December 18, 2025 • 31 mins
Guest host Greg Jarrett sits down with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to break down President Trump’s Oval Office address and what it signals for the economy, voters, and the 2026 elections. They discuss falling inflation, lower gas and mortgage costs, rising real wages, and why clear, fact-driven messaging matters as Americans continue to feel the aftereffects of the Biden economy. Gingrich outlines where Republicans must lead with solutions—healthcare affordability, energy, education, corruption, and crime—while contrasting that agenda with Democratic messaging. The conversation expands to America’s future, exploring whether innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship could usher in a new golden age, alongside a look at national security and the administration’s newly released strategy.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show. I'm Greg Jarrett
filling in for Sean today and tomorrow. You may have
noticed the President's Oval office addressed to the nation last
night in which he essentially said, I inherited a mess
from Joe Biden, and I'm fixing it, And he basically
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gave a report card of his first eleven months in office.
Inflation down, gas prices way down, the deficit is down,
and wages are up. Real wages are up by over
one thousand dollars on average, thirteen hundred for factory workers,
eighteen hundred for construction workers, thirty three hundred for minors,
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and the gas prices in some states under two dollars
per gallon. Mortgage costs are down by almost three thousand
dollars on the year, and core inflation is the lowest
in five years. So you know, it was a pretty
good report card, and in fact, it's a resume of
a first year that most American presidents would prize. Let's
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talk about it with Nuke Ingridge, former Speaker of the House,
author of the New York Times bestseller Trump's Triumph America's
Greatest Comeback, and the Speaker discusses the president's outreach to
the American people on the issues that matter most to them,
and mister speaker, it's always an honor and a pleasure
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to get to spend a little time with you talking
about these things. And you know, people vote their wallets, right,
they're self interested.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
And so when they step into the voting booth, they
say to themselves, good lord. Nine percent inflation under Joe Biden,
it was pretty good. In Trump's first term. I'm going
to cast my ballot for Donald Trump and he won.
And so, you know, the economy is always first and foremost,
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it seems to me. So is this a good idea
for the president not just to address the nation from
the White House, but to go out on the road.
I spoke with him a couple of weeks ago, and
he said, I need to get the message out that
things are improving.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
What do you think.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Well, I thought, first of all that it was a
very good speech to the country, and sat through many
Ronald Reagan, all the offstagressess and I thought this was
certainly in that tradition. It was twenty minutes, which was
exactly right. It was filled with facts, it used charts
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and illustrations to drive home the key points.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
And I thought, on balance it was his one of.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
President Trump's more affecting speeches, and it set the stage
for what the twenty twenty sixth election is going to
be all about. So you can sort of tell how
affective and how important it was from the degree to
which the propaganda media.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Is trying to avoid covering. I mean, this was a very.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Important speech, and frankly, I hope it is a forerunner,
unlike the ninety minute speech, which I thought was not
helpful that he gave in Pennsylvania. If this twenty minute
speech could be the beginning of very directed, very focused,
this is where we're going, and this is why it matters,
and this is what the choice is. I think the
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Republicans will gain seats in the House and the Senate.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I think it's all about messaging, getting the word out,
as you say, with the facts, as he did last night,
because you know, look, he sees the poll numbers that
reflect an anxiety that afflict Americans over affordability in the economy,
and I think, do you think that this is sort
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of of you know, Joe Biden economic hangover that you know,
people are still suffering from, you know, four years in
which the economy largely tanked under Joe Biden. And you know,
the economies like an aircraft carrier, doesn't turn on a dime.
It takes a while for Trump's new policies to really
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settle in and make a difference.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Well, I think that's why.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
But I also think Republicans need to understand that we
have to have, with the.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
State of the Union and with the Congress of the
next year, a series of powerful reform proposals to keep
moving in the right direction. I mean, the fact is,
when you talk about affordability, food and gasoline are less
important than healthcare. An average family of four now pays
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twenty seven thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
For health Insuran.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Deal with that. Twenty seven thousand dollars for family of four,
that's buying a small car every year. And there are
things we can do, such as passing a transparency law
to require that people list quiet price and quality, which
would overnight bring down the cost of healthcare dramatically, and
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that would bring down the cost of health insurance. But
there's just one example. The number of areas on electricity,
for example, on housing for young people in a number
of places where we need to be the party of
solutions and then let the Democrats be the party of
negativity and weird ideas.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
You know, I follow you on social media and I
noticed a recent posting in the context of the upcoming
celebration of our two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, and you
said we should spend the entire year on three large questions.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Well, I think, first of all, who are we How
do we come together as the people? You know, we
cannot keep going down this road and we've been on. Second,
how do we really fundamentally re educate the country? I
mean the disaster and that public education is so great
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and we're still not addressing it. And then third, I
think that we have got to get control of corruption
and criming. When you realize that the President referred this
last night, which I thought was encouraging, When you realize
that in one city in Minneapolis, a billion dollars has
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been stolen, that's the level of corruption is just unsustainable.
In California, during COVID, the criminal serving time in the
California prison system stole twenty billion.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Dollars from the California.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
COVID fund, musing ironically, the state of California's own prison
and computer systems to engage in identity thicks. So I
think people would be stunned if they knew how deep
the problem of corruption is.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
You pose an interesting question on social media, and I'll
simply repeat it here and let you respond. Can we
achieve a golden age in which technology and entrepreneurship create
new opportunities and solve old problems on a scale none
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of us could have imagined. I think that's a great question,
and you know, I sort of search for answers myself.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
What's your answer, Well, look at the history of America,
going back to Benjamin Franklin, who is a world class
scientist who discovered practical use of electricity, and going back
to George Washington, who, by the way, was a very
good farmer and was engaged in what we would now
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think of as scientistic agriculture. This country has had a
deep passion for inventing a better future and for.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Recognizing that science and.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Technology and engineering and entrepreneurship are the keys to.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Raising the standard wealth for everybody.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
And I think that.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
We really are right at the edge of a golden age.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
And I think that this isn't just political language. But
we do a lot of work at the English three
sixty on longevity, and there are now serious scientists places
like the Cleveland Clinic who believe that people who are
twenty years old today are going to live to be
about one hundred and twenty and they're going to have
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the health of a sixty year old when one hundred
and twenty. These are serious people whose are not just
guys that are trying to do tv as and every
old time I turned around. I just talked two nights
ago to one of the people at SpaceX about their
plan in February to have the next trial launch of
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their large rocket, which will take people to both the
Moon and Mars. Uh. These are breakouts on a scale
you and I can't imagine. I met last night with
somebody who has a serious plan for developing a solar
power system based on a satellite that gets sung like
twenty four hours a day and beams it down to
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Earth at a cost that's about competitive with natural gas.
I mean all of these things that so many inventions,
so many new ideas, so many breakthroughs that I'm very encouraged.
I worry about nuclear war because they would have everything
as we've known it, And I worry about the Left
managing to destroy the system in the same way that,
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for example, the crippled Argentina for about eighty years, and
it's just now. Argentine is just now beginning to recover
from a disaster that occur in the nineteen forties.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yeah, it's funny you mentioned the twenty year olds now
will live to be one hundred and twenty and feel
like sixty. My daughter is in the healthcare industry. Last
night over dinner told me that, and as first I
heard of it. It's funny that you would mention it again.
But your concerns about I think national security are important,
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and to that point, the White House just released their
National Security Strategies NSS. It's a document it's generally released
once per presidential term, and it serves as a formal
explanation of the administration's foreign policy worldview. I know you've
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read it. What did you think of it?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Well, I think it's overdue, and it recognizes that the
world of the Cold War is over, that the world
where the Europeans could hide behind us and lean on
us and drain our economic strength is over, and that
we have to face a whole.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Series of challenges, and we have to recognize that there's.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
No single center of power around which you could organize
the whole planet. And therefore we have to start by
being concerned about safety for the United States, safety for
the American people. Trade policies that favor America, then there's
nothing wrong with us. I mean, as Trump has said
in several speeches, he fully expects everybody else to also
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try to get.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Policies that pay for their country.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
He's not saying that everybody else should automatically give us
what we want, but at least we should negotiate for
what we want.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Absolutely, it's worth reading. You can find it online the
White House National Security Strategy, the President's document, and it
makes for interesting and reading New King Rich many thanks again.
And by the way, your book, Trump's Triumph is also
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something that is really worth reading and enlightening. And thank
you for taking a few moments to speak with us.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Well, I'm glad to talk to you, and I wish
you a very.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Merry Christmas and you too, thank you.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
We're gonna pause, take a break. We have a bunch
of people on the line right now.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
And we'll be going.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
To your phone calls in just a minute. Give us
a call. It's one eight hundred nine four one seventy
three twenty six one eight hundred and nine four one.
Sean love to hear from you. You can tell me
I'm doing a great job, or you can yell at
me for being an idiot. I don't care. Thank you
very much. We'll be right back in testimony. Good Welcome
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back to the Sean Hennaedy Show on Greg Jared substituting
for Sean, who's off today and tomorrow. I'll be here
tomorrow as well. Let's go to our phone lines. Greg
in Florida is standing by Greg.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
How are you.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
Oh, I'm doing great. I'm actually on the road. So
I've been listening to you and I've found comments on
the show about the conspiracy to be extremely interesting. But
you'll miss one thing about the conspiracy theory that one
of the main entities involved in this conspiracy theory is
the media.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
I cannot believe that the media accidentally published a lot
of what they were saying about all this stuff about
Hillary and Comy and whatnot. They knew that what they
were reporting was false and reported it anyway. In fact,
they got awards for reporting what they knew to be
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false information. And they need to be considered as part
of this conspiracy because they were part im parcel with
trying to do a change at the White House.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Well, I agree with you that they are complicit, and
in fact, I devoted an entire chapter to the journalistic
malpractice of the media in my book, which hunt and
I think that was the longest chapter of all. They're complicit, Yes,
they lied to the American public. They were lazy. They
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wanted to believe that Trump had conspired with Vladimir Putin
in the bowels of the Kremlin to steal the election.
They didn't bother to investigate the dossier, which was totally phony.
They simply took it at face value. I mean, the
first time I read the dossier, I laughed out loud.
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I walked into Sean's office next to mine and said,
you got to read this thing. It's the dumbest thing
you've ever read. It looks it was written by a
junior high school wanna be fiction writer, bereft of any talent.
And you know, so the media ran with it because
they hated Trump. But you know, they have First Amendment protections.
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I'm not sure that they there's any proof that they
were involved in any illegal activity associated with it, but
you're right they ought to be condemned, particularly since they
didn't give back their Pilazer prizes for getting the story
fundamentally wrong. More of your phone calls on the other side,
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give us a call one eight hundred and ninety four,
one seventy three, twenty six and welcome back to the
Sean Hannity Show. Shawn's taking a couple of days off.
I'm filling in today and tomorrow. I'm Greg Jarrett. You
can follow me on x at greg Jarrett or at
foxnews dot com, where I write columns and of course
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appear on television shows as their legal analyst. I want
to go to our phone lines now. I ask some
people standing by, and if you haven't called yet, please
do one eight hundred and nine four one seven three
two six, one eight hundred ninety four to one. Sean,
We welcome your phone calls. All right, Duke joins us
(16:22):
now from Texas. Duke, you've been hanging on for a while.
Thanks so much for your patience.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
How are you I am doing well.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Thank you. First of all, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Uh you too.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
You have me to be succinct, so my question. But
I do want to say that the last three people
you've had on as a guest or some of my
favorite people in the world. But anyway, thank you. You
mentioned like thirty five million dollars that President Trump has
probably spent on as bits of all these what charge
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is brought against him? Now he's a billionaire and he
can possibly afford it, But I want to know does
he get any of that money back when he's found
not guilty, innocent, whatever, And if he doesn't, how does
a normal, everyday American citizen protect himself against something like that.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Yeah, it's pretty hard, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
He is trying to recoup some of it. In some
of the cases he's filed a petition for reimbursement.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
The Florida case was dismissed by the judge because Jack
Smith had not been sentate confirmed as the law requires.
Of course, the government was back then under Biden, appealing that,
and then jack Smith, after the immunity ruling through in
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the towel as he did in the Washington, DC case,
both of which should never have been brought. Of course,
you've got the Alvin Bragg conviction which is on appeal,
which was probably the most ludicrous mangling of the law
by a prosecutor that I have ever seen, and that
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must surely be overturned on appeal. And of course Fanie
Willis and her lover imploded and the case was taken
away from her. They couldn't find another prosecutor who thought
the charges were worth a damn.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
And that was dismissed by.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
A prosecutor who took it over and said, this was
never a racketeering case. It shouldn't have been brought. And
so you know, there were a lot of costs associated
with that case. There may be an attempt by Trump
and his legal team to recover their attorney's fees and
other expenses associated with it. But you know, you're right,
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Trump can afford it. Other people cannot, and you know
it's truly a problem. But thanks Duke for your your question.
I appreciate it. Let's go to our next caller, j
Is in New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Hi, J how are you?
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Hey?
Speaker 8 (19:12):
Greg? I really appreciate you taking my call and I
think you're doing a great job.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (19:17):
I got a question, Well, it's I guess it's a
question and a statement. You know, I think Trump's doing
a great job on the affordability thing, and I think
he's doing his part. But I don't see the Republicans
putting out surveys and information showing how from state to
state people have more I guess, spendable money because the
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state's not taking it and using it for crazy things
and corruption and you know, illegal health care and all
that stuff. So if somebody did a comparison to people,
and let's say Florida or Texas compared to California and
New York, the people that are complaining the most and
show that they're not doing their because they keep electing
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in these Democrats that are taking you know, probably twenty
percent more of their money than they would be if
they lived in Florida or Texas or Alaska or some
other good state that has you know, very low to
no state income tax and low real estate tax and
tax on gasoline. I think in California it's like eighty
cents a gallon. Now, So you know, quit your complain
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and then do something about it. Right, Let Trump take
care of the Fed stuff, but let the Republicans get
out this other information because Trump can't do it, because
they'll just sound like he's whining. But we got to
win these midterms and people are making bad decisions and
I don't see him changing.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Now you make a valid point and a good argument.
You know, inflation is down, gas rises are down, deficits down,
wages are up. The problem is that it's not necessarily
true in blue states where you know, experts say the
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affordability crisis in America is caused in large part by
the policies of liberal Democrats in blue cities and blue states.
For example, they often price homes out of the reach
of every day Americans with their onor as zoning regulations,
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and they have kept thousands, for example, of victims of
the Palisades fires from ever building again on the property
they own. And you mentioned gas prices, Well, look in California,
you know, Gavin Newsom and Democrats that control the government
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there have been for so long hostile to petroleum companies.
And in fact, two of the largest refineeries in California
are shutting down and leaving because they've said, we've gaven
news and we've had enough of you. You make it
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impossible for us to produce here. And to refine, and
so they're leaving. So what's going to happen. Well, California
buys most of its gasoline and natural gas from foreign countries,
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for example Brazil, and of course the cost is enormous.
And then on top of the extra costs of importing that,
which is stupid because America is energy rich, they add
on taxes, you know, Green New Deal taxes. They tax
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every gallon of gasoline through the roof and so whereas
in some place in the United States and in red cities,
in red States, it's under two dollars a gallon, and
on California it's double that. And so is it any
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wonder that in polling data people are still fretting about affordability.
I think, you know, Trump can't control California and what
they do there, but voters can. And you know, there's
an election coming up for a new governor, and we'll
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wait and see whether voters have finally had enough. It's
got to our next caller. Dean has been standing by
from the great state of Florida.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Hi Dean, how are you?
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Hey?
Speaker 9 (23:45):
D hey great, A big fan of yours. One thing
I want to really thank you and John Solomon for
is that information about Trump and the ag going after
all those people that took us all rights away. I mean,
if he doesn't go after these people, the next time
of Democrats in office, they're going to do the same
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thing to the next person. And we've got to put
a stop to it. And then number two, these district
judges that keep putting injunctions against Trump's orders. I mean,
Congress needs to go or work and start impeaching these guys.
And because we'll never he'll never get anything done. Number Three,
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the philibuster actually needs to go away, because Trump's going
to be you know, his hands are going to be
tied and nothing's going to get done. And that's all
I can tell you. I appreciate you taking my time.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Well, Thankstein, and listen, I agree with you on all
those points. The filibuster, which is not in the constitutions,
simply a rule enacted by the United States Senate, and
it has been so destructive in preventing a lot of
good policies from moving forward into law. And you're going
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to have sixty votes, and you know that means with
the current makeup, you know you've got to get seven
Democrats to join with you. And the other corollary to
that is the idiotic blue slips, in which the president
cannot appoint his US attorney or a federal judge without
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permission from the senators in that state. So for Trump,
if he wants to appoint somebody in a liberal state
is actually a conservative, he's prevented from doing that. Totally
undermines the power of appointment of the president in the Constitution,
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and that needs to be getting rid of. As for
the nationwide injunctions, I was happy to see the United
States Supreme Courts finally and belatedly ending the abusive practice
by federal district court judges of handing out like lollipops,
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nationwide injunctions that had blocked Trump's policies.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
They have no authority for that.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Their sole jurisdiction is within their tiny district. But you know,
you got three hundred plus judges who decide they're the
facto presidents that they can overrule the duly elected president
of the United States on anything and everything, and they
were doing it increasingly in the age of Trump, and
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you know, it's the kind of thing that absolutely needed
to stop. And finally, the Supreme Court, after bitching and
moaning about it for decades, finally decided to take action.
And it was only because the Supreme Court had been
inundated with so many of the shadow dock had emergency
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appeals over these nationwide injunctions, that they finally took a
look at it and said among themselves, we've got to
stop this. And they only did it for their own
self interest to reduce the shadow docket, but they finally
did the right thing. Let me go to the next caller.
Gene is standing by out in my home state of
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California Hygiene.
Speaker 10 (27:22):
How are you hi, Greg, Thanks for taking my call. Sure,
I got one question for you, well real quick. Thank
you for having John on. I got to hear both
of you today and that's fantastic. I love what you
guys share with the thank you. The other question is
can or will there be a way to sue my
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favorite governor here, Slick Willie, against for allowing all the
illegal aliens with driver's license in those trucks or will
it just be those who got injured by the ones
that crashed and brought it to everybody's detention because he
put everybody's life in jeopardy in the state of California,
and he also put all the lives of the rest
of Americans, you know, with these truckers on the roads
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that can't even read our signs guide so whatever.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Right, and people have lost their lives, been killed, were
horrifically injured by people who should never have been given
driver's license, causing these massive truck or accidents. And I
think a creative case could be made that the government
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was complicit and instrumental in knowingly giving people who are
not qualified, who.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Are not.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
You know, residents who are here illegally giving them driver's license.
And yeah, I mean I think you could. I'd have
to study a little bit and come up with some
causes of action. And of course you've you've always got
to get around the immunity that governments have, but you
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know there are ways to get around it and the
Torque Claims Act and other legal devices. So yeah, I mean,
I think it's a good idea, and maybe somebody will
do that.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
There are a lot of.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Creative lawyers out there who could probably come up with
a pretty formidable case against the governor of California and
those people who have been handing out these driver's licenses
to people who are not qualified and who are in
the state illegally. Let's go to our next caller. Frank
joins us from New York. I'm told we've got to
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take a break, so Frank standby will be getting to
you shortly. I'm Greg Jared filling in for Sean Hannity
on the Sean.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Hannity Radio Show.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show. On Greg Jarrett
filling in for Sean. Want to invite you to give
us a call. We're going to take a lot of
your phone call in the next hour and our number
is one eight hundred nine four one seventy three twenty
six one eight hundred nine four one Sean. Give a call,
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tell us to what you're thinking, your comments, your questions.
We've been talking a lot about the President's speech last
night on the economy and so called affordability. We also
talked about the ongoing criminal conspiracy that may result in
criminal charges in the new year against people who engaged
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in lawfare against Trump. And in just a moment, Jason Chafitz,
former member of Congress and Fox News political analyst, will
be joining us to talk about the appalling number of
anti Semitic attacks around the nation and the world. I'm
Greg Jarrett. Give us a call one eight hundred nine
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four one see twenty six
Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show. I'm Greg Jarrett
filling in for Sean today and tomorrow. You may have
noticed the President's Oval office addressed to the nation last
night in which he essentially said, I inherited a mess
from Joe Biden, and I'm fixing it, And he basically
(00:23):
gave a report card of his first eleven months in office.
Inflation down, gas prices way down, the deficit is down,
and wages are up. Real wages are up by over
one thousand dollars on average, thirteen hundred for factory workers,
eighteen hundred for construction workers, thirty three hundred for minors,
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and the gas prices in some states under two dollars
per gallon. Mortgage costs are down by almost three thousand
dollars on the year, and core inflation is the lowest
in five years. So you know, it was a pretty
good report card, and in fact, it's a resume of
a first year that most American presidents would prize. Let's
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talk about it with Nuke Ingridge, former Speaker of the House,
author of the New York Times bestseller Trump's Triumph America's
Greatest Comeback, and the Speaker discusses the president's outreach to
the American people on the issues that matter most to them,
and mister speaker, it's always an honor and a pleasure
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to get to spend a little time with you talking
about these things. And you know, people vote their wallets, right,
they're self interested.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
And so when they step into the voting booth, they
say to themselves, good lord. Nine percent inflation under Joe Biden,
it was pretty good. In Trump's first term. I'm going
to cast my ballot for Donald Trump and he won.
And so, you know, the economy is always first and foremost,
(02:05):
it seems to me. So is this a good idea
for the president not just to address the nation from
the White House, but to go out on the road.
I spoke with him a couple of weeks ago, and
he said, I need to get the message out that
things are improving.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
What do you think.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Well, I thought, first of all that it was a
very good speech to the country, and sat through many
Ronald Reagan, all the offstagressess and I thought this was
certainly in that tradition. It was twenty minutes, which was
exactly right. It was filled with facts, it used charts
(02:43):
and illustrations to drive home the key points.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
And I thought, on balance it was his one of.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
President Trump's more affecting speeches, and it set the stage
for what the twenty twenty sixth election is going to
be all about. So you can sort of tell how
affective and how important it was from the degree to
which the propaganda media.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Is trying to avoid covering. I mean, this was a very.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Important speech, and frankly, I hope it is a forerunner,
unlike the ninety minute speech, which I thought was not
helpful that he gave in Pennsylvania. If this twenty minute
speech could be the beginning of very directed, very focused,
this is where we're going, and this is why it matters,
and this is what the choice is. I think the
(03:34):
Republicans will gain seats in the House and the Senate.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I think it's all about messaging, getting the word out,
as you say, with the facts, as he did last night,
because you know, look, he sees the poll numbers that
reflect an anxiety that afflict Americans over affordability in the economy,
and I think, do you think that this is sort
(03:59):
of of you know, Joe Biden economic hangover that you know,
people are still suffering from, you know, four years in
which the economy largely tanked under Joe Biden. And you know,
the economies like an aircraft carrier, doesn't turn on a dime.
It takes a while for Trump's new policies to really
(04:22):
settle in and make a difference.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Well, I think that's why.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
But I also think Republicans need to understand that we
have to have, with the.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
State of the Union and with the Congress of the
next year, a series of powerful reform proposals to keep
moving in the right direction. I mean, the fact is,
when you talk about affordability, food and gasoline are less
important than healthcare. An average family of four now pays
(04:56):
twenty seven thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
For health Insuran.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Deal with that. Twenty seven thousand dollars for family of four,
that's buying a small car every year. And there are
things we can do, such as passing a transparency law
to require that people list quiet price and quality, which
would overnight bring down the cost of healthcare dramatically, and
(05:20):
that would bring down the cost of health insurance. But
there's just one example. The number of areas on electricity,
for example, on housing for young people in a number
of places where we need to be the party of
solutions and then let the Democrats be the party of
negativity and weird ideas.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
You know, I follow you on social media and I
noticed a recent posting in the context of the upcoming
celebration of our two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, and you
said we should spend the entire year on three large questions.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Well, I think, first of all, who are we How
do we come together as the people? You know, we
cannot keep going down this road and we've been on. Second,
how do we really fundamentally re educate the country? I
mean the disaster and that public education is so great
(06:21):
and we're still not addressing it. And then third, I
think that we have got to get control of corruption
and criming. When you realize that the President referred this
last night, which I thought was encouraging, When you realize
that in one city in Minneapolis, a billion dollars has
(06:42):
been stolen, that's the level of corruption is just unsustainable.
In California, during COVID, the criminal serving time in the
California prison system stole twenty billion.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Dollars from the California.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
COVID fund, musing ironically, the state of California's own prison
and computer systems to engage in identity thicks. So I
think people would be stunned if they knew how deep
the problem of corruption is.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
You pose an interesting question on social media, and I'll
simply repeat it here and let you respond. Can we
achieve a golden age in which technology and entrepreneurship create
new opportunities and solve old problems on a scale none
(07:37):
of us could have imagined. I think that's a great question,
and you know, I sort of search for answers myself.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
What's your answer, Well, look at the history of America,
going back to Benjamin Franklin, who is a world class
scientist who discovered practical use of electricity, and going back
to George Washington, who, by the way, was a very
good farmer and was engaged in what we would now
(08:09):
think of as scientistic agriculture. This country has had a
deep passion for inventing a better future and for.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Recognizing that science and.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Technology and engineering and entrepreneurship are the keys to.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Raising the standard wealth for everybody.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
And I think that.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
We really are right at the edge of a golden age.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
And I think that this isn't just political language. But
we do a lot of work at the English three
sixty on longevity, and there are now serious scientists places
like the Cleveland Clinic who believe that people who are
twenty years old today are going to live to be
about one hundred and twenty and they're going to have
(08:54):
the health of a sixty year old when one hundred
and twenty. These are serious people whose are not just
guys that are trying to do tv as and every
old time I turned around. I just talked two nights
ago to one of the people at SpaceX about their
plan in February to have the next trial launch of
(09:15):
their large rocket, which will take people to both the
Moon and Mars. Uh. These are breakouts on a scale
you and I can't imagine. I met last night with
somebody who has a serious plan for developing a solar
power system based on a satellite that gets sung like
twenty four hours a day and beams it down to
(09:38):
Earth at a cost that's about competitive with natural gas.
I mean all of these things that so many inventions,
so many new ideas, so many breakthroughs that I'm very encouraged.
I worry about nuclear war because they would have everything
as we've known it, And I worry about the Left
managing to destroy the system in the same way that,
(10:02):
for example, the crippled Argentina for about eighty years, and
it's just now. Argentine is just now beginning to recover
from a disaster that occur in the nineteen forties.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yeah, it's funny you mentioned the twenty year olds now
will live to be one hundred and twenty and feel
like sixty. My daughter is in the healthcare industry. Last
night over dinner told me that, and as first I
heard of it. It's funny that you would mention it again.
But your concerns about I think national security are important,
(10:40):
and to that point, the White House just released their
National Security Strategies NSS. It's a document it's generally released
once per presidential term, and it serves as a formal
explanation of the administration's foreign policy worldview. I know you've
(11:02):
read it. What did you think of it?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Well, I think it's overdue, and it recognizes that the
world of the Cold War is over, that the world
where the Europeans could hide behind us and lean on
us and drain our economic strength is over, and that
we have to face a whole.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Series of challenges, and we have to recognize that there's.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
No single center of power around which you could organize
the whole planet. And therefore we have to start by
being concerned about safety for the United States, safety for
the American people. Trade policies that favor America, then there's
nothing wrong with us. I mean, as Trump has said
in several speeches, he fully expects everybody else to also
(11:50):
try to get.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Policies that pay for their country.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
He's not saying that everybody else should automatically give us
what we want, but at least we should negotiate for
what we want.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Absolutely, it's worth reading. You can find it online the
White House National Security Strategy, the President's document, and it
makes for interesting and reading New King Rich many thanks again.
And by the way, your book, Trump's Triumph is also
(12:20):
something that is really worth reading and enlightening. And thank
you for taking a few moments to speak with us.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Well, I'm glad to talk to you, and I wish
you a very.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Merry Christmas and you too, thank you.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
We're gonna pause, take a break. We have a bunch
of people on the line right now.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
And we'll be going.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
To your phone calls in just a minute. Give us
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(13:01):
back to the Sean Hennaedy Show on Greg Jared substituting
for Sean, who's off today and tomorrow. I'll be here
tomorrow as well. Let's go to our phone lines. Greg
in Florida is standing by Greg.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
How are you.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
Oh, I'm doing great. I'm actually on the road. So
I've been listening to you and I've found comments on
the show about the conspiracy to be extremely interesting. But
you'll miss one thing about the conspiracy theory that one
of the main entities involved in this conspiracy theory is
the media.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
I cannot believe that the media accidentally published a lot
of what they were saying about all this stuff about
Hillary and Comy and whatnot. They knew that what they
were reporting was false and reported it anyway. In fact,
they got awards for reporting what they knew to be
(13:54):
false information. And they need to be considered as part
of this conspiracy because they were part im parcel with
trying to do a change at the White House.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Well, I agree with you that they are complicit, and
in fact, I devoted an entire chapter to the journalistic
malpractice of the media in my book, which hunt and
I think that was the longest chapter of all. They're complicit, Yes,
they lied to the American public. They were lazy. They
(14:29):
wanted to believe that Trump had conspired with Vladimir Putin
in the bowels of the Kremlin to steal the election.
They didn't bother to investigate the dossier, which was totally phony.
They simply took it at face value. I mean, the
first time I read the dossier, I laughed out loud.
(14:52):
I walked into Sean's office next to mine and said,
you got to read this thing. It's the dumbest thing
you've ever read. It looks it was written by a
junior high school wanna be fiction writer, bereft of any talent.
And you know, so the media ran with it because
they hated Trump. But you know, they have First Amendment protections.
(15:18):
I'm not sure that they there's any proof that they
were involved in any illegal activity associated with it, but
you're right they ought to be condemned, particularly since they
didn't give back their Pilazer prizes for getting the story
fundamentally wrong. More of your phone calls on the other side,
(15:40):
give us a call one eight hundred and ninety four,
one seventy three, twenty six and welcome back to the
Sean Hannity Show. Shawn's taking a couple of days off.
I'm filling in today and tomorrow. I'm Greg Jarrett. You
can follow me on x at greg Jarrett or at
foxnews dot com, where I write columns and of course
(16:00):
appear on television shows as their legal analyst. I want
to go to our phone lines now. I ask some
people standing by, and if you haven't called yet, please
do one eight hundred and nine four one seven three
two six, one eight hundred ninety four to one. Sean,
We welcome your phone calls. All right, Duke joins us
(16:22):
now from Texas. Duke, you've been hanging on for a while.
Thanks so much for your patience.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
How are you I am doing well.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Thank you. First of all, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Uh you too.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
You have me to be succinct, so my question. But
I do want to say that the last three people
you've had on as a guest or some of my
favorite people in the world. But anyway, thank you. You
mentioned like thirty five million dollars that President Trump has
probably spent on as bits of all these what charge
(16:56):
is brought against him? Now he's a billionaire and he
can possibly afford it, But I want to know does
he get any of that money back when he's found
not guilty, innocent, whatever, And if he doesn't, how does
a normal, everyday American citizen protect himself against something like that.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Yeah, it's pretty hard, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
He is trying to recoup some of it. In some
of the cases he's filed a petition for reimbursement.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
The Florida case was dismissed by the judge because Jack
Smith had not been sentate confirmed as the law requires.
Of course, the government was back then under Biden, appealing that,
and then jack Smith, after the immunity ruling through in
(17:48):
the towel as he did in the Washington, DC case,
both of which should never have been brought. Of course,
you've got the Alvin Bragg conviction which is on appeal,
which was probably the most ludicrous mangling of the law
by a prosecutor that I have ever seen, and that
(18:12):
must surely be overturned on appeal. And of course Fanie
Willis and her lover imploded and the case was taken
away from her. They couldn't find another prosecutor who thought
the charges were worth a damn.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
And that was dismissed by.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
A prosecutor who took it over and said, this was
never a racketeering case. It shouldn't have been brought. And
so you know, there were a lot of costs associated
with that case. There may be an attempt by Trump
and his legal team to recover their attorney's fees and
other expenses associated with it. But you know, you're right,
(18:54):
Trump can afford it. Other people cannot, and you know
it's truly a problem. But thanks Duke for your your question.
I appreciate it. Let's go to our next caller, j
Is in New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Hi, J how are you?
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Hey?
Speaker 8 (19:12):
Greg? I really appreciate you taking my call and I
think you're doing a great job.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (19:17):
I got a question, Well, it's I guess it's a
question and a statement. You know, I think Trump's doing
a great job on the affordability thing, and I think
he's doing his part. But I don't see the Republicans
putting out surveys and information showing how from state to
state people have more I guess, spendable money because the
(19:38):
state's not taking it and using it for crazy things
and corruption and you know, illegal health care and all
that stuff. So if somebody did a comparison to people,
and let's say Florida or Texas compared to California and
New York, the people that are complaining the most and
show that they're not doing their because they keep electing
(20:02):
in these Democrats that are taking you know, probably twenty
percent more of their money than they would be if
they lived in Florida or Texas or Alaska or some
other good state that has you know, very low to
no state income tax and low real estate tax and
tax on gasoline. I think in California it's like eighty
cents a gallon. Now, So you know, quit your complain
(20:26):
and then do something about it. Right, Let Trump take
care of the Fed stuff, but let the Republicans get
out this other information because Trump can't do it, because
they'll just sound like he's whining. But we got to
win these midterms and people are making bad decisions and
I don't see him changing.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Now you make a valid point and a good argument.
You know, inflation is down, gas rises are down, deficits down,
wages are up. The problem is that it's not necessarily
true in blue states where you know, experts say the
(21:04):
affordability crisis in America is caused in large part by
the policies of liberal Democrats in blue cities and blue states.
For example, they often price homes out of the reach
of every day Americans with their onor as zoning regulations,
(21:25):
and they have kept thousands, for example, of victims of
the Palisades fires from ever building again on the property
they own. And you mentioned gas prices, Well, look in California,
you know, Gavin Newsom and Democrats that control the government
(21:46):
there have been for so long hostile to petroleum companies.
And in fact, two of the largest refineeries in California
are shutting down and leaving because they've said, we've gaven
news and we've had enough of you. You make it
(22:09):
impossible for us to produce here. And to refine, and
so they're leaving. So what's going to happen. Well, California
buys most of its gasoline and natural gas from foreign countries,
(22:29):
for example Brazil, and of course the cost is enormous.
And then on top of the extra costs of importing that,
which is stupid because America is energy rich, they add
on taxes, you know, Green New Deal taxes. They tax
(22:53):
every gallon of gasoline through the roof and so whereas
in some place in the United States and in red cities,
in red States, it's under two dollars a gallon, and
on California it's double that. And so is it any
(23:14):
wonder that in polling data people are still fretting about affordability.
I think, you know, Trump can't control California and what
they do there, but voters can. And you know, there's
an election coming up for a new governor, and we'll
(23:34):
wait and see whether voters have finally had enough. It's
got to our next caller. Dean has been standing by
from the great state of Florida.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Hi Dean, how are you?
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Hey?
Speaker 9 (23:45):
D hey great, A big fan of yours. One thing
I want to really thank you and John Solomon for
is that information about Trump and the ag going after
all those people that took us all rights away. I mean,
if he doesn't go after these people, the next time
of Democrats in office, they're going to do the same
(24:06):
thing to the next person. And we've got to put
a stop to it. And then number two, these district
judges that keep putting injunctions against Trump's orders. I mean,
Congress needs to go or work and start impeaching these guys.
And because we'll never he'll never get anything done. Number Three,
(24:27):
the philibuster actually needs to go away, because Trump's going
to be you know, his hands are going to be
tied and nothing's going to get done. And that's all
I can tell you. I appreciate you taking my time.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Well, Thankstein, and listen, I agree with you on all
those points. The filibuster, which is not in the constitutions,
simply a rule enacted by the United States Senate, and
it has been so destructive in preventing a lot of
good policies from moving forward into law. And you're going
(25:00):
to have sixty votes, and you know that means with
the current makeup, you know you've got to get seven
Democrats to join with you. And the other corollary to
that is the idiotic blue slips, in which the president
cannot appoint his US attorney or a federal judge without
(25:27):
permission from the senators in that state. So for Trump,
if he wants to appoint somebody in a liberal state
is actually a conservative, he's prevented from doing that. Totally
undermines the power of appointment of the president in the Constitution,
(25:48):
and that needs to be getting rid of. As for
the nationwide injunctions, I was happy to see the United
States Supreme Courts finally and belatedly ending the abusive practice
by federal district court judges of handing out like lollipops,
(26:09):
nationwide injunctions that had blocked Trump's policies.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
They have no authority for that.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Their sole jurisdiction is within their tiny district. But you know,
you got three hundred plus judges who decide they're the
facto presidents that they can overrule the duly elected president
of the United States on anything and everything, and they
were doing it increasingly in the age of Trump, and
(26:40):
you know, it's the kind of thing that absolutely needed
to stop. And finally, the Supreme Court, after bitching and
moaning about it for decades, finally decided to take action.
And it was only because the Supreme Court had been
inundated with so many of the shadow dock had emergency
(27:00):
appeals over these nationwide injunctions, that they finally took a
look at it and said among themselves, we've got to
stop this. And they only did it for their own
self interest to reduce the shadow docket, but they finally
did the right thing. Let me go to the next caller.
Gene is standing by out in my home state of
(27:21):
California Hygiene.
Speaker 10 (27:22):
How are you hi, Greg, Thanks for taking my call. Sure,
I got one question for you, well real quick. Thank
you for having John on. I got to hear both
of you today and that's fantastic. I love what you
guys share with the thank you. The other question is
can or will there be a way to sue my
(27:45):
favorite governor here, Slick Willie, against for allowing all the
illegal aliens with driver's license in those trucks or will
it just be those who got injured by the ones
that crashed and brought it to everybody's detention because he
put everybody's life in jeopardy in the state of California,
and he also put all the lives of the rest
of Americans, you know, with these truckers on the roads
(28:08):
that can't even read our signs guide so whatever.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Right, and people have lost their lives, been killed, were
horrifically injured by people who should never have been given
driver's license, causing these massive truck or accidents. And I
think a creative case could be made that the government
(28:35):
was complicit and instrumental in knowingly giving people who are
not qualified, who.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Are not.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
You know, residents who are here illegally giving them driver's license.
And yeah, I mean I think you could. I'd have
to study a little bit and come up with some
causes of action. And of course you've you've always got
to get around the immunity that governments have, but you
(29:07):
know there are ways to get around it and the
Torque Claims Act and other legal devices. So yeah, I mean,
I think it's a good idea, and maybe somebody will
do that.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
There are a lot of.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Creative lawyers out there who could probably come up with
a pretty formidable case against the governor of California and
those people who have been handing out these driver's licenses
to people who are not qualified and who are in
the state illegally. Let's go to our next caller. Frank
joins us from New York. I'm told we've got to
(29:43):
take a break, so Frank standby will be getting to
you shortly. I'm Greg Jared filling in for Sean Hannity
on the Sean.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Hannity Radio Show.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show. On Greg Jarrett
filling in for Sean. Want to invite you to give
us a call. We're going to take a lot of
your phone call in the next hour and our number
is one eight hundred nine four one seventy three twenty
six one eight hundred nine four one Sean. Give a call,
(30:14):
tell us to what you're thinking, your comments, your questions.
We've been talking a lot about the President's speech last
night on the economy and so called affordability. We also
talked about the ongoing criminal conspiracy that may result in
criminal charges in the new year against people who engaged
(30:35):
in lawfare against Trump. And in just a moment, Jason Chafitz,
former member of Congress and Fox News political analyst, will
be joining us to talk about the appalling number of
anti Semitic attacks around the nation and the world. I'm
Greg Jarrett. Give us a call one eight hundred nine
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