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	If you look at 30,000, 40,000 feet down, and I would tell you that we are where we are as a country six months into Donald Trump's presidency, and you think back a year ago, or just now a little over a year ago,
	and Butler had just happened, one millimeter away from assassinating candidate at the time, former President Trump at the time, now President Trump, and look at what has happened, and it is pretty spectacular in terms of what's changed.
	I watched the president today, you know, giving a press conference on every topic imaginable, and he's not looking at notes, and he didn't have prepared questions, and he wasn't briefed ahead of time.
	And on by every measure, we are so much better off than we were just a year ago.
	And this victory was so consequential and transformational.
	And I think it's only going to get better.
	I hope it only gets better.
	I don't care whether you like Donald Trump or not.
	There's no disputing the border is secure.
	There's no disputing that we're deporting all these criminal, illegal immigrants.
	There's no disputing that we've gotten inflation now under control.
	There's no disputing that we have the largest tax cut now signed into law in the history of the country.
	There's no disputing that working men and women benefit the most from this.
	No tax on tips and overtime and the older Americans also in terms of Social Security and preserving Medicare and Medicaid and putting in work requirements.
	There is no disputing that the world is a safer place with the Iranians not months away from having nuclear weapons, which they've been threatening to use against Israel and the United States.
	I think that makes the world a safer place.
	And in that period of time, I mean, it is incredible success.
	Anyway, here with some historic perspective, five days will be the six-month mark of Donald Trump being back in office.
	He's a historian at heart.
	He's a professor at heart, but he was a former Speaker of the House, the last person to balance the budget as Speaker.
	And Mr. Speaker, you might be pleasantly surprised to hear, and it was reported by the Washington Examiner yesterday, that the month of June was the first month the federal government has had a surplus in over 20 years.
	Well, I think that the establishment is in a state of shock because for the last three months, the economy has been responding to President Trump's strategy.
	And of course, with the passage of the Big Beautiful Bill and the work he's doing on tariffs and the amount of money he's getting invested, as you're seeing again today in Pennsylvania at the Artificial Intelligence Summit, where they're announcing huge investments that are going to transform large parts of the Pennsylvania economy.
	All these things are moving.
	And it's one of the things that Reagan taught us that when you have an exciting, enthusiastic, entrepreneurial environment, people come out of the woodwork.
	People decide to take risks.
	They decide to invest.
	They decide they want to go out and be part of the future.
	And Trump, in that sense, it's much more than a straight mathematical equation.
	There's a psychology to growth.
	There's a psychology to investment.
	And President Trump is now tapping into that sense in a way that, frankly, much as I've admired him, he has done, I would say, 20 to 30% better in the first six months than I thought he would.
	It's really been a remarkable run.
	You know, look, you're the historian.
	I'm not an amateur historian.
	I love to read history, but this has been your life's work.
	And I can't think in the modern era at least, maybe one comparison could be, I don't know, Roosevelt, World War II, and coming into office and dealing with economic problems that were unprecedented at the time.
	But I can't think of, and the whole New Deal aspect of his agenda, even though I don't think it was necessarily all good.
	But I can't think of a more transformational or consequential six months than these six months.
	And I don't think people are getting the big picture view of how deep and profound these changes are.
	Look, if we just start with the border, and you look at the number coming across one year ago and how dramatically the border has been tightened up, that by itself would be historic.
	You look at the skyrocketing revenue out of tariffs, which nobody fully projected.
	That would be historic.
	You look at the scale of an announced public investment in the trillions of dollars for new factories, for new artificial intelligence projects, et cetera.
	That would be historic.
	You look at the amount of change going on at the Department of Education.
	You look at the changes in the Big Beautiful Bill.
	All of these things, I mean, any one of them would be big.
	When you add all of them together, along with the work he's been doing in the Middle East, the steps he took in Iran, the actions he's now taking with Russia, he's clearly making an impact beyond anybody.
	The only one close to it would be Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s.
	Nobody else in the modern era comes close to Trump for sheer impact and being a president of enormous consequence.
	You know what I think identifies him as unique and special is that most presidents are very calculated in terms of moves that he make, but they make.
	And, you know, every single one of the things that we discuss when it relates to Donald Trump, be it taking out Iran's nukes or taking now new action against Vladimir Putin after desperately trying to get him to get to the table and get to a ceasefire and hopefully end the war in Europe.
	Okay, now he's got to go to the next step.
	He gave Iran 60 days on the 61st day.
	Israel just started wiping them out.
	And then, of course, we finished the job taking out their nuclear sites.
	I don't care if it's building the wall, ending illegal immigration, the massive deportations of very dangerous criminals that Biden-Harris mayorkas allowed into the country.
	His policies on energy, I believe, will reap huge dividends down the road.
	It is the lifeblood of the world's economy.
	I think what he's been able to accomplish with tariffs and trade deals that he's been putting together is unprecedented as well.
	It's resulted in $10 trillion in committed monies in manufacturing over the next four years and manufacturing in very key industries.
	That would be automobile manufacturing, pharmaceutical manufacturing, semiconductor chip manufacturing, but also rare earth metals and magnets and things that we've been far too dependent on other countries for.
	All of that and the biggest tax cut in history, I think, lays the foundation for perhaps the greatest era of economic growth we've ever seen.
	I don't know why even some conservatives don't seem to understand that when you cut taxes, you do stimulate the economy.
	You do end up with more money in government coffers.
	It's the exact inverse thought pattern that the left has, but some conservatives, you know, they seem skeptical of it.
	Well, you know, look, I think that there is a dynamic.
	This was a fight I was involved in starting in the 1970s with Larry Kudlow and Art Laffer and Jack Kemp all arguing that there's a dynamic kind of economics that changes everything.
	It became called supply side, but it basically meant you encourage people to invent, you encourage people to produce, you encourage people to create, and they mop up the inflation by the sheer flow of goods and services so that you no longer have a problem of inflation.
	The left has always believed in a very static model where nothing changes, and the only way you can stop inflation is cause massive pain on the American people.
	I mean, if you watch Mondame, for example, who's going to be one of the great educational experiences in American politics, he says, I don't believe in billionaires.
	Well, that's fine, except he says, here are all the free things I'm going to do by raising taxes on billionaires.
	And nobody seems to have told him they can leave.
	They're not.
	Listen, I'm one of the people that left, so I'm very aware that you have the choice to leave.
	That's right.
	And so, I mean, what you have on the left, and unfortunately, some conservatives buy into this sort of Polaroid snapshot model.
	They don't understand that life occurs as a video.
	It's a dynamic.
	It evolves.
	And sometimes you can start small and grow very, very big.
	You go back and look at the original Jeff Bezos Amazon store in Washington State, and then look at the scale of Amazon today.
	Or go back and look at Henry Ford's very first car, which was in 1899, and then look at the scale of the modern automobile industry.
	And people don't realize that there's a dynamic here.
	And what Trump, as a businessman who had been very successful, had learned that you ride the wave of enthusiasm, you ride the wave of vision, you create an idea of a better future, you recruit people to that better future, and suddenly everything begins to rock and roll, and people just do better.
	And I think you'll find by my prediction is we can come back and visit this in a year, that by the summer of 2026, we will be in a Trump boom, and people will be seeing levels of investment, levels of creativity, levels of new approaches.
	And by the way, it'll be a major step towards balancing the federal budget, both because the economic growth will increase revenue, but also because all of these new technologies are going to make government much, much less expensive.
	All right, quick break.
	More with former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, and we'll get to your calls coming up, 800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program as we continue.
	Continue now.
	Former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich is with us five days away from the six-month mark of Donald Trump's presidency.
	You kind of made history because you were able at a point when Bill Clinton was at his weakest, caused him to at least have some course correction.
	There was some introspection there, and there was an understanding that if he continued down the path he was headed, that he would be a one-term president after Hillary Kerr died, and he was smart enough to partner with you.
	And together, when he said the era of big government is over, the end of welfare as we know it.
	I mean, he sounds like a Trump conservative today.
	The party does not represent anything that Bill Clinton represented now.
	What do you make of this, how the radicals have taken over?
	I mean, Hakeem Jeffries is going to meet with Bomdani.
	And I'm not sure what the purpose of the meeting is, but the leadership of the Democratic Party scared to death of the squad AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Momdani, Bernie Sanders, and Pocahontas.
	They seem to dominate that party, and the leadership is powerless and unwilling to take them on.
	I'll be very surprised if both Hakeem Jeffries and Schumer don't both endorse Mondame.
	He won the Democratic primary.
	He is the nominee of the party.
	And look, I just did a piece for the New York Sun just talking about this.
	And I'll tell you what hit me.
	All the years you and I have chatted, it never quite occurred to me.
	We keep talking about these highly educated young people.
	They're not highly educated.
	They're brainwashed.
	When you deal with kids who went to Harvard or Yale or Princeton in the last 10 or 15 years, they didn't get an education.
	They got brainwashed.
	They believe things that aren't true.
	That's why Mondame can basically, you can summarize Mondame's campaign pledge.
	I will turn New York into Caracas.
	I mean, that's the essence of what he's talking about.
	He's going to destroy capitalism, drive out everybody who has any kind of money, replace the private sector grocery stores of a government bureaucracy, offer everybody free goodies that nobody's going to pay for, and somehow magically solve the problem of rent control, which is guess what?
	Created by rent control.
	I mean, it's rent control itself, which is the problem.
	And yet that was the key to his campaign, was appealing to all of the young, new people who felt cheated because when they left college, they couldn't afford to buy anything because New York has become absurdly expensive.
	And Mondame will just make it worse.
	Well, it's pretty amazing.
	I actually like the fact that the radicals have taken over their party because I think that increases the odds that history can be made in these midterm elections.
	If the Democrats win in the midterms, we know what the next two years would be like.
	And that would be two years of never-ending impeachment, non-stop obstruction, hearings and hearings upon hearings, and probably stop the Trump agenda dead in its tracks.
	Am I wrong?
	No, I think that's right.
	And I think that everybody who wants us to transform the country back into the kind of dynamic, exciting, market-oriented system that has made us so great has to recognize that 2026 is one of the key elections in American history because it's very clear that the left has learned, not only not learned anything, but they're getting worse.
	And they're moving towards a Marxist, socialist, hard-left cultural values system that, and the work we do at the America's New Majority Polling Project, our guess is they represent about 15% of the country.
	But they have so much money from people like Soros.
	They have the muscle of the teachers' union and other big unions.
	And they're gradually taking over their party to the enormous disadvantage of the country.
	And I think ultimately to the great disadvantage of the Democratic Party, because in the end, their programs just don't work.
	I mean, their greatest problem is that they just don't work.
	Yeah, by the way, Newt Gingrich, we appreciate your time.
	His new book is out.
	It's Trump's Triumph, America's Greatest Comeback.
	It's on Amazon.com, Hannity.com, and bookstores all across the country.
	Mr. Speaker, you offer us insight that nobody else really can.
	I appreciate it.
	And thank you as always for being with us.
	Take care.
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	When I saw our old friend Gavin Newsom, Linda, in South Carolina, because he's been swearing up and down to me when I interviewed him and debated, oh, no, I have no interest in running for president.
	When I was away, did you notice that he was in South Carolina?
	So being the wise ass that I am, I texted him.
	I said, I believe you're not running for president.
	I'm sure you're just visiting South Carolina for the weather.
	And he gave me some snarky remark, which I'll keep private because it was not on the record.
	Here's Gavin's problem.
	And I think Gavin, you know, that day that he slung his jacket over his shoulder and he walked in the Oval Office and Joe Biden wasn't there.
	In my mind, I saw a guy that was picking out the drapes and thinks and believes and wants to believe that he's going to be president and bragging how blue cities are creating 71% of the country's GDP.
	Not sure where he gets this information.
	I don't really even care.
	I could just say if the country goes the route of New York and California, it will be an unmitigated disaster.
	The highest taxes, sanctuary cities and states.
	But this is what Gavin is not factoring in.
	Every person in his sanctuary, state of California, every victim, every person murdered, every person raped, every person that was a victim of violent crime by these unvetted, illegal immigrants that he offers sanctuary status to and free health care, courtesy of California taxpayers and frankly, American taxpayers, and how it's inundated their school system.
	My free state of Florida, number one school system in the entire country, and California ranks near the bottom.
	If you look at crime and you look at quality of life issues, I mean, all of these things are going to come up.
	The names of all of these victims are fair game to ask.
	What do you say to the family of fill-in-the-blank?
	So there's an example of this.
	He was asked if an eight-year-old should be able to have gender reassignment surgery.
	And when I listened, I kind of heard a little bit of Kamala Harris and a little bit of a word salad in this answer.
	But this is the problem for every Democrat that's going to be running.
	They're going to have to defend.
	The American public are now fully aware of the damage that was done, the most preventable national security disaster and the damage done by Biden-Harris-Mayorkis unvetted illegals.
	Anyway, this is what he said.
	And then, of course, Kamala Harris wants sex change operations taxpayer-funded for criminals and illegal immigrants.
	Tampon Tim wants, you know, to put in grammar schools and boys' bathrooms, feminine hygiene products.
	On top of that, he wants taxpayer-funded college education for illegals.
	And then, you know, of course, gender-affirming care for kids without parental consent.
	This is madness.
	Anyway, and Newsom has asked, you know, whether or not eight-year-olds should be able to have gender reassignment surgery.
	Let's listen to his answer.
	What about for your values?
	I mean, is eight years old too young?
	Yeah, I mean, look, now that I have a nine-year-old, just became nine.
	Come on, man.
	I get it.
	So those are legit.
	You know, it's interesting.
	Just the issue of age.
	I haven't, as I am, there's someone that's been so focused on equality broadly, LGBT rights, particularly gay marriage.
	The trans issue for me is also novel.
	It's over the last few years.
	I'm trying to understand as much as anyone else.
	Whole pronoun thing, trying to understand all of that.
	You know, that was like the hell all that stuff.
	I get it.
	What is that answer?
	I'm not quite understanding.
	Do you support eight-year-olds?
	Should they be able to have gender reassignment surgery?
	I get it, is not the answer.
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	Alan in Texas, God bless Texas.
	Alan, so sorry about what your state has gone through.
	Our prayers are with our friends in Texas.
	Thank you, Sean.
	Thanks for taking my call.
	Listen, I wanted to, I know people don't fare well with you when they do this, but I want to pick on one thing about the Big Beautiful Bill.
	I did support its passage, even with any flaws that I might consider it has.
	That is, in particular, with respect to no tax on tips and no tax on overtime.
	And the reason I say that is that, I mean, I've heard you say Democrats pick winners and losers, and Republicans don't do that.
	Well, that's exactly what we did here.
	We picked the waiter over the chef.
	They may make the same amount of money, but the waiter gets to deduct up to $25,000 of his tips.
	Have you ever worked in a restaurant?
	Yes, sir.
	Okay, so then you would be aware that if you mostly get paid on tips, you know that you get paid a lower amount of money and even below the minimum wage, at least when I was working there, than hourly workers, and that they factor in that tips are a big part of your pay.
	Correct.
	That's exactly right.
	And the number you're looking for is $2.13 an hour for tipped employees.
	Okay, so if you don't get a lot of tips on a given day, you're making a lot less than everybody else because they're still getting their hourly rate, right?
	And the only reason you're going to get a big tip, you know, and I'm kind of known for giving good tips because I always think of my father, the waiter, when I go to a restaurant and I always want to take care of people that give good service, but you know that, you know, they're not getting rich being a server in a restaurant.
	And if you're working overtime, to me, that's the ultimate meritocracy.
	If you're willing to go the extra mile, work harder than other people, you know, and I think people are overtaxed to begin with.
	Why are we going to tax people for working harder?
	I thought we wanted to reward that behavior.
	And this is for working men and women.
	You know, it's not going to be executives of big, you know, Fortune 500 companies that are going to benefit from that.
	Sean, though, it is the floor supervisor, the shop supervisor who's now salaried exempt, who works just as hard as that hourly employee and probably works maybe more hours.
	And by the time you get factor in the overtime for the factory worker, his pay may not be much less than the supervisor's at that point.
	Listen, I think there's got to be adjustments with companies, within companies.
	I mean, certainly you don't want people.
	I just like the idea of rewarding hard work.
	I don't think Americans are taxed too little.
	I think they're taxed too much.
	The beauty of this is it incentivizes all the right behavior in people, and that is for them to get ahead.
	And I like that part of it.
	I like that aspect of it.
	In terms of the nuanced issues that you're bringing up, I can understand it, but I don't think it's government doing anything except, you know, you want to work extra hard, you should be rewarded for your extra work.
	But you're, okay, let's go extra hard.
	when you sign up to be a waiter and if your employer says okay we're going to pay you the federal minimum wage which is two dollars and 13 cents if he doesn't get enough tips to get to the seven dollar and 50 cent federal minimum wage or whatever the state minimum wage is 16 50 17 50 whatever it happens to be the employer has to make that up so that he gets he he does he that's that's news to me because that was never the case when i'm when i was being paid that little
	because i was being paid that little It is Fair Labor Standards Act, and it's absolutely that way.
	So, see, let's say they just get $17.50 an hour.
	And let's say they're in California and the other guy's getting $17.50 an hour.
	But you're kind of accusing me of taking the left's position.
	And I would argue with you that you're kind of taking the left's position, that you want total equality here.
	I think salaried people that maybe work 80 hours a week, if they agree to that salary, then that's the agreement that they've made.
	I mean, and if they don't, if they want to make more money or advance themselves, then they can either negotiate a new deal with their company or look for other positions and move on.
	I mean, that's the beauty of freedom, isn't it?
	Well, yeah, I mean, I think they may be very happy with their salary.
	And the guy that's making the overtime is very happy with his.
	And they end up making the same amount of money, but one pays less in taxes.
	That's not a matter of I want everything equal like some socialists.
	It's I want everything fair.
	But kind of fairness is the argument of the left to me.
	I think what we want, what we want, what we don't want.
	What we want is people to be incentivized to work harder.
	We start with the premise that people are overtaxed, not undertaxed.
	We start with the premise that it's better for people to work than to not work and to be dependent on government.
	We want to create independence.
	We want to create savings for families.
	We want the American dream to exist for everybody.
	And for most people, that means they're going to have to put in overtime.
	They're going to have to work more than 40 hours a week, especially if you're the breadwinner for your family.
	And I think this bill, these provisions do just that.
	They incentivize people to work more.
	And I think it's a great idea.
	I like it.
	I think it's thinking out of the box.
	I think it's looking out for working men and women.
	They're the people that really do make this country great.
	They never get the credit that they deserve.
	I've explained this to my kids.
	That's all true, Sean, but they're not, they're all, the chef is just as hardworking as the waiter.
	He's awesome.
	Again, I'm hearing what you're saying, but if the chef isn't being paid what he thinks he's worth, there's a million other restaurants he can go work at and get paid more money if he's really great at what he does.
	So he has choices and freedom too.
	But I will say this, and I teach my kids this, is that if you think about, and I said to my kids, my mission to my kids is they've got to participate in life and they've got to serve other people.
	And I don't care what you do in terms of the service.
	I don't care if you drive an Uber.
	I don't care if you work at McDonald's.
	I don't care what you do.
	I like the idea of taking care of working men and women because they are the backbone of the country.
	I hear your argument.
	I'm just not as you're not persuading me, but I hear it.
	I hear where you're coming from and I understand it.
	Anyway, I do appreciate the call.
	I'm just out of time.
	I wish that's something I think that's important to talk about.
	All right, when we Back, we'll check in with our friend James Comer of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
	We'll discuss with him the progress he is making investigating the issue of Joe Biden and the auto pen issue, especially in light of the New York Times piece that says, Well, Joe just set up parameters and his staff ordered the use of the auto pen.
	That would probably invalidate a lot of the clemencies and pardons that he put forth last minute.
	We'll ask James Comer about that and also how the door is now open for a special prosecutor looking into the weaponization of the federal government going all the way back to Russia-Russia, all the way up to including Hunter's laptop, the 51 former Intel agents,
	the phone evaluation of Mar-a-Lago, the double standard of justice when it comes to top secret classified materials, and the rate at Mar-a-Lago and the double standard of justice there.

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