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| Well, after watching the antics and the tempo tantrum and the absolute this disgraceful behavior of Democrats of the State of the Union address. | |
| We're going to talk to New Kingrich in a minute. | |
| And he has a great piece out called Trump's Golden Age versus the zombie Democrats. | |
| But a lot of this is really sad when the censure took place of Al Green. | |
| This is how Democrats responded by singing We Shall Overcome. | |
| By its adoption of House Resolution 189, the House has resolved that Representative Al Green be censured. | |
| That Representative Al Green forthwith present himself in the well of the House of Representatives for the pronouncement of censure. | |
| And that Representative Al Green be censured with public reading of this resolution by the Speaker. | |
| Speaker 1: The House had come to order. | |
| The House of Come to Order. | |
| Now, this on the heels of the Democratic Party, incapable of standing for the president, and capable of standing for the first lady, and capable of standing for mothers that lost their children. | |
| Uh also for all of the heroes of uh uh a wife that lost her hero police officer husband, a young man who lost his father, and and got into West Point and it was announced at the State of the Union. | |
| They couldn't even stand for a 13-year-old cancer survivor. | |
| And if things got extraordinarily vicious and nasty on MSDNC with Rachel Maddow and Nicole Wallace, and the father of this 13-year-old young man, D uh DJ has some pretty harsh words uh for Rachel Maddow. | |
| We'll get to that in a second. | |
| Listen. | |
| And I let myself feel um joy about DJ, and I hope he's alive for another, you know, 95 years, right? | |
| And I hope he lives um and uh the life he wants to live. | |
| He wants to be a cop, he knows what he wants to do, and maybe when you have childhood cancer that crystallizes for you. | |
| And I hope he has a long life as as a law enforcement officer. | |
| But I hope he never has to defend the United States Capitol against Donald Trump supporters. | |
| And if he does, I hope he isn't one of the six who loses his life to suicide. | |
| And I hope he isn't one who has to testify against the people who carried out acts of seditious conspiracy and then live to see Donald Trump pardon those people. | |
| The president made a spectacle out of praising a young man who thus far survived pediatric cancer. | |
| As if the president had something to do with that. | |
| This was in the midst of him praising Doge. | |
| Doge cuts among other things, have cut off funding for ongoing research into pediatrics. | |
| It's just outright manipulation and lies and it is just heartless and as I've been saying, soulless, and it is it is beyond sick. | |
| Um this this young man developed cancer when he was eight. | |
| He's now thirteen. | |
| That was five years ago. | |
| Donald Trump was not the president of the United States. | |
| And it's you know, you instead of just celebrating and standing, the Democratic Party sat on their hands and could not even celebrate this young man and the the honor that was bestowed upon him by the president of our country, and they stood for nobody. | |
| The mothers that lost their children. | |
| They wouldn't stand for them. | |
| They wouldn't clap for them. | |
| Uh and that brings us to where Newt Gingrich is, and he is coining a new phrase, President Trump's golden age versus the zombie Democrats in his newsletter. | |
| And anyway, uh I did see you in the House chamber. | |
| I know you were there. | |
| Uh what an incredible night it was. | |
| I think Donald Trump's finest moment as president. | |
| And but you also saw something I don't think you've ever seen with all the years you have been in and around Washington, and that is Democrats or any party act that way. | |
| Well, it it was interesting, and it's a big gap, by the way, the the Senate Democrats were much more engaged, but the House Democrats were all sitting there uh like they were locked down. | |
| Um as you pointed out I I didn't see Senate Democrats to standing much, did you? | |
| No, the the Senate Democrats would applaud on occasion, that they were much more engaged. | |
| Uh wooden almost like they weren't there. | |
| I mean, almost like they've been drugged or something. | |
| Uh and and you're they stand did they stand for the for the parents, Jocelyn Nungarry's mother, did they stand for Lake and Riley's mother who was fighting back tears? | |
| Did they stand for this thirteen year old boy? | |
| Well, look, I I was watching the House Democrats who was literally directly in front of Gliston. | |
| They they didn't they didn't stand for anything. | |
| I'm not sure they even heard anything. | |
| I mean, it was just you know, it's one thing to say you're not gonna stand for Donald Trump, but to then, as you point out, I mean the the look if if you saw the look on that thirteen year old's face when he learned that he was going to become a US uh Secret Service agent. | |
| I mean, th he he he lit up totally. | |
| It was it was a wonderful moment. | |
| Uh and here's a human being who's been fighting cancer, and and uh this was a great upper for him, and it deserved a positive response just as a human being. | |
| And they couldn't do it. | |
| They just they could not bring themselves to stand under any circumstance. | |
| So it was quite remarkable. | |
| By the way, very uh proud of uh Speaker Johnson, who did exactly the right thing uh when Al Green acted out and did it in a very methodical way. | |
| First of all, pointed out the general rules of the House when Green continued, pointed out the very specific rules and said this is a warning. | |
| And then he Green continued more. | |
| You know, the Sergeant Arms came in and walked him out of the chamber. | |
| And I think by the way, by being so decisive, uh Speaker Johnson ensured that no other Democrat would be as as obnoxious uh or or do things that would draw attention to them because they would figure out they would be kicked out. | |
| Um you know, I I sat through Jimmy Carter, I sat through uh Bill Clinton, and and uh obviously Bush and and Reagan uh as a member of Congress, and it's simply one of the great moments of America where everybody comes together. | |
| It's and part of the ceremonial purpose is you have the House, the Senate, you have the Cabinet, you have the Supreme Court. | |
| I mean, this is America come together. | |
| Uh, and you had uh basically withdrawing from uh the American scene, all of these Democrats who uh you just had to wonder what where their brain was. | |
| I mean, it it's not helpful to their party for them to be that aggressively hostile. | |
| Well, it's not, which for them brings us to the the this modern Democratic Party. | |
| It is what I was saying is you gotta be pretty heartless and soulless and mindless. | |
| Uh to me, what I saw was a group of defeated people with no identity and no idea what they're gonna do in the future, and and no potential leadership rising up. | |
| The only one that I heard that was even critical remotely of the party was John Fetterman and of Pennsylvania, and you know, I I don't really think he has a lot of sway with with Democrats in that in that party. | |
| Uh Chuck Schumer, you think he would have been smart enough to realize that this is a bad idea, but he's not that smart, and he's very beholden to the radical left that does represent the the overall majority of that party. | |
| I don't I don't know how they come back from this. | |
| Well, I'm uh look at By the way, not that I really care either. | |
| Well, I think the way they are operating right now, uh they're not only not going to come back from this, but they're going to keep driving people away. | |
| Uh I saw uh Mark Halpern printed a note that had been sent to him by a woman who said that up until Tuesday night she still thought she was a Democrat, but the Tuesday night did it, and uh she's now re-registering as a Republican because she's so disgusted uh with the behavior of the Democrats. | |
| And I think they're just gonna get more and more of that kind of reaction where they are literally turning people off. | |
| And people are just saying, you know, I mean, if this if this is what it's all about, I don't want to be part of it. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Um on the issues well, first of all, in the speech, the president in every single poll from CNN to ABC to CBS, or straight across the board was in the 70s to 80 percentile range. | |
| On every specific issue he dealt with, the American people, these are now 70, 30, 80, 20 issues in his favor. | |
| They have seem to have adopted a strategy that you know, as somebody as smart as you would say is the dumbest idea ever, and that is they want to champion endless wars. | |
| They want to be the champions of the rights of illegals over the safety of Americans. | |
| They want to be the champions of the radical Green New Deal and hundreds of billions of dollars spent abroad for that Green New Deal and DEI ism and wokeism and transgenderism and LGBTQ plus ism, uh and the rights of uh illegals over the safety of Americans, and that's that seems to be their posture right now in their current positioning, and I don't hear voices to the contrary. | |
| Well, they mean they have a huge problem because on the kind of issues you're talking about, uh they're basically a semi-religion. | |
| Uh they they can't think about them rationally. | |
| They can't they they're not negotiable. | |
| These are matters of salvation. | |
| And so you you end up with this very weird environment uh where the Democrats uh locked in by interest groups into protecting the bureaucracy and the old order. | |
| They're locked in by a semi-religious movement into a series of values. | |
| I mean, Trump Trump did a very clever thing in that he went through a series of things that he had done, each of which is in the 70, 80 percent uh range of approval, and they could not applaud a single one. | |
| And in fact, the night before the Senate Democrats had voted against uh blocking men uh from participating in women's sports, uh, even though you had the example of the young lady there who had uh suffered a concussion because she had she was up against uh a male volleyball player who clearly should not have been on the court competing with her. | |
| Yeah, I mean it it really is crazy. | |
| Um why would they be defending all of the waste fraud abuse and corruption that we're now discovering? | |
| Why would they be against American taxpayers, the average American making sixty-six thousand dollars a year? | |
| Why would they why would they champion all of this money spent abroad for DEI, transgenderism, wokism, uh you know, what what is the overall grand scheme behind this when we have nearly forty trillion dollars in debt? | |
| Well, I think part of the grand scheme, if you want to call it that, is that uh it's their money. | |
| I mean, I mean, look look at the different left wing groups and left wing news media that were getting money from the federal government. | |
| Uh look at the amount of money the federal government gives to places like Columbia University or Harvard. | |
| Uh look at the amount of money the Federal Government pours into uh, you know, Baltimore City is the third most expensive school system in the country, and in four high schools out of twenty three hundred students, there's not a single student, not one that can do math. | |
| And yet we keep spending a billion, three hundred million dollars on a system which is cheating uh the children of of Baltimore from having a decent future. | |
| So you look at all these things and just have to remember from the standpoint of the Democrats, it's their money. | |
| Uh they have to keep control of the machine because if they don't, they're not gonna have any money left. | |
| And if they don't have any money left, uh they're not gonna be able to sustain what they've been doing. | |
| All right, quick break more with former speaker of the House, New King Richie's in the House Chamber on Tuesday night getting his perspective on the radical left. | |
| Uh and then of course the antics that took place after the censure of Howell Green earlier today and much more. | |
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| Former Speaker of the House, New King, Rich. | |
| He was in the House chamber on Tuesday night getting his thoughts on, well, what he's now calling the zombie party versus the golden era of Donald Trump party. | |
| Finally, we got the astronauts that Joe and Kamala abandoned in space when I interviewed President Trump and Elon Musk. | |
| Um Elon Musk is very confident and said and has said that he offered Joe Biden an opportunity, said uh he had the ability to go up and connect with the space station, something he's done before, and rescue these astronauts. | |
| And anyway, so finally, uh you know, they have repeatedly said the Biden administration, you know, uh they they they were unwilling to get into the political side of this. | |
| Those that they were supposed to be in in space for eight days. | |
| And I think their patience have has run thin here. | |
| And anyway, during a press conference they were asked if the Biden administration did in fact decline Musk's offer. | |
| And uh and you got a little glimpse that they appear to blame Biden and Harris for not not taking him up on his offer because of political reasons and it might make Republicans look good. | |
| Um isn't uh doesn't that kind of sum up the state of this party in a way? | |
| Yes. | |
| I mean it's it's crazy. | |
| Um and again, remember though, and Elon said this in the interview with you. | |
| There's always a risk. | |
| I mean, he the the odds are very, very, very high, probably in the 95, 98 percent range that everything will go well. | |
| SpaceX has a great record, but doing stuff in space is dangerous and it's complicated. | |
| And uh, you know, it it's a huge embarrassment to to Boeing that they have failed totally. | |
| It's one of the reasons I'm for uh canceling uh the uh space launch system, which is a two and a half billion dollar per launch boondoggle that's now totally obsolete. | |
| Uh and uh, you know, I I think that what you've got here is is that Musk is maybe the greatest entrepreneurial technology person of our generation. | |
| Uh every he's been in a whole series of companies and every single one. | |
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| And I just think that uh, you know, he it's gonna be very exciting to see if they can pull this off, and it will be an enormous embarrassment for uh bowling if they can get it to work. | |
| Well, I think it's time for new companies that are caught more energy, cost efficient, less bureaucratic, uh, to maybe get the contracts that that maybe were just almost automatically given to the old school old guards, the Boeings, the Raytheons, etc. | |
| And maybe we ought to be looking towards new technology companies that can do it better, more efficiently, cheaper, and uh I I think that possibility certainly exists. | |
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| Well, among the many inspiring moments during the president's state of the union address, uh, came when he introduced the nation to a young man, a senior in high school by the name of Jason Hartley. | |
| And he was there. | |
| And he lost his father, an Army veteran who was a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy. | |
| And he wants to follow in his dad's footsteps, and his dream is his desire has been to attend West Point. | |
| And during this speech, President Trump made that a reality and informed Jason Hartley that he has been accepted. | |
| And he will be attending the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. | |
| Now, except for Democrats that just sat on their hands and couldn't even rise to celebrate this or celebrate a 13-year-old young young man that had overcome cancer, or to stand and and clap in solidarity with mothers like Lakin Riley's mom and uh Jocelyn Nungarry's mom, or even Stan for the First Lady or the President himself. | |
| Uh, they just sat on their hands. | |
| But it was one of the most inspiring moments of the night, and here's the president from Tuesday night introducing Jason Hartley. | |
| We're joined tonight by a young man, Jason Hartley, who knows the weight of that call of duty. | |
| Jason's father, grandfather, and great-grandfather all wore the uniform. | |
| Jason tragically lost his dad, who was also a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy when he was just a boy, and now he wants to carry on the family legacy of service. | |
| Jason is a senior in high school, a six-letter varsity athlete, a really good athlete, they say, a brilliant student with a four point four six. | |
| That's good, GPA. | |
| And his greatest dream is to attend the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. | |
| And Jay Jason, that's a very big deal getting in. | |
| That's a hard one to get into, but I'm pleased to inform you that your application has been accepted. | |
| You will soon be joining the Corps of Kinnock. | |
| It's such an awesome moment. | |
| Really amazing and inspiring. | |
| Jason Hartley, senior in high school now, who will be attending the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. | |
| Jason, great to have you on the program. | |
| Congratulations, my friend. | |
| Hello, sir. | |
| How are you? | |
| Thank you. | |
| All right. | |
| What was that like? | |
| You weren't expecting that, were you? | |
| I was not expecting it at all. | |
| I was a total surprise. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Did you know you would be singled out during the speech? | |
| Did you expect that part? | |
| No, not at all. | |
| Um I thought I was just going to be attending the address. | |
| Um I had no idea I'd be singled out. | |
| What was uh I mean, that's gotta be a little shocking all by the way, how do you get a four point four six uh grade point average? | |
| How is that possible? | |
| Um well it's possible. | |
| Um I just had to stay on track in school. | |
| Um for West Point, it starts very early. | |
| Uh there's freshman year. | |
| You need to have all A's, some Bs, um, all four years. | |
| So it's possible. | |
| Um I recommend for all freshmen and sophomores who want to apply in the future. | |
| Uh start now. | |
| In other words, start and and you're also a six-letter varsity athlete. | |
| What sports did you play? | |
| Um, well, I I do football and I do track and field, specifically discus. | |
| Um wow. | |
| Now is is is uh have you ever thought of of dreaming of throwing the discus at the Olympics? | |
| That's that's that's a not that is a very, very, very technical and specific sport. | |
| Yeah, it's um it's very technique oriented. | |
| Um it's it's not all strength, it's very important to that technique. | |
| Yeah, it really is. | |
| So your dream of West Point, when did that begin in your life? | |
| Um, well, it began um pretty early in my life, actually. | |
| Um ever since I was really young, um, I wanted to be in the army in some way, shape, or form. | |
| Um I just wanted to be in the army because of my dad. | |
| He had a really big impact on what I wanted to do. | |
| But as I grew older, I realized that college might be a realistic option for me because I got good grades constantly. | |
| Um so I had to kind of choose between college and the military. | |
| But over time, um I began looking towards different options. | |
| One day I saw the Army Navy game on TV, and I was confused why there were two teams called Army and Navy. | |
| Um my family described that those are actually military, quote unquote, colleges, um, or as you will, uh academies. | |
| So I began to do a lot of research on those, and I realized that's exactly what I want to do. | |
| That I have a perfect combination of both college and the military. | |
| Um, so the more I researched it. | |
| Do you remember how old you were? | |
| Um the Army Navy game was sometime in middle school. | |
| Um I I really started getting into West Point around my freshman sophomore year. | |
| Right. | |
| And and have you been in touch with you, for example, you have to get a letter from a local uh elected you have to get elected officials to sponsor you, recommend you. | |
| Um that's part of the process of getting in. | |
| Has this been something you worked on for a long time? | |
| Yeah, so the application process for the academy is very, very tough. | |
| Um there are four different things you have to do. | |
| So you have to get qualified in three different aspects. | |
| There's the academic aspect, the physical aspect, and then the medical aspect. | |
| The fourth one is you have to get a congressional nomination. | |
| Uh well, it doesn't have to be congressional, we have to get a nomination. | |
| And one where you can get a nomination is by your local congressperson. | |
| For me, that was Linda Centre in Congress. | |
| Uh that was in California 38. | |
| Oh, that's great. | |
| Let me ask you this. | |
| Um now the president said that your father, your grandfather and your great grandfather served our country. | |
| Um how old were you when you lost your dad? | |
| I lost my dad a week after my 11th birthday. | |
| The thing is, everyone goes to adversity at some point in their life, but uh the important thing is how you respond to that. | |
| A lot of people, when they get hit with diversity, they'll crumble, they'll get punched to the ground, and they'll stand the ground. | |
| Some people, however, they'll get punched to the ground and they'll get back up. | |
| I always knew that my dad would be proud of me. | |
| He's always in heaven watching down on me. | |
| I know that he's proud, so I want to make him proud. | |
| Um so once I was quote unquote punched in the face by that event, I decided to get back up and continue his legacy. | |
| I did well in school. | |
| I obviously got into West Point, um, thank God. | |
| But yeah, it it really depends on how you respond to adversity. | |
| Yeah, I mean, it's it's so impressive what you've been able to accomplish at at such such a young age. | |
| Um very, very inspiring. | |
| And uh now, when do you actually uh t attend you're a senior now? | |
| When will you when when do you have to be at West Point? | |
| By the way, it's beautiful. | |
| The I've been there, it's a beautiful place. | |
| It is beautiful. | |
| I actually went last June for their um program for incoming high school seniors. | |
| It's called FLE. | |
| Um if you're a high school junior, I strongly recommend you apply now. | |
| Um but yeah, I attend in June 30th. | |
| That is our day. | |
| That's uh that's your day. | |
| Well, I'm gonna say this. | |
| It was such an inspiring moment, and I assume that was your mom next to you uh that night. | |
| Yes. | |
| Uh, and I'm sure she's very proud, and I agree your dad's looking down on you, and I'm sure your dad is extremely proud of his son. | |
| And we want to wish you the best of luck, and we're lucky as a country that we have people like you that are willing to serve and protect our liberties and our freedoms, and we're so grateful that there are people like you uh that are gonna work so hard to keep us safe, and uh we're so proud of you and so happy for you and so grateful for you. | |
| Thank you, sir. | |
| It's in a privilege to be on here. | |
| We appreciate it. | |
| Jason, God speed, and and hopefully we can get updates from you as your your time at West Point goes on. | |
| Thank you, sir. | |
| Of course. | |
| God bless. | |
| God bless. | |
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| I'm good. | |
| How are you? | |
| Good. | |
| Just dealing with uh ruptured vocal cord, so I don't know how much I could talk, but I wanted to be on your show. | |
| Well, if you have a ruptured vocal cord, you sound pretty darn good. | |
| I'm doing good. | |
| We're talking like five weeks now, so um but I was just thrilled with President Trump. | |
| I was thrilled with the speech when he did the joint sessions with Congress. | |
| And I have to say one of my particular favorite, you just had that fine gentleman on Jason, was when that young gentleman DJ came and they both high-five each other. | |
| It wasn't that cool. | |
| That was such a great moment. | |
| Yeah. | |
| It was like it was like something kids would do in school because each other were so happy and so proud and so excited to be in there, you know, where they were, and I just have to say that that was I'm just so proud of President Trump, and I was like the whole thing was moving. | |
| The whole thing was emotional, and to why nobody could stand up, I don't know. | |
| I mean, I'm not sure what's going on with people, but that was probably the best part of the uh of the speech to me. | |
| This is the part of Donald Trump that I uh that I know because I've known him so long that I wish everybody knew more about. | |
| And the media's never gonna tell the story. | |
| Maybe I should be telling more of these stories, stories that I know of him helping people. | |
| Um but I kind of feel it's when I when I know these things is sort of off the record. | |
| I mean, I have off the record conversations, I have on the record conversations with him. | |
| So um, but I can tell you this this this is the embodiment of the man that I know. | |
| And this is who he is. | |
| And this is a part of him that the media will never give him credit for. | |
| And it's kind of sad. | |
| This is stuff that it that he loves to do. | |
| This is this is a passion of his. | |
| Yep, he came to Michigan in August, and I was I'd be had the honor to meet him. | |
| He brought in pizza for all the hard workers in Macomb County. | |
| He got uh like nine or ten pizzas, brought him in, and said thank you for all the work. | |
| He was just so nice, so kind, so sweet. | |
| It was really a wonderful experience. | |
| Uh I'm telling you, this this is I've seen this this on display the entire time I've known him. | |
| This is stuff that he does regularly that nobody knows about. | |
| Anyway, I appreciate the call, Sandra. | |
| Thank you. | |
| All right, quick break, right back. | |
| Uh we'll get it to another call on the other side, 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program as we continue. | |
| All right, back to our busy phones. | |
| 800-941 Sean is our number. | |
| Uh, let's get to Kim in Virginia. | |
| Kim, uh, we got about a little over a minute. | |
| It's all yours. | |
| Uh, what's on your mind today? | |
| Hello, Mr. Hanaby. | |
| How are you doing, sir? | |
| I'm good. | |
| What's going on? | |
| Well, I just wanted to thank you uh for doing such a great job during the election to help Donald Trump. | |
| Everybody sees that. | |
| So I appreciate that. | |
| Number one. | |
| But number two, I just hope that any the next couple elections coming up, we gotta play the video of the Democrats just sitting there through all those things that they should have stood up for. | |
| That right there should tell the whole country what you're dealing with. | |
| Oh, I think this should be a good reminder for 2026. | |
| I really do. | |
| I I I f I think it's so disgustingly repulsive what they did. | |
| And it's to me, it shows a dead party with no vision, no uh no leadership, and petulant and full of rage and anger. | |
| That's what I saw. | |
| Absolutely right. | |
| I saw when I looked at Nancy Pelosi, she just looked mean, you know, like just angry and mean. | |
| I'm like, we don't need that right now in our country. | |
| I mean, what are we back in kindergarten? | |
| The way they were acting, it was like you know, kids would act in kindergarten, and it just followed up with the censure resolution of Al Green, you know, out in the hall singing We Shall Overcome and him being defiant, not wanting to have the censure resolution read to him. | |
| Just to throw in one big collective temper tantrum, grow up. | |
| Yeah, the American people are suffering. | |
| He was very disrespectful. | |
| I was happy to see they kicked him out. | |
| Anyway, I appreciate the call. | |
| Uh, thanks, Kim. | |
| 800-941 Shawn is on number if you want to be a part of the program. | |
| Our friends in Israel, uh, they are just suffering. | |
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