Sean Hannity Show - Cutting Waste Is Angering Libs - February 14th, Hour 2

Feb. 15, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show

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Cutting Waste Is Angering Libs - February 14th, Hour 2

Mark Simone fills in for Sean and takes to analyzing just how crazy the liberal left is going over DOGE and the efforts to cut costs in Washington.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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	Hey, we're going to talk about Elon Musk.
	Can you imagine if you decided to get rid of government waste, fraud, and bloat, like every candidate has promised forever that you'd get attacked?
	Listen to these crazy Democrats here.
	Elon Musk is seizing the power that belongs to the American people.
	We are here to fight back.
	Anytime a person can pay $250 million into a campaign and they've been given access, full access to the Department of Treasury of the United States of America, we are at war.
	I am going to stand with you in this fight and we will win.
	We will win.
	We will win.
	We will rest.
	We won't rest.
	Sounds like New Year's Eve at a nuthouse.
	I mean, like at a mental institution.
	Anyway, hey, you know who's with us right now is Eric Eggers, who's a VP of the Government Accountability Institute, co-host of the Drill Down podcast.
	He does it with Peter Schweitzer every week.
	They break down, they expose regulation, bureaucracy.
	And this week they've been covering Doge and the Democratic freak out from their podcast.
	And he's with us right now.
	Eric Eggers, how are you?
	Mark, I am great.
	I mean, I'm as great as anybody could be considering we are suffering under a historically unprecedented constitutional crisis.
	You heard Elizabeth Warren.
	You heard Chuck Schumer.
	It's obviously, you know, democracy was on the ballot and we've clearly lost.
	Can you imagine, Mark, a world in which someone that's not elected has so much power?
	Oh, wait, that's exactly what happened for four years under Joe Biden because he clearly wasn't in charge.
	He wasn't cognitively fit.
	They chose just to lie to us.
	But meanwhile, the people behind the curtains ran the country into the ground.
	Thank God Donald Trump and Elon Musk have come to save it.
	And I think that's what you're hearing people react to.
	It's like we talked about this on the podcast.
	You know, when you have surgery, your body is reacting in a certain way, but it's reacting in a healthy way because the things that were unhealthy are being removed from the body.
	That's what's happening to this country right now.
	The unhealthy spending, the insane priorities that Democrats have foisted upon the American people against their will for so long are being eradicated and eliminated.
	And that's why you see the left freaking out like this.
	Well, in their defense.
	And it's not just the Democrats, not the Republicans too.
	All these swamp guys and the women in the Congress, this is kind of what they do for a living.
	Hand out massive contracts to donors, special interests, and in exchange, they get massive donations and votes.
	And so talk about stepping on the third rail about really hitting a nerve.
	This is going to destroy this swamp creature's business model, isn't it?
	No, Mark, that's actually an excellent point.
	It's like that scene in office space where the consultants come in and say, so what is it exactly you would say you do here?
	To your point, if the elected leaders and members of the deep state no longer have our tax dollars to hand out, what exactly do they do here?
	They don't do a lot.
	So very much their life, their livelihood, their job descriptions are up for grabs.
	And I think it's fair to ask, like, well, why do we need all these people?
	Not just why do we need you?
	How have you been allowed to be in charge to allow things like $20 million for Sesame Street in Iraq, $2 million for a VR program for the military to train our soldiers, how to have hard conversations about DEI, all the LGBT and trans stuff that we're finding out that we're spending all across the globe?
	Why have we allowed the people who are supposed to uphold American priorities and principles and be in fiduciary responsibility for our tax dollars to get away with this stuff?
	It's absolutely abhorrent.
	You know, you talk about the swamp.
	So I guess through the years, the presidents that come in, the Bushes, the Clintons, I guess, I mean, they must have known all this.
	What was the deal?
	They just knew, you know, do your thing and look the other way on that stuff and don't bother that.
	That's part of the deal, right?
	Well, absolutely.
	I mean, so think about this, Mark.
	You know, we did a special one time about how wealthy Washington, D.C. has become.
	It didn't used to be that way.
	In the 80s, Washington, D.C. was kind of this sleepy backwater town.
	And then, to your point, the Clintons, the Bushes, the money came in and took over.
	And then it was true for some time that seven out of the 10 wealthiest counties in the country surrounded Washington, D.C.
	It had become like out of hunger games, like the capital that was so out of touch because they just collected the fruits of the rest of the country.
	Washington, D.C. led the country in wine consumption per capita and all kinds of other crazy stats.
	I had a guy who worked at a Ferrari dealer tell me that they get in trouble because too many of their clients pay cash for expensive luxury cars.
	So Washington, D.C. has taken all of our money and they use it.
	And when you're drunk with money, then things like the way they've been spending it make sense.
	And so, yeah, it was a bipartisan problem, but the debt has continued to go up regardless of who the president has been.
	Spending has continued to go up.
	And yeah, everyone's been in on it.
	And I think it actually helps make sense, Mark.
	And I know you've talked about this before, but when you consider the historically unprecedented steps the left took to try to keep Donald Trump from being elected, everything from the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story to then the way we allowed the election in 2020 to happen.
	And then the legal cases that the Biden Department of Justice brought.
	And then, you know, the assassination attempts.
	And when all that didn't work, then it's like, oh, my gosh, let's actually go ahead and just take out the most powerful man in the world, the president of the United States.
	Let's make him stop running for reelection against his will because we don't think he can beat Trump.
	They threw everything at him that they could.
	And when you look at how he's upending the ecosystem of Washington, D.C. and how many different people have relied on it, you understand why.
	Hey, Eric Eggers, tell us about Elon Musk, this team that he has.
	You know, you hear this guy's 19, this guy's 20.
	Who exactly is on this team that he's using?
	Well, we're finding out more about it.
	And I think while you hear the left claim that, oh, this is all done without transparency, I think the opposite is actually true, right?
	I mean, you have, they have a website, so we see all the contracts they're looking at.
	But he's got these 19-year-olds.
	Of course, there's a kid named Big Bowles who has a bit of a checkered history.
	But these are very intelligent data wizes, computer science experts who know how to analyze high volumes of data and be able to figure out where the spending is.
	I mean, I guess, Mark, here's the question.
	Like, it's fair to ask, okay, is do you want 19 and 20 year olds to have unfettered access to this stuff?
	But it's not like the 19 and 20 year olds are the ones making the decisions.
	I think they're highlighting the problems.
	And it's the actual agency heads, the cabinet heads of the people who are in charge of these agencies.
	They're the ones making decisions.
	Okay, we want to cut this.
	Don't cut that.
	So it's not like these Elon Musk task force have unilateral authority to do that.
	They're highlighting the things.
	They're making the recommendations.
	And the wheels of government are actually working as they should.
	You heard Pete Hegg said, say, listen, we welcome the scrutiny of Doge, okay?
	We don't think it's going to impact our actual ability to warfight, but we think it will impact things like the climate change initiative.
	Actually, when he said that, Mark, I looked it up.
	In 2022, there's a climate change initiative for the Department of Defense.
	In 2022, their budget was like $600-something million.
	Last year was over $2 billion, I think.
	It was stupid, but that's where our tax dollars have been going, and everyone's just sort of okay with it.
	And thank goodness we got these young whiz kisses to help highlight those problems.
	So when they say that, oh, but Elon Musk has access to our data, social security number, what is the big fear that a guy with 400 billion is going to do identity theft?
	I mean, what's the problem?
	Is he going to fish us like some Nigerian prince?
	Yeah.
	I mean, anybody with a Gmail account has already given up their access to their private data.
	So, yeah, it's ludicrous.
	And I think it just speaks to, I mean, I actually heard yesterday, Jen Saki, she went on Jon Stewart's podcast.
	And this is how out of touch those people are.
	They talked about Joe Rogan and Theo Vaughan as being part of this media ecosystem and this echo chamber.
	And John Stewart's like, those are just comedians.
	Just because they happen to talk to Donald Trump doesn't make them part of the right-wing ecosystem.
	But that's just anything Trump connected, the left loses their mind over.
	And I thought that was just a great example of why.
	Yeah.
	So Musk was originally talking about saving a trillion dollars at the end of this.
	What do you think?
	Maybe even more.
	And if he does, doesn't that mean we could cut federal taxes almost in half?
	No, absolutely.
	Why would we be against cutting wasteful spending?
	I mean, you hear this phrase waste, fraud, and abuse.
	You know, I did a book about voter fraud, and it came out in 2018.
	But one of the things we talked about is how many fraudulent voter registrations there exist.
	And that's like not in dispute.
	You know, it's the Supreme Court statistics that said one out of eight.
	And voter registration error, you know, pales in comparison to things like social security fraud and welfare fraud and abuse.
	And you heard actually people testify about that this week in Washington, D.C. at the first ever Doge hearing.
	So I don't know who could or should be against wasteful spending on money that should go to the needy and the senior citizens and the people that need the most.
	All waste, fraud, and abuse does is imperil our ability to actually take care of our social contract for people that should be on welfare, people that need Social Security.
	And it's a classic example of Donald Trump's genius.
	He takes these 80-20 issues.
	80% of the country said, yeah, we should only spend money on people that should get it.
	And these people are like, look, we're spending lots of money.
	People are taking COVID money.
	They shouldn't get it.
	People are taking welfare money that shouldn't get it.
	And the left freaks out about that, too.
	And that's why they have no credibility.
	And that's why they're losing the argument.
	And that's where the American people are on the side of Donald Trump.
	Well, Eric Eggers, great talking to you.
	You're going to hear his podcast.
	It's great.
	It's the Drill Down podcast.
	And you can hear it.
	It's him and Peter Schweitzer.
	It's every week.
	And keep up the good work.
	We'll talk to you soon.
	Thanks, Mark.
	Always great to be with you.
	You can find our podcast at thedrilldown.com.
	All right, thedrilldown.com, thedrilldown.com.
	And we'll take some calls in a minute.
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	Hey, welcome back.
	It's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
	We'll take some calls.
	Let's go to Tommy in Texas.
	Tommy, how you doing?
	Hey, good afternoon.
	Thank you for taking my call.
	You know, there's a lot of corruption.
	There's a lot of, I guess, misspending and waste and abuse that's been uncovered.
	My idea is, why don't we get the government, Elon Musk and his crew, to hire 50, 100, 200 forensic accountants and start looking back in time and come up with some real accurate numbers on, yes, the fraud and abuse that they've already found, how far back it goes and who's involved.
	Let's put some of these people in jail.
	Well, let's just get them out of there.
	Let's just find the money, claw it back if you can, throw them the hell out of the government and make sure it doesn't happen again.
	But thanks for calling, Tommy.
	Forensic accountants are good.
	But, you know, I'd go with these 19-year-olds, these Elon Musk guys, these big balls and these, that's his name.
	That's what he called himself online.
	I have to say, we all know that he called himself that because in the hopes of one day, someone knowing who he was and having to do exactly what we're doing and say it on live radio and TV.
	He did that because he was back.
	Because he's 19.
	Well, at the time he did that, he was probably 15, 16.
	Whatever.
	That's what you do when you're 15, 16.
	So I don't know if you know that Elon Musk changed his name.
	So 15-year-old Mark Simone did that.
	He's like, hey, what's up?
	How are you?
	Well, you know, back then there was no Twitter.
	But what we did, we all made terrible frank phone calls where we made up a name.
	But Elon Musk changed his name on Twitter the other day for one day.
	Did you know that?
	I did.
	Yeah, he changed his name to Harry Bowles, B-O-L-Z.
	And he did that just so on CNN they would have to keep saying that.
	He's like, if you want to talk about me and you want to show my post, you are going to have to show it all.
	Yeah.
	I was just looking at the screen.
	There's a CNN.
	We have every station is up.
	This Jake Tapper is on the, this guy looks so mad.
	He's fuming.
	His glasses are all fogged up.
	They look so angry.
	You know why they're angry?
	Because Sean Hannity got to go to Washington, D.C., interview Elon Musk, interview President Trump, sit in the Oval Office and get the truth.
	And by the way, for those of you listening, Sean's interview is going to air next week on Hannity at 9 on the Fox News channel.
	Tuesday night?
	Tuesday night.
	I think knowing Sean and the president, both of them love to talk.
	I'm assuming it'll be Tuesday and Wednesday.
	Oh, okay.
	Yeah, plus you got Elon in there and Elon also likes to talk.
	You got three of them together.
	Forget about it.
	But yeah, next week.
	And they're mad because they don't have access.
	Well, they can know, you know, they have access.
	Trump loves to talk to these people.
	He'll talk to Knights.
	He does.
	Unlike Biden, you know, who read from a cue card and didn't know anybody's name.
	I mean, it's a completely different presidency.
	Yeah, I just love the you're not supposed to do this, but I actually put on MSNBC sometimes.
	I love watching them all riled up.
	They're so angry, so mad, so enraged.
	And, you know, people watch MSNBC.
	They think it's like a news network.
	It's not.
	Rachel Maddow getting a lot of flack for Wednesday night.
	She did this 20-minute expose on how they secretly gave a contract to Tesla worth $400 million.
	And Elon Musk was handed this contract for $400 million.
	You know, the guy's worth $404 billion.
	$400 million is like a tenth of a penny to him.
	It doesn't mean anything.
	So she went through this for 12 minutes, the whole segment on this contract.
	Next day, everybody's pointing out the contract was signed by Anthony Blinken.
	It was a Biden administration concert.
	They're delivering some of the cars now.
	But the contract was given out in November last year.
	Trump wasn't even president.
	But see, this is the problem, right?
	The details don't matter.
	They get the headline.
	That's all they care about.
	They get people pissed off.
	And then they find out, oh, by the way, we were full of it.
	It's like when she had Trump's tax returns.
	She did.
	What was that?
	Like two days of teeing up.
	And then you get there.
	It's like big, flat, nothing.
	Yeah.
	Remember how important it was to see Trump's, we had to audit Trump's taxes, the most important thing on earth.
	But if you want to audit the government, you're Hitler.
	You're not allowed to look.
	Well, that was the best part.
	Trump was Hitler during the entire campaign.
	And then all of a sudden, they're like, yeah, come to the White House, have tea with me and Jill.
	Yeah.
	I'm like, oh, is that what you do with a terrorist?
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	I mean, the whole thing.
	You know, your liberal friends, you get crazy arguing with them.
	It's not their fault.
	They think MSNBC is like a news network because they look and they got glasses.
	They got bow ties.
	They think it looks like a set, like a news show.
	It's not.
	It's just crazy propaganda.
	Anyway, we'll take some more calls in a minute.
	800-941-Sean.
	Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
	Follow me on Instagram, Mark Simone, NYC at Instagram.
	And as we said, Sean is off today's big interview with Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
	You'll see it Tuesday on Hannity, Tuesday night.
	Hey, it's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
	We'll take some calls.
	800-941-Sean is the number.
	800-941-Sean, President Trump heading to Mar-a-Lago for the weekend.
	He will be at the Daytona 500.
	Long week, worked very, very hard.
	It's fascinating to watch these Democrats.
	You think they're smart.
	You know, they're maybe annoying and horrible, but Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Schumer and those types, you don't think they're really, really stupid, but they must be.
	And whoever was running the Biden White House, hopefully one day we'll find out.
	You look back on how dumb they were about everything.
	You know, it turns out now, we found out today that President Trump has the mugshot framed, and it's up in the White House, right outside the Oval Office, as you walk into the Oval Office, the blue hallway where you come in in a big gold frame.
	There's the mugshot.
	And that's the entrance the press uses.
	So all the press have to come in and see the mugshot.
	But he's so proud of that thing.
	And if you go back and study this carefully, that was the turning point.
	You know, there was a period there where it looked like Ron DeSantis will be the nominee.
	What's the name?
	Nikki Haley will be the nominee.
	It was the mugshot that just turned it around.
	That's where he started to really climb in the polls.
	The mug shot did the trick.
	What were you people thinking with that law affair with the mugshot?
	And even last night, MSNBC, they claimed without evidence that Biden was behind it.
	Without evidence, Biden's top guy in the Justice Department left the Justice Department to come run the case in New York.
	He personally, he did the opening argument.
	He questioned the witnesses.
	That disgusting Georgia bunch.
	What's the guy's name?
	Fonnie Willis's guy.
	He was in the White House.
	Nathan Wade put down two eight-hour meetings in the White House.
	That's not evidence that.
	He can't recall, though, Mark.
	He can't recall.
	Did you go to a cabin with Miss Willis?
	Ever. Ever?
	Ever.
	Some of our best work.
	Trying to hold back and feel it.
	And if you feel, I got you, Peter.
	No.
	Never gone to a cabinet with this.
	That's almost a whole chorus.
	It's okay to say no.
	Just for the listeners.
	Of course, there's 400 pictures of them in the cabin.
	It's on Instagram.
	They're in the cabin.
	They're all over the cabin.
	And if I were those two, I would go hide somewhere in a cabin.
	Don't bother anybody.
	But this guy was in the White House two eight-hour meetings.
	Have you ever been in an eight-hour meeting in your life?
	Ever.
	For anything.
	An eight-hour meeting.
	Now, meeting, if it's what, how long is a meeting?
	10 minutes, 15 minutes?
	If it's something really big, it could be an hour.
	What is an eight-hour meeting?
	There was no coordinating.
	It was an eight-hour meeting.
	So we'll take some calls.
	800-941-Sean is the number.
	Let's go to Josie, Kansas City, Missouri.
	Josie, how you doing?
	I'm doing good.
	Thank you for taking my call.
	So I just have two points.
	Uh-oh.
	Everyone's talking about this and that and up and down every which way, but no one's mentioning Hillary Clinton.
	Let's keep it that way.
	Woman who stole dishes from the White House.
	Left the White House.
	Bill Clinton, you know, the whole corruption issue.
	And then what happened after she lost the election.
	So is she going to get investigated now?
	I don't know.
	Yeah.
	Nah, leave her alone.
	You know, she's like that old woman in Sunset Boulevard, you know, at home, drunk, plotting some kind of comeback.
	It's never going to happen.
	We don't need to go after her.
	Why does every woman you talk about sound so terrible?
	The women at Mar-a-Largo, the women on Sunset Boulevard.
	No, the movie Sunset Boulevard, the play, remember?
	No.
	Should I remember that?
	The audience remembers it.
	Yeah, it was one of the greatest movies ever, and it was a big Broadway show forever.
	Actually, I think it just reopened on Broadway.
	But it was about an old, old, old movie star who'd been like from the silent movie days and plotting this comeback that looked absolutely ridiculous.
	Bill Clinton, you know, this guy was the greatest, slickest politician, orator, president.
	Hillary never made it.
	First time she runs.
	First time she runs, a total beginner novice, Barack Obama, comes out of nowhere and takes the nomination from her.
	Second time she runs, a total amateur who's never been in politics, beats her.
	It's great.
	Every time Bill Clinton comes in the house and looks at her, he must just go.
	Anyway, let's go to James in Florida.
	James, how you doing?
	I want you to know that I am very disappointed in you, Mark, with what you just said.
	Leave her alone?
	Yeah, leave her alone.
	I'll let you know right now, America wants accountability and justice.
	Every time that we get these people who are in office, they got enough lawyers that are going to keep them out of jail till they die.
	All right, let's go after Elizabeth Warren, though.
	Chuck Schumer, these people.
	Let's get them.
	How come you are backing them up?
	That's all I wanted to say, and have a nice day.
	All right.
	You should be a Democrat.
	You got that angry kind of, you guys should be on CNN.
	He's not angry, though.
	He's nice angry.
	He's have a nice day.
	I'm going to argue with anybody who says have a nice day.
	It ends in a very different way, I'll tell you that.
	Have a nice day.
	Don't tell me what to do.
	I'll have a bad day if I want.
	Let's go to Greg in Oceanside, California.
	Greg, how you doing?
	I'm doing good.
	How are you doing?
	Let me check.
	Not bad.
	Not bad.
	Okay, that's good.
	Yeah, I'm out here in Oceanside right next to Camp Pendleton where we get that thunder of freedom from the base.
	Oh, that's good.
	Well, you know, when they're doing that big artillery firing and stuff over there, the windows shake and the booms go.
	Really?
	Oh, yeah.
	Everybody around here hears it, you know.
	They got the big artillery, you know, when they're doing maneuvers and they're practicing everything.
	It really gets the windows shaken, especially when they're doing late night stuff.
	Oh, okay.
	And what did you want to say, Greg?
	Yeah.
	I was calling because earlier callers said that these people that if they found that defaulted the government, you know, got kickbacks and stuff, they should actually go for those people and put them in jail.
	And I think the same thing because, you know, someday the Democrats will be back in power.
	And if they don't see any repercussions from having, you know, people thrown in jail for this stuff, they'll go right back to their old ways.
	All right.
	Yeah, that's a very good point.
	That's a good point.
	Yeah, if they took kickbacks or anything like that, of course they should be prosecuted, be in jail.
	But a lot of them, you got to remember, this is what they do for a living.
	Congressmen and women, it's a lot of Democrats, it's a lot of Republicans too.
	You know, what they do is they give out these contracts.
	They know they're overpaying.
	You know, for instance, it costs $40,000 a mile to pave a highway.
	We spend a million a mile.
	They do this all the time.
	You know, you hear the Pentagon bought a screwdriver for $1,000.
	They know it's that way, but they deliberately overpay everybody, give out these contracts.
	In exchange, they're getting massive donations for their campaign.
	They're getting votes.
	They're getting all kinds of stuff.
	You know, Donald Trump, when he first became president, first term, just as he's coming in, it turns out Air Force One is getting a new Air Force One.
	They're making the plane, and they send him the bill, and it's like $7 billion, which is overcharging like crazy.
	But that's what you do every time, and nobody says a word.
	Well, think about this.
	They didn't realize for the first time in history, the guy that just got elected has bought 15 planes in his lifetime.
	He knows exactly what they cost.
	The guy owned an airline once, an actual airline, the Trump shuttle.
	He knows exactly what planes cost.
	He starts looking through the itemized bill, calls up the chairman of Boeing and said, $7 billion.
	I see $3 billion here.
	But see, this is the difference, right?
	So you have Trump and you have maybe like a handful of senators and a handful of congressmen that have actually had private professions, whether they're doctors, they're lawyers, they've owned private business.
	You know, we had a guy, Congressman on here once.
	His family owned like a chain of grocery stores.
	He actually knew the cost of food, how much it took, you know, to bring it in, to sell it, so on and so forth.
	Many of these people, you know, Schumer, Pelosi, Kennedy, you know, you know, these are people that have been at McConnell.
	I mean, he's the worst.
	And it's like, for me, it's like, you know, it's us against them in the sense that whether they're Dems or Republicans, if they're not working for the will of the people, then they're working against the will of the people.
	What?
	In their defense, Schumer, guys like Schumer is in the business of donor favors.
	This is all he does all day long.
	Schumer's a creep.
	A creep.
	Donor.
	Schumer is a lifelong favors.
	Lifelong politicians, and he's not in the business of favors.
	He is in the business of whatever makes Chucky Schumer's bank account bigger.
	Well, that's what it is.
	Every donor, even though I hate to say it, even Republican donors here in New York.
	100%.
	They'll tell you.
	I said, why do you keep supporting Schumer?
	Because I could wake that guy up at 3 in the morning.
	He'll do what I ask him to do.
	Anything.
	No question about it.
	And that's what they do.
	You see this microphone?
	ElectroVoice RE20.
	I certainly hear it.
	RE-20.
	I'd say this costs about $350.
	Now, if the government bought this microphone, $6,000 a piece.
	You know what's so funny?
	Do you remember when Michelle Obama was running the healthcare.gov and she was taking all those bids and they took the bid for like the highest bid and it turned out that it was like her cousin's son's uncle's grandmother or whatever.
	I'm like, all right.
	You know what I mean?
	Like I could have had a college student build that for $3,000.
	Like stop.
	It didn't even work.
	No, even the hotel rooms for the illegal.
	You know, if you book a hotel, let's say you're having your wedding and you call the hotel, we like to book 20 rooms.
	You get a rate.
	It's like half price.
	You know, if you're a big corporation, if it's $1,000 a night, you're paying $250 a night because you're a big corporation.
	You buy lots of hotel rooms.
	When they took the entire hotel in New York for the migrants, Musk uncovered this.
	They actually pay double the normal rate.
	They're buying the whole hotel for a year, every room.
	That's the special rate.
	Double the market.
	But this is what's happening here in New York.
	I mean, look at what the comptroller just came out and said, yeah, they're charging double their prices at the Roosevelt Hotel, which once was a beautiful hotel.
	Oh, my God.
	And now it's run down.
	It's migrant city.
	It's disgusting.
	And it's right on 45th and Madison in one of the most beautiful parts in Manhattan.
	And now you got, what, hotel rooms that probably should cost, I don't know, somewhere between $500 and $600 a night for a really nice room.
	And now you're paying, you know, $4,000 because you're milking the government.
	Absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	The Roosevelt Hotel.
	If you ever watch their show, Mad Men, that's the hotel they were always going to.
	The ballroom, this, that.
	I used to be the house band there.
	I used to play there every weekend.
	Really?
	Yes.
	The Roosevelt Hotel.
	Roosevelt Hotel.
	Linda was a singer in all those bands.
	I was.
	It was beautiful.
	Go by the Roosevelt now.
	There's laundry hanging out the window.
	It is awful.
	Awful.
	Anyway, we'll take some calls in a minute.
	800-321-Sean, Mark Simone here.
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	Let's go to Neil, Brooklyn, New York.
	Neil, how are you doing?
	Thanks, Mark.
	I mean, you could help me with this.
	I searched the internet.
	I can't get an answer to it.
	When the election ended on the 5th or the 6th of November, was Trump holding a majority of the popular vote or not?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, he won the popular vote.
	Okay, I know there were some lesser candidates that draw up some votes, but it's a talking point for the left now that he doesn't, he never won the majority.
	Well, that's what they do.
	They make up all kinds of stuff.
	Bloodbath, Charlottesville.
	They make up stuff.
	That's what they do on the left.
	You think they padded Carmel's votes after the fifth and the sixth?
	Well, in that in California, believe it or not, the laws are so crazy in California.
	After the election's over, you're allowed to send in mail-in votes for up to a week, and they don't have to be signed or have an address on them.
	So they did pad it there, and they also stole probably a couple of House seats that way.
	But no, Trump won the popular vote.
	But if you watch MSNBC or CNN, New York Times, you'll see a lot of false information.
	Happens all the time.
	Well, thank you very much.
	That's exactly what I thought happened.
	All right, Neil.
	How many times did you watch the strongest, toughest border bill ever?
	Did you ever read that bill?
	There was nothing tough in that bill.
	In fact, the border is secure.
	Yeah, that border bill made the remember what it was like under Biden, 5,000 a day crossing.
	It made that permit.
	No, what was worse was when they said, where are the children?
	And Mayorkas and Becera both said, we don't know.
	And then you had Tom Tiffany, who actually had the cojones, to actually say to Becera, Do you know that you are sending illegal immigrant small children to brothels, to prostitutes, to pimps to be sex trafficked?
	You're actually doing it.
	You are the biggest consumer.
	And he's like, uh, uh, uh, I do not have an answer for this.
	I'll look into this.
	It's all BS.
	You notice those guys are all hiding.
	When's the last time you saw Christopher Ray, my orchestra?
	They're all hiding.
	And what happened to Joe Biden?
	This guy, no, I just don't think you'll ever see this guy again.
	He'll never come out of his house again.
	Remember, what's that movie?
	2001, A Space Odyssey.
	He's that old guy at the end.
	Oh, I thought you were going to say weekend at Bernie's.
	I was going to a different day.
	Weekend at Bernie's is a good day for him.
	You'll never see this.
	He is always on the beach facing the other way.
	Although he's got a book deal, believe it or not.
	Oh, my God.
	What is he writing in a crayon?
	Give me a break.
	It's a way of paying him off.
	You get a book deal.
	And presidential library.
	Remind me to talk about this in the next hour.
	Where should Trump have his presidential library?
	Biden is supposed to have one, but they can't raise any money.
	Nobody will give him any money for it.
	So they're talking about maybe a bookmobile or something.
	Can't raise a penny for his library.
	You should talk to Zelensky.
	I hear they're close.
	Yeah.
	Oh, we'll get to that in the next hour, too.
	What's going on with Ukraine?
	We'll get to the hostages and more.
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