	I mean, I'm not exactly sure even what court case he's talking about.
	Here's more of the Democratic meltdown.
	Elon Musk, where are you?
	Bring your ass over here so you can see who's here.
	This is like a bank robber trying to fire the cops and turn off the alarms just before he strolls into the lobby.
	We are here to fight back.
	That is what they are doing.
	They are dismantling the federal government, which will deny the American people the services and the resources that allow them to help to raise their families, have a secure economy, and a secure future for themselves.
	Every time you hear Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency, you just remember it is the Department of Government Evil.
	Over.
	This is thievery.
	This is gangsterism.
	Okay.
	The bank robber that's working for free, the Department of Government Evil, thievery, we're coming after you.
	What?
	Because we discovered that your hard-earned tax dollars, average American making $66,000 a year and their hard-earned money going for $20 million on a Sesame Street show in Iraq and $56 million to boost Egyptian and Tunisia tourism and $40 million to build schools in Jordan, but not in the U.S. and $11 million to tell the Vietnamese to stop burning trash.
	And this is how they react because they've been exposed.
	Anyway, here are his thoughts on all of this as the former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich.
	He's the last Speaker to ever balance the budget.
	And I can't imagine all the waste, fraud, and abuse that you found in your line-by-line examination of the budget at the time.
	But I doubt you found this kind of craziness.
	Well, I think Elon Musk is doing the country an enormous service in just surfacing all this stuff.
	I mean, when people begin to realize the depth of corruption, the depth of fraud, the special sweetheart deals, the programs that are useless and a total waste of our money, by the time they're done, we're going to have this mountain of evidence that the establishment government was a corrupt,
	incestuous, incompetent system that failed to protect America, failed to provide for a prosperous economy, and failed to spend your tax money that you work hard for in a prudent and wise way.
	I think this is going to be one of the great educational experiences in American history.
	And I doubt if the establishment is ever going to recover from the evidence that's going to come pouring out about how much corruption there's been.
	This is only one agency.
	I mean, and the tens of billions of dollars of taxpayer money that was just wasted abroad to advance their radicalism is breathtaking.
	Both Senator Thun and Congressman and Speaker of the House Johnson vowed to take Doge spending cuts to the next level.
	There is a little problem that has emerged.
	It was on FoxNews.com that apparently Freedom Caucus members, you know, there's a little bit of a mutiny against House leadership as the Trump budget bill, you know, talks have hit an impasse, and now we've got competing bills, and I don't know how they're going to end up reconciling themselves.
	They don't have a big margin, as you know, in the House.
	Well, and I think at some point the country will tell them to get their act together, sit in a room and sort it out.
	I don't fully understand what their complaint is.
	I think we need to add a provision to the reconciliation bill.
	I think unless they deliberately want to be destructive, the Freedom Caucus ought to find a way to reach out and solve this.
	They're going to have hundreds of billions and maybe well over a trillion dollars in savings that Musk and Trump are going to find.
	They're going to have a substantial increase in revenue from Trump's new tariffs.
	Now, those should be able to be wrapped into the reconciliation bill and counted towards getting to a bill which is more than paid for.
	I mean, if you count those things in the reconciliation bill, you will reduce the deficit in the out years, which reduces the amount you're spending on interest payments, which further reduces the deficit.
	And, you know, we got to the only, as you point out earlier, the only four consecutive balanced budgets in 100 years were created by the House Republicans in the 1990s.
	And we did it, frankly, by being clever, not stupid, by finding ways to listen to each other, not argue, and by looking for every savings and every revenue opportunity, particularly through economic growth.
	So I think that you have to recognize that the Congressional Budget Office is a left-wing institution.
	I called years ago for it to be replaced.
	That the Budget Act was written in 1974 by radical Democrats, so it has a huge bias in favor of spending and a bias against tax cuts.
	And those things need to be smoothed out.
	But the fact is, what you're going to discover, and I'll just give you an example of healthcare.
	We currently pay billions and billions to crooks.
	Now, I can defend every penny going to honest people.
	I don't want to cut a single penny from doctors and nurses and hospitals and from patients.
	But that doesn't mean I want to give money away to crooks.
	And if you just had Make America Honest Again to match up with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again, I'll bet you could get $2 or $3 trillion that wouldn't come from cutting anybody who was honest.
	In fact, you could take part of that money and increase the salary for doctors and nurses and people who are actually dealing with patients.
	And in the process, you could start reducing the bureaucracy.
	We have a system today where the bureaucrat, whether it's government or insurance company bureaucrat, has more power than your doctor.
	Now, they've never seen you.
	Many of them don't have a medical degree.
	They're operating off of some cookbook.
	And it's part of why American health has not improved, even though we spend twice as much money as the number two country, Switzerland, twice as much per capita, and we have worse outcomes.
	I mean, all of this is transformational, consequential, and it's the reform that this government has needed, a top-to-bottom accounting of how they spend the people's money.
	And I think when all is said and done, we may end up with hundreds of billions, maybe even over a trillion dollars in waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption.
	And I think what the American people are seeing already is breathtaking.
	Now, the political side of this is the Democrats have seem to be leaning on a strategy which is to blame the messenger and attack the process that exposes all of this.
	And to me, that's a losing strategy because I don't think any common sense American is going to look at this kind of spending and be happy about it because it's their money.
	Every Democrat who we can get on tape defending things that are totally stupid or corrupt is good for us in 2026.
	Do we have time just for a story to draw the parallel out here from?
	Of course.
	Take your time.
	Okay.
	So it's 1981.
	Ronald Reagan has been elected president.
	I have been endorsed by the professional air traffic controllers, and I represented the largest air traffic control area in the country, a combination of the Hampton Center and the Atlanta Airport.
	And they designed a strategy to take on Jimmy Carter.
	And they were going to strike, and they knew that Carter would cave, and they would give him what they wanted.
	So Reagan was clearly not going to do that.
	And I went down to the White House, and I saw Drew Lewis, who was Secretary of Transportation, and they said, look, we're headed towards a real crunch here.
	And is the president really going to fire these guys?
	And Lewis said to me, look, you want Reagan to succeed.
	I said, of course.
	He said, well, we have to break the back of wage inflation.
	Now we have two choices.
	We have 19,000 air traffic controllers in June and 637,000 postal workers in August.
	Which one do you think we ought to pick the head-on collision with?
	And I said, got it.
	And I went back to see the air traffic controllers.
	And I said, guys, this isn't Jimmy Carter.
	He's going to fire you.
	And they said, oh, you can't fire us.
	It'll close the whole system down.
	They'll never be able to do it.
	Well, the Reagan people were smart.
	They'd already organized the replacements.
	The system had about a three-day period of glitches, and then it worked perfectly.
	They all lost their jobs.
	Now, the reason I tell you this story is the Freedom Caucus right now is a little bit like the professional air traffic controllers.
	They're still using all the techniques they developed to fight Biden.
	But now they've got Trump.
	So instead of picking fights and reaching for exaggerated positions and trying to maximize temporary leverage for three days, what they ought to be doing is working with Johnson and with the president and figuring out positive ways to get the maximum done you can while getting a bill through in either May or June, which you desperately have to do if you're going to keep the House, and then work on additional projects.
	I mean, it's not like Trump is in any way going to walk off.
	He's going to want more goodies.
	He's going to want more reform.
	He's going to want more change.
	And they have a chance if they could just unlock their brains, say to themselves, this is not Joe Biden.
	This is not Kamala Harris.
	This is Donald J. Trump.
	Maybe I could work with him.
	I think the Freedom Caucus could be enormously valuable if it decided to be cooperative.
	Well, I think so, too.
	Look, they're either going to succeed together or fail together.
	But I think in the end, I think that the sheer power and popularity of Donald Trump is going to propel all of them to do something that maybe they wouldn't otherwise do, and that is unite behind his agenda, which I think is ultimately going to be good for the country.
	I want to go back to this issue, though.
	The Democrats seem to have doubled down on all of this reckless international, you know, spending.
	I mean, if you can explain to me.
	The world.
	No, yes.
	This is their world since Franklin Roosevelt in 1933.
	But Franklin Roosevelt wasn't spending American tax dollars for Sesame Street shows in Iraq and transgender comic books and transgender operas and DEI musicals.
	Of course not.
	But I'm just saying that machine, that system, which grew even bigger under Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and then moved to the left over the last 20 years in this sort of an insane left-wing version.
	I mean, it's very hard for me to fully understand why they're prepared to die on these things.
	But the left wing of the Democratic Party, this is life and death.
	I mean, this is not politics.
	This is their very identity.
	And I think it's very hard for them to back down.
	And they're very, I think they're going to cause a civil war in the Democratic Party.
	I think there will be a nut wing of the party, which will be very left-wing, very radical.
	But they control the party.
	I can name three people that have spoken out against it.
	James Carville, David Axelrod, and Ram Rambo Deadfish Emmanuel.
	The Clinton people, the only ones with enough common sense to say this is stupid.
	All right.
	Mr. Speaker, we can hold you a little bit longer if you don't mind.
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	Also, our final moments with former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich.
	And we've got so much coming up.
	It's unbelievable.
	We have a pretty big announcement coming up by the end of the week, we'll tell you about.
	After more than, what, over a year, almost a year and a half, war on terror, radical Islamic terrorism.
	I mean, look at where the Democratic Party is.
	And they weren't there for Israel in their time of need.
	That's all there is to it.
	Donald Trump is.
	And we saw the King of Jordan with the president in the Oval Office today and future plans to demilitarize Gaza and a vision that nobody's ever brought up in the past to revitalize the area and turn it into a job creation boom for the entire area and everybody could prosper.
	And it would take Arab countries to get involved.
	But in the meantime, that doesn't help the people in the Holy Land that are suffering.
	The tens and tens of thousands that have been displaced from their homes, people that need bare necessities.
	They need food, water, shelter, medicines, clothing, you name it.
	They need it.
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	Former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich.
	Okay, so look at the recent elections of the new head, and the second in charge is David Hoguy of the DNC.
	To me, radical left, far left of even Kamala Harris.
	And they seem to have, as a party, even Chuck Schumer, have doubled down in their strategy is to fight for the reckless tens and hundreds of billions of dollars waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption abroad, not even money spent on Americans for Americans.
	And then they doubled down on, they want to keep the borders open.
	And there's absolutely nothing but complaining about Donald Trump finding illegal immigrants that were unvetted, even known terrorists, rapists, murderers, cartel members, gang members.
	And then the third thing is they've doubled down on men playing women's sports.
	The only three examples are the ones I gave you at the end of the last half hour.
	And that is James Carville, David Axarad, and Rahm Emmanuel saying, you guys better let this go because it's jackassery to quote James Carville so eloquently stating it.
	But this is the party now.
	This is not the party you dealt with when you were Speaker.
	This is not the days of Tip O'Neill when Reagan was president.
	Look, this is a religious movement disguised as a political party.
	I mean, you're asking them to give up their deepest held values.
	And I'm talking now about the left-wing.
	It's not totally true of there are people out there who are not totally crazy.
	But the hardcore part of the Democratic Party today is a religious movement.
	It's a movement which believes in transgenderism as the highest ultimate value.
	It's a movement which believes in open borders and that it would be inherently wrong to have any suggestion that America really is a country.
	It is a movement which believes that we shouldn't celebrate the 250th birthday next year because after all, we are a racist, homophobic, exploited country, and therefore we should be ashamed that we've lasted 250 years.
	I mean, these people believe this stuff.
	They sit around and talk to each other in that kind of language, and they dominate the elite universities so much that to walk in and say, isn't it great that we're going to celebrate 250 years of freedom, will get you into a fight.
	And so they can't unlock because it's the equivalent of asking a religious movement to somehow behave rationally.
	And then the very nature of faith-based movements is that they're impervious to practical rationality.
	I mean, it's an opportunity, and this is something that you as a historian can uniquely comment on to me that is right in front of our eyes where this could be the most consequential and transformational presidency in history.
	I mean, we can now dismantle the nanny state of government, return to constitutional order, return to the vision of our framers and founders, return to the idea and ideals of limited government, greater freedom, and really and truly, once and forever, hopefully, eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse.
	And I think all of that now is real.
	It's all possible.
	I was just saying to everybody listening to us today, they ought to call.
	I'm going to say we just got to the dance, I'm guessing.
	No, that's right.
	We did just get to the dance, but I think the first step of the dance is to pass a very large tax cut deregulation energy bill by May or June.
	And I would urge everybody listening to you and me today to pick up the phone after the show and call Lindsey Graham's office and tell him that he needs to support the House and pass one big bill before, certainly no later than May or June, so that we can have the economy growing by the beginning of 26 so we can run for reelection and actually gain seats in the House.
	And we have a real chance.
	We have 13 districts held by people, Democrats that Donald Trump carried.
	We have another 21 districts where he got within 5%.
	Their votes are exactly what you said.
	They are so crazy to the left that if we communicate that, we could actually gain seats next year.
	The difference for America between losing the House and having Hakeem Jeffries pretend that he's Nancy Pelosi and immediately launch investigations, launch impeachments, do everything he can to stop Trump, the difference between that future and a future where the Republicans keep the House.
	And Speaker Johnson is working as an ally with Trump.
	That gap is so enormous.
	And the key to that is to pass a tax cut, energy and deregulation bill no later than May or June.
	And for some reason, Lindsey Graham, who's in a very important budget committee position, doesn't seem to get it.
	And so I'm just appealing to everybody, give Lindsey a call and tell him that he needs to get one bill.
	It has to be the economic bill, and it has to get to the Senate president no later than that.
	I don't know that Lindsey is leading this effort.
	My understanding is when President Trump met with the U.S. Senate, this is prior to him being inaugurated, is that many in the Senate, including conservatives like Ted Cruz, were arguing for two bills.
	They were, but they're not the budget committee chairman.
	I mean, he put it in his power to sit down with Mike Johnson and President Trump, work out a joint single bill.
	I mean, the idea of two bills, I think, is suicide.
	It means you're giving up the House next year, in my judgment.
	And it's got to be done quickly because you've got to give the economy time to recover.
	And until you implement Trump's economic policies, it has no chance of recovery.
	That's right.
	I mean, Reagan lost 26 seats in his first off-year because the tax cuts didn't go into effect until 1983.
	Trump lost 44 seats in 2018 because they messed around trying to repeal Obamacare, failed, and didn't get around to a tax bill until October.
	Now, at some point, you've got to say to them, guys, this is the absolute historic record.
	And I think as the guy who helped create the first majority in 40 years and the first re-elected majority since 1928, I think I have some knowledge of this business.
	And I'll tell you, I am very, very worried that the Senate doesn't get it.
	They don't understand the importance of getting this tax bill through early.
	And frankly, it's not their skin if the House goes Democrat, but it sure is Donald Trump's skin, and it sure is the country's skin.
	It really is.
	Mr. Speaker, these are historic times.
	And I do agree with you that I think that Americans need to stay in touch with their elected representatives.
	And at appropriate times, we'll be giving out that phone number.
	People will have it burned into their memory bank, and hopefully they'll call people, be respectful.
	And anyway, we appreciate your time as always.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Take care.
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	Rosemary, Florida, my free state.
	What's up, Rosemary?
	How are you?
	Well, I'm just calling.
	Oh, Rosemarie, I believe.
	I'm sorry.
	That's okay.
	I'm just calling because I think this is a genius idea, what Donald Trump has Elon Musk doing.
	Elon Musk is an outside auditor.
	And everyone that's screaming that he has no right to see this government agency or what's going on in that government agency, he does because he's there to keep it on the straight and narrow.
	I worked in banking for over 30 years.
	I can't tell you how many times we were met unannounced by an outside auditing firm, not auditors that were employed by the bank, but an outside firm.
	And when they would come that day, they'd be there in the parking lot before you.
	So anything you did from the time you unlocked your bank doors, you had to do with an auditor.
	You couldn't sign on your computer.
	You couldn't go into your bank vault.
	You couldn't do anything without the auditor there watching what you were doing, counting your cash to see if it matched up with your closing the night before figure.
	I mean, this is just what people, and really, the Democrats don't realize that no matter what financial institution you deal with, goes through audits.
	And they not only do that for the cash count, later on in the day, the auditors actually go through signature cards, safe deposit box cards, checks that are written out.
	So people that are not employed by the bank, the auditors from the outside firm, have all this information on the customers.
	Customers never complain.
	We never stood there last week like Maxine Waters did, you know, shaking the doors, trying to get in.
	We couldn't do a thing.
	We just waited until the auditors did their job, and then we were given the okay.
	We can sign on to our computers now.
	We can do our cash.
	But I just think this was an ingenious idea.
	And Elon Musk is doing exactly, exactly what he's supposed to do.
	I agree.
	I think what he's doing is heroic.
	And the fact that he's being demonized, it speaks volumes.
	But the American people will support him and support what he's doing.
	And they don't want their money spent this way.
	And just like most people don't want men and women's sports.
	And just like most people support the president's policies on deporting those people that didn't respect our laws, borders, sovereignty, and getting rid of these criminals and others.
	Anyway, good call, Rosemary.
	Thank you.
	All right, quick break.
	We'll come right back.
	More of your phone calls coming up.
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	All right, let's get back to our busy phones.
	800-941-Sean, if you'd like to join us.
	Let's say hi to John in South Carolina.
	What's up, John?
	How are you?
	Good afternoon.
	I'll make it quick.
	You are much more familiar with the process of getting an item attached to a spending bill.
	My question is, who hired the paid lobbyists?
	These wasteful spendings.
	You see, it was even more sinister than that.
	If you look at U.S.AID, because you're bringing up a very good question.
	Who's responsible?
	Well, I think the people that are screaming the loudest, we figured out, are the ones that are the most responsible, right?
	Because, you know, no American would support their hard-earned tax dollars going to programs like this.
	Now, there have been attempts at congressional oversight and inquiry that have failed because they thought they were being very clever and they would obscure and hide deceitfully at what where the money was really going and they would put a lofty title and meanwhile we find out where the money really went and what the money was really for so the the process was they they'd pass the budget and
	they'd fund us aid and then usaid would spend all this money and there was no oversight at all whatsoever no accountability at all whatsoever and now that they're being exposed is why they're They're so angry.
	Now, why are they so angry?
	Because these are their heartfelt radical beliefs.
	And number one, and number two, this is also where they got their power from.
	They got their power abusing and frankly stealing your money, your kids' money, and your grandkids' money.
	And that's why they're so angry at Elon Musk.
	They're so angry at Doge, and they're screaming bloody murder about it.
	But it's not something that there were congressmen and senators trying to get this information.
	And they would get very, very, you know, benign answers that were not factual to hide what they were really up to.
	But this is how deeply entrenched this radical mindset is.
	There must be a way to find out who hired the paid lobbyists to get that into a spending bill.
	It gets in there because it gets into the overall bill, in this case, U.S. aid.
	And when it gets in that bill, then that's where the abuse took place and that's where the cover-up took place because it was a cover-up.
	They didn't want the American people to know what they were doing.
	So they would hide it under obscure titles and not reveal the real purpose of where the money was going, where they knew it was going.
	You know, what lobbyists are behind that?
	I mean, there could be any list of them.
	And then I think your next logical question would be: well, did these elected officials benefit from these groups that lobbied to get the money?
	And were there any kickbacks?
	None of that would surprise anybody.
	Anyway, I hope that answers your question.
	It's a great question.
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