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Protecting America's Health - February 24th, Hour 3
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If you want to be a part of the program, the president was at CPAC, and, you know, got to give him a lot of credit.
You know, and this is what we'll show on TV when we have our White House press briefing with Caroline Levitt tonight.
You know, we've gone over these polls.
We have repeatedly pointed out that, you know, he's got one of the greatest starts ever of any president in history as confirmed even this morning by this Harvard Harris poll that came out and the highlights, you know, which we've been going over.
You know, voters more optimistic about the direction of the country.
38% now say the economy is on the right track, 10 points above last month.
One in two say the economy is strong today.
That is the highest it's been since he left office.
Round three in 10 say their financial situation is improving and he enjoys, again, a majority approval rating in this one, 52%, you know, on top of the 57% RMG research had him at.
Rasmussen had him at 56.
Insider Advantage had him at 55.
Trafalgar, Insider Advantage together had him at 54.
You know, and it just goes against the narrative that the liberal media and the Democrats keep pushing.
You know, and this was my problem with the James Carville interview, which we've been highlighting here when he said the worst start of any president of history.
No, that's just not true.
Fact check me.
Well, we're going to fact-check them.
And, you know, you can see a realignment happening in the news media as well.
And all of this is because they're not telling people the truth and they don't really dig deep into the stories that impact people's lives.
Now, if the Democratic Party thinks opposing Doge cuts and the billions in waste fraud, abuse, and corruption is a negative for Donald Trump, then they're just that far out of touch with the mainstream.
If they want to fight for the rights of men to play in women's sports, they're that out of touch.
If they are going to put the rights of illegal immigrants over the safety of American citizens, that's not going to work either.
And anyway, here's Trump at CPAC.
Then we'll check in with Sarah Carter.
She was there and a couple of the comments he made.
If I watch this MSNBC, which is a threat to democracy, actually, they're stone-cold mean, but they're stuttering.
They're all screwed up.
They're all mentally screwed up.
They don't know what.
Their ratings have gone down the tubes.
I don't even talk about CNN.
CNN's sort of like, I don't know, they're pathetic, actually.
But MSNBC was mean.
Their ratings are absolutely down.
This Rachel Maddow, what does she have?
She's got nothing.
Nothing.
She took a sabbatical where she worked one day a week.
They paid her a lot of money.
She gets no ratings.
I should go against her in the ratings because I'll tell you, she gets no rates.
All she does is to talk about Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, all different subjects.
Trump this, Trump that.
But these people are really, I mean, they lie.
They shouldn't be allowed to lie every night.
They are really a vehicle of the Democrat Party.
But you know what's so fascinating about this?
Joy Reed, and we can play some highlights later in the program today of some of the most radical, extreme things.
And let me be upfront.
I don't wish anyone harm in this industry.
It's a hard business to be a part of.
And, you know, as the longest running primetime cable news host in history, nobody would know better than me.
And it's, I don't sit here and take the light, but I can analyze why, why it is that they're failing.
And, you know, having been at the forefront of this new media explosion starting with talk radio and Fox News from day one, and that has now expanded out into social media and has expanded into podcast world.
Who are the people that are going to end up being successful?
They're going to be people that tell truth.
You know, and then there are stories they don't cover.
They didn't cover Joe's cognitive decline.
They didn't cover the truth about open borders and unvetted illegals, including known terrorists and cartel members and rapists and murderers and gang members coming into our country.
They didn't tell the truth about the Biden-Harris economy.
They didn't tell any of it, and they still don't tell the truth.
You know, we have an interesting case, for example.
I don't know if you've heard about this case of Sparrow, but this is a custody case.
There's a hearing tomorrow before the Virginia Supreme Court about a beautiful child that might be taken from an American family that loves her and legally adopted her.
And anyway, and there's a chance that this little girl can go back, you know, to Afghanistan, run by the Taliban, where she has no family.
And it's just heartbreaking to watch this.
Now, Sarah Carter was with us with the Russia hoax.
He was with us with the FISA abuse.
You know, she's been doing, she did a deep dive at the border for us when nobody else in the media would cover it.
And she'd been down there so many times, I don't even think she can count at this point.
And now, you know, she's covering this story where others in the media ignore it.
Anyway, Sarah, welcome back.
Hey, thanks for having me on, Sean.
I really appreciate it.
You know, listening to you go over all of the years.
I mean, more than a decade of stories that the media refused to cover and how there were so many times you and I, Greg Jared, John Solomon, so many of us were just working against all odds to get the truth out to the American people about what was happening in the FBI.
What was going on in our intelligence apparatus?
What was happening to an American, Carter Page, even before his name went public, and the failure of the mainstream media, which, I mean, it never even occurred to me when I became a journalist that it would ever turn out this way.
You know, that I would be fighting against what I had once looked up to to tell these stories was astonishing.
And even at the border.
And now, of course, you know, with this beautiful little girl named Sparrow, who was rescued amazingly by, you know, Major Joshua Mass and his wife, adopted from Afghanistan, she, I mean, she survived by the grace of God.
I mean, this little baby was in the hands of a mother who was strapped with explosives and running to kill U.S. troops.
She was with al-Qaeda fighters.
Apparently, this little beautiful little girl, her father was an al-Qaeda foreign operative in Afghanistan.
The little girl survived by the grace of God.
She was a tiny baby when the mother blew herself up.
The baby went in a different direction.
She had a fractured head.
Her bones were broken in her body, little body.
The soldiers, of course, are U.S. troops, amazing U.S. troops, rescued and picked up this little beautiful angel, rushed her to Bagram Airfield, which, of course, I spent a lot of time in.
And I would see the enormous care our doctors gave to not only U.S. troops, but to Afghan children and to Afghan people.
And they basically, the entire team at the hospital raised her for five to six months because she had no family.
Her family was now dead.
And, you know, Major Joshua Matt and his wife, they adopted this beautiful little girl from Afghanistan.
The couple did everything they could to protect her.
And by the way, now a couple, and according to the reports that are coming out, there was a family, one of the family members was actually on a U.S. care watch list, is suing to take the little girl.
They're refusing to take DNA tests.
This all happened under Biden administration.
And under the DOJ, under Biden, apparently there's some talk that he was scrubbed off the list.
This is still under investigation, so I want to put that out there.
There's still a lot of investigation in this.
And the hearing is in the Virginia Supreme Court tomorrow, Tuesday, February 25th.
But the child is now, has gone through rehabilitation.
She came during the exodus, the horrible withdrawal from Afghanistan, Sean.
She was rescued on those flights, brought to the United States to the family.
She has been raised by this family.
Glenn Beck did an incredible piece on her, it's on his ex-post.
So if people go there, they can see it.
And I'm telling you, this is the Taliban's Eli Young Gonzalez.
If this child ends up in the hands of this family, there is a strong possibility, according to the sources that I spoke with, that she could end up back in Afghanistan in the hands of the Taliban, and that will be it.
We'll never hear from her again.
All right, quick break more with investigative reporter Sarah Carter is with us as we continue the unbelievable tale of saving Sparrow, this young girl that, well, whose fate will be decided by the Virginia Supreme Court tomorrow.
Anyway, we'll have more on that.
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I've got to imagine, maybe I'm just being overly optimistic, and I don't really know the makeup of Virginia Supreme Court.
And I don't know if this is going to be the last possible court hearing or if potentially it can go to the U.S. Supreme Court.
I got to imagine anybody left, right, center that has a heart and a mind would never allow this to happen because we both know what the possibilities are and the danger that this little girl would face if she was sent back.
Yeah, absolutely, Sean.
I could tell you from my own personal reporting, my on-the-ground reporting in Afghanistan, spent a lot of years there.
And I would talk to the children.
I had Afghan interpreters with me, whether I was, you know, dealing with Pashto tribes or anywhere in the country where I would talk to children, but especially young girls, how devastating it is for them, life under the Taliban.
It is horrific.
They have no rights whatsoever.
In fact, many of the children, and especially the little girls, are worth less when they sell them to their husbands than fighting dogs.
And that is a fact.
And these children are basically subjugated to the worst, most terrific abuse you can imagine.
So here we have this amazing American family.
They are speaking up.
They are speaking forward.
This child is a part of their lives.
This child, she is being raised by them.
They have two sons.
This little girl loves school.
She is an American.
She's an American.
She is, you know, five years old now, five years plus.
She is in school.
She is playing at the beach.
She's, you know, sitting in the arms of her father and mother, the only father and mother that she knows.
And, you know, when you see the clips of the documentary that Glenn Beck put together, and you see when they first get her from Afghanistan after they had to leave and wait for her to come back after the exodus, and you see, even the mother said it's like she had hollow eyes, like she was a devastated little baby.
And it took so long for them to get rehabilitation for her.
I can't imagine what it would be like to have this child ripped out of the arms of the only family she has ever known to be given to somebody else that is not even related to her because they refused to take any kind of DNA test to prove their relation.
And this was negotiated with and through the Taliban as well as what I am hearing on the backside from the Biden State Department and others and with the possibility of her being sent back.
That's why I felt so compelled to advocate for this story and to speak out on it because I've been there.
I've seen it.
Are you going to the court hearing tomorrow?
The arguments.
Yeah, I am going to be following the court hearings tomorrow very closely.
I am actually heading to Budapest, Hungary tomorrow, which is going to be fascinating on another story that I'm looking into.
And I'm going to be coming back within three days.
A story had already been planned weeks before I had even heard about this.
And that is the reason why when I got the call late last night, you know, hey, you've got to get this story on your radar.
Could you please get it out there for your followers?
Could you please speak with everyone you know about it?
I was jumping on it immediately.
I was getting right on board.
I think that there is some behind the scenes discussions.
Obviously, the lawyers right now are working diligently to try to get as many people as possible on board.
You know, congressional members have sent letters, of course, to the great, our great AG, Pam Bondi.
She's amazing.
You know, Pete Hegseth knows about this now.
Apparently, Marco Rubio, people within the Trump administration are just getting wind of this.
I am confident based on all of that that this will have a good ending.
I don't want to take it for granted, but I am confident that the right people, people that do understand exactly what you're describing, will be all over it.
We're going to get updates as this unfolds.
We appreciate your time as always.
Sorry, I just have to move on.
I'm on a hard break here, but thank you for what you're doing.
Your infectious passion always comes through.
We always appreciate you.
Hey, Sean, thank you so much.
I appreciate everything.
You know, you're the best.
Thank you.
All right.
Thank you for what you're doing.
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You know, the media landscape is changing and it's changing not a little, but it's changing dramatically.
And I don't think it's an accident post the election of Donald Trump that, you know, Jim Fake News Acosta is out of fake news CNN and that Chucky Todd is gone from NBC and the same with Andrea Mitchell.
And I don't think it's an accident that Nora O'Donnell is gone from CBS.
Now we find out Lester Holt is gone.
And then we found out over the weekend, MSDNC, they're going to just reshuffle the deck of the Titanic because they're going to stay radical left.
But, you know, Joy Reid is out and Alex Wagner's out.
Now, look, I don't wish Linda's going to disagree.
She's going to have a fit here.
I just don't wish harm to anybody.
I know that my success in this business is based on my relationship with you, this audience.
And it's not a zero-sum game.
It's my success that I will have and I've had is because of all of you.
And it's also because of what we do and what we offer news information and try to be entertaining that you're not going to get elsewhere in the news media.
That is our mission every day and to do it in as an enlightening and entertaining way as possible.
And none of this surprises me because the people, with maybe the exception of Lester Halt, Lester, when he interviewed me a number of times on the Today Show, for example, he'd be filling in for Matt Lauer or whoever.
And every time I met him, he could not have been more gracious.
So I've got to, I don't, maybe he just stepped aside to do the dateline because he didn't want to do the day-to-day grind of television.
I don't know.
Maybe he's getting old.
I have no idea what his age is.
And Dateline is a franchise show, and he's going to take a bigger role in it.
And I really do wish him the best.
But for the rest of them, they are hardcore liberal talk show hosts.
And they masquerade and they call themselves journalists.
They're not.
And if they'd be more honest about it, I think they'd be better off.
For example, let's play a little highlight reel of Joy Reed, who, you know, just got let go from MSDNC.
And, you know, if this is the type of programming that they want to air over there, or they did in Alex Wagner, then I guess they're free to do it.
You know, here are some of her, well, greatest hits, if you will.
And the potato family certainly deserves answers and justice.
But the way this story has captivated the nation has many wondering, why not the same media attention when people of color go missing?
Well, the answer actually has a name, Missing White Woman Syndrome.
But I do hope that as a senator, you'll prove those who call you a token wrong.
Gotta love the Tim Scott standing there to provide the patina of diversity over that round of words, that basket full of words.
Guarantee you, if that was a Black Lives Matter protest in D.C., there would already be people shackled, arrested, or dead.
So for so many reasons, being a freeloader and a selfish and disrespectful one, and for misappropriating black vernacular for misogynistic purposes, Elon Musk is the absolute worst.
If somehow they manage to stumble into the Supreme Court, do any of you guys trust Uncle Clarence and Amy Coney Barrett and those guys to actually follow the letter of the law?
No.
All right, good evening, everyone.
Begin the readout tonight with a message to Republicans.
Okay, we get it.
COVID is the precious and you love it.
Now we have a Republican Party that not only at its base is becoming Putinite, pro-Putin, this fourth brag renaming falls under the performative.
But the other half, which is far more serious, sure looks like an attempt to resegregate the military.
And I thought she would go astronaut, keeping it real.
He, to me, would have been the safest, most conventionally safe pick.
White, super white, like, you know, mayonnaise sandwich on Wonderbread, right?
From the, you know, from a border state.
Similar similarities to what happened in Germany and what's happening now in America are just undeniable.
History may not repeat verbatim, but it sure does rhyme.
And it was just, I think it was last Friday, wasn't it?
Was it last Friday where an MSDNC guest was calling African-American conservatives?
Well, I don't even want to say it.
It's so repulsive to me, but listen to what they said then.
Your thoughts, Byron Donalds, who walked out after Dixie was played in New York and has no shame there.
They say he's going to be the governor of Florida now.
Yeah, every community has what I call their chickens for Colonel Sanders.
Muslims have their halal chickens.
The black community has their chickens.
Byron Dollins is a grown-ass black man who referred to Donald Trump as his daddy.
And I want to tell the Byron Donaldson, every community has got a MacDonald.
I got a Kash Patel.
We got a Nimronta, you know, we got the Haley.
We all got him.
All right.
What I want to say is this.
They'll never love you.
They'll never love you.
No matter what you do, they'll never love you.
You can never wipe out that brown or black skin.
Apparently now Joy Reed has just responded.
Let's play that.
My show had value.
And that I'm sorry.
That What I was doing and value and value.
And in the end, I'm sorry, I'm not, I try not to cry on TV.
And I think this is kind of like me on TV.
So I apologize.
And that, and that it kind of, and then it mattered.
I think Karen is there and she's been texting me as well.
And so, what I will just say is that in the end, thank you.
Where I land is that the moment that I of guilt that I felt that I went hard on so many issues, whether it was the Black Lives Matter issues of a young baby or a mom or a dad that was killed, or when we opened up people's eyes to the fact that Asian Americans were being targeted and not just black folks that,
or went hard for immigrants who've done nothing but come to this country like my parents did, and try to make a life and defended them.
Or whether we've talked about what the president is doing that is subversive to the Constitution, that is injurious to our liberty, you know, defending books that people find inconvenient, you know, that Nicole Hannah-Jones put into our spirit that we need to understand 1619 as the real founding of this country, whether it's talking about any of these issues.
And yes, whether it's talking about Gaza and the fact that we as the American people have a right to object, to have a right to object to little babies being bombed.
And where I come down on that is I'm not sorry.
I am not sorry that I stood up for those things because those things are of God.
And, you know, I'm a church girl too.
And those are the things that I was taught were of God.
And so I'm not sorry.
I'm just proud of my show.
All right.
She's entitled to be proud of her show.
And I'm sure she'll move to the podcast arena, which is where most people go.
And maybe she'd do well.
I don't know.
But I will tell you that in my opinion, not that anyone cares what I think.
And maybe I do have a little bit of knowledge about this because I have been the longest surviving primetime cable news host in the history of cable news, is that it's on some level, you better have truth on your side when you are expressing things to your audience and you better have honesty.
And my feeling, and I'm not speaking about Joy in particular, but my feeling generally about MSTNC is they have gotten away with spreading lies that they've peddled and conspiracy theories and they don't get held accountable.
Now they're being held accountable.
And this is the real story behind this past election is that you've had two major cable networks and you had three broadcast channels.
And on those broadcast channels, their news programming and their morning shows and their so-called late night comedy shows that aren't very funny.
And they are officially all on cancellation watch.
And you had the New York Times and the Washington Post, the newspapers around the country, and they threw everything that they possibly had at Donald Trump.
And Donald Trump still won the election.
That is the big story to come out of this.
And, you know, this interview, I was interviewed by Media, which is a trade publication.
But I think that this is now the future of media and people are going to be held accountable and responsible for what they say.
And there's one other component to it.
And I don't know if she considers herself a talk show host, an advocacy journalist, or a journalist.
I'm not really sure.
I have no idea.
But regardless, if she wants a future in broadcasting, just if you are a talk show host, admit that you are a talk show host.
I don't hide the fact.
I'm a member of the press, and I can produce thousands of hours of straight news coverage on TV and radio, and thousands of hours of investigative reporting.
The Russia hoax being one, FISA abuse being another.
I can produce, you know, Obama vetting his radical associations, things the mainstream, you know, corrupt media never did.
There's a reason that early in my career, I got Richard Jewell right, and then that taught me a lesson to not rush to judgment.
And that resulted in getting other stories right that the media often get wrong.
And that included the Duke La Crosse case.
I took the time to go visit those families and those kids in Garden City, Long Island, and UVA.
And I had law enforcement sources in the George Zimmerman case, and I had law enforcement and sources in Ferguson, Missouri.
Hands up, don't shoot Michael Brown, Officer Darren Wilson.
And I had law enforcement sources in the Freddie Gray case, the UVA case.
How is it that we consistently get these things right?
We were right on the Russia hoax.
We just spent three long years.
We had a small ensemble cast that were digging deep with the best sources imaginable.
And no, I don't reveal my sources, but we are honest.
We do news, straight news.
We do investigative reporting.
We give opinion.
I am a conservative.
I voted for Donald Trump.
Everybody in the country knows that.
And then we do sports and culture.
We talk pretty much about everything that people talk about, like the entire newspaper.
Let's grab a call here.
800-941-Sean is a number if you want to be a part of the program.
We'll check in with Daniel in Tennessee.
Daniel, how are you?
Hey, I'm doing good, Sean.
How are you?
I'm good, sir.
What's going on?
Well, I love your platform, and there's something that's been on my mind a long time.
A lot of my friends talk about it.
I am a Christian conservative, voter for Trump.
Lived in America my whole life, and I would love to see the conversation started on a platform like yours when you are talking to senators, governors, and the other places that you go about term limits, term limits on Congress and possibly every political position.
I know there's a lot of pros and cons.
I know it'll be very difficult to do.
Love to hear what the president would have to say.
What do you think?
Well, look, I've always said about term limits, it's a horrible idea because I think I would like an engaged public to make corrections and be involved and involved in their government and their civics and the issues that the country face.
But I know it's not practical for a lot of people that work hard.
They work there 12, 14, 16 hours a day.
They're trying to raise their families.
And they put their head down for a few hours of sleep at night.
They get up and they grind it all out again the next day.
They pay their taxes, obey the laws.
It's hard.
I mean, one of the reasons I look at my job as a, I'm in the service industry.
I provide news, information, opinion.
You're not going to get elsewhere.
And I'd like to think that an informed electorate will be there.
That's not always the case.
People don't get that engaged.
And, you know, one of the things that Donald Trump brings to the table is a dynamic of somebody that is just, you know, a force of nature that you want to watch it and you want to learn from it.
You want to really follow it.
And then you watch the left's reaction to them.
And you want to follow that aspect of it as well.
Anyway, my friend, I appreciate the call.
Glad you're out there.
All the best to you and all of our friends in Tennessee.
We appreciate you.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
We will go through the latest in the state-run media mob fallout post-election and also give you the truth about Donald Trump's polling and where James Carville was wrong.
Caroline Levitt, also Tammy Bruce, now in the administration, also, Christy Noma's great news in terms of immigration, all coming up nine Eastern, City DBR, Hannity on Fox.
We'll see you tonight, back here tomorrow.
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