Sean Hannity Show - Business, Polls and Power
Aired: 2026-05-14
Duration: 36:14


=== Economic Divide and Common Sense (12:14) ===

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[00:01:04]  The American Revolution was against the billionaires of their time.
[00:01:10]  The tax system as we have it is fundamentally unjust.
[00:01:13]  We are speaking about living in the wealthiest city and the wealthiest country in the history of the world, where one in four New Yorkers are living in poverty.
[00:01:19]  And we are going to have to explore massive judicial reform, state by state and at the federal level.
[00:01:26]  And everything should be on the table as far as I'm concerned.
[00:01:30]  Freedom is back in style.
[00:01:32]  Welcome to the revolution.
[00:01:36]  Yeah, we're coming to your city.
[00:01:39]  Gonna play our guitars and sing you a country song.
[00:01:44]  Sean Hannity, the new Sean Hannity Show.
[00:01:48]  More behind-the-scenes information on breaking news and more bold, inspired solutions for America.
[00:01:57]  Hey, it's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
[00:02:01]  Normally I'm on our big flagship station, W-O-R, here in New York or on the iHeart app.
[00:02:08]  And here I am sitting in this beautiful studio.
[00:02:11]  High atop Manhattan, overlooking.
[00:02:13]  Look at a beautiful view of Manhattan.
[00:02:15]  While Sean is in China.
[00:02:21]  84 hours to get there, 900 hours to get back.
[00:02:24]  Three days in China.
[00:02:26]  It's a lot of work.
[00:02:27]  But a lot is coming for him.
[00:02:29]  He's got a big exclusive interview with President Trump.
[00:02:31]  You will see it tonight, 9 o'clock on the Fox News channel.
[00:02:35]  Play a clip or two in a second.
[00:02:37]  But right now, let's talk to Carol Roth, who is a New York Times bestselling author a couple of times.
[00:02:44]  And her book is You Will Own Nothing.
[00:02:46]  She's a recovering investment banker.
[00:02:48]  Let's talk about the business aspects of the president's trip to China.
[00:02:52]  Carol Roth, how are you doing?
[00:02:54]  I'm doing fantastic.
[00:02:55]  Always a good day when I get into that with you, Mark.
[00:02:58]  Oh, thanks.
[00:02:59]  So, hey, we're listening to this mom, Donnie, at the opening, and he's talking about how this is terrible.
[00:03:05]  There are so many people living under the poverty line in Manhattan.
[00:03:08]  Didn't Democrats run Manhattan, the mayor, city council, governor, state legislature, entirely Democrats for 12 years?
[00:03:15]  Shouldn't they blame themselves for this?
[00:03:18]  They absolutely should.
[00:03:19]  And it's the same thing here in Chicago, where I'm located, where I don't think that we've had a Republican as mayor any time in modern history.
[00:03:29]  And unfortunately, they don't want to take responsibility for the ridiculous policies that continue to drive out the creators of jobs, the creators of value, the creators of the tax base, the people who give to philanthropic causes.
[00:03:46]  They drive them away.
[00:03:47]  And then they take their big tech burden and continue to shift it onto the middle and working class, make the poor poorer.
[00:03:55]  And then, you know, as the arsonist who stands by as the house is burning down goes, oh, I'm going to help put out the fire that it's absolutely unbelievable.
[00:04:02]  Yeah.
[00:04:03]  So the president took a lot of business leaders to China trying to do all kinds of business.
[00:04:10]  And let's take a listen to Cut Six.
[00:04:12]  This is Sean talking to the president.
[00:04:14]  What does he want from the U.S.?
[00:04:16]  A lot of things.
[00:04:18]  We talked about a lot of things.
[00:04:20]  Too many things to discuss, but.
[00:04:22]  A lot of things.
[00:04:23]  We had a very good meeting, but we want things from them.
[00:04:27]  One thing he agreed to today is going to order 200 jets.
[00:04:31]  That's a big thing.
[00:04:32]  Boeing's.
[00:04:32]  Boeing.
[00:04:33]  200 big ones.
[00:04:34]  That's a lot of jobs.
[00:04:35]  That's a lot.
[00:04:37]  Boeing wanted 150.
[00:04:38]  He got 200.
[00:04:41]  He said, sort of, I think it was a commitment.
[00:04:44]  I mean, you know, sort of like a statement, but I think it was a commitment.
[00:04:48]  Now, Carol Roth, do you think he's going to really buy 200 jets from Boeing?
[00:04:52]  Well, all I have to say, Marcus, I know that this is.
[00:04:55]  Been a good trip because the Chinese military serenaded Trump with YMCA.
[00:05:01]  So, you know, if they're pulling out the big guns in the YMCA, there must be some good commerce that's going on.
[00:05:07]  And, you know, whether they come through with the orders or not, you know, that remains to be seen.
[00:05:12]  But what is so savvy by President Trump is normally you'd have a president bring some diplomats and some politicians.
[00:05:21]  And those people, you know, they can say things, but they can't really get the business done.
[00:05:26]  By bringing business leaders, they can actually try to shake hands on a deal or try to bring up specific points about the business.
[00:05:35]  So, it gives me a lot more confidence that this is coming with the Boeing CEO in the room than it would be with a bunch of politicians sitting around the table.
[00:05:43]  Yeah.
[00:05:43]  You know who's responsible?
[00:05:45]  Henry Kissinger, because when Trump first was running for president, nobody took him seriously, but Henry Kissinger did.
[00:05:51]  And in their first meeting, Kissinger told him, don't bring those foreign policy State Department idiots with their briefing books.
[00:05:59]  Don't let them do anything.
[00:06:00]  Do it yourself.
[00:06:01]  Don't listen to them.
[00:06:03]  So, it was great advice.
[00:06:05]  And you would say it's a successful trip so far, wouldn't you?
[00:06:09]  Yeah, as I said, the YMCA tells me everything I need to know.
[00:06:12]  But there was a lot going on in the background here.
[00:06:16]  We have the AI wars.
[00:06:18]  We have the fight over the hoarding of rare earth elements.
[00:06:23]  We have tariffs and trade.
[00:06:26]  And so I think just the step of bringing business leaders, business leaders who want to have access to China, business leaders that I know China resent.
[00:06:36]  Expect greatly and wants to figure out a way to do business in a way that's beneficial to both countries.
[00:06:45]  The fact that they are all sitting around one on one having these discussions and based on the things that we're hearing coming out, it does sound like it's successful.
[00:06:56]  Obviously, there's a lot more that needs to be done, but in the process of negotiations and normalizing relations, this is a first step.
[00:07:07]  And so, just yeah, a brilliant move all around.
[00:07:09]  By bringing this fantastic delegation to bear.
[00:07:12]  Yeah.
[00:07:14]  Hey, I'm looking at your Twitter.
[00:07:15]  The U.S. dollar has lost 30% of its purchasing power in the last six years.
[00:07:19]  Is that true?
[00:07:21]  It is true.
[00:07:23]  We have printed over, I think it's the last 60 years, a very large percentage of the money that's ever been created.
[00:07:32]  So it would go to reason without huge productivity gains that if you print that money and you don't have the increase in productivity, That the dollar is going to lose its value.
[00:07:45]  And everyone's a little bit to blame here.
[00:07:48]  Obviously, Pelosi and Schumer during COVID pushed through that huge package, which President Trump did sign off on in his first term.
[00:07:57]  And then Biden got into office, and instead of normalizing things, he wanted to put his name on Biden bucks.
[00:08:05]  So he gave away money and printed more money.
[00:08:08]  And instead of normalizing the deficit and, you know, Putting us into what would have been a recession, he papered over it with more government spending and higher deficits.
[00:08:20]  And so now we're running deficits to GDP that you would normally see during the war or during a major recession during a time of expansion.
[00:08:32]  And that still has not yet been normalized.
[00:08:35]  And unfortunately, we don't have a lot of political will in Congress to rein things in either.
[00:08:41]  So, you know, this is why one of the things that I always tell people who follow me is to, you know, You want to stay with a diversified portfolio.
[00:08:49]  You want to make sure you have exposure to those assets that are going to be inflated, you know, like the stock market, like housing.
[00:08:57]  But it's also great to have things like precious metals in your portfolio that can act as a hedge and an anchor as the dollar continues to lose what we consider purchasing power.
[00:09:09]  Wow.
[00:09:10]  Hey, Carol Roth, you also tweeted this book.
[00:09:13]  Phil Magnus wrote a book called The Best of Karl Marx.
[00:09:17]  What the?
[00:09:17]  It looks like a big, thick book, is it?
[00:09:20]  Yeah, so my question when I saw a book called The Best of Karl Marx was, was it empty?
[00:09:26]  Because there's nothing that Karl Marx has ever said that would indicate it's the best of.
[00:09:33]  So that seems like a big zero blank notepad to me.
[00:09:36]  But it is really scary, and you're seeing it in your city there, Mark, with Mamdani and AOC and all of their ilk, that we do have this resurgence of socialists and communists.
[00:09:51]  And people who sympathize with very tight central planning and government control and seizing means of production and opening grocery stores and the like, and they're so decoupled from reality.
[00:10:04]  And we go back to what we were talking about before with people becoming poorer.
[00:10:09]  When you're decoupled from economic reality, where you don't realize what incentives and disincentives do as they flow throughout the economy, you end up doing something that sounds great in theory but ends up being very destructive and damaging.
[00:10:23]  And there is this huge resurgence, which is, you know, in a sense a surprise that it came back so quickly because we thought we had that quash.
[00:10:30]  You know, we had a good showing.
[00:10:32]  We had people coming out saying we want economic common sense.
[00:10:36]  People across parties voted for Trump.
[00:10:38]  And now you have these socialists and communists who are like the cockroaches that just won't go away no matter how many you quash.
[00:10:47]  You know, you can't get rid of them.
[00:10:49]  They just keep multiplying.
[00:10:51]  And so we have to keep saying the same things over and over again that, you know, socialism and communism have never, ever worked.
[00:10:57]  They've left people in misery.
[00:10:59]  They've left people starving and dead, and it is never going to work.
[00:11:03]  Yeah.
[00:11:03]  Well, one thing about Democrats, they never follow the science.
[00:11:07]  Like we've run the socialism experiment 10 million times, it's failed every time.
[00:11:11]  So that's the science that we know, and they don't follow the science.
[00:11:15]  You think there's an end to this cycle of crazy woke left wing?
[00:11:19]  Is it starting to turn around?
[00:11:21]  It looks like it might be in Britain.
[00:11:23]  And what about Pratt in L.A. all of a sudden surging?
[00:11:26]  What do you think?
[00:11:27]  Yeah.
[00:11:28]  Well, I mean, I think that people who have.
[00:11:31]  Some iota of common sense understands that things need to change and that in order for something to change, you have to do things differently than the way that it's been done in the past.
[00:11:43]  And we're seeing that with Spencer Pratt rising up as a viable candidate for mayor in LA.
[00:11:51]  We saw that in an op ed a few days ago in the Wall Street Journal where Howard Schultz, the founder of Starbucks, who started this huge business in Seattle, was.
[00:12:01]  Was going up against the mayor of Seattle, who basically said bye bye to all the billionaires and businesses and basically is ushering them out of the city along with their dollars and the jobs.

=== Seattle Mayor vs Billionaires (14:48) ===

[00:12:14]  And I think that there is a good contingent of people who understand this, but there are still a lot of people who are completely decoupled from reality and they will listen.
[00:12:27]  They're desperate.
[00:12:28]  The economy is working for some people, it's not working for others.
[00:12:33]  As that hasn't been fixed, the desperate people will listen to anything and believe in anything because they don't have very much to lose.
[00:12:41]  In some cases, they don't have anything to lose.
[00:12:43]  And when people become desperate, they listen to stupid things.
[00:12:46]  Plus, as you know, there's a lot of people in on the grift, right?
[00:12:49]  There are a lot of people with their hands in the pockets of taxpayers through NGOs and teachers' unions and whatnot.
[00:12:57]  And so those people don't want to lose their stronghold.
[00:13:00]  But I'm hoping that common sense prevails.
[00:13:04]  I'm hoping we can address waste, fraud, and abuse.
[00:13:06]  I'm hoping that we can expose it all.
[00:13:08]  But technology may change, Mark, but human nature is undefeated.
[00:13:13]  And I think that's the one thing we can count on.
[00:13:15]  Well, Carol Roth, great talking to you.
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[00:13:23]  And Carol Roth, a follower on Twitter.
[00:13:25]  And thanks for being with us.
[00:13:27]  Always a pleasure.
[00:13:28]  All right, take care.
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[00:15:19]  H.C. Tiger Woods is back from rehab.
[00:15:22]  He got permission to go overseas, go to Europe to get rehab.
[00:15:25]  He chose Switzerland and he's been there a month.
[00:15:29]  Can you get cured?
[00:15:30]  I have not heard about this, actually.
[00:15:33]  Is this a true story?
[00:15:34]  Oh, yeah.
[00:15:35]  Yeah, he asked permission to do this rehab overseas.
[00:15:38]  He was in Switzerland.
[00:15:39]  He landed last night back one month.
[00:15:41]  Can you get total rehab in one month?
[00:15:43]  No, he's been suffering for a gajillion years.
[00:15:46]  Who drove him back from the airport?
[00:15:48]  I just want to know.
[00:15:48]  Well, yeah.
[00:15:49]  So he flew back, private jet.
[00:15:52]  He was seen coming back.
[00:15:55]  Now, he also lost a big court battle.
[00:15:58]  Prosecutors wanted his pharmacy records, his prescription records.
[00:16:02]  He was blocking that.
[00:16:05]  I don't know why.
[00:16:05]  I don't know what could be in there, but the court ruled in the prosecutor's favor.
[00:16:09]  They will have full access to his prescription records.
[00:16:12]  Now, one of the things they may be looking for, they kind of know what medications he was on, but they're going to look for what the pharma, you know, when you get a prescription, they give you the bottle and it has all these warnings on it.
[00:16:23]  So they're going to look at what the warnings are because many of these medications would have said.
[00:16:27]  I disagree.
[00:16:29]  That's not what they're looking for.
[00:16:30]  Well, it could be because the warnings would say, do not drive under this medication.
[00:16:34]  Do not drive.
[00:16:35]  So they'll use that against him.
[00:16:37]  What do you think they're looking for?
[00:16:38]  I think they're looking for the doctor shop.
[00:16:40]  They're looking for the doctors that are getting paid for the scripts because that's a really big thing.
[00:16:45]  Oh, okay.
[00:16:45]  That's what they're looking for.
[00:16:46]  That, too.
[00:16:47]  Well, that's interesting.
[00:16:49]  Hey, the other thing is Stephen Colbert, today's Thursday.
[00:16:53]  One week from tonight, he goes off the air.
[00:16:55]  Forever?
[00:16:56]  Yep.
[00:16:56]  Oh, it's great.
[00:16:57]  Thank God.
[00:16:58]  Best news all day.
[00:16:59]  But I'm watching this.
[00:17:01]  All the talk show hosts, the late night hosts, came together to honor him all in one stage, all on his show.
[00:17:08]  Jimmy Kimmel showed up, Jimmy Fallon showed up.
[00:17:10]  It was so weird.
[00:17:11]  Seth Meyers.
[00:17:12]  I didn't know that's why they were together.
[00:17:14]  Yeah, John Oliver, all there.
[00:17:15]  Now, first of all, the guy's been fired.
[00:17:18]  He's not quitting.
[00:17:20]  I don't know if the New York Times will tell you.
[00:17:22]  The Trump administration.
[00:17:24]  No, the Trump administration pressured CBS to fire him.
[00:17:27]  You didn't take a lot of pressure.
[00:17:28]  He's losing $40 million a year on that show.
[00:17:31]  So he got fired.
[00:17:32]  Have you ever seen everybody come together to celebrate you getting fired?
[00:17:35]  I mean, somebody leaves.
[00:17:38]  Don't you think and don't you feel?
[00:17:40]  I remember when he was on Comedy Central and he was pretending to be an anchor.
[00:17:45]  Yeah.
[00:17:45]  He was actually funny.
[00:17:47]  When he became an anchor, he sucked.
[00:17:49]  Yeah.
[00:17:50]  What happened?
[00:17:51]  Because it was cute.
[00:17:53]  Now he's an angry, vicious guy.
[00:17:55]  All these guys, you know, you watch Jimmy Fala, Fox News Channel, Saturday night, Greg Gutfeld.
[00:18:01]  They look like, I mean, it's a nice way.
[00:18:03]  They look like clowns.
[00:18:04]  They look like they're here to amuse you.
[00:18:05]  They look like they're funny.
[00:18:06]  Yeah, they take themselves very seriously over there at CBS and NBC and all the rest.
[00:18:11]  Yeah, Colbert, especially that Kimmel, they look like they want to choke you at any minute.
[00:18:14]  They look so vicious.
[00:18:16]  But I've never seen a celebration over a guy getting fired.
[00:18:19]  And this firing was announced months ago, eight months ago.
[00:18:23]  Have you seen anybody offer to hire him?
[00:18:25]  You've seen any network offer?
[00:18:27]  I actually forgot all about him.
[00:18:28]  I mean, I don't watch any of that crap anyway.
[00:18:30]  But I mean, honestly.
[00:18:32]  Yeah.
[00:18:32]  A week from tonight, they're gone.
[00:18:34]  Hey, by the way, you combine those five guys, their audience, still not close to what Gutfeld gets every night.
[00:18:39]  So, hey, we've got a lot to get to.
[00:18:41]  We'll talk to the greatest pollster in the world, John McLaughlin, coming up next.
[00:18:45]  What do the real numbers say?
[00:18:47]  And don't forget, tonight, big show, nine o'clock.
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[00:19:32]  Well, it's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
[00:19:35]  Normally, you can hear me on our big flagship station, W O R in New York, or on the iHeart app.
[00:19:40]  Now, when it comes to polls, you read all these polls in the news, you see them all on TV.
[00:19:45]  These are these public polls done by colleges, done by media.
[00:19:49]  They're the worst polls in the world.
[00:19:50]  They're usually a little rigged, a little fake.
[00:19:52]  They're cheap, flimsy little polls.
[00:19:55]  You know, a couple hundred people not carefully chosen.
[00:19:58]  But if you want the real polls, the one the candidates use, the best pollster in the world is John McLaughlin.
[00:20:04]  Now, these are very detailed, very scientific polls.
[00:20:08]  But again, it's mostly for the candidates.
[00:20:09]  You can check his website.
[00:20:10]  It's mclaughlinonline.com.
[00:20:13]  John McLaughlin, how are you doing?
[00:20:15]  Mark, thank you.
[00:20:16]  I'm doing well.
[00:20:17]  I'm happy because I didn't have to go to China.
[00:20:20]  I should point out he's the president's pollster.
[00:20:22]  He's the pollster for a lot of presidents, for prime ministers, for senators, for all sorts of people.
[00:20:28]  Now, if I watch MSNBC, apparently President Trump has the lowest approval ratings in the history of the world.
[00:20:35]  Is that true?
[00:20:37]  No, and we're being sandbagged again.
[00:20:39]  I mean, you and I, by the way, remember back in 2015, we were at Larry Kudlow's house.
[00:20:45]  Yeah.
[00:20:45]  You said, you think Trump could win?
[00:20:47]  I said he's going to win.
[00:20:48]  And you were like, really?
[00:20:50]  You said I thought so too, and you didn't even have a look at my polls.
[00:20:53]  Well, no, I thought so, but I wanted it from an expert.
[00:20:56]  I remember you said, I said, well, what about the unfavorability?
[00:21:02]  You said that can be turned around easily.
[00:21:04]  So what's the truth about his approval ratings?
[00:21:07]  But let me say, we're getting sandbagged because, for example, if you go to the Real Clear Politics Average where the media rates these polls and says these are the good ones, we'll put them on there.
[00:21:18]  There's an Economist YouGov poll on there today, and it was completed as of May 11th with the president's job approval.
[00:21:26]  And when you go into the poll, it'll have 1,549 adults.
[00:21:34]  Not likely voters, not off a voter list, but adults randomly called.
[00:21:38]  So you could have some illegal immigrants in there.
[00:21:41]  And when you look, what's good is they're transparent.
[00:21:44]  When you look on the president's job approval slide, which they have at only 41% and the 57% disapprove, they only have 541 Trump voters out of the 1549.
[00:21:58]  That's 35%.
[00:22:00]  They have 610 Harris voters.
[00:22:03]  Well, that's 39%.
[00:22:05]  But Trump got 50% of the popular vote.
[00:22:08]  And they're saying that this is really bad for the midterms.
[00:22:11]  Well, sure, it's really bad for the midterms because you're underpolling Trump voters again.
[00:22:15]  And a week ago, you had a Washington Post poll that was done for the Ipsos panel where they invite people in their panel.
[00:22:23]  So it's like the liberal Christmas card list.
[00:22:26]  And they only had 29% Trump voters on it.
[00:22:30]  And I'm like, I told him, you know, I did speak to the president about it.
[00:22:34]  I said, they're sandbagging us again.
[00:22:37]  And my last poll that we published, we published a monthly poll.
[00:22:40]  And on April 15th, we had 49% approved, 46% disapproved.
[00:22:45]  And we asked it the way we asked it in the campaign: where do you approve of Trump and his personality, his policies?
[00:22:52]  And we had like 34% said yes, and they approved of that.
[00:22:57]  Another 15% just his policies.
[00:22:59]  I don't know why they don't like his personality as much.
[00:23:01]  So that other 15% brings it up to 49%, and 46% disapproved of both.
[00:23:06]  But that's what we did in the campaign because we raised his job approval.
[00:23:10]  Comparing his job to Biden's job to 57% on election day against Harris, too.
[00:23:16]  We compared it to Harris.
[00:23:18]  So we had a 57 job pool, and we had a 51% favorable, and we won 50% of the national popular vote, and we swept the battleground states.
[00:23:29]  And there were 155 million people who came out and voted, of which 77 million voted for Trump.
[00:23:34]  So it can be done.
[00:23:36]  And right now, we're not where we should be.
[00:23:38]  If we want to win the midterms, we have to raise it hard because in that same poll I'm referring to, our poll that we did among 1,000 likely voters, modeled after national trend, the Republicans were trailing by four points, 47-43.
[00:23:51]  So, the Republicans for Congress in a generic ballot aren't at the level that Trump's at, and Trump could be at a higher level.
[00:24:01]  So, we've got work to do.
[00:24:02]  It's not as dire as the media.
[00:24:06]  Because remember, they sandbagged us in 2016, there was a Hillary lock.
[00:24:11]  No way Trump could win.
[00:24:13]  They had all the fireworks down at the convention center, the Javits Convention Center.
[00:24:17]  They were all set to celebrate the Hillary lock.
[00:24:20]  And I'm running around on Election Day on Sean Hannity's radio show with Linda.
[00:24:24]  Linda's with you.
[00:24:25]  We were watching the results that night.
[00:24:26]  I'm saying, no, it's going to be close.
[00:24:27]  We're going to win.
[00:24:29]  Fortunately, God let us win.
[00:24:33]  But we were saying we could win a close race and don't believe the polls and go vote and then count votes.
[00:24:41]  And I was counting the votes in Sean's studio that night.
[00:24:45]  And we were telling President Trump, go over to Hilton and get ready to do a victory speech.
[00:24:53]  And I remember Steve Bannon saying to me, well, it's not just that easy.
[00:24:57]  I said, I said, you got to move them.
[00:24:59]  He says, well, the Secret Service, all this stuff.
[00:25:01]  I said, you got to do it.
[00:25:02]  Otherwise, they'll steal the election before the sun comes up.
[00:25:05]  You got to declare victory.
[00:25:08]  In 2020, they got away with stealing it.
[00:25:10]  And in 2024, it was just a knockout.
[00:25:14]  Because remember, they were again, there were a lot of polls that said it was going to be Kamala Harris that was going to win.
[00:25:20]  And fortunately, President Trump ran a tremendous campaign and he made his pollsters look good.
[00:25:28]  Speaking of Kamala Harris, let's take a look.
[00:25:30]  Let's take a listen.
[00:25:32]  John McLaughlin, listen to Cut Nine.
[00:25:33]  Take a listen to this.
[00:25:34]  This is a moment where there are no bad ideas.
[00:25:37]  A no bad idea brainstorm is what I'd like to call it.
[00:25:40]  And in that no bad ideas brainstorm, we talk about what we need to do and think about doing around the Electoral College.
[00:25:50]  We talk about the idea of Supreme Court reform, which includes expanding the Supreme Court.
[00:25:57]  We invite a conversation about multi members districts.
[00:26:01]  We talk about Look, that if we win the Senate, which we should and we will, then the Senate Judiciary Committee should have rules that they put in place.
[00:26:12]  So when these people come before as nominees to the Supreme Court and lie, that they are held to account and consequence, not just that somebody goes on cable news and says they lied, but that there are rules in place to actually penalize people for lying to a Senate Judiciary Committee.
[00:26:33]  That we agree that it is right to have ethics rules for Supreme Court justices.
[00:26:40]  And let's put those in place.
[00:26:42]  Let's talk about statehood for Puerto Rico and DC.
[00:26:46]  These are the things I think that we've got to do.
[00:26:49]  We've got to neutralize these red states from cheating, including blue states expanding their maps.
[00:26:57]  And all of this, I think, is look, we got to fight fire with fire.

=== Bruce Blakeman and Higher Taxes (06:42) ===

[00:27:02]  These folks are playing to win.
[00:27:04]  We got to play to win too.
[00:27:05]  John McLaughlin, what is this bird brain talking about?
[00:27:10]  She's the Constitution for her is just an option.
[00:27:13]  She's talking about overturning the Electoral College, which would undermine the whole concept of federal government.
[00:27:22]  She's talking about undermining the Supreme Court, which was, again, part of the Constitution.
[00:27:29]  So she's dangerous.
[00:27:30]  And by the way, she is in that April poll.
[00:27:32]  I said nationally when we asked Democrats and independents who vote in Democrat primaries nationally, now it's not a national primary, she was the front runner, 29%, Newsom 15%, Judge 10.
[00:27:43]  Yeah.
[00:27:45]  Hi.
[00:27:45]  So she makes a lot of sense to a lot of these radicals in her party.
[00:27:49]  And to them, they ran on defending democracy.
[00:27:52]  And they're the ones who tried to put Trump in jail, you know, just made up charges, made up, you know, they tried everything to knock him off the ballot, take away his civil rights.
[00:28:02]  And they're the ones in New York, Kathy Hochel, Governor Hochel, she's the one in 24 that after in 22, we won 11, when a judge drew fair lines, we won 11 out of the 26 congressional races for Republicans.
[00:28:15]  She redoed them, of course.
[00:28:17]  Cost us a seat in Syracuse, hurt us with Anthony D'Espozito, helped Tom Swazi win his seat.
[00:28:23]  She redrew the lines in 24 and ignored statewide referendums.
[00:28:28]  That's why, I mean, she's, you know, I mean, Bruce Blakeman is really poised to beat her.
[00:28:33]  And the last time we polled, we had him within nine points.
[00:28:37]  And now she's basically, she gave away billions of dollars from our state budget to bail out Mandami in the city to balance his budget with gimmicks and one shots.
[00:28:49]  But we're, You know, they, they, Mondani and Hochul made a deal, and we're all going to end up paying for it.
[00:28:54]  So, uh, so Bruce will, Bruce will be the person that, you know, he'll, he'll tell the taxpayers and, you know, what's going on.
[00:29:01]  It's the only way to, for those of us who are left in New York, it's the only way to keep us here.
[00:29:05]  Well, we hope Bruce Blakeman wins.
[00:29:07]  What is this phenomenon?
[00:29:08]  Who are these voters?
[00:29:09]  Where did they come from?
[00:29:10]  These voters that would vote for a guy who, like Mondani, who's never had a job, just a kid who's never had a job, never worked.
[00:29:17]  How does, what kind of voters are these?
[00:29:21]  Well, they're socialists, and as Newt Gingrich calls them, big government socialists.
[00:29:26]  And what they favor big government, they don't.
[00:29:31]  You think about it, there's a lot of voters today that were born after the Berlin Wall came down.
[00:29:35]  They don't have any idea what communism is about, Marxism is about.
[00:29:39]  You know, they think socialism is like Sweden.
[00:29:42]  But now they're going to see because a lot of them in New York are going to lose good jobs.
[00:29:48]  When somebody like Ken Griffin says, I'm not going to expand in New York.
[00:29:52]  I'm going to move more jobs.
[00:29:53]  And they've been moving jobs to all these big banks and big firms where they pay good six-figure jobs.
[00:30:01]  They've been moving their jobs quietly to Florida, Palm Beach, to Dallas, Texas.
[00:30:07]  They're going to states where there's zero state income tax.
[00:30:11]  And they're avoiding states like New York where they're thinking of taxes on top of taxes, second homes.
[00:30:17]  I mean, they really, Mondani proposed raising property taxes by 10% on every New York City homeowner.
[00:30:24]  Because he's a socialist.
[00:30:26]  He doesn't believe in homeowners' ownership.
[00:30:28]  So, you know, it's going to take some painful time for the New York voters to realize this.
[00:30:34]  But he's, you know, fortunately the city council stopped his plan to raise property taxes on homeowners.
[00:30:42]  So I think George Will once said, you've got to do this every 25 years.
[00:30:46]  You have to have a socialist experiment so that people could be reminded how bad it is.
[00:30:51]  But is there, this stuff goes in cycles.
[00:30:54]  Is there a point where this cycle ends and we go back to sane, rational, People in government?
[00:31:00]  I hope this November because it's not just Mandami, but you've got, I mean, they're all coming out of Brooklyn.
[00:31:07]  You've got King Jeffries, could be the Speaker of the House.
[00:31:10]  Think of what he opposes.
[00:31:12]  You know, he's in favor of letting non-citizens vote.
[00:31:14]  He's in favor of no voter ID.
[00:31:17]  He's in favor of higher taxes.
[00:31:19]  When they voted against the Trump tax cuts, he voted for higher taxes, about $2,000 for every American.
[00:31:28]  Same with Chuck Schumer.
[00:31:28]  Chuck Schumer, the last national poll I had with his name in it, he had a 27 favorable, 50 unfavorable.
[00:31:34]  In New York State, he could not win a primary against AOC.
[00:31:38]  He beat him by like 20 points.
[00:31:40]  So it goes from bad to worse.
[00:31:43]  Does AOC have any shot nationally?
[00:31:46]  I may be here in crazy New York.
[00:31:47]  Does she have any shot nationally to run for president?
[00:31:51]  She could, but she's got to run.
[00:31:53]  She's got to make a decision that she would give up the safe House seat and run, where it's too bad for the people in the Bronx and Queens.
[00:32:01]  But she has 4% in my last national poll, but there's been other polls where she does better.
[00:32:07]  So it depends upon how many people you put in the field.
[00:32:09]  But after November, it'll be a free for all.
[00:32:12]  There'll be a ton of socialists and Democrats running.
[00:32:16]  I mean, look.
[00:32:16]  Look, I mean, in New York, you've got Huckel.
[00:32:18]  She's bending to the left because she's afraid of Mundami and the socialists, and they may not come out for her.
[00:32:25]  But it's making Bruce Blakeman stronger.
[00:32:27]  And look at California.
[00:32:30]  You've got Steve Hilton as a front runner.
[00:32:32]  But the scary part is when there were too many Democrats splitting up the vote because they've changed the rules there to have.
[00:32:38]  I used to work for Arnold out there in the recall and re election, but that was 20 years ago.
[00:32:44]  But they've changed the rules that you have a.
[00:32:47]  It's an open primary.
[00:32:49]  So that if.
[00:32:51]  You know, so that they were hoping that the Republicans could never win.
[00:32:55]  But when Steve Hilton was the frontrunner, all of a sudden they turned on Swallow because they didn't want a bunch of Democrats to vote.
[00:33:03]  So they got rid of him.
[00:33:04]  And now Becerra's moving up.
[00:33:06]  Becerra's crazy.
[00:33:07]  He's an open borders guy.
[00:33:08]  I mean, no point in going broke because they're paying for health care for illegal immigrants.
[00:33:13]  And they can't even afford to rebuild the homes for those people that lost in the Palisades Fire because they.
[00:33:22]  They didn't have water in the fire and stuff.
[00:33:26]  It was just terrible.
[00:33:27]  Well, John McLaughlin, the world's greatest pollster.
[00:33:30]  Go to his website, McLaughlinOnline.com.
[00:33:33]  John McLaughlin, keep up the good work.
[00:33:34]  Let's get Bruce Blakeman elected governor of New York.
[00:33:37]  That's very important.
[00:33:38]  And let's hope for the midterms.
[00:33:40]  John McLaughlin, thanks for being with us.
[00:33:42]  You're doing a great job.
[00:33:43]  Thank you, Mark.
[00:33:44]  All right.

=== Exclusive Trump Interview Preview (02:29) ===

[00:33:45]  Take care.
[00:33:45]  Hey, tonight, make sure you watch Hannity, 9 o'clock Fox News Channel.
[00:33:50]  Big exclusive interview with President Trump.
[00:33:53]  Where he'll talk at length about the summit.
[00:33:55]  He also did an exclusive interview with Marco Rubio.
[00:33:58]  We'll hear that in a few minutes on The Sean Hannity Show.
[00:34:08]  Hannity Watch, keeping an eye on Chuck and Nancy and their minions.
[00:34:17]  Hey, it's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
[00:34:43]  We got a lot coming up in the next hour.
[00:34:45]  Now, Sean is on the trip to China with President Trump and all those guys.
[00:34:50]  He rode over on Air Force One and did a big exclusive interview with Marco Rubio.
[00:34:56]  We'll play that in the next hour.
[00:34:58]  You'll get to hear that.
[00:34:59]  And then, right after the summit was over, Sean Hannity, big exclusive interview with President Trump.
[00:35:06]  You can watch it tonight.
[00:35:07]  It's the whole hour.
[00:35:08]  It's Hannity on the Fox News Channel.
[00:35:11]  Tonight at 9, you'll see this great big interview with President Trump.
[00:35:15]  And we'll play some of it for you tomorrow on the radio.
[00:35:18]  And Sean will be back on Monday.
[00:35:21]  Talk about jet lag.
[00:35:22]  It's like, what is it?
[00:35:23]  It's like a 13-hour time difference.
[00:35:26]  That's some jet lag.
[00:35:27]  So be listening on Monday to see if he's recovered yet.
[00:35:32]  He might be calling you, Mark.
[00:35:34]  I don't know.
[00:35:34]  Uh-oh.
[00:35:35]  Uh-oh.
[00:35:35]  I didn't think of that.
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