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Protecting Women's Sports - March 4th, Hour 3
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Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, uh Republicans tried to pass in the U.S. Senate.
And even the New York Times had a poll out.
79%, a whopping number, are against the idea of biological men from participating in women's sports.
And in spite of Republican efforts to protect Title IX and Women's Sports, well, the Democratic Party stopped it and unfortunately prevented this vote from advancing to the full floor.
Democratic senators, all of them voted against the motion to proceed, uh, with the exception of Senator Sluk Slotkin, who was from Michigan who was missing, and Peter Welch of Ramon, who was absent.
Anyway, the protection of women in and girls in sports act would would require Title IX to treat transgender as recognized based only on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth and would disallow any adjustment for it to apply to gender identity.
Uh anyway, that's where we are.
Jennifer Say, who's going to join us in a second.
She is the founder and CEO of XXXY, an athletic sports brand dedicated to protecting women in sports.
Uh said the following.
Tonight, the Senate voted to progress the protection of women and girls in sports bill.
Not a single Democrat voted yes, zero.
Zero voted in favor of protecting women and girls.
The Senate could have done the right thing.
The Democrats could have done the right thing.
They could have stood up for women and girls' right to safety and fairness.
They did not.
This should not be political or partisan at all.
It's about basic biological truth and fairness for women and girls.
When the House voted on this bill, it passed with bipartisan support.
Only two Democrats, but they got two.
But in the Senate, not a single Democrat voted in support of this common sense bill.
The 80% of American support.
As a former member of the Democratic Party and a former elite athlete, I am disgusted with their cowardice.
California, Colorado, Pennsylvania.
These are all places I have lived and have a connection to.
All of these senators voted not to protect women's sex-based rights.
It's pathetic.
We aren't stopping.
So get ready, Dems.
We will not forget this.
Jennifer say founder CEO of XXXY and athletic sports brand dedicated to protecting women in sports.
Uh, I look, I, I share your disappointment, but I'm not surprised.
I mean, this is now the democratic party.
They seemingly want endless wars, They seemingly want tens and tens and tens of billions of dollars spent on transgenderism and wokism and DEI and the radical Green New Deal abroad, not even in this country.
They seem to put the rights of illegal immigrants over the rights of American citizens, and they are defending the right of men to play in women's sports.
That's what this party now represents.
And you say you were once a former Democrat.
I was for many, many years.
I'd I'd go you a few further.
Uh Sean, they are also the party of censorship.
They were the party of closed schools And lockdowns during COVID.
Yes, they are the forever war party.
Um, they are also the party of greedy corporate interest.
They do not stick up for the little guy.
Um, they want to censor us all.
I I obviously, I mean, I walked away from the party five years ago, right at the beginning of of COVID, but I was a member of this party because uh I thought they stood up for free speech.
They did at one point.
I mean, we have to be honest about that.
They did at one point, um, but it's been a very, very long time.
I thought they were the party that was anti-war.
Um, and I thought they were the party that stood up to the little guy.
That has not been true for for a very long time.
Whether it was ever true or not, we can debate that, but it certainly hasn't been for a long time.
And this is just egregious.
You're right.
I'm not surprised either.
It was an absolute long shot.
I I really did not get my hopes up.
I thought perhaps, you know, we needed seven Democrats to vote yes, that was not going to happen, but I thought maybe a few would break with the lunacy of the party, but not one did.
Um, not a single Democrat voted in favor of women and girls.
I don't like to try to imagine how they think about this, because I don't want to get into their deranged mode of thinking, um, because it's insane.
I I they they are really willing to die on a sword or die on this hill of letting men feel women's opportunities.
That's what they're doing.
Well, that's what they're doing, and they're doing it successfully.
Now I I am hopeful that Republicans are going to fight back even harder, and by fighting back harder, uh, that they will be able to protect the rights of women, you know, to play uh against other women.
Now at the State of the Union tonight, we have gotten a little bit of a preview of what Donald Trump is is going to do and who he's invited.
Uh he he did invite apparently a woman that had been a victim of apparently an injury as a result of playing a biological man, and I think this woman's gonna be featured tonight.
This the the theme of the president's address has been revealed.
It's the renewal of the American dream.
And anyway, the the president is hosting the mother who saved her daughter from gender ideology at the joint address, and Trump invited a volleyball player seriously hurt by a trans opponent to be a special guest.
Uh I know Riley Gaines is going to be in the in the House chamber tonight as well.
Uh so clearly the president has taken this straight to the Democrats.
Yeah, I mean, I agree with you.
We're gonna win in the end.
We will prevail because the truth will prevail.
There is some sort of madness afoot.
There is a mania at play, and everybody is voting against the rights of women and girls against their right because they see privacy and fairness.
Uh, but as you stated in your opener, 79% of Americans agree with us.
That that's the vast majority.
That includes, I believe, 67% of Democrats.
Uh the senators are on the wrong side of this.
They are out of touch not only with public opinion and their own constituents, but with basic truth.
What we need to do is we need to get the 80% of Americans that agree with us who agree with us to stand up and say it because they they still are afraid to do it.
They'll they'll vote that way in an anonymous poll, but they won't stand up in their own community.
Um because they're afraid of the names that they'll get called.
They'll they're afraid of what might happen to them.
But I I really believe when the public stands up and makes their voices known that these governing bodies of the various sports institutions will will need to do the right thing, and so will our elected officials.
You referred to Peyton McNabb, an athlete we work with.
This is a young woman who in a high school volleyball game was smashed in the face with a volleyball by a male opponent.
She was in high school at the time.
She has permanent brain damage.
She has partial paralysis on one side of her face, and her college athletic career was ended.
Uh she was actually a really great softball player.
That's what she was hoping for, a scholarship for in college.
How is this okay with anybody?
I'm so glad he's going to have her there.
Everybody needs to know Peyton's story.
One is too many.
One is too many.
How many more girls need to be injured?
It's absurd.
It's it's disgusting.
Well, it is, and for women that are athletes, I just can't imagine what that feels like.
I mean, I actually had this conversation with Riley Gaines on TV one night, and we've had the conversation here on radio as well.
And I said, what was it like to be in the locker room with a biological male and people obviously change in locker rooms?
Very common thing.
And uh she said it was degrading, humiliating, mortifying, traumatizing.
And and I for I I completely understand it.
I mean, it makes absolutely no sense to me.
And this is this is now what the Democrats have decided to champion.
Usually when it's an eighty twenty issue, Democrats in the past would have moderated their position and just realized that they're out of touch with the American people.
They're not doing that here.
They're doubling down.
Well, can you explain that?
I I can't.
As I said, I think there's some sort of like deranged mania at play here.
And they're they're doubling down.
They are stating that this is sort of the civil rights issue of our time.
In the meantime, they are denying women and girls their basic rights.
Um this is not the civil rights issue of our time.
Men do not have the right to be in women's locker rooms and in their sports.
You actually none of us have a right to compete in the category that we want to.
A heavyweight boxer can't compete in welterweight.
It's a ridiculous thing to say.
Sports do not exist to validate men's deranged identities.
But that's what we're saying here.
Um as I said, I don't spend too much time trying to understand why they're doing it.
I just keep pushing back and have full faith that at some point uh this fever will break and the truth will will break through.
One of the things I find so crazy about the situation you just described in the locker room is it was only a few years after the height of the Me Too movement, which certainly had its own excesses.
But if you recall during that time, you know, a guy giving a a girl a a funny look, maybe at the water cooler at work.
That could get him fired.
Now women are supposed to just take it.
They're supposed to be forced to feel unsafe and uncomfortable in their own private spaces in order to be nice and inclusive.
I mean, we've just sort of jumped the shark and gone a hundred and eighty degrees in the other direction since two thousand eighteen and and me too.
And and let's be honest, is a man in the locker room, a fully intact man, as Riley has has clearly laid out, who made no effort to make these young women feel comfortable.
In fact, he wanted his maleness to make them more uncomfortable.
That's part of it for him, I do believe.
So I I I don't understand how we can be asking young women.
At the end of the day, this is garden variety misogyny.
We're telling young women shut up, be quiet, sit down and take it and let this guy have what he wants.
Wow, that's a powerful statement.
Jennifer say we appreciate you.
Thank you so much for being with us.
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We have Lance in the state of New Jersey.
What's up, Lance?
How are you?
Glad you called.
Thank you very much.
It's Zoo Jersey with the way this governor and a couple of voted.
I did I didn't hear what you what did you say?
It's what jersey?
Well, you're the one that chooses to remain in Zoo Jersey, but I can't force you to move.
It's okay.
You know, I'm on a tethered leash.
I get to go out every so often.
Oh my gosh.
Who lets you out?
Who let me out of my cage?
Don't worry.
I have passes.
Oh man, oh man.
Wow.
Yeah, like a hall pest.
I don't even want to go there.
Okay.
It's probably smart, especially if you're in the like Bayonne area of New Jersey.
Uh that's okay.
Wherever We still have some of the greatest super funded uh landfills that haven't been cleaned up yet.
So we're on par.
We're we're we're working the dream.
Listen, every time I go there, I just I I I sit I just get that that fresh that the I just inhale that that chemical air that seems to exist there.
I don't know.
Maybe I'm just making it up in my mind's eye.
I don't have no idea.
You know, that's a good that's a good segue into my first thought of uh the other day, uh the scratch and sniff test.
Did anyone decide like next time Zelensky comes by to take a clipping of his hair to see if he's doing any inhalation therapy?
He's very waxy looking, very aggressive, and very belligerent.
And I'm a person that does some inhalation therapy.
Second question I wanted to share with you is the Democrat Party caucus leaders that decided to corral and hoodwink uh Zelinski into listening to them.
Didn't they violate the Logan Act?
The Logan Act that hasn't been applied since the 1700s, that one.
Linda's dying are you enjoying this caller?
He is the caller of the day.
Inhalation therapy, zoo jersey, my brother, you are crushing it.
Yeah, you're doing good today.
Uh you get the gold star of the day.
And you're and you're from New Jersey of all places.
I mean, let's think about.
You know, New Jersey does get a bad rap.
It does.
It does.
Um, you are overtaxed, and the people in New Jersey like their neighbors uh in New York.
Uh you know what?
You take too much crap from your government.
You know, when when are the people in New Jersey gonna rise up and say enough is enough?
And and how much do you are you looking for?
But Phil Murphy is ready to crush them like a bug because he's horrible.
But uh the final thing, Sean, in order to live and survive in Zoo Jersey, you have to know how to swim.
And you have to know how to and determine when it's high tide and low tide, so you can retreat to the sandbar.
And if you don't know how to do that, have the God given sense to stay out of the water when there's a riptide.
Okay.
Thank you very much.
Let me just tell you as somebody that grew up in New York and went to Jones Beach on a regular basis as a kid.
I had no idea that the ocean is not the color of poop.
I had no idea it had to be disgusting brown ocean.
I've discovered in the free state of Florida that you have beautiful green blue Caribbean oceans that actually have little fishes in them of a tropical nature that have colors that are indescribable that show the great majesty of God, our creator.
You know, the thing as Joe calls them.
And um it it it is an amazing thing.
It's such a it's such a cultural shock to be able to, you know, look in the ocean and look down and actually see the bottom.
Um but whatever.
I don't know.
I I I can't believe I used to swim in that, swallow that, surf in that.
I mean, body surf that is.
I never went surfing surfing.
Anyway, um zoo jersey, we appreciate the call.
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All right, 25 now till the top of the hour.
We are broadcasting from our nation's capital, the sewer, the swamp, Washington, DC.
We are here for the president and the State of the Union address.
And um, it's gonna be the Democrats are planning a little antics tonight.
That should be very fun to watch.
And uh Reuters reporting that maybe, especially after the public apology and posting of President Zelensky, uh reversing everything that happened Friday, just as I said would happen.
Um maybe this mineral deal could be done tonight.
Reuters is speculating.
Apparently it's not been signed yet.
We'll see tonight.
That would be cool.
Oh, all those idiots.
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All right, so I sat down with Vice President JD Vance.
Uh we will see him and Mike Johnson behind the president tonight.
And um he said some powerful stuff yesterday.
Let's go to my interview with J.D. Vance.
Mr. Vice President, thank you for being with us.
Good to see you.
Great to be here.
Let's go back to the Oval Office Friday.
Yep.
From your perspective.
Yeah, great TV.
That's the president said.
Yeah, well, you know, it's it's funny.
So we have a 40, 45 minute press conference.
And the president normally does this, and I've seen this now three or four times with foreign leaders where he likes to bring the media in, likes to have a conversation, but answer questions with the press, as you know, he's very open with reporters.
And what I noticed is that for the first 25, 30 or so minutes, he tried to sort of bend over backwards to be gracious and kind to Zelensky.
Even when Zelensky was kind of needling him, even when Zelensky was saying things that I thought were untrue, the president just tried to be diplomatic, right?
I think that's that's his natural instinct in that situation.
And then when it really went off the rails, of course, is when I asked or you had a Polish journalist who asked a question, the president answered it, and then I answered it.
And then something about my answer just really set Zelensky off.
So then he came at me blame yourself.
Then I can then I went back at him.
And uh what I tried to do originally was actually try to diffuse the situation a little bit.
Because I'm like, you know, we're having this meeting.
Obviously, there are a hundred television cameras here.
Let's try to have this conversation in private.
And then the president, uh, as we kept on going back and forth, I tried again to say, well, maybe we should have this conversation in private, and the president was like, nope, actually, I don't want to have it in private anymore.
I want to have this actual conversation in public for the American people to see.
And I and I do think that there was just a certain sense of there was a lack of respect.
There was a certain sense of entitlement.
And and most importantly, look, we can look past all that stuff, but the president has set a very clear goal for his administration.
He wants the killing to stop.
And I think that it's very important that President Zelensky and of course President Putin too, they've both got to come to the negotiating table, and that's ultimately where things broke apart.
I really don't care what President Zelensky says about me or anybody else, but he showed a clear unwillingness to engage in the peace process that President Trump has said is the policy of the American people and of their president.
That's the real breakdown.
Is I think Zelensky wasn't yet there, and I think frankly now still isn't there, but I think we'll get there eventually.
He has to.
He my understanding is he tried to get back in or tried to stay a number of times and then made numerous calls to come back.
Is that true?
Uh I don't know about numerous calls, but they certainly made uh at least one request to come back and then continue the conversation.
The President was like, look, first of all, they were disrespectful.
And second of all, what are we even going to talk about?
They've shown a clear unwillingness to discuss the peaceful settlement that President Trump is trying to bring to the situation.
I think a lot of Americans are sort of, you know, it's useful to step back and ask ourselves, what is the actual plan here?
You can't just fund the war forever.
The American people won't stand for it.
And by the way, Sean, if you look at European opinion polls, the Europeans aren't going to stand forever for it either.
We need to bring this thing to a peaceful settlement.
The President was trying to do that.
He'll continue to try to do that, but you've got to have two to Tenga.
You've got to have a negotiating partner in the Ukrainians who recognize that, you know, of course they have their views, and of course they're not always going to agree with us, but they've got to participate in the conversation.
They weren't willing to do that on Friday, so the president said send him home.
He said today that the war he expects will go on a very long time.
I don't know where he's going to get the money to fund that war.
I have my doubts that Europe will fund the war to the level that Biden and Harris were funding it.
And then the issue now has come up whether or not this administration will continue to offer money and arms for this war to continue.
Because without America, I would argue the president was right in saying they have no cards.
Yeah.
Well, well, Sean, I think our European friends, frankly, are being really, really service to the Ukrainians because their own populations are saying we're not going to fund this war indefinitely.
The American people are saying we don't want to fund the war indefinitely.
So the only thing that is in the best interest of America, of Russia, of Ukraine, and of Europe, is to bring this thing to a close.
What happened, Sean, is you have Zelensky.
He goes to Europe, and a lot of our European friends puff him up.
They say, you know, you're a freedom fighter.
You need to keep fighting forever.
Well, fighting forever with what?
With whose money, with whose ammunition, and with whose lives.
The President is actually taking a much more realistic perspective and saying this can't go on forever.
We can't fund this thing forever.
The Ukrainians can't fight forever.
So let's bring this thing to a peaceful settlement.
When I interviewed Zelensky, he wouldn't give me direct answers.
To me, there's three phases in this.
And my understanding was Friday was supposed to be relatively ceremonial.
It was.
And then that it was supposed to be we signed the mineral deal.
That's that's part one.
Part two would be a ceasefire.
Part three would be the hardest the hardest part the negotiated settlement with Putin, who correct me if I'm wrong, said he's willing to talk peace with Trump.
Yeah, he said he's willing to talk peace, and of course we we we trust but verify.
We want to have the conversation.
We don't assume that everything that anybody tells us is true.
That's why we want to engage in this conversation.
But you're exactly right, Sean.
When the Ukrainians came to Washington on Friday, it was supposed to be ceremonial.
You know, there had been some public back and forth, some disagreements, some some words spoken in public.
And the president was like, let's have this moment.
We give some credit to the brave Ukrainian fighters, and of course it's a very brave army that they have there in Ukraine.
Let's sign this minerals deal, which importantly does two things.
It allows the American people to get some of their money back, but it also shows the Ukrainian people that America has a long-term investment and their sovereignty.
You do those things, we'll sign this thing, we'll have a rah-rah moment, and then we'll get to the tough talk of negotiating peace.
We couldn't even get the Ukrainians to a point where they could talk about the peaceful settlement.
And look, in some way, Sean, I get it.
I get the frustration, I get the rage.
It's their country, of course, it's not our country, but you've got to accept cooler heads have got to prevail.
This thing cannot go on forever.
This is the important point.
I'd say this too.
Are of course most importantly, the Americans who are watching, but people all over the world.
When you talk to leaders in private, whether they're Ukrainian or European, when you talk to people in private, they will tell you this cannot go on forever.
There aren't enough Ukrainian lives, there isn't enough American money, and there isn't enough ammunition to fund this thing indefinitely.
The only realistic pathway to bringing this thing to a settlement is President Trump's pathway.
We encourage both President Zelensky and President Putin to follow that path.
Well, I mean, hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent, and this came up in the discussion Friday.
The Biden administration called Putin every name in the book, and they've been trying to get the President.
And he still invaded anyway.
Okay, he still invaded anyway.
Well, remember, it depends if it's a minor incursion.
Let's let's go back to that moment, which I thought as troops were amassing on the border.
But I I go back and I I I think about this, and and Biden spent all of this money called Putin, all of these names.
The media and the Democrats, they want Donald Trump to call him names.
And the President addresses.
And then he's supposed to call him and say, Vladimir, you ready to talk to uh a peace now?
That's not gonna work.
No, it's diplomacy one on one on one, right?
Is you have to have a reasonable relationship with somebody to be able to even start the conversation.
We have to remember, Sean, Ukraine, half of the country, a third of the country is totally destroyed.
The economy is depressed, you've got hundreds of thousands of dead Ukrainians, of course, a lot of dead Russians as well.
The President wants to negotiate a settlement.
How can you negotiate if you can't even talk to somebody?
And that's what he said.
He's not saying like nobody's suggesting, as Secretary Rubio said, no one is suggesting that we give the Nobel Peace Prize to Vladimir Putin.
What we're saying is it's important for President Trump to be able to have a conversation.
That's not well served by standing up at a press conference and calling the guy every negative name in the book.
By the way, as we just said, President Biden called Putin every single name in the book.
What did it lead to?
It led to war, it led to destruction, it led to conflict.
President Trump is trying to bring this thing to a close.
You've got to be able to talk to somebody to do that.
Is the door open?
President Trump said Friday, he can come back if he wants peace.
Is that door still open today?
What President Trump has said clearly and consistently is of course the door is open so long as Zelensky is willing to seriously talk peace.
You can't come into the Oval Office or anywhere else and refuse to even discuss the details of a peace deal.
Look, this is not going to make anybody happy.
You can't come to the Oval Office and say, give us security guarantees, we won't even engage with you about what we're willing to give up.
That's been the Ukrainian posture.
When that posture changes, as President Trump said, when they're willing to talk peace, I think President Trump will be the first person to pick up the phone.
Well, I got to imagine that that they're probably rethinking it.
What did you make of European leaders, you know, quote their voices of solidarity this weekend?
Because uh as Lindsay Graham who'd been very supportive of Ukraine in this conflict, I mean, he was livid.
Yes.
And he said if if they want to now defend their own continent, let them go ahead and do it.
Uh good luck to them.
Yeah, and my message to Ukrainians, by the way, to President Zelensky is when you've lost Lindsey Graham, that means you need to come to the negotiating table and recognize Donald Trump is the only game in town.
He's the only person who I think can has a meaningful plan to save that country.
But you know, Sean, here's the problem with the Europeans.
Uh and a lot of these guys are our friends, they're our allies.
Uh we, of course, you know, the President has a great relationship with a lot of European heads of state, and so do I, but they need to be realistic.
And the craziest part about this, Sean, is that sometimes you'll have European heads of state who in public will puff up their chest and say, we're in it with President Zelensky for the next 10 years.
And then in private, they'll pick up the phone and say, We can't this can't go on forever.
He has to come to the negotiating table.
So I I honestly don't care what the Europeans say in public.
What I what I care is what they say in private, and what they need to be saying to President Zelensky is this can't go on forever.
The bloodshed, the killing, the economic devastation, it's making everyone worse off.
The only pathway to I think back to peace and peace and prosperity is what the President is trying to accomplish.
And now we look back in time and we see Joe Biden was beginning to understand that the patience of the American people is running thin.
That's right.
Hundreds of billions of dollars where a nation with nearly 40 trillion in debt.
I mean, it's too much.
If he called tomorrow and said, I am ready to adopt your plan for peace, he can come back.
I think that if he called and had a serious proposal for how he was going to engage in the process, look, there are details that really matter that we're already working on with the Russians.
We've already talked to some of our allies.
He needs to engage seriously on the details.
I think once that happens, then absolutely we want to talk to the president.
I don't want to say the word halfway.
They're willing to do their part to achieve a negotiated settlement.
Am I convinced?
No.
But do I think that there's a real pathway?
You've got to trust but verify.
You've got to engage in the negotiation.
You've got to see what steps people are willing to take.
This is another thing, Sean.
Obviously, I'm biased because I really love the guy.
But when the media attacks President Trump as somehow on the side of Putin, two big problems with that.
First of all, the only president in 20 years where you haven't had the Russians take a bunch of territory was under the first term of Donald J. Trump.
The second part of that is you've got to actually accept that President Trump, he's not just assuming that everything the Russians tell him is true.
He's negotiating with them.
There's a give and take.
There's a trust but verify.
That's called diplomacy.
We used to have some respect for that in Washington, DC.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today's State of the Union tonight on Fox News, and we'll be on immediately thereafter.
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