Cuomo In Trouble

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, thanks Scott, Shannon Gladuello is happy Monday. Hope
you had a great weekend. Eight hundred and ninety four one, Sean.
You want to be a part of the program. So
we've got a lot on the table today. There is now,
as things begin to shake out, we're finding out more
and more, you know, who really really deserves a good grade,

(00:22):
if you will, who handled the COVID pandemic the best,
and what states were atrocious? And it's there's there is
now a real significant growing effort for Gavin Newsom to
be recalled in California to impeach Governor Cuomo in New York.

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I know the people of Michigan have had it with
Governor Whitmer, and the same thing in New Jersey Murphy
and Pennsylvania Wolf people have had it. Turns out you
got governors like the Santa's with a very high percentage
and a high population of the elderly population doing much

(01:05):
better in terms of distribution of the vaccine everything in between.
How do I know, because they have friends that live
down there telling me not shutting down everything. Every business
is four pages in the New York Post today about
shut down businesses all over New York. Well we think,
but maybe by twenty twenty five or six, New York

(01:26):
City might begin a comeback. I mean the stock exchange
now because of threats of massively increased fees and taxes,
they want to they want to charge for every single
transaction stock transaction in New York. Why would why would
why would any of these companies pay the highest amount

(01:49):
of money in the country for rent. Now that we've
learned teleworking works, telecommuting is efficient and effective, just like
people can go to school online, just like people can
do a lot of things online that we never knew.
A telemedicine is another one. We learned a lot that
we can apply in ways of reducing costs for everybody.

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And these companies usually they're not stupid, and they always
look at quote, the bottom line, and if they can
see that moving to Texas or moving to Florida, or
moving to the Carolinas, or moving into Nashville or Tennessee
or any other place is going to be better for them,
they're doing it, and it's just going to continue to
get worse. But just you know here now Democrats taken

(02:36):
on quote it's not Republicans that they are now talking
seriously about an impeachment of him and getting him and
removing him from office. So we're watching and waiting. Then
you see, you know, we passed the twenty five, the
five hundred thousand mark of people that have died. Then
there is the ever I'm getting tired, Megan McCain said

(02:57):
it today. I am getting a little bit tired of
Fauci politicizing everything. I've tried to give him the benefit
of the doubt. The man has spent the better part
of his life trying to help people and save lives.
But he's not the authoritative voice on COVID or anything.
I mean, less than a month ago he said, no,

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we need to wear two masks. The guy that's in
the beginning. You don't need to wear any mask. All
the experts, all the models, all the predictions, they all
turned out to be wrong. And what worked the best
was Operation Warp Speed. What worked the best was Donald
Trump building the hospitals in the areas that were hit

(03:41):
the hardest. At the time, you have the highest concentration
of people in the smallest geographic area in New York
City and all these hospital beds. This is what makes
this so inexplicable. Remained empty. President built them, converted them
into COVID capabilities so we could take on COVID patients,
manned them and otherwords, staffed them all the shields, gloves, masks, gowns,

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ventilators that New York didn't have, and we weren't prepared
for that. Eighty percent of those hospital beds that Trump
built remained empty. And then you say, okay, well we're
gonna blame the nursing homeowners. The nursing home owners were screaming,
we can't handle COVID in our nursing home. And then, well,
now we have a whistleblower saying that they purposely withheld

(04:30):
the real death toll for the purpose of preventing the
Department of Justice from knowing man man. And it's not
much better. How is it? They have pretty much the
same temperatures out in California. Explain California versus Florida. You
really can't, because you've had these draconian shutdowns in California,

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but you didn't have them in Florida, and Florida did
a heck of a lot better. It's gonna be like
governors like the Santis and Christy Noman. South Dakota, and
they she never had any restrictions. She just said, to
the people's South Dakota, Okay, here's what we what they're recommending.
Follow the recommendations. Be smart, consider other people. Think about grandma, grandpa,

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Think about elderly people, those with pre existing conditions, comorbidities,
compromised immune systems, etc. Now you've got a COVID relief
bill one point nine trillion dollars. And as the Wall
Street Journal points out, this is a non COVID spending blowout.
And you know the definition of COVID related provisions are

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like eight hundred and twenty five billion that they've been
able to add and more than a trillion is a
combination of ballouts for democratic constituencies, expansions of progressive programs,
and pork and unrelated policy changes. It's basically under just

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like changing the election laws under the guise of safety
in the day and age of COVID. The one thing
they never wanted to quote doctor Fauci about was Fauci said, oh, yeah,
people can vote in person if they socially distanced and
wear a mask. But no, they of course want to
institute widespread mail in ballots and change the rules last minute,

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even defying some constitutional orders. But you look at the
amount of money. You got three hundred and fifty billion
with a B for state and local governments, cities and counties,
and even as state revenues have recovered since the spring, Well,
you're gonna where's that money going to come from. That
money's gonna come from states like, for example, states that

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that were responsible and that balance their budgets every year,
don't even have state income taxes. Those states are now
going to a foot the bill and bailout states that
for decades elect irresponsible democratic governors that never balance their budgets,
never fund their pensions, and use the money to basically

(07:12):
maintain power. It's it's unbelievable. And so that this is
just the beginning. Now when you get to the bottom line,
how are we ever going to afford it to? What?
Did I get to that question? Members are slipping in
pet causes in this COVID quote relief bill. You know,

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do we really have to spend a million five for
the Seaway International Bridge connecting New York to Canada? Well
why is that in there? Because that benefits Chuck Schumer
or the five hundred million for what the CBO calls
grants to funds activities related to the arts and the

(07:56):
humanities and libraries and museums and Native American language preservation. Okay,
I'm not saying not worthy causes in some places, but
that's a lot of money. Then you've got kickbacks. The
Republican Study Committee, they put out a three page memo
and outlining all of the left wing items that I

(08:18):
can spend the better part of this program that Democrats
are hoping you the American people are not going to
find out about, you know, provisions right, fourteen hundred dollars
stimulus checks going to families, but it also includes people
that are in the country illegally. It also includes MONEIS
for planned parenthood so they can be a part of

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the PPP. The Paycheck Protection Program funds designed to keep
small businesses afloat six hundred million for additional emergency paid leave, etc.
It just is a laundry list, and a lot of
it's going to sound great. Okay, We're increasing food stamps,
We're increasing the Supplemental Nutrition Program for women, infants, and children,
et cetera, the WICK program. And then I'm not saying

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that there aren't some valid that there is not valid relief.
There is valid relief. But also these governors got to
do a better job of opening up businesses and opening
them up safely, and there's been a reluctance and resistance
and they're paying the price for their bad policies. You know,

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you got you know, kickbacks now to leftist causes, and
a lot of it too is now going to this
Green New Deal wish list. And I'll explain more of
that over time. So now we've found out just the
news dot com reporting that James Coomey absolutely never verified

(09:44):
Hillary's dirty Russian disinformation dossier, but he's still signed three
of the four FISA application warrants to spy on a
president and a presidential candidate. So he got Merrick Garland,
who's up for ag It didn't take long to demonstrate
completely well political he is, and I don't know, not

(10:05):
exactly meeting the bill in terms of what I would
be looking for an a fair attorney general anyway, any
public official that he won't acknowledge that Komey drove the FBI,
you know, it says at the top of a FISER warrant.
Does he not know if he's going to be the
Attorney General. It says verified, and if you sign it
that means you verified something. He signed it three times,

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but yet he admitted in January, the very same day
he signed the second fiser application, the first renewal application
and him signed one thereafter that he couldn't verify what
even people like Andrew McCabe and Sally Yates said, where
the bulk of information needed to obtain the warrants to

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spy on a political candidate using a dirty, untrue, debunked
dossier of the other candidate. And he won't say a
single nega a word about about Kome Senator. I don't
really want to get into analyzing previous directors, Garland said.
He says, well, you've been very political and appropriately so

(11:12):
at times. I just find its stunning that you can't say,
in my view that he was a terrible FBHID director. Well,
if you sign a warrant and you don't have any information,
that doesn't make sense. Garland also said today no reason
why Dorham should be left in place, but the origins
of the Russian disinformation Probe, which I think pretty much

(11:34):
says now there we go. That's going to put an
end to that investigation. We've been waiting forever. Garland said
the DOGA would advance Biden's pro gun control policies, which,
as I explained last week, is pretty much the policies.
Sounds a lot like Beto Bozo. Then you've got the

(11:55):
candidate Office of Management and Budget. Nina tanded she had
to delete eleven hundred tweets. And by the way, Susan
Collins said that she's not going to support her. Doesn't
look you know, you can't wait for Republicans to do
the right thing. According to The Independent, disparaging comments about
Republicans GOP senators, it's heartbreaking that the GOP lied about

(12:20):
death panels. Well, if there's any lies about Obamacare, that
would be Joe and Barack claiming that you're going to
keep your doctor and your plan and average family is
going to say twenty five hundred dollars per family per year.
You know some of the election conspiracy information that she supported.

(12:41):
You know, Stephen Miller shared a screenshot of some of
her tweets. You know, she helped drive this Russia Russia
Trump Russia truth or nonsense. You know, she had a
headline that'said FBI Russian hackers access Florida voter information. It's
it's just sad. I'm sorry, did I say nearer? Sorry?

(13:05):
Near a tendon. I want to get things right always.
But anyway, it looks like that Pick is in deep
trouble and she vows to target pro Trump protesters. So
that this is Merrick Garland. Okay, You're gonna have the
same standards for all protesters, all rioters, because I think
that we got to stop it wherever it comes from.
That's my position, pretty consistent. Eight hundred and nine for one,

(13:28):
Shaun or number. We've got a lot of other news
to get to. Oh these winner storms. We got an
interesting segment coming up with jobs Stardi, Mark Morano. You
want to hear all right, Supreme Court ruling Actually at
the Grand Jury in New York can see Trump's tax returns.
I'm gonna make a prediction here. I'm gonna go out

(13:48):
on a limb because the president released the statement former
President Trump released a statement in exile, President Trump and exile.
Depending on whether you want to follow Jim Acosta's line,
this is gonna go nowhere because they use the best
accounting firms in the country and the world. With that said,
we'll see Justice Clarence Thomas in a pretty scathing descent

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today the Supreme Court ruling sixty three to reject the
review of two Pennsylvania presidential election cases. Justice Samuel Alito
Neil Gorsa's Clarence Thomas believed they should have been given hearings.
What Clarence Thomas argued here, The Constitution gives each state
legislature authority to determine the manner of federal election. Yet

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both before and after the twenty twenty election, non legislative
officials in various states took it upon themselves to set
the rules instead, and as a result, we received an
unusually high number of petitions emergency applications contesting those changes.
The petitions here present a clear example. The Pennsylvania legislature

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established an unambiguous deadline for receiving mail in ballots. By
the way, and the legislature bypassed their own state constitutionn'
we've gone in a great detail about this case. And
then an unambiguous deadline for receiving mail in ballots, and
then they a state supreme court extended that deadline by
three days. Then the court also ordered officials to count

(15:24):
ballots reviewed by the new deadline, etc. Etc. You know,
if the Supreme Court is not going to weigh in
on such a critical, crucial, important matter of state law,
the constitutionally laid out principles of what role state legislators play,

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the process by which you would bypass literally amending a
state constitution and just by passing a law which would
be far easier. If that's not a Supreme Court case,
they should weigh in on. What's the point this should
have been taken? All right twenty five to the top
of the hour, eight hundred and nine four one Sean,

(16:10):
you want to be a part of this extravagance. I'm
reading all these these news articles about so much happening
at once that nobody seems to know about, like you might.
I doubt most of you, because we're all busy people, right,
everyone's busy. You get up in the morning, you shovel
your coffee down your throat. Maybe you make your kids lunch.

(16:32):
Maybe you don't mean you're throwing some cereal together. You're
putting on your tie, whatever you wear to work, you're
putting on your jeans, whatever. And you take your kids
to school, take them to the school bus, whatever, make
sure they get on the bus boom, you're off to work.
You put your twelve fourteen hours in. So, you know,
a lot of people aren't really noticing things like Biden's

(16:52):
move to give up on President Trump's policies to reimpose
un sanctions on a Ran. You know, Congressman Joe Wilson
actually said, yeah, this is pretty dangerous because Biden basically
just legalized Vladimir putin President Chi selling arms to Iran. Yeah,

(17:13):
that would be a bad outcome. Then there's a story
that came out. It's pretty long winded Peace Washington Times,
but it's it's interesting because you know that if Donald
Trump were president, you know what would the media be
saying and doing if that was the case. How there
was an attempt to undermine the president's tough sanctions on Iran.

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The President obviously wasn't going to send one hundred and
fifty billion in cash and other currency to the Iranian
mullah's that chant death to America, death to Israel, burn
our flag, burned the Israeli flag anyway, and they go
into great specificity in detail. It's a little scary to
me about how John Kerry was meeting with and forging

(17:58):
relationships with for example, Mohammed Zarif is his name, and
how during the Trump years? Well what were they doing,
because they actually the meeting took place at a point
in a period when Donald Trump was taking a hard
line stance against the Iranians. John Kerry's meeting with Zarif

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during the Trump years and as well as the Obama
era Energy secretary and others tap US negotiators in this
deal that gave Iran all this money and what was it?
A wink and a nod. We hope we can beat
this guy and we'll go things. We'll get back to normal.

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Pretty unbelievable, by the way. More on Nia Tandon for
OMB directors. Now she's apparently met with thirty five senators
both sides of the aisle. Questioned really hard by Bernie Sanders,
Joe Anon reveal these a no vote, Susan Collins, a

(19:02):
no vote. This thing's probably dead on arrival. We'll have
to see the border policy alone. Now we're watching with
the stroke of the pen all these jobs being you know,
just gone, high paying career jobs, energy sector. And you
got Hollywood liberals they're lobbying Joe Biden his administration. Yeah,

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get rid of all the pipelines, get rid of all
energy independence. Sure, it's easy for them to say they're
not losing their jobs, and all of them are already
pretty rich anyway, And anyway, what's fascinating is, you know,
we're looking at, maybe on top of all of the
people that will get amnesty, estimated between eleven fifteen million,

(19:44):
depending what statistic you're reading, seventy eight thousand arrivals people
coming into this country illegally, nearly double the figure for
the same month last year, the highest for January in
a decade. And if the current pattern holds, the US
would be on track for one million more migrants coming

(20:08):
to this country via the southern border, illegal immigrants. And that's,
by the way, that warning came from a senior official
in Obama's department, from Obama's Department of Homeland Security. That's
a lot of people. So you have the worst pandemic
since nineteen seventeen and eighteen, all these Americans out of work,
all this money in aid that is being allocated, and

(20:31):
by the way, that aid money is not insignificant when
you dig down deep into the roots of all of
this and what is it going to cost you? And
you add the wish list in there of everybody else. Okay,
that amounts to, according to the New York Post, Democrats
will be leaving you, the American taxpayers, a tab of

(20:51):
seventeen thousand dollars per individual, seventy thousand for a family
of four. When the two trillion dollars relief bills combined
with the moneys that have already been spent and allocated
by Congress, it's a lot of money. And a lot
of this now we're learning, is going to go to states,

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blue state ballouts, a lot of pet projects, and a
lot of it building out the foundation of what is
the Green New Deal. This is all happening in America
is not really paying a whole lot of attention. So
now we're going to have more people out of work.
We already have enough people out of work. We have
already have enough businesses shut down, and you have the

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energy sector pretty much getting shut down, and pink slips
coming out here, there and everywhere, and then we're going
to move into Okay, now you've got to add all
these illegal immigrants and amnesty on top of that, all
these people competing for jobs. You don't need an economics
degree from Harvard business to figure out that it's going

(21:56):
to drive wages down even lower. And the aggressive caucus
chair in Congress, the chairwoman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus,
thinks that they're going to include the fifteen dollar minimum wage. Well,
there's been a lot of studies that show that's going
to prevent hiring, especially of young people, students, etc. That's

(22:17):
not going to work out well for anybody either looking
to break into the job market one of these kids
graduating from school. They're also thinking of adding fifty thousand
dollars as part of the plan in loan forgiveness. It
almost makes me wish I never paid back my college
student loan. I took out a student loan, man oh Man,

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And some of it's not even going to be used
right away. They're going to pass a two trillion dollars
spending bill bailouts for state governments that locked down their
citizens when other state government governments were far more judicious
and yet did a better job all the way across
the board. And then you gonna have all these red

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states baling out all these blue states that keep electing
for decade after decade after decade, the irresponsible Democrats that
take on all this that never live within their means,
never balance any budgets, and never pay down their pensions.
You'll be paying the money. That's how you will be
rewarded for electing good politicians. It's like I keep saying,

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if you're gonna leave California, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
if you're gonna leave Michigan, okay, don't go to Texas,
Florida or the Carolinas and bring your liberal policies with
you and keep electing the same people that destroyed the
state that you you abandoned because of bad policies. Some

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of this money, we're finding out, six hundred and seventy
billions not even gonna be spent until twenty twenty two. Well,
how does that? How do we count that as relief moneies?
Then on top of that another one hundred and forty
billion it will be withheld for fiscal year twenty twenty four. Well,
how does that give immediate relief to people? That doesn't

(24:06):
make any sense at all. But we'll have to see
what happens. But they're trying to include the fifty thousand
dollars in student loan forgiveness. I doubt it's going to
be retroactive for we suckers that actually thought if we
borrowed money, we had to pay it back one day.

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It's a little scary. There's a lot of chatter. It
was actually one of the things I've been saying. I
know the media gets mad when I say the President
Biden looks weak, frail and cognitively, that he struggles, And
every time that I say it, I back up what
I say with a pretty long montage. I won't play here,

(24:47):
and Joe's been struggling. People around the world seem to
be noticing it as well. In Australia we found this
report they said it what I think this was before
the election. Listen, well, look, there's just no doubt at
all that Biden has had some cognitive decline. I mean,
I think some of his aides or friends have said

(25:08):
he's lost his cognitive fastball. Now. Normally, one of the
great things about an American primary season in presidential campaign
is that it is the most searching, searing examination of
a candidate's fitness. But one reason I suspect that Biden
might actually be quite well ahead in the polls is

(25:30):
that he's hardly been campaigning in the last week or
ten days, and that suggests to me that his campaign
thinks he's well ahead and that the only danger to
his election now is some catastrophic verbal laps on his part,
which is always possible. Now. It is true that thirty
years ago, when he certainly had all his marbles and

(25:51):
was a smart guy, he was still prone to verbal gaps,
as was the senior George Bush. But it's impossible to
watch Biden formed in a spontaneous sitting and not conclude
that there has been some cognitive decline. I think we're
one of the few people. We have a name for it.
We called it the Candidate Protection Program, Hiding in the

(26:12):
basement bunker. Then the big tech companies they hid the story.
There was a poll out I think it was one
in six people said that had they known at the
time that Joe was, you know, some of the scandals
that he was involved in an hunter and zero experienced hunter, etc.
And by the way, he's not a kid, he's fifty

(26:34):
years old. Amount of moneys were talking about directly related
to trips on air Force too. That's what the whole
first impeachment was all about. Anyway, Many now New York
Post talking about him becoming a part time president. It
got very weird last Thursday when he postponed that trip
to Michigan. Remember he was going to tour the FAISA

(26:57):
vaccine making planned and eight am they call a lit me,
meaning you're never gonna You're not gonna hear from him
or see him in public for the rest of the day.
Why because DC got some snow. Planes take off when
it's snowing all the time. Kamala Harris still went ahead
with her schedule. They canceled the Michigan trip on Wednesday

(27:17):
evening before any of the expected four inch snowfall hit
the ground in Washington. By the way, meanwhile, it wasn't
even snowy at all in Michigan. I don't know. It
wasn't the first time Biden canceled the foreign policy speech
at the State Department this month after DC got a
whopping two inches of snow. While all these airports have

(27:38):
plows and the ability to do that. Now we again
candidate protection program. I don't recall getting an answer before
the election. Joe Biden is now out in support of
Sheila Jackson Lee's reparations bill, according to Jensaki. She confirmed
it on Thursday, that is being considered in the House. Biden,

(28:03):
this is a weird story. Apparently in two thousand and seven,
appeared on David Letterman and was bragging that he was
once arrested for trespassing at the Capitol at age twenty one. Now,
who knows if it's true or not. I mean, he
does have this pension for lying and not exactly telling
the truth. We'll have to see. Biden's Interior nominee failed

(28:25):
to report casino income on Congressional ethics reports. So, but
what are they really this is now, this is all
about spending. This is all about the New Green Deal.
This is all about redistribution. This is what this and
a lot of it now is. You look at where

(28:46):
the moneys are going. This is the predicate. This is
the beginning of the spending. You look at the items
inside this federal minimum wage increase. Animal They're going to
spend money three hundred million dollars for animal COVID studies,
socially disadvantage farmers and ranchers. As we look at what's
in their student loan outreach, probably forgiveness, money for the

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National Endowment for Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, that's
back the Institute of Museum and Library Services to a
NERD million vaccine information. What does that mean? Vaccine information?
It's everywhere the information. All you need to do is
hit Google. It's free, you know, just tell everyone to

(29:30):
Google it. Doctor. Google will tell you anything you need
and you can go to the official CDC website. So
we're gonna have to watch all of this. Well, this
is going to be a full time, full time job
getting to the bottom of what this is, the transformation
that we warned would happen, and all the while, then

(29:52):
you have other Democrats spent on the back burner for
a while, cancel culture. You got two House Democrats questioning
twelve television and content providers on why they would ever
carry Fox News. Okay, Washington Examiner reporting, do you have
two California representatives sending letters to television content providers at

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and T, Comcast, Verizon, Why are they carrying news outlets
to function as misinformation rumor mills? Well, excuse me. Fox
News wasn't and look not by a long stretch. Does
everybody on Fox News are they a conservative? As I am?
As everybody knows, We're not hiding we I'm a member

(30:40):
of the press. We do breaking news, investigator reporting. We
actually end up being right when they're wrong all the time. Yeah,
why Carrot, what are we gonna now try and silence
voices just because we don't like them? Glad you're with
us hour to Sean Hannity Show eight hundred nine four one,
sewn you want to be a part of the program.

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You know, I was watching, you know, all the insanity
the coverage of well Ted Cruz dropped his daughters in
cancoon and came right back and that this is despicable.
I'm like, Okay, what about no show Joe. You know,
we remember he called a lid on his public schedule

(31:21):
twice last week. You know, you would think he had
some time to focus, maybe on what was the Texas
storm disaster, which has now been going on there for
nearly a week and still so many people don't have
their power back. They're freezing, and reports people even burning
their furniture and fireplaces to stay warm. I've read in

(31:45):
one place and Biden, you know, okay, declared a national emergency.
Why why hasn't he been down there? Sixty generators in
a state of twenty nine million people, where hundreds of
thousands of people don't have power, is a drop in
the bucket. Our friend Joe was start he said, he
put out an article. He's going to join us in
a minute, add yet another aspect to the assault on

(32:08):
the Texas deep freeze and how fossil fuels are now
also being blamed for what happened with climate change in
global etc. But he pointed out the cold before the
five day stretch of this worst winter weather event in
Texas history, which to his credit, he got in touch
with us, and I got him in touch with both

(32:29):
Governor Abbott and Senator Ted Cruz and both were working,
you know, round the clock in the lead up to this.
They they've they've got specific details as to everything that
was coming, as some had downplayed what was on its way.
But you know when you have a model saying it's
going to be forty and it's thirty degrees in a
place like Dallas, and you're having snow in places where

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they don't have plows and sanders and salt machines, et cetera.
But I mean, it's it's pretty unbelievable here. And then
you look into the aspect, well, well, how does you
know here this one of the one of the energy
capitals of the entire country. You know, you have one
energy expert saying, as it was in the blaze, the

(33:12):
real lesson in Texas is their power failure is inadequacy
of unreliable energy. With as much oil and gas that
Texas has not to mention their own power grid, why
would Texas experience these bad power outages? How's it these
rolling blackouts? You know, it's kind of like a mainstay

(33:34):
now in places like California. Why Texas? And Alex says
he believes this guy, Alex Epstein Center for Industrial Progress.
You know, he says, the fundamental problem is the insistence
on using unreliable wind and solar energy instead of reliable
energy cold nuclear, natural gas. And I think it's really

(33:57):
that simple. And you say, well, and by the way,
I don't really care if you want to use wind turbines,
but you got to understand it's a use it or
lose it proposition. It's not like you have or they
have the ability to store it anyway. Joining us in
a second here, we're going to check in with our experts.
Thosen to what Chuck Schumer says about this. The bottom

(34:18):
line is Texas thought it could go at it alone
and built a system that ignored climate change. It was
not what's called resilient. And now Texas is paying the price.
I hope they learned the lesson when we built power.
When we build anything now, we have to take into
account that climate change is real or people will be
caught the way the people in Texas were. When I

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wrote the Sandy Deal sixty billion dollars for New York,
we made sure everything was resilient. When they built back
the subways, built back, this, built back that they were
going to be resistant to climate change changes, and we
have to do that. That's not what happened at all.
Texas did not want the burdensome regulation of the federal

(35:01):
government on their own electric grid. That's the point. And
if anything, it's kind of the opposite of what he's saying.
Mark Morano's with us, author of Green Fraud and by
the way, which is just out and it hits the
fraud of what is the Green New Deal. Joe Bistarti
WeatherBell dot Com, official meteorologist of this radio program, author

(35:23):
of the book The Weaponization of Weather and the Phony
Climate War. All right, Joe BISTARTI, what really caused what
happened in Texas from your perspective, Well, they've constructed a
circular firing squad. Let's keep in mind, Senator Schumer is
selling me books because in my book and the Weaponization,
that's exactly what they're doing. And I wrote that thing

(35:45):
a year ago, and I could see this coming. I
didn't know that Joe Biden would be president. But now
that he's president, they're just out in the open and
they're not bashful or shy about anthe But hey, Senator Schumer,
you wrote that bill, your Sandy. You didn't write it
before Sandy, right, so what you know you're sitting there

(36:06):
criticizing Texas after the fact and years in there I
wrote the Sandy Bill. Well, the Sandy Bill was after
Sandy hit. You weren't ready for that, all right, Now,
as far as what happened in Texas, they sort of
constructed a circular firing squad in a way where the
compressors of the natural gas are powered by electricity. And

(36:27):
if the electrical system, if if your reliance on wind
turbines start going down, what's going to happen if you're
powering the compressors by electricity. But there are a bunch
of things that were going on. Sean from the middle
of February tenth. I was yelling and screaming as well
as they could and whoever would listen. But the impeachment,
of course, was best. Circus was getting in the way

(36:49):
into your credit. You've stopped for a few minutes to
make sure that we got the message out to people.
If I say, the federal government should be mounting a
response similar to prepositioning for a hurricane a category this
was a category five hurricane, the winter version of it,
the worst. This is five days before. This will be

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the worst five days in Texas weather history. And when
you put maps of eighteen ninety nine on and it's
different from sale it's going to get cold or whatever.
When you put the all time record cold weather event on,
say this is going to challenge it. People should look
at that. But nobody got in the president's here. Nobody

(37:32):
was paying attention. And it's not you know, it's not
all the federal government. But you have to get you
have to get out in front. To Donald Trump's credit,
whenever a hurricane was showing up, he was getting things
out in front and as fast as he could. But
This was unbelievable what was going on. There was absolutely
no response at all. And if there was a response,

(37:55):
I didn't see it. I didn't even see them in
the newspapers the Saturday morning, I was reading the Texas newspapers.
How well it's been cold before, this will melt to
offer whatever. But this is all part of the weaponization.
What did they do as soon as it's done, they
hide in the bushes, don't say boo, and then come
out and press their agenda. And that's the shame of

(38:16):
this climate and weather is all agenda driven. It's no
longer about the purity of the weather and climate in
fighting the right answer. And it's really a shame that
this has happened. And Mark no show, Joe. I mean,
I got to be clear here. It was reported in
the Dallas Morning News that Joe Biden declared a major
disaster for only seventy seven of Texas's two hundred and

(38:38):
fifty four counties. Quote he only wanted to focus on
the hardest hit parts of the state. Greg Abbott, the governor,
asked for a declaration that covered the entire state, as
they're still reeling from this winter storm. Now you have
this has been a big part of your life work.
And there was a twenty sixteen study I know you're

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familiar with that seventy three percent of carbon credits provided
little or no environmental gain, as they supported projects that
would have happened anyway. What's your take on what really
went on here? Well, first of all, remember the media's
take on George W. Bush with Hurricane Katrina. Remember the
outrage when the famous picture of George Bush looking out

(39:22):
the plane at the destruction of Katrina, and the outrage
from the mainstream media. He wasn't on the ground, he
didn't visit, he flew over, he couldn't be bothered. Where
is that same outright with outrage? Right now with Joe
Biden declares a partial disaster area doesn't even show up.
The only Democrats now who are trying to capitalize or
the two key Democrats are Schumer and you have AOC

(39:43):
out there, I guess handing out water bottles or trying
to do something like that, trying to exploit this, as
Joe just mentioned, the weaponization of weather. But in terms
of this whole situation here, there was a great analysis
by American experiment and they gave they gave a river
liability score, and basically nuclear got in a natural gas

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and coal got c's and that's only because of the
lack of weatherization. Wind power got a flat out f.
And what's interesting on this is if you had to
rely on more wind power for what happened, Texas would
have been even more of an energy disaster. The only
thing keeping the state afloat right now is the nuclear
and natural gas and coal. And even though they were

(40:25):
reduced capacity, not because but because it's because of the
extreme cold and they weren't prepared, but they're still funneling
the whole state. And the lesson from this, if you
listen to Schumer aoc Biden, we need more windmills. The
energy that scored in f is what they want to expand,
and the energy that can score in a every time
fossil fuels they want to continue to get rid of.

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And this is this is what we're facing here. It's
a microcosm of the entire Green New Deal. The more
their policies fail, the more they want to mandate them.
And that's the whole unscientific folly of the Green New
Deal or the Green fraud. My advice Joe was started
to the great people of Texas is stay out of
any Washington government interference and regulation and maintain your own

(41:09):
electric grid. But with the improvements that both of you
would be suggesting here, and that is less reliance. I mean,
didn't didn't you say that the wind turbines, Joe, they
couldn't even they couldn't even work. And it's not what
happens even store that you could store they were they were,
they weren't winterized. And and the other thing is, if

(41:32):
you know how Texas, Texas Arctic outbreaks work. Usually there's
high pressure over the western part of the state, the
Arctic high stix of snows into the western part of
the state, and it's windy in the eastern part of
the state. There was a warning shot, I believe back
in two thousand and seven when those turbines froze up
and they had rolling blackouts, but the cold in the
east was not as severe. The thing that I'm involved

(41:55):
in is preparation. That's what my company does. We have
one of the biggest construction companies in Texas. They knew
this was coming a week away. I'm not just saying
this behind Sean, you knew what was going on too,
I mean we were, you know, emailing back and forth
and all the other stuff that was going on. But
you have to be able to respect nature in what
nature can do, and not sit there and say you

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did it, he did it, they did it. The fact
of the matter is you could not have stopped this.
You could have mitigated it if you got out in front.
You knew what the weather was going to do. And
that's where I come in and guess what, it's not
climate change. It's happened before this Liabi will happen again. Mard. Yeah.
One thing I've gonna say is you have Schumer out there,

(42:38):
you have John Carry out there blaming this cold on
global warming. And this is what they've done for decades now, repeatedly,
any weather event proves their cause, and so record cold,
record snows, record ice it's all because we weren't prepared
for global warming. There's no event that can't falsify their theory.
And that's what makes this so maddening. In my book,

(42:59):
I have a whole chat after about how the solutions
to the the global cooling coming ice age scare th
nineteen seventies literally merit the solutions of the Green New Deal,
the environmentalists in the nineteen seventies pushing the you know,
the ice age scare. We're literally proposing Green New Deal
style restrictions on America and central planning. It is the
most amazing thing. They don't miss a beat no matter

(43:22):
what weather event happens. Their answer is central planning, coercive
government policies, and shutting down free market capitalism. And in
a case of Texas, as you like to say, son,
all of the above energy is fantastic, but you have
to look at how they got it in Texas, and
the Texas Public Policy Funation did a studied two years
ago twenty eighteen, showing that almost all the windmills were

(43:44):
just subsidies in government mandates. In other words, they would
not have been built a lot of them because of
many more were built because they were just subsidies payoffs
for politicians, lobbyists and developers down there, not because the
power grid needed it. They should have spent the money
on weatherizing and preparing the power grid for events like
this one. All right, thank you both, Mark Morano and

(44:05):
Joe Bastarting. We appreciate you being with us eight hundred
and nine for one sean our number We'll get to
your calls next half hour of the program at the
top of the hour. We've got a lot to focus on,
not the least of which are the difficulties. Now. The
Democrats have turned hard against Andrew Cuomo in New York
and this is literally spiraling downward very fast for him.

(44:29):
We'll give you an update. You got a minute and
a half. We'll give it to Mike in Oklahoma next
Sean Hannity Show. Mike, how are you hot? John, Great
honor to speak with you today. Thank you, my friend,
it's my honor. What's going on? Thirty seven years in
the old gas business in drilling and expiration, have been
out of work since March of last year. I came home,

(44:52):
bought two trucks two days later, didn't have a job.
Had to go back to my old thing of being
a general contractor something I was born into. Would rather
be drilling whales for a living, but that's the way
it is. We've got a raising, a co raising a
thirteen year old granddaughter with my ex and running also

(45:14):
on top of my construction business, a animal rescue. That's
pretty cool. I love that, you know. Well, first I
gotta give you props for being able to figure figure
it out. I mean, when you face a dramatic career
change like that, it's not often easy. And obviously you've
found a way. You dug down deep inside you and

(45:34):
you've you've figured out Okay, I've got a transition out
of this. But you're just the tip of the spear here.
You're the tip tip of the iceberg. And all these
guys that have these specialized skills, yeah, they're all getting
pink slips. High paying career job's gone with the stroke
of Joe Biden's pen, and not one Democrat seems to care.

(45:55):
That's it tries me nuts. Hang in there, Mike, We
wish you all the best. Quick break your calls neck
half hour straight ahead, all right, twenty five to the
top of the hour. All right, we'll get to a
lot of calls here. We'll update you. Cuomo in big
trouble in New York now Democrats have turned on him.
We'll we'll give you an update on what's going on there,
what it means. Remember Joe Biden and once said Andrew

(46:16):
Cuomo is the gold standard for governors. No, not exactly.
Floyd and Florida. Floyd, how are you glad you called, sir. Well,
it's a real honor. Thanks so much. I appreciate it. Sean.
You know, you've raised so many important issues and climate change,
Cuomo's nursing home desks, big city bailouts and all the rest.
You know, it seems like leadership is really the missing

(46:36):
issue here, you know, from bad leadership with the Democrats
to this impotent and vacant leadership that the publican parties.
And so I'm going to ask you if you would
please you listen to us. But it seems like the
establishment dustin and they don't represent us. So please, there's
two quick requests if you would. You know, when these
people come out with the narrative that you know you lie,
they lie, Trump lied, would you please ask them which

(46:58):
of the tens, which of the which are the more
than a thousand affidavits which are signed by American whistleblowers
are lying? Is it the individual who came out with
the video of the Internet being connected to the voting machines?
Was that a lie? Was it the nineteen thousand, five
hundred twenty one ballots which were down Trump and up Biden.

(47:19):
A statistical improbability was that the lie was it the
American Let me let me stop you right here. They
don't care what people had to say. They only care
about whistle blowers if you're a hearsay whistle blower, non whistleblower,
and if you're an opinion witness or a hearsay witness

(47:40):
and not a real witness. This defines the left, and
that includes democratic politicians and the mob and the media
that protects them. And what you're trying to ask me,
I think and what I hear is your question is,
oh are they Are they gonna care at all about

(48:00):
the truth of the answers. No, they've got an agenda.
Journalism is dead. And then, of course I read this
on Deadline today. House democrats query TV channel distributors over
carriage of misinformation rumor mills like Fox News. Wow, so
you have Democratic representatives asking, you know, at and T, Comcast, Amazon,

(48:27):
you know, why do you carry channels that have a
couple of conservative voices not everybody on Fox News, things
like Sean Hannity. I think that's pretty clear. I think
I'm not saying anything you don't know and now, but
but this whole cancel culture or at you know, the
double standard on witnesses, and you know, whistle blowers. It's obvious, Floyd.

(48:54):
Don't you see this for what it is? Because I do. Please,
would you please just consider just consider starting or show
by just reading one or two of the whistleblowers and
then move on anything else. But just read one or
two of them. They're out there, they're from the cases,
they're easily available, they're all sworn. I think you're the
only show radio and TV that I know of. I

(49:14):
don't watch a lot of other two shows, and I
don't get time to listen to a lot of shows.
But we put them on the air. We put them
on this program, we put them on Hannity the TV show.
Others think that, Yeah, I hear you. It's frustrating double standard.
Chris Georgia, next Sean Hannity Show. It's up, Chris. Hey, Sean,

(49:34):
thanks for having me on today. Just wanted to call
and share a little bit about my experience over a
lifetime with Rush Well and all you guys, really you
and Mark Levin and the rest of the guys that
are really just talking about the American people and what's
going on in Washington. I can't ever remember a time
not listening to Rush. I grew up listening to Rush.

(49:56):
When I was eight years old, the only thing I
wanted for Christmas that year was Rush's book The Way
Things Ought to Be. I got it. I was the
only kid on my block with it. But wow, that's funny.
Oh yeah, Well, I don't know. I guess I'm the
weird kid that was into politics. But hey, Chris, if
you're the weird kid, I was the same weird kids
you know in my early teens, you know, staying up

(50:16):
late at night listening to the radio and the great
pioneers are talk radio, never dreaming I might have a
chance to do this one day. Well, I can tell
you the only reason I was allowed to stay up
late is when Russia's show was on late. Me and
my mom would watch together. It's TV show. I have
a great story if you want to hear a quick one.
I brought up a group of winners. I was a
local host in Atlanta at the time. I think I've

(50:39):
explained my story. I've traveled around it, lived in five
different states, and this radio journey of mine and TV
journey of mine, and I was in Atlanta. We had
a contest and I actually took a group of winners
listeners up to New York and we went to Russia's
TV show and he was I don't think he hardly
knew me, and he brought me out during the show

(50:59):
and me a Rush tie. I have that tie to
this day. I remember, I remember you on the air
here in Atlanta. That's that's where I'm from. And I
mean Rush to me was he gave the working American,
the average American a voice as to what was going on.

(51:21):
And Rush also he worked for what he had. And
you know, I feel like with today's administration that you know,
guys like me are the anomaly with this situation, we're
being told that we can't make it without government help.
My mom raised three kids by herself. She worked five
or six jobs. We cleaned offices on the weekend. She

(51:41):
put us through private school. You know, we're not supposed
to be able to outlive our parents unless we have
help for the government. We're all doing better. You know,
I've worked my tail off to get where I'm at
in life, and by no means my a wealthy man.
But you know we can get by. And you know,
just for guys like you on the air, that that
show the truth and rush to show the truth about

(52:03):
what they want to try and do and how they
want to try and taxes. You know, one of the
first things I learned in life is nothing's free. So
when they talk about all this stuff, I know it's
coming out of my pocket, in my tax dollars, and
I'd like to have more of a say where those go,
for sure, instead of just letting these guys run rampant
with my money. Listen, there's a lot of things, Chris,

(52:24):
that we've got to understand here. The people that will
suffer the most under these redistribution policies that are now
being implemented as we speak every day are going to
be working men and women. Immigration alone is going to
result with amnesty and open borders in millions and millions

(52:46):
of other people coming into a country as we still
are suffering, the economy suffering under the pandemic, and they're
going to be competing for fewer and fewer jobs available now,
all these jobs lost in the energy secord, people there
too will be competing for these jobs. It's going to
drive down wages, it's going to create more dependency. This

(53:09):
is one oh One's socialism and it's long history of
miserable failure. And it's it's why I am a conservative,
and this issue of the borders is a real issue.
And we're at this point pre COVID where all of
these unemployment records were shattered for demographic groups that liberals

(53:34):
always said they had a monopoly of compassion for no freedom, liberty,
less bureaucracy, lower taxes, energy independence, those three things that
that triangle created jobs and opportunities for every American. And
guess what if you just implement those simple principles, we

(53:57):
the people succeed because I have faith in the individual.
Every single person has a natural drive to succeed. It's
like you know and and thank you for a good call.
It's like kids in schools. You're not gonna keep score
and every kid gets a trophy. They're gonna keep score
anyway then, and they want to win. It's instinctive in

(54:18):
people's and now some have different things they want to
win at that's their God given individual talent and their
God given interests. But people have a natural drive and
that gets stifled under a system on which well, we're
gonna take care of everything for you. Why bother anyway,

(54:39):
good call, Appreciate it. Eight hundred and nine four one
shot and Sean, if you want to be a part
of the program. Laura North Carolina, Hey, Laura, how are
you glad you called? Hey? Sean? Um, I am furious
and absolutely scared of what's going on. I'm not gonna
call it campful of culture. I'm gonna call it gulag
culture because we're moving towards the Soviet Union style government

(55:05):
and it's being perpetuated by the Democrats, but it's also
being perpetuated by the silence and then inactivity of the
Republican Party because they want to stay in the swamp,
a lot of them and they're glad that Trump is gone.
And if I'm not mistaken, all of them, the Republicans, Democrats, independent,
whatever you call yourself, took an oath of office when

(55:27):
they came in to protect and defend the Constitution and
all our other founding documents. And what I see right
now from everybody in the Democrat Party and so I'm
in the Republican Party, is they're not doing that. And
I'm really mad the Republicans, I mean, the Democrats. We
could expect that. So after thirty one days, I can't

(55:48):
even believe how much damage. Joe Biden's already done. But
the Republicans are sitting back with in fighting and or
by omission and silence, not doing anything, and them to
know that they don't do anything, their jobs and their
coushy swamp is going to be gone for them either way.

(56:08):
Step up, let me, let me add a couple of
things you say. There's a lot to break down on
what you're saying here. And look, I'll quote the great
one Mark Mark Levin. This is a post constitutional America.
I mean, we saw that. Why have a Supreme Court
if they're not going to take on a case whether
state constitutions are relevant? Well, it's after the election, it's

(56:30):
a move point. Well, no, it's a relevant constitutional principle
to do. State legislators just just willy nilly, just get
to randomly bypass the process by which one is to
make a constitutional amendment through legislation where you don't need us.
It's a far easier process to change things, all right.

(56:52):
That's one. And you have the Democrats now as a
party have been radicalized. This is a radical, extreme socialist agenda.
We've never had a major political party in the country
reached that far that extreme to the left, that is
the Democratic Party. They control the party. Then you've got

(57:15):
Republicans too, many of them that are so weak it
would they like to purge the Trump supporters and go
back to quote the good old days of losing and
and water down Democratic Party light Yeah, they would, but
if they could. But I think there's been an awakening

(57:38):
in this country, and I think people are significantly aware.
And if they would, if Republicans would follow just the
simple principles that Trump showed works, it's not that complicated.
I've been running through my list. I don't want to
do the whole list now. Cutting taxes, ending bureaucracies, school choice,

(58:00):
Second Amendment, First Amendment, constitutionalist justice's energy, independence, secure borders,
peace or strength. It's not complicated. This is and then
but if you if you make a promise, then fight
to keep your promises. And if you do, then we're
gonna win, because conservatism wins. Conservatism as a political philosophy

(58:27):
is the best system ever designed by man, and it's
predicated on great principles of liberty, individualism, freedom, natural god
given rights, not government granted anything, not equal results, equal opportunity,

(58:48):
and you always pursue a more perfect union. It's it's
not hard. More quick call. We have a little over
a minute, Peter and Texas. It's all yours. Good luck
with your use of it. Yeah, Sean, I just wanted
to tell you that we basically had a free road
trip to the Third World down here, as you may

(59:09):
or may not know. You know Thomas war On Co
two and they're trying to shut us down. And also
they've been trying to nationalize our grid using every excuse
but four days without heat or electricity. It was four
degrees outside my top, four thirty two degrees when tottrofosion.

(59:30):
But I'm not complaining. I did winter campous as a
boy scout. It was about the older folks. The senior
centers went down. My girl had to go over to
her mom's who was in a senior center for three days,
and hug her at night to keep her warm. It's
it's all. It's heartbreaking. And I will tell you. My

(59:53):
recommendation to my friends in Texas, and Rick Perry made
me an honorary Texan and I'm honored by it is
you honestly stay away from government, federal government regulation, but
make sure your grid is strength in moving forward anyway,

(01:00:14):
my niece who has two young My goddaughter has two
young kids, lives in Houston, and after the last storm,
I bought her a generator. I got a thousand. Thank you,
she says. Half the neighborhood deliver with her. Anyway, quick
break right back, We'll continue on the other side. News
round Up Information Overload Hour. Next all right, News Round
Up Information Overload Hour, Sean Hannity Show, one bit of

(01:00:34):
good news. I'm not going to spend a lot of
time on it because all of the quote experts, you know,
every model, every prediction, every everything when it comes to coronavirus,
they got it wrong. And what like less than a
month ago, Fauci saying, were two masks wear no mask?
I mean early on, I'm kind of sick of the
whole thing. And Megan McCain even said, enough tired of

(01:00:55):
Fauci playing politics every time he's on TV. It's getting old.
But there is a guy from John's Hopkins, an expert
of predicting that COVID heard immunity will be in place
sometime by April, and that's not going to be into
twenty twenty two, is as Fauci is saying, let's see
who ends up being right on that one. You know,

(01:01:18):
some six stories to share. They have a body cam
video showing a Florida woman getting busted dressing up as
a granny to get a vaccine and jump the line.
What is wrong with people? I mean, it's just unbelievable
to me. I'd never think of jumping the line. When
your number gets called, your name gets called, gets called.

(01:01:39):
There is huge backlash now in the state of New
York as it relates to all things Andrew Cuomo. New
York State Republicans. They want an impeachment commission to investigate
uh Cuomo's COVID scandal. It's it's gonna be interesting to
see AOC is called for a full investigation of Pomo's

(01:02:00):
handling them nursing homes during the pandemic, which is which
is pretty amazing. You have, you know, some Democratic Senator
Ed Markey from Massachusetts saying that racial justice should be
the number one priority in vaccinating people. How about how
about we give it to the people that are at

(01:02:21):
most at risk, elderly, preexisting conditions, comorbidities, compromised immune systems. Obviously,
we've got to take care of those people on the
front lines of the virus every day. I mean, that's
that's first and foremost. A big fight is broken out
in New York with a New York Assemblyman, Ron Kim,

(01:02:41):
who's claiming Cuomo threatened him in his career and will
play that, and then Andrew Cuomo saying, well, I'm going
to take onlines about the nursing home scandal, but now
you have Now you have Republicans and Democrats saying that
they might impeach Cuomo, which is going to be interesting
to see how they'd be able to do it. So
it was last Thursday night I was about to bathe

(01:03:03):
my three kids when I received a call from the governor.
He spent ten minutes threatening my career and ordering me
to issue a statement that would be used to cover
for the state secretary. The day before that call, the
State Secretary, Melissa de Rosa, had implicated his administration by
admitting that they withheld life saving nursing home data because

(01:03:28):
they feared the information would be used against them. Well,
you hired a lawyer in the wake of this call.
Why what exactly did you understand Cuomo to be asking
you to do? I hired a lawyer after this call
not only after his call, but after many calls, many
other attempts over the weekend. And this was a weekend

(01:03:50):
for my family. It was a little New Year weekend.
I'm spending my time, and I got about eight phone
calls from the Governor and his staff, and I realized
that he's continue to ask me to cover up for
a secretary. And I realized that at that point I
needed to get an attorney, which I did over the weekend.
I'm not going to let New Yorkers be lied to.

(01:04:13):
I'm not going to let you hurt New Yorkers by
lying about what happened surrounding the death of a loved one.
I see that as my job, and I'm going to
do it aggressively because you have no right to lie,
and you have no right to hurt people. I don't

(01:04:37):
care if it's your politics. You can't lie and cause
pain to people who are innocent bystanders to all of this.
So I'm going to take on the lies and the
unscrupulous actors, especially when they cause pain and damage to
New Yorkers. I should have done it before, and I

(01:04:58):
should have done it more aggressively. Joining us now. Betsy McCoy,
former Lieutenant Governor of the Great State of New York
and the chairwoman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths.
Mark Simona's with us. He's the host of New York's
number one morning show, our main affiliate New York, our
flagship AM seven ten w O R. Thank you both

(01:05:21):
for being with us. I read your peace Betsy McCoy
about Andrew Cuomo, and now we've got these threats. These
are Democrats speaking here. These are not just Republicans that
are furious with him. That's right. And now that we
see the democratic wall of silence within the state breaking,

(01:05:42):
this is going to be just the beginning. You're gonna
hear more about Clomo's other misdeeds and crimes because the
Clomo administration has been mired in corruption for years, most
notably when Clomo would fund these poondoggle projects up stake,

(01:06:02):
give large amounts of state tax dollars to businesses, and coincidentally,
the recipients would make large donations to Cuomo's reelection campaign.
But as long as only money was at stake, New
Yorkers didn't become so outraged. Now that they're losing not
just their money but their relatives, they're best friends. There's

(01:06:24):
going to be hell to pay. And the fact is
the Democrats are joining the criticism. They will leak the
other things that Cuomo was done. And this is the
beginning of the end for this man. After I'll remember
Joseph Percoco, his top aid, is now doing time in
a federal prison for corruption. Well, I mean, I think

(01:06:44):
just about every leader in the Senate or the state house,
state assembly men and women. I mean, anybody that ever
makes it to leadership usually ends up being tried for
some crime, some corruption of some type. We are well
aware of Mark Simone watching this. I mean, Albany is
just a cesspool of all cesspools. But these are Democrats

(01:07:08):
now saying that they, I guess the sick and tired
of the way Cuomo's treated him over now now in
his third term. Yeah, first it was this assemblyman Kim
then Rob Asterino, prominent politician near in New York, said
he was threatened in the same way. Political had a story.
They found half a dozen people who were threatened. It's real.
Mayor Deblasio said, that's typical Cuomo. But you're not giving

(01:07:30):
him credit. You gotta give me he deserved that. Emmy
That was incredible acting. That was the greatest acting I've
ever seen. You know, he has people all over the
country convinced that he's a brilliant governor. I hear it
from people all the time, so lucky to have him.
They don't realize he's been a total disaster. The state
is totally bankrupt, sixty three billion in debt, and that

(01:07:52):
was the case even before the pandemic. He signed the
craziest law releasing violent prisoners with no bail. We got
the biggest crime spike in history. We had riots all
over New York. He refused to send any National Guard.
If they're not for that, what are they for? The
biggest exodus from any state ever. We've lost so many people,
were probably gonna lose two congressional seats. He's the name

(01:08:15):
realtor of the year for Florida, not for New York.
He's covered up, he's destructed, he's threatened and bullied. But
watched TV. Boy looks like a great governor on TV.
And how come nobody ever said, why does this guy
have two hours a day in the middle of a
crisis to do these TV shows? Well that we're probably
prepared by staff, But I mean, the big problem he
now has is that we have now a real person,

(01:08:39):
not a hearsay whistle blower, but a real whistle blower
that stated affirmatively that they purposely hid the information on
what really happened, in other words, the real death toll
in the nursing homes. And just to back track here
for a second, it was totally unnecessary. As all of
these beds that Donald Trump built and Donald Trump manned,

(01:09:03):
and Donald Trump provided every single thing that was needed
from medicines to gloves and gowns and shields and masks
and everything in between, eighty percent of the Javits Center
remained empty. The same with the Navy Hospital Ship Mercy.
It's not like we didn't have a place to send
sick people before you put them back in nursing homes.

(01:09:24):
That was screaming. They didn't have the ability to take
care of them. And now we're beginning to hear all
these horror stories and he's lashed out at everybody except
take any responsibility. Betsey McCoy, that's right, and he lied
from the beginning when he issued that mandate on March
twenty fifth for the nursing homes to take patients being

(01:09:45):
discharged from the hospital for having COVID and barring the
nursing homes from even testing them. They had to fly blind.
Many patient advocates warned him that day, including my organization
Reduce Infection Desks, usual a statement that day, this will
cause thousands of lives. And that's exactly what happened. By April,

(01:10:06):
the corpses were mounting up in some nursing home Sean
they left the dead in bed next to their live
roommates because they had no place to put these deceased patients.
And yet Cuomo and his health department deliberately, and we
had the proof from April on, deliberately concealed it. They

(01:10:26):
deliberately concealed the deaths that occurred when these people were
infected with COVID, and lied again and again and again
about it through April, May, June, July. And now, of
course they are probably going to face some sort of
federal charges because it is illegal to conceal information or

(01:10:47):
a lot of the federal government about these things. You know.
I look at New York City. There were four pages,
full pages of the New York Post today mark dedicated
to showing every store, every shop every restaurant shut down
in New York City. How do you possibly bring that

(01:11:07):
city back to life. He's wiped out twelve thousand restaurants
small businesses in New York City. I think the latest
number is forty seven percent. Small businesses are still closed
in New York City, can't reopen. He's been a total disaster.
Revenue is down sixty percent in New York, it's got
the biggest exitus going. If he tries to raise taxes.

(01:11:29):
I mean, the fact that he went to Washington beg
for fifty billion last week, he shows you how bad
a governor he is. Let me point out also, though,
that Schumer, one of Sean's favorite people, is marching around
the state bragging about this restaurant bill that he claims
to be part of the stimulus bill, twenty five billion
dollars in eight for restaurants. But read the fine print

(01:11:51):
as I did just a few minutes ago, and the
fact is white owners, white men, for the most part,
have to go to the back of the line. This money,
and it's a lot of money is reserved from minority
owners of restaurants and women owners of restaurants. As if
all owners of restaurants aren't struggling struggling during this time.

(01:12:14):
You know, I feel so sorry. I mean, you look
at these people. I mean, these are livelihoods people. And
some restaurants Mark I mean that have been there, Landmark
restaurants closing down left and right and all over the place. Yeah,
why should we deal with racist and sexist legislation to
help them? Yeah? The owners tell me that the employees,

(01:12:34):
the waiters, the staff, they can't work, so they got
to work. So they're all taking the train the bus
to New Jersey and they're working there. So give Cuomo credit.
He's creating jobs in New Jersey. Uh, we don't know.
That's creating jobs everywhere, but in New York because there's
a mass exodus. Even Wall Street is saying they're going
to get the hell out of here, and many of
those companies are getting out of here. Also. You know,

(01:12:55):
you this is an important insight into Cuomo. You had
them on at one point during this crisis for about
an hour, and you couldn't have been nicer, politer. He
just asked him all the legitimate questions and really made
him talk about this stuffing. You know, he never came
back ever again from why is there not a nationwide
stay at home. Well, look, I think we're in a

(01:13:16):
position where I think every state is going to have
to be moving in that direction and demonstrates that it
does bend that curve a little bit. It does increase
the prospects that fewer people are going to catch the virus.
And the answer is, I don't fully know. We've been
leaving it to the governors. Thank god, the governors have
been moving. You're governor New York's done one hell of

(01:13:39):
a job. I think he's he's sort of the goal standard.
He ended up being No, not quite the gold standard
would probably go to DeSantis or Christy Gnome or any
of the Republican governors. It's been a disaster in New York,
California in particular. Final thoughts from Betsy mc former Lieutenant

(01:14:01):
Governor of New York. Mark simone Um number one host
on our affiliate here in New York AM seven ten
w O R. I mean, Mark, it is a little
bit of a joke. But he did get the Emmy,
he did write the book, he did have his power
points every day, sounded authoritative and Trumps built him everything

(01:14:21):
and he never used it. Yeah, No, he deserves that
Emmy should get a job playing governor. You're caught up
in the Emmy. Yeah, but I think he's got a
criminal problem, a for withholding obstructing it. But Assemblyman Kim,
remember the point of the threats. He wanted him to
change his story. That to me sounds like potential witness tampering. Then,

(01:14:41):
and Betsy, you had the unfortunate that New York doesn't
have recall. Or we could give him the Gavin Newsom treatment.
And I'm not sure we there are votes are there
for him To remove him from office? You need two
thirds of the Senate plus the top judges in the state.
But at the point the whistle blower said, they manipulated
and held back the true numbers for purposes of obstructing

(01:15:05):
a Justice Department investigation. At least at the least they
should strip him of his emergency powers. He can't be
king Cuomo anymore. Well, let's see what happens. I wouldn't.
I don't think I'm gonna hold my breath on that mark.
You think that happens, Well, I think if you've got
a time machine you came back in a hundred years,
you'd still be waiting for the Durham Report. So I

(01:15:27):
don't know if this is going to go anywhere, but
I don't know. I hope it does. I really hope
it does. All right, Thank you both, appreciate it. Betsy McCoy,
Mark Simone. We'll check in with Ali North and your
calls coming up. Final half hour, eight hundred and nine
four one. Sean, you want to be a part of
the program as we continue standing up for what's right

(01:16:02):
with America. We're back on the Sean Hannity Show, all right,
twenty five to the top of the hour, will get
to your calls and mere moments. Our good friend Colonel
Oliver North's back with us to talk about a few
things here. Talent on loan from God. You wrote a
great column on Rush and his passing, and uh, you

(01:16:24):
know when he said that, it was amazing to me
because we didn't refer to people back in the day
as snowflakes. Now we have a turn for it, snowflakes
woke ness, if you will. But people would just be
like outraged over that, or half my brain typed behind
my back just to make it fair. Clearly, tongue gently

(01:16:45):
placed in cheek and humorless people on the left just
you know, couldn't deal with it. But pretty amazing life
he led and leading a movement now for thirty some
odd years. You know, nobody can replace him. Colonel North,
how are you, my friend? Well, you're close, You're the

(01:17:05):
next one in line. No, no, thank you, But I
think we all need to up our game to honor
his real wish. That's my answer. Well, he really wished
that America would still be called great and wonderful and
offer opportunity. And that comment about you know, with talent
from God, in fact, isn't hubris. It's it's humility. I mean,

(01:17:29):
you got your talent, I got my talent. Our gifts
are different in many cases, but it all comes from God.
And Rush was acknowledging that every time he said it,
which is another reason why the fire left goes nuts,
because I don't think they believe in God. I don't
know what they do believe in other than selfishness instead
instead of selflessness, they don't they don't recognize that. The

(01:17:51):
remarkable perseverance of our friend. You know, he had so
many times tried in various places as you and I
have to do different things, and finally succeeded at thirty
three years of remarkable broadcasting was the literally created salvation
for talk radio. I mean, and on top of that,

(01:18:15):
gave waste to the concerns of conservatives all over America.
Twenty seven to thirty seven, depending on whose numbers you believe,
million people listened to regularly to Russia Limbaugh, Oh my,
I mean, and they influence he's had, and frankly, the
an entire industry built because of the trailblazing, the path
that he forged. It's you know, never really to be duplicated,

(01:18:37):
and and so many people it's just a void I
mean that you cannot deny. He defined modern day conservatism
and educated us all for now, you know, at thirty
three years on the air, and you know, it's just
it's just a void that will be with us. I
can't imagine any any big event happening and not hearing

(01:18:57):
what he asked to say. You know, let me give
you one big event. You know, people they just don't
like anything that we say on the radio. It seems they,
you know, this whole canceled culture has existed, your time
in radio, your time in the media. They want any
voice they don't agree with. The left does silenced, and
I was one of the things I've been saying that

(01:19:18):
seems to really irritate the left. And I said it
all through the campaign, and Joe becomes president and I
state the obvious, he doesn't have that spring in his step.
I would argue that he had four years ago when
he left. And it's it's dramatic to me. That's my opinion,
it's the opinion of many others too. The scariest part

(01:19:38):
of that equation is that foreign leaders hostile regimes of
Putin and she and the Mullahs in Iran and other
countries that hate our guts, they're not They're not stupid.
They might be evil, but they're not stupid. And I
found this Australian Sky News report and the media down

(01:20:00):
Under saying what I'm saying. They just came flat out
and said it that there's no doubt Joe is in
cognitive decline. Let'sten to what they said. Well, look, there's
just no doubt at all that Biden has had some
cognitive decline. I mean, I think some of his aides
or friends have said he's lost his cognitive fastball. Now,

(01:20:23):
normally one of the great things about an American primary
season in presidential campaign is that it is the most searching,
searing examination of a candidate's fitness. It's impossible to watch
Biden perform in a spontaneous setting and not conclude that
there has been some cognitive decline. But please clarify specifically,

(01:20:47):
have you taken a cognitive No, I haven't taken a test.
Why the hell would I take a test? Come on, man,
that's like saying you before you got in this program,
if you take a test where you're taking cocaine or not?
What you are? You a jodys look And I can
play those all day. Oh, you know and dowed by
all the thing? You know, the thing you know, God,

(01:21:09):
the creator of everything. Um, And I'm not sure there's
some ambiguity is to win those fassette either before the
election or after. But I'm like, why, Well, if foreign
countries are saying this, that was my point, it's scary. Well,
on top of it, you don't. We don't have Russia
limbo anymore. We've got you and maybe one or two
others that are regional. But the bottom line of it

(01:21:31):
is there's nobody out there besides you and a handful
of others who can give voice to the concerns of
the American people. And the reason why Russia had so
many listeners is he gave voice to things that they felt.
And you and I know this happens because it happens
to us a lot. People will walk up to you
afterwards and quote what Russia Limbo had said a few

(01:21:51):
hours before or a few days before, and he gave
them the stimulus to do that. The frightening thing about
what's happening under this administration is that they've taken not
just a moderate terms to the left. These guys have
gone far left one eighty from what President Trump was
doing and everything both domestically and diplomatically in foreign policy.

(01:22:14):
Just the other day he made the speech over at
the State Department, and he admitted that he talked on
the phone for two hours for the sieging ping who
is America's number one adversary on the planet Earth, And
it took him over a month to call bb net
and Yahoo. If you look at those kinds of things
and the efforts to denigrate what President Trump did, it

(01:22:34):
makes the country weaker every single day he does it.
And how does this all play out? Now? You see
that the court packing is being now looked into. You
see the DC statehood, Puerto Rico statedod is being left
and looked into. Now you see open borders, you see amnesty,
you see energy dependence getting away and all these high

(01:22:56):
paying career jobs wiped out. Then you see the radical
radicals now that Joe's appointing, and we've been going through
some of the history of some of them. Then you
look at the Green New Deal. Then you add to that,
you know, look at all the pork buried in the
COVID relief bill and state bailout moneies that are going
out there. And I'm thinking, this is going to be

(01:23:17):
everything that I tried to tell people would happen ahead
of time. It's now happening, and maybe even worse than
I predicted. Well, I think in many respects it's worse
than any of us thought possible. Look what he's doing
in the military. I mean, we've had rules on the
books a long time about affiliations of the wrong kind
of people and publications and the like inside the military.

(01:23:39):
He's now got the new sect deaf issuing guidance that
within the next sixty days. It's actually started in the
third of February. Within that sixty day period, every unit
in the US military Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines,
and the Coast Guard, if they're activated, have to do
a standdown. This does nothing for military readiness, but it
allows them to go back and turned soldier, sailors, AIRMoN

(01:24:02):
gardsman wrines against one another. And if you look at
that kind of thing happening instead of out their training
and getting ready and doing desterance operations like the efforts
to open up the South China. See if you look
at the kinds of things that China is doing in
the underbelly of Africa. The Sub Saharan Africa is owned
by the People's Republic of China because of the so

(01:24:25):
called Belton Road initiatives that they've done. You know, the
very first book published by my new publishing company was
about America's number one adversary, the book that we've got
out right now, which talks about what the heck is
happening to our armed forces. The title of it Vietnam
Excuse me, Veteran's Lament? Is this the America our heroes
fought for? If you look at the comments in there,

(01:24:47):
it's exactly what you and I believe, And none of
it is being done properly by this administration. And I
got eighteen grand kids. Okay, I'm not worried about Betsy
and me. We've done justifying our kids are going to do. Okay,
it's my grandkids that I'm so concerned about. My grandkids
are going to be denied the kinds of freedom, liberty,

(01:25:07):
opportunity that you and I've enjoyed all our lives. And
we did that because we had people in Washington and
of the state capitals who cared about it. You want
to see how things are going to go with the
so called Green New Deal and what they just did
by rejoining the so called Paris Climate Accord. Texas is
an example of what of the devastation we're going to
have because we're in a no longer going to be

(01:25:29):
into any energy independent because of what he did with
the pipeline and what he's doing with fracking. And when
you look at what just happened to Texas, it's just
finally warming up down there and people are coming back
into their homes from hotel rooms and things like that
and finding out the home is wrecked because of the
frozen pipes. And that's the America that this guy is
pushing the store. And this administration, with the help of

(01:25:52):
both thousands of Congress, are going to not just do
it by executive order as this do as the doing
it right now. They're going to get legislation through that
damages all these kinds of opportunities that Americans have had
now for two centuries. And I just I look at it,
and I say, Lord, what are we going to have
to hope for? My answer, for example, on the Second

(01:26:12):
Amendment is right to your Congressman, because they're they're going
to try to make sure that the Second Amendment is
truly infringed, okay. And what they're going to try to
do is to make sure the state levels and in
Congress they pass restrictions on sporting rifles. For crying out loud,
if you read them, he actually says the word ban okay,

(01:26:34):
talking about a very popular sporting rifle in America. It's
a It's not as he said in his speech, it's
not a matter of an assault rifle. It's not a
military weapon. It's it's a sporting rifle, and it's a
hunting rifle. For me, I use it out here on coyotes. Okay.
The fact is what this president aims to do is

(01:26:55):
to take over the lives of the American people. Whether
he makes it for four years or not, it's coming.
And if the American people don't vote in the next election,
which is two years from now, if they don't vote
not quite two years from now, they don't vote for
the right people in Congress, it's we're doomed. We seriously are.
Not you and me, but my grandkids. And so everything

(01:27:17):
that I'm doing right now is look at the sanctity
of human life. You know, part of the problem that
we've gotten in this culture isn't the fact that guns
kill people. It's the fact that we've got people out
walking around who don't obey the law. They're not going
to turn in their firearms. The law abiding citizens might.
But the fact is that the whole thing that this
administration is aiming for is the government's going to take

(01:27:39):
care of you. How Look, the possibilities of rampant inflation
as a consequence of what they're doing economically is disastrous.
It happens every time in the name of promises that
will never be fulfilled. Ever, just like they can't deliver
on safety, security, law order, education of our kids, they

(01:28:02):
never delivered on Obamacare. Every promise they make is guaranteed
to fail, guaranteed government runs very little. Well, the only
thing we can really look towards is the military and
number two. And you're gonna give up your freedoms, then
it's a matter of how much freedom you give up
in the name of false security, and socialism always ends

(01:28:24):
in more poverty, not more prosperity. Colonel Nor We appreciate you. Yep.
It's about our grandkids, and I don't have any yet.
I don't have one. I don't even know if I right.
I'm not ready for any such thing in my life,
Thank you very much. But it is experience safe homes, colonel,

(01:28:44):
appreciate you. Semper five eight hundred nine one, Seawn our
number alight. Time for a quick call here as we say, Hi,
Dan is in Oklahoma. Dan a minute forty five, make
it counselor Hey Sean. I've been doing radio since Arch
of nineteen ninety seven, and so I've been doing a
health and fitness show. In fact, you used to follow

(01:29:07):
me on kt OK on Saturday of the rerun for you.
I had Paul Fury right before me and you right
after me. St Louis audience. I've read no Okloma City.
Oh you're an Okla City c I'm sorry. Now the
reason I is calling you, I'm doing a podcast now
called Dan's Health Talks. I just do a health and
fitness show, not a political show. I would do a

(01:29:27):
political show, except that I don't want people to have
cancer or heart disease or diabetes or something not want
to listen because they have a different political view. But
I realized a while back that Sean, I mean Sean's
who I'm connecting you to, that Rush. I would not
be doing what I'm doing if Rush had not made

(01:29:47):
talk radio so popular. And Rush is the best example
that I can think many of creation of wealth. And
I have a sister in law who's a doctor and sociology.
I'm a doctor, a nutrician. But my sister in law,
she and I were talking one time and she actually

(01:30:08):
believed secret liberal and she actually believed that there's a
pie that if you have more than I must have less.
That's not a zero sum game. Let me just say this,
health and fitness everybody needs to pay attention to. I
work out an hour and a half a day. I
do a hard martial arts, kick ass workout anyway, good call,

(01:30:30):
appreciate it. Listen, a lot of you want all right,
that's going to wrap things up for today. Let not
your hearts be troubled. We hope you'll say a DVR
Hannity tonight, nine Eastern Fox News. Senator Ted Cruze, Senator
Lindsey Graham, Kevin McCarthy. How are these senators? And how
is the House? How are they going to deal with
this radical agenda? We'll get into that, Dan Bungino, and

(01:30:54):
of course much more news you won't get from the mob.
Say DVR Hannity tonight at and I. We'll see you then.
As always, thank you for being with us. We'll see
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