May 9, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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| If you want to be a part of the program, uh we have a lot of good news on the economy. | |
| One one, this came in last Friday when China reached out and said, well, President Trump's serious about having meetings over trade and terrorists. | |
| They they will meet. | |
| Well, that's gonna happen in Geneva with the Treasury uh Secretary Scott Bessant. | |
| And what I've been saying, I said, at the end of the day, all of these countries, Donald Trump did something no president has done or 50 in 50 or 60 years. | |
| He's taken on the established way or establishment way of doing things. | |
| And he's the institutionalized thinking that, you know, it permeates that swamp known as DC. | |
| And he's looking at everything anew, and he saw that pretty much every country, both friend and foe alike, uh, were kind of ripping us off with unfair tariffs and and horrible trade deals. | |
| And he decided that he was gonna take action. | |
| And I said, wait and be patient, and I bet over time you're gonna see the president announce deal after deal after deal. | |
| And yes, eventually China will will come to the table. | |
| All of which is now turning out to be true. | |
| This is the president announcing a trade deal with the United Kingdom earlier today. | |
| This morning I'm thrilled to announce that we've reached a breakthrough trade deal with the United Kingdom. | |
| Credible country. | |
| Today is a victory day for World War II. | |
| We won the war together exactly 80 years ago, so there could be no more perfect morning to reach this historic agreement, and it's beautiful weather out. | |
| I will tell you that here. | |
| Beautiful weather is so perfect outside. | |
| But it's uh really in particular the agreement with one of our closest and most cherished allies. | |
| And uh, we're so happy that that's the way it worked out. | |
| I want to thank Prime Minister Starmer and his very talented team for their outstanding work and partnership. | |
| Today's agreement with the UK is the first in a series of agreements on trade that my administration has been negotiating over the past four weeks. | |
| With this deal, the UK joins the United States in affirming that reciprocity and fairness is an essential and vital principle of international trade. | |
| All right, joining us now is uh South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham is with us. | |
| Senator, I never had any doubt on these deals because everyone needs access to our market. | |
| Nobody seemed to have any confidence to challenge the old order, the old way of thinking. | |
| You you had a lot of confidence you expressed to me. | |
| You weren't worried at all about it. | |
| No, I mean, we got a good hand. | |
| You just need somebody that knows how to play a good hand. | |
| The world has a pair of twos compared to us, and Donald Trump is, you know, I told everybody just calm down. | |
| People want access to our markets, they need it, they'll come our way. | |
| So let me give you an example of what he's trying to do. | |
| We make BMWs, X5, X3, X7 series in Greenville, South Carolina, more BMWs made there than any place in the world. | |
| And if we make a car in Greenville, South Carolina, sell it to Europe, it's a 10% tariff. | |
| If they make a car in Munich and sell it to the United States, it's two and a half. | |
| That's not fair. | |
| So we're gonna wipe all that stuff out. | |
| We're gonna have fair trade deals, we're gonna have reciprocal tariffs. | |
| Uh, hopefully we can make them low, not high, and uh, we're gonna re-engage the world on trade and we're gonna do it with China to stop being ripped off. | |
| Why are they buying the Boeings? | |
| You know, that that's a goodwill gesture. | |
| People are coming to Trump. | |
| Just be patient. | |
| It takes a while to fix 60 years of trade abuse, and uh, I've got his back, so keep doing it. | |
| No, you you have from the beginning. | |
| Um, I don't want ever another Iraq and America embroiled in in a foreign conflict that it is no business being involved in, however. | |
| Right. | |
| When you when you couple an ideology and they state publicly, death to Israel, death to America, and they believe in a caliphate, and that is this is a theocracy, and that is convert to Islam or die. | |
| They are the number one state sponsor of terror. | |
| We've been watching that unfold now for a very long time, especially since they got a lot of money when Biden became president. | |
| They are, according to published reports, and we talked to Aaron Cohn, who's you know, former Intel operator that that's his business. | |
| Israeli trained special office intelligence veteran. | |
| And it's the breakout time publicly, and you would know better than me because you have access to information I don't is anywhere between three and three months and a year. | |
| And I just think that the world cannot risk a nuclear armed Iran. | |
| The president has stated that is his belief. | |
| What is your belief? | |
| Uh, yeah. | |
| I mean, uh, if you want to do the most destabilizing event in the world would be give the ITO and his henchmen a nuclear weapon. | |
| One, they would use it. | |
| They would use it against Israel. | |
| They say that, they mean it. | |
| The Arabs would want their own nuclear weapon to counter the Iranians, and you'd have a nuclear arms race in the Mid East. | |
| It'd be a disaster. | |
| But let's unpack what you just said. | |
| President Trump is going to the Mid East. | |
| The hottest economies in the world are in the Mid East. | |
| Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar. | |
| These places are the 23rd century. | |
| You know, the MBS, the Crown Prince is fundamentally changing Saudi Arabia in all the good ways. | |
| So we're going where the action is, and they love Trump. | |
| They love Trump because he stands up to Iran. | |
| He's a good ally, he's a good friend. | |
| And I predict the Abraham Accords will grow on Trump's watch, and we're going to go back to the table and see if we can get Saudi Arabia to uh recognize Israel. | |
| I think that can happen once the Palestinian issue, the war winds down. | |
| So that's why he's going, and he will be uh welcomed uh enthusiastically there. | |
| As to Iran, Senator Cotton, Tom Cotton, And I introduced a resolution today saying the only acceptable outcome is dismantling the Iranian uh enrichment program. | |
| They have enough enriched uranium to make six bombs within a month or two. | |
| Uh they're at sixty percent to get to ninety percent, which is weapons grade, is about a month. | |
| And President Trump is going to call the question on Iran. | |
| He's gonna offer them Sibyan nuclear power, which we can do safely if they'll dismantle their enrichment program, which is pathway to a bomb. | |
| We're gonna put them on the clock. | |
| If they don't take that deal, all bets are off. | |
| But we cannot allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon. | |
| Uh Israel is not gonna allow that. | |
| This is the eightieth anniversary of the end. | |
| President Trump said he's not gonna allow it to happen, and then when asked if it would be a joint military effort with Israel, he said, No, we will lead it. | |
| Meaning he, he would lead it. | |
| He said that. | |
| So what let's pray that there's no war, but let's also understand that the only thing worse than war sometimes is having evil people dominate uh uh your life. | |
| And Israel, one Holocaust is enough. | |
| Eighty years ago today, we're celebrating the end of the war in Europe. | |
| We defeated the Nazis. | |
| What did the Nazis do? | |
| They tried to kill all the Jews. | |
| The Jewish people founded their state in 1948. | |
| The biggest threat to the Jewish people and the founding of Israel, since the founding of Israel is Iran with a nuclear weapon. | |
| We're not gonna let that happen again. | |
| We've got Israel's back, no better friend of Israel than Donald Trump. | |
| If we can't get a diplomatic solution to this problem, which is complete dismantling of the enrichment capability of Iran, I would expect Israel would have to act, and I hope we will act with them. | |
| I hope we'll lead the way, at least join in. | |
| Uh, this is the most decisive time in the Mid East, really since the founding of Israel, and uh I'm glad Trump is president. | |
| You don't know how glad I am he is president uh during these crucial days. | |
| Maybe the most successful thing that you have done, and you pointed out rightly so, that there's only been what, four times in a hundred years where Republicans have had control of the House, the Senate, and the White House. | |
| And this is a historic opportunity. | |
| We are still living under the Biden Harris economy. | |
| Um, and in spite of that, the president's been able to get eight trillion dollars in manufacturing commitments from and by the way, including one point five trillion dollars from the UAE, one trillion dollars from Saudi Arabia, hence the importance of that region for other reasons. | |
| They're investing in America, um, which is fascinating to me. | |
| And you know, when you when you as budget chairman, you know, you get to decide without going through the Senate parliamentarian, that might have been the most understated but important things you've ever done as a U.S. Senator because that allows us to buy go through the reconciliation process, | |
| bypass the parliamentarian, uh because you made that decision unilaterally, and that that ensures the possibility of this success of this one big beautiful bill that everybody's working on, which is gonna have profound implications, no. | |
| Yeah, I think well, so I I as budget chairman, I said it's my decision to determine whether or not the tax cuts expire. | |
| So I made a decision, nobody ch chairman has ever made before. | |
| I'm gonna make the tax cut permanent using current policy, assuming they never go away. | |
| So what do we need to do in reconciliation? | |
| Trump's going all over the world, he's getting investment in America. | |
| Well, what else can we do? | |
| Make those tax cuts expire in December permanent. | |
| The RD credit, uh the expensive credit, the child tax credits that average Americans need, make them permanent, cut spending. | |
| You know, if we cut two trillion dollars in spending over a ten-year period, that's two percent. | |
| So we should be at least able to do that, if not more. | |
| Uh raise the debt ceiling, make the tax cuts permanent. | |
| If we don't do that, uh we will hurt the economy. | |
| If we do that, it will uh the economy will soar, and I'm confident Republicans are not gonna fail. | |
| Well, I'm I'm I'm confident they're not gonna fail. | |
| That we we really can't fail. | |
| I mean, th this is too important, and as long as you know, House Republicans, and I know everybody's not gonna get everything that they want. | |
| However, this will go a long way to securing the border. | |
| This will go a long way to helping uh us uh achieve the president's goal of energy dominance, which is gonna be great for the country, as well as help national security and and fund our defense department and and the next generation of weaponry. | |
| It'll help shore up Social Security and and Medicare, and I think all the pieces are in place, especially with the eight trillion committed in investment in this country. | |
| Uh all the pieces are in place uh for tremendous economic growth and prosperity, in my humble opinion. | |
| Well, you're right, and we just need to back up President Trump here. | |
| So the point is reconciliation allows us to make the tax cuts permanent because the decision I made without one democratic vote. | |
| This is the process they use to pass Obamacare and the inflation reduction act. | |
| We used this in 2017. | |
| So we have a chance to have a hundred and seventy-five billion dollars for the border, more bed space, more ice agents, finish the wall without one democratic vote. | |
| 150 billion dollars of new money for the defense without being held hostage by the Democrats. | |
| We have a chance to make the tax cuts permanent without one democratic vote. | |
| The only way we're gonna do these things is do it through reconciliation. | |
| Because Democrats are not gonna help you build the wall. | |
| They're not gonna help you deport illegal immigrants, they're not gonna make the tax cuts permanent. | |
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| All right, we continue now with South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham. | |
| Let me go to Russia and ask you. | |
| Uh obviously the minerals deal with Ukraine was huge, uh, but the person that's been dragging his feet is Vladimir Putin. | |
| And as we speak, Chinese dictator Chi has extended, you know, this private meeting impressive and alongside Vladimir, uh in which he declared that China and Russia uh were ready to safeguard the global multilateral trading system, presumably from Donald Trump. | |
| Uh your reaction to them and and Putin's uh reluctance to end this war. | |
| Well, number one, the trade, uh the minerals deal with Ukraine is huge. | |
| Ukraine has multiple trillions of dollars of critical minerals, digital economy. | |
| We will get the benefit of those minerals, not Russia, not China. | |
| So that's a big frigging deal. | |
| It helps the future of the American economy, gives us a new relationship with Ukraine. | |
| We don't need to give them any more money. | |
| They got plenty of opportunity to buy weapons from us and and to be a good partner, as to Russia. | |
| Trump wants a good deal. | |
| He wants to end this war, and he wants to do it fairly and not start another war. | |
| Putin is misjudging Trump. | |
| You play Trump at your own peril. | |
| Stay tuned. | |
| I'm playing golf of the President Trump this weekend. | |
| He's just about had it with Russia because he believes You you play Gal for them all the time. | |
| Is he good? | |
| Let me tell you. | |
| I've I played with him in his first term, but a hundreds of rounds of golf. | |
| He's one of the best amateur golfers I've ever played with, period. | |
| Uh all right. | |
| Wow. | |
| That that's saying a lot. | |
| Now are you are you any good? | |
| Well, let me go back to Russia because we're running out of time. | |
| Do you believe that that pres that Putin will make will will get there? | |
| In other words, that's the one. | |
| Because I don't think he's getting any more than what's currently on the table. | |
| And by the way, I I can't stand the left is saying, you know, Biden's saying, well, we've given him everything. | |
| No, Crimea happened on your watch. | |
| The invasion happened on your watch, the war happened on your watch, and he's cleaning up, you know, your Adam's shift hole that you left behind. | |
| Well, let me put it this way, real simple. | |
| If I were going to call a group of people to get advice about how to deal with Putin, they would be the last people I call. | |
| Who Putin raped them, basically? | |
| Everything that's going on in the world is a result of weakness from the left. | |
| Getting out of Afghanistan led to Putin invading Ukraine. | |
| You got China just kicking us around all over Asia. | |
| You got Iran trying to break out for a nuclear weapon. | |
| Those days are over. | |
| You know what? | |
| We'd be nice to have a more peaceful world, wouldn't it? | |
| And one focused on prosperity and opportunity and wealth for all. | |
| Uh Lindsay Graham, Senator, thank you. | |
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| What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi. | |
| Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why. | |
| Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies. | |
| It's almost a dirty word. | |
| One that connotes conspiracy theory. | |
| Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre? | |
| Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit. | |
| We kill the ambassador just to cover something up. | |
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| Um, so when the president made this announcement, we played it earlier in the program today. | |
| Well, let me play it again. | |
| When he announces this trade deal with the United Kingdom. | |
| I said this would happen deal after deal after deal. | |
| Here's what he said. | |
| This morning I'm thrilled to announce that we have reached a breakthrough trade deal with the United Kingdom. | |
| Credible country. | |
| Today is a victory day for World War II. | |
| We won the war together exactly 80 years ago, so there could be no more perfect morning to reach this historic agreement, and it's beautiful weather out. | |
| I will tell you that here. | |
| Beautiful weather, so perfect outside. | |
| But it's uh really in particular the agreement with one of our closest and most cherished allies. | |
| And uh we're so happy that that's the way it worked out. | |
| I want to thank Prime Minister Starmer and his very talented team for their outstanding work and partnership. | |
| Today's agreement with the UK is the first in a series of agreements on trade that my administration has been negotiating over the past four weeks. | |
| With this deal, the UK joins the United States in affirming that reciprocity and fairness is an essential and vital principle of international trade. | |
| And my prediction is there's there's gonna be many deals uh in the future. | |
| Here's some of the details of this trade deal, the first of what will be many uh with the United Kingdom. | |
| And by the way, considering the this day, eighty years ago today, the end of World War II, I think it probably was most appropriate, and uh here's some of the details. | |
| The deal includes billions of dollars of increased market access for American exports, especially in agriculture, dramatically increasing access for American beef, ethanol, and virtually all of the products produced by our great farmers. | |
| In addition, the UK will reduce or eliminate numerous non-tariff barriers that unfairly discriminated against American products, but this is now turning out, I think, really to be a great deal for both countries. | |
| They'll also be fast tracking American goods through their customs process, so our exports go to uh a very, very quick uh form of approval, and there won't be any red tape. | |
| Things are gonna move very quickly both ways. | |
| The final details are being written up in the coming uh weeks will have it all very conclusive, but the actual deal is a very conclusive one. | |
| We think uh just about everything's been approved. | |
| We'll also receive new market access for American chemicals, machinery, and many other industrial products that weren't allowed. | |
| Furthermore, in a historic step, the deal includes plans that will bring the United Kingdom into the economic security alignment with the United States. | |
| That's the first of its kind. | |
| So we have a big economic uh security blanket. | |
| Uh, and also the president did touch on trade negotiations with China. | |
| Mr. President, if the talks go well this weekend between Secretary Bassett and Ambassador Gare with their Chinese counterparts, not preemptively, but if the talks go out, would you then consider lowering the tariff rate on China? | |
| Well, it could be. | |
| I mean, we're gonna see right now you can't get any higher. | |
| It's at 145, so we know it's coming down. | |
| Uh I think we're gonna have a very good relationship. | |
| You know, I always got along very well with President Xi. | |
| Uh that relationship was greatly disturbed by COVID when COVID came in. | |
| Uh, but we get along very well now. | |
| I mean, we had a I mean, the relationship was hurt with a lot of people, a lot of countries when COVID came in. | |
| But uh I think we're gonna have a very good relationship. | |
| I I expect to have a very good relationship with China, Scott. | |
| I think uh it's uh very friendly meeting. | |
| They look forward to uh doing it in an elegant way. | |
| Uh China, as you know, has a tremendous trade surplus with us, and we can't, you know, we just can't have that. | |
| And uh, but I think it's gonna I think it's gonna be very good for both countries. | |
| I would like to see China opened, but uh no, I think that uh we're gonna have a I think we're gonna have a good weekend with China. | |
| I think they have a lot to gain. | |
| I do think they have far more to gain than we do in a sense, but uh we're gonna have a good, I think we're gonna have a very good very good weekend. | |
| I hope we do have a good relationship. | |
| I don't know who wants a bad relationship. | |
| Who wants war? | |
| Who wants a who wants, you know? | |
| Okay, this is like mutually assured destruction. | |
| They need access to our markets. | |
| We need their rare earth minerals. | |
| Isn't it better if you get along? | |
| You know, it's better for Ukraine and Putin, you know, maybe stop shelling each other and start making money and prospering and doing deals together. | |
| Uh all right, let's get to our busy uh phones. | |
| Uh let's say hi to Rob in Oklahoma. | |
| Rob, how are you? | |
| Glad you called. | |
| Good morning, sir. | |
| Morning, sir. | |
| It's afternoon, but whatever. | |
| Who's counting? | |
| I'm I wanted to focus on uh the uh this new hope. | |
| I I hold great as a cradle Catholic, I hold great hope for him to be a uh a uh a guy who takes care of his business. | |
| In other words, he needs to focus on my soul and on the Bible, not on politics. | |
| Um Sergeant Alvin York, who I know you know, um found this verse of Mark twelve seventeen. | |
| It says, Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, render unto God what is God's. | |
| And he the I have great hope that our new American Pope will do that very thing and and focus on the words of the Bible and not on our politics, not weigh in nonsensically and um in politics. | |
| Look, I I I have great hope for this this Pope. | |
| I really do. | |
| And and I I hope that he can he can revitalize I mean human beings are are mind, body, and spirit. | |
| I hope he can revitalize the spirit of mankind in in ways that you know really only God can remind us that you know that we're all his children, etcetera. | |
| Uh we're talking about the first American Pope, his name is Robert uh Prevost. | |
| He take has taken on the name Pope Leo the fourteenth. | |
| Um Donald Trump released a statement congratulating him. | |
| Um look, being raised Catholic for me, and I'm I consider myself a Christian now, non-denominational over Catholic. | |
| I I have some issues with the church handling of so the corruption issues, etc. | |
| that bother me. | |
| I still think the Mass is quite beautiful and and the history of the churches. | |
| I don't know why they changed what was their original policy about priests being married for the first eleven, twelve hundred years of the church, they allowed that. | |
| I think that greatly diminished the ability to attract good people into that service. | |
| Um my view, I'm I'm not being critical here, especially on uh what is this very special day for all my friends that are Catholic. | |
| With that said, it it gave me a foundational spiritual belief in in God in Christ, etc. | |
| that I rely on every day of my life. | |
| And um that's why I've been working hard on Linda, who's you know, a little bit of backsliding going on with the hate list. | |
| I'm trying to work on her. | |
| But she's she she's focused in too. | |
| She knows what's she knows what's right. | |
| No, she's put I think half the time she's pushing my buttons if you want to know the truth. | |
| Well anyway, listen, uh great prayers for him. | |
| Uh an American-born cardinal, graduated from Villanova, now elected Pope, and our prayers were with him and every Catholic as they celebrate this big day for them. | |
| Uh thank you, my friend. | |
| 800-941 Shauna's on number if you want to be a a part of the program. | |
| Grant in Alabama. | |
| What's up, Grant? | |
| How are you? | |
| Roll tide. | |
| Glad you called. | |
| Yeah, thank you for having me, Sean. | |
| Oh, you know who I met recently, and never met him before. | |
| Nick Sabin. | |
| Oh, Nick said, hey, that man is a he is a saint in his own right. | |
| I know the Pope was just elected. | |
| Uh and Alabama, football, Alabama football's a religion. | |
| I learned that firsthand. | |
| I had no idea. | |
| I was not a big college sports fan as I am now, but at the time, because where I grew up, it was all professional sports. | |
| And uh, you know, new but how many except for St. John's basketball, how many, you know, there there are no major New York football teams. | |
| The everything is is focused on the Yankees and the Mets and the Rangers and the Knicks and the Nets and and etc. | |
| Not not so much on college sports, it's weird. | |
| And you go South, every you know, everything's southern. | |
| Every is is college. | |
| It is it is absolutely a a religion down here. | |
| So uh Sean, what I wanted to to talk to you about, I'm a first-time voter. | |
| My first election was in November, which is kind of exciting. | |
| And uh, you know, I've cast my vote for Donald Trump, and I I wanna I mean, a lot of people have asked me why I did that, uh, a lot of people around me. | |
| Uh not in like uh, you know, a hostile way, but I think it all comes down to to common sense and bringing common sense politics back into the United States of America. | |
| Uh I can't sit here and rationalize uh in front of a ballot that that the murder of children is health care, or that boys can be girls and girls can be boys. | |
| Uh and and that's really what it came down to in this election. | |
| And this being my first election, uh those issues were the ones that were important to me, and that's why I voted the way that I did. | |
| Well, uh look, I think that everybody's got to follow their own heart and who they vote for. | |
| And the one thing I will say is I like to vote for common sense. | |
| I'm not a c I believe conservatism is common sense. | |
| Limited government is common sense. | |
| Eliminating waste fraud and abuse, common sense, vetting people to come into our country is common sense. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| Living within your means is common sense. | |
| Having a strong military, knowing evil exists in this world is common sense. | |
| And you know I like to consider myself a common sense peoperson. | |
| Oh absolutely and and I wouldn't even you know when people ask me, I mean I I voted Republican obviously but when people say oh are you right wing well today w if you're right wing that just means that you support the rule of law being upheld. | |
| You support the police you support uh kids getting to go to the the schools that their parents have chosen and and if those things are all true for me which they are then I suppose that I am right wing but the bottom line is that it comes down to common sense and and common thinking and that that's what I believe in and and that is why why I had to vote for Donald Trump in this election. | |
| Common sense to me is God given except common sense is not so common. | |
| I mean think of it that way. | |
| You were right about that. | |
| Yeah. | |
| All right my friend all the best to our friends in Alabama. | |
| All right back to our phones. | |
| Uh let's say hi to Peter South Carolina. | |
| Peter, hi, how are you? | |
| Glad you called sir. | |
| Good afternoon, Sean. | |
| I got to tell you, I am calling you from my Pure Talk phone. | |
| Okay? | |
| And what a great company, first of all. | |
| By the way, and you get the same service, and you save it over $1,000 a year for the same service? | |
| God, I'm saving a lot of money talking to you on my brand new iPhone through Pure Talk. | |
| And, you know, I'm not going to, I'll stop right there, but I just want to let you know that what a great company. | |
| And what I wanted to touch on, I put you, I put you, on a pedestal along with I grew up in the Paul Harvey uh era. | |
| All right so I'm uh I put you on a pedestal with Paul Harvey and Rush Lynn God bless and God bless their souls. | |
| I've been listening to you for years and years. | |
| Okay. | |
| But, um, what, you know, what disturbs me is now that I'm retired, uh, since 2018, um, uh, I still have to pay in, I still have to pay, uh, uh, taxes on social security and Medicare and Medicaid. | |
| That's going away. | |
| As soon as that reconciliation bills done, no tax on tips, no tax on social security, no tax on overtime. | |
| That's cause that is all, that's not even in question that will be part of that bill. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Cause I'm on, you know, now that I've retired, I'm on obviously a fixed budget and I am so looking forward to, uh, what the president has presented and, and, and, and what, what is going to be pushed through. | |
| Um, I'm actually excited about it. | |
| Um, uh, because people, uh, you know, blue collar workers like me, uh, you know, uh, I've paid in, believe it or not, I've downloaded, uh, from a social security administration. | |
| I paid in over $450,000 in, in, in Medicare, Medicaid and, and, uh, and, uh, and, uh, taxes. | |
| And I'd like to see a little, little of that coming back. | |
| Listen, let me tell you something. | |
| We made a, a vow of promise for our seniors. | |
| And I'm telling you right now that we've got to keep that vow. | |
| That's all there is to it. | |
| And, and we have to keep that promise and we will. | |
| And by cutting waste, fraud, and the, abuse we can you know that these these programs that are headed towards insolvency because of their incompetence mismanagement and frankly outright theft um we've got to make up that difference and then we got to stop robbing from our kids and grandkids. | |
| We owe it to them to leave this country better than we found it. | |
| You're a great American sir. | |
| God bless you I hope you enjoy your retirement you certainly sound like you earned it. | |
| 800 941 Sean if you want to be a part of the program. | |
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| Oh, man, massive GDP growth projected for the second quarter. | |
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