December 1, 2023 • 33 mins
Sean recounts the Desantis/Newsom debate and shares his thoughts on how it went.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, thank you Scott Channon, and thanks to all
of you for being with us. So write down our
toll free telephone number this Friday is eight hundred and
ninety four one Sean if you want to be a
part of the program. I had a great time last night, Linda.
Could you you know me? You could tell I was
having a good time.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I mean, you were in your prime, that's for dang.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Sure, I was in my prime. I don't know how
to take that.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
But no, it's a good thing, like I was. You know,
like I said, it's your first time being a moderator.
You did a good job.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
It's it's harder than you think.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I mean, the amount of work, research, bacchecking that goes
on behind the scenes. I've been working hard on this
for a couple of weeks and I wanted we got
every single fact right as a basis to every question.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
As far as.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
The noise that is going on in terms of people complaining,
I don't really care because I know the truth and
I have evidence of the truths.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
If need be.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
But you know, and the the funny thing was is
Aven Newsom was fine with it. Look, here's the challenge
if you're a moderator. You put out a question and
if a candidate does not want to answer that question,
they're not going to Now you can go back, and
I did go back on a number of questions that
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when I would ask, for example, the first question out
of the box about migration. You know, when I put
up on the screen facts, the facts are from the
US Census Bureau. In this case, seven hundred and fifty
thousand people in the years I think we had twenty
twenty one and twenty twenty two had left the state
of California. That's the first time in the history of
the state that that's ever happened. They always had people
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moving into the state having lived there five years. It
is a beautiful state. If you've never driven the Pacific
Coast Highway, you got to do that at some point
in your life. It will be worth every bit of
all the time in the world. It really will be.
And I didn't have a lot of money when I
lived in California. That's where I eventually got started in radio,
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and you know, the nineteen eighties. I'm aging myself here.
But it is a beautiful state. I mean, coastline is
it is spectacular. It was the state of Ronald Reagan,
it was the state of Richard Nixon, and it is
now so solidly blue it's amazing. But and as I've
been pointing out, and I couldn't understand and the lead
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up to the debate why some people didn't understand this,
I think people now understand it a little more because
we've discussed it. But if you don't pay attention to
what your local government is doing, your state government is doing,
they can have a greater impact overall impact on your life,
more than the whatever might be going on with the
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federal government, although that is obviously important as well. I mean,
for example, start on the local level. Start with the
local school board. If you're local school board is woke
and they want to teach about gender identity and crt,
et cetera, and you're a parent that would prefer they
stick to the basics, reading, writing, math, science, history, and computers. Understand,
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if you don't pay attention to it, they're just going
to do whatever they want, and they won't be held
accountable and your kids won't be getting the traditional education
that I think is so critical. I mean, on every
issue that we talked about, it impacts people's lives. But
I you know, in this particular case, I felt Governor
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Newsom just came in with his own opening statement. I
went back to him, I said, but you haven't addressed
the issue of why are people leaving your state wire
states like Florida. I mean, in the same time period,
nearly half a million people, four hundred and fifty four
thousand people moved into the state of Florida in a
two year period. That is mad yes of migration. And
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the phenomenon is it is blue states that are losing
the population. Now you might argue that, well, maybe people
in New York are retiring and maybe they don't like
the winners in New York or New Jersey or Illinois.
But well, California doesn't fit into that category. They're not
leaving because they don't like the weather. They actually probably
love the weather. Then you go into the issue of taxation,
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and okay, so you talk, well comnor knew some believes
and tax quote, taxing the rich. They have a high
marginal tax rate, the highest in the country at over
thirteen percent. But yet if you're a married couple making
eighty four thousand dollars a year, you're still paying six
percent of your income for state income taxes and then
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all the other taxes, and I again fact based. I
put it all on the screen, let people see it.
I think that informs people, it makes it a healthier debate.
But I did my best and then did my best
to allow Governor de Santis to be the one debating
Gavin Newsom. After I threw out the topics, and I
was very transparent with both sides. I said, guys, this,
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you don't have to overthink this. I am going to
be talking about all the obvious issues. It was very,
very clear, in other words, that this wasn't going to
devolve into some type of debate about you know, questions
that you would never have imagined or prepared for. I
wanted them to be prepared. I wanted them to explain it.
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You know, if you look at the border, I mean,
it is shocking to me that there's not a sense
of urgency at what is a clear and present danger
to our country. When you look at the number one
state sponsor of terror and the number of foreign nationals
that have that we taught, not including potential gutaways. Why
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are six d How did six hundred and fifty nine
Iranians end up at our southern border, the number one
state sponsor of terror. You know, look at Afghanistan, where
we know Al Qaeda still exists six three hundred and
eighty six. You know, Egypt three thousand, one hundred and
fifty three. Last I checked, the Muslim Brotherhood is still
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very large and active out of Egypt Syria. Syria of
course has been involved in proxy battles on behalf of
Iran five hundred and thirty eight. Then you go to
countries like China, Why are we allowing twenty two thousand,
How come twenty two thousand, one hundred and eighty seven
Chinese nationals showed up at our border? And why did
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twenty two thousand Russians show up at our border?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Again?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Not including Godaways, that's our number one, number two, number
three of you include Iran geopolitical foes. These, you know,
is there not a strong possibility that they come here
with the nefarious intentions and agenda, maybe to create a
terror cell in the hopes of another nine eleven or
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maybe even God forbid worse. That wouldn't be good for
this country. And these are very important issues.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I give both candidates credit that they were They're not
candidates both governor's credit for coming to the debate. They
got in the arena, and I appreciate that fact, but
they you can't stop people that have their own agendas.
But I thought this was a very very very important
debate to have, you know, besides a little over talking,
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and I tried hard not to tried to let the
debate breathe as I was saying during the debate, I
tried to allow each side to get their say in.
I thought they both had enough time. At the end
of the debate, it was actually Gavin Newsom that had
spoken more than Ron de Santis, you know. But the
idea that, for example, if California embraces what they have embraced,
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which is sanctuary state status, and Governor DeSantis said ends
people to Sacramento on an airplane because he believes in
law and order on our borders and our sovereignty and
the rule of law and believes it for security reasons.
And then you have a sanctuary state. Well, if that's
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your policy, take it then okay. Then I thought that's
what you were promising people. By the way, in California
in January, healthcare is going to be provided to anybody.
You can walk into that state, you can get on
their medical plan. Well, what's that going to do to
the high cost of living in California in the high
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rate of taxation. There are Democrats around the country now
that are sounding off on Joe's border crisis. Governor Heally
of Massachusetts is calling it a crisis of inaction. The
governor of Illinois Pritzker, is calling it an untenable situation.
The mayor of New York is saying this will destroy
New York City. Arizona Governor, I'm sorry, Arizona Senator Kelly
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is saying that it's chaos, an utter mess. You know,
it all impacts things. Now, what are the reasons that
people are leaving? You know, seven hundred and fifty thousand
people left California in twenty twenty one, according to the
US Census Bureau. That is, that's a large amount of people,
and that had never happened before. You look at New York,
they lost five hundred and twenty eight thousand. You look
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at Illinois, they lost two hundred and sixty two thousand.
Do Joysey lost one hundred and forty two thousand, and
they all seem to be moving to states like Florida,
and Texas and Tennessee and the Carolinas people just getting out.
When you look at the southern border encounters at six
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point five million according to US Customs and Border Patrol.
And again we were very meticulous in our fact checking
last night. And then you talk about what Senator Ron
Johnson said, they estimated what one point seven million got aways.
That's a lot Homeland the House Homeland Secure report on
how much this is costing we the American people, Okay,
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up to four hundred and fifty billion dollars a year
at a point where we now have are very close
to thirty four trillion dollars in debt that you know,
this year alone, we're going to pay a trillion dollars
in interest on the debt. Well, that's twenty five percent
of our budget. Before you pay a dime into Social Security,
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or a dime into Medicare, or a dime into Defense,
or a dim into any other program. Guess what, you
got to pay the debt off first before you can
do anything else. I mean, that is a massive amount
of money. How are we ever going to pay that back?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Now?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
What I would do is I become the most energy
dominant and energy rich country on the face of the earth.
And I don't see that they're going to do that,
you know, But all of these issues gas price comparisons,
I mean, why why is it that the national average
is three dollars and twenty five tense and cow and
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Florida's cost per gallon is three dollars and ten cents.
And for the record, gas never averaged nationally above three
dollars under Donald Trump for four years. And then you
go out to California it's you know, four hundred and
eighty I'm sorry, four dollars and eighty eight cents a gallon.
And then they're suing the oil companies. And what happens
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when the oil companies, they've they've got to get that
money back. They got a higher expensive lawyers, they got
to put them on retainer. Then they probably have to
fight it in court. That's going to be probably tens
and tens and tens of millions of dollars.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Well, what are they going to do? How are they
going to pay for all that?
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Well, they're going to start charging more for the price
of energy, as if that's the last thing that we need,
you know. But they still do have Prop. Thirteen, which
is on the books, which is one tax where it's
a little bit lower than Florida. In California point seventy
five percent Florida's point nine to one percent. But the
sales tax is higher, the gas tax is much higher,
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corporate income tax a little bit higher in Florida. But
but the bottom line is is no, there's not a penny,
not one penny in income tax in the state of Florida.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
If anybody.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
But if you're a family of just a married couple
and your combined income is eighty four thousand dollars a
year in a state like California, that is not a
lot of money in that state. That's that that really
is you're just getting by. If you are getting by, well,
that couple has to pay six percent income tax on
top of the federal income tax. I mean, it's this,
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this is all impacting people's lives. Hey, we'll get your
thoughts throughout the day on it and and have analysis
play some of the the debate last night. Linda, you
liked her, right said you said you were kind of
riveted to it.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I liked it a lot.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
I liked the conversation on abortion.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Okay, that was one big issue too, But.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
What states do really does matter, and they're having huge
impacts on people's lives. I know we tend to focus
more on the federal government naturally, but state regulations, state taxation,
state policy, local policy, local regulation. Let me tell you
if it plays a big part in your life, and
many of you may not even be aware of it.
Reared as we rolong Happy Friday, eight hundred and ninety
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four one seawan or number you want to be a
part of the program, well number one if you wanted
to vote on who you think the winner of the
debate was. Last I checked, it was pretty high for
DeSantis on Hannity dot Com.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
You can go there.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Also, we announced today we're getting back into town hall
time with what close to forty only about forty days
left to Iowa. We have a Donald Trump town hall
in Davenport on Tuesday. If you want tickets, you have
to sign up. It's simple, just go to Hannity dot com.
You can also vote on the debate. I noticed the
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Drudge Report also they had a poll up that showed
DeSantis winning by significant margin. On the Drudge Report it
was nearly seventy percent. And the last time I look,
I think it's sixty eight, sixty nine percent or something,
so ours is eighty eight. Okay, well we'll put it
in the middle. It put it. We'll call it seventy
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eight if you want to do that. But anyway, if
you want to sign up, that's next Tuesday, Davenport. Maybe,
if maybe, maybe you want to make a trip of it,
we'd love to have you come. They're a lot of fun.
I bring a lot of footballs. I throw them out
to the crowd. And we we have not interviewed President
Trump in a while, so it's time to get back
into it. Is now we head into the election season
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and so much left to them, so much to talk about.
I mean, this was the thing about last night. We
could have gone easily four hours. I could have sat
there four hours, and I promise you I would not
have run out of questions. The hard part for me
is the debate was going on. Is ugh, I really
want to ask the five questions, but I can only
get two of them. In drives me crazy when that happens.
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All right, eight and ninety four one, Sean, if you
want to be a part of the program. Later on,
Steve Moore on the economy, Joe Consha on last night's
to Bake Carry Lake on the issue of the border,
which came up extensively last night. As we continue, when
fake news gives you lies, Hannity supplies the truth.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Sean Hannity is on right now.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Hi twenty five to the top of the ear. I'm
loving this piece on the Politico. I know you probably
read it, Linda Newsoom Cam Hannity DeSantis cheated because they said, well,
Ron DeSantis, Governor Desanta's brought out a prop He took
out a piece of paper out of his jacket.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Get that they cheated? Is this the minutia that these
people are getting into you?
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Can someone please tell me how bringing out a piece
of paper out of your own.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Pocket can't make it up. Give me a freaking break.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I mean, it's just annoying.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
I actually find it amusing.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
And apparently they were not happy when Gavin that's having
a great time then tweeted out, oh, I had the
best time ever. Thank me when I left. But I
guess the people behind the scenes didn't particularly. I don't
know why they didn't like it. I have no idea,
because if I ever told the real story, Yeah, the
people that were, let's just say, not exactly prone to
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keeping their agreements and words.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
There's a pretty big story for me to tell.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
But I'm going to stand by my word as of
now and and not tell these stories because they're so
it's almost to the point was unbelievable. I'm glad they debated.
I applaud both of them. It was a fair debate.
And oh and then complaints. I guess that I actually
used of nobody to know what he has disputed a
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single fact that we that I used to my questions.
They just mad that I put it up on the
screen as part of my questioning. And if that is
your position, if that is your record, why don't you
defend your record, defend your policies, defend your decision. There
are people that think higher taxes are better. That's just that,
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that's how some liberal minds work. Tax the rich, tax
the ricks, rich, tax the rich, and then guess what,
the rich start leaving.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Tax the rich, tax the rich, tax the rich. We
did now, God forbid, the rich leave.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
The rich are leaving. They're leaving New York. Governor Cuomo
called that one right. They're leaving New York in droves.
They're leaving California in droves. It's a phenomenon we've never
seen before. I'll think about a response. I'm you know,
it's just like I guess you didn't feel that your
candidate did well or your your governor did well.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
If you're just whining like.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
This over the most petty things in the world, by
the way, most of which is not true. I don't
know who it was people are asking me about the report.
I did hear somebody after governor knewsociety. I'd like to
keep going. Somebody came in. I don't know who it was.
I did have an opportunity to speak to him twice
yesterday with his staff and once with his wife. She
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was lovely and or first partner I think they call officially,
I want to use the proper term that they prefer,
and just lovely. It couldn't have been nicer, and he
in person is a nice guy. However, the policies are
the policies. The record is the record. The questions were
on the most basic and fundamental issues that impact people's lives.
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It is that simple immigration policy impacts people's lives. Taxes
impact people's lives. Regulation impacts people's lives. Crime, law, order
the prerequisite for happiness or the pursuit of happiness. It
impacts people's lives. All of the issues I brought up
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when I prepared for this debate. The one thing I
wanted to do was make it relevant to every single person,
not just in California and Florida. But the issues were
all facing crime, regulation, taxation, immigration, illegal immigration. You know,
how do we pay for all of this? And I
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felt that we accomplished that goal and that was it,
and we were very transparent with both sides saying the
exact same thing.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
And you know whatever.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
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so much news out there, I don't even know what
to say about this issue, and involving George Santos, he
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hasn't been convicted. Now it's actually personal in a way
to me. I don't know how I got stuck with
this guy, but he happened to be no longer is
my congressman. And what I don't understand, what I don't
understand about about Republicans is if congresswoman to lead pulleds,
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you know, from the river to the sea, the absolute
wiping out of Israel, and only gets a censure. How
is it a guy that's not been convicted of anything,
he's been charged that the Republicans have to race out
there and say, nope, we're gonna kick him out when
they only have a four seat majority. Now it's down
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to three, with reports that as many as two other
Republicans might retire by year's end or early next year,
one of them being Kevin McCarthy. Okay, now they're down
to a one vote majority. I'd forbid somebody had a
heart attack and passed away or didn't want to be
there either. Okay, now, what Speaker Jeffreys, This is where
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Republicans do not I keep saying. Democrats they circle the wagons.
Republicans they create circular firing squads. And anyway, I mean
one thing John Fetterman said today, I can't believe I'm
quoting him. If Republican George Santos deserved to be expelled, well,
the same things should then happen to the indicted Democratic
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senator from New Jersey, and that would be Bob Menendez.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
What's your reaction to.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
The expulsion, Well, it's like I'm not surprised. But to me,
I think the more important picture is that we have
a colleague in the Senate that actually does much more
sinister and serious kinds of things, Senator Menendez.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
He needs to go.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
And if you are going to expel Santos, how can
you allow to somebody like Menendez to remain in the Senate.
And you know, Santos's kind of lies were almost you know, funny,
and like you know, he you know, landed on the
moon and it got kind of stuff. Whereas whereas you know,
you know, I think you know, Menendez, I think is
really a senator for Egypt, you know, not New Jersey.
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So I really think he needs to go. And especially
it's kind of strange that if Santos is not allowed
to remain in the House, you know, someone like that.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
I mean, first of all, I would not support that
that might like one of the few people that refuses
to rush to judgment, you know, does not go along
with this. You know, uh, this this constant pattern that people, Oh,
you're guilty, you're charge, You're guilty. No, I don't believe that.
I believe I can't get it until you've proven guilty. Yes,
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go right ahead.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
I just want to give a slight comparison. This is
the same Congress, House and Senate that is unable to
vote to impeach Majorca's the same House and Senate that
is unable to vote on funding Israel. It's the same one.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
They had a chance this week to fund Israel in
a clean bill voting standalone.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Bill Shoomer's up there, Bryan, Oh my heart for Israel.
Oh really, once you rally the troop, Shimmer, just start
pulling some strings. We all know you have them.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Could we could have cut the check already.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Yep, crocodile tears. They're so full of crap. But Santos, Oh, yeah,
he's the problem, and this is listen. I have not
given my opinion on who he is and what he's about.
That's a different segment entirely. My point is when they
want to act, they act, and this is all like
pomp and circumstance. They could do things to help people,
then not.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
I think, how about we wait till they have their
trial and to presume, give them the presumption of innocence.
Why don't we stop rushing to judgment the way these
people do. I do have other good news, by the way,
bad news. If you're a Chris Christie fan, all fifteen
of you, it looks like Christie's days on the debate
stage may be numbered. He's not met the Republican National
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Committee's polling thresholds or qualifying for next week's debate. I
didn't even know there was Oh, there is a debate
next week. That's right, with only a few days left. Anyway,
let's get to the phones. John is in the Commonwealth
of Virginia. Hey John, Happy Friday, sir, glad you called.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
On.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
How you doing, my friends?
Speaker 3 (25:52):
I'm good what's going on?
Speaker 6 (25:55):
Hey, it swet to a comment last night. I was
able to listen to the audio of last night, and
I thought, what you you handled it brilliantly. I think
what you letting them talk over one another for the
period of time that they did, I thought was brilliant.
What that taught me was how in typical Democrat fashion
newsomb just you can't he can't support his own position,
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so he's got to talk down to be little talk
over now everybody else. And I thought, when you put
up the graphics and then he told us that you know,
it was a lie and that we shouldn't believe our
own eyes, I thought you handled it very very well.
I think you did a great job.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I honestly, I really appreciate it. It's a it's a
it's a balancing act. I mean, I've been posting radio
for thirty three years now, okay, and we've had many
shootout debates on this program, and you know, I have
learned it's kind of an art form. To the best
of my ability, there there are times when they're going
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at it hard and people actually want to see it.
Now they'll tell you they don't, but they do. But
then there's then you got to balance that where Okay,
people are going to be getting pissed off and it's
got to stop and you got to get control of it.
So it's kind of like, you know, I'm always trying
to measure and usually I kind of go with my
own all Right, I've had enough of this. When I
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get to that point, or somebody writes me and gets
and says and I see my text come in and
say this is getting old, I'll move on. I appreciate
your kind words, though, John, Thank you, buddy. Have a
great weekend. Adam in California, Adam, how.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Are you doing good?
Speaker 5 (27:37):
Doing good? I was in a chat group with a
bunch of my friends and I think I was like
one of maybe five conservatives in the group is about
a fifty or sixty friends. It was a large group
check but a lot of them thought that it was
two on one you and you and Santis against Newsom.
And I think I was the only one in there
that that knew that you have a relationship do some
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outside of friendly relationship outside of politics.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Well, I mean, if you met him, he's a nice guy,
I will tell you that he's very you know, charming,
central casting. I mean, he could have been Michael Douglass
and the American President. I mean, and I think and
by the way, he's also sincere in his beliefs that part.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
I can tell you it's not a show.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Yeah, the guy. The guy definitely a camera.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Friendly, but they've been saying that for weeks leading up
to it. I actually joked with him in a text.
I'm like, oh, when are you gonna start saying it's
four on one, three oh one. He goes a great idea.
That was their way of sort of. It was just
their talking point to be very honest with you. But
it's meaningless to me because it was not Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
I thought you did a very good job. And besides,
regardless of what side me and my friends were on,
we all agreed that it was one of the best
debates that we have we haven't seen and we've heard.
You could have put it on a pay per view
and some people would have paid for it, like depending
on the price I might have, but we're all hanging
on the words of each one. It was like a
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boxing match, man. I mean, you you killed it. You
did a very very good job.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
And well, once the once the debate part got got
once I got the topic out there, and maybe so.
I guess their complain is they didn't like how I
framed the questions. But all I did was they were
all fact based, sourced questions. Then if they you know,
as long as they gave each other room to breathe
and and took the time somewhat seriously, I just let
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them go.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
I stayed out of it.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
Yeah you did. You did a really good job. The
fact that you had to breathe was was awesome. You
kind of let it, let it mature, I guess, so
to speak, in its own way. You let them talk,
and that was that was It was really good. At
times it kind of got hectic, but that added to
it because you can kind of feel both of them,
we're passionate about it. It was it was awesome.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Read that part was real, and that's why I think
that that debates like this are important to have. And yeah,
it's sometimes they're gonna have a little bit of talk
over and that's natural.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
It certainly wasn't boring, It certainly wasn't dull. It certainly
was relevant. And even though maybe your friends, you know,
don't like me or agree with me or whatever, I'm
glad they watched it. I will tell you this that
when we added up the total time, Avin Newsom got
more time than Ron De Santis in the end.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
So yeah, not very many people know that you, you
and Newsome actually like our friendly like outside of politics.
So when they see you, know, they when they're like, oh,
he's being biased, and somebody's like, well, did you guys
know that they're actually friendly outside of the showy.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
They gotta you gotta give them credit for showing up,
you really do. You got to give them credit for
jumping in the octagon. I give him a lot of
credit for that, and you know that that's all part.
It's part of the game. I'm like, when I saw
him yesterday, I said, oh, are you gonna say how
many times over under? Are you gonna say two on
one today? So but I appreciate you kind words. I'm
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glad you watched. Tell your friends, I said, hello, and
I hope they enjoyed it. Eight hundred and ninety four one.
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I can't believe it's Friday, these weeks flying on by.
Happy Friday to everybody. All right, a lot of the
economic issues that we discussed last night, We'll talk to
Steve Moore about those. Joe Kanca, media analyst extraordinary, will
join us. We'll get his take on last night's big debate.
We also had a lot of discussion last night on
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coming up in your calls eight hundred and nine Town
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ninety four one Sean if you want to be a
part of the program. I had a great time last night, Linda.
Could you you know me? You could tell I was
having a good time.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I mean, you were in your prime, that's for dang.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Sure, I was in my prime. I don't know how
to take that.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
But no, it's a good thing, like I was. You know,
like I said, it's your first time being a moderator.
You did a good job.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
It's it's harder than you think.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I mean, the amount of work, research, bacchecking that goes
on behind the scenes. I've been working hard on this
for a couple of weeks and I wanted we got
every single fact right as a basis to every question.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
As far as.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
The noise that is going on in terms of people complaining,
I don't really care because I know the truth and
I have evidence of the truths.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
If need be.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
But you know, and the the funny thing was is
Aven Newsom was fine with it. Look, here's the challenge
if you're a moderator. You put out a question and
if a candidate does not want to answer that question,
they're not going to Now you can go back, and
I did go back on a number of questions that
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when I would ask, for example, the first question out
of the box about migration. You know, when I put
up on the screen facts, the facts are from the
US Census Bureau. In this case, seven hundred and fifty
thousand people in the years I think we had twenty
twenty one and twenty twenty two had left the state
of California. That's the first time in the history of
the state that that's ever happened. They always had people
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moving into the state having lived there five years. It
is a beautiful state. If you've never driven the Pacific
Coast Highway, you got to do that at some point
in your life. It will be worth every bit of
all the time in the world. It really will be.
And I didn't have a lot of money when I
lived in California. That's where I eventually got started in radio,
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and you know, the nineteen eighties. I'm aging myself here.
But it is a beautiful state. I mean, coastline is
it is spectacular. It was the state of Ronald Reagan,
it was the state of Richard Nixon, and it is
now so solidly blue it's amazing. But and as I've
been pointing out, and I couldn't understand and the lead
(02:30):
up to the debate why some people didn't understand this,
I think people now understand it a little more because
we've discussed it. But if you don't pay attention to
what your local government is doing, your state government is doing,
they can have a greater impact overall impact on your life,
more than the whatever might be going on with the
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federal government, although that is obviously important as well. I mean,
for example, start on the local level. Start with the
local school board. If you're local school board is woke
and they want to teach about gender identity and crt,
et cetera, and you're a parent that would prefer they
stick to the basics, reading, writing, math, science, history, and computers. Understand,
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if you don't pay attention to it, they're just going
to do whatever they want, and they won't be held
accountable and your kids won't be getting the traditional education
that I think is so critical. I mean, on every
issue that we talked about, it impacts people's lives. But
I you know, in this particular case, I felt Governor
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Newsom just came in with his own opening statement. I
went back to him, I said, but you haven't addressed
the issue of why are people leaving your state wire
states like Florida. I mean, in the same time period,
nearly half a million people, four hundred and fifty four
thousand people moved into the state of Florida in a
two year period. That is mad yes of migration. And
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the phenomenon is it is blue states that are losing
the population. Now you might argue that, well, maybe people
in New York are retiring and maybe they don't like
the winners in New York or New Jersey or Illinois.
But well, California doesn't fit into that category. They're not
leaving because they don't like the weather. They actually probably
love the weather. Then you go into the issue of taxation,
(04:25):
and okay, so you talk, well comnor knew some believes
and tax quote, taxing the rich. They have a high
marginal tax rate, the highest in the country at over
thirteen percent. But yet if you're a married couple making
eighty four thousand dollars a year, you're still paying six
percent of your income for state income taxes and then
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all the other taxes, and I again fact based. I
put it all on the screen, let people see it.
I think that informs people, it makes it a healthier debate.
But I did my best and then did my best
to allow Governor de Santis to be the one debating
Gavin Newsom. After I threw out the topics, and I
was very transparent with both sides. I said, guys, this,
(05:07):
you don't have to overthink this. I am going to
be talking about all the obvious issues. It was very,
very clear, in other words, that this wasn't going to
devolve into some type of debate about you know, questions
that you would never have imagined or prepared for. I
wanted them to be prepared. I wanted them to explain it.
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You know, if you look at the border, I mean,
it is shocking to me that there's not a sense
of urgency at what is a clear and present danger
to our country. When you look at the number one
state sponsor of terror and the number of foreign nationals
that have that we taught, not including potential gutaways. Why
(05:51):
are six d How did six hundred and fifty nine
Iranians end up at our southern border, the number one
state sponsor of terror. You know, look at Afghanistan, where
we know Al Qaeda still exists six three hundred and
eighty six. You know, Egypt three thousand, one hundred and
fifty three. Last I checked, the Muslim Brotherhood is still
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very large and active out of Egypt Syria. Syria of
course has been involved in proxy battles on behalf of
Iran five hundred and thirty eight. Then you go to
countries like China, Why are we allowing twenty two thousand,
How come twenty two thousand, one hundred and eighty seven
Chinese nationals showed up at our border? And why did
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twenty two thousand Russians show up at our border?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Again?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Not including Godaways, that's our number one, number two, number
three of you include Iran geopolitical foes. These, you know,
is there not a strong possibility that they come here
with the nefarious intentions and agenda, maybe to create a
terror cell in the hopes of another nine eleven or
(07:00):
maybe even God forbid worse. That wouldn't be good for
this country. And these are very important issues.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I give both candidates credit that they were They're not
candidates both governor's credit for coming to the debate. They
got in the arena, and I appreciate that fact, but
they you can't stop people that have their own agendas.
But I thought this was a very very very important
debate to have, you know, besides a little over talking,
(07:31):
and I tried hard not to tried to let the
debate breathe as I was saying during the debate, I
tried to allow each side to get their say in.
I thought they both had enough time. At the end
of the debate, it was actually Gavin Newsom that had
spoken more than Ron de Santis, you know. But the
idea that, for example, if California embraces what they have embraced,
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which is sanctuary state status, and Governor DeSantis said ends
people to Sacramento on an airplane because he believes in
law and order on our borders and our sovereignty and
the rule of law and believes it for security reasons.
And then you have a sanctuary state. Well, if that's
(08:16):
your policy, take it then okay. Then I thought that's
what you were promising people. By the way, in California
in January, healthcare is going to be provided to anybody.
You can walk into that state, you can get on
their medical plan. Well, what's that going to do to
the high cost of living in California in the high
(08:36):
rate of taxation. There are Democrats around the country now
that are sounding off on Joe's border crisis. Governor Heally
of Massachusetts is calling it a crisis of inaction. The
governor of Illinois Pritzker, is calling it an untenable situation.
The mayor of New York is saying this will destroy
New York City. Arizona Governor, I'm sorry, Arizona Senator Kelly
(08:58):
is saying that it's chaos, an utter mess. You know,
it all impacts things. Now, what are the reasons that
people are leaving? You know, seven hundred and fifty thousand
people left California in twenty twenty one, according to the
US Census Bureau. That is, that's a large amount of people,
and that had never happened before. You look at New York,
they lost five hundred and twenty eight thousand. You look
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at Illinois, they lost two hundred and sixty two thousand.
Do Joysey lost one hundred and forty two thousand, and
they all seem to be moving to states like Florida,
and Texas and Tennessee and the Carolinas people just getting out.
When you look at the southern border encounters at six
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point five million according to US Customs and Border Patrol.
And again we were very meticulous in our fact checking
last night. And then you talk about what Senator Ron
Johnson said, they estimated what one point seven million got aways.
That's a lot Homeland the House Homeland Secure report on
how much this is costing we the American people, Okay,
(10:04):
up to four hundred and fifty billion dollars a year
at a point where we now have are very close
to thirty four trillion dollars in debt that you know,
this year alone, we're going to pay a trillion dollars
in interest on the debt. Well, that's twenty five percent
of our budget. Before you pay a dime into Social Security,
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or a dime into Medicare, or a dime into Defense,
or a dim into any other program. Guess what, you
got to pay the debt off first before you can
do anything else. I mean, that is a massive amount
of money. How are we ever going to pay that back?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Now?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
What I would do is I become the most energy
dominant and energy rich country on the face of the earth.
And I don't see that they're going to do that,
you know, But all of these issues gas price comparisons,
I mean, why why is it that the national average
is three dollars and twenty five tense and cow and
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Florida's cost per gallon is three dollars and ten cents.
And for the record, gas never averaged nationally above three
dollars under Donald Trump for four years. And then you
go out to California it's you know, four hundred and
eighty I'm sorry, four dollars and eighty eight cents a gallon.
And then they're suing the oil companies. And what happens
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when the oil companies, they've they've got to get that
money back. They got a higher expensive lawyers, they got
to put them on retainer. Then they probably have to
fight it in court. That's going to be probably tens
and tens and tens of millions of dollars.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Well, what are they going to do? How are they
going to pay for all that?
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Well, they're going to start charging more for the price
of energy, as if that's the last thing that we need,
you know. But they still do have Prop. Thirteen, which
is on the books, which is one tax where it's
a little bit lower than Florida. In California point seventy
five percent Florida's point nine to one percent. But the
sales tax is higher, the gas tax is much higher,
(12:01):
corporate income tax a little bit higher in Florida. But
but the bottom line is is no, there's not a penny,
not one penny in income tax in the state of Florida.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
If anybody.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
But if you're a family of just a married couple
and your combined income is eighty four thousand dollars a
year in a state like California, that is not a
lot of money in that state. That's that that really
is you're just getting by. If you are getting by, well,
that couple has to pay six percent income tax on
top of the federal income tax. I mean, it's this,
(12:37):
this is all impacting people's lives. Hey, we'll get your
thoughts throughout the day on it and and have analysis
play some of the the debate last night. Linda, you
liked her, right said you said you were kind of
riveted to it.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I liked it a lot.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
I liked the conversation on abortion.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Okay, that was one big issue too, But.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
What states do really does matter, and they're having huge
impacts on people's lives. I know we tend to focus
more on the federal government naturally, but state regulations, state taxation,
state policy, local policy, local regulation. Let me tell you
if it plays a big part in your life, and
many of you may not even be aware of it.
Reared as we rolong Happy Friday, eight hundred and ninety
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Speaker 3 (13:37):
You can go there.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
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Drudge Report also they had a poll up that showed
DeSantis winning by significant margin. On the Drudge Report it
was nearly seventy percent. And the last time I look,
I think it's sixty eight, sixty nine percent or something,
so ours is eighty eight. Okay, well we'll put it
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and so much left to them, so much to talk about.
I mean, this was the thing about last night. We
could have gone easily four hours. I could have sat
there four hours, and I promise you I would not
have run out of questions. The hard part for me
is the debate was going on. Is ugh, I really
want to ask the five questions, but I can only
get two of them. In drives me crazy when that happens.
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All right, eight and ninety four one, Sean, if you
want to be a part of the program. Later on,
Steve Moore on the economy, Joe Consha on last night's
to Bake Carry Lake on the issue of the border,
which came up extensively last night. As we continue, when
fake news gives you lies, Hannity supplies the truth.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Sean Hannity is on right now.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Hi twenty five to the top of the ear. I'm
loving this piece on the Politico. I know you probably
read it, Linda Newsoom Cam Hannity DeSantis cheated because they said, well,
Ron DeSantis, Governor Desanta's brought out a prop He took
out a piece of paper out of his jacket.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Get that they cheated? Is this the minutia that these
people are getting into you?
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Can someone please tell me how bringing out a piece
of paper out of your own.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Pocket can't make it up. Give me a freaking break.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I mean, it's just annoying.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
I actually find it amusing.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
And apparently they were not happy when Gavin that's having
a great time then tweeted out, oh, I had the
best time ever. Thank me when I left. But I
guess the people behind the scenes didn't particularly. I don't
know why they didn't like it. I have no idea,
because if I ever told the real story, Yeah, the
people that were, let's just say, not exactly prone to
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keeping their agreements and words.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
There's a pretty big story for me to tell.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
But I'm going to stand by my word as of
now and and not tell these stories because they're so
it's almost to the point was unbelievable. I'm glad they debated.
I applaud both of them. It was a fair debate.
And oh and then complaints. I guess that I actually
used of nobody to know what he has disputed a
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single fact that we that I used to my questions.
They just mad that I put it up on the
screen as part of my questioning. And if that is
your position, if that is your record, why don't you
defend your record, defend your policies, defend your decision. There
are people that think higher taxes are better. That's just that,
(17:23):
that's how some liberal minds work. Tax the rich, tax
the ricks, rich, tax the rich, and then guess what,
the rich start leaving.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Tax the rich, tax the rich, tax the rich. We
did now, God forbid, the rich leave.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
The rich are leaving. They're leaving New York. Governor Cuomo
called that one right. They're leaving New York in droves.
They're leaving California in droves. It's a phenomenon we've never
seen before. I'll think about a response. I'm you know,
it's just like I guess you didn't feel that your
candidate did well or your your governor did well.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
If you're just whining like.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
This over the most petty things in the world, by
the way, most of which is not true. I don't
know who it was people are asking me about the report.
I did hear somebody after governor knewsociety. I'd like to
keep going. Somebody came in. I don't know who it was.
I did have an opportunity to speak to him twice
yesterday with his staff and once with his wife. She
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was lovely and or first partner I think they call officially,
I want to use the proper term that they prefer,
and just lovely. It couldn't have been nicer, and he
in person is a nice guy. However, the policies are
the policies. The record is the record. The questions were
on the most basic and fundamental issues that impact people's lives.
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It is that simple immigration policy impacts people's lives. Taxes
impact people's lives. Regulation impacts people's lives. Crime, law, order
the prerequisite for happiness or the pursuit of happiness. It
impacts people's lives. All of the issues I brought up
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when I prepared for this debate. The one thing I
wanted to do was make it relevant to every single person,
not just in California and Florida. But the issues were
all facing crime, regulation, taxation, immigration, illegal immigration. You know,
how do we pay for all of this? And I
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felt that we accomplished that goal and that was it,
and we were very transparent with both sides saying the
exact same thing.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
And you know whatever.
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wiping out of Israel, and only gets a censure. How
is it a guy that's not been convicted of anything,
he's been charged that the Republicans have to race out
there and say, nope, we're gonna kick him out when
they only have a four seat majority. Now it's down
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to three, with reports that as many as two other
Republicans might retire by year's end or early next year,
one of them being Kevin McCarthy. Okay, now they're down
to a one vote majority. I'd forbid somebody had a
heart attack and passed away or didn't want to be
there either. Okay, now, what Speaker Jeffreys, This is where
(22:38):
Republicans do not I keep saying. Democrats they circle the wagons.
Republicans they create circular firing squads. And anyway, I mean
one thing John Fetterman said today, I can't believe I'm
quoting him. If Republican George Santos deserved to be expelled, well,
the same things should then happen to the indicted Democratic
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senator from New Jersey, and that would be Bob Menendez.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
What's your reaction to.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
The expulsion, Well, it's like I'm not surprised. But to me,
I think the more important picture is that we have
a colleague in the Senate that actually does much more
sinister and serious kinds of things, Senator Menendez.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
He needs to go.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
And if you are going to expel Santos, how can
you allow to somebody like Menendez to remain in the Senate.
And you know, Santos's kind of lies were almost you know, funny,
and like you know, he you know, landed on the
moon and it got kind of stuff. Whereas whereas you know,
you know, I think you know, Menendez, I think is
really a senator for Egypt, you know, not New Jersey.
(23:47):
So I really think he needs to go. And especially
it's kind of strange that if Santos is not allowed
to remain in the House, you know, someone like that.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
I mean, first of all, I would not support that
that might like one of the few people that refuses
to rush to judgment, you know, does not go along
with this. You know, uh, this this constant pattern that people, Oh,
you're guilty, you're charge, You're guilty. No, I don't believe that.
I believe I can't get it until you've proven guilty. Yes,
(24:20):
go right ahead.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
I just want to give a slight comparison. This is
the same Congress, House and Senate that is unable to
vote to impeach Majorca's the same House and Senate that
is unable to vote on funding Israel. It's the same one.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
They had a chance this week to fund Israel in
a clean bill voting standalone.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Bill Shoomer's up there, Bryan, Oh my heart for Israel.
Oh really, once you rally the troop, Shimmer, just start
pulling some strings. We all know you have them.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Could we could have cut the check already.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Yep, crocodile tears. They're so full of crap. But Santos, Oh, yeah,
he's the problem, and this is listen. I have not
given my opinion on who he is and what he's about.
That's a different segment entirely. My point is when they
want to act, they act, and this is all like
pomp and circumstance. They could do things to help people,
then not.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
I think, how about we wait till they have their
trial and to presume, give them the presumption of innocence.
Why don't we stop rushing to judgment the way these
people do. I do have other good news, by the way,
bad news. If you're a Chris Christie fan, all fifteen
of you, it looks like Christie's days on the debate
stage may be numbered. He's not met the Republican National
(25:33):
Committee's polling thresholds or qualifying for next week's debate. I
didn't even know there was Oh, there is a debate
next week. That's right, with only a few days left. Anyway,
let's get to the phones. John is in the Commonwealth
of Virginia. Hey John, Happy Friday, sir, glad you called.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
On.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
How you doing, my friends?
Speaker 3 (25:52):
I'm good what's going on?
Speaker 6 (25:55):
Hey, it swet to a comment last night. I was
able to listen to the audio of last night, and
I thought, what you you handled it brilliantly. I think
what you letting them talk over one another for the
period of time that they did, I thought was brilliant.
What that taught me was how in typical Democrat fashion
newsomb just you can't he can't support his own position,
(26:19):
so he's got to talk down to be little talk
over now everybody else. And I thought, when you put
up the graphics and then he told us that you know,
it was a lie and that we shouldn't believe our
own eyes, I thought you handled it very very well.
I think you did a great job.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I honestly, I really appreciate it. It's a it's a
it's a balancing act. I mean, I've been posting radio
for thirty three years now, okay, and we've had many
shootout debates on this program, and you know, I have
learned it's kind of an art form. To the best
of my ability, there there are times when they're going
(27:00):
at it hard and people actually want to see it.
Now they'll tell you they don't, but they do. But
then there's then you got to balance that where Okay,
people are going to be getting pissed off and it's
got to stop and you got to get control of it.
So it's kind of like, you know, I'm always trying
to measure and usually I kind of go with my
own all Right, I've had enough of this. When I
(27:21):
get to that point, or somebody writes me and gets
and says and I see my text come in and
say this is getting old, I'll move on. I appreciate
your kind words, though, John, Thank you, buddy. Have a
great weekend. Adam in California, Adam, how.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Are you doing good?
Speaker 5 (27:37):
Doing good? I was in a chat group with a
bunch of my friends and I think I was like
one of maybe five conservatives in the group is about
a fifty or sixty friends. It was a large group
check but a lot of them thought that it was
two on one you and you and Santis against Newsom.
And I think I was the only one in there
that that knew that you have a relationship do some
(28:00):
outside of friendly relationship outside of politics.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Well, I mean, if you met him, he's a nice guy,
I will tell you that he's very you know, charming,
central casting. I mean, he could have been Michael Douglass
and the American President. I mean, and I think and
by the way, he's also sincere in his beliefs that part.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
I can tell you it's not a show.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Yeah, the guy. The guy definitely a camera.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Friendly, but they've been saying that for weeks leading up
to it. I actually joked with him in a text.
I'm like, oh, when are you gonna start saying it's
four on one, three oh one. He goes a great idea.
That was their way of sort of. It was just
their talking point to be very honest with you. But
it's meaningless to me because it was not Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
I thought you did a very good job. And besides,
regardless of what side me and my friends were on,
we all agreed that it was one of the best
debates that we have we haven't seen and we've heard.
You could have put it on a pay per view
and some people would have paid for it, like depending
on the price I might have, but we're all hanging
on the words of each one. It was like a
(29:02):
boxing match, man. I mean, you you killed it. You
did a very very good job.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
And well, once the once the debate part got got
once I got the topic out there, and maybe so.
I guess their complain is they didn't like how I
framed the questions. But all I did was they were
all fact based, sourced questions. Then if they you know,
as long as they gave each other room to breathe
and and took the time somewhat seriously, I just let
(29:29):
them go.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
I stayed out of it.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
Yeah you did. You did a really good job. The
fact that you had to breathe was was awesome. You
kind of let it, let it mature, I guess, so
to speak, in its own way. You let them talk,
and that was that was It was really good. At
times it kind of got hectic, but that added to
it because you can kind of feel both of them,
we're passionate about it. It was it was awesome.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Read that part was real, and that's why I think
that that debates like this are important to have. And yeah,
it's sometimes they're gonna have a little bit of talk
over and that's natural.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
It certainly wasn't boring, It certainly wasn't dull. It certainly
was relevant. And even though maybe your friends, you know,
don't like me or agree with me or whatever, I'm
glad they watched it. I will tell you this that
when we added up the total time, Avin Newsom got
more time than Ron De Santis in the end.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
So yeah, not very many people know that you, you
and Newsome actually like our friendly like outside of politics.
So when they see you, know, they when they're like, oh,
he's being biased, and somebody's like, well, did you guys
know that they're actually friendly outside of the showy.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
They gotta you gotta give them credit for showing up,
you really do. You got to give them credit for
jumping in the octagon. I give him a lot of
credit for that, and you know that that's all part.
It's part of the game. I'm like, when I saw
him yesterday, I said, oh, are you gonna say how
many times over under? Are you gonna say two on
one today? So but I appreciate you kind words. I'm
(31:01):
glad you watched. Tell your friends, I said, hello, and
I hope they enjoyed it. Eight hundred and ninety four one.
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Hannity is on.
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Speaker 1 (32:43):
I can't believe it's Friday, these weeks flying on by.
Happy Friday to everybody. All right, a lot of the
economic issues that we discussed last night, We'll talk to
Steve Moore about those. Joe Kanca, media analyst extraordinary, will
join us. We'll get his take on last night's big debate.
We also had a lot of discussion last night on
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