Sean Hannity Show - The SAVE Act and the Fight for Voter ID
Aired: 2026-03-10
Duration: 29:55


=== Senate Must Pass Save America Act (14:41) ===

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[00:00:07]  Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, it is now very apparent that the United States Senate has some hard work to do, and it's time for them to stand up.
[00:00:19]  It's not even a, it's like an 82-18 issue, and that is the American people want integrity in elections, proof of citizenship, voter ID.
[00:00:30]  It is not that onerous.
[00:00:32]  And when asked, even Democrats at 71% support the SAVE Act.
[00:00:37]  Now, for this to happen in the U.S. Senate, it's already come out of the House, and that's the most recent rendition.
[00:00:46]  There was one earlier one passed.
[00:00:47]  But for this to happen now, senators, and we've had Mike Lee and Ted Cruz on the program before, they're going to have to demand a talking filibuster among the Democrats.
[00:00:59]  It's clear that this is now what will happen.
[00:01:02]  It must happen.
[00:01:04]  It does impact the Senate primary in Texas.
[00:01:08]  We're going to get to Chip Roy in a minute.
[00:01:11]  He, by the way, is in a May runoff with a state representative to decide who will be the GOP nominee for Texas Attorney General.
[00:01:19]  Let me first play Senator John Kennedy, one of our favorites in the Senate.
[00:01:26]  And this is him commenting on the SAVE Act, and he's talking about doing it through reconciliation.
[00:01:32]  Here's what he said.
[00:01:33]  The SAVE Act is a priority.
[00:01:35]  I'm a co-author.
[00:01:37]  I agree with everything the president said in his tweet, though.
[00:01:40]  I haven't seen it.
[00:01:41]  John Thune has promised to bring the bill to the floor.
[00:01:44]  I don't know when he's going to do that, but he is going to do that.
[00:01:48]  I anticipate it'll be in the next few weeks.
[00:01:51]  Will it pass?
[00:01:53]  I think so.
[00:01:54]  It just depends.
[00:01:55]  We've got some free range.
[00:01:57]  The Democrats will be against it, but we've got some free-range chickens on the Republican side, and we're going to have to go gather them up.
[00:02:05]  So to get to 60, though, is the thought that this would be a reconciliation bill so you don't have to get to the 60.
[00:02:11]  Is there a single Democrat?
[00:02:12]  Are there several Democrats who would vote with you on the SAVE?
[00:02:15]  I would do it through reconciliation.
[00:02:17]  We can short-circuit all of this, but I'm in a minority.
[00:02:22]  I have chased Senator Thune, my good friend, like he stole Thanksgiving to try to get him to do a reconciliation.
[00:02:32]  This would be perfect for reconciliation.
[00:02:35]  I don't have a disagreement.
[00:02:36]  I don't care how they do it, to be very honest.
[00:02:38]  And I think that it is time for a second reconciliation, but we'll see.
[00:02:42]  The president praised Congressman Scott Pressler on Fox and Friends this morning about using the filibuster, the talking filibuster, in order to pass the SAVE Act.
[00:02:52]  You know, the president's, you know, rightly pointed out it's an 80-plus percent issue with all voters, including Democrats.
[00:03:00]  It must be done.
[00:03:01]  It supersedes everything else.
[00:03:03]  It's got to go to the front of the line.
[00:03:04]  And he said, as president, he will not sign other bills until this is passed and not the watered down version.
[00:03:11]  Go for the gold.
[00:03:11]  Must show voter ID, proof of citizenship.
[00:03:14]  No mail-in ballots except for the military or illness or disability or travel.
[00:03:20]  No men and women sports, no transgender mutilization.
[00:03:23]  But children don't fail.
[00:03:25]  President, thank you for your attention to this matter.
[00:03:28]  Anyway, Chip Roy is with us.
[00:03:29]  He will be in the runoff for Texas Attorney General come May.
[00:03:35]  Now, this bill does have implications in the Senate.
[00:03:38]  We'll explain that in a second and the runoff between Paxton and Cornyn.
[00:03:43]  But this has to happen.
[00:03:45]  This is probably our only window of opportunity to get it done.
[00:03:49]  And will it take a little bit of courage on the part of some Republicans?
[00:03:52]  I guess it shouldn't be a courageous issue to me.
[00:03:55]  It's an 85-15 issue, 82-18 issue.
[00:04:01]  Hey, Sean, great to be on.
[00:04:02]  Couldn't agree with you more.
[00:04:04]  What led me to draft the SAVE Act portion, the citizenship portion two years ago, was concern in the 24 election about what could be happening to undermine the president in the fall.
[00:04:16]  And Mike Lee drafted the Senate version.
[00:04:18]  We were proud to pass it.
[00:04:19]  Five Democrats joined us.
[00:04:21]  This year, we passed it again.
[00:04:23]  The Senate hadn't moved it, but the president rightfully was saying, well, look, let's get voter ID in this.
[00:04:29]  And I told Mr. President, we're for that.
[00:04:31]  We had actually wanted to put voter ID in it before, but there were some strategic reasons we didn't.
[00:04:36]  But we added it in, made the Save America Act.
[00:04:39]  And by the way, we agree on the other issues too.
[00:04:42]  Mail and ballots, dealing with boys and girls' bathrooms, dealing with the transgender surgery issue, which is horrific.
[00:04:50]  The question really is, is now the president putting the weight behind that, which thing, which combination of those things, that whole package or not, can we force the Senate to move on?
[00:05:00]  Now, Senator Kennedy throws out reconciliation.
[00:05:03]  Well, I mean, that's possible.
[00:05:05]  It's only possible, though, if we change the way the parliamentarian interprets the rules about legislating on a bill like that for reconciliation.
[00:05:16]  If we do the talking filibuster, we know we can force the pressure on it.
[00:05:20]  Consider, Sean, and your listeners, I think, might know this, the Civil Rights Act.
[00:05:25]  Mike Lee talks about this all the time.
[00:05:27]  The Civil Rights Act of 1964, it was under by 30 votes.
[00:05:32]  They needed 30 more votes to shut off debate.
[00:05:35]  They put it on the floor for three months and they left it out there.
[00:05:39]  And then the public pressure got so intense that they got the votes to pass it.
[00:05:45]  By the way, Lyndon Johnson required, he needed for both the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the Voting Rights Act in 65, it was Republicans that helped him get that over the finish line.
[00:05:55]  Correct.
[00:05:55]  And it was Democrats who were blocking it.
[00:05:58]  And they beat the Democrats back by putting it on the floor and taking it to the people.
[00:06:02]  That's literally all we're asking for.
[00:06:04]  Mike Lee's been beating that drum.
[00:06:06]  I've been beating that drum.
[00:06:08]  I might be a member of Congress, but I'm a former Senate staffer and lawyer.
[00:06:12]  I was the chief of staff at Ted Cruz, a lawyer on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
[00:06:16]  I know how the Senate works.
[00:06:18]  We can do this, but you got to have the will to put it there.
[00:06:21]  Now, Majority Leader Thune will say, well, they're going to offer a lot of amendments, and that'll make for tough votes for some of our senators.
[00:06:29]  Guys, all we're asking for is the discipline to table every amendment.
[00:06:33]  You go to the floor and you literally tell the American people, any amendment they offer, we're going to table, unless it's germane and a reasonable debate.
[00:06:41]  We're going to table every amendment that they try to do to embarrass us.
[00:06:45]  And by the way, Sean, we do that every week in the House in the Rules Committee on which I serve.
[00:06:49]  The speaker, speaker is Chip.
[00:06:52]  We need this bill on the floor.
[00:06:53]  I say, all right, Speaker, let's work together to do it.
[00:06:55]  Democrats offer amendments, including my own, to try to embarrass me.
[00:06:59]  I don't care.
[00:07:00]  You just have to do the job.
[00:07:02]  And that's what we're asking of the Senate.
[00:07:04]  That's what the president is asking.
[00:07:05]  We need to win this election.
[00:07:07]  We will win this election when our economy keeps getting strong, when the president gets through this important battle in Iran to reset the table.
[00:07:17]  Oil's going to come back.
[00:07:18]  Our economy is going to be in a good spot.
[00:07:21]  And we're going to have to win this fall on that.
[00:07:23]  But Republicans have got to deliver at this moment in time where we have the majority in the House and the Senate.
[00:07:29]  And that's all we're saying.
[00:07:30]  Do our job.
[00:07:31]  All right.
[00:07:31]  Let me talk about how this is impacting the Senate runoff between John Cornyn and Ken Paxton.
[00:07:39]  Because the president said last week that he would make a decision on whom to endorse fairly shortly.
[00:07:46]  And then he also went on to add that he wants the full and complete Save America Act passed for the first time.
[00:07:53]  Now, the other interesting component in this, he said, and I understand his logic behind it.
[00:08:00]  I'm not endorsing it or not endorsing it.
[00:08:02]  I'm just telling you what he said, is that he's going to endorse one of the two and that he's going to ask the other person to drop out.
[00:08:09]  The thinking being that we're going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in a brutal Republican primary where they're going to rip each other to shreds like they did in the lead up to the election last week or whenever it was.
[00:08:22]  And anyway, so actually, Paxton made an interesting offer.
[00:08:27]  And simply put, if the Senate approves the Save America Act requiring voter ID, proof of citizenship, then he said he would be willing to then drop out at that point.
[00:08:36]  That surprised me.
[00:08:38]  Well, Ken, look, I know both men.
[00:08:40]  I worked for both men as a lawyer on the judiciary committee and then as the first assistant attorney general.
[00:08:46]  Kennon's a very smart guy and that was a smart play.
[00:08:49]  And I think by doing that, he's putting more pressure on the Senate to say, look, you know, Leader Thun and to John Cornyn and to everybody else, go deliver.
[00:08:58]  And if you deliver, then maybe I'll step aside.
[00:09:02]  But the question here really is, what is the Senate going to do for good of country?
[00:09:07]  Only the president can make this call.
[00:09:09]  He's literally the only one that can make a call to figure out how to get our nominee in place unless he decides to just sit back and just let the election play out.
[00:09:19]  But the president's going to be concerned about two more months of another $50 or $100 million of negative ads going back and forth when we need to go make sure we win the majority and beat Tall Rico and Texas.
[00:09:31]  I mean, right now, Sean, I mean, your listeners, I hope they know this.
[00:09:35]  If the election were held today, we would be in danger of losing the House and the Senate.
[00:09:41]  And the elections are tight in Alaska.
[00:09:44]  They're tight in Ohio.
[00:09:45]  They're tight in Iowa.
[00:09:47]  And, you know, now we've got this, I think, what will be proven to be fake energy behind Tall Rico.
[00:09:52]  They're saying he's the next beto.
[00:09:54]  This guy is insane.
[00:09:56]  He has said absolutely crazy stuff.
[00:09:59]  There are six genders.
[00:10:00]  Did you not know that?
[00:10:01]  I'd like to know what the other four are.
[00:10:03]  I know about male and female.
[00:10:04]  I don't know what the other genders are.
[00:10:06]  Well, also that God is binary.
[00:10:08]  I mean, you just, it's crazy what this guy is.
[00:10:11]  See, but nobody knows this yet.
[00:10:13]  He's about to get a huge wake-up call.
[00:10:15]  Let's be honest.
[00:10:16]  Nobody.
[00:10:17]  By the time this election takes place, the people of Texas will figure out he's nuts.
[00:10:22]  I believe that is absolutely correct, and we will beat him this fall.
[00:10:25]  But, but we've got to show up and we've got to get it done.
[00:10:28]  So, look, I'm focused on my race.
[00:10:31]  I'm focused on delivering the Save America Act.
[00:10:33]  I'm focused on Reconciliation 2.0, where we ought to make sure we've got defense spending where we need it.
[00:10:38]  We ought to make sure that we get some more reductions in fraud and waste, make sure we get some more tax breaks.
[00:10:44]  We can do all of that if we're focused.
[00:10:47]  And then back the president up.
[00:10:48]  I hope he'll get the Iran stuff sorted out quickly.
[00:10:51]  And then let's get busy winning this election this fall.
[00:10:53]  But I'm going to stay focused on that.
[00:10:55]  The president will make a good decision at one point or the other, figuring out how to manage this Texas Senate situation.
[00:11:03]  Now, have you talked to the president about your AG race?
[00:11:06]  You've got this runoff in May yourself.
[00:11:09]  And, you know, look, Texas is, it can be a tough state in some ways.
[00:11:15]  It's a Republican runoff, but whoever wins the runoff is going to be the next AG.
[00:11:19]  Yeah, Sean Wynn.
[00:11:20]  We had a great election.
[00:11:21]  In fact, my opponent, I'm just going to be very blunt here.
[00:11:24]  He's a trust fund kid who's never practiced law, never been in a courtroom, never prosecuted a bad guy, never been in AG's office.
[00:11:31]  Frankly, I wouldn't hire him when I'm the attorney general.
[00:11:35]  He spent $18 million of his own money.
[00:11:37]  I spent $5 million, which is more than Ken Paxton spent in his last election.
[00:11:42]  And we still got well in the 30s, and we're pretty close to his number.
[00:11:46]  He bought a lot of votes.
[00:11:47]  We're raising the money right now.
[00:11:48]  We're going to win this election in May.
[00:11:50]  I've got a great relationship with the president.
[00:11:52]  The president last week at Corpus, he saw a bunch of us there, you know, gave me a very particular shout out, doing a good job because we've been working so hard together on the Save America Act.
[00:12:01]  Look, I'm the lead author of the stock trading ban bill that he talked about in the state of the union.
[00:12:07]  I'm neck deep right now and working on figuring out how to fix the college sports issue.
[00:12:11]  Look, I work hard.
[00:12:13]  You can say what you want about me, but I work around the clock and I've been alongside the president.
[00:12:17]  I have the second highest score in the House of Representatives in terms of my alignment with President Trump's agenda.
[00:12:23]  The only one who beat me was Andy Biggs, and I told him I thought it was a rigged score that I was better than Andy, but Andy's one of my best friends in the House, so we kind of joke around about it.
[00:12:31]  But everybody knows where I stand, who I am.
[00:12:35]  Lifetime guy serving public service, working in law enforcement.
[00:12:38]  My granddaddy was the chief of police.
[00:12:40]  My great-grandfather was a Texas Ranger.
[00:12:43]  You know, the voters of Texas are going to be there in May, and we're going to keep working alongside the president to deliver.
[00:12:49]  You know, it really is amazing how much money, especially in the last, I don't know, six, eight election cycles, going back to Beto Bozo, how much money Democrats have thrown into Texas and they never are successful.
[00:13:03]  Why do they keep doing it?
[00:13:05]  Because Texas is the prize.
[00:13:08]  Why is the Muslim Brotherhood focusing on Texas?
[00:13:12]  Why do the Marxists and George Soros focus on Austin and Dallas and Houston and San Antonio to try to put criminals on our streets and undermine our cities and destroy Texas?
[00:13:24]  They know that Texas is the prize.
[00:13:26]  They knock out the knees from under Texas.
[00:13:28]  America crumbles.
[00:13:30]  So the Marxists want that.
[00:13:32]  So they're going to keep trying.
[00:13:34]  And, you know, I think they got a little taste of it by getting within two and a half points to Ted in 2018.
[00:13:40]  And they believe they could do it again.
[00:13:41]  But remember, Patto wasn't really tested.
[00:13:44]  He hadn't gone out and said a lot of the crazy stuff.
[00:13:47]  Well, we didn't really know how nuts he was until after that election, which, but in the case of Tellerico, I mean, the op research on him is awful.
[00:13:57]  Yep.
[00:13:58]  God is non-binary.
[00:14:01]  There are six genders.
[00:14:02]  I'm like, I'm dying to know what the other four is.
[00:14:04]  Anyone ask them what the other four are?
[00:14:06]  Well, and he's out there talking about transgender issues.
[00:14:09]  And by the way, his whole shtick, that he's the reasonable Christian, that he's the kinder and gentler and the guy who knows what Jesus Christ would stand for.
[00:14:19]  It's offensive that he's out there trying to preach what he knows is the right way to follow when he's pushing forward things that I don't look.
[00:14:28]  Transgender surgeries, that's not representing the values of Jesus Christ.
[00:14:34]  To take an innocent child and to destroy them with transgender surgeries.

=== Jesse Jackson and Wall Street (06:26) ===

[00:14:41]  I can see the ad campaign now.
[00:14:43]  I honestly think I was all for Jasmine Crockett, but I think maybe Tellerico is going to be, is even more extreme than I think she can be.
[00:14:53]  Anyway, we appreciate you.
[00:14:55]  Chip Roy, Congressman, running for AG in Texas.
[00:14:57]  Thank you, sir.
[00:14:58]  800-941 Sean is our number.
[00:15:00]  If you want to be a part of the program, does it really surprise you that Barack Obama is not inviting, according to Valerie Jarrett?
[00:15:08]  I think his presidential library opening.
[00:15:11]  Did you see the building, Linda?
[00:15:12]  It's horrible.
[00:15:13]  It's hideous looking.
[00:15:15]  It looks like something out of Harry Potter.
[00:15:17]  It is so ugly.
[00:15:18]  I'm like, who designed this?
[00:15:19]  Is this Voldemort's house?
[00:15:21]  It's so ugly.
[00:15:22]  It's so ugly.
[00:15:23]  It's so terrible.
[00:15:25]  And anyway, so he's at Jesse Jackson's funeral.
[00:15:28]  We actually had a decent relationship with Jesse Jackson.
[00:15:32]  We were very open in our criticism of him over the years.
[00:15:35]  But remember the time, remember the Terry Shaivo case?
[00:15:39]  And he came down there and I was broadcasting down there a week and he came on the show.
[00:15:43]  He came on the show a couple of times and we had a few battles, but I tried to keep it friendly.
[00:15:50]  Anyway, so Obama gets all political against Trump at Jesse Jackson's funeral.
[00:15:55]  Not a shocker, but here's what he said.
[00:15:57]  Each day we're told by those in high office to fear each other and to turn on each other and that some Americans count more than others and that some don't even count at all.
[00:16:08]  Everywhere we see greed and bigotry being celebrated and bullying and mockery masquerading as strength.
[00:16:16]  We see science and expertise denigrated while ignorance and dishonesty and cruelty and corruption are reaping untold rewards every single day we see that.
[00:16:29]  And it's hard to hope in those moments.
[00:16:33]  Now, here's the more interesting part of the story.
[00:16:36]  Jesse Jackson Jr., I said this last week.
[00:16:39]  I said, here's a little unknown secret is Jesse Jackson never liked Obama.
[00:16:45]  Never.
[00:16:46]  And that was just, you know, for those people that had connections for the people around Jesse Jackson, was never that fond of him.
[00:16:53]  Wasn't fond of Biden either.
[00:16:54]  Wasn't that fond of Clinton either.
[00:16:56]  Anyway, so they're all, how you doing?
[00:16:58]  And they're all speaking at the funeral.
[00:17:01]  Then listen to Jesse Jackson Jr. swiping at Obama, Biden, and Clinton during his father's eulogy after they had already spoken.
[00:17:10]  They don't know Jesse Jackson.
[00:17:13]  He said that himself, and he's not wrong.
[00:17:16]  Yesterday, I listened for several hours of three United States presidents who do not know Jesse Jackson.
[00:17:28]  He maintained a tense relationship with the political order, not because the presidents were white or black, but the demands of our message, the demands of speaking for the least of these, those who were disinherited, the damned, the dispossessed, the disrespected, demanded not Democratic or Republican solutions,
[00:17:56]  but demanded a consistent, prophetic voice that at no point in time ever sold us out as a people.
[00:18:06]  I thought that was very, very telling.
[00:18:09]  Well, you know, Sean, I was just talking to Jason and asking him, but there's a link online, and it's actually of Jesse Jackson talking about Donald Trump.
[00:18:19]  You want to take a listen?
[00:18:20]  I saw this link.
[00:18:21]  You know what this link says?
[00:18:22]  No, what does it say?
[00:18:23]  Because I saw the video.
[00:18:25]  The link praises Donald Trump.
[00:18:28]  This is before he ran for president.
[00:18:29]  I think the year's 1999.
[00:18:31]  Correct me if I'm wrong.
[00:18:33]  And he praises Donald Trump for his help, generosity, and support for the African-American community.
[00:18:39]  Am I right or not?
[00:18:40]  You are right.
[00:18:41]  Let's play it.
[00:18:42]  I now want to bring forth a friend who, when we opened this Wall Street project and we talked about it, he gave us space at 40 Wall Street, which was to make a statement about our having a presence there.
[00:18:55]  And beyond that, in terms of reaching out and being inclusive, he's done that too.
[00:19:00]  And created for many people a comfort zone when I ran for the presidency in 8488.
[00:19:05]  And many others thought it was either laughable or something to avoid.
[00:19:08]  He came to our business meeting here in New York because he has this sense of the curious and a will to risk to make things better.
[00:19:15]  He was an effective builder of Building for the Builder People.
[00:19:18]  Last year he was a part of our workshop, of our panel workshop on what are the challenges and opportunities.
[00:19:23]  And so this, a year later, Donald Trump for a few minutes, challenges and opportunities to embrace the underserved communities.
[00:19:30]  Donald Trump.
[00:19:32]  Well, it is an honor to be here.
[00:19:33]  And I was with Jesse last year, and we had a lot of fun, and it was a little different.
[00:19:36]  Jesse started off by saying, most of the wealth in this country is in the hands of a few.
[00:19:41]  And I thought to myself, is that a bad thing?
[00:19:45]  What's wrong with that, Jesse?
[00:19:48]  And he said, listen, I want some office space in your building on Wall Street because the wall on wall will fall.
[00:19:54]  And I said, it's okay, Jesse.
[00:19:55]  I'll make a good deal with you.
[00:19:56]  I'll get you some space.
[00:19:56]  You'll pay about $40 a foot.
[00:19:58]  And he said, no, no, no.
[00:20:00]  I don't want to pay $40.
[00:20:01]  I said, how about $30?
[00:20:02]  No.
[00:20:02]  It's the cheapest deal I ever made in the history of 40 Wall Street.
[00:20:04]  Is that right?
[00:20:05]  He got it for nothing.
[00:20:07]  He's a very tough negotiator.
[00:20:10]  You know that, right?
[00:20:11]  He's a terrific guy.
[00:20:12]  We love him, and I'm here for him.
[00:20:13]  And I will tell you, a large percentage of the people, and especially in construction, that are building these great jobs are black and minorities.
[00:20:19]  And I'm very proud of it.
[00:20:20]  We have close to 25%, and I think the number's going up.
[00:20:22]  And they do a great job.
[00:20:24]  There are no better builders than we have in New York, and a big percentage of that is black and minority folks.
[00:20:28]  I mean, 40 Wall Street basically at a time, at this time, gave a presence to minority businesses to have a presence on Wall Street, which up to that point they had not.
[00:20:41]  And talked about his prioritizing hiring minorities and women, by the way, which he never gets credit for because of Trump derangement syndrome.
[00:20:51]  Anyway, I digress.
[00:20:53]  Let's get to our busy phone.
[00:20:55]  Let us say hi to Bill in New Jersey.
[00:20:59]  Bill, how are you?
[00:21:00]  Glad you called, sir.
[00:21:01]  Mr. Hannity, how are you?
[00:21:02]  Glad you called, Bill.
[00:21:04]  I'm not sure why you're still living in New Jersey, but we're glad you called.

=== Oil Supply Disruption (03:07) ===

[00:21:08]  I'm still trying to figure it out myself, but for the time being, that's the way the things are tumbling.
[00:21:15]  Anyways, I wanted to speak to you about oil a little bit, what's going on with the prices and stuff.
[00:21:20]  If I could just make a quick observation and a couple of quick questions.
[00:21:25]  We know the Gulf and the oil, the Straits have been a problem year in and year out for 40 years.
[00:21:33]  And I can speak from personal experience, military experience, that we've had plans to deal with Iran in place going back to Reagan, at least.
[00:21:43]  And then, you know, the Arab and OPEC nations around the area, I'm pretty confident we can say that they've all wanted something to happen for years now.
[00:21:54]  But right now, everybody's saying there's plenty of supply.
[00:21:58]  There's lots of oil out there.
[00:22:00]  And I understand, you know, spot market and pricing that way.
[00:22:05]  And of course, the difference between light sweet and heavy sour crude and the different refining and stuff like that.
[00:22:10]  But I think what we're seeing is really what we should call it is speculative greed.
[00:22:16]  That's what's going on with pricing right now.
[00:22:19]  And there may be bad actors playing into it to drive that.
[00:22:22]  Now, having said that, here's the questions I have.
[00:22:26]  Given all the planning that probably went into this Iran conflict that's going on right now, why weren't the OPEC nations prepped and set up so that the minute the first bomb dropped, they were on Al Jazeera or whatever worldwide networks telling the world the oil supply is going to be fine.
[00:22:49]  Everything's going to be fine from that perspective.
[00:22:51]  Don't worry about it.
[00:22:52]  That's the first question.
[00:22:53]  The second question, everybody last week was saying, oh, the insurers don't want these ships to move.
[00:22:59]  They won't insure them because of uncertainty.
[00:23:02]  Well, why didn't the U.S. government just flat out tell Lloyds of London to go pounce off?
[00:23:07]  U.S. government will ensure these ships.
[00:23:09]  Get them moving.
[00:23:10]  Okay?
[00:23:11]  Get them moving.
[00:23:12]  They already took that step, as you know.
[00:23:15]  You sound very well versed on the issue and the issue of oil.
[00:23:19]  You know more than the average bird, for sure.
[00:23:22]  And that the president is willing to escort these ships through the Straits of Hormuz.
[00:23:27]  About 30, 35% of the world's oil supply comes through there.
[00:23:32]  This is, I think there's a little panic in the marketplace.
[00:23:35]  I think this will be a hiccup disruption.
[00:23:38]  And I think ultimately, if the U.S. is able to partner with the people in Iran and help them extract their oil, et cetera, it's going to be beneficial to America and to the people of Iran and world market prices on oil long term.
[00:23:55]  And yeah, this is a short-term disruption.
[00:23:57]  But what is the long-term strategy here to make sure that your children and your grandchildren don't live under the threat of radical Islamists with nuclear weapons?
[00:24:08]  And that is not a better country we're handing off to our kids and grandkids.
[00:24:12]  That's what made this imperative.
[00:24:14]  And yes, it was in America's interest.

=== Short-Term Oil Disruption (05:10) ===

[00:24:15]  Don't believe the lying propagandists out there.
[00:24:19]  The last thing from a strategic perspective, there is an oil pipeline that runs from the Gulf side all the way across to the Red Sea.
[00:24:26]  Why hasn't that been expanded?
[00:24:27]  So something happens in the Gulf, fine, we'll ship it out of the Red Sea.
[00:24:31]  You know, expand all that, make it so you just move it from one side to the other.
[00:24:35]  And it solves a lot of that problem.
[00:24:37]  I don't know.
[00:24:39]  Wish we could.
[00:24:39]  Oh, I think you have a lot of good thoughts on it.
[00:24:41]  Bill, you know, again, we're one week into this.
[00:24:46]  And, you know, for people that want to lose their minds or, you know, we've got to understand something.
[00:24:51]  And I want everybody to be aware of this, whether it's virulent anti-Semitism online.
[00:24:56]  Remember, you have countries like Iran and China, Gulf nations.
[00:25:02]  They are propagandizing against Israel.
[00:25:05]  They're creating conspiracy theories.
[00:25:07]  They are trying to influence young people's thoughts and beliefs.
[00:25:11]  It's louder online, the chatter, because a lot of it is complete BS.
[00:25:17]  You're looking at bots that are sending out messages by countries that are trying to propagandize and indoctrinate.
[00:25:24]  Look at these two guys in New York with their two IEDs that they tried to ignite outside of Gracie Mansion in New York.
[00:25:33]  I mean, it's horrible.
[00:25:34]  And we're learning that they were propagandized, watching these propagandist videos online.
[00:25:40]  Anyway, Bill, appreciate you.
[00:25:41]  Thank you, my friend.
[00:25:42]  All right, quick break, right back.
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[00:26:33]  Let's go to Rashida, Louisiana.
[00:26:35]  Hey, look, Rashida, how are you?
[00:26:37]  I'm good.
[00:26:37]  How are you?
[00:26:39]  I'm good.
[00:26:40]  Thank you for checking in.
[00:26:41]  Happy Monday to you.
[00:26:42]  Happy Monday to you, too.
[00:26:44]  But I do want to just make a public announcement from on the behalf of the black millennials that voted for Trump.
[00:26:51]  Just kind of give him a ghetto.
[00:26:53]  Leave him alone.
[00:26:54]  Like, the man is not doing anything that he did not say he was going to do.
[00:26:58]  Because one thing we know about Trump is he ain't going to lie.
[00:27:02]  He don't do it online.
[00:27:03]  So when he said that he was going to come inside of the office, that he was going to strengthen immigration.
[00:27:09]  Why do people think that we supposed to get mad because that's what he doing?
[00:27:13]  He already told us that's what he going to be doing.
[00:27:17]  I really think they really mad at black millennial voters for voting for Trump because I'm like, I'm not understanding.
[00:27:25]  Like, what is he doing?
[00:27:26]  Like, he went for being, I'm so happy that y'all played that clip of Jesse Jackson.
[00:27:30]  He went for being so popular with black people until all of a sudden he raises.
[00:27:35]  It's like, do y'all think I'm going to believe the lies and media or the truth that I can research and see?
[00:27:41]  I'm just trying to see.
[00:27:42]  I'm asking for my friends and the people behind me.
[00:27:45]  And then Jesse Jackson Jr. told these people, don't come with your politics.
[00:27:50]  It's his funeral.
[00:27:51]  It's going to be a funeral.
[00:27:52]  Have a good, like, we're here to say thank you.
[00:27:55]  Just have a good time.
[00:27:57]  We ain't got to agree.
[00:27:58]  Everybody invited.
[00:27:59]  It's a cookout.
[00:28:00]  Yeah, here they come.
[00:28:01]  Like, why y'all so focused on Trump?
[00:28:03]  Y'all need to be trying to find y'all a Democratic presidential nominee like right now.
[00:28:09]  Because the last one, I'm still mad at her with her foolishness.
[00:28:12]  The last one, I'm like, girl, how is it that I have more in common with a rich white man than you?
[00:28:18]  Like, how is that possible?
[00:28:20]  Like, you're supposed to be, we call her as black millennials.
[00:28:25]  She is black in color only.
[00:28:27]  She is BICO.
[00:28:28]  She do not speak for black millennials and black women, like she just don't because she's so far from reality.
[00:28:35]  Talking about having men go to the bathroom with us.
[00:28:38]  Like, girl, you ran your whole campaign talking about, yeah, my roommate, my college roommate was raped and I want to keep women safe.
[00:28:46]  You're not keeping women safe.
[00:28:48]  You're literally trying to tell them to come to the bathroom with us.
[00:28:51]  Because what we know is that you're vice president, so Secret Service is going to be with you.
[00:28:56]  But what about me?
[00:28:57]  But they need to just back off Polil Trump, leave him alone.
[00:29:03]  I want to see where we are by the fall of this year.
[00:29:07]  I want to see where the world is by the fall of this year, where the economy is at the fall of this year.
[00:29:12]  And for those that don't have patience and those that want to declare failure, I mean, if you're a Democrat today, you have to pretty much Donald Trump fails across the board for you to have any chance of being successful.

=== Keeping Women Safe By Fall (00:28) ===

[00:29:26]  And that's a horrible position to be in.
[00:29:28]  And they've embraced the most radicalized agenda everywhere.
[00:29:32]  And all these blue cities and states that have elected Democrats for decades, how are they doing?
[00:29:37]  How are schools doing, especially in predominantly minority neighborhoods?
[00:29:42]  How's law and order in predominantly minority neighborhoods?
[00:29:45]  Not good.
[00:29:46]  Donald Trump wants to fix all of that.
[00:29:48]  And he will.
[00:29:49]  That's what he does.
[00:29:50]  He fixes things.
[00:29:52]  Anyway, I appreciate your call.
[00:29:53]  God bless you, Rashida.
[00:29:54]  You're great.