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	Sean, it'll be 41 days.
	I'm assuming the government opens tomorrow and nothing but political grandstanding, nothing but the Democrats standing against everything they publicly stated, led by Chucky Schumer.
	That's why we call it the Schumer shutdown.
	They closed down our government for nearly six weeks.
	Now, if you remember, Linda, all the government shutdowns we have covered over the many years in this program, I've always said, I'm not worried that much about a government shutdown because we've never had one this long that has now impacted this many people.
	I mean, we're now dealing with record numbers of canceled flights, 2,344 delays as of now today, and I think close to 1,300 cancellations today, 1,215 to be exact.
	And it is a disaster.
	And, you know, what was Democrat?
	What were they saying the whole time?
	Well, this is the only, we know people are going to suffer, but we don't care.
	We need the leverage.
	Listen.
	And the White House, frankly, this is our only moment of leverage.
	And although a very unpleasant tool to use, it's gotten us focused on what we have to do to change direction on health care.
	No responsibility on the Democrats.
	Or at least you don't think that the public will perceive that the Democrats are responsible.
	Shutdowns are terrible.
	And of course, there will be, you know, families that are going to suffer.
	We take that responsibility very seriously.
	But it is one of the few leverage times we have.
	It's people are going to suffer, but it's our only political leverage.
	We don't care if 42 million Americans on SNAP don't get their SNAP benefits.
	What's fascinating to watch, six weeks, federal workers without pay, food assistance programs go absolutely dry, FAA forced to cut back flights all over the entire country.
	Real pain felt by real everyday Americans, the people that make this great, and they've got nothing to show for it.
	They agreed to end the filibuster and they got nothing.
	None of these idiotic demands.
	Remember, this all started out.
	They wanted a whopping $1.5 trillion in additional spending to keep the government open for a whopping seven weeks.
	And that meant hundreds of millions in health care for illegals to extend subsidies.
	Yet they voted to be temporary.
	Democrats voted to be temporary for Obamacare during the pandemic, during COVID.
	They want to refund PBS and NPR and even included DEI programs for other countries.
	And Mark Simone nailed it yesterday.
	It's the Affordable Care Act.
	Well, if it's so damn affordable, why do you need subsidies?
	It's insane.
	And what's fascinating is there is real, palpable rage among Democrats that have gone this far.
	Let's start with this little montage of the Democrats raging.
	It's strange, Dean.
	To go back to the original sort of part of this conversation of whether he is a good deal maker.
	I mean, in a way, it seems like the president is kind of getting what he wanted 40 days ago when all this started.
	I don't understand how a Democratic senator goes, wow, we won really big.
	Let me cave now.
	I don't understand.
	That makes no sense to me.
	In terms of standing up to Donald Trump, the shutdown actually gave him more power.
	Exhibit A being what he's done with SNAP and SNAP benefits across the country.
	But there's no way to defend this.
	And you are right to be angry about it.
	I'm angry about it.
	Oh, I think this whole thing stinks.
	And I think most members of the House caucus on the Democratic side are absolutely outraged.
	Tonight, eight Democrats voted with the Republicans to allow them to go forward on this continuing resolution.
	And to my mind, this was a very, very bad vote.
	Now, I mean, it's pretty fascinating that the Democrats, you know, are losing it.
	I mean, let's listen to Jon Stewart.
	You sold out, torching the Democrats in the most brutal, unbelievable takedown, followed by the very low-rated Stephen Colbert, you know, shredding Democratic defectors who ended the shutdown.
	They crumbled like a granola bar, but let's play Stewart because he's actually worth listening to.
	You cannot believe it.
	They f ⁇ ing caved on the shutdown.
	Not even a full week removed from the best election night results they've had in years.
	Seven Democratic senators and an voting with their Republican counterparts to end the shutdown and reopen the government.
	And did they get their extended health care subsidies?
	Democrats, you sold out the entire shutdown not to get what you wanted, but for a promise to not get what you wanted later.
	And now the fact that Trump now, well, I mean, it just went nuts.
	Bernie Sanders, he's furious.
	I mean, the squad is furious.
	You know, I've been playing AOC, issuing a warning to Schumer and Jeffries after the Mamdani election.
	Look, it's, and I'll get into this in more detail.
	Schumer's done.
	It is finished.
	It is over.
	He's gone.
	He knows it.
	There's no way.
	I mean, he can't be that stupid.
	You have now activist Ezra Levine, independent journalist, on with fake news Acosta.
	He doesn't work at CNN.
	I have no idea what he does now.
	You know, saying that Democrats cowered by caving into President Trump.
	And look, I'm going to tell you something that's just an undisputable fact that nobody's going to want to hear this because Republicans, you know, have in the past tried to shut down government and it doesn't usually work and it usually ends up going against the party that does the shutdown.
	You don't have any leverage.
	And it's just, it's honestly, you should learn from other people's stupidity.
	And, you know, Democrats are rightly, you know, they're just, that's it.
	I mean, they're just, they're just furious.
	Democrats now eating their own.
	I mean, you can't say it any other way.
	And you, you know, everyone's after Chuck Schumer.
	It was pointless, the entire thing from the very beginning.
	There was nothing that they won except a promise for a vote to extend subsidies that they themselves passed when they had the majority and that they made temporary themselves.
	It's like, okay, tell me how that makes any sense.
	But it's now a bloody brawl breaking out.
	By the way, speaking of bloody brawls, we'll get into this later in the program.
	I mean, Turning Point USA was at UC Berkeley yesterday.
	Wow, it was ugly.
	It was ugly.
	Now, as they have now caved here, they made a mistake.
	They miscalculated.
	I was getting into this with Stephen A. Smith last night.
	And Stephen A.
	Well, you know, what happened to Mr. Art of the Deal?
	I'm like, well, he didn't make a bad deal.
	He didn't give in to these insane demands, you know, holding the entire country hostage, and Donald Trump won.
	That's the art of the deal.
	And it took this long because Democrats, they didn't have the votes, were never going to have the votes, and they were willing to inflict all this unnecessary pain rather than open the government, which they are on tape all saying that we should do anyway.
	So, anyway, what did they gain by throwing hundreds of thousands out of work, endangering American air travelers and causing great hardship for SNAP beneficiaries and slowing the growth of the U.S. economy?
	They didn't get a thing.
	They didn't win an extension of Obamacare premium subsidies, nor should we even afford it.
	And Dr. Ross is going to go into great specificity and detail on this throughout the course of the program today.
	But, you know, and I noticed they're going to go after the people that did this, but most of them are retiring.
	This was all planned in advance, just in case you don't know this.
	You know, the fact that Tim Kaine leaving, Dick Durbin, you think Dick Durbin would have given in if he was running for re-election in the future?
	Nope.
	Democrats fuming at Schumer.
	They are absolutely, here's David Axelrod saying Chuck Schumer is likely cooked as the Democratic leader.
	I think it's an understatement.
	Listen.
	David, I've shot him.
	Do you think Schumer could be in trouble here with the left flank of the party?
	I think he's been in trouble.
	I think he is in bigger trouble now.
	I honestly, I think Senator Schumer's been there since 1982.
	My guess is that he won't be leader of the party in 2027 after this election unless something really surprising happens.
	Now, you have these eight senators, fine.
	Why does it matter?
	It's, you know, if you really look at the beginning, Schumer was put on notice by the squad.
	And there is now, if you have any doubt who is running the Democratic Party, it's everything that I've told you.
	And while there are some people coming to Schumer's defense, Hakeem Jeffries telling members on a private call that, you know, to focus on health care, not on a few individuals in the Senate, but there's not going to be one Democrat in the House that's going to vote for this.
	And probably Republicans are not going to get Tom Massey or Marjorie Taylor Greene, is my guess.
	I don't know for sure.
	But there's real palpable chaos, anger, a political civil war has broken out, and they're just angry.
	But the problem is they can't punish people that are leaving.
	You know, Angus King, independent, Maine, you know, and a former governor said it wasn't working.
	They weren't accomplishing anything.
	Dick Durbin, he's leaving.
	He's done.
	He's the only member of leadership to break ranks.
	Then you look at other states that are coming from Nevada, now turning to be more and more of a red state as people flee California and want no part of adopting those policies.
	John Fetterman was on it from the beginning.
	Maggie Hassan, the same thing from New Hampshire.
	Gene Shanine, same thing here, but we also have another retirement in the mix.
	So the timeline for this, you know, Sanders called it, who's now a leader really of the Democrats in the Senate, you know, very disappointed that these eight members of the Democratic caucus voted to do this.
	Well, what was the what was going to change over time?
	And the answer to that question is nothing.
	Nothing was going to change over time.
	It would be a stalemate.
	You know, what, we're going to keep the FAA shut down, and we're going to have cancellation and delays to this extent.
	Right now, 1,217 cancellations as of this moment today, and thousands of delayed flights as of this moment today.
	And what are we supposed to do about the 42 million Americans getting SNAP benefits?
	All Republicans are asking for is that which Democrats had said that they always wanted during Republican shutdowns.
	And that is a clean, continuing resolution.
	You fund the government at the same levels.
	I've never, up till now, I've never really cared because it never gets to this point.
	It never has gotten to this point.
	They've never pushed it this far.
	But with all that said, I would imagine that Mike Johnson has, as of yesterday, called all the House members back in, and they're going to be there.
	But I mean, I feel terrible for people that have been traveling, friends of mine that have been traveling.
	It's been awful.
	And everybody I know is writing me, what the hell is going on?
	Then we have now the economic impact of that.
	I mean, when that pilot got on the on, you know, he said, I don't care what political party you're from.
	I think what was it, Southwest Airlines.
	And he's made the case.
	He said, this has got to stop.
	It's costing the airlines millions of dollars.
	White House National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett, you know, said this government six-week shutdown of the Democrats is going to drag down GDP.
	Then they're going to want to blame Trump for what they did.
	This is how insane it's gotten.
	By the way, we have, you know, all the radical Democrats doing what they do best, which is pretty much nothing.
	Oh, did you see this, Lindo?
	Jasmine Crockett may be in legal hot water.
	Watchdog group alleging that Jasmine Crockett filed inconsistent financial disclosure statements regarding investments which potentially violated House rules.
	I'm sure it's not as bad as Nancy Pelosi starts Congress out with a net worth of $3 million, leaves with a net worth of $280 million, nearly a 17,000% return on investment.
	Well, she doesn't invest it.
	We reached out to her office, but her husband does.
	And the fact that there are groups of people that follow when she puts out her disclosure forms where she's investing, they usually think, well, that's a pretty good place to start.
	Now, later on, we're going to cover.
	Turning Point was at UC Berkeley last night.
	A brawl broke out.
	And of course, you know, a massive crowd of extremist lunatics showed up and they attacked one guy wearing a freedom t-shirt.
	We're going to get an on-the-ground report from Mikey McCoy, who is Charlie Kirk's chief of staff and now the chief of staff at Turning Point USA.
	Just unbelievable.
	The Justice Department did announce this morning that they're going to investigate this riot that took place at Berkeley for arrests in that particular place.
	I mean, what part of assassination culture is the left not understanding?
	By the way, a nonprofit linked to anti-Semitic activist Linda Sarsour, an ally of Zorond Kami Marx's Mamdani, apparently got a $4.1 million in a city and state funds over a period of seven years.
	We are really a stupid country.
	We've gone over, you know, is an anti-Semitism watch group.
	Canary Mission released a video of Sarsour bragging at a September care conference that, you know, backed by Mamdani, one of the largest supporters of Mamdani, you know, happy to see what happened.
	Anyway, their executive director gained attention in late 2023.
	He was happy to see October 7th happen.
	I mean, good luck, New York.
	Oh, and then we do have a furry Democrat running for Congress, celebrated Charlie Kirk's assassination.
	I mean, it's just so sick on the radical left.
	We'll continue.
	Your call's coming up, 800-941-SEAN.
	Oh, I forgot to tell you, there's one other thing about Jasmine Crockett.
	He's accusing Republicans of trying to cheat in the 2026 midterms after a Trump supporter bought Dominion.
	I don't know what that means.
	I have no idea what that refers to.
	Anyway, and by the way, a lot of Democrats are making that.
	Now, we have, I don't even want to ask Linda because I'm afraid I might get the answer.
	But there's a story out today of a furry Democrat running for Congress.
	Apparently, this person celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
	36-year-old, I won't give his name.
	His first name's Samuel, IT contractor, goes by a different name, dresses up.
	All right, help me out with this, Linda.
	And Anthro I want you to know from the bottom of my heart, you will stand on this bridge alone.
	I know nothing about furry.
	Anthropologic, furry costume.
	Nope.
	Out.
	I'm totally has only stated America deserved 9-11, called Jesus a communist, recommended killing billionaires, labeled Israel an enemy of the United States, advocated the imprisonment of all U.S. immigrations and customs enforcement agents.
	By the way, one was shot in Chicago.
	You think maybe some of the insightful, dehumanizing rhetoric might have contributed to the atmosphere of hostility?
	I think that's probably true.
	Repeatedly celebrated Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk's assassination, calling him every name he could think of.
	And within an hour of Kirk's passing, he wrote on X, a knockoff, a knockoff of X that liberals go to called Blue Sky.
	You ever look at this thing?
	James looked at it.
	He said it's awful.
	Anyway, he said, good things can happen.
	Days later, he shared an image of the murdered father of two with the caption, How can we defeat evil if evil is mourned when it's defeated?
	To ensure that there was no mistaking his antipathy for Charlie Kirk, the Democratic candidate then smeared Kirk as a white supremacist.
	I mean, it's not even worth going over, but this is how sick the radical left has become in this country.
	You know, I was just watching Bernie Sanders on Fox News.
	They played a clip of him.
	He's on some podcast.
	And we're going to build a grassroots movement, just like, you know, Zoron, Kami, Marx's Mamdani, and we're going to make this a nationwide effort.
	This is where they want to take the country.
	This is what they want.
	And by the way, in terms of last night's turning point event, the Justice Department, as I said, announcing that they're going to investigate this.
	A bloody brawl broke out there.
	I mean, I don't understand it.
	James Carville couldn't be more wrong.
	Voters rejected Trump's corruption and cruelty.
	No, Democrats won in predictable blue states, and Republicans were not inspired.
	Unfortunately, in the case of Jack Chitterelli, he got 150 more people out there that voted for him four years ago.
	The problem is 250,000 left in the last three years.
	On the economy, which, you know, just mark my words, a lot of indication out there.
	Latest ADP job report shows that wage growth is outpacing inflation.
	I imagine a slight setback because of the six-week Schumer shutdown, but Treasury Secretary Scott Besson literally humiliated an MSDNC host, MSDNC.
	How does a $20 billion bailout for Argentina help Americans?
	Bessett, do you know what a swap line is?
	MSDNC, a currency swap?
	Yes.
	But Besson goes, but what is that?
	Why would you call it a bailout?
	In most bailouts, you don't make money.
	The U.S. government made money.
	Whoopsie-daisy.
	Don't argue with somebody that knows a lot more about the economy than you do.
	How does a $20 billion bailout of Argentina help Americans?
	You're the president's point person on that.
	Can you explain to those here who are feeling the pinch, including America's farmers, why the United States is helping out Argentina?
	Well, can you, do you know what a swap line is?
	It's currency swap, yes.
	Yes, but what is that?
	You're the Treasury Secretary.
	Yes, but why would you call it a bailout?
	That is how.
	In most bailouts, you don't make money.
	The U.S. government made money.
	We used our financial balance sheet to stabilize the government, one of our great allies in Latin America during an election.
	The president, they're one day in a landslide.
	The government's going to make money.
	And I would rather use peace through economic strength than have to be shooting at narco boats coming offshore if the government collapsed.
	We have a generational opportunity in Latin America to create allies.
	We just saw an election in Bolivia.
	We're probably going to see an election in Colombia.
	We've seen them in Ecuador.
	We're going to see them in Chile.
	So by stabilizing the economy there and making a profit, then that's a very good deal for the American people.
	And there's a lot we could have been doing for American farmers, but Democrats closed the government.
	Whoopsie-daisy.
	Check and mate.
	Put them together.
	Look, let me give you an example.
	And this article is in the New York Post today, and I thought it's worth sharing with you because it gives the states specifically of New York and New Jersey.
	New York, Linda, New York, half a trillion dollars in New York State resident income has disappeared as Democrats enacted their high-tax, pro-crime policies.
	New York has lost the most income of any state.
	California, not that far behind, 370, I mean, which is unbelievable, you know, billion dollars.
	And anyway, the free market advocacy group, Unleashed Prosperity, released a study.
	It exposes the true depths of, you know, this flight, people leaving, this migration, that, yeah, it's turning cities like New York City more liberal.
	It's turning states like New Jersey more blue.
	You know, with all the government workers in Virginia, if you want a real analysis, it's having a big impact.
	But anyway, the new report used the census and IRS data to calculate the cumulative impact.
	It finds New York State, for example, lost more than $500 billion in resident income over recent years.
	Nearly 2 million New Yorkers have moved away in the last decade.
	New York has lost the most income of any state.
	Only California and Illinois have lost more money than New Jersey.
	New Jersey losing a whopping $170 billion.
	Why do you think that this is happening?
	Why do you think that, you know, we've gone from a purple state, Florida, and it is now a deep red state?
	And the same thing is happening.
	You look at this map, and I've got it here in front of me.
	You know, look, where are people moving to?
	They're moving to places like Nevada.
	They don't have a state income tax there.
	They have low taxes in Arizona.
	They have low taxes in Utah.
	And you see a net gain and a massive net gain in Texas, for example.
	If you look at where is the money and where are money and people going?
	I mean, if you look at income losers and winners, a trillion-dollar win for my free state of Florida.
	We don't have a state income tax.
	We have half the property tax of New Jersey.
	We don't have high gas taxes.
	We don't have high sales taxes.
	We don't have any of this.
	And we have better infrastructure, better law enforcement, better quality of life.
	Now, in spite of what the media narrative is, and they're going to eat these words because we've never had a situation where we have large tax cuts that it doesn't result in more revenues, more jobs, less people that are government-dependent.
	And between the trillions that the president has locked down in manufacturing investments, the monies that are incalculable from opening up energy production in this country and the high-paying career jobs, along with all of this in manufacturing, energy, and then the largest tax cuts in history.
	Remember, the Democrats voted instead of that for the largest tax increase in history, and they voted against working men and women.
	You know, it's U.S. companies' earnings are growing at the fastest pace in four years, defying predictions that President Trump's trade war would trigger a slowdown.
	Now, there's been hiccups along the way, and there's been, you know, the stock market is always like freaking out over anything and everything.
	Like, I'll give you a DoorDash analysis: variety of goods see price decreases compared to 2024.
	You know, DoorDash, they did an analysis, published Monday, found the number of key goods, breakfast staples, computers, accessories, toys, outdoor equipment have declined in price since 2024.
	And they have their breakfast basic index.
	It includes eggs, a glass of milk, a bagel, an avocado.
	It's down 14% since March, roughly 1.7%.
	This is all now going to kick in.
	It just, you know, it's hard to tell people to be patient, especially if you live in paycheck to paycheck.
	But, you know, and Trump is saying, and he's getting excoriated for it.
	But, you know, when you cut taxes, Reagan doubled revenues.
	Reagan created 21 million new jobs.
	The first three years of the Trump administration, because of his tax cuts, resulted in record low after record low after record low unemployment for every demographic group: African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, women in the workplace, African-American youth unemployment.
	By the way, Kathy Hochl's on a collision course with Zoron, Marxist Kami Mamdani, over this free bus plan.
	Now, yeah, we don't have the money, but we'll think of something.
	I know that New Yorkers are rallying behind Stefanik and maybe think that she's going to be the answer.
	I'm less optimistic.
	Now, Linda, you're going to tell me I believe she can win.
	Go ahead, tell me.
	You might as well get it out of the way now.
	I don't believe a whole lot because I don't believe we have election integrity.
	Attorney General Pam Pondi and FBI Director Kash Patel have given Congress a new cache of documents.
	Look at the lookie here, showing how Bill and Hillary's foundation, the Clinton Foundation, collected donations from foreign and domestic interests.
	The discovery is raising fresh concerns that such evidence was kept from federal prosecutors who tried to investigate pay-to-play allegations against the former first family a decade ago.
	I wonder if these were part of the bleach pit.
	I just wonder.
	The evidence against Comey is way more damning than the media has let on and what they're saying.
	Lindsey Halligan's latest court filing paints a damning portrait of Comey.
	Notes scribbled in the former FBI director's own hand establish his knowledge of Clinton's plot to tar Mr. Trump as an agent of Russia.
	When asked about the same in congressional proceeding, he said that that doesn't ring any bell.
	Okay, let's watch that.
	By the way, we have a report out today.
	Attorney General Letitia James, there's a headline: New York Post: cops called to Letitia James, Virginia's home two dozen times since she bought them.
	Another report saying got a lot of security there.
	FBI investigators, this treasure trove, it's going to be very interesting to watch.
	We'll watch that.
	But if you listen to MSDNC, they were saying last night, a bunch of craziness, bad lawyering inside the Trump administration.
	You know, this is all coming to a head.
	Okay, I actually, the sad part is the statute of limitations, unless there's a grand conspiracy investigation, is not good, you know, not good for Democrats.
	I've been warning this would happen.
	An illegal immigrant from Mexico with a rap sheet arrested for shooting a border patrol agent during a Chicago raid.
	Here's a question: Do those people that constantly dehumanize ICE agents, are they inciting with their Nazis and Gestapo language?
	Are they inciting these incidents?
	One, you know, smart inquiring minds need to know.
	By the way, did you see this restaurants today?
	It's Veterans Day.
	We'll get into this later.
	They're offering Veterans Day meals to past and current military members.
	Let's give a shout out to Buffalo Wild Wings, Chipotle, Shake Shack, Starbucks, Among the Chains, providing complimentary food and drinks.
	Thanks to all of them for doing that.
	I think that's very, very cool.
	Oh, did you read Jenna Jamison, porn star, known for my body and sin before leaving the adult film industry behind?
	He says, after decades of being known for my body and sin, getting baptized and helping others find Jesus too, she went into this whole thing.
	She's loud and proud that she's changed her whole life around.
	Any thoughts on that, Linda?
	None at the moment.
	Yeah, you're very quiet today.
	No, I just know I'm going to say things you don't like.
	So I'm taking the path of peace resistance.
	Well, God came to call sinners, you know, to salvation.
	Jesus, you know, the only son of God.
	That's the whole story.
	I believe in redemption.
	I hope it's true.
	I hope it's all true.
	Sure.

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