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Speaker 1 (00:00):
See you right here for our final news round up
and information overload. All right, news round up, Information overload
our as we continue from Milwaukee at the RNC and
in beautiful Wisconsin. Last night, JD Vance his first interview
on Hannity, and it is worth playing again, especially for
those of you that didn't know a lot about him.
(00:21):
This interview will enlighten you, showing us now marine senator,
author of the massive Big Hit, both in a book
for him and movie Hillbilly Elegy is the Republican.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Vice President Joe nominee. JD Event Sir, how are you,
good man? How are you going to see you? I'm
sure you've had a very slow day today. Yeah, right,
nothing happened, pretty boring. Nothing happened today. Let's talk about
the process.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Sure, a lot of questions were you obviously what was
it like because the last couple of days, well it's
down to two you and Senator Rubio.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
What was that like for you? You know, I just
tried to enjoy the ride.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
What an honor to be considered if they had been
Senator Ruby obviously, Marcus a good guys, good friend, and
so I try to just have a good attitude about it.
My family's very excited, obviously asking a lot of questions.
I will say, Sean, I hope I'm not betraying too
many confidences here. But when the president called me today,
it actually formally offered me to become, you know, the vice.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
President's nominee, which just sounds crazy.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
My son, my seven year old son, was sort of
making noise in the background, and you know, I'm getting
so embarrassed. It's like, oh my god, Donald Trump's asking
me to be his vice So the phone rings.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
He calls you, and you're like, Okay, this is the call,
or maybe not.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
The call, or maybe it's a bad call. Right, it's
the call. Who knows whether it's good or bad. But
then he actually has me put my seven year old
son on the phone.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
You think about this, everything that's happened.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
The guy just got shot at a couple of days ago,
and he takes the time to talk to my seven
year old.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
It's a moment I'll never forget, all right, And what
did he actually say?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
You know, he just said, look, I think I'm gonna
go save this country. I think you're the guy who
could help me in the in the best way. You
can help me govern You can help me win. You
can help me in some of these Midwestern states like Pennsylvania,
Michigan and so forth. And he said rightfully that we
have been very, very close for a long time, but
especially since I endorse you in twenty twenty two, and
(02:07):
I would not have won that race without Donald Trump's
endorsement and the President's trust then in his partnership since
then has been something I value a great deal.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Let me let me ask you. You know, this happens
all the time. You get announced and him incoming begins.
Let's go over some of it, please, and not questions
you haven't heard before new would be asked. All of
them are fairly predictable, but I think Americans want the answers.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Let me go back to for example, after you know
he announced this the media, I'm starting to read every
article right yeah, and criticizing you that.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
You know, here's a guy. This came out of Ohio.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
His support for a national abortion band and his twisted
belief that women should stay in violent marriages for the
benefit of their children exemplifies his dangerous extreme extremism. He's
not just wrong for Ohio, he's wrong for the country.
Actually saw those articles this weekend, and I said, why
would I wait, I wanted to know the answer. I
(03:06):
called you, Yeah, how do you address that?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
But look, Sean, first of all, Democrats have completely twisted
my words here, and as you know, both me and
my mom actually were victims of domestic violence. Was the
way they say that, you know, Vance has supported women
staying in violent marriages. I think it's shameful for them
to take a guy with my history and my background
and say that that's what I believe.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
It's not what I believe. It's not what I said.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
And I think, Sean, it's evidence of the Democrats complete
inability to talk about the future. What are Republicans running
on delivering the peace and prosperity that Donald Trump already
delivered in his four years? What are Democrats running on
lies and complete distortions of people's records.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
That is something I think the American people want to reject.
They're too smart for it.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
You know, I said on January second, when the year started,
I said, let me tell you what this year is
going to be like. And I try to give a
perspective to my audience. It's not my first rodeo, it's right,
ad and I said, the Democrats are going to try
to make this election about quote, democracy in peril.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
How often have we heard that?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Meanwhile, they might want to disenfranchise every primary voter that
they had, and they wanted to get Donald Trump off
the ticket in some states. Another example, it'd be about
January sixth, it would be about abortion, and we hate
Donald Trump exactly right. Can they run on the issue
is the country better off that it was four years ago?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Of course they can't, Sean, they can't run on that
at all.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
And they can't run on the issue of is the
world more peaceful than.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
It was four years ago?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Remember when Donald Trump left office, you had real growing
peace movements all over the world, the Abraham Accords that
showed a real promise of uniting the Israelis with some
of the Sunni Arab states. There was no war in Europe.
Asia looked like it was under pretty good control. And
three years later, it seems like we have a conflict
in every corner of the world and Americans are poorer. Sean,
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you know a little about my background. I grew up
in a poor family. I remember when my grandmother, who
raised me, she used to negotiate with the meals on
wheels people to give her additional food so that she
could feed me. How does a family like that deal
with Joe Biden's grocery price inflation? How does a family
like that deal with gasoline and energy price inflation. It's
gotten more expensive just to live a good life in
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this country. Donald Trump and I want to make that better,
and we have policies to make it better. Democrats have
lies and distortions, and again, I don't think the American
people are going to reward that.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
You know, I had an opportunity to talk to Donald Trump,
and I knew this question would come up, actually for
almost every person that was under consideration, and that was
past combdence that you had made about him. And when
I I'll tell you after what his response was. But
you didn't have the nicest things to say about him
back in twenty.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Sixteen, which seems like a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Now you know that you literally said, you texted a
friend that Trump is a cynical ahole like Nixon, who
wouldn't be that bad and might even prove useful, and
that he's America's hitler. And you compared him to a
cultural heroine in the Atlantic Monthly.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And I'll tell you Trump's response.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
But you said that, then what do you say to
people that say, well, wait a minute, what did he mean?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Well, Sean, I don't hide from that.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I was certainly skeptical of Donald Trump in twenty sixteen.
But President Trump was a great president, and he changed
my mind. I think he changed the minds of a
lot of Americans because again he delivered that peace and prosperity.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
If you go back to what I thought.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
In twenty sixteen, another thing that was going on, Sean
is I bought into the media's lies and distortions. I
bought into this idea that somehow he was going to
be so different, a terrible threat to democracy.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
It was a joke. Joe Biden is the one who's
trying to throw his political opposition in jail.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Joe Biden is the one who's trying to undermine American
law and order. President Trump did a really good job,
and I actually think it's a good thing. When you
see somebody you were wrong about him, you ought to
admit the mistake and admit that you were wrong. When
I brought it up to him, he can't wait for.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
This, Okay. When I brought it up to him. He said, yeah,
he goes, but he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Think that way now, does he. So he actually had
a very good sense of humor about it. I also
says a lot about him and he understands. Were you
as political back then?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Not really, Sean. I mean, you know, my book came
out in twenty sixteen, hillbili Elogy. It's really the sort
of the story of growing up in poverty, achieving the
American dream, starting out in business. And I really didn't
care that much about politics. I certainly had views. I
was a Republican, but I was not as nearly as
involved obviously as I am today. And again, it's something
that really changed for me, and I think for a
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lot of Americans is we saw the results of the
Trump presidency compared to the obsessive, deranged media reaction in
twenty nineteen and twenty twenty, like, what's going on? What's
so bad about this guy? That he's delivered rising wages
for American workers and peace in the world.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Why is the media so obsessed with him?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I think a lot of Americans actually have had a
similar wakening over the last few years because you compare
the results with the reaction, and clearly the people with
the reaction of the problem.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
That's not President Trump's problem. No, A lot of people
forget too. Back in the first debate, I believe it was.
And Kamala Harris was on the stage with Joe Biden
at the time, and she said, I was that girl.
If you remember that moment, it was a very hard
hitting moment. What she was referring to is the fact
that Joe Biden had partnered with a former klansman and
tried to stop the integration of public schools. Joe Biden's words,
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he didn't want those schools to become.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Racial Jungles and Sean Tamala Harris basically said, Joe Biden
wouldn't want a little black girl like me to live
in her neighborhood. He also powered around with klansmen. She
said this months before she joined his ticket. Sean, I
said some bad things about Donald Trump ten years ago,
but I think it's actually important to be able again
to admit that you're wrong. And if you can make
a good pick case of the American people, people who
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may have been skeptical of the president back in twenty sixteen,
who can be skeptical now that we've seen the results
all right, let's talk.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
About a little bit.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
And I think these are important times in a consequential time. Sure,
and we see what's happening with the border, for example,
I think it's now become the number one national security threat.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Oh absolutely.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
And we have nearly eleven million unvetted Joe Biden illegal
immigrants in this country.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
What should we do with them? Well, so we have
to deport people.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
We have to deport people who broke our laws, who
came in here, and I think we start with the
violent criminals. And President Trump has been very, very effective
at communicating on this, so to the point where now
a majority of Americans believe that we needed to port
a large number of people who have come here illegally.
That's a major political victory for him, and I think
it's going to lead to a policy victory for the
American people. But John, we have to talk about the
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fitanel problem, because this is something that I know extremely personally,
and we have close to one hundred thousand Americans dying
of drug over nurses every single year.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Most of us. It is brought in by Mexican drug.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Cartels manufacturing in China been brought in by these cartels
to give a little personal You know, my mom started
with addiction for a big chunk of my early life.
That's why my grandmother, who I call Mamma.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Raised me.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
But the coolest thing, maybe the the greatest blessing of
my life, is that my mom is about to celebrate
ten years sober, and she is able to celebrate ten
years sober. Frankly because the poison that's coming across the
border now wasn't coming across in such large.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Numbers fifteen years ago.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
We are depriving Americans of a second chance with their
loved ones. You cannot keep on doing this. You're orphaning
an entire generation of kids. Go to Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Shawn,
you have thousands of grandparents raising grandchildren that they weren't
expecting to raise because of the poison.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Joe Biden, let it come across the border.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
President Trump is the guy to stop this, and if
we don't stop it, we're going to lose a generation
young kids.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
You know, when I saw you in Atlanta, I said,
I felt a little embarrassed because I was one of
the few Americans because most people knew Hillbilly elog. It
was a massive bestseller that became a movie, and I didn't.
I literally read at least a book a day researching.
I know you do radio and television, and so I
just sat to watch the movie.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
And when I saw you, I.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Did ask you, is this really what your life was, Appalachia.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
And this is the history of your life, Appalachia.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
You become a marine and by the way, your mom
was a drug addict and an alcoholic. Your father not
exactly the greatest father in the world, and you grew
up poor and you had an amazing grandmother.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
That came out of your life too.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
But then you joined the Marines, you served in Iraq,
You came out of school, you went to Ohio State,
you went to Yale. You prospered at Yale. Then you
went on to be successful in business, which by the way,
democrats are criticizing you for they wish you fail by
you guess when they wrote that, considering where you came from,
it's the American dream. And then you know, you got
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into politics and you did so successfully. A pretty amazing
story to give us some texture and context to that
life that I mean, that's a tough life you had.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Yes, it was tough, and a lot of way but
blessed in a lot of ways, and I think you've
got to sort of accept the good with the bad.
I wouldn't see the world the same way that I
see it without that experience that I really do see
it as a blessing.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
The grandmother who raised me was such an amazing person.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I mean, she was a woman of deep Christian faith.
She cursed like a sailor. I mean, she had a
mouth that would really make a Marine Corps drill instructor blush.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
But she was so loving and so disciplined.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
And I really think that all the opportunities that I've
had come directly from her. She also believed in this
country and recognized that most people in Washington do not
care about people like her. And I talk about generations
of grandparents raising generations of grandchildren, That's exactly who I
think about, because I.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Remember my mamma.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
She couldn't afford her Medicaid payments, she couldn't afford the
prescription drugs that she needed. She sometimes couldn't even afford
food for both me and her. Those are the people
who suffer when we have the policies that we've had
over the last three and a half years and those
are the people who stand to benefit the most from
President Trump.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Brown too.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Let me go back to this and you refer to
it earlier, meals on wheels. Yeah, and she would negotiate
an extra something because you had nothing else nothing.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Well, sometimes we struggled, but sometimes John, we didn't have anything,
and she would negotiate to get a little bit of
extra so that she could share with me and also
have enough for herself.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Look, sometimes tough work.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Sometimes times were heard right, and you know, but I
look back on that and I think to myself, when
I go and talk to people, when I serve people
as a United States Senator from the state of Ohio,
I go and visit a food bank, I actually understand
a little bit what people are going through.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
And so, yeah, it was tough when I was dealing.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
With it, but now I really do think it's a
blessing because it's given me a perspective a lot of
politicians don't have.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Let's talk about what you believe the role of a
vice president should be.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Sure, Well, look, Jehn, I think it's very simple. Number One.
You need to support the president in enacting the agenda,
whether it's going and meeting with foreign leaders, whether it's
working with the Senate and the House to get legislation passed.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
The president can't be everywhere.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Trump can't be everywhere, So you've got to be a
person he can trust, he can rely on to actually
advance the agenda.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
That's the most important job. Of course, if.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Something god from happens, you've got to be ready to
step into that office.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
That's one of the most important roles the vice president.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
But I think Donald Trump very healthy, going to serve
four very good years. But we've got to have Republicans
who are helping him with the agenda.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
You remember this as well as anybody Sean.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
As successful as he was politically, even after he was elected,
certain Republicans didn't want to actually enact the America First agenda.
You've got to have leaders in Washington who are supporting him, not.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Fighting against him.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Right quick break, we'll come back more on the other side,
more of my interview with jd. Vance now partnered with
Donald Trump to be the next vice president of our country.
As we continue, we are in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the
RNC convention.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Point from a.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Twenty five out till the top of the infar night
far one is number back to my interview with now
vice presidential candidate JD.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
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vice presidential candidate with Donald Trump on the Republican ticket
and my interview with him. Let's talk about an occasion
where you might disagree with him. Sure, how do you
view your role in terms of handling that moment.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
That's very simple, Sean.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I think that you owe it to the president to
be honest with him if you don't think that he's
doing the right thing, if you disagree with him, but
you do it in private. You offer your counsel in private,
because a lot of the vultures in the press they
will blow up every public So you've.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Met my colleagues right here. I call him state run media. No,
they absolutely are are state run media.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
In fact, they're so state run that even after President
Trump was shot and he showed a remarkable amount of
unity and defiance and calmness, they blamed him for the rhetoric.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Even though he was the victim of a near assassination.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
It's crazy, but I think it's really important that you
don't have Republicans who blow up disagreements so that they
can win points with the media, who are never going
to treat Republicans fairly. The job is to help the
enact the agenda. And why does that matter? Because that's
what's going to make people's lives better.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Let's talk about I'm sure in the course of this
process it had to go through your head. God forbid,
what if we saw this on Saturday, President Trump a
millimeter if he didn't turn his head, we would be
having a very different conversation.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
As we would And.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I certainly believe in God and faith and that's so
important part of your life.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
But it was that close.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
And you always hear about one heartbeat away hung the presidency.
And I'm sure Americans are watching you tonight. Are you
ready at a moment's notice to step into that role,
and what do you believe most qualifies.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
You for that.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
So all the answer is yes, And I'd say you
have to have some humility about this. It's the biggest
job in the world. But I serve my country successful
the United States Marine Corps. I had a successful business career,
and I have the vision and the agenda aligned with
President Trump to make the American worker better off, to
bring peace to the world, and to actually advance an
agenda that's good for American citizens. I think the experience
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that maybe most Americans would care about. It's not that
I spent two years in the Senate, and I think
I've had a very successful two years in the Senate.
It's like came from nothing, it became a United States
Marine and succeeded in business. That's the experience that I
think gives you a fresh perspective. You combine that with
the ability to get things done, and that's what you
need to do. But Shaun, I got to say, Donald
Trump is as healthy as anybody I've ever met. I
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tell them all the time, he's got ridiculous genes. I
planned to be a very good vice president for Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Four years.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Let's talk about when the shooting occurred this weekend.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
What was going through your head?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
And now we have some perspective. I thought that people
around him on the stage secret Service. I've gotten to
know the Secret Service guys over the years sure doing
this job, and I have found them to be amazing people.
They're willing to sacrifice their lives for you, or for
the President, or for any elected official they may be
assigned to.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
They were phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
And then we found out, how is it possible just
a mere one hundred and thirty yards away?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
You know they talk.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
About a perimeter, it was outside the perimeter. No, the
perimeter would be shooting range for any assassin. And a
guy was able to get on a roof unnoticed, apparently
except by people in the crowd trying to warn law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
To me, a massive failure. What is your reaction to
a well, look, Sean, it's scary.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
I was actually playing mini golf with my kids when
people started to text me and I realized the president
been shot.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Of course, I didn't know what his condition was. My
first reaction was just to pray for him.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I was terrified if President Trump had been killed, of course,
terrible terrible, terrible, but the reverberations in the country, it
would have been a world historic tragedy.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Thank god he was okay. You know, I don't know enough.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
About the security protocols, but I was a United States
Marine and one hundred and fifty yards is not nearly
enough of a.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Sex anybody who has any skill at all.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
With any skill at shooting, it's amazing, Sean, frankly that
he wasn't hurt much much worse.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
So I think there needs to be a full scale investigation.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
We need to understand what happened, because clearly mistakes were made.
I look, the Secret Service ran up there, they put
their bodies over and they reacted quickly.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
That's not what worries me.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
What worries me is why was there a shooter one
hundred and fifty yards for the president of the United States.
It doesn't make cannounce the sense, but we need to
understand why, because look, Seawan, you know this, a lot
of Americans are extremely worried about President Trump, rightfully so,
and they're very skeptical of the official narrative on anything.
The way to solve that is to get to the
bottom of this, understand what happened and fix it so
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it doesn't happen again. All right, let me go back.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Let's go through some issues and where you stand on positions,
and where the administration would stand, assuming that in one
hundred and fifteen days. By the way, early voting starts
in about sixty four days in Pennsylvania state, you.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Know very well act the right. Let's start with immigration.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
What do we do with the nearly eleven million unvetted
illegal immigrants?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
And I might add many coming from countries.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Would terroritize like Siria and Iran and Afghanistan, and people
from Venezuela and Egypt, and tens of thousands from China
and Russia with what should happen? Is there an orderly
way to say, if you didn't come in legally, we
will escort you home.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Yes, there is sean. First of all, we've got to
stop the flow to begin with. Joe Biden has throw
and open the southern border. President Trump had it under control.
We've got to stop the flow to begin with. Now,
what do you do with the eleven million people? I
actually think it's probably more than eleven million people who
are here right now. Number one, just start with the
most violent people. The people have criminal records, and you've
got to be willing to deport them.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Number two, how do we find them? Well, I think
a lot of them we actually know where they are, Sean.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
That's what the crazy thing about the Biden administration is
they let people in, they give them asylum, and we
actually know that these people are sort of out there
in our country. Some will be hard to find, sure,
but a lot of them you actually can find, just
because just if you actually try to look, which is
what the Biden administration hasn't done.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
The second thing, Sean, is we've got.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
To make it hard for illegal aliens to work at
our country. It undercuts the wages of American workers. It
invites more people to come in illegally. And if you
make it hard for people to work, a lot of
them are going to go back anyway. And you do
those two things, I think you can go a long
way to solving a problem. But you've got to stop
the flow. That's the most important thing.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
So let's talk about foreign policy. And I won't call
it the Van's doctor because it'll be the Trump doc.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
It'll be the Trump doctor.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Okay, But let's go over some of the hotspots in
the world. For the life of me, don't understand Joe
Biden's policy towards Iran. I don't understand why he allows
China to have spy balloons and hostile maneuverings against our
air force and international airways and our navy and international waterways.
Why Russia got a waiver for the North Stream too,
Tipeline for example. But We've got a lot of hotspots
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in the world. I've been very outspoken on the issue
of Ukraine, got hundreds of billions of dollars in Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
And then I would argue that Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Surrendered in the war on terrorism with Hamas by not
supporting Israel further and their offensive moves after the worst
terror attack on their history.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Let's get your overall view.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Let's look at these hotspots, Ukraine, Iran, the war in
the Middle East.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
So, first of all, so on I serve in the
United States Marine Corps for four years.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
One of the things that I'm.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Proud of step The most important part I think of
the Trump document in foreign policy is you don't commit
America's troops unless you're really have to.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
But when you do, you punch, and your punch hard.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
I think that's the way that you respect America's brave
men and women who are serving.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Now, let me say something about when you say that,
does that like, for example, how President Trump beat the Caliphate.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
It was overwhelming for us and it has done pretty fast.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
How President Trump beat the Caliphate beat isis which people
said literally couldn't be done, and he did it in
a matter of months. But also Iran Sean A lot
of people recognize that we need to do something with Iran,
but not these weak little bombing runs. If you're going
to punch the Iranians, you punch it hard. And that's
what he did when he took out some of the money.
By the way that action, people said that it would
lead to broader war, it actually brought peace and actually
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checked the Iranians and slowed them down a little bit.
But let me just say something about this, this Iran issue,
because maybe the most important dimomatic breakthrough the Trump administration.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Was the Abraham Cords.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
If you want to check Iran, the way to do
it is to one withdraw their oil money, which of
course showed Biden.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Has been bad about.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
But you've also got to enable the Israelis and the
Sunni Arab states to work together.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
And actually provide a counterbalance to are In. Joe Biden
has done nothing.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
You have the infrastructure there sitting there to Weeke and
Iran to strengthen our ally Israel. Joe Biden's done nothing
with it. Donald Trump will reinvigorate it.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Let me go back to the issue of a voice,
and there was this article that said, oh, jd Vance said,
it's inconvenient.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I want you to address that, and I want you
to explain in great as.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Much detail as you are, what your position is on
the issue of abortion, especially in light of the Supreme
Court ruling which I would argue podified first trimester abortion,
which is mostly double with a pill availability would be nationwide.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
But what's your position in detail?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
It very simply Sean. First of all, the Democrats have
completely twisted my words. What I did say is that
we sometimes in this society see babies as inconveniences.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
And I absolutely want us to change that. I do
want us to be a more pro life's the word
they focused on.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
But we do see babies is inconveniences and that's a mistake, Sean,
and I want to change that because I do care
about protecting people.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Now, here's the thing Roe versus Wade is no more.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
And what Donald Trump has said, very very smartly, is
California's going to want to have a different policy from Ohio.
Ohio is going to want to have a different policy
from Alabama. And it is reasonable to let voters in
states make those decisions. Doesn't mean we have to agree
with it, but you have to have some respect for
the political process. This is really important, Sean, that respect
for the political process. Donald Trump is running against a
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Joe Biden president who wants taxpayer funded abortions up until
the moment of birth. President Trump is trying to identify
some reasonable compromises so we can tone this thing down,
find some reasonable pro life policy, like, for example, make
it easier to have babies, bringing down the price of
homes so that you can raise a family in a
house if you choose to have babies. These things are
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I think where the Republican Party is going and focused on.
The Democrats want the most radical abortion policy funded by taxpayer,
so the idea that they can run on this attack
us when President Trump is the one trying to identify
some reasonable compromise and they're the ones who want pro
life Christians to pay for abortions at thirty nine weeks.
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It's insane. I don't think any American buys it. You know,
it's interesting.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Bill Clinton famously said rare and legal, and I think
where Republicans seem to be today is rare, legal and early,
meaning maybe cops fifteen weeks. And I see this as
the number one issue that they want to demagogue for sure,
which we can see in the statements that Democrats.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Have made it.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
But this is a big difference actually between Democrats of
now and thirty years ago. My mam All, the woman
who raised me, was a She was pro choice. She
used to say safe, legal and rare, and I remember,
you know, that was her understanding of what the Democratic
Party view was. The Republicans were pro life, the Democrats
were safe, legal and rare. Now the Democrats were saying
taxpayer funded up until the moment of birth unlimited.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
That's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
And for them to try to say that we're radicals
on this, sean, I don't think the American.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
People buy it.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
So you completely agree or a full complete agreement with
President Trump, And is the answer, for example, that he
gave during the debate.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
My view is that Donald Trump is the leader of
the Republican Party and his views on abortion are going
to be the views that dominate this party and drive
this party forward.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
And his views are very simple. Sean. It's look, you've
got to follow your heart.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
You have to believe in reasonable exceptions because that's where
the American people are, and you've got to let individual
states make this decision. Alabama's going to make a different
decision from California. That is a reasonable thing. And that's
how I think we build some bridges and have some
respect for one another.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Let me ask last question. I'll to combine two issues
in one. It always comes up the issue of LGBTQ rights, now,
the issue of trans status and what's age appropriate in
schools for kids, and the Second Amendment.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Well, look, I mean I think that.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
We shouldn't be teaching kids sexually explicit anything, whether it's
LGBTQ or anything else. I want my kids to go
and learn reading, writing, and arithmetic. And one of the
important things that we can do as a country, Sean,
is cut out the federal funding for radical curricula. A
lot of the craziest stuff that you see in our schools,
the craziest, craziest books, and so forth. It comes from
federal funding. And I think ninety percent of Democrats and
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Republicans they just want their kids to get an education.
They don't want them to be indoctrinated. They don't want
fourth graders to read sexually explicit stuff. That's not a
left right issue, that's a common sense parents rights issue.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
So if you look over your shoulder, there's a big
stage down there and you have a big speech coming up.
Has the world changed a little bit since Wednesday? Since
Saturday and you're speaking Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
It's changed a little bit, Sean, of course it has.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
I mean Donald Trump has given me an incredible honor,
and we get to go and make the case to
the American people that President Trump's next four years can
be as great as the first four years, maybe even better.
And that's an incredible thing to do. But Sean, I'm
still grounded man, my faith. I got to spend a
few hours with my wife and kids today. We've got
a seven year old, a four year old, and a
two year old. Things are crazy and things are way different,
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but I'm still a husband and a dad first, and
that's going to make me a very happy guy for
the next four months.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Well, we're going to look forward to seeing you. We'll
be out with you on the campaign trail. First of all,
congratulations connect relations to the great people of Ohio. With
a lot of friends there. We wish its best to
luck at all of this. Jd vance for my colleagues
in the mob and state run media, They're not going
to be your friend ever.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Anyway, God bless you and thank you. She appreciate you
being with us.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
I will tell you of somebody that had not read
Hillbilly Elogy and only recently saw the movie a number
of weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Very impressive.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Appalachia Marines, IRAQ, Ohio State Yale, top of his class, business,
huge success, senator now vice presidential candidate, and I thought.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
He had great answers.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Right.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
That's going to wrap things up at today Hannity Tonight,
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making the show possible.
See you right here for our final news round up
and information overload. All right, news round up, Information overload
our as we continue from Milwaukee at the RNC and
in beautiful Wisconsin. Last night, JD Vance his first interview
on Hannity, and it is worth playing again, especially for
those of you that didn't know a lot about him.
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This interview will enlighten you, showing us now marine senator,
author of the massive Big Hit, both in a book
for him and movie Hillbilly Elegy is the Republican.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Vice President Joe nominee. JD Event Sir, how are you,
good man? How are you going to see you? I'm
sure you've had a very slow day today. Yeah, right,
nothing happened, pretty boring. Nothing happened today. Let's talk about
the process.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Sure, a lot of questions were you obviously what was
it like because the last couple of days, well it's
down to two you and Senator Rubio.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
What was that like for you? You know, I just
tried to enjoy the ride.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
What an honor to be considered if they had been
Senator Ruby obviously, Marcus a good guys, good friend, and
so I try to just have a good attitude about it.
My family's very excited, obviously asking a lot of questions.
I will say, Sean, I hope I'm not betraying too
many confidences here. But when the president called me today,
it actually formally offered me to become, you know, the vice.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
President's nominee, which just sounds crazy.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
My son, my seven year old son, was sort of
making noise in the background, and you know, I'm getting
so embarrassed. It's like, oh my god, Donald Trump's asking
me to be his vice So the phone rings.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
He calls you, and you're like, Okay, this is the call,
or maybe not.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
The call, or maybe it's a bad call. Right, it's
the call. Who knows whether it's good or bad. But
then he actually has me put my seven year old
son on the phone.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
You think about this, everything that's happened.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
The guy just got shot at a couple of days ago,
and he takes the time to talk to my seven
year old.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
It's a moment I'll never forget, all right, And what
did he actually say?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
You know, he just said, look, I think I'm gonna
go save this country. I think you're the guy who
could help me in the in the best way. You
can help me govern You can help me win. You
can help me in some of these Midwestern states like Pennsylvania,
Michigan and so forth. And he said rightfully that we
have been very, very close for a long time, but
especially since I endorse you in twenty twenty two, and
(02:07):
I would not have won that race without Donald Trump's
endorsement and the President's trust then in his partnership since
then has been something I value a great deal.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Let me let me ask you. You know, this happens
all the time. You get announced and him incoming begins.
Let's go over some of it, please, and not questions
you haven't heard before new would be asked. All of
them are fairly predictable, but I think Americans want the answers.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Let me go back to for example, after you know
he announced this the media, I'm starting to read every
article right yeah, and criticizing you that.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
You know, here's a guy. This came out of Ohio.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
His support for a national abortion band and his twisted
belief that women should stay in violent marriages for the
benefit of their children exemplifies his dangerous extreme extremism. He's
not just wrong for Ohio, he's wrong for the country.
Actually saw those articles this weekend, and I said, why
would I wait, I wanted to know the answer. I
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called you, Yeah, how do you address that?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
But look, Sean, first of all, Democrats have completely twisted
my words here, and as you know, both me and
my mom actually were victims of domestic violence. Was the
way they say that, you know, Vance has supported women
staying in violent marriages. I think it's shameful for them
to take a guy with my history and my background
and say that that's what I believe.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
It's not what I believe. It's not what I said.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
And I think, Sean, it's evidence of the Democrats complete
inability to talk about the future. What are Republicans running
on delivering the peace and prosperity that Donald Trump already
delivered in his four years? What are Democrats running on
lies and complete distortions of people's records.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
That is something I think the American people want to reject.
They're too smart for it.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
You know, I said on January second, when the year started,
I said, let me tell you what this year is
going to be like. And I try to give a
perspective to my audience. It's not my first rodeo, it's right,
ad and I said, the Democrats are going to try
to make this election about quote, democracy in peril.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
How often have we heard that?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Meanwhile, they might want to disenfranchise every primary voter that
they had, and they wanted to get Donald Trump off
the ticket in some states. Another example, it'd be about
January sixth, it would be about abortion, and we hate
Donald Trump exactly right. Can they run on the issue
is the country better off that it was four years ago?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Of course they can't, Sean, they can't run on that
at all.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
And they can't run on the issue of is the
world more peaceful than.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
It was four years ago?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Remember when Donald Trump left office, you had real growing
peace movements all over the world, the Abraham Accords that
showed a real promise of uniting the Israelis with some
of the Sunni Arab states. There was no war in Europe.
Asia looked like it was under pretty good control. And
three years later, it seems like we have a conflict
in every corner of the world and Americans are poorer. Sean,
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you know a little about my background. I grew up
in a poor family. I remember when my grandmother, who
raised me, she used to negotiate with the meals on
wheels people to give her additional food so that she
could feed me. How does a family like that deal
with Joe Biden's grocery price inflation? How does a family
like that deal with gasoline and energy price inflation. It's
gotten more expensive just to live a good life in
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this country. Donald Trump and I want to make that better,
and we have policies to make it better. Democrats have
lies and distortions, and again, I don't think the American
people are going to reward that.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
You know, I had an opportunity to talk to Donald Trump,
and I knew this question would come up, actually for
almost every person that was under consideration, and that was
past combdence that you had made about him. And when
I I'll tell you after what his response was. But
you didn't have the nicest things to say about him
back in twenty.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Sixteen, which seems like a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Now you know that you literally said, you texted a
friend that Trump is a cynical ahole like Nixon, who
wouldn't be that bad and might even prove useful, and
that he's America's hitler. And you compared him to a
cultural heroine in the Atlantic Monthly.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And I'll tell you Trump's response.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
But you said that, then what do you say to
people that say, well, wait a minute, what did he mean?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Well, Sean, I don't hide from that.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I was certainly skeptical of Donald Trump in twenty sixteen.
But President Trump was a great president, and he changed
my mind. I think he changed the minds of a
lot of Americans because again he delivered that peace and prosperity.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
If you go back to what I thought.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
In twenty sixteen, another thing that was going on, Sean
is I bought into the media's lies and distortions. I
bought into this idea that somehow he was going to
be so different, a terrible threat to democracy.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
It was a joke. Joe Biden is the one who's
trying to throw his political opposition in jail.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Joe Biden is the one who's trying to undermine American
law and order. President Trump did a really good job,
and I actually think it's a good thing. When you
see somebody you were wrong about him, you ought to
admit the mistake and admit that you were wrong. When
I brought it up to him, he can't wait for.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
This, Okay. When I brought it up to him. He said, yeah,
he goes, but he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Think that way now, does he. So he actually had
a very good sense of humor about it. I also
says a lot about him and he understands. Were you
as political back then?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Not really, Sean. I mean, you know, my book came
out in twenty sixteen, hillbili Elogy. It's really the sort
of the story of growing up in poverty, achieving the
American dream, starting out in business. And I really didn't
care that much about politics. I certainly had views. I
was a Republican, but I was not as nearly as
involved obviously as I am today. And again, it's something
that really changed for me, and I think for a
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lot of Americans is we saw the results of the
Trump presidency compared to the obsessive, deranged media reaction in
twenty nineteen and twenty twenty, like, what's going on? What's
so bad about this guy? That he's delivered rising wages
for American workers and peace in the world.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Why is the media so obsessed with him?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I think a lot of Americans actually have had a
similar wakening over the last few years because you compare
the results with the reaction, and clearly the people with
the reaction of the problem.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
That's not President Trump's problem. No, A lot of people
forget too. Back in the first debate, I believe it was.
And Kamala Harris was on the stage with Joe Biden
at the time, and she said, I was that girl.
If you remember that moment, it was a very hard
hitting moment. What she was referring to is the fact
that Joe Biden had partnered with a former klansman and
tried to stop the integration of public schools. Joe Biden's words,
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he didn't want those schools to become.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Racial Jungles and Sean Tamala Harris basically said, Joe Biden
wouldn't want a little black girl like me to live
in her neighborhood. He also powered around with klansmen. She
said this months before she joined his ticket. Sean, I
said some bad things about Donald Trump ten years ago,
but I think it's actually important to be able again
to admit that you're wrong. And if you can make
a good pick case of the American people, people who
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may have been skeptical of the president back in twenty sixteen,
who can be skeptical now that we've seen the results
all right, let's talk.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
About a little bit.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
And I think these are important times in a consequential time. Sure,
and we see what's happening with the border, for example,
I think it's now become the number one national security threat.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Oh absolutely.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
And we have nearly eleven million unvetted Joe Biden illegal
immigrants in this country.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
What should we do with them? Well, so we have
to deport people.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
We have to deport people who broke our laws, who
came in here, and I think we start with the
violent criminals. And President Trump has been very, very effective
at communicating on this, so to the point where now
a majority of Americans believe that we needed to port
a large number of people who have come here illegally.
That's a major political victory for him, and I think
it's going to lead to a policy victory for the
American people. But John, we have to talk about the
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fitanel problem, because this is something that I know extremely personally,
and we have close to one hundred thousand Americans dying
of drug over nurses every single year.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Most of us. It is brought in by Mexican drug.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Cartels manufacturing in China been brought in by these cartels
to give a little personal You know, my mom started
with addiction for a big chunk of my early life.
That's why my grandmother, who I call Mamma.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Raised me.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
But the coolest thing, maybe the the greatest blessing of
my life, is that my mom is about to celebrate
ten years sober, and she is able to celebrate ten
years sober. Frankly because the poison that's coming across the
border now wasn't coming across in such large.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Numbers fifteen years ago.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
We are depriving Americans of a second chance with their
loved ones. You cannot keep on doing this. You're orphaning
an entire generation of kids. Go to Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Shawn,
you have thousands of grandparents raising grandchildren that they weren't
expecting to raise because of the poison.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Joe Biden, let it come across the border.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
President Trump is the guy to stop this, and if
we don't stop it, we're going to lose a generation
young kids.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
You know, when I saw you in Atlanta, I said,
I felt a little embarrassed because I was one of
the few Americans because most people knew Hillbilly elog. It
was a massive bestseller that became a movie, and I didn't.
I literally read at least a book a day researching.
I know you do radio and television, and so I
just sat to watch the movie.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
And when I saw you, I.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Did ask you, is this really what your life was, Appalachia.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
And this is the history of your life, Appalachia.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
You become a marine and by the way, your mom
was a drug addict and an alcoholic. Your father not
exactly the greatest father in the world, and you grew
up poor and you had an amazing grandmother.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
That came out of your life too.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
But then you joined the Marines, you served in Iraq,
You came out of school, you went to Ohio State,
you went to Yale. You prospered at Yale. Then you
went on to be successful in business, which by the way,
democrats are criticizing you for they wish you fail by
you guess when they wrote that, considering where you came from,
it's the American dream. And then you know, you got
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into politics and you did so successfully. A pretty amazing
story to give us some texture and context to that
life that I mean, that's a tough life you had.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Yes, it was tough, and a lot of way but
blessed in a lot of ways, and I think you've
got to sort of accept the good with the bad.
I wouldn't see the world the same way that I
see it without that experience that I really do see
it as a blessing.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
The grandmother who raised me was such an amazing person.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I mean, she was a woman of deep Christian faith.
She cursed like a sailor. I mean, she had a
mouth that would really make a Marine Corps drill instructor blush.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
But she was so loving and so disciplined.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
And I really think that all the opportunities that I've
had come directly from her. She also believed in this
country and recognized that most people in Washington do not
care about people like her. And I talk about generations
of grandparents raising generations of grandchildren, That's exactly who I
think about, because I.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Remember my mamma.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
She couldn't afford her Medicaid payments, she couldn't afford the
prescription drugs that she needed. She sometimes couldn't even afford
food for both me and her. Those are the people
who suffer when we have the policies that we've had
over the last three and a half years and those
are the people who stand to benefit the most from
President Trump.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Brown too.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Let me go back to this and you refer to
it earlier, meals on wheels. Yeah, and she would negotiate
an extra something because you had nothing else nothing.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Well, sometimes we struggled, but sometimes John, we didn't have anything,
and she would negotiate to get a little bit of
extra so that she could share with me and also
have enough for herself.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Look, sometimes tough work.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Sometimes times were heard right, and you know, but I
look back on that and I think to myself, when
I go and talk to people, when I serve people
as a United States Senator from the state of Ohio,
I go and visit a food bank, I actually understand
a little bit what people are going through.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
And so, yeah, it was tough when I was dealing.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
With it, but now I really do think it's a
blessing because it's given me a perspective a lot of
politicians don't have.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Let's talk about what you believe the role of a
vice president should be.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Sure, Well, look, Jehn, I think it's very simple. Number One.
You need to support the president in enacting the agenda,
whether it's going and meeting with foreign leaders, whether it's
working with the Senate and the House to get legislation passed.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
The president can't be everywhere.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Trump can't be everywhere, So you've got to be a
person he can trust, he can rely on to actually
advance the agenda.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
That's the most important job. Of course, if.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Something god from happens, you've got to be ready to
step into that office.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
That's one of the most important roles the vice president.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
But I think Donald Trump very healthy, going to serve
four very good years. But we've got to have Republicans
who are helping him with the agenda.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
You remember this as well as anybody Sean.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
As successful as he was politically, even after he was elected,
certain Republicans didn't want to actually enact the America First agenda.
You've got to have leaders in Washington who are supporting him, not.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Fighting against him.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Right quick break, we'll come back more on the other side,
more of my interview with jd. Vance now partnered with
Donald Trump to be the next vice president of our country.
As we continue, we are in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the
RNC convention.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Point from a.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Twenty five out till the top of the infar night
far one is number back to my interview with now
vice presidential candidate JD.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Vans at a second look at perfect world.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
If you own a gun to protect your life, your
family's life, you know that'd be all you need to
protect your loved ones.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
But we don't live in that perfect world.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
We live in this new America where even sadly, the
most justifiable use of force can land you in a
legal nightmare. Let me tell you about Michael Father, active
duty Air Force, attacked outside a nightclub. Punched to the ground,
fearing for his life, he fires two shots. He struck
the attacker just in the leg, didn't seriously injure him
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or anyone else. Jory acquitted him of attempted murder, but
then convicted him of aggravated batteries since there was a
gun involved. Now he's not a USCCA member, and he's
now spending twenty five years behind bars. The guy's gonna
be almost fifty by the time he's released. This shouldn't
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happen in our country. And I share this story with
you because the truth is, owning a gun for protection
can can get you in trouble in this new America.
I've been look a USCCA member proudly so for nine
years they have the best safety training, education, access to
insurance that has made specifically for self defense incidents, all
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for less than a dollar a day. As a matter
of fact, I'm signing up my own sense because when
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get your membership, and you'll also get entered to win
the gun of your choice, set up to one hundred
and fifty five bucks worth of free bonuses. That's Defendfamily
dot com. Let's get back last night. Jd Vance now
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vice presidential candidate with Donald Trump on the Republican ticket
and my interview with him. Let's talk about an occasion
where you might disagree with him. Sure, how do you
view your role in terms of handling that moment.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
That's very simple, Sean.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I think that you owe it to the president to
be honest with him if you don't think that he's
doing the right thing, if you disagree with him, but
you do it in private. You offer your counsel in private,
because a lot of the vultures in the press they
will blow up every public So you've.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Met my colleagues right here. I call him state run media. No,
they absolutely are are state run media.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
In fact, they're so state run that even after President
Trump was shot and he showed a remarkable amount of
unity and defiance and calmness, they blamed him for the rhetoric.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Even though he was the victim of a near assassination.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
It's crazy, but I think it's really important that you
don't have Republicans who blow up disagreements so that they
can win points with the media, who are never going
to treat Republicans fairly. The job is to help the
enact the agenda. And why does that matter? Because that's
what's going to make people's lives better.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Let's talk about I'm sure in the course of this
process it had to go through your head. God forbid,
what if we saw this on Saturday, President Trump a
millimeter if he didn't turn his head, we would be
having a very different conversation.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
As we would And.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I certainly believe in God and faith and that's so
important part of your life.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
But it was that close.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
And you always hear about one heartbeat away hung the presidency.
And I'm sure Americans are watching you tonight. Are you
ready at a moment's notice to step into that role,
and what do you believe most qualifies.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
You for that.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
So all the answer is yes, And I'd say you
have to have some humility about this. It's the biggest
job in the world. But I serve my country successful
the United States Marine Corps. I had a successful business career,
and I have the vision and the agenda aligned with
President Trump to make the American worker better off, to
bring peace to the world, and to actually advance an
agenda that's good for American citizens. I think the experience
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that maybe most Americans would care about. It's not that
I spent two years in the Senate, and I think
I've had a very successful two years in the Senate.
It's like came from nothing, it became a United States
Marine and succeeded in business. That's the experience that I
think gives you a fresh perspective. You combine that with
the ability to get things done, and that's what you
need to do. But Shaun, I got to say, Donald
Trump is as healthy as anybody I've ever met. I
(19:06):
tell them all the time, he's got ridiculous genes. I
planned to be a very good vice president for Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Four years.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Let's talk about when the shooting occurred this weekend.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
What was going through your head?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
And now we have some perspective. I thought that people
around him on the stage secret Service. I've gotten to
know the Secret Service guys over the years sure doing
this job, and I have found them to be amazing people.
They're willing to sacrifice their lives for you, or for
the President, or for any elected official they may be
assigned to.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
They were phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
And then we found out, how is it possible just
a mere one hundred and thirty yards away?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
You know they talk.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
About a perimeter, it was outside the perimeter. No, the
perimeter would be shooting range for any assassin. And a
guy was able to get on a roof unnoticed, apparently
except by people in the crowd trying to warn law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
To me, a massive failure. What is your reaction to
a well, look, Sean, it's scary.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
I was actually playing mini golf with my kids when
people started to text me and I realized the president
been shot.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Of course, I didn't know what his condition was. My
first reaction was just to pray for him.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I was terrified if President Trump had been killed, of course,
terrible terrible, terrible, but the reverberations in the country, it
would have been a world historic tragedy.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Thank god he was okay. You know, I don't know enough.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
About the security protocols, but I was a United States
Marine and one hundred and fifty yards is not nearly
enough of a.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Sex anybody who has any skill at all.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
With any skill at shooting, it's amazing, Sean, frankly that
he wasn't hurt much much worse.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
So I think there needs to be a full scale investigation.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
We need to understand what happened, because clearly mistakes were made.
I look, the Secret Service ran up there, they put
their bodies over and they reacted quickly.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
That's not what worries me.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
What worries me is why was there a shooter one
hundred and fifty yards for the president of the United States.
It doesn't make cannounce the sense, but we need to
understand why, because look, Seawan, you know this, a lot
of Americans are extremely worried about President Trump, rightfully so,
and they're very skeptical of the official narrative on anything.
The way to solve that is to get to the
bottom of this, understand what happened and fix it so
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it doesn't happen again. All right, let me go back.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Let's go through some issues and where you stand on positions,
and where the administration would stand, assuming that in one
hundred and fifteen days. By the way, early voting starts
in about sixty four days in Pennsylvania state, you.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Know very well act the right. Let's start with immigration.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
What do we do with the nearly eleven million unvetted
illegal immigrants?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
And I might add many coming from countries.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Would terroritize like Siria and Iran and Afghanistan, and people
from Venezuela and Egypt, and tens of thousands from China
and Russia with what should happen? Is there an orderly
way to say, if you didn't come in legally, we
will escort you home.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Yes, there is sean. First of all, we've got to
stop the flow to begin with. Joe Biden has throw
and open the southern border. President Trump had it under control.
We've got to stop the flow to begin with. Now,
what do you do with the eleven million people? I
actually think it's probably more than eleven million people who
are here right now. Number one, just start with the
most violent people. The people have criminal records, and you've
got to be willing to deport them.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Number two, how do we find them? Well, I think
a lot of them we actually know where they are, Sean.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
That's what the crazy thing about the Biden administration is
they let people in, they give them asylum, and we
actually know that these people are sort of out there
in our country. Some will be hard to find, sure,
but a lot of them you actually can find, just
because just if you actually try to look, which is
what the Biden administration hasn't done.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
The second thing, Sean, is we've got.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
To make it hard for illegal aliens to work at
our country. It undercuts the wages of American workers. It
invites more people to come in illegally. And if you
make it hard for people to work, a lot of
them are going to go back anyway. And you do
those two things, I think you can go a long
way to solving a problem. But you've got to stop
the flow. That's the most important thing.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
So let's talk about foreign policy. And I won't call
it the Van's doctor because it'll be the Trump doc.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
It'll be the Trump doctor.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Okay, But let's go over some of the hotspots in
the world. For the life of me, don't understand Joe
Biden's policy towards Iran. I don't understand why he allows
China to have spy balloons and hostile maneuverings against our
air force and international airways and our navy and international waterways.
Why Russia got a waiver for the North Stream too,
Tipeline for example. But We've got a lot of hotspots
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in the world. I've been very outspoken on the issue
of Ukraine, got hundreds of billions of dollars in Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
And then I would argue that Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Surrendered in the war on terrorism with Hamas by not
supporting Israel further and their offensive moves after the worst
terror attack on their history.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Let's get your overall view.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Let's look at these hotspots, Ukraine, Iran, the war in
the Middle East.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
So, first of all, so on I serve in the
United States Marine Corps for four years.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
One of the things that I'm.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Proud of step The most important part I think of
the Trump document in foreign policy is you don't commit
America's troops unless you're really have to.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
But when you do, you punch, and your punch hard.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
I think that's the way that you respect America's brave
men and women who are serving.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Now, let me say something about when you say that,
does that like, for example, how President Trump beat the Caliphate.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
It was overwhelming for us and it has done pretty fast.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
How President Trump beat the Caliphate beat isis which people
said literally couldn't be done, and he did it in
a matter of months. But also Iran Sean A lot
of people recognize that we need to do something with Iran,
but not these weak little bombing runs. If you're going
to punch the Iranians, you punch it hard. And that's
what he did when he took out some of the money.
By the way that action, people said that it would
lead to broader war, it actually brought peace and actually
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checked the Iranians and slowed them down a little bit.
But let me just say something about this, this Iran issue,
because maybe the most important dimomatic breakthrough the Trump administration.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Was the Abraham Cords.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
If you want to check Iran, the way to do
it is to one withdraw their oil money, which of
course showed Biden.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Has been bad about.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
But you've also got to enable the Israelis and the
Sunni Arab states to work together.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
And actually provide a counterbalance to are In. Joe Biden
has done nothing.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
You have the infrastructure there sitting there to Weeke and
Iran to strengthen our ally Israel. Joe Biden's done nothing
with it. Donald Trump will reinvigorate it.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Let me go back to the issue of a voice,
and there was this article that said, oh, jd Vance said,
it's inconvenient.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I want you to address that, and I want you
to explain in great as.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Much detail as you are, what your position is on
the issue of abortion, especially in light of the Supreme
Court ruling which I would argue podified first trimester abortion,
which is mostly double with a pill availability would be nationwide.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
But what's your position in detail?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
It very simply Sean. First of all, the Democrats have
completely twisted my words. What I did say is that
we sometimes in this society see babies as inconveniences.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
And I absolutely want us to change that. I do
want us to be a more pro life's the word
they focused on.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
But we do see babies is inconveniences and that's a mistake, Sean,
and I want to change that because I do care
about protecting people.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Now, here's the thing Roe versus Wade is no more.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
And what Donald Trump has said, very very smartly, is
California's going to want to have a different policy from Ohio.
Ohio is going to want to have a different policy
from Alabama. And it is reasonable to let voters in
states make those decisions. Doesn't mean we have to agree
with it, but you have to have some respect for
the political process. This is really important, Sean, that respect
for the political process. Donald Trump is running against a
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Joe Biden president who wants taxpayer funded abortions up until
the moment of birth. President Trump is trying to identify
some reasonable compromises so we can tone this thing down,
find some reasonable pro life policy, like, for example, make
it easier to have babies, bringing down the price of
homes so that you can raise a family in a
house if you choose to have babies. These things are
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I think where the Republican Party is going and focused on.
The Democrats want the most radical abortion policy funded by taxpayer,
so the idea that they can run on this attack
us when President Trump is the one trying to identify
some reasonable compromise and they're the ones who want pro
life Christians to pay for abortions at thirty nine weeks.
(27:09):
It's insane. I don't think any American buys it. You know,
it's interesting.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Bill Clinton famously said rare and legal, and I think
where Republicans seem to be today is rare, legal and early,
meaning maybe cops fifteen weeks. And I see this as
the number one issue that they want to demagogue for sure,
which we can see in the statements that Democrats.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Have made it.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
But this is a big difference actually between Democrats of
now and thirty years ago. My mam All, the woman
who raised me, was a She was pro choice. She
used to say safe, legal and rare, and I remember,
you know, that was her understanding of what the Democratic
Party view was. The Republicans were pro life, the Democrats
were safe, legal and rare. Now the Democrats were saying
taxpayer funded up until the moment of birth unlimited.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
That's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
And for them to try to say that we're radicals
on this, sean, I don't think the American.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
People buy it.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
So you completely agree or a full complete agreement with
President Trump, And is the answer, for example, that he
gave during the debate.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
My view is that Donald Trump is the leader of
the Republican Party and his views on abortion are going
to be the views that dominate this party and drive
this party forward.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
And his views are very simple. Sean. It's look, you've
got to follow your heart.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
You have to believe in reasonable exceptions because that's where
the American people are, and you've got to let individual
states make this decision. Alabama's going to make a different
decision from California. That is a reasonable thing. And that's
how I think we build some bridges and have some
respect for one another.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Let me ask last question. I'll to combine two issues
in one. It always comes up the issue of LGBTQ rights, now,
the issue of trans status and what's age appropriate in
schools for kids, and the Second Amendment.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Well, look, I mean I think that.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
We shouldn't be teaching kids sexually explicit anything, whether it's
LGBTQ or anything else. I want my kids to go
and learn reading, writing, and arithmetic. And one of the
important things that we can do as a country, Sean,
is cut out the federal funding for radical curricula. A
lot of the craziest stuff that you see in our schools,
the craziest, craziest books, and so forth. It comes from
federal funding. And I think ninety percent of Democrats and
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Republicans they just want their kids to get an education.
They don't want them to be indoctrinated. They don't want
fourth graders to read sexually explicit stuff. That's not a
left right issue, that's a common sense parents rights issue.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
So if you look over your shoulder, there's a big
stage down there and you have a big speech coming up.
Has the world changed a little bit since Wednesday? Since
Saturday and you're speaking Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
It's changed a little bit, Sean, of course it has.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
I mean Donald Trump has given me an incredible honor,
and we get to go and make the case to
the American people that President Trump's next four years can
be as great as the first four years, maybe even better.
And that's an incredible thing to do. But Sean, I'm
still grounded man, my faith. I got to spend a
few hours with my wife and kids today. We've got
a seven year old, a four year old, and a
two year old. Things are crazy and things are way different,
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but I'm still a husband and a dad first, and
that's going to make me a very happy guy for
the next four months.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Well, we're going to look forward to seeing you. We'll
be out with you on the campaign trail. First of all,
congratulations connect relations to the great people of Ohio. With
a lot of friends there. We wish its best to
luck at all of this. Jd vance for my colleagues
in the mob and state run media, They're not going
to be your friend ever.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Anyway, God bless you and thank you. She appreciate you
being with us.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
I will tell you of somebody that had not read
Hillbilly Elogy and only recently saw the movie a number
of weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Very impressive.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Appalachia Marines, IRAQ, Ohio State Yale, top of his class, business,
huge success, senator now vice presidential candidate, and I thought.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
He had great answers.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Right.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
That's going to wrap things up at today Hannity Tonight,
nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel. We are loaded
up Don Junior Tonight, Glenn Youngkin Tonight, Christy Nome, also
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