May 23, 2025 • 34 mins
Sean sits down with President Trump to talk about his trip to the Middle East and just how important it was for America.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yes, So, hey with us right now is Selena Zito,
who is the national political reporter for The Washington Examiner.
Got a big new book coming out Butler as in Butler, Pennsylvania,
and she's got a great article on the reason for
the attacks on Senator Fetterman and a whole lot of
stuff and lots to talk to her about. But make
sure you pre order that book Butler. And she's with
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us right now. Selena Zito, How you doing.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Oh, just living to dream? How are you doing, Mark.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I'm good, I'm good. And of Butler. If that had
happened to anybody else, it'd be a thousand books, it'd
be the most talked about thing, NonStop, day and night.
But because it was President Trump, the mainstream media couldn't
get off that story fast enough because he was absolutely heroic.
You know, if you look at what's going on as
far as looking into it, it's shockingly tiny. This investigation,
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you know, Oswald, the Kennedys, We saw a million press conferences,
interviews everything. What's going on with digging into this assassin?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Well, if your listeners don't know, I was just four
feet away from the President when he was shot at
I was in Butler and and the reason I was
so close to him in the buffer was because I
was supposed to fly with him along with my daughter,
who's a photo journalist who was beside me to Bedminster
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to do an extensive interview about Pennsylvania. Because I live
in Pennsylvania. I covered Pennsylvania. I've been in Pennsylvania forever,
and so I saw the entire thing, and I mean
made some very powerful and important phone calls to me
the next day, and we talked several times after that.
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But in terms of this investigation, you know, there there
was a congressional task force that looked into it, and
you know, a lot of the failures were institutional. There
was no there was little to no communication between the
state police, the local police, and the Secret Service. It
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was one of the many failings, which I find particularly
interesting considering that was one of the biggest failings of
nine to eleven because these larger, you know, institutions didn't
speak to each other, right, The CIA wasn't talking to
the Secret Service, wasn't talking to the FBI, and and
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and you just saw this on a different scale on
that day. And you'll you'll read a lot about that
in the book. You read a little more about Thomas
Crooks and his family, uh, but there has not been
a lot to dig into because the family basically lawyered
up right after the that day. But even still, I
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have some pretty striking things in there that will really
make I suspect this new administration, we will see something
come out. And you know, I suspect right now as
I took to local law enforcement that they're working on
that currently.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yeah, you know you keep hearing that. Well, there was
a lack of coordination. There was shorthanded, but simple things
like that, when you go to the area, a Secret
Service standard procedure scope out a thousand yards. They didn't
do that. They didn't bother to check all those roof ups.
How could that be?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I don't know, but I you know, when I went
back to my car, you know, after everything, they held
us for a long time. Those reporter there was just
in fact, that was the only reporter in the buffer
and a couple of photographers. When we came back out,
I realized that my car was parked right below where
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he climbed up and got on that roof. And I
mean it was a very open event. And I remember
saying that to my daughter. Only got there, thinking wow,
there's you know, I kept looking at the water tower
because if you look at some of the photos from
that day, there's a big water tower in the background
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behind where the stage was, and I remember thinking like, wow,
there must be a secret Service guy up there, right,
like there has to be right there wasn't. But I'll
tell you what. When I went back to Butler in October,
the shore was it was a completely different event and
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a completely different set of security.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Wow, which I was Selena Zito, who want you to
order her book Butler, the new book coming out. So
shots are fired, sometimes it takes a second or two
or three or more to realize what's going When did
you realize what was happening?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Well, I'm a gun owner, you know, I think most
of the people in western Pennsylvania are, So I knew
immediately what was happening. And and so four shots went
over my head and and I looked to the president
and I saw the like the red streak across his face,
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and I I but when the second four shots went
off at that same time, I saw a sea of
blue it already surrounded him. I saw him get down
on his knee, and so I knew he wasn't taken down.
Oh okay, I it was a very Oh but you've like,
remember I'm four feet away, I'm right there.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Yeah, we assume they tackled him to the ground to
cover him.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
No, they they just covered him. They put a protective
stance around him, and he kneeled down. And I just
happened because I was writing about the event. I had
my recorder on, and I picked up almost the entire
conversation between him and the Sacred Service as as he's
down and they're around him, and and I had a
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understanding that he was okay. When the second four shots
went off, his campaign press advanced guy, his name is
Michelle Picard like took me down. He's like, what are
you crazy? And there's this sort of iconic photo of
me that ran on like the front page of every
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newspaper in the country along with the shot of Trump,
because all you see are my red, white and blue
cowboy boots and him on top of me. Like my
entire family thought I was dead, because you know, he
told me. They told me to not move, and I obeyed.
I didn't move. But as a reporter, as someone that
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is naturally curious, I'm watching everything that's going on, and
I'm taking, you know, photos with my phone. My recorder
is on, and one of the most powerful moments in
the book is when President called me the next morning,
first thing in the morning. And you know I've interviewed
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President Trump about two thousand times over the past ten years.
Well how many years has it been? Ten years? Yeah,
and those conversations, Well, the first thing he asked was
are you okay? And then my mom's going to be
really mad at me for swearing even though I'm sixty
five years old. But I said to him, have they
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been kidding me? You're the one who was shot. But
you will understand if you watch the expediency and everything
that he has done since the moment he was sworn in,
including this robust meetings that have happened in the Middle East.
You understand when you read this conversation, so he has
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with me why he is doing things at breaknext speak.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Well, you can read it in her new book. It's
called Butler, and people cann't pre order it now.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Oh, I would be absolutely lovely if you pre ordered
it now. It comes out July eight. But you know,
I'm not a reporter from DC or New York, so
booksellers don't always stock authors like me unless there's a
lot of pre orders. Yeah, and the president has robustly
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endorsed my work.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah, pre ordered the book and I don't know why,
but if you pre ordered, you always get it first
for some reason. It comes like a week or two early. Oh,
so pre order it. It's Butler and it's by Selena Zito.
You can get it to Amazon or wherever you get
your books. So when he was on the ground, they
pushed him down, they held him down below that the
bunting is bulletproof. That's why they kept him down there.
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But what did you see that we wouldn't have known
about it. I know they wanted to take him out
on a stretcher and he wouldn't do that.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
And he wanted his shoes, but what else he wanted
his shoes?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Actually, it's pretty funny. At some point you hear he's
like insistent about his shoes. And at one point I
one of the secret Service agents they're trying to get
him off the stage, right, and he's insisted about his shoes.
And finally I hear one of them say fine, and
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and so you know, he you know, they bring him
past me as you know, I'm you know, sort of
right there, and I'll never forget this is very serial moment.
Where his hat, which one of the Secret Service agents
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had in their arm, like in the crock of the arm.
I think I bet there's video of it, because you
can see it in the corner of their arm, and
I think when you see them go over by the beast,
it's no longer there. Well, I don't know if that
was the beast at that point, but whatever, right, it
just like slowly it was. It was almost like something
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out of a movie.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
So after it was gone, they took him away. How
long did you remain? How long did the audience remain?
Speaker 3 (11:02):
You know, it's really I'll never forget this. That crowd
was so well behaved. They just quietly left and filed
out of there. There was no screaming, there was no swearing.
People were really it's hard to describe. It was just
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this orderly exit, and even they kept me for about
an hour in the back. When I come back, when
my daughter and I come back out, the field is
completely empty, which when we went in there was fifty
thousand people there. But when we get to our car,
you know, it's sort of like over a hill and
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just a rolling hill. This is farmland, Pennsylvania farmland. Anybody's
been in Pennsylvania farmland. You know, it's very slow rolling hill.
You get over the hill and there's everyone's still in
the parking lots. An hour later, and remarkably, people are
outside their cars, some of them hugging, talking, They're sharing
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water back and forth, they're sharing food back and forth.
It was It made me so proud to be a
Pennsylvanian and to be an American in that moment, because
that could have gone very, very differently had it been
a different crowd. But that crowd knew that they were
somewhere historic, and they knew that there was something there
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that happened that was change everything in the country. And
they behaved. They treated the moment with the respect that
it deserved. And I will never I mean I still
get chills thinking about it. There was a guy across
from me in a car across from me, and you know,
we start talking, and of course there's always zero degrees
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of separation between people, right I find out his mom,
who's ninety two in the back of the car, went
to high school with my mom. You know, there was
moments like that across this massive field. You know, remember
there's fifty thousand people there. Nobody's blowing their horns, nobody's screaming,
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nobody's you know, moaning or yapping. It was it was
really a proud moment.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Well have you ever gone back there to that field?
Have you ever thought of going back?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Oh? Yeah. So the rest of the book is is
it's very much looking at Pennsylvania and how I saw
how much this coalition was changing. You know, I understood
the youth vote. I remember writing saying, there are so
many young people here. You guys aren't paying attention. And
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of course people would laugh at me, and I remember saying,
there's a lot of or any voters here, you know,
as I went to each event or when I went
across the state, I mean I put eighty thousand miles
in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Well, and.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I went out to Lehigh Valley after the Madison Square
Garden and everyone's like, and this is a highly concentrated
Puerto Rican city, and everyone was saying, oh, they're you know,
he's saying garbage. They're not going to vote for him.
And I go out there and they're like, uh, what
do you think. We can't take a joke. And I
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kept reporting this, and for somehow it kept getting dismissed
so it's really on the ground. But I interviewed President
Trump in Butler again on a death. I also was
the only reporter to interview Elon Musk this entire election.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Well, I wish we had more time. I'll have to
do this again. But Selena Zito's book is called Butler.
We want you to pre order it right now. Go
to Amazon. Pre order the book. It's called Butler. As
you can hear, it's a riveting book. Selena Zito, thanks
for being with us.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Oh, thanks so much for having me. You guys have
a great day.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
All right, take care. Order the book Butler Amazon. We're
heere to get books coming up. Sean Hannity talks with
President Trump. Mark Simone here for Sean on the Sean
Hannity Show. Hey, welcome back. It's the Sean Hannity Show.
It's Mark Simone. We'll hear Sean talk with President Trump
in just a couple of minutes. James Comy on Instagram.
How nuts you got to be to follow James Coley
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on Instagram. You've got to be really lonely.
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Does not have a lot of followers.
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president eighty six, you know in a restaurant means gone, canceled, gone.
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I don't know. Is this a threat?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I'll tell you right now. For him to ever have
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what a joke? Well saying, you know, he's telling people
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Yeah, it's disgusting. We have a new US attorney for
the District of Columbia. Oh, Janine, Yeah, Jenny, you might
want to put this on the list. I know you
got Andrew Wiseman. They're going to take a good look
at that. Merrick Garland. What a sleeves ball he was.
You got Jack Smith, You got a lot of dirty
cops to get to call me as disgusting as he is.
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You think he had half a brain. You don't put
something like that on on Instagram. Hey, we're out of time,
Mark Simone here now when we come back, don't go away,
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too long to get into one show. It's Sean Hannity
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Don't forget Rubyo Rubio tonight on Hannity. But you'll hear
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Speaker 2 (19:04):
He aired part one a couple days ago. Part two.
He did this all on Air Force one as the
President took his first trip in his second term here
to the Middle East, and he featured that second part
last night. So although he can't be with us today,
he asked that we please make sure that our radio
audience got to see and hear this interview today.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
This is important stuff. Sean Hannity on Air Force One
with President Trump.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
There are many legs to your economic plan that you're
laying out.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
One is one of the trade deals.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Second is tax cuts permanent, no tax tips, no tap
tax social security right, no tax overtime.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
Another leg would be energy.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
Interest deduction in cars. Remember that, no tax on tips,
no tax on social security benefits for seniors, which is
so great, think of it, And no tax on overtime.
But there's a fourth leg that I think is really important.
Of that where middle income people, but any people. If
you buy a car made in America only, I'm not
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interested if it's made anywhere else, I couldn't care less.
But if it's made in America, you get and you
borrow money to buy the car, which I guess eighty
percent of the people do. You get a tax deduction
on your interest fadments. That's a big deal. That's never
happened before.
Speaker 7 (20:20):
A big deal for people that are buying cars.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
But that's a huge that's a huge game changer for
the car industry.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
Too huge. I think.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
One part that you can't control, although maybe you really
can because you have such influence with the Republican Party
is the one big beautiful bill.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
You put out a big statement on that today.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
And how confident are you haven't spent time with majority
leader though Speaker of the House Johnson.
Speaker 8 (20:47):
First of all, Johnson and Thune have been unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
They've done a great job.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
Their soul is into this, their whole heart and soul,
and they're working so hard.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
And it's always tough when you have a very small
You know, we have.
Speaker 8 (21:01):
A majority, but it's by in the Senate three votes
and in the Republican in the in Congress it's seven
now it was one.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
For a period of time.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
We won some.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
Elections in the meantime, but it was actually one. So
now it's seven. And I would say this even before
this big drug and could take a look the cuts
that I announced to that if you take a look
at the pharmaceutical and drug cuts, they're so massive that
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I think a lot of Democrats have to vote to
the bill number one, number two, even if I didn't
do this today, even if there was no such thing
as he's you know, fifty to ninety percent cuts.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
I mean, think of it where we're buying.
Speaker 8 (21:46):
You're selling drugs in other countries for five times more.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Than a coast in the United States.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
How horrible that is anyway, But that's going to be a.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
Thing of the tell of them the cancer drugs too.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
It's very unfair, very unfair to people.
Speaker 8 (22:02):
They have cancer, they don't have much money, they have
enough money to get through this, but then they end
up going bank You know, people were getting themselves fixed
up or not getting fixed.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Up either way, and still they.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
Were going bankrupt all over the place because they couldn't
afford the drugs. But if they lived in a different
country they were to pay just a fraction. Think of
how horrible that is anyway, So I fixed that nobody
thought it was fixable, and I fixed it. But even
without that, I think we would have gotten the bill
passed with it. I think a lot of Democrats have
to vote. I saw that a couple of Democrats said,
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I'd like to be in charge of I don't know
if you saw that. You have a couple of people
that go on your show that I assume are moderate
Democrats without mentioning names, and both of them said, I
don't know about you.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
But I think I'm going to be voting for this bill.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
I think a lot of Democrats are going to be
forced to vote for the bill because you know, you
add this due element that if this bill passes, you're
going to get a fifty to ninety reduction in prescription
drugs and pharmaceuticals. When you add that in, how does
the Democrat not vote. I don't think they can win
an election if they don't vote for it. But even
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if you don't include it, I think that the Republicans
are very unified and something would happen where they.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Will get this vote. Well, I think it's imperative they vote.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
But look at the Democratic Party, look at the leadership
that'submerged Jasmine Crockett, AOC the squad, Grandpa Bernie that they
seem to be the most.
Speaker 8 (23:32):
Now look at Schumer. He turned out to be a Palestinian.
I knew him right at the beginning. And I tell
you what Schumer's turned out. We call him the Palestinian Senator,
the Senator from Palestine.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Palestine.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
No, Chuck Schumer is very disupposed to be afraid to
go against that radical base.
Speaker 8 (23:54):
I think he's afraid. Yeah, I think he's I watch him.
He's lost his confidence totally. Just watched section.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
I've known him so long and he's.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
In the other party. But you know, I've known the
guy so long. He's totally lost his confidence.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
You know, it's interesting.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
We're talking about the radicalism of the left, and what's
really fascinating is you take up a lot of space
in their head.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
And it's funny. You said, how could they possibly.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
Vote against lower prescription drug costs? But in the US Senate,
the Democrats were championing the right of men to play
women's sports. They've been the party of fighting for the
rights of illegals, even Trende or Ragua or Brego, Garcia, etc.
They're the party that thinks it's a constitutional crisis that
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you and DOJE have had nearly two hundred billion dollars
in waste, fraud and abuse. They think that's a constitutional crisis.
So you're asking, how could they be that extreme? Aren't
they that extreme?
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Well, not all of them. I think you have a
lot of them that they don't know where they are now.
I think they don't know what to do.
Speaker 8 (25:01):
Like men playing in women's sports. I saw a guy
that I know, a good guy Democrat. He's trying to
justify two days ago on television. He's being hammered and
he's trying to justify men playing in women's sports, and
it's sad. I wanted to call them and say, you
better get off that subject. That's not an eighty twenty.
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That's about a ninety seven to three.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (25:25):
If they talk about you know the famous, they always
say it's eighty twenty. What's not a lot of these
things are not eighty twenty, Like transgender for everybody. Let's
have transgender for everybody, your kids, everybody. That's not an
eighty twenty. They always say that's eighty twenty. That's that
that's ninety nine to one. I would say, so, look
in one way. I don't like talking about it because
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I don't want to talk them out of it, because
you know, it would be harder to beat them if
they were normal on things. It shows that they're almost insane,
and they do suffer from Trump de rangement syndrome at
a high level. And I guess I'm honored by that.
But I'll say this. Look, we had an election. You
were so wonderful to me. You were really an amazing professional.
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It's you did it for the right reason. You didn't
do it for the wrong reason, but you were so professional.
We won every swing state, We won the popular vote
by a lot, We won everything. We want. A thing
called that people don't like districts. So in the country
you have districts, thousands of districts. We got two thousand,
seven hundred and fifty districts versus five hundred and.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Twenty five districts. Think of that. That's why when you
look at a map, it's actually.
Speaker 8 (26:37):
A very important stat When you look at a map,
the map shows has practically all read the Republican Party.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
And this is a big party.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
You know.
Speaker 8 (26:46):
We look how well we did with the auto workers.
We won the teamsters, the teamsters are big for us.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
They were.
Speaker 8 (26:53):
The unions were big. The non unions were big. That
right to work was massive, but the unions. We won
unions all over the place, and we basically won workers.
We also won people of common sense, rich people, poor people,
middle income people.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
We want sort of everybody.
Speaker 8 (27:11):
You know, if you take a look at this match,
you know we did great with Hispanic The Hispanic people
came to us like nobody's.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Ever seen before.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
We think the Republican Party is now the party of
working men and women.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
I do know.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
When you put out the threat of tariffs, it was
interesting between countries and companies.
Speaker 7 (27:30):
And I would scroll the list on my TV.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
Show pledging eight trillion dollars trillion with a tea in
manufacturing wood, hips, cars, pharmaceuticals. They're going to manufacture back
in this country. That was just a threat of tariffs.
Now the deals are beginning to follow.
Speaker 8 (27:48):
So we're here for really two months, because it's three
and a half.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
But you've got to.
Speaker 8 (27:53):
Give me a month to get ready, you know, make
the Oval office a little more beautiful and things like
that that we're doing right. But so we're really here,
let's say, actively.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
For two months. So in two months.
Speaker 8 (28:07):
We have probably over ten trillion dollars committed ten trillion dollars,
whereas most presidents wouldn't have one trillion over the course
of the entire presidency. And if you look at this
poor soul, this lost soul from the last presidency. And
I say that because he was a very mean person.
(28:28):
They went after our people, including me. But he was
a very mean person. He was not a smart person.
In fact, if you go back thirty years ago, he
wasn't a smart person. You go back to Prime time
with him, he wasn't a smart person.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
But he was a very mean person. Joe Biden's a
very mean person.
Speaker 8 (28:45):
People don't understand that they've ruined lives, They've ruined families.
They've ruined so many people that they could have ruined me.
They tried to ruin me, But we're now in Air
Force one flying nicely to the Middle East strength. But
they tried to ruin me. But some people weren't able
to fight back. Their families have been destroyed. And the
(29:06):
level he knew what was going on too.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
I'd never been on Air Force one with you before,
but I did go to Helsinki, Singapore and Vietnam. I
was on those trips and I interviewed you on many
of them. Do you ever think that, maybe, in the end,
in spite of all that they threw at you, that
it was better that you had a break between terms.
(29:31):
Do you ever think about that? Do you ever think
did you ever really at about you took all of it?
They were after you so hard, you took all your chips,
put them in the middle of the table, and it
was either here, Air Force one, in the White House,
and probably someplace that I don't really want to be.
Speaker 8 (29:50):
I knew that running was very dangerous because I knew
how evil these people were. I knew how they cheat,
they steal, they live, They are a horrible.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Group of people.
Speaker 8 (30:01):
And I knew that if I ran, I exposed myself
to a lot of danger. But I felt I had to,
and especially after they started, they were so bad at
running this country.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
They were destroying the country open borders.
Speaker 8 (30:13):
I didn't believe it because I built hundreds of miles
of wall, and there were some areas.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
That they should have built, and it was all ready.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
To go up.
Speaker 8 (30:22):
It was going to be put up in a matter
of weeks, and they didn't do it. I said, wow,
they really offer open borders. They should have automatically done it.
And after doing an incredible job building literally hundreds and hundreds.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Of miles of wall, and we were doing.
Speaker 8 (30:37):
So good, and you know, we had the border really
under control until he came in and then he just
opened it up, and I said, wow, he really wants
open borders. And then he actually announced he wants to
have open borders, and you know that means people coming
from all over the world, from prisons, from mental institutions,
from gangs all over Venezuela and other countries.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
And now I saw what they were doing. I felt
I had to run.
Speaker 8 (31:02):
If I didn't run, I really believe if I didn't
win this election, this country would be finished. I don't
think it would have had a chance of surviving.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
You would have had you would have had.
Speaker 8 (31:14):
The most radical lunatics, You would have had people rioting.
It would have been this would have been in the
experiment of you know, they call it the Great Experiment.
The Great Experiment would have ended very badly.
Speaker 7 (31:30):
But you personally put it all on the line.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
There was a lot, a lot obviously writing on this
for the country I did, and a lot writing on
it personally for you, because you know what they wanted
to do.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Yeah, No, they wanted to do whatever they could. They
wanted to have me locked up for three hundred years.
These are the worst human beings you've ever seen.
Speaker 8 (31:49):
It was a fight against this political opponent, and they
said it, but it was a fight against this political opponent.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
They would have used any means possible.
Speaker 8 (31:58):
Look, Kobe was horrible, they were all These were all
horrible people. And I fired chbe fortunately very early, very early.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
But you know, they would have used whatever means possible.
Speaker 8 (32:10):
These are vicious people, and Biden is a vicious person.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Biden's a stupid person.
Speaker 8 (32:16):
He's a low IQ person, but he's vicious and that's
a bad combination.
Speaker 6 (32:21):
Last question, we have our first American pope. He does
seem to disagree with you on immigration. Putting that aside,
would you like to talk to him about that?
Speaker 4 (32:30):
For sure? I mean I would. He was really a
surprise choice.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
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Hey, Welcome to the Sean Hannity Show. It's Mark Simone
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Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yes, So, hey with us right now is Selena Zito,
who is the national political reporter for The Washington Examiner.
Got a big new book coming out Butler as in Butler, Pennsylvania,
and she's got a great article on the reason for
the attacks on Senator Fetterman and a whole lot of
stuff and lots to talk to her about. But make
sure you pre order that book Butler. And she's with
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us right now. Selena Zito, How you doing.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Oh, just living to dream? How are you doing, Mark.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I'm good, I'm good. And of Butler. If that had
happened to anybody else, it'd be a thousand books, it'd
be the most talked about thing, NonStop, day and night.
But because it was President Trump, the mainstream media couldn't
get off that story fast enough because he was absolutely heroic.
You know, if you look at what's going on as
far as looking into it, it's shockingly tiny. This investigation,
(01:47):
you know, Oswald, the Kennedys, We saw a million press conferences,
interviews everything. What's going on with digging into this assassin?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Well, if your listeners don't know, I was just four
feet away from the President when he was shot at
I was in Butler and and the reason I was
so close to him in the buffer was because I
was supposed to fly with him along with my daughter,
who's a photo journalist who was beside me to Bedminster
(02:19):
to do an extensive interview about Pennsylvania. Because I live
in Pennsylvania. I covered Pennsylvania. I've been in Pennsylvania forever,
and so I saw the entire thing, and I mean
made some very powerful and important phone calls to me
the next day, and we talked several times after that.
(02:42):
But in terms of this investigation, you know, there there
was a congressional task force that looked into it, and
you know, a lot of the failures were institutional. There
was no there was little to no communication between the
state police, the local police, and the Secret Service. It
(03:05):
was one of the many failings, which I find particularly
interesting considering that was one of the biggest failings of
nine to eleven because these larger, you know, institutions didn't
speak to each other, right, The CIA wasn't talking to
the Secret Service, wasn't talking to the FBI, and and
(03:27):
and you just saw this on a different scale on
that day. And you'll you'll read a lot about that
in the book. You read a little more about Thomas
Crooks and his family, uh, but there has not been
a lot to dig into because the family basically lawyered
up right after the that day. But even still, I
(03:51):
have some pretty striking things in there that will really
make I suspect this new administration, we will see something
come out. And you know, I suspect right now as
I took to local law enforcement that they're working on
that currently.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yeah, you know you keep hearing that. Well, there was
a lack of coordination. There was shorthanded, but simple things
like that, when you go to the area, a Secret
Service standard procedure scope out a thousand yards. They didn't
do that. They didn't bother to check all those roof ups.
How could that be?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I don't know, but I you know, when I went
back to my car, you know, after everything, they held
us for a long time. Those reporter there was just
in fact, that was the only reporter in the buffer
and a couple of photographers. When we came back out,
I realized that my car was parked right below where
(04:49):
he climbed up and got on that roof. And I
mean it was a very open event. And I remember
saying that to my daughter. Only got there, thinking wow,
there's you know, I kept looking at the water tower
because if you look at some of the photos from
that day, there's a big water tower in the background
(05:12):
behind where the stage was, and I remember thinking like, wow,
there must be a secret Service guy up there, right,
like there has to be right there wasn't. But I'll
tell you what. When I went back to Butler in October,
the shore was it was a completely different event and
(05:33):
a completely different set of security.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Wow, which I was Selena Zito, who want you to
order her book Butler, the new book coming out. So
shots are fired, sometimes it takes a second or two
or three or more to realize what's going When did
you realize what was happening?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Well, I'm a gun owner, you know, I think most
of the people in western Pennsylvania are, So I knew
immediately what was happening. And and so four shots went
over my head and and I looked to the president
and I saw the like the red streak across his face,
(06:13):
and I I but when the second four shots went
off at that same time, I saw a sea of
blue it already surrounded him. I saw him get down
on his knee, and so I knew he wasn't taken down.
Oh okay, I it was a very Oh but you've like,
remember I'm four feet away, I'm right there.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Yeah, we assume they tackled him to the ground to
cover him.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
No, they they just covered him. They put a protective
stance around him, and he kneeled down. And I just
happened because I was writing about the event. I had
my recorder on, and I picked up almost the entire
conversation between him and the Sacred Service as as he's
down and they're around him, and and I had a
(07:00):
understanding that he was okay. When the second four shots
went off, his campaign press advanced guy, his name is
Michelle Picard like took me down. He's like, what are
you crazy? And there's this sort of iconic photo of
me that ran on like the front page of every
(07:20):
newspaper in the country along with the shot of Trump,
because all you see are my red, white and blue
cowboy boots and him on top of me. Like my
entire family thought I was dead, because you know, he
told me. They told me to not move, and I obeyed.
I didn't move. But as a reporter, as someone that
(07:41):
is naturally curious, I'm watching everything that's going on, and
I'm taking, you know, photos with my phone. My recorder
is on, and one of the most powerful moments in
the book is when President called me the next morning,
first thing in the morning. And you know I've interviewed
(08:02):
President Trump about two thousand times over the past ten years.
Well how many years has it been? Ten years? Yeah,
and those conversations, Well, the first thing he asked was
are you okay? And then my mom's going to be
really mad at me for swearing even though I'm sixty
five years old. But I said to him, have they
(08:24):
been kidding me? You're the one who was shot. But
you will understand if you watch the expediency and everything
that he has done since the moment he was sworn in,
including this robust meetings that have happened in the Middle East.
You understand when you read this conversation, so he has
(08:45):
with me why he is doing things at breaknext speak.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Well, you can read it in her new book. It's
called Butler, and people cann't pre order it now.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Oh, I would be absolutely lovely if you pre ordered
it now. It comes out July eight. But you know,
I'm not a reporter from DC or New York, so
booksellers don't always stock authors like me unless there's a
lot of pre orders. Yeah, and the president has robustly
(09:17):
endorsed my work.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah, pre ordered the book and I don't know why,
but if you pre ordered, you always get it first
for some reason. It comes like a week or two early. Oh,
so pre order it. It's Butler and it's by Selena Zito.
You can get it to Amazon or wherever you get
your books. So when he was on the ground, they
pushed him down, they held him down below that the
bunting is bulletproof. That's why they kept him down there.
(09:41):
But what did you see that we wouldn't have known
about it. I know they wanted to take him out
on a stretcher and he wouldn't do that.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
And he wanted his shoes, but what else he wanted
his shoes?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Actually, it's pretty funny. At some point you hear he's
like insistent about his shoes. And at one point I
one of the secret Service agents they're trying to get
him off the stage, right, and he's insisted about his shoes.
And finally I hear one of them say fine, and
(10:13):
and so you know, he you know, they bring him
past me as you know, I'm you know, sort of
right there, and I'll never forget this is very serial moment.
Where his hat, which one of the Secret Service agents
(10:33):
had in their arm, like in the crock of the arm.
I think I bet there's video of it, because you
can see it in the corner of their arm, and
I think when you see them go over by the beast,
it's no longer there. Well, I don't know if that
was the beast at that point, but whatever, right, it
just like slowly it was. It was almost like something
(10:55):
out of a movie.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
So after it was gone, they took him away. How
long did you remain? How long did the audience remain?
Speaker 3 (11:02):
You know, it's really I'll never forget this. That crowd
was so well behaved. They just quietly left and filed
out of there. There was no screaming, there was no swearing.
People were really it's hard to describe. It was just
(11:25):
this orderly exit, and even they kept me for about
an hour in the back. When I come back, when
my daughter and I come back out, the field is
completely empty, which when we went in there was fifty
thousand people there. But when we get to our car,
you know, it's sort of like over a hill and
(11:47):
just a rolling hill. This is farmland, Pennsylvania farmland. Anybody's
been in Pennsylvania farmland. You know, it's very slow rolling hill.
You get over the hill and there's everyone's still in
the parking lots. An hour later, and remarkably, people are
outside their cars, some of them hugging, talking, They're sharing
(12:08):
water back and forth, they're sharing food back and forth.
It was It made me so proud to be a
Pennsylvanian and to be an American in that moment, because
that could have gone very, very differently had it been
a different crowd. But that crowd knew that they were
somewhere historic, and they knew that there was something there
(12:32):
that happened that was change everything in the country. And
they behaved. They treated the moment with the respect that
it deserved. And I will never I mean I still
get chills thinking about it. There was a guy across
from me in a car across from me, and you know,
we start talking, and of course there's always zero degrees
(12:54):
of separation between people, right I find out his mom,
who's ninety two in the back of the car, went
to high school with my mom. You know, there was
moments like that across this massive field. You know, remember
there's fifty thousand people there. Nobody's blowing their horns, nobody's screaming,
(13:14):
nobody's you know, moaning or yapping. It was it was
really a proud moment.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Well have you ever gone back there to that field?
Have you ever thought of going back?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Oh? Yeah. So the rest of the book is is
it's very much looking at Pennsylvania and how I saw
how much this coalition was changing. You know, I understood
the youth vote. I remember writing saying, there are so
many young people here. You guys aren't paying attention. And
(13:48):
of course people would laugh at me, and I remember saying,
there's a lot of or any voters here, you know,
as I went to each event or when I went
across the state, I mean I put eighty thousand miles
in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Well, and.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I went out to Lehigh Valley after the Madison Square
Garden and everyone's like, and this is a highly concentrated
Puerto Rican city, and everyone was saying, oh, they're you know,
he's saying garbage. They're not going to vote for him.
And I go out there and they're like, uh, what
do you think. We can't take a joke. And I
(14:24):
kept reporting this, and for somehow it kept getting dismissed
so it's really on the ground. But I interviewed President
Trump in Butler again on a death. I also was
the only reporter to interview Elon Musk this entire election.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Well, I wish we had more time. I'll have to
do this again. But Selena Zito's book is called Butler.
We want you to pre order it right now. Go
to Amazon. Pre order the book. It's called Butler. As
you can hear, it's a riveting book. Selena Zito, thanks
for being with us.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Oh, thanks so much for having me. You guys have
a great day.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
All right, take care. Order the book Butler Amazon. We're
heere to get books coming up. Sean Hannity talks with
President Trump. Mark Simone here for Sean on the Sean
Hannity Show. Hey, welcome back. It's the Sean Hannity Show.
It's Mark Simone. We'll hear Sean talk with President Trump
in just a couple of minutes. James Comy on Instagram.
How nuts you got to be to follow James Coley
(15:22):
on Instagram. You've got to be really lonely.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Does not have a lot of followers.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Let me see, no, not a lot, but he puts
up a picture where's it's spelled out in the sand
eighty six forty seven, forty seven meaning Trump forty seventh
president eighty six, you know in a restaurant means gone, canceled, gone.
(15:48):
I don't know. Is this a threat?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I'll tell you right now. For him to ever have
held the office of the highest leader in our you know, policing,
what a joke? Well saying, you know, he's telling people
walk and kill the president.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, it's disgusting. We have a new US attorney for
the District of Columbia. Oh, Janine, Yeah, Jenny, you might
want to put this on the list. I know you
got Andrew Wiseman. They're going to take a good look
at that. Merrick Garland. What a sleeves ball he was.
You got Jack Smith, You got a lot of dirty
cops to get to call me as disgusting as he is.
(16:24):
You think he had half a brain. You don't put
something like that on on Instagram. Hey, we're out of time,
Mark Simone here now when we come back, don't go away,
you're can This was an amazing interview and it was
too long to get into one show. It's Sean Hannity
talking with President Trump and he.
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Don't forget Rubyo Rubio tonight on Hannity. But you'll hear
the part two of the interview Sean Hannity President Trump,
and it's next.
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He did this all on Air Force one as the
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he asked that we please make sure that our radio
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This is important stuff. Sean Hannity on Air Force One
with President Trump.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
There are many legs to your economic plan that you're
laying out.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
One is one of the trade deals.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Second is tax cuts permanent, no tax tips, no tap
tax social security right, no tax overtime.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
Another leg would be energy.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
Interest deduction in cars. Remember that, no tax on tips,
no tax on social security benefits for seniors, which is
so great, think of it, And no tax on overtime.
But there's a fourth leg that I think is really important.
Of that where middle income people, but any people. If
you buy a car made in America only, I'm not
(20:04):
interested if it's made anywhere else, I couldn't care less.
But if it's made in America, you get and you
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A big deal for people that are buying cars.
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But that's a huge that's a huge game changer for
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Too huge. I think.
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You put out a big statement on that today.
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And how confident are you haven't spent time with majority
leader though Speaker of the House Johnson.
Speaker 8 (20:47):
First of all, Johnson and Thune have been unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
They've done a great job.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
Their soul is into this, their whole heart and soul,
and they're working so hard.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
And it's always tough when you have a very small
You know, we have.
Speaker 8 (21:01):
A majority, but it's by in the Senate three votes
and in the Republican in the in Congress it's seven
now it was one.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
For a period of time.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
We won some.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
Elections in the meantime, but it was actually one. So
now it's seven. And I would say this even before
this big drug and could take a look the cuts
that I announced to that if you take a look
at the pharmaceutical and drug cuts, they're so massive that
(21:32):
I think a lot of Democrats have to vote to
the bill number one, number two, even if I didn't
do this today, even if there was no such thing
as he's you know, fifty to ninety percent cuts.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
I mean, think of it where we're buying.
Speaker 8 (21:46):
You're selling drugs in other countries for five times more.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Than a coast in the United States.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
How horrible that is anyway, But that's going to be a.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
Thing of the tell of them the cancer drugs too.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
It's very unfair, very unfair to people.
Speaker 8 (22:02):
They have cancer, they don't have much money, they have
enough money to get through this, but then they end
up going bank You know, people were getting themselves fixed
up or not getting fixed.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Up either way, and still they.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
Were going bankrupt all over the place because they couldn't
afford the drugs. But if they lived in a different
country they were to pay just a fraction. Think of
how horrible that is anyway, So I fixed that nobody
thought it was fixable, and I fixed it. But even
without that, I think we would have gotten the bill
passed with it. I think a lot of Democrats have
to vote. I saw that a couple of Democrats said,
(22:37):
I'd like to be in charge of I don't know
if you saw that. You have a couple of people
that go on your show that I assume are moderate
Democrats without mentioning names, and both of them said, I
don't know about you.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
But I think I'm going to be voting for this bill.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
I think a lot of Democrats are going to be
forced to vote for the bill because you know, you
add this due element that if this bill passes, you're
going to get a fifty to ninety reduction in prescription
drugs and pharmaceuticals. When you add that in, how does
the Democrat not vote. I don't think they can win
an election if they don't vote for it. But even
(23:13):
if you don't include it, I think that the Republicans
are very unified and something would happen where they.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Will get this vote. Well, I think it's imperative they vote.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
But look at the Democratic Party, look at the leadership
that'submerged Jasmine Crockett, AOC the squad, Grandpa Bernie that they
seem to be the most.
Speaker 8 (23:32):
Now look at Schumer. He turned out to be a Palestinian.
I knew him right at the beginning. And I tell
you what Schumer's turned out. We call him the Palestinian Senator,
the Senator from Palestine.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Palestine.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
No, Chuck Schumer is very disupposed to be afraid to
go against that radical base.
Speaker 8 (23:54):
I think he's afraid. Yeah, I think he's I watch him.
He's lost his confidence totally. Just watched section.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
I've known him so long and he's.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
In the other party. But you know, I've known the
guy so long. He's totally lost his confidence.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
You know, it's interesting.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
We're talking about the radicalism of the left, and what's
really fascinating is you take up a lot of space
in their head.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
And it's funny. You said, how could they possibly.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
Vote against lower prescription drug costs? But in the US Senate,
the Democrats were championing the right of men to play
women's sports. They've been the party of fighting for the
rights of illegals, even Trende or Ragua or Brego, Garcia, etc.
They're the party that thinks it's a constitutional crisis that
(24:42):
you and DOJE have had nearly two hundred billion dollars
in waste, fraud and abuse. They think that's a constitutional crisis.
So you're asking, how could they be that extreme? Aren't
they that extreme?
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Well, not all of them. I think you have a
lot of them that they don't know where they are now.
I think they don't know what to do.
Speaker 8 (25:01):
Like men playing in women's sports. I saw a guy
that I know, a good guy Democrat. He's trying to
justify two days ago on television. He's being hammered and
he's trying to justify men playing in women's sports, and
it's sad. I wanted to call them and say, you
better get off that subject. That's not an eighty twenty.
(25:22):
That's about a ninety seven to three.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (25:25):
If they talk about you know the famous, they always
say it's eighty twenty. What's not a lot of these
things are not eighty twenty, Like transgender for everybody. Let's
have transgender for everybody, your kids, everybody. That's not an
eighty twenty. They always say that's eighty twenty. That's that
that's ninety nine to one. I would say, so, look
in one way. I don't like talking about it because
(25:47):
I don't want to talk them out of it, because
you know, it would be harder to beat them if
they were normal on things. It shows that they're almost insane,
and they do suffer from Trump de rangement syndrome at
a high level. And I guess I'm honored by that.
But I'll say this. Look, we had an election. You
were so wonderful to me. You were really an amazing professional.
(26:09):
It's you did it for the right reason. You didn't
do it for the wrong reason, but you were so professional.
We won every swing state, We won the popular vote
by a lot, We won everything. We want. A thing
called that people don't like districts. So in the country
you have districts, thousands of districts. We got two thousand,
seven hundred and fifty districts versus five hundred and.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Twenty five districts. Think of that. That's why when you
look at a map, it's actually.
Speaker 8 (26:37):
A very important stat When you look at a map,
the map shows has practically all read the Republican Party.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
And this is a big party.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
You know.
Speaker 8 (26:46):
We look how well we did with the auto workers.
We won the teamsters, the teamsters are big for us.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
They were.
Speaker 8 (26:53):
The unions were big. The non unions were big. That
right to work was massive, but the unions. We won
unions all over the place, and we basically won workers.
We also won people of common sense, rich people, poor people,
middle income people.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
We want sort of everybody.
Speaker 8 (27:11):
You know, if you take a look at this match,
you know we did great with Hispanic The Hispanic people
came to us like nobody's.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Ever seen before.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
We think the Republican Party is now the party of
working men and women.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
I do know.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
When you put out the threat of tariffs, it was
interesting between countries and companies.
Speaker 7 (27:30):
And I would scroll the list on my TV.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
Show pledging eight trillion dollars trillion with a tea in
manufacturing wood, hips, cars, pharmaceuticals. They're going to manufacture back
in this country. That was just a threat of tariffs.
Now the deals are beginning to follow.
Speaker 8 (27:48):
So we're here for really two months, because it's three
and a half.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
But you've got to.
Speaker 8 (27:53):
Give me a month to get ready, you know, make
the Oval office a little more beautiful and things like
that that we're doing right. But so we're really here,
let's say, actively.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
For two months. So in two months.
Speaker 8 (28:07):
We have probably over ten trillion dollars committed ten trillion dollars,
whereas most presidents wouldn't have one trillion over the course
of the entire presidency. And if you look at this
poor soul, this lost soul from the last presidency. And
I say that because he was a very mean person.
(28:28):
They went after our people, including me. But he was
a very mean person. He was not a smart person.
In fact, if you go back thirty years ago, he
wasn't a smart person. You go back to Prime time
with him, he wasn't a smart person.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
But he was a very mean person. Joe Biden's a
very mean person.
Speaker 8 (28:45):
People don't understand that they've ruined lives, They've ruined families.
They've ruined so many people that they could have ruined me.
They tried to ruin me, But we're now in Air
Force one flying nicely to the Middle East strength. But
they tried to ruin me. But some people weren't able
to fight back. Their families have been destroyed. And the
(29:06):
level he knew what was going on too.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
I'd never been on Air Force one with you before,
but I did go to Helsinki, Singapore and Vietnam. I
was on those trips and I interviewed you on many
of them. Do you ever think that, maybe, in the end,
in spite of all that they threw at you, that
it was better that you had a break between terms.
(29:31):
Do you ever think about that? Do you ever think
did you ever really at about you took all of it?
They were after you so hard, you took all your chips,
put them in the middle of the table, and it
was either here, Air Force one, in the White House,
and probably someplace that I don't really want to be.
Speaker 8 (29:50):
I knew that running was very dangerous because I knew
how evil these people were. I knew how they cheat,
they steal, they live, They are a horrible.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Group of people.
Speaker 8 (30:01):
And I knew that if I ran, I exposed myself
to a lot of danger. But I felt I had to,
and especially after they started, they were so bad at
running this country.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
They were destroying the country open borders.
Speaker 8 (30:13):
I didn't believe it because I built hundreds of miles
of wall, and there were some areas.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
That they should have built, and it was all ready.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
To go up.
Speaker 8 (30:22):
It was going to be put up in a matter
of weeks, and they didn't do it. I said, wow,
they really offer open borders. They should have automatically done it.
And after doing an incredible job building literally hundreds and hundreds.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Of miles of wall, and we were doing.
Speaker 8 (30:37):
So good, and you know, we had the border really
under control until he came in and then he just
opened it up, and I said, wow, he really wants
open borders. And then he actually announced he wants to
have open borders, and you know that means people coming
from all over the world, from prisons, from mental institutions,
from gangs all over Venezuela and other countries.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
And now I saw what they were doing. I felt
I had to run.
Speaker 8 (31:02):
If I didn't run, I really believe if I didn't
win this election, this country would be finished. I don't
think it would have had a chance of surviving.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
You would have had you would have had.
Speaker 8 (31:14):
The most radical lunatics, You would have had people rioting.
It would have been this would have been in the
experiment of you know, they call it the Great Experiment.
The Great Experiment would have ended very badly.
Speaker 7 (31:30):
But you personally put it all on the line.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
There was a lot, a lot obviously writing on this
for the country I did, and a lot writing on
it personally for you, because you know what they wanted
to do.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Yeah, No, they wanted to do whatever they could. They
wanted to have me locked up for three hundred years.
These are the worst human beings you've ever seen.
Speaker 8 (31:49):
It was a fight against this political opponent, and they
said it, but it was a fight against this political opponent.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
They would have used any means possible.
Speaker 8 (31:58):
Look, Kobe was horrible, they were all These were all
horrible people. And I fired chbe fortunately very early, very early.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
But you know, they would have used whatever means possible.
Speaker 8 (32:10):
These are vicious people, and Biden is a vicious person.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Biden's a stupid person.
Speaker 8 (32:16):
He's a low IQ person, but he's vicious and that's
a bad combination.
Speaker 6 (32:21):
Last question, we have our first American pope. He does
seem to disagree with you on immigration. Putting that aside,
would you like to talk to him about that?
Speaker 4 (32:30):
For sure? I mean I would. He was really a
surprise choice.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
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