July 7, 2026 • 33 mins
Jason Chaffetz fills in for Sean Hannity and opens by discussing questions surrounding Mitch McConnell’s hospitalization and Elaine Chao’s trip to China. Peter Schweizer joins to review Chao family business ties to China, her meetings in China, and McConnell’s past policy posture toward Beijing. Chaffetz also discusses whether members of Congress should disclose serious health issues when they affect representation and voting. Later, Medal of Honor recipient Clint Romesha joins to discuss Pure Talk’s partnership with America’s Warrior Partnership and support for veterans. The hour also touches on term limits, congressional staff power, a building emergency in New York City, Graham Platner, and the movie Young Washington.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, America. I'm Jason Chafits, filling in for Sean Hannity
right on the heels of an incredible fourth of July, America,
two fifty stronger, better than ever, just had the most
wonderful holiday. But hey, you know what, there's always somebody
doing something stupid somewhere, and there's lots going on in
the world. So thanks for letting us be part of
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your day. Truly do appreciate it. And I got to start,
got to kick things off with, Hey, Mitch, Mitch McConnell,
where are you, what are you doing? I this discussion
that here we have the former majority leader, you have
a very important senator. I guess they're all important, but
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the very important senator who's been evidently in the hospital
for three weeks three weeks? Where are you? What are
you doing? And then you get John Thune, Senator John Thune,
You got Scott Jennings. Yeah, highly credible people out there
saying oh yeah, I had this great conversation with them, like,
oh yeah, we were going over the details of the
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Declaration of independence. Are you kidding me? You got other
side of the spectrum saying, I don't know, is the
guy can he even speak? Can he even put together
a sentence? I mean, there's video of him out there
doing what did he have? What kind of medical episode?
Because he had something going on, and yet this is
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a voting member of the United States Senate and he's
in essentially hiding. I mean, if you're in the hospital,
you're in the hospital. But where was his wife? Where
did his wife go? Where was his wife? She was
in China? Was she in China before? Well, that's weird,
wouldn't your rush home? But then she was in China?
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Or did she leave after he went to the hospital.
I'm just telling you, America, this begs a lot of questions.
There's a lot of accusations. You got the full spectrum.
But who better to discuss this to kick things off
on this three hour of Hannity than Peter Schweitzer. He
is the president of the Government Accountability Institute. He's author
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of The Invisible Coup, How America elites and foreign powers
use the immigration as a weapon. He's a New York
Times bestseller. I mean, he's just he's done it all.
The Government Accountability Institute Full Disclosure, I'm associated with that.
I'm a huge fan of Peter Sweitzer. And it's been
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one of the best experts on China. And Peter, I
got to tell you this story when I look at it.
You know, look, I used to be the chairman of
the Oversight Committee. I guess I got this in my DNA.
I got questions and this one Peter begs a lot
of questions. What in the world is going on with
Mitch McConnell, and equally is important, what's going on with
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his wife.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, well, Jason, I think your spidy sense is going
off for good reason. You know. As we've talked about before,
Elaine Chow and Mitch McConnell have actually a long association
and financial association with the Chinese Communist Party. Elaine Chow's
family has a shipping business called The Foremost Shipping, a
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company that does considerable business with the Chinese government. They
were basically set up in nineteen ninety three when Ben
Senator Mitch McConnell, Elaine Chow, and Elaine Choo's father visited
with the Chinese State Shipbuilding Corporation and they basically said, hey,
we'll build your ships for you, will finance the construction,
we'll give you contracts. And that has made the Chow
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family very wealthy. On this recent visit, very very unusual.
So you know, Mitch McConnell is in the hospital. Elaine
Chow flies to China. We know of three meetings so
far that she had there. The first one was on
June the twelfth, which was a visit to Shanghai Joe
Tung University. This is a school that the family, the
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Chow family, has donated five million dollars to and there
was a building there actually named after Elaine Chau's mother.
The problem is that that building, which is the Ruth
Mulan Shu Chow Memorial Hall, houses the Naval Architecture School,
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which does major contracts for the Chinese military. And when
you look further at this university, Elaine Chau's visited the
school twelve times over the course of her career. It's
deep tied with a People's Liberation Army. In fact, freshmen
at this university undergo mandatory military training with physical drills
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in ideological education.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
So that's the first meeting she has.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Four days later, on June sixteenth, she meets.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
With Wu Ken, who is the head of.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
The Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs in Beijing, which
is widely recognized as a United Front group. In fact,
the US Congress has designated it as such, and the
purpose of that group is to help the Chinese Communist
Party cultivate good relations and advance the interests of the
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CCP in the Western world. The next day, on June
the seventeenth, Elaine Chau meets with the Vice President of China,
Han Jieng. What's interesting about this guy is that he
sat until recently on the Pull Up Bureau Standing Committee
of the Chinese Communist Party, which is pretty small and
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is the most powerful committee in the Chinese Communist Party.
So a lot of big questions to ask here.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
So when I get to that day and I go
into the hospital, if my wife took off and went
to China, I met your wife, I can't imagine anything.
This is so bizarre. You're in the hospital, you're obviously
not well. I mean you could see that when he
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was not in the hospital, he wasn't well, and then
she So initially there was a question of did he
go to the hospital and then she left, or did
he was already on her trip and then he went
into the hospital. I haven't got the timeline exactly right,
but you're saying that she left after he went into
the hospital.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah, my understanding it could be incorrect, is that he
went in on June the eighth, and then four days
later she showed up in Shanghai for the first meeting
at the university. That's my understanding of the timing. That
might be incorrect, but that's what seems to be publicly
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reported in the Chinese press as far as winter meetings
took place, and the statements that have come out with
regards to when he checked in, I.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Mean, this is that is absolutely bizarre. And you have
a person who who's you know, some have said he's
in a vegetable state, essentially brain dead. I'm not saying
I'm a medical scientist or that that has been verified,
just to be clear. But on the other end of
the spectrum, you've got Senator John Thune and you have
Scott Jennings out there saying, oh, I had conversations. We're
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talking about Iran policy. Really he couldn't talk about Iran
policy last year. What makes you think that Mitch McConnell
is having a from the hospital, an actual discussion about
all these different things about Save America Act about are
you kidding me? Tell me what the score of the
US soccer game was, Senator. He couldn't do that. There's
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no way that he's having in depth policy discussion about Iran.
I mean, I'd be shocked. And if that's the case,
why is he in the hospital?
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
No, No, A lot of big questions to be asked here,
and you know, questions about what Senate leadership should be
doing in terms of, you know, should this individual still
be occupying a seat in the US Senate And the
question of the timing. You know, you can only sort
of wonder why Elaine Chow is in China. I mean,
it's very obvious, very obvious when you know the history
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and you look at the timeline that the Chinese cultivated
their relationship with the Chow family, the McConnell Chow family.
Once Mitch McConnell became a US Senator, once he was elected, that's.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
When the coziness began.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
And there's a long history I've documented in my books
of Mitch McConnell, who used to be very hawkish on China,
becoming increasingly soft on China. And you know, you have
to wonder, you have to ask the question, what was
there something to be done with China before Mitch McConnell
actually relinquishes his Senate seat, if that is what really
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matters to the Chinese, the fact that he is a
leader in the Senate and can influence conversation and influence
the direction of the Senate, is that it was their
value in trying to meet with them before Mitch McConnell
resigns his seat or passes away, and that I think
are sort of reasonable questions that need to be asked
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by this administration. The Chinese don't mess around. They're very
aggressive about it. You know, we were the first to expose.
You have talked about it a lot Jason as well
about the Biden family and the China tie. Same thing
applies to the mcconnald's and I think we deserve more
answers from the family and from the US Senate about
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what is exactly going on.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
And I think the segue to that the person who's
empowered to do this is the staff, because if you
have a senator or or a house member, it could
be anybody. I'm not picking on just Mitch McConnell. In
this case, the staff is omnipresent and as very empowered
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to do a lot of things behind the scenes and
to wield that power that a former Senate majority leader has.
And it does beg the question. I mean, we had
a House member, right, Tom Kaine, New Jersey, out for
four months, like nobody even noticed he wasn't out for
four months, and then ended up finding out that he
was supposedly battling depression. Now, on the human side of you,
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your heartbreaks if somebody's having that hard a time. But
on the other hand, these votes are coming down to
one vote here, one vote there, Save America Act. On
the Senate side, Mitch McConnell has been one of those
naysayers about passing what is I think one of the
most important pieces of legislation out there. And so at
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what point do you think there is a duty, an obligation,
a moral obligation, or maybe there should be a Senate
rule or in a House rule about disclosure of what's
really going on.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah, you know, it's a great question, Jason. You did
I think the most important and earliest work on the
whole auto pen issue involving Biden. Right, President Biden, what
what was he actually signing and what wasn't he signing?
What did he know?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
He was signing.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Uh, slightly different obviously in the Senate, but not that different.
Right to your point, there are a lot of.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Things that a senator staff can do. They can they
can send.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Query letters to the executive branch. They can do engage
in certain you know, constituent services. They can try to
skew the Senate debate while obscuring the fact that the
that the senator themselves is not privy to even what's
going on. So, you know, if we are going to
have representative government, which we were endowed by our founders,
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it should actually mean the people that were voted into
office are aware of what is going on. And I
think let's hope that somebody on the Mitch McConnell staff
will step up in a way that nobody in the
Biden White House seemed to be willing to do, and
to say, look, this is this is not serving the
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residents of our state. Uh, this is not representative government.
The senator should step down and and you know, we
should proceed accordingly.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
And you know what, Senator John Thune and Scott Jennings,
let's see if you're right or not. I hope you are,
but I got to tell you those statements. They're very definitive,
highly skeptical of whether or not that's as true as
they say it is. And they said it. They got
good you know, they got reputations out there. We'll see.
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I want to hear from you the number one, eight
hundred nine, Sean eight hundred nine four one seven, three
two six. We uh, Peter schweitz Er, you're the best.
You're You're always on top of this. Your knowledge on
what's going on in China and Elaine Chow is just
second to none. I can't think Peter sweitz are enough.
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But call into the studio. We're going to take some
let's talk about Mitch McConnell and Elaine Jow on nine
four one seven, three two six. We'll be back right
after this.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Thanks for listening to Sean Hannity.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
All right, we're keeping an eye on a lot of
breaking news that's happening great as we are having these discussions.
You've got Graham Platner, who should be well, I should
have dropped out a long time ago in the Senate
Democratic being the Democratic nominee in the Senate race there
in Maine. He seems politically to be a dead man walking.
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Graham Platner. We'll see what happens with him. You have
a building in New York's, the old Pfizer Building that
looks to be on the verge of collapsing. You got
bricks falling off of it, you got other things doing it.
Everybody's been evacuated, they're moving people out of the buildings
around it. As you know New York City, it's a
little bit tight quarters there. So if a building's going
to go and collapse, yikes, that could be that could
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be a real problem. You got Charlie Kirk hearings going
on this week out in Utah, preliminary part. By this
this trial is just taking for effort. I just don't
understand why it has to take so long. We're keeping
an eye on that. The World Cup's continuing on, you know,
Unfortunately the United States did not put its best foot
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forward over the weekend. A little disappointed, but still very
excited about the World Cup. I think the United States
has made itself proud, not only on the field, but
also with all the people that are, you know, the
execution of the World Cup here in the United we
have certainly been a great host. I think we're going
to hear more I'm going to try to talk a
little bit more about it in this program. Senator Mark Kelly,
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out of Arizona, day after fourth of July, day before
the United States is going to hit the pitch. And
what happens. He's wearing a Mexico Mexico shirt. He's wearing
a shirt for Mexico. You're the senator from Arizona in
the United States, Senator, and you can't put on a
jersey for the United States. No, he's wearing a Mexican jersey.
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That'll tell you a lot. And then of course you
got Donald Trump who's in Turkey, meeting with Erduwan, meeting
with NATO. He's going to a dinner tonight, a social
dinner with some of our NATO partners. Anytime the President
is overseas, you wish him nothing but the best. That
isn't important with terms of our relationship the president. I mean,
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after the big weekend that he had on Air Force One,
a beautiful new Air Force one out there talking with NATO,
talking with the one and working on the diplomacy. Donald
Trump absolutely amazing in terms of his energy. But then
we're also going to be talking more about Mitch McConnell
one hundred ninety four one Sean one under nine four
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one at seven, three two six, got a lot to
talk about coming up. Stay with us, don't go anywhere,
because this is Sean Hannity's show. There's a lot going.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
On, mold inspired solutions for America. This is the Sean
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Hannity Show, and.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I'm Jason chaff It's filling in for Sean our number
one eighth, ninety four, one seventy three, twenty six, seventy three,
twenty six. Love to get to your calls. I got
to mention though, first Young Washington kicking butt at the
movie theaters. You know, it's good to see. It's Angel Studios.
They put together good quality, you know, movies and productions.
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But this one is getting some incredible reviews. My wife
and I look forward to We were going to try
to go to it tonight, but trying to find an
empty seat at a theater is a tough thing. This
this thing is a genuine hit. It's good to see America,
especially with America's who fifty feeling that surge of patriotism
and getting a glimpse of history in an entertaining way.
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I can't wait to see a young Washington rocking it
at the box office. We'll see if I can get
in and get some tickets. I was hoping if I
was going to go to the movie that I actually
get to sit I my wife, But right now I
just see in single seats available. But congratulations to having
the foresight to actually put together a movie. It's like
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quality and that's pro America. That's about our history, about
George Washington. Imagine that. Imagine that America would love that
and would gravitate it. Gravitate like top Gun. Oh, imagine that. Hey, Hollywood,
take a lesson from this. Do things that are inspiring
positive in pro America and you will reap the rewards.
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And young Washington after a good start, Well, I'm I'm
excited about this next next guest of ours. Before we
get to the calls nine four, one, seventy three, twenty
six again the number, but Clint Romische is a Medal
of Honor recipient and he's an advocate for the fellow
veterans that talk about Pure Talks Initiative for America two
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fifty Pure Talk, great, great organization and doing things in
the right way. Because they partnered again with America's Warrior
Partner Ship in in a nonprofit way. Clint, thanks for
joining us on Sean Hannity's show, but also thank you
for you personally, for your service, for you to do
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what you did. My Medal of Honor recipient, thank you,
thank you, thank you from a grateful nation.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Well, thank you Jason for having me on. And again,
that's what so many Americans do when they put that
uniform on. You know, you don't know where life's going
to take you sometimes, but each and everyone that has
worn that uniform has put themselves in an opportunity to
maybe or maybe not have to defend and protect these
great freedom's liberties values that we have up into, including
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their lives. And we can never forget all of those
that have worn this uniform.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Well, there are there so many that have given their
lives unsung heroes. And the effort that's happening and look
great right now at home, you know, celebrating the great
you know America two fifty and the fireworks and we
did sparklers with you know, kids and grandkids and it
was just perfect weather and you know, having popsicles. And
yet there men and women overseas right now putting their
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lives on the line, and sometimes it's a little too
easy to forget about them. And certainly you did that
in a big way. I mean to win the Medal
of honor, that's I want to say, win it, but
to be honored with it for your valor, for your
sacrifice and for your heroism. I can't thank you enough.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Well, I appreciate that very much. And again, if it
wasn't for those fifty other Americans there with me that
day at cop Keating and nine and the eight great
men that gave their lives, that sacrificed everything, you know,
for us, it was a day we never thought we'd
have to face, but we did it together. And it's
another moment of how you I watched a lot of
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love that day, and I see more love than hate.
And we won that day because our love for each
other the other overpower. They hate. The enemy had to
destroy us. But again it's also going into the future,
going forward, you know, when men and women are taking
the uniform off now that the adversities and the obstacles
they hit and struggle trying to figure out what's next
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in life. Has been an amazing opportunity to have organizations
like America Warrior Partnership, and then i'm pure talk, you know,
putting their money where their mouth is, trying to raise
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars this year for America's
two fiftieth to donate to AWP. That I don't want
to call it a suicide prevention program. Suicide prevention should
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never be a program that anybody's doing. It should be
the outcome of doing good work and providing so much
hopefulness that you eliminate that hopelessness. And it comes in
different aspects because every veteran's different. It's not just a
homeless problem. It's not an underemployment or not employed at all,
or mental health. It's all of those little things coming together.
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And that's what America will Warrior Partnership. It does, and
it identifies what individual veteran needs and specifically tailors that
the help for them to the individual.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
So, yeah, you mentioned AWP, but that is America's Warrior Partnership.
Where do people go to find out more about them?
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Great spot is our website at America the Warrior Partnership
dot org. You can find out all of our information
on our web page and again, it's you know, there's
there's so many great organizations out there. Not one can
do everything perfect. But by collaborating, advocating when when veterans
have obstacles, to educate and inform, you know, we we
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can figure out what the need is, empowering the veteran
and empowering the local community to solve those problems.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Well, and and then to have a good you know,
corporate partner out there. Pure talk. I mean, it's a
great areas. I have only heard great, wonderful things about that.
And here they are. They're matching dollar for dollar donations
up until they get to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
That's that's quite a sum. It will make quite a difference,
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and I do hope people can look at it. You know,
it's sometimes hard to reach in the wallet and help out,
but you're helping veterans and warriors and people who have
served our nation and to give just a little bit.
If we, if a lot of us do it, we
can get to that two fifty and beyond. And pure talk,
I can't say enough good things about them stepping up
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and doing good things.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
You know, they're military, you know, a veteran led company organization,
so they carry those values. They put, you know, their
money where their mouth is by getting their customers new
customers coming on board to either do a round up
or one time donation really shows they're all about moving
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stuff forward and making it different. It's one of the
great programs. They also run as the Deeds Not Words,
because again there's a lot of great nonprofits out there,
but sometimes we find veterans that fall into the gaps,
and Deeds dot Words steps in identifies the problem and
takes immediate action. So it's not just I talk about, hey,
donate your money and we'll figure out something to do.
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Now they're already doing that something.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
So we're talking with Clinton Romache, Medal of Honor recipient
and a great advocate for veterans. You know, I tell
you a brief story. I've told them many times, but
not on this program. But I you know, I was
a member of Congress. It was on the Oversight Committee
as chairman of the Oversight Committee. So I went to
Afghanistan and I managed to get two marines off to
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the side and I said, you know, I was trying
to get them to open up. I said, what are
you worried about, like, what do you think about? What
are you worried about? And you know they're wearing essentially
one hundred thousand dollars worth of equipment each, you know,
they got. And I was wondering if it was about
their forward operating base or their meals or their commander.
I didn't know, you know, it was open ended question,
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what are you worried about? In this marine? That I
got to loosen up a little bit, said permission to
speak freely, sir? And I said, yes, of course, that's
what I'm asking. Of course, whatever you want to talk about.
And he finally kind of took a deep breath. He said,
you know what, I can't find anybody to help mow
our lawn at home. And he was worried about his
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wife and kids. And I thought, you know, I got
his wife's number. I called her told her, you know,
I saw her husband and how proud we were of him.
But I just thought, you know, there's an obligation, there's
a duty, there's an opportunity really for us as neighbors,
whether you've got a neighbor who's in the National Guard
or serving overseas in the military, whatever it might be.
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To just be that neighbor who's doing it for all
the right reasons, you whether it's a plate of cookies
or helping them own their lawn or just helping out,
particularly when somebody's overseas. And I thought, Hi, goodness, we
can do better than that. And that takes neighborhoods. It's
not going to take some program. It just takes us
all in our hearts saying Okay, you get on my
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comfort zone and I'm going to go out and to
help somebody. So I don't know what your thoughts on
that climp, I thought I thought i'd share that absolutely.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Uh. Like, it's those little things that equal big things.
You know, we talk in the military that attention to detail,
doing the small things equals the big things. My grandfather,
who is just a huge part of my life, always
had some great sayings and he always used to tell us,
you know, growing up that if you're too big to
do the little things, you'll be too little when the
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big things happen. And that's from putting your shopping cart,
pushing it back and not leaving it sitting there in
the in the parking area, and it's being the trash
on the side of the road or in the street,
just picking it up and throw it in the ben
ten feet away. And if you know we're all doing
just a little bit, we're going to accomplish so much.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Well, you have done more than your bit, I got
to tell you. And it's I I stand in awe
of people like you who give so much, and you
know it's it's the or you know, I've often said,
ordinary people doing extraordinary things just fascinate me. Sometimes they
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don't ask to be in those situations. Sometimes they don't
want to be in that situation. Sometimes they sign up
and say yeah, I'll serve, and you never know where
that's going to take you. But then when you're there,
in that opportunity and that moment, you got to deal
with it. And I don't care if you got a
loved one at home who's you know, battling sickness or
or in a car accident. I mean, life often takes
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your places you don't want to go. But it's inspirational
when you have people who actually step up and do things.
And that's why I think it's worthy that we spend
a few minutes talking about pure talk stepping up and
helping out with two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and
the America's Warriors partner Ship Right America's Warrior Partnership dot
org helping in check that out. But Flint final thoughts
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on on what we can do to all be helpful.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
You know, as we just had America's two hundred and fiftieth,
if we want another two hundred and fifty more one,
we got to make sure we take care of our
veterans because that'll show the next generation this is worth
serving and protecting. And for those that didn't wear the
uniform and had served, that doesn't mean you got left out.
Service to country comes from more than were in the uniform.
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It comes from giving more than you're taking and being
productive and doing the right thing for the right reasons
at the right time.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Amen to that, Flint, Roma say thank you for your service,
Thanks for joining us on Hannity. And for those of
you at home, are driving one eight hundred nine four
one Sean one eight hundred nine four one Sean, that's
seven three two six. We're gonna take your calls after
this brake, stay right with us.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
Sean Hannity defending freedom, providing clarity and calling out the
left now more than ever we need Kennedy.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Hey, I'm Jason Chief. It's filling in for Sean. We're
watching this building that it might collapse in New York City.
The deputy mayors evidently come out and said, oh, that's
kind of stabilized, and they're letting people go in to
do further assessment. But this building seems like a big
gust of wind. It could go toppling over or keeping
on eye on that. But in the meantime, we want
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to get to calls one hundred nine four one seventy three,
twenty six. Let's go to Jeff online two. He's from
North Carolina. Jeff, what's on your mind?
Speaker 8 (30:11):
Hey, Jason, thanks for taking my call. Appreciate it, first
time caller. Yeah, the Mitch McConnell thing, it's not just
a Mitch McConnell thing. In my mind, it's a Pelosi,
it's a schumer Is. They have all these old people
that are in Congress, and I think we're just getting
aged out. I think we need new fresh faces, new perspective,
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and not have the old people try to keep up
with the young people, because if you look at all
their ages around them and all their their pages they have.
They're young, so they're trying to stay in touch through proxy.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
In my opinion, Jeff, I think you're one hundred percent right.
Get in serve and then get your butt out of there.
I strongly believe more than ever that we need term limits.
I know Governor Ron De Santis thinks this is a
big thing. You have limits for governors in some cases.
You have term limits on the president, but senior leadership,
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it is something wrong when ninety eight percent of the
incumbents win ninety eight percent, so it's okay to vote
somebody out. When I won, I was in Congress. I
was elected in two thousand and eight. I beat a
twelve year incumbent Republican, and I you know, that was
a hard road to go down, but it can be done.
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But get in serve, get out. You're not the only
person that can be there. And when you stay for
decade after decade after decade, there's something wrong with that. So, Jeff,
I think you're one hundred percent right. But if you're
also going to do term limits, you better do term
limits on the staff as well. Senior staff. I'm not
talking about your average person who's working at Social Security Administration,
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I'm talking senior staff for the legislative branch and the
executive branch.
Speaker 8 (31:53):
By the way, absolutely absolutely. You know our technology today,
the younger people pick up on it so quick. There
is no need that. The old excuse in my mind
used to be, oh, you got to keep the senior
leadership in there, because they know what's going on. Young
people can be brought up to speed in no time
today in a matter of faith. In fact, I think
quicker because they're more in touch with technology.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Yeah, it's about serving your nation and doing it for
all the right reasons. Remember that, that's the story of
George Washington, right, he had all the power and what
did he do. He stepped back and it was hardened.
But that Farewell address when he talks about that, it's inspiring.
Like we talked about with the young Washington. A good movie, Jeff,
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go out, go see that movie. I haven't seen it yet,
but I hear nothing but good things. Jeff, North Carolina,
thank you so much for joining us on handity. I
think you're absolutely spot on. Term limits is what we needed.
We need him at the state level, we need him
at the federal level. Get in, serve, get out, and
senior staff. You've got to be along there too. You're
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Stay with us. Mike Sirelli coming up. Lee Zelden's coming up.
You're gonna want to hear from him, Mike how John Seppiena.
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Stay with us,
Hello, America. I'm Jason Chafits, filling in for Sean Hannity
right on the heels of an incredible fourth of July, America,
two fifty stronger, better than ever, just had the most
wonderful holiday. But hey, you know what, there's always somebody
doing something stupid somewhere, and there's lots going on in
the world. So thanks for letting us be part of
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your day. Truly do appreciate it. And I got to start,
got to kick things off with, Hey, Mitch, Mitch McConnell,
where are you, what are you doing? I this discussion
that here we have the former majority leader, you have
a very important senator. I guess they're all important, but
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the very important senator who's been evidently in the hospital
for three weeks three weeks? Where are you? What are
you doing? And then you get John Thune, Senator John Thune,
You got Scott Jennings. Yeah, highly credible people out there
saying oh yeah, I had this great conversation with them, like,
oh yeah, we were going over the details of the
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Declaration of independence. Are you kidding me? You got other
side of the spectrum saying, I don't know, is the
guy can he even speak? Can he even put together
a sentence? I mean, there's video of him out there
doing what did he have? What kind of medical episode?
Because he had something going on, and yet this is
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a voting member of the United States Senate and he's
in essentially hiding. I mean, if you're in the hospital,
you're in the hospital. But where was his wife? Where
did his wife go? Where was his wife? She was
in China? Was she in China before? Well, that's weird,
wouldn't your rush home? But then she was in China?
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Or did she leave after he went to the hospital.
I'm just telling you, America, this begs a lot of questions.
There's a lot of accusations. You got the full spectrum.
But who better to discuss this to kick things off
on this three hour of Hannity than Peter Schweitzer. He
is the president of the Government Accountability Institute. He's author
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of The Invisible Coup, How America elites and foreign powers
use the immigration as a weapon. He's a New York
Times bestseller. I mean, he's just he's done it all.
The Government Accountability Institute Full Disclosure, I'm associated with that.
I'm a huge fan of Peter Sweitzer. And it's been
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one of the best experts on China. And Peter, I
got to tell you this story when I look at it.
You know, look, I used to be the chairman of
the Oversight Committee. I guess I got this in my DNA.
I got questions and this one Peter begs a lot
of questions. What in the world is going on with
Mitch McConnell, and equally is important, what's going on with
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his wife.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, well, Jason, I think your spidy sense is going
off for good reason. You know. As we've talked about before,
Elaine Chow and Mitch McConnell have actually a long association
and financial association with the Chinese Communist Party. Elaine Chow's
family has a shipping business called The Foremost Shipping, a
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company that does considerable business with the Chinese government. They
were basically set up in nineteen ninety three when Ben
Senator Mitch McConnell, Elaine Chow, and Elaine Choo's father visited
with the Chinese State Shipbuilding Corporation and they basically said, hey,
we'll build your ships for you, will finance the construction,
we'll give you contracts. And that has made the Chow
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family very wealthy. On this recent visit, very very unusual.
So you know, Mitch McConnell is in the hospital. Elaine
Chow flies to China. We know of three meetings so
far that she had there. The first one was on
June the twelfth, which was a visit to Shanghai Joe
Tung University. This is a school that the family, the
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Chow family, has donated five million dollars to and there
was a building there actually named after Elaine Chau's mother.
The problem is that that building, which is the Ruth
Mulan Shu Chow Memorial Hall, houses the Naval Architecture School,
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which does major contracts for the Chinese military. And when
you look further at this university, Elaine Chau's visited the
school twelve times over the course of her career. It's
deep tied with a People's Liberation Army. In fact, freshmen
at this university undergo mandatory military training with physical drills
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in ideological education.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
So that's the first meeting she has.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Four days later, on June sixteenth, she meets.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
With Wu Ken, who is the head of.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
The Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs in Beijing, which
is widely recognized as a United Front group. In fact,
the US Congress has designated it as such, and the
purpose of that group is to help the Chinese Communist
Party cultivate good relations and advance the interests of the
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CCP in the Western world. The next day, on June
the seventeenth, Elaine Chau meets with the Vice President of China,
Han Jieng. What's interesting about this guy is that he
sat until recently on the Pull Up Bureau Standing Committee
of the Chinese Communist Party, which is pretty small and
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is the most powerful committee in the Chinese Communist Party.
So a lot of big questions to ask here.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
So when I get to that day and I go
into the hospital, if my wife took off and went
to China, I met your wife, I can't imagine anything.
This is so bizarre. You're in the hospital, you're obviously
not well. I mean you could see that when he
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was not in the hospital, he wasn't well, and then
she So initially there was a question of did he
go to the hospital and then she left, or did
he was already on her trip and then he went
into the hospital. I haven't got the timeline exactly right,
but you're saying that she left after he went into
the hospital.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah, my understanding it could be incorrect, is that he
went in on June the eighth, and then four days
later she showed up in Shanghai for the first meeting
at the university. That's my understanding of the timing. That
might be incorrect, but that's what seems to be publicly
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reported in the Chinese press as far as winter meetings
took place, and the statements that have come out with
regards to when he checked in, I.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Mean, this is that is absolutely bizarre. And you have
a person who who's you know, some have said he's
in a vegetable state, essentially brain dead. I'm not saying
I'm a medical scientist or that that has been verified,
just to be clear. But on the other end of
the spectrum, you've got Senator John Thune and you have
Scott Jennings out there saying, oh, I had conversations. We're
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talking about Iran policy. Really he couldn't talk about Iran
policy last year. What makes you think that Mitch McConnell
is having a from the hospital, an actual discussion about
all these different things about Save America Act about are
you kidding me? Tell me what the score of the
US soccer game was, Senator. He couldn't do that. There's
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no way that he's having in depth policy discussion about Iran.
I mean, I'd be shocked. And if that's the case,
why is he in the hospital?
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
No, No, A lot of big questions to be asked here,
and you know, questions about what Senate leadership should be
doing in terms of, you know, should this individual still
be occupying a seat in the US Senate And the
question of the timing. You know, you can only sort
of wonder why Elaine Chow is in China. I mean,
it's very obvious, very obvious when you know the history
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and you look at the timeline that the Chinese cultivated
their relationship with the Chow family, the McConnell Chow family.
Once Mitch McConnell became a US Senator, once he was elected, that's.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
When the coziness began.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
And there's a long history I've documented in my books
of Mitch McConnell, who used to be very hawkish on China,
becoming increasingly soft on China. And you know, you have
to wonder, you have to ask the question, what was
there something to be done with China before Mitch McConnell
actually relinquishes his Senate seat, if that is what really
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matters to the Chinese, the fact that he is a
leader in the Senate and can influence conversation and influence
the direction of the Senate, is that it was their
value in trying to meet with them before Mitch McConnell
resigns his seat or passes away, and that I think
are sort of reasonable questions that need to be asked
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by this administration. The Chinese don't mess around. They're very
aggressive about it. You know, we were the first to expose.
You have talked about it a lot Jason as well
about the Biden family and the China tie. Same thing
applies to the mcconnald's and I think we deserve more
answers from the family and from the US Senate about
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what is exactly going on.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
And I think the segue to that the person who's
empowered to do this is the staff, because if you
have a senator or or a house member, it could
be anybody. I'm not picking on just Mitch McConnell. In
this case, the staff is omnipresent and as very empowered
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to do a lot of things behind the scenes and
to wield that power that a former Senate majority leader has.
And it does beg the question. I mean, we had
a House member, right, Tom Kaine, New Jersey, out for
four months, like nobody even noticed he wasn't out for
four months, and then ended up finding out that he
was supposedly battling depression. Now, on the human side of you,
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your heartbreaks if somebody's having that hard a time. But
on the other hand, these votes are coming down to
one vote here, one vote there, Save America Act. On
the Senate side, Mitch McConnell has been one of those
naysayers about passing what is I think one of the
most important pieces of legislation out there. And so at
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what point do you think there is a duty, an obligation,
a moral obligation, or maybe there should be a Senate
rule or in a House rule about disclosure of what's
really going on.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah, you know, it's a great question, Jason. You did
I think the most important and earliest work on the
whole auto pen issue involving Biden. Right, President Biden, what
what was he actually signing and what wasn't he signing?
What did he know?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
He was signing.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Uh, slightly different obviously in the Senate, but not that different.
Right to your point, there are a lot of.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Things that a senator staff can do. They can they
can send.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Query letters to the executive branch. They can do engage
in certain you know, constituent services. They can try to
skew the Senate debate while obscuring the fact that the
that the senator themselves is not privy to even what's
going on. So, you know, if we are going to
have representative government, which we were endowed by our founders,
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it should actually mean the people that were voted into
office are aware of what is going on. And I
think let's hope that somebody on the Mitch McConnell staff
will step up in a way that nobody in the
Biden White House seemed to be willing to do, and
to say, look, this is this is not serving the
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residents of our state. Uh, this is not representative government.
The senator should step down and and you know, we
should proceed accordingly.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
And you know what, Senator John Thune and Scott Jennings,
let's see if you're right or not. I hope you are,
but I got to tell you those statements. They're very definitive,
highly skeptical of whether or not that's as true as
they say it is. And they said it. They got
good you know, they got reputations out there. We'll see.
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I want to hear from you the number one, eight
hundred nine, Sean eight hundred nine four one seven, three
two six. We uh, Peter schweitz Er, you're the best.
You're You're always on top of this. Your knowledge on
what's going on in China and Elaine Chow is just
second to none. I can't think Peter sweitz are enough.
(12:57):
But call into the studio. We're going to take some
let's talk about Mitch McConnell and Elaine Jow on nine
four one seven, three two six. We'll be back right
after this.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Thanks for listening to Sean Hannity.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
All right, we're keeping an eye on a lot of
breaking news that's happening great as we are having these discussions.
You've got Graham Platner, who should be well, I should
have dropped out a long time ago in the Senate
Democratic being the Democratic nominee in the Senate race there
in Maine. He seems politically to be a dead man walking.
(14:02):
Graham Platner. We'll see what happens with him. You have
a building in New York's, the old Pfizer Building that
looks to be on the verge of collapsing. You got
bricks falling off of it, you got other things doing it.
Everybody's been evacuated, they're moving people out of the buildings
around it. As you know New York City, it's a
little bit tight quarters there. So if a building's going
to go and collapse, yikes, that could be that could
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be a real problem. You got Charlie Kirk hearings going
on this week out in Utah, preliminary part. By this
this trial is just taking for effort. I just don't
understand why it has to take so long. We're keeping
an eye on that. The World Cup's continuing on, you know,
Unfortunately the United States did not put its best foot
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forward over the weekend. A little disappointed, but still very
excited about the World Cup. I think the United States
has made itself proud, not only on the field, but
also with all the people that are, you know, the
execution of the World Cup here in the United we
have certainly been a great host. I think we're going
to hear more I'm going to try to talk a
little bit more about it in this program. Senator Mark Kelly,
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out of Arizona, day after fourth of July, day before
the United States is going to hit the pitch. And
what happens. He's wearing a Mexico Mexico shirt. He's wearing
a shirt for Mexico. You're the senator from Arizona in
the United States, Senator, and you can't put on a
jersey for the United States. No, he's wearing a Mexican jersey.
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That'll tell you a lot. And then of course you
got Donald Trump who's in Turkey, meeting with Erduwan, meeting
with NATO. He's going to a dinner tonight, a social
dinner with some of our NATO partners. Anytime the President
is overseas, you wish him nothing but the best. That
isn't important with terms of our relationship the president. I mean,
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after the big weekend that he had on Air Force One,
a beautiful new Air Force one out there talking with NATO,
talking with the one and working on the diplomacy. Donald
Trump absolutely amazing in terms of his energy. But then
we're also going to be talking more about Mitch McConnell
one hundred ninety four one Sean one under nine four
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one at seven, three two six, got a lot to
talk about coming up. Stay with us, don't go anywhere,
because this is Sean Hannity's show. There's a lot going.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
On, mold inspired solutions for America. This is the Sean
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Hannity Show, and.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I'm Jason chaff It's filling in for Sean our number
one eighth, ninety four, one seventy three, twenty six, seventy three,
twenty six. Love to get to your calls. I got
to mention though, first Young Washington kicking butt at the
movie theaters. You know, it's good to see. It's Angel Studios.
They put together good quality, you know, movies and productions.
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But this one is getting some incredible reviews. My wife
and I look forward to We were going to try
to go to it tonight, but trying to find an
empty seat at a theater is a tough thing. This
this thing is a genuine hit. It's good to see America,
especially with America's who fifty feeling that surge of patriotism
and getting a glimpse of history in an entertaining way.
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I can't wait to see a young Washington rocking it
at the box office. We'll see if I can get
in and get some tickets. I was hoping if I
was going to go to the movie that I actually
get to sit I my wife, But right now I
just see in single seats available. But congratulations to having
the foresight to actually put together a movie. It's like
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quality and that's pro America. That's about our history, about
George Washington. Imagine that. Imagine that America would love that
and would gravitate it. Gravitate like top Gun. Oh, imagine that. Hey, Hollywood,
take a lesson from this. Do things that are inspiring
positive in pro America and you will reap the rewards.
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And young Washington after a good start, Well, I'm I'm
excited about this next next guest of ours. Before we
get to the calls nine four, one, seventy three, twenty
six again the number, but Clint Romische is a Medal
of Honor recipient and he's an advocate for the fellow
veterans that talk about Pure Talks Initiative for America two
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fifty Pure Talk, great, great organization and doing things in
the right way. Because they partnered again with America's Warrior
Partner Ship in in a nonprofit way. Clint, thanks for
joining us on Sean Hannity's show, but also thank you
for you personally, for your service, for you to do
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what you did. My Medal of Honor recipient, thank you,
thank you, thank you from a grateful nation.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Well, thank you Jason for having me on. And again,
that's what so many Americans do when they put that
uniform on. You know, you don't know where life's going
to take you sometimes, but each and everyone that has
worn that uniform has put themselves in an opportunity to
maybe or maybe not have to defend and protect these
great freedom's liberties values that we have up into, including
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their lives. And we can never forget all of those
that have worn this uniform.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Well, there are there so many that have given their
lives unsung heroes. And the effort that's happening and look
great right now at home, you know, celebrating the great
you know America two fifty and the fireworks and we
did sparklers with you know, kids and grandkids and it
was just perfect weather and you know, having popsicles. And
yet there men and women overseas right now putting their
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lives on the line, and sometimes it's a little too
easy to forget about them. And certainly you did that
in a big way. I mean to win the Medal
of honor, that's I want to say, win it, but
to be honored with it for your valor, for your
sacrifice and for your heroism. I can't thank you enough.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Well, I appreciate that very much. And again, if it
wasn't for those fifty other Americans there with me that
day at cop Keating and nine and the eight great
men that gave their lives, that sacrificed everything, you know,
for us, it was a day we never thought we'd
have to face, but we did it together. And it's
another moment of how you I watched a lot of
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love that day, and I see more love than hate.
And we won that day because our love for each
other the other overpower. They hate. The enemy had to
destroy us. But again it's also going into the future,
going forward, you know, when men and women are taking
the uniform off now that the adversities and the obstacles
they hit and struggle trying to figure out what's next
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in life. Has been an amazing opportunity to have organizations
like America Warrior Partnership, and then i'm pure talk, you know,
putting their money where their mouth is, trying to raise
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars this year for America's
two fiftieth to donate to AWP. That I don't want
to call it a suicide prevention program. Suicide prevention should
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never be a program that anybody's doing. It should be
the outcome of doing good work and providing so much
hopefulness that you eliminate that hopelessness. And it comes in
different aspects because every veteran's different. It's not just a
homeless problem. It's not an underemployment or not employed at all,
or mental health. It's all of those little things coming together.
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And that's what America will Warrior Partnership. It does, and
it identifies what individual veteran needs and specifically tailors that
the help for them to the individual.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
So, yeah, you mentioned AWP, but that is America's Warrior Partnership.
Where do people go to find out more about them?
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Great spot is our website at America the Warrior Partnership
dot org. You can find out all of our information
on our web page and again, it's you know, there's
there's so many great organizations out there. Not one can
do everything perfect. But by collaborating, advocating when when veterans
have obstacles, to educate and inform, you know, we we
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can figure out what the need is, empowering the veteran
and empowering the local community to solve those problems.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Well, and and then to have a good you know,
corporate partner out there. Pure talk. I mean, it's a
great areas. I have only heard great, wonderful things about that.
And here they are. They're matching dollar for dollar donations
up until they get to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
That's that's quite a sum. It will make quite a difference,
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and I do hope people can look at it. You know,
it's sometimes hard to reach in the wallet and help out,
but you're helping veterans and warriors and people who have
served our nation and to give just a little bit.
If we, if a lot of us do it, we
can get to that two fifty and beyond. And pure talk,
I can't say enough good things about them stepping up
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and doing good things.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
You know, they're military, you know, a veteran led company organization,
so they carry those values. They put, you know, their
money where their mouth is by getting their customers new
customers coming on board to either do a round up
or one time donation really shows they're all about moving
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stuff forward and making it different. It's one of the
great programs. They also run as the Deeds Not Words,
because again there's a lot of great nonprofits out there,
but sometimes we find veterans that fall into the gaps,
and Deeds dot Words steps in identifies the problem and
takes immediate action. So it's not just I talk about, hey,
donate your money and we'll figure out something to do.
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Now they're already doing that something.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
So we're talking with Clinton Romache, Medal of Honor recipient
and a great advocate for veterans. You know, I tell
you a brief story. I've told them many times, but
not on this program. But I you know, I was
a member of Congress. It was on the Oversight Committee
as chairman of the Oversight Committee. So I went to
Afghanistan and I managed to get two marines off to
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the side and I said, you know, I was trying
to get them to open up. I said, what are
you worried about, like, what do you think about? What
are you worried about? And you know they're wearing essentially
one hundred thousand dollars worth of equipment each, you know,
they got. And I was wondering if it was about
their forward operating base or their meals or their commander.
I didn't know, you know, it was open ended question,
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what are you worried about? In this marine? That I
got to loosen up a little bit, said permission to
speak freely, sir? And I said, yes, of course, that's
what I'm asking. Of course, whatever you want to talk about.
And he finally kind of took a deep breath. He said,
you know what, I can't find anybody to help mow
our lawn at home. And he was worried about his
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wife and kids. And I thought, you know, I got
his wife's number. I called her told her, you know,
I saw her husband and how proud we were of him.
But I just thought, you know, there's an obligation, there's
a duty, there's an opportunity really for us as neighbors,
whether you've got a neighbor who's in the National Guard
or serving overseas in the military, whatever it might be.
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To just be that neighbor who's doing it for all
the right reasons, you whether it's a plate of cookies
or helping them own their lawn or just helping out,
particularly when somebody's overseas. And I thought, Hi, goodness, we
can do better than that. And that takes neighborhoods. It's
not going to take some program. It just takes us
all in our hearts saying Okay, you get on my
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comfort zone and I'm going to go out and to
help somebody. So I don't know what your thoughts on
that climp, I thought I thought i'd share that absolutely.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Uh. Like, it's those little things that equal big things.
You know, we talk in the military that attention to detail,
doing the small things equals the big things. My grandfather,
who is just a huge part of my life, always
had some great sayings and he always used to tell us,
you know, growing up that if you're too big to
do the little things, you'll be too little when the
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big things happen. And that's from putting your shopping cart,
pushing it back and not leaving it sitting there in
the in the parking area, and it's being the trash
on the side of the road or in the street,
just picking it up and throw it in the ben
ten feet away. And if you know we're all doing
just a little bit, we're going to accomplish so much.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Well, you have done more than your bit, I got
to tell you. And it's I I stand in awe
of people like you who give so much, and you
know it's it's the or you know, I've often said,
ordinary people doing extraordinary things just fascinate me. Sometimes they
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don't ask to be in those situations. Sometimes they don't
want to be in that situation. Sometimes they sign up
and say yeah, I'll serve, and you never know where
that's going to take you. But then when you're there,
in that opportunity and that moment, you got to deal
with it. And I don't care if you got a
loved one at home who's you know, battling sickness or
or in a car accident. I mean, life often takes
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your places you don't want to go. But it's inspirational
when you have people who actually step up and do things.
And that's why I think it's worthy that we spend
a few minutes talking about pure talk stepping up and
helping out with two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and
the America's Warriors partner Ship Right America's Warrior Partnership dot
org helping in check that out. But Flint final thoughts
(28:07):
on on what we can do to all be helpful.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
You know, as we just had America's two hundred and fiftieth,
if we want another two hundred and fifty more one,
we got to make sure we take care of our
veterans because that'll show the next generation this is worth
serving and protecting. And for those that didn't wear the
uniform and had served, that doesn't mean you got left out.
Service to country comes from more than were in the uniform.
(28:33):
It comes from giving more than you're taking and being
productive and doing the right thing for the right reasons
at the right time.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Amen to that, Flint, Roma say thank you for your service,
Thanks for joining us on Hannity. And for those of
you at home, are driving one eight hundred nine four
one Sean one eight hundred nine four one Sean, that's
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Speaker 7 (29:09):
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Speaker 1 (29:42):
Hey, I'm Jason Chief. It's filling in for Sean. We're
watching this building that it might collapse in New York City.
The deputy mayors evidently come out and said, oh, that's
kind of stabilized, and they're letting people go in to
do further assessment. But this building seems like a big
gust of wind. It could go toppling over or keeping
on eye on that. But in the meantime, we want
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to get to calls one hundred nine four one seventy three,
twenty six. Let's go to Jeff online two. He's from
North Carolina. Jeff, what's on your mind?
Speaker 8 (30:11):
Hey, Jason, thanks for taking my call. Appreciate it, first
time caller. Yeah, the Mitch McConnell thing, it's not just
a Mitch McConnell thing. In my mind, it's a Pelosi,
it's a schumer Is. They have all these old people
that are in Congress, and I think we're just getting
aged out. I think we need new fresh faces, new perspective,
(30:33):
and not have the old people try to keep up
with the young people, because if you look at all
their ages around them and all their their pages they have.
They're young, so they're trying to stay in touch through proxy.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
In my opinion, Jeff, I think you're one hundred percent right.
Get in serve and then get your butt out of there.
I strongly believe more than ever that we need term limits.
I know Governor Ron De Santis thinks this is a
big thing. You have limits for governors in some cases.
You have term limits on the president, but senior leadership,
(31:06):
it is something wrong when ninety eight percent of the
incumbents win ninety eight percent, so it's okay to vote
somebody out. When I won, I was in Congress. I
was elected in two thousand and eight. I beat a
twelve year incumbent Republican, and I you know, that was
a hard road to go down, but it can be done.
(31:27):
But get in serve, get out. You're not the only
person that can be there. And when you stay for
decade after decade after decade, there's something wrong with that. So, Jeff,
I think you're one hundred percent right. But if you're
also going to do term limits, you better do term
limits on the staff as well. Senior staff. I'm not
talking about your average person who's working at Social Security Administration,
(31:48):
I'm talking senior staff for the legislative branch and the
executive branch.
Speaker 8 (31:53):
By the way, absolutely absolutely. You know our technology today,
the younger people pick up on it so quick. There
is no need that. The old excuse in my mind
used to be, oh, you got to keep the senior
leadership in there, because they know what's going on. Young
people can be brought up to speed in no time
today in a matter of faith. In fact, I think
quicker because they're more in touch with technology.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Yeah, it's about serving your nation and doing it for
all the right reasons. Remember that, that's the story of
George Washington, right, he had all the power and what
did he do. He stepped back and it was hardened.
But that Farewell address when he talks about that, it's inspiring.
Like we talked about with the young Washington. A good movie, Jeff,
(32:36):
go out, go see that movie. I haven't seen it yet,
but I hear nothing but good things. Jeff, North Carolina,
thank you so much for joining us on handity. I
think you're absolutely spot on. Term limits is what we needed.
We need him at the state level, we need him
at the federal level. Get in, serve, get out, and
senior staff. You've got to be along there too. You're
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