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Aug. 29, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Bold Action in Florida - August 28th, Hour 2
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We have a great guest now.
We live in the Sunshine State, the great state of Florida.
I've been here for 30 plus years.
You were born here and raised here.
New lieutenant governor appointed just a couple of weeks ago, Jay Collins.
Um a real badass.
Now it's hard to think of politicians as as as being a badass.
Well, especially Lieutenant Governors, 'cause like it's like Lieutenant Governor is kind of like vice president, but worse.
You know, it's like what do you actually do?
Florida has been famous for not having one for an extended period of time.
So that we have one, it was news a couple of weeks ago, but then when they picked the one they picked, it became even more newsworthy, and he's been to work quickly.
Yeah, so Jay Collins is a former Green Baret.
Uh he's been a state senator, has introduced and passed great legislation that we're going to talk about.
But we want to talk to him uh first of all about what's going on with regards to illegal immigration in the state of Florida and the initiatives that are taking place there.
Lieutenant Governor Collins, how are you?
I'm doing well.
Thank you for having me on today.
So so tell us, um, we had this terrible tragedy on the Florida Highway where three innocent people died.
You had this um uh uh migrant illegally in the country um who took that incredible uh U-turn uh in traffic.
Three people died.
Um you actually went and brought him back to the state of Florida to face justice.
Uh you essentially perp walked him off of the plane, and you said there's absolutely no leniency for what he did.
Tell us why this issue is so important to you and one of the s what are the some of the tangible things that the state of Florida's doing that's different compared to a lot of other states around the country.
Well, hey, that that's a great question.
And let's just kind of start with uh where this thing uh all began.
Three innocent lives were ended early because of somebody who crossed over the California border in 2018 illegally, gained the asylum system in a state that we know, frankly, cares more about illegal immigrants than they do uh Californians, American citizens, and certainly obviously don't care what happened in Florida to our people, but we do.
So yes, absolutely.
I had no faith, nor did the governor, to see that uh Gavin Newsom was gonna follow along, do the right thing.
So we went over there.
We held a press conference, we talked about it, we made sure that uh everyone knew we were there, and then we made sure this guy brought got brought back because what I want our people to know is that our government is gonna go over there.
We're gonna stand for them and make sure that somebody faces justice.
Because what if that was your loved one?
What if that was your neighbor, someone you knew, and they lost their life and they were playing the game with the asylum system or in California or New Mexico or some other liberal state that just doesn't want to follow uh the President Trump's agenda.
Donald uh uh Governor Destinus' agenda, or frankly, just basic common sense.
Somebody has to lead.
And we are the conservative proving grounds of America, and that's what we did.
Now, you guys have been leading not just in terms of being aggressive to go retrieve this individual.
The Wall Street Journal chronicled the efforts to deputize members of the Florida State Highway Patrol to be kind of the boots on the ground as part of the immigration enforcement.
Obviously, there's been the alligator Alcatraz uh that's been now they're fighting over it in court, but that's gotten a lot of headlines as well.
Why is immigration such a big issue to your administration now?
Well, look, the American people made this completely clear.
They want the illegal immigration problem taken care of.
That was made clear when President Trump won with an overwhelming majority.
And uh where are we at?
Well, here in Florida, we take that seriously.
We think that when the American people in Florida and say they want to take care of, well, we're gonna do that.
Our two eighty-seven G agreements, they lead the way across every state.
Uh you saw Alligator Alcatraz, as you mentioned, deportation depot.
We're out there actively working with our highway patrol, our other law enforcement, because it's required for them to work with our federal assets to keep this thing moving forward.
Ultimately, you know, everything we do keeps our people safer.
And I really wish other governors would step up and stand up for their people and do the same thing.
How much better would our nation be if uh they took this opportunity with leadership by President Trump, pushed down to have the state support them?
We can really make a difference and follow through on the exact same things we said we were going to do.
That's what people want to see, and that's what leadership is all about.
And I know leadership's a very important issue to you, and it's weird, you know, you're a lieutenant governor now, you've been in the legislature.
For a politician or a bureaucrat, a tough day can be like back-to-back teams meetings with an ordinary IT department or something.
But but for you, you I know as the state senator, you went to Israel when the Iran-Israel conflict was at its height, and you went there to try to rescue and help get people that were over there who might have been in harm's way back home to safety.
Talk about that.
What motivated you to do that and what what's that like?
Just I mean, we've heard stories, but I know that was something that you that was very important to you and why you felt like you needed to do it.
And Eric, thank you for that.
Look, uh I'm gonna quote some of my uh uh liberal colleagues from California, right, uh, who served in the legislature and other roles.
I don't identify as a politician.
I identify as uh God fearing, gun-loving, freedom defending, bacon eating, one-legged retirement green beret.
I mean the leadership comes from the front.
We put our people first, and uh you gotta put your money and your butt where your mouth is.
So that's what we did.
I flew to Israel because what if that was my loved one?
What if my children, my wife were trapped in the country with Iran shooting uh ballistic missiles at them?
I would hope and pray that our leadership stood up and did that.
And I love how the the Trump team, how President Trump has pushed down uh emergencies to the states.
This was an emergency.
He has clearly said the states should step up and lead.
And that's what we did.
We partnered with them, we worked beside them, and ultimately we brought them back right here to Florida, and it wasn't just Floridians.
We brought back over 2300 American citizens that are safer, got to see their families because we took the opportunity given us to step up and fight for our people and bring them home.
How many more could we have brought back if other governors would have done the right thing and stood up for their people the same way?
Well, Lieutenant Governor, um, you were there and and it was a war zone.
So I have to tell you, I've never been in a war zone.
I don't want to be in a war zone.
Um what is a missile actually sound like?
What does it feel like to be in a situation where missiles are being fired at the location where you happen to be?
Well, uh I'll tell you, this is kind of like uh an old pair of boots.
I got to be honest.
Uh when I tell you I didn't want to run for politics or get involved in politics, I really meant that.
I'm here because I saw no other way to solve problems.
I believe in making a difference for our people, and you can't stand on the sideline.
We are just at that point in life.
And uh I've been shot at and I've been shot by a couple of things.
This is my first time with ballistic missiles.
Scared.
Uh the noise they make coming across the sky is unlike anything I've seen.
The explosions are pretty amazing.
Uh we had some land within a few hundred feet of us who was going everywhere.
Uh, you know, luckily in Israel, uh there were bunkers and bomb shelters, so we got people in there, but the the the risk is very real.
We were out there with a group of people just uh trying to get them on the buses to drive to the uh Jordanian Border, and uh we had a bunch of our running missiles uh start hitting the ground around us.
So mid-stride, we had to get them in the bunker, get safe, and I'm popping up, checking to see, you know, are we done, what's going on, get updates, and they're still coming.
The barrage was real.
But you know what?
We did what we had to do because after it was done, we dusted off, we collected our stuff, uh, we got back on mission, got them on a bus, and we got them back to America uh safely with their families.
Because again, that's the kind of leadership we need to have in this country.
People are tired of politicians who say one thing and do another.
I want to be, and I have been, as a leader, someone who says what I mean, I mean what I say, and it followed up with actions.
That's the American way.
So some of your actions are, in my opinion, Lieutenant Governor Collins, among the more interesting and important parts of your story.
And if you're just joining in, if you're not sure who's the voice that is, that's Lieutenant Governor Jay Collins.
He's only on the job as Lieutenant Governor under Ron DeSantis for a couple weeks.
He was in the state legislature before that.
But your story, you're a Green Beret, you're in Afghanistan, you were part of a firefight, and you you suffered an injury that ultimately led to uh the loss of your leg, and uh and not to focus on because you you're the one that said you're a one-legged Green Beret.
Um but it it's not like it was instantaneous.
Just talk a little bit about the process that ultimately led you to make this ins incredible decision.
You chose to have your leg amputated and then talk about what happened to you after that.
So I I I did.
I had uh been hurt in two thousand seven, and uh it was kind of a rough year.
I got shot, uh, ended up doing surgery on myself in Afghanistan.
I did a fasciotomy on my arm, saved my arm, but I do have two arms and one leg, so I must have done I did okay.
I'm pretty pretty comfortable.
And then later on I got hit by a mortar when they were trying to overrun our fire base.
And uh again, apparently getting blown up is bad for you.
Who knew, right?
Uh I didn't know what had happened because when you're fighting for your life, you fight for your life.
If it's a no-fail mission, you don't fail.
So we fought and we won, and we pushed the the enemy out, and uh didn't really realize how badly I've been hurt.
You know, I had a headache, uh dusted it off, got happy and healthy, and just did what we had to do.
But as time went on, it was a very insidious uh breakdown of my leg.
Uh eventually I started having uh weird pains and my leg, I would want it to go left and it wouldn't go left, it would go right, or it would not work at all, and I'd trip and fall.
And uh, you know, it was hard to understand because I had been in a very select group of people where my physicality was really how I did things and how I got by.
And you know, Eric, you you've heard me say this many times, man.
God's plan is so much bigger than our plan.
All I wanted to do was be a Green Beret or fight uh amongst the very select people at the tip of the spear doing things for our country nobody knew about.
But that wasn't God's plan.
I got injured, and I had to learn to use other skills and accept help and get up in a new way, and that's what I had to do.
So over the next six and a half years or so, I went through a slow manifestation of my leg dying.
I went through multiple surgeries and uh multiple exams and a lot of misdiagnosis before they figured out what was going on, and in 2014 they cut my leg off, and uh about a year little about a year later, I uh re-qualified as a Green Beret.
I was found fully fit for duty, and I had to earn my place back in our tribe because uh in that regiment, and as a Green Beret, there's only one standard.
And I gotta say, I am so grateful for the people who gave me the opportunity to prove myself because I didn't want it given.
I had to earn it.
And uh anything of value, you have to earn.
And I again so grateful that people gave me the chance to do that, because again, there's some culpability with me as well.
I should have taken a knee and I should have faced out.
I should have uh realized that when things hurt and they didn't work, maybe I should quit.
But when you reach a pinnacle of an organization like these, the last thing you want to do is leave and not fight beside your brother, not fight beside the people who uh you would give your life for in an instant.
And I didn't happen Lieutenant Governor uh Jay Collins.
Uh it's great to have you on.
We've got thirty seconds left.
I want to ask you, are you gonna run for governor of the state of Florida?
Well, I'll tell you what, I think we're going on two weeks now.
That's a great question.
Uh I am trying to be the best lieutenant governor I can be for the GOAT, for America's governor Ron DeSantis.
Uh Finally getting my foot wet, the other one too, and uh trying to make a difference.
We'll continue to assess, but in the end, I'm really hyper focused on my job as Lieutenant Governor right now.
Well, as we said, a true badass for Lieutenant Governor of the state of Florida.
Jay Collins, thanks for joining us.
We appreciate you in the audience uh listening as well.
Um we will be back uh in a minute.
Uh we've got more guests, we've got more conversation.
The next hour, we're going to have at the bottom of that hour an NFL legend.
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Welcome back to the Sean Handy Show.
Peter Schweitzer, Eric Eggers back in for Sean.
We're having a very important conversation about law and order.
And you just heard from Lieutenant Governor Florida Jay Collins, you know, who has served in the military, and they have deputized some of their own state law enforcement officials to be the boots on the ground for the federal level of ICE enforcement.
But another thing that Florida is doing is they are attracting law enforcement officials from around the country.
We talked about one New York's having a big cop shortage right now, and it's about to get worse.
3,700 troops become eligible for their 20-year pension, I think this year.
And a lot of those people are leaving cities where they feel like the leadership is hostile to law enforcement.
They're going to places like Florida where the leadership is much more pro a police officer.
Yeah.
So what do you think out there?
Do you think we need more cops on the street?
Uh do you feel like America's cities are safe?
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We'd love to hear your opinions and thoughts on that.
Seems like a lot of the elites are saying crimes aren't an issue.
Carjackings aren't a problem.
Just accept it and live with it.
I'm wondering if that's your experience out there in the audience or if you have a different perspective on crime.
It was interesting to hear Harmie Dillon with uh attorney general's office say that it's because those liberal elites tend to live in places where crime is not much of an issue.
It's kind of one of those uh bonfire, the vanities use a reference for from some literary and cinematic, by the way.
Pretty good.
Um, but I I do think that you know it she sounds like they're not super eager, at least uh in the Attorney General's office, to make the people like JB Pritzker or Brandon Johnson, Chicago or the mayor of Baltimore take the troops from the federal level, take accept military assistance, even though it's obviously having a profound and beneficial impact in Washington, D.C., two weeks without a murder, all the major crime statistics are down across the board.
Yeah, I just don't understand the notion.
I mean, we hear this all the time, and and I tend to agree with it when when a child dies, you know, they say one death is too much.
When a homeless person dies, one person is too much.
But when it comes to crime, innocent people getting carjacked, getting killed, uh, it's not so bad.
It's acceptable.
It's just weird to me, this blind spot that they have for crime.
Maybe I'm the one out of touch.
Uh maybe people out there in America aren't concerned about it.
Uh, but I think we should be.
And I think the numbers, they oftentimes lie about the numbers.
They manipulate the numbers, and I think the perception that people have is is is correct, which is that it's a serious problem.
Well, if Donald Trump can do for America's crime what he did for the Cracker Bell logo, we'll all be a lot safer at night.
We'll continue that conversation.
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Uh, very busy news day.
We have the tragedy in Minnesota.
Uh, the shooting that's taking place there.
We have the controversy over a crime and the deployment of the National Guard.
Just saw that Vladimir Putin is now threatening to march on Paris.
Um, I don't know how that uh is going to go.
Um, but we want to hear what you think about the crime problem in America.
And coming up in the next hour, uh, we have a couple of really terrific group guests.
So you'll want to uh stay tuned.
Josh Sherard is going to join us.
Uh, he's the director of law enforcement for Berna, but we're gonna have him on because he's a former law enforcement officer.
He's been at the sh scene of shootings.
We're gonna go greater and into depth what actually happened in Minneapolis and how they might be prevented.
And then at 5:30, we have an NFL legend.
I remember watching this guy when I was young in the 80s in high school and college, Mike Singletary of Da Bears of Chicago Hall of Fame linebacker.
Um he is going to give us, I think, an encouraging note about character value and hard work and the importance of all of those to the future of our country.
Something inspiring as we get ready for Labor Day.
Yeah, well, it's football season too, right?
So if you're getting sad and a little frustrated here, as as often people do when you listen to programs like this, it can be easy to become discouraged.
And so I know Mike Sinclair has a book out about that is meant to inspire every generation, give people something to kind of aspire to the vision that their life is meant to be.
It's a really cool thing.
He's got some cool uh stories about that.
He's also newly with the uh Baylor radio program.
So maybe we'll get a little bit of a college football, because college football starts tonight.
I know we were joking in the last segment of uh every show, Sean normally talks about what he's gonna do on his television show that night.
Yeah.
Fun fact about Peter Schweitzer and me, we don't have TV shows.
So we're like, what should we talk about in the last segment?
Well, we're gonna watch for me it's football.
For me, it's football.
You got Florida State playing Alabama this weekend.
We finally get revenge for being snubbed in the uh playoff couple years ago.
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And we have someone who's called in about the law enforcement.
We have Patty from Florida, the great free state of Florida.
Patty, what do you think is going on with law enforcement around these cities around the country?
I think in general, we've had um some bad actors and they get a lot of publicity.
I think there has been a decline in the respect and appreciation for what law enforcement provides us day in and day out, 365.
And I I remember when I was a little girl, we would dress up as police officers.
It was it was an honor to have police officers in your neighborhood that you knew that you could trust them.
And we were always encouraged if there was a problem to go seek out police officers.
Unfortunately, those bad actors got more publicity and more headlines than the good ones.
And it's unfortunate, but I think it's starting to turn around and people are understanding just like with the military after Vietnam, you know, these heroes came back and were spat on, and people are slowly starting to understand and turn around.
They're doing the mission of our country.
They don't just decide to go over somewhere and fight.
And when they come home, they need to be treated like heroes.
They don't need to be disrespected.
And I'm so grateful to see a turnaround now.
And also it goes back to Comey and they're uh in the federal government when we had high officials, high ranking officials, we're uncovering now the deceit and deception and betrayal that they have committed against our country, our people, and our president.
And I think that's what's happened.
There's just been a gradual decline.
And I'm grateful to see this turnaround.
Well, uh Patty, I think that's so well said because oftentimes in institutions, you're going to have bad actors, as you said.
It doesn't matter if you're talking about the church, if you're talking about government, if you're talking about Wall Street, you're gonna have bad actors.
And you the point about the disrespect is true.
You had that situation where you know people were kind of making fun of it, that Department of Justice employee who threw the subway sandwich at the federal law enforcement officer.
They went to a grand jury, the grand jury's not going to indict him.
Um, you know, to me, it's not a question of it's a sandwich.
It's the notion that you're gonna violently throw something.
A law enforcement officer is just to me patently absurd and ridiculous and and a sad comment on the fact that people get joy and pleasure uh out of seeing law enforcement officers harassed or or even uh assaulted.
We talked about how with the intentional misrepresentation of crime statistics that we know Washington, D.C. has engaged in, and so when it's impossible not to receive claims of Baltimore, Chicago's decline in crime in the same lens.
And we talked about how it's connected to a heightened tolerance for crime.
Yeah.
Do you think it's fair to connect that with something that you and I and what the work we've done here at the Government Accountability Institute uh have chronicled, which is connected to the tolerance for crime on behalf of elected leaders.
You know, we've we've now seen, because of the declassified Timeline, something that you know, you worked with the FBI to try to expose the Clintons when you wrote the book Clinton Cash.
We now know that at the highest levels, a number of agents whose job it is to enforce the law said, hey, we think there's something here.
We think all this money that went to the Clintons while Hillary was Secretary of State is worth investigating, and that was shut down.
Yeah.
And you she heard she mentioned James Comey.
Do you think it's fair to connect the dots there?
Like that we've we've seen a tolerance for criminal activity or certainly unethical activity at the highest level.
And so now you sort of see it starting to manifest its way down to the local level.
Yeah, I mean, look, I think respect is something you earn.
Um I think also sometimes people can distort the record when they when they besmirch all police officers from a few bad actors.
But I think when it comes to the FBI, there's a reason people don't trust the FBI.
This is not something that just came out of the blue.
And it's funny to me that people say, you know, Donald Trump is politicizing the FBI.
I mean, please, seriously, go back.
I would encourage all you people, go back and look at the documents that have been released by Cash Patel about you had four FBI field agents.
We know this because we work with them that when we wrote Clinton Cash, they wanted to investigate, not just based on my book.
They don't just read a book and say we're going to investigate.
Sounds good.
Exactly.
They read the book and they started doing their own research.
Um we know that there was an audio tape of a guy in Nigeria uh bragging um that uh he had gotten favors by donating to the Clinton Foundation, and they wanted to investigate, and it was shut down by FBI headquarters.
So when people say Donald Trump is politicizing the FBI, I'm like, what are you talking about?
You're either in if anything, they're trying to depoliticize it by exposing what has gone on in the past.
Um and that I think is what is what is so powerful.
And uh every experience I ever had with FBI field agents, and I've had several, um, very professional, very solid, just the facts, ma'am type of people.
It's when they go to main FBI headquarters, they start living in that beltway, they have neighbors that work for the federal government, or maybe they're a congressman, they want to go to the right parties, they now suddenly join the permanent party, or at least a lot of them do.
That's where the corruption begins.
Well, and what do you like to say?
People go to Washington and they want to reform it, but eventually the cesspool becomes a hot tub, and you go to Washington, DC.
You and I have worked to expose how wealthy Washington, DC is.
It used to be true that seven of the ten wealthiest counties in Washington uh in the country surround Washington, D.C. and just become part of that lifestyle.
There's this push now to finally ban members of Congress from buying and selling stocks twelve years after your book came out exposing the ways that member of Congress were doing so.
Nancy Pelosi's net worth has gone from 120 million to 260 million in that time frame.
Her portfolio outperforms the market.
The market's up 240%.
Her portfolio is up 700 plus percent.
Unbelievable.
And this year is a record year for congressional stock purchases, right?
Yeah.
And so, and a number of them are all beating the market.
So it just speaks to like how anesthetized or immune they are to things that the regular people might say, why are you allowing this?
This is not right.
Um, but I do think there's something about the mentality of we're gonna maybe not play by all the rules.
And so if we're not playing by all the rules, then if some rules get broken where you live, yeah, Jane and John Citizen, then you know, what do you want us to do about it?
Yeah.
But uh, yeah, I think that's that's part of the experience that people are having.
Uh, let's hear from Debbie in Utah.
She has an idea about one ways things might get fixed.
Hi.
Uh Debbie.
Yeah, I really supported the police.
Um my grandfather was a sergeant in LA, and he was just really well respected.
And I love my grandfather so much, and I was so proud of him.
And it was we always supported the police.
And I even support our police here in Salt Lake City, and we are so underfunded here, and we were underfunded in Idaho when my children were little, but we had police in our schools.
And with how undisciplined our children were way back then.
Uh, you know, we're talking like 20, not even 30 years ago.
And look at our children now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They're just they're out of control.
And uh now they're going after the parents, but they were going after the parents then too.
Yeah.
No, it's it's it's it's amazing uh what has gone on.
And um I think that, you know, the question you have to ask yourself honestly, Eric, is would you want to be a cop?
Would you want your friends to be cops?
I mean, doing it today with a lack of respect and the scrutiny.
I mean, you've got the cop cameras, which I think are good.
By the way, why don't we have congressional cameras?
We could have members of Congress with cameras going right.
I mean, they wouldn't want that scrutiny.
Who does?
You'd have to air that on OnlyFans.
So like that's you can't do that in in a made-for-family audience.
I to answer your question, it's it's a great question.
I think I actually would be a police officer, encourage people to be a police officer in Utah, because I don't believe people in Utah committed any crimes.
Like the Utah Jazz don't even foul.
Idaho too.
Idaho, I think you guys are pretty much okay.
But in some of these other areas, I think no, it's it and it does speak to the conversation completely shifted about law enforcement.
It happened in 2020, and I do think that that's the you it's absolutely impossible to not connect the dots between the law enforcement shortages they're experiencing in blue cities all over the country.
Yeah.
And um the way the actions and words that the leaders of those cities had five years ago in the summer of 2020, when everyone got caught up in this George Floyd fever dream at the expense of the respect we used to have for law and order.
Yeah, and and look, I I I have a good friend who was a former assistant director of the FBI.
He now runs a consultancy for police recruitment.
And one of the things he talks about is look, when you trash the police, um, a lot of people are gonna say very good, solid qualified people can say, Look, I'm just not gonna put up with it.
I'm not gonna take that job.
You have to lower standards to attract other people that are willing to tolerate it.
Uh and one of the things he said is look, in some of these urban areas, the psychological tests that you have to pass, they loosen them because the only way that they can fill the ranks is by doing so.
Now I'm not saying that that the cops out there are bad.
I'm just saying that this is what happens when you attack people for taking a taking on the responsibility to be a police officer.
Um, a lot of people are gonna say, forget it, I'm not gonna put up with it.
You're not gonna get the same quality of people going in that you would before.
And it may seem like a cliche for two guys hosting a national conservative radio show to say something positive about President Trump, and we sort of joked about the change he had with the cracker barrel logo uh earlier this week.
But it is true that I do think one of the most meaningful things that Donald Trump could do in this country.
We've seen the way he shifted the culture around certain conversations already.
Like this the conversation about how we save money and cut budgets and like, hey, this is stuff we have to use to pay down debt because otherwise the interest rates are gonna be way too high.
Like that has shifted.
And I do think he can absolutely shift the conversation about the way we look at law enforcement and the military.
Yeah in enrollment and recruitment is up now, right?
Under P Pete Heggseth.
It was at lows under Joe Biden, and I do think that it's possible just he's elevating more traditional cultural norms and respect for law enforcement is a big one of those.
Well, and you th there's a key word you use there, right?
A lot of people when they think about problems in Washington or national problems, it's a money of resources.
It's actually a problem of culture.
You have to change the culture, and Donald Trump has had a huge effect there.
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We do a podcast each week called The Drill Down, where you can learn more about government officials behaving badly.
And Peter Schweitzer has spent his career exposing that.
And unfortunately, we have no shortage of government officials.
Now, we've got more examples coming up.
Federal Chairman, excuse me, Fed Governor Lisa Cook has a little bit of a problem with some mortgage issues.
Donald Trump addressed it uh earlier this week.
Listen to what Donald Trump had to say about Lisa Cook.
I'm digging into the mortgage records of officials.
No, they're public.
I mean, you can find out those records.
You can go check out the records yourself.
And you should be doing that job, actually.
You wouldn't do that because that's not the kind of reporter you are.
But uh you should be doing that job.
I shouldn't have to be doing it.
Uh if you did your job properly, we wouldn't have problems like Lisa Cook.
Go ahead.
Uh uh.
Yeah, no, this is a great example.
Trump is right.
Um we actually did this uh as it came to Adam Schiff.
Uh we got the documents, we reported this back in October.
Adam Schiff did the same thing, and people think like, well, mortgage fraud, people have gone to jail, right?
The the the mayor of Baltimore went to jail for doing the exact same thing.
Because it allows you to borrow more money when you claim something is a pirate private residence.
You get a lower interest rate, saving you tens of thousands of dollars.
This is a real issue, and and particularly Lisa Cook, she's a financial regulator.
She committed mortgage fraud.
She should go.
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