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Big Beautiful Bill in Senate - May 28th, Hour 3
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Uh, we're gonna get an update on the big one big beautiful bill that the president now has given the Senate permission to market up and make improvements and even find more cost savings, uh, which I know will make a lot of House members happy that have been you know part of the conflict leading up to that uh vote.
It was close, but what will happen is the Senate will pass their version, they'll go in a conference, and then hopefully both sides, both the Senate and the House will vote, and the President will sign the bill, and we'll have money to secure our borders, we'll have money to deport illegal immigrants, we'll have money to build the next generation of weaponry, we'll have money to begin the process of being energy dominant.
Uh we will also have the largest tax cut in American history with no tax on tips, social security or overtime, all big things that the president is putting in place.
And uh, but before we get to that, I want to go to the issue of Russia and Vladimir Putin, and this is what the president said about Putin yesterday.
I'm not happy with what Putin's doing.
He's killing a lot of people, and I don't know what the hell happened to Putin.
I've known him a long time, always gotten along with him, but he's sending rockets into cities and killing people, and I don't like it at all.
Okay.
We're in the middle of talking, and he's shooting rockets into Yev and other cities.
I don't like it at all.
That's when you're unhappy with President Putin.
You've talked before about putting more sanctions on Russia.
Is that something you're considering more true?
Absolutely.
He's killing a lot of people.
I don't know what's wrong with him.
What the hell happened to him, right?
He's killing a lot of people.
I'm not happy about that.
Anyway, then he further went on to say that he's gone crazy.
There are now eighty-two senators that have signed on to a huge massive Russia sanctions bill.
I would argue that is one part of the equation.
Uh, but unfortunately, it's been Europe and the continent of Europe that has been funding Putin's war machine because they've been purchasing oil and gas from Vladimir Putin for the longest period of time at a discounted price, and none of these countries are paying their fair share when it comes to NATO.
Anyway, here to weigh in on this, the economy, and and so much more is Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas.
Senator, always a pleasure to have you.
Welcome back, sir.
Hello, Sean.
It's good to be back on with you.
I am tired of Europe making Putin rich.
They want to buy cheap energy.
He's given it giving them energy at a discounted price.
That is funding his war machine, and meanwhile, they will not pay their fair share to NATO.
And meanwhile, and it's their continent that is, you know, under fire and under threat by Vladimir Putin and his unpredictability and his territorial ambition.
Why won't why would Europe make Putin rich the way they're waiting making him rich now?
Well, Sean, it's because they want to have their cake and eat it too, and that's been the case with Europe, especially Germany and Russia for many years.
Um they've helped underwrite the Russian war machine by continuing to buy cheap energy from Russia.
But as you heard President Trump say just then, his patients is wearing out.
Vladimir Putin has been incredibly disrespectful to President Trump's efforts to negotiate a ceasefire here.
President Trump and President Zelensky are willing to put out terms for a 30-day ceasefire.
And what does Vladimir Putin do?
He doesn't just continue the fighting on the front lines.
He launches unprecedented missile and drone attacks on civilians in cities far away from the front lines.
You also mentioned the legislation that we have in the Senate with over 80 senators that would crack down on Russia's energy exports.
A lot of those, by the way, go to China.
We would make sure that it may make it completely uneconomical for Russia to continue to export that oil, and that would also stop its financing for its war machine.
But we do need Europe to take European ser European security at least as seriously as we here in the United States take it.
Well, I I agree.
So the sanction bill is going to pass.
Don't we need to insist ahead of time that Europe stop all business with Russia until this war comes to an end?
And and what pressure can the president put on President Chi and India to stop importing energy from Russia?
Well, uh, I think President Trump is in exactly right to pressure Europe to cut back on its Europe on its uh energy imports from Russia.
Uh and I think he can show that this bill uh that we could pass in the Senate would not be directed just towards countries like China that's importing so much Russian oil, but European countries as well.
Uh and again, they can't expect us to take their security more seriously than they take it.
They can't expect us to put at risk um the international energy markets while they are continuing to try to buy cheap energy from Russia.
That has had some success in the defense say, Sean.
You know, you've probably seen the news that other countries, notably Germany has increased the amount of uh defense uh support it's providing to Ukraine.
It's just lifted the range restrictions on the missiles have already provided to Ukraine.
I think that's a direct result of President Trump insisting that they begin to pull more of their share of the load.
So hopefully you see the same thing in the energy space as well.
Yeah, I think we definitely need to.
Let's talk about this one big beautiful bill.
Um I know there's been some some vocal opposition.
Rand Paul is one person, Ron Johnson has been another person.
Uh Senator Ted Cruz believes that they can find more monies to cut uh from the from the House version.
I'm fine with that.
Uh I think it'll actually go over pretty well in the House.
Uh where does it stand in the Senate and do you believe it's going to pass?
Well, we're excited that the House passed the legislation last week.
We're looking forward to taking it up next week and in the weeks ahead.
Um, you know, I commend the speaker for navigating very difficult politics in the House.
Obviously, the Senate will have some input on the bill.
Uh you mentioned some of it, Sean.
Uh, we'd like to find a little bit more savings in Medicaid.
Medicaid is a critical program for many Arkansans for elderly poor, for pregnant women, uh, for poor children, for the blind, the disabled.
Uh, it shouldn't be providing health insurance though to freeloaders and illegals.
You know, if you're a grown man, you should be able to continue to work if you're able-bodied, or at least go to school or get job training if the taxpayer is going to provide for your health insurance.
Um, likewise on the tax code.
Uh the House passed a bill that doesn't have complete permanence.
We would love to be able to get away to make sure all of those tax cuts for families and for small businesses are permanent, so we don't have this cycle again in another six, eight, ten years.
So families and businesses can plan for the future.
So those are just a few areas where we hope to make some small improvements on the bill, but I think it's going to be something that the House can uh pass once we're done with it, then the president can sign very soon.
Yeah.
Well, what do you think the improvements will be?
Like, for example, we can go over the Medicaid uh provisions.
I mean, what Dr. Oz was telling us on this program is uh is beyond the warming in terms of of Medicare and what it is it's like of a cancer that is metastasized and you know if you look at for example medic Medicaid outlays uh they have been skyrocketing through the roof the last twenty years.
The Fed spent $160 billion in fiscal year 2003, $591 billion in fiscal year 2023.
That's three and a half times as much state level spending has gone up three times and Democrats have steadily been pushing towards this universal health coverage at taxpayer expense and quote Medicare for all,
you know, except using the program originally intended to cover the poor not one designed for the elderly and in the process Medicaid's grown from covering the poor to covering the near poor and and covering pretty much everybody.
Yeah Sean I think Dr. Oz made some good points and laid out some possible possible changes.
Again, there are work requirements in the House bill for Medicaid.
We might like to try to pull those work requirements forward.
I mean we think again able bodied men should be working a taxpayer is going to put the bill for their health insurance.
It's not a program for freeloaders or for that matter illegal aliens as is the case in many democratic states like California.
Another possible forum is that a lot of Democratic states in effect game the system.
They take you know one dollar in tax from their hospitals in return they're getting multiple dollars back from the federal government to give back to those hospitals.
We don't want to see those kind of abuses in Democratic states because Republican states generally are running a tighter ship.
We don't want anyone to lose benefits if they deserve those benefits, but we want to make sure that no one is getting Medicaid benefits that doesn't deserve it.
Because as Dr Ross says that the finances for Medicaid in the long term are are not looking very good.
Oh it's it's pretty amazing and and I I'm pretty confident it's going to pass.
I think this is the most conservative bill I've seen in my lifetime am I wrong in believing that when you factor in securing our borders importing illegals uh what it does for opening up energy dominance uh what it does in terms of the largest tax cut in history uh including no tax on tips, social security or overtime what it does to build the next generation of weaponry.
I'm not saying it's the perfect bill I'm saying it's the most conservative bill ambitiously conservative bill that I think I've seen in my lifetime.
Yeah Sean this bill is going to pass and it's going to go to the president for his signature.
Obviously we'll work through whatever small uh differences we have for the states and the districts that we all represent um but uh it there's just too much at stake here.
Uh it's not just the fact that you have the largest tax increase in American history coming at the end of the year if we don't pass the bill but all the points you just made Sean that sometimes get lost in the shuffle because there's so much focus on taxes and on health care.
This bill will start to rebuild our military.
It'll provide the administration the resources it needs to completely secure the border and again more effective and efficient deportations against illegals in the country.
It'll help unleash American energy production.
So there I think this bill is going to pass the Senate is going to pass it hopefully sooner rather than later and then I think the House can pass it and send it to the president.
Yeah that'll be that'll be pretty good.
Let me ask you this the the issue of the Middle East and Iran is coming to a head my understanding is they're over sixty percent in terms of enrichment to go from sixty to ninety percent which is weapon grade weapons grade enrichment is it can happen in a very short period of time weeks uh not months and that these negotiations are critical.
To me there are very there are two very key provisions that must exist one is they can no longer enrich uranium they should have to dismantle the nuclear facilities if they want nuclear power they can do what the UAE does and import the rods that then cannot be turned into weapon grade uranium and uh beyond that we need anywhere,
any place, any time American inspectors if you want other countries that's fine but American expect inspectors need to be able to go where they want when they want and check out these facilities.
Without those without that insurance policy I think any terms you come to with the Iranians would be useless.
Yes Sean I I think that's exactly right and it's what President Trump has said and Steve Whitcoff is chief negotiator said.
A red line is any kind of enrichment ability because if you can enrich to any level you can enrich to weapons grade.
And that's what Iran has proven over the last four years as they started to break out towards weapon grade level enrichment during the Biden administration.
That's why President Trump and Steve Whitkopf and Marco Rubio and J.D. Vance have all been perfectly clear.
Any enrichment program for Iran is a red line that the United States cannot allow.
All right, quick break, right back more with Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton on the other side as we continue.
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We continue with Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton who's with us.
Let me ask you this.
As as you look at the Democratic Party and all this discussion about Joe Biden and this his cognitive state.
Senator, with all due respect to everybody in this what I call state-run legacy media mob, I we went back on this radio program in 2019.
We were pointing out Joe Biden's cognitive decline.
We were pointed it out all through the 2020 election.
We pointed it out on TV on Hannity every single night.
And for people to act like they're shocked and surprised and they can't believe it, and they didn't know it until the debate happened, is frankly just a lie.
And to me, it's now evolved into the biggest White House scandal in our lifetime by far.
And that is the Joe Biden cognitive cover-up.
your reaction to it all.
Sean, it's a total lie.
It's media and the Democrats trying to blame each other for lying to the American people.
You, I, and anyone with common sense and two eyes could tell, not in 2024, but in 2019, that Joe Biden was not no longer fit to be president.
Uh they covered up all the way back then.
The original sin was not him running for re-election, it was running him running for election in 2019, 2020.
And the Democrats and the media covered it up back then.
I'll also Sean, I have to add, even if Joe Biden had been sharp as a pack and fit as a fiddle, he still would have lost in 2024.
And Harris did lose in 2024, not just because he was old, but because he was a failure, and his liberal policies were a failure for America.
Well, that's why this one big beautiful bill will get us out from underneath the Biden economy.
And I I am very confident that there's going to be more trade deals.
Let's see how right I am.
And I'm predicting that we're gonna probably hear about them in the weeks in days and weeks to come.
And hopefully we can, you know, get an end to war in Europe, a war and an end to the war in the Middle East, and hopefully we can get the economy humming, and hopefully everybody will earn re-election, and the Democrats won't get their dream of impeaching Donald Trump 30 times.
Uh anyway, Senator Tom Cotton, Arkansas, we appreciate you.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you, Sean.
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You know, it's really amazing to me that James Comey, Mr. Higher Honor, is as arrogant as he is.
This is a guy that signed that was warned not to use Hillary Clinton's dirty Russian disinformation dossier because it was political in nature and it was unverified, and it was debunked before he signed the second Pfizer warrant, and the Pfizer warrant, the bulk of information provided to the Pfizer court was that dirty dossier.
He signed three of the four warrants against Carter Page, which gave a backdoor into Trump world because of Carter Page's work into work with the Trump campaign.
I mean, it's pretty unbelievable.
The same guy that, even though they find top secret classified information all over Hillary Clinton servers, even though they knew that she destroyed, you know, servers with bleach bit and destroyed devices with hammers and removed SIM cards.
No reasonable prosecutor would prosecute.
But and the same thing with Joe Biden.
He has top secret classified information in four separate locations.
The FBI does nothing.
Nothing.
And neither Hillary nor Joe Biden had presidential immunity, because neither had been president by that at that time.
And Donald Trump was president.
He didn't pack the boxes that went to Mar-a-Lago.
And he was working with the FBI.
He gave access, free reign to the FBI to go all over Mar a Lago.
And after they did, they said, Would you mind putting an extra padlock on one particular door or room that they had been in?
Nobody was stopping them from taking anything out of that room.
And meanwhile, they just come and they raid Mar-a-Lago.
Now we need to get to the bottom of that and the double standard.
But you talk about the weaponization of justice, and then you think of other things that happen during Comey's term.
I mean, this is when we started, you know, looking at moms and dads at school board meetings, you know, moms like Linda that are kind of loud and outspoken and go to school board meetings and stir up the pot a little bit.
All right, looking at them as domestic terrorists Or peaceful pro-life protesters.
Well, now we know where the mindset comes from.
Listen to what James Comey had to say about one of the two political parties is white supremacists adjacent at a minimum.
This is Mr. 8647.
Just tapping the C C shells that say, yeah, 8647.
I had no idea that that meant uh maybe to kill Donald Trump.
Listen.
Probably there could be changes at the margins, but in the main, we have the tools.
There are cultural impediments to doing this work.
Let's say you work in the FBI.
You know that one of the two political parties is let me put it nicely, white supremacist adjacent at a minimum.
And so why would you want to throw your career on that side of the line and be summoned to Capital Hill to be asked why are you pursuing these innocent groups?
And so we have a cultural impediment to working it effectively that should get more attention than it does.
We know one of the two political parties is white supremacist adjacent at a minimum.
This man has a prejudice against conservatives that is palpable.
Now, he declined to explain calling Republicans and conservatives, white supremacists adjacent.
He had the opportunity the day after he said this to clarify it, and here's what he said.
I was just going to ask you about the MSNBC interview you were doing.
Because on social media, everyone's saying he's talking about the white supremacist adjacent Republican Party.
Everybody in the party.
Voters, what what's you want to clarify?
No clarification at all.
No, I'm not gonna comment on it.
Okay, well, thank you.
Hello.
Hi.
I'm not gonna comment on that.
It's so frightening that this guy was the FBI director, really is.
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Uh, in the meantime, let's say hi to Richard in Ohio.
Richard, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Hi, uh I have a question for you uh about your uh burner launchers.
Yes, sir.
Okay, I work in a uh Marina.
I work third shift um as a security guard.
And I deal with a lot of drunk people and a lot of domestic disputes over uh like bumping into boats or uh, you know, about bumping into another boat, or um, some guy was looking at a girl and his wife or girlfriend got jealous, that type stuff.
Um but sometimes it gets violent and you have to stop and intervene, of course.
I I carry right now, but I don't want to take and shoot somebody for something that is a mistake, you know.
I mean they were drunk or they accidentally did this or that.
So what you Well, I would imagine if you have a license to carry, you don't you don't even need a license to carry a burner.
You know, the only thing I would do is I probably would go to your company and say, hey, I'd rather use this non-lethal Option in in a situation and not only have the option of lethal force and I don't see why they would ever say no.
Now you have over and we're getting close to a thousand, but well over five hundred government agencies and law enforcement uh and police departments and security firms like yours that are using this burner technology because it's it is so effective at incapacitating people.
We have the videos when you go to their website, b y RNA dot com.
Um I don't see why they wouldn't let you have it.
I like both options.
I the my first option is to talk my way out of something and and walk away and nobody gets hurt.
If I have to, my section uh second option would be the burner launcher.
And then if it's a life or death situation, you know, uh only as a last resort would I ever want to pull out a firearm because if you pull it out, you better intend to use it.
Exactly.
But which my question is though, uh they come in three hundred or four hundred feet per second or so.
Which right.
Well, that's the the smallest version, which is the easiest to carry is the C L model that they just produced.
It's four inches long, about two cell phones thick, and it's it's a very powerful launcher.
It does the job.
And it's simple to carry.
Uh and then uh it shoots the what kinetic rounds and pepper spray.
Yes, sir.
Pepper spray and and tear gas, depending on what state you're in.
But they like for example, if you order it, they know what the state law is, and you'll get the proper projectiles, but everybody can use the kinetic rounds.
And but yeah, uh, you know, like for example, my free state of Florida allows pepper spray and tear gas.
New York did not allow that, so I had a more modified projectile uh that I used in New York when I would carry it in New York.
Okay.
Well that's fellows, uh my question was uh, you know, which which how powerful should I get?
You know.
Well they're they're all powerful, they're all effective.
It just is a matter of if you know if if you're carrying another firearm, you probably want the CL, which is more compact and would do the job for you.
Um if you want the larger one, you can get it.
Um I actually get red dots on all of mine.
I I just like I just I just happen to like it.
You don't have to think at that point.
And in a moment where even though I was a pistol marksman at eleven, I don't see as well as I used to, number one, and number two.
Um although I got I've got to be honest.
I mean I can fire this where I can't fire a firearm because of hearing loss from doing radio for so long, but um I I use it for target practice all the time, and and I make a nice pretty nice cluster.
They have inert rounds you can fire and practice with.
Oh, nice.
Yeah, you'll like it.
And you can go out in your backyard or go to a safe place, go to a range wherever you want to do it.
All right, my friend, Richard, check it out, b Y RNA.com.
I think you'll be happy with it, and it'll give you another option.
Uh Herb in South Carolina next, Sean Hannity show.
What's up, Herb?
How are you?
Hey, Uncle Sean.
I know when I get sick, I know who to call.
Oh boy.
Great, you know, and the thing is I was glad to help Velma, but man, she gave me a hard time.
I I promise I won't.
Well, I mean, do you i if if I feel like somebody's not doing their job, or I feel like they're not taking it seriously, or they're not giving her the attention that she needs, um, I'm gonna I'm gonna be as forceful as I need to be.
I was polite, but I was forceful.
And I'm like, no, that's not good enough.
You know, they would I remember that one day they were trying to get blood, draw blood from her, and that they were having a hard time, and I'm like, giving up is not an option here.
And and then the one nurse had to go get another nurse, then they had to get another.
I'm like, will you please get an expert, get a medical doctor, somebody that does this professional professionally.
And we finally got it, and we got her blood, and and it was important that we dr were able to draw that blood at that time.
I told I'm a pretty good patient advocate.
I fight for people if I care about 'em.
I do I do likewise.
Uh I just don't have the connections that you do, and and thank God there are people like you, and we appreciate it.
Sean, uh, my my pet peeve For the week is uh Scott Pelley.
And the commencement at Wake Forest that he gave.
It's amazing how these uh I don't want to call them what I think, but these people manage to weasel their comments in at such uh uh underhanded ways.
It's like Springsteen and Scott Pelly.
And it's disgusting.
It's still all false narrative.
Uh whoa, you know, uh Donald Trump is taking away our our freedom of speech.
If anybody's taking away the freedom of speech, it's the liberal news.
And and they they just keep on.
I I'd love to see these people start defending what Biden did instead of just knocking what Trump may or may not do.
Uh let's give the man a chance.
For we had to listen to their nonsense for for for for uh the whole through the whole last administration.
Nothing but false narrative.
I'd like to I am so sick and tired of these people claiming to be something they're not.
They claim they are journalists.
He's not a journalist.
He is a liberal talk show host.
And he and he exposed himself for who he is.
It's sort of like fake Jake Tapper.
They all claim to be journalists.
They're not.
I've been saying this for years.
Now, I'm a member of the media.
They're members of the press, they're like I am.
Uh however, uh, I'm honest about what I do.
And we do straight news.
I do plenty of straight news.
I give a lot of information out, you're not going to get elsewhere.
We do investigative reporting.
I mean, uh, we're the ones that got the Russia collusion story right, the Pfizer story right, the value of valuation of Mar a Lago right.
We're the ones that got, you know, that this whole trumped up charges, pun intended, you know, by Alvin Bragg was wrong.
Uh we're the ones that, you know, we we got the issue of Duke LaCrosse right and Ferguson, Missouri right, and Freddie Gray and Baltimore right, and early in my career, Richard Jewell right.
Because we take great pride in getting it right.
Doesn't mean I haven't been wrong occasionally, but you know, they're the ones that covered up Joe's cognitive decline, not me.
We were all over that story.
And I think one of the reasons that people didn't listen to them and all their Trump hatred in the lead up to the election is because people don't trust them anymore.
Absolutely.
Anyway, I do appreciate the call, my friend, so let not your heart be troubled.
America doesn't trust them, nor should they ever again.
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