Defending DeSantis

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, thanks Scott Shoanning. Glad you're with us. Right
down our toll free telephone number, it's eight hundred and
nine four one, Sean you want to be a part
of the program. Governor Ron DeSantis will join us, will
also check in with the Democratic mayor. Now, a number
of high profile Democrats in the state of Florida are
now speaking out on behalf of Governor DeSantis and setting

(00:23):
the record straight about the sixty minutes hit piece. We have.
The mayor of Palm Beach County, Democrat Dave Kerner, is
going to join us in the course of the program.
He actually released a statement said I watched the sixty
Minutes segment on Palm Beach County last night, and I
feel compelled to issue this statement. The reporting was not
just based on bad information, it was intentionally false. I

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know because I offered to provide my insight into Palm
Beach County's vaccination efforts. I know through the grape vine
and our research. He spoke with sixty minutes and their
producer for forty five straight minutes, and they wouldn't put
him on camera, and they wouldn't put his position on
camera anyway. Sixty minutes declined his offer. And they know,

(01:11):
he said, quote, they know the governor came to Palm
Beach County, that the governor met with me and the
county administrator and we asked to expand the state's partnership
with publics to Palm Beach County. In other words, so
in Palm Beach County, they have a very high percentage
of elderly population, over two hundred and seventy five thousand

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seniors in Palm Beach County alone, which is over seventy
five percent of the total senior population. They've all been
vaccinated already, and so Rohn de Santis the first thing
seniors first was their motto. After obviously people that work
in the medical community and seniors got the vaccine first.
When Rohn de Santis was on at the very beginning

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of COVID on this program, he said that he's mobilized
every single state agency to tech the elderly in Florida,
which has the one of the highest percentages of the
elderly population. And I think they are, like, you know,
they've done, They've done the best of any big state
by far, like compared to New York or Pennsylvania, New

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Jersey or Michigan with their executive orders to send COVID
patients into nursinghams. All three New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania.
They did it all within a week of each other.
How stupid were all three of them? Just the opposite
was done in Florida and they kept it open and
the kids have been in school since August. In Florida,

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no problems, and people aren't and now people are flocking
to Florida in droves. Real estate prices are just there's
never been a boom like this. I talk to real
estate friends of mine down there. They said they've never
seen anything like it anyway. So they were able to
get all of this done down in Florida, and sixty
minutes comes in. Now you think they'd be doing pieces

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New York and Cuomo and the nursing home scandal and
the group home scandal, and the fact that Pennsylvania followed suit,
New Jersey followed suit, all the shutdown states. Now the
recall of newsom out in California. No, they're not doing
any of that anyway. So the mayor of Palm Beach County,
the Democratic mayor, will join us. Ronda Santis will also
join us. We'll get into all of that in the

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course of the program today. Now I can't help put
start thinking about how absolutely, because this is beyond journalism
being dead when a Democratic mayor a Palm Beach County

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will defend the Republican governor of the state of Florida
because they actually worked hand in hand at that meeting.
I've been briefed on what happened at that meeting. Governor
De Santa said, Okay, what's the best way? What's the
best location? Is it drug stores? Is it? You know?

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Should we set up centers? You know what? What what
will work best for Palm Beach County. And it was
the mayor that decided on publics. Now, publics is adamantly
they donate to Republicans and Democrats. They've tried to tie
this into well, he picked publics. Publics didn't charge the
State of Florida a single penny to become a vaccination

(04:23):
center for the state of Florida. They did it as
a public service for their customers. I mean good for publics.
I'm always like public stores. They're they're well known throughout
the South, like wind Dixie and other places. The CBSS
of Florida, the Walgreens of Florida, the Right Aids of Florida.

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They were all busy actually taking the vaccine into the
elderly communities. They did that at no charge to the
state of Florida. I mean, everybody was kind of like
all hands on deck. And it is if you want
the model of how to do something right. If you
know everybody says they want my partisanship, you're here, you
have it and sixty minutes and I'll tell you what.

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Let me tell you what this is. Because if Donald
Trump doesn't run in twenty twenty four, the name you
hear most often is Governor Ronda Santis. That's I'm hearing
it from everyone. If Trump doesn't run, I think I
like Rohnda Santis. I hear that from more people every day.
And he doesn't hide from his support and friendship of
Donald Trump either, and the fact that he supports the

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president's agenda. It's the agenda that's gonna matter. Now. It's interesting,
was we go back to the state of Georgia Major
League Baseball again, Well, I guess one of the few
the points out major League Baseball makes a big deal
with China in the middle of a human rights abuse
at a level and a scale we've not seen in

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a long time. But they're making financial deals with China. Now,
all these companies two hundred companies now that have spoken
out against Georgia, starting with you know, the home base
in Atlanta for Delta and Coca Cola, and they just
you know, oh, this this law is unfair. Well, Major

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League Baseball announced they're moving this year's All Star Game
out of Georgia. And um, by the way, the MLB
commissioner apparently is a member of Augusta. We're gonna raise
the Augusta question in this case. I'm not I'm not
raising it, but I'm I'm I'm just asking where's where's
his intellectual consistency and honesty if this is his application?

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But they've gotten everything wrong with it. Now it's headed
to Colorado, which has many rules that are similar but
actually are more restrictive than Georgia, just like Joe Biden's
Delaware has far more restrictive voting laws than the new
law in the state of Georgia, as does Chuck Schumer's

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New York. So now they moved it to Coors Field
in Denver and pulling it from Georgia. You know, Georgia
has seventeen days of in person voting. Colorado is fifteen.
Colorado has a photo ID requirement. Why are they sending
it to Colorado and pulling it from Georgia. Major mistake.

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And it's I've been saying this between the medium mob,
the woke, We've got rage, psychosis, hysteria, and never ending
lies from the media, lies from the Democrats, lies from
big tech, the woke, now corporate cowards. It's it's just

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another new level of derangement in psychosis. Every single day
there's just outright lies about what happened down in Georgia.
And and what did I say before the election. I'm
saying we have institutional failure in this country, major institutions
failing its people, starting with the Democratic Party. You know,

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if you look, if you look at Joe Biden absolutely
positively lied when he compared this to Jim Crowe. Because
the new law and Georgia actually creates more early voting,
more days to vote, more flexibility to vote, adds another
Saturday to vote, keeps the ballot drop boxes that people

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seem to love so much. Instead of having the two
tiered signature verification system, one system will be applied to everybody.
It strengthens the absentee ballot process the same standard whether
you vote in person or vote by mail. You're allowed
to bring food and water. That was one big lie.
Election workers can hand it out partisan organizations, just like

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in New York. You can't hand it out within one
hundred defeat. The new law requires a voter ID or
a state issued ID or a social Security number if
you want to get an absentee ballot, which means you
have integrity in the system, confidence in the outcome. So
we don't have to go through what we went through
in twenty twenty. And you know, and I went through

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the whole list yesterday. You want to go visit Joe
at the White House, Yeah, you need a photo ID.
Go to the US Capital photo ID, Democratic National Convention
photo ID. You want to get on an airplane photo ID.
Want to buy a house, apply for a mortgage, rent
a house, photo ID. Jeez, you want to buy a
beer for crying out loud, you need a photo ID.

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I'm at my age. I get carded if I buy
your jewel pods. If you smoke? You want to buy
a cigarettes photo ID. You apply for food stamps, photo ID,
apply for a job, photoid welfare programs, photoid medicare, medicaid, unemployment,
drive by, rent a car, purchase a gun, adopt a pe,
run a hotel room, pick up a prescription, donate blood,

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purchase some colder allergy medicine like allegri d and on
and on and on. Want to pick up tickets at
will call at an MLB game, You're gonna need a
photo ID. Seventy two percent of Americans think we should
require a photo ID. Joe Biden doesn't want you to know.
His state is far worse by the way he Even

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the Washington Post said he's a liar. Four pinocchios for Joe.
And if you look at Okay, for example, Delaware is
no in person early voting, they don't have any of that.
George is far less restrictive than Delaware. George's got seventy
seventeen days of in person early voting. None none for Delaware.

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Delaware requires specific excuses if you need an absentee ballot.
In Georgia, anyone can vote absentee Delaware. There are no
ballot drop boxes. Georgia drop box is still available. The
guy that's saying there's a Jim Crow two point zero.
Now what is he doing here? He's playing the race card? Why?

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I mean, now, it's a little ironic. It's the same
guy that partnered with the former Klansmen to prevent the
integration of schools because he didn't want them becoming racial
jungles his words and the when he partnered with Robert Bird.
He's the one that referred to African American youth as
predators on our streets. Of course, the media mob, big

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tech mob, they protected him during the campaign. He was
in the candidate Protection program. Where was out where you know,
was any outrage from Delta United American Cooke, any outrage
on any of this? Are these companies? Are they now
gonna boycott the Beijing twenty twenty two Olympics? Are they

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going to look at the human rights atrocious human rights
record at China? Why are they amplifying these these companies
actually read the law? You know, this is this now
wokeness now moving towards corporate America. I mean, if this
is it, I'm gonna tell you what people are gonna
do on I'm not pushing it. I don't support boycott's

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They're gonna stop buying their products. They're gonna stop flying
on their airlines. They're gonna look for alternatives. You know,
Fulton County, Cobb County, Georgia just lost one hundred million
dollars in revenue thanks to Joe Biden and lies that
were told by so many. It's it's unbelievable Major League Baseball, Okay,

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and it gets worse from there. It's already backfiring because
now if Colorado requires photo, I mean, I can't believe.
Fox News asked Major League Baseball if they research state
voting laws when determining, they didn't immediately respond to us
as we were along Sean Hannity Show. Huh, it's pretty interesting. Yeah,

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circleback Saki Jen Saki propagandists actually now certified liar for
the Biden White House, as they've lied about a lot
of things lately. Joe got blown over by the wind,
That's what happened. No, it's Jim Crow. No. She now
says it's very uncommon for suspected terrorists to cross the

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border into our country. The information about people who are
known or reasonably suspected of being involved in terror activities.
Two people on it from yet have been apprehended at
the border. How concerned is President find about terrorists possibly
trying to take advantage of gats in the border to
get in and kill Well, first, let me convey that

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these type of incidents are very uncommon, and CBP and
DHS can speak more to the timeline and the specifics
of course in these particular cases and encounters, but encounters
of known and suspected terrorists are very uncommon. They do
underscore the importance of the critical work that is done
on a daily basis to vet those at the border.

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DHS works not just at the border, as you know,
but also with international partners to share intelligence and other information,
including to prevent individuals on certain watch lists from entering
the United States. They adjudicate individuals encountered at and between
ports of entry against several classified and unclassified databases. So
while this is rare, this is a reflection of them

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doing their jobs rare and uncommon. But we'll let them spit.
They're not allowed to speak because you put a gag
order on them. Biden's DHSS Department Online Security deleted a
press release on terrorsts sneaking across the border. Interesting because
you have two Yemeni men on the FBI's Terror Watchlasters

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are rare arrested in California after a legal crossing the border,
just weeks after Republicans warned terrorists were entering from Mexico
the sanctuary country. Now well over a thousand, hundred thousand
people have gotten away from US this year, if that's
what the Border Patrol chief has said, over one hundred

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thousand gotten away. We have no idea where they are
twenty five to the top of the hour. So all
these Democrats downplaying the suspected terrorists and the border, you know,
they're silent. Now they're silent. They downplay the possibility. How
do you downplay that? Because what they're not even acknowledging
is because of all of the resources, because of Joe's invitation,

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Joe getting rid of the Stay of Mexico policy, Joe
stopping border wall construction, you know, Joe bringing backcatch and release.
It's an invitation. The cartels, the human traffickers, drug traffickers,
they're going wild. They're making more money than ever before.
Even dumping three and five year old kids was dropping

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them from a fourteen foot fence into the United States
and they see you later. Good luck. Kid, It's sad,
it's sick. Democrats downplaying the possibility of individuals on the
FBI terrorism watch list been silent about border patrols capturing
these suspected terrorists at the southern border. Monday, US Customs

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Border Protection announced border patrolled agents apprehended this Yemeni man
who was at the Southern border, name on the FBI's
terrorism watch list. The second border patrol arrest of a
Yemeny national with their name on the watch list in
recent weeks. And you know, so, what do they have
to say for themselves at what if they committed an

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act of terror? Would they not have blood on their
hands at that point? Because they're facilitating the law breaking,
eiding and embedding. I thought that was a crime aiding
in embedding the United Sanctuary States of America. It aids
and abets lawbreaking that the government of Joe Biden is

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aiding and abetting criminal activity here and in the meantime,
with all the resources being drained trying to deal with
all of the hundreds of thousands of people now crossing
the border, well, that gives free rein to the more
nefarious actors to do whatever it is that they do. Drugs,
human trafficking, prostitution, even of kids into the United States.

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Biden's DHS deleted the release of the terrorists sneaking across
the border. They don't want you to even see that.
I've never seen such lack of transparency. Nope, Border patrol
can't talk to people in the press. All interview requests
must go through the Biden administration. No more right alongs.
No cameras inside of the cages that Biden is overcrowded

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with tons of kids in the middle of a pandemic.
One interesting note Washington Times, Department of Homeland Security Secretary
mayorcis telling employees that he may restart border wall construction
to plug what he called gaps in the current barrier.
I can't wait to put together that montage of every

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Democrat saying walls are bad. If Biden doesn't, I guess
it'll be good. But this is now where we are now,
and the circle back press Secretary Saki to say, oh, no,
very uncommon. It's happening now, we're catching them now. This
is not something new. Now, We've got a lot of

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things happening here. So we've discussed in great specificity, in
great detail, the Biden administration and these massive, the biggest
tax hikes in over three decades that they will be
imposing on you, we the American people. We've talked about
they're out of control, reckless spending. We've talked about the

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New Green Deal agenda and how it is completely unaffordable.
These will be false promises of security that will never
be fulfilled. We've talked about lost jobs in the energy sector.
We've talked about the higher price that we're all paying
now and it's only going to get hired to fill
our tanks, heat our homes, cool our homes. We've talked

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all about that, and you know, then you look at
both the evil corporations. We've talked about how corporations don't
pay taxes. They will pass that cost onto you, onto
we the American people. You will pay more, just like
you are paying more for these idiotic energy policies. That
makes the price of energy, the lifeblood of the world's economy,

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more expensive. So with all of that going on, and
all the talk about loophole's being closed and higher taxes,
as a private citizen, we've had an opportunity to look
at twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen and by
and his wife, Jill, doctor Jill. They routed thirty million

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dollars of income through what are called s corporations. If
Hannity owns it, it's called a shell corporation, But an
LLC usually don't put in your name New York Times,
Hannity's shell corporations, it's not a shell corporation. It's called
an LLLC. He purchased the property. Yeah, I did that

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I paid for and that I'm paying for, still paying
for anyway, and paying taxes on. But they did it.
But the Bidens did it to avoid paying taxes, in
this case, taxes that would fund Medicare and the Obamacare
ACA Act. We have Republican Study Committee Chair Jim Banks.

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He pointed out to Fox News, when we take back
the House in twenty twenty two, Oversight Committee, Republicans won't
forget about Biden's legally dubious tax avoidance schemes. You know,
this is liberals. They're always generous with other people's money.
They're against guns, but they're absolutely for themselves being having
armed guards around them. Hollywood liberals. I love that. Anyway,

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he goes in a blistering attack, do you intend to
undo your hypocrisy and pay these taxes back to the
American people, because we now see that money that you
earned from book royalties, speaking appearance fees and put into
these s corporations avoided self employment payroll tax liabilities that

(21:31):
would have flowed to America's Medicare program that provides care
to over sixty million seniors. And the ACA Act imposed
higher taxes on millions of Americans, but not Joe Biden.
He only paid one hundred and twenty one thousand. He
paid one hundred and twenty one thousand less in Obamacare taxes,
Banks says to Fox News. Joe Biden advocated expanding Medicare

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and is pushing to closed tax loopholes and for a
three trillion dollar tax hike at the same time Amtrak,
Joe made thirteen million dollars through speaking fees in three years,
then skimmed over the five hundred thousand dollars for Medicare
recipients through tax loop bowls. Now here's the most interesting proposal.

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Pay attention to this one. You better enjoy what's left
to the Trump economy while you can, because these left
wing lunatics you know, are running the show now. Biden's
going to up your taxes by trillions of dollars. Apparently
that's not enough for Treasury Secretary Janet Ellen. She's now
proposed what is called a global tax hike globally. By

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the way, why I stop there, Why don't we tax
you know, why don't we hike taxes on the entire
solar system cases intelligent life out there? They maybe want
to be forewarned. Maybe we'll have a galaxy wide tax. Anyway,
she wants what's called a global minimum corporate tax rate. Now,
think about why why would the United States of a

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Erica could be telling other countries to raise their corporate
tax rates. It's not a hard answer. Now that comes
as they're about to begin the two trillion dollar infrastructure
well two and a half trillion, almost three trillion proposal
that will raise US corporate taxes. We're working with G
twenty nations to agree to a global minimum tax corporate

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tax rate that can stop the race to the bottom.
We can use the global minimum tax to make sure
the global economy thrives based on a more level playing
field than the taxation of multinational corporations, and it'll spur
innovation and prosperity and growth. But that's total. Bs Loops
almost said it. Competitiveness is about anyway. Yelling had previously

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call for this corporate tax rate. Why do you think
they want to do that? Why just think about the
answer for a second. They want to do it because
Yelling understands something here. Yelling understand ends that companies are
going to look at this tax and it's going to

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become more appealing to businesses to headquarter their companies in
low tax countries, which they've done in the past. Now
she's trying to stop it that way. Now is it
going to be successful? I would bet the answers You're

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gonna still have taxes, haveing countries. There are countries you
can buy citizenship too. You'd pay X amount of dollars
for you and your family. Antigua, for example, you can
buy I think it's one hundred and thirty four thousand dollars.
You can be a full on citizen. There are people
that have given up their citizenship. I don't want to

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give up my American citizenships. You know, still the greatest
country God gave man. I just want a new government.
Hopefully we begin that process in twenty twenty two. Biden's
Energy secretary doesn't deny tax hikes for massive in structure
is going to hit the middle class hard. Well, that
was nice that they finally accidentally fell on the truth.

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Jennifer Granholm. Yeah, I don't deny tax sites. Yeah, it's
gonna hit the middle class hard. We're actually saying this
your tax dollars. Get this. We put it on Hannity
dot Com today. The US has agreed to and the
United Arab Emirate's released a joint statement affirming both countries
commitment to help finance the decarbonization in the Middle East

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and North Africa. Why is one penny of hard earned
American tax dollars going to the decarbonization in the Middle
East and North Africa? Why would we pay that? Why
would you tax us to pay that? But that's what
they're trying to do. Now, what yelling here is calling

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forward this global minimum tax rate is interesting. Right now,
the state of New York is about to become the
highest tax state in the entire Union. You now, it's
going to be a forty percent income tax rate federally
New York. Now, when you combine state and city income

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taxes only, Now New York has high. I live in
the second highest tax county in the country, the county
I was actually born in. It's called Nassau County. Now,
when you add combine state and city income tax rates,
it will be a higher fourteen point eight percent, so
forty percent of the federal government just for income taxes,

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no Social Security taxes. Then you add the fifteen percent
state and city tax that's fifty five cents of every
dollar I make going to government. Then you add the
property taxes the highest in the country, second highest in
the country. And literally they're saying, this is what. Now,

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if I moved down to Florida, I immediately save fifteen
percent probably closer to twenty to twenty five percent of
money moving to Florida. Now I have to work out
a deal with my employers to make that happen. Then
they're adding the legalization of marijuana and they're going to
tax the hell out of that. Then they're looking at

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sports betting because they think that can generate five hundred
million dollars a year. Then they're have the Excluded Workers
Fund two point one billion to new spending. Then they
have the Rental Assistance Fund two point three billion. Then
they have Education aid one point four billion. Why is
anybody you want to know? Why people are leaving New

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York and California and New Joysey and Pennsylvania and Michigan
and other high tax liberal states because of this? Why
is Florida booming? Florida right now? Real estate is at
a record high explosive growth. They've I've talked to realtor

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friends of mine. They said they've got bidding wars on
every house down there. If it opens up, it's insane.
I'll ask the Palm Beach mayor. I'll ask Rhnda Santis,
who's going to join us at the top of the
hour about it. And the reason that this ties into
yelling is because yelling sees what's happening in New York,

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sees what's happening in New Jersey, sees what's happening in California,
sees what's happening in Illinois and Michigan. And she's saying, Oh,
we're gonna if we can get the rest of the
world to buy into our high corporate tax structure, then
these companies can't move to other countries. Now, You're not

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gonna get every other country to go along with us. Madness,
because they're gonna want to entice businesses to leave the
United States and build their corporate headquarters and provide jobs
for people in their country who need jobs. That means
Americans post pandemic will have less jobs available. And that

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is eighteen million Americans. Add to that the millions of
illegal immigrants that will get amnesty, add to that energy
sector workers that just got fired by Joe Biden, and
what you have is a formula for economic disaster. And
they're trying to get these other countries to do it.

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It would be like New York saying to the rest
of the country, Yeah, you raise your states, state and
city taxes to New York's level, and then people won't
leave New York. Well, I got to know the governors
of Texas at varying times, Florida, Louisiana, Carolinas, Tennessee. I

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got to know these govern is really well because they
always would come up to New York because they were
here to appeal to businesses and Wall Street to leave.
Guess what, Wall Street, One company after another they're packing
up and they're leaving. They're all leaving. These office buildings

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are never gonna be filled the way they were at
the prices they were getting at their height. So this
is now they're just doubling down on colossal stupidity. Right
hour or two, Sean Hannity show, gladuate with us right
down our toll free number. We'd love to hear from you.
It's eight hundred and nine four one, Sean. You want

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to be a part of the program. By the way,
one hour from right now, we have the Democratic mayor
of Palm Beach County, his name is Mayor Dave Kerner,
who is saying that not only was the report on
sixty minutes fake and intentionally false, but he offered to
tell them the truth, and they just spent forty five

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minutes on the phone with sixty minutes. They didn't want
to hear the insight of what really happened with the
discussion that took place with Governor Rohnda Santis down in Florida.
As it relates to the distribution of the vaccine, it
happens to be a very high population of elderly of
elderly people down in Palm Beach County and anyway, so

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the governor came to Palm Beach County, met with the mayor,
met with the county administrator gave him a whole host
of options, and he's saying, I'm the one that decided
it should go to public, so the governor let us
decide after laying out every option imaginable. But of course
sixty Minutes did want to hear any of that. It's
pretty unbelievable to me. Let me play Ronda Santis sparring

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with the CBS reporter over the COVID vaccine rollout and
this fake, fraudulent, fake news sixty Minutes hit piece that
they were in public says, you know, donated a hundred
thousand dollars to your campaign and then you rewarded them
with the exclusive rights to distribute the vaccination in first
of all, that what you're saying is wrong, that's a

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fake narrative. I met with the county mayor, I met
with the administrator, I met with all the folks at
Palm Beach County, and I said, here's some of the options.
We can do more drive through sites, we can give
more to hospitals, we can do the publics and they said,
we think that would be the easiest thing for our residence.
But Melissa McKinley, the county commissioner in the Glades told
us the governor never met with her about the public's deal.

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The criticism is that it's paid a play. It's wrong,
it's wrong, it's a fake narrative. I just disabused you
of the narrative, and you don't care about the facts
because obviously I laid it out for you in a
way that is irrefutable. So it's clearly not no, no,
you're wrong. You're wrong. You're wrong. Yes, it's actually a fact.
So the mayor of Palm Beach County said, you know,

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he felt compelled. He released the statement after sixty Minutes
ran this hit piece. I watched the sixty minutes segment
on Palm Beach County last night and feel compelled to
issue this statement. The reporting was not just based on
bad information, it was intentionally false. I know this because
I offered to provide my insight into Palm Beach County's
vaccination efforts and sixty minutes decline. I happen to know

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that the mayor spoke with sixty minutes of whopping forty
five minutes, and they still refused to tell his side
of the story. Forget about, you know, fair and balanced anything.
He goes on and he says they know. The governor
came to Palm Beach County, met with me, met with
the county administrator, and we asked to expand the state's
partnership with publics to Palm Beach County. We also discussed

(33:43):
our own local plans to expand mass vaccination centers throughout
the county, which the governor has been incredibly supportive. This
is a democratic mayor, he said, We asked and he delivered.
They had this information, they left it out. Is it
kneecapped their whole narrative. In other words, when they finally

(34:04):
heard from the mayor of Palm Beach County, the Democratic mayor,
that their hip piece ended, but they just decided not
to air that part or even interview on camera. The mayor,
who was offering to be interviewed, spend forty five minutes
on the phone with the producers of Sixty Minutes. We
have confronted this pandemic for over a year our residence,

(34:24):
like all Americans attired. The media is making it worse.
They're just help ben on dividing us for cheap views
and clicks, and sixty Minutes should be ashamed. Governor Rhonda
Santis the great state of Florida, joins us. How are you, sir.
I'm doing great, Sean. I still have the ability to
minshew a Florida driver's license, so you just let me

(34:44):
know and you'll ask you a question about that as
long as you brought it up. Is it true that
if I'm down there for just two months, I can
declare a homestead and get a license from down there,
So you can declare a permanent residence in Florida. Now
that's different than relieving you of taxes from New York.
So we do have people that vote in Florida, that

(35:06):
live here even a majority of the year, who still
fight with New York on taxes. So it's a different
analysis than the tax But it's definitely possible that you
could come down here and be homesteaded here, be registered
to vote here. Now, how do you do that? If
I'm still let's say I spend more time up in
New York than I did down in Florida, but I
was down there a couple of months a year, would

(35:27):
I be able to homestead down there? Whatever your primary
residence is, if it's if you consider it Florida, you
can homestead here in the state of Florida. We don't
have you got to be in your home a certain
number of times or whatnot. If you count somewhere else
as your primary residence, then that would be different. My

(35:49):
understanding is New York tax officials literally pretty much lived
down in Florida, and they're harassing people that move from
New York to Florida to make sure and you have
to prove to the state of New York. In other words,
you're not innocent until proven guilty. You must prove that
you've been down there, what is it one hundred and
eighty however many days a year, because at that point

(36:13):
then you don't have to pay New York state income taxes.
Have you heard those those nightmarish stories as well. I've
absolutely heard that there are New York revenue agents who
just work in Florida. They have them stationed down here,
and they're looking to try to figure out who's almost
going to follow me to my grave. Good grief, you

(36:34):
would be okay instead of sending revenue agents down here
to police people who are fleeing, maybe figure out why
people are fleeing your state and fix the underlying problems.
But it seems like they just keep doubling down on
the failed policies. No, they're what they're proposing now in
New York State. Governor dissenters, you'll love this, a four
billion dollars tax increase. So anybody that makes any money

(36:58):
is now if they if they're on the fence. Uh,
I can. I can barely afford this. Now they're pushing
them to states like Florida. Florida seems to be the
number one destination though from New York, New Jersey and
other areas. Let me get to this hip piece, because
you know, I guess because you protected the elderly. The

(37:19):
one thing that they got right was the elderly the
most vulnerable to COVID. And I remember interviewing you very
early on and you had you said to me, and
I never forgot it that you mobilized every state agency
to go to every nursing home, every elder community in
the state of Florida, from the villages on down, all

(37:40):
across Florida to protect the elderly. You did not put
COVID patients in nursing homes through executive action or in
group homes through executive action like New York did, Pennsylvania did,
New Jersey did in Michigan did did you no? And
in fact, we did the option. We banned hospitals from
discharging COVID positive pay since back to nursing homes, and

(38:01):
we also set up COVID only nursing facilities so that
if you had an outbreak at a nursing home, maybe
two residents tested positive, you could isolate them in a
separate nursing home so that the rest of the residents
wouldn't be infected, and vice a versa. If somebody was
discharged from a hospital, they could go to a COVID unit, recover,
and then go back to their nursing home once they're

(38:23):
no longer contagious. And I think because we did that, Sean,
even though we have one of the most elderly populations
in the country, they're twenty six states that have hired
per capita COVID mortality than us and amongst senior citizens
sixty five and up, there are forty states that have
higher per capita COVID mortality for senior citizens in the
state of Florida, So focusing on senior's early work and

(38:46):
then on the back end, putting seniors first on the
vaccinations worked and that's kind of where we find ourselves
with this sixty minutes monstrosity. We had one of the
most robust vaccine efforts because we had so many any
different distribution points. I mean, we had hospitals obviously, we
had county health departments, we had drive through site, we

(39:07):
did a number of We did tens of thousands of
doses at African American churches. We would go to fifty
five and up communities like Century Village down in Broward
County and show up there and vaccinate thousands of seniors.
We did retail with CVS and Walgreens going to nursing
homes initially, then we added Publics as a retail partner,

(39:27):
and then we've now since added Walmart and Win Dixie,
and so it's worked. We've now done three and a
half million seniors. We have one of the best, if
not the best, records for vaccinating seniors in the country.
And you have partisan sixty minutes CBS trying to come
down and smearing me, saying because Publics is a supporter
of my political pack, that somehow we rewarded them with

(39:50):
an exclusive, secret deal. It's false. There was never an
exclusive deal with Publics in fact, Sean, we never paid
Publics a dime, We never had a contract with public
Publics was willing to receive vaccines and do it at
no cost to the state. They did a heck of
a job. They're one of the most respected companies anywhere
in the United States. There probably our most respected company

(40:13):
by a long shot. It would have been malpracticed not
to get Publics involved, and so they spliced out my
entire f which you showed played from sixty minutes. They
spliced out my entire explanation of how all this happened,
the idea that publics was exclusive. No cvs and Walgreens
were doing it before public hospitals were doing it. We
had all these things going on and it was very successful.

(40:35):
Palm Beach in particulars agreedious because, as the mayor said,
Democrat Mayor, I went down, we discussed what are the options,
what do you think we could do reduce the numbers
very early on, and they thought they calculated that ninety
percent of their seniors in Palm Beach County lived within
a mile and a half of a publics. So we
had a situation, Sean, where some of our elderly had

(40:56):
not been doing a lot for the previous year because
of COVID, but almost all of them would still go
to the supermarket. Almost all of them would still go
to primarily to publics, so they felt comfortable going there
in a way that having them drive halfway across town
to go to a drive through site they may not,
or even going to a hospital site where some people
were not comfortable doing that. So I think it was

(41:17):
a genius idea and nobody worrying. They don't say that
this didn't work. It did work, and it was done
in conjunction with the county, and they CBS had all
that information. They claimed they were down here for three months,
so they spent three months digging up dirt and the
best they could come up with was a bogus conspiracy

(41:40):
theory trying to smear me and our most popular, respected
company in the whole state. Give me a break. But
here's the thing. These folks can't keep getting away with this.
They lie and they lie and they lie, and then
they just move on to the next target. We're not
letting this go away. We're going to expose more and
more of the lies because the big lie has been exposed.

(42:02):
But there are little lies that are. We're kind of
propping that up that we're going to expose those as well,
and they're gonna have a lot to answer for. So,
but all your listeners just understand this corporate media cannot
be trusted in any way, shape or form. They are
purely partisan smear operations and that's what they do every day.

(42:24):
They've never done anything about their own governor in New
York for any of the things that are going on there.
They've never done anything about these lockdown governors just simply
because those governors are in their party. I'm the governor
that's not in their party. So the one governor they
pick the one the state, the biggest state of all
the big states. We've done the best across the board
on all this stuff, and they come here to Florida

(42:48):
and try to manufacture a hit piece you and we're
gonna have Mayor Dave Kerner on. I mean, I found
I was blown away by his statement. And here you
have a democratic mayor saying the governor came, we met
with him, we laid it, he laid out all the options, totally, cooperative, totally,
you know, we were as bipartisan as everybody says. They

(43:11):
want that happened, and they say it's intentionally false. I mean,
now I've had my own little run on what CBS is.
Ted Copple once interviews me for an hour and picks
the one minute that he can look good in to
air and doesn't and then cuts out my answer. Oh yeah, waste.
You know. So they had asked me to do an interview,

(43:33):
and I'm like, why the hell would I interview you.
I let you interview me for thirty minutes and then
you'll splice thirty seconds to try to make me look bad.
I gave a two minute comprehensive response, and they spliced
out all the facts that blow up their narrative just
in that two minute response. So imagine what they would
have done there. That's what they do. But Mayor Kerner,

(43:55):
We've worked together on all this stuff because you know
what our goal, joint goal was to save the lives
of our elderly people, and we succeeded. In Palm Beach
were vaccinated over two hundred and seventy five thousand seniors
as of today now Florida as vaccines open to the
entire population who wants it, who are old enough to
have it, and so so it's been a big success,

(44:17):
and I think it's because we've been able to work
together and really be be collaborative. And so they we
Turner offered to talk to him interview on camera. Our
director of emergency management, who is the one that teed
up the public's initial public's allocations. He's a Democrat as well,
Jared Moskowitz, and he said at the time that this

(44:39):
was nonsense, and then he said, in response to sixty minutes,
this is nonsense. I've told you what happened. They would
not interview Jared Moscowitz, who was in charge of our
vaccine distribution. And again he's a Democrat, bipartisan, but he's
going to speak the truth on this because the facts
are just the facts. And so you have a situation
where CBS intentionally created a false narrative. They knew lined,

(45:03):
you know, if you really want to get into why
they did this intentionally false story. And I do give
a lot of credit to all of these Democrats that
have said, not only is a false but it's intentionally false.
And I don't know if you know that. Dave Kerner
spent forty five minutes on the phone, offered to go
on camera to tell them the truth and they purposely
said no to him, which which tells you everything you

(45:25):
need to know. But I mean it was a moment
where you have people on both sides of the aisle
trying to just stand up for the best interest of
the elderly population down in Florida. I give credit to
both sides here. Do you think a lot of this
is rooted? Because there's a lot of talk already about
twenty twenty four and if whether Donald Trump runs is

(45:47):
yet to be determined, we got to get through the
twenty twenty two mid term. I'm sure a lot will
be determined as a results as the results of that
night come in that your name is mentioned a lot
as a future Republican president evential candidate, because I think
it is directly related to it. Well. I think it also, Sean,
is the fact that from the very beginning of COVID,

(46:07):
corporate media has had it out for Florida. I mean,
they've always tried to say Florida's worse than New York,
doing worse than all these other states. There's never been
data to support it. We've done much better on a
per capita basis on COVID than all the lockdown states
like New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, California has much
higher per capita mortality for elderly than we do, and

(46:30):
their economies have been a disaster. So I think the
fact that I challenged the lockdown narrative, that I focused
on elderly, but I also got our kids in school,
made sure everyone has a right to work, businesses have
a right to be open. Our unemployment rates four point
seven percent nationally as six point three percent. Lockdown states
are seven eight percent. They cannot accept that they were

(46:54):
wrong and their lockdown hero governors that they promoted were wrong.
And not only were they long, they destroyed millions of
people's lives. Kids who've been locked out of school, people
that have lost their jobs, businesses that have shuddered, and oh,
by the way, they locked seniors in nursing homes and
cause way more coke and believable. I think part of

(47:14):
that has been there, and then, quite frankly, Sean, they
covered up that's even worse, of course, and I'm but
also I'm a Republican. I don't run away. I worked
with Trump closely, He's a friend of mine. I don't
the media has hatred for him. I think unless you're
out there constantly bashing him, than they hate you even

(47:35):
more for that too. So they have all these different
reasons that they're doing it. But at the end of
the day, this is blown up on them already. There's
more to come in terms of just showing how dishonest
it was, and I think it's a further lesson to
all the conservatives out there don't trust corporate media. Well done,
and honestly, thank god some governors like yourself got it

(47:58):
right because a lot of lives saved as a result
of the decisions you made based on the science. Governor
Rhonda Santis, thank you for being one of us. We
appreciate it. Hope you join us again soon. Thanks Sean.
Take eight hundred ninety for one, Sean, you want to
be a part of the program. The mayor of Palm
Beach County, the Democratic mayor who backs up the governor
completely on this, felt compelled to speak out. He'll join

(48:19):
us at the top of the hour. All right, let's
get to our busy phones. Here. Jack is in the
great state of Tennessee. What's up, Jack, How are you, sir?
Doing well? I appreciate you taking my call. I just
wanted to way in on the CEOs that are voicing
their opinion or highlighting their ignorance. One particularly the co
Cola CEO. I'm a co Cola shareholder, and it infuriates

(48:43):
me to have a guy that gets paid well, paid,
paid well in the seven figures to do one thing,
and that's to sell coke. He's not if he wants
to interpret the law, especially the Georgia election laws, and
let him do that on his own gue and and
and because he all it does you just make me mad.

(49:03):
If he stands at the under the banner of a
company that I'm at least a part owner in and
voices that opinion which does not reflect mine, it just
it makes me mad. You know, I would not have
to be honest with you. It's what are they going
to do with the twenty twenty two Winter Olympics in China?
How does MLB justify doing a deal with all the

(49:25):
human rights abuses in China going on right now this
very day? How do they justify that? How do they
justify that the State of Delaware laws are are far
more restrictive than this new Georgia law. You know, we've
gone over all the data, all the information. What this

(49:45):
really comes down to, I'm telling you, Jack, this is
about one thing, well two things. One is they don't
want any identification of any kind, even though you need
I D for pretty much everything else in life, as
we've discussed. And the second thing, they don't want a
signature verification. And the third thing is is now you
have to ask yourself, why not, considering you can't do

(50:08):
a million things without any type of photo ID. It's
because the only conclusion I can come up with is
they want to cheat. They want to have the potential
to cheat, and this keeps everybody honest, it instills confidence
and integrity in the system. But they don't want that.

(50:30):
They want chaos. Chaos they believe help them in twenty twenty,
and they believe will help them in in future elections.
And we better be careful because it's not good for anybody. Claudia,
South Carolina, Hey, Claudia, how are you glad you called? Hey?
Thanks for taking my call. I appreciate it. I wanted
to call in and say that I commend Senators Ted Cruz,

(50:52):
Lucy Graham, Tim Scott, Rand Paul for speaking up for conservatives,
but Where are the other forty five senators? What are they?
Why aren't they pushing back on Biden the way the
Democrats push back on Trump. I mean, there's power in numbers,
and everybody needs to work together to push back on
these executive orders, the border crisis, HR one, sr One,

(51:15):
you're right, yes, well, I'm beginning to see this. I mean,
I don't see the Republicans. I don't think in the
end we'll see what Murkowski, SaaS and Romney do. I
don't see any of them supporting this infrastructure bill, although
now they'll use the reconciliation process which bypasses you know,
Senate rules and the filipbuster. We gotta wait, watch and

(51:40):
see what happens. But Republicans can stop pretty much any
bill they want by walking out of the chamber and
not allowing a quorum to be created. That's not something
that Vice President or President if you prefer, Harris has
the power to do in terms of breaking a tie.
But you're right, they got to stay united. Why wouldn't

(52:01):
they stay united? Exactly? All right? Claudia, thank you, We
appreciate your call back to Tennessee. And Amanda, Hi, how
are you glad you called hu Sean. I just wanted
to bring a little bit of awareness to patients that
are still dying for COVID reasons. My dad passed away
two weeks ago today, and I'm very sorry he got

(52:24):
that close to a vaccine and he got COVID late
and passed away. Well, it was the incompetence of the hospital,
and I believe that keeping family members away while people
are in the hospital being treated kill so many patients.
And I would even venture to say that a lot
of the deaths that have happened that have been attributed

(52:46):
to COVID are not COVID. It is from incompetence and
people being shut off from their families. Because when you
go into a hospital and you are COVID positive, you
are put in a twenty one day isolation where your
family can't see you. If you're on a ventilator, you
can't talk to them, you're heavily sedated, you're paralyzed, and

(53:07):
staying on stuff like that is just so hard on
the body. And my dad got so close to beating it,
and if not for so much incompetence, and we know
it happened because we were there. My mom is a
nurse that was able to get us into the hospital,
and I spent nights in that hospital even though it

(53:27):
was against hospital regulations, and she spent nights, and we
saw so many occasions where he would have died if
we wouldn't have been there to help bring awareness and
people would live if they were there to be able
to help the doctors and nurses, we're not there. I
got to agree with you, and especially if family members

(53:47):
and loved ones, if they're willing to take the necessary
precautions just like healthcare workers, or maybe they need to
show that they've got vaccinated, and if you're not of
the age yet to get fascinated, they should be an
exception for someone like yourself or someone that has a
six family member. I don't disagree the just the encouraging

(54:09):
aspect of having somebody there, because in fairness to hospital workers,
a lot of them are they're gulping water all day.
They've got, you know, five hundred people on a ventil later,
they got people in the hall, they got you know,
they're running around, they're doing I know they're trying their
best and doing an amazing job, but the extra help
would be something that you have. So many people have

(54:30):
been shut out and their loved ones have died. They
don't even get to say goodbye. And then you have
these funerals where like ten people can go. It's it's
pretty remarkable in a bad way, and it's sad, and
you know, the process of mourning even becomes more difficult
than it already is. And I'm very sorry about your father.

(54:51):
It's it's I'm sure it's it's. You know, no one
wants to lose a loved one. You just don't. It's
very painful, Yes, it is. Yeah, all right, godspeed. We're
praying for you. We wish you the best. You and
your family. I'm sorry that that all that you lived
through that. I'm very hard on these families. You have
a loved one in a hospital and you're shut out. Um. Now,

(55:13):
I do believe that the nurses, the doctors, I know
they're trying everything they can do. They've learned a lot
from the last year. I will say that it used
to be that, you know, twelve fifteen percent of people
on a ventilator survived, but they've they've learned techniques. Now
that that percentage is up around fifty percent. And it's
because they've they've learned throughout the process. Um, anyway, back

(55:38):
to our phones, we go as we say hi to
David Is in California, the United Socialist Republic. Comrade, how
are you glad you called? Thanks? Chan? Tell are you good?
Say John? So the one example of how the consumer
is actually paying these higher corporate taxes I discovered in

(55:59):
how these obstacles that my households each weekly have lost
an inch and a half of height in the popsicle.
We paid the money. Your favorite popsicle down costs the same,
but you get less popsicle. That's so unfair. And that's
how that's how these corporations were absorbing the cost of
that higher tax base. Now, so what you said one

(56:22):
of my kids was eating like a Twinkie or something.
I know they've sold the company Hostess. Amused to have
it when I was a kid, and I'd get to
pack with two Twinkies in it. I used to love them.
And I've loved funny bones, the ones with the peanut
butter and yodels, the womans with the white cream, and
loved them ring Dings and devil Dog. I loved all
that crap. Anyway, Um, but I remember my kid had

(56:44):
like a single twinkie and I looked at it. I said, whoa,
what they do to the twinkie half missing? I know
exactly what you're talking about, right, So, yes, the public
pays the higher tax cost. Yeah, of course, the corporations
are not going to absorb the tax burden. They're going
to pass it on us. You know, a new green

(57:06):
deal is great, but guess what, we're now still dependent
on the lifeblood of the world's economy and we'll be
importing it pay more for it, and that's another tax
on us and all these rich you know. The amazing
thing about what Yellen is proposing of a worldwide corporate rate,
I'm like, well, why does she want that? Because they're

(57:28):
deathly afraid that, like companies that are leaving New York
in droves, companies are going to move their businesses overseas
and they're gonna make more money. The bottom line matters
to corporations. They're in business now. They do create goods
and services we want, we need, we desire, But they're

(57:49):
also in the business of making a profit. They have
a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders to make the most money
possible because they're investing in their product or service. So yeah,
we're gonna get hit with that too. And it's a
big fat lie that, oh, if you make, if you

(58:10):
make only if you make over four un a thousand
dollars a year, you're gonna pay to this. That's a lie.
You're not that's not It's not gonna be how that
plays out that I can tell you. And I wish
people would understand it, because all the hearing is everything's
going to be free. And I would just argue, well,
what does government do so well that gives you the

(58:32):
confidence to give them more power over your life? That
Obamacare flopped and failed, every promise broken, soulsial security, Medicare
is going bankrupt. How are these democratic governors that have
run democratic states for decades, mayors for decades? How are
they doing with safety and security in law and order?
Not too good? How are those school systems in those

(58:54):
blue states that that partner with the teachers unions and
the grades are horrific and many of them it's terrible.
Quick break right back, all right, News round up an
information overload our Sean Hannity Show eight hundred and nine
four one sewn. You want to be a part of
the program, we'll get to your calls. I promise, coming
up straight ahead. So in the last hour, we had

(59:16):
Governor de Santis, the great State of Florida. Florida's success
on coronavirus so different from New York and New Jersey
and California and Pennsylvania and Michigan. It is. They've done
so amazingly well with one of the highest percentages of
the most vulnerable elderly population in the entire country. And

(59:40):
every elected official, frankly deserves credit because they all work together.
Even though they have some political disagreements, they didn't disagree
on protecting the most vulnerable. Anyway. Let me just play again.
This is Governor Rhonda Santis, the unedited version of his
response to sixty minutes, of which they only ran a

(01:00:02):
few seconds. And then I'll introduce you to the Democratic
mayor of Palm Beach County. Here's Governor DeSantis, unedited version
of his response to sixty minutes. So, first of all,
that what you're saying is wrong, that's that's a fake narrative.
So first of all, when we did the first pharmacies
that had it were CBS and Walgreens, and they had

(01:00:23):
a long term care mission, so they were going to
the long term care facilities. They got vaccine in the
middle of December. They started going to the long term
care facilities the third week at December to do LTCs.
So that was their mission. That was very important and
we trusted them to do that. As we got into January,
we wanted to expand the distribution points. So, yes, you

(01:00:45):
had the counties, you had some drive through sites, you
had hospitals that we're doing a lot, but we wanted
to get it into communities more so we reached out
to other retail pharmacies, publics Walmart obviously, CBS and Walgreens
had to finish that mission and we said we're gon
we're gonna use you. See you're done with that for
the publics, they were the first one to raise their
hands say they were ready to go. And you know what,

(01:01:05):
we did it on a trial basis. I had three counties.
I actually showed up that weekend and talked to seniors
across four different publics. How was the experience. It's this good?
Should you think this is a way to go? And
it was one hundred percent positive. So we expanded it
and then folks liked it and I can tell you
if you look at a place like Palm Beach County,

(01:01:25):
they were kind of struggling at first in terms of
the senior numbers. I went, I met with the county mayor,
I met with the administrator, I met with all the
folks of Palm Beach County, and I said, here's some
of the options. We can do more drive through sites,
we can get more to hospitals, we can do the publics,
we can do this. They calculated that ninety percent of
their seniors live within a mile and a half of

(01:01:46):
a public's and they said, we think that would be
the easiest thing for our residents. So we did that
and what ended up happening was yet sixty five publics
in Palm Beach. Palm Beach is one of the biggest counties,
one of the most elderly counties. We've done on seventy
five percent of the seniors in Palm Beach, and the
reason is because you had the strong retail footprint. So
our way has been multifaceted. It has worked, and we're

(01:02:10):
also now very much expanding CBS and Walgreens now that
they've completed the long term care mission. Yes, and it's wrong.
It's wrong it's a fake narrative. I just disabused you
of the narrative, and you don't care about the facts,
because obviously I laid it out for you in a
way that is irrefutable, and so it's clearly not no, no, no,
you're wrong, You're wrong, all right? Joining us now is

(01:02:32):
the Democratic mayor of Palm Beach County. Mayor Dave Kerner
is with us. Not only did he call out sixty
Minutes and the segment, but he issued a powerful statement
said he felt compelled to issue that the report he
was not just based on bad information, it was intentionally false.

(01:02:54):
And I know this because I offered to provide my
insight into Palm Beach Counties vaccination efforts, and sixty Minutes declined.
They know that the governor came to Palm Beach, met
with me, met with a county administrator. We asked to
expand the state's partnership with publics to Palm Beach County,
and they worked together. Everyone always says if we want bipartisanship,

(01:03:15):
well you actually have it here for the betterment of
people in Palm Beach County. Mister Mayor, how are you, sir,
I'm very well thank you for having me on the show,
and palm each county is better both for the governor's
assistants and leadership, and particularly with the public distribution plan
and retail footprint. And I felt very compelled to correct
the record despite my efforts to go on camera with

(01:03:38):
sixty minutes to walk us through what First of all,
walk us through what happened with sixty minutes. Then let's
work our way back and the partnership that you developed
with a governor. All Right, you're a Democrat, he's a Republican.
But saving lives to me, isn't It's not about R
and D. It's about life and death for sure. I mean,

(01:03:58):
I come, I used to be a police officer, so
I have that mentality where he's our chief executive. We
have a pandemic in front of us. I don't have
to agree with everything that he wants to do or
every vision that he has, but I do have a
corresponsibility to work effectively with a governor. And I've achieved
that throughout the entire process, and it's been reciprocated. And
I'm not afraid to say that, even though it's an

(01:04:19):
unpopular thing to say, but working ourselves backwards with the
sixty Minutes To answer your question directly, you know, I
had heard for several weeks that sixty Minutes was doing
a story down here on the decision to bring public
to Palmage County, which is a decision that I, as
a county mayor, was very much involved with and that
I met with a governor personally. I met with the
county ministrator. We looked at the statistics in data, and

(01:04:42):
we decided this would be a great initial rollout for
twenty thousand guaranteed vaccinations per week. We have the highest
per capita demographic of sixty five plus seniors in this
community out of any county in the state of Florida,
and we continue to lead all Metro County's a million
point five or a million above in terms of elderly

(01:05:03):
residents vaccinated, where I think seventy six percent. I'm very
proud of that, and publics play to me. I don't
think there's anybody in the country that I've heard and
I have not researched, that that's higher than that. Well,
we've worked diligently, and we've worked as a team, and
the credit doesn't go just to the governor or to
the cunt of government. It really goes to the seniors
that are taking their lives and their futures into their

(01:05:24):
own hands and coming out to the very broad and
diverse ways of getting vaccinated in this wonderful county where
I've been born and raised. But you know, I had
heard about sixty Minutes coming down here, and I had
heard about all these people that weren't part of the
decision making process being interviewed. And to Commission McKinley's credit,
who's been involved in this, she's a colleague of mine.

(01:05:44):
Once we realized that there was a hole in the doughnut,
and I can't guarantee perfection and everything that we do.
The moment she realized that she brought it to the
boards attention, we corrected it, and low of behold, we
have a very effective system of distribution here. But what
I started to learn was that I was never going
to get a phone call from sixty Minutes. So I
actually called the Governor's an office and said, Hey, is

(01:06:05):
there a point of contact that I can speak with?
And they gave me that phone number, and I reached
out to sixty Minutes and spoke with the producer and
I went on record for forty five minutes, and I
told them that the decision to bring public to this county.
If you need to pick somebody and you want to
blame someone, that would be me. I'm proud of the decision.
But I made that decision along with the county administrator,

(01:06:28):
and it was a great decision and continues to be
a great decision. But it imploded the entire narrative that
the governor forced publics down to the people Palmi's County.
And I can't allow that narrative to continue. Whether I'm
a Democrat, you know, you could have just been quiet.
You could have just played politics. You could have just said, well,
that's that's that's the governor's problem. That's not my problem.

(01:06:51):
But the fact that you felt compelled to do it,
knowing you may even I guess, get some heat from
some Democrats. But but this is such an important moment
that happened here. So walkester. So the governor gets in
contact with you, meets with you, meets with other officials

(01:07:11):
in Palm Beach County, and and at that meeting, you're
all you're throwing around a list of options, and you
settled on publics, which, by the way is genius to
me because I know how popular publics is down in Florida,
Georgia and other places. Just like I thought it was
a good idea to have you know, Walgreens and CBS

(01:07:32):
and write eight and all these these drug stores literally
going into the elderly communities those you know, uh that
exist all throughout Florida. I thought that was a brilliant
decision too. So go through the meeting, you have these options,
and you made the decision on publics. Yes, I made
the decision. The county administrator made the decision. We notified
the board. We were guaranteed twenty thousand vaccinations per month.

(01:07:55):
We ended up asking for permission to carve out a
portion of that about four thousand per month for our
own discretion, so that we could hit those communities of
color or a low socio economic status, to make sure
that we were the only portioned This county is all
that you were sixty thousand plus, and you're right, it
is life and depth when you're that age and older

(01:08:16):
to get this vaccine. And did I do it perfectly?
Did the county do it perfectly? There's no perfection or
metric for perfection, but the governor or. The governor was
with us every step of the way, and he presented
us with a host of options, and we thought, just
like you said, hey, system seven vertically integrated points of distribution,
from staffing, from from supply to customers that are familiar

(01:08:37):
and comfortable going there, to in house pharmacies. We mapped
it out in our emergency Operations center and we found that,
you know, unfortually, I would say that ninety ninety five
people sixty five plus lived within a mile and a
half of a public So this was a way to
get sixty seven sykes up in an instant. And then
you know, several days later we did realize the republics

(01:09:00):
in Belglade, and Commission McKinley fought very forcefully to make
sure that that was cured in The Governor even came
down personally to her district and did a special thing
with Ann Koombolden. And you know, you look at where
we're at now in April, and I'm very proud of
where we're at. So when you know, when the sixty
minutes teached, you said you kind of hinted at it,

(01:09:22):
but it doesn't reflect poorly on my county where I've
been born and raised where a lot of people have
worked and suffered through this pandemic like everybody else, but
have put their other foot in front of their other
foot every day. But it also reflected poorly on Governor
to Santis, who I don't work for, but I certainly
work with him, and I think that I call balls
and strikes. And for them to make these implications, it

(01:09:45):
may not be popular, it may not be helpful for
my future, but I had to defend my county and
I had to defend the chief executive of our state
because I'm set that the media could be that agenda driven.
Because what you're saying, as they consciously lie to the
American people, you don't have to use my words, I'll
use them. This. This was propaganda, This was a lie,

(01:10:08):
This was misinformation. This was a political hit shop. And
unfortunately I don't do your words, but those are your words.
And by the way, Hannity, when you moved to Florida,
you might want to pick another county. Police. It's expensive here.
Now we're in a good place. He can I know
it's expensive down there. Public health. Plus I read that

(01:10:29):
what does the average home price increase year over year?
In Palm Beach County. I don't know the historical record
year over year. I do know that valuation in our
county from prior to COVID or unofficially twenty to which
presented a whole host of public policy issues that the
Border County Commissions will have to contend with because it

(01:10:50):
was already expensive enough to live through. The average home
price in this county was three hundred and fifty thousand
prior to the pandemic, and so it'll go up proportionately,
you know, keeps going up here, and that's going to
present a host of issues for the everyday working American.
All Right, quick break back on the other side with
the Mayor of Palm Beach County, Dave Kerner, and we'll

(01:11:11):
get to your calls. Final half hour Sean Hannity Show,
Hannity Tonight, nine Eastern Fox News. Please set your DVR.
We got a great show tonight. As we continue, the
mayor of Palm Beach County, who's saying flat out that
sixty minutes not only was it intentionally false, but they
just refused to air the truth about Governor desandis beyond

(01:11:35):
a hit job. They knew it was a hit job.
It's unbelievable. We continue with the mayor of Palm Beach County,
Dave Kerner. So I have two friends of mine. You
might be interested, mister Maynor. No, there will be your
constituents in the near future. They both purchased homes down there,
and in one case there was ten people bidding on
the one home, and in the other case they literally

(01:11:58):
got it like the second went on the market. And
I mean, that's how hot that real estate market is
down especially in your county, Palm Beach County, but other
parts of Florida as well. It's insane. And you know,
when you look at a state like New York, I
don't know what your tax philosophy is, but they're about
to raise taxes over four billion dollars. It'll be the

(01:12:20):
highest tax state to now, surpassing California. Then you look
at what's happening nationally with taxes going up. Then you
look at okay, new Green Deal, you know, spending resulting
in less energy production here at home. How do you
feel about those decisions? You know, I'm not really going
to comment on that. I'm just a county sometimes player

(01:12:43):
that needs to make sure that we get to this
pandemic safely, and you a way that honors a dignity
and respect of everyone, regardless of the race, f missity
creat color. And that's what we're doing. That's what I'm
focused on. M I that home prices are rising, that
it's a popular place to live. It has it's good
and bad sides about that, because it's certainly become an

(01:13:04):
expensive to live down here. But we don't have a
an income tax in Florida, and that's in our constitution.
But you know, we have relatively low property taxes. We
don't have the most robust state government as a result.
But I think that Governor DeSantis is demonstrated, with the
resources that he has and has had available to him,
that there was a way to respond to this pandemic

(01:13:25):
effectively as a unit of government. And it's and I've
enjoyed working with them, and I'm not afraid to say
that interesting everybody says they want bipartisanship. You have a
moment of it here, and you know, you'd probably be
widely panned by people, but at the end of the day,
putting the lives of people in your community above politics

(01:13:46):
is admirable and it's sad to even say that we
it's sad to even have to say that it should
be standard. It's not standard. It's an exception. Mayor Dave Kerner,
Palm Beach County, congratulations, are good for you to take
a bow for standing up for just simple truth. Thank
you very much for having me on the show, and
thank you for the kind word. Sir, I'll ask you again,

(01:14:06):
will he acknowledge that there's a crisis. Well, first, the
president and this administration's focus is on digging out of
the dismantled and inhumane immigration approach of the last administration.
You say that's not a crisis. Well, I think what
Ambassador Jacobson and Secretary Mayorcas were conveying and what I've

(01:14:28):
conveyed is it doesn't matter what you call it. It
is an enormous challenge. We don't feel the need to
play games with what it's called a crisis of the work. Look,
I don't think we need to sit here and put
new labels on what we have already conveyed is challenging.
Why has this administration been so reluctant to call it
a crisis with a huge optic in the number of

(01:14:49):
migrants being detained including thousands of children. If that doesn't
qualify as a crisis, what does well, Because we think
that it's most important to explain the substantive policy of
what's happening one hundred and ninety four one, Sean, you
want to be a part of the program. So our
friend Congressman Mo Brooks, he's in Alabama's fifth District. I've
known since nineteen ninety when I was a local host

(01:15:12):
at my first professional job in Huntsville, Alabama, and Mo
Brooks was the Madison County, Alabama district attorney at the time,
and he often filled in for me. Well, I shouldn't
say often, because I didn't get much vacation time. I
think I had a maximum of two weeks a year.
Congressman Mobrooks of Alabama's fifth District is here now looking

(01:15:36):
to run for the United States Senate. Sir, how are you.
I'm doing great, Sean. Good to be able to speak
with you again. I mean, when you think about that,
that's I mean, we're talking about thirty years now that
we've known each other. You're the DA and you used
to fill in and host my radio show. I think
for a period didn't you even host a show yourself. Well,
I was there for a couple of weeks in between

(01:15:58):
the fellow who before you and then when you came in,
and quite frankly, I'll never forget how youthful you were
when you first started working at w V and N
in the Tennessee Valley of Alabama. Before you are sharp
as attack. Yeah, you know. I'd like to ask people
questions if they heard me back in the day, as
we call it, whether or not they think I've changed much.

(01:16:22):
Do you think I've changed much in terms of my
political views, sir? I'd like to think I've been sued
as a broadcaster a little bit. But putting that aside,
do you think that my philosophy has changed much? Not
one bit? And that's because the truths are perpetual. There's
no reason to change the foundational principles that have combined
to make America the greatest national world history. Unfortunately, a

(01:16:44):
lot of people take for granted that every other place
in the world is like we are in America, and
it just ain't so. So No, I'm very appreciative that
you've stuck to your guns, that you've stuck to your
belief system, and it is the belief system that has
distinguished us from all other countries on the planet. I
say conservatism is very easy, and i'm what I've been
saying is that candidates for public office need to be

(01:17:07):
able to sum it up at about a minute. And
when I sum it up, this is my take that
we believe in freedom and liberty and individual responsibility. We
believe that this country has natural rights, God given rights,
not government given rights. I believe in our constitution, including

(01:17:29):
the First and Second Amendment. I believe that we should
have low taxes, limited government bureaucracy so people can thrive
in a business atmosphere in a competitive international marketplace. I
think we should have law and order so every community,
every city is safe and secure. I think we need
school choice for kids. We spend more per capitave per

(01:17:51):
child than any other country in the world with the
worst results. I want our borders secure. I want to
be energy independent for national security reasons and it is
the lifeblood of the world's economy. I want constitutionalists on
the Supreme Court. I want free and fair trade. And
I believe in peace through strength, and that means the meanest, toughest,
kick ass military on the face of the earth. Am

(01:18:13):
I'm missing much. I think you've just about covered it.
If I were to add two more, we believe in
our being a republic, and of course the underpinning of
any republic is having honest and accurate elections that the
people have trust in. And I would also add a
generic category of moral values. I believe that moral values
are the compass that guide us to do the right thing,

(01:18:35):
but the power that we as a people in America
and joy rather than the wrong thing. And we don't
always get it right, but I believe that we're motivated
by a true desire to do the right thing for
ourselves and the people we affect, and that distinguishes us
in a very large way from almost every other great
power in world history. I don't think there's been a country,

(01:18:56):
as Barry Farber used to say, that it's accumulated more
power than this country, abused it less, and used it more.
I add to the advancement of the human condition. Oh,
we're not a perfect country, but we have the means
to become, through that republic and that process and that constitution,
a more perfect union. Every single day, you've been talking
a lot about what is an utter catastrophe down at

(01:19:19):
the border and I'm watching all of this unfold, and
we're in the middle of a pandemic. I see Biden
building cages for kids again like they did in a
Obama Biden administration. I see in the middle of a pandemic.
We have a high rate of COVID testing positivity down there.
We see that other states now that these unaccompanied miners

(01:19:41):
are being shipped out and bringing their COVID with them
to other states. It's inexplicable to me that this could happen,
and that Joe Biden caused the entire thing by eliminating
the State of Mexico policies and eliminating border wall construction
and bringing back catch and release. It's insanity to me. Well,
it's almost non stop with the damage that the socialists

(01:20:03):
are trying to do to American I'm going to make
a rather candid statement. It will probably get some people
mad at me, but it's what I believe. There is
literally blood on the hands of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris,
Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, all the other socialist Democrats in Washington, DC,
and as the cherry on top, we ought to had
a bunch of these open border Republicans. And when I

(01:20:25):
say blood on their hands, what am I talking about?
Each year, according to federal crime data, roughly two thousand
Americans are dead at the hands of illegal aliens killed
on American soil, and they would be alive but for
our poorest southern border. On top of that, you have
another thirty thousand who die from overdoses on deadly narcotics

(01:20:48):
that are smuggled across our poorest southern border. And I'm
not even touching yet on the adverse economic consequences to
struggling American families of the huge surge in the labor
supply coupled with the jobs that are taken from American
families that they no longer can compete for again because
of the ten plus million illegal aliens who are in

(01:21:09):
our country working and the net tax effect. And so
you have to wonder, with all the things that you've itemized,
with the things I just itemized, why are the socialist
Democrats doing what they're doing. And I'm gonna ask you this,
if one of these if somebody crosses the border illegally.
And You're right about the opioid crisis. We've been talking
a lot about it because as all of the resources

(01:21:32):
now are literally being drained into taking care of these
unaccompanied miners that Joe Biden pretty much invited in and
is letting everybody in and then tried to put a
gag order on the media and gag order on border
patrol officers from telling the truth. But if anybody gets
COVID and dies from COVID, wouldn't they be responsible for that?

(01:21:53):
One would think the disease issue is much harder to
quantify and itemize because it is so difficult to prove
cause and effect. Someone might catch COVID in the United States,
it might be an American citizen. They may die from it,
but out of all the people that they've met with,
how do you track it down to an illegal alien?
That's the challenging part. We know that it's happening, but

(01:22:14):
we don't know how bad the problem is. Now some
would argue that one loss American life is enough to
justify stronger border security, but obviously that is not the
case with the socialist Democrats who are running Washington, DC,
and quite frankly, the reason they are impervious to these
public policy considerations as they see a pot of gold

(01:22:35):
at the end of the rainbow, the illegal aliens getting amnesty,
getting citizenship, succumbing to the wily ways of the Democrat
arguments and elections, becoming a block vote for Democrats, there
by perpetuating the power of Democrats who control Washington DC.
So it's all a power grab on the part of
the socialist Democrats, and that to a very large degree,

(01:22:57):
is why they ignore ignore the adverse effects of these
illegal aliens. Are so many American citizens. It's something of
great value that they offer in the hopes that generations
of people that enter the country and are granted amnesty,
that they will be rewarded at the ballot box. And
it's really sad that that is what their motivation is.

(01:23:19):
I'm for immigration, I'm for legal immigration. We have laws
for a reason. You got to protect you first step
if you want to be an American is respect our
laws of sovereignty and our borders. I don't think it's
too much to ask, are you running for Senate, sir?
I am running for the United States Senate based primarily
on the reasons that you enunciated early on about the
foundational principles that have combined collectively to make us the

(01:23:42):
greatest nation world history. There was in a single public
policy position that I disagreed with you on. I am
a well, I'm in the lead in the state of
Alabama in that Senate seat, although my challenge is going
to be expanding on that lead in Alabama, while my
opponent's challenge is going to be cutting into it and
try to eliminate it. If any of your listeners want
to help, please go to Mobrooks dot com. Pretty easy

(01:24:04):
to remember, by the way. So the last time when
I was down there, remember the big controversy was this
place at the at the Limestone County Madison County borderline
was a place called Jimmy's Lounge. To remember that place.
Is that place still in existence? I am aware of
it my reputation, but I've never visited it. And I

(01:24:28):
did visit it and did a show from there, so
you know, I don't know what that says about me.
But that's back in the day. Is it still in
existence or is it gone? If I had to guess,
I would say it's probably gone, but it may still
be there. I don't know, Sean, You'd have to look
that one up in mind. You know the things you
do when you start out at local radio U, why

(01:24:50):
don't you go cover the controversy down there. I'm like what,
I'm like, okay, if you're insisting anyway, Mobrooks, We're going
to be following the race very closely down there. Thank
you so much for being one us. Thank you, Sean,
and have a blessed day and continue to lead the
charge helping American citizens understand right and what's wrong every day.
To have this microphone as an honor and I'd never

(01:25:11):
forget it. Thank you, sir. Eight hundred and nine four one. Sean.
You want to be a part of the program. Let
us say hello to Sophia is out in the United
Socialist Utopia of California. Comrade Sophia, how are you glad
you called hi? Thank you? M sorry. I won't make
it long, but I just want to say I'm Mexican.

(01:25:33):
Came to America when I was thirteen, lived in another country,
and I just I feel sad for what's happening, not
just in California but in the US and people are
losing respect for our country. I call it my country
because I became an American citizen, and for me, it
makes me sad because I have lived, you know, in
a country where the is no power for you as

(01:25:57):
a person. And I was to come here and go
to college. My sister and I both graduated, and now
that I know what I know, it makes me really
sad for people to categorize me or my sister or
my family as you know, democrats, that we're not democrats,
we're not Republicans, because we really want to succeed, and

(01:26:18):
we wanted to succeed in this country. So my point
being is if we let or if we continue doing
what we're doing, we'll definitely have, you know, a lost country.
In my opinion, I think I think your observation, Sophia
dead on accurate, and I appreciate the call and your
kind words and you being a part of our family.

(01:26:40):
We're glad you're here, and you know you went through
the process. You you are a legal citizen and we're
lucky to have you. I appreciate the call. One of
the things I've observed is over the course of my life,
I've had opportunities to meet people that come from repressive regimes,
from the former Soviet Union, from the former Eastern Bloc countries,

(01:27:04):
places that don't have liberty or freedom. I met people
from Cuba. I've met people from you know, under repressive
regimes in Nicaragua and El Salvador and poverty and all
over the world, and it seems that they appreciate the
blessings of liberty, sometimes sometimes more than we do, because

(01:27:25):
they know what they know where oppression and authoritarianism and
stateism leads, and they don't they see it happening here,
and they desperately don't want it to happen here. And
you see that it translates oftentimes that they look at
this new this new gift of freedom and opportunity to

(01:27:47):
bring their God given gifts to fruition, and and they
just get They just roll up their sleeves and they
work their asses off and they succeed and grateful and
thankful and appreciative that they have this opportunity that they
didn't have where they were. It's pretty amazing to watch
that unfold, and I've seen it many times. That's going
to wrap things up at today A busy Hannity tonight

(01:28:09):
nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel News you won't
get from the mob. Obviously, we're following the situation of
the utter complete hypocrisy and breakdown in truth as it
relates to voting laws, and the new voting law in Georgia,
especially compared to let's say, Colorado and Delaware in New York,
which are far more restrictive. We'll tell you the truth.

(01:28:32):
The media won't tell you, Ted Cruz. He'll be checking
in with us Senator Lindsey Graham and Kaylee Mcinanny, Dan Bongino,
much much more. We hope you'll say you. Dvart nine
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