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Now, you know, we have a whole history of presidents and America wanting to do this deal as it relates to Greenland for a lot of different reasons.
I can give you the whole history of it.
I mean, I don't want to bore people on this program.
But, I mean, what Donald Trump is referring to is not new.
And you could look at historical documents and you could see that, oh, this has been in the works and discussed and debated, you know, many, many times throughout history, going back over 100 years.
I can give you, you know, going back to the 10th century, you know, Eric the Red, originally from Norway, kicked out of Iceland because he killed a couple of slaves belonging to a neighbor, then killed the neighbor in a duel ban from Iceland, etc.
Then Denmark, World War I, 1917, the U.S. purchased the Danish West Indies from Denmark for $25 million, renamed that the U.S. Virgin Islands.
We were afraid the Germans would do it before we did.
World War II, the U.S. ambassador to Denmark went rogue on the Danish government after Denmark was invaded by the Nazis, saying that he represented the king.
He signed a deal with us, allowing us to have a bunch of bases in Greenland acting in his mind as the king's representative.
So basically, we took control then of Iceland.
During the Cold War, President Truman realized the geopolitical importance of Greenland, sent Secretary of State at the time, James Burns, to negotiate the purchase of Greenland with his Danish counterpart back in the day, and how they control the access to the North Atlantic.
Truman was trying to prevent that by acquiring Greenland.
The U.S. offered $100 million, the equivalent of $2 billion today.
The Danes turned it down mainly because they were afraid of negative Russian repercussions or revenge.
So we already had a ton of bases there.
You know, keep that in mind that are really controlled by us and Greenland together.
But putting all of that aside, this is not a new cause.
Knowing Donald Trump as well as I do, I have a pretty good idea what he's thinking about.
And if Donald Trump sets his mind to something, he's serious.
You know, one point he said, well, we'll offer the 57,000 people that live in Greenland $100,000 each and incentivize them.
I could see that number doubling and maybe going higher.
Do I think it would be worth it from a geopolitical sense, not letting Russia and China acquire it, considering its location?
Yeah, I think it's smart geopolitically, especially with a weakened Western Europe and a weakened NATO.
Anyway, Congressman Randy Fine from My Free State of Florida is going to join us in a second to talk about it.
But here's the president, you know, sparring, you know, with, I guess, a member of the media mob, the legacy media mob over the issue of Greenland.
It sounds like you are saying that you would potentially acquire Greenland by force.
That would be a NATO country.
Are you saying that?
No, you're saying that.
I didn't buy force.
No, you're telling me that that's what I'm going to do.
You don't know what I'm going to do.
So what are the options?
Your network doesn't know either.
And Caroline Levitt asked about it, discussing the potential purchase of Greenland.
There have also been reports that the U.S. could potentially buy Greenland as one potential option on the table.
What would such an offer look like?
Is there anything monetarily you could provide any details there?
Well, that's something that's currently being actively discussed by the president and his national security team.
And I would point out that the acquisition of Greenland by the United States is not a new idea.
This is something that presidents dating back to the 1800s have said is advantageous for America's national security.
The president has been very open and clear with all of you and with the world that he views it in the best interest of the United States to deter Russian and Chinese aggression in the Arctic region.
And so that's why his team is currently talking about what a potential purchase would look like.
Now, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Denmark and Greenland seem open to further conversations after yesterday and House Republican Randy Fine of Florida is pushing for Greenland to become the country's 51st state as the president now publicly is pushing for Danish territory to come under U.S. rule.
He introduced the bill Monday of this week aiming at authorizing the president to take whatever steps would be necessary to acquire Greenland and set it on the pathway to becoming part of the U.S.
He joins us now.
Congressman, how are you?
I'm doing great, Sean.
Thanks for having me on today.
All right, let's talk about your proposal, how you interpret what the president is saying.
Well, I support the president.
He's made the obvious point of the strategic importance to Greenland, which you covered over the last few minutes.
And I wanted to send a message to Greenland and Denmark that many of us in Congress support the president, that we create the legal framework for the president to negotiate and get done what he wants to do.
And it worked.
I mean, within minutes of me filing the bill, the ambassadors of Denmark and Greenland asked for a meeting in my office, which they came and had that afternoon.
And I told them I support the president, and they need to sit down and work out a deal with them, but we cannot let Greenland end up in the hands of the Russians or the Chinese.
Okay.
Now, are most of your colleagues in agreement or most Republicans in agreement?
I don't really care about the Democrats.
I mean, if Donald Trump came up with a cure for cancer, they'd probably oppose that too.
So I'm not expecting help from Democrats, but does the Republican caucus support it?
I think many do.
They understand the importance of this strategic asset.
It's not just the fact that Russian assets would have to fly over Greenland to get to the United States.
It's the trade routes and the funny games that China and Russia will play.
And what I've said to everyone is, look how great it's turned out for Alaska to be part of the United States.
They are to our northwest.
Greenland is the equivalent to our northeast.
And this would be a huge win for them as well.
So I think many of my colleagues are in a wait-and-see mode, but I wanted to get things lined up to make sure folks understand that we stand behind Donald Trump as he gets the job done.
Well, I love the idea of it.
I think it would be in the best interest of the people there.
Let me ask this question.
My understanding and what I have heard is the people of Greenland, now, I guess they have rights to travel to Denmark.
My understanding is Denmark has not particularly been too accommodating or kind or nice or good partners with the people in Greenland.
Is that true?
Well, this is true.
So the poverty rate in Greenland is far higher than it is in Denmark.
And the suicide rate is an order of magnitude higher than it is in Denmark.
And perhaps because they're so upset, Denmark basically gave Greenland the right to secede.
If the 50,000 people who live in Greenland want to vote to become an independent country or worse, want to vote to become China or Russia, they can do that.
Now, in the United States, 50,000 people is a small town, and we can't afford to let those folks get wooed by the Russians or the Chinese because Greenland's as close to Russia as it is to us.
We can't afford for them to go in that direction.
And that's why what the president is doing is so important.
But I would note, this is great for the people of Greenland as well.
Why would they not want to be part of the richest, most powerful, most successful country in the history of the world?
They will be winners, too.
I think that and frankly, they don't have the human resources to even tap into the natural resources that I understand are pretty abundant in Greenland.
And I think there could be a partnership opportunity that the people of Denmark, I think, have been foolish in not coming to deal with.
And that is, you know, it's sort of like Alaskans.
If you're a citizen of Alaska, you don't pay state income taxes.
They actually pay you a check if you live there full time because they share the profits and the natural resources in the state of Alaska.
I could imagine a similar arrangement being made with the people of Greenland, and the poverty rate at that point would be zero, and their standard of living would go up dramatically higher.
I'm not sure why anyone really wants to live there anyways.
I live like you in Florida, and I don't particularly love the cold weather.
No, but look, when we acquired Alaska, they called it Seward's Folly.
They thought it was a bad idea.
And it has been an incredible good, not only for America, but for the people that are in Alaska as well, as we unleash all of the resources that are in Alaska, whether it's fishing, whether it's tourism, whether it's natural resources.
Greenland will experience the exact same thing if it becomes part of the United States.
In the same way, by the way, that the Dutch East Indies are a lot better off as part of America than they were as part of Denmark.
This will be good for them as well.
And so this is a winner for everyone, I guess, except for Democrats who probably want them to become part of Russia or China.
And it's bad for the Russians and the Chinese.
But for everyone else, this is a good idea.
Well, the only part I might disagree with you on gently, Congressman, is the statehood part, because I'm very leery about the possibility of two U.S. senators, and maybe, I don't know.
Like, for example, I know the Democrats want Washington, D.C. to become, to get statehood in Puerto Rico, because they think politically that would give them four U.S. Senate seats, or the odds would be much higher that they would get four U.S. Senate seats.
Certainly in D.C., it would be a slam dunk to Democratic senators.
So I think it's a bad idea, but certainly an agreement where we are full partners with them, I think, would be win-win for everybody.
And here's one of the other problems that we're facing, and that is that I do believe that we are looking at a very weakened NATO.
I think that Western European countries have let their guard down severely.
I think that you're seeing a cultural shift.
Look at places, for example, like Great Britain, where they have 85 Sharia courts or places we have reported on in France that are called, quote, no-go zones.
And while they have allowed unfettered immigration, they've not fostered assimilation or insisted on assimilation.
And you almost have separate societies within one society.
And I don't think that's good for anybody.
Sean, you're absolutely right.
And as for your concern about statehood, it's absolutely justified.
My bill simply requires the president to tell us what we would have to do if we were to make it a state.
Congress would still have to make that decision.
So this bill would not automatically make Greenland a state.
It still has to go through that process.
So don't worry.
But as it relates to Europe, you are absolutely correct.
As Europe has chosen to import so many mainstream Muslims who have really put Europe at risk, the U.K. does not really represent what it used to anymore.
And you're more likely to be arrested for criticizing the place than you are standing up for it.
So I don't think our allies are as good as they used to be.
And I think that's why we have to be worrying about protecting ourselves.
All right, quick break, right back more on whether or not America and Greenland can get together.
Congressman Randy Fine of Florida is with us.
Then we'll get to your calls on the other side.
We continue now.
What's going to happen?
Good conversation.
Apparently, yesterday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Denmark and Greenland.
And they seem open to further conversations on the issue of Greenland saying bye-bye to Denmark and hello, USA.
But we continue.
Congressman Randy Fine of Florida is with us.
I believe in freedom of religion, and I don't care what religion people adhere to.
What I do care about are radical Islam and radical Islamists and people with radical connections.
I mean, the most preventable national security disaster came in the four years of Biden-Harris and Majorkis.
I mean, we had people from over 200 countries coming into this country, including from countries with known terror ties.
We have known terrorists we know are in this country.
It's been confirmed that they're in this country.
Some have been removed.
Others, they're here, but we don't know where they are on top of murderers and rapists, other violent criminals, cartel members, gang members.
I mean, they have put this country at great risk.
Many Americans have died.
Many Americans have been victims of violent crime.
And I just worry that there's not much vetting at all going on in Western Europe.
And I just don't see them as the once reliable, strong ally that we used to think of them as.
And I don't think Vladimir Putin sees them that way either.
You're 100% right.
And here's the challenge.
Freedom of religion is a sacrosanct value, but we have to require that everyone believe in it.
And when we extend freedom of religion to religions that don't believe in a freedom of religion, that's how we get ourselves in trouble.
And that's what's going on in Europe.
We're letting people in under the notion of freedom of religion, but then they say, no, no, no, we don't want to let you have freedom of religion.
We're going to make you do things our way.
We're going to take advantage of your values to impose our values on you.
And that's what's going on in Europe.
And they're sticking their head in the ground and not realizing what's going on.
And that's why the complexion of Europe may be fundamentally changed forever.
And I think why things like making sure we can protect ourselves are even more important.
Yeah.
I love the idea.
Do we know what the natural resources are there?
My understanding is they have a lot of rare earths.
Is that true?
They do.
They have a ton of raw materials, which, as you would expect, a small country like Denmark and a population of 50,000 people, they're not going to be able to go and get them all.
So in terms of securing, it is 20% of the world's fresh water is in Greenland.
That's crazy.
I mean, and there's so much we could do to improve and better the lives of the people there.
And I think a real serious discussion needs to be had.
And I think there's always a deal to be had.
I really believe that.
Anyway, I appreciate your time.
Randy Fine, Representative of my Free State of Florida.
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate your work.
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Linda, this is not a trick question.
And this actually happened.
I mean, we've had the two cases, two states, West Virginia, Idaho case, argued before the Supreme Court about whether men should be able to play biological, men should be able to play women's sports.
Anyway, so they had this Senate hearing yesterday, and Josh Hawley in Missouri is asking a question of a medical doctor.
A doctor's name is Dr. Nisha Verma.
And the question is, can men get pregnant during that exchange?
Would you be able to answer that question?
Oh, yes.
It's a very easy answer.
It's not a hard question for you, right?
Not a hard question.
Anybody else?
You could answer it.
I think anyone in this wonderful audience could answer it.
All right, I might ask everybody because this doctor had a hard time answering the question.
And the question was first posed by my senator, Ashley Moody, and then Josh Hawley.
Ask the doctor, do you think men can get pregnant?
Let's play it.
Dr. Verma, I wasn't sure I understood your answer to Senator Moody a moment ago.
Do you think that men can get pregnant?
I hesitated there because I wasn't sure where the conversation was going or what the goal was.
I mean, I do take care of patients with different identities.
I take care of many women.
I take care of people with different identities.
And so that's where I paused.
I think, I wasn't sure where you were going with that.
Well, the goal is the truth.
So can men get pregnant?
Again, the reason I paused there is I'm not really sure what the goal of the question is.
The goal is just to establish a biological reality.
You just said a moment ago that science and evidence should control, not politics.
So let's just test that proposition.
Can men get pregnant?
I take care of people with many identities, but there are many women that can get pregnant.
I do take care of people that don't identify as women.
Can men get pregnant?
Again, as I'm saying.
Let me just remind you, you testified to a moment ago.
Science and evidence should control, not politics.
So, can men get pregnant?
You're a doctor.
Science and evidence should guide medicine.
Do science and evidence tell us that men can get pregnant?
Biological men.
Can they get pregnant?
I also think yes-no questions like this are a political tool.
No, yes-no questions are about the truth, doctor.
Let's not make a mockery of this proceeding.
You're a doctor, and you follow the science and the evidence.
So I just want to know, based on the science, can men get pregnant?
That's a yes or no question.
It really is, I think.
I think you're trying to reduce the complexity of a lot of people.
I'm not.
I'm trying to get, it's not complex.
I'm trying to get to an answer, and I'm trying to test, frankly, your veracity as a medical professional and as a scientist.
Can men get pregnant?
I think you're also conflating male with no, I'm not conflating male and female.
They're two different things.
There's biological men and there's biological women.
And I want to know, can men get pregnant?
What you were talking about is biological biological males.
This isn't hard, doctor.
Can men get pregnant?
Yes or no?
I would be more than happy to have a conversation with you that is not coming from a place of trying to be polarized.
You just can't make this up.
You know, Josh Hawley put on X. Spoiler alert.
Men cannot get pregnant.
Joe in the United Socialist Utopia, California.
What's up, Joe?
How are you?
Hey.
Hello, Sean.
Yeah, I'm doing well.
You know, I'm born.
By the way, can men get pregnant?
Biological men?
I do not believe so.
That would be a no, you know, definitely a no.
Well, science and evidence, you know, should be, should control, not politics.
You know, I would imagine that's an easy question to answer, but okay, go ahead.
What's on your mind?
Well, I'll tell you, I'm born, raised, still live in California.
And I just want to let the rest of the United States know that this Gavin Newsom, who wants to run for president, it looks like he's going to, the guy, number one, I can't stand a liar.
He is a liar, as well as, you know, what he accuses President Trump of and everything else.
But yeah, he has done nothing to improve the life of the average citizen in California.
Absolutely nothing.
He's Approved legislation that's done nothing but raise taxes, take away our rights to free speech.
And, you know, he just led this redistricting here in California.
There's only nine Republicans out of the 52 U.S. representatives.
And he's just done everything he can with it, and it passed.
They're going to redistrict it and reduce the Republican representation here in California, which just upsets me so much.
You know, I'm from Northern California.
And if you ever remember hearing that Hank Williams song, it's Country Boy Can't Survive.
And he talks about.
Hank Williams Jr., Country Boy Can Survive.
Country Boy will survive.
Country Boy will survive.
And he talks about country boys from North California and South Alabama and the little towns all around this land.
Well, what Gazin, Gavin Newsom just did, he reduced our representation here in California by backing and voters approved it, which is overwhelmingly Democrat here.
He just took away Northern California's representation.
I'm sure you've heard of the state of Jefferson, which I've never believed that was going to happen.
People in Northern California are so upset that in the state legislature, which is super majority Republican, the laws that are passed and Gavin Newsom approves them, it does nothing but just raise taxes.
We have the highest taxes, overall property taxes, sales taxes.
You name whatever taxes.
We have the highest electricity rates, and everything just keeps going.
You have the highest income taxes.
You have the highest sales taxes.
You have the highest gas taxes.
You don't have fire hydrants with water in them, and you have empty reservoirs in areas that are known to have wildfires.
You don't practice forestry.
Now, I know he's come out against the billionaire tax, but everyone's leaving anyway.
You know, it's interesting.
I know, you talk about Hank Jr.
And, you know, I can plow a field all day long.
I can catch catfish from dusk till dawn.
We make our own whiskey, our own smoke, too.
Ain't too many things these old boys can't do.
We grow tomatoes, homemade wine, and a country boy can survive.
Country folks can survive, and country folks will survive.
Yes.
They just will.
I agree with you.
Northern California, California is a beautiful state.
Northern California is rural, very rural, agriculture.
Then it goes on down into the San Joaquin Valley.
People don't realize in California, if you took the Bay Area, which is all the counties around San Francisco and Los Angeles, and that fell into the ocean on an earthquake, California would be overwhelmingly Republican.
It's just those population centers that control the rest of just like New York City.
I mean, densely populated New York City will forever keep that state blue.
I'm not confident that it's going to go red anytime soon.
I know people have hope, but here's the biggest problem you face.
It's the same one New York faces and New Jersey faces and Illinois faces is people that would be maybe open to voting Republican conservative have all left.
And that's why, you know, in the end, redistricting, that's why Indiana infuriated me.
They should have gone forward and done redistricting there.
And I hope other states do it to counter what Newsom's trying to pull off here.
I'm just telling you right now, I've written California off.
Now, with that said, I take Gavin very seriously.
All right, last word.
Go ahead.
They're tearing down dams here in California.
We need water.
We've got like 40 million people in this state.
And these boondoggles that they've had, we've had two reservoirs that have not been built.
We spent billions of dollars in planning.
The fast road.
Why do you even stay?
Let me ask you this question.
Why do you stay?
My family's here.
Like I say, I'm born and raised.
It's called Jet Blue.
You can go visit them.
Are your kids older?
My daughter is older.
We got grandsons that are workers now.
They're working.
My mother's here.
So family, relatives, my wife.
Listen, I'm not going to dispute a family decision.
I mean, you do what's right for your family.
I mean, I stayed in New York much longer than I wanted because of my family.
Thank God my kids are down in Florida.
They love it.
I couldn't pay them to leave.
I honestly couldn't.
They love it down here.
And the weather's perfect and it's as beautiful as California.
And I lived in California five years.
I lived in Santa Barbara.
I was the poorest person that lived there at the time.
I had no money at that point in my life.
And that's when I started my radio career.
And, you know, God has blessed me beyond what I deserve.
And work hard and keep your head down.
And that's how you live life.
But I got to roll on, Joe.
Appreciate it.
Dave in my free state of Florida.
What's up, Dave?
How are you?
How are you doing, Mr. Hannity?
Well, let me ask you the question: Can men get pregnant?
Biological men.
In my opinion, I have a wife.
I've sighed five biological children.
I didn't ask you that.
I'm going to be Josh Hawley to you.
Can biological men get pregnant?
No, sir.
Okay.
Spoiler alert.
What's on your mind?
Okay.
You were talking about this transgender thing, and I had a comment that I wanted, a question I wanted to ask.
But if I could ask this really quick, make this comment really quick, please.
I played high school sports at Dover, New Hampshire.
And the reason I want to tell you this is because I don't think people understand the level of these college athlete women.
They are exceptional athletes.
And to make the point, in high school, when I was at senior high school, I ran with Kathy Skiro, who is, I believe, a bronze medalist in the Olympics for the marathon.
She ran with the men in a one-mile race.
I ran the mile.
And I ran a 5-12 mile.
That's the fastest mile I ever ran.
That's not.
That's a pretty, that's a good number.
That's a pretty strong number.
And on my third lap, she lapped me.
She was that.
You got to be kidding me.
That's embarrassing.
Not really.
I mean, I'm a good athlete.
I don't care.
I applaud them.
Somebody has to work hard to be that good.
She was amazing.
I couldn't believe.
I'm coming around the third lap, getting ready to start my fourth lap, and she goes flying by me like I'm standing still.
Now, one comment I wanted to say is: what if every single woman in sports today, college sports especially, and I guarantee they'd have all the men in America supporting them, every single time a man got up on the platform or the track or wherever it was where they were about to start the competition, every single woman just walked off right there.
Just never do it again.
In time, it's got to work because they'd be competing against themselves.
Listen, I'm just telling you, this should not be a complicated issue.
And, you know, we've always protected women's sports.
That's what Title IX's always been about.
And if there are that many biological men that identify as women and they want to compete, okay, then let schools create a division for trans athletes to compete against each other.
Do it that way.
But you know what?
It's not, it's a physical issue, biological issue, plain and simple.
I don't think it's that complicated.
And the person that agrees with me the most is Caitlin Jenner.
You know, Caitlin Jenner, you know, decathlon winner, has, she is a phenomenal golfer today.
She didn't drive the ball, she told me, nearly 300 yards.
And she's older now, but she's that good an athlete.
And she said, if I ever competed in any women's tournaments, you know, she probably would win them all, but she would never do it.
And I give her a lot of credit for just being so open and honest about it.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
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